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QOTD: Desmond Tutu
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When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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The Legacy of a Supreme Court Clerkship: Stephen Breyer and Arthur GoldbergLaura RayWidener University - School of Law December 3, 2010 Penn State Law Review, Vol. 115, No. 1, p. 83, 2010 Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-13 Abstract: Stephen Breyer, who clerked for Justice Arthur Goldberg in the Supreme Court's 1964 term, is the fifth former Supreme Court law clerk to join the Court as a Justice, a company that includes Byron White, William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, and John Roberts. This article explores the influence of his clerkship on Breyer's work as Justice. Although Goldberg, a self-proclaimed judicial activist, became the reliable fifth vote for the Warren Court majority and Breyer is known as a member of his Court's liberal bloc, their relationship is more complex than that obvious link. Breyer and Goldberg share similar urban Jewish backgrounds, a commitment to protection of individual rights, an appreciation of the usefulness of foreign law to their jurisprudence, a nuanced approach to the Establishment Clause, and an ability to maintain civility while disagreeing with their colleagues. They diverge, however, in significant respects in their interpretation of the judicial role. Goldberg was a candid supporter of the Warren Court's liberal agenda and remained, during his brief tenure, a predictable vote. In contrast, Breyer brings to the Court a pragmatic approach that relies heavily on empirical data and takes each case on its own merits, making him capable of casting surprising votes. Despite these differences, there is a subtler bond between Breyer and Goldberg in their judicial temperaments, a shared tendency - one that Breyer traces back in part to advice from Goldberg - to seek common ground with opponents as well as allies, to avoid harsh critiques that alienate colleagues, and to consider fairly the other side's position while working persistently to make one's own prevail. Number of Pages in PDF File: 53 Keywords: Stephen Breyer, Arthur Goldberg, Supreme Court, Judges, Clerkship, Law Clerks, Justices JEL Classification: K4, K10 Date posted: March 7, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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Steps underway to charge Holder with contempt of Congress
Here is the press release from Rep. Gosar's office:
Congressman Gosar Says Now Is the Time for Contempt
Casa Grande, AZ – Today, U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar, D.D.S (R-AZ) applauded the leadership of Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Chairman Darrell Issa, in releasing a report making a detailed and compelling case to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.
"Thanks to the diligent and persistent efforts of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the American public is finding out today what I have known for months: the Attorney General has operated his department with shameful disregard for the law and must be found in contempt of Congress,"
"The Department of Justice's failure to coordinate with other federal agencies on grave matters of border security is serious enough. But the callous disregard for the family of Brian Terry, the coordinated retaliation against veteran ATF agent whistleblowers, the deliberate attempts to shield political appointees from the consequences of their gross incompetence, and the willful and continued noncompliance with Congressional subpoenas make one thing clear: the Justice Department needs new leadership, and Eric Holder must face formal contempt charges."
Additionally, Congressman Gosar will be leading a Special Order on the House floor next Wednesday, May 9, 2012. He challenged those who have been silent on Fast and Furious to come forward.
"I continue to marvel at the defense of inaction by the Minority which calls this "partisan" politics. I'm confident that the criminals who have firearms, obtained with help by our nation's government, will not be checking voter registration cards when choosing their victims. The people around the nation, but specifically in Arizona where Operation Fast and Furious was carried out, deserve more from their President and their Attorney General."
"108 members of congress have signed on to my Resolution of No Confidence in Attorney General Holder because he must be held accountable for the actions of his department and for his personal unwillingness to cooperate with congressional oversight requests. I continue to urge members of both parties to co-sign this Resolution and to speak out for the people of the United States and of Mexico who have and will be in harm's way because of Fast and Furious. I will not rest until full answers are given about this gunrunning scheme, and justice is served for those responsible."


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The tech sector joined a broad market rally on Friday, fueled by optimism that European leaders are moving more decisively to end the region's financial and debt crisis.
The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.71% gained 86 points, or 3%, to close at 2,935. The benchmark ended the week with a 1.5% gain.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.12% rose 278 points, or 2.2%, to close at 12,880, ending the week up 1.9%.
The upbeat mood sprang from reports that European leaders were putting in place a plan to end the euro-zone crisis. Wall Street analysts have been counseling caution on segments of the tech sector because of the crisis in that region. Read more about U.S. stocks in Market Snapshot.
Shares of tech giants were among the notable gainers, with Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, +0.51% Intel Corp. INTC, -0.83% and Hewlett-Packard HPQ, -0.36% emerging as three of the best performers on the Dow. Cisco traded up 4.2% to close at $17.17, while H-P gained 3.9% to close at $20.11 and Intel added 3.2% to close at $26.65.
Semiconductor shares highlighted the tech advance, as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, -1.66% added 4.4%, with substantial gains coming from Nvidia Corp. NVDA, -0.86% Advanced Micro Devices AMD, -1.29% and Texas Instruments TXN, +0.02%
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Shares of ServiceNow NOW, -1.03% a San Diego-based company offering cloud-based business automation software, saw its stock soar 36.7% to close at $24.60.Read commentary about ServiceNow
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In case you hadn't noticed, the receiver market is proceeding at a breakneck pace. It almost seems as though new models are hitting the store shelves every month. Hardly a year goes by in which each receiver manufacturer doesn't introduce new models, if not entirely new lines. Part of this phenomenon is based on the rapid expansion of processing options and other technologies, and part of it is simply business as usual in the receiver game. Receiver buyers, in general, have always seemed to focus on features, options, and having the latest technology at their fingertips—no matter what. As we know, receiver manufacturers are more than happy to oblige.
As editors of Home Theater, everyone asks us questions about the consumer electronics business. This is fine—it's our duty to help those who may not have the time to spend all day playing around with really cool gear. Some questions are easy, like "How do I hook this up?" or "What does anamorphic mean?" Unfortunately, the one question we get all the time is not as simple to answer: What gear should I buy?
In case you hadn't noticed over the last year, the high-end-receiver war is on. With this donnybrook comes a blurring of the formerly distinct line between the bottom end of the separates market and the high end of the receiver market. It used to be simple: If you had X amount of money or less to spend, you bought a receiver; if you had more in your budget, you bought separates. Now, the competition for home theater dollars in the $2,500-to-$4,000 price range has become fierce, not only between receivers and separates but also amongst receivers themselves.
After years of lagging behind the colonies, the British are finally taking home theater—er, home cinema—seriously, and British manufacturers have started to make impressive gear using their own characteristic design approach. For years, Arcam has been made up of a bunch of die-hard two-channel-stereo types, yet the company has always been a leader when it comes to new technologies like digital radio. Although they have manufactured surround equipment for a few years now, the AVR100 is their first A/V receiver.
"The world's most advanced Home Theater Receiver" is Denon's claim for the AVR-5800, and, now that I've spent a few months with it, they'll get no arguments from me. It's the world's first 7.1-channel receiver with DTS-ES Discrete 6.1, DTS-ES Matrix 6.1, DTS Neo:6, THX surround EX, Dolby Digital 5.1, and Dolby Pro Logic. It's like one of those new cruise ships that more closely resembles a floating city. What Denon has managed to pack into its large, sleek, heavy black hull (at 62 lbs, it's the most massive I've seen) is remarkable in terms of both versatility and performance. Denon's marketing manager, David Birch-Jones, proclaims the AVR-5800 to be "Without question the finest A/V receiver ever created." But are "most advanced" and "finest" necessarily the same thing? We'll have to dig deeper to find out.
I'm a simple man. As I travel this great land of ours, for both business and pleasure, most of my conversations with others sooner or later lead to two topics: movies and their inevitable offshoot, home theater. I rarely discuss the specifics of what I'm packing at Rancho Chiarella; rather, I listen to the wide-eyed yearnings of the hard-working Everyman who dreams of experiencing all that a respectable A/V system can deliver. For so many of the folks I've talked with, an affordable home theater receiver is the key to their wish fulfillment.
The details surrounding my technical background are really quite inconsequential. Summers in retail, winters in correctional facilities for the perfectly capable. Desperate for the dollar, I'd often drug customers and dress them up like French maids. When they'd awaken, my friends and I would thank them for shaving our backs and assure them we wouldn't tell anybody. This was the sort of activity that would keep food on the table and our young bodies healthy for the beach. In the springtime, we'd make capacitor helmets with heatsinks on them. Then, we'd test each other's knowledge of schematics while running downhill. It was really quite breathtaking . . . you should try it sometime.
Believe it or not, I wasn't always as tall and dashingly handsome as I am now (don't worry, guys, that comment was directed toward our female readers). I remember back in fifth grade when I was an awkward runt who got picked last in kickball. All the bigger guys would laugh at me. I'm not jaded, though—I now have the coolest job in the world, I'm a minor celebrity, and I've got the names and addresses of all my adolescent torturers (yeah, even you, Billy, in Colorado Springs).


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text: It's hard to see angels, although I've stared at their pictures for hours. Some people can see them without pictures, and they tell interesting tales. Guardian angels are all female, for instance, which didn't surprise me once I found out. A birth angel, recruited from the younger ranks, attends every baby when it appears, while another angel, older but not grim, helps the dying to leave this world without grief or pain.You can pray to the angels and they will listen, but the best way to call them, I am told, is to laugh. Angels respond to delight, because that is what they're made of. In fact, when people's minds are clouded by anger or hatred, no angel can reach them.Not all angels have wings -- so the visionaries claim -- but those who do can unfurl a span of golden feathers stretching over the entire world. If you had eyes that could look straight into the sun, you would see an overwhelming angel presiding there; a more serene one smiles out from the face of the moon.Angels spend their entire lives, which are forever, spinning around the Creator's throne, singing His praise. People with keen ears have listened in. The harmonies of the angelic choir are incredibly complex, they say, but the rhythm is simple. "It's mostly march time," one eavesdropper affirmed. For some reason, that fact is almost the best I have learned so far.After a while it got lonely hearing about angels you couldn't see for yourself. When an angel-watcher heard that, she was shocked. "Not see?" she said. "But you have an angel in you.Everybody does. I can see it right now, and I thought you could, too." "No," I said sadly, and I asked what it looked like. "Did it look like me?""Well, yes and no," the angel-watcher mysterious answered. "It all depends on what you think you are. Your angel is a speck of light perched at the very center of your heart. It is smaller than an atom, but just wait. Once you get close to it, your angel will expand. The closer you come, the more it will grow, until finally, in a burst of light, you will see your angel in its true shape, and at that very instant, you will also see yourself."So now I am looking for my angel all the time. I sit silently, turning my gaze inward. It wasn't long before I caught a glimpse of something. "Is that you, Angel, holding a candle?" One flicker and it was gone. Yet that was enough to set my heart wildly beating. Next time my angel will be waving a lamp, then holding a torch aloft, then lighting a bonfire.That's what the angel-watcher promised, and now that I have caught sight of glory, I know enough to believe.


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Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet (born 11 May 1966), better known as Tom Shakespeare, is a sociologist. He has achondroplasia.
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Shakespeare was educated at Radley College, taking A-levels in English, History, and History of Art; and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1984 to read Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.[1] He gained a MPhil degree from King's College, Cambridge in 1991.
Shakespeare then lectured in sociology at the University of Sunderland from 1993 and returned to King's College in 1995 to obtain his PhD degree. His father died in 1996 and Shakespeare inherited his baronetcy, but does not use the title. He is also a campaigner for disability rights, a writer on disability, genetics and bio-ethics and was the co-author of The Sexual Politics of Disability (1996 - ISBN 0-304-33329-8).
He studied political science at Cambridge University. As a radical student, he supported liberation movements such as feminism, anti-racism and lesbian and gay rights. During his MPhil, he wrote a book about the politics of disability. He also wrote the book Disability Rights and Wrongs published by Routledge in 2006 and edited Arguing About Disability published in 2009 by Routledge.
He has worked as a research fellow at both Newcastle University and Leeds University, and has worked for the World Health Organization in Geneva. He served as a member of the Arts Council of England between 2003 and 2008. He is currently a senior lecturer in the medical faculty at the University of East Anglia.
Personal life[edit]
Shakespeare is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).[2]
Whilst a student, he featured in a television documentary about his restricted growth, along with his father, Sir William Geoffrey Shakespeare, a prominent medical practitioner.
- ^ 'Tom Shakespeare: Academic', in Mary Wilkinson, Defying Disability: The Lives and Legacies of Nine Disabled Leaders (London: Kingsley, 2009), pp. 79-98 (at p. 83).
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He used to work hand in glove with the foreign bankers who led raids on the New Zealand dollar. Now John Key a man who has spent most of his career out of the public gaze wants to run the economy. In a special report, London's Financial Times and the Sunday Star-Times shed new light on Key's former life as a London currency trader.
John Key wants to be running New Zealand by the end of the year because, like all other politicians, "I believe the future of our country can be really great."
But 20 years ago, he worked closely with a famed currency trader who mounted a brutal speculative attack on the Kiwi dollar. The attack, which has entered forex (foreign exchange) trading legend for its scale, audacity and profitability, prompted Reserve Bank alarm that the currency would collapse.
It was a world in which Key moved easily, swimming with the financial sharks. And while every other contender for the job of prime minister in New Zealand has lived their life on the public stage, either as a politician or on the margins of public life, Key's pivotal adult years have been entirely offstage. More than any other contender in modern political history, he is an unknown.
Now he has emerged looking not so much like a shark as a friendly dolphin. He is the pollsters' favourite to be the next prime minister. But what did this bland and amicable fellow really do during his wonderful career? What were his values? And what does it tell us about his ability to lead the country?
Key's spin doctors are keenly aware that the public feel they still don't really know Key. Hence a Meet John Key promotional DVD (later recalled over music copyright breaches).
In it, the 46-year-old glosses over his past as a money trader before he entered parliament in 2002. Instead he talks vaguely about having had "some pretty senior managerial jobs here and overseas". No mention there of daring currency raids.
His critics say the number-crunching, daredevil skills of his old job will not necessarily transfer to politics. However former colleagues say that what made Key an outstanding success in the brutally Darwinian business of banking was not his foreign exchange skills although they were more than acceptable.
Instead what set him apart were essentially political and managerial skills. He was unusually good at charming colleagues and clients, and rallying staff around him.
"He is a real people person very sociable. We would send him in to deal with the hardest and most difficult clients," recalls John Kelly, a blunt American who was one of Key's bosses when Key was head of global forex for investment bankers Merrill Lynch in London.
While most successful traders in the financial world tend to be introverted, extremely brainy or thrive on taking crazily big bets, Key had never been a "typical" trader.
"He is one of the most balanced people I know. He doesn't flap around under pressure," says Steve Bellotti, Key's immediate boss at Merrill Lynch.
"I suppose a lot of FX [foreign exchange] guys do tend to be inward looking, but John is a lot broader than that. He has real leadership skills. That was what made him really stand out."
Leadership in this environment has parallels with politics. Careers can be over in a flash. Backstabbing is rife. And forex is replete with swaggering male egos and self-regarding adrenalin junkies.
But unlike politics, the monetary rewards are immense. Yearly bonus payments for top traders are worth many times the base salary. In London, industry sources say, Key would have been earning $US2.25 million a year ($5m at 2001 exchange rates around $96,000 a week).
Key's colleagues say his ability to hold a demoralised team together was most evident in 1998 and 1999 when Merrill suffered big losses as a result of the Asian crisis. Morale plunged, and the bank risked losing many of its best staff to rival firms.
Key rallied his team in London around him and kept them inspired enough to stay at the bank rather than bolting for the door. He still sacked dozens fewer than 100 as Key recalls it but in banking terms that was considered trifling.
At that time, says Kelly, Merrill Lynch was facing losses of about $1.5 billion to $2b in just three months.
"It became clear that our bonus pool was going to be pennies. But John really rallied his FX groups around him. He was a real champion a big reason we were able to move forward. He was one of the few people [at that level] we kept on," says Kelly.
Again, the parallels with politics are interesting. Under a series of leaders, National in opposition has been undisciplined, divided and demoralised. Under Key, discipline and focus has tightened.
Key's relentless climb to the top has been well documented. He started his career in forex in 1985 with Elders Merchant Finance in Wellington. It was the year the New Zealand dollar was floated, putting him in at the ground floor for profits from what became one of the world's hottest currencies for speculators.
These were heady times, and the "kiwi" was a new, small and untested currency, vulnerable to the vast washes of capital circling the globe. The Reserve Bank was unsure how much volatility the kiwi could withstand.
Key proved a successful "price maker", setting Elders' price for the kiwi from moment to moment, and attracting large flows of orders to buy and sell. He was headhunted by Bankers Trust to head their 30-strong dealing room in Auckland in 1988. Sources say Key was soon earning $1m each year in salary and bonuses, more than 30 times the average wage at the time.
He formed what was to be a lucrative relationship with 32-year-old currency trader Andy Krieger, based at Bankers Trust in New York, who began putting hundreds of millions of dollars of business through Key's dealing room.
Krieger was the man who a few months earlier had entered forex legend with a massive speculative raid on the kiwi. As Krieger later explained in his book The Money Bazaar, he believed the kiwi was overvalued, and began betting on a fall, selling the New Zealand dollar heavily. Once the currency had found what he believed to be a floor, he bought again at a much lower price, making a profit on the transaction.
This is standard stuff, but Krieger staked so much on the bet, it was said to be more than the entire money supply of New Zealand. And the size of his sell orders, hundreds of millions of dollars at a time, allied with the relative scarcity of New Zealand currency in circulation, meant he was able to push the kiwi down.
The "play" sent the kiwi plunging 5% in a single day. Krieger claims he helped trigger a fall in the New Zealand dollar against the US currency from 66c to 59c, before getting out with his profits. In a 2004 article The Economist listed Krieger's speculative attack as one of the best financial trades in history.
Krieger's outrageous bet made hundreds of millions of dollars for Bankers Trust, but in New Zealand, Reserve Bank officials were alarmed by the yo-yoing of the dollar.
"The bank was concerned whether the relatively fledgling foreign exchange market might be damaged with negative consequences for the economy," a former senior Reserve Bank official told the Sunday Star-Times.
"It appeared to us there was a person taking positions in the New Zealand dollar, probably with a view to collapsing the currency at some point, or at least making it drop sharply," he said.
What happened next is the stuff of forex lore. Traders around the world still delight in retelling the story of the trader who frightened a government of a New Zealand politician ringing Krieger's bosses in New York to yell, "get the f--- off our currency, you little f---er!" This is seen as the worst thing a government could have done. A government must never show fear it only convinces traders they are on to a sure bet.
A phone call was made, but it may not have been quite as colourful as the legend. The finance minister of the day, Sir Roger Douglas, says he never made a call. But the Reserve Bank official clearly remembers staff taking the unusual step of ringing New York, asking why Bankers Trust "seemed hellbent on creating instability in New Zealand by the activities of this dealer".
So what does Key think of the swaggering trader seen by the Reserve Bank as a threat to the national interest? Asked if he admired Krieger at the time, Key says, "yes, I think at the time, yes, he was a very intelligent guy.
"He was a pioneer, in the sense he was one of the few people in the world who understood the options market before it was really established. He blazed a trail and that gave him a strategic advantage early on."
Key says he does not believe a moral issue arises for the traders who make these speculative attacks on currencies, or for the dealing rooms that carry out their orders. "I don't really see it as a judgemental business. You're simply executing orders for people.
"I can't remember whether Andy Krieger was buying or selling, it might have been selling with me, but at the time it would have reflected the economic fundamentals at play in New Zealand. The markets are ultimately too large for any one individual to manipulate.
"There is much more good gained from having a fully functioning financial market than there ever is not having that. We provided liquidity, we provided stability.
"There would be plenty of exporters today who would be cheering from the sidelines if Andy Krieger came in to sell a whole lot of New Zealand dollars. And equally if he was buying it there would be plenty of importers who would be cheering from the rafters. So it's not as clear-cut as some people might think," says Key.
While Key can't remember whether he actually executed some of the sells for Krieger's 1987 speculative play on the kiwi, the timing suggests he did not. But Krieger continued his high-rolling punts on the Kiwi dollar after his big win, often placing $50m buy or sell orders with Key and his dealing room. The huge flow of business from Krieger and others at Bankers Trust in New York soon turned the local branch into the number one dealing room in New Zealand, cementing Key's success and fattening his bonus packets.
Key remembers getting a call from Krieger soon after he started at Bankers Trust. The New York trader's first question was about New Zealand's GDP and money supply.
"It was really the management of that relationship on behalf of the dealing room that John had responsibility for," says Gavin Walker, former chief executive of Bankers Trust in New Zealand. "He knew everything that was going on in terms of the orders that Krieger was executing on our desk."
As Bankers Trust reaped fat profits, Key's renown across Asia grew. He was headhunted by Merill Lynch, first to head the bank's Asian forex operations in Singapore, then soon after as head of global forex operations in London, where he remained until 2001.
What is unusual, for a profession in which loathing is the standard social currency, is that it is hard to find any traces of enemies that Key may have made. His career appears to be devoid of the scandal, bitter feuds or outrageous ego-flaunting incidents that are typical of the profession.
Finance Minister Michael Cullen famously called Key "a rich prick" late last year. He was right on the first point, but if Key were a prick, you'd expect him to have collected a few more enemies on the way.
The high stakes and tribal nature of investment banking mean the head of a successful team, such as Key, is often hated by others in rival teams. And those with sufficient character to rise to the top are often aggressive, forceful individuals with polarising personalities.
But Key managed to make himself appear relatively inoffensive to the widest possible number of people. Perhaps this makes him bland, indeed, one former trader describes him as "a bit of a clone".
He is likely, too, to have gained an extra layer of blankness from his training as a trader. Traders must learn the art of the poker face, to show no emotion even in extreme situations, and to guard their inner self.
The only tangible sense in which Key asserted a persona of his own was in his accent. "We sometimes felt he would lay on his Kiwi accent so thick in meetings that none of us could understand what he was saying it was kind of deliberate," says Kelly.
In London Key lived, with his family, in Barnes an affluent leafy suburb that tends to attract hardworking sensible families rather than flashy types. And unlike many of the high-earning young men in banking, Key was not known to indulge in any vices such as visits to London's racier quarters.
At least some of this impeccable behaviour may have been due to the knowledge that one day, what was off-stage would be on public show.
"I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful," says Key. "I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative."
Safe and bland perhaps, but the very fact of Key's survival and success in investment banking suggests he is tough. It is a competitive and brutal business, in which the weak are kicked out early.
During Key's brief spell for Merrill Lynch in Sydney in 2001, he helped fire 500 staff as part of savage worldwide retrenchment by the bank. In the past, Key has appeared proud of his ability to sack without feelings. He told Metro magazine: "They always called me the smiling assassin."
These days he insists these were not cheerful sackings.
"In the end I had to carry out wider responsibilities, but I think I'm fundamentally a nice guy, but have to follow instructions," he says.
Will Key's blandness prove a political obstacle, making it hard for voters to feel they know him and what he believes in?
Labour's Bill Rowling was a leader whose blandness proved fatal in contest with the much more vivid and pugnacious Rob Muldoon. However, Key is no Rowling. He has a stronger presence. And Clark, whatever the critics say, is not as suffocatingly dominant as Muldoon was.
Australian PM John Howard and National PM Jim Bolger were both initially dull politicians who the public grew to trust for their steadiness. Most tellingly, their victories showed a dull opposition leader can win against an unpopular government.
And spin doctors can cleverly plug holes in a candidate's image: expect more passion, feeling and bite from Key in future.
In many ways Key's inoffensive persona provides National with just the reassuring message it needs. One of National's chief obstacles with swinging middle voters is the fear National will be too hard-line, too toxic. But the pleasant Mr Key allows National to pass the message, "we aren't going to hurt you".
Will Key's days spent climbing the slippery career pole at Merrill Lynch in London help him be a good prime minister?
Unsurprisingly, Key insists the background will help. "I think there are a lot of similarities between the world of finance and politics both worlds require broad perspectives on things; in both you need to see how trends are changing; and in both you have to think on your feet, to trust your instinctive judgement."
Certainly, decisiveness is a political strength which Key has already demonstrated on occasion. When he became leader he quickly put an end to National's endless dithering over the anti-nuclear issue, for instance.
Similarly, an ability to work with even the most difficult people would clearly serve Key well in politics, both in controlling warring factions within his caucus, and in building a coalition government with rival politicians, some of whom detest him on principle.
But contrary to Key's claim, bankers don't always take a broad view of things. They focus on money, and are not necessarily rewarded for taking a long view. There are clearly vast gaps in Key's own experience, too.
He has admitted in the past that he lacks expertise on foreign affairs, and his extraordinary claim that he had "no strong view" about the 1981 Springbok Tour at the time he was busy studying accountancy shows an amazing streak of blindness. On one of the most explosive issues of his generation, the young Key had no particular view.
Crucially, critics say they still don't know what Key stands for. While this week he announced new policies on youth crime, his overall vision for New Zealand is still fuzzy. The critics say that the bland exterior is actually a kind of vacuousness, or opportunism, or even worse, a mask for extremism. Labour has always tried to portray him as a right-wing extremist, a Brash in disguise, pointing to his sympathy for state asset sales as an example.
The world Key comes from is a mixture of opportunism and ideology. Dealers are the ultimate pragmatists, ready to change tack in an instant. But they also have a belief in the supremacy of pure, free markets to fix problems.
This pedigree suggests Key is part technocrat, and part free-market true believer, but in exactly what proportions no one is sure.
In Key's old world, the Andy Kriegers are the good guys, dishing out a type of rough natural justice which ferrets out economic weakness and forces governments to administer credible economic policies. New Zealanders concerned by the kiwi dollar's stormy ride through international money markets may not share that view.
When Key told the money men in 2000 he would be quitting to go into politics, they couldn't understand it.
His ultimate boss at Merrill Lynch, Kelly, "told me I was clearly having a midlife crisis", says Key.
Bellotti, Key's immediate boss, says Key was being lined up for his job. "But I think he felt that instead of trying to run a firm, he wanted to run a country. He had formed his own view that he just wanted to go and do something less materialistic."
It looked as though Key had abandoned the money ladder for another that led to power. But in his mind, he has been methodically climbing a single ladder since he was a boy.
Like some other successful politicians Ruth Richardson, Peter Dunne, David Lange Key aspired to political greatness from an early age. At 13 he wrote to then Prime Minister Bill Rowling and told him he wanted the job one day.
"I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family," he says.
But he wanted to make a bundle first.
"I always thought there was a sequence of events, part of it was going into business and me making some money. Actually it would be the same advice I would give someone today. It's better to go in with some financial independence, and you also have some real life skills."
Key still sometimes meets his former colleagues. In October, some of the most powerful fund managers in the City of London gathered in a smart conference room at Merrill Lynch's London office, in the shadow of St Paul's cathedral, to discuss the state of New Zealand's economy over breakfast.
The star of the breakfast was Key, the currency poacher now hoping to be elected gamekeeper.
"There was a lot of interest from the fund managers in New Zealand," Key says. "The main focus, though, was the kiwi they asked where that is going."
Key told the meeting he thought the kiwi was going to hit 80c against the US dollar.
Key may have given the fund managers some insights into New Zealand, but he would also have been gathering information in return. Traders habitually smell out the landscape and their adversaries before they act.
Many believe that in the next five years New Zealand and its currency will face a scary ride from the high-rolling crowd Key once belonged to.
Forex dealers may have their blind spots, but some observers think Key as prime minister might have the poker-faced skills to manoeuvre the currency to safety, skills the Reserve Bank lacked when faced with Krieger.
"The kiwi and the aussie are joint contenders for the dubious title of `peso of the South Pacific'," says Satyajit Das, the Australian expert on financial markets and trading culture.
"In the past attacks by luminaries such as Andy Krieger have moved the currency significantly. So it might make sense to have a FX trader running the country. At least, he should be able to defend the currency."
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Sunderason, S; (2012) THE NATION AND THE EVERYDAY: THE AESTHETICS AND POLITICS OF MODERN ART IN INDIA BENGAL, C. 1920 – C. 1960. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
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This thesis studies the practices and the polemics that structured the mid-twentieth century 'field' of modern art in India, as it registered shifts away from mythological classicism to new artistic imperatives of the everyday, the popular and the progressive. Concentrating on Bengal, this study follows the new agenda and anxieties around 'formal' autonomy and 'social' resonance of art that developed during the transitional decades of high nationalism, decolonisation and postcolonial nation-building in South Asia between the 1920s and the late-1950s. I argue that artists and art discourse in Bengal during this historical conjuncture invoked tropes of contextuality, habitation and socio-political experience in art-production, reinforcing the sensibility of realism within artistic modernism, of the everyday within modernist abstraction, and the locational within the national. Two themes map this mid-century 'social turn' in visual art: the first concentrates on institutional sites like the Government School of Art in Calcutta and the Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan, to follow the shifting registers of the 'national-modern' aesthetic, both in the elimination and re-figuration of orientalist classicism by new values of composition and contemporaneity, as well as in the pro-Gandhian rhetoric of the 'local' and the 'popular' that dominated cultural discourse during the interwar period. The second theme studies the left-wing intervention in formulating a socially-committed, politically conscious notion of 'progressive' art since the late-1930s. Resonating with anti-fascist cultural activism of the Popular Front period, and increasingly dominated by the Communist left, the progressive rhetoric became the site for ideological conflict between realism and modernism in the 1940s, with contesting values of socialist idealism and formalist progress of art. I close with the recurrence of the social as metaphor in postcolonial art production in Calcutta in the 1950s-60s, as the city negotiated both marginal location within the nation's modernity and a persisting memory of post-partition trauma.
Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
Title: | THE NATION AND THE EVERYDAY: THE AESTHETICS AND POLITICS OF MODERN ART IN INDIA BENGAL, C. 1920 – C. 1960 |
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UCL classification: | UCL > School of Arts and Social Sciences > Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences > History of Art |
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The Lovely Cube is much cheaper even compared to the M-Stage...
Please let us know what you think of the Lovely Cube.
Well, for those who don't have the time to fix up the board, there's already a cheaper version than m-stage.
This is a direct clone from what I compare to the image from web where as m-stage is slightly moded version.
I have own the above for about 2 weeks and it drive my HD800 and T1 very well, a lot better than my moded maverick audio D1. The only draw back is the heatsink is very hot that I have to stand it up from it's PCB mounting position (just like how m-stage mod their version) to avoid cookingthe cap next to it. Other mod I did was replace the 6 small 470uf to 1000uf green muse nichicon, direct signal in wiring to the volumn pot by passing the input caps cos I knew my DAC out already have coupling caps, and change the opamps to LM4562.
Can you post some internal pictures of your mods? What was the change in swapping out the 470uf caps to 1000uf?
First impressions of the Lovely Cube are up!
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If size fits, fine gold series is better cap. May be swap out the bottom most 2 caps for the opamps to FG or KZ. Thinking of swap out the 2 4700uf vishay to same capacity Elna. Also, rebolt the heatsink before you solder new caps in as it will be very difficult to tighten the screw if the caps is in place.
I have both matrix m-stage and Lehmann BCL and I can assure you that m-stage is not a BCL clone, even with OPA 627 mod. Simply put the difference is a day and night.
Mac Pro 6 core Westmere 3.33 16g Ram > Weiss Dac2(firewire) > Lehmann BCL > Sen HD800
vovkinson, please share more of your experience about the differences on both amps, I'm sure many people would like to hear.
Well, first of all it's clarity and refinement. Lehmann BCL does not have any accents and colors (in good way). I would say it's kind of neutral. But you can hear every nuance of the sound mix
The drum cymbals are articulate and precise and they come to your ear with no "sand" . The musical instruments separation is phenomenal and they are in their own layers.
Matrix m-stage is not bad, but for some reason it does not like my Sennheiser HD800. The trebles are harsh, the mids are smothered and not natural, the bass is a little exaggerated .
My AKG K-240 did not hate the m-stage though ,but they're not as transparent as the HD800 , or maybe it's AKG 600 ohm impedance that m-stage likes better than HD800's 300 ohm.
The setup was Mac Pro > Weiss Dac2 hooked to Mac's firewire port > Lehmann BCL > HD800
Mac Pro > Weiss Dac2 > Matriix m-stage > HD800 / AKG K-240
Again it's the matter of personal perception, but to my taste Matrix m-stage can't be called Lehmann BCL's clone. They are completely different in any aspects.
P.S. Matrix m-stage was tested with OPA 627 mod with gain switch 0db and 10db. With 10db gain the drums sound a little better, but the mids got more compressed than in 0db
How does the m-stage compare to the lehmann when it comes to raw speed? I've heard the BCL is blazingly fast...
I think the LBC is just about the most overpriced amp I've heard; there's been two at half the price that sounded as good or better to me. I think the Meier Concerto is a far superior product, with a smaller price tag.
However, I've also come to prefer mid fi phones, so a top shelf amp is wasted on my gear and tastes. So a warm amp with enough grunt to run my 400ohm phones is my main criteria, and the M stage is one of the best I've heard for the money. I've heard a few chinese amps at that mark, and they've been pretty ordinary. I even own another LBC clone, the HEF188 - and the M-stage is a far superior product. Warmer sounding and plenty of useable power and volume, via the gain options. the HEF internal gain is set way too high, with no option to change it, and has no fine volume control whatsoever, even with my high ohm phones.
Sure, there's better out there, but not everyone wants the ultimate, they want something that works with what they have and what they like, without going crazy trying to afford it.
One big advantage of the M-Stage over the BCL is that it has replacable opamps
what opamp does the lehman bcl use?
Hello everybody!
I guess I am one of the few people who actually have both the M-Stage (original 2134 and 2x 627) and the BCL. I have to say that the difference in sound quality is very apparent to my ears, as the BCL is the better amp in every aspect for me. I don't know how Lehmann Audio pulls this off, because just by looking at the pictures of both amps one would assume that they are the same. They're not when you can compare them side by side! I am listening to Kenny Barron and Charlie Haden ("Night and the city") right now: the piano sounds richer, high notes have a nice sparkle to them and are in no way sharp, Haden's bass is powerful.... Simply put: it's immersive and life-like. I don't want to say that the M-Stage is a bad amp, because it simply isn't. It offers great value for what you have to pay, but it is NOT a clone of the Black Cube Linear. To me, the BCL allows for a more realistic experience of music.
Setup: Sony SCD XB790 QS --> Yulong D18 --> Kimber Kable Timbre (RCA) --> Lehmann Audio BCL --> Audez'e LCD-2 Rev. 2


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Calculations by Rice theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson, Assistant Professor Feng Ding of Hong Kong Polytechnic and their collaborators showed substrates not only of diamond but also nickel could chemically bind the edge of a strip of a graphene nanoribbon. Because the contact is so slight, the graphene walls retain nearly all of their inherent electrical or magnetic properties.Journal of the American Chemical Society - Upright Standing Graphene Formation on Substrates
We propose integrating graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) onto a substrate in an upright position whereby they are chemically bound to the substrate at the basal edge. Extensive ab initio calculations show that both nickel (Ni)- and diamond-supported upright GNRs are feasible for synthesis and are mechanically robust. Moreover, the substrate-supported GNRs display electronic and magnetic properties nearly the same as those of free-standing GNRs. Due to the extremely small footprint of an upright GNR on a substrate, standing GNRs are ideal building blocks for synthesis of subnanometer electronic or spintronic devices. Theoretically, standing GNR-based microchips with field-effect transistor (FET) densities up to 10^13 per cm2 are achievable.
Yakobson and Ding calculated a theoretical potential of putting 100 trillion graphene wall field-effect transistors (FETs) on a square-centimeter chip.
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Yakobson said the walls could be as close to each other as 7/10ths of a nanometer, which would maintain the independent electronic properties of individual nanoribbons. They could potentially be grown on silicon, silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide or silicon carbide.
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Cotto himself was only ever a paper champion, btw. he only ever won titles against paper champion type fighters (Pinto, Quintana, Jennings, Foreman), never established himself as the ruler of a division and never established himself as a truly elite fighter (when the acid test came, he failed, losing badly to a truly elite fighter a year or so after being beaten down by a fighter who was considered less than elite) - and, no, winning a close one with a faded Mosley does not make you elite.
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