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Q: Number to word logic My code to convert number to words is as below. Here i am getting output properly but if i have number 5,07,920 it is showing result five hundered and seven thousand nine hundred and twenty. i want five lakh seven thousand nine hundred and twenty.
public with sharing class PaySlipUtil{
    static String[] to_19 = new string[]{ 'Zero','One','Two','Three','Four','Five','Six','Seven', 'Eight', 'Nine', 'Ten',  'Eleven', 'Twelve', 'Thirteen', 'Fourteen', 'Fifteen', 'Sixteen', 'Seventeen', 'Eighteen', 'Nineteen' };
    static String[] tens = new string[]{ 'Twenty','Thirty','Forty','Fifty','Sixty','Seventy','Eighty','Ninety'};
    static String[] denom = new string[]{ '','Thousand','Lakh','Million','Billion','Trillion','Quadrillion','Quintillion','S!xtillion','Septillion','Octillion','Nonillion','Decillion','Undecillion','Duodecillion','Tredecillion','Quattuordecillion','S!xdecillion','Septendecillion','Octodecillion','Novemdecillion','Vigintillion' };

    // convert a value < 100 to English.
    public static String convert_nn(integer val) {
        if (val < 20)
            return to_19[val];
        if(val == 100)
            return 'One Hundred';
        for (integer v = 0; v < tens.size(); v++)
        {
            String dcap = tens[v];
            integer dval = 20 + 10 * v;
            if (dval + 10 > val)
            {
                if (Math.Mod(val,10) != 0)
                    return dcap + ' ' + to_19[Math.Mod(val,10)];
                return dcap;
            }
        }
        return 'Should never get here, less than 100 failure';
    }

    // convert a value < 1000 to english, special cased because it is the level that kicks
    // off the < 100 special case. The rest are more general. This also allows you to
    // get strings in the form of "forty-five hundred" if called directly.
    public static String convert_nnn(integer val)
    {
        String word = '';
        integer rem = val / 100;
        integer mod = Math.mod(val,100);

        if (rem > 0)
        {

            word = to_19[rem] + ' Hundred ';

            if (mod > 0)
            {
                word += ' and ';
            }
        }
        if (mod > 0)
            word += convert_nn(mod);

        return word;
    }

    public static String english_number(long val)
    {
        if (val < 100)
        {
            return convert_nn(val.intValue());
        }
        if (val < 1000)
        {
            return convert_nnn(val.intValue());
        }

        for (integer v = 0; v < denom.size(); v++)
        {
            integer didx = v - 1;
            integer dval = (integer)Math.pow(1000, v);
            if (dval > val)
            {
                integer mod = (integer)Math.pow(1000, didx);
                integer l = (integer) val / mod;
                integer r = (integer) val - (l * mod);

                String ret = convert_nnn(l) + ' ' + denom[didx];
                if (r > 0)
                {
                    ret += ' '+english_number(r);
                }
                return ret;
            }
        }
        return 'Should never get here, bottomed out in english_number';
    }
}

A: To change the algorithm, we'll need to add a new method, convert_nnnnnn, to cover the special situation that lakh introduces:
public static String convert_nnnnnn(Integer value) {
    Integer lakh = value/100000,
            thousands = Math.mod(value,100000)/1000,
            hundreds = Math.mod(value,1000);
    return (lakh > 0? ' ' + to_19[lakh] + ' Lakh':'')+
           (thousands > 0? ' '+convert_nn(thousands) + ' ' + denom[1]:'')+
           (hundreds > 0? ' '+convert_nnn(hundreds):'');
}

Then, we have to modify english_number to accommodate the special condition:
public static String english_number(long val) {
    if (val < 100) {
        return convert_nn(val.intValue());
    }
    if (val < 1000) {
        return convert_nnn(val.intValue());
    }
    if (val < 1000000) {
        return convert_nnnnnn(val.intValue());
    }
    for (integer v = 0; v < denom.size(); v++) {
        integer didx = v - 1;
        integer dval = (integer)Math.pow(1000, v);
        if (dval > val) {
            integer mod = (integer)Math.pow(1000, didx);
            integer l = (integer) val / mod;
            integer r = (integer) val - (l * mod);

            String ret = convert_nnn(l) + ' ' + denom[didx];
            if (r > 0) {
                ret += ' '+english_number(r);
            }
            return ret;
        }
    }
    return 'Should never get here, bottomed out in english_number';
}

Note that since lakh is a special case, it should not be included in denom, because that array is only used for the general case of groups in sets of three (the algorithm does math to perform that calculation via math.pow(1000, didx)).


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REVIEW: Fleurine and the Boys from Brazil at Birdland Theater, New York – with guests Brad Mehldau and Lee Konitz
By ljazzn on 3 May 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
Fleurine
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Fleurine and the Boys from Brazil
(Birdland Theater, New York. 1 May 2019. Review by Dan Bergsagel)
The pace is fast, but unhurried: the guitar singing a Brazilian groove without breaking a sweat, and the double bass agreeing. There's an egg-shaker shuffle and a fluid vocalise, before a neat, intricate piano solo picks itself through the progression. This is the relaxed, effortlessly accomplished sound of Fleurine and the Boys from Brazil.
Specifically this is Sparkling Gemstone, a comfortable opening tune introduced as "a song about my daughter. Sorry, our daughter, Ruby". These first words are at once an acknowledgement of the greater involvement of Brad Mehldau as more than just a special guest pianist, but also an opportunity to clarify the intended atmosphere of her gig: calm, friendly, celebratory, and performed with her husband, for her friends amongst the room, and her children at the back. More than a family reunion, however, the evening is something of a first birthday party for Fleurine's latest album release Brazilian Dream. After a hectic 2018 release, this pair of Birdland Theater gigs is the official US launch, and a second attempt to share this warm record which mixes Fleurine originals, popular song reworkings and a plethora of bilingual lyrics.
The title track arrives with a lively bass kick from Eduardo Belo and pressing percussion from Rogério Boccato, sounding every bit the high energy samba single release that it would be, and dancing around the stage with her dance partner from the audience, to prove it. Estrelas Cadentes features a beautifully posed opening duet with Ian Faquini on acoustic guitar, capturing a tender moment with Fleurine's soft Portuguese inflection. There are endearing R&B covers to enjoy too, with the Pointer Sisters and Al Green rendered sultry through Portuguese translation – although Seu Jorge's David Bowie interpretations may have made it impossible to listen to Brazilian covers of popular songs without Steve Zissou's adventures rearing into view.
For me, the real stand-out performances were the bitterly conflicted love-lorn complaints, delivered with brutal disdain and regret in both helpfully comprehensible English and incomprehensibly spellbinding Portuguese. These are best played in a rawer, more minimal setup – either with the guitar removed leaving more space for piano backing and rumbling solo, or with only the guitar present for vibrant collaborations on Contradição and Saudade. It's fascinating how transformative the language choice can be – the same song having a very different mood when sung in sensual Portuguese or translated into bright English. For a transatlantic Dutch New Yorker, I'd be interested to hear how Fleurine sings in her mother tongue, too.
Unfortunately one of the Boys from Brazil didn't make it over from a previous gig, with accordion player Vitor Goncalves remaining stuck on the European side of the Atlantic instead of joining the fun. Another circumstantial omission from the live set was the contribution of Chris Potter's saxophone and flute, which enriches the record so well, although an impromptu cameo from Fleurine's old friend the great Lee Konitz went some way to help: ("Did you bring your horn, Lee?").
So, a year on Brazilian Dream is celebrated, and relaunched in a relaxed evening of atmospheric, subtle music amongst friends. Hopefully Fleurine's fifth record will get some of the recognition it deserves.
LINK: Brazilian Dream at Sunnyside Records
Fleurine and the Boys from Brazil will be at the NN North Sea Jazz Festival
Categories: Live review
IN PRAISE OF: John Fordham
PREVIEW: Edinburgh Jazz Festival (12 – 21 July 2019)

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The new year marked the launch of the Green Labs at Emory and Green Offices at Emory programs throughout Emory University and Emory Healthcare. These voluntary programs are designed to advance sustainability in Emory's research and teaching laboratories and work spaces.
Development of the Green Labs and Green Offices programs began in 2013 by a collaborative team represented by Emory's Office of Sustainability Initiatives (OSI), Environmental Health and Safety Office, Campus Services, Procurement, and administrative representatives of other key stakeholder departments across Emory.
The Green Labs Pilot Program launched in March 2014 with 14 laboratories participating, while the Green Offices Pilot Program launched in November 2013 with 12 participating offices.
"We first piloted the programs with a small group of labs and offices, who provided critical feedback that we incorporated into today's enhanced final versions of each program," says Kelly O'Day Weisinger, sustainability programs coordinator.
The two voluntary programs provide a checklist of actions in areas of energy use reduction, water conservation, landfill waste diversion, sustainable procurement and chemical use, and engagement in Emory's sustainability initiatives. The Green Office Program has an additional focus on sustainable events, creating a safe and healthy work environment, and the cultivation of an office sustainability culture.
The checklists are paired with guidance documents detailing steps to achieving each item at Emory and the research that explains the significance to office or lab sustainability.
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The Green Office Incentives Fund applications are now available and are due on April 4. All faculty, staff and students from the Emory University and Emory Healthcare work spaces are eligible to apply for the funds.
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Each year, OSI works with event planners to certify major events like Commencement and Orientation under the Sustainable Events program, and encourages event planners across the University and Healthcare to use the program as a guide for hosting sustainable events at Emory. The complete Sustainable Events checklist and certification process is conducted online, and each year a raffle awards two Gold-level event planners with a gift certificate for Emory Catering.
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Balancing Interests and Threats: Challenges for Korea's Next President
On the eve of South Korea's presidential elections, Asia Global Institute Fellow William H Overholt examines the geopolitics of Korea, focusing on Seoul's efforts to balance its compelling economic interests in its relations with China with its abiding dependence on the US for its security against the backdrop of the threat from the North and its nuclear program and perennial difficulties with neighbor Japan.
Raise your hand if you can stand up to China and the US: Ruling Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung campaigns in Jeonju-si in western South Korea (Credit: Yeongsik Im / Shutterstock.com)
The March 9, 2022, South Korean presidential election is an appropriate time to review the geopolitics around Korea.
Korea is the geopolitical pivot point of Asia. When China wants to invade Japan, it launches from Korea. When Japan invades China, it launches from Korea. When Japan and Russia fight, Korea is in the middle. The only extended war where the US has fought China directly was the Korean War. Along with Taiwan, the worst risks of great-power war in Asia are the North Korean nuclear program and potential Sino-American disagreement in the aftermath of a North Korean political crisis.
Americans and most of the world see Korea as a little place in the shadow of Japan. But average South Korean incomes are now higher than those of Japanese and the South Korean military budget is about 10 percent larger than Japan's. Korea's military is much more experienced and ready than Japan's. Yes, South Korea has smaller territory and less than half the population of its neighbor, but in some ways, it packs more punch. Its economic management is more capable than Japan's; that is why, although it started far behind Japan, its incomes are now higher. Its infrastructure is also superior to that of the US. It is also, along with Taiwan, Asia's most democratic democracy; its vigorous competition is much more responsive to the citizenry than Japan's dominant-party system, and its highly educated citizenry knows what they are voting about, unlike India's.
North Korea, of course, looms large over politics in the South and the geopolitics of the Korean Peninsula. Washington views the North as a dangerous nuclear tiger. A few years ago, otherwise serious US officials talked about North Korea's nuclear weapons program as part of a plot to unify Korea under Pyongyang in some kind of re-run of the Korean War. But in 1950 North Korea was economically and militarily superior to South Korea.
Today, North Korea's economy is two percent of South Korea's and its people are malnourished and now further beleaguered by its efforts to isolate the country from Covid-19. North Korea's entire GDP is smaller than South Korea's military budget. Its conventional military includes large numbers of men, planes and tanks, but those forces are hapless because they do not have the fuel for training. North Korea's surge advantage, from having huge forces poised a short drive north of Seoul, has eroded. It has no friends. In reality it is a frightened mouse trapped in a corner. It is an annoying and unpredictable mouse whose frightened bites can draw some blood, but it is still a mouse. Its leader is beset by international hostility, by economic catastrophe, and by domestic infighting.
North Korea's nuclear weapons program developed in this context. Currently, North Korea is naked and helpless without nuclear weapons. Those weapons are the only way the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, has to get the world to take him seriously. In addition the nuclear program enables some reduction of conventional military personnel to alleviate a serious labor shortage.
That South Koreans are at the confluence of great-power rivalries complicates their lives. Korean journalists always ask me how South Korea can remain economically dependent on China and yet rely on the US for its security. It is not really complicated, just delicate. As long as Korea remains politically united and economically resilient, it can in principle manage the balance. The paradox is that South Korea is a very polarized society, and it fights like crazy over foreign policy. But if something threatens it, no society comes together more resolutely.
The complexities just begin there. Take China's role. China's public face sometimes says that Beijing and Pyongyang are as close as lips and teeth. Privately, senior officials usually say how much they despise North Korea. Conversely, North Korea is an ally of China but North Korea's attitude toward China is a shifting mixture of fear and anger. North Korea rightly fears Chinese domination, and the sanctions that really hurt North Korea are China's, not those imposed by the US.
For me, an iconic moment expressing the Chinese attitude toward North Korea's provocative leaders occurred at a lunch I had with a relatively senior Chinese official in Hong Kong's Bank of China tower in 1994. An aide came in the door and handed the official a note. The official read it, pumped his arms in the air and gleefully declared: "Yes, we did it." "What happened?", I asked. A Chinese delegation was in Pyongyang forcefully pressing Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-un's grandfather, about his nuclear weapon program. Kim Il-sung left the room and dropped dead. The Chinese official thought that was just wonderful.
China's North Korea policy is a delicate balance that never quite works. Beijing is determined to stop North Korea's nuclear weapons program. It fears a Korean nuclear conflict that might engulf part or all of China. It fears that North Korea might one day threaten Beijing with nuclear weapons. And it watches with horror the proliferation of children born with no arms or legs near the unsafe nuclear program's site, right on China's border. So it imposes sanctions, sometimes screamingly painful, on North Korea, but it fears destabilizing a regime that neighbors a Chinese province with a large ethnic Korean population. Because the North Koreans are tough, only destabilizing sanctions would work. So, as one Korean professor summarized it, China can smash North Korea but it cannot bend it.
China, meanwhile, has immense shared interests with South Korea. It needs South Korean trade, investment and technology, and it needs a workable security relationship with this powerful neighbor. Until recently, the relationship worked pretty well despite some friction. In most respects, China was closer to South Korea than to nominal ally North Korea. South Korean polls showed much greater trust in China than Japan. The two countries downplayed their conflicts and emphasized their enormous shared interests. For instance, South Korea has an island territorial dispute with China and a very similar one with Japan, but tension over the Japanese one was quite intense whereas the Chinese one was rarely mentioned. "Why?", I asked a senior South Korean official. He responded that they hated the Japanese so much that they preferred to downplay the China problem.
In Ulsan, supporters of Yoon Suk-yeol of the opposition People Power Party perform: Has South Korea "delinked" from the US? (Credit: Luke W Choi / Shutterstock.com)
But then South Korea and the US responded to North Korean nuclear and missile programs by installing a missile defense system. China claimed, wrongly, that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system's radars could degrade China's defenses. Ironically, THAAD is pretty ineffectual against both North Korea and China. Beijing imposed rather ruthless sanctions on South Korean businesses and has adopted the kind of threatening posture that has so endeared Beijing to Australia and Lithuania. As a result, current polls show a complete reversal of the traditional pattern. Now, there is intense popular distrust of China, overshadowing concerns about Japan. South Korea recently restored broken intelligence sharing with Japan. In short, recent Chinese policies have been very helpful for Japan and for the Korean-American alliance. For China, not so much.
That said, Washington's policies regarding North Korean nukes have competed very successfully with Beijing as to which country can make the most own goals. It is worth briefly reviewing the last quarter century of efforts to reverse the North Korean nuclear program.
In 1994, revelations about that program led the administration of US president Bill Clinton to launch bombers toward North Korea. Alarmed, president-turned-peacemaker Jimmy Carter flew to Korea, put himself at risk, and brokered a pause. The ensuing Framework Agreement froze the operation of North Korea's two plutonium-producing reactors and placed inspectors inside them. In return, Japan, the EU and South Korea promised to provide North Korea with two proliferation-proof reactors and the US pledged to provide oil for power while they were being built.
North Korea did allow inspectors into the reactors on a continuing basis to verify a freeze but the US and its allies failed to provide the promised reactors and fuel. In 2001, the incoming George W Bush administration included the hawkish John Bolton, who said that ending the Framework Agreement was his number one priority. In 2002, when North Korea was found to be building a uranium-enrichment facility, Bolton and others seized on that intelligence as an excuse to end the agreement. "This was the hammer I had been looking for to shatter the Agreed Framework," Bolton wrote. But doing so meant that the inspectors were withdrawn and plutonium weapons production could proceed. Withdrawal of the US inspectors from Yongbyon was one of the greatest setbacks in the history of nuclear proliferation policy.
In 2012, the US administration of Barack Obama negotiated the so-called Leap Day Agreement whereby North Korea promised to halt nuclear tests, nuclear activities at Yongbyon, and long-range missile tests in return for an initial 240,000 tons of food aid from the US. But later that year, North Korea conducted one failed and one successful satellite launch. The satellite launch had been planned and announced long before the Leap Day Agreement and labeled as a celebration of what would have been the Kim Il-sung's 100th birthday. Washington said that was a violation that killed the deal, even though the language agreed to by the US (unlike the UN sanctions language) did not clearly prohibit satellite launches. The Obama administration concluded that negotiating with Pyongyang was a waste of time and inaugurated a policy called "strategic patience".
The satellite launches and a subsequent nuclear test in 2013 were probably necessary for Kim Jong-un's consolidation of legitimacy after his father's death. But he also used the period of consolidation to execute his father's most conservative advisors, who opposed his new economic priorities, and to execute Jang Song-taek, his uncle and deputy, who was considered too close to China. Along with Jang, he eliminated a whole China-oriented group. He then inaugurated a policy of giving priority to economic development rather than just the military. He hoped to trade at least some of the nuclear program for international aid and reduction of sanctions. According to Glyn Ford, the European Parliament's leading expert on North Korea who has made about 50 trips there, Kim Jong Un was seriously considering a Nixon-style reversal of alliances that would align North Korea with the United States and relieve Pyongyang from dependence on China.
But with "strategic patience", the Obama administration went to sleep at the wheel. Obama's personal representative to North Korea was Stephen Bosworth, one of the top American diplomats of the past half century, but Obama did not give him one minute of his time. He did find 90 minutes to meet with an ultra-conservative Korean professor, Lee Sung-yoon, whose position was endowed by a conservative South Korean administration to ensure a loud voice in the US denouncing any initiatives toward North Korea. The great takeoff of North Korean nuclear weapons production occurred during this period.
Donald Trump's initial gambit on North Korea was to threaten "fire and fury" and bring the country almost to the point in 1994 when bombers were taking off. Then, he sensed an opportunity and went for a deal.
In this regard, I have to declare my politics. I despise Trump's principal domestic policies. I despise his approach to foreign policy. I despise the damage he has done to America's democratic institutions. But his instincts about North Korea were right. This was the moment when Kim Jong-un was betting his future on drastic changes in his country's military policies, economic policies and foreign relationships that were all in the American interest and in the interest of peace. Trump sensed the opportunity. Unlike his predecessors, he understood that any successful negotiation with Pyongyang had to be done between CEOs. He plunged into summits as if this was his personal real-estate deal, with hyperbole that included a declaration that he was "in love" with Kim. The 2018 Singapore summit was a genuine breakthrough.
For the Hanoi summit the following year, both sides failed to do their homework. Kim Jong-un came thinking that he could trade away Yongbyon and get all sanctions lifted while he retained other nuclear facilities and capabilities. Trump came thinking that North Korea would concede all its nuclear capabilities before the US actually delivered anything. Neither side did the normal staff work that ensures a summit can succeed. Trump did not even build consensus for a deal within his own cabinet. They set themselves up for failure.
But there was some hope. Trump is a real-estate guy, accustomed to exaggerated claims on both sides and vigorous negotiations ending in compromise. Likewise, Kim was not bound by bureaucratic constraints. But whatever small chance there may have been, that possibility ended when Trump spent most of his time at the negotiations watching his lawyer on television, and John Bolton, previously excluded, was given a seat at the table. Bolton is openly proud of his third successful involvement in killing a non-proliferation deal – two with North Korea, one with Iran.
Incumbent US President Joe Biden has reinstalled and promoted the people who were asleep at the switch in the second Obama administration. More broadly, despite some superficial offers to talk, there is a solid working consensus in Washington that negotiating with the evil North Koreans is a waste of time. Conversely, Kim Jong-un declines to talk with Washington. For him, the failure at Hanoi was not just the collapse of a national security deal. It was the end of his whole domestic program of giving economics priority over the military and promising his people a better life. He risked his own life and killed a bunch of others to advance that program. He cannot afford another round of humiliation.
Difficult neighbors: Kim Jong-un welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Pyongyang in February 2019 (Credit: Foreign Ministry of the People's Republic of China)
The sense of threat from North Korean nuclear weapons and from China has brought life back into South Korean debate over nuclear weapons. In the early 1970s, South Korea was proceeding rapidly toward development of tactical nuclear weapons. US president Richard Nixon stopped that initiative with sanctions. But the halt was institutionalized by conversations in which Americans asked South Koreans whether they were really willing to contemplate a future where a nuclear exchange might extinguish Korean civilization. South Koreans reached consensus that such a risk was unthinkable. Both major parties still adhere to that understanding, but there are conservative voices now rising in dissent. More important, according to a poll, 71 percent of South Koreans say that Seoul should acquire nuclear weapons for itself. We may look back years from now and say that that survey was a dire portent in Asian history.
The other nuclear issue is recurrent: Should the US station nuclear weapons in South Korea? A 1970s study I did on nuclear strategy in Asia showed that there was no defense value in the US storing nuclear weapons in Korea. My research compared the military value of having them in Korea versus having them in my basement in New York and found that there was no difference. An unclassified summary of that study is in my 1976 book, Asia's Nuclear Future. But Republican Party politicians like to put nuclear weapons everywhere, and some South Koreans see deterrent value in stationing them locally. There are huge disadvantages.
A sign of the times is former Japanese Prime Minster Abe Shinzo's suggestion that Japan might welcome having US nuclear weapons stationed there. If that were to happen, half a century of successful nuclear non-proliferation efforts would have been for naught.
Even though South Koreans have soured on China, their government wants decent relations with both China and the US. They particularly do not want to become entangled in a US-China conflict over Taiwan. In recent interviews with me, the national security advisors of the two leading presidential candidates – Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic Party and Yoon Suk-yeol of the opposition People Power Party – said that they would oppose American use of its Korea-based troops in a Taiwan conflict. They have bent toward China on so many issues that Victor Cha, who is Washington's best known Korea expert, now classifies South Korea as a country that has delinked from the United States – an unfair but noteworthy conclusion.
At the same time, the liberal, peace-minded administration under President Moon Jae-in has seriously increased the defense budget. In the election to choose his successor, the country may pick a leader whose party regards as anathema the post-THAAD concessions that Moon made to China. How the next president carries on Seoul's balancing act will be a crucial indicator of how the geopolitical winds in the region are blowing.
Chun, In-bum. (May 27, 2021) "After the Moon-Biden Summit, Can Kim Jong-un Seize the Geopolitical Moment?", AsiaGlobal Online, Asia Global Institute, The University of Hong Kong.
Overholt, William H. (July 7, 2021) "Biden cannot counter China with a team that lacks expertise", The Hill, Washington, DC, USA.
Overholt, William H (ed). (2019) North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War?, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Opinions expressed in articles published by AsiaGlobal Online reflect only those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of AsiaGlobal Online or the Asia Global Institute
William H Overholt
William H Overholt is a fellow of Asia Global Institute and has been a senior research fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government since 2008. From 2013-2015, he was also senior fellow and then president of the Fung Global Institute in Hong Kong, which became the Asia Global Institute in July 2015. From 2002-2008 he was distinguished chair and director of the RAND Corporation's Center for Asia Pacific Policy. He served as Asia regional head of strategy and economics for Nomura from 1998 to 2001. Before that, he was managing director and regional head of research at Bank Boston Singapore. During 18 years at Bankers Trust, he managed a country risk team in New York from 1980 to 1984 and then served as regional strategist in Hong Kong. At the Hudson Institute from 1971-1979, he directed studies for the US Department of State, the National Security Council, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Council on International Economic Policy. Dr Overholt is author or principal co-author of nine books including North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War? (2019), China's Crisis of Success (2018), Renminbi Rising: The Emergence of a New Global Monetary System (2015), Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics (2008), The Rise of China (1993), Political Risk (1982), and (with William Ascher) Strategic Planning and Forecasting (1983). He is principal co-author of Asia's Nuclear Future (1976) and The Future of Brazil (1978). With Zbigniew Brzezinski, he founded the semi-annual Global Assessment in 1976 and edited it until 1988. Dr Overholt received his BA from Harvard and his PhD from Yale.
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I thought it would be a good excuse to get a list started and solicit additional suggestions.
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3 fun online activities for practicing verb tenses is by Adam Simpson.
Check out The English Verb Conjugator.
This is a nice slide tutorial on verb tenses, and was created by Eli Hinkel.
How Many Tenses do Students Really Need to Learn? is from Cambridge English.
I also have a number of verb-related links at our class blog.
MAKE IT PERSONAL: VERB TENSE REVIEW is from ELT-Cation.
Irregular Verbs? Yes,Please! is from Blog de Cristina.
You might also want to explore the over 1,000 other "The Best…" lists I've compiled.
Great share by you Larry, I learned here so many verbs for how to use them and also what not to use. I am just going to include this to my post 5 Most Entertaining Ways to Improve Your Writing Skills , hope you wont mind.


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enough information to identify the media layers and its properties.
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unless packet based mechanisms like Diffserv is used.
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bandwidth and reporting intervals to avoid to wrapping issues.
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frame to frame, potentially making implementation more difficult.
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"Guidelines for the Use of Variable Bit Rate Audio with Secure RTP"
format for an audio or speech codec with these properties.
VP8 [RFC7741] and H.265/HEVC [RFC7798].
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levels of packet loss rates and repair of KLV triplets.
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regulation of bitrate.  Such limiting factors should be discussed.
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approved new RFC format, see [RFC7990].
document, at least according to the author's personal experience.
can be found at <http://tools.ietf.org>.
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Court rules nonviolent sex offenders are eligible for early parole
By JOSH FRIEDMAN
In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that sex offenders who committed crimes deemed to have been nonviolent are eligible for early parole under a statewide ballot measure approved by voters in 2016. [SF Chronicle]
The ruling applies to sex offenders serving crimes such as pimping, possession of child pornography, indecent exposure, sex trafficking and certain types of rape.
On the Nov. 2016 ballot, 64 percent of California voters approved Proposition 57, an initiative sponsored by then-Gov. Jerry Brown that allows the state Board of Parole Hearings to consider releasing prisoners after they complete sentences for just their primary offenses, so long as the crimes are classified as nonviolent. Previously, state law required "nonviolent" offenders to spend additional years, sometimes decades, behind bars before being considered for parole because of factors like having prior convictions, gang membership and gun possession.
Since Prop. 57's passage, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) had prohibited the parole board from considering early release for inmates serving time for offenses that required registration as a sex offender. Additionally, Brown had said Prop. 57 was not intended to allow early release for sex offenders.
However, the California Supreme Court ruled the CDCR's regulations are not compliant with Prop. 57.
In a 7-0 ruling, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said the ballot measure declared "inmates convicted of nonviolent felony offenses 'shall be eligible' for parole consideration."
Thus, inmates must be considered for release after completion of the sentence for their current crime, unless it was a violent offense, Cantil-Sakauye said. That even applies to inmates who have been convicted of violent crimes in the past, the chief justice added.
Cantil-Sakauye said Prop. 57 contained no language indicating voters intended to allow the CDCR to "create a wholesale exclusion from parole consideration based on an inmate's sex offense convictions when the inmate was convicted of a nonviolent felony."
As of 2018, CDCR rules had barred about 4,400 inmates from consideration for early release under Prop. 57.
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agnative
The in incompetence of the law makers that write these propositions and the incompetence of the voters that fail to study the propositions before voting are at fault here.
womanwhohasbeenthere
What is missing here in many cases is the real crime. The criminal plea bargained to a lesser crime ,and the DA got a conviction that got him prison time and got him off the streets. But now with Covid-19 and new court rulings, dangerous felons are being released who on paper don't appear to be so dangerous. Their plea bargain wiped out the true nature of their crime. It's disgusting.
coronet blue
Another example of the consequences of many of the propositions that uninformed or under-informed voters pass. Let our elected representatives do their jobs and examine laws and change them when needed instead of throwing things out to the general public where the vote can be manipulated by slick misleading media campaigns, and whoever has the biggest advertising budget wins. And don't sign petitions either!
pigsrule
Same voters put in our elected officials, who in turn, nominate the Supreme Court judges (the governor) who then allow criminals free.
Francesca Bolognini
My problem with the selection of judges is that when they are presented to the voting public to choose, there is little or no easily obtained record of their previous judgements and sentences. It is like buying a pig in a poke, so to speak. We need more information, apparently, before making a decision to let someone make decisions such as the one above for us.
California Supreme Court judges are nominated by the the governor and rubber stamped by a commision.
I never thought it would happen, but it did, I agree with Francesca!
Rambunctious
The people of California want criminals locked up…what is wrong with the elected officials in California?…have they forgotten who they work for?…maybe in the next election we should remind them….
slo-to-load
If "the people of California want criminals locked up" as you say, maybe they shouldn't have approved Proposition 57 by 63%! If you are going to vote for something, you need to do your homework and read the text of the measure, which apparently was so poorly written that it didn't apply to the crimes people thought it did.
Don't blame the judges. They are just applying the law based on what was written. Blame the people that wrote that dumb proposition!
So we're supposed to believe that people caught with enough child porn to send the to prison have NEVER molested a child? And what exactly are the "certain types of rape"?
pnishaven
Hmmm some of those link to future crimes committed. Unbelievable. Were their victims asked if it felt non-violent. Stupid Stupid Stupid.
Is this enough to make anyone but me sick? Pimping is now considered to be one of the "non-violent" crimes deserving of early release. The article says "eligible" however, the supreme court is basically saying "you deserve a break". Rotten asshats.
Speak Truth to Power
I have to wonder when the Citizens of California will rise up and say Enough?
Will they ever or has the Frog already been Boiled in the pot of Liberalism.
The Pendulum has swung so far to the left, I'm almost expecting a counter culture resurgence of Puritans complete with the big buckles on their shoes and belts topped up with funny hats.


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Le Géranium Herbe à Robert (Geranium robertianum), est une plante (annuelle ou bisannuelle) de la famille des Géraniacées. C'est une plante commune dans une grande partie des zones tempérées de l'hémisphère nord.

Elle est parfois utilisée comme plante ornementale, comme couvre-sol.

Phytonymie

Étymologie
Son nom proviendrait davantage de sa couleur rougeâtre,  en latin, qui par corruption a donné « robert », que du nom du premier évêque de Salzbourg, Rupert qui  utilisait les vertus médicinales de cette plante contre les hémorragies en raison de sa richesse en tanins.

Noms communs
Il est également appelé en français Herbe à Robert, Herbe rouge, Bec de grue ou de cigogne (Alsace), aiguille Notre-Dame, cerfeuil sauvage (à cause de la forme de ses feuilles), épingles de la Vierge, fourchette du diable (à cause de la longue et curieuse pointe qui termine ses fruits) ; en anglais Herb Robert et  Herb Robin, en italien Erba roberta et Geranio di San Roberto, en espagnol Herba de sant Robert et Hieba de san Roberto, en allemand Roberts Storchschnabel, Ruprechts-Storchschnabel et Ruprechtskraut, en néerlandais Robertskruid.

Synonymes
 Taxonomiques Geranium rupertianum Beckh. et Geranium eriophorum
 Nomenclaturaux Geranium foetidum Moench et Geranium palmatisectum

Description

Appareil végétatif
C'est une plante herbacée annuelle ou bisannuelle (parfois vivace) de  à  de haut (20 à  le plus souvent). Plante thérophyte ou hémicryptophyte plus ou moins stolonifère, elle a une tige, grêle, rougeâtre, velue, renflée aux nœuds.

La feuille, d'aspect froissé, est très découpée, d'aspect palmatiséqué à 3 à 5 lobes (ressemblant à des folioles) pennatifides. Elle mesure 3 à  de long et 3 à  de large. Elle comprend un long pétiole velu, souvent rougeâtre. Le limbe est velu, vert à la face supérieure, vert grisâtre et tomenteux à la face inférieure. Certains spécimens sont rouges ou certaines feuilles virent au rouge à la fin de l'été, ou au début de l'automne. Cette couleur est due à la présence de xanthophylles, pigments qui appartiennent à la famille des caroténoïdes, jouant un rôle de protecteurs cellulaires contre la photo-oxydation catalysée par les chlorophylles.

Appareil reproducteur
La fleur a cinq pétales. Elle mesure de 1,5 à  de diamètre. Elle comprend un calice constitué par 5 sépales dressés, resserrés au sommet, mucronés, striés longitudinalement. Le style dépasse nettement le calice. Les pétales sont roses tirant parfois sur le violacé.
Les fleurs sont disposées par deux sur chaque pédoncule. Elles présentent souvent des rayures plus claires.
La paroi extérieure du pollen de Geranium robertianum L. est constituée d'une structure protéique inhabituelle. Elle est exclusivement formée d'ectexines, et ne possède pas la couche interne habituellement trouvée chez les pollens (couche d'endexine) .

Très odorant, le géranium robert dégage une odeur fétide très forte et âcre encore plus intense lorsqu'on froisse ses feuilles entre les doigts. Les poils rendent la plante poisseuse tant leurs glandes sont remplies d'essence aromatique, ce qui lui vaut le surnom de "Stinky Bob" (Robert, le puant).

 Floraison : avril à septembre
 Le fruit : il est constitué par 5 carpelles ridés, dont les apex se détachent de l'axe central, de la base au sommet, en se recourbant, c'est la déhiscence.
 Dissémination : la déhiscence projette les carpelles mûrs à plusieurs dizaines de centimètres autour de la plante.

Habitat et répartition
L'herbe à Robert affectionne les sols riches en éléments nutritifs (ourlet, forêts sur sol riche, les zones rudérales à proximité des habitations (pieds de vieux murs et murets) et les milieux légèrement anthropisés (bords des chemins, des haies et les bois…).
Ses populations peuvent être denses en milieux humifiés, frais et ensoleillés ou un peu plus secs, mais demi-ombrés. Dans les friches, sur sols remodelés ou sur les ruines, elle se comporte parfois comme une pionnière.

Elle est présente en Amérique et en Asie, dans toute l'Europe et pour la France dans tous les départements.

Usages

Usage médicinal

Toutes les parties de la plante ont été utilisées en pharmacopée traditionnelle, grâce à la présence de différents composés (tanins, huile essentielle, acide citrique, principe amer, la géraniine). Selon le principe de la théorie des signatures, une plante qui possède des pigments rouges est censée régénérer le sang ou soigner les maux liés à la circulation sanguine (usage comme hémostatique, cicatrisant, problèmes cardiaques), certaines des propriétés du Géranium ayant reçu une confirmation scientifique.
 L'infusion de plante entière (hors racine) était réputée lutter contre la dysenterie et les hémorragies utérines. Elle peut être utilisée comme hémostatique externe, réducteur de glycémie chez les diabétiques, pour lutter contre les infections urinaires, les diarrhées, les hémorroïdes.
 Son huile essentielle est réputée antiseptique. Associée à la bistorte, l'aigremoine et le chêne, elle devait guérir la diarrhée de l'enfant ou de l'adulte.
 Les sommités ont des propriétés diurétiques.
 Les extraits de cette plante contiennent des quantités importantes de vitamines A, B et C ainsi que des sels minéraux (calcium, potassium, magnésium, fer, phosphore, et germanium utilisé en médecine alternative pour ses propriétés cytotoxiques).
 Elle était aussi réputée pour désengorger les mamelles.

En France, elle doit comporter un minimum de 10 % de tanin pour être vendue comme plante médicinale : . .

Usage alimentaire
La plante est comestible, même crue. Les feuilles fraîches peuvent être utilisées dans une salade ou un thé mais elles ont cependant un goût terreux, amer et astringent.

Autres usages
Sa racine était utilisée pour tanner les cuirs (richesse en tanin). Les feuilles fraîchement cueillies dégagent une odeur, liée à la présence d'huile essentielle, rappelant celle des pneus brûlants lorsqu'elles sont froissées ou écrasées. Si elles sont frottées sur le corps, leur odeur désagréable est censée repousser les insectes de toutes sortes (moustiques, guêpes, frelons). C'est la raison pour laquelle certaines espèces de Géranium à forte odeur sont disposées sur les balcons, le long des terrasses et des piscines.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Glossaire de botanique
 Géranium (genre)
 Tanin
 Rupert de Salzbourg

Liens externes

Bibliographie
  Falinska K, Piroznikow E. 1983 Ecological structure of Geranium robertianum L. populations under natural conditions and in the garden. Ekol. Pol., 31. (1): 93-121 (1983) - illus. En (Pol) Icones. Geog=1 Systematics: ANGIOSPERMAE (GERANIACEAE: GERANIUM) (KR, 198402094).

Flore (nom vernaculaire)
Geraniaceae
Plante médicinale

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News / South Africa / Politics
DA says it won't be 'captured' by 'nefarious' IRR
The Institute of Race Relations doubled down this week in a campaign to ostensibly 'save the opposition'.
Helen Zille apologises for her controversial tweets on colonialism, during a press conference with DA leader Mmusi Maimane in Johannesburg, June 13, 2017. VIDEO: Getrude Makhafola
In the wake of controversy about the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) openly campaigning to "save" the DA, the party has described the campaign as "nefarious", and once again rejected it.
Party spokesperson Solly Malatsi accused the NGO on Tuesday afternoon of unacceptably trying to dictate DA policy and leadership outcomes, despite the IRR not being part of the DA.
He labelled this an attempt to capture the party, which could not be allowed.
The IRR on Monday launched a campaign called #SaveTheOpposition, which comes in the wake of internal wrangling in the official opposition between those trying to supposedly retain the party's older, liberal values and those looking to transform the DA.
News24 reports that the former, seen as the "liberal bloc", are clearly linked to former leader Helen Zille, who is vying to become the next federal council chairperson. She was until recently also a fellow at the IRR but resigned to pursue her DA election campaign.
The other bloc in the DA is aligned with current party leader Mmusi Maimane.
Last week, DA chief whip John Steenhuisen also slammed the IRR for how it was involving itself in the party politics of the DA.
An opinion piece by IRR analyst Hermann Pretorius called on Maimane to resign following the party's "worst political performance" in the 2019 elections. He lobbied for current Western Cape premier Alan Winde to take over the party, primarily arguing that Winde had an excellent political record and that his being a white male should actually be celebrated in the supposed spirit of nonracialism.
Winde, however, downplayed any such personal ambitions on his part.
Steenhuisen made it clear the DA, officially at least, wanted nothing to do with the IRR's latest messaging, rejecting it as "naked opportunism displayed by the IRR with its latest missive, in which it apparently seeks to raise funds in support of a presumed leadership contest within the DA".
He said the DA had "noted the obsessive preoccupation that the IRR seems to have with the DA's internal political and ideological conversations. This preoccupation has been increasing over the course of the last year or two."
He encouraged the IRR, given that they had "such strong opinions about the DA's leadership and internal debates", to become members of the DA and "exercise their membership rights to participate in the DA's next Congress, at which the party's leadership will be elected, instead of sniping from the side-lines and shamelessly piggy-backing their fundraising appeals on to it".
"Given their obsession with the DA, the other option for the IRR is to form their own political party and contest elections in its own name – rather than attempt to piggy-back on the DA's successes in government, as it is currently trying to do while fronting as an NPO."
Malatsi's latest statement has underlined this view, saying the DA "has not and will never outsource its decision-making functions to outside bodies – doing so would be tantamount to capture of the organisation".
"Only a Federal Congress, the Federal Council and Executive, as well as the National Management Committee, decide on the Party's operations, policies and the like."
He accused the IRR campaign of clearly being targeted at the DA and not the opposition as a collective.
"Had their campaign been a genuine gesture of ensuring strong opposition in South Africa, it would not have singled out one party. The DA is one of 13 opposition parties represented in the National Assembly.
"The IRR has deliberately and mischievously chosen to take a hostile position against the DA and four of our public representatives, in its latest salvo. This is unacceptable."
DA MP Phumzile van Damme told News24 on Tuesday she was neither surprised nor bothered by the IRR slamming her and three other party leaders in its latest campaign to "save opposition politics".
She did, however, add in communication with The Citizen that she and other affected parties are mulling a possible defamation suit in response.
The IRR has singled out Van Damme, youth leader Luyolo Mphithi and Herman Mashaba for allegedly triggering racial conflict in the DA.
Steeinhuisen also came in for criticism for his response to the IRR last week.
(Compiled by Charles Cilliers)
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Home » World News » Investigators find body while searching for missing 13-year-old, FBI says
Investigators find body while searching for missing 13-year-old, FBI says
Authorities in North Carolina have located a body in the area where they are searching for 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, who has been missing since the beginning of the month, according to authorities.
The body was found in the area off Wire Grass Road in Robeson County Tuesday afternoon, FBI Public Affairs Specialist Shelley Lynch said in a statement to ABC News. The remains have not yet been identified.
Investigators found the body while following leads related to Hania's disappearance, Lynch said. Her family has been notified.
Hania was kidnapped outside her home at the Rosewood Mobile Home Park in Lumberton, North Carolina, according to police. She had taken the keys to her aunt's green 2003 Ford Expedition to start the car before school, when a man dressed in all black with a yellow bandanna over his face forced her into an SUV and drove away, police said.
The car was located three days later several miles away from Hania's home.
Authorities have been pouring over surveillance footage from nearby homes and businesses since Hania's disappearance. Last week, investigators asked deer hunters who have cameras in Robeson County to hand over any footage they may have from Nov. 5 and 8.
Investigators are also trying to find a man seen in surveillance video walking in her neighborhood on the morning she was abducted.
Authorities describe Hania as a Hispanic girl, about 5 feet tall and 125 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Hania was last seen wearing a blue shirt with flowers and blue jeans.
Lynch reminded the public that investigators are still trying to find Hania's kidnapper.
"Please continue to pray for Hania, her family, and each other as the investigation continues to find out who kidnapped Hania and hold them responsible," Lynch said.
The reward for information leading to Hania rose to $30,000 last week.
ABC News' Darren Reynolds, Emily Shapiro, Matthew Stone, and Morgan Winsor contributed to this report.
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Physical Description Dress (a), evening-style, of gray silk chiffon. Rhinestone and glass beads embroidery on waist from front to back. Hem falls to just above the ankle in front and to the floor at sides and back. Train (b), self-fabric, attaches to dress at back of shoulders, shape deep V at the back of the dress. Rhinestone trim at edges; rhinestone and bead motif at hem. Slip (c) of gray silk crepe. Slip not shown.
Object History Court presentation dress worn by Mrs. Potter Palmer II, née Pauline Kohlsaat (1882-1956).
Curatorial Statement Mrs. Palmer II wore this dress when she was presented to the King and Queen of England in 1938. Court rules dictated every detail of the dress, including length of skirt, choice of colors, and style of embroidery.


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THE RIGHT OF THE CITIZEN TO OPPOSE WAR AND THE RIGHT OF CONGRESS TO SHAPE THE WAR POLICY
The Right Of The Citizen To Oppose War And The Right Of Congress To Shape The War Policy I. IN THESE DAYS whenever an American citizen presumes to question the justification, either in law or...
...He may express the hope that an early peace may be secured on the terms set forth by the New Russia and by President Wilson in his speech of January 22nd, and he can not be lawfully sent to jail for the expression of his convictions...
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...The right of the people to assemble and state their grievances was still an attribute of American freedom...
...And so I say if we are not to be dragged through years of war to maintain imperialism and exploitation, the people must unite in a campaign along constitutional lines for the conclusion of the war on a just basis...
...Writing to a friend who had objected to his opposition to Polk in relation to this power of the President in war, Lincoln said: "The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object...
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...subjected to unlawful search, threatened, intimidated, examined and cross-examined, the most sacred constitutional rights guaranteed to every American citizen are violated in the name of democracy...
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...But every man and every woman knows that there is a struggle going on to-day in every civilized nation between democracy and autocracy...
...Fight, fight, fight" were the slogans he left for us...
...THE DUKE OF GRAFTON, in the House of Lords, October 26,1775, speaking against voting thanks to British officers and soldiers, after the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, declared: "I pledge myself to your lordships and my country that if necessity should require it, and my health otherwise permit it, I mean to come down to this House in a litter, in order to express my full and hearty disapproval of the measures now pursued and as I understand from the noble lords in office, meant to be pursued...
...If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another, possibly more effective pretext after war is on...
...It is, my lords, a ruinous and destructive war...
...Five million men...
...Replying to his own question at length he said he hoped the majority in the next House of Representatives would be opposed to war and that while a high and delicate regard must of course, be had for the honor and credit of the nation, that "if the war should become odious to the people, if they shall disapprove the objects for which it appears to be prosecuted then it will be the bounden duty of their representatives in Congress to demand of the President a full statement of his objects and purposes, and if those purposes shall appear to them not to be founded in the public good, or not consistent with the honor and character of the country, then it shall be their duty to put an end to it, by the exercise of their constitutional authority.'' "If Congress," said Webster in the course of this illuminating address, "in whom the war making power is expressly made to reside, is to have no voice in the declaration or continuance of war, if it is not to judge of the beginning or carrying it on,—then we depart at once from the Constitution...
...Free speech had not then been suppressed...
...VII...
...And this we are to do—as it now develops and is being disclosed'—not for a "peace without victory" but for a "peace WITH victory...
...AND OF EVERY PRIVATE MAN, HOWEVER HUMBLE TO EXPRESS AN OPINION IN REGARD TO THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THE WAR SHOULD BE CONTINUED...
...It is the party of autocracy...
...THE WORLD would not be at war to-day except for the survival of the despotism and tyranny which permits governments to conduct foreign affairs in secret and leaves the determination of war and of foreign policies generally to diplomacy...
...He said: "At its beginning, General Scott was by this same President driven into disfavor if not disgrace, for intimating that peace could not be conquered in less than three or four months...
...Every nation has its war party...
...III...
...Their arguments as to the power of Congress to shape the war policy and then opposition the usurpation of power on the part of the Executive are potent so long as the Con stitution remains the law of the land, English history offers no less illustrious examples of opposition to war in which the country is engaged...
...VIII...
...First he takes up one, and in an attempt to argue us into it he argues himself out of it, then seizes another and goes through the same process, and then, confused at being able to think of nothing new, he snatches up the old again, which he has some time before cast off...
...it teems with disgrace, and must end in ruin...
...Secretary of War Baker said at this same meeting that every resource of the allies was near exhaustion when the United States entered the war...
...The entire nation has been plunged into a needless state of unrest from which it can be extricated only by a clear and definite declaration of war policy...
...He is an accomplished diplomat...
...He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man...
...The Right Of The Citizen To Oppose War And The Right Of Congress To Shape The War Policy I. IN THESE DAYS whenever an American citizen presumes to question the justification, either in law or morals, of our participation in the European war, he is at once denounced by the war party and the war press as disloyal to the country...
...We are,"he said, "in my option, in a most unnecessary, and therefore a most in-justifiable war...
...The war was on, but Daniel Webster did not hesitate to denounce it...
...I have no inside information, but in a work entitled "War and Democracy," published in 1917 by DouWeday Page & Co, Mr...
...His mind, taxed beyond its power, is running hither and thither, like some tortured creature on a burning surface, finding no position on which it can settle down and be at ease...
...John Bright consistently fought the Crimean War with all the power of his great personality and noble mind...
...As soon as prepared for war, it insists on making war...
...but it is their habit, and belongs to their character, to inquire into the JUSTICE and the necessity of a war in which it is proposed to involve them...
...Balfour says: "If there is to be any effective sanction behind the desire of the English speaking peoples to preserve the world's peace and free development of the nations...
...It is not the party of democracy...
...It is the suppressed emotion of the masses that causes revolution...
...An American citizen may state his opinion that we are not justified in prosecuting this war for the purpose of dictating the form of government which shall be maintained by our enemy—or our ally—and not be subject to punishment at law...
...Balfour's best judgment that while heretofore Great Britain has ruled the seas and controlled trade as her own special privilege and prerogative, that now when that supremacy is threatened, it would be well to enter into an agreement according to which, from now on, GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES SHOULD RULE THE SEAS TOGETHER...
...And this was the opinion emphatically expressed by the French mission...
...In this same speech Lincoln criticises President Polk because he" does not state in his message when he expects the war to terminate...
...Many battles had been fought and won and our victorious armies were then in the field on foreign soil...
...THAT SANCTION MUST CONSIST LARGELY IN THE POTENTIAL USE OF SEA POWER...
...IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE are to carry on a foreign wax, on foreign soil, for foreign ends, they should work for an expression of public opinion that shall influence and compel Congress to exercise its right and discharge its duty in stating the object and defining the policy of the United States in this war...
...He concluded his important and difficult mission with the utmost smoothness and tact...
...Gradually, reluctantly, Congress and the country are beginning to perceive that a long and weary and bloody road has been laid out for us...
...IT IS THE PRIVILEGE OF THE PE 3PLE IN THEIR PRIMARY AS-SEMELIES...
...that is, we are to fight for peace terms satisfactory to the allies...
...The citizen who believes the draft law unconstitutional may have the question tried out in the courts or if he thinks it undemocratic and unamerican, he may start a campaign tomorrow for its repeal...
...It seeks to dominate absolutely...
...There is no other alternative...
...But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood...
...Before war is declared the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly...
...If the President possess it and may prosecute it and may prosecute it for the objects against the will of Congress, where is the difference between our Free Government and that of any other nation which may be governed by an absoulte Czar, Emperor or King...
...AND SUCH AN EXPRESSION WILL RECEIVE JUST SO MUCH CONSIDERATION AND CONSEQUENCE AS IT IS ENTITLED TO, AND NO MORE...
...On the 6th of November, 1846, at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Daniel Webster denounced the Mexican War...
...LINCOLN IS NOT the only high example of American statesmen who opposed their government in war and who consistently continued their opposition after war was declared, denouncing it until it was ended...
...Webster did not regard it as treasonable, after war HAD BEEN DECLARED, and while our troops were fighting their way toward the Mexican Capital, TO RAISE THE QUESTION AS TO WHETHER THE WAR WAS EITHER JUST OR NECESSARY He said: "It is not the habit of the American people, nor natural to their character, to consider the expense of a war which they deem just or necessary...
...The American Jingo is twin to the German Junker...
...In the course of this address Webster stated that the law of nations required "THAT THE WAR SHOULD NOT BE WAGED ExCEPT FROM NECESSITY AND FOR JUST AND IMPORTANT RIGHT3 OF THE COUNTRY "But war does now exist and what is our duty...
...Webster discussed the Mexican War at Springfield, Mass, September 29, 1847, and again while the war was in progress he did not hesitate to express his disapproval in plain language...
...The President's leadership was followed blindly in the belief that he had some big unrevealed plan, by which peace with glory that would exalt him before all the world, would be soon achieved...
...AND IT IS TIME to end the vague and shifting declaration of our plans and purposes, which under President Wilson ranges from resentment to interference with our trade on the high seas, one day to prescribing the form of government for our enemy the next, and finally vaguely extended to making every part of "the world safe for democracy"—excepting our own country...
...I attend carefully an J anxiously to every rumor and every breeze that brings to us any report that the effasion of blood, caused, in my judgment, by a rash and unjustifiable proceeding on the part of the government may cease...
...Either Congress or the President, must have the right of determining upon the objects for which a War shall be prosecuted...
...It is just as arrogant, just as despotic, in London, or in Washington, as in Berlin...
...Lloyd George won fame for his aggressive stand against the Boer War...
...Not one other statemert by Clay in this ad-ess so applicable to our own time...
...This is still the Government of the People...
...The usurpation on the part of the executive of the conduct of foreign relations, which results in Congress blindly and ignorantly following the course dictated by the President, instead of itself declaring the war policy, which the best expounders of the Constitution have held that Congress had the right to do, is fundamentally the cause of our being in this war to prolong it...
...But he has the inalienable right to fight what he deems an obnoxious law or a wrongful public policy, in the courts and at the ballot box...
...asked Webster...
...In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war...
...The right of Lincoln, Webster, Clay, Sumner to oppose the Mexican War, criticize its con duct, advocate its conclusion, is exactly the same right and privilege as that possessed by each and every American citizen in our land to-day in respect to the war in which we are now engaged...
...It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless...
...He may work with his fellow citizens in petitioning Congress to abolish the draft system and in asking that hereafter the war shall be conducted on the volunteer plan...
...HENRY CLAY came from his voluntary retirement, in the seventy-first year of his age, to proclaim to the American public his disapproval of the Mexican War...
...In the grave matter of determining whether we shall have a drafted or a volunteer army the contradictory plans of the administration have created the greatest confusion in the minds of the millions of young men directly involved, leaving them uncertain as to their future and muddled as to their obligations and duty...
...Then Mr...
...Congress as well as the people of the United States, entered the war in great confusion of mind and under feverish excitement...
...Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, was in this country, it is said, longer than any previous person holding that position has been away from London since the Napoleonic wars...
...Lord Derby said the war will not end until America gets into it as though she were fighting ALONE and that it was likely to last three years yet...
...Charles Sumner also opposed the Mexican War with his power and eloquence and appealed to his fellow countrymen to work for its early conclusion...
...If he would preserve his liberties, his freedom of thought and speech and action, he should not be intimidated by the jeers of the Jingoes and the gibes of the newspapers...
...one citizen may believe it inevitable, another may think it regrettable, each has the same right to express his opin-ion...
...If, as I have sound reasons for believing, the great masses of the American people are opposed to fighting an enormously burdensome war, for an indefinite time and indefinite ends, then they must assert themselves and, keeping within their constitutional rights, voice their protests in a way that will show the character and power of their inner convictions and give momentum and overwhelming strength to the movement for real democracy...
...On this same occasion, Mr...
...Every utterance of his noble address is applicable to our national situation in 1917...
...The war party in the United States seeks to justify our entrance into the bloody conflict on the ground that it is in the interest of democracy...
...The question is, are we to sacrifice millions of our young men,—the very promise of the land,—and spend billions and more billions, and pile up the cost of living to the point of starvation, and "fight, fight, fight"—without any special grievance of our own—for objects such as the English Foreign Secretary seems to have in mind and such as the Paris Trade Conference appears carefully to have considered...
...Balfour was said to have realized the dream of his life—that of "a closer sympathy between the two great branches of the English speaking public...
...The sober minded American citizen was dumbfounded when the President in his Red Cross speech, in which he admitted that we had no special grievance of our own, announced his belief that the American people hardly yet realized the sacrifices and sufferings before them...
...it is full of danger...
...As I have said, he knows not where he is...
...that in comparison with the struggle into which we have now entered the Civil War seemed almost insignificant in its proportions and in its expenditure of treasure and blood...
...Hoover was reported as saying in an address on an important occasion that this country faced a war that would probably last from two to five years and only by the most careful measures could the United States give the allies enough foodstuffs to keep them in war with the force demanded to bring victory...
...God reigns and constitutional rights will be maintained...
...IT IS THE CITIZEN'S DUTY to obey the law until it is repealed or declared unconstitutional...
...Shall the already fearfully overburdened people of the United States conduct a war for ANY objects not openly stated and defined...
...In the course of his argument that Congress must necessarily possess the authority, at any time, to declare for what purposes war shall be further prosecuted, he said: "If it be contended that war having been once commenced, the President of the United States may direct it to the accomplishment of any object he pleases, without consulting and without any regard to the will of Congress, the Convention will have utterly failed in guarding the nation against the abuses and ambition of a single individual...
...XII...
...I hope we are nearing the close of it...
...But now, at the end of twenty months • • • this same President gives a long message, without showing us that as to the end he himself has even an imaginary conception...
...The citizen should begin to work now for the election of congressmen who represent his views on the war issue...
...They all believed and asserted and advocated in the midst of war, that it was the right—the constitutional right—and the patriotic duty of American citizens, after the declaration of war, as well as before the declaration of war, and while the war was in progress, to discuss the issues of the war and to criticize the policies employed in its prosecution and to work for the election of representatives opposed to prolonging war...
...The only impression he left upon the American public, other than that of an agreeable man of culture, was, that he was relying on the United States to prosecute a long hard war...
...THESE ARE BUT A FEW of the many statesmen and eminent publicists whose strong declarations I shall later cite as examples and precedents of the right of free American citizens freely to express their opposition to war and of the right and duty of the law making body to shape the war policy...
...To me, it seems the lesson to be drawn from history by those who love peace, freedom, and security, IS NOT THAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA SHOULD BE DEPRIVED, OR SHOULD DEPRIVE THEMSELVES OF THE maritime powers they now possess, but that if possible, THOSE POWERS SHOULD BE ORGANIZED IN THE INTERESTS OF AN IDEAL COMMON TO THE TWO STATES, an ideal upon whose progressive realization the happiness and peace of the world must largely depend...
...If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms!—Never!—Never!— —Never...
...Lord Chatham, November 18, 1777 spoke as follows regarding the war between England and the American Colonies: "I would sell my shirt off my back to assist in proper measures, properly and wisely conducted...
...It appears to be the purpose of those conducting this procedure, to throw the country into a state of terror, to coerce public opinion, stifle criticism, suppress discussion of the issues of the war and put a quietus on all opposition...
...He may denounce the policy of sending our boys to die on European battlefields for annexation of territory or the payment of war indemnities or the carrying out of trade agreements, and be within his legal rights...
...After Congress has been bullied into a declaration of war, the politicians, the press, and the mercenaries of the war party assume authority to deny the right of American citizens to discuss the NECESSITY for the war, or the ultimate OBJECT and PURPOSE of the declaration of war...
...He said: "The Mexican War is universally odious throughout the United States, and we have yet to, find any Sempronius who raises his voice for it...
...Must we blindly continue the conflict," he asked, "without any visible object, or any prospect of a definite termination...
...but I would not part with a single shilling to the present ministers...
...God grant he may be able to show there is not something about his conscience more painful than his mental perplexity...
...instead of exercising our great power to bring about a just settlement which the people of the United States -and of the world are longing for, and have the right to expect...
...We had not then fallen upon times when the New Freedom, as interpreted by Woodrow Wilson, made it an act of treason for an American citizen to declare his convictions upon the acts and policies of a federal administration in bringing on and prosecuting a war, after that -war had been declared and while it was in progress...
...We should no longer perceive the objects of the War varying, from time to time, according to the changing opinion of the Chief Magistrate charged with its prosecution...
...This our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us...
...As a climax to all this, President Wilson in his address at Washington, June 14th, gave utterance to this threat: '' Woe be to the man or group of men that seek to stand in our way * * *" It is time for the American people to assert and maintain their rights...
...Fox said: "I could not consent to the bloody consequences of so silly a contest, about so silly an object, conducted in the silliest manner that history or observation had ever furnished an instance of, and from which we are likely to derive poverty, misery, disgrace, defeat and ruin...
...Every American school boy knows how Pitt and Fox and Burke op-posed the war against the American colonies...
Vol. 9 • June 1917 • No. 6
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