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France: The New Leader of the Free World?
December 7, 20150136 Neville Teller
France: The New Leader of the Free World? – © Image: Reuters
"Nature abhors a vacuum", observed the Greek philosopher Aristotle – a remark that, demonstrably valid, has entered into common parlance. Given US President Barack Obama's self-evident abdication of America's role as defender of western values in the turbulent Middle East, a new leader is indeed emerging.
"This administration," said US Senator John McCain, on October 1, "has confused our friends, encouraged our enemies, mistaken an excess of caution for prudence, and replaced the risks of action with the perils of inaction."
was born in London and is a graduate of Oxford University.He has been commenting on the Middle East scene for over thirty years.He is Middle East correspondent for the Eurasia Review and his articles also appear regularly in other publications and in his blog "A Mid-East Journal".His books include "One Man's Israel" (2008), "One Year in the History of Israel and Palestine" (2011) and "The Search for Détente" (2014).A past chairman of the Society of Authors' Broadcasting Committee, he is a veteran radio and audio dramatist and abridger.In the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2006 he was awarded the MBE for services to broadcasting and drama.
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He was reacting to Russia's surprising entry into the Syrian civil conflict, a campaign in strength, which seemed destined to put America's so-far ineffective intervention in the shade. At that point it appeared as though Russian President Vladimir Putin might become the global symbol – so needed, but so lacking – of determined opposition to jihadist terrorism. It soon became obvious that Putin's real agenda was to sustain Bashar Al-Assad in power as Syria's president, support Iran in their struggle against Assad's enemies, and enhance his own bid for super-power leadership.
Putin's priorities suffered a severe shock on October 31, when a Russian Airbus A321, on a flight from Egypt to St Petersburg, was blown out of the sky, killing all 224 people on board, including 17 children. Daesh (Islamic State) immediately claimed responsibility, and it was soon established that a bomb had been smuggled aboard the aircraft and detonated at 30,000 feet. Putin responded by shifting the focus of the Russian attack in Syria and Iraq to Daesh.
No sooner had the world absorbed the fact that over 200 innocent air passengers had been subjected to mass murder, than the global media were filled with another horrendous demonstration of bloodlust – the co-ordinated massacre in Paris of 130 people on the night of November 13. Again Daesh claimed that it was responsible. Just one week later, 170 people were held hostage, and 27 slaughtered, in a hotel in Mali. It is no coincidence that the Malian capital, Bamako, had been a logistics hub for French forces ever since they intervened in 2013 to help Mali's government defeat an Islamist attempt to take over the country. At the time France's unilateral intervention – disapproved of by Germany and a swathe of Arab states – seemed to confirm the willingness of recently-elected President François Hollande to be a force opposing terrorism on the world stage.
Following the November 13 outrage, as the French capital and the world reeled at the enormity of the brutal onslaught on innocent civilians, his dignified presence in Paris, and his calm and appropriate reaction aroused admiration for him, sympathy for the people of France, and solidarity with them in their shock and grief.
At the time of the Paris slaughter President Obama happened to be in Turkey, and he gave what could only be described as a lacklustre news conference. He expressed solidarity with France, listed some modest successes in pushing back Daesh forces in Iraq and Syria, pledged to maintain humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees, "and we'll continue to stand with leaders in Muslim communities, including faith leaders, who are the best voices to discredit ISIL's warped ideology." Scarcely a rousing call to arms.
President Hollande, on the other hand, responded vigorously to the assault on his country. He immediately instituted an intensified anti-IS air campaign in Iraq and Syria, authorised hundreds of raids on suspected domestic terrorists, declared a 3-month state of emergency, and proposed changes in the constitution to make France less hospitable to jihad. He then sponsored UN Security Council Resolution 2249, drafted by French officials and approved by all 15 members, calling on member states to take "all necessary measures" against Daesh, a group it described as "a global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security". Countries were urged to step up sanctions and improve efforts to cut off the flow of foreign fighters to Iraq and Syria.
In commenting on the Resolution, France's UN ambassador, Francois Delattre, told the Council that France intended to "scale up its efforts so as to galvanize the international community as a whole, to vanquish our shared enemy." And that is clearly France's post-Paris strategy – to rally the irresolute, the uncertain, the doubtful, the indecisive, among which, regretfully, must be numbered not only the US, but also the UK, a goodly proportion of EU members, Turkey and, most obviously, many of the stable and moderate Arab states who stand on the side-lines and, for their own complex reasons, refrain from entering the fray.
Hollande is determined to follow up this series of initiatives by personal persuasion. Two months ago France became the only European country to join US-led strikes in Syria, and the UK government is hovering on the brink of seeking a parliamentary mandate to do the same. However Prime Minister David Cameron is determined not to repeat the mistake of losing the vote in the House of Commons, a humiliation experienced back in August 2013 when he sought agreement to bomb Assad for employing chemical weapons against his own people.
So on November 23 Hollande hosted a meeting with Cameron in Paris, in part, no doubt, to strengthen the British prime minister's case by enabling him to claim he has France's backing. Hollande then flew to Washington where he met Obama to discuss beefing up the US-led "Operation Inherent Resolve" strikes against Daesh targets in Iraq and Syria. From there he flew on to Moscow to discuss with Putin how their countries' militaries might work together in an effective anti-IS campaign.
Clearly it is the French president who is taking the proactive lead in rallying a global campaign against the brutal, bloodthirsty and philistine Daesh organization. Only when Daesh has been utterly crushed and defeated, and chased out of Iraq and Syria, can its malign appeal to vulnerable Muslim youth the world over be finally snuffed out. To achieve this objective, an increasing number of voices in the US, the UK and elsewhere are arguing that the strategy of "no boots on the ground" will have to be reversed.
Peter R Mansoor is a retired US Army colonel who was executive officer to General David Petraeus in Iraq, and who played a key role in the US counter-insurgency strategy in that war. He is now an Ohio State University military history professor.
"The president says the goal is to degrade and ultimately destroy IS" he said on 17 November, "and yet the amount of resources that he's applied, and the strategy that he's fashioned, is not sufficient to get the job done…We need to get serious about actually destroying IS in its homeland in Syria and Iraq, and to put US and European troops on the ground if it's necessary to accomplish that goal…This administration just isn't serious about the war in the Middle East."
It seems pretty clear that France's President François Hollande leads an administration that is.
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Q: Pip Value Calculation I want to calculate the pip value. There is an online calculation that did it. There is only one script "© Investoz Pip Value Calculator FX" that did it, but the source is not available.
I attempted to do it, but my example works only on FOREX pairs with base currency USD, e.g. USDCAD, USDJPY, etc. How can I do that for all FOREX pairs?
f_pipSize() =>
    syminfo.mintick * (syminfo.type == "forex" ? 10 : 1)

float _pipValue = (f_pipSize() * 100000) / close

A: For pairs with USD as the quote currency e.g. AUDUSD and account currency of USD:
Pip value of 1 lot = 10
For pairs with CAD as the quote currency e.g. EURCAD and account currency of USD:
Pip value of 1 lot = 10 / current close of the USDCAD
For pairs with CHF as the quote currency e.g. USDCHF and account currency of USD:
Pip value of 1 lot = 10 / current close of the USDCHF
For pairs with AUD as the quote currency e.g. GBPAUD and account currency of USD:
Pip value of 1 lot = 10 / current close of the AUDUSD
For pairs with NZD as the quote currency e.g. AUDNZD and account currency of USD:
Pip value of 1 lot = 10 / current close of the NZDUSD
For pairs with GBP as the quote currency e.g. EURGBP and account currency of USD:
Pip value of 1 lot = 10 / current close of the GBPUSD
For pairs with JPY as the quote currency e.g. USDJPY and account currency of USD:
Pip value of 1 lot = (10 / current close of the USDJPY) * 100
I read about it from this site and another one that I forgot:
https://www.thebalance.com/calculating-pip-value-in-forex-pairs-1031022

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Sanofi, a global healthcare leader, discovers, develops and distributes therapeutic solutions focused on patients' needs. Sanofi is organized into five global business units: Diabetes and Cardiovascular, General Medicines and Emerging Markets, Sanofi Genzyme, Sanofi Pasteur and Merial. Sanofi is listed in Paris (EURONEXT: SAN) and in New York (NYSE: SNY).
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Stags U11 kept a clean sheet in both their encounters, and Luke Toates bagged a hat-trick of tries as Stags won 28-0 and 33-0.
The U7s played three even matches, with Neots winning the opener, Stags the second and the decider finishing tied at 5-5.
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Harry March bagged three scores for the U10 Stags. He crossed for the only try in the first game, opened the scoring in the Stags' win in the second and added a third in the final game, which Neots edged 3-2.
It was very much one-way traffic at U12 level as Stags managed two whitewash scores in their matches.
The first ended 31-0, and the second 56-0, with Callum Paterson bagging three tries and the boot of Adam Garrood converting with many of the 13 tries.
St Neots had the upper hand at U13 level and led 19-0 after just 10 minutes. Stags improved but the damage had been done as Neots eased home 36-5.
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1. Process Studies: Volume > 45 > Issue: 2
John B. Cobb, Jr. Whitehead, God, and a Contemporary Rift Among Whiteheadians
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This article addresses a contemporary rift between Whiteheadians who are theists and those who defend Whitehead without God. The origins and nature of this rift are explored, as is the possibility of rapprochement between the two positions.
Daniel Athearn Physics and Philosophy in Whitehead
An essay first published in 1917 presents key insights and ideas that shaped Whitehead's physics and metaphysics. It also displays his apparently lifelong view that science cut off from philosophy (which for him meant, or at some point led to, metaphysics) will fall short in its vital mission of explaining facts and phenomena—a view dissenting sharply from reigning doctrines of the modem era. His largely implicit criticism of the modem assumption that science as such can do without philosophy merits clarification and evaluation.
Donald Wayne Viney God Almighty and God All-Loving: A Review Article of David Ray Griffin's God Exists But Gawd Does Not
Griffin's book contributes to the literature of cumulative arguments for God's existence, revealing the deficiencies of the "God Almighty" of traditional theism (i.e., Gawd) and the strengths of a Whiteheadian process theism (i.e., God). Since the concept of omnipotence is central, it is imperative to note that there are three ideas of divine power in traditional theism, not always carefully parsed by Griffin. Evolutionary theory requires rethinking theism, but, contrary to Griffin, many of the problems posed by the theory are less for belief in Gawd than for fundamentalism. Nevertheless, an interactive dipolar deity fits most naturally with evolutionary thinking to provide a concept of God All-Loving. Griffin is at his best discussing the ground of abstract truths. He does not, however, avail himself of some of the best arguments against traditional theism found in Hartshorne's work; there is also the question whether Griffin would accept Hartshorne's idea of the modal coincidence of God's existence and all possibility and how this would affect his cumulative case.
Robert E. Ulanowicz Process Ecology: Philosophy Passes into Praxis
Mechanical reductionism, which deals entirely with homogeneous variables, will constrain and enable the activities of richly heterogeneous living systems, but it cannot determine their outcomes. Such indeterminism owes to problems with dimensionality, dynamical logic, intractability, and insufficiency. The order in any living structure arises via an historical series of contingencies that were selected endogenously by stable autocatalytic processes in tandem with, and usually in opposition to, conventional external influences (natural selection). The development of living communities thereby resembles a Heraclitean dialectic between processes that build up and those that tear down. Investigating this unconventional dynamic requires metaphysical assumptions that are complementary to those that have guided science over the past three centuries. The new dynamics can be represented in terms of weighted networks of interacting processes, which facilitate the statement of testable hypotheses. Network analysis thereby implements and tests ideas that heretofore could only be addressed as verbal propositions.
Lisa Landoe Hedrick The Structure of Rationality and the Ideal of Aesthetic Harmony in Whitehead's Pragmatic Philosophical Theology
Whitehead's metaphysics provides resources for understanding a world in value-realist terms. Central to this value realism is an aesthetic conception of rationality that sees a hope implicit in our practices—the hope that our linguistic tools are suited to the task of getting things right in our fields of inquiry. This pragmatic hope entails an understanding of individual freedom and responsibility to participate in a patient restructuring of the world toward the highest retention of value. It also enables an understanding of individual freedom as obstructive to this restructuring. One task of this article is to show that attunement in theory to the hope implicit in practice can ameliorate this obstructiveness. A subsequent task is to show that, insofar as this preliminary hope is not a metaphysical premise, but a regulative ideal seeking satisfaction, it can serve as a warrant for an implicit theology in linguistic pragmatism. In this way, I argue that we can come to see pragmatism as a method lending itself to a philosophical theology of the Whiteheadian variety. We can do this precisely insofar as rationalism is seen as predicated on an aesthetic ideal of harmony—a harmony between what is and what ought to be our matters of concern. We can come to see the structure of rationality in terms of an aestheticism corrective of analytic conceptions of meaning and truth.
Brian G. Henning Moral Vegetarianism: A Whiteheadian Response to Andrew F. Smith
In this article the work of a recent critic of moral vegetarianism (and veganism) is analyzed: Andrew F. Smith. Smith s work is significant for process thinkers who defend moral vegetarianism for various reasons. One of these is that he forces process thinkers to consider in more depth Whitehead's view of plant ontology; another is that Smith adds insightfully to the conversation within process thought regarding the relationship between claims regarding animal rights and the ecoholistic concerns of environmental ethicists.
Richard McDonough Wittgenstein and Whitehead Revisited
In this article I criticize the treatment of the relationship between Wittgenstein and Whitehead asserted by Jerry Gill in a 2014 article in Process Studies. I argue that Wittgenstein s later philosophy is much more sympathetic to Whitehead s view than Gill thinks.
Austin Roberts The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History, and Us
Adam C. Scarfe Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: A Common World for Animals and the Environment
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Daniel Dombrowski Faith, Fallibility, and the Virtue of Anxiety: An Essay in Religion and Political Liberalism
Joseph A. Bracken God of Empowering Love: A History and Reconception of the Theodicy Conundrum
Daniel Dombrowski Process and Dipolar Reality: An Essay in Process, Event Metaphysics: Rethinking Whitehead's Categoreal Scheme
Jean Paul Van Bendegem Petite philosophie de l'Art Royal: Analyse de I'alchimie franc-maçonne
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Rem B. Edwards Whitehead's Theistic Metaphysics and Axiology
This article explores and critically examines the concepts and value dimensions of God, process, creativity, eternal objects, and individuals in Whitehead's thought
Ronny Desmet Aesthetic Comparison of Einstein's and Whitehead's Theories of Gravity
This article addresses both philosophers of science and process philosophers. It shows that the acceptance of Einstein's general theory of relativity by British physicists in the early 1920s, and their rejection of Whitehead's experimentally indistinguishable theory of gravity, was a matter not only of empirical evaluation but also of aesthetic preference. To philosophers of science it offers a historical case study illustrating the entangled roles of empirical and aesthetic criteria in theory evaluation. To process philosophers it offers an answer to the question of why Whitehead's alternative rendering of Einstein's general relativity has been neglected both by the majority of physicists, and by the majority of philosophers.
Derek Malone-France Society, Ideology, and Cosmic Organicity: Human Discursivity and the Post-Mechanistic Tum in Biology
Ongoing developments in evolutionary and systems biology highlight the deficiencies of reductionistic and mechanistic explanations of the "organic" world (and widen the meaning and application of this term). Whitehead's ontology provides the basis for a unified theory of social organization that connects the emergence of primitive life to the development and diversification of human societies along a continuum of creative ontogeneration. The metaphysical characteristic of "creativity" is precisely the manifestation of the ontogenerative relationship between possibility and actuality. Actualization is change. While all actualization necessarily exhibits some degree of continuity with the past, it is driven by the inertiac availability of specific relevant forms of possibility (etemal objects), through which it has access to an array of "novel" forms for actualization. This relation to novelty explains everything from the emergence ofprokaryotes on earth 3.6 billion years ago to the possibility of ideological resistance in human societies today.
Bogdan Rusu The Psychological Source of the Concept of Feeling
In this article I trace back Whitehead's concept of feeling to its psychological sources. I argue that Whitehead's way of conceiving feeling was made possible by the works of British psychologists-philosophers, most importantly G. F. Stout. The latter's Analytic Psychology, a work of great authority read by Whitehead very early, contains the conceptual resources Whitehead needed to elaborate his concept of feeling as immediate experience, in partial contrast to the similar concept proposed by F. H. Bradley. I suggest that Bradley, Stout, and other prominent representatives of British philosophy-psychology are more relevant to understanding the genesis of Whitehead's ideas than William James and his followers.
George R. Lucas, Jr. On the Trail of Whitehead: Part One: The Spy Who Came in to Take Notes (with Apologies to John le Carre)
A young Canadian mathematician and philosopher, Winthrop Bell, who was Edmund Husserl's first doctoral student from North America, taught as a postdoc at Harvard in the 1920s, where he took a complete set of notes in the first class at Harvard taught by Alfred North Whitehead during the 1924-1925 academic year. These notes, missing for over 80 years, have recently been found. The notes transform scholarship concerning the early development of Whitehead's mature metaphysical views, while the note-taker's own career illuminates a remarkable collaboration between the pragmatists in the U. S. and Canada and the early phenomenology movement in Europe, an intellectual exchange that was shattered during the tumultuous events of World War I and its aftermath.


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Now the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Needs a Clever Ticker
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - May 27, 2014
With the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF, more formally known as the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, on track for approval before the end of the year, and an exchange already selected (the Nasdaq), we're waiting on just one more big piece of news: the ticker symbol.
With a product as controversial as a Bitcoin ETF, choosing the right ticker symbol can help foster wider acceptance of the digital currency as well as make the ETF easy for investors to remember.
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Last year's crippling drought has led to a spike in global corn prices and tightened available supply stocks, as U.S. farmers experienced staggering crop destruction from the sweltering heat.
But this year, Mother Nature seems to be making up for lost time.
Farmers have been inundated with so much rain in the planting season months that just 54% of the Iowa corn crop is rated good or excellent as of last week. The 10-year average of the state crop is 74%, which is raising concerns given that the planting season recently ended.
Nationally conditions are improving following a recent rush by farmers to complete corn planting to beat crop insurance deadlines. As of last week, 65% of the U.S. corn crop is currently rated in good or excellent condition, down 3% from the 10-year average.
Ongoing storms across the Northern Corn Belt have made it increasingly difficult for farmers to get seeds into the ground. The slower-than-normal pace of plantings has fueled concerns that U.S farmers would plant less corn than earlier USDA estimates, reducing the size of this year's crop.
Now, with more unpredictable weather on the horizon, all eyes look to Friday with big announcements by the USDA on planted acreage and the quarterly figures for corn stocks.
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By Jason Simpkins, Managing Editor, Money Morning - October 27, 2010
Corn prices have surged more than 70% since May and could rise even higher in coming weeks. Prices will remain elevated for at least the next year, perhaps even testing their 2008 record high of $7.65 a bushel. That will likely mean higher food prices across the board for at least the next year.
Money Morning predicted in May that after falling below $3.50 per bushel in March, corn prices would surge higher than $6 by the end of the year. That forecast has proven prescient, as corn rose to a two-year high earlier this month.
Increased demand from emerging markets and a smaller-than-anticipated U.S. harvest are the driving forces behind corn's resurgence.
By Jason Simpkins, Managing Editor, Money Morning - May 12, 2010
Corn prices have slumped some 24% since January and more than 50% since hitting a record high $7.65 a bushel in June 2008. Now they are being further threatened by potentially the largest corn harvest in history.
Still, there's reason to believe that corn prices will rebound.
The summer season could be particularly harsh following a better-than-average spring, and rumors that China is gearing up to make a huge purchase so far has helped keep corn prices afloat - and could even send them higher. But before that happens there are some substantial headwinds for the crop to overcome.
By Jennifer Yousfi, Money Morning - August 12, 2008
By Jennifer YousfiManaging Editor Corn prices are down 36% from their June peak, but despite the U.S. government's claims of a bumper corn crop this year, the current dip in corn prices is just a temporary abatement, as higher demand and a potentially smaller-than-estimated total crop are poised to push corn prices higher. The U.S. […]
By Jason Simpkins, Managing Editor, Money Morning - June 23, 2008
By Jason SimpkinsAssociate Editor Bunge Ltd. (BG), fertilizer and oilseed producer, said it will buy Corn Products International Inc. (CPO) for $4.4 billion, or $56 a share, a 31% premium to its Friday closing price. The purchase will help Bunge expand its product line to include Corn Products' starches, syrups and sweeteners. The deal will […]
By Jason SimpkinsAssociate Editor Flooding in the Midwest has devastated much of the region's corn crop, and caused prices to skyrocket. However, major rice and wheat producers are expected to have bumper crops this year, offering some hope that food prices could soon recede. The price of corn for July delivery jumped Monday to an […]
By Jason SimpkinsAssociate Editor U.S. farmers will produce 10% less corn this year than they did a year ago, driving demand to a 13-year low and further enflaming global rhetoric aimed at diversion of the staple crop for use in biofuels. Corn production will fall to 11.735 bushels compared with last year's crop of 13.074 […]
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By Mike Caggeso Associate Editor Against a backdrop of soaring worldwide food prices, riots over shortages and controversies about food crops being diverted for biofuels, U.S. corn prices jumped another 7% in April, the eighth-straight monthly advance. And the worst may be yet to come: Despite the rocketing price of corn and calls to step […]