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Audrey Horne continue their retro rock journey with latest offering
After honing in on their sound with 2013's Youngblood, Norwegian band Audrey Horne has released a new album in the same vintage vein, Pure Heavy. While guitarist Ice Dale has his roots with the black metal band Enslaved and guitarist Thomas Tofthagen has played in the doom metal band Sahg, the members of Audrey Horne have come together to create a completely different sound with a classic rock and New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) origin.
Pure Heavy introduces itself with the track "Wolf in My Heart". The guitar riffs, the rhythm, and even frontman Toschie's vocals really sound inspired by The Who. Underlying heavier rock riffs give this song some metal overtones.
The lead single from Pure Heavy, "Out of the City", will instantly remind listeners of Thin Lizzy. It has a defined '70s rock feel, and the bass line screams Phil Lynott. This sound comes quite organically from Audrey Horne. It doesn't sound at all like they're trying too hard to sound like Thin Lizzy. This song about leaving town--something a lot of us dream of someday doing--has a sing-along chorus of, "Oh I know, oh I know, oh I know, we're getting out of the city!" "Out of the City" is accompanied by a fun video, in which Johan Hegg of Amon Amarth makes an appearance. It also has puppets, because what's more metal than puppets?
"Into the Wild" seems to have a ton of Mötley Crüe influence--Espen Lien's drumming and cowbell, the guitar riffs, and the rhythm. The vocals, however, are a bit more on the Van Halen/David Lee Roth end of things. If you like the Crüe's "Live Wire", you'll love this song.
The rest of the songs from Pure Heavy fit into what I like to call a "NWOBHM-meets-KISS" sound. "Holy Roller" exemplifies this. It has some great heavy riffs, and it is catchy, especially when "Holy roller!" is sung in the chorus. It also has this subtle pinball or alarm type sound that is in the background. It's one of those things that will kind of catch you off guard when you're listening to the song and driving or something. "Holy Roller" is one of tracks that stand out on the album for sure.
"Volcano Girl" goes along with this sound, and I absolutely love Kjetil Greve's heavy bass playing on this one. It has a driving rhythm and a great NWOBHM style guitar solo. The "wooooaaaah" in the backing vocals is a lot of fun. "High and Dry" (no relation to the Def Leppard song) has some great Iron Maiden-esque guitar riffs, and it also goes along with the NWOBHM trend.
Pure Heavy ends with the track "Boy Wonder". It fits with the classic metal style, but it is a bit darker, weighty, and looming.
Audrey Horne's Pure Heavy is fantastic all around. It has several stand-out tracks, particularly the ones at the top of the album.
I thoroughly enjoyed last year's Youngblood, and Audrey Horne has stayed with me ever since. While I still think the individual songs from Youngblood stuck with me more and grabbed me a bit sooner than this batch did, I find that these songs really grow on you after a few listens. For anyone who is into '70s and '80s-era classic rock and metal, Audrey Horne is a band you should be watching, and Pure Heavy is a must have for your album collection.
7 out of 10 stars
Napalm Records/Rocket Distribution
Official Audrey Horne Website
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THE NEW GIRL
By Martha Nemes Fried
Our lycee had its own uniform as did all others in Budapest. It included
three sets of middy blouses and skirts, a winter and spring coat, a beret
with the school's insignia, black shoes for winter, white for summer, gym
clothes and a pair of gym shoes. These items were only available at a special
clothing store that catered exclusively to private schools. There was a
strict rule forbidding jewelry. If a girl wore as much as a fine gold chain,
it was taken from her by the headmistress and put in the school safe until
the end of the school year. It was impossible to judge a girl's family
background by what she wore.
Klari Erdely was the new girl in the third form. Two months into the fall
term she asked me to come to her apartment after school, ostensibly to study
our lessons together. She made tea on a hot plate in the two shabby rooms she
shared with her father, a sports writer for the Pesti Naplo, the major daily
newspaper in Budapest. After tea she taught me how to roll cigarettes. They
were cheaper than the ones that came in packets, she explained. Her father
had a fairly decent income, but the school fees and clothing costs were high,
requiring the sacrifice of small luxuries.
She lit one up and offered me another. My every instinct said no, but I
didn't want her to think I was a coward. I puffed on the cigarette like an
amateur at first, then she showed me how to inhale. After three drags I
rushed to the bathroom where I caught a glimpse of my green face in Mr.
Erdely's shaving mirror after my stomach had yielded my breakfast and lunch.
Klari opened all the windows and gave me some cold water to sip. It took the
rest of the afternoon for the natural color to return to my cheeks.
The lycee had a strict code of conduct; if its rules were broken,
punishment was swift and harsh. We were not to speak to each other while
class was in session. Klari, whose creativity in the art of mischief knew no
limit, circumvented school policy by scribbling notes on bits of paper kept
inside her textbook. She dropped a pencil. Pretending to pick it up, she
passed the note to the next girl in the chain who seized it and passed it
around the same way. We had all been thoroughly trained to respect authority
and found Klari's audacity titillating.
The next time we spent an afternoon at her apartment Klari told me her
parents divorced when she was six years old. I had suspected as much but
thought it would have been tactless to mention it. Her mother lived in
Switzerland with her second husband. This struck me as very racy. My parents
had been utterly devoted to each other. Divorce was unthinkable in our
family. Unlike most girls, Klari had freedoms unimaginable for any other girl
of thirteen, whose every move was constantly monitored by the adults who
governed her life. Klari was left to do as she pleased. Her father was on
assignment all the time; soccer, tennis and water polo in the summer,
skating, fencing and skiing in the winter. He covered every game and match.
After we had been friends for a couple of months, she told me her father
belonged to the Social Democratic Party. She asked me if I would like to
attend a meeting. I was curious about everything in life and couldn't resist
the invitation. I told my mother I was going to spend the evening with Klari
because her father was on assignment. This was the first of many fibs I had
to tell her to remain friendly with Klari; she hardly ever did anything I
could discuss at home. My mother was an affectionate parent, but a fearful
woman determined to protect my virtue. Her notion of child rearing was
strictly Victorian. I thought it best not to speak of my adventures with
Klari.
The meeting was in the winter. We walked by moonlight past pale street
lamps. The freezing temperature and the darkness gave the outing a sinister
cast filling me with the delights of a lark and nervous anticipation. The
party headquarters were in a part of town I had never seen before. The
building was terribly old with paint peeling off the walls of the ascetic
meeting room. About thirty or forty people sat on hard wooden chairs facing a
worn desk at the front of the room that bore the marks of many years usage.
Initials were carved onto its surface and spilled ink no one troubled to wipe
up marred the veneer.
Mr. Erdely, Klari's father chaired the assemblage. The party members sang
the Internationale first, then discussed the upcoming elections. They wanted
to paste signs on the walls all over Budapest, but agreed it had to be done
in the middle of the night, just before the voters went to the polls lest the
police foil their objective by removing them.
Klari was called upon to recite a poem by Endre Ady before the meeting
ended. Ady was not only Hungary's greatest modern poet, he was also a
socialist. Her manner was poised as she spoke the words and I was surprised
to hear the strength and maturity of an older woman in her voice. I had
thought of her as a daring, rebellious adolescent who enjoyed pranks. That
evening she revealed a deeper part of herself, more knowing than I had
suspected. We were back at the Erdely apartment by ten. I was not allowed to
be out alone after eight due to another rule dictated by school policy. I
called my mother to have our maid come and fetch me.
Klari's maternal grandmother, Mrs. Kulcsar, lived in the countryside
about an hour from Budapest by train. Klari invited me there for a weekend
during Christmas break. My mother insisted on meeting her and asked her to
join us for dinner. Klari had a gift for making a favorable first impression.
My mother perceived her not merely as a charming girl, but an honest one as
well. Klari had gained her trust completely and I received permission to go.
The cottage turned out to be comfortable as well as quaint. Her Uncle
Marton, who lived with his mother, was thirty-five, unmarried and a member of
the Socialist Party. He casually talked about his imprisonment while Klari
and I were seated at the kitchen table in the morning, eating fresh home-made
white bread that had just come out of the oven. We spread a generous amount
of butter and marmalade on each slice and drank our morning tea as we
listened to his tales of woe. Marton was a compulsive smoker, lighting each
cigarette with the still live butt of the previous one. He also had a facial
tic, wore frayed, ill fitting clothes and always had a stubble on his face. I
wondered when he shaved. Could it have been in the middle of the night? If he
never shaved he would have had a beard, but all he had was a coarse stubble.
I thought I would consult with my cousin Andras about this, but discarded
the idea of even mentioning the fact that Klari had an uncle. If my mother
happened upon the tiniest jot of information she would have cross-examined
me. I constantly feared I might spill some detail that carried no weight in
my eyes, but would have been of great significance to her. She might never
again allow me to visit the cottage. My mother quizzed me about the weekend
after my return. I told her the cottage was lovely, Mrs. Kulcsar was
hospitable, and I had enjoyed myself very much. This was not lying, I
convinced myself; I was just telling her part of the truth.
The next time I had tea at Klari's apartment she mentioned her parents
divorce again. While we rolled cigarettes for her father she told me the
trouble had started when she was five years old. Mr. Erdely owned a large
sport goods store then and his wife came in to check the books once a week.
She met Pal Dukay, a very handsome young ski instructor, when her husband
hired him as a salesman from early spring until the snow began to fall.
Klari was awakened by a violent quarrel between her parents during the
middle of the night one year after Dukay had come to work in the store. Her
father said he had proof of her mother's affair with him. Her mother cried
out that she loved the young man deeply. Her father called her a fool and a
voluptuary, a word Klari had never heard before, but by the tone of her
father's voice she knew it was something he held in contempt. He reminded his
wife that she was eight years older than her paramour and predicted Dukay
would cast her aside the moment she was divorced, crying out, "Can't you see
that your unavailability is your greatest attraction?" She told me his voice
was angry and hurt. She did not want to hear her parents fight and pulled the
bed covers over her head.
Mr. Erdely was not a good looking man but his wife was a great beauty.
Klari related that on Sundays, when they took a walk on Szent Margit's
Island, she usually overheard whispered comments about her mother. Some said
she looked like a film star, or that despite her youth she had the bearing of
a queen. Others remarked that her husband must be very clever and successful
to have won the hand of such a beauty. It never occurred to Klari that the
idle chatter of old people sunning themselves on park benches was a matter of
concern. She recalled their comments acquired new meaning as she lay
trembling under her quilt.
Dukay had always been kind to Klari. He had taught her to swim the first
summer he worked for her father and to skate the following winter even though
he had another job. He brought little presents for her as symbols of his
affection and gave her a beautiful doll for Christmas. She liked him and
trusted him and he repaid her affection by tearing her family apart. The
afternoon she told me all this I quietly swore to myself that the one thing I
would never, ever do was to desert a child.
Klari and I became very close friends by the end of the third form. We
bought roasted chestnuts in the winter from street vendors, who were usually
old peasant women dressed in layers of tattered clothing and torn gloves. We
went to the theater on Saturday afternoons and took long walks along the main
boulevard in the spring. When cherries were in season Klari bought the first
bagful from a sidewalk merchant and shared it with me.
Budapest had a strict law against littering. Throwing a small piece of
paper on the sidewalk carried a fine of two pengos, the equivalent of two
dollars. When I dutifully put the first pit in the bag she laughed and asked
me, "Are you scared?" spitting her pit into the street. "Not at all," I
replied with deceptive insouciance, and spit the pits out, convinced the
police were about to close in on me.
On balmy days we ventured forth on a hunt for actors and popular writers
who frequented sidewalk cafes on the boulevards. They usually drank ice
coffee served in tall Pilsner glasses topped off with mounds of whipped
cream. If we were in luck and spotted any, we rushed in for an autograph,
taking them off guard with our youth and impudence. Klari and I also went
swimming at the Gellert pool during that summer. It had an electronic wave
machine simulating the ocean. Our second favorite spa was the Champagne pool
on Szent Margit Island that boasted an electronic bubble machine. Sometimes
we went to the indoor-outdoor pool built to train athletes for the Olympics.
It was open to the public for a small fee.
While Klari lived alone with her father she visited her mother each
summer. She had made peace with her mother's marriage to Dukay. They were
obviously happy together and treated her with love and kindness during her
visits. They were generous with her despite their limited means. Her trust in
her mother was restored. Soon after her return to Budapest after her summer
visit in 1938, her father announced his impending marriage. After many years
of living alone with him, Klari had come to feel less like a daughter and
more like a helpmate. She perceived her stepmother-to-be as ugly and nasty
and made unfavorable comments about her appearance and demeanor. I encouraged
her to give her father's prospective wife a chance.
"Her name is Olga. I hate it. A woman with a name like that can't be any
good."
"Don't be silly and don't pass judgment before you meet her," I
counseled.
A week after the wedding Klari and Mr. Erdely moved into Olga's elegantly
appointed ten-room apartment on Andrassy Avenue near the Budapest Opera
House. I was invited to tea after school. We were served sandwiches, cakes
and tea on Dresden porcelain with silver spoons and forks and embroidered
Belgian linen napkins. Klari was right about Olga. The woman was ugly, but
she compensated for her uncomely appearance by surrounding herself with
beautiful things, wearing expensive clothes and adorning herself with
exquisite old family jewels. Honey oozed from her tongue as she urged me to
have more pastry. When she was out of the room Klari told me Olga took
Luminal. I had never heard of Luminal and asked her what it was.
"A sedative. She takes it by the spoonful, she can't go to sleep without
it."
I could barely wait to get home to tell my mother about the wealthy woman
Mr. Erdely married whose face was such a fright she ought to go around with a
paper bag over her head. My mother chided me for making such an uncharitable
remark. A new acquaintance happened to be at our home for tea. Unbeknownst to
us, she was an old friend of Olga. No sooner did she leave our apartment, she
rushed over to the new Mrs. Erdely to relay my remark.
When I rang Klari the following day Olga answered the telephone. She
icily told me never to call again. Furthermore, she said, Klari had been
ordered to sever her friendship with me. We were never to see each other
except for classes in school. I could hardly believe the malice of my
mother's friend. I knew I had not displayed good manners in company but I
trusted that anything said in our home would not go beyond it.
I told my mother about everything that happened. She called her new
"friend." After a brief conversation my mother terminated the budding
relationship. However, she said I had to apologize to Mrs. Erdely. I said if
I called, she would just hang up on me.
"You're probably right," my mother said. "No woman wants to have it
pointed out that her major attraction is her bank account. Men and women
marry for money all the time, but they like to pretend they're motivated by
true love. There is no limit to the extent people will fool themselves. I
think you better let passions cool for a bit, then try to see Mr. Erdely in
his office at the newspaper."
I kept a substantial distance from Klari in school. I didn't want her to
get into any more trouble and occupied my time with other friends. I studied
with them in the afternoons and went to the movies or the theater with my
oldest and closest friend, Dolly, nearly each Saturday. Terez Faludi and Agi
Lengyel were my special classmates from the first form on. We exchanged
confidences and visited the Fine Arts Museum on occasional Sundays. Terez,
who was six months older than any of us, related that Bobby, a gymnasium
student she just met had taken a fancy to her. He was in his senior year. We
were very impressed by her acquisition of a boyfriend; perhaps even a little
envious.
After one week of interdiction, I began to worry about Klari. She
surprised me by calling from a public booth.
"I only have a few minutes. The witch is having her hair tinted. My
father is taking Olga's side instead of mine. He is completely loyal to her.
Can you believe it? She brought her mother up from their country home. The
old woman eats chocolates all day and keeps her eyes on me every minute. She
is so fat she looks like a balloon. I'm not allowed to answer the phone and I
can't make any calls."
"It sounds awful. How long are they going to keep this up?"
"At least another month. Keep pretending that we had a falling out. She
has every teacher watching me."
Mr. and Mrs. Erdely lifted the ban at the end of November. Considerable
strain had developed between Mr. Erdely and his new wife, Klari reported
happily. In an obvious effort to placate her husband, Olga told Klari she
could invite all her friends for a New Year's Eve party. She even ordered the
cook to prepare her step-daughter's favorite dishes. The Erdelys were
spending the evening elsewhere. I knew I would be free to attend because my
mother was having a strictly adult party with a few of her friends and my
cousin Ilonka was spending the evening with her fiance.
We made up a guest list to include all the boys we were related to. One
girl's cousin could be another girl's beau. Terez was coming with Bobby. We
could hardly wait to meet him. Mrs. Erdely allowed Klari to use her
phonograph and her collection of dance records. It was the first time we
heard Bing Crosby sing "Please" and we thought he was divine. The food was
delicious and the punch, made mostly with fruit juices, pleased our palates
and quenched our thirst. The record collection included songs we heard for
the first time and we liked it. All in all, the party was a huge success.
After I danced several foxtrots and a waltz, I tried to get into the
bathroom just before midnight. It was our custom to wish each other a happy
new year and kiss our dancing partners. The door was locked. I used the
second bathroom in the apartment. Terez was looking for Bobby, but couldn't
find him.
"Where could he be?" she asked me.
"Probably in the locked bathroom."
"I wish he'd hurry."
Midnight came and went. Bobby joined us at twenty minutes after twelve.
Klari appeared five minutes later. Terez became so upset she called for a
taxi and ran out of the apartment. I went to visit her the following
afternoon. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying. I asked her if she had
heard from Bobby. She said he had called to apologize and to tell her he fell
in love with Klari. She sobbed on my shoulder as I put my arms around her. I
promised Terez I would visit Klari to find out what happened.
When I confronted her face to face, she told me Bobby had declared his
love for her and wanted to kiss her, but not in front of Terez. He was a
sensitive young man; he didn't want to cause his former girlfriend
humiliation. I could not believe how they could possibly have thought that
hiding in the bathroom would protect Terez's feelings. How could they hurt
Teraz? She had been a good friend to all of us. I asked Klari what could have
possibly brought on this sudden declaration of love just before midnight. Was
Bobby struck by lightning and suddenly bewitched by her physical beauty?
Klari became very defensive and pretended she had no idea why. I was very
angry and told her bluntly I believed she had seduced him.
"How could you even suggest such a thing. Only a tramp would do that. I
thought you were my friend."
"I am, but I'm also Terez's friend."
We returned to school after Christmas recess. Terez and Klari avoided
each other. Dolly and I felt very uncomfortable walking a tightrope between
our two friends. By the beginning of February Klari was excusing herself from
class to go to the bathroom every half hour. I asked her if there was
anything wrong. She said she felt nauseous. She was so dizzy one day in
school she had to be taken to the nurse's office. Her eyes looked red the
next morning. She asked me to tea at the beginning of March. The minute Olga
was out of the room she whispered, "I've missed two periods."
"What are you worried about? It happens to girls our age."
"You can be so dense! I think I'm pregnant."
This was the most stunning revelation of my young life. Nice girls stayed
pure. It was an ironclad rule I'd never known anyone to break. I asked her if
she'd seen a doctor. She said it was impossible. The witch and her mother
were still keeping her under surveillance. I wondered how she and Bobby
could meet. In his apartment, she told me. He had invited her over when his
parents were in Vienna for a couple of days. She told her father and Olga his
parents had asked her to dinner. She had been on her best behavior and they
believed her. Bobby's father traveled on business much of the time and his
mother was always busy with friends, she explained. His mother told him she
played bridge, but Bobby thought she had a lover. When his father was out of
town she stayed out all night.
I asked her what she was going to do. She said she wanted to be with her
mother, had already asked her father's permission to travel to Switzerland
for the spring term, but he expressed steadfast opposition. He insisted she
finish the school year in Budapest and wait until July to visit her mother.
By the end of April her abdomen was visibly swollen. The headmistress asked
Mr. Erdely to come to her office for a meeting the following morning. He
mentioned the approaching interview to Klari and asked what it could be
about. She said she didn't know.
When she was not at the breakfast table by seven-thirty, Olga went to her
room to wake her. She found her in a coma and the empty container of her own
Luminal on the floor. She became hysterical. Mr. Erdely, who later filled us
in on the details, called the family doctor. Klari was rushed to the nearest
hospital where her stomach was pumped. It was too late; she was dead.
Klari's mother was at the funeral, her face covered with a black veil.
She was accompanied by Mrs. Kulcsar and Marton. Some of the other girls from
school came and cried, and wondered why Terez was absent. Mr. Erdely's
newspaper colleagues and political associates attended. Dolly came with her
mother and Lili and I attended with my mother. She had a strong sense of
decorum and asked her couturiere to quickly tailor a black linen suit for me.
I was wearing my first pair of silk stockings and high heel shoes. My
reflection in the mirror showed a young girl on the brink of womanhood; I
felt like a lost child.
Mr. Erdely was a broken man. At a small gathering in the Erdely apartment
following the services, I overheard him talk to my mother.
"It's all my fault. If I had been a better father she would have felt
free to come to me. I would have allowed her go to her mother and she would
still be alive."
"Life is full of ifs. You did your best. Don't pile guilt on top of
grief," my mother said.
It was my first experience of the death of a friend. Struck dumb with
pain, I clutched my purse as if it were a life preserver. I watched and
listened with adolescent awe as the adults freely expressed their feelings of
sorrow.
Martha Nemes Fried was born in Budapest, Hungary and came to the United States as a teenager. She has published two books in hardcover and paperback and is presently working on a novel. Her short stories have appeared in Ceteris Paribus, Megaera, Savoy Magazine and Dynamic Patterns.
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Claiming a debt which is owed to you or your business is not always straightforward; it can become quite time consuming and costly. It is always worth weighing up your options before instructing solicitors and making a claim. Below we provide details on our costs and some useful tips and information in relation to debt claims. If court proceedings do become necessary, we will always ensure that the case is prepared (or defended) properly, meticulously and always in the best interests of our clients.
Our time is charged on an hourly basis when acting in relation to all debt claims. Our hourly rates range from £150 plus VAT per hour to £595 plus VAT per hour depending on the seniority of the solicitor required. Very senior solicitors will only be involved in complex matters. Every claim differs from the other and so do the clients requirements. It is therefore very difficult or almost impossible for us to provide a definitive number of hours which it takes to issue a claim and follow the Court's 'directions'.
In certain instances, we may agree a fixed fee for taking initial client instructions, considering any relevant documents and providing initial advice and guidance.
We will always provide our clients with time estimates where possible and keep them updated as to the amount of time spent. We will produce detailed breakdowns of time spent on a regular basis and deliver interim bills as and when possible. Our aim is to be clear and transparent at all times by billing regularly and keeping you updated. Please note that we will also request a payment of funds on account at the outset of our instructions.
It may also become necessary during the course of our instructions to instruct legal experts or to pay disbursements (expenses paid to third parties on your behalf) such as barrister's fees and court fees. Please click here to see the Court Fees. We will never make any such payments without your prior authorisation. If we are dealing with cross jurisdictional estates, then the fees of any foreign lawyers will also be notified to you in advance.
Travel time to and from the court or meetings; and subsistence cost.
Please note that the majority of our correspondence will be by way of e-mail.
the overall stress and time involved.
Court action is always the last resort. We will always do our best for our clients to reach a settlement out of court, if possible and agreeable to all parties. If court proceedings are necessary, we will always ensure that the case is prepared properly and meticulously and in the best interests of our clients.
As with most claims, parties are encouraged to explore the possibility of settlement before any court claim is issued. The claimant should always also afford the defendant the opportunity to pay up before issuing a claim. The parties (and their legal representatives) must consider the potential impact of their behaviour at the pre-action stage of any dispute. This applies to all areas of litigation. As such, parties are expected to follow any applicable Pre-Action Protocol.
In relation to debt claims, as from 1 October 2017 there applies a Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims. The 'Debt Protocol' only applies in certain situations, namely, it applies to any business, including sole traders and public bodies (creditor), claiming payment of a debt from an individual, including a sole trader (debtor). It does not apply to business-to-business debts unless the debtor is a sole trader.
To promote early communication between the parties, including early exchange of information about the debt, to assist with identifying the issues in dispute.
To enable the parties to resolve the dispute in a cost-effective way without the need for court proceedings, including by agreeing a repayment plan or considering using a form of alternative dispute resolution.
To encourage the parties to act reasonably and in a proportionate manner and to support the efficient management of proceedings that cannot be avoided.
Small Claims. This is for debts below £10,000. The small claims track is a simplified procedural system for dealing with lower value claims. The trial will be listed quickly, usually within 6 months, and will usually not last longer than 1/2 day. The successful party will not be awarded their costs apart from the court fee, some nominal fixed solicitors costs and expert costs and certain travel and accommodation expenses incurred attending hearings.
Fast Track. This is for debts between £10,000 and £25,000. The trial will usually take place around 1 year after the claim has been issued and will last for no more than 1 day . The court's case management of and involvement in Fast Track Claims is more than in Small Claims. Usually, the successful party will be awarded their costs but it is important to note that, usually, this will not be 100% of their costs incurred. The general rule of thumb is to expect around 65%-75% of costs to be repaid along with the court fees. Further, in fast track cases, recoverable trial costs can be limited.
Multi Track. This is for debts above £25,000, for complicated matters, for matters where the trial is estimated to last more than 1 day or where considerable expert evidence will be required. The final hearing may take longer than 1 year to take place and will usually last longer than 1 day. The length of the hearing often depends on the amount of evidence and witnesses. Usually, the successful party will be awarded their costs but it is important to note that, usually, this will not be 100% of their costs incurred. The general rule of thumb is to expect around 65%-75% of costs to be repaid along with the court fees. This could increase or decrease at the court's discretion and depending on various factors, such as, the overall behaviour of the losing party and any reasonable offers for settlement which were made during the proceedings by the successful, but rejected by the losing party.
At Protopapas, our specialist litigation team handles debt claims of all values and complexity; however, having said this, we generally do not deal with Small Claims. This is because our costs would most likely be disproportionate to the amount being claimed which would result in costs being higher than the claim itself.
Recovery of legal costs is a significant issue in bringing or defending a claim. As touched on above, the general rule for most claims (that we deal with) is that the losing party will pay the costs of the successful party. It is important to note that, usually, this will not be 100% of the costs incurred. The general rule of thumb is to expect around 65%-75% of costs to be repaid along with the court fees. This can increase or decrease at the court's discretion.
Another important note is that if a losing party is ordered to pay the successful party's costs and if those costs are not agreed between the parties, the losing party can in some instances require that the costs are assessed by the court. This is called 'Detailed Assessment'. It is crucial to note that what is awarded by way of Detailed Assessment and what the successful party must actually pay their solicitors are two separate matters. The successful party will still have to pay their solicitors/legal costs in full, as agreed between them and outlined in any retainer, irrespective of what is awarded by Detailed Assessment.
If you are contemplating using court proceedings to recover a debt, bear in mind that the recoverability of costs will be affected by when and how the matter is concluded.
If the matter settles pre-action, the party seeking repayment has no entitlement to costs, although the parties may agree a figure.
If the matter settles pre-action and the parties agree who should pay the costs but not how much should be paid, the parties can refer the costs to Detailed Assessment.
If the matter settles after proceedings have been commenced, the parties will usually agree costs, but if they cannot do so and refer the matter to the court, the court may exercise its discretion to determine the matter.
If the matter is decided at trial, the court will decide what is recoverable. That will usually be strongly influenced by the 'track' to which the claim was allocated along with various other considerations.
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Coleura () è un genere di pipistrelli della famiglia degli Emballonuridi.

Descrizione

Dimensioni
Al genere Coleura appartengono pipistrelli di piccole dimensioni, con lunghezza della testa e del corpo tra 52 e 66 mm, la lunghezza dell'avambraccio tra 43 e 57 mm, la lunghezza della coda tra 10 e 20 mm e un peso fino a 12,5 g.

Caratteristiche craniche e dentarie
Il cranio, molto simile a quello del genere Emballonura,  presenta le ossa pre-mascellari fortemente rivolte all'insù. Le linee alveolari dei denti superiori sono convergenti anteriormente, mentre gli incisivi inferiori sono disposti in una fila continua tra i due canini.

Sono caratterizzati dalla seguente formula dentaria:

Aspetto
Il colore delle parti dorsali varia dal bruno-rossastro al marrone scuro, mentre le parti ventrali sono più chiare. Il muso è corto, scuro, privo di peli ed appuntito, il labbro inferiore è attraversato da un profondo solco longitudinale. Le orecchie sono piccole, rotonde e separate. Il trago è semplice e lungo. È privo della sacca alare tra l'avambraccio e il quinto metacarpo. La coda, come negli altri membri della famiglia, fuoriesce dall'uropatagio circa a metà della sua lunghezza, per poi divenire libera e visibile dorsalmente. Il calcar è lungo circa quanto la tibia.

Distribuzione
Il genere è diffuso nella Penisola arabica, nell'Africa subsahariana, Madagascar e Seychelles.

Tassonomia
Il genere comprende 3 specie.
Coleura afra
Coleura kibomalandy
Coleura seychellensis

Note

Bibliografia
 Ronald M. Novak, Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780801857898

Altri progetti

Microchirotteri
Taxa classificati da Wilhelm Peters

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History knows many examples when the West helped Russia and the Soviet Union, and none where the opposite.
In 1905, Russia actually lost the war on Japan, which she herself she announced.
UK, USA and Germany then made a huge effort to persuade Japan to sign peace with Russia, which is actually stated a draw .
This peace was signed in Portsmouth (USA).
Despite the fact that after Tsushima Russia's defeat was apparent even to the most die-hard patriots.
Russia was dissatisfied with the outcome of this world, and its benefits for himself, is fully attributed to the incredible diplomatic skills of Sergei Witte and the Tsar Nicholas II.
August 1, 1914 Germany, in connection with Russia's refusal to cancel the General mobilization, declared war on her.
Russia's allies – Britain, France and, from 1917, the United States took the brunt of the war.
All the major battles occurred on the Western front. There were connected the main forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
In 1918 Russia, unilaterally, contrary to the requirements of its allies signed with Germany the treacherous separate peace Treaty (the so-called Brest peace) and out of the war.
In 1921 in Russia, in connection with the devastation and politics of war communism, the famine.
Starving around 40 million people.
Western countries came to the aid of Soviet Russia in spite of ideological differences and the betrayal in 1918.
The scale of assistance were impressive: for example, a non-governmental organization American Relief Administration (ARA) fed 6 099 574 people, the American society of Quakers 265 000, international Save the Children Alliance 259 751 people, the Nansen Committee 138 000, Swedish Red cross 87 000, the German Red cross 7 000, British unions 92 000, 011 assistance to 78 people.
By the first of June 1922 the Soviet canteens were opened in the hunger provinces of 7000 and canteens foreign organizations – 9500.
By the autumn of 1922, ARA buys underwear and shoes, not demanded in the US army, for distribution in Soviet Russia.
Until the end of 1922 the ARA efforts within organizations have been assisted over 10 million people.
In addition to food aid ARA also assisted in providing medicine, vaccination and the fight against the outbreak of epidemics. ARA offices were opened in total in the territory of the 38 provinces of the RSFSR.
According to estimates of the Commissariat, ARA imported of 36.3 million pounds of food, medicines and clothing with a total cost of 136 million rubles in gold.
To feed the hungry was opened more than 15 thousand kitchens. At the peak of activity in the ARA employed 300 Americans and more than 120 thousand Soviet citizens.
After the hunger won, the Russian authorities capitalist West was declared the main enemy of Soviet Russia and started an unprecedented propaganda campaign to prepare for war with the West.
Lenin said: They will sell us the rope with which we will hang them!
In 1941, the result of the adventurist foreign policy, Russia was alone, without allies at war with Germany.
In the autumn of 1941 the Germans approached Moscow.
Britain and the United States came to the aid of Russia. Has provided unprecedented assistance (including the so-called lend-lease ) weapons, food and raw materials. Total assistance amounted to 12 billion dollars in the prices of 1941, or $ 200 billion at current prices.
Russia repaid only 7% of this amount and that only in the early 90-ies. The rest of the debt was written off by the allies.
Immediately after the victory in 1945, Soviet Russia headed for confrontation and preparations for a third world war.
Despite the devastation, she refused to participate in the Marshall plan and forbade him to participate in his puppets in Eastern Europe.
Only Stalin's death prevented a military confrontation, the disastrous consequences of which (including the possession by both sides of nuclear weapons) it is easy to predict.
In 1989 – 1991 Russia was on the verge of real hunger, which was caused by an absurd economic policy of the Russian (Soviet) authorities.
The West came to the aid of Russia. She was given humanitarian assistance, especially food.
Only in 1991 it was delivered free 241 thousand tons of food. In addition there have been allocated preferential loans for the purchase of the U.S. grain at below market prices. Significant assistance was provided by Russia, Germany.
Across Europe, non-governmental organizations gathered parcels for Russia.
Now we have forgotten about it. Now we believe that there was no famine and could not be. A Western humanitarian aid (in the line for which people are each other's little eyes were scratched out) – was not needed.
As soon as Russia slightly recovered and increased fat , we immediately came back in the confrontation with the West.
Now we are again surrounded by enemies and treacherous West all the time just thinking how to finish off Russia to seize its territory and its population enslaved.
Maybe something in Conservatory to change?


The Canadian Women's Entrepreneur Awards honour Canadian women across a variety of sectors who have demonstrated entrepreneurial excellence. Sparkplug was brought in during the second year of the program to help build its presence in the marketplace – and we are proud to say we were part of the awards for many years. We developed the overall branding and messaging and produced materials that were novel, captivating and a celebration of the extraordinary.
Various print based ads and communication pieces designed to elicit nominations, support and acknowledge winners of the event in Year I.
Additional ads and communication pieces designed to elicit nominations, support and acknowlege winners in Year II.


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Bateman Team Earns Honorable Mention in National Competition
A team of five PR Kent students earned an honorable mention in the Public Relations Student Society of America's annual Bateman case study competition.
Bateman Blue was one of 16 entrants out of 70 from across the country that earned honorable mention. This is the second time in three years and the third time since 2008 a PRKent Bateman team was recognized with an honorable mention. In 2013, a PRKent Bateman team placed second nationally.
Each year, the Bateman competition calls for PRSSA college chapter teams to research, develop, implement and evaluate a public relations campaign. This year's competition challenge called for increasing awareness and understanding of Student Veterans of America (SVA), a non-profit that supports student veterans in their transition from the military to college life.
PRSSA Kent Receives National Recognition for Betsy Day Donations
KENT, Ohio (April 18, 2016) — The Kent State University Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) celebrated the life and legacy of the First Lady of public relations, Betsy Plank, Thursday, April 7, by collecting donations for the Kent State University Women's Center.
Plank, who is known as the Godmother of PRSSA, was instrumental in the organization's formation in the late 1960s. Plank accomplished many firsts for women in the public relations industry, including being the first woman elected as president of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) in 1973. PRSSA Kent joined Chapters from across the nation in celebrating the life and legacy of Plank on Betsy Day.
"Our national organization wouldn't be where it is today without the leadership and support of Betsy Plank," said Chapter President Gabrielle Woodard. "We wanted to make sure we acknowledged her contributions to the education of public relations students in the best way we could — by contributing to our own community in her honor."
PRSSA Kent Co-Hosts "Social Movements on Social Media" Workshop
KENT, Ohio (April 15, 2016) — The Kent State University Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA Kent) co-hosted a workshop entitled "Social Movements on Social Media," with the university's Black United Students organization.
At the event, students heard from a panel of social media experts and social movement organizers. The panel discussed personal experiences with social movements, the strategies behind using social media to help these movements and spread messages, and the greater impact these movements have on generations.
"Our meeting created the opportunity to gain insight into the impact of social media on major movements such as the Black Lives Matter Movement," said Samantha Durr, the director of governmental affairs and grievances for Black United Students. "This meeting gave greater understanding from firsthand accounts of how social media has shaped the major social movements of today as well as the perceptions of those participating in the major movements."
Panelists included Kent State Associate Professor Stefanie Moore; Kent State Assistant Professor and former CIA Senior Intelligence Service Executive Stephanie Smith; community organizer Matt Vinzant; and Kent State sociology major and co-chair of the Ohio Student Association, Nyaruach Chuol. The panel was moderated by PRSSA Kent Intercampus Liaison Marcus Donaldson.


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Top of the Torrens Theatre Group—Blithe Spirit
Written by the incomparable Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit premiered in 1941 in London's West End and ran for nearly two-thousand performances. It is frequently revived and has been adapted as a film and as a musical. Done well, Coward's plays are still a delight, and to do them well requires paying close attention to many details. Top of the Torrens Theatre Group is another community group that has weathered the trials and tribulations of the ongoing COVID storm and has emerged intact, if not weather beaten to an extent. Their production of Blithe Spirit is enjoyable and a credit to them, and it had the capacity audience hanging on every word and in stitches of laughter.
Co- Directors Mo Johnson and Kristina Vonow have done just that, and their production for Top of the Torren's Theatre Group's (TOTT) easily establishes that Coward's sparkling script can still pull the laughs even eighty years after they have been written. The plot follows novelist Charles Condomine (played by Heath Gladigau) who wants to learn about the occult for a novel he is writing. He invites two friends over (Dr & Mrs Bradman, played by Tim Lane and Kathyryn Roth) to join him and Madame Arcati (Turea Blyth), a dubious spirit medium, for a séance, but Arcati inadvertently 'summons' his first wife, Elvira (Phoebe Wilson), who then with much mischief proceeds to disrupt his relationship with Ruth (Helen Lane), his second wife. Elvira still lusts after Charles and schemes for him to join her 'on the other side', but things go awry, and Charles is left unmoved, but eventually very much alone! It turns out that it wasn't Arcati who was responsible for the ectoplasmic manifestations, it was Condomine's maid Edith (Eden Lane) who turns out to be the 'real' psychic.
Johnson and Vonow's set is beautifully authentic – it looks as though a 1940's drawing room from a comfortable English countryside house has been magically transported to the Mount Pleasant Soldiers Memorial Hall where TOTT perform. From the sponge painted walls to the period furniture and stage dressings, it looks perfect. And the costumes add icing to the cake. The ladies' gowns are exquisite, as are their hairdressings (especially Rothe) and accessories. The gentlemen are resplendent in their wide lapelled dinner suits and Gladigau's smoking jacket is a nice touch.
Arcati is dressed as eccentric landed gentry with outrageous flowing garments and feathered headdresses that give Blyth much scope for exaggerated movement around the stage (and she seizes the opportunity!). The stage lighting is adequate, but nothing special, and it doesn't really need to be either. So, the production looks wonderful, and, pleasingly, the cast rise to the occasion and give credible performances.
Their diction is appropriately Middle-class English, and they mostly capture the lilt of Coward's text. Gladigau's Charles is appropriately domineering and condescending. Early in the play he establishes that Condomine is very much the rake and treats women almost as objects. To a contemporary audience such a characterisation can easily draw contempt, but Johnson and Vonow have quite rightly directed Gladigau to also be the object of mild derision. It's a nice balance. Lane imbues her Ruth with a controlled degree of haughtiness that almost makes one understand why Charles reacts to her in the way he does. Lane works her face very expressively – almost too much at times – and less on appropriate body language. Both Gladigau and Lane frequently anticipate a punch line before it is given, rather than listening closely to the dialogue and then responding to it. (Reacting too early often gives the impression of acting a role, rather than being the character.)
Blyth's Arcati was a delight: energetic, idiosyncratic, suitably OTT (pun intended!), and always controlled. Blyth creates a believable character who grabs – no, demands! – your attention every time she sweeps on stage. Her byplay with Dr Bradman was delightfully loaded with sexual innuendo. Tim Lane makes his community theatre debut in this production, and although his inexperience shows, his Dr Bradman is quite credible. He combines very well with Rothe who essentially takes the lead in their on-stage work. Rothe is quite simply wonderful as the quintessential upper middle class English lady who has more prestige and position than brain power! Wilson's costume and makeup as Elvira is a highlight.
Dressed in a shimmering fitting silver gown with pale silver body paint, bright red lips and nails, and a silver blonde wig, she looks ectoplasmic to perfection. A central conceit of the show is that when she appears on stage, she is not visible to everyone, and the costuming greatly assists creating that illusion. Wilson looks the part, and easily and fluidly embraces all corners of the stage. Credit goes to all actors on stage who 'refuse' to see her! The cast is rounded out with a gentle performance from Eden Lane (yes, another Lane – they are all from the same family!) who plays Edith with much speed as she tries to efficiently tend to her household chores.
Written By Kym Clayton.
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Phoenix police officer helps rescue family from house fire
Body-cam video shows the moments a Phoenix police officer noticed a home on fire and ran to the backyard to help the family inside.
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Body camera video shows a Phoenix police officer helping a family escape a large house fire over the weekend.
Firefighters say the incident happened Saturday near 67th Avenue and McDowell Road, on the city's west side.
Ruby Johnson-Smith said she and her family were home when the fire broke out.
"My daughter and the kids were in the backyard, they were playing, and she ran in and said, 'mom, get out, it's a fire,'" Johnson-Smith said. "I'm like, fire? I started to go to the back porch and then I saw that the fire was coming, so I just ran in my room and grabbed my purse and ran out."
A neighbor next door was then alerted to the kids who were still close to the flames.
"She kept saying that her kids were in the backyard and I thought they were by themselves," said neighbor Josie Aragon. "I'm like, 'oh my God, they need to get those kids out of there.'"
Aragon said a couple of police officers happened to see the flames from across the street.
"Thank God there was these officers coming out of these apartments across the street," Aragon said.
Body camera video from one of the officers shows him rushing toward the house, busting down a side gate, and gaining access to the backyard, where some of the family members were located. The officer and other neighbors helped the family members over the wall with the use of a ladder.
On (3/9), officers were in the area of 64th Ave & McDowell when they saw smoke coming from a house.
Officers and neighbors immediately ran to help save a woman and her 4 small children. Thank you community members for helping alongside our officers. pic.twitter.com/YJKbJg4TaS
— Phoenix Police (@PhoenixPolice) March 10, 2021
"The officer was brave," said neighbor Annette Castillo. "The fire, that's where it started right there, he still went in, broke down that fence, and saved the family."
Johnson-Smith said all things considered, she and her family are doing well and are currently staying at a motel. She credits her neighbors for helping during the fire as well as the responding officers.
"I appreciate them so much," Johnson-Smith said of the officers. "God is going to crown them for the help that they did for us."
No injuries were reported in the incident. The exact cause of the fire remains under investigation.
This story was originally published by staff at KNXV.


Bravo is revamping the format of culinary competition series Top Chef Masters for its third season set to open on April 6 at 11p. The show will feature 12 new chefs competing for the title of "Top Chef Master" and $100,000 for their charity of choice.
What is new for the third season is the chefs will no longer be judged on a scale but in elimination style challenges similar to the original Top Chef.
Chef Curtis Stone was recently announced as the new host of the series, working alongside returning judge and culinary expert, James Oseland and new series judge, food critic/author, Ruth Reichl. Several celebrity judges will also be featured during the season such as Christina Hendricks, Maroon 5 and Kelis among others.
After its premiere, Top Chef Masters will move to its regular time slot of 10p on April 13.


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A QUESTION FOR A SUNDAY MORNING
In this post, I am going to pose something akin to what legal theorists call a hypothetical. I ask you to accept, hypothetically, a set of facts, so that we may discuss a question of policy without at the same time debating the facts of the case. I am aware that from certain epistemological perspectives, this distinction is impossible to make, and we can discuss that as we go forward.
Assume, contrary to reality, that America is pretty much domestically what you would like it to be. For me, that means assuming that America is a secular democracy with a socialist economy, a very flat distribution of wealth and income, and an operative commitment to policies addressing global warming, an America in which the Yankees are permanently mired in last place [oh well, you can leave that last one out if you insist.] Your ideal America may differ from mine. If you decide to join the conversation, try to sketch your own ideal America as part of your comment so that the rest of us understand where you are coming from.
In this radically counterfactual case, what should the foreign and military policy of such an America be?
It is no great effort in the real world to criticize every aspect of America's military and foreign policy. The real America is an imperial hegemon whose military budget virtually equals that of the rest of the world and whose actions over the past sixty years have again and again supported dictators and tyrants and undermined or actively deposed and defeated progressive forces on every continent except Antarctica. Let us stipulate that, as they say in the trial courts.
But what should the policies of an ideal America be? There are two obvious polar alternative responses to this question. The first response is: America should maintain its military dominance of the world, but use its power to advance democracy and socialism rather than autocracy and capitalism. America should support the Fidel Castros and Mohammed Mosaddeghs and Daniel Ortegas of this world rather than doing its best to overthrow or kill them. America should use its wealth and power to support the Palestinian cause. And so forth and so on.
The second response is: American should withdraw all of its troops from foreign soil, should reduce its military budget to the minimum necessary to defend itself [from Canada and Mexico, presumably], and should embrace Thomas Jefferson's call for "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."
Each of these alternatives has troubling consequences that it is difficult to disentangle from the policy. A militarily dominant America will maintain an enormous military establishment whose existence will shape its domestic politics regardless of how well-intentioned its architects may be. Every time such an America projects its power abroad for some indisputably progressive cause, there will be innocent men, women, and children who are killed unintentionally. [It is not only military actions in support of dictators that produce "collateral damage."] The easy availability of those military options will have a powerfully corrupting effect on those who exercise the use of the armed forces, even though such exercise is, or is supposed to be, guided by impeccably progressive principles. But if, let us say, such an America wishes at a moment's notice to be able to impose a no-fly zone on Libya during a popular uprising against Khadafy, it will need to maintain aircraft carriers and squadrons of fighters and spy satellites and special ops forces on a permanent footing.
The alternative is to adopt a non-interventionist policy with a military only large enough to deal with genuine threats to the security of America's borders. But such an America will have to stand idly by when the forces of revolutionary progress are being pounded into the ground by tyrants. It will be unable to move swiftly and effectively to stop genocidal slaughter by religious fanatics. Such an America will not be the immediate cause of retrogressive tragedies nor will it prop up dynasts and dictators, but it will have to be content merely to watch the slave labor of children and the bondage of women abroad.
So, what should the foreign and military stance of an ideal America be? I confess that I am genuinely unsure.
An additional consideration. We will need an effective naval force to keep the sea lanes open. Current events, and their trends, in the seas off China and off Somalia underscore the importance of naval power. At the same time, submarines are probably the capital ship of the navy for this purpose.
Larry McCullough
Don Schneier said...
It seems to me that any such analysis requires a concept, perhaps a priori, of the ideal relation between an ideal Nation and an ideal World, of which the analysis would be an instantiation.
Don,that is just the question I was posing: What should our foreign policy be in an imperfect world?
Bob--I was just noting that the maxim of a nation to promote international values could entail the dissolution of nationhood, etc.
LFC said...
An interesting question.
I think an 'ideal' America on the lines you sketch should have (and probably would have) a somewhat smaller military-industrial complex than the present one; however, I don't think I'd favor going *all* the way to the isolationist (to use an admittedly loaded word) side of the spectrum.
Some ability to project U.S. military power abroad would remain desirable, for reasons the post suggests (e.g. humanitarian interventions -- not that any intervention is ever purely that, but some are largely that) and also, as the first comment said, to help ensure the sea lanes etc. are open.
But the vision of an America intervening abroad to advance the cause of "democracy and socialism rather than autocracy and capitalism" (to quote the post) is troubling and not altogether, in my view, coherent, for lack of a better word. I don't see the point of sending U.S. Marines or covert ops people to Venezuela, for ex., to support a self-proclaimed socialist like Hugo Chavez vs. his opponents. If the Venezuelans want to keep someone like him in office, ok. If not, not. I don't think a socialist U.S. (whatever exactly that would mean) should go around the world throwing its military weight behind leftist politicians or movements. A commitment to democracy implies a commitment to self-determination, which probably counsels for military non-intervention as a default position, to be departed from only in certain compelling cases.
A socialist U.S. should not undertake to do penance, so to speak, for helping to overthrow Allende or Mossadegh by actively overthrowing right-wing dictators (of whom there are a dwindling number anyway). That would be foolhardy and, I think, in the long run productive of international disorder and chaos. A socialist U.S. should probably support the same basic norms of sovereignty and nonintervention to which the current capitalist U.S. is officially -- if not always in practice (and esp. not in the past)-- committed.
Well, that's my somewhat off-the-cuff, late-night response to a question which could probably trigger a book, not just a blog comment.
P.s. Certainly the U.S.-led overthrow of the undoubted tyrant Saddam Hussein had less than happy consequences, to put it mildly. Now when a tyrant is actually killing people en masse as opposed to merely oppressing them (e.g. in Syria right now) one has a different situation. Not that I favor mil. intervention there, but the moral and political considerations are different.
LFC, your comment perfectly mirrors my own ambivalence. Perhaps the wisest course would be to slowly, steadily, reduce America's military establishment and its military footprint in the world, and see, as things unfold, what appears to be the right balance. Certainly we could go a long way in that direction before I would begin to have serious doubts.
Let me try this: The very concept of 'nation' is undergoing an historical transformation. Hitherto, generally, following its ancestor, the concept of a 'polis', a 'nation' has been conceived as a unity of a given multiplicity. But, with the rise of globalization, it is no longer a discrete organism among other organisms, but an organ among other organs, thus subordinate to the good of the organism. Accordingly, the concept of 'foreign policy' must be derived not from that of 'national interest', but from that of 'global good'. In concrete terms, this would mean the de jure subjection of the U. S., and of every other nation, to U. N. jurisdiction, which, of course, has little chance of happening any time soon. Next best, therefore, is a foreign policy that is a de facto implementation of U. N. interests.
Sorry, my "agree" was meant to be to R.P. Wolff's comment above.
LWSCHURTZ said...
Re: Don Schneier's comment -
Does it necessarily follow from the substance of 'foreign policy' being identified with 'global good' that any nation, much less any specific nation, should be subject to an international body? I'm not saying I think it shouldn't, merely asking.
Beyond that, would it follow that the body in question should be the U.N.? I think there are reasons to believe that the U.N.'s structure necessitates that it will fail to represent anything but the interests of the security council members, as opposed to the interests of the membership as a whole.
LWSCHURTZ--I was just trying to make the formal point that a commitment to universalist values entails a reformulation of the concept of 'nation', from unity of some localized multiplicity, to subdivision of the global whole. The concepts of 'foreign' and, hence, of 'foreign policy', would undergo similar reformulations, for any 'nation'. Since, the current de facto closest approximation to a universal polity is the U. N., yes, a current concrete foreign policy committed to global values would be derived from U. N. principles.
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It's been about 50 million years since the Indian tectonic plate began colliding with Asia, and the Tien Shan mountain range in Western China is still shaking. The region compresses horizontally at a rate of about a quarter-inch per year, pushing the mountains ever higher and resulting in frequent magnitude-6 and -7 earthquakes. In 2006, Caltech's Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS) dispatched a 21-person team, mostly students, to a barren region near Urumqui to figure out how faults in the foothills increased their seismic activity.
Students of other scientific disciplines are usually stuck crunching data in a lab somewhere, but for about 20 majors in the Caltech GPS, life is much more adventurous. Last fall, students went to southern Peru to follow a line of 100 seismometers placed along the Nazca plate, which intersects the South America plate at the western edge of the continent and unleashes huge earthquakes, like the 8.8 monster that struck Chile last year.
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Then Scalia died and the CTA won by default on a 4-4 tie among the remaining justices, dealing a big setback to the conservative "right-to-work" organizations that had backed the suit.
The issue remained alive, however, because the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate refused to take up President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to fill the Scalia vacancy. The seat is still vacant with Republican Donald Trump poised to succeed Obama.
Trump will name someone to the court, probably very early in his presidency, and while the Friedrichs case has been set aside, the organizations that backed it have another waiting in the wings when the seat is filled.
The case originally pitted Bruce Rauner, the Republican governor of Illinois, against AFSCME, the nation's largest public employee union. Illinois requires non-members to pay fees to unions, and Rauner set the money aside in an escrow account while he sued to overturn the law.
However, the suit was thrown out because it was deemed that Rauner lacked standing, so it was taken up by a couple of public employees, and is now known as Janus vs. AFSCME.
The plaintiffs fast-tracked the revised case through lower courts by virtually inviting them to dismiss it, before petitioning the Supreme Court for review.
The Janus case was put on hold until the Friedrichs case was resolved, and with it out of the way, now occupies the center stage with virtually identical legal issues.
The question, of course, is whether the Janus case would have the same slam-dunk outcome that Friedrichs would have had with Scalia casting a vote.
The answer depends on not only whom Trump nominates but how effective Democratic senators would be in either blocking his nominee or forcing him to select someone they could stomach.
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However, Schumer's play may depend on whether Republicans are willing to use the so-called "nuclear option" and set aside the 60-vote rule that has generally governed confirmations, but that Schumer's predecessor, Harry Reid, had already eroded.
All of this means that the CTA and California's other big public employee unions will be monitoring the situation closely and doing whatever they can to support Schumer.
As with the Friedrichs case, the unions' almost total political power in California is at stake.
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Q: emacs: Finding a substring in a string using (string-match) Why does the code produce the same result?
(setq line "@c *##**@w{@ref{ФайлыКаталоги,, ФайлыКаталоги}}**##*")
(string-match "*##**" line) ;(eval-last-sexp) => 3
(string-match "**##*" line) ;(eval-last-sexp) => 3

A: In addition to what you found, note that the first asterisk (*) in each of your regexps is not a special regexp char.  So you need not escape it, to match an asterisk literally. The Elisp manual, node Regexp Special, says this:

Please note: For historical compatibility, special characters are
  treated as ordinary ones if they are in contexts where their special
  meanings make no sense.
For example, *foo treats * as ordinary
  since there is no preceding expression on which the * can act.  It is
  poor practice to depend on this behavior; quote the special character
  anyway, regardless of where it appears.

So yes, it's fine to escape it, but be aware that that first * would never act specially, even if you didn't escape it. To act specially, * has to follow something.

A: The solution was to use asterisk shielding
(setq line "@c *##**@w{@ref{ФайлыКаталоги,, ФайлыКаталоги}}**##*")
(string-match "\\*##\\*\\*" line) ;(eval-last-sexp) => 3
(string-match "\\*\\*##\\*" line) ;(eval-last-sexp) => 47

and you can do as advised Drew
(setq line "@c *##**@w{@ref{ФайлыКаталоги,, ФайлыКаталоги}}**##*")
(string-match "*##\\*\\*" line) ;(eval-last-sexp) => 3
(string-match "*\\*##\\*" line) ;(eval-last-sexp) => 47

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The wraith is a monster in Doom 3 and its expansion packs. Wraiths are limited to melee attacks with their falx-like arms, and run forward to attack the player. They possess the ability to teleport, disappearing for a few seconds before reappearing several feet ahead of their previous position. The wraith can be easily mistaken for an imp while it is being summoned. Unlike an imp, wraiths are hunched over and present a lower target profile. Furthermore, wraiths have only two eyes and a set of mandible-like jaws, and anatomically resemble a bat more than a human. The wraith first appears in the EnPro Facility.
Like imps and maggots, wraiths are mid-level humanoid-type demons who are individually relatively easy to dispatch, but who can attack in groups of up to several in the same area. Wraiths cannot be killed while teleporting. However, it takes them about a second to disappear or reappear, during which they cannot attack and are vulnerable to being damaged or killed.
It is a good idea to throw a grenade their way. Another good tactic is to wait for them to get close and eliminate them with the chainsaw or the shotgun. In addition, they can be easily eliminated with the machine gun or plasma gun from medium range.
Wraiths are extremely vulnerable to being chainsawed during their second-long appearing or disappearing animations.
According to the Making of Doom 3 book, id Software wanted the wraith to form out of a cloud of insects, to hide in bodies and such, but this concept was scrapped since the player would not be able to tell what the cloud was in the game's dark environments.
The wraith's teleportation ability is not exactly teleportation. For one, it is not instantaneous. Also, when they teleport through doors, the doors will respond to their presence and open up. Furthermore, their footsteps can still be heard after they disappear. This suggests that wraiths do not actually teleport, but rather "phase" into a state of existence where they cannot be seen or attacked.
Although wraiths don't appear on most levels, they're still a quite common enemy.
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Esquify, winner of the U.S. arm of the Global Legaltech Venture Days, bets on putting humans, not technology, at the center of its e-discovery management engine. Drew Stern, CEO and Founder of Esquify, explained: "Our platform approach to team management takes analytics and project management to the next level, creating an accountability loop that drives both reviewer and manager success. Further, we help our clients tap into the 'big data' opportunity in eDiscovery by becoming a centralized repository for their review data, which usually isn't saved at all today, whereby they can analyze past performance to create predictability on future matters".
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