6/30/2023 0 Comments Sea people thompson![]() ![]() ![]() The CSO Forum, themed “Bolster confidence toward sustainability”, will continue to serve as a platform for exchanging experience among the government, regulators, professional organizations, academic institutions and leading companies to explore a high-quality development path that is innovation-driven, green and sustainable for Chinese companies. ![]() The second CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards was launched today, kicking off the second year of the awards program. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments No Filter by Heather Day Gilbert![]() ![]() Gilbert, for taking the time to join us today. So grab your favorite beverage, sit back, and let’s learn more about the Barks & Beans Cafe. Gilbert will be discussing her fictional cafe with us. ![]() (Something tells me this could be a good day to curl up in my reading chair, fix a pot of oolong tea, and grab a book or two and read the day away.) I’m incredibly pleased and honored to welcome Heather Day Gilbert, a fellow West Virginian and author of the Barks & Beans Cafe series including the latest release, Roast Date. In my little corner of West Virginia, we’re not expected to get much snow (please don’t let us get snow), but we are expecting frigid temperatures and a possible ice storm. For those of you in the US experiencing the recent Arctic blast and Snowmaggedon, I hope you’re all staying safe, dry, and warm. ![]() ![]() While he struggles to decide what his reputation is worth and what he can sacrifice, one man offers him a chance he thought he’d lost…the chance to hope for a better world. Feeding his curiosity about his past is his growing love for Judith Migdal, a clever and beautiful Jewish woman navigating the mounting tensions in Granada. As Santángel witnesses the horrific persecution of his loved ones, he begins slowly to reconnect with the Jewish faith his family left behind. ![]() But he is from a family of conversos, and his Jewish heritage makes him an easy target. When a dear friend’s demise brings the violence close to home, Santángel is enraged and takes retribution into his own hands. ![]() As the power of Inquisitor General Tomás de Torquemada grows, so does the brutality of the Spanish church and the suspicion and paranoia it inspires. Luis de Santángel, chancellor to the court and longtime friend of the lusty King Ferdinand, has had enough of the Spanish Inquisition. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Sen development as freedom![]() Similarly, in The Law-Growth Nexus, law professor Kenneth Dam explains how legal institutions affect economic development. These ethical guardrails help fortify the public’s trust in commercial exchange. While praising the role of markets in economic development, Sen emphasizes that properly functioning government institutions are necessary for effective markets. (Shortform note: “Right to disclosure” refers to rules like the SEC’s requirement for publicly traded corporations to release pertinent information about their businesses-such as balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows.) ![]() Ethical guardrails create openness and trust in social interactions (especially commerce) and are necessary to prevent government corruption, crooked business practices, and other unethical behavior. Ethical GuardrailsĪccording to Sen, ethical guardrails include the “right to disclosure,” or public “right to know,” as well as other components of business and contract law. In their view, these gains justify the government providing education, because the benefits exceed the costs. ![]() Following Becker’s lead, many economists also make the case that in addition to individual gains in productivity from better human capital, there are social gains as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Hacking the Future” activates this newly spatialized reading practice in the arenas of inquiry highlighted by postcolonial studies to examine how physical, conceptual, and lived spaces function as types of critical revision. It then examines how spatial studies, particularly the concept of Edward Soja’s thirdspace, the geocriticical lens of Bertrand Westphal, and the political attentiveness of Doreen Massey, synchronize with the worldbuilding reading practices proposed by SF theorists Darko Suvin and Samuel Delany. “Hacking the Future” first explores the boom in postcolonial SF since 2004, considering the instigations of digital publishing, community-building platforms, and the event RaceFail09. ![]() Abstract: This dissertation offers a spatially attuned reading protocol to assist scholars engaging twenty-first century postcolonial science fiction. ![]() |