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That branch of philosophy which, some aver, undergirds all others, is as fascinating today as it was during the great flowering of thought in ancient Greece.
In its simplest terms, 'How do we know we know?'
Who's reading what? Who's thinking what? And who, to quote Fitzgerald, now says;
"You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse."
(Torus34 takes a sip of plonk, contemplates, clicks the 'Submit' button . . .)
I'll bite.
Call me a skeptic, but I wonder if we can 'know that we know.' Don't we just stick to 'what' has 'worked' thus far?
How about this: as far as epistemology goes, rationalism or empiricism? Are they mutually exclusive, as many (with, I believe, an axe to grind) would have us believe?
As to what I'm reading -- a lot of Swift and his critics (master's thesis); but since he reacted against the Enlightenment, a lot of it overlaps (he had the collected works of Spinoza my favorite philosopher in his library!).
And for what it's worth, I hope to exclude neither the Apollonian, nor to the Dionysian, at the expense of the other. Gestalt, baby.
I rather think I'm inclined toward the rational as opposed to the empirical, at least in this context. There's a disconnect here, though. When considering what and how we know from a 'first principles' approach, I find myself hunkered down in the 'Knowledge requires that there be two individuals . . .' starting blocks. Meanwhile, when I want to stop a table from rocking back and forth, I just stuff a sufficient number of pieces of card stock under the short leg.
Both activities seem logical to me.
And thank you for taking the time to post.
If "knowledge requires that there be two individuals" as starting blocks, are some 'forms' of knowledge merely consensus?
Could we say that rationalism is a consequence of, or derived from, empiricism?
Forgive my questions. Everyone who posts in this group is light years ahead of me. I'm just curious.
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Any 'system' of knowledge starts with assumptions, usually empirically derived. Even an attempt at a bare-bones austere approach to knowing must be founded in the assumption that the world is knowable, at least in part. Otherwise, why bother?
On a somewhat more humorous note, apropos to your post, I still love Lily Tomlin's (Yup, that Lily T -- 'One ringy-dingy, . . .') observation; 'Reality is a collective hunch.' It has always seemed a more human statement than 'Cogito, . . .'
5> I don't know that Lily Tomlin originated it. She said it or something very similar in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe which was written by Jane Wagner.
William James said something very similar, but I don't know the work.
Thank you for noting that Ms. Tomlin may not have been the author. I must admit that I didn't do my homework before posting.
I still like the saying, though.
torus34 notes that "Any 'system' of knowledge starts with assumptions, usually empirically derived," and of course he or she is correct.
There is also, however, an assumption which underlies our empirically derived assumptions: that the impression we derive of the world through our senses is accurate, or at the very least, that it is accurate enough for us to base a system of knowledge on it.
Hence my skepticism.
Too easy, tho'. Even Hume conceded that the nihililsm it engenders was impractical.
There's at least enough to be known that we can land men on the moon, right?
Now. If we can stick to Lily Tomlin, I may be able to keep up. I think Ms. Tomlin is credited with several quotes that she borrowed from other sources. One that comes to mind is (paraphrase), 'When you talk to God you're pious, when He talks to you, you're schizophrenic.' After reading that one, I learned a few years later someone (can't remember the person) had said it previously.
But perhaps I'm straining the soup a bit too thin? (that's a Flannery O'Connor line)
I'm glad to be reading this. I don't have credentials in philosophy, but I love to read it, and find too few people interested in discussing it (accept those with credentials that cannot seem to bring it down to my level).
As to the rational/empirical debate: didn't Kant argue that rationalism and empiricism both have to be active in order for knowledge to occur? I'm not able to struggle successfully with his Critique of Pure Reason, and I may have pulled this out of context: "Our nature is so constituted, that intuition with us never can be other than sensuous, that is, it contains only the mode in which we are affected by objects. On the other hand, the faculty of thinking the object of sensuous intuition, is the understanding. Neither of these faculties has a preference over the other. Without the sensuous faculty no object would be given to us, and without the understanding no object would be thought."
I'm fascinated with the epistemological discussion that went through Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant. But I've only skimmed the surface, and have relied most heavily on secondary readings, and wonder if anyone out there wants to discuss any of the above.
Thank you.
Does the tree exist if only one person sees it? It exists only for the person who sees it? If an object is 'recognized' and tagged with a name, a word as a symbol of the object, then that object was either created or extracted from its habitat of 'blurr,' as it were, separated from the 'whole,' singled out. All concepts shared, obviously, take concensus, and concensus is as close as humans get in understanding one another and sharing concepts. Am I off?
Whether this is knowledge or dissection of the whole, illusions that we live with, when, in fact, the whole remains the whole, no matter how we rearrange it or separate its parts to name them or use them.
The only thing I know for certain is that I am here. I can prove it.
I ask you only to accept that either I am here, or I am somewhere else - say, 'there'.
1st premise: I am either here or I am there (I is not divisible.)
2nd premise: Ask anyone (who knows me) about me and they will tell you, 'He's not all there, you know.'
Conclusion: As I am not there, I must be here.
Zeno's paradox + solipsism = Solipsistic paradox.
Or, for a layman like me, epistemology.
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neat syllogism Jim (may I call you this, without being invited to?)
I'm very much a 'nowhere' man, neither here nor there, if you know what I mean.
Credit where it's due, however. The Jesuit masters predicted I'd never get anywhere fast. Weren't they uncannily accurate now.
Bernie Baruch was always the fella for me, as well, back then (pre-Kant, or Cantor at any rate)
Torus, sorry to just ...jump in...but I am not so sure that the question of epistemology is "how do we know we know." In fact, that is a question eschewed in much of the literature. To ask the question "how do we know that we know" it to do one of two things: 1) align ourselves from the start with truth-less knowledge claims and some form of a heavily internalist justification, or 2) limit ourselves to base propositions and only study them after the fact. I don't really know that either is that appealing.
If you want to "know how we know" then you might want to give epistemology the boot. Either that, or you will be spending a lot of time wading through piles of work trying to find one that gives a damn about practical concerns.
You are right in that every system of knowledge starts with some assumptions (especially that the world is knowable in part), but it is good to keep in mind that most start with this assumption only in the actual theory that they are espousing.
In other words, (and this is Dewey's problem, in large part at least), they start from the philosophical problem of knowledge (if not, why the theory of how it comes to be?) which puts forth questions about how entities constructed such as ourselves come in contact with a world so different. After starting, in some way, from this skeptical position, they then seek to find some magic way of allowing for our knowing anything in general.
Their assumptions are quite loaded, then, at least in that respect.
I agree with posters alluding to this notion that some assumption is necessary in order to construct a functional version of "that which is true" lest this very truth be blown to bits by nihilism. We have to start with the assumption that there is some truth to describe.
Reading Popper, looking then to Wittgenstein and Mach.
Mostly posting to add one quote to the mix: "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." PK Dick, doing a redux on Descartes.
I ascribe to a theory of as-if reality based upon the ideas of Hans Vaihinger, a late 19th century philosopher. He began with Kant's proposition that we are limited to phenomena which is an imperfect basis for reality. I have never read Kant but I accept this proposition based upon what I see as the limits of our senses. We cannot arrive at reality through reason which is abstract and would have to be tested by our senses.
Therefore we function as-if what we think is reality is correct and based upon the consequences of functioning as-if correct when needed. This is similar to the ideas of pragmatism. We don't and can't know what reality is. We just guess and see what happens. For that reason all of the great philosophical systems are flawed at the core.
While this is not much of an answer to the question, "what is reality ?" I don't see how any other answer can be defended. I am then left with the choice to believe in religion for answers to questions that there is no as-if ability to form a working answer to as argued by William James in The Will to Believe.(touchstone error). I have to give credit to my mother for the exposure to Mr. Vaihinger.
I have no credentials in philosophy and would be glad if I was wrong. This is a blind leading the blind answer that says we really don't know anything.
I'm a systems guy myself, not a deep thinker, so...
To >3 torus34: >12 zentimental: >21 Froggmaiden: -- If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him...is he still wrong? - George Carlin.
At one level, a joke, obviously. But convincing one other person, male or female, may be the beginning of knowledge.
If I convince myself alone, even with the most obvious axioms and the soundest reasoning, I haven't convinced anyone since I may be delusional. If I convince one other person, then that shared belief is validated knowledge for these two people. The formalism for validation is somewhat irrelevant as long as the two are mutually convinced.
Consensus is meta-level conviction. Two groups may each be convinced of beliefs which are mutually exclusive if one considers the two groups as one. Does the larger group win? Or, rather, is it a mistake to combine the two groups in the first place? An example: Does water tend to drain with a clockwise or a counter-clockwise rotation? Arctics will have one belief, Antarctics another, and Equatorians (being in the Doldrums) will respond, Huh?
A single reality, manifested in three beliefs. The Truth? "You can't handle the truth!" Really. The "truth," or some version of it, extends to other forces, major and minor, and probabilistic laws that are generally invisible to us.
So, what to do? Develop a belief system, using parables and koans as needed, gather together like-minded people, and feel comfortable with your world as you experience it. And be nice to those Equatorians who don't believe as you do. They may have an equally valid window onto Truth.
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NCL Dawn Boston/Bermuda: Norwegian Dawn Cruise Review by Jamesfire16
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NCL Dawn Boston/Bermuda
Destination: Bermuda
Embarkation: Boston
To all those wishing to book a cruise I highly recommend NCL Boston/Bermuda voyage.
This was our third trip in four years to Bermuda from Boston. The weather was great and the Captain got us to Bermuda early Due to a Hurricane Bertha coming.
So arriving early in Bermuda was a plus, and leaving Bermuda later (17:30hrs) gave us a fully three days to enjoy the beautiful sites and beaches of Bermuda.
Only on the return to Boston that one day, Wednesday did we experience rough sea's, and yes they placed motion sickness bags at all the elevators. As for stabilizing the ship, the captain and crew did a wonderful job, I do not believe that they would try to save fuel (as stated by other reviews) at the expense of everyone getting sick, what good would that do for the NCL, no one would recommend NCL after everyone being sick. For those who feel and get motion sickness room #5530 great room to be.
I have traveled twice on Royal Caribbean, and More they to, with all their advance stabilizing systems, when the sea was rough you felt it !
Now on to the cruise itself. From the moment you arrive at the NCL counter in Boston to check in and make your way on to the NCL Dawn, everyone I encountered was pleasant, helpful and willing to assist you in anyway. (and yes the parking across the port in the five level parking is the best way to go. $16.00 per day).
When we finally left port and all the way to Bermuda, again everyone one we met was smiling and pleasant and tried to make sure you had a great time.
As stated before by others writing in reviews, Cagney's is one of the best meals on the ship. And yes if you can pre book/reserve the restaurants, do so. But all the restaurants and buffets are great. Great food you will not starve!
I would like at this time to thank Emil, one of the restaurant directors in the Aqua restaurant for making our dining experience GREAT, Thank you Emil.
As for entertainment on the ship, the Director of Entertainment and his staff do their best to keep you entertained, The show's are great ! And the music, bands, singers, pianists at each area on the ship are really good.
Once in Bermuda, well what can I say, WOW everytime we arrive in King's wharf its so beautiful.
Upon getting off the ship, it's up to you and your imagination of what you wish to do for the three day's. I rent a deluxe scooter, pack a cooler with drinks and off we go.
We try to go to all the non tourist beach's. Places like Horseshoe etc...to many people, they ship everyone there. We even take the scooter on the ferry to Hamilton and drive back, great way to see all of Bermuda
And of course we eat at least once at Swizzle Inn on South road, great place. This time we also tried King Henry VIII, great view fantastic food and service. No lack of great places to eat.
That's the advantage of renting a scooter FREEDOM.
Now that we finished and returned to the ship for the voyage back to Boston. I will not get all into it again, But all I will say about our return is, wow great service, great people from those who work onboard and even the fellow voyagers, all was good. Of course you meet very special people out of approx 2500 onboard LOL LOL and of course you will always have somes situations REMEMBER YOU ARE ON VACATION SO ENJOY!
THANK YOU TO NCL Dawn AND ALL IT'S CREW.
Now once arriving in Boston getting off the ship is long, remember when you checked in and arrived on the NCL Dawn, everyone arrived a different times, but when you are getting off the Dawn everyone what's off NOW. So patience is a must.
NCL crew does their best to keep everyone moving in a orderly fashion., but there's alway those who can not wait and cause problems when getting off.
I will not bore you with my visit to Boston (my third time in Boston), except to say, YOU HAVE to at least spend two days visiting this Beautiful city. Freedom trail, and a trolley ride is a must to learn everything about Boston and it's history. And if you really wish to eat great Italian Food you have to try Rino's in east Boston.
So enclosing, we had a great time on NCL Dawn, in Bermuda and finishing off with Boston.
Can not wait to do it again!
Have a great Cruise ! Less
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In 1571, Rajah Lakandula, the native Muslim ruler of Tondo, made a pact with Miguel Lopez de Legaspi to submit his land to him and to hand over his throne which led to Manila being the capital of the Spanish colony. When a Chinese pirate named Limahong planned to conquer Manila, Lakandula helped resist the attack.
When Lopez de Legaspi died in 1572, Governor-General Guido de Lavezaris took his place but did not honor the agreements done between Lakandula and his predecessor and even tolerated Spanish abuses. The Spanish took over their lands and encomienderos oppressed Filipinos. Because of this, Lakandula together with Rajah Sulayman led a revolt against the Spanish in the villages of Navotas. The revolt did not succeed and Governor-General Lavezaris, with the help of Spanish and Filipino colonial troops, was able to stop the rebellion and restore order in Manila.
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The sentence ``x + 2 = 5'' cannot be assigned a truth value and so it is technically not a statement. However, if we knew the value of x we could determine its truth value. We say that it is a statement involving a variable, namely x. If we allow x to have value 3 then we get a true statement whereas, if we let x have value 1 we get a false statement. Symbolically, we might represent the above statement as p(x). We see that p(3) is true while p(1) is false. Similarly, the statement xy = 4 could be represented symbolically as q(x,y) since it is a statement involving two variables. Again, to assign a truth value to q(x,y) we would have to know the values of both x and y. If x had value 2 and y had value 5 then q(2,5) would have truth value F. Note that q(2,2) has truth value T.
Another way to be able to assign truth values to statements involving variables is through the use of quantifiers. The universal quantifier, , in English means ``For all possible values of the variable''. The existential quantifier, , in English means ``There is a value of the variable''. Thus, with the examples above, the following are statements: ; . The first states that for all possible values of the variable x that x + 2 = 5. The second states that there is a value of x for which x + 2 = 5. Clearly, we have made each of these a statement (and we might believe the first to be false and the second to be true). The problem we are left with is what do we mean by the possible values of the variable? We assume that the variable in our statement may be replaced by a quantity from a set of known objects. This set of objects is called the universal set of discourse, or more briefly, the universal set. Usually, this universal set will be understood from the context. However, if necessary, we shall define the universal set for each variable in the statement and write something like . Here, the notation translates into English as ``x an element of the set U''. Note that for quantified statements involving more than one variable, the universal set for each variable may be different.
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Understanding the Post Office's Benefits Messby
Yesterday, the United States Postal Service admitted that it will miss a legally required $5.5 billion payment toward pre-funding its promised health-care benefits for retirees. But is this even a cost the USPS should have to cover? The answer, unfortunately, is "sort of." Here's why -- and what we should do about it.
Imagine you have a company with only one employee, Steve. If Steve earns a salary of $50,000 and receives no benefits, you have to pay him cash in the current period and reflect the whole $50,000 as an expense.
Now imagine that instead you pay Steve $45,000 a year and promise to pay for his health care in retirement, assuming that he works for a certain number of years. The present value of the health care benefits that Steve will accrue this year is $5,000.
Your employment expenses are still $50,000 a year, even though you had only $45,000 in actual cash outflows to Steve. Whether or not you set aside money to cover Steve's future health-care costs, you incurred a debt to him, and that's an expense.
Unfortunately, most government entities do not treat the accrual of retiree health-care liabilities as a cost (though they do report the size of the liability). Private firms do treat these accruals as costs. These firms are not legally obligated to pre-fund health-care benefits, but about a quarter do so.
Now imagine that Steve is nearing retirement, and all along you had been promising him health benefits but hadn't set aside any money. In order to reach full funding by the time Steve retires, you would now have to set aside $15,000 per year: $5,000 for the benefits he accrues and $10,000 to build up the fund you never created.
Your extra $10,000 payment amortizes a debt you had accrued in past years; it's not an expense any more than paying off principal on a loan is an expense.
Now let's look at how this example applies to the Postal Service. Until 2006, the USPS handled its retiree health benefits on a "pay as you go" basis. They weren't pre-funded; the service simply paid retirees' health bills as they arose, reporting only those expenses. Because the cost of actually providing health care to retirees in a given year is less than the value of benefits current workers are accruing, that meant the post office was understating the cost of retiree health care.
Then in 2006, Congress forced the post office to start prefunding its benefits for retiree health care on a schedule designed to reach full funding in 10 years. Now, the Postal Service is supposed to put about $8 billion a year toward retiree health care.
But the so-called "normal cost" of health benefits -- the value of the benefits current postal employees are accruing this year, the equivalent of Steve's $5,000 -- is only about $3 billion. To the extent the post office pays the other $5 billion, that shouldn't be counted as an expense; it is going to pay off the Postal Service's debts.
As it happens, even while missing the $5.5 billion payment that's in the news this week, the Postal Service will pay about $2.5 billion this year to provide health benefits to its existing retired workers. So, the service will be short of covering the accrual-basis cost of retiree health care this year, but only by about $500 million.
Going forward, the Postal Service should be expected to cover the normal cost of retiree health care, paying a little bit more than it is right now, but far less than what Congress has obligated it to pay.
That will take care of the cost of retiree health benefits that are earned in the future. But what should we do about the $46 billion in accrued but unfunded benefits? All the plausible options involve taxpayers covering that bill.
For example, we could privatize the Postal Service and make the buyer take on the retiree health-care obligation. But that would simply reduce the sale price of the post office by $46 billion -- meaning that taxpayers pay.
Or, we could keep the Postal Service in public hands, restructure it so it produces profits and use those profits to gradually amortize the liability. Basically, this is what the 2006 law was supposed to do, though Congress didn't actually give USPS enough flexibility to restructure. This option costs taxpayers, too -- postal profits that would otherwise go to the government would instead be diverted to pay off the retiree health care liability.
Or, Congress could directly subsidize the post office to fund its retiree health-care costs. Obviously, that would put the cost on the backs of taxpayers.
The only way to avoid having taxpayers bail out the USPS is to default on the benefits -- tell current and retired workers that they won't get the benefits they thought they had earned. Stockton, California, is proposing to do this as part of its bankruptcy filing. But that would be a bad option for several reasons -- unlike Stockton, the federal government is not insolvent and therefore ought to keep its promises, even if they were unwise.
It was a big, boneheaded mistake to let the post office run up such big debts -- and therefore understate its losses -- for decades. But trying to squeeze repayment of those debts out of future postal profits is like getting blood from a stone.
The best way forward is to cut our losses, deregulate the post office and sell it -- as has been done all over Europe. Regardless of how the retiree health issue is handled, declining mail volumes mean that the USPS will eventually become insolvent if it is not reformed; the only question is when. Relieving the post office of the obligation to pay the $5.5 billion this year would give us breathing room to get that necessary restructuring done.
And going forward, we should require government entities to pre-fund their health benefits, just as the USPS should have been doing all along. Retiree health benefits are non-trivial costs, and if governments are required to pre-fund, they will be less likely to make irresponsible promises of the sort that sank Stockton and that have helped to undermine the Postal Service.
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And it'll be partly shot in IMAX 3D
Taking the stage with his trademark laidback-yet-effusive style, Michael Bay brought his latest, Pain And Gain, to the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas last night. He was there as part of Paramount Studios' big presentation, which saw him also drop word that Transformers 4 will feature Stanley Tucci and will be shot – large chunks of the action, at least – in IMAX 3D.
Bay didn't elaborate on what Tucci will be doing in the film, though there's a chance he could be the sort of officious, OTT character played in previous outings by John Turturro. The director also dropped word that another big name was close to signing on, but that he couldn't say whom because the deal wasn't done. Whoever they are, they'll will join Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor in a story set after the events of the huge Autobot/Decepticon battle in Chicago.
The fourth Transformers film is part of a five-movie deal between Paramount and IMAX, which will also see Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and three as-yet-unannounced titles utilise the format. Nolan, of course has been a proponent of shooting in the format for a while now, having filmed chunks of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises using the company's cameras. Bay previously used 3D for Transformers 3.
Paramount also showed brief clips of other upcoming films, including Jack Ryan, Jason Reitman's Labor Day, Darren Aronofsky's Noah and Alexander Payne's Nebraska, which is shot in black and white and features at least one standout funny moment.
Transformers 4, meanwhile, kicks off shooting shortly and will be out here on July 10, 2014.


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This is extremly lame. It would be funny if you didn't draw those anime stuff. No need for that. Draw a penis or something..
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...we got another copy machine scanning the "bible" surface and spiting out copies of 'scripture' without having a spirit to re-translate them 100 percent from the view of the first person spirit...copy machines forget we are 50/50 flesh and spirit so ALL religious text will be 50 percent corrupted to lead away from the spirit within all of us ans put to concepts that seek to rule our co-creator spirit...dam copy machines,we awake will be glad when the rest of the copy machines wake up and run out of ink and remember they are filled with the spirit because we are the shared spirit within...fuk
the god,savior,prophet priest,devil, angel, etc concepts that lead away from our co-creator spirit within that created the religious concepts through our flesh...wake the hell up co-creators,our flesh contains the spirit,the pages of books and the covers crumbles always just like our covers but our spirit lives on to create another flesh to incarnate into with the help of 2 other flesh that contain the spirit...as its correctly written> when 2 are gathered in my name<the name is spirit),there i<the spirit) will be in the midst of them to help create my flesh to dwell in and tour the creation again...ye must be born again,and again and again and again etc...our shared spirit has always existed even before the religious concepts...
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I'm sorry but you are seriously confused and your theology is very twisted.
last time i checked that was the christ/spirit in that flesh you call Jesus that caused that flesh/jesus to speak and move....if your not a house divided, you also have the same spirit/christ that the flesh named Jesus had....are you or are you not a house divided? yes or no,as its written> let your answer be yea or nay without spitting out any more creations of the spirit and flesh...
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"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
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contrary the one to the other
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This package (and its sub-packages) also contains partial Reference Implementation of many of API classes, under org.codehaus.stax2.ri: intention is to make it as painless as possible for Java Stax parser to implement full Stax2 support.
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California Courts Narrowly Construe Concepcion
Nine months now have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (2011) 131 S.Ct. 1740, 179 L.Ed.2d 742. Concepcion held that section 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") preempts California's so-called "Discover Bank rule," under which certain class arbitration waivers in consumer contracts were unenforceable as unconscionable. Since the decision, California courts have grappled with the scope of Concepcion's holding. Several decisions considering trial court orders denying arbitration based on the unconscionability of a class action waiver have affirmed those decisions on other grounds, and thus avoided addressing the Concepcion issue.
Those decisions that have squarely addressed Concepcion have interpreted it narrowly. Not a single California appellate case decided since Concepcion has involved an application of Concepcion's holding to find that an arbitration provision containing a class action waiver was valid and enforceable. Meanwhile, more than one federal district court has now held that an arbitration agreement with a class action waiver was enforceable under Concepcion. (See Blau v. AT&T Mobility (N.D. Cal. Jan. 3, 2012) No. C 11–00541 CRB, 2012 WL 10546; Estrella v. Freedom Financial (N.D. Cal. July 5, 2011) No. C 09–03156 SI, 2011 WL 2633643.)
Several recent cases have declined to address a trial court's finding that a class arbitration waiver was unenforceable, and thus avoided the question of the scope of Concepcion. In Sanchez v. Valencia Holding Co., LLC (2011) --- Cal.Rptr.3d ---, 11 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 14, the Second District instead found that the entire arbitration provision in a form automotive retail installment contract was "permeated by unconscionability and [thus] unenforceable." Applying the analysis set forth in Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services, Inc. (2000) 24 Cal.4th 83, the court found that four clauses in the arbitration provision were unconscionable, including clauses permitting an appeal only from an award exceeding $100,000 or that included injunctive relief, requiring the appealing party to pay appeal costs subject to an apportionment of those costs by the arbitrators, and exempting repossession from arbitration while requiring that requests for injunctive relief be arbitrated. The court found that the provisions "ha[d] the effect of placing an unduly oppressive burden on the buyer." Thus the appellate court affirmed the trial court's denial of the motion to compel arbitration, but on grounds that did not directly implicate the holding of Concepcion. Nonetheless, the court did not analyze whether its unconscionability findings constituted applications of "defenses that apply only to arbitration or that derive their meaning from the fact that an agreement to arbitrate is at issue," which Concepcion states are impermissible under the FAA.
A recent Fourth District case similarly avoided the applicability of Concepcion to a trial court's order denying a petition to compel arbitration on the ground that the class arbitration waiver was unconscionable. In Roberts v. El Cajon Motors, Inc. (2011) 200 Cal.App.4th 832, the appellate court instead affirmed the trial court's ruling on the ground that the defendant had waived its right to arbitration by waiting five months to notify the plaintiff of its intent to arbitrate and by other actions.
Some early commenters on the Concepcion decision wondered whether Armendariz would fully survive in its aftermath. But California courts are continuing to apply the unconscionability analysis set forth in Armendariz, which they appear to unanimously conclude has not been affected by the decision in Concepcion. (See Buzenes v. Nuvell Financial Services, et al. (Cal.Ct.App. Jan. 25, 2012) No. B221870, 2012 WL 208051 [affirming trial court's pre-Concepcion finding that automotive retail installment agreement's arbitration provision was unconscionable as a whole, and rejecting argument that Concepcion altered outcome]; Moran v. Superior Court (Cal. Ct. App. Nov. 16, 2011) No. F061801, 2011 WL 5560178 [denying petition for writ of mandate after trial court granted motion to compel arbitration, and noting that Concepcion did not invalidate Armendariz]; Mission Viejo Emergency Med. Assoc. v. Beta Healthcare Group, et al. (Cal.Ct.App. Jun. 29, 2011) 197 Cal.App.4th 1146 [finding that arbitration provision in malpractice insurance contract was not unconscionable, and reversing trial court order denying motion to compel arbitration]; Macintosh v. Powered, Inc. (Cal.Ct.App. June 8, 2011) No. A129063, 2011 WL 2237938 [finding that unconscionable unilateral provision in employment arbitration agreement was severable, and reversing trial court order denying motion to compel arbitration].
Several decisions have issued in the employment law realm, where Concepcion's application is arguably unclear. Most notably, last July, the Second Appellate District held that Concepcion does not apply to waivers of arbitration of another kind of representative action, those brought under California's Private Attorney General Act under the Labor Code, or PAGA. (See Brown v. Ralph's Grocery Company (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th 489, as modified (Jul. 20, 2011), rehearing denied (Jul. 29, 2011), review denied (Oct. 19, 2011).) While the court stated that Concepcion "does not apply" to such waivers, it based its decision not on Concepcion's analysis but on an analysis of the public policy arguments in favor of private attorney general actions under the PAGA. The court distinguished PAGA actions from class actions on the grounds that "an employee suing under the PAGA 'does so as the proxy or agent of the state's labor law enforcement agencies,'" and "the relief [sought] is in large part 'for the benefit of the general public rather than the party bringing the action.'" (Recoveries of civil penalties in PAGA actions are apportioned 75% to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency for Enforcement of Labor Laws and Education, and 25% to the aggrieved employees.) The court also noted that PAGA actions do not require certification formalities as class actions do, and found that many of the concerns about class arbitration articulated in Concepcion are thus inapplicable to PAGA actions. Nonetheless, the court did not squarely address section 2 of the FAA, which states that arbitration agreements are "valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract."
The U.S. Supreme Court may well view the Brown court's finding that California public policy provides sufficient grounds to invalidate a provision in a valid arbitration agreement as outside of the authority granted by the FAA, and at odds with Concepcion. Certainly, this idea conflicts with Justice Thomas's reading of section 2 as stated in his concurrence: "[Section 2] require[s] enforcement of an agreement to arbitrate unless a party successfully asserts a defense concerning the formation of the agreement to arbitrate, such as fraud, duress, or mutual mistake. [Citation] Contract defenses unrelated to the making of the agreement—such as public policy—could not be the basis for declining to enforce an arbitration clause." Some indication of the high court's view of the scope of Concepcion may be found in its recent order granting certiorari in Sonic-Calabasas A, Inc. v. Moreno and remanding the case to the California Supreme Court for further consideration in light of Concepcion. In Sonic-Calabasas, the California Supreme Court held unconscionable an arbitration provision in an employment contract that waived the right to a Berman hearing. This at least implies, if not clearly indicates, that the high court considers its decision in Concepcion to extend beyond the context of class action waivers in consumer contracts. A petition for certiorari was filed in Brown on January 13, 2012.
At least three federal district courts have pointedly disagreed with Brown's limited interpretation of Concepcion and holding with respect to PAGA, and declined to apply it. (Quevado v. Macy's, Inc. (C.D. Cal. Oct. 31, 2011) No. CV 09-01522 GAF (MANx), 2011 WL 6961598 at pp. *3-*4; Nelson v. AT & T Mobility, LLC (N.D.Cal. Aug. 18, 2011) No. C10—4802, 2011 WL 3651153 at p. *4; Grabowski v. Robinson (S.D.Cal. Sept. 19, 2011) No. 10cv1658, 2011 WL 4353998 at pp. *18-*20.) However, one federal district court has agreed with its reasoning and applied it to deny a motion to compel arbitration of PAGA claims. (Plows v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2011) --- F.Supp.2d ---, 2011 WL 2011 WL 3501872.)
A recent First District case relying, in part, on Brown, in turn explicitly rejected the reasoning of the three federal district court cases, and thus implicitly rejected the proposition that a Concepcion analysis is applicable to a PAGA claims analysis in the arbitration context. In Reyes v. Macy's Inc. (Dec. 21, 2011) --- Cal.Rptr.3d ----, 2011 WL 6416432, the First District found that Macy's could not appeal from the trial court's order granting its motion to compel arbitration of the plaintiff's individual claims but denying its motion to dismiss the plaintiff's class allegations. The trial court had not compelled arbitration of the plaintiff's PAGA claims, and had instead ordered them stayed along with the class claims. The First District rejected Macy's argument that that they were appealing from the trial court's denial of the part of their motion seeking to compel arbitration of the PAGA claims. Citing Brown and Arias v. Superior Court, 46 Cal.4th 969 (2009), the court reasoned that PAGA claims cannot be and are not brought as individual claims, and thus Reyes's PAGA claim was not within the scope of the "individual claims" of which Macy's sought to compel arbitration in its trial court motion.
Thedecision in Brown was also notable in that it confronted the trial court's decision that the class action waiver was unconscionable and unenforceable under Gentry v. Superior Court (2007) 42 Cal.4th 443, 64 Cal.Rptr.3d 773, 165 P.3d 556 (Gentry ), which addresses class arbitration waivers in employment actions. Because the court found that the plaintiff had not submitted sufficient evidence to meet her evidentiary burden under Gentry, it did not reach the issue of whether the Gentry rule was preempted by the FAA under Concepcion.
Three unpublished decisions from the Second District, which decided Brown, similarly have avoided confronting the Gentry issue. In Collins v. Contemporary Services Corp. (Cal.Ct. App. Aug. 18, 2011) No. B227951, 2011 WL 3630516, the court did state, however, that on remand either the trial court or the arbitrator would be required to determine the continuing viability of Gentry in light of Concepcion, which the appellate court made clear had addressed a consumer contract rather than an employment contract.
And in both Lewis v. 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. and Lawler v. 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc., the Second District found that the respective plaintiffs had not presented sufficient evidence of substantive unconscionability to support the trial court's rulings that the class arbitration waivers were unenforceable under Gentry. Both decisions resulted in the reversal of the trial courts' orders denying 24 Hour Fitness's motions to compel arbitration. While both decisions mention Concepcion, neither acknowledges any potential conflict between that decision and Gentry.
While the federal district courts in California have embraced Concepcion, California state courts appear to desire to avoid the application of Concepcion to arbitration provisions in both consumer and employment contracts. Some initial commenters on the Concepcion decision noted that it appeared to abrogate the Armendariz analysis at least to some extent, but state courts are still applying Armendariz, and may in some cases do so very broadly in order to invalidate arbitration clauses without implicating Concepcion. The state courts seem to be carving employment law cases out of the reach of Concepcion altogether, and it would not be surprising if some courts begin to apply Brown's PAGA arguments in other contexts where possible. The fate of Gentry remains to be seen, although one federal district court decision has concluded that it remains the law in California. (See Plows v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. supra.) It will be interesting to see whether the U.S. Supreme Court decides to clarify any of these issues by granting certiorari in Brown or a future case.


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award-winning series "The American Experience" by WGBH in Boston, the
program was a result of several years of research and study, but only a
small percentage of the material made it into the final documentary. "It
seemed a shame to not use everything we had gathered, but that is what
happens in this business," said Margaret Drain, executive producer of "The
American Experience."
Enter Mr. Kaufman and his proposal for a book based on that documentary
and on others. A resulting deal calls for TV Books to publish six books
based on programs in the series over the next two years.
The first is "Reagan: An American Story," which was written by Adriana
Bosch, a producer of the documentary, and will arrive in bookstores in
April. "The decision made sense on a lot of levels," Ms. Drain said, "but
mainly because it is a way for us to expand our brand."
Mr. Kaufman would not disclose financial details of the deal. TV Books
has published 11 books so far and Mr. Kaufman said he expected the company
to have sales of $2.5 million this year and $5 million in 1999. Mr.
Kaufman expects to publish 25 more titles this year.
Top-quality documentaries can cost more than $500,000 for a single
hour, and a majority of the interviews, archival photographs and scholarly
research never make it past the cutting room. For instance, only about 3
percent of the 62 hours of taped interviews made it on the air in the
Reagan documentary. For producers and directors, a companion book has
become a natural outlet for the unused material and another source of
revenue. And because they draw on material already being produced, these
types of books can have lower development and marketing costs.
"I think it is a viable business model," said Michael Coffey, managing
editor of Publishers Weekly. "Long-form TV cannot cover all the bases, and
books can serve to answer questions raised in the show." Mr. Coffey ought
to know: He is the editor of "The Irish in America," a book published by
Hyperion, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, that served as a companion
volume to the PBS television program of the same title, which was a
collaboration between WGBH and Disney.
While generations of movies and television shows have had book tie-ins
and hundreds of books have been made into feature films and television
movies, TV Books is thought to be the first publisher that started as an
independent company focusing solely on making books from television and
And in yet another example of the ever-expanding search for synergy in
the world of publishing, a majority stake in TV Books was acquired in
December by Broadway Video Inc., the film and TV company owned by Lorne
Michaels, the executive producer of "Saturday Night Live." TV Books also
signed a distribution deal with HarperCollins, owned by the News
Corporation, which has significant television interests.
"The biggest influence in book sales today is clearly television and
films," Mr. Coffey said. If a book is mentioned on "The Oprah Winfrey
Show" or tied to a movie, it can "catch fire," he said. Of course, not all
books with a television connection do well, but it certainly does not hurt
to have exposure in the mass media.
The editors, designers and marketers at TV Books work closely with the
writers and producers of the documentaries to re-create the visual
experience of the program while greatly expanding on its themes. The
danger remains that if a television show is not successful, then the books
can languish at the store.
There are drawbacks to working with authors who are immersed in
television or film projects. They tend not to have time to concentrate on
the books until after completing work on the film.
For a tiny publishing house, TV Books has attracted important authors
and tackled hard-hitting topics. These include Russian history ("Russia's
War: Blood Upon the Snow" by Richard Overy, based on a 10-hour
documentary); the Irish Republican Army ("Behind the Mask: The IRA and
Sinn Fein" by Peter Taylor) and Arab-Israeli relations ("Israel and the
Arabs: The 50 Years' War" by Ahron Bregman and Jihan El-Tahri).
James Billington, the Librarian of Congress and a noted expert on
Russia, is writing a companion book to his three-hour public television
series, "The Face of Russia."
Jessica Yu, who won a 1997 Academy Award for her documentary "Breathing
Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien," signed a deal to write a book
to go with a Home Box Office documentary about a New York mental hospital.
The book and the film are scheduled to have their debuts next spring.
Still, not all the offerings by TV Books are serious public affairs
volumes. The first of its books to go into a fourth printing is called "TV
Sets: Fantasy Blueprints of Classic TV Homes," a collection of guides to
the houses of such famous television families as the Bradys, the Cleavers
and the Munsters.
GRAPHIC: Photo: Peter Kaufman, left, president and publisher of TV Books,
with three company executives -- Joe Gannon, Summer Hixson and Albert
Gottesman, standing -- is reversing the usual book-to-TV route. (Fred R.
Conrad/The New York Times)


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We'd be wise to mimic the strength of Alzheimer's disease in our resolve to understand its causes and to offer relief: the disease is relentless … we aught to be as well.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 29, 2014
"There's a political cannabinoid boon happening," opened Bryan W. Brickner, publisher of The Cannabis Papers: A citizen's guide to cannabinoids (2011), "and this month the evidence is in our blood."
In Passing the Alzheimer's Test Involves One's Cannabinoid System, new on the Bryan William Brickner Blog, numerous 2014 National Institutes of Health (PubMed) research updates regarding Alzheimer's disease are highlighted. Notably, reported on CNN as Blood test predicts Alzheimer's disease, there is a new test that predicts Alzheimer's disease with 90% accuracy.
"This is a game changer," Brickner commented, "so much so that Forbes magazine saw the ability to identify memory impairment before its onset as double-edged: they noted how the new Alzheimer's test could kill long-term care insurance – or make it less expensive."
"Yet, other than the blood test, this isn't that new," clarified Brickner: "CNN International reported six years ago on how cannabis may be a boon to Alzheimer's patients."
"While we wait for the boon (and it has to be a political boon now)," offered Brickner, "the progression of the disease doesn't wait. We'd be wise to mimic the strength of Alzheimer's disease in our resolve to understand its causes and to offer relief: the disease is relentless … we aught to be as well."
Brickner has a 1997 political science doctorate from Purdue University and is the author of several books, to include The Promise Keepers (1999), Article the first of the Bill of Rights (2006), and The Book of the Is (2013). The Bryan William Brickner Blog is a collection of published works and press coverage and an ongoing resource for the political science of constitutions and the biological science of cannabinoids.


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Unlike many of its peers, Chevron (NYSE:CVX) is avoiding heavy revenue cuts brought about by lower natural gas price realizations. It is insulated by its size, to be sure, but is also benefiting from a measure of foresight regarding the price depression and a few smart moves internationally.
In the second quarter, its average sales price of natural gas in the U.S. was $2.17 per tcf, compared to $4.35 in the second quarter last year. The nearly fifty percent drop is partially offset by strong international natural gas sales, since its international natural gas realizations actually rose, from $5.49 per tcf in the second quarter of last year to $6.10 per tcf in the second quarter of this year. It is further offset by less U.S. natural gas production, which Chevron reduced in the second quarter of 2012 quarter over the second quarter of 2011 by about 9%, from 1,299 mmcf per day to 1,186 mmcf per day. Due to inventory accumulated over the past year, Chevron's total sales were essentially flat year over year, at 5,314 mmcf per day in the most recent quarter ended compared to 5,724 mmcf per day in the same quarter of last year.
This avoidance of steep revenue drops tied to natural gas is one reason it did so well in the second quarter- Chevron's second quarter revenues came in just 11% below its revenues from the same quarter a year ago, at $60 billion compared to $67 billion, a much gentler slide than seen by most of its competitors. Chevron Chairman and CEO John Watson acknowledged the strong earnings, noting that "despite current weakness in the global economy, we continue to invest in our long-term growth projects to help deliver affordable energy to meet future demand." Could part of that demand be fueled by Argentina?
Weighing A Potential Move on the Vaca Muerta
Argentina-based YPF Sociedad Anonima ADR (NYSE:YPF) is making no secret of the fact that it's looking for "strategic partners" to help it fund ambitious investment plans that include major exploration and production from the Vaca Muerta shale. While it has a partner in Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras ADR (NYSE:PBR), it does not appear Petrobras is eager to funnel the billions of dollars YPF needs through Argentina's economy. YPF's need for a major partner comes after the Argentinian government nationalized Repsol SA's majority stake in YPF earlier this year, a move that now makes it much less likely that YPF will be able to onboard partners on terms favorable to it.
To make a partnership more palatable, YPF recently announced a new discovery separate but apparently concurrent with the Vaca Muerta that is showing "great productivity" from three initial wells, according to YPF CEO Miguel Galuccio. In separate remarks Galuccio indicated that YPF met with Chevron executives in Buenos Aires on August 24; I think that it is safe to assume the majority of the meeting was centered on YPF's desire for a partnership. But, YPF is also courting Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) and Apache (NYSE:APA) as potential partners, which information is public thanks to a steady stream of media releases from an unnamed YPF official.
I don't believe that these releases are in any way accidental, since in order to overcome the bad feelings among producers engendered by Argentina's seizure of Repsol's stake in YPF, YPF needs to do some serious strategizing to excite potential partners. Setting Exxon Mobil against Chevron is one way to do this, but inviting Apache to the table is a move that I believe will catch even more of Chevron's attention. While I think the chances of Chevron setting up a major deal with YPF on its own are remote, Chevron could partner with other producers to reduce its exposure and claim its share of revenues from the Vaca Muerta.
Outlook: Litigation Casts a Long Shadow
Chevron is currently trading around $111, with a price to book of 1.7 and a forward price to earnings of 8.1. For comparison, Exxon Mobil is trading around $87, with a price to book of 2.5 and a forward price to earnings of 10.0. Apache is trading around $84, with a price to book of 1.1 and a forward price to earnings of 7.5. YPF is trading around $12 with a price to book of 0.8 and a forward price to earnings of 3.2, not far from where it cratered following the announcement of nationalization of the Repsol stake. Petrobras is currently trading around $21, with a price to book of 0.8 and a forward price to earnings of 7.0.
Chevron is continuing to build its cash balance, which now stands at $21.2 billion compared to $15.8 billion at the close of 2011. I think that fears over suits brought against it in Brazil and Ecuador, despite a Chevron show of bravado in casting these litigations as fraud, are contributing to Chevron's rapid accumulation of cash. When other majors hold these types of balances it is reasonable to expect a dividend increase, a major acquisition, a debt paydown, or a combination of all three; in Chevron's case, I think it's unlikely that its cash balance will be substantially drawn down until both of these super-suits are settled or dismissed, which could be a matter of years.
Chevron recently lost an appeal to overturn a previous Brazilian injunction banning it from operating in Brazil until a $20 billion suit over a relatively minor oil spill in the Frade field last November is resolved. Once in effect, the ban will prevent Chevron and its partner Transocean Ltd from operating within Brazil, not just the Frade where the accident occurred. For Chevron, which is currently only operating on the Frade within Brazilian jurisdiction, the loss is not an immediate threat. But, this will have a cascade effect on other operators that depend on Transocean, notably Petrobras, which leases seven rigs from Transocean.
The appeal process may go to higher courts, but so far the moves against Chevron do not bode well for its ultimate chances of escaping heavy fines and penalties. This is painfully similar to its ongoing Ecuador nightmare, in which Ecuadorean activists are pursuing Chevron for $18 billion in damages related to legacy production in courts across the globe. Together, these two suits could wipe out Chevron's healthy cash balance as well as a significant portion of its equity. This in turn would lower Chevron's outlook across the board. Chevron is a comfortable hold, but a risky buy in the current environment.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote: > I have finished a first run of benchmarking the current 9.1 code at various > sizes. See http://www.2ndquadrant.us/pgbench-results/index.htm for many > details. The interesting stuff is in Test Set 3, near the bottom. That's > the first one that includes buffer_backend_fsync data. This iall on ext3 so > far, but is using a newer 2.6.32 kernel, the one from Ubuntu 10.04. > > The results are classic Linux in 2010: latency pauses from checkpoint sync > will easily leave the system at a dead halt for a minute, with the worst one > observed this time dropping still for 108 seconds. That one is weird, but > these two are completely averge cases: > > http://www.2ndquadrant.us/pgbench-results/210/index.html > http://www.2ndquadrant.us/pgbench-results/215/index.html > > I think a helpful next step here would be to put Robert's fsync compaction > patch into here and see if that helps. There are enough backend syncs > showing up in the difficult workloads (scale>=1000, clients >=32) that its > impact should be obvious. Have you ever tested Robert's other idea of having a metronome process do a periodic fsync on a dummy file which is located on the same ext3fs as the table files? I think that that would be interesting to see. Cheers, Jeff
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Hi Laszlo, take a look at http://www.lwn.net/2001/0405/kernel.php3 "...The 2.4.3 release, in particular, has drawn a few complaints. Most have to do with processes locking up, a problem which is still unsolved as of this writing..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adam Cioccarelli (B.E Mechanical) Adam.Cioccarelli@xxxxxxxxxx Database Administrator Phone: +43 1 536 89 7725 Fax: +43 1 536 89 7719 ecetra Central European e-Finance AG Mobile:+43 664 181 4195 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, GCS wrote: > Hello all, > > My machine has some hanging processes since I have upgraded the kernel. > Can someone tell me how to narrow down the problem (I think it's an XFS > issue)? > Symptom: process goes to 'D' state, and the load average goes up by 1 per > process. I can not find any process constantly running, and you can not feel > it, but believe me my load average is 13.23. All I can do is restart the > machine, as even signal 11 does not kill the processes. > > Thanks, Laszlo > Ps:Should I update my kernel to the current CVS? >
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Regional Reviews: San Francisco
Arlington, My Beautiful Laundrette and
Also see Jeanie's reviews of November and Coney Island Christmas and
Arlington is a complete sixty-minute "modern opera style" show with Analisa Leaming singing the role of Sara Jane. She has a striking soprano voice in a song fest that is mostly in the style of a Philip Glass opera. She cheerily greets the audience ("It's a sunny day. Thank God ... Hasn't the rain been awful? I just ... I'm not a rain person.") As the musical drama continues, she has outbreaks of enthusiasm over the most trivial things: weather reports, television news, her favorite food (chard), and the endearing eccentricities of her husband. You get the feeling there is something disturbing about this woman. She is just too happy. Toward the end, after seeing the charred remains of Afghan women and children lying the fields and ditches of the country, she does wonder if her husband was involved in the killing. She also wonders why there are American troops in Afghanistan.
Analisa Leaming permeates the character with lustrous susceptibility. You can tell that loneliness does not suit Sara Jane since she is a gregarious woman. Leaming's voice has a superb evenness and control, even when the mood changes as she sings about the horrors of war. Jeff Pew plays piano in the background and sometimes joins in a duet with Leaming. He has a very pleasing voice and you wish he had more to do in this one hour "mini-opera."
Jackson Gray's direction is skillful. Eric Flatmo has designed a sunny living room to match the mood of Sara Jane. Jeff Rowling's lighting is light and cheery but turns to a darker tone, especially when Sara is talking about the horrors of war.
Arlington runs through December 8th at the Magic Theatre, Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd, Building D, 3rd floor, San Francisco. For tickets call 415-441-8822 or visit www.magictheatre.org. Up next at the Magic is the world premiere of Taylor Mac's "HIR" opening on January 29th and running through February 23rd.
My Beautiful Laundrette takes place in 1985 in Margaret Thatcher's England. The plot centers around Omar (Javi Harnly), a well-bred Pakistani boy doing his best for his aged and incontinent father (Ravi Bhatnagar) while desperately trying to please his crooked uncle Nasser (Keith Stevenson) who fixes him up as the manager in a loss-making rundown launderette. Omar runs into Johnny (Robert Rushin) who was his close friend in high school. Johnny is gay and has joined a conservative organization (The National Front). Since Johnny is jobless, Omar hires the young man to be his partner in the new enterprise. Omar soon discovers that he has the "hots" for his partner and soon there is a sexual relationship. There are other characters who come into this two-hour drama: a white-boy hating cousin Salim (Daniel Redmond), the long suffering white mistress of the Uncle Rachel (Cat Luedtke), and the uncle's rebel daughter Tania (Radhika Rao).
Homosexuality was a big issue when this film came out in Britain in 1986. It was very unusual to see a gay relationship in British films at the time. American films were not presenting this touchy subject either. However, the themes of love and homophile attitudes are as fresh now as they were in the film.
The complete cast retains a credibility with sincere British/Pakistani accents thanks to dialect coach Patricia Reynoso. Javi Harnly as Omar and Robert Rushin as Johnny nail the playful passion of childhood friends who have turned to being lovers. Javi Harnly captures Omar's drive and his anger beautifully. Robert Rushin is perfect as a rebel against the current society in Britain.
Keith Stevenson is splendid as Uncle Nasser. He brings out the comedy in the play as the wheeler-dealer uncle who intends to teach Omar to "squeeze the tits off the system." Daniel Redmond, who is British and has performed at the Old Vic and the Royal National Theatre, is outstanding as the nastily racist Salim. Ravi Bhatnagar gives an impressive performance as the quietly alcoholic Papa while Cat Luedtke gives a moving performance as Uncle Nasser's Caucasian mistress. Rounding out the cast is Radhika Rao, who gives a vibrant performance as the feisty Tania.
Andrew Nance had the difficult task of making every character have an interesting backstory so the audience can understand their point of view, even if they do not agree with each character's actions. He succeeds in this task.
My Beautiful Laundrette plays through December 22nd at the Walker Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness at Market Street, San Francisco. For tickets call 415-861-8972 or visit www.nctcsf.org. Coming up next is Avenue Q opening on December 6th and running through January 12th.
Margo Hall, one of San Francisco's most talented actress/singers presented her musical memoir of growing up in Detroit with her loving stepfather Teddy Harris Jr., a music pioneer who formed The New Breed Be Bop Society Orchestra that became popular in the Midwest. He also worked with such legends as the Supremes, Paul Butterfield and Aretha Franklin. Margo's real father divorced her mother when Margo was young, and she did not see or hear from him in all that time. This 80-minute piece, recently presented on the Z Space stage in a brief limited run, is a tribute to her stepfather. Along with this memory-drama was a terrific, grooving 16-piece orchestra directed by Marcus Shelby.
The undeveloped plot of this rocking drama is that Margo is going to have a public tribute to Teddy Harris Jr., so she returns to her childhood home in Detroit to search for some of her stepfather's unpublished works. She discovers that her biological father has moved back into the home and he wants to reconnect with her, but Margo is having none of that. She starts to rummage through cardboard boxes in the basement that may contain unpublished songs. In the process, memories emerge through song and dance with three very talented singer/dancers: Mujahid Abdul-Rashid, who also played her father; Dawn L Troupe who played her mother; and Halili Knox who played her sister.
The multi-talented Margo Hall not only sang and danced up a storm but wrote some of the lyrics for these songs. The marvelous score was orchestrated by Marcus Shelby, and Sheila Balter directed the fast-paced piece.
There was a skillful complex tango melody for Abdul-Rashid and Dawn L. Troupe called "What a Crazy Pair." Their dancing was exquisite. The cast excitedly sang and danced a carefree "Supreme Medley." Margo Hall was sublime singing "My Baby Girl" which segued into "Midnight Lullaby." I particularly liked the terrific rendition of "The Circus Song" which had a beat similar to Ravel's "Bolero." The orchestra was flawless in a melody composed and arranged by Teddy Harris, Jr. called "MTKM."
Bebop Baby: a Musical Memoir played November 19 through November 23 at Z Space, 450 Florida Street, San Francisco. For a lineup of coming attractions at Z Space, visit www.zspace.org.


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Whoever discounts Microsoft in the mobile space will probably be wrong. kind of like those that thought Dewey won over Truman in the US presidential election of 1948. The New York Times declared, "Thomas E. Dewey's Election as President is a Foregone Conclusion." Top pollsters predicted a Dewey win, as did leading national political writers. In fact, with the exception of Truman, everyone else was certain Dewey would be elected. Months before the election, Life ran a cover of a picture of Dewey with a caption that read, "The Next President of the United States." Headline after headline screamed Dewey as President- so much so that even the Chicago Daily Tribune printed "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" as its post-election headline, issuing a few hundred copies before the returns showed conclusively that the winner was Harry S. Truman, the incumbent.
I make the analogy to simply point out that just because there are prettier options out there, it doesn't mean that the people will buy into those options. Microsoft is big, and although maybe a bit on its heals in the last 2 years in mobile, they are very much a street fighting company. the announcement below has some real meat to dig your teeth into and remember, Phone 7 is out in a few weeks.
Microsoft Corp. announced on September 21st, the further international expansion of Zune, its digital entertainment service. This fall, Zune will expand its music and video footprint and bring the free Zune software, Zune Marketplace online store, Zune Pass1 music subscription service and enhanced features on Zune.net to new markets, providing a comprehensive entertainment experience on Windows-based PCs, on the go with Windows Phone 7 and in your living room through Xbox LIVE.2
"The integration between Zune, Windows Phone 7 and Xbox LIVE is an exciting expansion in our entertainment offerings," said Craig Eisler, corporate vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business Group at Microsoft. "Zune enables users to access the entertainment they want, wherever they want it – and now, more people than ever will be able to enjoy the freedom and flexibility that the Zune service offers."
Zune software has been upgraded with new features and functionality and will serve as the Windows Phone 7 synchronization client. The new software (version 4.7) will be available to download for free in more than 20 countries, including the U.K., France, Italy, Germany and Spain, to easily manage your personal collection of movies, music, podcasts and pictures. Zune software continues to set the standard for entertainment software, providing best-in-class experiences to organize, discover and enjoy digital media with a variety of exclusive features. For example, the Quickplay menu enables immediate access to recently played content and personal favorites, and Smart DJ 3 automatically creates playlists from your personal music collection and takes the extra step of mixing in suggested music from the Zune Marketplace. The updated Zune software will also enable instant streaming of high-definition movies, allowing you to watch some Zune Marketplace movies in HD, with no download time, directly on a Windows PC.
Zune Marketplace online store is accessible from within the Zune software and offers the ability to purchase millions of individual songs or albums from its catalog, all in MP3 format. Here, consumers can also subscribe to Zune Pass,4 which provides unlimited downloads and music streaming capabilities from the Zune music library, including content from major music labels such as Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music and Warner Music Group, as well as thousands of independent labels. Zune Marketplace also has a large library of videos from major studios such as Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution for purchase or rental. Video purchases will be accessible through Xbox LIVE and Windows-based PCs, and can also be added to a Windows Phone 7. Simply buy your favorite video from Zune Marketplace and watch it on the screen of your choice.9
Zune.net is the perfect resource for consumers as it allows them to download the software and set up a Zune account with a new or existing Windows Live ID.5 Zune.net will also provide Web access to Zune Marketplace so you can purchase music or use a Zune Pass to stream music directly through an Internet browser,6 as well as purchase video content.7
1 Zune Pass available in U.K., France, Italy and Spain.
2 Zune Pass on Xbox 360 requires an Xbox LIVE Gold membership and a Zune Pass subscription.
3 Only available with Zune Pass.
4 Zune Pass is a music subscription; some Zune Marketplace songs and content are not available via Zune Pass. Available content may vary over time.
5 For cross-screen functionality, the same Windows Live ID needs to be used on the Zune software, Windows Phone 7 and Xbox LIVE accounts.
6 Internet browser support for Silverlight required.
7 Service features may vary based on market availability.
8 Keep 10 MP3s per month feature available to U.S. Zune Pass subscribers only, on their PC or Windows Phone 7.
9 Content available for download on multiple devices may vary over time. Availability of content and video resolution will vary by device.