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Former Center for Racial Justice visiting fellow, legal scholar, and sociologist Atinuke O. Adediran discussed her new book Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress. Drawing from social science research and legal analysis, Disclosureland uncovers the power structures and institutional practices that determine how companies respond to calls for change. Critical, insightful, and forward-thinking, Disclosureland challenges readers to look beyond public rhetoric to understand how corporate narratives shape our collective pursuit of fairness, equity, and shared responsibility. Adediran was joined in conversation by Mark S. Mizruchi, U-M professor of sociology.
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watch animation here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9AM1CeqZ4
a very quick thumbnail storyboard for the 4-5 second animation. The design of the character or its rig are not my work. I did only the animation.
Report:
I was a bit limited by the rigs that were available for the assignment.There were two scene files.
One rig had joints.The MakenurbsSphere nodes didnt function on it and I couldnt aim constrain the eyeballs to anything. One small control object is parenting the joints/everything and is hidden under the rocket. On both rigs, when you select it, it also selects the eyes and everything else, so when keying the animation you cant look at their keyframes individually on the time line (it shows EVERYTHING all the time)- you are forced to go in the graph editor and dig.
the other rig had no bones,but its eye controls were functioning properly.So I picked the rig that had eye controls and squashing working, because the character is after all a rocket. All the joints I might need are in the spine, but I can fake a gloomy pose with the squash and the eyes anyway.
The assignment was to animate the rocket, not to fix the rig or rebuild it from scratch. So I animated it with what I had and didnt do anything else. I feel like the lift off might be a bit too slow
19 July 2023 | AFR, FinEquity Africa. FSD Network and The Graça Machel Trust hold a networking event with financial inclusion stakeholders on the sidelines of the Women Deliver 2023 Conference to explore challenges constraining women's financial inclusion & economic empowerment and ways to increasing intentionality and commitment towards gender-responsive solutions.
A postcard of Exminster station taken before it was enlarged in 1924. There doesn't appear to be evidence of the down refuge siding on the North side of the bridge which was added in 1906, which may constrain the date.
Restored from a print in my collection. No copyright infringement intended.
The day starts at 7:30 am with a 40-minute drive to the Punta Bandera dock to take a boat on Lago Argentino to Upsala Glacier, a large valley glacier on the eastern side of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Its higher portion lies in a disputed territory between Chile and Argentina. The glacier terminus is at Upsala channel of Lago Argentino. The Upsala Glacier is well known for its rapid retreat that has been ongoing since the glacier was first documented in 1810. The glacier showed almost continual recession up until 1999. The acceleration in ice motion during the two decades preceding 1999 may have been augmented by the release of backstress when the glacier retreated beyond the islands in Brazo Upsala. Another period of even faster retreat started in 2008. As of 2018 Upsala Glacier has retreated to such degree that it no longer constrains its tributary Bertacchi Glacier. The boat then drops us off at the Estancia Cristina, an Argentine cattle and sheep ranch located inside Los Glaciares National Park in Santa Cruz Province. It is here that we take a 4x4 for 45 minutes up a mountain, stop and continue up for another 20 minutes, reaching the summit around 12:30 pm. The ranch was founded in 1914 by Joseph Percival Masters, an Englishman who came to Patagonia with his wife in 1900; Estancia Cristina is named for Masters' daughter Cristina. Located on the coast of Brazo Cristina, a northern channel of Lago Argentino, Estancia Cristina still keeps the history of the Masters family alive. Its lodge has 20 rooms distributed over 5 buildings and it his here that we had lunch followed by a presentation of the traditional Mate, an Argentinean tea and a tour of the ranch. We then take the boat back to Punta Bandera and arrive back at the hotel at 8:00 pm.
The single button on a pen like this has only two states, on and off, logically constraining the use.
Session 2A: Is sustainability constraining economic development?
IHA 2013 World Congress
22 May 2013
More information on this event: ihacongress.org
This neat little galaxy is known as NGC 4526. Its dark lanes of dust and bright diffuse glow make the galaxy appear to hang like a halo in the emptiness of space in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Although this image paints a picture of serenity, the galaxy is anything but. It is one of the brightest lenticular galaxies known, a category that lies somewhere between spirals and ellipticals. It has hosted two known supernova explosions, one in 1969 and another in 1994, and is known to have a colossal supermassive black hole at its centre that has the mass of 450 million Suns. NGC 4526 is part of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. Ground-based observations of galaxies in this cluster have revealed that a quarter of these galaxies seem to have rapidly rotating discs of gas at their centres. The most spectacular of these is this galaxy, NGC 4526, whose spinning disc of gas, dust, and stars reaches out uniquely far from its heart, spanning some 7% of the galaxy's entire radius. This disc is moving incredibly fast, spinning at more than 250 kilometres per second. The dynamics of this quickly whirling region were actually used to infer the mass of NGC 4526’s central black hole — a technique that had not been used before to constrain a galaxy’s central black hole. This image was taken using Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. A version of this image was entered into the Hubble’s Hidden Treasures image processing competition by contestant Judy Schmidt. Hidden Treasures was an initiative to invite astronomy enthusiasts to search the Hubble archive for stunning images that have never been seen by the general public.
Alesia came back from the bathroom from the King and I Thai resturant and told everyone that she loved the toilet seat. She said it was pink and see through with shells in it. So I went in there to check it out.
The day starts at 7:30 am with a 40-minute drive to the Punta Bandera dock to take a boat on Lago Argentino to Upsala Glacier, a large valley glacier on the eastern side of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Its higher portion lies in a disputed territory between Chile and Argentina. The glacier terminus is at Upsala channel of Lago Argentino. The Upsala Glacier is well known for its rapid retreat that has been ongoing since the glacier was first documented in 1810. The glacier showed almost continual recession up until 1999. The acceleration in ice motion during the two decades preceding 1999 may have been augmented by the release of backstress when the glacier retreated beyond the islands in Brazo Upsala. Another period of even faster retreat started in 2008. As of 2018 Upsala Glacier has retreated to such degree that it no longer constrains its tributary Bertacchi Glacier. The boat then drops us off at the Estancia Cristina, an Argentine cattle and sheep ranch located inside Los Glaciares National Park in Santa Cruz Province. It is here that we take a 4x4 for 45 minutes up a mountain, stop and continue up for another 20 minutes, reaching the summit around 12:30 pm. The ranch was founded in 1914 by Joseph Percival Masters, an Englishman who came to Patagonia with his wife in 1900; Estancia Cristina is named for Masters' daughter Cristina. Located on the coast of Brazo Cristina, a northern channel of Lago Argentino, Estancia Cristina still keeps the history of the Masters family alive. Its lodge has 20 rooms distributed over 5 buildings and it his here that we had lunch followed by a presentation of the traditional Mate, an Argentinean tea and a tour of the ranch. We then take the boat back to Punta Bandera and arrive back at the hotel at 8:00 pm.
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Russian manufacturers are making up to 7 times as much ammunition as Western arms makers, Estonian defense official says
Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs on Judge Andrew Napolitano's channel - CIA manipulation of public opinion;
www.youtube.com/live/DEhneK9tfRg
What Prof. Sachs said in the interview was shocking but revealing. We have been lied to everyday by our politicians and the mainstream media. The article below, again, tells half-truths. Hundreds of Ukrainian conscripts are dying everyday. What we should do is to negotiate a peaceful ceasefire with Russia rather than providing more weapons to Ukraine to fight a losing war.
The stance by the West is that when the sanctions don't work, there must be due to some nefarious reasons, such as smuggling and cheating.
www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/politics/russia-sanctions-m...
Russia Overcomes Sanctions to Expand Missile Production, Officials Say
Moscow’s missile production now exceeds prewar levels, officials say, leaving Ukraine especially vulnerable this coming winter.
Russia has managed to overcome sanctions and export controls imposed by the West to expand its missile production beyond prewar levels, according to U.S., European and Ukrainian officials, leaving Ukraine especially vulnerable to intensified attacks in the coming months.
In addition to spending more than $40 billion providing weapons for Ukraine, the United States has made curbing Russia’s military supply a key part of its strategy to support Kyiv.
As a result of the sanctions, American officials estimate that Russia was forced to dramatically slow its production of missiles and other weaponry at the start of the war in February 2022 for at least six months. But by the end of 2022, Moscow’s military industrial manufacturing began to pick up speed again, American officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose the sensitive assessment now concede.
Russia subverted American export controls using its intelligence services and ministry of defense to run illicit networks of people who smuggle key components by exporting them to other countries from which they can be shipped to Russia more easily. In less than a year since the war began, Russia rebuilt trade in critical components by routing them through countries like Armenia and Turkey. U.S. and European regulators have been trying to work together to curb the export of chips to Russia, but have struggled to stop the flow to pass through countries with ties to Moscow.
Russia’s re-energized military production is especially worrisome because Moscow has used artillery to pound Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines, and its missiles to attack the electric grid and other critical infrastructure, and to terrorize civilians in cities. Officials fear that increased missile stocks could mean an especially dark and cold winter for Ukrainian citizens.
In the meantime, the Pentagon is working to find ways to help Ukrainians better take down the missiles and drones fired by Russia at civilian targets in Kyiv and military targets around the country. The Pentagon has provided Patriot air defense systems and cajoled allies to provide S-300 air defense ammunition, both of which have proven effective. It has also provided other air defenses like the Avenger system and the Hawk air defense system.
But Ukraine does not have enough air defense systems to cover the entire country, and must pick the sites it defends. An increased barrage of missiles could overwhelm the country’s air defenses, Ukrainian officials said.
In October 2022, the United States gathered international officials in Washington in an effort to strengthen sanctions on the Russian economy. At the time, American officials said they believed the sanctions and export controls were working in part because they deterred countries from sending microchips, circuit boards, computer processors and other components needed for precision guided weaponry as well as necessary components for diesel engines, helicopters and tanks.
But Russia adapted quickly with its own efforts to secure supplies of the needed parts.
Today, Russian officials have remade their economy to focus on defense production. With revenue from high energy prices, Russia’s security services and ministry of defense have been able to smuggle in the microelectronics and other Western materials required for cruise missiles and other precision guided weaponry. As a result, military production has not only recovered but surged.
Before the war, one senior Western defense official said, Russia could make 100 tanks a year; now they are producing 200.
Western officials also believe Russia is on track to manufacture two million artillery shells a year — double the amount Western intelligence services had initially estimated Russia could manufacture before the war.
As a result of the push, Russia is now producing more ammunition than the United States and Europe. Overall, Kusti Salm, a senior Estonian defense ministry official, estimated that Russia’s current ammunition production is seven times greater than that of the West.
Russia’s production costs are also far lower than the West’s, in part because Moscow is sacrificing safety and quality in its effort to build weapons more cheaply, Mr. Salm said. For instance, it costs a Western country $5,000 to $6,000 to make a 155-millimeter artillery round, whereas it costs Russia about $600 to produce a comparable 152-millimeter artillery shell, he said.
Still, Russia faces some shortcomings. It does not have huge inventories of missiles, though they have more of some kinds — like the Kh-55 air-launched cruise missile — in stock now than they did at the beginning of the war, according to people briefed on intelligence reports.
“In certain areas, they’ve been able to significantly ramp up production,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, an international security expert and chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a Washington-based think tank.
In cases where Russia needs millions of one particular component, export controls can grind production to a halt. But the chips needed to make a couple of hundred cruise missiles would fit into a few backpacks, which makes evading sanctions relatively simple, Mr. Alperovitch said.
American officials said they can slow, but not stop Russia from smuggling the parts it needs for missile production and that it was unrealistic to think Moscow would not react to the American curbs. One way Russia has adapted is by shipping components to third countries then diverting them there back to Russia, according to the Commerce Department.
“Because the controls were having a real impact, the Russian government didn’t just throw up their hands and say, ‘You got us, we give up,’ ” said Matthew S. Axelrod, the Commerce Department’s assistance secretary for export enforcement. “They got more and more creative with their evasion attempts. And we have been really aggressively working a number of different ways to clamp down.”
Currently, the United States and the European Union have a joint list of 38 different categories of items whose export to Russia is restricted. American officials said nine of the 38, mostly microelectronics that power missiles and drones, are the highest priority to block.
American and European officials have been working with banks to develop a warning system to alert governments to possible sanctions violations. So far American banks have alerted the U.S. government to 400 suspicious transactions. The Commerce Department has been able to use a third of those suspicious activity reports in its investigations.
On Aug. 31, the Commerce Department accused three people of taking part in an illicit Russian procurement network. One of the three, Arthur Petrov, a Russian-German national, was arrested and charged by the Justice Department with export control violations.
Mr. Petrov is accused of acquiring microelectronics from U.S.-based exporters for the purpose of sending them to Cyprus, Latvia or Tajikistan. Once there, other companies helped send the components onward, eventually making their way to Russia.
One of the challenges for the U.S. government is that Russia does not need higher-end chips that are easier to track, but commoditized chips that can be used in a wide range of things, not just guided missiles.
“It makes our job harder because there are a lot of countries that it’s legal and totally fine to sell those chips to for legitimate commercial purposes,” Mr. Axelrod said. “The problem is when those chips then get diverted and shipped to Russia.”
American and Western officials say there is some good news. Russian production is still not keeping pace with how fast the military is burning through ammunition and wearing out equipment. For example, even though Russia is on pace to produce two million rounds of ammunition a year, it fired about 10 million rounds of artillery last year. That has led Moscow to desperately search for alternative sources to increase its stocks, most recently by trying to secure a weapons deal with North Korea, U.S. and Western officials said.
And although Moscow has been successful in smuggling processors and circuit boards, it is facing a shortage of rocket propellant and basic explosives, American officials said, material that can be harder to smuggle than circuit boards. Those shortages are likely to constrain Moscow if it tries to step up further production of ammunition, missile or bomb.
Russa’s increased military production has also come at a great cost to the Russian economy, particularly as interest rates spike in the country. Sanctions have taken a toll on the Russian economy’s overall health, and overcoming Western export bans has not come cheaply, said American and Western officials. The senior Western defense official said that Russia had reallocated nearly a third of its commercial economy toward arms production. The country faces a labor shortage that could make further industrial gains harder to achieve too.
Russia cut back on its attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid during the summer. But as temperatures plunge, some Ukrainian and Western analysts and government officials think Russia could renew the terror campaign on Kyiv, in hopes that it will sap Ukrainians’ will to fight.
U.S. officials hope the steady supply of air defense ammunition and additional help to improve how Ukraine intercepts Russian attacks could help counter a reinforced barrage of missiles. And Ukrainian defenses have — in some situations — grown stronger.
“Ukrainians have become better in defending their infrastructure and building defenses around their power stations and critical power grids,” Mr. Salm said. “They have become better at fixing and making sure that the impact of the power outages and other utility outages are not as harsh.”
Julian E. Barnes is a national security reporter based in Washington, covering the intelligence agencies. Before joining The Times in 2018, he wrote about security matters for The Wall Street Journal. More about Julian E. Barnes
Eric Schmitt is a senior writer who has traveled the world covering terrorism and national security. He was also the Pentagon correspondent. A member of the Times staff since 1983, he has shared four Pulitzer Prizes. More about Eric Schmitt
Thomas Gibbons-Neff is a Ukraine correspondent and a former Marine infantryman. More about Thomas Gibbons-Neff
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This week's challenge was a Scavenger Hunt!! So a series of 8 photos follows of the items listed for the hunt! (Disclosure: Due to time constrains some of these photos were hunted down in my archives...you'll probably be able to guess which ones they are!)
Gabriela Rendón is an architect and urbanist. Her work combines research, planning and design at different scales focusing on spatial processes and transformations counteracting conditions produced by market-oriented urbanization. Rendon’s areas of expertise include housing and urban policy analysis and development, neighborhood decline and restructuring, and community-based planning. Her current research is based on the politics, practices and constrains of socio-spatial restructuring through citizens active engagement in low-income neighborhoods in Western Europe and America.
Again here, I felt the original to have a bit too much dead space and so I cropped it to constrain it while still retaining the framing effect of the orange sides.
This image is also flipped because I think the 'Canon' text is more visually appealing when it is the right way round.
shes had the bandage on for a week and isnt happy about it... it must be itchy it must be constraining and i wont let her lick it to her hearts content.... she wont let me touch the leg and only under sedation can the vet change the dressing...
I chose this image for my Shape catagory beacuse of the contrast between fertile and barren. The pattern of stone seems to close around the grass, constraining it. Or it can be interperated as the grass breaking through the unnatrual construction of man-made structure.
Rose O’Neill 1874–1944
Lillian Fisk Thompson (1884–1970)
Oil on canvas, 1915
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Rose O’Neill invented the internationally famous “Kewpie” cartoon character. It made her a millionaire and the highest-paid woman artist in the world. In Paris, she revealed a very different artistic side. There, she exhibited visionary artworks inspired by dreams and the unconscious.
O’Neill first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1906 and was immediately elected to its prestigious membership. Fifteen years later, Parisian critics praised her one-woman show. It featured fantastic images influenced by pagan mythology and evolutionary theory.
O’Neill championed women’s economic independence and sexual liberation. She blamed fashion for constraining women, asking “How can they hope to compete with men when they are boxed up tight in the clothes that are worn today?” She once pretended to be pregnant to persuade a French clothier to make a corset-free, loose-fitting gown, like the one worn in this portrait. Her nonchalant pose and defiant gaze express O’Neill’s supreme self-assurance.
April 26, 2024 - February 23, 2025
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During the early twentieth century, Paris was the destination of choice for talented and independent American women who were determined to move beyond the limitations that restricted them at home. As foreigners in a cosmopolitan city, they escaped the societal expectations and constraints of both the United States and France. Many used their newfound liberty as an opportunity for self-reinvention and discovery.
In Paris, American women explored a variety of options for making their mark on contemporary culture. They carried out transformative work in wide-ranging fields including art, literature, dance, publishing, music, and fashion. An impressive number not only participated in important modernist initiatives but led them.
By crossing the Atlantic to pursue their personal and professional aspirations, these “brilliant exiles” took a leap into the future. They experienced liberties, opportunities, and tolerances that were yet to be achieved in the United States. How much has changed since then? Have the freedoms and possibilities they sought become realities?
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"IN 1900, PARIS DAZZLED. The Exposition universelle was held from April to November that year, and 50 million visitors flocked to see Modernism celebrated in such wondrous exhibits as an escalator of moving steps and “talking pictures.” A “Palace of Electricity” bloomed in a pavilion decorated with thousands of lightbulbs, colored lamps, and multicolored electric flames. The exposition was cheered as “a fairytale spectacle.”
American dancer Loïe Fuller had her own pavilion. She was a star of the Folies Bergère, and brought her innovative performance to the exposition: She used yards of swirling silk and attached bamboo sticks to her sleeves to transform herself into such wonders of nature as a silken butterfly or a bursting flower. Isadora Duncan, then just starting out, came to the exposition expressly to see Fuller, and launched her own career by performing in Fuller’s troupe.
The 1900 Exposition universelle secured Paris as a center for Modernism, and a new exhibition describes how that city became a beacon for American women seeking to break from constrained traditions in the United States in the early twentieth century. Brilliant Exiles at the National Portrait Gallery spotlights fifty-seven of these expatriate women who were involved in art, writing, dance, fashion, music, and theater. As curator Robyn Asleson writes in the catalogue, Paris was a “particularly attractive destination for women who were impatient to move beyond the societal expectations and constraints that limited them in the United States”—restrictions on gender, sexuality, and race. They believed that Paris would help them forge new identities as Modern Women............"
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"The artistic American women who moved to Paris in the first four decades of the 20th century traveled there to change their lives. In the process, they changed much more than that. Their story is sumptuously illustrated by the National Portrait Gallery’s sweeping exhibition “Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900-1939.”
One well-known saga of Americans in Paris in those years is exactly what curator Robyn Asleson intends to counterbalance. In her catalogue essay, she writes that “focusing on the accomplishments and experiences of women brings into view a very different picture from that conveyed by the male-centered Lost Generation legend.”
Some of the subjects of this exhibition, it’s true, are known for their links to famous men. Bookseller Sylvia Beach published James Joyce’s “Ulysses” when no one else would, and author Gertrude Stein is represented in the show by a notable portrait painted by Pablo Picasso.
Yet Beach and Stein helped construct a world largely independent from men. As lesbians, along with more than a few of their fellow American expatriates, they were able to live women-centered lives in Paris that would have been improbable, if not impossible, in the United States. This freedom was facilitated by a privilege many of them shared: inherited wealth......."
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"Perhaps no place and time has captured the American imagination more than Paris in the first decades of the 20th century. Certainly for one group of remarkable women who moved across the Atlantic before World War II, Paris offered a life-changing allure. Robyn Asleson’s “Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris 1900-1939” highlights the lives and work of 57 of these women, including artists, writers, publishers, entertainers, designers, collectors and salonistes. The book is being published to coincide with an exhibit running at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery through February 2025......"
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This talk will provide an overview on Hornbeck's research agenda, which explores how economies grow and adapt by drawing lessons from the historical development of the American economy. Much of economics is concerned with why some places are poor and some are rich, which is closely related to why some places became rich and some remained poor. His research uses particular historical episodes to better understand issues related to this central theme within economics, as history often provides unique opportunities to understand economic adaptation and growth.
Some common themes in this research include: how enforcement of property rights encourages growth and transaction costs constrain growth; the magnitude of productivity spillovers across firms and their impacts on workers; impacts of market integration; how the economy adapts to a changing environment; and general adaptation to labor or capital scarcity. These topics often relate to how economic behavior and the natural environment combine to shape economic outcomes.
A panorama I took of a beautiful spot beside the Don. It was composed in AutoStitch from a half-dozen or so shots taken with my Rebel XT using my 50/1.8 lens, where what you see is what you get. It's constraining not to be able to zoom in and out, only focus — but in a way, it's liberating, too. There's no second-guessing the shot later. What you got is all you could have gotten. It's all about where you stood, not what you fiddled with (DOF notwithstanding, of course). I made a deliberate decision not to bring any of my other lenses. I'll have to do this again.
We investigated the glacier system and collect samples from boulders to constrain the past glaciation timings and tree rings for reconstruct past climate change.
Currently only the glacier to the left extends to the main valley while the right one stays in the branch valley. Hugh moraines (ridges in grayish color) along the valley sides indicate the extents of the past glaciers.
I want a double DIN unit high on the dash that will include a back up camera and an iPhone interface. This calls for a center stack arrangement which will require some changes in the dashboard structure and will constrain the location of the evaporator.
“Wine and women make wise men dote and #forsake #God's law and do wrong."
However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the #woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's creations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this #greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or #unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital #sex], the woman is not to #blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaging: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your #heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart.” www.amazon.com/dp/B01CSCI99Q
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Join JNUSUs Mass Deputation to the Chief Justice of India .
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Assemble at Ganga Dhaba by 12.30 pm .
It was in the year 2003 that the battle for campus democracy in India took a significant turn with the .
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Sojan Francis case, born out of the attempt by the management of St. Thomas College, Pala (Kottayam, Kerala) to trample upon the democratic rights of students. Sojan Francis, an SFI activist in the college, was denied permission by the college management to sit for a university exam in spite of the direction from the Controller of Examinations of the Mahatma Gandhi University for him to be allowed to take the exam. When the matter reached the Kerala High Court, the court gave a verdict which effectively allowed the college managements to prohibit political activism in campuses. This draconian order was challenged in the Supreme Court by the Kerala University and the Kerala University Students Union, and the Supreme Court issued an order on 12 December 2005 directing the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to constitute a committee to frame guidelines on students union elections in colleges/universities. The committee thus set up, with J M Lyngdoh as Chair, submitted its report on 23 May 2006. .
The Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations (LCR) upheld the need for students union elections in all colleges and universities in the country, including private colleges and universities. Since the vast majority of colleges and universities in India do not allow students unions to function or to have union elections, and since the legal battle was largely about the right of students to engage in political activism, the recommendations were seen by many as a step forward for campuses without students unions and union elections. But it was immediately recognised that for campuses which already have unions, the LCR, with its one-size-fits-all model, would have damaging implications. .
The experience of the students movement across the country in the years since the submission of the Lyngdoh report shows that LCRs stated objective of ensuring students union election in all colleges and universities remain unfulfilled. On the contrary, students union elections were banned in several states as per the whims and fancies of the parties that are in power in those states (e.g. in West Bengal by the Trinamool Congress government). A brute majority of private colleges and universities still do not have unions or elections. Universities like Allahabad University, Aligarh Muslim University, Banaras Hindu University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Utkal University and numerous others continue to flout norms by not having elections or by allowing the scourges of money-power and muscle power to mar the democratic process. In Rajasthan, the previous BJP government had banned students union elections and subsequently, the students movement led by SFI waged a relentless struggle for campus democracy throughout the state. The struggle continued during the period of Congress rule as well. Finally the government was forced to restore elections as thousands of students gheraoed the Assembly while the Left MLAs argued for it inside the Assembly. Such advances have been made in spite of Lyngdoh, and NOT because of Lyngdoh. While the courts of the country do not take notice of such violations as mentioned above, the students union elections in places like JNU and HCU which the Lyngdoh Committee held up as models have been targeted, precisely because the students movement in such places have challenged the unbridled march of neoliberal policies in education and in other spheres. .
The objective of the Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations (LCR), contrary to all pious statements, is to weaken the students movement so as to pave the way for fee hikes, commercialisation, privatisation and centralisation of higher education a process that is already underway. LCR has put in place restrictions that are fundamentally undemocratic and exclusionary (particularly adversely affecting students from deprived sections). For instance, the clause that stipulates an age barrier of 22 years for BA students, 25 years for PG students and 28 years for M.Phil./Ph.D. students (30 years for JNU as per the relaxation granted), militates against students from deprived backgrounds who are often forced to enter higher education at a later age. The clause that prevents candidates from contesting more than once in the central panel and twice for councillor posts defies logic even as it serves to constrain the development of a mature leadership for the union. The eligibility criteria which prevents students who have been tried/convicted for any criminal offence and those who have been subjected to any disciplinary action by the University authorities only aids the college/university administrations to victimise student activists who have participated or led any kind of protests against unjust measures by the authorities. In short, the overarching framework of Lyngdoh curtails students rights and has been damaging to our fight against anti-student college and university administrations and the neoliberal policies of the ruling classes. .
Among the important stated objectives of LCR were the curbing of criminalisation in student politics and ensuring financial transparency. But money-power and muscle power continue to be used unashamedly by right-wing organisations across the country during students union elections to subvert students will and to intimidate and even to eliminate political opponents. In our own campus, the blatant use of money power by the NSUI was on brazen display in the run up to the JNUSU Elections 2013 and even during the election days. .
The JNUSU is mandated by UGBMs in the past to continue the legal and political battle against LCR. While the Supreme Court had referred our case to a constitution bench on 11.11.2009, the said constitution bench has not been formed till date. SFI appeals to the students of JNU to participate in large numbers in tomorrows Mass Deputation to the Chief Justice of India so as to build pressure to expedite the consideration of our case. .
Sd/-Sd/-Deepanjan K, President, SFI JNU Unit Viswanathan V, Jt. Secretary, SFI JNU Unit .
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Session 2A: Is sustainability constraining economic development?
IHA 2013 World Congress
22 May 2013
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The line immediately south of New Mills Central packs in a series of civil engineering structures worthy of a restrained space model railway. This is because the river valleys of the Goyt and the Sett did constrain engineering choices. Looking north Hyde Bank Road Bridge seen from Church Street Bridge.
Session 2A: Is sustainability constraining economic development?
IHA 2013 World Congress
22 May 2013
More information on this event: ihacongress.org
It says;
“But force, the negation of law, what is that, Pericles? Is it not the action of the stronger when he constrains the weaker to do whatever he chooses, not by persuasion, but by force?”
“That is my opinion.”
“Then whatever a despot by enactment constrains the citizens to do without persuasion, is the negation of law?”
“I think so: and I withdraw my answer that whatever a despot enacts without persuasion is a law.”
I think Johnson is a despot too.
Stop the Coup protest outside Downing Street, Whitehall.