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Z0MG Races Are Natural Kinds!!!
This caused a big dust-up, of course, since the leftier left officially adopted "social constructionist" pseudoscience about...well...basically everything. Including race. Reich tries to appease the progressive powers that be by asserting that races are "socially constructed" while simultaneously arguing that they aren't. This is actually a smart rhetorical tactic--"socially constructed" is such a vague, ambiguous, protean term that it barely means anything at all. Might as well say the magic words and let the progressive cultural superstructure acclimate itself to the facts again. As Rorty suggests, the cultural left is more devoted to making up new words than it is to actual argument. (Well...one could argue about whether he thinks that second part...but I think he's got to say something like that. He's right, I think, when he says (in Achieving Our Country) that the cultural left ascends to "theory" too quickly. Much of what's wrong on the lefty-left can be traced back to postmodernism, poststructuralism, the excesses of critical theory, and all that Continental-y stuff.)
It's really kind of interesting once you ditch the "social construction" stuff. So far as I can tell, what we end up with is a bunch of fuzzy, indistinct patterns of not-particularly-important similarities and differences that roughly correspond to roughly the idea of race that most ordinary people have. Of course white, black and Asian can be broken down into smaller clusters, but that doesn't matter much. And of course we've "drawn lines" differently for different purposes, but that doesn't matter either. Both of those facts are cited as evidence that race is "socially constructed"...but either those arguments are invalid or x is socially constructed is perfectly consistent with x is a natural kind.
But the most important point in this vicinity is the metatheoretical point that questions about the reality or unreality of races have to be settled on purely scientific (broadly construed) grounds. Questions about the impact of various answers on debates about racism can't be allowed into the discussion. And there's simply no doubt that the recent ascendance of social constructionism about race to orthodoxy was driven primarily by such moral/political considerations. It's possible--though unlikely--that nominalism about races will turn out to be right in the end. Nominalism (though not: social constructionism) about races is a respectable position. Though it's probably wrong. The dangerous position is the leftist position that allows scientific conclusions to be determined by political considerations. Neo-Lysenkoism is the essence of political correctness, IMO.
Philosophy And The M*ther F*ckin' Mirror of Nature
Wow. I'm teaching--if you want to call it that--the final chapters of Rorty's Philosophy And The Mirror Of Nature again in American Philosophy (aka Peirce And Some Inconsequential Others)... Damn. I mean, I seriously do not have a lot of natural affinity for Rorty. And he's certainly short on actual arguments late in the book. But there's stuff in there that's pretty insightful and interesting. Or so I'm currently inclined to think. Quasi-arguments that at least warrant attention. I mean...I haven't got to the final chapter again yet...that's the one that really, usually, makes me flip my shit. So I could be singing a different tune tomorrow.
I'm just sayin' that Rorty deserves more respect than people like me are inclined to give him. Even if he's wrong as shit about shit.
I Hate Bein' Right All The Time: Thomas Jefferson Edition
Statues of Mr. Jefferson are next, mofos.
Famed Times Square V-J Day Kiss, Like, Totally Problematic Rape Culture And Stuff
Over to you, Victory Girls...
Remember When We Had Liberals?
I miss 'em.
Does Coffee Lower Risk Of Clogged Arteries?
I mean...anything's possible. But my long-standing view is: if progressive elites are fawning over any food or beverage, it will have magical medical powers attributed to it.
So I'll just assume that this is that.
Trumpdate: Russian Connections Visualized; Cambridge Analytica Story Looking Thinner By The Day?
Russian connections
Leiter Is Bad At Reading
The majority in Heller interpreted the Second Amendment correctly. And that was obvious before Heller. It's absurd to claim that the court's interpretation is "fraudulent."
As for repeal: that's not going to happen in my lifetime, fortunately. But, sadly, we can't rule out the possibility that illiberalism will rule the future, dispensing with both of those first two, extremely pesky, amendments, allowing us to fall in line with the rest of the "civilized" West.
Planned Parenthood: We Need A Transgender, Undocumented Disney "Princess" Who's Had An Abortion
The lefty-left has now demonstrably lost its shit.
Also: that would be a prince.
[Well, actually...this cartoon person can't coherently be a "transgender princess"--i.e. a dude--*and* have had an abortion... Aside from that, though: my god these people are sick.]
Lindsey Graham: I Want Every Democrat Asked If The Second Amendment Should Be Repealed
Dude is totally my favorite Republican
A New Organ?
Meet the interstitum
Nassir Little Named McDonald's All-American Game MVP
Congratulations to the future Tar Heel
His one-hand alley-oop dunk
One in Five Americans Wants To Repeal The Second Amendment
And two in five Democrats.
So the vanguard of the left is now against both the First and Second Amendments. How long before we start getting Vox explainers extolling the virtues of quartering soldiers in private homes? Or arguing that search warrants are relics of the 18th century foisted upon us by dead straight white males?
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Behold The Left: Gun Control Kids' Crusade Too White?
lol yeeeesss....let the farce flow through you...
John Paul Stevens: Repeal The Second Amendment
Heller was right, and there really can't be any reasonable doubt about it. The Second Amendment recognizes the right of individuals to keep and bear firearms. Alternate readings of the amendment are sheer fantasy.
Stevens is right, at least, in one respect: thwarting the individual right would require repealing the Second Amendment.
And if you think you can do it--and think you can enforce it--then, well, molon labe.
The left seems to split its time pretty equally between Oh, no, we don't want to take your guns! and Give us your guns!
CNN: "The Parkland Kids Keep Checking Their Privilege"
In addition to being a totalitarian cult, PC is also basically a young-people's movement driven largely by the popularity of its cringey jargon/slang. So, y'know, like, check your privilege and don't do any of those microaggressions and whiteness. All that stuff is totally transmisogynoir. Not to mention columbizing or whatever.
It's enough to make you miss 'phallogocentrism'.
Trump's Legal Team Continues To Come Apart
I can hardly even watch anymore:
After meeting with the husband-and-wife team on Thursday — after diGenova's hiring had been announced — the person said Trump was less impressed with diGenova than he had been while watching the former U.S. attorney on television.
Rock, Chalk...
...well, you see where I'm goin' with this...
Bolton To Replace McMaster
C. E. Larson: The Benefits Of Thinking Like A Scientists, And Why VCU Is At Risk
There is only space here to mention a single offending guideline from VCU's proposed General Education curriculum: "Recognize how knowledge is constructed differently in various communities." Knowledge of course is knowledge. But there are fashions in academia that suggest that the most important kinds of knowledge are somehow not universal, and that there is no "truth" to scientific laws.
One of these trends, alluded to in this curriculum guideline is "social constructivism" or the "social construction of knowledge." The main idea here seems to be that, because people discover scientific laws, the discoveries must be somehow dependent on the backgrounds (cultural, political, etc.) of the scientists who made them.
It is certainly true that scientists make up the language they use. (For example, whether a neutron is called a "neutron" or something else is a choice — which becomes a convention.)
Insofar as scientific language and practices are conventional, there is something true in social constructivism — but specific claims (that can be substantiated or falsified by evidence) in social constructionism are rare. Insofar as social constructionism is the backdrop for the rejection of "truth" — especially scientific truth — the new VCU General Ed guideline promoting it is pernicious.
A better guideline here would be to recognize how knowledge is universal, and acquired only slowly over time, with great effort, by serious and thoughtful researchers across the planet.
Social constructionism, relativism, and similar nonsense have basically become dogma in the humanities and social sciences. Here's a simple rule of thumb: once the term 'social construction' or its cognates is in play in a discussion, nothing serious will be accomplished. It's not that society has no effects on us; it's rather that those terms are so ambiguous and unclear that they destroy any conversation they touch.
VCU was in the process of destroying itself fifteen years ago (one of its first inane moves: shove a bunch of unrelated departments into the laughably-named "school of world studies"... I mean...there's not much in the humanities and social sciences that you can't shove into "world studies," really... ) Now it seems to be going the way of JMU by replacing its core curriculum with a half-assed "General Education" program.
Academia is a silly place.
Amy Wax Told The Truth; Ruger and Penn Lied
It's not happy data, but, as I suspected, Wax was right:
As for the low number of black Penn law students graduating in the top of their class, Wax's observations about the mismatch effect accord with all available data. The Law School Admissions Council collected 27,000 law student records in the early 1990s, representing nearly 90 percent of accredited schools. After the first year, 51 percent of black law students ranked in the bottom tenth of their class, compared with 5 percent of white students. Two-thirds of black students were in the bottom fifth of their class. Only 10 percent of blacks were in the top half of their class. As mismatch theory predicts, bar-examination failure rates were also skewed, since students put into classrooms above their preparation levels will learn less than when teaching is pitched to their current academic skills. Twenty-two percent of black test-takers in the LSAC database never passed the bar exam after five attempts, compared with 3 percent of white test-takers.
As I also noted, Penn's president's vague non-refutations of Wax's claims are a strong indication that she was right:
Unfortunately, Wax overlooked the precautionary rule for criticizing affirmative action: avoid any generalizations that can be rebutted with an even vaguer generalization. "I don't think I've ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class and rarely, rarely in the top half," she said, clearly speaking informally and from a subjective perspective. Ruger responded in his memo: "It is imperative for me as dean to state that these claims are false: black students have graduated in the top of the class at Penn Law." Ruger's statement leaves unspecified what the "top of the class" is and how many black students over what period of time have graduated in it. But his assertion, as so broadly defined, is undoubtedly true. It is also not inconsistent with Wax's claim that black students have graduated in the top half of the class, but "rarely."
Look, nobody likes data like this. No reasonable person, anyway. But this sort of official lying about the numbers has to be challenged. You'd think that Penn would just let Wax say her piece, ignore her, and go back to pretending that the facts aren't the facts. But in our time, these lies are the sacrosanct lies; these lies can meet refutation with all the righteous indignation the truth might muster. Penn doesn't have to worry about making things worse. Like Google, it can look the facts in the face and call them false; they're backed up by the rest of the cultural superstructure, all of which is committed to pretending that what we want to be true must be true with respect to this topic.
So, bottom line: Wax told the truth; Penn lied. For her temerity, Wax was forced to stop teaching 1L civ pro, and has been branded a racist. Amy Wax, like James Damore, spoke unspeakable truths and paid the price.
A Former Russian Troll Speaks: "It Was Like Being In Orwell's World"
(h/t the Mystic)
Catherine Lhamon, Architect of Title IX Madness, Now Claims She Was A Champion Of Due Process
unfreakingbelievable
What's The Difference Between Frats And Gangs?
Wow this is dumb.
Trump's An Idiot: Trump Loves Putin Edition
Dread Crew Of Oddwood, They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard
What If There Is No Collusion?
I'm still just waitin' for Mueller.
Neo-Lysenkoism: Science As Whiteness
Blah blah "whiteness," blah blah multiculturalism blah blah diverse.
Blah blah hegemonic, blah blah ideology, blah blah "of color."
tl;dr: science and its cisobjective phallogophobic ciswhite whitewhitewhitey whiteness needs to refashion itself so as to emulate the very least-respectable, least-rigorous, least-rational, and least-successful parts of the humanities.
I mean...physics, schmisics...but women's studies...now there's a paragon of epistemic grandeur...
Hobosexuality
Or: In The Bum.
The APA And Transgender Pronoun Stupidity
So...the author of that facepalmerific piece of facepalmery is a fourth-year philosophy Ph.D. student at a solid program.
This nonsense moved into self-parody territory long ago.
It's not even worth refuting this ridiculous nonsense. English pronoun use is determined by sex, not gender. Sex can almost always be determined by looking; almost nobody out there is fooling anybody about their sex. Almost anyone with half a brain or more rejects your ridiculous, trendy theories of all this, and has no interest in "showing solidarity" with people who believe them. People can tell I'm male by looking; there's no even vaguely plausible reason for me to wear them. And I'm not going to be modifying proper English usage on the basis of your irrational demands. And I'm not going to call you 'zxzzr.'
It's extremely important to refuse to go along with this nonsense. And definitely don't fall for the "it's just a word...why not be nice?" argument. It's not just a word--not by a long shot. You're not being asked, you're being told. You're being told that you must believe and act in accordance with an incoherent theory according to which thinking so makes things so. And you're being told that you must speak as the left tells you to speak, even when that means saying and presupposing patent falsehoods. And you're being told that you must alter the rules of the language upon demand. The proper response to all this is "fuck right off."
A Liberal Who Remembers
Not bad, and some good links.
Via the Philosophy Meta-Forum.
One of the things that struck me as most disheartening during the paleo-PC eruption has turned out to be true again this time: a very large percentage of liberals turned out, in both cases, not to be liberals at all. They're really fine with anti-liberal identity politics radicalism. They may be a little uneasy with it sometimes--but not enough to speak up against it and get called some kind of -ist or -phobe.
Does This Mean That Mentioning The Trinity Is A Jail-able Offense?
"Anti-sectarian"???
Is this the word they really want here?
Ted Olson: I'll Help Steal An Election, But I Won't Help Defend Trump
I may be paraphrasing a bit.
Mel Brooks To Be Extradited To UK For Hate Crime Trial?
Count Dankula Found Guilty of Nazi Pug Hate Video
I find myself incapable of articulating how ****ing insane this is.
I'm afraid it's time to start really worrying about the state of things in (on?) Airstrip One.
Peak PC?: You're A Sexist If You Don't Treat Your Echo With Respect
It's NPR...so...kinda cheating...
The Khan / Yale Sexual Assault Trial: About Par For The Course
It seems like it's just one story after another like this from academia.
Carolina 65 - TAMU 86
Congrats to the Aggies on a damn great game. They were the better team on the court today and absolutely deserved the win.
Really sad to see Carolina go out that way. Though TAMU was good, we were also...not. At one point we were 1 of 22 from 3, and we ended shooting under 20% from there. Not our day. TAMU was the kind of big, athletic team that is...or...was...very bad match-up for us. Since our inside game is so weak, we've got to be hitting from outside to beat a team like that. The offense manufactured lots of open looks for shots over the zone...but absolutely nothing would fall. Ergh.
Man, I really wanted to see just one game where we got it all together and a healthy Theo could really strut his stuff...but, alas, 'twas not to be.
Hey, yo, but we still get to be in the Sweet Sixteen, right? You, like, can't have the Sweet Sixteen without Carolina...right?
On the bright side, I guess, hoops is over for the year, so I've got more time to do actual stuff.
Lindsey Graham Calls For Judiciary Hearing On Firing of McCabe
Don't agree with him all the time, obviously, but Graham has been going mostly up in my estimation since the '16 GOP debates.
Beat the Aggies
History Conference Under Fire Because All Speakers Were White Males
The horror...the horror...
There Is A Clear Link Between Mass Shootings And Mental Illness
As for the link between mass shootings and being a white male--well, that seems true, too. I mean, I don't know what to make of it, and the vocal vanguard of the progressive / PC left is absolutely bat. shit. crazy. with hatred of evil straight white males...but that doesn't change the facts. If there's a correlation there's a correlation. No sense in getting our fee-fees in a bunch about it.
McMaster Out
I find this unnerving.
I suppose I'm not the only person who wonders whether he's going to keep getting rid of people until he finds some compliant enough to do what he wants them to...whatever the hell that might be.
"Recognizing Racist Microaggressions"
Includes the patently racist "there is only one race--the human race" (which I've heard many folks on the left say, incidentally, in some form or other), as well as the heinously, like, SUPER-MEGA-microaggressive "where were you born?" And don't miss "I think the most qualified person should get the job"...my God don't these people realize it's [current year]?????
Then there are the hilarious ones that seem to have been lifted from a Leave It To Beaver episode or something, like "You're a girl, you don't have to be good at math." Which, of course, people say all the time these days. Just like: "Women? Vote? Hahaha! Dream on, little lady! Next thing, you'll want to wear pants!" And "Why don't you be a good girl and go make me a sandwich?"
Also: saying "affirmative action is racist" is...well...I'm sure I don't have to tell you what it is...
Why Doesn't FDR Get Blamed For Japanese (Et Al.) Internment?
I read someone pointing this out a couple of months ago. It'd just never occurred to me before. I mean...shouldn't he be?
(Unless, of course, internment was excusable...though...not to say I wouldn't have been just as crazy under those conditions...but...I'm skeptical that case can be made.)
CNN: Legally Deporting Illegal Aliens Back To Their Home Countries = The Holocaust
At first I thought: eh, this isn't so bad. It's just a journalist being relatively neutral about this shitty problem, plus some perfectly reasonable sympathy for these girls.
Yeah, that goes away completely, and it becomes a full-blown, Holocaust-mongering feelz-fest. Seriously, this "journalist"s attitude is just gross.
Which is, again, in no way to deny that this is a shitty, shitty problem.
Honestly, do people not realize that it's the end of America if we don't exercise reasonable controls over who comes in? We've only got two options: (a) have some kind of reasonable immigration system and (b) chaos.
Duke Makes It Out Of First Round
...bracket busted
Who Believes in Russiagate?
All I know about Russiagate is what I read on the intertubes: it's either obviously for real and Trump is treasonous or it's obviously bogus and only the dupiest dupes take it seriously.
I know it's all terribly obvious...but I basically don't know anything else about it.
I'm just waitin' around for Mueller to tell me what's what.
[Whoa...turns out that when you post on Russiagate you get some reeeeeeeally crazy spam...]
Kudlow To Become Trump White House Economic Adviser
My prediction of Judge Judy to the Supreme Court is looking better and better.
What Will The Nationwide School Walkouts Accomplish?"
There's little reason to think that kids have any particular insight into this problem--other than the kids who were actually at Parkland. It seems like that would give you an important perspective. Though it's also likely to rob you of your objectivity. My general inclination is to take the testimony of people with direct experience of such things very seriously...but not to accept their conclusions uncritically.
Even the people involved in these walkouts seem to think it merely aims to "sustain outrage." It doesn't do anything to advance the arguments of the pro-more-gun-control side. It's really just a kind of theater. Here's one sentence on schools "collaborating" with students on walkouts...and almost a whole paragraph about schools working to thwart them:
Some schools collaborated with the students on actions, moments of silence, or programming with guest speakers. But other schools have forbidden students from participating in the walk-out, with some even threatening suspension. Some superintendents cited safety concerns for these restrictions, arguing that they didn't have enough staff to protect students from potential violence while they were outside of classrooms. But other schools explicitly objected to students' political activism: One middle school in Fresno, California, allowed students to walk out, but strongly discouraged them from speaking about gun policy, noting that some students wanted to make a statement of solidarity rather than engage in an act of political protest.
Obviously a lot of teachers and schools will be doing more than "collaborating," given the general political orientation of the education establishment. There can't be any real doubt that many teachers and schools will be encouraging the walkouts. Reports are already rolling in about students being pressured to participate--as well as reports of students being prevented from doing so. Our main goal right now, obviously, has to be to protect student's First Amendment rights. And that's got nothing to do with which side of the issue they're on (needless to say).
I'm not a protesty guy anyway. And mobilizing the least-knowledgeable and least-mature segment of the population to do your bidding seems beyond lame to me. OTOH, I do think that youth can have a certain perspective on things. OTOOH, I doubt there's much more thought behind all this than there is behind any other teen fad.
Penn Punishes Amy Wax For Her Un-PC Views
I suppose it's possible that Penn is telling the truth about why they now refuse to let her teach civ pro...but only distantly possible.
Then there's this:
The Penn Law chapter of the National Lawyers' Guild, a progressive legal organization, said that Wax's comments were "an explicit and implicit endorsement of white supremacy," and asserted that "her bigoted views inevitably seep into her words and actions in the classroom and in private conversations with students."
White supremacy!!!...which...unsurprisingly...now means virtually nothing. Of course "white supremacy" is used by the left to merely mean racism. And 'racism' is used to mean...well...almost nothing anymore. Certainly nothing beyond white people did it and we don't like it. So it was inevitable that 'white supremacy' would come to mean virtually nothing, too. Nothing wax said is racist. She's got a--plausible--view about the advantages and disadvantages of certain cultures. The left bitches about Western culture ceaselessly. Needless to say, however, that's not racist for reasons.
Our cultural superstructure is controlled by cultists.
National Geographic: We Were Racist For Showing People Who Were Different Than Us; And Because They Thought Our Cameras Were Cool
Nat Geo has decided to enter into the newest progressive fad: stern self-denunciation of its own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad racism. It apparently hired an expert on glossy racist nature photography to tell it exactly how awful it had been. Chief among its sins: it showed pictures of (a) people from elsewhere in the world who tend to wear fewer clothes than we do wearing fewer clothes than we do, and (b) people from places that don't have cameras and shit being amazed at cameras and shit. Both of these things are, as you can see, superDUPER racist. Like, basically they couldn't BE any more racist unless they'd, I don't know, represented non-Westerners as exotic or different than us or something. God knows they probably otherized the shit out of other people.
Who, incidentally, doesn't go gaga over slick technology they've never seen before? We gawk at the stuff like crazy and we see it every damn day. How can you be so goddamn puritanical or whatever it is as to flagellate yourself over showing people having perfectly goddamn natural, amazed reactions to objectively amazing shit? I guess they should have been like: "Listen up you guys, you gotta act SUPER FUCKING BLASE about this technology or we're totally not putting you in the magazine."
Cultural Revolution II: The Cultening seems to be proceeding apace.
De'Andre Hunter Has A Broken Wrist; Done For The Year
Damn that's a gut punch for the Hoos
Julia Serano, "Debunking 'Trans Women Are Not Women' Arguments"
Wow this is terrible.
I mean really, really, really bad. Though I will say that I think it inadvertently helped me understand an aspect of this ridiculous theory: the not-well-articulated idea seems to be that experiencing sexism is what makes someone a woman. I mean...that's obviously absurd. But I think that's part of what these people are thinking. That squares with my view that one way to understand these kinds of theories is as the latest development in, roughly, the disagreement about the priority of nature over culture (or vice-versa). They basically want to minimize the role of nature and maximize that of culture. So they are unhappy that being a woman is a biological matter, and are trying to find a way to replace that conception with a social conception. So much the better if it's an oppressiony one.
The Loneliness of James Mattis
Please don't leave, Mad Dog.
Tillerson / McMaster / Mnuchin "Suicide Pact"?
I hope not. I don't see Trump's choices getting any better.
Hayley Phelan: "How Does Submissive Sex Work In The Age Of #Me Too?"
This is reasonable.
But look:
First, it's not about "Me Too." It's about "affirmative consent" = "'Yes' means yes." As I've noted before, "yes means yes" isn't the right name for it. It's, rather: No 'yes' means no. The main component of "affirmative consent" theory is:
If John and Jane are having sex, John must explicitly ask for and explicitly receive permission to proceed at every moment.
No one has ever done this in the entire history of sex. In fact, it's impossible. No matter how frequently John asks, there will always and inevitably be a window during which he has not secured explicit consent. And that's where the rape happens. Every time.
Of course usually the advocates of the "affirmative consent" theory say that permission must only be secured at every point of escalation...but that isn't true. It's no defense to say "we'd been doing x for awhile at that point." If you fail to "secure assent" with respect to continuing to do x, advocates of affirmative consent will classify you as a rapist.
[I once asked Johnny Quest what she'd do if I started asking for consent during sex at every point, every time. Without hesitating, she said "Break up with you." Oh yeah. She's crazy about me.]
Though I think Phelan's piece is pretty reasonable, it's probably wasted effort, because there's a clear answer to the question in her title: there is no place for any non-zero degree of dominance or submission in sex according to the affirmative consent theory. It's patently obvious that, by the principles (such as they are) of political correctness and progressivier parts of progressivism, any nonzero degree of either dominance or submission is "rape culture." Period.
Damore's "Anti-Diversity" "Manifesto"
This is just one stupid thing, but it does give you some idea what we're up against when you see this kind of rhetoric. Damore's document is in no substantial sense "anti-diversity." (Not to mention: a "manifesto.")
At my own institution, "diversity" and "inclusion" have become creepy-ass mantras that are intoned at every opportunity...and then some. They often seem to be more important to the institution than teaching and scholarship. Even somebody like me who's basically in favor of the ideas (when they're stripped of their quasi-religious creepiness and PC aspects) can't help but be weirded out a bit by how they've been elevated to something like the unquestionable and primary obsession of the institution.
Anyway. Pointing out he failings of contemporary diversophiliacs is not equivalent to being against fairness. In fact, a commitment to fairness demands that we oppose the excesses of diversophlia. Which is what Damore did. The first words of his "manifesto" are: "I value diversity and inclusion..." Of course the PC left springs its kafkatrap at such impertinence...but they're crazy.
Trump's Revolving Door
Tillerson out.
I'll bet turnover in the upper administration constitutes some kind of (weak) objective measure of presidential quality. Ceteris parabus, high turnover doesn't seem like a good sign.
Bombs in Austin
WTH?
David French: Civility Isn't Surrender
This is ok. An important topic, anyway.
Of course it's the fringes that tend to be uncivil. Though as the American left has shifted lefter, and "progressives" have more-or-less accepted political correctness and identity politics (except for white identity politics, of course) as their orthodoxy, incivility has invaded / pervaded more and more of lefty discourse. Or so it seems to me.
Among the many crazy things mixed in with all of this: the shrieky left shrieks about calls for civility being fascist even as they insist that those with whom they disagree must not be allowed to speak at all--and even as they shout them down and physically attack them. To review: calls for the left to engage in civil discussion: fascistic. The left physically attacking non-leftists in order to prevent them from civilly stating their case: totally cool.
Heels Fall To the Hoos 71 - 63 In The ACCT Final
Good game Heels, good game Hoos.
The better team won tonight.
Hoos are legit.
Looks like a 1 seed for UVA and a 2 for UNC.
Everybody in C'ville be all like.
"Queer Death Studies"
The header from a recent conference announcement on PHILOS-L:
The Third International Queer Death Studies Workshop
"Death Matters: Death and Dying in a Queer Context"
I am not making this up.
Putin: Election Meddling Probly Th' Jooz
Well now...why didn't I think of that?
Heels - Hoos
The south's oldest hoops rivalry, and my two favorite teams.
Man, this is gonna be fun.
Carolina 74 - Duke 69
Kind of a weird game. And Carolina just seems to have fallen into a pattern of not scoring for the last five minutes against Duke. But they built up a big enough lead and played good enough D that it didn't matter this time. Duke's perennial relentlessness almost turned things around, though.
There was--unsurprisingly--some Grayson Allen trippery. But at least he got a flagrant for it this time. And Brooks could have been hurt--that was a hard fall. Total dick move by Allen, yet again. And Trent pulled Duke's signature kick-the-defender-on-the-3 move against Cam Johnson, and grabbed him and pulled him down to the floor just for good measure on the same play. And got away with it. This is the stuff that makes it hard to regard Duke as just an honorable rival.
OTOH, Bagley continues to be a blast to watch. Dude is really, really good.
And Pinson...man, what can you say about that dude? One of my favorite Heels ever.
Carolina does seem to be the better team. Who would have thought that at the beginning of the year? Not me, I'll admit.
"El Salvador's Gangs Are Targeting Young Girls: The Trump Administration's Immigration Policies Are Certain To Make It Worse"
IMO the main points to make in this vicinity are:
1. We do have an obligation to take a significant number of refugees; that should be a major component of our immigration policy--and it is.
2. We can't take everyone.
3. There are about ten countries closer to El Salvador than the U.S. is. As in the case of so many refugees (or "refugees") to Europe, if the aim were really just to get out of their home country, you'd expect them to aim for somewhere closer / stop sooner. Given that they don't, there can't be any doubt that they're not merely trying to get out of somewhere, but, rather, trying to get somewhere.
4-ish. Furthermore, it'd be interesting to know how many keep going to Canada. My guess: if getting out of El Salvador were the overriding (?) motive, you'd expect a pattern that was more-or-less directionally indifferent, and people should tend to cluster in nearby countries. I'd also guess that you'd actually find an inordinate number of people going north, and passing right through Guatemala and Mexico...and going to the U.S...and stopping.
I think we should aim to help more refugees rather than fewer. But I also think we shouldn't be stupid about it. I'd also like us to do more to help out places like El Salvador--which I'd think would mean: more foreign assistance of some kind, probably including law enforcement training and funding. Just letting their people flee here isn't the greatest plan. Maybe we could give preference to people who agree to learn about international development and return some day. I don't know. It's not exactly my area. But progressives often seem to hover on the verge of arguing that we have to take in anyone who is worse off elsewhere. All of their arguments are slanted in the direction of taking in more and more people...from groups high up in the progressive stack, anyway...and alternatives are rarely mentioned. Others note that the vast majority of those they want to take in are future Democrats...but I doubt that's their main goal. I think it's the general progressive principle of aiding the poor and disadvantaged, and women and nonwhites. Those principles pervade progressivism. I doubt we'll see any similar progressive push to give refugee states to, say, white South African farmers. (Though not a lot of white South African farmers are showing up at our borders; so there's an asymmetry.) At any rate, I think it's clear that progressives are constitutionally disinclined to think of alternatives to and limits on our acceptance of poor, nonwhite females who can plausibly claim to be fleeing sexual violence. (I'd also guess--were I guessing--that the article makes the problem seem more pervasive than it actually is. I'd further guess that someone less committed to the progressive project of (in effect) maximizing immigration of certain kinds would note the obvious objection: one goal of regulating such immigration is to prevent the gangs in question from flourishing here. To refuse to seriously attend to keeping e.g. MS-13 out of the U.S is just going to make the problem bigger.)
At any rate: I'm generally in favor of helping refugees, but generally suspicious of the relentlessly single-minded progressive orientation on immigration.
The Strange Case of 'Oriental': Jayne Tsuchiyama: 'Oriental' Is Outdated, But Not A Slur
Obvious, but I was still glad to see it.
I read somewhere (and think I posted) that the idea that 'oriental' is a slur was basically engineered in the outrage factory of the humanities / social sciences.
Plants Might Have Colonized Land A Whole Lot Earlier Than We Thought
Like 100 million years earlier
Carolina 64 - d00k 74
Yeesh that was an ugly half...that was the ugliest half since...the first half against Miami...which was the ugliest half since...I dunno...Wofford maybe?
Good game Dukies, especially Bagley. And WTF?, dude isn't even hateable! What's up with that? Of course he's just passing through...so Dukiness hasn't really seeped into him.
Not wild about the idea of aiming to spoil somebody's senior day...but gotta admit, I wasn't wild about Grayson Allen, the personification of d00kzyzewskiness, going out on a winning note. Man, if that guy played for us I'd be mortified. But they love him. But Duke and Carolina are, well, different.
But, hey, they seem to have been doing some how-not-to-kick-the-opponent drills in practice. And it seems to really have paid off for them.
Berry and Maye...MIA, and two shaky performances in a row for the Heels... Not really awesome...but maybe not really indicative of something major. Hard to say.
On to the ACC TournamentDome! Fifteen teams enter, one team leaves!*
*Fifteen teams.
In Brooklyn.
I miss the old/actual ACC.
Is Trump Flipping His Shit?
This is what I really fear. In addition to all his other vices, that guy just isn't stable. He's in way, way, way over his head, facing less-and-less-fantastical accusations of collusion...and never-in-the-least-bit-fantastical accusations of obstruction of justice. I don't find it at all difficult to believe that someone like Trump would flip out under such conditions. I mean, look: it almost doesn't even matter whether he's innocent or guilty. Either way, he's living a nightmare. Other than the nightmare of just being Trump, that is. He's got to feel trapped like a rat. A rat that may very well have colluded with the Rooskies...and then tried to cover it up by firing the director of the FBI.
Add an openly anti-Trump media and the grotesquely unhinged "resistance" to the mix...not even to mention the ordinarily extraordinary pressures of being the POTUS...and, honestly, it's enough to drive a much better man than Trump (of which there are many) flip out.
I mean...extemporaneous trade war? Really????
I just hope that Putin's announcement of his new alleged superduper weapons doesn't provoke Trump into another button-measuring contest. That's the kind of thing that really keeps me up at night.
Beat the Dark Side
I Don't Even Ask
Refuting Falsehoods Does Not Make People Believe Them More
For forty years or so, psychologists have reveled in telling us how irrational we are. I used to believe all that stuff, but stopped doing so quite awhile ago. Some of the alleged phenomena seem pretty plausible and well-established...but a lot of the more recent ones...eh...I just don't believe 'em. My view is that there are basically only two reasonable reactions to hearing about such alleged results: (a) LOL no and (b) wake me when there's a metastudy.
I never quite believed the stuff about cognitive boomerang effects, but I'll admit, it didn't send me to SKEPTICON ONE the way a lot of stuff does.
But anyway: it's likely false. And that's not exactly surprising.
School Are Safer Than They Were In The '90s; School Shootings Are Not More Common
Of course we might respond: but they were insufficiently safe in the '90s, and shootings were too common. But the comparative point is still important.
Lisa Marchiano: Transgenderism and the Social Construction of Diagnosis
This is right on target.
I'll say again that the terminological train wreck 'social construction' undermines every conversation it shows up in...but we can work around that.
The problem isn't really that diagnoses are "socially constructed" (not that that's an actual thing...), but rather that (a) they're often theory-laden, and that (b) theories are often false or inaccurate, largely in virtue of being (c) socially transmitted (d) on non-rational grounds. There's likely a real (often: psychological, even biological) basis for this sort of thing. But the phenomenon itself is vague and multifarious, and nobody knows exactly what it is. So a theory is promulgated: you're really (in some sense of 'really'...) the opposite sex! This theory is false, of course--but it catches on because the left has a political interest in promoting it. Political pressure is applied to enforce acceptance of the theory among psychologists, doctors and the public. And now people with a vague and multifarious collection of maladies start interpreting their own experiences through the lens of the theory: I'm gender disphoric! I'm actually the opposite sex!
This all has more straightforwardly moral consequences as well as more epistemic ones. The former include implanting delusions in children and mutilating their bodies. The latter include training ourselves to obey whatever commends the left might decide to issue, cowering in the face of their disapproval.
There's a really important lesson in all this, but I reckon we won't learn it. We didn't seem to learn anything from the Satanic Panic. We're in the midst of an episode of mass hysteria / mass psychogenic illness. The official theory doesn't make any sense, but the left has adopted the meta-strategy of accusing anyone who disagrees with its theories of identity sin: some affront to the feelings / self-concept of one of the groups at the top of the progressive stack. Identity sins are sins so horrific that most people anywhere left of the right dare not say (or even think?) anything that might even possibly result in an accusation--and accusations are made very, very freely. During the Satanic Panic, no one wanted to defend the accused, since by doing so they risked bringing down accusations of pedophilia on themselves. (Some people were actually put on trial merely for testifying on behalf of others who had been accused.) And so we went on collectively pretending that children were being flown to other countries en masse during the school day, molested by Satanic cults, then flown back...without a peep from them or a single sign it had happened.
It was one thing when the left used accusations of identity sin to coerce conformity of word and deed. But now they're using them to coerce conformity of thought. That's on them, of course...but the really scary thing is how well this works on us. Even people I've long thought to be independent thinkers are cowed into silence and acquiescence because they are so desperately afraid of being called "transphobic." Which, you'll note, wasn't even a sin until very recently...but we've been trained to hit the dirt when anything of the form "*phobic" or "*ism" is thrown at us. We haven't merely been trained to obey, we've been trained to live in terror of suffixes.
We sure do disappoint me sometimes.
Extemporaneous Trade War Everybody!
LOL now this is the Trump I fear and deride.
On the bright side: trade war not war war.
This time, anyway.
On the other bright side: surely this sort of thing makes it more likely that we'll finally throttle back on presidential power...right? And speaking of war and presidential power: remember when the War Powers Act was a thing?
Another Really Shitty Piece on PC: Tim Kreider: Go Ahead, Millennials: Destroy Us"
Egad this is terrible...except for the part about the left being the censorious and oppressive end of the spectrum now. That's certainly true.
I do think youth has certain cognitive advantages; it tends to be less blase and set in its ways. It's also almost completely lacking in wisdom, good sense, the ability to engage in dispassionate analysis and perspective.
And: yes, transgenderism is a fad. And a fad that makes no sense whatsoever. It isn't about breaking out of gender roles; it's about reinforcing them. In fact, it's about turning generalizations into definitions. Stop pretending that defining women as people who wear dresses is some kind of act of liberation. Jesus Christ. That nonsense makes conservatism downright liberal by comparison. And, more importantly, transgenderism, like the rest of the PC train wreck, is about subordinating truth to political dogma.
And as for taking our guns, destroying all our works, and all that...well...molon labe, kiddies.
But look: just stop pretending that a couple of well-coiffed, media-savvy rich kids from Florida are going to change the world. I'm sorry that they went through what they went through. And I am, indeed, interested in doing something about mass murders. But being photogenic doesn't make you worth listening to, and no amount of pimping by CNN will change that. I'm happy to have a national conversation about this stuff, and I'm happy to hear the input of people who have actually lived through such things. It's worth listening to their reports of their experiences; they had them and we didn't. But having had those experiences doesn't make them any better at reasoning about principles and policies.
REI Stops Selling 5 NRA-Linked Brands
Well...I'm not pro-NRA...and I love REI...but I think I'm going to cancel my membership over this.
I'm sick of the left's view that politics must pervade everything...including our business dealings and personal lives. "The personal is political" is one of the most insidious ideas of our time. I'd rather not get dragged into such nonsense...but damn.
Hell...maybe I should join the NRA again...haven't been a member for decades...I don't actually agree with all that much...but damn. They may be on their way to being the less-crazy side in this debate.
20 Years Later, Lewinsky Decides Her Affair With Clinton Was Non-Consensual
Because any woman can declare at any time than any act of sex she ever engaged in (with a man, anyway) was rape. No matter what.
Honestly, is this better than what we had before? And is the left simply incapable of not taking everything to surreal extremes? In terms of actual effects on people's lives, I'm sure that rape crisis hysteria and #MeToo madness isn't worse than its opposite. But in terms of sheer insanity, it's quickly outstripped the opposite error.
I think this is a pretty common pattern: there's some social problem that genuinely needs to be fixed...but, whatever else you can say about it, it doesn't really come with a theory. It's just bad behavior. The left takes steps to fix the problem...but, as Rorty points out, it just can't resist the urge to "theorize" it. And its theories are always insane. In terms of flat-out, unconceptualized misery, there can't be much doubt that sexual assault and harassment are worse than feminist #MeToo hysteria. But in terms of sheer deranged looniness, it seems to me there's no comparison. And don't forget: there is no reasonable person standard that regulates things like "hostile environment" "sexual harassment": whatever a woman feels to be harassment is harassment.
And, as always: I realize that some feminists reject the radical position. But what I really object to is the fact that the sane sectors of feminism basically refuse to criticize their crazies. (Cathy Young et al. don't count--they're considered heretics.)
Merkel Admits That Germany Has "No-Go" Areas
Trump Wants Yer Guns
Cripes, what a spaz.
I assume he'll have forgotten about this in a week or two.
Miami Dude Walked
The Miami dude who hit the alleged game-winner on senior night walked.
Waddaya gonna do? You're almost never gonna get that call.
[Better angle]
Jalek Felton is Gone
When is this BS going to end? PJ, then the AFAM scandal, now this. It's like we're snake-bit. Except, y'know...for those two title games. And the title... Anyway, the most exciting player we've gotten in awhile...and he turns out to be...if the rumors are true...a piece of crap. And it sure sounds like they're true.


Public procurement, which accounts for roughly one-third of government spending in OECD countries and up to 50% in developing economies, is well-known as an area associated with high corruption risk. Hence, it is hardly a surprise that a range of policy recommendations from international organizations (such as the OECD), civil society networks (such as the Open Contracting Data Standard), and research projects (e.g. Digiwhist) have emerged to promote anticorruption in public procurement. And one of the most popular prescriptions for achieving this goal is increased transparency. Transparency, of course, can mean different things. For purposes of the discussion here, we will follow the OECD and World Bank in defining "public procurement transparency" as entailing the timely, free, and accurate publication of public procurement documents in a central e-procurement portal in a machine-readable format, with this publication requirement applying to every major step of the contracting process, and disclosing all key characteristics of the tender and contract. (For a comprehensive data template see here).
As several earlier posts on this blog have discussed (see, for example, here, here, and here), collusion and corruption in public procurement is a significant problem, one that is extremely difficult to detect and combat. The nature of public procurement markets makes collusion easier to sustain, as pay-offs are higher (demand is often inelastic due to the auction mechanisms used), administrative costs increase entry barriers, and the transparency of procurement contract awards–often intended as an anticorruption device–can actually make it easier for cartel members to monitor one another and punish cheating. Law enforcement agencies have tried various techniques for breaking these cartels, for example by offering leniency to the first company that "defects" on the other cartel members by exposing the collusive arrangement. However, although leniency policies have sometimes proven to be an effective tool to fight coordinated company behavior, the efficacy of this approach is limited given the relative unlikelihood that the government will ever acquire convincing evidence of collusion absent such a defection by an insider. Hence, there is great need for alternative methods to identify collusive rings and guide tradition investigation.
Yesterday Matthew commended the work of Mihály Fazekas, István János Tóth, and their colleagues to those concerned with corruption in public procurement. I second that recommendation. In their July 2013, slyly-named "Corruption Manual for Beginners", the authors describe better than anyone yet how a government buyer can connive to steer a contract to a particular seller — from skewing the contract specifications so that only the favored firm can meet them, to failing to notify others about the procurement, to disqualifying on specious grounds firms that submit bids lower than the favored firm's bid.
Yet despite the value of the contribution, the authors have not (yet) provided a similarly penetrating analysis of another form of public procurement corruption: that which results not from a conspiracy between a government buyer and one seller but that between the buyer and a group of sellers organized into an industry cartel. Judging from the results of investigations in settings as different as the American states, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Nepal, France, Columbia, Uganda, Slovakia, and India, this type of corruption maybe be at least as common as the single seller form. Costly too. More than half the time, the price a buyer pays in a cartelized market is 25 percent or more higher than what it would have been had there been no collusion among the sellers.
One of the big challenges in anticorruption work, which I suspect we will be discussing quite a bit on this blog, concerns the measurement of corruption. After all, there are a bunch of different theories about the causes and consequences of corruption, and about the best way to combat it. Testing these theories requires some way of measuring the extent of corruption (or different forms of the corruption problem). And for folks actually doing anticorruption work (donors, governments, NGOs, etc.), it would be nice to be able to assess how well programs are working. Yet all of the existing measures have significant problems.


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Duration: Broadcast & Media Volunteers will be needed on all match days at their assigned venue, there will also be some additional volunteer shifts available the two days prior to each match day at every venue.
The Role: Volunteers in this team will assist the Venue Media Manager on the day to day operation of a media centre. Volunteers will provide a warm welcome to all media on match day and the days leading up to each match. On a match day, volunteers will assist the media ensuring they have everything they need to capture the action (interviews, quotations, footage) and then publish their stories. The role includes supporting the media team at press conferences and mixed zones in each venue. Broadcast & Media Volunteers will also provide operational support to the Venue Broadcast Manager and the Broadcast Team as they capture images to beam across the globe.
This is a great role for anyone interested in a career or studying degrees relating to media, journalism, social media, communications, film and broadcasting. Experience in media operations would also be beneficial.


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I fear for Nigeria's future – Sultan of Sokoto
Sultan of Sokoto, Sa'ad Abubakar III has expressed fears over the future of Nigeria's election looking at what transpired before, during and after the 2019 general elections.
The monarch who spoke during the weekend at the 2019 General Assembly of the Da'awah Coordination Council of Nigeria (DCCN) held at the Sultan Palace, Sokoto, expressed worry that Nigerians has become more divided politically ahead of the next general elections in 2023.
Sultan who premised his fears on the fact that the just concluded elections witnessed very disturbing trend where even religious leaders were seen openly pitching tent with candidates when they should be seen as neutral. He said;
"If Nigeria has these troubles in 2019 then, I have my fears over 2023. The signs are already on ground.
"Brothers no longer talk to each other. Friends are now divided in a very terrible way because they have been insulting one another before the election. Neighbours now hate each other because they belong to different political parties,"
The religious leader said despite the contest was between two Muslims who were the candidates of the two major political parties, some respected Muslim and Christian clerics turned their worship places to an avenue of campaign for either of the two candidates.
He stressed:
"We that are religious leaders, have to be careful of what we tell our followers because most of them are not educated and will take whatever you say as true.
"I have been an observer of the election over the years and have never declared support for any candidate. As a religious leader, I have never asked Imams or Muslims preachers to preach against anybody or in support of any as well," he asserted
"Prior to 2019, you have heard and seen the Muslims and Christians leaders preaching things that you find it difficult to respond to.
"We should ask ourselves why have things changed that way? Is it because of the greed of our religious leaders who collect monies to preach their support for a particular candidate? Let's try to discourage that, because the religion preaches love for all.
"2019 election has come and gone. Though there are court issues here and there but let us begin to plan ahead of 2023 on how to ensure that we have leaders that are our choice and not those that are forced on people.
"So let's begin to plan on how to ensure peace and peaceful coexistence before, during and after the general elections.
"Let's work towards peace and having a society where everybody is free to coexist in peace. Let start working on our challenges from now by trying to collectively decide to do what is right,"
the royal father added.
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there are lots of electronic brands in the market, Have you ever accidentally buy fake product? or even you are not aware that in fact you have purchased a fake product. This time we will share tips to distinguish fake and genuine product.
ARC, or Audio Return Channel, is an HDMI feature, built into many TVs, receivers, and sound bars. It has the potential to simplify setup, but it comes at a potential cost. Here's what you need to know.
Do you still believe this myth?
Today we will share some myth that wrong about your smartphone, and of cource we will tell you the real one.
5 Apps that you should uninstall from your android.
There is a lot developer that said they had someting you must have for your Android smartphone, but actually there is some apps that you should uninstall from your smartphone because it will consume a lot of ram from your smartphone. here is some apps that you should uninstall if you need to improve your Smartphone.
Electricity is like a flame, it's a friend and foe, deending on how you control it. and keep it save. Here are some tips for protect your self from elecrical hazards.
Alat ini diciptakan oleh Mohammad Bah Abba dari Nigeria pada tahun 1995 dan mendapat Rolex Laureate (penghargaan Rolex di bidang enterprise) senilai $100.000 atau sekitar 1 milyar rupiah pada tahun 2000. Alat yang luar biasa berguna sekaligus luar biasa sederhana ini telah dipakai secara luas di afrika dan bisa dibilang kini menyelamatkan hidup banyak orang dengan memperkenalkan sistem pengawetan makanan yang murah dan sederhana (dan memberi mereka minuman dingin). Prinsip pendinginannya sederhana, yaitu memanfaatkan proses penguapan untuk mengambil kalor/panas sehingga membuat temperatur jadi rendah. Metode ini efektif untuk daerah kering. Kalau daerahnya lembab, proses penguapan sulit terjadi karena kandungan air di udaranya tinggi.


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Upon selection of their proposal, organizers will also be required to prepare a workshop or tutorial abstract (one page) in due time for the IROS 2014 handout.
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Home News Kano Emirate: Bebeji People Support Ganduje, Call For Deposition Of District Head
Kano Emirate: Bebeji People Support Ganduje, Call For Deposition Of District Head
Amid controversy that trails the rumored resignation of the District Head of Bebeji and his later denial of the resignation, the people of his domain, Bebeji local government, in hundreds, call for the immediate removal of the traditional leader, Haruna Rashid Sunusi.
Under the auspices of Bebeji Concerned Citizens and the leadership of Alhaji Umar Baba, presented a letter of solidarity for the creation of new Emirate Councils in the state, to governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and complaint concerning their District Head.
The letter was presented to the governor through the Commissioner of Information, Youth and Culture, Malam Muhammad Garba, when hundreds of the peaceful protesters converged at Bebeji local government secretariat on Tuesday.
A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor , Abba Anwar said on the call for the removal of the District Head, they said "We are calling on the governor that we don't want an absentee District Head in Haruna Rashid Sanusi, who rarely lives in Bebeji, not to talk of having time to listen to his people."
They urged that, they needed somebody who had time for his people. "Not somebody who rarely shows up for the communal interest of his people. He is always away from his domain. He doesn't care about us."
Leader of the group, Baba said "We are here to register our solidarity to the governor of Kano state, over the creation of more Emirate Councils in the state. We believe that, that decision was reached with the sole intention of further developing our state."
After stating their unalloyed support, the group further states their total commitment and loyalty to their new Emirate Council, Rano, assuring that "We are loyal to our new Emirate Council and we will remain so throughout our lifetime. And others will follow."
On his part Governor Ganduje's representative at the event, Muhammad Garba assured that, the issue of the creation of the new Emirate Councils was a close chapter, revealing that, "This issue of the creation of new Emirate Councils has come to stay."
Reminded that, all due processes were followed before the Law establishing the new Emirates came to reality, insisted that, "All provisions of the law were followed before we reached this level."
"Before our governor assented the Bill for the creation of these Emirate Councils, he reviewed the Bill and made sure that, what was contained therein would greatly make impact to the general wellbeing of our people. He saw good reason for it, which influenced his decision to sign the Bill into Law," he reminded.
According to Garba the creation came up purposely to bring development closer to the people, in many areas of human endeavour. While giving some other Emirate Councils that were created in some other states, as examples, like in Jigawa state, which prompted the development of the new Emirates.
The chairman of the local government, Ali Namadi Bebeji, who witnessed the handing over of the letter to the commissioner for onward transmission to governor Ganduje, commended the effort of those who converged to register their solidarity to the governor and lodged their complaint about their District Head, at the same time.
Bebeji People
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Late Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Sells Record $43 Million for his Hawaiian Farmhouse.
One more property that had a place with the late prime supporter of Microsoft, Paul Allen, has sold, this one at a record cost.
The 22-section of land compound, which flaunts in excess of 12,000 square feet of living space, on Hawaii's Big Island, exchanged an off-market bargain for $43 million recently, as indicated by the Multiple Listing Service.
The deal was about 14% more than the following priciest arrangement on the island, a $37 million deal in December at Kukio Golf and Beach Club, records show.
Situated on the western shoreline of Hawaii Island in Kailua Bay, the home was once known as the Thurston Estate, worked by paper distributer Lorrin Thurston, as per a 2019 Wall Street Journal article on Allen's property possessions. Allen, who kicked the bucket in 2018 at age 65, bought the compound through an organization called Big Surf Trust in 1997 for $11 million.
The innovation titan added a few extra structures to the property, including a 9,080-square-foot house with five rooms and five restrooms, and a 2,968-square-foot house with six rooms and five washrooms, the Wall Street Journal announced.
Some of Allen's other previous properties had recorded for the current year.
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Nørre Farup is a village on the peninsula of Jutland. It is a part of Esbjerg Municipality in the Region of Southern Denmark.

History

Name
The first particle far- is believed to be an Old Norse word which meant "ferry [station]", and the last particle -rup is derived from the Old Danish word thorp, which meant "secondary settlement".

The name Nørre Farup (Norfarthrop; Northern Farup) is known from 1352, about the same time that the village Lille Farup (Lillæfarthorp) on the opposite side of Ribe River acquired the name Sønder Farup (Synderfarthorp; Southern Farup), but the name Nørre Farup does not seem generally used until the 1800s. On a cadastral map from 1868 the village is yet mentioned as Farup (Fardrup) in Nørre Farup Parish (Nørre Fardrup Sogn), on a cadastral map from 1887 as Farup (Fardrup) in Farup Parish (Farup Sogn), and first on a cadastral map from 1907 as Nørre Farup in Farup Parish.

Early history
The parish Farup (Fardrup) is known from 1045, but the village Farup (Fartorp) is known first from the second half of the 1200s.

Modern history
January 14th, 1814, a Cossack, who was patrolling in Nørre Farup after foreign troops invaded Denmark in the Napoleonic Wars, was murdered there. The local Hans Hansen Bundesen admitted during questioning that he shot the Cossack in the back and the back of the head because the Cossack with his lance threatened him and his father, and both were therefore taken to Haderslev. What since happened to them is, however, not known.

Since the Middle Ages there were in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein several enclaves, i.e. farms or villages, which were owned by the Danish Monarchy. If a farm or village was owned by the Danish Monarchy, the laws and regulations of the Danish Monarchy applied, while the regulations of the Duchies applied for the other areas. In Nørre Farup some of the village was part of Riberhus Judicial District, which was of the Danish Monarchy, and other was part of Kalvslund Hundred, which was of the Duchy of Schleswig. April 1st, 1867, however, the whole village became a part of Ribe Hundred.

Geography
Nørre Farup lies on the geest-edge, i.e. the border between marsh and geest, and has preserved the distinct character of circular village around a village green, clearly defined against the surrounding landscape.

Notable people from Nørre Farup

 Søren Brorson (1875-1961), politician.

References

Cities and towns in the Region of Southern Denmark
Esbjerg Municipality


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Local family's businesses taking root in Kapaa
By Alden Alayvilla - The Garden Island | Sunday, January 8, 2017, 1:15 a.m.
KAPAA — Juliet Ka'ohelauli'i had her children in the retail business before Macy's opened shop on the Garden Isle in 2001.
"Jeni was in retail even before high school because I worked at the mall," Juliet said of her daughter. "She worked — even when Liberty House was here. I would get my children involved in modeling Liberty House little kids clothes. I worked there, too."
Nowadays, the two Kapaa businesswomen have their own retail shops within walking distance of each other.
Juliet and her husband John tend to Sole Mates, a shop specializing in custom shoes while Jeni Ka'ohelauli'i owns Work It Out, an active wear lifestyle boutique along Kuhio Highway.
"The family was at Sole Mates since the beginning," said Juliet, who bought the business over 13 years ago. "We had some here since they were like elementary school. They would work and help customers."
Last year, Juliet relocated Sole Mates from Coconut MarketPlace to Old Kapaa Town.
"It was a big move for them. It was nice because we got to do a whole new build out of the shop," Jeni said. "We also felt the energy was stronger in this part of the town versus the south end."
Though construction at the marketplace was taking a little too long for their liking, the family wanted to keep Sole Mates in business.
"This is more of a ma and pa feeling. It's more us," Juliet said. "We have great neighbors now."
John said he enjoys every moment he spends with his family.
It's the mom and pop business that are the root of the Hawaiian economy, he said.
"These stores really stand for what community is all about," he said.
The move meant being closer to Jeni's store, which opened up in 2008.
"It's good because I can call her and she can call me to get lunch," Juliet said. "I think it's always a good thing with family."
As far as owning her own business, Jeni was heavily influenced by her parents.
"I was really young when I first opened. I was still in my early 20s, so without really realizing what a big responsibility it was — I did know it was a big responsibility — I might have know how hard it would have been in the very beginning years," Jeni said.
One area of business Jeni learned from her mom was staying innovative.
"My mom has been really good at finding brands before they explode," she said. "For instance, they've had the Hydro Flask for six or seven years. It's inspiring when I go on buying trips to find that next 'pop' product."
One challenge the retail business faces, Juliet said, is online shopping.
"More people are buying online, so the money isn't staying in the community. It's just a little hard," she said. "Or customers come in, try on and tell us they're going to buy it online."
Another challenge is keeping staff.
"Because it's an entry-level retail, a lot of times they are still in college, so they might stay with us for a semester or a year," Jeni said. "In between those times, it has been challenging to find the right person."
The Ka'ohelauli'is are part of Kapaa Town's new look, Jeni said.
"In the past, Kapaa has been branded as more of a tourist destination and not necessarily for the locals," Jeni said. "But we've been there for a little over eight years now, and there has been new blood popping up and new shops."
John said working with his family is unique, and he's glad to be part of the town's history.
" You go through Kapaa Town and you're basically walking through generations of mom and pop stores that were still here," he said. "These big shopping centers change the cultural life, but it's those mom and pops that make Kauai Kauai."
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Elizabeth Harrison, "Lunchtime, Cafeteria at the Château Laurier, Ottawa", 1944, oil on canvas. Collection of Library and Archives Canada, C-141163, © Estate of Elizabeth Harrison.
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"Thirty years since our founding, and with the impending opening of our new expanded home, the OAG will mark and celebrate this important juncture by drawing together a seminal collection of art to generate the most extensive and multilayered exploration of the region's art history and contemporary production to date.
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Have you heard of The Daily Sew on Facebook? It's a Facebook page devoted to sharing great sewing tutorials, patterns, sales, and pretty much anything else sewing related! A group of my sewing blogger friends and I take turns hosting the page each day. It's fun to see what each of us finds to share!
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Jubilee Singers
Season 31 Episode 8 | 51m 55s
n the chaotic decade following the Civil War, a group of young ex-slaves in Nashville, Tennessee, set out on a mission to save their financially troubled school by giving concerts.
Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Consumer Cellular. Major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Military Times: Mere 15 Percent of Troops Approve of Obama
(Justin Lane/EPA/Landov)
By James Morrison | Monday, 22 December 2014 11:29 AM EST
President Barack Obama's approval rating tanked to 15 percent this year among active-duty members of the armed services, reflecting a steady decline since he first took office in 2009, according to a new survey from The Military Times.
From allowing women to serve in combat to allowing homosexuals to serve openly, Obama's moves are widely seen as "heavy-handed social engineering that erode deep-seated traditions and potentially undermine good order and discipline," the survey of 2,300 soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen found.
"Morale in the military is swiftly sinking, with the troops losing both their sense of mission and their faith that their superiors, political leaders — and the nation — still have their best interests at heart," the Times said in its exhaustive report entitled, "A force adrift: How the nation is failing its troops and veterans."
The survey comes as Obama is cutting the military to the lowest size since before World War II, while the scandal grows over poor health care at the Veterans' Administration and tensions increase in the Middle East.
Obama's approval rating sank from 35 percent in a 2009 Military Times polls to the record low of 15 percent in the latest annual survey of the troops. His disapproval rating, meanwhile, soared from 40 percent in 2009 to 55 percent this year.
The negative view of Obama's presidency is also reflected in civilian surveys. Rasmussen on Monday found a 52 percent disapproval rate in its daily tracking poll of 1,500 likely voters, compared to 47 percent who approved of his job performance.
The Military Times survey was included in a detailed report that examined many of the controversial changes imposed by the commander-in-chief as he enters his seventh year in office.
The poll also found that the troops are also frustrated by gridlock on Capitol Hill, with only 12 percent saying that members of Congress "have the armed forces' best interests at heart."
"More than one-third of readers who responded to the Military Times Poll said that neither Democrats nor Republicans have been a strong advocate for the military, and 44 percent think both major political parties have become less supportive of military issues in recent years," the Times reported.
The troops are also being less Republican and more independent, as those who identify with the GOP have dropped from about half to 32 percent this year. Twenty-eight percent call themselves independents.
Democrats and liberals, however, rank at only 8 percent of the forces, according to the survey.
The Times concluded: "In this latest post-war era — even as new threats spark around the world — the nation simply cannot afford to watch its military get taken over that cliff again. And with all that's asked of it, America's military certainly deserves better."
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President Obama's approval rating tanked to 15 percent this year among active-duty members of the armed services, reflecting a steady decline since he first took office in 2009, according to an extensive survey by The Military Times.
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Backa en Björknäs (Zweeds: Backa och Björknäs) is een småort in de gemeente Norrtälje in het landschap Uppland en de provincie Stockholms län in Zweden. Het småort heeft 102 inwoners (2005) en een oppervlakte van 107 hectare. Eigenlijk bestaat het småort uit twee plaatsen: Backa en Björknäs. Het småort ligt op een in de Oostzee uitstekend schiereiland en grenst aan een inham van de zee. Het småort wordt grotendeels omringd door bos, maar kleine delen worden omringd door landbouwgrond.

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