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Named after the David Cronenberg film, this is the blog of former RogerEbert.com editor Jim Emerson, where he has chronicled his enthusiasms and indulged his whims since 2005. Favorite subjects include evidence-based movie criticism, cinematic form and style, comedy, logical reasoning, language, journalism, technology, epistemology and fun. No topic is off-limits, but critical thinking is required.
Brüno is WWE wrestling
by Jim Emerson
If those screwball lovers Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner ever hooked up and had sex, they'd do it the way Brüno and his "pygmy" paramour do in "Brüno": with ACME slingshots, projectiles, champagne bottles and a customized Rube Goldberg device that appears to have been built with materials from Home Depot by George Clooney's character in "Burn After Reading." The matinee audience with whom I saw "Brüno," Sacha Baron Cohen's partially improvised Üniversal Pictures remake of RW Fassbinder's "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" (with a happy ending!), howled at the grossness, the perversity, the preposterousness of it -- the same way audiences laughed and groaned at the explicitly cartoony perv-sex in John Waters movies of the 1970s. "Brüno" is rather tame compared to "Pink Flamingos" or "Female Trouble" -- in part because it's 2009 and not 1974, and the experience of "shock value" has changed considerably. Truth is, it's hard to be too terribly shocked by anything in the bland, artificial cocoon of the mall-tiplex, no matter what's playing.
Inevitably, in all comedy, the joke comes down to: What is the joke? I've had a grand old time reading bewildered critics -- amused, disgusted, even shocked -- try to puzzle out what Borat and Brüno (the characters and the movies) are really saying. The most entertaining explanations are by writers who don't necessarily know they're bewildered, or how much they're revealing about their own prejudices when they claim the movie is revealing the prejudices of the "real folks" on screen. (Hint: Even more so than in "Borat," the butt of the joke is the title character, not the "real people" with whom he interacts. Tricking people is not exactly the same as making fun of them -- and most of those who get punk'd react about the way you'd expect them to.)
So, Owen Gleiberman writes in Entertainment Weekly that "Brüno" is "movie is a toxic dart aimed at the spangly new heart of American hypocrisy: our fake-tolerant, fake-charitable, fake-liberated-yet-still-madly-closeted fame culture." Yes, Brüno himself clearly embodies those fake values. Gleiberman says:
The movie piles on gags about outré bedroom devices and butt bleaching, and when Brüno pays a visit to a psychic, he tries to bridge the spirit world by miming oral sex (and that's putting it mildly). The psychic's reaction isn't all that funny; mostly, he's just stoically embarrassed. But that's because Baron Cohen is really goofing on us, exploiting the audience's squeamish sexual anxiety only to explode it. Far more than in Borat, he holds a fun-house mirror up to our hidden prejudices, too.
What, then, are those hidden (?) prejudices and how does the movie reveal them -- if it does? First, let's compare the characters of Borat and Brüno, because they're not much alike at all. Borat presents himself as a naive foreigner who is trying to understand the ways of America, and he approaches many of his marks from an inferior position, seeking their help. He is a guest in our country and his initial naivete is endearing, which is why so many (unwisely) take him into their confidence. When he comes across as crude or backward, they feel rather protective of him. Until he rudely pushes them beyond the limits of their tolerance. The movie becomes a study in the limits of politeness, and how far we will go to avoid conflict -- especially when we're introduced to someone who initially seems so eager to please us. (Remember the flag-clad Borat at the rodeo and how far he has to push the crowd in order whip them into a near-lynch-mob frenzy? That -- like "Throw the Jew Down the Well" barroom singalong on "Da Ali G Show" -- was a scene about the behavior of groups in a party setting, not so much about bigotry or xenophobia. When bigotry is this overt, some in the "South Park"-era crowd can be seen making an attitude adjustment so they can take it ironically.)
Brüno is as clueless about how his behavior affects others as Borat, but he is arrogantly, imperiously unlikeable. He's a gay caricature, but even more crucially he's a Teutonic caricature (specifically Austrian, a countryman of Adolf Hitler and Arnold Schwarzenegger). Nobody is inclined to do Brüno any favors, because he's so obviously an asshole. And although he may demand assistance from others, he doesn't want to learn anything; he already knows everything.
People don't dislike Brüno because he's gay, but because he's abrasively unpleasant. If anything, his flamboyance makes him more tolerable. At least it's amusing and takes some of the edge off his bullying personality. And that's just it: Few, if any, of his "victims" have immediately homophobic reactions to him. He's such a garish cartoon of the mincing queen that he peremptorily disarms overt homophobia. Who has a chance to feel threatened or appalled by this fellow's sexuality while you're under full-scale assault from his ego at every turn? When he drops his pants to seduce Ron Paul, the 73-year-old politician is quite understandably offended. And when Paul describes Brüno as "queer" it's not an epithet, just an accurate but inadequate description. It's also not particularly funny, though Brüno's awkward, preposterous seduction techniques are good for a few laughs.
But is Brüno really, as Gleiberman suggests, "holding up a fun-house mirror to our hidden prejudices" with his relentlessly over-the-top gags about blow jobs and anal penetration -- activities, it should be mentioned, that many heterosexual couples have been known to enjoy, too? (BTW, Oscar Wilde was reportedly not keen on buggery of any kind.) When Brüno raises the subject of "anal bleaching" with business associates or total strangers, isn't this just old-fashioned shock humor based on inappropriate behavior, injecting vulgarity into relatively formal social situations -- like Borat bringing a bag of poop to the dinner table during his etiquette lesson? Nobody's implying that Brüno is morally wrong to want his heiny to look as pretty as possible (it's merely the flipside of a bikini wax), just that they don't need to hear the details. He might just as well be talking about cosmetic hemorrhoid surgery (I'm sure there is such a thing in Brüno's world) or an intestinal polyp removal done in preparation for a colonoscopic fashion shoot.
Gleiberman notes that the embarrassed reaction of the psychic isn't particularly amusing, and I didn't find it so, either. What made me laugh were the obscenely imaginative details Brüno comes up with while pantomiming fellatio on an invisible ghost.
"And yet," writes Shawn Levy in The Oregonian,
for all the pleasure of that laughter, which is undeniable, there's a residue to "Brüno" that can leave you feeling dirty and unsure of yourself. Only the most PC audience could read "Borat" as an attack on Kazakh culture or heritage; most of the jabs were clearly against the xenophobic Americans the character encountered in Cohen's patented mockumentary ambush style.
But Bruno, perhaps because Cohen plays him so brilliantly, vividly personifies some of the most hateful stereotypes of homosexual manners and lifestyles in a way that Cohen, his co-writers and director Larry Charles don't have quite control of. Yes, the homophobic bigotry of a variety of those whom Bruno encounters is exposed nakedly and often humorously; but at the same time the film plainly asks the audience to laugh at Bruno's sexual tastes and flamboyant air. You could be amused by or with Ali G or Borat and be on firm footing, morally speaking; Bruno, whether by its creators' choices or lapses, affords you no such steady ground.
I'm honestly trying to remember an example of "homophobic bigotry" that was "exposed" in "Brüno," and nothing's coming to mind. Nor do I envision "Borat" -- whose main character is a parody of the nationalistic xenophobe ("Down with Uzbekistan!") -- as a scathing exposé of American parochialism, though Borat himself certainly provided a satirical caricature of that mindset. Yes, the movie encourages the audience to laugh at Brüno's outrageous speech and mannerisms... but does that make it homophobic? Seems to me that misses the point entirely. It reminds me of the great moment -- a throwaway, but one of the funniest in the film -- when Brüno disingenously praises the wonderful "African-Americans" he met during a stopover in Ghana to adopt a baby. No, a black woman corrects him, they were Africans. Uh-uh, Brüno says -- it's racist to call them that! If Brüno had been any less of a cartoon, if he had displayed any guilt or insecurities about his own sexuality, or if the movie had asked us to sympathize with him because he's gay, the movie could have been intolerably dishonest from a moral standpoint. As it is, Brüno is loud, he's proud, and he's absolutely insufferable. Accept (or, at least, acknowledge) him for who he is and get over it. Brüno is "good for the gays" because he is who he is, and he doesn't have to be a "sympathetic character" just because we still live in a world rife with homophobia. This particular movie doesn't "expose" anything that isn't already obvious, but I'm not convinced it's trying to.
Does "Brüno" "feel superior" to its subjects, as some reviewers have charged? Well, Brüno sure as hell does, but that's not the same thing. By its nature, "Brüno" relies less on the candid-camera reactions of its title character's unwitting "victims" than "Da Ali G Show" or "Borat" (which, despite some misrepresentations, wasn't all about ambush-comedy, either). Few of the set-pieces in "Brüno" (the fashion show crash, the Paula Abdul interview, the fake Richard Bey talk show, the interviews with stage parents, the hunting/camping trip, the Straight Dave wrestling match) couldn't have been just as funny if they were entirely scripted or improvised like a Christopher Guest movie (or Brüno's stunt with Eminem at the MTV Movie Awards). None of them require that people on camera be unaware that the egregiously fictitious Brüno is a fraudulent character -- and, as in "Borat," you can't always detect the extent of the other performers' complicity in the scene. Some of the intended "ambushees" get the joke anyway -- notably, for example, a large bald black man in the Bey audience who rocks with laughter at the ridiculous antics unfolding around him. Others who resist Brüno's sexual advances aren't necessarily revealing any anti-gay prejudices, they're just not comfortable with his inappropriate boundary-breaching. Imagine if Brüno were a straight man punking women. Some of what he does would be considered sexual harassment or even borderline assault.
(Brüno's attempts to bond with redneck hunting buddies through "Sex and the City" references 'round the campfire reminded me of the opening of "Reservoir Dogs," in which Mr. Brown offers an explication of a Madonna song to a bunch of tough-guy bank robbers. I was not surprised that one of the unhappy campers got really, really mad at Brüno for repeatedly waking him during the night and trying to climb into his tent naked. I was more surprised back in 1992 that Messrs. White, Orange, Blonde and Pink didn't pop a cap in Mr. Brown for all that obsessive blather about another piece of gay iconography.)
Much talk has centered on the alleged homophobia of the TV talk show audience and the wrestling crowd in the movie's two biggest set-pieces. But who's being naive here? Does anybody really take the spectators' cheering, booing, screaming, head-shaking, finger-wagging behavior at face value? Do you think Springer audiences and WWE wrestling fans don't understand the participatory nature of these events, and what their role is supposed to be? Of course they do. They're fully aware of the dual nature of the proceedings -- that they are both "real" and "fake" at the same time -- and that the onstage conflicts provide a framework for improvised performances not unlike the comedy you'd see at The Groundlings or Second City. Above all, the audiences know what's expected of them -- when to boo, when to cheer, when to express arena-sized outrage like fans at any sporting event.
These crowds have been primed to rise to the occasion. So of course they express all kinds of shock, right on cue, when Brüno says he traded his iPod for a baby; or when Brüno appears in the preposterous guise of a white-trash wrestler called "Straight Dave," who professes to be bullish on heterosexuality and then starts making out with his opponent. What would you expect? I don't believe for a moment that the movie intends to rip the lid off the festering homophobia of heartland America. (Think about it: How could either of these staged performances be said to do that?) It's just a matter of creating comedy by overturning expectations.
The talk show audience is primed for a show about a nice gay man who adopts a poor kid from Africa and brings him to America for a better life -- then finds out the "dad" is despicable in every way -- none of them having specifically to do with his homosexuality, though his unapologetic gayness may amp up their outrage. The wrestling crowd cheers the main attraction's schtick, which is his macho heterosexuality (how many wrestlers since Gorgeous George have likewise played up their effeminacy?). He's built up as the face, and then feels the expected heel heat when the kind of wrestling he provides is more suited to a gay sex show than a WWE-style event.
Basically, I think Brüno is a variation on the character of the heel in wrestling. Though not explicitly a "villain," he has virtually no redeeming or appealing characteristics (all he wants is celebrity) apart from his outlandishness. As Wikipedia describes heel characters, they "are often portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner, breaking rules or otherwise taking advantage of their opponents outside the bounds of the rules of the match. Others do not (or rarely) break rules, but exhibit unlikeable personality traits."
Brüno, you heel. You're a naughty, naughty boy. But still fabulous.
P.S. Did I mention I thought "Brüno" was fairly amusing? It's no "Borat," but how could it be?
ADDENDUM: A little sample of the Richard Bey talk show scene. Notice how the audience overacts for the camera (they know how to get on TV!) and how the complicit Bey helps to set up Brüno's "shocking" one-liners:
And now... Babs reviews "Brüno" on "The View" and says it will turn you homophobic. This has got to go on the DVD. I lost count of the number of things she saw that aren't in the movie, but her best clueless line is: "I don't like making fun of little people." By which she means, you know, non-celebrities. Babs IS Brüno!
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LSSA calls on Council on Higher Education to consult the legal profession on issues related to the LLB degree
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The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) questions the decision by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) not to include the legal profession in its review of the LLB degree.
The CHE has recently published the outcomes of its review of the LLB degree, on 12 April 2017. The LSSA has invited the CHE to consult the legal profession on issues relating to the LLB curriculum. Also, it has offered its support and its commitment to law faculties which may require input and assistance from the attorneys' profession to ensure their LLB degrees achieve full accreditation by the CHE.
'We deem it critical to the attorneys' profession to ensure that law graduates are effectively prepared to enter the profession and to serve the public professionally and efficiently. It is also critical that law students currently in the system are assured of the relevance and practicality of their degrees,' say LSSA Co-Chairpersons Walid Brown and David Bekker.
Although the LSSA was asked for input in the standards-drafting process aspect of the review, it expresses serious concerns that it has not been consulted on the process since 2015. 'The legal profession is a material stakeholder and represents the largest group of employers of law graduates, with up to 60% of law graduates joining the attorneys' profession,' say Mr Brown and Mr Bekker.
The LSSA, together with the South Africa Law Deans Association and the General Council of the Bar of South Africa, initiated the LLB review process following a summit they hosted on the LLB degree, held on 29 May 2013. This was after concern was expressed at the skills gap presented by law gradates when entering the legal profession. Following that summit, the stakeholders resolved to request the CHE to conduct a standard-setting process for the LLB degree. In conducting this exercise, the CHE was requested to consult widely with the LLB Summit Steering Committee of the profession established after the summit.
Mr Brown and Mr Bekker note: 'It is accordingly difficult to understand how the profession can be sidelined by the CHE at this critical juncture in the process.'
ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE CO-CHAIRPERSONS OF THE LAW SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA, WALID BROWN AND DAVID BEKKER
by the Law Society of South Africa Communication Department
Contact: Barbara Whittle, Communication Manager, [email protected] (012) 366 8800 or 083 380 1307
Nomfundo Manyathi-Jele, Communications Officer, [email protected] Tel: (012) 366 8800 or 072 402 6344.
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Q: QTextEdit not highlighting simple two lines. I am using QRegularExpression for Qt 5.13 MinGw x64 I have the simplest minimum working example to highlight just two lines. The two lines to be highlighted are shown below. These two lines are the only contents of the QTextEdit.

begin
end

Using QSyntaxHighlighter and QTextEdit, I am unable to highlight these two lines using QRegularExpression. The working code is shown below. When compiled using QtCreater, it gives zero warnings and runs fine. I am using Qt5.13 MinGW x64. The interesting point is that the RegEx I am using works fine in online checker like https://regex101.com/.
Ultimately I want to see that the two lines should appear in red color. The first line contains the word "begin" and the second line contains the word "end".* Please help.
mySyntaxHighlighter.h
class mySyntaxHighlighter : public QSyntaxHighlighter
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    explicit mySyntaxHighlighter(QTextDocument *document);

signals:

public slots:

protected:
    void highlightBlock(const QString &text);
};

mySyntaxHighligher.cpp
#include "mysyntaxhighlighter.h"

mySyntaxHighlighter::mySyntaxHighlighter(QTextDocument *document) : QSyntaxHighlighter(document)
{

}

void mySyntaxHighlighter::highlightBlock(const QString &text) {
    QTextCharFormat citeFormat;
    citeFormat.setForeground(QColor(Qt::red));
    citeFormat.setFontFamily("Consolas");
    citeFormat.setFontPointSize(14);

    QRegularExpression regex = QRegularExpression(QStringLiteral("begin(.*\n)+end"));
    regex.setPatternOptions(QRegularExpression::DotMatchesEverythingOption);

    QRegularExpressionMatchIterator i = regex.globalMatch(text);

    while (i.hasNext()) {
        QRegularExpressionMatch match = i.next();
        setFormat(match.capturedStart(), match.capturedLength(), citeFormat);
    }
}

mainwindow.cpp
#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"
#include "mysyntaxhighlighter.h"

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
    QMainWindow(parent),
    ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);

    QTextEdit *te = new QTextEdit(this);
    te->setAcceptRichText(false);
    te->setFontFamily("Consolas");
    te->setFontPointSize(14);
    te->setMinimumSize(1200, 600);

    myHighlighter = new mySyntaxHighlighter(te->document());

    setCentralWidget(te);
    setMinimumWidth(1200);
    te->setFocus();
}

mainwindow.h
#include <QMainWindow>
#include <QTextEdit>
#include "mysyntaxhighlighter.h"

namespace Ui {
class MainWindow;
}

class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    explicit MainWindow(QWidget *parent = nullptr);
    ~MainWindow();

private:
    Ui::MainWindow *ui;
    mySyntaxHighlighter *myHighlighter;
};

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COVID-19 and the destitution of workers in global supply chains
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Our lives are being rapidly and fundamentally reshaped by COVID-19. Waking up to the new normal of staying home, keeping our distance, and working and socializing almost entirely virtually takes some getting used to. But let's not make any mistake. We are among the lucky ones.
Most of the people reading this will have a job or a scholarship, or a student loan that won't suddenly stop paying us. Even those that don't will likely be living in countries with a more-or-less functioning working welfare system that should buffer them from extreme hardship. We may well know people that get sick or end up dying from COVID-19 – and yes, maybe even a few of us will succumb too. But we have a better than average chance of getting through this with the benefit of our public or private health systems, however, imperfect, under-resourced, and overstretched they might be.
But as researchers or practitioners concerned with sustainable business, one of the issues at the top of our minds should be the effects of COVID 19 on the millions of precarious workers toiling in global supply chains who have few if any of the protections that we enjoy. Most of these workers experience poor working conditions at the best of times. But now, it is the worst of times. Lockdowns across the globe have prompted brands to cancel their orders – and even to refuse to pay for existing orders now that their stores are closed and their warehouses full.
The garment industry which employs some 60 million workers across the globe is among one of the worst affected. As one recent report put it, the delays and cancellations of orders "has forced many suppliers to lay off or suspend workers in garment factories, without any social protection, or paid leave, pushing an already precarious group of workers to greater economic vulnerabilities." The majority of such workers do not have permanent jobs or contracts, many work on piece rates rather than drawing a regular salary, and even where some minimal health or social protections are available the workers often do not have access to them because they do not pay contributions.
Although the bulk of such workers are in developing countries, there are also similar problems closer to home, especially for zero-hour contract workers and the millions of casual agency workers keeping products and materials flowing up and down the value chain. In many industries, the sudden rupture brought on by COVID-19 is making this expendable workforce destitute.
Even worse affected are those already experiencing more extreme forms of exploitation such as modern slavery. As industries across the globe contract, there is a strong possibility that these forms of exploitation will flourish as people in precarious employment become ever more desperate to find work. One of the main concerns for workers trapped in modern slavery is that they will be put at extreme risk of infection because they will end up in the kind of jobs that others don't want to do, will be paid even less, and simply won't have access to protective equipment or the ability to social distance. And with labour inspections being postponed, even from an already low base, such exploitation is likely to go undetected.
There is also a very real – but often overlooked – possibility that exploiters who control workers in forced labour situations will be able to leverage the shuttering of industries like construction, cleaning, and catering due to COVID 19 to force workers into even worse debt bondage. Exploiters will still be able to charge workers exorbitant fees for accommodation and food, but will likely be paying them less and offering them even less work in order to pay off their debts. Workers could quickly find themselves in ever more dire circumstances and be forced into greater risk and more serious forms of illegality.
So, what is to be done? Researchers and activists concerned about labour and human rights abuses in global supply chains have long argued for the need for different models of allocating responsibility and ensuring accountability from brands for the workers in their supply chains. But it often takes a major shock to shift the needle. For instance, when over 1100 workers died in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2011, it quickly led to the establishment of new ways of tackling factory safety through the Bangladesh Accord.
Are we now facing possibly an ever greater shock that will see potentially tens or even hundreds of thousands of workers left destitute and dying as a result of brands' negligence?
The causal trail of evidence will be more difficult to trace compared with picking up brand labels from the rubble of a collapsed building. But as researchers, practitioners, activists, or even just as concerned citizens, we need to focus our attention on identifying the human costs of such supply chain shocks and devising solutions to better safeguard the workers on whom we all depend – but so often fail to protect.
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Who owns the minerals under Ohio Township Section 16?
Oil and gas law is, at its core, real estate law that has been shaped by a thousand years of common law and, more recently, statutory law. Ohio is no exception, and one area that has been impacted significantly by shifting legal policies and statutes is the ownership of minerals beneath "school lands" in Section 16 of Ohio's Townships.
Mineral and land owners in Ohio who are presented with a proposed lease from a landman or oil company often launch an intense study of royalty provisions, development covenants, delay rentals, Pugh clauses, well spacing and the like. They often refer to the Internet, land owner groups, owner-oriented attorneys and other resources. Like so many things, it turns out that our forefathers pretty much had it figured out. I recently reviewed a 1901 oil and gas lease from Putman County; my thoughts and observations are below.
One of the most fundamental questions in oil and gas law is whether oil and gas in the ground are capable of being "owned." The answer to this question shapes the law and influences legal analysis in a variety of ways.
In many ways, the Utica Shale play caught Ohio off guard. The state became a main focus of the oil and gas industry almost overnight. Ohio responded by updating its oil and gas laws, including major overhauls resulting from Senate bills 165 in 2010 and 315 in 2012. But in some cases, operators and regulatory agencies are still applying old law that was written with conventional drilling methods in mind. In this post, part 3 of our series on compelled participation (see Part 1 and Part 2), we look at unitization — one of these old laws being put to new use.
A decision out of the Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio, Mong v. Kovach Holdings, LLC, 2013-Ohio-882 (Ohio 11th Dist. March 11, 2013), represents a cautionary reminder that parties should carefully review the language of contracts they enter, especially the essential terms of the document, and especially contracts that convey away property rights. That is particularly true when a party parts with property rights set forth in warranty deeds. My colleague Jeff Fort blogged about this recently and asked me to add my thoughts.
In Mong v. Kovach Holdings, the plaintiff, Joseph Mong, sold approximately 70 acres of land near Warren, Ohio, he had recently acquired from Alice McMenamin to Defendant Kovach Holdings at auction. Mr. Mong apparently intended to reserve to himself the oil and gas rights associated with the property. According to Mr. Mong, the auctioneer informed the prospective purchasers of that reservation immediately preceding and subsequent to the auction. The auctioneer confirmed that he did so in a following affidavit. The purchaser of the property, Kovach Holdings, denied that that the auctioneer described any such limitations or reservations. The property sold for $245,300.
The chief of the Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management (DOGRM) recently issued a new unitization order pursuant to R.C. §1509.28. This is only the second such order since the beginning of Ohio's shale drilling boom. The unitization statute has become an increasingly important legal tool for oil and gas operators. We are seeing a new body of law take shape in Ohio, and last week's order doubled its volume.
This is the second in a multi-part series on the practice of compelled participation – forcing unwilling mineral rights owners to participate in oil and gas production from their property. Part I discussed the history and constitutionality of this practice in the U.S.
Every day, crowds of title researchers and landmen pack county offices in Eastern Ohio looking for the owners of unleased property. They are discovering a quilt of landowners with varying degrees of interest in leasing their land for oil and gas drilling. But even after attempting to negotiate with landowners, oil and gas companies often cannot lease enough land to comply with Ohio's minimum spacing laws. As a result of those laws, uncooperative landowners threaten to interfere with landowners who have leased and want to have oil produced from their land.
When Is an Assignment of a Lease not an Assignment of Obligations?
When oil companies transfer oil property among themselves, they frequently do so by an assignment of lease rights. Sometimes they assign all their interest under a lease, but they often assign just a portion of the lease, or reserve some interest in the property. In the event of multiple assignments — such as when party A assigns to party B, who assigns to party C, and so on — there can be confusion about what was assigned, and who is obligated to do what.
Landowners, in certain situations, can be compelled by the state to combine their mineral interest with their neighbors for the purpose of producing oil and gas. In Part I of a multi-part series, I explain the history and constitutionality of this practice.
"Compelled participation" is the term I will use throughout this blog series to refer collectively to mandatory pooling and unitization. Mandatory pooling and unitization are variations of similar state action — forcing mineral owners to include their mineral interests with other owners in a pool or unit. In later posts the two concepts will be distinguished and discussed separately, but because they have the same legal and historical origins, it also makes sense to discuss them collectively. Admittedly, this term is imperfect, but is preferable to untangling the Gordian knot of terminology in this area of oil and gas law (see our earlier blog discussing these confusing terms).
Who Owns the Mineral Rights on My Property?
As oil and gas companies flock to eastern Ohio to take advantage of the Utica shale play, trying to figure out "who owns the mineral rights" continues to be a difficult and increasingly important question.
As noted in a recent post, Ohio title insurance companies are excepting from title insurance policies the ownership of the subsurface mineral rights, including interests in oil and gas, and the existence of any leases for the minerals on a given property. Apart from whether title insurance is required by a lender or requested by a party on a transaction, it is difficult to find a title company in Ohio that is willing, and qualified, to render a title opinion on the status of a property's mineral interests.
The Ohio Supreme Court this week ruled in the case Chesapeake Exploration, LLC v. Oil and Gas Commission, Slip Opinion No. 2013-Ohio-224, agreeing with Chesapeake and holding that there is no right to appeal a drilling permit in Ohio. In doing so, the Court decided that R.C. 1509.06(F) does exclude drilling permits as appealable orders. This means that once a drilling permit is issued by the Chief, it cannot be appealed to the Oil and Gas Commission. You can read the whole opinion (it's short).
You are interested in acquiring a gas lease on certain parcel. When you look at the real property records, however, you discover the record owner is deceased. Now what do you do? Who owns the interests? How do you evidence this ownership?
This issue might be best discussed in the context of an example. Roger Farmer sold his farm, located in Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1978 and retained the mineral interests. That is, Roger "severed" the mineral interest from the rest of the property. He died in 1995 without transferring those interests. He left a will, admitted to probate in Franklin County, Ohio, which left all his property, real and personal, to his son, John.
A case pending before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania considers a question that seemingly has been settled in that state for 130 years: Is gas a mineral?
Life estates have been recognized as an interest in land at common law since the Middle Ages. Even so, how they relate to the ownership of and payment for oil and gas can result in outcomes that may not be intuitive.
According to common law and statute, there can be no gap in the perpetual ownership of land. For instance, if the owner of a piece of property dies intestate, state statute (in Ohio, R.C. 2105.06) often states to whom the land will be distributed. For this reason and others, land ownership often is divided between a "present" interest and a "future" interest. Frequently, that division takes the form of a life estate and a remainder.
A life estate is an estate that its holder, the "life tenant," holds only for the duration of a specified person's (usually the life tenant's) life. At the death of the life tenant (or, if the life estate is one "for the duration of another person's life, upon that person's death), the property passes automatically to one or more individuals or organizations called "remaindermen." A life estate can be created by deed, by devise in a will, or, if a will is unclear or ambiguous, by judicial implication.
The Ohio shale boom started slowly when a few small companies quietly began acquiring mineral leases for as little as $25 per acre. This soon gave way to a full blown land rush in the fall of 2010. But as lease prices skyrocketed through the Fall of 2011, disillusioned lessors who signed before the peak of the market were the ones rushing – to the courthouse to file lawsuits to cancel their leases.
One of our Partners, Bryan Faller, added an interesting post to our Employer Law Report blog today we thought you might find of interest.


What is number sense? How does children's number sense develop? Addressing these questions, this text uses a balance of theory and practice to help teachers deal with the problems and issues they will encounter in mathematics teaching, including examples for use specifically in the classroom.
It is aimed at trainee and mathematics teachers.


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Jüri Adams (* 22. November 1947 in Tartu) ist ein ehemaliger sowjetischer Dissident und estnischer Politiker.

Von November 1994 bis April 1995 war Adams Justizminister der Republik Estland in der Regierung von Ministerpräsident Andres Tarand.

Leben und Politik
Jüri Adams wurde als Sohn des Schriftstellers und Literaturwissenschaftlers Valmar Adams (1899–1993) im südestnischen Tartu geboren.

Er schloss 1966 die Mittelschule für Fernunterricht in Tartu ab. Anschließend studierte er zunächst an der Staatlichen Universität Moskau Mathematik, anschließend an der Staatlichen Universität Tartu Anglistik. 1982 schloss er am Technikum der Sowchose von Kaarepere eine Ausbildung als Forstwissenschaftler ab.

In der Zeit der Sowjetunion war Jüri Adams unter anderem als Lehrer und Förster beschäftigt.

Während der sowjetischen Besetzung Estlands setzte sich Jüri Adams mit (illegalen) Schriften im Untergrund für Freiheit, Demokratie und eine Wiederherstellung der staatlichen Unabhängigkeit der Republik Estland ein. Unter anderem übersetzte er das Geheime Zusatzprotokoll des Deutsch-Sowjetischen Nichtangriffspakts vom 23. August 1939, das die Republik Estland der sowjetischen Interessenssphäre zuschlug und dessen Existenz von der sowjetischen Führung geleugnet wurde, ins Estnische. 1978 gründete er die Zeitschrift Lisandusi mõtete ja uudiste vabale levikule Eestis (etwa "Ergänzungen zur freien Verbreitung von Gedanken und Nachrichten in Estland"), die bis 1987 in 25 Bänden auf Schreibmaschine getippt im Untergrund sowie in exilestnischen Kreisen im Westen erschien. Ihr Thema waren vor allem sowjetische Menschenrechtsverletzungen und Geheimprozesse gegen Dissidenten; sie beschäftigte sich darüber hinaus jenseits der offiziellen sowjetischen Zensur und Geschichtsklitterung mit der Historie der baltischen Staaten.

In der Zeit von Glasnost und Perestroika gründete Adams 1988 mit Gleichgesinnten die demokratisch-oppositionelle Partei der nationalen Unabhängigkeit Estlands (Eesti Rahvusliku Sõltumatuse Partei) und wurde deren Vize-Vorsitzender.

Von 1990 bis 1992 war Adams Mitglied und stellvertretender Vorsitzender des Estnischen Kongresses (Eesti Kongress), der am 24. Februar 1990 demokratisch gewählten Gegenbewegung zur sowjetischen Herrschaft.

1991/92 war Adams Mitglied der Verfassungsgebenden Versammlung der Republik Estland. Er gilt als Spiritus rector der 1992 verabschiedeten estnischen Verfassung, die bis heute in Kraft ist.

Von 1992 bis 2003 war Adams Abgeordneter des estnischen Parlaments (Riigikogu) in dessen 7., 8. und 9. Legislaturperiode. Seine Partei, die ERSP, ging 1995 in der konservativen Vaterlandsunion (Isamaaliit) auf.

Vom 8. November 1994 bis zum 17. April 1995 war Adams Justizminister in der kurzlebigen Koalitionsregierung von Ministerpräsident Andres Tarand.

Auch nach seinem Ausscheiden aus dem Parlament blieb Adams politisch aktiv. Von 2014 bis 2019 gehörte er der populistisch-liberal-konservativen Estnischen Freien Partei (Eesti Vabaerakond) an.

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Parliamentary business for Wednesday 28 November 2018
9.15am Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Subject: Leaving the EU: implications for UK business
Witness(es): Katherine Bennett, Senior Vice-President, Airbus UK Simon Henley, President, Royal Aeronautical Society Paul Everitt, Chief Executive, ADS Group
9.30am Northern Ireland Affairs
Subject: Funding priorities for the 2018-19 Budget: Health
Witness(es): Dr Michael McBride, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health (NI)
9.30am Work and Pensions
Subject: Overpayments of Carer's Allowance
Witness(es): Emily Holzhausen OBE, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Carers UK
9.30am Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Is Defra ready for Brexit?
Witness(es): Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Clare Moriarty, Permanent Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
9.50am International Development Sub-Committee on the Work of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact
Subject: ICAI's review on Tenders and contract management
Witness(es): Tina Fahm, Lead Commissioner Ian McPherson, Team Leader, Independent Commission for Aid Impact Juliet Chua, Director General for Finance and Corporate Performance Nick Ford, Head of Procurement and Commercial, Department for International Development
9.50am Women and Equalities
Subject: Enforcing the Equality Act: the law and the role of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
Witness(es): Alex Hayes, Managing Director, Equality Advisory and Support Service Christina McAnea, Assistant General Secretary, UNISON Richard Miller, Head of Justice, The Law Society Nick Whittingham, Chief Executive, Kirklees Citizens Advice and Law Centre
10am International Trade
Subject: The impact of UK- EU arrangements on wider UK trade policy
Witness(es): George Hollingbery MP, Minister of State for Trade Policy, Department for International Trade Graham Zebedee, Director for Continuity, Wider Europe and Development, Department for International Trade
10.30am Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Work of the Chief Veterinary Officer
Witness(es): Christine Middlemiss, Chief Veterinary Officer, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: UK trade policy transparency and scrutiny
Witness(es): George Hollingbery MP, Minister of State for Trade Policy, Department for International Trade
2.15pm International Development
Subject: DFID's accountability (annual report and accounts for 2017-18)
Witness(es): Matthew Rycroft CBE, Permanent Secretary Juliet Chua, Director General for Finance and Corporate Performance, Department for International Development
Witness(es): Mike Thompson, Chief Executive, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry Mark Hicken, Chair of the American Pharmaceutical Group and Managing Director, Janssen UK Pinder Sahota, General Manager and Corporate VP, Novo Nordisk UK
3.45pm Human Rights
Subject: Immigration detention
Witness(es): Arrey Michael
4.10pm International Trade
Witness(es): Jude Kirton-Darling MEP, Member of the European Parliament for North East England
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Producing and voicing Radio commercials and Station Imaging for a number of years, Adam is constantly behind the microphone and console perfecting his craft.
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Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
When ERM Met Alma: The Intricacies of Content Management in a Shared Consortia Landscape
Siôn Romaine, University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Jian Wang, Portland State UniversityFollow
Serials Review
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Information resources management, Electronic information resources -- Management, Library science
In 2013, after nearly two decades of operating in a distributed legacy Integrated Library System (ILS) environment on local servers, the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of public and private academic libraries in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, began a two-year-long process to migrate its 37 members to a shared implementation of Ex Libris's cloud-based Alma library management system (LMS) and Primo discovery interface. Although much has been written on electronic resource management (ERM) functionality at an institution level, little has been written on serials and ERM functionality and workflows within a shared consortial environment. This article discusses the challenges and opportunities of implementing a consortial-based LMS, with particular emphasis on serials and ERM functionality. Key migration issues related to serials control, acquisitions, licensing, administration, cataloging, statistics, and interoperability are examined at the institutional and large-scale networked levels. Benefits and limitations of using a shared consortial cloud-based LMS are explored, and the overall capabilities of the Alma LMS for electronic resource management are reviewed.
© Siôn Romaine and Jian Wang
This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Serials Review. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Serials Review, 43:1, 17-271 and can be found online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2017.1279896
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Romaine, Siôn and Wang, Jian, "When ERM Met Alma: The Intricacies of Content Management in a Shared Consortia Landscape" (2017). Library Faculty Publications and Presentations. 221.
Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons
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Karen Bjork
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Last week was more of an easing-in, this week was more of a ramping-up.
Lots of work on Nike this week. Very excited about what we're doing. Slightly less Excel this week, and much, much more Omnigraffle as I get the game design and experience sorted out in my head, capped off at the end of the week with a good client meeting.
Various inductions are still spotted all over the place: this week with Planning, Operations, Client Services and Finance. It's all been very easy going – again, the shift from a small company to much, much larger one hasn't been as traumatic as people might think it could be; everyone's been super-nice and friendly and realistic about what we can all take in at once.
It's an interesting time to be joining W+K London. Wednesday was my first all-agency breakfast meeting (introductions from new joiners, opportunities to show-and-tell work), but Thursday afternoon had a Very Very Important Agency Meeting inserted into everyone's diary. I'm super excited about what it means for the agency – not just London but Worldwide.
Lunch this week: Luxe with Eleanor McDonald, Gourmet Burger Kitchen with Jeremy Ettinghausen. Coffee with Ben Terrett.
Next week: more Nike, the start of some Nokia work, more lunch meetings with interesting people and my inaugural show-and-tell.


Certain authors, by bad advocacy (though, doubtless, the best of which the cause is susceptible), converted the writer of these pages from the opinion, in regard to infant-baptism, which he had imbibed from early associations. Afterward a friend forcibly presented one of their arguments at a time when the writer had forgotten the grounds on which he had previously rejected it. Not having sufficient learning to decide upon the accuracy of the premises assumed, he could not conscientiously deny them, and had nearly yielded, or at least confessed his inability to make immediate reply, when the view which is developed in the following pages flashed upon his mind.


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'We're back': New data shows Indianapolis tourism rebounding
by: Lindsay Stone
INDIANAPOLIS — Tourism in Indianapolis is rebounding, according to new data from Visit Indy.
This weekend, 50,000 people are expected to arrive in Indy for the Performance Racing Industry trade show. Seventy thousand were here for the Big Ten Football Championship game, and all those visitors are good for business as Indianapolis continues to rebound from the pandemic.
"Indy didn't really stop hosting meetings and events during COVID," said Nate Swick, senior communications manager for Visit Indy.
Major trade show pushes convention center to its limits
Swick said that paid off big time as the city recovered.
"As we look through 2020 numbers, hotel revenue numbers across the city is up 10% over 2019 numbers, the last year before the pandemic," Swick said.
More people are visiting the Circle City.
"We're only 3.2% behind overall visitation numbers from 2019," Swick said. "So we're almost 100% of visitation numbers back looking at 2019 and on track to exceed those numbers in 2023."
More visitors has been good for business.
"It only gets better," said Jennifer McDaniel, owner of Artisans on Massachusetts Avenue. She and her husband opened the shop at the start of quarantine.
"Starting out, pandemic and riots, it was scary," McDaniel said. "Every year it gets better, every month it gets better. We had our best day of the year, of our career, on Small Business Saturday."
Indianapolis launches campaign to clean up, secure downtown
The boost in tourism has been great for businesses new and old.
"Oh it's great, it's like we're back," said Richard Edwards, general manager at St. Elmo's Steakhouse.
For 120 years, St. Elmo's has called the Circle City home.
Edwards said the events that were able to be put on throughout the pandemic helped them stay afloat.
"That was really supporting business, but truly our core during that time was the community supporting us," Edwards said.
Today, they're flooded with reservations and fully staffed for the first time since the pandemic.
"With everything going on at the convention center, Visit Indy and the events around downtown, doing nothing but growing our sales and making us stronger than we ever were before," Edwards said.
Indianapolis is ending the year on a high note with a busy December. Fifteen conventions are planned now through the end of the month, generating even more revenue for businesses.


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RCMP are providing an update on the double homicide in northern B.C.
Watch a rat clean itself in 7-Eleven fridge
5 most expensive listings in Vancouver, Surrey
The entrance to a rancher on 53 Avenue in Surrey is shown in an image from Realtor.ca.
Published Friday, March 22, 2019 12:54PM PDT
Last Updated Friday, March 22, 2019 3:08PM PDT
Tired of properties that don't come with their own spa? Finding it hard to fit your indoor pool and wine cellar in your one-bedroom rental? Have a spare $20 million to spend?
Earlier this week, CTV News Vancouver checked out the lowest-priced listings in B.C.'s two largest cities.
Read more: What you need to earn to afford a home in Metro Vancouver
The federal government had just announced its proposed budget, which included help for first-time homebuyers. If approved, the initiative will help families earning less than $120,000 a year lower their mortgage payments, provided their loan is for less than four times their total income.
The next day, data released by Sotheby's International Realty Canada showed that luxury home sales have fallen in the formerly hot Vancouver housing market. While it appears fewer people are searching for the city's most expensive houses, CTV searching the listings anyway to find out what's available in Vancouver and Surrey for those who are still interested.
As of Friday, the priciest property in Vancouver proper was listed on Realtor.ca for $19,980,000. The six-bedroom, eight-bathroom mansion on Newton Wynd (near the University of British Columbia) measures more than 10,000 square feet.
Featuring a grand foyer, and views of the ocean and mountains, the home comes with a "spa centre" and its own elevator.
In case you're wondering, property taxes on a home of this size are estimated at about $40,500. The latest census data puts the median income in B.C. at $69,995.
Coming in at a close second is this four-bedroom, six-bathroom home on West 3rd Avenue, located a few blocks from Jericho Beach. Listed at $19,800,000, the 11,000-square-foot steel and concrete structure was built by a renowned architect and also offers mountain and ocean views.
The house includes its own gym, outdoor swimming pool and professionally landscaped garden, and has a coach house.
A built-in mortgage calculator on the Sotheby's website suggests with a 20 per cent down payment, your monthly mortgage rate would be about $82,000.
This home on The Crescent in Shaughnessy will set a buyer back $18,980,000. The six-bedroom, eight-bath home has been renovated and restored, and sits on a 22,653-square-foot lot.
The massive, century-old home has seven fireplaces, a modern kitchen, stone terrace and private garden.
Close to the UBC campus, this 19-year-old mansion offers water and mountain views and is listed at $18,800,000. The home on Western Crescent has a grand foyer, open concept floor plan, gourmet kitchen and library.
The basement includes a swimming pool, theatre, exercise room and nanny suite.
The listing for this property listed at $17,880,000 describes the six-bedroom, eight-bathroom home as "truly a world class mansion." The custom-built, 10-year-old home has a home theatre, wine cellar, gym, pool table, steam bath, heated floors and a fenced in yard. It's located on Devonshire Crescent in Shaughnessy.
Coming in just under $13 million, this four-bed, six-bath custom-built rancher is located on 53 Avenue. Indoors, the main house has a bowling alley, "hobby room," recreation room, gym and chef's kitchen.
The 2.11-acre property includes a coach house, a pool, infinity hot tub, fire pit and tennis court.
A short distance away on 56 Avenue, this eight-bedroom, eight-bathroom mansion in Panorama Ridge is listed for $1,000 less, at $12,998,000. Built on 1.7 acres of land, the 15,500-square-foot home includes high ceilings, a gourmet kitchen, home theatre, swimming pool, boat house and nanny suite.
The owner of this gated estate with a dock and 450 feet of waterfront is asking $9,998,800. The five-bed, eight-bath home with three private suites larger than many apartments is located on Rio Place, along the Nicomekl River.
The property of three private residences includes two pools and a media room.
Priced at $9,588,000, this home on 190 Street includes five bedrooms and six bathrooms, as well as a 56-stall equestrian facility. The three-storey house sits on 10 acres of property.
This six-bedroom, eight-bathroom mansion on 27 Avenue is listed at $7,999,000. The home was custom-built in 2006, and includes two studies, a piano room, library, elevator, indoor pool, theatre and four-car garage.
Note: For the purposes of this article, listings described as development opportunities have not been included.
Luxury home sales fell in Vancouver, Toronto: Sotheby's
5 cheapest real estate listings in Vancouver, Surrey
What you should know: 15 highlights from the federal budget
Beating the heat? Rat spotted in 7-Eleven fridge in East Vancouver
While temperatures in Vancouver reached a toasty 24 C this week, one rodent was apparently spotted beating the heat in a 7-Eleven refrigerator. 1
CTV News Vancouver at Noon for Friday, July 19, 2019
Morning Smile: Singing Dog
Salmon & Berry Festival at Fresh St. Market
LIVE: RCMP update on northern B.C. double homicide
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Iran 'nothing but trouble': Trump on oil tanker seizure


Megan is a 4th generation Brookings County, South Dakota native. Although her time in Boise Idaho was a combination of educational fun through commercial real estate, cutting horses and friends, she is glad to return home to South Dakota amidst family, new and old friends, and the family business. Her roots run deep in farming and ranching through her great Grandpa Fred and her parents, in banking and real estate through her Grandpa H.E. and Uncle Chuck Hegerfeld. Being a close knit family, Megan knows the value of service and it is her goal to serve with the level of excellence that has been modeled from her family. Megan is a licensed land broker, auctioneer, bid assistant and land manager in South Dakota and Minnesota. Since 2008, she has sold row crop farms and ranches across South Dakota and Minnesota including corn, wheat, soybean, and sunflower farms along with a variety of cattle ranches, range land and recreational hunting land.


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Ah...Mr.Wang I think you can stop trying to answer SM Goh's questions. They are pretty bad questions. We need to pay him $4M a year to get decent questions and another $8M for something that looks like an answer.
1. Stop making us feel like we are 2nd class citizen. Foreign talents have better benefits over us. Especially on the issue of NS.
2. Reform this money driven society. Quality of life is more important.
4. Create a healthy democratic state.
However, I understand that Singapore is geographically and demographically too small to fulfill them. Unless we merge with (a reformed) Malaysia again.
I am a local Singaporean who left. After experiencing life overseas, I really feel that Singaporeans were misled since birth. It is no wonder so many left and not choose to return. Sheep will always go to greener pastures.
Lucky if follow your advice another $$$8Million$$$ to feed senior monkey wooden goh hor very soon run out of peanuts liao leh.
Not implying that the Cookie Peanut Fun jar/reserve is half empty.
Ensure local Males who had already served/still serving NS have better/immediate access to higher education(diploma++ level) and cut down the time (preferably below 1 year) wasted in the service (to the nation) that is overly bureaucratic.
Moreever,Wooden Goh is wrong in assuming that the talent pool is a pyramid. Perhap from an academic excellence viewpoint,Yes.
However ,from other observable indicators, most Talents overseas are nurtured by their nation's educational system and not all of them are bright student, some are just plain hardworking and/or enterprising.
And beside, so what if the bright students left? Wooden Goh cannot even be bother with the hardworking/ enterprising students and late bloomers.It take only a slight effort to be PC but he choose not do so.
The prevalent myopic view of meritocracy based on academic achievement and results (examinations), will ultimately result in a core of elitist Singaporeans who THINK that they are a core of honest, able and dedicated Singaporeans.
They are the Greater Mortals Singaporeans who also think that they are underpaid civil servants who have to sacrifice CEO jobs(yeah, sure. Why not? plenty of those jobs around in this recession. lol) to look after the country and their fellow men.
I was born after Singapore's independence. Grew up during the rapidly developing 70's and 80's.
On this year's National Day, I was happy to be filling in documents for emigration. The Singapore that I grew-up in and dreamed-of no longer exists. I have to make that leap for my long-term welfare, especially for my golden years. I am happy to be quitting Singapore.
I agree with what Nelson wrote. The PAP politicians always selling us the BS "that Singapore is geographically and demographically too small to fulfill them". E.g. Its cronies have no regrets about losing billions of our treasury (instead of using it to develop its citizens), its town councils levied so much fees for reserves to gamble on negative "investments". No explanation, no transparency, BS meritocracy.
His last policy to "bond" Singaporeans to Singapore, physically, we are still paying the price, literally. "Asset enhancement" policy. Remember?
The best way to keep your people with you, is to treat them well.
Simple as that. Now he should ask himself that question.
SM should first ask himself and the Cabinet this question first raised by that CCK opposition MP in Parliament.
How many of our senior Civil Servants have migrated from Singapore?
If the very people who shaped this nation, drew the policies, persuaded us to buy into the "vision" does not want to stay in the "wonder" they have created, then why is Goh asking the rest of us who has only a vote each?
Goh should ask for statistics also on how many of the immediate family members (father, mother, spouse and kids) of our Ministers, MPs, scholars have PR overseas?
Then he should go ask these people, his very own trusted "nation builder talents" why they have so little faith in Singapore?
For a couple of millions a year, he cannot think of such a simple sampling exercise before asking such a profound question to US?
For most, it's a matter of preferential treatment. If there is none, why would people be attached to the country?
To use Mr Wang's personalised approach: If your mother treated you like any other kid (no love showered on you, don't even bother to feed you nor provide a roof for you, etc), do you really think you will love your mother?
...what does Singapore have in this aspect? It's not even meritocracy...coz it favours the rich and powerful.
In the globally competitive world that we live in today, Singapore needs to compete on the same grounds as other countries for top talents. A Singapore citizenship or harping on patriotism no longer resonates with this generation and these factors do not give Singapore the advantage or the right to retain top talents. People come and go for reasons of their own. We have to accept that sometimes, no matter what we do, people will still leave the country. Young people, when given the opportunity, should travel, work and live in other countries to open their minds. For some, it is through living overseas that cause them to decide that Singapore is their preferred choice of permanent residence. We should not keep thinking of bonding overseas students physically as if they are the only ones who can serve the country when they return.
I agree with Lucky. They are bad questions to begin with. They are grounded on flawed assumptions that put the cart before the horse, so to speak. Why legitimise them by answering them? Instead analyze the questions and expose the flawed assumptions.
Yes, totally agree. I will definitely send my kids abroad to study if I can afford it, since I don't have the option myself. even if it means they might stay on and not come back.
Actually I think we are still here because we can't afford to emigrate, or at least still working hard for our retirement funds.
As I'm travelling on public transport everyday to work, when I looked around, the foreigners actually out-number singaporeans. Sometimes I feel that I'm not in Singapore. In no time, singaporeans will become minorities, with the new citizens, PRs and foreigners in every part of our society.
Well the government is not bothered about this at all, as long as the economy continues to be sustainable, by the foreign talents.
The issue at the heart of all this dissatisfaction - about uncaring elites and thieving foreign talents - is the ill-defined concept of meritocracy that is commonly used in Singapore. For instance, in the U.K. today, if a person comes through the elite public school system and then Oxbridge, he is regarded as a Toff. He is not automatically categorised as a success on a meritocratic basis since he had access to better facilities to enhance his life chances. He is, in other words, an insider. Meritocracy in the U.K. means someone who had to overcome great odds in order to become somebody will be more highly valued as a person and his success viewed as more valid than that of a Toff's. Hence, in the U.K., a system that encourages 'meritocracy' must succeed in bringing in more 'outsiders' up the ranks. That is a much more complex definition of meritocracy and a far more egalitarian one than the commonly held definition used in SG.
Meritocracy in and of itself is a flawed system. It doesn't take into account the random factors and accidents in a person's life - there is no equal playing field. The sooner Singapore tempers its meritocratic approach by taking care of our people, even the 'losers', the better off we will be. You won't have to try so hard to retain your Singaporean born talent/sheep!
A more interesting take on meritocracy and success and happiness - something the S'pore govt can learn from, maybe?
"Reform this money driven society. Quality of life is more important."
Good suggestion, but probably impossible to achieve, because that goes squarely against the thinking of a worldly materialistic society.
Some religious teachings actually focused on this issue for centuries, but I would say that the spiritual thinking has been swept aside by the so-called human nature obsession with greed and wants. The battle is already lost long ago.
Sorry Mr. Wang, if I am atraying from your topic.
education should about providing our people the knowledge and skills (for the global economy) BUT has been changed into some imperial exam system (so-called meritocracy) to differentiate the scholars\worthy (elites) from the unworthy (serfs).
Hence the "rationing" of places in unis\scholarships\etc.


EL SALVADOR CITY, Misamis Oriental— The wine, the women and the magic they did to duhat and cashew has drawn national attention to a rare product that the Philippines has been importing from several countries for years.
The women of Barangay Bolisong in this rustic community in the outskirts of the provincial capital of Cagayan de Oro City has turned Duhat (black plum) and cashew, which abounds in the area, into an energy-enhancing wine called Salvadore.
"Salvadore won the regional Kabuhayan Award and the national award during the Labor Day celebration in 2010," said Judy Aclan, Product Senior Trade and Industry Development Specialist of the Department of Trade and Industry in the region.
"No Mindanao winemaker has penetrated the national market. The Bolisong women are almost there," Aclan said.
The women, 22 housewives who were neighbors at Bolisong, were exasperated at the duhat and cashew that littered their community and decided to do something. With the help of the Social Welfare and Development and the Agricultural Training Institute they started brewing the fruits into wine.
The housewives formed a micro corporation called Bolisong Women Winemakers Inc (BWWM). From a backyard operation they started in 2006, they now have a million peso production facility.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, who visited their winery, has expressed admiration at the skill and determination of the women to succeed despite the diffficulties they faced and the stiff competion from imported wine.
"In pursuing their dreams for a better life, they serve as inspiration to others," Baldoz said.
Wine making is a complex operation that require careful choice of ingredients and ardous process of achieving a desired brew and quality control to comply with the strict food safety and sanitation standards imposed by the government.
When the women started the project, they were armed only with basic knowledge in wine making and they were unsure about their market and how to sell their product. "Who will buy our Salvadore?" they asked, and they were unsure about the answer.
They also lacked the necessary fund to start production and they have no institutional support until the trade industry department, social welfare and development, agrarian reform department, and the Xavier Univeristy Food Tech Center stepped in to keep them going.
Labor and trade industry departments provided them a grant of P110,000 for purchase of equipment, utensils, raw materials and packaging bottles to start regular production.
"We now make an average of P320,000 per year and we hold our ground against imported wines," said BWWM President Nila Dominguez.
Salvadore goes through a natural fermentation porcess with no additives added to it and each bottle is prepared with utmost care in compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices required by the government, Dominguez said.
She said Salvadore has been tested by the University of the Philippines Los Banos Biotech Laboratories and guaranted to contain 10-11 per cent alcohol with zero ethanol content.
Dominguez said duhat and cashew, which use to litter the ground, were now considered as a blessing to their community and they look at the fruits like they were gold.
"Many of our members in the BWWM were able to send their children to college, and some have graduated, and we ow it to duhat and cashew," she said.
"Duhat and cashew were useless to us once, we didn't know what to do with it. Now, we thank God for showering us with them," Dominguez said.


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Blue Jays Release David Paulino
By Jeff Todd | August 12, 2019 at 7:58pm CDT
The Blue Jays announced that righty David Paulino has cleared release waivers, making him a free agent. He had been designated for assignment recently.
Once a major prospect, the 25-year-old hurler has not developed as hoped. There have been quite a few hiccups along the way, most notably arm injuries and a PED suspension.
Paulino now seems likelier to end up in a big-league relief unit, but he had been functioning as a starter this year at Triple-A. In seven outings this season, he worked to a 3.45 ERA with 8.5 K/9 and 3.5 BB/9 over 28 2/3 innings.
Unfortunately, Paulino has missed the bulk of the campaign with an as-yet-unreported health issue. While no organization was willing to utilize a 40-man spot to add him — notably, he won't be optionable in 2020 — it stands to reason that one will be glad to take a chance on a minors deal.
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MetsFanaticDanny
Would love to see the Mets sign this kid.
kahnkobra
mbgutt
Pirates should sign anyone with any kind of potential
tbj777
I'm assuming they think he'll never be healthy again or they aren't willing to find out.
todd76
Maybe they don't like he's a PED user.
JDGoat
They traded for him knowing that…
Jeff Zanghi
He's shown a significant amount of talent in the minors. Would be shocked if he doesn't pretty much immediately find another team willing to take a chance on him. He's still only 25 years old! I do have one question though — how is it that all of his minor league options are already used up? Seems early for that… no?
jorge78
Kept going up and down between minors and majors from 2016 to 2018…..
jbigz12
He's optionable this year only. Which further limits his appeal. He's certainly not done playing professional baseball but his stock is real low. I'm not sure how bad his injury was either. That could be another consideration. To go along w the PED use and makeup concern
He hasn't pitched much for a nearly 26 year old former starting pitcher. Someone will take a flier on him but post PED use he hasn't shown a tremendous amount. I'd say there's a good amount of durability concern there as well. There's some hope for a useful reliever that relies on the fastball/curve combo but his ceiling has dropped significantly. More of an old top prospect name at this point than anything else.
txsfgiant
As the giants continue to stock pile cast off talent I can see him signed this week and sent to Sacramento
flippinbats79
Reports are that he has huge character issues. He had a fight with Giles in preseason because he refused to join in mandatory PFP drills.
yeah, look at his picture on baseball refrence. he looks like he wants to fight
Alex Snow
I thought that was Bud Norris, not Giles.
Meko
Attitude issues likely. Reports of them in spring and since.
coldbeer
Buyer beware. If Ken Giles has to be the guy to put a guy in his place there are some serious issues.
jimmertee
Decent arm. I wonder if Houston knew they were giving up someone with character issues. The Jays don't scout the minors very well, not as nearly as well as amateur scouting,
WereAllJustGuestsHere
Had to be bad enough to get rid of a guy pitching better than most guys in AAA, when healthy. Blue Jays used to be an organization capable of handling bat attitudes, if Paulino's attitude is the issue here. Too bad. Paulino could have had a real chance with this club.
jbs32
He hasn't made double digit starts in 3 years, and really hasn't been that impressive when he has pitched. He was released because they waived him while he was on IL, they had no choice but to release him. Not out of the question they sign him back, but he's a major project on and off the field so it's not a huge issue if he doesn't.
You didn't understand anything I said about Paulino and AAA. Then you had to come up with this comment. No choice? There is always a choice. Do not kid yourself.
Last year Paulino looked decent out of the bullpen. He could have converted if he is better suited for short outings. Clearly there were bigger issues at-play than injury. There were plenty of Buffalo arms primed for a pink slip before Paulino.
dman07
I don't understand this front office….
Our VP leaves yesterday for an NFL team (which is fine to most people especially the media)
Galvis gets moved for nothing like this front office can't make a decent trade (Sanchez, Donaldson, Stroman etc) but the media spins it like it's a good move for both sides.
I feel like something is wrong with our front office behind doors. Maybe a disconnect or something.
I fear how the Giles situation plays out. Hopefully they can make a great move soon.
I can see them trading Biggio this offseason and bringing back Galvis lol. Why not! Our front office seems backwards like that…..
I agree that this front office doesn't seem able to handle anything with players. Look at the track record since they got here. Wasn't this guy the best prospect in the Osuna trade? Smh
Is this your first year following baseball? Galvis was not traded at the deadline because nothing was offered. Sanchez was traded for little because he literally had the worst pitching peripherals in MLB this year and is coming off of two bad years. What did you expect the return to be? Donaldson was injured the whole year and was on an expiring contract. The Indians took a flyer on him in case he could get healthy. Stroman got the top two pitching prospects in the Mets system. After the Pirates got fleeced in the Archer trade last year, GMs are wary on giving up too much. With that though, Stroman was coming off a terrible year so I don't know what you expect.
Galvis was not traded because the front office wasn't willing to grind out an negotiation that involved taking back a contract. Sanchez shouldn't have been traded because his value was low. Stroman was traded for very little.
This must be your first year following baseball. DMan clearly sees what's up.
Sanchez trade value was going to go up continuing to struggle this year on a bad team and then costing more salary thru arb next year on an expiring contract?!?! Wow. It's called logic, try it out some time.
Sanchez was very much a non-tender candidate at seasons end.
Galvis had no interest. Eating a bad contract would've been a bad deal for this team. Now they don't owe him anything the rest of the year.
I don't agree with everything the FO does but have almost no issue with this year to date.
kelticknotz
Letting Galvis go was doing him a huge favour. He was having a great season, but he knew with Bichette coming up his playing time was going to be reduced. Jays let him go and the Red's grab him for whats left on his contract, and he moves from a team not going to make post season this year or next to a team that maybe a contender this year and next. I wish him good luck.
Sanchez was having a terrible year with the Jays and they were able to trade him and get something in return, he has now won his first two starts with the Astro's pitching lights out ball. Sometime all that is needed is a change of space.
Everyone knew Stroman was going to be dealt. His attitude was his worse enemy, voicing a negative opinion about the team direction in spring training, arguing with Montoya in the dugout when he got pulled, and commenting on the small market mentality of the management. What Stroman expected was to be traded to one of the top contenting teams, instead he got dealt to the Mets.
Giles was the key piece in the Osuna trade and as much as I liked watching Osuna. I think the trade for Giles and what he's done its pretty much a straight push.
I think the Jays would have traded Smoak, if there had been an offer, but as good as Smoak has been, he's a F/A this year and likely won't be offered another contract with the Jays.
Hopefully the can bring him back
The PED issue is one of the Jays no-no's. They haven't kept a player who was suspended for PED. Also when you read the article it mentions being in Buffalo and missing most of the season with an "undisclosed health issue". Given the PED and the incident with Giles in spring training and health issue, it might just be getting rid of a player with an attitude and feels he's entitled.
Pannone says otherwise.
They brought in Melky and Paulino with PED suspensions. I think Javy Guerra might've had one too. Probably more.
Guerra's was a drug of abuse nevermind.
Here's an interesting question, I have been down on what Shapiro and Atkins have done with the Jays. I truly don't believe you can win the brass ring without a mix of veteran's and youth.
That being said these young kids are playing lights out ball. Yes they make some rookie mistakes, things they could get away with in the minors they can't in the majors (running, throwing) but these are infrequent. They hit and they are fast.
The other night Shapiro said the plan was that once the core team was in place, they would jump into the market for pitching, via trade or F/A.
The question is do you hold off on that until 2021 season wanting to see if what we are seeing right now is a flash in the pan or do they jump in before the 2020 season. They have a couple of potential good starters, that should get better.
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1盎司2014珀斯铸币厂马年狮密印银币
With limited mintage of just over 60000 coins, this coin combines the Perth Mint's popular Lunar series with a privy mark of a Bavarian Lion.
In 2014, The Perth Mint's internationally renowned Australian Lunar Silver Coin Series II celebrated the Year of the Horse, the seventh animal in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac.
These superb quality releases are perfect for people born in "horse" years - 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 and 2014 - who are regarded as hardworking, sociable, optimistic and energetic.
The reverse of each coin depicts two horses within a stylized Chinese landscape. The Chinese character for "horse" and the inscription "Year of the Horse" also appear in the design with The Perth Mint's traditional "P" mintmark along with a lion privy mark. As well as appealing to silver coin collectors, these outstanding releases also make great gifts for people born in any year "ruled" by the Chinese lunar horse.
国家 AU
制造商 珀斯铸币厂
纯度 999
正面 伊丽莎白二世的肖像(Ian Rank-Broadley设计)
反面 The reverse features two horses within a stylized Chinese landscape along with the Chinese character for "horse", a lion privy mark, the Perth Mint's "P" mint mark and "YEAR OF THE HORSE" inscription
直径(mm) 45
平均厚度(mm) 2.35
法定货币 AUD 1
年 2014
设计者 Ian Rank-Broadley (正面),Tom Vaughan (反面)
发行量 60269
珀斯铸币厂
伊丽莎白二世的肖像(Ian Rank-Broadley设计)
反面
The reverse features two horses within a stylized Chinese landscape along with the Chinese character for "horse", a lion privy mark, the Perth Mint's "P" mint mark and "YEAR OF THE HORSE" inscription
直径(mm)
法定货币
AUD 1
设计者
Ian Rank-Broadley (正面),Tom Vaughan (反面)
发行量
1 oz 2014 Perth Mint Lunar Year of the Horse Lion Privy Silver Coin With limited mintage of just over 60000 coins, this coin combines the Perth Mint's popular Lunar series with a privy mark of a Bavarian Lion. In 2014, The Perth Mint's internationally renowned Australian Lunar Silver Coin Series II celebrated the Year of the Horse, the seventh animal in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac. These superb quality releases are perfect for people born in "horse" years - 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 and 2014 - who are regarded as hardworking, sociable, optimistic and energetic. The reverse of each coin depicts two horses within a stylized Chinese landscape. The Chinese character for "horse" and the inscription "Year of the Horse" also appear in the design with The Perth Mint's traditional "P" mintmark along with a lion privy mark. As well as appealing to silver coin collectors, these outstanding releases also make great gifts for people born in any year "ruled" by the Chinese lunar horse.
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Q: Missing values and format in table´s totals row
I am creating an excel report via EPPLUS and C#. Almost everything is working so far, but i have two problems on opening the report in excel(2010).
Problem 1:
The totalsrow of the table dont show values until the document is enabled for edit.
Problem 2:
The totalsrow is unformatted and doesnt add the currency symbol to the value, until the total row function is changed or reselected within excel.
I dont know if these problems can be solved within the code. But maybe someone can find an error in my code or had the same problems and found a solution or workaround.
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Drones may assist emergency response to flooding in Red River Valley
Strategy in dealing with natural disasters adds new tools to mix
A rural road in Grand Forks County shows the effect of high water on Oct. 15, 2019. Adam Kurtz / Grand Forks Herald
GRAND FORKS — The North Dakota Department of Transportation has partnered with the Northern Plains UAS Test Site to use drones to relay information in a potential spring flood battle.
The plan is to use drones to capture still images and live video to be used by officials in determining whether to close a road, when to reopen one and when to conduct visual inspections of bridges, should it become necessary. The National Weather Service has projected moderate to major flooding in the Grand Forks area, minor flooding in Grafton and major flooding is expected in Pembina.
"That's a big impact for the community," said Nick Flom, executive director for the UAS Test Site. "To be able to use drone technology to keep a road open as long as possible, to not disrupt our normal day-to-day life."
Flom said NDDOT can post images or video on its social media accounts to help keep the public informed about flooded roads, in hopes of keeping people from driving around barricades.
"Sometimes you see a barricade and the road looks fine, and it's very dangerous to continue down that path," he said.
A variety of drones could be used this spring depending on what kind of information the DOT is seeking. That could include still photos used to make a mosaic of the area to give officials a better understanding of the situation. More sophisticated drones would be used to relay real-time video.
"Really what we're trying to do is give them the best tool for the job," Flom said.
The inclusion of drones to enhance the response to an emergency extends from the relationship NDDOT and the UAS Test Site entered into in 2018. The United States Department of Transportation selected NDDOT to work with the UAS Test Site on an Integration Pilot Program. The goal of the program is to help the Federal Aviation Administration craft new rules designed to safely integrate drones into the national airspace. NDDOT is one of 10 participants in the three-year program.
The partnership is tasked with various types of drone flights, such as night flights, flying over people and flying beyond visual line of sight. The data is used to help create policy to safely advance drone operations. Flood response is the latest development of the partnership.
"This partnership is another great example of how our whole-of-government approach to natural disasters and other major events is enhancing services for North Dakota citizens," said Gov. Doug Burgum in a press release. "Harnessing this cutting-edge technology to improve flood preparation and response efforts shows again why North Dakota is the nation's proving ground for UAS."
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