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|Period: ___________________
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Henry's response when Ellen asks what will happen to the school now that there are no students?
(a) He will be the student and will learn from nature.
(b) He will change the way the school is run to keep students.
(c) He says they will close and he will have to go back to teaching at a university.
(d) He will find new students.
2. How does the lighting show a new time period and a younger Waldo?
(a) The lighting on Waldo's side of the stage shifts to a bright yellow.
(b) The lighting on Waldo's side of the stage becomes warmer.
(c) The lighting on Waldo's side of the stage becomes more white.
(d) The lighting on Waldo's side of the stage shifts to a stronger hue.
3. Why does Ellen not marry John?
(a) Her father objects.
(b) She does not love him.
(c) She is too young.
(d) She loves Henry.
4. Edward is so pleased. What does he wish?
(a) John was his brother.
(b) Henry was his brother.
(c) John was his father.
(d) Henry was his father.
5. What does Henry notice about Ellen?
(a) She is an older girl and is taking notes.
(b) She is staring at him.
(c) She is beautiful.
(d) She is younger than any of the other students.
Short Answer Questions
1. Henry notes that he can feel the sound waves from the clock tower. Who does he say he is freer in jail than?
2. To what does Henry compare Waldo lecturing?
3. What does Henry give Williams?
4. How does the scene restart?
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 02/04/13 --
This is the third Lloyds TSB Home Movers Review, tracking conditions for those who already own a home. The review is based on data from the Halifax house price database, the Council of Mortgage Lenders, the Office for National Statistics and the Bank of England.
The home mover market has remained relatively flat over the past year. However, despite seeing some slight improvements, second steppers are still bearing the brunt of the stagnant housing market, according to the latest Lloyds TSB Home Movers Review.
-- Lloyds TSB estimates that there were around 319,000 home movers in 2012, largely unchanged from 2011. -- Second steppers' current equity position would account for just 7% of the price of a typical second stepper home. Compared with almost half (42%) in 2005. -- The average home mover deposit in 2012 was GBP 61,743. This is a rise of 59% from the average of GBP 38,866 in 2002.
The Lloyds TSB second stepper housing affordability measure - calculated as the average price of a typical second stepper home(1) less their current equity position(2) as a ratio of average earnings - stands at 4.6 times gross annual full-time average earnings for 2012. This is significantly higher than a decade earlier when the ratio was 2.9 times gross annual average earnings, and well above the long-term average of 3.3.
However, second stepper affordability has improved slightly on the previous year - the Lloyds TSB measure reached its highest level, 5.4, in a quarter of a century in 2011. As more time passes since the peak of the market and the subsequent fall in house prices in 2007-8, a higher proportion of potential second steppers will have bought their first property when house prices had already fallen from their peak. Despite this, second steppers in aggregate still face considerable challenges.
Low equity levels creating a barrier for second steppers
The typical potential second stepper in 2012 would have bought their first home in 2008(3). Such a homeowner is, on average, estimated to have an equity level of just GBP 11,500(4) - equivalent to 7% of the average price for a semi-detached house (GBP 162,170). With the average cost of moving estimated at close to GBP 9,000(5), this level of equity leaves very little to put down as a deposit on the next home. In addition, there are also many potential second steppers who bought at the peak of the market in 2007. Many of these homeowners are likely to be in an even worse financial position, often with negative equity. It may also be the case that some first-time buyers who had bought before or after the market peak could also be facing problems moving along the property ladder.
This situation is in stark contrast to 2002 when second steppers had an average equity level of GBP 45,000 - equivalent to 38% of the average price for a semi at the time.
South East is the least affordable area for second steppers
The South East is the least affordable UK region for second steppers with an average affordability ratio of 6.3, followed by London (6.1). The West Midlands and East Midlands (both 4.0) are the most affordable regions for those in their first home looking to take their next step on the property ladder. (See Table 1)
Nitesh Patel, housing economist at Lloyds TSB, commented:
"Even though many of today's second steppers won't have bought at the height of the market, many are still going to struggle to make that move up the housing ladder. House prices have been falling or flat for the past four years, and as a result many are still in a very low equity position.
"The difficulties faced by aspiring second steppers are having a considerable knock- on impact for potential first-time buyers due to the resulting shortage of properties available on the market with housing chains proving hard to establish."
Additional Key findings;
Home movers, 2012
The data in the section below refers to 'home movers'; defined as all those already in the housing market (i.e. they currently own a home). Second Steppers are a subset of home movers and refer only to those looking to get on the second rung of the housing ladder.
- Lloyds TSB estimates that there were around 319,000 home movers in 2012. This represents a modest (1%) improvement on 2011. The total, however, is only just over a third of the level in 2002 (865,100). (See Table 2)
House Prices
- Since the start of the housing downturn in 2007, the average price paid by a home mover has fallen by 18% from of GBP 250,005 to GBP 205,809 in 2012.
- Nationally, home mover property prices fell by 1% in the past year. Several regions - such as the North, West Midlands, East Anglia, South West and Wales - have seen a slight increase (1%-2%). (See Table 3)
Deposits and Advances
- The average deposit put down by a home mover in 2012 was GBP 61,743. This was 59% higher than the average deposit of GBP 38,866 in 2002.
- Home movers in the capital put down the largest average deposit - GBP 110,151 - 31% of the average property value. In contrast, home movers in Northern Ireland put down the smallest average deposit (GBP 32,600, or 25%).
- The average mortgage advance for a new home mover is GBP 144,067; a quarter higher than a decade ago (GBP 116,599). (See Table 4)
- The average age of a home mover is 40 years old. This is three years older than a decade ago (37 in 2002). Most of the increase in buyer age has occurred since 2007. (Source: CML)
Mortgage affordability improves for home movers
- Typical mortgage payments for a home mover (i.e. those already in the housing market) - stood at 31.5% average gross disposable earnings at the end of 2012. This has come down sharply from an all time peak of 52% in 2007. This improvement has been due to a reduction in both mortgage rates and house prices.
Offering a solution
- Addressing the challenges faced by those looking to move home, but suffering from a difficulty raising the deposit, Lloyds TSB offers the Lend a Hand Home mover mortgage.
- The Lloyds TSB Lend a Hand Home mover product allows borrowers to take out a mortgage with a deposit of just 5%, but can access a rate that is the equivalent of products available for borrowers with a much larger deposit. This is because their funds are backed up with the savings of a helper, such as a parent, grandparent or other family member. At the same time, their helper benefits from a competitive savings rate as a legal charge is taken over the savings to offset the risk.
Table 1: Second Steppers Affordability(i) by Region, 2002-2012(ii) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2002-2012 Percentage 2002 2012 Points change North 2.7 4.2 1.5 Yorkshire and Humberside 2.5 4.1 1.6 South East 3.2 6.3 3.0 South West 3.3 5.7 2.4 East Anglia 2.4 4.8 2.4 Northern Ireland 2.6 5.0 2.4 Wales 2.5 4.6 2.1 Greater London 4.1 6.1 2.0 West Midlands 2.2 4.0 1.9 East Midlands 2.3 4.0 1.8 North West 2.9 4.6 1.7 Scotland 2.7 4.2 1.6 UK 2.9 4.6 1.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources: Lloyds TSB, CML, Halifax and ONS (i)Average price of a typical second stepper home(1) less their current equity position as a ratio of average earnings. (ii)All years refer to 12 months to November. Table 2: Number of homebuyers (purchasing with a mortgage) - UK ===================================================================== Number of Annual % Number of Annual % Home movers change FTBs change ===================================================================== 2002 865,100 16% 531,800 -6% ===================================================================== 2003 882,200 2% 369,600 -31% ===================================================================== 2004 886,700 1% 358,100 -3% ===================================================================== 2005 615,600 -31% 363,800 2% ===================================================================== 2006 712,100 16% 402,800 11% ===================================================================== 2007 653,600 -8% 359,900 -11% ===================================================================== 2008 320,600 -51% 192,300 -47% ===================================================================== 2009 315,000 -2% 196,600 2% ===================================================================== 2010 339,600 8% 198,600 1% ===================================================================== 2011 315,500 -7% 193,000 -3% ===================================================================== 2012(i) 318,667 1% 216,000 12% ===================================================================== Source: CML,(i) Lloyds TSB estimate Table 3: Home movers: Average House Price % Change, 2002-2012(ii) =========================================================================== 1 year 10 year % % 2002 GBP 2011 GBP 2012 GBP change change =========================================================================== North 97,747 146,019 147,142 0.8% 51% =========================================================================== Yorkshire and the Humber 106,936 160,342 159,854 -0.3% 49% =========================================================================== North West 116,213 165,599 158,783 -4.1% 37% =========================================================================== East Midlands 121,703 163,070 162,859 -0.1% 34% =========================================================================== West Midlands 140,546 171,632 175,323 2.2% 25% =========================================================================== East Anglia 146,661 194,287 195,920 0.8% 34% =========================================================================== Wales 108,235 154,115 156,093 1.3% 44% =========================================================================== South West 163,871 217,543 219,647 1.0% 34% =========================================================================== South East 206,245 264,871 263,910 -0.4% 28% =========================================================================== Greater London 268,026 362,222 357,170 -1.4% 33% =========================================================================== Northern Ireland 110,492 148,097 129,829 -12.3% 18% =========================================================================== Scotland 101,217 169,485 167,058 -1.4% 65% =========================================================================== UK 155,466 207,126 205,809 -0.6% 32% =========================================================================== Source: Lloyds TSB calculations, Halifax (ii)All years refer to 12 months to November Table 4: Home movers: Average Price And Deposit By Region, 2012(ii) =========================================================================== Average Deposit as % House Price Average of purchase Region (GBPs) Deposit (GBPs) price =========================================================================== North 147,142 38,345 26% =========================================================================== Yorkshire and the Humber 159,854 43,144 27% =========================================================================== North West 158,783 40,537 26% =========================================================================== East Midlands 162,859 46,513 29% =========================================================================== West Midlands 175,323 51,001 29% =========================================================================== East Anglia 195,920 62,616 32% =========================================================================== Wales 156,093 45,095 29% =========================================================================== South West 219,647 73,648 34% =========================================================================== South East 263,910 83,725 32% =========================================================================== Greater London 357,170 110,151 31% =========================================================================== Northern Ireland 129,829 32,600 25% =========================================================================== Scotland 167,058 47,311 28% =========================================================================== UK 205,809 61,743 30% =========================================================================== Source: Lloyds TSB calculations, Halifax (ii)All years refer to 12 months to November
(1) The typical second stepper home is assumed to be a semi detached home based on consumer research by Lloyds TSB which found that 60% of people expect to take their second step on the property ladder into a semi-detached home: www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/media1/press_releases/2012_press_release_brands/ltsb/2502_second.asp.
(2) Current equity position is defined as the sum of deposit, capital repayments (variable rate mortgage using average LTV for an FTB and the average mortgage rate for new business undertaken by UK banks produced by the Bank of England) and change in the average FTB house price over the period. The calculation is based on house purchasers moving 4 years after their first purchase, which is based on our market research (see below).
(3) The Second Steppers consumer research was undertaken by BDRC Continental (bdrc-continental.com) on behalf of Lloyds Banking Group. Fieldwork took place in January 2011. Around 400 interviews were collected from a representative online consumer panel (Valued Opinions). Further methodological detail is available on request. One of the findings showed that FTBs stayed in their first property on average for 4 years before moving on to their next home. www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/media1/press_releases/2012_press_release_brands/ltsb/2502_second.asp
(4) Based on calculation from the Halifax House Price database
(5) LTSB estimate in http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/media/pdfs/LTSB/2012/2701_Cost.pdf
The housing affordability measure for second steppers is defined as the average price for a typical second stepper home adjusted for the equity position from their current home as a ratio of average earnings. The typical second stepper home as assumed to be a semi detached home. Their current equity position is defined as the sum of deposit, capital repayments (variable rate mortgage using average LTV for an FTB and the average mortgage rate for new business undertaken by UK banks produced by the Bank of England) and change in the average FTB house price over the period. The calculation is based on a single income and is, therefore, conservative.
The multiple of 3.3 is in line with the average house price to income ratio for a second stepper over the past 25 years (1987-2012). (Source: Halifax).
This research is based on data from the Halifax's housing statistics database as well as the Council of Mortgage Lenders, the Office for National Statistics and the Bank of England.
1. House Prices
The prices used in this research are simple arithmetic ('crude') averages. These prices are not standardised and therefore can be affected by changes in the sample from period to period.
2. Average Earnings
Average earnings figures are from the ONS's "Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings" (ASHE) and refer to the means for full-time employees.
At local authority level, figures for the relevant local authority (residence based) are used in the majority of cases. Where this has not been possible due to data unavailability, the relevant regional average has been used.
3. Historic figures on the number of home movers and first time buyers have been sourced from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).
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Thursday, April 28, 2016
Pitch forks at the ready posted by Richard Seymour
The 'antisemitism' panic posted by Richard SeymourIt's an interesting political moment. With the Hillsborough finding, the junior doctors' strike, the ongoing reverberations from the Panama Papers, a backlash among Tory backbenchers against forced academisation and even a loss of face for the government over child refugees, the government is reeling. It is not that Corbyn looks strong, although he does have the initiative for now: Labour even has a small lead in a series of YouGov polls. It is rather that the Tories are surprisingly weak, cutting against the grain of popular 'common sense', and being forced into a series of graceless retreats. So what is the relationship between that fact, and the current ideological offensive against Labour's left-wing, under the rubric of uncovering antisemitism? And why is this offensive assuming some of the characteristics, if not the proportions, of a moral panic?
There is happily no need for me to revisit the specific allegations that have been made, since Jamie Stern-Weiner has already judiciously dealt with them in a characteristically forensic demolition job on the whole panic. There isn't much one can say about them - they are so small in number that it is impossible to extrapolate any wider conclusion. They are just a series of individual cases, nowhere near large enough to constitute a pattern. Can anyone seriously, without recourse to impressionism and hand-waving, demonstrate otherwise?
Of these allegations, one can say that some of them do genuinely constitute obnoxious anti-Jewish racism, while others fall into the category of criticism of Israel, or of Zionism. What is more, anyone remotely experienced on the Left can see the difference right away - it is not subtle. The only people who don't see the difference are antisemites, Israel's apologists, and those whose political strategy rests on not seeing a difference.
With those points in mind, there is a rather obvious gap between the scope of the allegations, hyped beyond all reason, and the scope of the claims extrapolated from them. These claims can be distilled to the argument that because of the victory of Jeremy Corbyn, and the change in the composition of the Labour Party's membership that made this possible, Labour is now institutionally antisemitic.
This, clearly, is a gross travesty, indefensible from any point of view. But it doesn't need to pass any test of intellectual probity. Like other moral panics, the power of claims made in the context of this panic derives from something other than their truth value. Like what? Well, for one thing, the fact that they resonate with a series of existing ideological representations. After all, this meme is not new. The 'new antisemitism' thesis is as old as the hills now. Right-wing newspapers have been using this sort of thing to bait the left for years now. And the attacks on Corbyn on this axis began before he was elected.
For another, there is a diverse coalition of people for whom believe in such a claim serves a purpose, or helps to encode a particular fear - that, for example, Labour has gone to the 'loony left', that the political establishment has lost control, that a black Muslim woman now leads the NUS, that Israel no longer commands near unanimous sympathy in the UK, that you can't support bombing a country any more without people calling you a warmonger, and so on. The idea, utterly absurd in itself, that Labour is now institutionally antisemitic because of the Left, is in this context an extremely useful modulation on standard red-baiting. It tells a seemingly coherent story, drawing on the tropes of 'antitotalitarianism', about how the centre disintegrated, and to what effect. And it restores the taint once associated with being a Red, by means of the association with antisemitism.
And finally, of course, the opposition to such claims is cowed and weak. Corbyn and McDonnell are understandably desperate to shut this issue down, rather than enter into a difficult and - from a public relations point of view - potentially toxic series of arguments about the difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. They will undoubtedly feel a tremendous burden of responsibility - just yesterday they were marching with the junior doctors on strike, going for the Tories in a way that no previous Labour leadership would have done. How, they will reason, can they afford to blow all that momentum on a series of arguments they can't possibly win?
Understandable as that may be, this also puts the Labour Left in a particular bind. The leadership is keen to kill the issue stone dead, and doing so with as much economy of energy as possible. So what will Labour activists say and do? What will Momentum and like-minded groups say and do? They will presumably feel under pressure to "defend Jeremy" and not embarrass him by raising difficult, complex discussions that are likely to blow back in everyone's faces when some snippet of some conversation in a pub somewhere becomes a Daily Mail headline. And perhaps they will not want to polarise Labour on issues like Israel-Palestine, especially since 'everyone' seems to agree on the principle of Palestinian statehood. Maybe just let it lie for now. Maybe prioritise, focus on the things that matter. Sit tight, weather the storm, and get back to the real issues.
The problem, if they are tempted by this option, is that it doesn't actually exist. Not every ideological battle can be won on the ground of short-term media cycles. This argument itself is going to keep coming back. Why? Because it has just been demonstrated that it works. It is very effective, not least because those targeted by such tactics feel compelled to cave in almost immediately. And it won't be difficult to repeat. Why? Because if you want to find examples of antisemitism in a racist society, you only have to be patient and wait: antisemitism exists and, as a matter of sheer probability, some of it must exist among some Labour members. And if you expand the definition of antisemitism to include any and all expression of anti-Zionist politics, then you will assuredly find some examples of that. And maybe, if direct expressions of anti-Zionism are deemed antisemitic now, perhaps in the future other forms of pro-Palestine politics - BDS, for example - can be subjected to the same calumny. Soon, perhaps, they can return to Corbyn's 'connections' to Hamas, or the 'abuse' allegedly received by Louise Ellman MP supposedly at the instigation of Momentum, and so on. The more you give ground to this type of campaign, the more ground you are compelled to give.
So the de facto coalition between the Labour Right, the Conservatives, and most of the media, initially launched during the 'Project Fear' campaign against Corbyn, will certainly find other occasions to converge on this line of attack. The only question is whether this attack is consistently countered by an informed, confident rebuttal, or met with lamb-like docility.
ps: note the list of Labour right-wingers queuing up to demand Ken Livingstone's suspension for referring to an 'Israel lobby'. So let us, please, have one extended interview with one of these people where they are forced to rigorously, in detail, lay out exactly what they are claiming is antisemitic. I want them to be compelled to give specifics. I want them to be forced to defend their logic. Because otherwise it comes across as a clamorous, opportunistic attempt to silence debate. I mean, it's almost like they're a 'lobby' or something.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics posted by Richard Seymour
Monday, April 18, 2016
'Erratic marxism' in its limits. posted by Richard SeymourHe may be unflappable, and reputedly of interest to a whole queueing phalanx of inflamed loins across Europe and beyond, but Varoufakis couldn't face down the masters of Europe, and he can't sell a progressive 'in' campaign on these premises. (A progressive 'out' campaign seems to be an even more difficult prospect, but that is of less pressing concern, since the vast majority of leftists who are doing anything about the referendum are campaigning for 'in'.) Watch the video for yourself, and note the logic very carefully, because it elides a number of registers of analysis without acknowledging that this is happening.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Unforbidden Politics posted by Richard SeymourAdam Phillips, in his latest book, Unforbidden Pleasures, quotes Oscar Wilde to the effect that the trouble with socialism is that it takes up too many evenings. This quip reminds us, he says, "that there may always be things that we care more about than the things we care most about".
Most activists will recognise the dilemma. Anyone with an experience in revolutionary politics, in particular, can call to mind the brutal slog of windswept Saturday afternoons, freezing early morning appointments outside factory gates and tube stations, long walkabouts with a couple of dozen demonstrators, door-to-door campaigning for no-hope electoral projects, and terrified, adrenaline-fuelled vigils against parading neo-Nazis. Is it a particular disappointment if much of that energy (not all of it, but a lot of it) was wasted? Is it so terrible that most of these rituals of activism (not all, but most) for most of the time had long since ceased to be an effective use of energy and resources, to the extent that they ever were? Do we really need to mourn the hours wasted on activities that were mainly, from an organisational perspective, about sustaining party identity and discipline? Not necessarily. There is something to be gained from that kind of discipline, at least for a while. There is something to be accumulated from regularly trying to interact with members of the public, and forge a rapport on the basis of the most limited contact, be it self-confidence, patience, or a certain knowhow.
The trouble is that it does tend to make politics more forbidding than it needs to be. Socialism will always take up too many evenings, even without the bullshit. And in the context of revolutionary politics, it usually segues into a punitive moralism, the currency of which is how 'active' you are. In the first sect to which I belonged, great stress was placed on being 'active'. If someone fell out of favour and became a subject of gossip, the worst thing that could be said about them was that they had become 'very inactive' and thus, concomitantly, 'pessimistic'. People who broke with the party during one of its many crises could be cheaply explained away in these terms. People who were being difficult could be guilted about not being active enough - because, implicitly, no one is ever active enough, not even a full-timer. One can always sacrifice more of one's life. The more you give in to this logic, this revolutionary guilt, the stronger its grip becomes. You don't alleviate it by becoming 'more active,' but by reconsidering the ends of active politics.
In the second sect to which I belonged, of course, the axis of moralism often shifted to that of one's supposed or actual 'privilege'. Even today, one can find the now dispersed constituents of that sect either apologising for, or sneering at, 'privilege' construed in its broadest possible sense. If you have a one-bedroom flat, a job, access to an NHS hospital, a living wage, etc etc., you can be considered 'privileged'. And in a sense that is true: these are, relative to worse-off conditions, privileges. And I think that privilege is a category that we have to try to work with and apply rigorously, notwithstanding its difficulties. And if someone 'checks your privilege,' sometimes you have to stop and think about how privilege in some sense could be affecting your language or behaviour. The problem with the confessional mode of privilege politics, however, is that in the broad sense in which privilege is used, everyone is privileged relative to someone else. It becomes tedious and recursive to continually invoke this category either by way of explanation or critique. And if it becomes the basis of individual guilt-mongering and gossip, then in some ways it is actually worse than moralism about 'activism'. One can at least strive to be more active or make excuses for not doing so; the only way to deal with being 'privileged' is to confess it, continually, to preface everything one says with "I know I'm privileged, but...". At its worst, this becomes (quite logically) both self-pitying and masochistic: "I wish my privilege didn't impose such blinders on me, it's such a disability, it impedes my activism every day, I'm so unfortunate for being so fortunate, please, I need you all to call me out on my fuck-ups, thank you so much." You notice how the difference between self-indulgence and self-laceration collapses here, just as the gap between spiting others and spiting oneself tends to be lost.
If socialist politics is necessarily somewhat forbidding, then, the left has always found ingenious ways to make it more so, to intricate it with the logic of punishment, to convert passionate political commitment into a soul-deadening and exhausting ordeal, to turn comrades vicious, to sap humour and elan, and to turn neurotic self-immolation and guilt into a political principle. Feeding such a tyrannical political superego has little to do with being effective or successful, of course, but the lure of moralism is that it touches on something real. We all could be more active, and we all feel bad about that. We all recognise ways in which our life situation necessarily distorts and frames our perspectives. We all know that we are subjectively imbricated with structures of oppression, that class, race, gender, sexuality and other axes of injustice are also part of the substrate upon which our subjectivity is formed. And sometimes we do, in fact, fuck up. Even with the most thoroughgoing change in the economy of one's desire achieved by politicisation, purity is never on the cards. It is the left equivalent of original sin, a weakness or susceptibility that marks even the most experienced cadres. And it makes us strangely submissive, compliant, easy to order about or be silenced, ready to accept and internalise spite. And if not that, then overly dependent on dogma as a crutch, guaranteeing us a seemingly unassailable position from which to speak. And if not that, then thinly rebellious and contrarian in ways that are profoundly invested in the political superego that is being rebelled against. It doesn't bring out the best in anyone.
Notably, these tendencies are at their worst in periods of defeat and stasis, when nothing exciting seems to be happening and nothing engages the desire that brought one into political activity in the first place. The periods of excitement and tantalising possibility give us a brief sense of what an unforbidden politics might look like, and what we might do with ourselves if we weren't worshipping at the feet of a ridiculous political superego.
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Aspiration is a loser's game. posted by Richard SeymourThe Times, the Blairite/Cameronite wing of the Murdoch press, brings us news that the Labour Right is descending into madness:
'Aspiration' is a richly polysemic term, and can mean many things - but pray god, let it not become a by-word for billionaires sluicing torrents of cash to central American tax havens. Let us not allow the Blairites to do that to our political language. Even Peter Mandelson didn't stretch it this far. Even he, who was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich", added the stipulation: "as long as they pay their taxes".
The occasion for the latest controversy is the 11.5 million leaked documents from the offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca, which disclose some of the means used by billionaires, celebrities, political leaders and crooks to circumvent taxes, laws and regulations. We have barely seen a tithe of the revelations yet, and most of the material will not be released by the media firms holding onto it. However, even the limited revelations that we have seen have produced ideological shockwaves. The agenda-setting press, usually on the side of business and billionaires as far as they possibly can be, have tended to accept that this looks bad. The Times itself considers this "capitalism's great crisis". The Prime Minister of Iceland, exposed by the leaks, has been forced to resign, and he may not be the last.
David Cameron, himself hit by the revelations, has felt compelled to promise new anti-evasion legislation and publish his tax returns. His approval ratings have sank, and Corbyn has pulled ahead of him. Conservative MPs who try to defend or mitigate tax evasion suddenly look either shifty or mad. Newspapers everywhere across the country are running polls asking if the Prime Minister should resign - universally, even in the right-wing Express, readers are saying 'yes'. In the background to this are all the complex ideological arguments about austerity and living standards after the credit crunch. If the majority of people were persuaded of the need for 'belt-tightening', and even went along with the idea that those on welfare would have it tightened the most, they were sold on the basis that at least there would be some residual degree of equity in how the pain was distributed. We were, in a minimal sense, 'all in it together'. The agitation of UK Uncut around the issue of tax avoidance in 2010-11 raised the issue of corporate tax evasion as a major factor cutting revenues for public spending, and the created a series of public-relations crises for the firms implicated. At the time, Cameron even made headlines with repeated criticism of tax avoiding companies and individuals. His speech to the 2013 Davos conference made cracking down on tax evasion a central theme. His actions never matched his words, but the point is that something like an ideological consensus exists around tax evasion.
In short, the Panama Papers have produced a crisis of legitimacy for the government and for its austerity project. The story they tell is not about hard-working, aspiring individuals being clever and creative with their finances. It is about class, and about how the super-rich have for several decades been waging a successful war of tax resistance, depriving the treasury of tens of billions of pounds each year, and thus reducing the sum of funds available for schools and hospitals. In a way, it confirms and validates what everyone already knew; in another way, it forces the issue, making everyone think about and confront the cold, brutal facts. You can evade taxes for years and get a knighthood; or you can over claim a few pounds on welfare, and get locked up. Given the scale of the government's crisis, Corbyn would be derelict were he to do anything other than strike repeatedly and boldly. If he relented in the way that critics are now demanding, they would have every right to complain. He would not be doing his job.
Now, in this context, what is the logic of members of the shadow cabinet intervening anonymously to spare Tory blushes? Why should they try to push the ideological agenda to the right of where Cameron has stood for years, and to the right of where Mandelson once stood? There are a number of possibilities. One is that they have investments of their own to worry about. A second is that they are protecting Labour business donors, who might have to answer questions fairly soon. A third is that they are worried that Corbyn is going to do quite well out of this, and that Labour's concomitant gains in the polls will prolong the marginalisation of the party's right-wing. That would make sense: they have proven time and again that they don't want Labour to win. The fourth and final possibility is far more worrying: they truly believe, as a matter of strategy and principle, that beyond all the fuss this is not a big deal and that there is a fairly stoical bulwark of 'aspirational' voters out there who not only don't object to billionaire tax resistance, but aspire to be in the same position themselves one day.
Their intervention here is akin, in its rationale, to that of Labour MPs who lobbied Miliband not to go too hard on austerity since Labour would have to implement cuts of its own if it regained office, and not to be too critical of 'irresponsible capitalism', since Labour would need irresponsible capitalism once in government. The blistering zenith of this cunning strategy was: i.) Ed Balls saying, before the general election, that he agreed with every cut in George Osborne's budget; ii.) Ed Miliband saying, before the general election, that he wouldn't let the SNP wreck Tory cuts or stop Trident; and iii.) Harriet Harman insisting, after the general election, that Labour MPs should abstain on welfare cuts rather than be seen to against aspiration. It is not so much a strategy as a nosedive into oblivion. It is the formula for Pasokification distilled to its precise chemical components. And it is, of course, why they lost control of the leadership in the first place. It isn't just that they don't want Labour to win on any sort of left-wing agenda. It is that what they think constitutes success is exactly what will obviate the purpose of Labourism, and finish it off for good.
Aspiration, for Labour, is and always has been a loser's game.
Thursday, April 07, 2016
Green Party grows down posted by Richard SeymourHey gang! Aren't all these politicians silly? A buncha kids, that's what they are! Not like us, we're grown ups - aren't we, kids? This is the Green Party's pitch, in toto:
Anyone with a long enough memory can place the inspiration for this vomit-worthy atrocity more or less precisely. It's Liberal-SDP, circa 1987. The idea is to set up two untenable extremes, then define an imaginary, common-sense, middle-ground voter to cater to. But this is not just condescending, trivialising tripe, it is politically unintelligent.
The problem for the Greens, as they know very well but can't admit here, is that they agree with most of what Corbyn is doing. And for as long as Corbynism is on the ascent, and actually achieving something, they are going to have trouble defending their hard-won electoral niche. The smart play, and the genuinely adult thing to do, would be to declare this openly: "We agree with Jeremy when he opposes cuts, works against Trident, and denounces racism and war. The problem is that he's the captive of a party whose elite despises him, won't let him be effective and will one day try to get rid of him. We will work to support Jeremy in parliament when he does the right thing, but if you want to see a progressive politics free of these sorts of games, then vote for the Green Party." That wouldn't stop them losing votes, but it would give them somewhere plausible to start from in the event that Corbynism does begin to degenerate.
The fact that the Greens can't openly admit that on most policy specifics, they agree with Corbyn, is itself the most infantile, tribal, yah-boo tedium, packaged as an appeal to #grownuppolitics. If the Greens want to openly become the new Liberal Democrats, that is their prerogative - but I don't see the electoral yield in that.
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Under the hood
Remove the side panels, and the first thing you'll notice is the black paint job on the internals. Not all budget cases match interior colors with the exterior, making the Shinobi look particularly clean and professional. A couple of other things stand out: the bottom-mounted PSU bracket and an ample number of internal 3.5" drive bays (eight in total) that should satisfy all but the most hardcore hard-drive hoarders.
The 3.5" bays are of the tool-less variety. They don't have mounting holes for 2.5" hard drives or SSDs, though. The Shinobi can accommodate a single 2.5" drive if you fasten it to the included 5.25-to-3.5" bay adapter, but then you'll lose your floppy drive.
My condolences.
Installing optical drives in the 5.25" bays doesn't require tools, either. The mounting hardware isn't very elegant, but it gets the job done.
The motherboard tray has a modern layout with the obligatory cut-outs for cable management and the CPU heatsink retention plate. The cable routing holes don't have protective rubber grommets like those in higher-end enclosures, but the steel is rolled over and blunted to protect cables from damage. There are also punched-out tabs all over the backside of the tray that allow cables to be easily zip-tied into place. It's nice to see cable management becoming more than just an afterthought in mainstream enclosure. During the build, I had no trouble tucking cables away behind the motherboard tray. Less cable clutter inside the case means better airflow and a nicer view through the window (if you can peer through the tint).
Like the NZXT H2 we reviewed a couple of weeks ago, the Shinobi only offers about an inch of clearance between the motherboard tray and side panel. The narrow gap can make hiding large wads of wiring a bit tricky, and that's without acoustic foam on the side panels. If you want to add a layer of sound-dampening material, you'll have to be careful not to snag or tear it on cabling squeezed behind the mobo tray.
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Dropbox for Teams launched for small businesses
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For $795 a year, 5 team members can share folders with a storage limit of 1,000GB and, if your team is a bit bigger, each additional user costs $125 a year and that comes with 200GB of extra space.
If more storage is needed, no problem. Dropbox is actually stating that storage is "unlimited" and that, should more space be needed, "give us a call and we'll work with you to increase your quota".
Sujay Jaswa, vice president of business development and sales at Dropbox, stated that the move was, in part, down to the fact that it had noticed that 1 million businesses were already using Dropbox.
"We started out as a tool to share code and photos, but users brought Dropbox to work," explained Jaswa. "To Dropbox, there is just one market for users."
Currently Dropbox has around 50 million users. On the individual side it currently offers users 2GB of storage for free, with the chance to upgrade that by a further 8GB by convincing friends to sign up to the service.
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Government data suggested that it was located "either on or just below the surface as residue and weathered tar balls, has washed ashore or been collected from the shore, or is buried in sand and sediments".
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The plume would have been undetectable without the scientists' high-tech equipment, including a special underwater mass spectrometer used to detect the chemical signature of the oil, which was carried deep below the surface by submersible devices."At this point, we know the plume exists, and we will know more about its potential biological activity in the future," Dr Chris Reddy, another of the article's authors, said.
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I was thinking about this as I was driving today...
When I was younger, and my mom use to drive me to the barn, I use to pretend the car was a horse, and that shadows on the ground were jumps. I use to count strides between "jumps". I would set the pace to the beat of whatever was playing on the radio. I guess it was my form of entertainment on the long drives out to the barn.
Maybe that's how I got such a good eye for distances!
I did this! Except my horse still has to bail me out at times. lol
Last edited by CenterStage123; Nov. 24, 2008 at 04:44 PM.
Reason: typo
Actually, when on the highway, I pretend that I'm a jockey. I pick a certain point ahead, like a Speed limit sign etc. and see if I can beat the car in the lane next to me to it.
Sadly, it wasn't when I was a kid...but as an adult. lol
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I did this...only I used the telephone poles as my jumps.....I think it taught me about length of stride as opposed to the speed the car was going as I being the passenger could alter my imaginary strides but not the speed....Back in the day I think I had a pretty good eye....
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Originally Posted by jeta
I did this...only I used the telephone poles as my jumps.....
Me too!!
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I did this and still do sometimes with mile markers on the interstate!
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I still do it
What Huntertwo said.
Does anyone else do cavelletti/ground poles when walking across parking lots with marked parking spaces?
Originally Posted by Wellspotted
What Huntertwo said.
Does anyone else do cavelletti/ground poles when walking across parking lots with marked parking spaces?
Yup, into work. I change the length of my "stride" to make it a 2 stride or or a 1 stride, etc.
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Now I don't feel so weird...I use to do "cross country" with fences we were passing!
My husband who doesn't ride but is a jock's agent, pushes on the steering wheel and switches sticks like he's riding a race when passing cars. I'm sure he's cashing a gamble then as well.
When riding to school on the bus I would look out the window and imagine a horse galloping across the terrain and jumping over whatever was in the way
Furlong47--that's exactly what I did...I always made sure I had a window seat on the bus and everything outside was jump!
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haha, I did (and, er, do) all of these things. I always count my strides and count down to the "take-off" point when I'm walking and I have to step up or over anything. And then I want to go do it over again if I don't get a perfect "distance".
"On the back of a horse I felt whole, complete, connected to that vital place in the center of me...and the chaos within me found balance."
When I was growing up I WAS the horse! I had a lovely canter and trot,,,,collected to extended and was an excellent jumper. I ate popcorn from my hand as a horse would eat. Occasionally I reared and bucked. I was AWESOME!!
I've come to think of speeding up as simply 'opening up my horse's stide' to prepare for a fence.
I looked out the window and imagined myself riding over whatever I passed, too. (: And I leaned forward over speed bumps...
Originally Posted by Invested1
Me too!!
Me three! (re: telephone pole jumps.) Weirdly enough, I still do it out of habit, and I still haven't taken any jumping lessons.
Oh we did also play horse at recess One person would be the horse and put a jump rope around their waist to be the reins. Then another person would be the rider and run behind steering with the rope ends. Actually I guess this was closer to driving than to riding
Like SarahandSam, I would always go into 2-point over speed bumps and especially the little speed strips on the highway before stop lights. The rhythm is always the same...jump, one stride, jump, one stride, jump, bounce, jump, bounce, jump!
At the lake, I would also practice my dressage tests while riding the waverunner/ jetski. It was great mental practice. I'm sure it looked really weird to others, though!
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Gee, Gilbert, Annie Eun Young Ro, S. Shariff-Marcos, and D. Chae. 2009. "Racial Discrimination and Health Among Asian Americans: Evidence, Assessment, and Directions for Future Research." Epidemiologic Reviews, 31(1): 130-151.
Research shows that racial discrimination is related to illness among diverse racial and ethnic populations. Studies of racial discrimination and health among Asian Americans, however, remain underdeveloped. In this paper, the authors review evidence on racial discrimination and health among Asian Americans, identify gaps in the literature, and provide suggestions for future research. They identified 62 empirical articles assessing the relation between discrimination and health among Asian Americans. The majority of articles focused on mental health problems, followed by physical and behavioral problems. Most studies find that discrimination was associated with poorer health, although the most consistent findings were for mental health problems. This review suggests that future studies should continue to investigate the following: 1) the measurement of discrimination among Asian Americans, whose experiences may be qualitatively different from those of other racial minority groups; 2) the heterogeneity among Asian Americans, including those factors that are particularly salient in this population, such as ethnic ancestry and immigration history; and 3) the health implications of discrimination at multiple ecologic levels, ranging from the individual level to the structural level.
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