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November 28, 2017 01:32 PM PST
Into the Dark Ep. 23: THE FINAL EPISODE (feat. Dakota Hendrix)
Into the Dark dies all fiery with a glorious bang. Medium, diviner, and witch Dakota Hendrix talks about growing up a witch in a Christian cult, making it to New York and becoming a top makeup artist, becoming a professional reader, ancestor worship, and much much more.
You can learn more about them on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/genderterrorism/) and instagram (https://www.instagram.com/azraea/)
Also check out https://www.facebook.com/swcurios/ ; and Witch and the Wolf ; and Black Hand Conjure .
Some new tracks from Arcana Machine are also out: https://damagesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-spells
And I have a book out: http://copingmechanisms.net/portfolio/dumbheart-stupidface-by-cooper-wilhelm/
For all future listener questions for our research department, send them to cooper dot wilhelm at gmail dot com. Expect answers. Expect delays.
November 03, 2017 02:03 PM PDT
Into the Dark ep. 22: Mani C. Price, and Mental Health and Magic
Occultist, artist, and performer Mani C. Price (manitheuncanny.com) talks about her magical journey, altars, ritual, spirit paintings, and more. Into the Dark also makes a solid stab at tackling the relationship between magic and mental health and wellness.
Resources for mental health treatment include:
https://therapysafetynet.org/resources/additional-resources-uninsured/
https://www.mentalhealth.gov/
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-help/index.shtml
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Treatment Referral Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357)
October 20, 2017 10:07 AM PDT
Into the Dark Ep. 21: Fred Jennings
Occult scholar and practitioner Fred Jennings pops by for a randomized (in honor of Chaos Magic) interview. We talk about magic and the law, magic and activism, alchemy, chaos magic, ritual, and a chrome extension Fred made having to do with indigo children.
ALSO: If you are in or near the great city of New York, consider going to Psychedelic Horror Show, an art exhibition with performances and featuring Mani C. Price, who I interviewed for a future episode. October 27th, with ticket proceeds donated to charity. Details here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychedelic-horror-show-tickets-37266769912
Ep. 20: Ivo Dominguez Jr. and Domonique Echeverria
It's a two-interview kind of day at Into the Dark.
1st: Scholar and Occultist Ivo Dominguez Jr. talks about the New Alexandrian Library, an occult repository of books, pamphlets, and correspondence from magical and occult figures. Ivo also talks about the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel and his new books on astrology and developing your psychic abilities.
You can learn more about Ivo and these organizations here:
http://www.newalexandrianlibrary.com/
http://www.sacredwheel.org/
http://www.ivodominguezjr.com/
2nd: Shaman and healer Domonique Echeverria joins Into the Dark to discuss Universal Mother, a resource for self-healing and spiritual exploration. Domonique also talks about holistic medicine and her spiritual journey and path to becoming a medicine woman and healer.
You can learn more about Domonique and Universal Mother at http://www.universalmother.love/healersseers/
https://www.instagram.com/domonique_echeverria/?hl=en
Domonique is doing a group healing session October 11th at Dream House. You get tickets email Domonique domonique@universalmother.love
Also we get cut off at the end, so to give to relief efforts in Puerto Rico go to www.losambulantes.com/help-puerto-rico
Into the Dark ep. 19: Lisa Marie Basile
Writer, editor, and witch Lisa Marie Basile comes to talk about the magazine she founded, witchcraft, writing, her new novel, death, ritual, and feminism. The time William S. Burroughs tried to curse a coffee shop also comes up.
You can learn more about Lisa Marie Basile and her magazine Luna Luna:
http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/
https://twitter.com/lisamariebasile
http://www.lisambasile.com/
Lisa Marie Basile is an editor, writer and poet living in NYC. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Luna Luna Magazine and the author of APOCRYPHAL (Noctuary Press, 2014), as well as a few chapbooks. Her book, NYMPHOLEPSY (co-authored with poet Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein), was a finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards and will be published in 2018. She is working on her first novel, due out with CLASH Books in 2019. Her poetry and other work can be or will be seen in PANK, Spork, The Atlas Review, Queen Mobs Teahouse, Grimoire, the Tin House blog, PEN American Center, and more.
Into the Dark Ep. 18: Alexander Cummins
Sorcerer–Scholar Alexander Cummins comes on to talk about Saint Cyprian (the patron saint of witchcraft), necromancy, divination, geomancy, his time as a sorcerer for music festivals, the ethics of love spells, and his current research on a grimoire from 1567 and the magicians' notes on which spirits and ghosts they summoned to write it.
You can learn more about Alexander Cummins at his site:
www.alexandercummins.com
get a reading or consultation from him at http://alexander-cummins.squarespace.com/consultations
grimoiresontape.tumblr.com
and his podcast:
radio-free-golgotha.squarespace.com/
You can also check out his book:
https://www.amazon.com/Starry-Rubric-Seventeenth-Century-English-Astrology/dp/1907881212
And check out the publisher for the books on Saint Cyprian mentioned in the episode:
https://www.amazon.com/Cypriana-Old-World-Alexander-Cummins/dp/1943710090
August 29, 2017 07:39 AM PDT
Into the Dark Ep. 17: Lucina Stone, Mexican Witchcraft, and a Mirror Box Curse
Into the Dark talks to Lucina Stone (winner of two International Latino Book Awards for Best Sci/Fi novel and Best New Author) about Brujas, Mexican witchcraft, her novel Santa Muerte, and her spiritual journey. Cooper also describes how to curse someone using a mirror box.
You should check out Lucina's essay about Mexican witchcraft at Luna Luna (http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/dark/mexican-white-magic) and her novel Santa Muerta (https://www.amazon.com/Santa-Muerte-Daniela-Story-Book-ebook/dp/B01AHIS2CC), and you can follow her on twitter here https://twitter.com/LucinaStone9123 and find her on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LucinaStone9123/
For more on a mirror box spell and a freezing/binding spell, check out:
http://conjuredoctor.blogspot.com/2009/09/hoodoo-mirror-box-spell-to-reverse.html?m=1
http://www.luckymojo.com/freezer.html
As always, submit questions to our research department to IntoTheDarkRFB@gmail.com or on twitter @CooperWilhelm.
#LucinaStone #witchcraft #crystals #altars #Bruja #SantaMuerta #RadioFreeBrooklyn #magik #mirrorboxspell #curses #hexes #hoodoo #conjuring
Into the Dark Ep. 16: Vortex Healing with Susan Hwang
Susan Hwang, founder of the Bushwick Book Club (http://bushwickbookclub.com/) Brooklyn musician extraoridinaire talks to Into the Dark about vortex healing and her journey as someone who didn't really go in for magic and the like until she saw it work. She also does a ritual to cleanse the studio.
Learn more about Susan and her work here:
http://bushwickbookclub.com/
https://lusterlit.bandcamp.com/
http://www.emellemd.com/team/
and contact her on facebook to learn more about BushWitch.
You can also learn more about Vortex Healing here: https://www.vortexhealing.org.
As always, submit questions about magic to our research department at IntoTheDarkRF@gmail.com or by contacting Cooper on twitter at @cooperwilhelm
#SusanHwang #DivineMagik #VortexHealing #BuswickBookClub #Witchcraft #Radiofreebrooklyn #RicWeinman
Into The Dark Ep. 14: The Occult Practices of Thailand (Feat. Callum Hutchings) , Occult Tattoos, and the St. Louis Arch
Into the Dark talks to Callum Hutchings about the occult practices of Thailand, which include occult tattoos, amulets, dead children, and much much more. Occult tattoos are discussed more generally. A listener question about the St. Louis Arch (Is it a Stargate?) is also addressed.
Learn more about the occult practices of Thailand at:
https://amuletforums.com/
https://www.thethaioccult.com/
http://www.buddhamagic.net/
Also check out Callum's article on Kuman Thong (Golden Child) at https://thaioccultforbegginers.wordpress.com/2017/07/07/kuman-thong-golden-child/
You can find Callum on facebook. As always, send questions about the occult and witchcraft to IntoTheDarkRFB@gmail.com or to me directly at @CooperWilhelm on twitter.
#Witchcraft #thailand #St.Louis #StLouis #Sakyant #Alchemy #Constantine #Magic #Tattoos #OccultTattoos #amulets #murder
Into the Dark Ep. 13: Leza Cantoral
Into the Dark sits down with writer, editor, and bruja Leza Cantoral to talk Chaos Magick, sex magick, growing up in Mexico, evolutionary biology, Aleister Crowley, Carl Jung, and times she's hexed people.
You can listen to Leza's podcast Get Lit with Leza at getlitwithleza.podbean.com and get her book Cartoons in the Suicide Forest on amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Leza-Cantoral/e/B01MQUS269). You should also check out Clash Media at yesclash.com and find Leza on facebook, twitter, instagram, and tumblr @lezacantoral
as always, if you have any questions for our research department, send them to IntoTheDarkRFB@gmail.com.
Friendly interviews with practitioners and scholars of the "occult" arts.


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THE THIRSTY CROWS are an American Psychobilly/Rockabilly group from the South Bay area of Los Angeles, California. Thematically their melodically energetic songs tend to revolve around Lovecraftian horror, binge drinking, and acts of revenge.
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Religion and the Constitution, Fifth Edition
Michael McConnell, Thomas C. Berg, Christopher Lund
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Religion and the Constitution, Fifth Edition, is a casebook unparalleled in how it synthesizes judicial decisions and legal doctrines together with materials from history, the study of religion, and other related disciplines.
Religion and the Constitution, Fifth Edition, written by a team of well-known Constitutional Law scholars, thoughtfully examines the relationship between government and religion within the framework of the U.S. Constitution. This proven casebook is suitable for courses or seminars in Religious Liberty, Religion and the Constitution, or Religious Institutions and the Law. The Fifth Edition has been updated with discussions of the Supreme Court's many recent religious liberty cases, decided against the tumultuous backdrop of pandemic restrictions and intensifying "culture wars."
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Professor Michael W. McConnell is a leading authority on freedom of speech and religion, the relation of individual rights to government structure, originalism, and various other aspects of constitutional history and constitutional law. He is author of numerous articles and co-author of two casebooks: The Constitution of the United States (Foundation Press) and Religion and the Constitution (Aspen). In addition to teaching, he is the director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, which was founded in 2006 to explore and improve public understanding of the most pressing constitutional issues.
Professor McConnell brings wide practical experience to bear on his teaching and scholarship. Before joining Stanford in 2009, he served as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and was frequently mentioned as a possible nominee to the Supreme Court. He is the only full-time professor of law in the nation who has previously served as a federal judge. He also has been involved in extensive appellate litigation, including arguing 12 cases in the United States Supreme Court, including one case in October Term 2009. Before his appointment to the bench, McConnell was Presidential Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, and prior to that the William B. Graham Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He has taught five times as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. He served as law clerk to then Chief Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and to Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. McConnell was an assistant general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget and an assistant to the Solicitor General in the Department of Justice under President Ronald Reagan. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Christopher C. Lund
Christopher C. Lund is an associate professor of law at Wayne State University Law School, where he teaches a variety of courses, including Torts, Contracts, Constitutional Law, Religious Liberty in the United States and Evidence. Excited to teach students, he has been voted Professor of the Year five times.
Lund's scholarly interests vary, but his principal focus has been in the field of religious liberty. His academic work has been (or shortly will be) published in student-edited law reviews, such as the Northwestern University Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the Minnesota Law Review; peer-reviewed legal journals, such as the Journal of Law and Religion; and peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journals, such as History of Religions. He recently joined Michael McConnell and Thomas Berg as the new co-author on their leading casebook, Religion and the Constitution, the fourth edition of which was published by Aspen in 2016.
Lund's academic work has been cited in articles, books and judicial opinions. He is regularly called on for his expertise by media outlets, civil rights organizations and religious groups. Two of his amicus briefs have been quoted in opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court, with Justice Stephen Breyer calling one of them ''very excellent'' at oral argument. He is a past chair of the Law and Religion Section of the Association of American Law Schools, as well as past chair of the Section on New Law Professors. He sits on the lawyers' committee of the ACLU of Michigan.
Lund joined Wayne University Law School in 2009 from the Mississippi College School of Law. Before teaching, he clerked for the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, served as the Madison Fellow at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and practiced law at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia. Lund earned his law degree with high honors from the University of Texas School of Law and his bachelor of arts from Rice University, summa cum laude, with majors in mathematics and psychology.
During fall semester 2013, Lund was on leave from Wayne Law, teaching at the University of Notre Dame Law School.
Thomas C. Berg
Before joining the University of St. Thomas faculty, Thomas Berg taught for 10 years at Samford University's Cumberland Law School. In addition to teaching constitutional law, law and religion, intellectual property, civil procedure, and federal courts, Berg has established himself as one of the leading scholars of law and religion in the United States. He has written approximately 60 articles in law reviews and religion journals on religious freedom, constitutional law, and the role of religion in law, politics and society. Berg is the author of The State and Religion in a Nutshell (now in a second edition), part of West Publishing Company's leading series of law books; and he is co-author with Michael McConnell and John Garvey of Religion and the Constitution, a casebook published by Aspen Publishing (second edition forthcoming). Berg is also working on Diversity and Devotion, a legal and cultural history of American church-state relations since World War II.
At St. Thomas, Berg is co-director of the Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy. He has written more than 25 briefs on issues of religious liberty and free speech in the U.S. Supreme Court and lower courts and has often testified to Congress in support of legislation protecting religious freedom. For this work, he received the Religious Liberty Defender of the Year Award from the Christian Legal Society in 1996. He has also received the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award (2004) from the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, for the Religion and the Constitution casebook, and the John Courtney Murray Award from DePaul University College of Law for scholarly and other contributions to church-state studies.
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liability. But in the principal case there was no indorser, and B, the drawer and forger, was not entitled to any notice. No loss having been occasioned by the delay, notice given the day after payment was within a reasonable time and sufficient to entitle the plaintiff to recover the money paid. A similar result has been reached in New York. Goddard v. Bank (1850) 4 N. Y. 147. PLEADING AND PRACTICE-Joint DEBTORS-JOINDER OF EXECUTOR. Four parties were joint makers of a note. Plaintiff sued three survivors, and joined with them the executor of the fourth maker, deceased, relying on N. Y. Code Civ. Proc. $ 758, which provides that the "estate of a person jointly liable upon a contract with others shall not be discharged by his death." Held, the executor could not be joined without proof of the insolvency of the survivor. Potts v. Dounce (1903) 173 N. Y. 335.
At common law death terminated the liability of the deceased on a joint contract, but equity always gave a remedy against the obligor's estate when the survivor was insolvent or the execution against his property was returned unsatisfied, i Pars. Cont. 30, Parsons on Partnership $ 350, Pope v. Cole (1873) 55 N. Y. 124, except that where the deceased was a mere surety there was no recovery in law or equity. Risley v. Brown (1876) 67 N. Y. 160 ; U. S. v. Price (1850) 9 How. 83. The principal case decides in effect that § 758 of the code gives the same remedy against the estate of the deceased at law as was always given in equity, Matter of Robinson (1899) 40 App. Div. 23, and Merrill v. Blanchard (1896) 7 App. Div. 167, are to the same effect. But the court says that $ 758 " must be regarded as making a material alteration in the law, and as imposing a liability where none existed before." That might be true in the case of a deceased surety. Risley v. Brown, supra; U. S. v. Price, supra. PROCEDURE—CONTEMPTS-PURGING BY OATH. After a petition in involuntary bankruptcy had been filed, on rule to commit the bankrupt for contempt, consisting of failure to turn over all his assets to the trustee, to which the bankrupt answered under oath, denying that he had failed to turn over all his property, it was held, the court might, notwithstanding this, commit him for contempt. In re Shachter (D. C., N. D. Ga. 1902) 119 Fed. 1010. See Notes, p. 348. REAL PROPERTY-MORTGAGES-FIXTURES. A mortgaged a factory with the fixtures and machinery twice. Thereafter placed in the factory certain machines under a hire-purchase agreement. The machines were placed upon concrete foundations and bolted down to prevent oscillation. A then mortgaged the premises to C. Later the second mortgagee entered into possession, and subsequently B served upon A notice of nonpayment of machine hire and demanded possession of the machines. Thereafter C acquired all the rights of the first and second mortgagees. B brought this action against C for the possession or value of the machines. Held, B could not recover. Reynolds v. Ashby Eu Son (1903) 1 K. B. 87.
The case is fully supported by the English rule that the machines became part of the realty and that B's license to remove them was revoked by the entry of the second mortgagee under whose right C was allowed to retain the machines. The courts of Massachusetts and Dela ware hold the rights of a prior mortgagee a good defence. Meagher v. Hayes (1890). 152 Mass. 228 ; Watertown S. E. Co. v. Davis (Del. 1876) 5 Houston 192. In Maine neither mortgage would form a defence. Tapley v. Smith (1840) 18 Me. 12. In the other jurisdictions C would be allowed to defend on the third mortgage. REAL PROPERTY — POWERS EXTINGUISHMENT of Powers. Trustees charged, amongst other duties, with the maintenance of a lunatic, were given a power of sale. Held, the duration of this power, if it is not invalid because of the law against perpetuities, is a question of intention. The power is not determined so long as the lunatic is unable to call for a conveyance, even though he has become absolutely entitled to the property. In re Jump, (1903) 1 Ch. 129.
The accomplishment of the purposes for which the power is given ex tinguishes the power. For this reason the merger of the fee simple sometimes extinguishes the power. In the principal case, however, the testator's intention clearly was to provide for the lunatic. While the lunatic might, if he were competent, demand the fee simple, his insanity prevents him from doing this and leaves unaccomplished the complete fulfillment of the testator's purpose-the lunatic's maintenance. The power is, therefore, unextinguished. The case is well supported by In re Lord Sudeley, [1894) 1 Ch. 334, and In re Cotton's Trustees (1882) 19 Ch. Ď. 624, which hold that intention controls. It must be distinguished from cases of trust for the purposes of sale. In re Tweedie (1884),27 Ch. D. 315. Several cases apparently in conflict are distinguishable on the ground of intention, as pointed out in Sugden on Powers (6th ed.) II. 509. Cf. Wheate v. Hall (1810) 17 Ves. 80. RECEIVERS-Cost OF RECEIVERSHIP-POWER TO ADJUDGE Against ComPLAINANT. The authorized costs and expenditures of a receiver in the management and sale of mortgaged property exceeded the proceeds of the sale of the property.
Held, the court, having expressly retained jurisdiction over the subject matter and the parties until the final settlement of the receiver's accounts, could render judgment for the deficit against the complainant at whose request the receiver had been appointed. Chapman v. Atlantic Trust Company (1902) 119 Fed. 257.
A receiver being an officer of the court and his authorized expenses and compensation being part of the costs of an action, it would seem to be within the plenary powers of a court of equity to impose them where it sees fit. While as a general rule the receiver looks to the subject matter of the section for reimbursement, this discretionary power of the court has been generally recognized. Howe v. Jones (1885) 66 Iowa 156; Farmers Nat. Bank v. Backus (1898) 74 Minn. 264; Hughes v. Link Belt Machinery Co. (1900) 95 Ill. App. 323. There is little authority upon the exact point decided in the main case. Knickerbocker v. McKindley Coal Co. (1897) 67 111. App. 291 ; Ephraim v. Pacific Bank (1900) 129 Cal. 589; accord. Farmers Loan Co. v. Or. Pac. R. R. Co. (1897) 31 Ore. 237, contra. STATUTES-Customs LAWS - FORFEITURE OF SMUGGLED Goods—RIGHT OF DEFRAUDED VENDOR to Reclaim. Plaintiff, at Antwerp, was induced by fraudulent representations to sell diamonds to H. The diamonds were seized by customs officers while H was attempting to smuggle them into the United States. Plaintiff tendered the amount paid him by H, and claimed the right to rescind the sale to H because of fraud, and to reclaim the diamonds. Held, plaintiff could not recover the diamonds. 581 Diamonds v. U. S. (C. C. A., 6th Circ. 1903) 119 Fed. 556.
The statute provides " that if any owner, importer, consignee, agent or other person shall attempt to evade duties the goods shall be forfeited. The position of the court is that notwithstanding H's fraud and his vendor's (plaintiff's) consequent right to rescind the sale, title and possession had vested in H and made him "owner" within the terms of the statute. The court admits the hardship to the plaintiff, but says " to permit secret claims of ownership to be asserted after forfeiture would be in plain violation of the written law." But the true owner may reclaim goods seized while in the hands of a thief or trespasser attempting to smuggle. U. S. v. 115072 Pounds of Celluloid (1897) 82 Fed. 627; U. S. v. 208 Bags of Kainit (1889) 37 Fed. 326 ; Cargo ex Lady Essex (1889) 39 Fed. 765. TAXATION—TRANSFER TAX-Bank DeposITS OF A NON-RESIDENT DECEDENT. The testator was a resident of Illinois and a statute of that State subjected all his personal property to an inheritance tax. He left a large sum in New York deposited on call, and had a debt owing him by a New York firm. The New York transfer tax was imposed upon these items. Held, no constitutional right was violated thereby. Blackstone v. Miller (1903) 188 U. S. 189.
The decision gives federal sanction to numerous opinions of the New York Court of Appeals. In Matter of Bronson (1896) 150 N. Y. 1, it was held that bonds of a domestic corporation in possession of a non-resident decedent were not subject to the tax, but shares of stock in such a corporation were; in Matter of Whiting (1896) id. 27, that bonds of a foreign corporation, owned by a non-resident decedent but physically present in New York, were taxable; in Matter of Houdoyer (1896) id. 37, that deposits of a non-resident in a domestic trust company were subject to the tax. The principle involved is that the tax, being on the transfer rather than upon the property itself, State v. Dalrymple (1889) 70 Md. 294, may be imposed wherever the laws of the imposing jurisdiction must be invoked to enforce the transfer. It is no constitutional objection that double taxation may result. Torts—NEGLIGENCE-VIOLATION OF STATUTE. The plaintiff, a child of thirteen years, was employed by the defendant to work on a printing press. The N. Y. Labor Law (sec. 70) provides: "A child under the age of fourteen years shall not be employed in any factory in this State," and makes such employment a misdemeanor. The plaintiff was injured while working around the machine. The plaintiff having shown only the breach of the statute and the injury, a nonsuit was granted in the trial court. Held, the breach of the statute constituted evidence of negligence te be considered by the jury together with the question of the child's contributory negligence. Marino v. Lehmaier (1903) 173 N. Y. 530. See Notes, p. 344. Wills-MARSHALLING Assets. A will contained a general direction for payment of debts. It then created two pecuniary legacies, and made two specific devises. The undisposed of personalty and realty proved insufficient to pay the debts. Held, the pecuniary legatees were entitled to have the assets marshalled so that, as against the specific devisees, they might stand in the place of creditors in so far as their legacies had to abate in order to satisfy estate debts. In re Roberts, (1902) 2 Ch. 834.
Obviously such marshalling can be proper only when the devised land is charged with the payment of debts. Aldrich v. Cooper (1802) 8 Ves. 381; Foster v. Cooke (1791) 3 Bro. C. C. 347; Rickard v. Barrett (1857) 3 K. & J. 289. The English Courts have gone very far in construing a direction to pay debts as a charge on lands devised, and have established the rule that where lands are given to executors for conversion into a trust fund, together with a general direction to pay testator's debts, these are charged on the land. In re Tanqueray-Willaume (1881) 20 Ch. D. 465. The present decision, though an advance, is supported by dicta in In re Stokes (1892) 67 L. T. 223 and In re Salt (1895) 2 Ch. 203, which purported to overrule in re Bate (1890) 43 Ch. D. 600. Probably neither the principal case nor In re Tanqueray-Willaume, supra, would be law in America, where the rule is, that an intention to charge land with either debts or legacies must be plainly manifested. Hoes v. Van Hoesen (1843) 1 N. Y. 120; Graham v. Little (N. C. 1848) 5 Ired. Eq. 407; Seaver v. Lewis (1817) 14 Mass. 83.
BOOK REVIEWS.
STUDIES IN JURIDICAL Law. By Horace E. Smith. Chicago: T. H. Flood & Co. 1902. pp. xxvi, 359.
It would be a pleasure to give unqualified commendation to these essays of the late Dean of the Albany Law School. The ripened product of a cultivated mind and a sage understanding, betraying wide reading and much reflection on the problems of law and government, the book is, nevertheless, a disappointment. The truth is that with all of its merits, its sanity of view and clearness of statement, it belongs back in the Blackstonian period of our legal thought, back of Thayer and Pollock and Maitland, back of Holmes and Holland, back even of Maine and Austin. It betrays no knowledgeof the literature of general jurisprudence, English or foreign, and it is free from any trace of influence from the speculations of the great German jurists of the last century.
These might not be fatal defects if the book were an original contribution to legal science, the result of independent thought and based on a new view of legal relations. But this it does not claim to be. It is avowedly orthodox and, from its definition of law" in the first chapter to its description of feudalism in the sixteenth, follows steadfastly in antiquas vias. Its authorities are Blackstone, Kent and Bouvier for definition and classification, and Reeve, Palgrave, Spelman and Guizot for history. Of course, this does not exhaust the list of authorities consulied and cited, but it is fairly representative of the tone and attitude of the work.
Though for the most part written in direct and straightforward manner, there are some inexplicable infelicities in arrangement and presentation of the subjects treated, as in the curious repetition of the argument for the support of government by its citizens in sections 33 and 42, and in the discussion of modern trusts and combinations in the chapter on the Mosaic Code (Sec. 104).
And yet, with all this, the book is not one to be contemned. It is one of a class of works, too rare in our country, in which the fundamental principles of law and government are subjected to analysis. As an essay in legal classification, it leaves much to be desired, but it is through such attempts that we shall one day find ourselves possessed of a legal system. The naiveté of its analysis of rights and wrongs, as compared with that of Langdell, or of Holland and his school, is obvious enough, but every attempt at such an analysis is a clue out of the labyrinth of precedents.
The two concluding chapters on the Plea of Insanity and on Literary Property and International Copyright are much the best part of the book, but bear no relation to its general purpose.
Cases on Criminal Law. Part I. By William E. Mikell. Philadelphia : International Printing Company, 1902. pp. 1-504.
This collection of cases is intended for use as a text-book in teaching the principles of the substantive law of crimes, and the author has based his method of selecting and arranging cases upon
principles now accepted by the leading law schools of the country as sound. The colleciion is composed of both English and American cases, about one-third of them being English. Most of them are reprinted in full without explanatory notes, and without the attempts at abridgment which so ofien impair the usefulness of the case book as an implement in teaching law by the case system. When portions of cases are omitted, the fact has been noted. There are numerous foot-notes collating the authorities and dealing with topics of minor importance not covered by the selected cases.
The avowed purpose of the work is to present the law as it is : to trace its growth and to indicate its future development. It is gratifying to note, however, that there is no attempt to make the collection purely illustrative. Many of the cases selected do not represent the law and thus ample material is afforded for developing the student's power of analysis and discrimination. The day has passed when it was necessary to advance any arguments to justify the use of cases of this character in any scholarly plan of legal education. whole the work is a worthy one, and we have no hesitancy in commending the author for it. Faults there are, none of them, however, of sufficient weight, in our opinion, to counterbalance the general merit of the work as planned. Perhaps the most serious criticism to be passed upon it is the infrequency, though not the absence, of the very early English cases which serve as points of departure in the development of legal principles. A more generous use also might well have been made of selection from such classics as Coke, East, Hale and Hawkins. They breathe the atmosphere which enveloped the beginnings of our criminal jurisprudence and at this day serve as authoritative expositions of the law at a time when the methods of reporting were clumsy and inadequate. Nor can we subscribe to the author's method of classification which seems to us by its very excessiveness to defeat, to some extent, the purpose of the work. Why, for example, arrange the cases relating to the criminal act in seven distinct classes and thus deprive the student of the valuable training which he would acquire in making his own classification with the aid and under the guidance of the instructor
It may be doubted whether the author's plan of dealing with consent and condonation before taking up the subject of criminal intent and the criminal act is advantageous. Indeed, the effect of consent in the majority of cases cannot be determined without a thorough understanding of those essential elements in the crime.
The use of Pennsylvania cases which outnumber those of any other State in the ratio of three to one gives to the work a local color which will to some extent detract from its usefulness in the law schools of other States. The part now published deals only with the general principles of substantive Criminal law. Part II. which is in course of preparation will treat of specific crimes only. The complete work will therefore not include cases on procedure, extradition or the general subject of jurisdiction.
The Elements of the Law of NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS. By John W. Daniel anů Charles A. Douglass. New York: Baker, Voorhis & Company. 1903.
1903. pp. xxxiv, 418.


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JV of Jharkhand and Railways on CM's table for final approval
5 Sep 2015 in Category(ies): Author railPosted on 05/09/2015 05/09/2015 Categories Headlines, SER-Adra Division, SER-Chakradharpur Division, SER-Kharagpur Division, SER-Ranchi Division, South Eastern Railway
Ranchi (RNC): Transport minister C.P. Singh has finalised the contours of a joint venture company that is to be set up for executing nine new rail projects across Jharkhand and passed on the proposal, framed according to a decision of the railway ministry, to chief minister Raghubar Das for his consent.
Survey work has already been completed for eight of the new lines, namely, Tori-Chatra, Lohardaga-Gumla-Korba (Chhattisgarh), Lohardaga-Gumla-Simdega, Namkum-Kandra (Adityapur), Ranchi-Kandra, Ranchi-Rajkharsawan, Muri-Chandil and Giridih-Jhajha.
Survey work is still on for the proposed Hazaribagh Town-Chatra-Garhwa Road rail line.
As per the decision of the railway ministry, henceforth all projects would be executed by forming JVCs – with states holding 74 per cent stake and the railways 24 per cent – after which existing MoUs with the ministry would be non-functional.
For Jharkhand, sources in the state transport ministry said, the JVC would have an authorised share capital of Rs 200 crore, of which Rs 100 crore would be initial paid-up capital. The funds would be proportionally shared by the railway ministry and state government.
Thereafter, a JVC shareholder agreement would be inked and the original MoU with the railway ministry will cease to function.
"I forwarded the proposal to the chief minister for approval on August 26, an hour or so after it was put up before me. Now, it depends on the chief minister to approve it immediately or take a look at similar agreements inked by other states," said minister Singh, who is in- charge of all new railway projects of the state.
"All I want is to ensure that Jharkhand is able to enjoy better rail connectivity at the earliest," he said.
The JVC for Jharkhand, with its headquarters in Ranchi, will be responsible for the execution of the new railway projects. It will also have the option of setting up project-specific subsidiary companies or special purpose vehicles (SPVs).
Once a particular project is approved by Railway Board, a 30-year concession agreement would be inked between the railway ministry and the SPV. Under this agreement, the state is to provide required land while the railways will be responsible for operation, maintenance and extending last mile connectivity. All expenses would be taken care of by the project SPV.
Project SPVs are free to secure loans from banks, multi-lateral agencies and financial institutions and they will be responsible for repaying the loan during the concession period. In case of loss making SPVs, the diluted losses would be shared proportionally by the stake-holders. And, if the railway ultimately takes over a loss-making project SPV, it will not bear the accumulated losses.
"In Jharkhand, we have had horrible experiences. The state government does not provide us land on time and persons involved in execution of projects are doomed to fend for themselves due to poor law and order. Still, we are being held responsible for delays and cost escalations. Under the new arrangement, the Jharkhand government will have to shoulder a bigger responsibility," explained a senior Railway Board official.
There are six ongoing rail projects in Jharkhand, which are to be completed by March 2017 as per an MoU Railway Board signed with the state government on February 19. The revised cost for the six projects was Rs 5,775 crore. The Railway Board official said that although the project costs were being shared equally by the state government and the railway ministry, the ownership rights of the acquired land would be with the railways.
The six ongoing projects are: Koderma-Hazaribagh-Barkanana-Ranchi, Ranchi-Lohardagga-Tori, Koderma-Tilaiya (Bihar), Koderma-Giridih, Deoghar-Dumka and Dumka-Rampurhat.
While the two Deoghar lines were almost complete, the Koderma-Hazaribagh stretch is complete and passenger trains are already running on the route. Work is on in the Hazaribagh-Barkakana-Ranchi stretch.
The Ranchi-Lohardaga stretch is also complete, while work is on the Lohardaga-Tori stretch. In the Koderma-Giridih project, passenger trains have already started running up to Kanwar in Saria block of Giridih district. Another 60 km stretch needs to be completed. Ground work on the Koderma-Tilaya (Bihar) project is on, but slow.
According to ministry sources, Railway Board executive director (works) V.P. Dudeja has been holding a series of meetings with senior officials of various states clarifying the new policies for executing new projects.
During his meeting with Jharkhand transport secretary Ratan Kumar on August 19, he is understood to have told him that 17 states had already approved the idea.


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#include "vn/math_utilities.h"
#include <random>

// TODO -- evaluate this implementation later on for both speed and randomness..

namespace vn {
namespace math {

    namespace {
        std::seed_seq const& gimme_seed_seq()
        {
            static std::random_device rd{};
            static std::seed_seq seq{rd(), rd(), rd(), rd(), rd(), rd(), rd(), rd()};
            return seq;
        }
    }

    float rand_zero_one()
    {
        thread_local std::uniform_real_distribution<float> dist_{0.0f, 1.0f};
        thread_local std::mt19937 rng_{gimme_seed_seq()};
        return dist_(rng_);
    }

    float rand_neg_one_one()
    {
        thread_local std::uniform_real_distribution<float> dist_{-1.0f, 1.0f};
        thread_local std::mt19937 rng_{gimme_seed_seq()};
        return dist_(rng_);
    }
}
} // namespace

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Though I think the trees and woods Wendell Berry is referring to in this poem may be located near his farm in northern Kentucky, I imagine the giant, ancient sequoias I just witnessed in Yosemite National Park in California. Walking among them made an indelible impression on me. In the shadow of their might, I recalled Berry's poem and sing it with him anew.


Pensions advice has changed beyond all recognition in the past three decades. Gone are the days of the waters being muddied by virtually unregulated salesmen flogging expensive policies and taking a hefty commission from the provider.
The Retail Distribution Review, for all its faults, has driven up standards in the sector, while the launch of the Financial Advice Market Review suggests policymakers are beginning to appreciate the value added by advisers in navigating the hideously complex retirement landscape successive governments have created.
Retirement products have evolved too. SIPPs and drawdown have shifted firmly into the mainstream, with competition in the platform market driving down prices for advisers and their clients. People can now choose from investments in every conceivable market, while opaque charging structures are slowly but surely being phased out in favour of transparent fees.
However, the long-term nature of pension saving means the legacy of the 1980s and 1990s lives on through exit penalties. Providers often argue these fees were necessary due to the front-loaded nature of the products – advice was given for 'free', but the adviser still needed to be paid through commission. As a result, the provider in turn needed to know the customer wouldn't dump the policy before they made a profit – and so created a significant financial buffer to protect their bottom line.
These old-style plans also usually came with eye-wateringly high annual charges compared to modern pension contracts – charges that eat away at the value of clients' retirement pots.
Exit penalties, which sometimes stretch beyond 10% of the value of a saver's investments, were already a problem before the pension freedoms were introduced in April 2015. However, former Chancellor George Osborne's radical overhaul brought the issue into sharp relief.
Savers were told they could spend and invest their retirement savings as they wanted and yet, for many, archaic charging structures blocked their path.
To give some context, FCA data suggests 670,000 people aged 55 or over face an exit charge. That's a whopping £22.5bn of pension money.
Of these, 358,000 face charges between 0 and 2%; 165,000 charges between 2 and 5%; 81,000 would pay between 5 and 10%; and 66,000 face exit charges above 10%.
The severity of these penalties means many people would not even countenance the prospect of switching to a modern, low-cost pension plan. As a result, the FCA has decided to impose a 1% charge cap on old-style early exit fees from 31 March 2017, potentially fundamentally shifting the equation for clients considering whether or not to abandon these costly policies.
Let's consider a simple 'before and after' example to illustrate the point. A 55 year old client bought a pension policy 20 years ago. The policy was right for her at the time, with charges of 1.5% a year– not ideal, but by no means the highest on the market.
She sits down with her adviser to consider transferring her £100,000 savings pot into a modern plan but because she has not yet reached her selected retirement date there is a 5% early exit penalty. On the other hand the new policy comes with total charges of 1%, a third lower than her existing policy. Her adviser runs the numbers and – after taking the initial £5,000 hit and assuming annual investment growth after charges of 4% - tells the client it could take 11 years for them to recoup the negative impact of the exit penalty through lower annual charges. On balance, they decide the severity of the exit fee means a transfer isn't in her best interests.
However, that was all before the FCA's 1% early exit penalty cap kicked in. She sits down again with her adviser on 1 April 2017 to see whether a transfer might now be a good idea.
The equation has changed dramatically. Even with the hit of a £1,000 penalty on quitting her contract – no small beer – the lower annual charges mean she is in 'profit' after just three years and could be £20,000 better off after 20 years. The choice is now a no-brainer, and her adviser moves the money across to the new scheme.
This admittedly rather simplified example illustrates the advice opportunity presented by the early exit fees charge cap. While many in the industry, including AJ Bell, would have preferred the regulator to go further and abolish old-style penalties altogether, for many savers this will still be a retirement planning game changer.
There will be tens of thousands of advised clients for whom the introduction of the early exit penalty ceiling provides an opportunity to review their retirement plans and potentially release the shackles of their out-of-date pension policy. In many cases, the short-term financial pain will be worth it for the long-term gain.


Through My Eyes: He Finally Graduates.
Finally got his finance degree officially. One thing about him that makes most if not all his college mates different than himself is that he is actually working in a financial-related-and-what-we-studied-all-these-three-years! Sure most of his friends from the same batch are in banks too, but theirs are more of commercial banks.
So yeah, here goes to all your sleepless nights and having drank so much of chicken essence!


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O1 Properties introduced new name for Lesnaya Plaza office centre
September 3, 2014 – Investment company O1 Properties announces new name of Lesnaya Plaza office centre. Now the building will be known as White Stone. The new name reflects the vicinity of the office centre with the vibrant business district area formed by the White Square and White Gardens office centres, and points at the contemporaneity of the building's architecture and design.
Renaming of the office centre is part of the complex rebranding of the building. Thus at the beginning of 2014, the lobby was completely resigned, the elevators were improved and the underground parking at the -2 level was completely renovated. The design concept was created by world-famous design bureau Aedas. The lobby was totally modified and became lighter and airy due to the light pastel natural materials used in the finishing. The reception desk with a rising wall made of light-colored stone has become a focal point of the lobby. The pivot space was divided into functional areas for leisure and waiting visitors. The large-scale project of renovation of the White Stone common areas was prized by the Best Office Awards judges for the best atrium.
Alexander Ostrovsky, CEO of O1 Properties: "We have made significant investments in the project of renovation of the White Stone office centre to bring it into line with the current requirements of the largest companies to their offices. The rebranding symbolizes a new stage in the building's life and a higher level of comfort and services offered to our tenants".


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Something I just noticed....
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jburneko
In the Reunion Demo and all the scenarios (I think) in Sorcerer's Soul the "villain" at the heart of each Scenario is always a demon. Usually a demon who's master is dead so that it is free to operate on it's own. Erm... Why is that?
Sure, the other characters are all up to morally questionable things and the demon is preying on those elements to achieve it's own ends but why are there no HUMANS as the central antagonists to these backstories/relationship maps?
Where are all the SORCERERs (or even NON-Sorcerers) with the malicious intents and who are merely using their demons as means to an end?
I have my own thoughts but I'd like to what Ron and others have to say.
Uncle Dark
Jesse,
Funny, but I didn't think about it that way until you mentioned it. In my own games (all two of them), I've used demons as major characters, but always as tools or embodiments (willing or unwilling) of human desire.
One thing about demons who survive their masters, though, is that they're a handy metaphor for how the repurcussions of an individual's act can persist beyond that individual's life, in ways they never envisioned.
Reality is what you can get away with.
Hi Jesse,
I guess it just reflects what was on my mind at the time, creatively speaking, and as Lon says, it's consistent with the idea that actions and emotions have repercussions beyond the immediate concerns and even lives of the people involved. That's a big deal in the source literature.
On the other hand, the scenarios may not be as similar as you put it. I see Michele as the key to the Tome scenario (as opposed to the demon Celine), and Leopold in the Pool scenario is a necromancer-lich - yes, a demon, but actually the perpetrator-person himself rather than a demon "left over." Only Lukos in the Dupes scenario really fits the mold to a T, although I do see the similarity you mention to a degree.
My Demon Cops scenario, Sisters, is far more oriented toward people as villains - and the two in that scenario aren't even sorcerers.


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Caught In The Middle, Moderates Have More Power Than You Think
By Phil Pruitt
and Chance Seales
Moderate voters tend to see both parties as extreme, and they mainly want compromise.
Moderate voters hold middle ground positions in an era of extreme politics.
The Democratic Party has been driven to the left, Republicans rushed to the right. It's the politics of entrenchment. It's a war. Moderate voters are in the demilitarized zone — a shared space, not given to media — magnetizing provocations.
Moderates see many sides of complex issues. According to a 2014 poll by Third Way, which advocates for Center Left stances, "They see both parties as overly ideological and wish politicians would compromise more."
We see that opinion show up a lot in polls about compromising, but by their very nature, these people aren't marching in the streets and turning cities upside down to demand hand-holding. Instead, they operate, and vote, usually alone.
Related Story US Intel Chief Again Says Russia Might Try To Meddle In 2018 Midterms
Many moderates also are swing voters. The Third Way poll found that 33 percent of them vote equally for Republicans and Democrats. It depends on the issue, it depends on the candidate. That's why every four years, after revving up their base with supercharged partisanship, the major presidential candidates try to recruit moderates to strengthen their ranks and give them the winning edge.
And it's going to happen again in 2020 because they need the mythical moderates. How many of these actually exist is difficult to say because polls peg the population at about 33-40 percent of the electorate.
Exit polls on Election Day 2016 found that 39 percent of respondents said their political ideology is moderate. Let's do a comparison. That number was 41 percent in 2012, 44 percent in 2008 and 45 percent in 2004, and in those cases they always split for Democrats.
A few groups are moderate strongholds, Third Way found: Moderates represent the biggest voting bloc of Hispanic and nonwhite voters, plus millennials.
And one more thing important to note here: "Moderates" and "independents" are not always synonymous. Some independents have strong liberal or conservative political ideologies. Some are swing voters.
While self-identified moderates we've seen have fallen over the years, Gallup found in 2017 that 42 percent of Americans now call themselves independents. That's up from 39 percent in 2016.
Looking ahead to 2020, it says, "Greater political independence could mean voters are more likely to act as free agents when casting ballots in federal elections."
The battle for these swing voters is likely to be more intense than ever, just as the parties pull further apart.


WASHINGTON – Seizure orders have been executed against 150 domain names of commercial websites engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works as part of Operation In Our Sites, the Department of Justice, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the ICE-led National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), and the FBI Washington Field Office announced today.
The 150 seized domains are in the custody of the federal government. Visitors to the sites will now find a seizure banner that notifies them that the domain name has been seized by federal authorities and educates them that willful copyright infringement is a federal crime.
During this operation, federal law enforcement agents made undercover purchases of a host of products, including professional sports jerseys, golf equipment, DVD sets, footwear, handbags and sunglasses, representing a variety of trademarks from online retailers who were suspected of selling counterfeit products. In most cases, the goods were shipped directly into the United States from suppliers in other countries. If the trademark holders confirmed that the purchased products were counterfeit or otherwise illegal, seizure orders for the domain names of the websites that sold the goods and associated websites were obtained from federal magistrate judges.
This operation is the eighth phase of Operation In Our Sites, a sustained law enforcement initiative to protect consumers by targeting counterfeit and piracy on the Internet. This is the second year that a phase of Operation In Our Sites has coincided with Cyber Monday. In November 2010, 82 websites were seized during the Cyber Monday-related operation.
Since the operation's June 2010 launch, the IPR Center has seized a total of 350 domain names, and the seizure banner has received more than 77 million individual views.
Of the 350 domain names seized, 116 have now been forfeited to the U.S. government. The federal forfeiture process affords individuals who have an interest in the seized domain names a period of time after the "Notice of Seizure" to file a petition with a federal court and additional time after the "Notice of Forfeiture" to contest the forfeiture. If no petitions or claims are filed, the domain names become property of the U.S. government.
Additionally, a public service announcement (PSA), launched in April 2011, appears on each of the 116 forfeited domain names. This video educates the public about the economic impact of trademark counterfeiting and copyright infringement.
The operation was spearheaded by the IPR Center in coordination with the FBI's Washington Field Office, the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and eight U.S. Attorneys' Offices, including the District of Maryland, Southern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, District of Minnesota, Eastern District of Michigan, Eastern District of Louisiana and District of Colorado.
The IPR Center is one of the U.S. government's key weapons in the fight against criminal counterfeiting and piracy. The IPR Center uses the expertise of its 19 member agencies to share information, develop initiatives, coordinate enforcement actions and conduct investigations related to IP theft. Through this strategic interagency partnership, the IPR Center protects the public's health and safety, the U.S. economy and the war fighters. To report IP theft or to learn more about the IPR Center, visit www.IPRCenter.gov.