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For those waiting patiently for updates on Neill Blomkamp's Alien movie, there's some good news and some bad news. The good news is, an update seems to have arrived. The bad news is, the update seems to be that the pic is dead.
Talking to French outlet Allocine, Alien: Covenant director Ridley Scott quite coldly revealed that the project was likely defunct when asked about its status. "There was never a script," he said. "It was an idea that evolved from, I believe, a 10-page pitch, and I was meant to be part of the producers on that. It didn't evolve. Fox decided that they didn't want to do it and that was it. I'd already done Prometheus and I was planning Covenant, so I dunno."
Asked if the movie is ever likely to happen, Scott said, "I don't think so, no."
The potential project originally made its debut on social media in early 2015, before the reaction to concept art posted by Blomkamp led to Fox's involvement. Blomkamp talked often about the project at the time, explaining that it would ignore Alien3 and Alien: Resurrection, and that Scott liked his proposed title. After that initial flurry of activity, however, Blomkamp went silent on the subject, potentially reflecting Fox's own cooling on the matter.
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Iran's drift towards US and Israeli behaviour
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Beyond the showdown between Washington and Tehran, Thierry Meyssan highlights the profound change in Iran's behaviour. This country, which used to be very observant of international law, now disregards it, joining the United States and Israel, which have never recognized it.
Voltaire Network | Damascus (Syria) | 21 January 2020
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Iran was capturing the world's attention in its interventions at the United Nations. It held the people's colours high in the face of imperialism. Nothing remains today of that legacy.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinjed at the podium of the 65th session of the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2010, questioned the official version of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
The 195 member states of the United Nations claim to want to resolve their conflicts without resorting to war, but to the Law. Since its creation by the Hague Conference of 1899, the Law has been based on a simple idea: just as individuals - including political leaders - agree to protect themselves from civil war by submitting to national law, so states can protect themselves from war by voluntarily submitting to international law.
By "International Law" I mean the procedures that govern relations between States, not those that, from Nuremberg to the ICTY, legalize the judgment of the defeated by their victors.
Three members of the United Nations now display a lack of understanding of international law, while others no longer refer to it and, after having distorted the concept of "human rights" [1], prefer "rules-based multilateralism" [2].
Three States outside the Law
The first is the United States, which since its creation two centuries ago has been a nation "like no other". According to its national myth, it was a refuge for the puritanical sect of the "Pilgrim Fathers" of the Mayflower and is today a refuge for all persecuted, religious and political. In the name of which they have always refused to apply international treaties in domestic law; judge the behaviour of others severely, but a priori absolve their nationals who act in the same way; and refuse to allow any international jurisdiction to take an interest in their internal affairs [3]. This is the profound reason why they urged other countries to join the League of Nations, but refused to do so. If they accepted the principles of International Law during the Cold War, from the creation of the United Nations to the disappearance of the USSR, they returned as soon as they could to their previous behaviour. Thus, in 1999, they illegally attacked the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, taking with them their vassals from the Atlantic Alliance. Then, under false pretences, they launched wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Their attacks against Iranians in two Middle Eastern countries, Iraq and Yemen, on 3 January 2020, are all equally illegal.
The second was Israel's unilateral proclamation on 14 May 1948, in violation of the United Nations' process of partitioning geographic Palestine. For seventy years, Tel Aviv has been watching the Security Council pass resolutions that it flouts. Whenever sanctions are contemplated against it, it can count on the protection of the United States and is not subject to it. It sees itself as eternally threatened and can only survive through war; a cultural position that may come to an end when its citizens defining themselves as Jews (Likud) outnumber those defining themselves as Israelis (White-Blue).
There is now a third: Iran. Historically, Tehran has executed its opponent leaders abroad, all over the world, but never foreign nationals. For example, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had the philosopher Ali Shariati assassinated in London and then, after 1978, the Islamic government had counter-revolutionaries assassinated in Europe. These murders were never officially claimed. During the war imposed by Iraq, Iran attacked the interests of its enemies abroad; for example, the attack on US and French UN forces in Beirut in 1983. But this was carried out by Lebanese proxies (who later participated in the founding of Hezbollah) and directed against the illegal activities of Hezbollah soldiers (the CIA's regional secret meeting). However, in the last two years, Iranian forces have several times fired missiles at Israel from Syrian territory without claiming responsibility for it, in violation of the 1973 Syrian-Israeli ceasefire. And this month, missiles were officially fired from Iran at US forces in Iraq, in violation of Baghdad's sovereignty [4].
The United States thinks of itself as the nation of the persecuted and therefore cannot take advice from others, the persecutors. Israel sees itself as the refuge of a threatened people and therefore cannot receive advice from those who have ignored it or worse violated it. But Iran?
The evolution of Iran
How can this evolution be explained, if not by a profound change in Power? Everything began to go wrong at the end of 2013 and since 2017 we have been witnessing demonstrations, not only in Tehran and Isfahan, but throughout the country. Little by little the institutions have been transformed. The judicial system, independent of the executive and legislative branches, has become an organ of political repression [5], going so far as to sentence former nationalist vice-president Hamid Baghaie to 15 years in prison behind closed doors for secret reasons [6] The Guardian Council, which - during the Revolution - was supposed to ensure that foreign agents were excluded from the elections, became an opposition censorship body, going so far as to describe the team of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as "bad Muslims" (sic). Whereas in Islam, the clerical function is to say the law, we are witnessing a takeover of power by a clergy that violates all legal principles.
We have been saying this for 6 years: this has nothing to do with the opposition between pro and anti-Westerners, nor with the question of beliefs. It has to do with the return of the age-old problem of the Iranians: the blind veneration of the clerical function, whatever the dominant faith. There will be no solution without a constitutional separation of civil and religious powers. In all eras, under all kinds of dominant religions, under all kinds of regimes, it has arisen.
I repeat, this has nothing to do with the 1978 revolution, which, contrary to popular belief in the west, was not with the clergy, but against it. Ayatollah Khomeini had been rejected by his peers, who only rallied to him after his victory. They were then zealous to make people forget their previous excesses. If we refer to the already declassified US official documents [7], the then National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzeziński, considered the clergy as the ally of the US against a Shah who had become too greedy. He organized the return of Imam Khomeini under the mistaken belief that he was like other clerics. He was disappointed as soon as he made his anti-imperialist speech at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery.
Many actors in the Middle East understood this development, starting with Hezbollah and Syria. They have both distanced themselves from Iran's domestic politics. In the midst of the war, Damascus did not have an Iranian ambassador for more than a year. Westerners, for their part, did not perceive this change because they were prisoners of their own propaganda against the 1978 Revolution. They interpret the current movements in Iran on the basis of their countless attempts to overthrow the regime and not by observing the behaviour of the Iranians.
The explanations of the USA and Iran before the Security Council
As with every military intervention abroad, after their exchange of bombs, the United States and Iran assured the Security Council that they were acting in accordance with the United Nations Charter.
Ambassador Kelly Craft's letter announcing the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani on January 2, 2020 is surreal [8].
It makes no reference to the simultaneous assassination attempt on his deputy, the top-secret Abdul Reza Shahlai, in Yemen [9].
It makes a series of accusations against Iran's allies, but none against the target itself.
President Trump's accusations of an imminent attack on four US embassies by Soleimani are no longer mentioned. They were moreover refuted by the Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper [10].
The only accusation against Iran itself is the reply of January 7.
The letter of Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi is just as absurd [11].
It establishes the legality of an Iranian reply, but not of this reply. Nothing authorizes Iran to strike Iraqi territory without authorization from the government in Baghdad.
Moreover, Iraq immediately protested against the actions of the United States and Iran [12].
The interest of International Law
Many people think that there is no reason to respect the Law if others don't care. It is that they perceive it as a constraint and not as a protection.
In his Leviathan, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who had lived through the English Civil War (1642-1651), showed that individuals must do everything possible to protect themselves from chaos. Those who faced the jihadist armies knew how right he was; others, asleep at night in their comfort, ignored him. Hobbes even went so far as to think that an authoritarian state is better than the torments of chaos. He accepted the drifts of the State, which he compared to Leviathan, the monstrous beast that closes the underworld.
Moreover, there is nothing monstrous about international law. It does not offend any conscience. To deviate from it threatens peace and therefore the lives of all of us.
Roger Lagassé
[1] "Theory and Practice of Human Rights", by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 4 October 2019.
[2] "Multilateralism or International Law?", by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 11 December 2019.
[3] American Exceptionalism and Human Rights, Michael Ignatieff, Princeton University Press (2005).
[4] «Estados Unidos / Irán: a propósito de sus recientes cartas remitidas al Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas relativas a sus acciones militares», Nicolas Boeglin, Derecho Internacional Público. Costa Rica, 13 de enero de 2020.
[5] "Iranian Justice challenges political parties … except one", Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Voltaire Network, 15 August 2017.
[6] "Former President Ahmadinejad's vice president: Sentenced to 15 years in jail following a secret trial", Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Voltaire Network, 30 March 2018.
[7] Foreign Relations of the United States. Iran: Revolution, January 1977–November 1979 (Under Declassification Review); Iran: Hostage Crisis, November 1979–September 1980 (In Production); Iran: Hostage Crisis, September 1980–January 1981 (Under Declassification Review), US Secretary of State.
[8] "US notification of the elimination of Qassem Soleimani", by Kelly Craft, Voltaire Network, 8 January 2020.
[9] "On the day U.S. forces killed Soleimani, they targeted a senior Iranian official in Yemen", John Hudson, Missy Ryan and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post, January 10, 2020.
[10] "Esper says he "didn't see" specific evidence showing Iranian threat to 4 U.S. embassies", Melissa Quinn, Face The Nation, CBS, January 12, 2020.
[11] "Iranian notification to bomb American bases", by Majid Takht Ravanchi, Voltaire Network, 8 January 2020.
[12] "US and Iranian violations of Iraqi sovereignty", by Mohammed Hussein Bahr Aluloom, Voltaire Network, 9 January 2020.
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If you're a blogger like me, there'll be many times when you'll need to convert an image from one format to another. One of the useful tools that most professionals use is Photoshop. The thing is, Photoshop is really expensive, and so are a number of other programs that can perform this function. If you are using Mac, you can easily use the built-in tool – Preview – to convert images. Here's how.
Most of you might already know of and have used Preview before, but for those who don't, Preview is Apple's default utility for viewing images and PDF files on your Mac. One of the options it includes is the ability to export an image to a different file format.
To do this, simply open the image you want to convert in Preview, and follow the steps below:
1. Open up the File menu. From the drop-down menu, choose "Export."
2. From the "Format" menu select the format you want to convert your image to.
3. Enter a new name and location for the new file, and click on "Save".
By default, the format window will only include options for JPEG, JPEG-2000, OpenEXR, PDF, PNG (default selection), and TIFF. However, by holding down the "Option" key, it will bring up a number of other formats including GIF, ICNS, Microsoft BMP, Microsoft ICON, Photoshop, SGI, and TGA.
If you want to convert a batch of images together, you won't want to do it one by one. Instead, to batch convert all of the photos together, follow the steps below:
1. Select all the images you want to convert. To do this, either hold-down "Shift" or "Command" while selecting the photos.
2. Right-click the files and select "Open." This will result in all the files being open in Preview.
3. Once Preview is open, you'll note that all the images will be shown in a list next to the displayed image, similar to the screenshot below:
Click on the list to bring it into focus. Now press "Command + A" to select all items in the list. From here, choose the option to Export the images, and follow the instructions listed above.
This easy method should help you easily convert images using Apple's default utility. If you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to ask us in the comments below.
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Publisher's Erratum: Spinal-generated movement disorders: a clinical review
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"Blonde" Private Jet Capitol Rioter Plans To Detox From Alcohol And Lose 30 Pounds In Prison
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The Texas realtor who flew to DC on a private jet to join the Capitol Coup says she plans to practice yoga, detox from alcohol, and lose 30 pounds while in prison.
"I have to report to prison, and the only thing that I can see that's good about having to go to prison is that I'm going to be able to work out a lot and do a lot of yoga and detox," she rationalized.
"So hopefully they have, like, some protein shakes and some protein bars, I think, because you don't want to eat, like, green baloney — that's what they have to eat," she explained.
Sophia Ankel from Insider writes:
"A Texas realtor who flew to Washington, DC, on a private jet and took part in the Capitol riot said she planned to practice yoga, detox from alcohol, and lose 30 pounds in prison.
Jenna Ryan, who pleaded guilty to a single federal misdemeanor charge of parading on Capitol grounds, was last month given a $1,500 fine and sentenced to 60 days in a Texas prison, court documents seen by Insider said. The documents indicated she was due to go to prison sometime after January 3, almost a year after the insurrection.
In a TikTok posted on Sunday, Ryan discussed what she planned to do in prison and suggested her main goal was to lose weight .
Posing in front of a mirror in a sports bra and yoga pants, Ryan said: "I have to report to prison, and the only thing that I can see that's good about having to go to prison is that I'm going to be able to work out a lot and do a lot of yoga and detox.
"And also I can't eat because the food is awful, and there's just no food. So hopefully they have, like, some protein shakes and some protein bars, I think, because you don't want to eat, like, green baloney — that's what they have to eat…"
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This quarter we find three clear and distinct trends in Asia: China in an economic quagmire; ASEAN benefiting from relocation of wealth and manufacturing; and India throwing everything into its stimulus.
The Chinese economy is in a fix and stimulus is urgently needed. As the official fiscal deficit is already 4.2% of GDP (possibly 10% of GDP if local government obligations are included), room for further fiscal measures is limited. The PBOC has cut reserve requirements for the banks substantially, but regulations which require banks to hold increased capital and further suppress alternative lenders are negating the benefit. A cut in interest rates of just 5bps and a statement from the Governor make it clear that the central bank does not want to encourage more lending. With national debt to GDP now over 300% and China's annual debt repayment burden now standing at 39.9% of GDP, it is easy to see why growth in bank lending is dramatically lagging the rate of growth in nominal GDP. What tools remain at China's disposal? Corporate capital is flowing out (to the benefit of ASEAN), rather than in, as the trade wars lay the final straw on a burden of environmental and corporate taxes, expensive labour and intensifying government surveillance. Inward capital flows look more promising. Stock market restrictions on foreign investors have been dramatically relaxed and MSCI has added both domestic A shares and Chinese bonds (corporate and government) to its international indices in ever larger weightings, unlike FTSE Russell, which, despite adding domestic A shares, chose not to include Chinese bonds in its indices just as defaults are rising at unprecedented levels. With rising index representation, forced flows of giant ETFs may be sufficient to stabilise the Renminbi. The currency would otherwise need to drop substantially to reflect the domestic economic risks, but this will not benefit exporters unless Presidents Trump and Xi can find a solution to the currently deepening trade wars.
In 2009, China galvanised the world by injecting 14.5% of its then GDP in bank lending to boost the economy and catalyse better sentiment. Having faced deep criticism for this measure in the intervening years, this time round, although it has already injected a similar amount, it has been spread between fiscal and monetary measures; and directed capex at State Owned Enterprises (SOE's), over the months since June 2018. Consequently, most of the measures have failed to sustainably lift sentiment.
In India, however, Prime Minister Modi, has grasped that to turn the super-tanker that is India takes more dramatic moves. Roundly criticised for transferring USD20bn from central bank reserves to the Office of the President without appropriate explanation, the Rupee dropped sharply, giving exporters a shot in the arm just when they most needed it. The merger of ten public banks, which are responsible for 46% of national lending was announced this quarter. The paralysis this will induce should be sufficient for the Private Sector Banks to snatch vast market share and clean up the financial system.
Simultaneously, the RBI cut rates dramatically – by over 110bps YTD now, with possibly more to follow – and regulations on inward flows of capital have been relaxed. Lastly – utilising the whole of that $20bn in RBI reserves – Mr Modi announced a ten percentage point cut in the rates of corporate tax, to be applied retrospectively from April 2019. Each one a moon shot – and India has literally done that too this quarter, succeeding in uniting Indians in their pride and giving a real boost to sentiment across the nation.
China has now effectively maxed out its credit card, whilst India has a little room to spend more monetarily, but both have stepped into deeply murky waters on human rights; India in Kashmir, Assam and Karnataka and China in Xinjiang. Now, however, the media eye has swivelled to Hong Kong. What began as peaceful protests over a (now withdrawn) extradition bill, has erupted into a spiral of increasing violence and acrimony. With the investment industry pushing towards enhanced ESG monitoring of portfolios, how will this be treated in future?
Most investors had expected China to announce a major stimulus of some kind to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. In the event, in narrowing the focus onto the sheer scale of the National Day parade, Xi has given us another message: China has come of age. At 15,000, the number of troops marching did not exceed the 19,000 who marched for Mao himself in 1949, but in all other respects, this was the largest National Day parade ever seen.
In addition to ranks of domestic forces, the show also included a contingent from China's 8,000 strong UN Peacekeeping force, emphasising the role China now plays internationally too and the parade was reinforced by attendance by military attaches from 97 Belt and Road countries. China has come of age and the world will now have to choose whether they are with it or not. Country by country, they are doing so. Many young people in Hong Kong, have chosen "anything but China", as witnessed by pleas to the UK and US for help and citizenship. The price of non-compliance can be brutal, as witnessed by Cathay Pacific and the NBA. Swathes of companies moving their operations to ASEAN appear to have come to the same conclusion. ASEAN continues to benefit from the Sino-US trade war, as companies shift their manufacturing locations first to Taiwan, whilst new plants are built, and then to ASEAN – principally Vietnam and Thailand, where cumulative Foreign Direct Investment is up 364% and 160% respectively YTD.
Most multinationals go where the money is and the rest of Asia has long discovered practical ways to live with a rising China. For the rest of the world, struggling to choose sides, the following chart should suffice. The Asian countries whose economies depend on the continued goodwill of China surpassed the GDP of the US at the end of 2018. Even allowing for the current slowdown, they should be 12% larger than the US by the end of 2020.
Asia has poured stimulus into its economies, but China and India have now reached their limits and must sell the family silver to re-fill fiscal coffers while they wait for it to work. ASEAN still retains room to help its economies. Ironically, the region best placed globally to add fiscal stimulus now is Europe. The accession of Christine Lagarde and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer may allow the political will to do so.
Elsewhere, a weak global outlook points to oil remaining relatively low in 2020 (geopolitical shocks aside), which is supportive for Asia, especially India, Indonesia, Taiwan and Korea. Additionally, we find a few, very nascent, signs that the infrastructure spending started in 2018 might be starting to feed through to genuine improvements. Market valuations in Asia are generally not stretched, leaving room for upside if the political outlook can be clarified.
Positive – and vast – upside from a sudden resolution of the Sino-US trade war is increasingly becoming a wild-card, but an opening of North Korea remains a possibility, as do better relations between Japan and Korea. With the US slowing and Europe in paralysis, Asia, with its supportive governments and a tailwind from oil looks increasingly attractive.
This quarter, with wealth preparing to leave Hong Kong, we highlight the Singaporean economy.
Economic spotlight on Singapore
GDP for the second quarter rose by just 0.1%, lower than consensus estimates of 0.2% and the 1.1% reported in the previous quarter. The slowdown was widespread, but was driven mainly by sharp contraction in the trade balance. Private consumption growth remains positive, but decelerating from 5.5% registered previously, as unemployment amongst residents ticked up a little to 3.1%.
Government spending picked up by 3.1%, this is a touch higher than 3% reported previous quarter, leaving Singapore running a very small budget deficit to GDP, of c.0.6%. There remains plenty of room for further fiscal expansion.
Reflecting the situation regionally, trade continues to deteriorate. In Q3, the deceleration was led by the contraction in global refining margins. Non-oil exports continued to fall but at a slower rate than petroleum products, dropping 8.9%, versus over 10% at the aggregate level vs 6% in July. However, as 2020 approaches and the new regulatory requirement on low-sulphur oil usage in the shipping industry comes into force, it is possible that refining margin may start to pick up or at least remain stable.
Import growth contracted by 6.4%, in tandem with exports and reflecting slowing domestic and global demand. September data are likely to be slightly distorted by Mid-Autumn Festival, so we would anticipate a slight optical improvement in the next month, but this may not reflect any fundamental change to the underlying economy.
Industrial production continues to contract and declined by 8% in August after a small 0.1% pick up in July. Both overall manufacturing PMI and Electronics sector PMI remain in contraction mode, 49.9 and 49.4 respectively. Despite this, however, there seems to be a small tick up in sentiment comparing to previous months.
Against this gloomy backdrop, the protests in Hong Kong are starting to catalyse an increasing flow of money from Mainland China and Hong Kong residents to Singapore. Construction has been picking up and reported the second consecutive quarter of growth, seeing 4.3% yoy growth vs 4.1% in the previous quarter. As the Government are now holding off any further tightening measures, the property market is starting to pick up. Developers sold 1122 units in August, up 82% yoy despite it usually being a seasonally weak month. Coinciding with the start of the HK anti-government protests, the 3-month rolling monthly take-up ratio is ticking up, making September one of the best months for property sales since 2016. HK banks are also reporting a rapid increase in the number of HK-based Chinese and HK nationals opening Singapore Dollar bank accounts at their HK branches, although they also point out that so far, those account holders have moved only c 1% of their assets.
Still in a slowing trend, headline inflation picked up by 0.5%, from 0.4% registered previous month and core CPI remained around 0.8%.
The Singapore Dollar continues to weaken against the USD but continues to strengthen against the CNY. As inflation remains below the MAS target of 2% and the Fed cut rate in the summer, it is likely that MAS will loosen its policy stance in the form of a flatter appreciation profile for the SGD NEER at its next meeting in October.
As an open economy, Singapore faces immense challenges, given the weak global outlook, but backed by immense reserves and with its political stability is proving highly attractive at present, Singapore has turned into a major refuge for Hong Kong and Chinese wealth enhancing its status as the Switzerland of Asia.
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ELS, Technical Fetishization vs. Legal Relevance, and a Partial Defense of the Perfectly Proportional Mediocrity of Legal Empiricists
Josh Wright — 8 July 2010
Brian Leiter brings the always fun "what's wrong with empirical legal studies" meme back to the front page. Professor Leiter's post is a really good one. He sets up the "problem" with ELS as such:
There is now too much empirical work being done simply because it looks 'empirical.'
Professor Bainbridge agrees. And this isn't Bainbridge's first rodeo. Here is his earlier call to "reject the quants and their methods." One suspects that where Professors Bainbridge and Leiter find room to agree — there must be something there. Leiter's post lays out the issues quite nicely and there is, indeed, quite a bit to agree with. Here's how he frames the problem of oversupply of low quality empirical legal scholarship:
First, too much of the work is driven by the existence of a data set, rather than an intellectual or analytical point. But the existence of a data set then permits a display of technical skills, which is satisfying to those with a technical fetish. But for everyone else, the question remains: why does this matter? why should one care? and so on.
Second, the analytical- and discursive-skill level of ELS scholars appears to be, on average, low, or at least lower than the typical law & economics or law & philosophy interdisciplinary scholar of yesteryear. This isn't surprising, given that the genre rewards technical skills related to number crunching and data analysis, as well as research design, rather than smarts on your feet, the ability to draw conceptual distinctions, or construct and deconstruct arguments. But the latter intellectual skills are the ones needed in law, both in thinking about law and in teaching law, not the former. Perhaps this is also why discussion of empirical papers typically follows the same tedious pattern of wondering how one controls for this-or-that variable, with the presenter showing, cleverly, how s/he already controlled for it, or admitting that s/he didn't, so that this is an issue for future work, etc.
And Leiter's addendum:
the only claim here is that a disproportionate amount [of mediocre work] is travelling these days under the rubric of ELS, and that it suffers from the flaws noted.
A few thoughts. Well, more like seven.
First, Leiter is spot on in terms of faulting the fetishization of technical skills at least partially for the proliferation of empirical legal scholarship that is irrelevant to the law. This is a problem I've discussed at length concerning the future of law and economics. I've argued that, at least in economics, these trends have rewarded work that is detached from policy relevance and damaged law and economics at the "retail" level. I'm less familiar with the details of these trends in other fields that contribute to the empirical legal studies more generally, e.g. political science, psychology, sociology and such, but its certainly an issue with empirical law and economics.
Second, Leiter actually understates the problem here. While he correctly points out that the availability of data sets at low cost greases the tracks for empiricists with technical skills to show them off at the expense of legal relevance, the other side of this is at the reduced cost of access to large data sets and analytical tools means that we get more non-technical empirical scholarship too. The problem here is typically quality rather than relevance. Here is Ribstein on the potential causes and consequences of an empirical bubble.
Third, its important to point out how easy it is to overstate the relationship between work that employs the latest and greatest technical econometric methods and legal relevance. There is plenty of work that employs these methods that has great value for legal questions precisely because it allows one to more convincingly identify causal relationships. It need not be the case that highly technical empirical papers are devoid of policy relevance. As I've written before:
While I've written here before about the potential harms of fetishizing formal mathematical theory rather, especially with respect to law and economics, I see that as a separate problem altogether. Economists need not apologize for uncovering clean causal relationships in less complex settings. There is no shame in adding to our theoretical and empirical understanding of small subjects with the hopes of generalizing to larger phenomena.
In addition, one of the larger problems in law and economics has been the fetishization of theoretical modeling that abstracts too far from real world problems. One additional benefit of the empirical legal studies movement in the broad sense is to get legal scholars with quantitative skills focused on the real world again. This leads into the cute-o-nomics discussion about whether instrumental variables identification strategies, the popularization of which is often attributed to and/or blamed on Steve Levitt depending on who is doing the popularizing, are focused too much of clean identification at the expense of policy relevance:
One might think that at least one important consequence of Levitt's research agenda, in addition to adding to our economic knowledge (which used to be enough, didn't it?), will be a contribution to making popular again economics that is more connected to explaining real world phenomena of all types with economic intuition, models, and data. If that happens, Levitt isn't ruining economics. He'll be saving it. Or at least making it more relevant. And definitely more fun. If Levitt is going to take the brunt of the attack for "clever" research, at a minimum, we ought to be willing to give credit for sending the pendulum back towards the empirically-oriented side of the spectrum by making it "cool" to worry about the real world again.
If the price of getting increased interest in policy-relevant empirical work is that we also get a proliferation of technical models with narrow and less generalizable results along with it, I'm buying.
Fourth, and on to Leiter's second claim:
The analytical- and discursive-skill level of ELS scholars appears to be, on average, low, or at least lower than the typical law & economics or law & philosophy interdisciplinary scholar of yesteryear. This isn't surprising, given that the genre rewards technical skills related to number crunching and data analysis, as well as research design, rather than smarts on your feet, the ability to draw conceptual distinctions, or construct and deconstruct arguments. But the latter intellectual skills are the ones needed in law, both in thinking about law and in teaching law, not the former. Perhaps this is also why discussion of empirical papers typically follows the same tedious pattern of wondering how one controls for this-or-that variable, with the presenter showing, cleverly, how s/he already controlled for it, or admitting that s/he didn't, so that this is an issue for future work, etc.
I've got no position on the empirical claim that ELS scholars, on average, have lower analytical skill levels than earlier generations of law of interdisciplinary scholars. Maybe. I don't know. I have been feeling a bit sluggish lately. But this argument is easy to overstate, I think. I would guess that the number of empirical legal studies folks doing the sort of highly technical work rewarded by economics departments, for example, is very, very low relative to the number of non-technical folks mixing it up with data sets. This latter group of folks, the non-technical group, probably contributes a dominating fraction of the total empirical legal studies output right now. There are some very good people doing both sets of work, of course. Nobody disputes that. But my sense is that the latter group is much larger. If that is true — and its an empirical question — the impact on the average "legal" analytical skills is likely to be small because the non-technical group are trained to do all the things legal scholars do.
Fifth, I'm pretty certain I disagree with the claim that a "disproportionate amount" of "mediocre work" is traveling under the ELS umbrella. Again — it should be quite obvious from the above that I agree that there is a lot of mediocre work traveling under all sorts of umbrellas. I think Bainbridge and Leiter both agree. There is too much empirical work done because it looks empirical, too much doctrinal work that chases hot topics because they are hot topics, too many articles with catchy titles, too many footnotes, too much behavioral law and economics, too much about the Supreme Court relative to lower courts, etc. Heck, there might even be too many law professors. But disproportionately mediocre? This is another claim with a testable implication. Perhaps one could compare the fraction of ELS work that is never cited to the total output and compare that to other fields. But that might not be a decent measure of "mediocre." But the the non-empirical legal studies world is huge. And I get enough SSRN emails and see enough papers to suspect that ELS doesn't seem to have any comparative advantage in mediocrity. On average, I suspect that the relative mediocrity level for those engaging in empirical work is just about right thank you very much. An alternative explanation is that Professor Leiter is reading a disproportionately high amount of bad empirical legal studies work and not enough mediocre doctrinal, non-empirical work. I've got a box of reprints that can get to Chicago and solve this imbalance forthwith. Just say the word 🙂
Sixth, and related to the last point, is that an inherent suspicion of empirical work I think lies beneath much of the conclusion that the work is of low quality. Professor Bainbridge gets at some of that in this post when he writes that empirical work will "always be suspect — and incomplete in my book." That seems wrong to me. Suspect and incomplete need not be the same thing. And too often the responses I hear from legal scholars to empirical work that actually has legal relevance and is well done is reflexively dismissive: "but you can't possibly control for everything can you?" Sometimes there will be a short quip about "omitted variable bias" or something like that. In the panel data setting, I've often sympathized with the econometrician who tries to explain exactly what state fixed effects are controlling to an audience to whom the answer sounds like he is selling them a used car without an engine. I suspect when Leiter complains of the discussion that follows empirical papers as always involving "the same tedious pattern of wondering how one controls for this-or-that variable, with the presenter showing, cleverly, how s/he already controlled for it, or admitting that s/he didn't, so that this is an issue for future work, etc." — that there might be some meaningful information in there. It, in fact, matters a great deal whether something is properly controlled for, whether the error structure is appropriate.
I'm not saying that there is no reason to be suspicious of empirical work. Skepticism about regressions is good. Just like skepticism about other interdisciplinary or doctrinal arguments — indeed, sometimes it is easier to hide assumptions that are driving the analysis in the latter. But it is hard to escape the conclusion that at least some of the objection to empirical work smacks of folks who don't do a certain type of work convincing themselves that there aren't missing anything. I previously noted:
I understand that lawyers are going to be suspicious of foreign toolkits, like econometric analysis. But in my view, the reflexive rejection of empirical work because "its hard to control for everything" is about as persuasive as reflexive rejection of claims that there is some coherent theory of statutory interpretation because "the judge just makes it up anyway, doesn't he?" Both might be true on a case by case basis, but I think the bar that legal scholars face in each case is to take seriously the work of others and describe exactly what the problems are and what implications they have for the results.
Seventh, Leiter's concern about ELS becoming a mutual admiration society is well founded. More generally, I think for folks doing quantitative empirical work and working in law schools, it is increasingly important both to present work at conferences like ALEA and CELS, as well as "taking the show on the road" more broadly. The former provide a much needed opportunity for critical comments on work at early stages to improve quality; the latter an opportunity to see what the rest of the academy is up to and explain why your work matters.
That's all I have for now. Let's talk about it again in November after the next CELS.
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4 responses to ELS, Technical Fetishization vs. Legal Relevance, and a Partial Defense of the Perfectly Proportional Mediocrity of Legal Empiricists
Lance 11 July 2010 at 12:17 pm
Josh, I think we're largely in agreement.
I agree that applying a method for its own sake does not necessarily advance legal (or even economic) scholarship, but I am hesitant to condemn it. I recognize the risk that if model showing off goes too far, ELS may become a "mutual admiration society", but I think the risk of stunting the use of robust models in modeling empirical relationships may outweigh the aforementioned risk.
Josh Wright 9 July 2010 at 8:58 am
Lance, its a good point. But I think it also brings up an important clarification. I'm certainly not arguing against the development of technical methods that will later be used in useful ways. Most of that has traditionally been done in, e.g., economics departments. That's not to say that economists in law schools have to stay out of methodological debates. But the type of scholarship that I think folks mean when they mean, and most certainly what I mean, when I talk about law & economic / ELS scholarship is not that. Rather, its taking established new methods and applying them to problems that do not have legal or policy relevance because there is a premium to showing off the fancy new method.
So while I agree with everything you say — i.e. no need to discourage the development of methods that might be useful later on — I think its a separate problem.
Lance 9 July 2010 at 8:49 am
The unfortunate thing about trashing technical sophistication with limited policy applications is that numerical and recursive methods are often just that until another person identifies their applicability to a modeling problem dealing with a policy issue.
It's easy to say, "Of course I oppose the use of unnecessary math", but it's hard to tell whether or not that math may be useful in the future for clarifying an issue, and getting beyond hand-waving and this-happened-therefore-this reasoning.
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9 most loving & memorable things about Agra
Syed Sajidur
. November 30, 2020
. Update: December 29, 2020 9:05 am
9 most loving & memorable things
Agra, a city located in Northern India's Uttar Pradesh state is on the banks of river Yamuna. Is the most populous city of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the 24th most populous state in India. Agra has been successful in attracting millions of tourists from all over the world even today. Agra is mostly popular for its iconic Taj Mahal built by the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
The monument features a huge dome and intricately carved white marble laid with beautiful and precious stones. The major religions in the Agra city are Islam, Hinduism and Jainism and the Catholic forming a minority. Hindi is the language spoken by the residents of Agra.
Taj Mahal with its magical allure draws tourists to Agra like moths to a wondrous flame. Apart from the Taj Mahal the reign of the Mughals havealso left magnificent fort, fascinating tombs and mausoleums in the city. Also, you can have fun in the hustle bustle of market places with hordes of rickshaw wallahs, touts, unofficial guides and souvenir vendors. The city of Agra also has three UNESCO World Heritage sites that is, the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri.
As we all know that Agra is the most favorite destination spots of millions of tourists from all over the world all year round. Agra is also home to one of the seven wonders of the world. Agra is also known to be a sneak peek in to the architectural history with its other remarkable buildings like Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri. Not only do the Indians shower their love on this city but for years foreigners from all times have throng in here in large numbers. The city boasts of its various beautiful tourist spots.
1.	Taj Mahal:
The very thing anyone who steps in to the land of the Agra city wants to do is to visit the Taj Mahal. Every year one can find many tourists queued up to get a lifetime glimpse of the most beautiful building in the world. Built by Shah Jahan for the love he had for his wife, the Taj Mahal stands as the symbol of love all over the world.
In all 20,000 people were hired from India and Central Asia to work on the iconic building. Professionals were hired from as far as Europe to produce the exquisite marble screens and pietra dura which is the marble inlay work made with thousands of semi-precious stones. No matter how many times you may have visited the Taj Mahal, but it will still attract and mesmerize you with its beauty. Another major fact of the Taj mahal is that it looks the same from its all four sides.
2.	Agra Fort
Another architectural jewel in the Agra city is undoubtedly the Agra Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Agra Fort was built by Mughal Emperor Akbar with the help of 4,000 workers who worked for eight years to complete the construction in the year 1573.
Agra Fort is a beautiful fort which is made of red sandstone and it marked and was the seat of the Mughal Empire. Some of the major attractions in the Agra Fort that will leave you speechless be it the Sheesh Mahal, Moti Mahal, Jehangir's Palace and Khas Mahal. The Agra Fort has got four large gatesout of which the Delhi Gate was the one which was used for the king's formal entry. Diwan-e-Khas and Diwan-e-Aam were reserved for royal audience and the public respectively.
3.	Fatehpur Sikri
The Fatehpur Sikri is known to be one of Emperor Akbar's pet projects which was building a walled city a little away from Agra. The surviving monuments of the Fatehpur Sikri tell a tale of his velour and great work. Fateh in Persian signifies victory. The city survived, and it is still surprising to see that its three walled sides are still intact.
Akbar had paid keen interest in its architecture and layout and it took about 15 years for him to plan and get it build completely. It had palaces, harems, buildings, courts and a mosque. But one of the best architectural wonders of Fatehpur Sikri is the Buland Darwaza, made of red sandstone with 52 steps that lead up to its 175 ft high archway and had two inscriptions was the grand gateway to the walled city. Akbar's favorite minister Birbal too has a monument in Fatehpur Sikri called Birbal's house.
4.	Sardar Bazaar - Market
One of the oldest and the best place to go shopping is the Sardar Bazaar which is known to be a famous shopping spots of Agra situated near the Agra cantonment railway station. Here you can buy everything here from handicrafts, sweets, garments to leather bags.
As we are all aware that Agra is very famous for its leather products, so the tourists here cannot forget to buy them from here. Also, do not forget to visit a store named Taj Leather World which is located in the market which has reasonable and good quality products and If you are looking to buy ethnic clothing, footwear and accessories, then you need to head out to the Sardar Bazaar!
5.	Subhash Bazaar - Market
Another most important place in Agra is the Subhash Bazaar which is located Inthe Halwai Gali, close to the Jama Masjid nearby the Agra Fort. This is yet another popular market in Agra which is very famous for its silk products and silk saris. Remember to visit this place on the weekends as it is more beneficial than visiting it in the weekdays.
You will also see a lot of gift items along with beautiful lights and surrounding music which is being played in the shops. It is also the perfect getaway to experience the true culture and vibrant traditions of the place. Anyone who visits Agra and moves away without visiting the Subhash Bazaar is like their trip is incomplete.
6.	Kinari Bazaar – Market
One will be amazed to see the narrow streets behind Jama Masjid which have got a crazy maze of overcrowded lanes which burst out with colorful markets. Here you will see a number of different bazaars, each one of which specializes in different wares, and the area is generally known as the Kinari Bazaar as here you can see many of the lanes fan out from Kinari Bazaar Road.
Here you get to find clothing, shoes, fabrics, jewelry, spices, marble work, snack stalls and also a crowd of people which would look not less than 20 million other people. Apart from this, be amazed by seeing buffaloes and also few old elephants who try to squeeze out their way from amongst the crowd.
7.	Weather Conditions
As Agra is located on Gangetic plains, the climate there is semi-arid. There is a great variation in the weather and climate in the city of Agra. You can find hot summers, heavy monsoons and cold winters in Agra. The summer season starts from the month of April and lasts till June. The climate during this period is humid and extreme with dry winds prevailing.
The maximum temperatures rise up to 45 degree Celsius. July marks the beginning of Monsoons and last till October. After the hot summers, the city of Agra is relieved to welcome the rainy season. Winters start from November and last till the month of March. The weather in the city is foggy and cold and the winter morning is about 14 degree Celsius. But during the nights, the temperature in Agra goes below the freezing points.
8.	The Best Time to Visit Agra.
Agra is a beautiful place and there should not be any special time we need to visit it. But for the travelers who are very cautious about the time of visit, they can visit Agra in the months of October to March.
This is the best time to visit Agra which is usually between autumn and winter because this is the time the heat has ebbed and the weather in the city is pleasant and just perfect for sightseeing. August to October marks the beginning of monsoon in Agra which is again a great time to witness the Taj Mahal in its beautiful rain wash splendor.
January is the month which can be the foggiest. So, if you are planning for a same day Agra tour, be it the train or by road, journeys can take you one hour more than usual depending on prevailing foggy conditions.
Once you reach Agra, first go for a visit to Agra Fort and other attractions and visit Taj Mahal after Noon. As the fog normally clears after 11 am and that is when you will be able to enjoy the beauty of Taj. The other months of the year, it is best to visit Taj Mahal early morning to avoid crowd and see the real beauty during this time.
9.	How to reach
By air: Travelling to Agra by air is one of the easiest ways. Agra's Kheria Airport serves the city's flights though not a busy airport. Agra's Kheria airport is also known to be a military base. It is a seasonal commercial airport and it gets connected only by Air India flights from New Delhi. The flights from Delhi to Agra are just less than an hour long. Kheria airport is located about 13 kilometers away from the Agra city. It is good to hire a taxi from the airport to get to the city, which should take you around 10-15 minutes depending on traffic.
By Train: Agra which is situated on the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Chennai route is well connected to most cities across India. Here you will get regular trains to Agra from cities like Delhi, Jaipur, Gwalior and Jhansi. Agra also connects to cities in other parts of the country such as Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai.
There are namely five railway stations in Agra – Agra Cantt Station (the main station), Agra Fort Railway Station, Raja Ki Mandi, Agra City and Eidgah Railway Station. Visit to the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort are a short distance away from Agra cantt. railway station and therefore one can hire a pre-paid taxi, auto rickshaw or even a cycle rickshaw to get to these attractions.
By Road: National Highway 11 from Jaipur, National Highway 3 from Gwalior, and National Highway from Lucknow and Kanpur are the most common roadways in Agra. Agra is a city which can easily be reached by bus from major cities like Delhi, Jaipur, Lucknow, Gwalior.
Eidgah Bus Stand, Taj Depot, Ford depot and Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT) through some of the major Bus Stands in Agra which also connect several other major cities of the country. Eidgah Bus Stand, Taj Depot, Fort depot and Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT) are some of the major Bus Stands in Agra which help to connect several other major cities of the country.
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Pts: Jermaine Head - 29
Reb: Jermaine Head - 10
Ast: Jermaine Head - 4
NEWARK, Del. - - The rebounding margin was too much to overcome for the Wilmington University men's basketball team, as Nyack came to the WU Athletics Complex and left with an 84-79 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference victory on Saturday afternoon.
It took time in each half for the Wildcats (6-7, 3-2 CACC) to find its offensive rhythm, but once they did they were able to play catch up, but ran out of time in the second half. The Warriors (4-9, 3-2 CACC) came out of the halftime break and quickly grabbed the lead and never looked back.
The Warriors out-rebounded the Wildcats, 57-35, for the game, including 17 offensive rebounds leading to 13-second chance points. They also outscored the Wildcats in the paint, 50-30.
The Wildcats were stuck on 13 points for 3:51 of game time and found themselves down 23-13 with 9:23 to play in the half. Still down eight, 27-22, Danny Sullivan sparked a 15-7 run over the final 5:38 of the first half with a three-pointer for the Wildcats. Xavier Alston converted a layup and Ed Henderson hit a three-pointer to get to within 31-30 with 2:21 showing on the clock.
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Nairobi is the capital of Kenya and, with over four million inhabitants, is also the largest city in the State and in Eastern Africa.
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The city of Nairobi is the main entry point to Kenya for visitors; its airport is served by many European and Asian airlines, besides, the city has a strategic location at the heart of the most-visited national parks and reserves, at a comfortable distance to reach them.
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Several times a day, the keepers give milk to the baby elephants and lead them to the pool for the bathroom, at 11 in the morning you can witness this moving spectacle, take pictures of the cubs from a few metres and, above all, help the foundation by adopting a baby one.
The Giraffe Center is a place where you can have a close encounter with another typical animal of the African savannah, the Center is born with the aim of studying and making restocking of the Rothschild's Giraffe, an endangered species of giraffe.
From a terrace it's possible to "look into the eyes" of these amazing animals and feed them whit bars of a natural compound.
Adjacent to the Center is one of the most spectacular hotels in the world, the Giraffe Manor, where the giraffes are at home, run free through the park, and usually at the cocktail and breakfast hours, they come to the mansion to munch on some bars directly from the hands of the guests.
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