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The Arab spring, subject to a multitude of images spread all around the world via internet, has also become the object of cinema, making its way to the Croisette's red carpet through the Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah, who came to present After the Battle on Thursday.
Co-produced with France not without difficulty due to a scenario that held only five pages, by the director's own admission - After the Battle brings the discovery of a unique universe, a true society not far from the site of Gizeh that lived off of tourism.
The action takes place after the 2nd of February 2011, the day when the horsemen, manipulated by Moubarak's regime in the director's opinion, charged the protestors of Tahir Square.
Mahmoud (Bassem Samra) is one of them. Beaten throughout this day, he is now ostracised from his community. He children are suffering the consequences at school.
His amorous encounter with Rim (Menna Chalaby), an incarnation of the modern Egyptian woman, imbued with notions of justice and equality, is even more improbable. Especially when Mahmoud's wife Fatma (Nahed El Sebaï) gives him her consent.
"This film talks about a man who is trying to regain his dignity and that of his family, to find his place in a changing Egypt," explained Nasrallah on Thursday, who was once the assistant director of Youssef Chahine, the icon of Egyptian cinema who passed away in 2008.
This small story, which even implicates a local "godfather", thus mixes with the big story, whereby the difficulty to establish an equilibrium between the two, which Nasrallah is still unable to do.
After the Battle, the third film of the competition to be shown at Cannes, is first and foremost a "love letter" to Egypt and Egyptians, he explained.
"I cannot bestow upon the horsemen the entire responsibility of the counter-revolution," he claims.
"If I made this film it's because Egypt, and the Egyptian people who are still not used to democracy, who make their first steps in light of recovering their dignity, because a dictatorship makes you hate yourself, these people deserve this love letter that we wrote to them through this film."
Source: http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/topnews/20120517.REU6539/cannes-apres-la-bataille-une-lettre-d-amour-aux-egyptiens.html
"Islamists, leftist activists, rebellious workers and trade unionists underwent the same torture and abuse"
"I'm convinced that great directors from this region of the world will emerge, and that Arab cinema will be increasingly exported"
In September 2013, we visited the set of El Ott. Watch our making-of here
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All the stores are loaded up and ready for Easter now!!!
It's exciting. This coming Monday is Clean Monday (or Ash Monday) here so that means only 40 days left till Easter :easterjump: :happyeaster:
I guess people here aren't very excited about Easter.
I'm excited,it's not Christmas but hey it's Easter:easterjump:
I just love to see the stores all change as every different holiday approaches.
I can hardly contain my excitement, but I'm forcing myself to restrain it some. I don't want to set up my Easter tree too early. I try to fool people into thinking I'm somewhat sane.
Ha! Ha!
I think it's awesome that you have an Easter Tree. My view is a bit different. I prefer to reserve the "tree" exclusively for Christmas. For me, it makes it that much more significant when the time comes. I still think what you do is a cool idea though.
Easter is big here i to do a tree actually a few and my home is all decked out easter is like christmas here all the baked goodies to the big dinner it's a fun day for all.:easterjump::happyeaster:
I wonder if our daffodils will be in bloom by April eighth --- probably not until two weeks later.

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I cannot remember how many times I have been asked, Does Aricept work?
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
I get asked this question by caregivers and also by members of the print and broadcast media often. Does Aricept work, did it work for you mother, Dotty?
Aricept is the brand name for the drug Donepezil. Donepezil is marketed under the trade name Aricept by its developer Eisai and partner Pfizer (PFE). Donepezil is now available as a generic.
I decided to revisit this question for two reasons:
- Earlier today we published, Donepezil and Memantine for Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease
- And, the price of Aricept via the generic Donepezil has dropped by more than 90 percent.
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For the first time, we have robust and compelling evidence that treatment with these drugs can continue to help patients at the later, more severe stages of the disease.
We observed that patients who continued taking donepezil were better able to remember, understand, communicate and perform daily tasks for at least a year longer than those who stopped taking the drugs.The key words here are "at later, more severe stages of the disease".
-- Professor Robert Howard
Aricept is approved by the FDA for early to moderate Alzheimer's disease.
Now to the question, Does Aricept work?
I believe the drug did work very well for Dotty. For certain, her mood and behavior changed about 4 to 6 weeks after she started taking Aricept. I believe it helped slow the decline in her memory. However, I cannot say that with any certainty because I have no way of knowing what her memory would have been like without Aricept.
I should add, when we were adding Aricept, we were also undergoing a series of lifestyle changes. For example, I took Dotty into a gym for the first time when she was 87 years old. No doubt exercise made a difference. We also moved to a Mediterranean type diet, began going to the Banana Boat, and started introducing more bright light into every day.
So, while I remain convinced that Aricept did and does work for us, I think the combination I just described above is helpful if you want to to get a good result.
We have hundreds of readers comments on this site about Aricept. There is no doubt that some patients have trouble tolerating the drug. However, in some of these cases I learned that some patients are put on 10 mg of Aricept on day one. This is not the recommended dosage. The patient should be put on 5 mg to start. I am not a doctor, but I would suggest at least 4 weeks at 5 mg. We actually went 6 weeks at 5 mg, before moving up to 10.
Another thing I learned is that some caregivers expect an immediate positive impact from Aricept. They also have an expectation that Aricept will improve memory. For most patients, these are unrealistic expectations.
You have to give Aricept a chance, and you should remember that since you can't take a test, like a cholesterol test, you can't make a good comparison to what is, what was, and what might have been.
I am not a doctor. I am a caregiver just like most of our readers. So think of me here is another caregiver you are talking too.
Many patients don't seem to tolerate Aricept well. However, I learned in many discussions that caregivers tend to give up after a few days or a week if things don't go well. I am not giving any advice here, but I would suggest you ask a neurologists, with lots of experience with dementia patients, if there is any chance that the patient will be able to tolerate the drug if you keep trying for a longer period of time.
I can say, that it appears that Aricept works for some patients. We have a lot of those patients and their caregivers here on the ARR.
I also know that many people could not afford Aricept. This has changed. You can buy a 90 day supply right now for under $28. If you are in any way confused by that statement, use the contact button at the top of this page and email me.
I hope that more caregivers will read, Donepezil and Memantine for Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease, carefully. Perhaps you can still benefit from Aricept. Read this article and decide.
If you have questions, or doubts, please consider taking the article into support groups for discussion. Better yet, print it out and take it to your doctor for discussion.
Does Aricept work? I think it can and I beleive it did for us.
What do you think about these new findings that moderate to severe Alzheimer's patients can benefit from taking Aricept?
Thank goodness the drug is now affordable for most.
Dotty is currently on the combination of Donepezil and Namenda.
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In one way or another, alcoholism and addiction affect every man, woman, and child in Putnam County. Robert Lindsey, president of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, brought that message to Carmel last week during the annual meeting of the Putnam Chapter of the National Council on Alcoholism, held at Arms Acres.
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Date Written: May 20, 2010
Alan Greenspan's paper (March 2010) presents his retrospective view of the crisis. His theme has several parts. First, the housing price bubble, its subsequent collapse and the financial crisis were not predicted either by the market, the FED, the IMF or the regulators in the years leading to the current crisis. Second, financial intermediation tried to function on too thin layer of capital – high leverage – owing to a misreading of the degree of risk embodied in ever more complex financial products and markets. Third, the breakdown was unpredictable and inevitable, given the "excessive" leverage – or low capital – of the financial intermediaries. The proposed legislation for the "reform" of the financial system requires that the FED "identify, measure, manage and mitigate risks to the financial stability of the United States". The focus is upon capital requirements or debt ratios. The "Quants" ignored systemic risk and just focused upon risk transfer in very liquid markets. The FED, IMF, Treasury and the "Quants" market lacked the appropriate tools of analysis to answer the following questions: what is an optimal leverage or capital requirement that balances the expected growth against risk? What are theoretically founded early warning signals of a crisis? I explain why the application of stochastic optimal control (SOC)/dynamic risk management is an effective approach to determine the optimal degree of leverage, the optimum and excessive risk and the probability of a debt crisis. The theoretically derived early warning signal of a crisis is the excess debt ratio, equal to the difference between the actual and optimal ratio. The excess debt starting from 2004-05 indicated that a crisis was most likely. This SOC analysis should be used by those charged with surveillance of financial markets.
Keywords: Greenspan, Quants, Stochastic Optimal Control, Warning Signals of crisis, Optimal Leverage, Debt ratios
JEL Classification: C61, G11, G12, G14
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Stein, Jerome L., Alan Greenspan, the Quants and Stochastic Optimal Control (May 20, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1612484 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1612484


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Yeah that's true. We need to embrace it. In my case I've had people including a nurse at the hospital after i gave birth and go ooohhh you have a gray 'pluckkk' she just pulled it out lol. Some people don't care and some people make it the center of attention so i guess when we first start getting them its a little hard to get used to but with time I'm sure it will get easier. i don't really care much about what other ppl might think. I've been coloring my hair since i was 17 just because i love colors and a change of look but last summer i said no more and a couple of months later i noticed all the grays and surprise surprise lol.
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In Britain, manufacturers and retailers have been told that their sector is vulnerable to attacks by ideologically and politically motivated groups that may seek to cause widespread casualties and disruption by poisoning food supplies.
The warning from the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure [CPNI], which operates as part of the Security Service, comes as experts warned the deadly E.coli outbreak in Germany has highlighted the vulnerability of the food chain and how quickly bacteria can spread.
The highly virulent strain has claimed 18 lives and left more than 1,800 seriously ill, with the true number of cases expected to be far higher.
A senior German doctor last night called for an investigation into the possibility that the bacteria had been spread deliberately.
Klaus-Dieter Zastrow, chief doctor for hygiene at Berlin's Vivantes hospital, said: "It's quite possible that there's a crazy person out there who thinks 'I'll kill a few people or give 10,000 people diarrhoea'. It's a negligent mistake not to investigate in that direction."
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Columbus, Ohio is the site of the PTA annual convention this year and is not without controversy. The PTA accepted the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays for exhibit space but denied the same space to the Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays. Both groups plan to discuss school safety and sexual orientation issues. Why should the PTA choose sides? PFOX will hold its own series of meetings at the same time. I will also be presenting and showing my new documentary Sexual Orientation: Is Change Possible? Other new initiatives include anti-bullying lesson plans and sexual orientation lesson plans. Those interested in what the PTA does not want you to know can go to www.respectandthefacts.com.
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Killing animals or rounding them up and placing them in dog pounds has no effect whatsoever on the overall population, as the fertile remainder will always rapidly breed to fill the void.
It has been scientifically proven that spaying & neutering 75% to 80% of a population of a species will see a reduction in numbers. The number of stray animals on Phuket is now reducing despite the rapidly increasing human population, but with more unsterilized animals being brought onto the island by pet traders and migrant workers there is a real danger that this trend could reverse. The situation in Bangkok is not under control & will require a massive effort by groups like Soi Dog & the Thai government.
It is imperative that we continue this program, but sterilizing animals is expensive and we are limited by the revenue we generate. Vets and dog catchers have to be paid and drugs and other surgical supplies purchased. Overheads like fuel and trucks also have to be paid for.
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Friday night, Feb. 18, the Rockford varsity hockey team honored their seniors first with a ceremony to recognize their accomplishments both on and off the ice. This year's senior class includes Eric Datema. Alex Schrotenboer, Zack King, Zack Vandawater, Mike Vandervelde and Thomas Soupal. Each of these players and their parents were introduced to an excited home crowd. All of these players have had a long and successful hockey career to this point. The time and support that their parents have put in for these many years was also something that could not be forgotten. From the time these boys first started playing the game when they were in grade school, their parents have been there to support them and cheer them on during the long road to get to this point. Understandably, all the moms and dads were both proud and emotional to stand there with their boys, who have all grown up to be fine student athletes.
With the beginning of the game being opened up with Matt Vermeer singing the National Anthem, the air in the arena was certainly filled with excitement. From the drop of the puck, Rockford was determined to take control of the game, and they certainly did. The first period was controlled by the Rams, even though they had to kill off a number of penalties. The Rams still kept the puck in the Manistee zone with a very aggressive fore check. The Manistee goalie saw plenty of shots in the first period, but fought off every one, as both teams skated to their locker rooms for the first intermission with the score tied at 0-0.
The second period saw the Rams continue to put pressure on their opponent with smothering defense that caused numerous turnovers. It was not until 9:32 left in the second period that Rockford finally got to the back of the net. After a face-off win in the Manistee zone, Nate Hill drove it home, and getting the assist on the play was Justin Ullrey. The lead proved to be short lived. About a minute later, off a turnover in the Rockford zone, a Manistee forward had no one between him and the Rockford goaltender, Jake Rekucki. One quick fake and a shot over the shoulder, and the game was tied again.
Rockford continued their aggressive play, fighting through a penalty-filled second period when it was their turn on the power play. In the final seconds of a Rockford power play, Hill again put a goal up on the board by slamming home a rebound off a shot from the point by Erik Datema. The score at the end of two periods was Rockford 2, Manistee 1.
The third period found the Rams looking to keep the pressure on the Chippewas, but being smart about protecting their one-goal lead. The strategy worked, but midway through the third period, Rockford was called for a controversial five-minute major penalty that put them a man down for what seemed like an eternity while trying to protect their one-goal lead.
The Rams successfully killed off the penalty, which carried them into the final couple minutes of the game, still clinging to the one-goal lead.
Manistee tried to gain possession of the puck and get it into the Rockford zone so that they could pull their goalie, but Rockford continued to pressure the puck in the Manistee end. Then, with just 26 seconds left in the game, Cam Bathum fired a slap shot that got past the Manistee goalie to seal the victory. Todd Millar, who came on in relief halfway through the game, got the win in net, playing solid when called upon.
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I think there's an age thing here. I think older guys prefer curls! I'm telling you -- I get way more looks with curly hair than I ever did with straight hair. But this tends to be men of a certain age because, well, so am I.
(Except the other day, when I had a really good hair day, and I TOTALLY caught a younger guy looking. HA! Of course, maybe there was a younger woman behind me.... or I was dragging toilet paper off my shoe...)
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Of Music, Payola and Disclosure
How do songs become popular? When and why do people pay for play? On July 26, I (virtually) sat down with Gabriel Rossman, a sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of the brilliant "Climbing the Charts," an analysis of radio airplay, and what it tells us about the diffusion of innovation. We spent an hour-and-a-half on instant messenger, hashing out what we know -- and what we don't -- about the way songs climb the charts, and what that might tell us about insider trading and supermarket samples. The resulting interview was lightly edited for readability, and is now presented here for your reading pleasure.
Megan McArdle: Start out by telling me about yourself, and how you got interested in the music industry.
Gabriel Rossman: I grew up in LA and so I've always had some exposure to the entertainment industry, but when I started graduate school I was really interested in news. The trick is, though, that news is really hard to study because you need people to code it. So most studies of news end up devolving into fights about whether you did your content analysis correctly.
So fairly early on in grad school I started looking for aspects of media content that you could code objectively. I first hit on movie reviews (specifically the 4-star summaries) but then moved on to pop music as songs are very nice atoms of content. If two stations play the same song, they are in a very meaningful sense doing the same thing, no argument about it.
In my dissertation I applied this to questions of corporate ownership affecting bias and creativity, but in my work as an assistant professor I moved on to using it as a sandbox for diffusion of innovation. It's very well suited for this since there are lots of songs, they spread very quickly, and it's all very well documented. So I decided to make pop songs my own little fruit fly.
McArdle: Do the pop songs end up with red eyes, or white eyes?
Rossman: My equivalent to red eyes, or curly wings, or what have you, is to look at the pattern by which the song spreads across radio. When something grows fast, then slow, this reflects a process of something outside the system pushing it onto the system but constrained by saturation. Like Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the tortoise.
McArdle: Tell the readers what that paradox is, please.
Rossman: Sure. Zeno's paradox says that fleet-footed Achilles races a turtle but gives it a head start. If every second he closes half the remaining distance, then you can ask "when will he lap the animal?" The answer is "never." He'll just get closer and closer.
This type of diffusion pattern tends to characterize when people learn about things, especially if they're broadcast in the mass media or the subject of an extensive marketing campaign. As such you can call it "external influence" or "exogenous" because (according to theory) it results from a new idea or practice being pushed onto the system from outside the peer group.
The alternative pattern is that something spreads internally to a system, and this gives you slow, then fast, then slow growth. You get this when you combine Zeno's paradox with exponential growth. There's also a little fable to explain this.
An emperor once wished to reward a sage, and the sage asked for a grain of wheat on the first square of a chessboard, doubling with each square. This doesn't sound like a lot of wheat but compounding the doubling means that you very quickly run out of all the wheat in the world.
McArdle: I remember an example of this from statistics. Some unfortunate graduate student had written that "the number of abused children doubles every year." He wrote that in 1957 .
Of course, in real-life, exponential growth is always constrained in some way, which is why you get an S-curve (that tapers off eventually), not a J-curve (that just continuously shoots into heaven). You see this not just with the sorts of fads that [Malcolm] Gladwell talks about, but also things like bacteria on a petri dish.
Rossman: Oooh.
McArdle: Implying that by the mid-1980s, everyone on Earth had been abused as children. My parents must not have gotten the memo.
Rossman: Good thing, too.
McArdle: So, there is no song that will literally reach every person on Earth? Not even "Happy Birthday" or "Solsbury Hill"?
Rossman: There very well could be a song that reaches every person on Earth, but the point is that eventually you run out of people. Once every human being on Earth has learned to sing "Happy Birthday" it's not as if logic requires that Martians start singing it.
McArdle: "Gangnam Style" seems close to reaching that point.
Rossman: Yes, I haven't checked, but "Gangnam Style" is probably a good example of S-curve diffusion.
McArdle: So are these the only two diffusion patterns we see in music, or just the most common?
Rossman: Those are the two basic patterns, yes, and most songs follow one or the other fairly closely.
McArdle: I assume there's a third pattern, where it just dies and no one ever listens to it. That was the pattern my college band showed. "The Crib Death Curve."
Rossman: True, the literature calls this "success bias" and I have to admit that my work falls prey to it.
McArdle: I'm not sure there's enough storage space in the world to contain all the terrible songs produced by college bands. But I'm dragging us off topic.
Rossman: Well, briefly on the subject of failed songs, as you know, [Princeton University's Matthew] Salganik et al did a great study showing that to a large extent failure is random. Anyway, when I started the work, I expected to see a lot of S-curves in radio because sociology is fascinated with anything "social," including social networks but also just general imitation.
McArdle: Hence the name "sociology."
Rossman: Exactly. If you read the sociology literature there are tons of S-curves and emphasis on "imitation." This includes cases where it doesn't really exist, most famously a study of when doctors started prescribing the antibiotic tetracycline.
The investigators, Coleman, Katz, and Menzel collected really cool social network data and argued that the doctors learned about it from their mentors. But secondary analysis by Van Den Bulte and Lilien a generation later showed pretty convincingly that it was Zeno's paradox, not S-curves -- the doctors were more attuned to Pfizer marketing than to each other's advice.
So in the case of pop songs, it turns out that there are some special circumstances under which you see S-curves, but typically a pop song looks exactly like Zeno's paradox. This strongly indicates that radio stations are NOT imitating each other, but rather are all imitating some central source.
McArdle: So what's the central source?
Rossman: Well, first let me tell you what it isn't. Just like sociologists would expect diffusion to be structured by S-curves/imitation, radio experts would expect it to be structured by corporate ownership. I once had a grant reviewer tell me there was no point in studying radio stations because all the behavior is at the chain level and so there'd be no variance by station.
You see this especially in criticisms of Clear Channel, which until being displaced by Spotify was the favorite agent of theodicy for musicians.
Turns out though that chain ownership is an extremely bad explanation for a couple of reasons.
1. Within each chain, songs get picked up in a staggered fashion, whereas if it were truly decided at corporate headquarters, you'd expect the songs to appear on all corporate properties simultaneously.
2. When you graph the chains together, they look very similar to each other. In technical terms, the variance in adoption time is entirely within chain, not between chain.
McArdle: So Clear Channel's station in Nashville might be more different from Clear Channel's station in New York than some other station in Nashville?
Rossman: Yes, exactly. Another way to put is that if station A and B are owned by Clear Channel and station C by some other company, then knowing what A did gives exactly the same predictive power about what B will do as it does about what C will do.
McArdle: So it's not corporate ownership, and it's not social contagion.
What is it?
Rossman: There's one more thing it isn't, which is unsated demand. You can tell this by looking at multiple singles from the same album.
Anyway, but to answer your question, as best as I can tell it's aggressive record label promotional efforts. That's a broad concept that encompasses a lot of legitimate activity (mailing sample CDs and press kits, sending sales people to talk about what a great song it is, etc...) but in the extreme case it includes payola. That is, record labels or their proxies sometimes bribe radio stations.
I have a few reasons for saying this. One is just that when you've eliminated radio chains and unsated demand, it's the only thing left. But there's more direct evidence based on court records. As you know well, before he was candidate for comptroller and before he resigned as governor, [Eliot] Spitzer was an activist AG for New York.
His basic pattern being to subpoena records from companies, embarrass them, and get a consent decree.
Anyway, one of his targets as NYAG was payola and he found a lot of pretty damning stuff, especially at WKSE, a Top 40 station in Buffalo with an openly venal program director. In our 2008 article, my co-authors and I went through all the subpoenaed documents, coded every song that was mentioned, and then looked at their diffusion curves. It turns out that the songs shown in these documents to have involved payola had diffusion curves that especially follow the Zeno's paradox pattern.
The other piece of evidence is that if you look at songs over a several year period, the Zeno's paradox pattern goes away during the brief periods when people are scared of prosecutors.
That's not to say that it's all payola, in the sense of outright criminal activity, but I think it is fair to say that one of the most important forces in radio is record label promotion, much of which is legitimate.
McArdle: Does it vary between markets? Are some more prone to payola than others?
Rossman: Good question. There's qualitative evidence that some programmers are more reticent to accept influence than others. So in his one-hit wonder memoir, Jacob Slichter says that really big and prestigious stations like KROQ tend to be honest. Likewise the ethnographer Jarl Ahlkvist has done interviews with radio programmers and finds that some of them are much more oriented toward record labels than others (including being willing to accept "gifts"). However, this wasn't the kind of thing that I was able to figure out a way to operationalize in my quantitative work.
McArdle: What are the "gifts?" Cash?
Rossman: Yes, this is fascinating to me and is one of the things I'm interested in looking at in the future. In the Spitzer documents, the gifts are usually some sort of in-kind item to be used in the station's own promotional campaigns. The 10th caller gets concert tickets or a signed T-shirt. That sort of thing.
More than that, if you read the documents closely, there's a strong rhetorical tone of friendship. It's not necessarily "here's the quid pro quo," although you do see that, but often it's "hey, can you do me a favor?" The thing is that the favors are always that the station gets something of pecuniary value and presumably reciprocates with airplay. That's how it works now.
I find this fascinating because it's like something out of the anthropology of gift exchange, but it's being done by very professional business people. In the past it was much more openly venal and involved more cash. From the late 1970s through 1986, radio was controlled by the mob, and you had a lot of people getting hundred dollar bills in record sleeves or cocaine hidden inside cassette tapes.
McArdle: Wait, radio was controlled by the mob? Like, "The Godfather" mob?
Rossman: Yes, the Gambino family. There's a great book on payola in the 1980s by Fredric Dannen called "Hit Men." Basically, there was a cartel of consultants called "The Network" that bribed programmers and was extorting money from record labels. If you didn't pay their billings they'd blacklist your artists.Most famously they had Pink Floyd kicked off the LA airwaves during an extremely successful concert tour as retaliation against their label.This cartel was connected to Piney Armone, a Gambino underboss.
There was also dope, cash and the mob in the mid 70s. The 70s thing came out when the Feds and Mounties caught a gangster smuggling heroin from Montreal ...and then searched his papers and found he was also involved with a record label. They flipped his contact at the record label and he told the Feds about payola. The mob hasn't been involved since '86 though.
In the late '50s, there was a lot of cash (and on one notable occasion, hookers) but as far as I know, no gangsters.
McArdle: But now it's just the perverse sense of obligation engendered when someone gives you a freebie. Like people who feel obligated to buy something because they got a free sample of cheese at the supermarket.
Rossman: Yes, that's pretty much it. In my new research I'm just starting I'm interested in how people who would never take a quid-pro-quo bribe don't see anything venal about gift reciprocity.
McArdle: What's the most interesting thing you've discovered so far in this line of research? About the different ways we view cash and gifts.
Rossman: More interesting than heroin? That work is just starting and is largely theoretical at this point. I mostly just find it interesting that whether something is framed as a purchase or as a gift makes a big difference.
McArdle: I suspect that may tell you something about politicians who are now getting embarrassed about spouses getting jobs, and loans at Very Special Rates. For decades, they've been getting these deals, and no one blinked, because that sort of quid pro quo was just the way we do things. Now, folks are starting to ask questions, and they're honestly surprised that we think of it as bribery.
Rossman: Exactly, or you can have people who do sugar daddyism and are shocked when people see it as prostitution. I think there's a lot of gift exchange in politics, much of it effectively a workaround for ethics rules. Politics is one of the areas I want to look at. [Radley] Balko had a good piece on this a few years ago.
McArdle: How effective is payola? Are songs with a Zeno's paradox pattern more or less popular than those that diffuse organically?
Rossman: Payola can be very effective. This was particularly true in the 1980s when it was less a bribe paid by labels than extortion by consultants who controlled the stations. In more recent periods it's hard to say.
There is a sense, though, in which Zeno's paradox has a hard ceiling on how much success it can yield. You typically see Zeno's paradox only in a song's natural fit format. (A format is basically like a genre). When a song crosses over into new formats, stations tend to be skeptical of it. No matter how enthusiastic the promotion guy is, or how many favors you owe him, you've got to be a bit iffy about playing a song that isn't an obvious fit with the mix of genres that your listeners are accustomed to hearing on your station. As such, stations tend to take a wait-and-see approach to crossover singles, to see what their format peers do. If I'm a soft rock station and the label is telling me to play a country song, I don't care that the label says it's good and I don't even really care that country stations thought it was good. I really want to see if other soft rock stations think it's good, and that can only happen organically.
So to have a truly huge mega-hit that crosses over between genres, the only way to achieve that is organically. You also see a similar pattern with viral marketing campaigns. Banner ads and promoted content can get an ad a certain number of page views, but to become ridiculously popular you've got to have people wanting to forward the link to their friends
McArdle: Can you give an example of a crossover song?
Rossman: Sure, on Page 78 of the book I use, "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles. This followed the Zeno's Paradox pattern for AAA and Hot AC and then a few months later, followed S-curves to crossover to AC and Top 40.
McArdle: Sorry, could you break out those formats for my readers?
Rossman: Adult Album Alternative (basically, singer-songwriters), Hot AC (up-tempo soft rock), AC (love ballads), Top 40 (mainstream pop music, much of it influenced by hip hop). All of those formats skew female, especially AC.
McArdle: We do love our love ballads.
One last question, and then I'll let you enjoy your Friday. I want to talk about transparency, because one of the things that really surprised me is that payola isn't technically illegal. It's only undisclosed payola that violates the law.
Is that right?
Rossman: Yes, the statute emphasizes disclosure rather than the act itself. I suspect that's in order to avoid making advertising illegal. And it's interesting that television also has what you might call "payola." Except that product shots aren't really controversial because they disclose them in the closing credits with the "a promotional consideration was provided by ..." language.
So, to me, the really interesting question is not why are record labels willing to pay for airplay. That's fairly obvious, it's a crucial input for their business model.
The really interesting question is why don't the stations disclose?
McArdle: I was just going to ask that!
Rossman: That law was passed in 1960 or 1961. There have been three major payola scandals since then.
I don't think ... that the stations are being subverted by their venal staff. That might explain 1974 and 1986, but by Spitzer most payola was going to the station itself (in the form of promotional support) and not to its staff. Rather I think there are two explanations.
One, there's a certain romanticism about music. The premise of a radio broadcast is that the disc jockey is excited to play these cool records for you. A "we just paid to play that" back-announce would spoil the premise.
Two, it's just plain cumbersome to make a disclosure. TV has fine print, but radio doesn't. The only way to disclose is to interrupt the broadcast by having the disc jockey read an announcement. Stations don't even like to have the DJ back-announce the song and artist, and there's nothing embarrassing about that. They're going to like it even less to have the DJ pause the music for a few seconds to confess the station's venality.
McArdle: So, to tie this interview to a news peg -- we journalists like to do that -- I wonder what this suggests about insider trading. Specifically, the folks who say that we should make insider trading legal, as long as you disclose.
[A big hedge fund called SAC Capital Advisors LP is facing charges for insider trading, for any readers who don't read the financial news, but are still interested in whether their radio station is being paid to play them music.]
Rossman: Well, yeah, one implication of that is that you'd have to make disclosure as simple as possible. If it requires getting an attorney to spend 15 billable hours, then people might prefer to break the law rather than do that. But if it's just checking off a box, it might get some take-up. I'm not an expert on financial markets or laws so there are probably a lot of other problems with disclosure, but let's just say that making it painless to disclose is a necessary but not sufficient condition to get disclosure to work.
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Labor's secret state
A LITTLE over a week after his party elected him Victoria's 45th Premier in late July, John Brumby made the trip across town to deliver the welcoming address to a regional newspaper publishers' conference.
The gathering of journalists, editors and newspaper executives at Crown Casino's Palladium room loomed as a tough audience for the newly minted Premier. But he had come with something to say.
Evoking the spirit of one-time journalist and World War II Labor prime minister John Curtin, Brumby sketched out his agenda for improved accountability and transparency in Victoria under his leadership. He promised to stream Parliament live on the internet, publish quarterly reports of parliamentarians' travel online and improve access under Freedom of Information laws ("within a month or so"). Changes Brumby later described to reporters as "major" and "sweeping".
All but conceding the current cabinet-in-confidence exemption under FoI laws was being overzealously applied to restrict the release of information, Brumby said plainly: "We will legislate to ensure that except in national security cases only real Cabinet documents are exempt from FoI."
This week's Melbourne Cup marked 100 days since Brumby assumed the premiership after the shock resignation of Steve Bracks. The next day, Opposition leader Ted Baillieu delivered his verdict on the new Premier's plan for "open government". He accused Brumby of snubbing democracy, failing dramatically on the score of transparency and turning Victoria into a "secret state".
Baillieu released a list of 18 accountability sins to buttress his claim, including accusations the Brumby Government had kept secret hospital waiting lists, refused to answer questions in Parliament, monitored Opposition correspondence, refused to hand over documents to Parliament and was using the courts to suppress FoI requests.
The shorthand version of Brumby's comeback is that he has already acted on openness as promised, there's more to come and, by the way, who is Baillieu to talk given the Kennett Liberal government's history on openness and scrutiny?
So, who has got it right and does the ghost of a premier past undermine the credibility of the Opposition's attack?
The language being employed by both political leaders is eerily familiar. Brumby's speech on openness seizes and runs with the bedrock principle of "restoring democracy" that helped Steve Bracks chisel power from the seemingly unassailable Jeff Kennett in 1999. It was the promise of openness and transparency, putting and end to what was labelled Kennett's "secret state", in which the auditor-general was knee-capped, independent watchdogs muzzled and Parliament hobbled. The phrase became Labor's mantra its potent, evocative language loaded with meaning and charged with political memory. At his 1999 campaign launch, Bracks labelled the Kennett government as "famously allergic to scrutiny".
So for Baillieu, a political ally and friend of Kennett, to dig up the "secret state" label and try and stick it on Brumby is close to political irony. Labor types would certainly brand it hypocrisy. It is most definitely mimicry.
In fact, it is entirely possible that in his long nights in Opposition Baillieu had been reading old Brumby speeches from when the now Premier was himself opposition leader to a rampaging Kennett.
In the 1990s, Brumby penned the Australian Fabian Society pamphlet No. 55 entitled "Restoring Democracy". In the 46-page essay, which Brumby referred to in his newspaper conference speech, he wrote that the cornerstone of a healthy democracy is a government that is honest, accountable and engaged. "Secrecy and special deals do more than discredit the governments that practice them. When public confidence is eroded, people feel disenfranchised, irrelevant and helpless," it states.
The pamphlet goes on to list 23 "violations" where Kennett is claimed to have silenced critics, with tactics including abusing Parliament and restricting FoI.
Ken Coghill, former Labor Cain and Kirner government speaker and governance expert, sees the irony in Baillieu's recent tactic. "It's certainly a bit of a paradox when someone as closely aligned with Kennett as Baillieu is now calling for a fundamentally different approach than Kennett had," he said this week.
None of this rhetoric means the Baillieu charge couldn't be true. Major Australian media outlets are in the midst of a co-ordinated campaign against government secrecy and spin, which they say threatens free speech. And in the last Victorian parliamentary sitting week of October, speaker Jenny Lindell ruled that members did not have to answer questions put to them in Parliament.
But Monash University politics academic Nick Economou is not impressed by the Baillieu argument. Every Opposition leader says they are appalled by a lack of accountability and the arrogance of the Premier, he says. They vow to reinforce FoI and when they become premier they don't. "Jeff Kennett used to say that when he was Opposition leader I'm not sure whether voters are going to pay much attention to what Baillieu is saying," Economou says.
According to Economou, the only party to have stood by its reform commitment was Labor when it changed the Victorian Legislative Council's voting system and did so "at some political cost".
Under the old upper house system, Labor would have had the majority after last November's state election, he says. Instead, the new proportional system delivered the balance of power to minor parties the Greens and the DLP.
"I don't think the Brumby Government has anywhere near the ability to 'firewall' itself from scrutiny the way the Kennett government did," Economou says.
"Mr Baillieu has got an advantage now (that) he didn't have in the previous Parliament where Bracks, like Kennett, had the numbers and control in the Upper House."
The first 100 days of the Brumby Government have shown the new Premier to be a different character to his immediate predecessor, Economou observes. Victoria now has a much more abrasive leader who has gone out of his way to show he is pro-development and pro-growth and can run a "can-do" administration. "The danger for Mr Brumby is in the way he handles issues like channel deepening because it's not a good look for the Labor party when community groups start to agitate, especially around environmental matters."
On the 100th day of his premiership, Steve Bracks pointedly listed his greatest achievement as restoring the powers of the auditor-general. Brumby has had no such grand change to hang his hat on. When presented with Baillieu's charge sheet of running a secret state, Brumby uncharacteristically resists the temptation to come in off the long run at the Opposition leader.
"People who want to make a judgement about this ought to go back and compare Victoria today and the openness and accountability, including in Parliament, with what it was like in the dark days of the 1990s," Brumby says. "When oppositions used to get three questions a day (it is now five), when all you used to get in question time was a ten-minute barrage of abuse and criticism from the then premier of the day (Kennett)."
Baillieu's charges sheet which also includes accusations that Brumby failed to consult the community over controversial water plans and didn't establish an independent anti-corruption commission scores some hits and but is overblown and incorrect in parts. While Brumby and his ministers have been evasive in the extreme in answering some questions in Parliament and an Ombudsman's report last year criticised access to FoI the Premier's transcripts are now published on the internet.
The Premier has said the FoI law reforms, though it is unclear in what form, will be introduced at the next sitting of Parliament later than first promised. He also says a budget allocation will be made to stream Parliament audio online in the first half of next year, the first opportunity to do so. Having sniffed a rare opportunity to evaluate and label the Premier, Baillieu says Brumby is "kidding" Victorians when he says there have been dramatic improvements in accountability since the Kennett government. "He (Brumby) has shut down almost every level of scrutiny in this state."
But Baillieu side-stepped a pointed question about whether Brumby is "the same as Jeff Kennett or worse", refusing to entertain the comparison.
"I'm not going to make a judgement about a parliament I wasn't in," he said. "Since we've had a change of premier from Steve Bracks to John Brumby, things have got worse, despite the rhetoric."
Former Labor speaker and Monash University governance academic Ken Coghill says Brumby's record on accountability is "better than most" and Victoria is far less secretive than the Howard Government has been. It was Brumby's initiative when he was in Opposition that led to the Upper House reforms introduced by the Bracks Government, he says. "Victoria is much less secretive now than it was in historical times under Kennett particularly and for that matter before the Cain Government.".
But 100 days can be a short time in politics. With Parliament's Labor-controlled Public Accounts and Estimates Committee to report on accountability before the end of the year, it is too early to tell if Brumby has kept the early promises of an "open government". And in the end, it will be the voters who decide. It was Labor caucus who elected Brumby Premier, not the voters. He now has three years to convince to the public to put a tick in his box at the next state election.
With PAUL AUSTIN
David Rood is state political reporter.
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For affordable, casual Mexican food, head down the road El Hidalgo. The restaurant near The Gramercy at Town Center has an extensive menu that's sure to mean there's something for everyone in your party. Start off your meal with the Taquitos Dorados filled with chicken or beef. If you like chills, try the Snake Bites (shrimp inside a Habanero chili pod). If you want some chips and salsa, diners note that El Hidalgo charges for this as a starter, so be sure you want those chips! For your entree, try the chimichanga (a deep fried burrito) or the tasty chicken mole served with rice, avocado, black beans and tortillas. Diners recommend leaving room for some dessert. Try the tres leches or the churros and leave the restaurant stuffed!
El Hidalgo is open daily for lunch and dinner. Check the website for details.
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The top 20 students from our six heats will present in the final competition on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 in the Davenport Theatre, Talbot College at 10:00 a.m. A lunch reception for all 3MT participants and guests will follow in the atrium of the International and Graduate Affairs Building.
The first-place winner from Western's final will attend 3MT Ontario 2017 taking place at the University of Waterloo on Wednesday, April 12, 2017.
2017 Winners: (from left) Gregory Wallace, third place; Tamara Tavares, first place; and Shane Smith, second place.
3MT (Three Minute Thesis) is a research communication competition where graduate students have 3 minutes or less to present their research and its impact to a panel of non-specialist judges and peers. The exercise develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of research students' capacity to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience.
The competition was developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. The first 3MT was held at UQ in 2008 with 160 graduate students competing. Enthusiasm for the 3MT concept grew and its adoption in numerous universities led to the development of an international competition in 2010. Western University was one of the first Canadian universities to host a 3MT competition in April, 2012.
This fun and challenging academic competition is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to improve their communication skills. Whether it be networking, a job application, research opportunity or scholarship application, the ability to effectively communicate complex research and its impact using open language is a valuable skill set.
Heats will be hosted by each Faculty. Some faculties are grouped together based on historic participation rates. Please register under your corresponding Faculty. Registration will close one week before your faculty heat date listed below. There will be no exceptions for missed deadlines.
Date: Friday, March 17, 2017
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Arts and Humanities Building (AHB), Room #1B06
Last Day to Register: Friday, March 10, 2017
Faculty Coordinators: Julia Beltrano and Gabbi Whitlock
Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Spencer Engineering Building (SEB) Room #1059
Last Day to Register: Thursday, March 2, 2017
Faculty Coordinators: Whitney Barrett and Karen McDonald
Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Somerville House (SH), The Great Hall
Last Day to Register: Wednesday March 22, 2017
Faculty Coordinators: Ruth Martin and Nicole Chabot
Date: Monday, March 20, 2017
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Health Sciences Addition (HSA), Room #H101
*NEW for 2017*
Schulich will be hosting a pre-heat on Monday, March 13. The pre-heat will take place from 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building, Room# 148.
The top 10 students from this pre-heat will be invited to participate in the Faculty heat on Monday, March 20. The top 10 students MUST register and upload their slide using the "Register Now!" link below by Friday, March 17, 2017 at 12:00 noon.
Last Day to Register: Friday, March 17, 2017
Faculty Coordinator: Janelle Cobban
Date: Monday, March 6, 2017
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB), Room #100
Last Day to Register: Monday, February 27, 2017
Date: Friday, March 10, 2017
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Social Science Centre (SSC), Room #9420
Last Day to Register: Friday, March 3, 2017
Faculty Coordinator: Paul Minda
The Teaching Support Centre is pleased to offer workshops to help students prepare for the 2017 competition.
This session will review the major components of good presentation skills and 3MT. It will also provide participants with an opportunity to practice their 3MTs, and receive feedback on their presentations. This workshop is offered for 3MT preparation by Engineering and Physics Lead TAs.
DATE: Wednesday, February 22, 2017
TIME: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Current Western graduate students may participate in 3MT:
Presentations will be judged on the basis of three criteria:
Prizes will be distributed at the 3MT Reception in the atrium of the International and Graduate Affairs Building on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. All participants are encouraged to attend the final and post-competition reception to celebrate the achievements of all presenters. Cash prizes are given to assist winners in attending conferences in order to promote their research and further their academic network.
Heats take place in rooms located across the university. Some rooms have a podium, but most participants prefer to stand and move around as they present. Microphones are generally not used for the heats. For the final, all participants will be wired with either a lapel microphone, or a headset-style microphone similar to the technology used for TED Talks.
Cue cards are acceptable, however this option may detract from the delivery of the 3MT and is not recommended.
Unfortunately, all scoring is confidential and not provided to participants. Many judges make comments on their judging sheets, and you can email your faculty contact to receive this feedback.
The 3MT finals will be photographed and videotaped; preliminary heats may or may not be photographed or videotaped based on the needs of each faculty. All 20 participant videos will be posted on Western's 3MT Youtube Channel for all to view. London's local television station, RogersTV, is also scheduled to videotape and broadcast the event.
Yes, it is possible to make changes BEFORE your faculty heat REGISTRATION DEADLINE, no later than ONE WEEK before your heat. In the confirmation email you received when registering, you can log back into the 3MT system and simply upload a new slide. The slide that will be used will be the slide you upload closest to your faculty heat deadline.
Yes, the Western Research Forum is an annual event hosted by SOGS that traditionally takes places a few weeks prior to 3MT, with several opportunities to discuss your research in a public, non-specialist setting.
Questions regarding this event can be directed to Mark Wolfe.


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LSU Knocks Off Gators
The LSU Tigers knocked off the Gators 85-73 in front of close to 12,000 fans at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center to earn just their 2nd SEC win of the season. Florida turned the ball over 19 times to just 11 by the Tigers. UF had no answers for stopping the Tigers either in the paint or from beyond the arc. LSU shot 60-percent from the field and 45 percent from 3-point land. LSU placed four players in double figures, including 22 by Anthony Randolph, 20 by Marcus Thornton and 19 by Chris Johnson. Garrett Temple added 10 points. Florida shot 46-percent from the field as a team and 33-percent from 3-point range. Nick Calathes led the Gators in scoring with 16 points. Calathes also grabbed 7 rebounds. Dan Werner added 13 points and 9 rebounds. Marreese Speights added 11 points, but had to fight through foul trouble for the majority of the contest. Mo played just 10 minutes in the first half. Speights took just 9 shots hitting on 4 of them. Walter Hodge chipped in with 10 points. Florida drops to 6-4 in the SEC and sits 19-6 overall. The Gators play at Vanderbilt on Saturday.
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Costs and accessibility of Mistura questioned
By Agnes Rivera
Many Peruvians feel excluded from what some call an over-priced event.
Peruvians spent much of the past few months in anticipation for the grand gastronomic event that is Mistura. Now that it is here, only a portion of the population is actually able to spend their time and money at the event.
Social networks have been flooded with complaints that event organizers fail to think of the greater majority, many pointing to the fact of how costly the event can be for an entire family. The entrance tickets, various plates, and perhaps expenditure on transportation to the event add up to a total that is less than comfortable for the average person.
Meanwhile the event is far from lowering costs, as the president of the Peruvian Association of Gastronomy (Apega), Bernardo Roca Rey, points out that every year Mistura has been expensive.
Vice President of Apega, Mariano Valderrama, argues that many necessary expenses go into the event that are less obvious to the public. The seventh edition of Mistura is currently along the Costa Verde. The cost to make the site safe and walkable for a large crowd had a costly fee. Transportation of water, sewage disposal, toilets, electricity, security, among other services, brought Mistura 2014´s cost to a total of 20 million soles.
"If the state will enable us to use a permanent meeting ground where we can have water and a sewage system, all will definitely be cheaper," Rey told La Republica news agency.
Until solutions are found, the high costs of organizing Mistura will only continue to result in high prices for fair goers.


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By the end of the day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life.
Atonement is at its center a profound, and profoundly moving, exploration of shame and forgiveness, and the difficulty in absolution.
©2001 Ian McEwan; (P)2006 Phoenix Audio
"McEwan at his most closely observed and psychologically penetrating, his most sweeping and expansive...masterfully crafted." (Publishers Weekly)
"It is rare for a critic to feel justified in using the word 'masterpiece', but Ian McEwan's new book really deserves to be called one...it is a work of astonishing depth and humanity." (The Economist)
"Hard to suspend belief"
I still don't understand why Briony did what she did. It makes the whole thing hard to believe that her actions where just from a petulant child. While people make up versions of the truth all the time that they sincerely thing is true, usually there is more of a motivation behind it then being over-imaginative. The tired, 'war is hell' chapter could have been better spent detailing this further, in my opinion.
"On Plagiarism Beach"
The attention and gloss that sticks to Atonement might yet come to be viewed as
McEwan?s Nemesis. In the parabola of his novels here?s the point where ? so far at least ? he reached that point vertically above everyone else out of Generation UEA here in the Lit. Britain. Saturday represents the decline, On Chesil Beach is flat and now the Sundays are starting to pick over his talents with tales of Lucilla Andrews, views on Islamism and a bricklaying older brother. Still, let?s enjoy this for what it is ? the best of Ian McEwan?..up to now..
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The UN Finance for Development conference in Doha has come and gone in a puff of hot air, unreported by the corporate media.
The same irresponsible people who presided over the credit crunch, the financial meltdown, the grotesque inequities of human welfare and the prospect of an immanent climate catastrophe have sat on their hands - yet again.
So here is a short but sharp list of what is urgent and vital but will not be done - even to achieve the meager goal of halving world poverty by 2015:
NO immediate and unconditional write-off of the Global South's 'odious' financial debts to the North
NO recognition of the Global North's historic environmental debt to the South
NO action to close down tax havens
NO move towards 'innovative' sources of finance, such as a 'Tobin Tax' on currency speculation
All that's suggested is that the UN should convene another conference at some unspecified date - even if the 'modalities' have to be agreed by March 2009.
In principle, this could be a small step forward. The UN is the only halfway representative world body we have. If such a conference were to set about replacing the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, which have fouled up so spectacularly, that would be another step forward.
In practice, however, our feckless 'world leaders' are most likely to do what comes most naturally to them, and simply fail to turn up.
To get some idea of how dreadful all this looks from the Global South, take a look at Jubilee South. Or, if you live within striking distance of London and are in search of positive inspiration, come to our Clean Start gathering on 15 December.


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With political gridlock and partisan brinksmanship in the U.S. Congress at an all-time high, when the sight of opposing party leaders huddling to hammer out a budget deal is news, political scientists recently looked at the history and causes of disagreement in American politics. Now, they're bringing their insights to bear on what most of the public agrees has become an intractable situation.
The key to getting beyond polarization and legislative stagnation, they say, is to find a way to the bargaining table and a way to negotiate.
In a comprehensive report published this week by the American Political Science Association, a task force of scholars from across the field considered the "institutional disincentives for cooperation and rewards for conflict" as well as "negotiation myopia" — the cognitive, emotional, and strategic errors people make that thwart agreements and mutual gains, and frequently foster legislative inertia. They also offered some best practices for pursuing substantive action through "deliberative negotiation."
"We're coming out with this analysis at a time when you might think it's least useful because there's the least chance for people to negotiate," said Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard Kennedy School, and the current association president.
Both the U.S. House and the Senate are now more ideologically polarized and rife with party conflict than they have been since 1906, according to the report. Yet given the current climate, Mansbridge said, now may actually be an ideal time to offer guidance on reaching agreements.
"In this moment of crisis, we thought it would be helpful to bring forward what political science knew about negotiation and put it before the American public and members of Congress" and to make clear "how important negotiation is for democracy," said Mansbridge in an interview.
"But to do that, we actually had to collect what political science did know, and that meant, in many cases, writing for the first time" an analysis of negotiation in Congress using the categories and findings that negotiation scholars have developed over the years, said Mansbridge, who co-edited the 182-page report with Cathie Jo Martin, a professor of political science at Boston University.
Several Harvard professors, including Max H. Bazerman and James K. Sebenius at Harvard Business School, Robert H. Mnookin and Cass Sunstein at Harvard Law School, and Torben Iversen, Dennis Thompson, and Dustin Tingley of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, served as task force members.
Mansbridge explained why there has been surprisingly little work on negotiation until now in political science. "There's no quantitative record of what goes on in negotiations, so you have to use retrospective analyses and things that political scientists are a bit less comfortable with," she said. "But its being hard to study doesn't mean it shouldn't be studied."
Mansbridge said the goal of the report is to educate both members of Congress and the public "about the idea that Congress must negotiate, that this is a very important part of its role and that [negotiation] isn't just a matter of giving things up, it's also a matter of exercising creative intelligence, thinking hard about the problems of the country, and coming up with creative deals."
"If we could recognize that this period of high polarization comes from structural factors — such as the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the subsequent realignment of the parties, the electoral closeness of the parties in the last 30 years, and the constitutional separation of powers — and accept that these structural factors are unlikely to change and therefore this is not a temporary crisis, then we would see that this is something we need to face as a polity," she said. read more
Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values
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"In this moment of crisis, we thought it would be helpful to bring forward what political science knew about negotiation and put it before the American public and members of Congress."


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Many people have been speculating as to whether Neal Cassidy, the father of Emma Swan's son Henry, is also Rumpelstiltskin's son.
Tyler James seems to think that he is. Tyler sent me a link on Twitter to this Tumblr post.
In the post, Tyler has spotted that Neal Cassidy is wearing a scarf that is very similar to the one that Bae used to wear as a child.
What do you guys think?


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In just under two weeks, Olga Philips of Divine Cakes made us all extremely jealous of her creativity and talent by creating a 6′ tall wedding cake that reveals itself to be "nerdy on the inside." The happy couple came to Philips with a short deadline and very specific requests concerning what fun things would be referenced in their cake.
To her credit, she was able to pull off the assignment (and then some), delivering a cake that includes the starship Enterprise, the One Ring to rule them all, the smuggling ship known as Serenity, the Doctor's TARDIS, a certain astromech droid, a Hippogriff from Harry Potter, a unicorn from a certain Harrison Ford film, a nod to Game of Thrones, and, of course, the iconic symbol of Batman.
Check out Olga Philips' design sketch after the break!
More examples of Olga Philips' work can be found at the Divine Cakes Facebook page.
(via WhenGeeksWed)


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