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Global warming bushfire disaster in Australia
Posted on December 23, 2019 by petrel41
This 22 December 2019 video says about itself:
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has slammed "political inaction" in relation to climate change, writing it has contributed to Australia's bushfire "catastrophes".
By James Cogan in Australia:
Australian fires bring growing global climate crisis into stark relief
Fires claimed more lives and property across Australia over the weekend, while once again blanketing cities such as Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in dense clouds of smoke. More than 200 major fires are still burning out-of-control and, with extreme heat and no significant rainfall predicted in much of the country, the situation is expected to worsen over the coming weeks and months.
Towns and hamlets in the Adelaide Hills suffered some of the greatest devastation, as fire tore through farms and vineyards. South Australian Premier Steven Marshall reported that at least 86 homes were destroyed, along with hundreds of outbuildings and vehicles. Ron Selth, 69-years-old, was killed while he attempted to defend his home from the flames in the small township of Charleston. Firefighters and residents were injured trying to protect property.
In New South Wales (NSW), an extensive area of forest is burning in the mountain ranges, in what are now the largest fires in the state's history. Since September, some 2.7 million hectares have gone up in flame. The 70,000-strong volunteer Rural Fire Service (RFS) has been stretched to breaking point mobilising the personnel to fight fire fronts that are more than 11,000 kilometres in length.
On Saturday, naval helicopters had to be called in to rescue people threatened by fire into the coastal communities of Fisherman's Paradise and Sassafras to the south of Sydney. On Thursday night, two volunteer firefighters from Sydney were killed and three injured in a vehicle accident while fighting the fires in the nearby town of Buxton.
More than 60 fires are burning in south-east Queensland. In Victoria, huge fires are raging in forests in Gippsland, to the east of Melbourne. In Western Australia, an out-of-control bushfire north of Perth had burnt more than 11,000 hectares with residents on Saturday being urged to leave while they still could.
Nationally, some 1,000 homes have been destroyed so far in the 2019–2020 fire season, with the traditionally worst period in January and February still to come. Thousands of unpaid volunteer firefighters have suffered major financial losses due to being repeatedly asked to take time off from their employment. Dozens have been injured.
The extensive fires in Australia follow the blazes that have engulfed large areas of California, Siberia, Borneo and the Amazon. In Siberia alone, Greenpeace estimates that some 12 million hectares have been burnt out this year. The unprecedented character of fires in country after country highlights the growing danger to humanity of global climate change.
The fire emergency brings into stark relief the lack of conscious planning and preparation, at both the national and state level, for the impact of climate change. Capitalist governments around the world, to protect corporate profit and the fortunes of the wealthy, have blocked any serious reductions in carbon emissions and left their populations to face the consequences.
The Climate Council report, The Facts about Bushfires and Climate Change published in November 2019, stated: "[F]or well over 20 years, scientists have warned that climate change would increase the risk of extreme bushfires in Australia. This warning was accurate. Scientists expect extreme fire weather will continue to become more frequent and severe without substantial and rapid action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
Firefighters have drawn similar conclusions in line with the science. The former chief of NSW Fire and Rescue Greg Mullins told the Guardian: "Just a 1 Celsius temperature rise has meant the extremes are far more extreme, and it is placing lives at risk, including firefighters. Climate change has supercharged the bushfire problem."
Highlighting the degree to which the continent is drying, tropical rainforest in northern NSW and Queensland, where fires historically did not take hold, have gone up in flames this year.
Craig Lapsley, the former emergency management commissioner in Victoria, told the media on December 17: "We've got fires in multiple states now and potentially we'll have fires in all states and territories in the end of December, January and February, which is a first for Australia. That is a turning point. That's telling us it is different."
The lack of preparation for this "new normal" is graphically shown in the reliance on volunteer firefighting services with insufficient funding and equipment. While tens of billions of dollars have been spent equipping the Australian military with everything from mini-aircraft carriers, to F-35 jet fighters and new combat vehicles, no serious investment has taken place to equip firefighting services with state-of-the-art aircraft, helicopters and trucks and staff them with well-paid, highly-trained professionals.
Several former heads of the emergency services spoke on their concerns in a feature published in the December 21 edition of the Saturday Paper.
Naomi Brown, previously chief executive of the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council, told the paper: "The way we're dealing with fires now has been terrific, it has worked for many years. It is now unsustainable. The need for volunteers 24 hours a day, months on end, is going to make life very, very difficult. There is no doubt we need a national look at this. We need a serious plan."
Greg Mullins noted: "One of the problems for resourcing firefighters at the moment is that we lease large aircraft from the USA. Other countries are after them, like Chile. We have to get in early to get enough of them."
Traditionally, both aerial and ground firefighting resources have been able to be shifted from state to state, and even from country to country. Australian firefighting crews often deploy to the US, for example, and vice versa. Under conditions in which major blazes are taking place simultaneously, this is increasingly not possible. The fire season began this year in Australia in September, when California was ablaze.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a climate change sceptic,
Don't call climate denialists 'sceptic'. Scepticism about everything is a healthy attitude. Denying the Holocaust, or denying climate change, is just lying. So, the words 'Holocaust sceptic' or 'climate sceptic' should not be used.
is currently the target of much of the anger over the decades of political indifference to the development of more extreme fire dangers.
On December 10, he dismissed the prospect of paying volunteer firefighters on the grounds that "they want to be out there defending their communities." Two days later, he rejected the 2020 Climate Change Performance Index that ranked the Australian government's efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions as the worst-performing internationally.
"What we cannot say, what no one can say, is those programs (to reduce greenhouse gasses), of themselves, are in any way directly linked to any fire event", Morrison declared.
In reality, south-east Australia has become progressively drier since the 1990s, with a 15 percent decline in late autumn and early winter rainfall and a 25 percent decline in average rainfall in April and May. Average temperatures have increased across the country, and lead to more frequent extreme fire conditions.
December 17, 2019, experienced the hottest ever recorded national average temperature of 41.9 degrees Celsius (107.4 degrees Fahrenheit). The previous recorded high was 40.9C on December 16, which exceeded the 40.3C registered in January 2013.
Morrison only stoked public outrage by secretly going on Christmas holidays in Hawaii as much of the country burned and the major cities were choked in toxic smoke. In the face of a storm of criticism, he went into damage control, issuing a public apology on Friday and returning to Australia to meet with the families of the two firefighters who lost their lives.
Morrison's attitude is simply a graphic example of the contempt and indifference of governments, not only in Australia, to the impact of climate change on the lives of millions of people. Under capitalism, corporate profits and the competing national interests of rival ruling classes block any rationale plan to address this global disaster.
The necessary political changes depend upon the working class taking matters into its own hands. Society on a world scale must be completely reorganised on the basis of socialist planning, to achieve massive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to counter for the myriad consequences of global warming.
AUSTRALIAN PM DOUBLES DOWN ON CLIMATE POLICY Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison doubled down on his government's climate policy Monday in the wake of a record-breaking heat wave and a devastating weekend of wildfires. Rejecting pleas to downsize the nation's massive coal industry, Morrison also attempted to stem criticism for his decision to take a holiday in Hawaii as wildfires raged in Australia. [HuffPost]
This 17 December 2019 video from Australia says about itself:
Wildfires Cause Sydney to Declare Health Emergency
The smoke blanketing Sydney is a "public health emergency," according to a coalition of Australian doctors and researchers who say climate change has helped fuel the wildfires that have produced unprecedented haze. Air quality is poor and people with breathing problems are being told to stay indoors.
By John Mackay in Australia:
Australia: Toxic air from bushfires rated a "public health emergency"
A statement authored by 22 health and medical organisations has labelled the levels of air pollution caused by bushfires in the states of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland in recent weeks, a "public health emergency". The bushfire smoke in Australia in the eastern region has reached record levels of polluted air in bushfire affected areas and neighbouring towns and cities.
The statement declared: "Governments have a responsibility to protect the people they represent." The health bodies are among the leading independent agencies in Australia for respiratory health, including the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, the Australian Lung Foundation and the Australian College for Emergency Medicine.
The group called on the federal and state governments to prioritise action to reduce health risks from bushfire smoke. "We call on Prime Minister Scott Morrison and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to demonstrate the leadership this public health emergency demands and to implement measures to help alleviate the health and climate crisis," it stated.
In addition, a group known as Doctors for the Environment have also described the very high levels of pollution as an "unprecedented public health threat." On December 10, the Sydney air quality index, a measure of air pollution, was 11 times higher than that considered "hazardous." This resulted in 234 presentations to emergency departments with asthma and breathing problems, almost double the average number of 130.
It is the fifth week that paramedics and emergency departments have had an increase in the numbers of patients with respiratory problems. In one week alone, between December 5 and 11 there was a more than 30 percent increase in presentations to emergency departments for asthma and breathing difficulties and 40 percent increase in calls to NSW Ambulance for the same conditions.
Dr Richard Yin of Doctors for the Environment said that his group had significant concerns that exposure of these high levels of pollutions may have longer-term medical effects in the millions of people exposed.
Poor air quality has long been recognised in numerous population studies to be detrimental to human health and to lead to premature deaths. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognises an estimated 4.2 million premature deaths globally are linked to ambient air pollution. It is the fine particulate matter in polluted air—extremely small particles micrometres in diameter— that are known to be associated with the negative impacts of air pollution. During a bushfire, these particles can reach very high concentrations in the ambient air.
The particulate matter can penetrate the lungs and smaller particles can penetrate the bloodstream, which can have detrimental impact on both lungs and the cardiovascular circulation. The smallest measured particles are known as PM2.5s, representing particles 2.5 micrometers in size or about 3 percent of the diameter of a human hair.
In one of the most comprehensive worldwide epidemiological studies known as the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, data from 2017, published last year in the Lancet medical journal, demonstrated that long term exposure to PM2.5 was considered to be a leading risk of global disease burden. The study, which examined trends from 1990 to the present, demonstrated exposure to these particles increased risks of lower respiratory infections, ischemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and diabetes mellitus.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported earlier this month that in the Greater Sydney area over the past five years, the Air Quality Index (AQI) that measures PM2.5s recorded only five events where the maximum measured on a given day was an AQI of 100, indicating poor air quality. In November and December this year there have already been 80 days reaching this level, with one-quarter of these days reaching an AQI above 200.
On the worst day of this period to date in Sydney, the AQI reached 669 which is the equivalent to smoking 30 cigarettes a day.
Professor Mark Taylor from Macquarie University, who researches environmental pollution and risks to human health, told the Sydney Morning Herald that bushfire smoke has complex chemistry, which can be carcinogenic even at low concentrations. "Exposure to particles has a cumulative effect over a lifetime and even if the impact of short-term exposure is minuscule, multiple exposures to high levels of pollutants will have an effect," he said.
Australasian College for Emergency Medicine president Dr John Bonning said that the heat waves associated with bushfires are also a serious threat to health. "Heatwaves can also lead to increased presentations for conditions such as heat stroke, cardiac events and mental health issues," he said. "This disproportionately affects some of our most vulnerable patients, including the elderly and children. It is also an equity issue, as people without insulated homes, or who are unable to afford air conditioning, are at increased risk."
Senior fellow at the Centre for Air Pollution, Energy and Health Research at the University of NSW, Dr Christine Cowie, told the ABC that breathing in high amounts of fine particles could affect physical development. "It is uncertain how medium-term exposure to these sporadic bushfire pollutions events impact on long-term health," she said. "However, we do know that current evidence indicates there is no safe lower threshold of exposure to [particulate matter] pollution."
Dr Cowie also said there was concern about the most vulnerable members of the community. "Certainly, people who are repeatedly exposed to high levels [of air pollutants] and if they're children for instance or elderly, it's likely to impact on their lung function."
While studies were underway, there is limited research into what this exposure can do on a large population in a major city. "No one can say definitively what happens after a two-month exposure to those high levels, other than if you're susceptible, you're likely to have increased respiratory problems," she said.
Professor Francesca Dominici of Harvard University in the US is the senior author of a study which revealed that short term exposure to fine particles in pollution can impact a wider range of medical conditions beyond lung and cardiovascular disease.
Dominici told the ABC Health report: "Even though we don't know yet all of the clinical pathways that could have led to this disease [lung disease], we do know that inhalation of fine particulate matter penetrates deep into the lung and initiates a series of inflammations that could simultaneously affect multiple organs."
The study's authors say the comprehensive analysis provides timely evidence for the upcoming revision of the WHO air quality guidelines.
This latest evidence is among a large body of data that demonstrates air pollution is significantly detrimental to human health.
The catastrophic bushfires have been burning since August from one side of Australia to the other, some four months earlier than the normal fire season. They have killed eight people, destroyed more than 700 homes and burned through more than two million hectares of land.
The fires have exposed the criminal negligence of governments, state and federal, Coalition and Labor alike. These governments have for decades presided over budget cuts to firefighting services which now almost entirely relies on volunteers and have watched as entire towns in remote and rural areas run out of water making it increasingly impossible not just to fight the fires but to inhabit the towns at all. Like governments around the world, none of those in Australia has seriously addressed climate change that is exacerbating the prevalence of fires.
These same governments have ignored the warnings of the health and medical professions and the increasingly strident concerns of firefighters.
Currently, emergency departments struggle to keep up with existing demand and are poorly equipped to handle dramatically rising numbers of patients impacted by the negative health effects of bush fires, let alone the long term consequences of poor air quality.
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Jean Fouquet seems to be using a lot of royal blues and red, which makes his paintings looks neat. My personal favourite piece by him is Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels. I love the way he used bright colours for the background and the clothes which makes the skin tones of the virgin and the child look extremely pale. I also like the story behind it – the woman in the painting is King Charles VII's mistress Agnès Sorel, who was the first officially recognized royal mistress.
Jean Fouquet worked for the French court, including Charles VII, the treasurer Étienne Chevalier, and the chancellor Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins. Near the end of his career, he became court painter to Louis XI.
His self-portrait miniature would be the earliest sole self-portrait surviving in Western art, if the 1433 portrait by Jan van Eyck—usually called Portrait of a Man or Portrait of a Man in a Turban—is not in fact a self-portrait, as some art historians believe.


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The goals of the Port of Barcelona's Fourth Strategic Plan are to increase the value of goods, reduce emissions and increase the number of workers
The Port of Barcelona places society and people at the very heart of its Fourth Strategic Plan for 2021-2025, aiming as its first mission to generate well-being and prosperity for citizens, reaffirming its social and sustainable commitment. Topping €70 billion in foreign trade value; electrifying 50% of container and ro-ro wharves; and reaching a total of 40,000 workers are just some of the milestones set out in the Plan.
The second edition of 'Smart Ports: Piers of the Future' reinvents itself and exceeds all expectations via the Smart Ports TV platform
'Smart Ports: Piers of the Future' brought together seven of the world's most innovative ports to share initiatives in innovation, digitalisation and sustainability. On the 17th and 18th of November 12 projects were presented and 7 sessions were held to discuss the importance of port-city relations, digital transformation and the use of new technologies to discern the future horizon of the port and maritime sector.
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See the 4/24/14 NY Times Article here.
This NY Times article by Jane Brody explains the prominent causes of hearing loss and how hearing works.
Hearing loss linked to dementia? Another compelling reason to address hearing loss.
New York Times reports on study showing cognitive deficits tied to hearing loss.
New study suggests that resveratrol found in red grapes and red wine—shows promise to protect hearing.
A hearing loop is a wire connected to a microphone into which an Amtrak agent speaks that then transmits the sound electromagnetically. Passengers with hearing loss, and who use telecoil-equipped hearing aids or cochlear implants, can access that sound to better hear Amtrak personnel. The telecoil functions as a wireless antenna that links to the microphone and delivers customized sound to the listener while eliminating background noise. No receivers are required.
And why should you do this? Well, on the practical side, you will leave the seminar or conference with a better understanding of how modern hearing technology can connect you to anything –your TV, your car, your phone, or your beloved. You'll learn neat communication strategies to use at work or in social situations. And you will discover that PWHL are not a homogeneous group of needy people; we're really just members of the general population with technical issues and a habit of saying 'what' a lot.
Since that first CHHA conference, I've attended events around the continent, frequently as an invited speaker. I've met what seems like thousands of people, inspirational, provocative, compassionate and interesting people, who help each other along the road to becoming knowledgeable PWHL. Some have become close friends, and I look forward to seeing them each year at the one event where I can truly relax, knowing that my communication needs will be both understand and met.
Study leader Frank Lin, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor with dual appointments in both the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology at the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health, explains that several previous estimates of hearing loss focused on various cities or populations, such as children or elderly patients. However, no estimate successfully encompassed the entire United States.
"I couldn't find a simple number of how common hearing loss is in the U.S.," Lin says, "so we decided to develop our own."
Lin and his colleagues used data from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Surveys (NHANES), a research program that has periodically gathered health data from thousands of Americans since 1971. The researchers analyzed data from all participants age 12 and over whose hearing was tested during NHANES examinations from 2001 to 2008. Unlike previous estimates, NHANES includes men and women of all races and ages, from cities scattered across the country, so it's thought to statistically mimic the population of the United States.
Using the World Health Organization's definition for hearing loss (not being able to hear sounds of 25 decibels or less in the speech frequencies), the researchers found that overall, about 30 million Americans, or 12.7 percent of the population, had hearing loss in both ears.
That number jumps to about 48 million, or 20.3 percent, for people who have hearing loss in at least one ear. These numbers far surpass previous estimates of 21 million to 29 million.
Hearing loss prevalence nearly doubled with every age decade, with women and blacks being significantly less likely to have hearing loss at any age. Lin and his colleagues aren't sure why these groups appear to be protected. However, he notes that the female hormone estrogen, as well as the melanin pigment in darker skin, could have a protective effect on the inner eartopics they plan to research in future studies.
"This gives us the real scope of the problem for the first time and shows us how big of a problem hearing loss really is," Lin says.
By Tuesday, October 25, NYTimes reported it was their most e-mailed story. Their website had posted more than 125 comments from all over the country responding to the article.
We are pleased to offer a new benefit to HLAA members. HLAA has contracted with American Hearing Benefits (AHB) to offer significant discounts on various hearing aids and styles. For a complete description of this new program, visit the Member Benefits page on our website. You will also see what's included with an HLAA membership.
If you're a member of the Hearing Loss Association of America, you are part of a national organization that works on behalf of the 36 million people with hearing loss. Hearing loss is a public health issue and HLAA advocates to keep it in the forefront of those making laws and setting health care policies.
If you are not a member, please considering joining or referring HLAA to friends and family who may need information and support.
1. Realize that large social groups, especially around a large dining room table, are one of the most difficult environments for a person with a hearing loss.
• Find a favorite friend or relative, and move the conversation into a quiet room, or a quieter corner. Or play a game or read a story to a child, if that's an option.
• Help out in the kitchen where there are usually less people gathered. And if you help with some preparations, you'll be doing something besides trying to hear.
• If you have a "better side," seat yourself so that most people are on that side.
you in on what the conversation is about, or the punch lines you'll miss.
difficult to see people's faces.
• Ask your host to turn off any background music during dinner. And if a football game is blaring from a TV, turn it off or if that's not an option, set it on mute.
the people on either side of you.
it will be easier to follow.
to be repeated so you can get it too.
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table with all the conversations and jokes you're having trouble following.
away. Or just keep everyone company.
everyone, and you still want to feel useful.
Some people's lipreading skills tend to get worse when they drink. Some people's lip-reading skills tend to get better when they drink because they're more relaxed.
And, of course, there are pros and cons of drinking that impact on mood.
so responsibly and never drink and drive.
microphones that can help you hear in noisy environments. These can work either in conjunction with your hearing aid or cochlear implant, or directly into your ears. They have been particularly helpful for older relatives who are left out of the loop in large family gatherings. If you need more information about these devices, please ask us!
Arlene Romoff is the author of the book Hear Again: Back to Life with a Cochlear Implant (League for the Hard of Hearing Publications, NYC) and president of the HLA-New Jersey State Association. This November she was honored by Theatre Resources Unlimited for her work in getting open captioning for live theater performances. She lives in Saddle River, New Jersey, with her husband Ira.


A callous, carefree and impatient girl turns into a responsible, caring woman, filled with unending love and stoicism as soon as she realizes there is a baby in her womb. Like any other mom I felt the same. Oozing with love and bearing several dreams in my eyes of upbringing my little angel, my world was complete when the pregnancy test came positive. I shared the news with my better half in a special way. I dreamt of everything until the God's gift -- my child -- was in my arms. Well, when actually I started rearing the child, I realized motherhood was full of challenges and is the toughest job. I declared openly that being a journalist, was much easier than being a mother, but I must add, that it is also the most satisfying one. However, I was a bit shattered when I came to know that my baby has a cleft palate and can't breastfeed.
Here, I will like to share with all mothers that one doesn't need to panic if your child has "cleft palate" or "cleft lip". It's just an incomplete lip or palate which can easily be corrected with a surgery, once the infant is a year old. Your child is normal if he or she has a cleft palate and you need to give him a normal upbringing, with just some extra care.
Few signs of a cleft palate, in an infant are that he is unable to take breast feed owing to the missing palate and when one feeds the infant with a bottle or spoon, the milk might ooze out of his or her nose. For months, I expressed my milk in a feeding bottle. Doing each and everything was a pleasure always though my body would get tired. I used to express milk every two hours diligently as every mother wants the best for his or her child. The feed used to be insufficient for him so I used to feed him formula milk.
The cleft palate surgery can be carried out on an infant, once he weighs close to nine to ten kilograms and has a haemoglobin of 10. So, I was very cautious of my child's diet. I had started feeding him bananas once he was six months old. Besides banana shake, I gradually included rice, khichdi, fruit puree like strawberry, papaya etc. I never treated him like a special child with some major ailment. Regular outings, going to the park were a part of his schedule. I was never worried that he would catch infection. In case, he suffered a minor cough or cold I used to administer steam twice a day, which helped cure congestion too. As months passed, from changing diaper to feeding, he turned one and was all set for an operation that would complete his palate.
As soon as he turned one, I celebrated his birthday with great excitement. I had planned everything much in advance. He had a great time on his birthday as he danced a lot on his knees. He was yet to begin walking properly but he enjoyed his birthday and so did everyone else. Ten days after his birthday, he was operated in PGIMER in Chandigarh and it was a successful surgery. The surgery is done free of cost under the Smile Train Project run by an international NGO and is available at every reputed government hospital. It was a three hour long procedure. Those three hours were the toughest hours of my life. I was impatient. I was peeping in the operation room time and again. I had never been away from him for so long. It is a major surgery and the child is put on ventilator and mouth is kept open for a while to close the palate through plastic surgery.
My son was kept on a liquid diet for 15 days to one month after the surgery, which was again very challenging for both of us. My little baby didn't get off my lap for two days after the surgery, so I had to be very calm and patient. After each feed, he had to be given water to clean the mouth so that the freshly operated palate doesn't get infected. He protested from taking water but it had to be administered forcibly. I was extra cautious about hygiene to eliminate any chances of infection.
Meanwhile, the real rewards of motherhood kept pouring in whenever he called me "Maa", snuggled inside me for warmth. I love being a mommy as it is the most satisfying job.
1) Be very patient with the infant as he or she might get very cranky at times.
2) Keep a close eye on the child's diet so that the haemoglobin and weight remains normal to prep him for the forthcoming surgery.
3) After the surgery, get speech therapy for the child, which includes practices like blowing the candle or whistling so that his speech becomes clear.
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1) Don't treat the child as if he has some major problem; give him or her a normal healthy environment for which first you have believe that it's not a big problem.
I was a journalist and has worked with leading English dailies like The Indian Express, The Tribune and a B2B magazine The Franchising World. I had quit my career for my child and enjoy writing. My son Aarvish Mahajan will be turning two in August 2015. After the surgery he is back to normal and has become very talkative and can repeat almost every word he is introduced to.
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Live Review: Rock im Park - Nuremberg 2019 (Day 2)
Written by Christian Beyermann
Rock im Park
Zeppelinfeld Nuremberg
Zeppelinfeld, Nuremberg, Germany
Rock im Park Day 2 with reviews of Godsmack, Tenacious D and Slipknot
After day 1 ended with a rainy mess, the start of day 2 was a rather friendly one with clouds and sunny spells, although the temperatures had dropped a bit to 20 degrees Celsius max.
The second day began with Boston's finest in hard rock: GODSMACK. The legendary quartet who started out as a band in 1995 came out firing when they kicked off their set in the afternoon with the first single 'When Legends Rise' of their current album with the same title. Sound wise, their gig was much more compelling than four years ago, as the vocals and instruments were balanced nicely, but with enough punch to deliver the neck-breaking power of the song writing. GODSMACK upped the ante when in the middle of the set, a second drum set was brought in, and front man/ guitarist Sully Erna showed his true colours.
He took his place behind the second drum set and together with drummer Shannon Larkin delivered a drum solo which lasted several minutes and contained teasers to AC/DC's 'Back in Black', and METALLICA's 'Enter Sandman', all while the two drum sets were turning (horizontally) on the stage. The 45 minute-set flew by extremely quickly, and GODSMACK certainly made new fans that afternoon. // https://www.facebook.com/Godsmack/ or www.godsmack.com // Setlist: 01. When Legends Rise / 02. Say My Name / 03. Cryin' like a Bitch / 04. Awake / 05. Drum Solo / 06. Whatever / 07. Bulletproof / 08. I Stand Alone.
Occupying the slot before SLIPKNOT on a festival is among the toughest spots you can have. The only act trusted to be able to pull this off was the band with the two actors turned musicians Jack Black and Kyle Gass. Those who have been to the Rock am Ring / Rock im Park festival in 2016 already knew what was coming at them: 75 minutes filled with absurd 'Rock comedy', which was more reminiscent of a theatre show than a rock concert. For sure, the duo and their tour musicians demonstrated that they were insanely talented. But obviously TENACIOUS D are also one of the most polarizing bands, as you have to be on board with their humour in order to like them, or you simply don't. Turns out the latter faction seems to be growing, as during the concert I could not help but notice lots of people in the front of stage areas staring at their phones or trying to have a conversation by screaming into each other's ears.
So, despite the rather interesting choice of instruments (e.g. flutes and plastic saxophones), this was not among the most inspiring gigs of the festival. At least most people followed Jack's advice at the end, who jokingly pleaded with fans to - now that the real headliner had played - not to leave, as there was another band named SLIPKNOT coming up. // https://www.facebook.com/tenacious/ or www.tenaciousd.com // Setlist: 01. Apocalypto Intro / 02. JB JR Rap / 03. Women Time / 04. Save the World / 05. Apocalypto Outro / 06. Rize of the Fenix / 07. Low Hangin' Fruit / 08. Saxaboom / 09. Roadie / 10. Kickapoo / 11. Beelzeboss / 12. The Metal / 13. Dude (I totally Miss You) / 14. Kielbasa / 15. Tribute / 16. Wonderboy / 17. Double Team / 18. Fuck Her Gently.
Day 2 offered certainly the most anticipated gig for the harder faction of the festival crowd, as SLIPKNOT had not performed live for more than 2.5 years. The band's arrival was announced by an intro of torturous lunatic asylum sounds. Then the huge black banner bearing the band's logo was ripped into pieces with the largest part being sucked into the stage roof for a change, and the band opened their set with 'People = Shit', alleviating all fears that SLIPKNOT might want to turn to electronic dance music or something like that. Also the next two songs with '(Sic)' and 'Get This' stemmed from the band's earlier works and unfolded such an acoustic and visual impact, which left the uninitiated spectators in a state of shock and awe, while serving as the equivalent of gasoline being poured onto a fire inside the pits.
Then it was time for the band's new single 'Unsainted', which was celebrated by the audience with equal furore and served as an appetizer for the long expected new album 'We are not your kind', which will be released in August this year. But also tracks from their current album '.5: THE GRAY CHAPTER' (2014) made it onto the setlist. Songs like 'Devil in I', 'The Negative One', or the brutal 'Custer', provided more food for the mayhem in front of the stage. Front man Corey Taylor with his new (much more amusing than scary) mask was on his best behaviour and roamed the multi-level stage like the congenial madman he is. Another highlight of the setlist was the new (standalone) single 'All Out Life', for which the stage literally went up in flames. The only slightly annoying thing about the SLIPKNOT gig were the occasional longer song breaks, which made you wonder if the show was already over, which acted as a slight mood-killer.
I just hope that these are no sign for any problems of Corey Taylor's voice wearing out and needing time to recover. But aside from that it was a devastatingly intensive show of one of the greatest metal bands on this planet, and I bet it was THE headliner show of the weekend for a large chunk of the 72,500 people present. // https://www.facebook.com/slipknot/ or www.slipknot1.com // Setlist: 01. People = Shit / 02. (Sic) / 03. Get This / 04. Unsainted / 05. Disasterpiece / 06. Before I forget / 07. The Heretic Anthem / 08. Psychosocial / 09. Devil In I / 10. Prosthetics / 11. Vermillion / 12. Custer / 13. Sulfur / 14. The Negative One / 15. All Out Life / 16. Duality / 17. Spit It Out / 18. Surfacing
Saturdays has been a blast in the Park. The weather was perfect, and also the sanitary situation improved gradually with hundreds of portable toilets having been brought in to the festival grounds from all over Germany.
All pictures by Elena Arens from Rock am Ring
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Veteran Educator Wins Baby Abuelita National Song Contest
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MIAMI, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Maria de la Luz Huizar sits in the library waiting for the start of her monthly faculty meeting at Lamar Elementary School in San Antonio, Texas; unknowingly she will be surprised by family members, dear friends and the Grand Prize in the Baby Abuelita national contest, Sing Abuelita Sing.
As she thanks everyone, overjoyed family members and teachers chant "sing, sing, sing," and Maria and her brother fill the library with a romantic Spanish ballad. As tears fill the eyes of onlookers, it becomes apparent that this teacher beats to a different drum, bringing an appreciation for music to the lives that she has touched and inspiring creativity.
"It was very hard to keep everything a surprise," said Principal Janet Mansmann. "Maria brings music into the lives of her students every day, and her ability to teach children has resonated in the hearts of many for the past 35 years."
Maria submitted her recording of "La Estrellita" to the Baby Abuelita Sing Abuelita Sing national contest, never assuming she would be picked. "My mother has never been one to bring attention to herself, and her entire life has been dedicated to the ones she loves and the people in her life," said Maria's daughter, Mireya Huizar. "I never thought my entry would be accepted. I said, 'well, I'm going to send it in and see what happens,'" said Maria. "Music is a part of my life, and I am very proud to be able to share my love for music with my students." In addition to sharing music with students for 35 years, Maria sings in her church choir, where her son-in-law is the choir maestro.
In an effort to preserve the Hispanic Heritage, Baby Abuelita hosted a national contest seeking the best recorded cancion de cuna and the spitting image of the Baby Abuelita characters. Entries were submitted in digital and hard-copy format from across the U.S. Baby Abuelita awarded Maria the Grand Prize, consisting of the family of five Baby Abuelita dolls, the Baby Abuelita Family Fiesta DVD, two Baby Abuelita Sing-Along books, a certificate for the purchase of Baby Abuelita slippers, as well as a camcorder and tripod to capture and preserve special moments, and an assortment of Scholastic Spanish books. Second and third place winners and runners-up received an assortment of Baby Abuelita products.
Founded in 2005, Baby Abuelita Productions was created by a pair of working mothers: Hilda Argilagos-Jimenez, a dance teacher, and Carol Fenster, a psychotherapist. "We wanted to create a doll that preserved tradition and warm memories," said Fenster. "But our dolls have managed to do that and more. We get emails from teachers and parents who are using these dolls to educate their children and teach them Spanish, which is a wonderful thing."
Baby Abuelita received the iParenting Award for the Family Fiesta DVD and Abuelita Rosa, Abuelito Pancho, Baby Andrea and Baby Tita dolls. The company was awarded the 2008 Toy of the Year and Preferred Choice Award by Creative Child's Awards Program for Abuelita Rosa and Abuelito Pancho. Baby Abuelita launched their product line in Panama and Baby Mimi is their latest addition to the Baby Abuelita family.
Baby Abuelita is available at select Wal-Mart, Target, Toys R Us and Kmart locations and online at www.babyabuelita.com.
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*Note: This piece appears in the JOMBA! Khuluma Digital, a magazine summarizing the 20th annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience. Five students at the University of Kwazulu-Natal participated in a Dance Writing Residency, engaging with dance writing and criticism in conjunction with the festival. Re-published with permission.
DURBAN, KZN, SOUTH AFRICA — …and so begins my journey home.
It's hard to articulate what it's meant to me to come and participate in the 2018 JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience. I will forever feel gratitude for the generosity of Durban's wonderful dance community, and particularity that of Lliane Loots, Wesley Maherry and Clare Craighead, who's been my excellent collaborative partner in facilitating the JOMBA! writing residency these past two weeks.
There were big shoes to fill. The valuable work Adrienne Sichel has done in creating and managing this residency for the past seven years has put into motion a vibrant network of dance writers from all over South Africa, who engage in criticism not out of any obligation, but through a sense of urgency toward documenting what goes on here at JOMBA!, and more broadly, South African dance. Adrienne has committed her life and career to this work, blazing a trail for contemporary dance criticism in a way that is thoughtful and attentive toward journalistic ethics and integrity. Yet, she refused be beholden to antiquated and potentially destructive view of what makes dance "good," valuing and giving voice to a dance aesthetic that is wholly, unequivocally, South African. Memorialized in her new book, "Body Politics: Fingerprinting South African Contemporary Dance," we're reminded that history and legacy are as much about the present as they are about the past. I was privileged to attend Adrienne's book launch during the festival, and had the pleasure of speaking with her from time to time after the shows over a sherry.
"There's not very many of us," she said on the first day we met. Indeed, there's a kinship among critics due, in part, to the sheer numbers of people who choose to write about dance for a living. And while we share much in common with our fellow critics in theater, music or visual art, dance critics are our own species, and in many ways must follow our own set of rules.
Putting dance into words is a tall order, further complicated by the cultural context of the place a dance is made, and the politics of bodies on stage. In Chicago we grapple with our own set of socio-political complexities, and these two weeks have taught me to face those, head on, as many contemporary dance artists do.
This year's JOMBA!, umbrella-ed under the title of "Legacy," often wrestled with personal and political histories, and how culture and tradition shape our identities and expressions of self. Anita Ratnam placed the Hindu ancient legend of Sita into a modern context, letting Sita be the heroine of her own story. In JOMBA! Fringe and On the Edge, Mlonde Ngubane and Kristi-Leigh Gresse negotiated a modern world which still devalues women, as did Jabu Siphika and Zinhle Nzama, who literally bound themselves with rope in "Locked," a work shown at JOMBA! @ DAG which challenges traditional views requiring young girls to marry strangers, sold off as property in order to provide for their families.
Musa Hlatshwayo played with the past and the present, channeling a vision of his late father as a point of entry for "Udodano," a wide-ranging work that touches on family, masculinity, and the land rights movement. JC Zondi looked at identity, too, and how clothes do or don't "make the man," in "Classi_filed." JOMBA! Fringe artists Sizwe Hlophe and Sabelo Cele took up the topic of masculinity, too, though from opposite ends of the spectrum. Hlophe, who was also part of our dance writing initiative, acknowledged tradition and spirituality, while Cele dropped jaws with a provocative take on gender expression and sexuality.
In "Aslama," Yaseen Manuel of Capetown's Unmute Dance Company collaborated with Durban's Flatfoot Dance Company to tap into his identity as a South African Muslim man through a lens of the Syrian war. And Aïda Colmenero Dïaz and Thulisile Binda, who was selected as the 2018 "Pick of the Fringe," also blended personal histories with distinct cultural and political contexts.
And on and on. It's impossible to overstate the overlapping of themes, but to Adrienne's point, context is the most important thing. And this diverse offering of works was a potent reminder that we all see the world through a particular lens. As the critic, I have the privilege of seeing the world through others' eyes, and while there is never enough funding or venues to go around, more art is always better.
Having been to my fair share of dance festivals, I can safely say that JOMBA! stands among my favorites. As I board the first of three planes on the journey home, I hope our cities will remain connected through dance and dancers – I trust that they will.
Header image: Sussera Olyn performs in Khutjo Green's "The Women Who Fell From The Moon" on opening night of JOMBA! 2018. Photography by Val Adamson.


ACTIV is one of the leading global providers of real-time, multi-asset market data solutions. The company has market data coverage spanning more than 150 equity and derivatives exchanges around the globe, as well as offices in Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London.
There was a clear and strong appetite for this offering, from clients who were developing cloud-based applications, seeking a quick way to ingest or visualise data, or building HTML5 front-end applications.
The process began with an on-site workshop, in which ACTIV discussed its existing offerings, as well as its aspirations for the API. The session gave ACTIV the chance to brainstorm the potential features of the API, and explore and validate this new business case before committing to significant investment.
The React-generated site featured tutorials, method-level documentation, a playground and examples. The playground featured a fully-functional code-editor providing auto-completion of the API, allowing users unfamiliar with the API to play and explore with zero setup. Three examples were produced, each as a standalone web component demonstrating different aspects of the API.


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A recent community survey found that 17.4% of you would be interested in playing Expedition with a Game Master (GM) if you had more rules for doing so. Only 3.4% of you said you'd never consider playing with a GM, so in this installment of The Forge, we're going to provide you with an idea to enable quick crafting of a quest by a GM, without the need to use the Quest Creator app.
Many people find writing the introduction to a quest to be the most difficult part of the process. You have the action and climax in mind, but how to start that "Journey of a thousand miles"? How do you take that difficult "single step"?
How do you explain how the adventurers have come together and why they've made common cause against the villainous antagonist?
This week we're introducing a mechanic based on a classic childhood game: The Mad Lib!
Mad Lib Intros (MLIs) give you a quick and easy way to craft an adventure on the fly.
We're hoping these MLIs help draw in your gamers, make the stories more interactive by involving them in the creation of the entire quest and thus give them more of a stake in the play. Plus, as we all know, Mad Libs can be downright hilarious. Welcome to the first MLIs.
Your party has been contacted by (Name #1), (Official/Title) of the (Community Type#1). It appears the community's supply of (Loot Card #1) and (Adjective) (Item) has been stolen by the nefarious forces of (Name #2), the (Adjective) a (Encounter Card Tier III or IV) of considerable (noun). Desperate to recover the (Loot Card #1/Item) before word of this scandal gets out, the (Community Type#1) has contacted your band of (Adjective describing you) Adventurers. They believe the minions of (Name#2) the (Adjective), a raiding party of (Tier I-III Encounter Card) and (Tier I-III Encounter Card) have fled back toward the (medieval building). Can you intercept them before they arrive? Dare you brave the treacherous (Color) (location) so as to arrive at (medieval building#1) before them and lie in ambush?
So let's see how this MLI might play out in two different scenarios, one humorous, another more serious.
Your party has been contacted by Olaf the Scurvy, Captain of the ship the "Sea's Bride". It appears the community's supply of Rope and sacred pork rinds has been stolen by the nefarious forces of Jim the Leprous, a Giant Rat of considerable vulgarity. Desperate to recover the rope and sacred pork rinds before word of this scandal gets out, the Sea's Bride has contacted your band of smelly Adventurers. They believe the minions of Jim the Leprous, a raiding party of Zombie Hands and Giant Spiders have fled back toward Castle Firewick. Can you intercept them before they arrive? Dare you brave the treacherous Chartreuse Forest so as to arrive at Castle Firewick before them and so lie in ambush?
Your party has been contacted by Mayor Marbrand of the Town of Bildenstein. It appears the community's supply of Sparkstones and precious ore has been stolen by the nefarious forces of Azcalon the Black, a Lich of considerable bloodthirstiness. Desperate to recover the Sparkstones and ore before word of this scandal gets out, the Town of Bildenstein has contacted your band of resolute Adventurers. They believe the minions of Azcalon the Black, a raiding party of Zombies and Skeleton Swordsman, have fled back toward Castle Firewick. Can you intercept them before they arrive? Dare you brave the treacherous River of Sorrows so as to arrive at the abandoned Fort before them and so lie in ambush?
Intrepid Authors, audacious adventurers, this week we propose to you a method by which we hope you can craft a quest in about an hour of time! I clocked the example we're using below at 68 minutes, and you could certainly cut it down by omitting some skill checks or advanced combat scripts.
You can find it in the Community Quests section of the App under the name "Bacchanalian Revels".
Made from the ideas and script already provided in the weekly "Vault" entries, we hope this method will provide even first-time authors with a way to fashion a custom adventure with ease.
Plot #4: _Bacchanalian Revels_ Several charming and reckless Fae have swept into town, seducing the young with indiscriminate abandon. Much destruction and heartache will result if they are allowed to continue, but anyone dealing with them will also have to face their beguiled victims too."
Title #5: _Lord of Illusions_ While they live, you'll not know what to believe. > Every other round, adventurers :roll:. Whoever rolled lowest finds their ability misses one intended target (they choose which, if multiple targets were designated).
Location #4: _Faerie Circle_ This simple circle of stones or oddly colored grass in the middle of a forest clearing is a gateway to the realms of Fae. > Attempts to travel to or from the mortal and Fae lands gain a +3 while in the circle, but such travel can only be undertaken by one person at a time. Alternatively, with a proper offering, adventurers may summon a Fae to answer their questions on a :roll: of 10 or above. The Fae's answers may clear as mud, but that's another matter.
Location #5: _Copse of Candlelight_ The profusion of fireflies makes it difficult to strike a target or find one's way. > -2 to all :ranged: and :magic: abilities. -3 to any :roll: to search the area or find Loot.
Location #6: _Flickerwood_ So named for the pockets of flammable gas throughout. > Use of abilities with "fire" or "lightning" in the name ignite a pocket of flammable gas on rolls of 10 or less. All enemies and adventurers take 2 damage.
Alchemy #10: _Illusion of Control_ You get the impression you're being toyed with. > Cancel all damage done to one Encounter Card this round.
Alchemy #11: _Word of Creation_ An item of worth springs into being from nowhere. > Choose Loot items equal in Tier value to the Fae's Tier value and put them into play under it's control. It can use them against adventurers or for its own benefit.
Alchemy #12: _Phantasmal Peer_ A simulacrum appears out of nowhere and strikes. > Draw a Fae Encounter card of equal Tier level to one already in play and place it into play for a single round, resetting the Tier count. After resolving damage (and surges, if applicable) for the round, discard the Phantasmal Peer.
So you can see the first thing we have to do is put the proper spacing between script that we've pasted from the Vaults. Since we're using the plot (Bacchanalian Revels) as the quest title, it's the only one that'll have the # and the added screen script (_Introduction_). Then we've inserted our skill check _Craft Item_ bumping the text players will see (in white) to the line below, then bumping the instructions (> On an appropriate etc.) to its own line, with a space between them.
Next comes our first selected location, _Faerie Circle_ , where we repeat the process of putting blank lines between screen/card names (_Faerie Circle_), narration text (white font), and game instructions (red font).
and ends with "benefit" will also buff our low Tier enemies, as well as turn over some additional loot to the adventurers when they win. The first screen (#Slaves) below is what will be seen for any battle lost during this quest. We've written it from scratch.
The battle won, the Fae impersonating "Ariel" can be Deceived or Intimidated (two Skill checks seen above) to get us to our next locations (either the _Copse_ or _Flickerwood_).
If the adventurers failed their skill checks, they have to take a more circuitous route before finding their way to the site of the final confrontation with the Lord of Illusions. Enter the _Flickerwood_ . You'll notice we have to write some connecting story narration (it's not purely copied and pasted, though the special condition applies), and thrown in combat with teens besotted by the Lord. The advanced combat script for this battle is the _Illusion of Control_ from "Alchemies of Alteration" (Vault #11) .
So you'll see that our Quest was a total of 182 lines (many just spacing lines, many others copied and pasted) at a total word count of 1,118, again, most of those already written for us in the "Vault" series.
If you've taken the time to get here, we're confident you're about an hour or so from crafting your own short quest. Happy scripting!


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Sep 02, 2019 · 02:30 pm Updated Sep 02, 2019 · 06:12 pm
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INX Media case: P Chidambaram's CBI custody extended till Tuesday
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court directed the former Union minister to approach the trial court for interim bail.
A file photo of Congress leader P Chidambaram. | PTI
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Delhi on Monday extended former Finance Minister P Chidambaram's custody till Tuesday, reported Bar and Bench. The court will take up his plea for interim bail in the INX media case at 3.30 pm on Tuesday. The former finance minister was arrested by the CBI in connection with the case on August 21.
During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta sought a day's custody of Chidambaram. He said the Congress leader's bail plea should be rejected as he can "influence the witness".
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court had asked Chidambaram to approach the trial court for interim bail in the INX Media case, Bar and Bench reported.
The top court said that a status quo should be maintained till then if the trial court rejected his plea. This effectively means that if Chidambaram did not get interim bail, he would not be sent to Tihar Jail.
Initially, the court said it will take up the case on Thursday again. During the post-lunch session, Solicitor General Mehta asked the Supreme Court to take up the matter on Tuesday. The bench agreed.
During the Supreme Court hearing, Chidambaram's counsel Kapil Sibal said the former minister should not be sent to Tihar jail as he is 74 years old, and should be protected, NDTV reported. Sibal urged the court to place Chidambaram under house arrest.
"The remand order is under challenge," Bar and Bench quoted Sibal as saying. "If the matter is not heard, today he will be sent to Tihar and tomorrow CBI will say the matter has become infructuous."
The government's counsel objected to Sibal's plea and said it was not possible under the law. However, Justice R Banumathi accepted Sibal's petition, Live Law reported.
In CBI custody, Chidambaram has been put in a suite of the agency's headquarters in Delhi, reported NDTV. The CBI said it was the special CBI court that has to decide where the Congress leader should be held. Judges R Banumathi and AS Bopanna, asked why Chidambaram was not making the request before the special CBI court, which has to decide on his custody.
#Breaking: Supreme Court directs P Chidambaram to approach trial Court seeking interim bail. Should the plea be rejected by the Trial Court, status quo shall be maintained till Thursday. Chidambaram will remain in Police custody, won't be sent to Tihar#INXMedia#PChidambaram
— Bar & Bench (@barandbench) September 2, 2019
Both the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate are conducting inquiries in the case. On August 20, the Delhi High Court had rejected Chidambaram's anticipatory bail plea in both cases, after which he moved the Supreme Court. However, by the time the court heard his pleas on Monday, the CBI had already arrested Chidambaram and the petition in the CBI case was infructuous.
On Thursday, the top court reserved its order in the Enforcement Directorate case, posting it for September 5.
The CBI has said there were irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board's foreign direct investment clearance to INX Media in 2007, when P Chidambaram was the Union finance minister. The company was then owned by businesspersons Indrani and Peter Mukerjea, who are in jail in connection with the murder of Indrani Mukerjea's daughter Sheena Bora.
According to the CBI, the company of P Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram allegedly received Rs 10 lakh from INX Media for helping it escape punitive action for taking Rs 305 crore in foreign funding in 2007 despite having clearance for only Rs 4 crore.
In May 2017, the Enforcement Directorate filed a money laundering caseagainst Karti Chidambaram, INX Media and the Mukerjeas. Indrani Mukerjea and Peter Mukerjea have reportedly told the investigating agencies that when they met P Chidambaram in 2006 in his North Block office, he asked them to meet Karti Chidambaram and help him with his business.
Meanwhile, the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate told a court in Delhi on Monday that P Chidambaram had granted approval to Aircel-Maxis deal beyond his capacity when he was the finance minister.
The agencies alleged the Congress leader had received kickbacks and his decision had benefitted certain people, PTI reported. They opposed the anticipatory bail applications filed by P Chidambaram and Karti Chidambaram, alleging the two were not cooperating with investigators. The Chidambarams need to be dealt with an "iron hand", the CBI told the court of Special judge OP Saini. The investigating agencies claimed the Chidambarams had committed serious economic offences, and there was a conspiracy against national interest.
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Market-Based Ratemaking and the Western Energy Crisis of 2000 and 2001
By Gergen, Michael J.; Cannon, George D., Jr.; Tewksbury, David G.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has recognized, at least in theory, the inescapable economic truth that competitive electricity markets, like other competitive markets, will experience high prices under conditions of relative scarcity and low prices under conditions of relative abundance. In practice, however, the FERC has not hesitated to impose restraints on sustained high wholesale electricity prices during periods of relative scarcity without considering, much less determining, whether such high prices are inconsistent with the outcome that a competitive market would produce or be expected to produce. There is perhaps no better example of the FERC's apparent cognitive dissonance of the realities of economic scarcity than the various market mitigation measures the FERC imposed as a consequence of the severe and sustained scarcity conditions experienced in and around California during 2000 and 2001.1 The legal rationale for the FERC's schizophrenic policy throughout the Western energy crisis appears to have been a concern that sustained high wholesale electricity prices, whatever the cause, somehow ran afoul of the FERC's statutory obligation under section 205 of the Federal Power Act (FPA) to ensure that rates are just and reasonable.
The FERC's willingness to modify market outcomes in the name of just and reasonable ratemaking, without regard to whether those outcomes are consistent with what a competitive market would produce, raises two fundamental and interrelated questions. First, as a matter of law, can the FERC rely on the market to set rates for the sale of electricity at wholesale? Second, to the extent that the FERC can lawfully rely on the market to set rates, are such market-based rates deemed to be just and reasonable if they are consistent with the outcomes a competitive market would produce or be expected to produce?
As we explain below, the answer to both of these questions is a resounding "yes." The FPA permits the FERC to institute a market-based rate regime for wholesale sales of electricity so long as two conditions are met: (1) the FERC makes a reasoned determination that the relevant market is likely to produce competitive market outcomes; and (2) market participants are provided a means to protect themselves in the future should the FERC's prediction about future market outcomes prove to be incorrect. Since the FERC authorizes an entity to make sales at market-based rates, those rates can and should be deemed to be just and reasonable to the extent that they are consistent with competitive market prices. To presume otherwise would defeat the very purpose of a market-based rate regime and invite the FERC to rely on a legally suspect, hybrid form of market-based and cost-of-service ratemaking that is worse than a retreat to pure cost-of-service ratemaking. As we argue below, that is precisely what the FERC appears to have done in response to the Western energy crisis of 2000 and 2001.
Section II of this article describes the legal basis for the FERC's ratemaking under section 205 of the FPA. In doing so, we describe the evolution of the judicial interpretation of "just and reasonable" rates from a narrowly conceived understanding based on the utility's cost-of-service to a broader view that encompasses rates determined by the market. In section III, we provide a description of the FERC's market-based rate regime, and explain the FERC's consistent defense of its market-oriented approach to ratemaking from both a legal and a policy perspective. In section IV(A), we provide the background of the Western energy crisis of 2000 and 2001, including the various market fundamentals that caused wholesale power prices to rise during this period. In sections IV(B) and (C), we explain how the FERC, through its words, continued to defend its market-based rate policies throughout the Western energy crisis but, in practice, abandoned these policies and imposed cost-based price mitigation. …
Publication: Energy Law Journal
Gergen, Michael J.
Cannon, George D., Jr.
Tewksbury, David G.
Rate setting
Energy shortages
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