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Growth in China's carbon emissions has halved
ANALYSIS: new data indicates country's coal pollution could be on a long-term, downward trajectory
Choking air pollution levels are forcing Chinese authorities to take tougher action against heavy industry (Pic: Mad House Photography)
By Gerard Wynn
Growth in China's carbon emissions is slowing sharply, under pressure from climate and pollution targets and slower economic expansion, data on coal consumption show.
In China, coal consumption and carbon emissions are very closely correlated because coal is such a dominant part of the country's energy mix.
As a result, analysis of coal trends provides an insight into the outlook for carbon emissions by the world's biggest polluter.
The latest data suggest growth in coal consumption has already started to slow dramatically.
China's coal consumption grew just 2.6% last year, to 3.61 billion tonnes, according to the China National Coal Association in January.
That compared with coal consumption growth of 6.4% in 2012, according to BP data, and a compound average annual growth rate in coal consumption of 8.8% from 2000-2012.
A halving of growth in coal consumption implies a halving in carbon emissions growth.
As the world largest carbon emitter, that is good news for a global response to climate change.
There are two pauses for optimism.
First, while it is good news that carbon emissions growth is slowing, it is another matter for China to halt growth and start to cut emissions. Second, even as China does pull back, other emerging economies and notably India are likely to take its place.
China's coal consumption has surged in the last decade, in step with the country's economic growth (see Figure 1).
The mutual dependence with GDP growth helps explain why it has been for China to wean off coal, even as the damage from air pollution on human health has been documented.
Coal is important as a cheap, indigenous energy resource. While coal consumption growth is now slowing, it will remain the bedrock of the country's energy economy.
There are twin pressures on China's coal consumption: the threat of global climate change, and increasingly public criticism of the nation's air quality.
Regarding climate change, China five years ago set an intensity target to cut carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 40-45% by 2020 compared with 2005.
In 2005, China's carbon intensity was just over 1 kilogramme of CO2 per $ of GDP, according to World Bank GDP data.
Of course, China sets lots of targets under successive five-year plans, and misses lots of them. But the carbon intensity may be different, as an international pledge made by previous Premier Wen Jiabao, at a United Nations climate conference in 2009.
Most recently, the country has drifted off the target (see Figure 2). To get back on track, China will have to cut carbon emissions more urgently.
Regarding air quality, cutting pollution is now an urgent policy priority tied to maintaining social order.
Indicating how seriously authorities are taking the issue, this January China announced a new plan to cut coal's share of energy use to 65% in 2014, down from 65.7% in 2013 and 67% in 2012, in a bid to improve air quality in major cities.
That represents an acceleration of previous plans, which envisioned coal coming down to 65% of total energy consumption by 2015.
What it means for coal consumption depends on economic growth.
"With total energy consumption growth targeted at 3.2%, coal consumption would rise by just 1.6% this year (2014)," said Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a research note last Thursday.
"But if GDP growth holds up above 7% (which is our assumption), coal demand growth of about 3% is more likely."
That would still be more than a halving of annual growth compared with 2012.
Both emerging data for coal consumption and the emissions and pollution targets suggest that China's coal consumption has turned a corner and is on a long-term, downward trajectory.
The question is how fast it might fall, and what that means for the country's carbon emissions.
In its latest World Energy Outlook, published last November, the International Energy Agency pointed out that a slowdown in 2012 was partly due to heavy rains and a resulting surge in hydropower, but it also saw the beginnings of a systemic shift, as the country invested in efficiency and shifted from coal to gas, nuclear and renewables.
"In 2012, the rate of coal demand growth in China was one of the lowest over the past decade: the drivers of change may already be at work," it said.
The IEA forecast that China's coal consumption growth would slow for the rest of this decade and peak in 2025.
Coal use will remain central to China's economy, not only in power generation but industry including steel and chemicals, however, meaning achieving coal consumption and carbon emissions may not start falling until 2030.
And where China pulls back India and emerging south-east Asian countries such as Vietnam will step in.
"In India, coal use continues to grow briskly throughout the projection period (2012-2035), in line with the country's strong electricity demand growth," the IEA projected.
"India displaces the United States as the world's second-largest coal market before 2025. Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries see a tripling of coal use; their collective consumption is nearly double that of the European Union in 2035."
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2021 Triton Football Preview: Game Previews
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Game One: Friday, Aug. 20, 7 p.m.
Location: San Clemente HS
Coach: Dave Rodriguez
2020 Record: 0-3 (0-3 Avocado League)
2019 vs. SC: SC win, 35-13
Season Outlook:
After a one-year hiatus due to the delay of the season and restrictions of inter-county play due to the pandemic, the Battle of the Base returns, as the Pirates drive up the 5 to the north side of Camp Pendleton.
San Clemente has won three of the four matchups between the two schools dating back to the start of the series in 2016.
The team Oceanside fielded in the spring is almost completely gone, as the Pirates were full of impact seniors at all their major positions.
Game Two: Friday, Aug. 27, 7 p.m.
Location: Torrey Pines HS
Coach: Ron Gladnick
2019 vs. SC: SC win, 31-7
San Clemente maintains its early nonleague schedule against San Diego County's elite Avocado League with another matchup against Torrey Pines.
The Falcons continue to employ the Wing-T offense in an effort to control the game on the ground, and even in a pandemic season, Torrey Pines expertly executed it. The Falcons graduated their featured back, but with options of returning quarterbacks and a well-oiled program under coach Rod Gladnick, Torrey Pines should be more than capable this fall.
The Falcons will be a fantastic test for San Clemente's defensive swarm.
Game Three: Friday, Sept. 3, 7 p.m.
La Costa Canyon
Location: La Costa Canyon HS
Coach: Sean Sovacool
San Clemente will head south once more to take on the Mavericks of La Costa Canyon. The Tritons and Mavericks have had a couple tightly contested and wild matchups in recent years, including a 38-35 win by La Costa Canyon at San Clemente in 2019 and a 13-12 win by San Clemente in Carlsbad in 2019.
The Tritons will get a gauge for La Costa Canyon early, as the Mavericks take on another South Coast League squad in Tesoro in their season opener on Aug. 20.
Game Four: Friday, Sept. 10, 7 p.m.
Coach: Dan O'Shea
2020 Record: 4-2 (3-2 Sunset League)
2019 vs. SC: CdM win, 42-21
After their San Diego tour, the Tritons turn their attention to rivalries they've cultivated among the Orange County beach cities.
San Clemente renews its series with Corona del Mar, and the Sea Kings bring back some youth with experience from the spring. Corona del Mar returns its quarterback and top running back, who both put up impressive numbers as sophomores. Quarterback David Rasor completed 57% of his passes for 1,035 yards and 15 touchdowns in only six games. Running back Evan Sanders ran for 438 yards and five TDs.
Game Five: Friday, Sept. 17, 7 p.m.
Location: Huntington Beach HS
Coach: Jeff Grady
San Clemente and Edison have played a stretch of extremely competitive matchups since this series began in the 2016 state regionals. The Tritons and Chargers have played each of the past four full seasons, and all four games have been one-score games with an average margin of victory of just more than four points. San Clemente has won all four games.
Edison graduated seniors from all of its major positions, except for leading receiver Nico Brown, who caught 40 passes for 664 yards and eight touchdowns in the spring season.
Game Six: Friday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m.
Murrieta Valley
Coach: George Wilson
2020 Record: 3-2 (3-2 Southwestern League)
2019 vs. SC: Did not play
While San Clemente and Murrieta Valley did not play in 2019, the two have still met four times since the 2016 season.
Including the 2016 CIF-SS championship game, the Tritons and Nighthawks have met twice in the regular season and twice in the playoffs. San Clemente has won three of those contests, including the 2016 CIF-SS title game and 2018 CIF-SS first-round game.
Murrieta Valley returns Utah-committed quarterback Brandon Rose, who completed nearly 70% of his passes for 1,415 yards and 12 touchdowns in five games last season.
Game Seven: Friday, Oct. 1, 7 p.m.
Loyola (LA)
Coach: Drew Casani
2020 Record: 3-0 (2-0 Angelus League)
San Clemente's final nonleague contest before a pre-league bye week is Loyola of Los Angeles. Loyola is a private school and is the oldest continuously run school in Southern California.
Loyola's last game against an Orange County opponent came in the 2019 CIF-SS Division 4 title game, in which the Cubs hosted San Juan Hills. The Stallions won their first CIF-SS title that night, 21-15.
Loyola graduated the quarterback that started that CIF-SS title game after the spring season, but the Cubs do return their top running back from last season.
Game Eight: Friday, Oct. 15, 7 p.m.
San Juan Hills
Coach: Rob Frith
2020 Record: 2-3 (0-3 South Coast League)
San Juan Hills made its return to the South Coast League last season following the Stallions' first-ever CIF-SS title in 2019, but it was tough sledding.
San Clemente's South Coast League MVP James Bohls put up his signature performance of the spring season at San Juan Hills with three touchdowns and 177 yards on 16 carries.
This fall, San Juan Hills will likely start junior Colton Joseph at quarterback. Joseph transferred from San Clemente after his freshman season and is the younger brother of former Tritons quarterback and golfer, Drayton Joseph.
Game Nine: Friday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m.
Coach: Matt Poston
Tesoro acquitted itself nicely for all that the 2020-21 football season was. The Titans were more than enough for their Sea View League crossover games, hung tough with the top two of the South Coast League and ended with a dramatic one-point win over San Juan Hills in their "Battle for the Bell" rivalry.
Tesoro loses some offensive firepower, but the Titans return their top rusher in Lucas Pesak and a top receiver in Mason Wolfe. Pesak was a force with 517 yards and four touchdowns on 106 carries.
Game Ten: Friday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m.
Location: Mission Viejo HS
Coach: Chad Johnson
The biggest game only got bigger, as once again the Tritons took down Mission Viejo for the South Coast League title. After a dominant stretch by the Diablos that began in 1999, San Clemente has broken through in two of the past three seasons, which sticks in the craw of Mission Viejo.
Mission Viejo boasted an explosive offense last season that the Tritons shut down. It'll be another tough task this season, as the Diablos return their starting quarterback (junior Kadin Semonza) and top rusher and top receiver (junior Mikey Matthews).
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By Catherine Davis | 6.25.17
Commentator, Chief Editor, L&SS
According to this refinery29.com news article Yahoo shared with us, California has restricted more states to its banned travel states list that its government employees may not travel to.
California Attorney General says he doesn't feel it's right that tax payers would have to foot the bill for employees to go to trainings or other meetings in states that have laws that discriminate against LGBT communities.
Read what he had to say about his ban,
Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra added Texas, Alabama, South Dakota and Kentucky to the list of places where state employee travel is restricted. Lawmakers passed legislation last year banning non-essential travel to states with laws that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. North Carolina, Kansas, Mississippi and Tennessee are already on the list.
I hate to say this, but why does this sound to me as if Becerra is being rather bossy. After all, if I were a state employee, and I had to receive some type of mandated training in order to cooperate with my employer, the idea that the state I am visiting would have something to do with my training is baffling to me.
Uh yeah, as a government employee, I would suffer the consequences (sort of like I'd be punished) because of, and instead of, one of those states on Becerra's travel ban list that I need to fly to - by not being allowed to go to that state unless I pay for the trip out-of-pocket.
Maybe you could explain this attorney's stance to me where I could understand better.
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BLOK Technologies Signs MOU with Visionary Private Equity Group to Form Proposed Joint Venture for the Development of Blockchain Applications for the Real Estate Industry
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BLOK Technologies Inc. ("BLOK Tech" or the "Company") (CSE: BLK) (FRANKFURT: 2AD) is pleased to announce that Visionary Private Equity Group ("VPEG") and the Company have entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") to form a joint venture for the development of technology for the real estate industry.
Under the terms of the MOU, which is subject to the parties agreeing upon definitive terms, BLOK Tech will license its Greenstream blockchain technology platform in exchange for a US $500,000 licensing fee and a 25% equity position in a to-be formed joint venture company ("NewCo"). The MOU outlines the terms of the proposed strategic partnership between VPEG and BLOK Tech relating to the development of new technology enterprises, the first of which is expected to be with a real estate company partner.
"This is a significant milestone for BLOK Technologies," said Rob Dawson, CEO of BLOK Tech. "Our business model has always been to develop and deploy our technology into multiple industries, and this partnership with VPEG is expected to move that strategy forward in a significant way. We are very enthusiastic about working with VPEG as a partner in the future. Their complimentary technology and access to capital provides a great fit for us as we build new technology companies we will own equity in. The real estate sector with its complicated structure, numerous stakeholders and fragmented data sets, is an ideal environment to deploy the technologies we are building. We see tremendous potential to improve transparency, trust, transactions and compliance through the commercialization of our technology."
Under the terms of the non-binding MOU between BLOK Tech and VPEG the parties have agreed to the following:
BLOK Tech and VPEG will establish a new joint venture company for the licensing, aggregation and build out of technologies for the real estate sector;
The Parties will seek to jointly identify and secure a 3rd strategic partner from the real estate industry, who is expected to provide US $5M in funding for NewCo.
BLOK Tech will grant NewCo an exclusive and perpetual license of the Greenstream technology platform for the real estate sector for a licensing fee of US $500,000 payable to BLOK upon the securing of NewCo financing.
VPEG will grant NewCo an exclusive and perpetual license of the Visionary Technology stack (including NFC, RFID, and Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technologies) for the real estate sector for a licensing fee of US $500,000 payable to VPEG upon the securing of NewCo financing.
BLOK Tech and VPEG will be equal partners in NewCo and will jointly bring in other equity partners.
"As a private equity firm with portfolio holdings in a variety of emerging technology companies, we see significant potential for the integration and expansion of BLOK Tech's technology into other industries," said Ron Zamber, Chairman and Senior Managing Director of Visionary Private Equity Group. "We have been impressed with BLOK Tech's Management and Engineering Teams as well as their recent accomplishments. We have identified a compelling use case for the real estate industry from which we can leverage our deep relationships in this sector, and provide added value through deployment of our robust technology stack. We look forward to building a successful joint venture together."
About VPEG
Visionary Private Equity Group (VPEG) invests in early stage, high growth companies that have strong management teams and the potential for significant upside. VPEG is a Missouri limited partnership and has portfolio companies engaged in various industries, including Energy and Natural Resources, Innovative and Disruptive Technology and Entertainment and Media. The VPEG team consists of highly respected professionals with a unique blend of private equity, investment banking, legal, medical, oil & gas, internet technology and operating experience that play an active role ensuring that our portfolio companies have a sound operating and capital strategy. For more information about VPEG, please visit https://visionaryprivateequitygroup.com
About BLOK Technologies Inc.
BLOK Technologies Inc. is a public company that invests in and develops emerging companies in the blockchain technology sector. The Company's approach is to provide capital, technology and management expertise to the companies it develops. BLOK Tech's Greenstream technology platform is designed to effectively manage value transfer, supply chain integrity and identity verification in complex and highly regulated industries. This scalable and adaptable platform is being developed on the Hyperledger technology stack and with the support of Oracle Cloud infrastructure. BLOK Tech continues to grow its business into adjacent industries and emerging technologies. The Company systematically identifies early-stage technologies with potential to disrupt and innovate within their industry and invests the necessary resources to ensure the success of their projects.
For additional information regarding BLOK Technologies and other corporate information, please visit the Company's website at BLOKTECHINC.COM
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The president's action excludes immigrants who came to the country illegally from qualifying for federal health benefits. But California has its own policy of providing health coverage with state money to low-income immigrants with so-called "deferred action" that allow them to avoid deportation. Immigrant and health care advocates say that means Obama's executive order will enable hundreds of thousands of low-income immigrants in California to apply for Medi-Cal, California's version of Medicaid.
The California Department of Health Care Services, however, has yet to receive formal guidance. A state official said it's too early to tell how the immigration program will impact the overall Medi-Cal program, which is consuming an increasing share of state funds.
Medi-Cal is a health program for the poor paid for by the federal government and the state. It has grown by about 3 million people in California under federal health care reform and now covers more than 11 million Californians, about 30 percent of the state's population. The federal government is paying for the expansion, but the state will eventually pay 10 percent of additional costs to cover low-income adults, many of whom are childless.
The state is expected to spend more than $17 billion of its own money on the program this year, up 3.5 percent a year ago, according to the Legislative Analyst's Office.
"We are assessing what some of the potential impacts could be, but it would be premature for us to comment until we have more specific information available," said Norman Williams, a spokesman for the Department of Health Care Services.
The president's action has also emboldened a Democratic lawmaker to revive a bill that would provide health coverage to all Californians, regardless of their immigration status.
Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, plans to reintroduce his Health4All bill on Monday to open Medi-Cal to immigrants, as well as extending subsidized health benefits in a new insurance marketplace for those without legal status. The proposal, which previously carried a cost as high as $1.3 billion a year, stalled in a legislative committee last cycle and Republicans had criticized the cost of the expansion.
"The president's action covers almost half of California's undocumented population, but that still leaves over a million people with no access to health care. We can do better. The bill will cover those remaining uninsured that will not benefit from Obama's action," Lara said.
Gabrielle Lessard, a health policy attorney with the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles, said it will be months before immigrants can apply for the program and fewer will apply or qualify for Medi-Cal. She said it's also unlikely that immigrants would overwhelm the Medi-Cal system because many would be able to get health coverage through work or school.


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Here's a short list of things I've managed to learn over the years, things that have helped me develop a sound and style I can call my own.
Developing your own sound doesn't necessarily mean you have to come out of left field with something absolutely unheard and new. There are no new emotions. Often, it's a matter of altering what came before just enough so that you can once again tap into that emotion.
Whatever you might be into, there's most assuredly a long chain of guitar players who have helped to shape the way you play. You don't have to forget these guitarists or pretend they don't exist. It's a question of putting together your various influences and adding to it. I don't mind a guitarist who wears his/her influences on his/her sleeve, as long as he or she is adding something to it or changing it in some interesting way—and not simply copying.
Not to get too deep, but creativity and the act of creation continually blow my mind. In some ways, it's the very apex of humanity and being human. Whether you are a physicist or a guitarist, the great ideas (or riffs) often seem to drop out of the sky.
If what you're playing sounds powerful and you're exciting to be playing it, then that's what you should be playing. Don't worry about what anyone else is doing. You have to be your first fan. Basing your playing on what you think other people like misses the whole point and more importantly, it isn't very fun.
This one is a "no-brainer," but there's simply no way around putting in the playing time. Spend time playing by yourself and playing with anyone around who wants to jam. It's important to do both. Learn your favorite songs, try writing some of your own, or just noodle around on the guitar while you're hanging on the couch. It will help. The more you play and mess with different ideas and styles, the more you'll start to carve out a niche for yourself.
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Halle Berry's Father's Day Instagram Is for Anyone With a Complicated Relationship to Their Dad
" [His] addiction robbed us of the relationship we were meant to have."
By Devin Tomb
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If you've been on Instagram at all day, your feed is likely filled with pictures new and throwback from people who want to wish their Dad a Happy Father's Day. Each post is meant to be heartwarming, but all together, it can sting for people whose father or father figure has passed—or for people who simply have a complicated relationship with Dad. If you're relating to this at all, Halle Berry's Instagram tribute is for you.
The actress posted a throwback photo artfully held in her hand, with the first part of the caption saying: "On this Father's Day my heart is full...full of love for my DADDY! This is one of only 2 pictures I have of him, and it has become family gold!"
On this Father's Day my heart is full...full of love for my DADDY! This is one of only 2 pictures I have of him, and it has become family gold! While I didn't have much of a relationship with him while he was here, as he was alcohol addicted and that addiction robbed us of the relationship we were meant to have, I now understand how much he loved me and how vital he was and is to my life! I miss you today daddy and wherever you are, I know you're smiling down on me because I feel your love! #HappyFathersDay to the great dads in my life - Olive and Gabe and to EVERY dad out there! ❤
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But then, she gets super real.
"While I didn't have much of a relationship with him while he was here, as he was alcohol addicted and that addiction robbed us of the relationship we were meant to have, I now understand how much he loved me and how vital he was and is to my life!" she wrote. "I miss you today daddy and wherever you are, I know you're smiling down on me because I feel your love!"
There is very little on the internet about Berry's father, Jerome Jesse Berry. But we do know that her parents divorced when she was young, and he walked out on his family. "I haven't heard from him since," Berry told a local newspaper in 1992. "Maybe he's not alive." He passed away years later, in 2003, in Euclid, Ohio.
She and her older sister Heidi were raised by their mother, Judith Ann Hawkins, a psychiatric nurse. Born in 1968, Berry grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, in the '70s and attended middle school and high school in Bedford. She left Ohio once she started doing pageants, famously becoming Miss Ohio USA in 1986.
Berry in 1986.
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Now, the Oscar-winner seems to have worked past any anger or resentment toward her father. While that may not be possible for everyone, it's great to see Berry's message of love on what can be a difficult day for many.
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Digital campaign: Cyrenians launches Facebook bot to educate on homelessness
26 April 2017 by David Hobbs
Ask Alex allows visitors to ask questions they might not feel comfortable posing face to face
A Scottish charity has launched a social media "bot" to help dispel myths about the causes of homelessness among young people.
Cyrenians created the Facebook Messenger bot, named Alex, to complement a survey it commissioned of 1,015 adults in Scotland. According to the survey, 40 per cent of Scots believe that homelessness among young people occurs either through personal choice or a refusal to accept assistance.
The survey results say that 15 per cent of Scots believe young people are homeless because of personal choice and 25 per cent because they refuse to accept help from family, friends or the state.
According to the survey, 85 per cent believe a rift or argument with family is the main cause of homelessness and 59 per cent cite a lack of affordable housing; 54 per cent and 64 per cent blame drug use and alcohol consumption respectively.
Visitors to Ask Alex can ask questions they might not feel comfortable asking in public while learning about homelessness and the prevalence of conflict in the home. Alex is a combination of real-life cases and information. Cyrenians hopes the bot will help to break down barriers with those living on the streets.
Questions that are already built into the programme include "where do you sleep at night?", "why don't you get a job?", "why don't you stay with friends?" and "why are you homeless?" Visitors are also invited to ask their own questions, although it took three attempts before Alex understood one of Third Sector's queries:
Carrie Webb, communications officer at the charity, says that at this stage the questions need to be more direct while the bot is developed.
"Each question needs intent rather than being a general one about homelessness," Webb tells Third Sector. "The bot is based on neurolinguistic programmming and requires more simple questions."
Webb says that Ask Alex, which is in a test phase, will be upgraded to become more receptive to different types of questions. It will be helped by the data gathered by the charity during the first week, in which the bot attracted about 120 visitors. With planned Facebook advertising imminent, Cyrenians expects the number of visitors to the bot to increase sharply.
Speaking about the launch, Ewan Aitken, chief executive of Cyrenians, says: "We need the public to understand that young people can be homeless for any number of reasons that are out of their control. The launch of Alex is a massive step towards making that change. If people find this a useful way to understand more, we will introduce similar technology to support our front-line service work with those at risk of homelessness or dealing with conflict at home.
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"I really struggled to get my life back on a positive path. Luckily for me Cyrenians was able to provide me with the help and support I needed to turn things around. I'm still on that journey and things are getting better, but I know a lot of people who haven't been so fortunate."
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Crítica de la razón cínica es un largo ensayo del filósofo alemán Peter Sloterdijk, publicado en 1983 en dos volúmenes bajo el título de Kritik der zynischen Vernunft. El libro, alusivo a la famosa Crítica de la razón pura del filósofo idealista Immanuel Kant, trata en profundidad el cinismo filosófico (que Sloterdijk llama a veces quinismo, para diferenciarlo del vocablo popular, por su procedencia griega) y el cinismo popular como fenómenos sociales y políticos a lo largo de toda la historia europea.

Contenido
En relación con el término cinismo, Sloterdijk deja claro en muchos lugares que usa el cambio de consonantes etimológicas (de 'c' a 'q', es decir, cinismo/quinismo; en alemán 'z' a 'k', kynismus/zynismus) para reforzar su tesis básica: el antiguo cinismo (quinismo) representa en cierto sentido una antítesis de la idealista Academia griega de Platón y la válvula de escape del pueblo desposeído, dando lugar a otro cinismo en las eras industrial y posindustrial modernas, que justifica todo acto humano en términos prácticamente mercantiles. Sloterdijk hace repaso del fenómeno considerado en sus fundamentos filosóficos, psicológicos y sociales, en relación con los cuales los términos "insolencia" y "vergüenza" revisten nuevos significados. Según el filósofo alemán, las aspiraciones de la vieja Ilustración del siglo XVIII han sido traicionadas y pervertidas. En las "Consideraciones previas" aparece la definición del autor: «El cinismo es la falsa conciencia ilustrada. Es la moderna conciencia infeliz sobre la que la Ilustración ha trabajado tanto con éxito como en vano» (pág. 40). A lo largo de toda la obra Sloterdijk menciona in extenso a filósofos de su predilección como Theodor W. Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger y en especial el cínico Diógenes de Sínope, además de otros muchos.

El libro consta de una introducción seguida de dos partes. En la primera, con el título de "Análisis: cinco consideraciones previas", se repasa el fenómeno del cinismo y el quinismo a lo largo de la historia, con especial referencia a la época ilustrada, el marxismo y el cinismo filosófico original, o quinismo (págs. 13-240). En la segunda parte, "Cinismo en el proceso cósmico", se ahonda en el sentido histórico del cinismo y en algunos de sus representantes más destacados: Diógenes de Sínope, Luciano de Samosata, y los personajes literarios del Mefistófeles de Goethe y el Gran Inquisidor de Dostoyevski. Seguidamente hace repaso de las distintas clases de cinismos que ha conocido la historia, en los ámbitos militar, estatal, sexual, religioso... Y termina considerando en toda su profundidad el fenómeno desde los puntos de vista histórico y lógico a lo largo de más de 500 páginas (págs. 223-739). La última parte, "Final", supone una recopilación o resumen del sentido de la obra (págs. 745-764), rematada por los agradecimientos del autor y el contenido de las abundantes notas bibliográficas, que salpican toda la obra en número de 240 (págs. 765-786).

Valoración

«Sloterdijk difícilmente puede ser superado en su descripción imaginativa y vívida de las experiencias de una generación. […] No solo aspira a describir lo que él mismo ha experimentado personalmente, sino también explicarlo. Mientras que, con los medios que toma prestados de la historia filosófica, va explicando las secuelas de los ideales de 1968 echados a perder, recoge de la pila de escombros una verdad. Él llama a esta verdad el impulso cínico», afirmó en su día Jürgen Habermas en un comentario sobre el libro.

Rüdiger Safranski sitúa a Sloterkijk como uno de los filósofos más importantes alemanes de la posguerra, afirmando sobre la obra de referencia: «un libro que conmovió al gran público como casi ninguna otra obra de diagnóstico filosófico del tiempo desde La decadencia de Occidente de Oswald Spengler. [El libro] cuenta cómo, tras desenmascaramientos e ilustraciones, la conciencia moderna tomó conciencia de sí, y cómo ahora, con correcta conciencia, obra sin embargo incorrectamente», lo que supone la mejor síntesis de la obra.

«A principios de la década de 1980, cuando apareció Crítica de la razón cínica, el idealismo y la energía que cambiaron el mundo de dicho movimiento se habían reducido desde mucho tiempo atrás hasta la violencia de grupos enfrentados, por un lado, y la acomodación a las realidades del capitalismo y la Guerra Fría, por otro. En ese momento cultural, el diagnóstico de "cinismo" de Sloterdijk fue muy oportuno. "La disolución del movimiento estudiantil", escribió, "debe interesarnos porque representa una metamorfosis compleja de la esperanza en el realismo, de la revuelta inspirada en una melancolía inteligente"», afirma Adam Kirsch, de la Universidad de Columbia, en la revista The New Republic.

En una entrevista de Jacinto Antón para el diario El País, el propio Sloterdijk, ante un comentario jocoso acerca de su reivindicación de Heidegger, contestó: «Sí, pero mi error principal fue escribir un libro de filosofía divertido de más de novecientas páginas, Crítica de la razón cínica, un libro con sentido del humor y, si se me permite, con un buen estilo».

Acerca de sus conceptos de "cinismo" e "idealismo" en la Crítica, el filósofo Stefan Lorenz Sorgner puntualiza: «Según él, la actitud actual de los seres humanos con respecto a la vida, si creen en el nihilismo, es el cinismo. Contrasta esto con el quinismo, y mientras lo hace, describe el quinismo de tal manera que este estado de conciencia es mucho más atractivo que el cínico. Por lo tanto, se puede decir que está presentando el quinismo como una mejor reacción al nihilismo que el cinismo. El cinismo y el quinismo son estados de conciencia, según Sloterdijk, y también se complementan, en la medida en que ambos se hallan más allá de la creencia en el idealismo y los valores estables y absolutos. Siempre que Sloterdijk emplea el término "idealismo", no se refiere al idealismo típico de Hegel, sino que se refiere a todo tipo de creencia en los absolutos».

Sobre el estilo, retórica y espíritu manifiestos o sugeridos en esta obra, Jacobo Muñoz escribió en 2003: «Lejos de las rígidas convenciones de la filosofía académica, Sloterdijk procedía en su primer gran libro a enfrentarse a su conturbado tiempo -el nuestro- con otras armas y otros fines: las de una escritura vivaz, consciente de su secreta afinidad con una soterrada musicalidad íntima, deudora de la "gran" retórica clásica y cerrada a toda rígida separación entre lo filosófico y lo literario. Las armas de un fenomenólogo agudo, atento y perspicaz, que optaba por pensar el presente. Por elaborar una "ontología de nosotros mismos". Algo sobre cuya proximidad al modo francés de hacer no habrá que insistir demasiado. [...] No son ya el nihilismo en ascenso, la conversión de la razón en un nuevo mito o el inclemente dominio de la razón instrumental lo que Sloterdijk describe y denuncia con una prolijidad y un afán de exhaustividad acaso excesivos, sino el cinismo difuso de nuestras fatigadas sociedades. Ese "nuevo cinismo" que actúa "con una negatividad madura que apenas proporciona esperanza alguna, apenas a lo sumo un poco de ironía y de compasión"».

El filósofo español Fernando Savater afirmó sobre el mismo: «Crítica de la razón cínica es una de las obras más provechosas e inteligentes aparecidas en Alemania».

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página web del autor.
 Entrevista a Sloterdijk en el diario El País.
 Artículo sobre el autor en El Mundo.
 Artículo en La Vanguardia.
 Artículo en El Cultural.

Libros sobre ética
Ensayos de 1983
Libros críticos con la religión
Ensayos del siglo XX
Crítica

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The invitation suite included a palette of navy, teal, and metallic gold. The blues blended together in a stunning watercolor texture, and the pieces were held by a touch of gold thread. This beautiful work was designed by Shelby at Stella Carta Studio (IG: @stellacartastudio).
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Czchów est une gmina mixte du powiat de Brzesko, Petite-Pologne, dans le sud de Pologne. Son siège est la ville de Czchów, qui se situe environ  au sud de Brzesko et  au sud-est de la capitale régionale Cracovie.

La gmina couvre une superficie de  pour une population de .

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Outre la ville de Czchów, la gmina inclut les villages de Będzieszyna, Biskupice Melsztyńskie, Domosławice, Jurków, Piaski-Drużków, Tworkowa, Tymowa, Wytrzyszczka et Złota.

La gmina borde les gminy de Dębno, Gnojnik, Gródek nad Dunajcem, Iwkowa, Lipnica Murowana, Łososina Dolna et Zakliczyn.

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Gmina dans la voïvodie de Petite-Pologne
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Steve Scalise: House Dems Refused to Let Me Testify at Hearing on Gun Violence
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Survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, representatives from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and Everytown for Gun Safety, other anti-gun advocates, and Second Amendment supporters testified on gun violence today before the House Judiciary Committee.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), who was shot by a left-wing activist during practice for a Congressional baseball game in 2017, says Democrats refused to let him give testimony during the "Preventing Gun Violence: A Call to Action" hearing. Here's what he told Fox News:
"[The Democrats'] answer to gun control is to limit the rights of law-abiding citizens. Frankly, they ought to be focusing on punishing the criminals, not trying to take away the rights of law-abiding citizens. It was people with guns who saved my life and so many others that morning, June of 2017. They need to be focusing on how to help more Americans … have more freedom. And again, their approach is more of a Socialist approach, limiting freedom.
"The top Republican on the committee, Doug Collins, R-Ga., asked committee Democrats if I could testify about this legislation in an appropriate setting to offer another perspective as both a survivor of a shooting attack and strong supporter of our Second Amendment rights. But the Democrats said no. While liberals may try to silence conservative voices, I will not be silenced. The American people deserve to hear all perspectives."
(Scalise's submitted written statement is reprinted at the end of this article.)
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
Meeting Recap
The Pacific Standard reports of today's hearing:
"…It was a sympathetic room, to say the least, for Democratic members of the House Committee on the Judiciary, which hosted the hearing. The Democrats there argued for H.R. 8: the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, a newly introduced bill that would require unlicensed firearms sellers to run would-be buyers through the same national background check system that licensed gun sellers now must use.
"'Because background checks are not required for sales by unlicensed gun dealers, guns end up in the hands of dangerous people,' one of the committee members, Rep. Henry Johnson (D) of Georgia, said. 'The failure of Congress to pass universal background check legislation has eroded our sense of safety on the streets, in our schools, and even in our places of worship.'"
According to The Standard, anti-gun advocates argued in favor of background checks on all gun buyers, a national ban on assault rifles, and the ability to sue gun companies for deaths, among other things.
"I appreciate the efforts of those who want H.R. 8 and many who have signed on, but similar gun control measures would not have prevented Columbine, San Bernardino, Charleston, or other tragedies," said Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA). "You go to the Bureau of Prisons, when they put out their statistics, most criminals—as you well know—do not get their guns from legal sources."
"Republicans invited a sexual assault survivor and gun rights advocate, Savannah Lindquist, who argued a case for a right to self-defense that she says she was denied because of campus gun bans," The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Things grew heated when Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) "said expanding background checks for gun sales would do nothing to stop murders committed by people who are in the country illegally," NWF Daily News reports. "A wall on the southern border would, Gaetz said."
Manuel Oliver, whose son was killed during the Parkland school shooting last year, "interrupted Gaetz several times during his remarks," the website reports.
Watch the entire hearing here:
Republican Whip Steve Scalise
House Committee on the Judiciary
My name is Steve Scalise. I am the Congressman for Louisiana's 1st District. I am the Republican Whip. I am also a target of gun violence.
Many of you may be familiar with the events of June 14, 2017. Around 7:00 AM, at the last morning practice before the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, an Illinois man named James Hodgkinson opened fire on myself and a group of Republican legislators and volunteers on an Alexandria, Va. baseball field.
Fortunately, as a member of House leadership, I was accompanied by my Capitol Police security detail who were able to return fire and engage the shooter until additional law enforcement officers arrived and ultimately took down the shooter. I was shot and nearly fatally wounded, and both of my detail agents were shot as well. I am alive today thanks to the bravery of U.S. Capitol Police and the Alexandria Police, heroes like Congressman Brad Wenstrup and the first responders who rushed to the scene, the incredible medical team at Washington MedStar Hospital Center, and most importantly the grace of God.
I applaud the intentions behind this hearing and believe we are all pursuing the same goal of reducing gun violence. As someone who experienced gun violence, I do not want anyone else to go through that trauma. However, it is also important to me that we be honest with ourselves and the American people about what will -- or won't -- actually prevent these tragedies. The shooter who targeted me that morning was armed with an SKS rifle and a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun, both of which were purchased in compliance with Illinois gun laws.
The new gun control restrictions currently being considered by the Democratic majority in H.R. 8 would not have prevented my shooting.
In fact, these new gun control measures being proposed in H.R. 8 would not have prevented any number of recent mass violence events. Several perpetrators of recent multi-victim shootings also purchased their guns legally. In some instances, the background check system failed, and lack of intervention from law enforcement failed to intercept potential threats.
I want to stress that the man who shot me was issued a permit to purchase firearms by the state of Illinois, and had acquired them legally. At Virginia Tech, Charleston, and Sutherland Springs failures in the background check system allowed individuals to illegally obtain the firearms they used to commit their crimes. The alleged loopholes that H.R. 8 claims to fix would not have prevented these tragedies either.
Instead, whether intentionally or not, the gun control proposals in H.R. 8 could turn law abiding citizens into criminals while also failing to achieve the stated purpose of reducing gun violence.
A recent study by the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis and Johns Hopkins University into California's effort to implement "comprehensive background checks" found that, "The simultaneous implementation of [the Comprehensive Background Check policy] and [prohibitions on firearm purchase and possession for persons convicted within the past 10 years of certain violent crimes classified as misdemeanors] was not associated with a net change in the firearm homicide rate over the ensuing 10 years in California." Even though California implemented more stringent background checks, this study shows that these measures did not reduce gun violence.
In fact, most criminals obtain firearms through unlawful means -- whether through theft, straw purchases, or lying on the required paperwork. A DOJ study of federal inmates found that only seven percent who possessed a firearm while committing the crime they were serving time for purchased it legally from a firearms dealer under their own name. Based on similar gun control measures in states like California, H.R. 8 would not deter a criminal from engaging in criminal activity, and it won't decrease gun crime. Instead, it only succeeds in limiting the ways that law-abiding citizens could exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Every single month in America, law-abiding citizens with concealed carry permits defend themselves and others against criminals who have guns. For example, on January 8th, a man approached a 25-year-old woman in Chicago, displayed a weapon, and attempted to rob her at a bus stop. The woman had a concealed carry permit. She drew her own weapon and fired a shot, killing the armed robber. The owner of a nearby pharmacy said such violence happens "all over" Chicago. However, in this case, the intended victim was able to defend herself with her own gun.
On January 2nd, a Good Samaritan in California with a concealed carry permit used his firearm to stop an attempted stabbing of a security guard and held the perpetrator until law enforcement could arrive at the scene.
On January 17th, a man at an IHOP in Alabama opened fire on employees, killing one before another employee pulled his handgun and killed the shooter in self-defense.
On January 29th, an armed robber held up a Family Dollar Store in Georgia. A customer was able to use a personal firearm to shoot and kill the robber before the criminal could hurt any of the many employees or customers in the store.
These are just some examples from the last month alone. There are hundreds of stories like these every single year from law-abiding Americans all over the country.
I am alive due to the effective and immediate response of my Capitol Police detail, and the Alexandria Police Department. Most victims of gun violence do not have law enforcement already on the scene to respond to a violent gunman. Instead of making it harder for citizens to defend themselves until law enforcement arrives, Congress should consider legislation like H.R. 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, a bill that would help law-abiding citizens have the same tools to defend themselves as a criminal has of trying to inflict harm, regardless of where they travel.
I firmly believe we must never forget, nor minimize, the importance of the Second Amendment to our Constitution.
H.R. 8, as well as other new gun control legislation currently being considered by the House Democrat majority do not accomplish the goal of reducing gun violence.
If our goal is to reduce gun violence, then we should focus on penalizing criminals,
not law-abiding citizens.
Photo Credit: By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America - Steve Scalise, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60057419
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Someday I'll be the best of all.
A Christmas Tree is what I'll be!
Narrator – So the trees waited excitedly for a family to come and pick them for their Christmas Tree and then one day it happened! A family came to the forest!
our Christmas tree our Christmas tree.
and sparkle on Christmas Day?
Narrator – The family walked around all the trees and decided to take home the very biggest tree they could find! The dad brought out his axe and cut the fir tree down and off they went!
Family and biggest tree go back to spots.
Narrator – Soon another family came to the forest and they looked at all the trees too. They didn't want a great big tree and they didn't want a small tree. They saw a tree that was just right!
For us on Christmas Day!
Narrator – The family was so happy that they had found the perfect tree for their house that they cut it down and off they went.
Family and middle tree go back to their spots.
Narrator – The littlest Christmas tree was all alone and he was sad and lonely.
Little tree is all alone up front.
Will I ever be a Christmas tree for a happy family?
Narrator – Soon some beautiful red birds came and sat beside the little fir tree. They brought some of the feathers and string from their nest. They decorated the littlest tree with the feathers and the string.
We'll stay and we won't fly away.
Don't be sad, don't be sad.
Narrator – The littlest tree began to feel better. Soon some little bunnies hopped over to the little tree. They brought some berries that they had found on the way. They strung the berries on the tree.
Red and Green are Christmas colours, pretty Christmas colours.
Bunnies can sit beside tree or go back to spot depending on the wiggle factor of the bird children!!
Narrator – The feathers, string and berries looked so pretty on the little tree that he began to feel like a Christmas Tree. He was just missing one thing!
What is missing? What is missing?
On our tree? On our tree?
That's what we need, that's what we need.
Narrator – It was starting to get dark, and the stars were coming out in the night sky. The stars knew that Christmas Night was the birth of a special baby and they had a big job to do. The stars were going to tell the shepherds about the baby Jesus lying in a manger.
(Children make come on sign with hands and then get up on tipee toes).
See the one that loves us so.
Narrator: A little star wasn't able to go with all the big stars and she heard the plea of all the animals and the little tree. She decided that she would go down and be a Christmas Star for the little tree.
And twinkle brightly on Christmas day.
Narrator – The star looked just beautiful on the little tree and now the tree felt just like a Christmas tree! In fact, he thought he was the most beautiful Christmas tree ever! Don't you think so too?
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Op-Eds by Vidhi Karnataka / How Online Platforms are Jeapordising the 'Free' in 'Freelancing' | FactorDaily
How Online Platforms are Jeapordising the 'Free' in 'Freelancing' | FactorDaily
Op-Eds by Vidhi Karnataka · March 4, 2019
Author(s): Divij Joshi
A large part of the estimated 1.5 million Indian 'driver partners' of taxi aggregator platforms Ola and Uber 'logged off' to protest against ostensibly unjustified decreases in earnings, particularly in the withdrawal of trip-based incentives in November 2018. In December of the same year, 'delivery executives' of Swiggy, the restaurant aggregator platform, went on a flash strike for similar reasons – the company had allegedly arbitrarily changed the calculation of incentive-based earnings for its executives.
A few characteristics distinguish these from traditional industrial disputes – the workers have no formal union for organising themselves, they have no office to picket, and their chief grouse is not against a factory manager, but against a software update on a smartphone app.
The digital economy is transforming concepts of employment and work – from increasing delocalisation of work, to the trend towards the gig economy and the disruption of traditional forms of labour organisation. Even as data recently released by the National Sample Survey Organisation report flagged concerns of a large-scale unemployment crisis in India, studies indicate that India is a global leader in online 'microwork' (task-based work) – with Indian workers supplying up to 24% of the work mediated through online platforms. With remote microwork platforms emerging as the new BPO industry, and transport and delivery apps like Uber and Swiggy fast replacing traditional forms of these services across the country, Indians are increasingly turning to online platforms for sources of gainful employment. Yet, the implications of this emerging form of labour remains largely unnoticed by law and policy in India.
As techno-capitalism's logic of incessant disruption extends to notions of work and employment, it begs the question – how should India prepare for the future of work?
Employment, Disrupted
Upwork, Swiggy, Uber, MTurk and a plethora of similar platforms can all be characterised as online labour platforms – a term encompassing digital platforms which intermediate the demand and supply for labour across a number of sectors. Online labour platforms exhibit highly heterogeneous business models, yet they share a few broad characteristics – notably, in serving as a mechanism for participation or interaction between workers and consumers, and governing these relationships, largely through data-based tools and algorithmic management.
These business models enable those seeking specific forms of labour, to connect with workers ready to perform those tasks. This lends itself easily to on-demand, 'freelancing' work in a number of ways – by providing tools for competitive bidding and crowdsourcing of specific tasks, as in Upwork and MTurk, or by matching instantaneous demand, based on a number of considerations including location and availability, as in food and taxi aggregators. Freelancing can potentially offer a high amount of independence and flexibility to workers, including freedom from managerial control and surveillance, and the ability to work at the times and places of their choosing. However, the design and technology through which many of these platforms operate often reinforces control and leverages the platforms economic power to the detriment of workers, by extending to determination of worker compensation, work timings and standards of service.
Take the case of Uber or Ola, for example. In order to drive for these companies, the drivers need to sign a take-it-or-leave-it 'clickwrap' agreement, which transfers the risk for the undertaking to the 'driver partners' and away from the companies. This is done through terms including the ability to unilaterally change the conditions of service (including pay and incentives), confidentiality agreements which disallow drivers to create customer lists of their own, and terms which limit the companies' liability for breach of contract.
Apart from such legal manoeuvring, the design and technology also plays a role in creating greater control over workers. The day-to-day management of workers on many platforms is mediated through opaque algorithms rather than humans, where workers are constantly surveilled to provide data for further managerial automation. These algorithms perform managerial functions using data analytics to design how tasks should be performed by specific workers in specific situations – yet due to the opacity of the algorithms and information asymmetry, workers are often unaware of why work gets allotted to them, or why specific incentive structures, like surge pricing or task-based incentives, have been created for them, or how they can best utilise the same.
One example of this is employee reputation systems. Such reputation mechanisms, over which workers have little control, can determine how visible or likely a worker is to get the next 'gig' on the platform, and can have even harsher effects like deplatforming a worker if they fall below a specific threshold, without adequate explanation of how such a decision was arrived at, nor mechanisms to challenge such decisions. Another is automated pricingmechanisms employed by delivery or transport platforms, which use algorithmically determined 'nudges' to control where and how workers operate, incentivising them to work specific tasks by surging or reducing prices. Yet other means of exerting control include scheduling requirements, which automatically 'punish' workers for being logged off for extensive periods or not performing tasks within defined standards.
Countering the Digital Domination of Workers
Indian law provides for specific labour protections precisely to counter such dominationof workers by employers, and equalize bargaining power – enacting protections including the right to paid leave, the right to organise and strike and protections against arbitrary retrenchment, among others. However, the emerge of online labour platforms in the labour market has resulted in significant regulatory uncertainty as to the role and liabilities of such platforms, which stems from a combination of genuinely novel business models and uses of technology, as well as by the manner in which these firms have positioned themselves – exploiting regulatory loopholes, and, as is axiomatic of silicon valley, moving fast and breaking things, possibly including the law. Due to this, extant labour protections are not clear in their applicability to online labour platforms.
As these platforms increasingly become important for Indian workers, it is crucial to re-examine and clarify the labour protections applicable to platform workers. There are a number of ways to achieve this.
First, existing laws could be applied to platforms on a case-to-case judicial determination. If a platform satisfies the classical tests for being an employer, which includethe extent of control over workers and assessing the independence of workers, then it must follow obligations under labour law, including protections such as a minimum wage and retrenchment procedures. This would compel platforms to choose a position– either they must reduce the amount of control exerted over online labour, or they must embrace their role as employers. This is precisely what a number of lawsuits against Uber, across the world, have achieved. A petition in the Delhi High Court also sought similar protections, but was eventually withdrawn.
However, labour laws in India are often inadequate, and may not offer the best solution to platform workers. An alternate approach could create ex-ante obligations on online labour platforms, including minimum standards and conditions which ought to be applied to workers. This could include limitations on worker surveillance; ensuring portability of information, including reputational systems, permitting and enabling networking between workers and consumers as well as inter-se between workers (for the purpose of organising or unionising), and allowing transparency and appealability of significant automated decisions made by platforms, all of which would reduce information asymmetry between workers and platforms.
Finally, there could be a wholesale shift in the manner in which labour regulation operates. Expanding universal social security, or ensuring that traditionally employer-centric worker protections like insurance are portable between employers or platforms, are long-term steps towards ensuring radical change in labour laws.
The internet once held the promise of the rise of a radical 'sharing economy' – non-market and non-hierarchical forms of co-ordinated production between peers, as predicted by Yochai Benkler in the seminal text, 'The Wealth of Networks'. The sharing economy was expected to displace the inequitable and hierarchical means of production in a traditional market economy. To some extent, platforms like GitHub and Wikipedia embody such visions, enabling non-market production of knowledge and software.
Yet, the wisdom of the 'sharing economy' has been co-opted by large technology companies, which have consolidated with themselves the economic power enabled by networks, instead further embedding them in the political economy of market-led production. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of online platform labour – contrast Uber or Ola's business models with decentralised visions of carpooling or car-sharing; or Amazon MTurk's creation a force of dependent workers, shorn of social benefits and employee protections, from independent freelancers with greater control over the processes of production. It's high time to reverse this trend and reclaim the revolutionary potential of the sharing economy.
Originally Published – https://factordaily.com/gig-economy-workforce/
Factor Daily, Freelancing, Gig Economy, Internet, Jobs, Op-Ed by Divij Joshi
About Divij Joshi:
Divij Joshi is a Research Fellow at Vidhi, Bengaluru. He graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, in 2016, and subsequently worked in the disputes resolution team of AZB & Partners in Mumbai. He has also worked as an independent consultant and researcher with civil society organizations, and regularly writes on topics of intellectual property rights and the information society. His areas of interest include access to knowledge, innovation and law and technology.
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Q: IdeaVim: is there a way to change background color when changing from command to insert mode and back etc? e.g. each mode own bg color IdeaVim: is there a way to change background color when changing from command to insert mode and back etc? e.g. each mode own bg color?
currently I can only see it via the caret, and the caret is blinking right, so I often dont realize that I'm in insert mode instead of command mode and vice versa, would be great to have the ability to see that more visually

A: There is no such functionally and we don't have currently plans to support something like that.
You can add 'set showmode' to your '~/.ideavimrc' to see the current mode in the status bar.

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Louisville basketball's next opponent, Siena, has a fiery coach in Jimmy Patsos
Jeff Greer
Courier Journal
Up next: Louisville vs. Siena, 7 p.m., Wednesday, KFC Yum Center. TV: ESPN2. Radio: WHAS-840.
He once devised a strategy to hold Stephen Curry scoreless, putting two defenders on the Davidson guard while the rest of his Loyola team played three-on-four.
He once pretended to shake invisible hands in a faux postgame handshaking line after the opposing coaching staff pulled its players off the floor following a game marred by a brawl.
He once briefly coached his team from the stands after receiving a technical foul, hoping to avoid an ejection.
He once was a national title-winning assistant for Gary Williams at Maryland for 13 years. And he once guided Loyola (Maryland) to only its second NCAA Tournament berth in program history.
Jimmy Patsos may be college basketball's most interesting man, and he is bringing his Siena team to Louisville for a 7 p.m. Wednesday matchup at the KFC Yum Center.
"Jimmy is obviously known for a handful of interesting incidents over the years," said Patrick Stevens, a Maryland-based freelance journalist who has covered Patsos and his teams for years. "But he's also a really bright guy, a guy who has a lot of outside interests. ... You can see the Gary Williams influence in who he is. There's a life-of-the-party element to him, but he's also a smart guy who happens to be a basketball coach."
Patsos is a Boston native and former bartender who played at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. He actually recruited interim Louisville coach David Padgett when Padgett was in high school and Patsos was still at Maryland.
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He took over a Loyola team that went 1-27 the season before he arrived and won 145 games in nine seasons.
The 51-year-old who loves the Grateful Dead has been at Siena since 2013, reaching two College Basketball Invitationals. His teams have won 20 games twice in his four seasons in Albany, New York, but his current group has struggled out of the gate.
Siena lost two overtime games, to College of Charleston and Lehigh, and was routed by Bucknell, Florida Gulf Coast and St. Bonaventure. But the Saints did top Hofstra two weeks ago and registered a second win on Saturday, topping Robert Morris.
Now Siena (2-5) comes to Louisville for a mid-week showdown with a Cards team in search of a resounding victory after two close losses.
"That's how you get better; these games are all important," Patsos said. "This is the next step up. This is the highest level. This is the toughest atmosphere. ... We have to handle the first four minutes, because I know they'll be coming out mad."
But Patsos doesn't want to miss the chance to enjoy the trip to Louisville and teach his players about the city.
Patsos is well-known in college basketball circles for taking his players to see some sights when they're in a new place, and this time will be no different.
He said he wrote former Louisville hoops star-turned-businessman Junior Bridgeman's name on the locker-room whiteboard and handed out Bridgeman's biography to his players so they could learn more about his success after college.
Loyola visited the Andy Warhol Museum when the team was in Pittsburgh for the 2012 NCAA Tournament. The Greyhounds went to the Graceland and the Lorraine Hotel during a trip to Memphis the next season.
This week, since Patsos is a big horse-racing fan and has been to the Kentucky Derby twice, it makes sense that Churchill Downs is the planned sightseeing spot. The Saints plan to take a tour on Wednesday morning, then possibly stop by the Louisville Slugger Museum and Muhammad Ali Center.
"Our job is to educate these kids," Patsos said. "I want them to be on a business trip in LA or something someday and someone says they're from Louisville, and they can say they've been there and seen it. I've always felt that responsibility to show them that kind of stuff. ... It's really cool. We're bringing a photographer. This is what you make senior pictures with, you know?"
Patsos has played down his sideline antics, and he has said he doesn't love the zany, almost cartoonish label attached to him in recent years.
But there's always a chance he'll add some spice to whatever game he is coaching, and that alone is worth some viewing interest on Wednesday night.
"There's a lot to the guy," Stevens said. "You never quite know what you're going to get from him because he's a very energetic guy. ... It's a combination of his own impulses and also trying to do what he thinks is best for his team. He's always been somebody who is authentic. You can't have enough folks like that."
Jeff Greer: 502-582-4044; jgreer@courierjournal.com; Twitter: @JeffGreer_CJ. Support strong local journalism by subscribing today: www.courier-journal.com/jeffg.


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