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Islamic finance: A new buzz in the finance sector
ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | With the UK now the biggest Islamic finance centre in Europe, and Australia looking to enhance its own credentials in this area, Australians in the UK should consider looking at developing skills in this growing sector.
by Sepi Roshan
in Expat Life
Samina Akram, Managing Director of Samak Consultants
THE finance industry is hiring again. If you are planning on making a move into finance, or reconsidering a new niche, there is a specialist area estimated to grow by 15 to 20 per cent per annum. Some project the market will be worth over $US2 trillion by 2014. The growth of Islamic finance has got the finance world talking. The UK is now the biggest Islamic finance centre in Europe, and as the Muslim population grows, Australia is keen to establish its own place in this growing sector. This means more opportunities for Australians in both the UK and Australia.
Islamic finance refers to business practices that are approved by Islamic Law or Shariah. Dr Hayat Khan, Director, Islamic Finance Programme at La Trobe University explains that Shariah "prohibit business exchanges that involve riba (which includes interest based loans) and gharar (contractual uncertainty which includes a ban on selling something that isn't owned at the time of sale)".
These features prohibit short selling (selling something that does not exist) and engaging in speculative investments such as derivatives — features some believe made the sector more resilient to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). A 2010 Austrade Report cites a 2009 survey by The Banker, showing that Shariah-compliant assets held by the world's top 500 Islamic Financial Institutions increased in value by almost 30 per cent during the height of the GFC.
Islamic finance has not been totally immune to the GFC. However, the economic argument for Islamic finance remains strong. In 2003, the UK made changes to its taxation, legal and regulatory regimes to ensure a level playing field between Islamic finance and non-Islamic finance. Now the UK is the largest Islamic finance centre in Europe, with five fully-fledged Shariah compliant banks and over 20 conventional banks with Islamic Finance operations (e.g. Barclays, HSBC). Australia has similar ambitions to the UK in the Asia Pacific region. Australia's current regulatory arrangements already allow Shariah-compliant funds and the Government believes new opportunities already exist at the institutional level.
So who can participate in Islamic Finance? According to Dr Khan and other Islamic Finance specialists, anyone can engage with Islamic financial products. Non-Muslim investors may be attracted to the products' commercial features, as well as underlying ethical and socially responsible characteristics. Dr Khan says "Islam promotes socially responsible behaviour and strategies which provide a solution to social issues". Islamic law "prohibits investing in certain industries or activities which might harm society or individuals". This includes the prohibition from charging interest and a list of prohibited industries. In this way, the objectives of Islamic finance and conventional finance systems are aligned.
However, political events and negative media coverage provide challenges for Islamic finance. Take for example, the role of women and Shariah. In regards to women's participation in Islamic finance, Dr Khan acknowledges that women are currently in the back seat, due mainly to cultural biases which are present in the Muslim and Western world. "The role currently played by women…varies with culture and countries. [Women] are more active in countries like Malaysia and Indonesia than elsewhere in the Muslim world". In Australia, Dr Khan has witnessed growing participation of females enrolled in post-graduate Islamic finance courses. He believes that women will form an important source of human capital within the sector, including playing an important role by contributing to the discussion on Shariah issues. The interpretation of Shariah itself can be an area of contention amongst scholars, of whom only a few are women.
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Here in the UK, Samina Akram, Managing Director of Samak Consultants, is leading the charge for women in Islamic finance. "Few would doubt the beneficial role the financial sector can play in the alleviation of poverty, the generation of value-added business, attracting investments and creating employment" says Akram.
In 2009, Akram left Merrill Lynch to set up an independent, international Islamic and Ethical finance consultancy in London — one of very few women globally to have done so. The shortage of qualified women in senior positions in finance is an issue in all cultures. Recognising the obstacles many women face in entering and progressing within Islamic finance, Akram established the first Global Women in Islamic and Ethical Finance network in London in 2007. Starting as an informal group for like-minded individuals, the network has grown and will formally launch later this year.
Such has been the impact of Akram's role in Islamic finance, that she has won awards, including the United Nations (UN) Women's Federation of World Peace award for her contribution to Islamic finance. Earlier this year, Islamic Finance Review Magazine ranked Akram the fifth most distinguished women in Islamic finance.
As markets become more educated about Islamic finance, it seems that the opportunities for Aussies are growing – whether you are thinking of heading back to Australia or wanting to dabble with a growing finance sector here in the UK. The Australian Government is certainly keen to develop the sector, and as the UK is at the forefront of Islamic finance. Dr Khan believes that Australians heading back from London might have opportunities related to product development and drafting regulations. Once again, we Aussies are right up there. Just ask Boris Johnson.
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First and foremost, new and continuing undergraduate students need to know these five key tools in order to better manage their college academic success.
Furthermore, most colleges and universities have developed these student-centered academic policies to facilitate student success on campus.
If, you're new to higher education, then you probably remember hearing something about them during New Student Orientation.
And, while experiencing information overload, you, perhaps, missed mention of them altogether.
More importantly, did you get a chance to explore academic options with your academic adviser and how you might used them?
As a matter of fact, did it even occur to you to ask?
In all the excitement, probably not.
Every college student has either hard copy and/or online access to the college student handbook.
And, most college students often ignore its existence.
For the most part, college student handbooks are not what one would normally classify as "user-friendly".
However, this little "treasure" does have five key academic tools you can use if you run into any academic challenges.
So what exactly are these five key tools every college student should know and use by the time they graduate?
All things considered, college students are very busy people. And learning how to manage within a higher education system is extremely complex and often time-consuming.
By and large, for first-generation as well as legacy undergraduates, reading and understanding the student handbook itself can be a daunting experience.
And for those who try, that's exactly what it is. All in all, if you're not familiar with academic language, then the student handbook might as well be written in a foreign language. In any event, you can't use what you don't know!
College alumni have many a horror story to tell about what they didn't know as it relates to these five key tools!
First thing to remember is that academic advisers are temples of academic knowledge, particularly policies, procedures, and practices. They know a variety of options for students to succeed.
And what they don't know, they know how to track down the needed information.
Moreover, what's very helpful for most students is to have a good, collaborative working relationship with your adviser. And if you and your adviser don't see eye to eye, if there is no collaborative chemistry, then consider making an "informed" change.
You have every right to do so!
Always investigate your options. Also, just don't rely solely on your peers. Consult other higher ed professionals as well.
Above all, select an academic adviser whose information you can trust…a choice critically important to your future success.


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The Night I Almost Stole the Kelly Cup
In 2003, The Sin Bin's Sarah Hobday had a chance to steal the Kelly Cup, but decided against it. Sarah shares her story of nearly making off with the ECHL championship trophy a little over 16 years ago.
Sarah Hobday
With all the news about the AHL's Colorado Eagles refusing to return the Kelly Cup to the ECHL league office, The Sin Bin's Sarah Hobday decided to share a story about how she almost made off with the ECHL's championship trophy over 16 years ago, ultimately choosing against it.
During the 2002-03 ECHL season, I lived in Fairfax, VA. I had a full-time job during the week, and on weekends, I would travel to ECHL games to take pictures. Atlantic City was only a three and a half hour drive away and was the third closest team to me. I went to Atlantic City often throughout the season and would see the Boardwalk Bullies on the road, as well. A coach with the team and several players all liked getting game pictures from me. It was a team I enjoyed watching play, and a good team to be around. When the playoffs started, Atlantic City was the team I stuck with most for games.
I remember the conference final battle with the Cincinnati Cyclones (and making the late-night drives between the two cities) well. I was in Atlantic City the night they won that series. As the playoffs progressed with the Boardwalk Bullies, I became part of the pre-game superstitions of one member of the team. I had to give him pictures before a game so they could win. He even said I would get a Kelly Cup ring if they won, since I was part of his superstitions. I am still waiting on that ring…
The Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies celebrate their 2003 Kelly Cup Finals win with the trophy itself. L to R: Steve Cheredaryk, Stefan Rivard, Ryan Mougenel, and Luke Curtain. Photo Credit: Sarah Hobday / The Sin Bin
During the Kelly Cup Finals, I only missed the games in Columbia. I took time off from work on Wednesday, May 14 so I could be in Atlantic City for game five (as it was their first chance to clinch the cup). Trips to Atlantic City were always enjoyable, especially since they were one of the first teams to give me media credentials for taking pictures. The Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies beat the Columbia Inferno 3-1 that night for the four games to one series win. I had seen the Kelly Cup awarded in 1999, 2001, and 2002 as a ticketed fan. This night in Atlantic City was my first time to see the cup awarded as a media member, so I had full access to the ice and locker room.
I was on the ice to take pictures of the initial celebrations with the Cup. Then, everyone moved to the locker room. I was asked by several players to join them in the locker room for taking pictures. I was pulled around the room so players could pose for the kind of pictures they wanted (this was before everyone had cell phones with cameras). I luckily managed to keep myself and cameras dry in the locker room and not be hit with any beer or champagne.
Atlantic City Head Coach Mike Haviland and assistant Matt Thomas pose with the Kelly Cup after their 2003 championship victory. Photo Credit: Sarah Hobday / The Sin Bin
Celebrations next moved up to the concourse where some fans were waiting to see the Kelly Cup. I continued to follow the Cup around to get lots of pictures to chronicle the evening. Next, the party moved to a bar in town. I was asked to follow the team there. With persistence from the equipment manager, I had my first ever drink from the Kelly Cup. That sip from the Cup was my only drinking of the night. Celebrations continued at the bar with players, families, and some fans until closing time. Then, the team went to one player's house to continue the party. In Atlantic City, the players all lived in rented houses instead of apartments.
One player walked behind me out of the bar while carrying the Kelly Cup. He then put the Cup in the backseat of my car and asked me to take it to that house. Of course, I agreed to transport the Cup. I then expected him to jump in my car, but instead he walked away.
So here I was with the Kelly Cup. Alone. In my car.
Atlantic City defenseman Steve Cheredaryk pours a victory swig from the Kelly Cup for teammate Shawn Maltby. Photo Credit: Sarah Hobday / The Sin Bin
I stood there for several minutes watching players leave the bar and get in various cars to leave. No players walked to my car to ride with the Cup. In that moment, I considered just driving home. I was thinking about how long it would take the players to remember who had the Cup and then how to get in touch with me. My mind was spinning with the thought of stealing the Kelly Cup, since I had this perfect opportunity.
I probably sat in my car for about 15 minutes thinking all this through. Then I thought about what Pat Kelly would think if I stole the Cup. That was ultimately why I did not steal it; I did not want to upset Mr. Kelly and have him disappointed in me. Over previous seasons around the ECHL, I always enjoyed running into Mr. Kelly and hearing him tell stories. I never wanted to do something that would upset him.
So, I started my car and drove to the party house. When I pulled up on the curb to park, the same player that put the Kelly Cup in my car was waiting in the yard to take the Cup into the house. I stayed at the after party for about an hour or so before I had to drive home. Instead of stealing the Kelly Cup, I drove home with no additional hardware.
I am definitely glad that I decided not to steal the Kelly Cup that night. Many years later, I built up the strength to tell my story to Mr. Kelly. He thanked me for not stealing the cup.
At least I have those memories and a fun story of it all…
Follow Sarah's photographic exploits of the AHL, ECHL, and SPHL on her Twitter and Facebook pages, as well as right here on The Sin Bin!
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Terrestrial Time (TT) is the modern time scale that is used instead of ephemeris time, which is obsolete.
TT was introduced by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1991 as the coordinate time scale consistent with the theory of relativity for an observer on the surface of the Earth.
TDT was defined in 1976 by the IAU to be the counterpart of Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB) as measured by clocks ticking SI seconds on the surface of the earth.
Terrestrial Time (TT) is the modern (An arrangement of events used as a measure of duration) time scale that is used instead of ((astronomy) a measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion; terrestrial time is mean solar time corrected for the irregularities of the Earth's motions) ephemeris time, which is obsolete.
TDT was defined in 1976 by the IAU to be the counterpart of (additional info and facts about Barycentric Dynamical Time) Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB) as measured by clocks ticking SI seconds on the surface of the earth.
Subsequently the IAU decided that the name of TDT was a misnomer because it did not correspond directly to anything dynamical in the theories of motion for bodies in the (The sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field) solar system.
Ephemeris Time (ET) is a now obsolete time scale used in ephemerides of celestial bodies, in particular the Sun (as observed from the Earth), Moon, planets, and other members of the solar system.
ET was replaced with the two time scales Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT) and Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB) by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976—TDT was renamed Terrestrial Time (TT) in 1991.
As the theoretical basis for Ephemeris Time is wholly non-relativistic, in 1976 the IAU resolved that beginning in 1984 ET would be replaced by the two relativistic timescales Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB) and Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT).
ephemeris time (ET), astronomical time defined by the orbital motions of the earth, moon, and planets.
Terrestrial Time, or TT (sometime called Terrestrial Dynamical Time, TDT), is, as its name indicates, the time scale on Earth.
Terrestrial Time (TT), (or Terrestrial Dynamical Time, TDT), with unit of duration 86400 SI seconds on the geoid, is the independent argument of apparent geocentric ephemerides.
The expression of dates and times externally is complicated by the dual aims of supporting a broad variety of "natural" representations and of being able to use multiple time scales.
TDT differs from TAI by a variable amount, but for times of interest the difference is within 10 usec of its exact value at the 1977.0 TAI epoch of 32.184 sec = 0.0003725 day.
The default is that Terrestrial Time (TT or TDT) is assumed.
The apparent (mean) sidereal time is used for astronomical observation and the mean sidereal time is used to construct a time scale: the Mean Sidereal Day (a difference of 0.0084 seconds with the Earth revolution period due to the precesion).
The Dynamical Time corresponds to the concept of the inertial time, i.e.
Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT) is referred to the geocenter (Proper Time with periodic variations up to 1.6 milliseconds, but common between satellite and Earth).
Since the time reading at the Sun's passage through the meridian should be 12 h, though, the true solar time comes out as the hour angle of the anti-sun (which is the fictitious point on the ecliptic opposite to the Sun).
Loran time was zero at 0h 1-Jan-1958 and since it is not affected or altered by leap seconds it is now ahead of UTC by TAI, Temps Atomique International, is the international atomic time scale based on a continuous counting of the SI second.
TDT is independent of the variable rotation of the Earth, and the lengths of the tropical year and synodic month are generally defined in days of 86,400 seconds of international atomic time.
TDT is used as the time scale of ephemerides for observations from Earth's surface, and differs from international atomic time (TAI) by an offset of 32.184 seconds (TDT=TAI + 32.184), which varies slightly with time.
With atomic time the unit of a second is defined as; the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of microwave light absorbed or emitted by the hyperfine transition of cesium-133 atoms in their ground state undisturbed by external fields.
Atomic time is based upon the atomic second as defined by the ``oscillation of the undisturbed cesium atom.'' Atomic time is simply a count of atomic seconds that have occurred since the astronomically determined instant of midnight January 1, 1958 00:00:00 at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England.
Ephemeris time is the uniform time scale represented by the independent variable in the differential equations that describe the motions of the planets, sun and moon.
A comparison of the times kept by a clock at the solar system barycenter with a TDB clock on earth would reveal that the two clocks are in close agreement but that they run at different rates at different times of the year.
For many centuries, the fundamental unit of time was the rotational period of the Earth with respect to the Sun.
Unfortunately, Universal Time is not a uniform time scale because Earth's rotational period is gradually decreasing.
Although solar eclipse predictions are based on Terrestrial Dynamical Time, the position of the central eclipse path still depends on Universal Time.
Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB) was defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976 to be used as the relativistic replacement for the non-relativistic Ephemeris Time which had been used in the ephemerides starting in 1960.
Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT) and TDB were defined in a series of resolutions at the same meeting of the International Astronomical Union.
Despite IAU recommendations that TCB be used for all further calculations of solar system ephemerides, as of 2002 TDB and Ephemeris Time continue to be used, the latter by the producer of the important DE200 ephemeris and its successors at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Historically, the calculation of time has been based on the position of the earth relative to the sun using noon, when the sun is highest in the sky, as a marker.
The length of the second, which corresponds to the length of time required for 9,192,631,770 cycles of the Cesium atom at zero magnetic field, was determined near the end of the 19th century; this second is thus equivalent to the second defined by the fraction 1/31 556 925.97 47 of the year 1900.
World time is typically adjusted every year by adding what is called a "leap second." Because the time calculated by the position of the sun differs from the time calculated by the atomic standard, it is occasionally necessary to adjust international time standards to match the position of the Earth.
Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT) is dynamical time for geocentric phenomena which replaced Ephemeris Time when the IAU 1976 System of Astronomical Constants was implemented in the Astronomical Almanac in 1984.
Dynamical time for barycentric phenomena (TDB) used as a time scale of ephemerides, referred to as the barycenter — the center of mass (a common axis of rotation) around which the solar system revolves.
Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT) for geocentric phenomena — which is independent of the variable rotation of the Earth —; is used as the time scale of ephemerides (daily table showing planetary positions) for observations from Earth's surface.
TDT differs from "TAI" an abbreviation due to a compromise between French and English for "International Atomic Time") which measures the International System SI second as the time required for 9,192,631,770 vibrations (transition cycles) of a Cesium (Cs-133) atom in a Cs clock.
TIME ACCURACY: The calculated times are in Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT or TT), a replacement for Ephemeris Times (ET).
Civil time, such as UTC (popularly known as GMT, but technically incorrect) or your local time, is corrected for the non-linear changes in the rotation of the earth.
If the local time is in the wrong time zone for you, you need to check and adjust these settings on your computer, there is nothing in this web page or the code behind it to change this.
There are two kinds of Dynamical Time: TDT (Terrestrial Dynamical Time), which is a time scale tied to the Earth, and TDB (Barycentric Dynamical Time), used as a time reference for the barycenter of the solar system.
To a person watching the sky 13 miles west of you, the time seems to be 11:59 when you swear it's 12:00 and someone 13 miles east insists it's 12:01.
Logically enough, the "universal" time zone that was agreed upon is that of 0° longitude.
In 1984 ET was renamed Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT or TT); also created was Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB), which is referred to the solar system's center of mass.
The generality of this definition is due to the diversity of methods that have been used in creating calendars.
At that time the patriarch Hillel II, breaking with tradition, disseminated rules for calculating the calendar.
The Julian proleptic calendar is formed by applying the rules of the Julian calendar to times before Caesar's reform.
An interim solution was to use a specific "railway time," but soon standard time zones were created.
Colloquially the term "blue moon" is used to mean "a very long time." In fact, there have been at least seven different uses of the term "blue moon" in the past several hundred years.
This phenomenon is called the "equation of time." This is just a fancy name for the fact that the Sun's speed along the Earth's equator is not constant.
By convention, the standard seasonal year is taken to be A.D. 1900 and to contain 31,556,925.9747 sec of ephemeris time.
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(astronomy) a measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
Terrestrial time is mean solar time corrected for the irregularities of the Earth's motions.
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Connecting Windsor Along Off-Street Trails.
· To be included in partnership with others as part of future development projects.
This study complements other plans such the Windsor Parks and Recreation Master Plan, Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan, and the Connecting Windsor – East-West Pedestrian & Cyclists Connection Study, the Shiloh Vision Plan and others to reflect community priorities. This will result in a new Town-Wide Plan that clearly defines and prioritizes the Town's proposed trail projects and related improvements.
The objective of the Study is to complete an audit of existing conditions of the Town's current trail network; to prepare cost estimates for the Town's proposed trail projects and related improvements; to gather input from the public, stakeholders, and responsible public agencies regarding trails; to develop a prioritized list of individual trail projects; and to provide initial environmental screening of the proposed projects.


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MLB rumors: Sandy Alcantara, Marlins closing in on contract extension; Angels add Aaron Loup, Tyler Wade
Here's the latest from the MLB hot stove
By Matt Snyder
Nov 22, 2021 at 5:55 pm ET 3 min read
Will it be a slow week in Major League Baseball's hot stove leading up to Thanksgiving? Or will we get more deals after big names like Noah Syndergaard and Justin Verlander inked deals last week? We'll gather the news and rumors right here for you on Monday, and it starts with the Red Sox grabbing the 2023 and 2024 options on the contract of manager Alex Cora.
Let's see what else is out there.
Marlins, Alcantara working on extension
The Marlins are close to a five-year, $55 million extension with starting pitcher Sandy Alcantara, reports Craig Mish of Sports Grid.
Alcantara, 26, isn't anywhere close to free agency. He's in arbitration until after the 2024 season, but a move by the Marlins here would give cost certainty in the next three seasons and then would buy out the first two years of free agency. It would be a big step from Kim Ng's front office to lock up a starter like this.
Alcantara was 9-15 with a 3.19 ERA, 1.08 WHIP and 201 strikeouts in 205 2/3 innings last season. He was an All-Star in 2019 and has a 3.48 ERA (122 ERA+) in 72 starts in the last three seasons. He's pretty well established as a quality, front-end starting pitcher.
Dodgers looking at Suzuki
Japanese star outfielder Seiya Suzuki is set to be posted for MLB teams this offseason (scouting report here). The Dodgers appear to be among the interested teams, reports David Vassegh of Sports Net LA.
Right now, the Dodgers could have a full outfield with Mookie Betts, Cody Bellinger and A.J. Pollock, but they have a lot of movable pieces and it's unclear if they want to head into next season with Bellinger slotted as the everyday center fielder.
It's also worth a quick mention that the Dodgers will be far from the only team interested in Suzuki. He hit .319/.436/.644 with 38 homers in 131 games in NPB last season.
Giants interested in Cobb
The Giants are "making a strong push" for free agent starting pitcher Alex Cobb, reports Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle. She adds that Cobb and the Giants "looks like a match."
Cobb, 34, went 8-3 with a 3.76 ERA (119 ERA+), 1.26 WHIP and 98 strikeouts in 93 1/3 innings last season for the Angels.
Yankees ship Wade to Angels
The Yankees have traded utility man Tyler Wade to the Angels for a player to be named later or cash considerations, the clubs have announced.
Wade, 26, has spent his entire five-year career in the majors with the Yankees, but was designated for assignment last week. In 264 games, he's hit .212/.298/.307 (66 OPS+). He stole 17 bases in 23 chances last season and posted a career-best .354 on-base percentage in 2021. He's spent most of his time on defense at second base but has also played shortstop, third base and all three outfield positions.
Guardians trade outfielder, pitcher
The Guardians have traded outfielder Harold Ramirez to the Cubs for cash considerations, the teams have announced.
Ramirez, 27, has hit .271/.308/.405 (90 OPS+) with 41 doubles and 18 homers in 818 career plate appearances in parts of three seasons. He's spent time in all three outfield positions with the overwhelming majority in the corners. The Cubs are likely not done tweaking their outfield before 2022, but right now the starters appear to be Ian Happ, Rafael Ortega and Jason Heyward with Ramirez joining Michael Hermasillo and Alfonso Rivas as depth.
In a separate move, right-handed pitcher J.C. Mejia has been traded from the Guardians to the Brewers, both teams have announced.
Mejia, 25, was 1-7 with an 8.25 ERA, 1.61 WHIP and 47 strikeouts with 24 walks in 52 1/3 innings last season. He had a 6.75 ERA in 25 1/3 innings in Triple-A and this was his first season past High-A. This is to say, he's essentially a project for the Brewers. They've had success in developing pitchers in this fashion before.
Brewers sign backup catcher
The Brewers and catcher Pedro Severino have agreed on a one-year, $1.9 million deal, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN.
Severino, 28, hit .248/.308/.383 with 11 homers and 46 RBI in 113 games last season with the Orioles. He was worth 0.9 WAR, per baseball-reference.com.
As things stand, the Brewers are set with Omar Narvaez behind the plate, so Severino will serve as the backup.
Angels ink Loup
The Angels on Monday announced that they've signed lefty reliever Aaron Loup to a two-year contract worth a reported $17 million. Loup, who turns 34 in December is coming off a stellar season with the Mets. In 56 2/3 innings, Loup pitched to a 0.95 ERA with 57 strikeouts against 16 unintentional walks. For his career, he boasts an ERA+ of 136 and a K/BB ratio of 3.19.
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Chargers Boys Volleyball Team Gets Shot At State DII Title
Jack Danilewicz
That his boys volleyball team is akin to a rock band without a true front man is all fine with Pearl City coach Brennan Velasco.
"Honestly, our chemistry is our strength," he said. "Everyone has to rely on each other. We don't have a go-to guy or a superstar, per se.
"We just have a bunch of kids who do a lot of things well."
The Chargers took a 4-4 record into the weekend and were preparing in recent days for Tuesday's OIA West season finale against Waialua.
As Pearl City has been assigned to Division II this spring, the team was looking to seal the top-seed from the West for next week's OIA DII tournament.
A win over the Bulldogs would give Pearl City a bye for the April 21 first-round games, but would automatically move the team into the semifinals, positioning it just one win away from securing one of the OIA's two berths for the upcoming DII state tournament.
Under OIA's current format, DI and DII schools play each other during the season before the teams head into their respective divisions for the postseason. In the Chargers' case, that has meant playing some of the state's top DI teams, most notably Mililani and Waianae.
Two of its wins were over Aiea and Campbell, both DI teams.
"It is different to be 4-4 and still in first place," said Velasco, a former Pearl City and University of Hawaii standout. "We're looking more toward the big picture, so we looked at the DI games as tune-ups for the (DII) playoffs."
Pearl City's DII counterparts in the West include Radford, Nanakuli and Waialua. The East's group of DII schools includes Castle, Kaiser, Farrington, McKinley and Anuenue.
Pairings for the OIA DII tournament will be known today following the conclusion of Tuesday's final regular-season games.
"I think we have a real good shot in the OIA DII this year and of competing well in the state (tournament)," Velasco said. "Our kids don't have as much experience as a lot of the DI teams we've played, guys who play club year round.
"The experience isn't there, but people are starting to click, and we're hoping we can peak at the right time."
Velasco credited his senior class of Petro Mataia, Tyler Canon, Garette Kanamu, Joshua Arellano and P-Jay Solomon for setting the tone for the season.
"They've been very important to what we've been running," he said. "They've been playing off each other. Our defense has been pretty solid, and our blocking has been good. We have a lot of size this year."
The Chargers seek to win their first-ever DII title this year after earning nine previous OIA titles before the league separated into two divisions in 2005.
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Last Friday, IRWC visited Pollardtown Fen located near Newbridge in County Kildare. Pollardstown is perhaps the biggest fen in Ireland, and a real mosaic of plant communities fed by dozens of calcareous springs. The site is well used by the public, facilitated by a boardwalk circuit through the southern part of the site. There were significant challenges several years back associated with managing the flooding at the site during the construction of the Kildare Bypass. The fen habitat is best managed through grazing, and currently there are associated difficulties relating to finding suitable stock for grazing a 'wet' site, combined with the management of stock in a heavily-visited public amenity area.
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Mathematics, Literature, and Movies
Yoji Ito
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Chuo University
Areas of Specialization: Film, French Literature
This is the story of how a child who loved math became a scholar of French literature and eventually a film critic as well. It is the story of a finite person with limitations—one who could only comprehend things representationally and had trouble understanding reality. Working to advance science, the modern human beings have learned to amuse themselves richly with fiction—the world of symbols and ideas that can be found in long novels and films.
I teach French as part of the Faculty of Economics at Chuo University. Though I am technically a scholar of French literature, people ask me to work on publications as a film critic. For this reason, film theories have become the main pursuit in my research activities. As you can see, things are a bit complicated, so I'd like to start out by telling a little bit of my personal story.
I don't have the right kind of mind for pursuing the liberal arts in literature or film studies. Math was always my strongest subject in school, and I didn't do nearly as well with Japanese or English. I was clearly inclined towards the sciences, and I'm sure I would have had a much easier time of it had I simply pursued that line of study. In fact, my earliest memories are of wanting to be a mathematician when I grew up. The change came over me when I was in my second year of elementary school. At the time, I was completely absorbed in the number pi (π). I was going around buying up books about it and getting lost in them—things like Petr Beckmann's A History of Pi—and enthusiastically calculating the ratio by hand. Then, on a night when I was even more engrossed in the calculations than usual, I found that I was able to work out the figure to the twenty-fourth decimal place. When I lifted my head, however, I noticed that a clear, beautiful morning sun was starting to peek its way through the curtain into my room. It was the first time in my life that I had stayed up all night. At the time, I regretted that I had wasted my time on something so pointless. I stopped reading books about mathematics and threw myself into reading novels instead.
Though my second-grade self didn't know it at the time, what I have since realized is that that sense of meaninglessness I felt—the meaninglessness that caused me to quit mathematics—was actually the crux of the entire experience. Of course, I can't blame my seven-year-old self for finding significance in something profound rather than something meaningless. There was no reason for a child to know anything about what is meaningless.
Because I hadn't yet encountered the true nature of mathematics, the story of why I failed to pursue it is a tremendous insult to mathematicians. That said, I'd also like to point out that although the shift in my interest from mathematics to literature was certainly one that took me from truth to beauty, the reality of the situation was a bit more complex. As a child, mathematics was the closest I could get to the study of truth itself. There is no doubt that the search for truth was the key factor driving my total absorption in mathematics. However (and I was fully aware of this even at the time), had I not found beauty in the number pi, and the like, I never would have been so passionate about math in the first place. On the other hand, while moving from mathematics to literature did take me farther from truth, it also allowed me to pursue beauty in an extremely direct way. In other words, the shift in my interests was a transition from the beauty inherent in truth to a beauty that mixed both fact and fiction together. I don't know now how aware of this I was at the time, but then I was surely living the decisive collapse of that blissful union with truth, good, and beauty during those years.
The books and films that I encountered as a junior high school freshman have had a major impact on the rest of my life. I went to the Junior High School at Komaba, University of Tsukuba, which fortunately does not require its students to take a high school entrance exam. This allowed me to spend my time completely absorbed in the books and films that I loved. Some of the novels and poems that I became fascinated with in my first year there were Camus' The Stranger, Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, and Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. It wasn't that I was making a special effort to read French literature; it's just that before I knew it, almost everything I liked was a modern French work. This naturally led me to decide to major in French literature once I got to university, where my undergraduate, master's and doctoral theses were all about the twentieth-century French poet Guillaume Apollinaire. It was also during my initial year of junior high school that I was powerfully moved by Apollinaire's poems for the first time. During my second and third years at Komaba, I was certainly enchanted by Russian literature like Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, Latin American works like García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and American pieces like Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. But it was ultimately modern French literature, particularly Lautréamont's The Songs of Maldoror and Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy, that fascinated me the most and continued to hold my interest.
It was also around the first year of junior high school that I began watching movies every day. Before that, it was no more than that I was watching more movies than the other kids I knew. This was when I first realized that films were just as rich a form of expression as literature—more so, in fact. Godard's Breathless and Pierrot le fou, which I saw towards the end of that year, had a particularly profound impact on me. Soon, I was not just watching films daily, I was watching 700 of them a year. I had become something of a movie buff, and if I were heading to university today, I would probably seriously consider a major in film theories.
I began studying French when I got to the University of Tokyo, and was able to continue my studies in the Department of French Literature of the Faculty of Letters. I had known I wanted to study French literature since I was a kid, so I really should have started studying French earlier—but since I wasn't very good with languages, I had my hands full just studying English through high school. From there I went on to the master's and doctoral programs in the graduate French literature department, during which time I studied as an exchange student at the École Normale Supérieure and also registered for a doctoral program at New Sorbonne University. Unfortunately, my lack of skill kept the writing of my doctoral thesis from going as planned, so I ended up living in Paris for six and a half years. The dissertation I ultimately submitted to New Sorbonne University ended up being picked up by a Parisian publishing house and later released in book form.
The thesis dealt with the love letters of Guillaume Apollinaire. My decision to study his letters rather than his poems or short stories was based on the current state of Apollinaire research at the time. When you tell people you're studying someone's letters, they typically think you're doing autobiographical research on the author—but my paper was actually a thorough textual analysis. In other words, I wasn't looking to discover the real life of the author behind the text, I was analyzing the text itself in an effort to make its value known. This approach, however, caused a bit of a problem. The letters that authors write are of a fundamentally different nature than the works of literature that they release to the public. Demonstrating their value to modern readers (aside from their value as source materials) is not a straightforward task. Of course, the situation is a little different when it comes to Apollinaire's love letters. The poet includes poems in his letters, which he is offering to the woman with whom he is in love. What's more, he even wrote portions of the letters with the idea that they would later be compiled and published in book form. Given that, you would think that there wouldn't be a problem convincing people of the literary value of these particular letters—but in reality it was no easy task. The argument was that existence of poems in the letters only proved that the poems themselves had literary value, and said nothing of the value of the rest of the letters. In my view, however, there was literary value to the other passages as well. Next was the idea that the text had literary value because the author intended to publish it, which is a strange argument. Just because an author claims that he has produced a literary work does not mean that it has literary value and does not make it literature, and even if he says it is not a literary work it does not prevent a text from being literature either. There are plenty of texts out there where the author's intentions are unknown. Whether or not a text has literary value ultimately comes down to elements found within the text itself. In the process of studying Apollinaire's love letters, therefore, I had to consider the question of what makes a letter literary as well as what the inherent nature of literary value was in the first place. In doing so, I also analyzed the essential communicative function of letters as I closed in on the literary value of what Apollinaire wrote.
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Once I had gotten my doctoral degree from New Sorbonne and returned home to Japan, I took a position at Chuo University. While I continued my research on Apollinaire, I also began to work as a film critic in earnest. I had already written a piece for a special edition of Eureka on Deleuze's Cinema just before I went to study abroad, but had hardly had any requests for work while I was there. My current most well-known assignment as a film critic started just before I took the position at Chuo, with "Film Review" in Dokushojin Weekly. At Dokushojin Weekly, I got to interview film directors like Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Aoyama, Pascale Ferran, and Guillaume Brac, and even sit down multiple times with film critic and former president of the University of Tokyo Shigehiko Hasumi. I'm now also working as part of the editorial committee for Chuo Hyoron, published by the Chuo University Press, on planning a special edition. I've even been asked to contribute to film brochures, writing them for Lou Ye's Spring Fever, Robert Bresson's Four Nights of a Dreamer, Guillaume Brac's Tonnerre, Pascale Ferran's Bird People, and others. More recently, I've had additional requests to contribute to special features on films in Eureka as well as on actors like Hideko Takamine and Setsuko Hara. Finally, I've compiled a series of research publications for the Chuo University Institute of Cultural Science and contributed a paper on the film director Teiichi Hori, who also happens to be my longtime friend.
While I once saw films as a simply a hobby of mine, it somehow ended up becoming the subject of my criticisms and research as well. Looking back on it now, I can again see how much of an impact Dr. Shigehiko Hasumi's course at the University of Tokyo had on my work in the field. Though most of the courses I teach are French language classes in the Faculty of Economics, the fundamental approach I use in my film studies course in the Faculty of Letters is a direct extension of what I learned from Dr. Hasumi. And his influence shows up clearly not just in my teaching, but in my work in film criticism as well.
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So what is the joy of films? I'd like to give you my take on this important question as a film critic, since it gets at the fundamental nature of my work with them. The most important thing we need to get clear on is that the reality we see unfold before our eyes on the screen is not being reproduced in its entirety. Everyone's definition of what the word "reality" refers to is slightly different, so it would be better to call as "what actually exists" or "the real world." In any case, even documentary films are staged, and anything staged or otherwise fabricated is fiction. Even if you fix a camera in place and do zero editing work on the film, the minute you place the camera in a specific position, the staging has already begun. In addition, no matter how sophisticated your camera equipment, the images it captures are not the same thing as the scene that actually unfolds in front of the lens. If there were absolutely no discrepancies between the two, then what you have is no longer a film at all. People toss around the word "nonfiction" all the time, but in the strictest sense, there is no such thing as a nonfiction film. Just as realism is a form of fiction, documentaries are a subset of fiction as well.
Therefore what is the most fundamental is that all films are fictional. And we human beings have learned to find joy in amusing ourselves with the fiction that movies offer.
For modern people, our habit of amusing ourselves this way may be in one sense inevitable. The reason for this is that in the modern era, human beings recognize the finitude of their existence, and therefore have no choice but to distance themselves from reality and subjectively construct fictions. What does this really mean? In his Critique of Pure Reason, the philosopher Immanuel Kant separates the thing-in-itself from the phenomenon, arguing that human beings are able to perceive phenomena, yet incapable of knowing the things-in-themselves. In this way, he argues for the intellectual limitations of finite humans, who are not the omniscient God. We can substitute the words "reality" and "representation" for "thing-in-itself" and "phenomenon" as well. What we see and hear with our eyes and ears is no more than a representation of reality—not reality itself. Of course, modern science continues to try to explain the reality of our world trough representation, but its conclusions can do no more than approximate truth, and will never be without some level of uncertainty. And if that is the case, it's only natural that our approach is to actively try to experience the richness of the representational world itself. Representation is not the same as reality, and as long as a permanent gap exists between the two, we can say that all forms of expression are fictions. Indulging in the abundance of representation is none other than amusing ourselves with fictions.
A film is literally a representation of reality captured by a device we call a camera. This makes the representational format of a movie a perfect means by which to actively experience representational richness. Long novels and films are the way that modern people throw themselves into amusement with fiction.
Just because films deal with representational fictions and do not show the truth of the real world does not mean that they do not have value as a form of expression. The truth of the real world may be unknowable to human beings, but the provisional truth revealed by modern science is that the real world simply exists and empty, having no meaning in itself. If God does exist, and if God created the universe, the universe (the real world, in other words) has meaning. If so, it means that there is such a thing as absolute value. But if the real world is godless it exists simply arbitrary, having no meaning in itself either way. Therefore, all human efforts to insist upon meaning are nothing more than self-created fictions. As Hidemaro says in Ogai Mori's short work As if [Kanoyoni], "Things with value are the lies that everybody knows." Every form of value is a lie—nothing more than a fabrication. But the truth is that human beings cannot live if they simply deny that anything has value. Ultimately, we have no choice but to go around acting "as if" we truly believe there is some value—even if we know deep in our hearts that it is a lie. This is what it means to amuse ourselves with fictions.
Even the idea that the planet Earth is a more precious planet than Mars, for instance, depends on a human-centric perspective—or at least one focused on life as we know it. Saying that planets without life are inferior to those with it is nothing more than one subjective viewpoint. Taken to the extreme, the extinction of the human race may be nothing more than a trifle within the vast expanses of the universe. Depending on how you look at it, the faster the humans who are destroying the natural environment disappear, the better it might be for the Earth and for the universe as a whole.
Human beings live their lives estranged from universal truth, good, and beauty. The joy of films for human beings, who have no choice but to live in a world of subjective fabrications, is precisely that we feel for a fleeting moment when we find of the richness in fiction of representation.
Professor Yoji Ito was born in Tokyo in 1969. He graduated from the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo in 1994, going on to complete the master's program at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo in 1996. In 2003, he completed the required courses for the doctoral program in the same school, finishing without a degree. That same year, he completed the doctoral program from the Department of French Literature and Civilization at the New Sorbonne University. Professor Ito received his Doctor of Literature from the New Sorbonne University and then taught at Chuo University as a full-time lecturer and associate professor in the Faculty of Economics before taking up his current position in 2012. He is currently researching fiction in film aesthetics and other topics. Key publications include Apollinaire et la lettre d'amour (Editions Connaissances et Savoirs 2005), of which he is the sole author. His "Film Review" is also currently under serialization in Dokushojin Weekly.
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Laurel Ridge Luxury Townhomes Provide Convenience, Quality Construction and Cost-Savings
By Staff October 21, 2020 5:49 pm
The joys of home-ownership can sometimes be tempered by the headaches of associated responsibilities and costs.
The luxury townhomes in Lakeside at Laurel Ridge, South Salem, New York enhance the joys while eliminating the headaches. The townhomes provide quality construction, a convenient location, a setting of natural and landscaped beauty, and a neighborly community.
Phil Pine, president of Laurel Ridge Development, says there are advantages to a condominium townhome versus a comparable single-family home; most notably in the real estate taxes, maintenance costs, and utility bills. Laurel Ridge townhomes provide an annual savings of $24,000. The overall operating budget of a luxury townhome is less than half that of a single-family home. Although, for many of the Laurel Ridge residents, the financial savings are only a small part of the decision to purchase here. Other advantages include easy access to local shops, restaurants, transportation hubs, cultural centers, and recreational amenities.
Each townhome offers about 3,000 square feet of living space, so even those who are "down-sizing" really aren't sacrificing much by way of space. According to Pine "People leaving their larger home are concerned about moving into a smaller space." However, at Laurel Ridge, "When your kids and grandkids come to visit you have plenty of room for them comfortably," he said. "These three-bedroom townhomes are spacious, with an open concept floor plan, well designed for form and function, including a separate home office."
"It doesn't feel like a townhouse or a condominium. It feels like a house," one resident said.
"I'm happy as a clam. I don't even miss my house," said another.
Laurel Ridge is an enclave of 46 townhomes on 10 acres with a lake, walking paths, tennis courts, and multiple swimming pools. Currently, 36 are completed, 34 of which have sold. The remaining 10 are under construction, all of them around the lake, and will be ready for occupancy in about four months. Select homes have lake views and decks from which to enjoy that view. "There are some beautiful sunsets to enjoy," Pine said.
In addition to standard features, including a fireplace, attached two-car heated garage, and three bedrooms, there is opportunity for further customization including installation of an elevator. The flexible space of the finished walk-out lower level accommodates more than one purpose, choices ranging from home office, home theater, gym, and family room with wet bar.
Laurel Ridge is walking distance to the Oakridge Common Shopping Center with a gourmet market, pharmacy, nail salon, dry cleaner, wine and liquor store, craft beer store, dentist, fitness center, day care facility, and holistic veterinarian.
One resident who moved in last Spring said, "I love the fact that the location is perfect, and it's less than five miles from three gorgeous towns: Pound Ridge, New Canaan and Ridgefield, and it's only a hop, skip and jump to Greenwich and Darien."
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