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The audio of this RSA short is of Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams. Jody firmly believes that each and every one of us can and should contribute to creating a better world. In this short Jody explains why it is so important to strive to make a difference.
To create a fun and engaging short piece of animation alongside the audio snippet by Jody Williams, "Anyone Can Change The World".
The RSA sent over the audio snippet and let Katy loose with coming up with ideas/designs/plans for the animation. Complete creative freedom (what a fab client)!
This was the second animation that Katy had created for the RSA. She wanted to create something completely different for this one.
Katy had done a bit of research on Jody Williams and found out that a lot of her work focused on banning land mines. Katy discussed with the RSA whether to base the animation around this subject matter, in order to nod to Jody's work, or whether to be more liberal with the ideas so as to encourage people to think about what they can do to better the World.
As well as thinking about the script for the animations, Katy wanted to do something different visually. This time, she decided to make a miniature set for her characters to 'live' in. Katy bought lots of little bits of furniture from doll's house shops and then created backdrops in Photoshop, which were printed out. She shot the scenes, and did some stop motion photography of the mud for when the little dogs started digging.


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Brassaï Photography Exhibition at Fundación Mapfre in Barcelona
Currently on display at the Fundación Mapfre you can find the photography exhibition by the Hungarian-French artist Brassaï.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
We like Brassaï, in the same way we like fauvism and cubism, which were both contemporary movements from his era. I must say that I have seen a lot of exhibitions either from the 20th century or inspired by creations from that period, and yet I have seen very few that capture the amount of wisdom that allows the artist to present a new perspective towards that era (and this is after years of no longer being novel), in a way that allows their work carry its own weight alongside artwork produced in the present-day.
Of course we like Brassaï's straightforward photos, of his insolent faced models and his images of París's dives and alleyways from 100 years ago. We appreciate his clear intention to not paint over or embellish his photos, however poetic and ingeniously framed they may be, in the end appear to be scenes of everyday life.
It's not our intention to take away any of Brassaï's merit, who we admire as a photographer and as an individual, and whose biography sits on our bookshelves. Yet, we have the sensation that there are an abundance of exhibitions of artistic and creative work produced during the first half of the century, (and while we recognise that it was a time when art and architecture flourished and artists created works that became milestones in the history of art and humanity), it seems to us that after all of that, we still struggle to find something ground-breaking, something truly innovative and capable of creating a future school of art.
Brassaï was magnificent because he didn't allow appearances to fool him and he didn't look for the beautiful where it simply didn't exist: in the suburbs, the clandestine dens, in the people of questionable reputation whose photographs he took. He knew how to capture the beauty in the dark streets of Paris at a time when everyone was drawn to the glamour of its boulevards. He has few architectural photographs, but those that we have seen could function as sculptures without volume, as poems lacking rhyme, as images so abstract that today they seem banal to us, but in their time gave way to a peculiar way of seeing that Brassaï and many of his contemporaries were able to capture.
It's true that after seeing this exposition, we've thought about everything we've written and upon reflection, we've come to see Brassaï's work as an artistic manifestation of an era that makes us think, talk, and write about, and surely will inspire us to create.
For that reason, despite the fact that we felt the sensation of having seen something that we've seen many times before, we are thankful and happy to have been able to enjoy these artists, their schools, their quests, their processes and their masterpieces.
Therefore, we'd like to take the opportunity to thank the galleries, halls, foundations and museums that provide us with these enjoyable moments when we can contemplate their expositions.

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Q: Emmeans posthoc testing of linear mixed model I've read a ton of posts and am trying to teach myself linear mixed effects model analysis in R, so I appreciate any help I can get. I really just need to brainstorm with someone who knows what's going on, and I don't have access to that easily.
My models are of the structure:
Dependent Variable ~ Predictor Variable + Task + Task*Predictor Variable + Group + Predictor Variable*Group + (1|Subject)

example model here:
RR_MoSml_hs <- lmer_alt(av_MoSml_hs ~ av_RR + TrialType + TrialType*av_RR + group + av_RR*group + (1|Subject), data=df)

Task has 2 levels (FW and SS), while Group has 4 levels (YA, HFOA, LFOA1, LFOA2), while both dependent and predictor variables are continuous. Task is a within-subject repeated measure while group is between subjects.
I essentially want to know how task and group impact the relationship between the dependent and predictor variables.
I have a number of models that lmer_alt indicates have significant interaction effects.
I have a few questions:

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*I think I need to add the interaction between task and group into my models? I'm not sure why I didn't do this before, but if someone  is able to chime in about whether I should that would be great. There are group effects on task, from just prior ANOVA models, so I think I should add them into these?

*I've been trying to use emmeans() to run post-hoc tests on the significant interaction effects indicated by the model. This makes sense if I do the interaction between the two categorical variables like this:
emmeans(RR_MoSml_hs,pairwise ~ TrialType*group, adjust="tukey")

Which gives an output of:
$emmeans
 TrialType group    emmean      SE  df lower.CL upper.CL
 'FW'      hfoa     0.1000 0.00261 158   0.0948    0.105
 'SS'      hfoa     0.1000 0.00292 157   0.0942    0.106
 'FW'      lfoa_flg 0.1205 0.00149 122   0.1175    0.123
 'SS'      lfoa_flg 0.1205 0.00155 124   0.1174    0.124
 'FW'      lfoa_va  0.0982 0.00226 165   0.0938    0.103
 'SS'      lfoa_va  0.0982 0.00217 165   0.0940    0.103
 'FW'      ya       0.1038 0.00293 160   0.0980    0.110
 'SS'      ya       0.1038 0.00323 162   0.0974    0.110

Degrees-of-freedom method: kenward-roger
Confidence level used: 0.95

$contrasts
 contrast                       estimate       SE  df t.ratio p.value
 'FW' hfoa - 'SS' hfoa         -1.91e-05 0.000615 133  -0.031  1.0000
 'FW' hfoa - 'FW' lfoa_flg     -2.05e-02 0.003163 145  -6.479  <.0001
 'FW' hfoa - 'SS' lfoa_flg     -2.05e-02 0.002981 148  -6.881  <.0001
 'FW' hfoa - 'FW' lfoa_va       1.74e-03 0.003700 155   0.469  0.9998
 'FW' hfoa - 'SS' lfoa_va       1.72e-03 0.003462 157   0.496  0.9997
 'FW' hfoa - 'FW' ya           -3.82e-03 0.003406 155  -1.123  0.9509
 'FW' hfoa - 'SS' ya           -3.84e-03 0.003476 149  -1.106  0.9547
 'SS' hfoa - 'FW' lfoa_flg     -2.05e-02 0.003447 150  -5.940  <.0001
 'SS' hfoa - 'SS' lfoa_flg     -2.05e-02 0.003163 145  -6.479  <.0001
 'SS' hfoa - 'FW' lfoa_va       1.76e-03 0.004019 157   0.437  0.9999
 'SS' hfoa - 'SS' lfoa_va       1.74e-03 0.003700 155   0.469  0.9998
 'SS' hfoa - 'FW' ya           -3.81e-03 0.003445 160  -1.105  0.9550
 'SS' hfoa - 'SS' ya           -3.82e-03 0.003406 155  -1.123  0.9509
 'FW' lfoa_flg - 'SS' lfoa_flg -1.91e-05 0.000615 133  -0.031  1.0000
 'FW' lfoa_flg - 'FW' lfoa_va   2.22e-02 0.002602 154   8.543  <.0001
 'FW' lfoa_flg - 'SS' lfoa_va   2.22e-02 0.002561 158   8.671  <.0001
 'FW' lfoa_flg - 'FW' ya        1.67e-02 0.003519 171   4.737  0.0001
 'FW' lfoa_flg - 'SS' ya        1.66e-02 0.003790 171   4.393  0.0005
 'SS' lfoa_flg - 'FW' lfoa_va   2.22e-02 0.002781 159   8.000  <.0001
 'SS' lfoa_flg - 'SS' lfoa_va   2.22e-02 0.002602 154   8.543  <.0001
 'SS' lfoa_flg - 'FW' ya        1.67e-02 0.003340 171   4.996  <.0001
 'SS' lfoa_flg - 'SS' ya        1.67e-02 0.003519 171   4.737  0.0001
 'FW' lfoa_va - 'SS' lfoa_va   -1.91e-05 0.000615 133  -0.031  1.0000
 'FW' lfoa_va - 'FW' ya        -5.56e-03 0.003999 171  -1.391  0.8605
 'FW' lfoa_va - 'SS' ya        -5.58e-03 0.004308 170  -1.295  0.8996
 'SS' lfoa_va - 'FW' ya        -5.54e-03 0.003765 170  -1.472  0.8214
 'SS' lfoa_va - 'SS' ya        -5.56e-03 0.003999 171  -1.391  0.8605
 'FW' ya - 'SS' ya             -1.91e-05 0.000615 133  -0.031  1.0000

Degrees-of-freedom method: kenward-roger
P value adjustment: tukey method for comparing a family of 8 estimates

My question is what is this estimate value? Can I think of it as the R value of the regression fit? Or is it dependent on what my dependent and predictor variable units are? I'm also assuming I need to change the emmeans code for each significant interaction effect but how do I do this for the interactions between the continuous and categorical variables? Is it just:
emmeans(RR_MoSml_hs,pairwise ~ group, adjust="tukey")

which gives
NOTE: Results may be misleading due to involvement in interactions
$emmeans
 group    emmean      SE  df lower.CL upper.CL
 hfoa     0.1000 0.00275 157   0.0945    0.105
 lfoa_flg 0.1205 0.00149 118   0.1175    0.123
 lfoa_va  0.0982 0.00219 164   0.0939    0.103
 ya       0.1038 0.00307 161   0.0977    0.110

Results are averaged over the levels of: TrialType
Degrees-of-freedom method: kenward-roger
Confidence level used: 0.95

$contrasts
 contrast           estimate      SE  df t.ratio p.value
 hfoa - lfoa_flg    -0.02049 0.00316 145  -6.479  <.0001
 hfoa - lfoa_va      0.00174 0.00370 155   0.469  0.9657
 hfoa - ya          -0.00382 0.00341 155  -1.123  0.6759
 lfoa_flg - lfoa_va  0.02223 0.00260 154   8.543  <.0001
 lfoa_flg - ya       0.01667 0.00352 171   4.737  <.0001
 lfoa_va - ya       -0.00556 0.00400 171  -1.391  0.5070

Results are averaged over the levels of: TrialType
Degrees-of-freedom method: kenward-roger
P value adjustment: tukey method for comparing a family of 4 estimates

or do I need to add in the continuous variable here too?
emmeans(RR_MoSml_hs,pairwise ~ av_RR*group, adjust="tukey")

because this output just genuinely confuses me!
$emmeans
 av_RR group    emmean      SE  df lower.CL upper.CL
  1.14 hfoa     0.1000 0.00275 157   0.0945    0.105
  1.14 lfoa_flg 0.1205 0.00149 118   0.1175    0.123
  1.14 lfoa_va  0.0982 0.00219 164   0.0939    0.103
  1.14 ya       0.1038 0.00307 161   0.0977    0.110

Results are averaged over the levels of: TrialType
Degrees-of-freedom method: kenward-roger
Confidence level used: 0.95

$contrasts
 contrast                                                       estimate      SE  df t.ratio p.value
 av_RR1.14153257835045 hfoa - av_RR1.14153257835045 lfoa_flg    -0.02049 0.00316 145  -6.479  <.0001
 av_RR1.14153257835045 hfoa - av_RR1.14153257835045 lfoa_va      0.00174 0.00370 155   0.469  0.9657
 av_RR1.14153257835045 hfoa - av_RR1.14153257835045 ya          -0.00382 0.00341 155  -1.123  0.6759
 av_RR1.14153257835045 lfoa_flg - av_RR1.14153257835045 lfoa_va  0.02223 0.00260 154   8.543  <.0001
 av_RR1.14153257835045 lfoa_flg - av_RR1.14153257835045 ya       0.01667 0.00352 171   4.737  <.0001
 av_RR1.14153257835045 lfoa_va - av_RR1.14153257835045 ya       -0.00556 0.00400 171  -1.391  0.5070

Results are averaged over the levels of: TrialType
Degrees-of-freedom method: kenward-roger
P value adjustment: tukey method for comparing a family of 4 estimates

As I'm sure you can tell, I am very new to this but I appreciate any and all help I can get! Thanks in advance.

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BRT buses parked in the open as depots not yet built in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: The 20 buses of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) have been parked in the open at Hayatabad as none of the three depots could be built in the six-month stipulated time of the project.
The first lot of Zu Peshawar buses had arrived in Peshawar on Monday from China. The 200 remaining buses of the BRT fleet will come soon. The TransPeshawar representative in a statement said that the buses were transported from China via the seaport and then were brought to Peshawar via road in the most economical and safe manner. The current lot of 20 vehicles comprise of 12-meter-long buses. A total of 220 buses will be purchased by TransPeshawar for the project.
Out of these, 155 are 12-meter-long while 65 are 18-meter-long buses. First of its kind, these buses are hybrid and can run on diesel as well as electric. The buses are environment-friendly and tend to reduce carbon emission in the city.
According to a careful estimate by Asian Development Bank (ADB), Peshawar BRT after implementation would reduce 31,000 tons of CO2 emissions when compared to the existing transport system of Peshawar. The buses will be Wifi-enabled with AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) facility – a feature to track the real-time location of the bus. A 12-meter bus has the capacity to accommodate 75 passengers.
The TransPeshawar representative said it would ensure inclusion of all citizens of Peshawar may it be students, women, elderly or differently-abled. A significant feature of BRT bus is UAS – Universal Access System, which is one of the key factors used to globally rate/evaluate BRT systems.
The buses are parked in the open at Hayatabad. There is concern that the hi-tech buses could be damaged due to the vagaries of nature if the three planned depots aren't constructed in the near future.
When asked if any measures have been taken to protect the costly buses from the vagaries of nature and unexpected and inexplicable environmental conditions, Nauman Manzoor, Director Media TransPeshawar, said that currently the buses have been parked at Hayatabad and would remain there till the depots are constructed "Worldwide these buses are made strong enough to fight tough weather and environmental conditions," he argued. "Many bus depots provide secured gates, but they may not have roofs, etc," he added.
The TransPeshawar official said the government through the Peshawar Development Authority (PDA), the executing agency of the BRT project, was providing security to the buses.
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PEREIRA GOODMAN v. ANDERSON
Court of Appeal, First District, Division 5, California.
Maria PEREIRA-GOODMAN, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Eloise ANDERSON, et al., Defendants and Respondents.
No. A074526.
Decided: April 29, 1997
Tom Weathered, San Francisco, Brian Paddock, Sacramento, Mary M. Mastin, Auburn, for plaintiff and appellant. Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Robert L. Mukai, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Charlton G. Holland, III, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Stephanie Wald, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Angela Botelho, Deputy Attorney General, for defendants and respondents.
In this case we hold that a former welfare recipient who is not currently receiving public assistance, and is not an applicant for such assistance, is not entitled to an administrative "fair hearing" under the provisions of Welfare and Institutions Code section 10950, in order to contest the calculations of a county's district attorney, acting as the administrator of the Child Support Enforcement Services (CSES) program, concerning the amounts payable to appellant on her claim for enforcement of prior accruals of child support obligations under the provisions of Title IV-D of the federal Social Security Act, 42 United States Code section 651 et seq. (hereafter, Title IV-D). This administrative hearing right is properly limited to persons who are applicants for, or recipients of, public assistance payments, and who are contesting adverse decisions of a county welfare department regarding such assistance payments. Appellant is not such a person.
Appellant Maria Pereira-Goodman contends the trial court wrongly denied her petition for a writ of mandate. By its ruling, the trial court refused to order the State Department of Social Services to exercise jurisdiction and conduct an administrative hearing. We affirm.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
Appellant last received public assistance through the federal-state Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program in 1989. As required by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, the payment of benefits was conditioned upon participation in the CSES program, which is operated by the District Attorney's Family Support Division. After the court ordered support was paid and appellant returned to the workforce, she stopped receiving AFDC and her CSES case was closed by the district attorney.
Some years later, in 1992 and 1993, appellant again sought and received the aid of the District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco in enforcing an order which she had obtained with the help of private counsel, for payment of accrued child support by the father of her child. The district attorney provided this enforcement aid under provisions of Title IV-D which allow persons who are not currently receiving public assistance through the AFDC program to receive help in enforcing child support orders from the local district attorney. (See 42 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.; Blessing v. Freestone (1997) 520 U.S. 329, 117 S.Ct. 1353, 137 L.Ed.2d 569.)
A dispute developed between appellant and the district attorney's office over the accounting for some $750 in accrued medical support arrearage payments. Appellant theorized that more than $500 of the original $750 in accrued medical arrearages were still due and payable to her, and that the district attorney had wrongly accounted for these payments from the father of her child by crediting them to reimbursement of the county's previous AFDC payments to her, or other purposes. The district attorney's office pointed out that it had never been told by appellant or her private counsel about the accrued medical payment arrearages, and therefore had not enforced payment for them in its enforcement action. Therefore no such payments had been made from the father of appellant's child to the district attorney, and no such funds were available to be paid out to appellant.
Appellant sought an administrative "fair hearing" concerning her dispute with the district attorney, under the provisions of Welfare and Institutions Code section 10950 (section 10950). The district attorney's office contended appellant was not entitled to such a hearing under section 10950, because such administrative hearings are only allowed to persons who are receiving or who have applied to currently receive welfare payments, in order to contest eligibility determinations and other related decisions of the county welfare departments.
After appellant appeared at the administrative hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), Judge Quintanilla, he ruled he lacked jurisdiction over the dispute because section 10950 only allowed such hearings to current welfare recipients and applicants, not former recipients, and because appellant was not contesting a decision by the county welfare department, but was contesting the accounting for litigation proceeds by the district attorney.
Appellant filed a petition for a writ of mandate under Code of Civil Procedure sections 1085 and 1094.5, seeking to require the respondent Director of the California Department of Social Services to grant her an administrative hearing. The superior court, after hearing argument on the matter, denied the petition.
II. DISCUSSION
We affirm the decision of the superior court denying the petition, because appellant was not entitled to an administrative hearing under the provisions of section 10950.1 She is not a current recipient of public assistance or applicant for such assistance who is entitled to such a hearing under section 10950, and she is not contesting a decision by the county welfare department regarding eligibility or payment of such assistance, which would entitle her to such a hearing under section 10950. Rather, she is a former aid recipient who is engaged in a dispute with the district attorney, not the county welfare department, regarding the accounting for some $500 of the proceeds of a private support action relating to accrued medical arrearages. Neither section 10950 nor Title IV-D grant her a right to an administrative hearing in such circumstances.
The parties do not cite the discussion of this point contained in the only published decision in this state discovered by our research which relates to the interaction of the fair hearing requirement of section 10950 and the claimed right of former aid recipients to a hearing regarding the district attorney's prosecution of and accounting for accrued arrearages in support payments under Title IV-D, the decision of this appellate District in County of Santa Clara v. Support, Inc. (1979) 89 Cal.App.3d 687, 704, 152 Cal.Rptr. 754 (Support). The Support case strongly supports the trial court's decision in this case.
In Support, a decision from Division Two of this District, the legal issue relevant here concerned whether a former recipient of AFDC assistance was entitled to an administrative fair hearing under the provisions of section 10950, in order to contest the district attorney's calculations regarding the proceeds from actions for accrued arrearages in support payments, or the accounting therefor, under the authority of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. Division Two rejected the claim of right to a hearing under section 10950, and ruled in favor of the state, as follows: "[The state] argues that under section 10950 of the Welfare and Institutions Code the right to a fair hearing is limited to action by the county welfare department. Under the IV-D plan in California, the district attorney has the responsibility of collecting child support arrearages. Accordingly, the district attorney must obtain an accounting from the welfare department in order to determine the amount of reimbursement due to the county. However, merely providing an accounting of actual welfare expenditures to the district attorney cannot reasonably be said to be an 'action of the county welfare department relating to his [or her] application for or receipt of aid,' which establishes a right to the fair hearing described in section 10950. In addition, it is clear that section 10950 is applicable only to applicants or recipients of aid-not former recipients." (Support, supra, 89 Cal.App.3d at p. 704, 152 Cal.Rptr. 754, fn. omitted.)
We agree with Division Two's analysis. Section 10950 grants a right to an administrative hearing before an ALJ only to current recipients or applicants for public aid, and only with respect to the actions of the county welfare department relating to eligibility, payment or other matters related to that payment of aid, not with respect to the actions of the district attorney prosecuting actions for arrearages on behalf of persons not receiving aid, under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. The language of section 10950 limits the right to a hearing before an ALJ to a person who is an "applicant for or recipient of public social services [who] is dissatisfied with any action of the county department relating to his [or her] application for or receipt of aid." (Support, supra, 89 Cal.App.3d at p. 704, 152 Cal.Rptr. 754, quoting section 10950.) 2 Appellant is not such a recipient or applicant, and her claim does not relate to an action of the county welfare department regarding such aid. We conclude she is not entitled to an administrative hearing.
We reject as inapposite the numerous scattershot authorities cited by appellant in favor of a contrary result.
First, in Barnes v. Healy (9th Cir.1992) 980 F.2d 572 (Barnes ), a case cited extensively by appellant, the court said nothing about a right to an administrative hearing or the provisions of section 10950. Instead, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the district court abused its discretion in limiting class-wide relief for claimed due process violations. The claimed due process violations related to such matters as the sufficiency and timeliness of the notice provided to persons on whose behalf district attorneys brought enforcement actions for support orders under Title IV-D. The court held all persons entitled to district attorney aid under Title IV-D, not just persons receiving AFDC payments, should receive the required notice. The Barnes case relates to the provision of notice to persons such as appellant regarding amounts recovered on her behalf; the case does not refer to a right to an administrative hearing under section 10950. Barnes simply does not relate to the issue of the entitlement to a hearing under section 10950, which is nowhere mentioned in the Barnes opinion.
Appellant also relies upon Knight v. McMahon (1994) 26 Cal.App.4th 747, 757, 31 Cal.Rptr.2d 832 (Knight ), which was disapproved in American Federation of Labor v. Unemployment Ins. Appeals Bd. (1996) 13 Cal.4th 1017, 1023, 56 Cal.Rptr.2d 109, 920 P.2d 1314. Knight is also inapposite. Knight held that when a person was wrongly denied payments for in-home supportive services which she should have received for her medical problems, an ALJ had the authority to award her interest on the unpaid sums. The holding of Knight was recently disapproved by our Supreme Court, and in any event it did not consider the legal issues before us here.
In addition, appellant relies on inapposite citations to a federal district court case presently on appeal to the Ninth Circuit, League of United Latin American Citizens v. Wilson (C.D.Cal.1995) 908 F.Supp. 755, 780-781 (LULAC ). The LULAC case had nothing to do with providing a hearing to persons who dispute the district attorney's accounting for support arrearages recovered in litigation pursuant to Title IV-D. Instead, the issue in LULAC was whether the provisions of Proposition 187 which barred California state agencies from providing benefits to illegal aliens, including "child welfare benefits" for involuntarily detained minors, were preempted by federal immigration laws or other principles of federal law. We find nothing in LULAC which relates to the issues before us. In addition, though not directly germane, we also note that this court and others have ruled, in a variety of contexts, that states such as California may condition payment of state benefits upon lawful resident status, and may deny state benefits to persons who do not yet meet federal immigration requirements, without violating federal constitutional or statutory law. (See Khasminskaya v. Lum (1996) 47 Cal.App.4th 537, 542-545, 54 Cal.Rptr.2d 915 and cases there cited.) In any event, LULAC certainly does not aid appellant here.
None of the remaining decisions cited by appellant addresses the interaction of section 10950 with the district attorney's functions under Title IV-D, an issue addressed only by the discussion in the Support case, which the parties did not cite. (Support, supra, 89 Cal.App.3d at p. 704, 152 Cal.Rptr. 754.)
Appellant relies, for instance, upon the precepts of Goldberg v. Kelly (1970) 397 U.S. 254, 260-261, 90 S.Ct. 1011, 1016-1017, 25 L.Ed.2d 287 (Goldberg ), which held that an administrative hearing must be provided before AFDC benefits or other welfare benefits are denied or discontinued, since denial of the payments necessary to sustain life during the pendency of bureaucratic review would defeat the very purpose of such benefits. We agree that hearings under section 10950 are provided to welfare recipients and applicants in order to satisfy the Goldberg holding. However, neither Goldberg nor its reasoning support appellant's position. The case before us, as we have discussed, does not concern an applicant or recipient of AFDC or other public assistance, who would be entitled to an administrative hearing under section 10950 and Goldberg.3
Appellant additionally relies upon the precept that "expressio unius est exclusio alterius " and she cites its application in Sierra Club v. State Bd. of Forestry (1994) 7 Cal.4th 1215, 1230, 32 Cal.Rptr.2d 19, 876 P.2d 505 (Sierra Club ). The issue in Sierra Club concerned whether the Board of Forestry had the authority to require applicants for timber harvesting plans to conduct wildlife surveys. That case is unrelated to this one. Further, a proper application of the principle of expressio unius est exclusio alterius certainly does not aid appellant; instead, it undercuts her argument. Where there are expressed limitations, additional limitations will not be implied, unless there is a clear legislative intent to the contrary. Section 10950 provides for a right to a hearing to persons who are "applicants" or "recipients" and since appellant is neither, she is not entitled to a hearing under section 10950; expressio unius est exclusio alterius. It is also true, as appellant points out, that section 10950 excludes from those entitled to a hearing recipients of certain public services, such as persons who have state-paid "chore workers" in their homes to help with housekeeping. However, this does not logically support appellant's claim that a non-recipient of any public social services or welfare payments, such as appellant, would be covered by section 10950. She is not.
We also reject appellant's suggestion that she is covered by section 10950 merely because she received the help of the district attorney in enforcing her order for support payments. Section 10950 is intended to govern the rights of an applicant or recipient of payments from such "public social services" as AFDC or other welfare programs, who contest the decision of a county welfare department regarding such benefits. The public social services to which section 10950 refers cannot consist merely of the assistance which any citizen is entitled to ask of the district attorney. It was certainly never intended that the section would provide a right to a hearing to every person who wanted something from or was helped by the district attorney, and the language of the statute does not support such a reading. (See Support, supra, 89 Cal.App.3d at p. 704, 152 Cal.Rptr. 754.) 4
In summary, appellant does not come within the administrative hearing right specified by section 10950 because she is not an applicant or recipient of public social services payments, and she is not contesting a decision of the county welfare department, which determines whether a person is entitled to such benefits. Instead, appellant is attempting to litigate a dispute with the district attorney concerning the accounting for payments representing arrearages she claims were recovered from the father of her child, not payments from the county. In such circumstances, there is no right to a section 10950 hearing. (Support, supra, 89 Cal.App.3d at p. 704, 152 Cal.Rptr. 754.) 5
III. DISPOSITION
The judgment denying the petition is affirmed.
1. Section 10950 provides, in pertinent part: "If any applicant for or recipient of public social services is dissatisfied with any action of the county department relating to his or her application for or receipt of public social services ․ he or she shall, in person or through an authorized representative, without the necessity of filing a claim with the board of supervisors, upon filing a request with the State Department of Social Services or the State Department of Health Services, whichever department administers the public social service, be accorded an opportunity for a state hearing."
2. Of course, as the trial court aptly observed, this does not mean appellant was without a remedy. She received a written review of her claims and a detailed accounting from the district attorney, and could have sought a petition for writ of mandate contesting the district attorney's calculations. She did not do so.
3. In addition, we find no due process violation here. The district attorney provided a written review of appellant's claims and a detailed accounting of the proceeds from the support enforcement action; more was not required to satisfy due process concerns. (Cf. Goldberg, supra, 397 U.S. at pp. 263-264, 90 S.Ct. at pp. 1018-1019.)
4. After we raised the issue of the applicability of the Support decision at oral argument, counsel for appellant filed a motion to vacate the submission of this appeal, together with a belated letter brief attempting to distinguish Support. We deny the motion to vacate the submission, and find Support persuasive authority here. We note that although the Support decision dealt with a prior, slightly different version of section 10950, which has since been the subject of numerous minor amendments not relevant here, the definition of a "recipient" entitled to a hearing under section 10950 remains limited to an "applicant for or recipient of public social services․" As we have discussed, appellant does not meet that definition because the help of the district attorney in enforcing a support order is not one of the "public social services" as to which a former recipient could obtain a hearing under section 10950. (See Support, supra, 89 Cal.App.3d at p. 704 and fn. 14, 152 Cal.Rptr. 754.)
5. In light of this conclusion, we need not and will not take judicial notice, as respondents request, of the decisions of other superior courts which have reached the same result we have. The decisions of other superior courts (one of which decisions is apparently the subject of a pending appeal in the Third District) do not have precedential value; the Support decision does, and we find it persuasive here.
JONES, Associate Justice.
PETERSON, P.J., and HANING, J., concur.


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For many, religion is an idea whose time has passed. Science, which has split the atom and traveled to distant planets, has shown us no sign of a 'creator God' worthy of acknowledgement. The technological progress of our era has reduced religious belief to a helpful superstition at best, or a dangerous flaw at worst. Either way, its relevance to our future has recently been put into question.
What has caused this decline in the status of religion? I think the culprit has been scientific materialism. This is a philosophical system which states that physical objects and processes, the kind studied by natural sciences, are all that exist. Crucially, what this means is that even consciousness itself is reducible into the mere interactions of particles. This will be an important point that I'll return to later on.
Scientific materialism is both an ontology (study of being) and epistemology (study of knowledge). Its ontology states that what is fundamentally real is the physical existence of particles, energy, and so on. For the scientific materialist, a 'complete physics' that could describe the behavior of every particle in the universe would essentially reduce the emergence of all higher-order structures (molecular interactions, organ systems, but also subjective experiences and social forces) into nothing more than complex arrangements of this underlying material substrate. The principle reality that exists is a physical one.
The epistemology of scientific materialism is even more relevant. This is the claim that what is fundamentally true is that we live in the kind of 'material arena' that is explicated by its ontology. Because of this, we can only be certain about the truth of a proposition if we find that it corresponds to external reality. This is what can be demonstrated by the scientific method: that is to say, by observable, replicable, and universal data obtained by experiment. When someone says 'I want to eat', the scientific materialist reduces the truth of this proposition to the existence of some neurochemical signals in his brain; similarly, when someone says 'God exists', the scientific materialist posits God as some positive externality in order to assess its truth value.
Scientific materialism is not just a topic for the intellectual patter of philosophers and theologians. It is a mindset which informs our most intimate experience of the world. This is perceptible in the rise of the 'new atheists', a group of scientists and philosophers who conducted a popular critique of religion in the early 2000s. The most compelling anti-religious arguments put forward by these thinkers were deeply informed by scientific materialism.
This is best encapsulated, I think, by the recent popularity of the agnostic position. This is the claim that one does not subscribe to a belief in God on the basis of insufficient evidence. God might exist, but until there are data to show it, the agnostic cannot hold the statement 'God exists' as true.
Belief, on the other hand, involves subjective certitude but lacks objective sufficiency. It is in this category that we include faith. For example, someone may as part of their religious faith believe that the remnants of Noah's arc exist somewhere out there, waiting to be discovered. In this case, his faith in God would be the origin of several religious beliefs, which he holds to be true 'in his heart, not his eyes', so to speak. This kind of holding-to-be-true is what Kant identifies as belief.
But still, the religious believer cannot claim to know that the object of his belief is true. In order for a proposition to be elevated to the status of knowledge, it must gain objective sufficiency. In other words, in order for a holding-to-be-true to be justified as knowing, empirical demonstration is required.
So, what can be said about the agnostic, who refuses to hold the proposition 'God exists' as true? It demonstrates that they await the induction of a proposition into the realm of knowledge in order to engage with it as true. The agnostic looks at a religious believer and says, "I cannot be them, for I am drawn to objective certitude". In more familiar terms, the agnostic is incapable of preforming a certain leap of faith, because his criterion for holding-to-be-true is that a proposition be known.
Now, it is my thesis that this inability is predicated on the scientific materialist perspective from which the agnostic speaks. This is a perspective which fundamentally limits a person's holding-of-truth to what can be empirically verified. "Show me the evidence", that popular response to religious faith today, is the most recognizable calling card of scientific materialism. To use Kant's terms, this means that the scientific materialist can only accept what is known to be true and not what emerges as true by faith.
How can we understand this idea of emerging-as-true? First, we need to recognize that the type of truth that results from faith — religious truth — is different from our familiar concept of scientific truth. Owing to its independence from objective facts, religious truth might best be described as a form of subjective truth. That being said, there are certainly truths about the world which are not influenced by one's individual character or mindset: subjective truths cannot and should not interfere with objective truths. The sky is blue regardless of your subjective orientation towards existence.
But subjectivity opens up a new locus of truth: truths which are predicated by a certain subjective orientation, or put in other terms, truth which become self-sustaining once a given subjective orientation is provided.
This does not have to be so mystical. We can find an example in the everyday question, "do things happen for a reason?". Here's an answer I find convincing: if you live your life believing that things happen for a reason, then things happen for a reason. In other words, when you filter through the otherwise random and contingent events of life on the condition of anticipated meaning and purpose, it so happens that a constellation of events come together which, considered retroactively, can be said to have 'happened for a reason'. The opposite subjective engagement with the world, on the other hand, assembles no such constellation. Subsequently, a more nihilistic person creates the conditions of their own belief that nothing happens for a reason, that everything is random, and so on.
We also find an example of this phenomenon in love. Being in love is a strictly irrational position: the reasons for my infatuation with a girl aren't reducible into a series of qualities, say, that were already present when I first met her. After all, I couldn't go around a room of girls with a checklist and 'cause myself' to fall in love with the one who fits the most of my preferences. Rather, the conditions arise once something unspeakable happens: the 'fall' of love, the primal moment of subjective engagement. Only after the fall do we create the qualities which we can point to, which then become already-present, retroactive conditions of themselves.
And here we discover the true meaning of Pascal's wager. When Blaise Pascal suggests to the religious doubters that they 'do it anyway', and walk through the actions of a Christian despite their skepticism, this is not simply an insurance policy in case they are wrong about God. In other words, it is not simply a utilitarian argument that claims it is in your self-interest to do so. Rather, Pascal is identifying that in matters of religious faith, activity is in some sense primary to the cognition. In Pascal's own words: "Habit provides the strongest proofs and those that are most believed. It inclines the automaton, which leads the mind unconsciously along with it." What Pascal is saying here is that, as automata, our embodied activity comes first, and our cognition comes after. The truth is often a function of the activity, and not so much the cognition.
This dimension of truth — which involves the subjective orientation of the observer, not just what is 'objectively there' — is the dimension of truth which we must grapple with when speaking of religious faith. Faith is a radical experience which transforms the dimension of truth in a way that cannot be encompassed by the scientific materialist perspective. In order to clarify this, it will be necessary to explore this new dimension of truth and identify it for what it is: a pragmatic form of truth.
The distinction between scientific and religious truth reveals a more fundamental distinction: that between a correspondence theory of truth and a pragmatic theory of truth.
Correspondence theories of truth claim that truth is a measure of correspondence with reality. Scientific materialism is clearly in line with this perspective: a proposition's truth value is fundamentally related to material constitution. For the scientific materialist, all propositions which can be held true with certainty necessarily refer to the external world.
Pragmatic theories of truth, on the other hand, maintain that truth can only be specified with regards to a certain aim. According to this theory, truth always stands in relation to a particular function on the part of the inquirer. If you set a goal, and hold some proposition as true in pursuit of that goal, its achievement allows you to state that your proposition was true enough for the outcome.
Sam Harris is arguably the most popular scientific materialist in America. No surprise, then, that he is one of the four 'new atheist' thinkers I mentioned earlier. Nowhere is Harris' materialist philosophy more apparent than in his thorough refutation of free will, an endeavor towards which he dedicated an entire book. As a neuroscientist, Harris is quick to maintain that our mental states are simply the result of material interactions in the brain. Because of this, they are — in theory — perfectly predictable by the tools of science. Thus, for Harris, the statement "free will exists" is false because the phenomena of free will can be reduced into a material substrate which follows known laws. How can free will remain as a metaphysically distinct label when your decisions are subject to the same fundamental laws that govern the motion of objects?
For Harris, then, what is true is what corresponds to external reality. Even the truth of subjective experiences, like the feeling of pain or sensation of smell, must be subjugated to the material conditions from which they emerge. As such, the existence of conscious states is reduced to its underlying neurobiological substrate. This is what allows him to deny the existence of free will: since 'free will' is fundamentally the movement of particles, and their laws are determined, there cannot be free will.
Jordan Peterson is a Jungian psychologist who has been leading a push for thinking in more pragmatic terms about the nature of truth. His 1999 work Maps of Meaning is a detailed elaboration on the idea that, as humans, our reality is fundamentally structured like a narrative. Accordingly, it is filled with challenges against the scientific materialist outlook, which he claims limits the world to what exists, at the expense of what to do about what exists. Subsequently, his ethic is founded on the claim that what is fundamental to our experience is a moral injunction to confront chaos and strive towards the 'ideal', which he often uses synonymously with the concept of heaven.
For Peterson, then, what is true is what facilitates our aims as individuals in the pursuit of leading ideal lives. Certainly, Peterson sees scientific materialism as an unbelievably valuable tool in this regard: it has given us industrial machines, antibiotics, computers, and many more technologies which have greatly improved our quality of life. But for Peterson, our primary reality — what is fundamentally true — is not the 'material arena' of objective facts which science elucidates. Rather, it is the transcendental value structure which gives objects their valence and guides our embodied activity in an automatic and often-times unconscious way.
These two thinkers, established as they are in their own right, nonetheless subscribe to strictly irreconcilable ideas on the nature of truth. It's no surprise, then, that when they connected for the first time in early 2017 they became mired in a staunch and seemingly unsolvable disagreement. In a now-infamous exchange on Harris's podcast Waking Up, Peterson insisted that our Darwinian origin influences how we should consider truth. Espousing the pragmatic position, Peterson claimed that we are structured — biologically, psychologically, and socially — to survive and produce progeny. Therefore, from a pragmatic perspective, a given fact about the world may be true or false depending on how well it achieves the aim of survival.
Quick to the defense of scientific truth, Harris evoked the intuition of his audience and insisted that some facts are true regardless of their consequences on our species. In other words, Newtonian truths are primary and Darwinian truths must be nested within them, not the other way around. He gives the following example to illustrate his point: the biochemistry of smallpox synthesis remains true whether we use it for the benefit of humanity or its destruction. If Peterson is insisting that a given proposition's truth value relies on its influence on survival, then we have the paradoxical situation where the same scientific findings become false the minute they are used to destroy the population. To this compelling point, Peterson could only respond by arguing that, in the event it ushered in the apocalypse, the science of smallpox would not have been 'true enough'. Harris was not satisfied by this answer and stood by his science-first view of truth.
Through the long and laborious dialogue that ensued, there was a certain moment that I believe captured the essence of the disagreement. Peterson introduces the following scenario, which we may call the burning house example. If someone is sitting in their room unknowingly while a fire rages the house around them, should we question the truth of their proposition that 'there is no fire in this room'? Well, it would certainly be a lousy theory, as Peterson claims. Even so, argues Harris, we cannot depart from the obvious notion that it is still true. Certainly, we can say that this truth is an incomplete picture of the world, or even that it is detrimental for the observer, but why should we doubt our intuition that the proposition itself remains true?
Here is where, I think, we can start to make sense of Peterson's position, and rescue it from the arguments Harris put forth. We begin by elaborating on the proposition 'there is no fire in this room'. All things considered, (especially on an evolutionary scale), this is a very specific proposition, and if we were to be more accurate, we can identify the statement as being of the type 'there is no fire in this location X at this moment in time Y' out of many possible Xs and Ys. Now, the specificity of this statement reveals it as a subcategory of a more general statement, namely, 'there is a fire'. To summarize, let's say that 'there is no fire at X place in Y time' is a species of 'there is a fire', insofar as it serves as a specification of the second proposition and coheres with its overall motivation (namely, to know whether or not there is a fire).
In turn, we might imagine that 'there is a fire' is itself a species of the proposition 'there is a threat', which in turn might be a species of 'there is something to avoid'. In this way, we can identify the cause of the statement 'there is no fire in the room' to be a desire to know 'is there a threat?' Now, 'there is a threat' is a proposition which is true of the person in the situation, although he is not aware of it.
We can now see why Peterson is so adamant on bringing up Darwin: the objective propositions we make about the world can be traced back, perhaps, to a primordial hypothesis-testing mechanism whose primary motivation was to ensure the survival of the organism. And we can now understand Peterson's statement that "if [a proposition] doesn't serve life, then it's not true." We simply need to keep in mind that the propositions we put forth always serve an underlying purpose; they are always species of motivations which we embody as a feature of our evolution.
Thus, a proposition's coherence to its cause-of-speech (which brought it into existence in the first place) in some sense supersedes the objective truth value of the proposition itself. This allows us to conceive of the truth value of a proposition as being related to the aim of the inquiry which produced it. It is true, pragmatically-speaking, if it is "in the spirit" of maintaining the aim specified by its cause-of-speech.
Now, Harris might respond here by saying that these considerations about a statement's context are unnecessary. This would be a claim that the proposition can be divorced from the motivation underlying its articulation. But the fact of the matter is, as humans, we cannot access our world outside the house of language. Or articulation of propositions is a kind of speech, and speech is always motivated. We simply cannot stand at an objective distance from facts about the world: we do not encounter 'naked truths', rather, this encounter is always predicated on our motivations.
We can summarize by saying the following. Propositions are always statements, and statements are always nested within motivations that act as causes-of-speech. Therefore, a proposition can be assessed not only on its correspondence with external reality, but on its coherence with its cause-of-speech. Then, we can endeavor (like Peterson) to follow the "trail of desire" for a given statement down to its most Darwinian drive: a struggle for survival.
With this clarity in mind, we return to the question at hand: should we, given the fire that rages around the house, call into doubt the truth of the statement, 'there is no fire in the room'? It appears we can, because answering 'no' to that question (while objectively true in a 'local' sense) betrays the general motivation behind its articulation: its cause-of-speech, 'there is a threat'. The answer to the question 'is there a fire in this room' may contradict the more general, and metaphysical, issue of 'is there a threat to be avoided'. And it is in this sense that we can start to speak of objective truths as being pragmatically false: when they betray the cause-of-speech which governs their articulation in the first place.
Here, we can reintroduce Peterson's idea that the ultimate truth is a value system which guides your embodied activity. The valence we place on objects and situations certainly influences our movement and engagement with the world. But it also guides our utterances: indeed, our transcendental value system can be thought of as a nested series of causes-of-speech which guide us towards making statements. And crucially, it also guides us in endeavoring to understand the world and make observations about it.
We can now return to Harris's counterargument about smallpox. If we start with the idea that a mad scientist who concocts a weaponized smallpox virus is making propositions which betray their causes-of-speech — which betray the innate value system from which he operates — then we can say that those propositions are false insofar as they are self-defeating; they are species of more underlying motivations which are not being satisfied by them. We are then given ground to conclude that the scientific facts behind his biochemical endeavors are objectively true but pragmatically false. To put it in more rigorous terms, his inquiries into the biochemistry of smallpox was a species of a more underlying question which became self-defeated by the result of his action.
We might even say: all of the biochemist's facts are wrong because he was not, in the first place, being true to himself.
Ironically, Harris was close to this solution when he said, "there are an infinite number of ways to explore the universe." The consequence of this fact is that every time we 'probe' the universe and come back with a proposition, we can always ask the question, "but why did we chose this investigation and not another?" In other words, the infinite possibility for our engagement with the universe means that any engagement we do have always contains an underlying motivation or desire.
Here, the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan will be very useful to us. According to Lacan, truth cannot be described as a qualifier of propositions. Unlike analytical philosophers and logicians like Bertrand Russel (whose quotation we read earlier), Lacan did not believe that the 'truth' of a given proposition could be described using a metalanguage. Instead, Lacan argued that the truth operates on the level of a cause-of-speech.
We can illustrate this by exploring Lacan's solution to an ancient problem: the liar paradox. Lacan solves the paradox — is the proposition 'this statement is a lie' true or false? — by saying the following. On the level of the statement, the subject is lying, since he claims himself to be lying. But on other level, the subject is telling the truth insofar as he is aiming at something by saying he is lying. Thus, the truth of the statement is not operating on the level of the proposition, 'I am lying', but rather on the level of the motivations which cause it to be spoken in the first place.
In a similar sense, to determine the pragmatic truth of a proposition, we must contextualize it with regards to the value structure which produced it in the first place. Only there, in the aim behind the value structure, can we assess the ultimate truth of the proposition, rather than in its correspondence to the objective world.
Armed with this understanding of pragmatic truth, we can now distinguish between scientific and religious truths more clearly. Whereas scientific truths deal on the level of the proposition, attempting to relate its contents to external reality, religious truths exist on the level of causes-of-speech, which are conditions of possibility for the proposition in the first place. Specifically, religious truths deal with the value structure which guides our embodied action, which includes proposition-making in the category of speech.
These two dimensions of truth are in dialectical opposition to each other. The scientific-materialist objection to religion, and more specifically the proposition 'God exists', treats its truth according to correspondence theory and therefore immediately posits God as some positive externality that could someday be detected by empirical investigation. This explains the comfortable position of the agnostic today: since their understanding of religious truth is limited to the correspondence theory, they cannot help but interpret God as some potential data point which we have yet to observe.
But again, this characterization of religious truth simply misses the mark. The domain of religious truth deals with the pragmatic dimension, not the objective one. We cannot take a religious statement, treat it as a proposition, and apply a correspondence theory of truth to find its correlate in external reality. Rather, religious truths are transcendental, axiomatic conditions of our embodied activity, and more specifically of our discourse itself. These are conditions that permeate our experience of the world, and can also be understood as the most fundamental aims in a motivational hierarchy which gives the objects of their world a kind of moral valence.
It seems intuitive that there are certain aims with regards to our lived experience which can only find their resolution in the adherence to certain beliefs. These can be regarded as beliefs which materialize a certain value structure, and therefore organize our embodied action in a way that is conducive to those underlying aims.
Which begs the question: what might be an example of a transcendental axiom of embodied activity, which we could count as a religious truth? I'll put one forward in an upcoming article.
This is borderline gibberish due to it being so poorly worded.
What does this mean? Do you mean that our conscious cognition is based on words?
What does this mean? Is a proposition pragmatically true if it is the cause-of-speech (whatever this means)?
They are pragmatic in what sense?
What does this mean? What is the aim in articulating them, is it saying them makes it true?
The extent some people will go to to try and rationalize their irrational beliefs is both entertaining and frustrating to observe.
"they are pragmatic in what sense?" in the sense I spent 2,000 words describing to you. besides that though, I think your first criticism is valid: I didn't elaborate on the Lacanian idea of the speaking-being in this article. I invite you to wait for the next one!
Very, very nice content. I love how you neutrally described two worlds that have divided billions–and will continue to!
This seems to be a complete dodge on your part to avoid responding to the points made in the article. Disappointing but not surprising.
Truth doesn't have a prefix of their or our.
If you are unwilling or unable to have an honest discussion about your essays and address counter-arguments then it might be best to eliminate the comments section so that people wanting a discourse do not waste their time.
Strongforce, why didn't you reply to prophemy's example? I didn't follow you when you said prophemy was dodging the article. Prophemy offered an example of a belief for which we have no evidence and yet which it seems we must believe. Doesn't that call into question Clifford's claim that we only ought to believe things for which we have evidence? And where is his evidence for this? He just seems to assert it passionately, much like Dawkins does in our own day. I would be interested in what you make of prophemy's example.


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How to Hedge Your Emerging Market Allocations Against a Strong Dollar
Jeremy Schwartz, CFA
Global Head of Research
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2016—until the election—had been the year of emerging market dominance. Commodities came roaring back, and not only was it the year of emerging markets (EM), it was also the year of emerging market currencies (with a weak U.S. dollar) and the commodity sectors within emerging markets. Countries such as Brazil, Russia and Peru led, while commodity importers like India and Korea lagged.
Since the election, however, there has been a new regime. The U.S. dollar started strengthening, and emerging markets faced a setback—although commodities have remained robust in the hope that infrastructure spending will support commodities and discussions of oil production cuts have supported oil.
Valuations Make EM Attractive, but What about Currency Risk?
One of the points supporting emerging markets is that anyone building capital market assumptions that incorporate a valuation factor in setting outlook will tend to be over-weight emerging markets. In the WisdomTree High Dividend Index family, for instance, the Emerging Markets High Dividend Index traded at a 50% price-to-earnings (P/E) discount to the High Dividend U.S. Index , one of the widest margins in last nine years. Of course, emerging markets entail higher risk levels, so they should trade at a discount, but I believe investing is about taking risks that you are compensated to take, so emerging markets look attractive to many.
But emerging markets are also critically reliant today on both China's economy not meaningfully deteriorating and not suffering from too strong of a U.S. dollar. A strong dollar tends to reverberate throughout emerging markets, and that has been the environment over the last five years.
Blending Strong Dollar and Weak Dollar Beneficiaries to Diversify Factor Risk
One idea that could balance this currency risk is to combine a strong dollar beneficiary—a country that sees performance tend to increase on the back of a strong U.S. dollar—with emerging markets that are reliant on a weak U.S. dollar.
A blend I have talked about for this approach looks to DXJ, the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund, which I believe is one of the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) most tied to a strong dollar and an improving U.S. economy, and DEM, the WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend ETF, which is reliant on the opposite from a currency side—a weak U.S. dollar.
A 50/50 blend of these two funds makes an interesting comparison to the MSCI AC World ex-US Index over the last five years.
Over the past five years, emerging market currencies generally were under great pressure. Emerging markets and DEM underperformed the MSCI AC World ex-US Index considerably—by more than 5 percentage points per year over this period.
That was a time when Japan outperformed considerably. Over the full period, Japan on a currency-hedged basis outperformed the MSCI AC World ex-US Index by more than 10 percentage points per year.
Implementing a blend of these two exposures would have landed investors ahead over five years and also in 2016—a year emerging markets finally began turning around after a dismal five years.
Allocating to a potentially strong dollar exposure—like DXJ, which is also among the lowest valuation countries in the developed world today—therefore has the potential to hedge what I think could be one of biggest risks to emerging market exposures for people who like the valuations presented therein.
The same can be said in reverse: If one is allocated to Japan exposure, perhaps a risk-mitigating strategy is also to allocate toward higher-dividend emerging markets that potentially benefit from a weak dollar and rising commodity prices.
In summary, this 50/50 blend not only has an attractive historical return profile. Looking at bottoms-up valuations of this 50/50 blend in comparison to the international benchmarks below, we believe this valuation profile could continue to look attractive going forward.
Cumulative Return Chart—WisdomTree Blend vs. MSCI ACWI ex—USA Index
Click ticker for standardized performance of DEM and DXJ.
Fundamentals Perspective Supportive of WisdomTree 50/50 Blend:
Lower Price-to-Earnings Ratios, Higher Return on Assets (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE)
For definitions of terms in the chart, visit our glossary.
Unless otherwise noted, data source is Bloomberg, as of November 30, 2016.
There are risks associated with investing, including possible loss of principal. Foreign investing involves special risks, such as risk of loss from currency fluctuation or political or economic uncertainty. Funds focusing on a single sector generally experience greater price volatility. Investments in emerging, offshore or frontier markets are generally less liquid and less efficient than investments in developed markets and are subject to additional risks, such as risks of adverse governmental regulation, intervention and political developments.
DXJ focuses its investments in Japan, thereby increasing the impact of events and developments in Japan that can adversely affect performance. Investments in currency involve additional special risks, such as credit risk, interest rate fluctuations, derivative investments which can be volatile and may be less liquid than other securities, and more sensitive to the effect of varied economic conditions. As this Fund can have a high concentration in some issuers, the Fund can be adversely impacted by changes affecting those issuers.
Due to the investment strategy of these Funds they may make higher capital gain distributions than other ETFs. Please read each Fund's prospectus for specific details regarding each Fund's risk profile.
Emerging Markets Currency Hedged Equity Japan
Jeremy Schwartz has served as our Global Head of Research since November 2018 and leads WisdomTree's investment strategy team in the construction of WisdomTree's equity indexes, quantitative active strategies and multi-asset model portfolios. Mr. Schwartz joined WisdomTree in May 2005 as a Senior Analyst, adding to his responsibilities in February 2007 as Deputy Director of Research and thereafter, from October 2008 to October 2018, as Director of Research. Prior to joining WisdomTree, he was head research assistant for Professor Jeremy Siegel and helped with the research and writing of Stocks for the Long Run and The Future for Investors. Mr. Schwartz also is co-author of the Financial Analysts Journal paper, What Happened to the Original Stocks in the S&P 500? He received his B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and hosts the Wharton Business Radio program Behind the Markets on SiriusXM 132. Mr. Schwartz is also a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.


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Sevilla FC Names Khelraja Official Asian iGaming Partner
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Khelraja, the leading Indian casino operator, announced a new partnership with Sevilla FC, the famous Spanish professional soccer club.
Khelraja Inks New Deal With Sevilla FC
As a result of the new collaboration, Khelraja was named the Official Asian iGaming partner of the leading La Liga team. The new deal meets the increasing popularity of La Liga in India. Under the terms of the recent deal, the duo agreed to collaborate through June 30, 2024. Thanks to the new deal, fans of Sevilla FC will have the option to engage with their favorite team. At the same time, sports fans will have the unique opportunity to win different awards via Khelraja. Besides offering unique experiences for Sevilla FC fans, the new collaboration expands the reach of La Liga, which is already significantly popular not only in India but around Southeast Asia too.
"The passion for football in India is on the rise, as can be seen in the growing popularity of overseas football leagues. Partnering with Sevilla FC, one of the biggest and most illustrious clubs in Spanish football, is a moment of great pride for us."
Viren Modi, CEO at Khelraja
Viren Modi, Khelraja's CEO, revealed that there is a growing soccer fan base in India. He acknowledged that joining forces with one of the most popular Spanish soccer clubs, Sevilla FC, marks an exciting moment for the company. Modi revealed that the new collaboration will bring unique experiences for sports fans who will also have the chance of winning different rewards. In conclusion, Khelraja's boss said that the company is looking forward to the success the new collaboration will bring and unveiled plans for further similar partnerships soon.
"We are looking forward to the partnership and will be exploring more such engagement opportunities with other football clubs, both in India and overseas,"
added Modi
Sevilla FC Has a Rich History
Founded back in 1905, Sevilla FC is currently the oldest soccer-dedicated club in Spain. In its rich history, the club has won the UEFA Europa League six times, the most out of any soccer club. Moreover, the club won one UEFA Super Cup in 2006 and to date is the most successful soccer club in Andalusia, holding a significant number of other titles as well.
"We are very pleased to have signed this agreement which will allow us to continue growing in our process of internationalizing our brand, both globally and in Southeast Asia, a market that we consider strategic in our expansion process."
José Castro, president of Sevilla FC
José Castro, Sevilla FC's president, revealed that the club is excited to team up with Khelraja. He outlined that the recent deal will help grow the club's global presence and expand further into a key market such as Asia. Last but not least, Castro said that the expansion in the region marks an important step for the club and La Liga.
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he Insider Interviews series started in 2010 as a set of recorded interviews, featuring the likes of Tom Hiddleston, Gareth Unwin, who produced THE KING'S SPEECH, Ben Wheatley and Hossein Amini, the Oscar-nominated writer of DRIVE and THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY. You can watch these here.
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Andrew Orr is the Managing Director of Independent Film & TV. Independent is a fully integrated content creation and distribution company specialising in film and television. Based in London and led by CEO Luc Roeg and Managing Director Andrew Orr, Independent has a team of highly motivated and experienced professionals with expertise in project development, production, structured finance, distribution, sales and marketing. Over the past decade Independent has built a reputation within the industry for creating and distributing innovative and original content.
This Q & A was compered by Rosie Fletcher, Movies Editor at Digital Spy.
What does an average week look like in your job, if such a thing exists?
Independent are trying to do a little bit more in television, so at the moment I'm trying to focus my attention on that. When we're based in London we do different things, there's no structure to it. There are certain things in the week that we do.
We have an acquisitions meeting weekly, where we sit down and talk about all the projects and all the submissions that we're receiving. But generally the way we work is that we sit in one big office and everyone is together, so that hopefully means we're hearing what's going on the whole time and you're constantly discussing stuff, which is a good and bad thing. Sometimes you can't get away from what's happening.
The main lifeblood of the business is meeting with producers and filmmakers on new projects that we're going to be working on. We're having several meetings a week and usually they're coming to us to do what you could call a pitch meeting. We try to keep it a bit more relaxed, because the way I like to run things is to not put too much pressure on someone coming in to pitch a project. Let's get the best from them and understand the most we can about that project.
Then our business of selling the films is constantly going on, underlying everything. It's usually based a lot around the market, so when we go to places like Berlin and Cannes and AFM, and other film festivals, that's when we have the concentrated activity. Of course with email – when I started we sent our mail out by fax around the world! – it means that that business is constantly going on, and there's a constant communication between us and the buyers.
Now, which is a bit more recent, there's also the sending of links. We used to have all our buyers come to market screenings and watch the films in that period. That still happens, but more often we're sending links to films all around the world. It can be terrifying to know that the film you kill yourself to make will probably be watched on someone's computer screen or iPad, but that's just the reality.
There's also a lot of, which is very unsexy and uninteresting, selling of films and licensing of films. There's a lot of admin and logistics that go into that. It's really the most unglamorous part. There are lot of conversations about delivery – if you sell a film you have to deliver it. And that's the part that no one ever wants to do. Producers really hate delivering films, but it's a thing we get the most fixated on. We're dealing with our financiers and reporting to them and updating them all the time about how things are going on the film or what we're planning to do with it. There's a lot of discussion about festivals.
It's been quite a busy time the last few weeks, because we're entering the fall festivals like Telluride, Venice and Toronto. There's a lot of discussion that goes into arranging that, getting screening links to people, getting prints sent around the world, and hopefully finding yourself in a position where you actually have offers from festivals. You're trying to balance and make decisions about that.
There's also a lot of work that goes into overseeing how our international releases are going. When we sell a film around the world we have people releasing those films in France, Germany, everywhere, and they're sending us posters and advertising plans and then we're communicating with the filmmakers on those.
There's a constant activity going on around the sales business.
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Business tycoon turned philanthropist Azim Premji turns 75 today: Birthday Special
Premji was born in Bombay, India in a Muslim family on 24th July 1945. His father Muhammad Hashem Premji was a noted businessman and was known as Rice King of Burma. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, invited his father Hashem Premji to come to Pakistan, he turned down the request and chose to remain in India.
Azim Premji has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford University. He is married to Yasmeen. The couple has two children, Rishad and Tariq. Rishad is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of IT Business, Wipro.
Azim Hashim Premji(born 24 July 1945) is an Indian business tycoon, investor, engineer, and philanthropist, who is the chairman of Wipro Limited. He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry. He was responsible for guiding Wipro through four decades of diversification and growth, to finally emerge as one of the global leaders in the software industry. In 2010, he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asiaweek. He has twice been listed among the 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, once in 2004 and more recently in 2011. For years, he has been regularly listed as one among the 500 Most Influential Muslims of the world.
He was named the nineteenth richest person in India with an estimated net worth of US$6.5 billion according to India's Richest 2019 list by Forbes. In 2013, he agreed to give away at least half of his wealth by signing The Giving Pledge. Premji started with a $2.2 billion donation to the Azim Premji Foundation, focused on education in India.
In March 2019, Premji pledged an additional 34% of Wipro stock held by him to the foundation. At a current value of about US$7.5 billion, this allocation will bring the total endowment from him to the foundation to US$21 billion.
Premji has said that being rich "did not thrill" him. He became the first Indian to sign up for The Giving Pledge, a campaign led by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, to encourage the wealthiest people to make a commitment to give most of their wealth to philanthropic causes. He is the third non-American after Richard Branson and David Sainsbury to join this philanthropy club.
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