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WT adventurer Charles Ardary’s second Wilderness Travel trip visited the Highlands and Islands of Scotland with our charming native Scottish Trip Leader Skye McDonald, who really knows her way around her green home country. Hiking along trails past mythic Loch Ness, through Scotland’s most beautiful Glen Affric, and across the white sand beaches of the Outer Hebrides is just part of the fun. Many days end in little pubs lush with local culture and the friendly spirit and history of Scotland (castles, legends, the Callinish Stone circle) is woven in all along the way. Follow down for Charles’ photo-journey through Scotland’s Highlands and Islands:
Loch Ness with Nessie sneaking up on the tour group (third from left).
Stream crossing in Glen Affric hike under the watchful eye of the guide. No one got wet!
Harris Island near Hushinish, Scottish beef wondering who we were.
Learning how to harvest peat from our knowledgeable guide.
Time for the beach: Luskentyre beach on Harris Island.
Demonstrating how to fix a thread by a Harris Tweed weaver who was most delightful and informative.
You can really tell who the native Scot is, enjoying the sun in short sleeves.
It is amazing the signs one finds around the world. We looked for an otter, but didn’t see one.
Callanish standing stones: We were there shortly before sunset and it was magical.
It wasn’t all about hiking.
Eilean Donan castle: Where is Duncan McLeod or Patrick Dempsy?
Glencoe House: Roughing it. Imagine hikers in boots sipping champagne after a long day.
Glencoe House: The Ciallis suite. The second tub was good for doing laundry.
Climbers Pub in Glencoe, home of a famous sign in the entry (which can be seen in the final photo below).
Fortunately our guide was a McDonald.
I had a great time and am thinking about a trip for next year.
-Photos and text by 2-time WT adventurer Charles Ardary, Highlands and Islands of Scotland

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International Pet Shipping Services in Mississippi
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A study examining data from records at facilities serving more than 160,000 patients on treatment for HIV across Zambia, along with data tracking patients who stopped coming for care at the facilities found that 7 percent of all patients treatment died within two years, a figure from three-to-nine times higher than previous estimates. Those findings mean that death rates among HIV patients on treatment in Zambia are from 10-to-20 times higher than among patients on treatment in Europe, write the authors of the study, published on PLOS Medicine Thursday. More than 95 percent of the deaths were attributed to illness, rather than traffic accidents, childbirth or other causes of death that also can be higher in African countries than in Europe.
The findings indicate gaps, at some facilities more than others, in medical services that include diagnostic capacities and advanced care, the authors write. Patients treated at hospitals survived in greater numbers, as did patients being treated in settings outside of cities. While the most deaths occurred during the first few months of treatment, death rates remained high over longer periods. Death rates varied widely across facilities, indicating a need to focus on improving HIV services at site level. At a time when efforts to widen access to antiretroviral treatment include lessening the frequency of clinic visits and shifting responsibility for some HIV services from doctors to nurses and other health workers, the findings indicate the need to identify patients who need greater levels and frequency of care.
The study, conducted by the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia — CIDRZ — with the Zambia Ministry of Health, was led by Dr. Charles Holmes of Georgetown University Medical Center’s Center for Global Health and Quality, and Izukanji Sikazwe of CIDRZ.

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Nokia bolstered its health division with the acquisition of Withings in 2016 but it appears that the company feels that the division is weighing it down. An internal memo was leaked recently which revealed that Nokia doesn’t see a path forward for its digital health business and reports now suggest that it’s looking to sell this division. Google is believed to be interested and a new report claims that Samsung wants to pick it up as well.
Le Monde reports that Samsung is one of the four companies that are interested in acquiring Nokia health. The others include Google and two French companies.
Nokia purchased Withings for $192 million but it seems like the company is going to have to book a loss on this deal. According to the report, the takeover hasn’t been a success and whoever ends up buying the division from Nokia is likely going to pay less than what Nokia did in 2016.
Samsung and Google will both be good homes for the division as they already have a portfolio of connected devices. The former is particularly involved in the digital health market as it sells a range of smartwatches and fitness-tracking activity bands.
No word as yet, though, from Nokia about a final deal.
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The Sierra de Aracena Natural Park has beautiful enclaves of great natural wealth. These places have been shaped by the course of nature and have become distinctive elements of this beautiful region. Today we are going to talk about the Grotto of Wonders, a cave of great beauty forged by time and nature, resulting in a landscape as strange as it is beautiful. Join us in our adventure inside the Grotto of Wonders!
The Grotto of Wonders is located in the urban center of Aracena, capital of the region and the one that gives name to the mountains and the natural park. This is one of the most important protected areas in the community. Its elements fill the north of the province, where small elevations covered with holm oak, chestnut, cork and forest forests stand out.Aracena - Manogamos, Sometimes / Flickr.com
In the area numerous streams run, forming a landscape of extraordinary beauty and that is ideal for livestock, especially for the Iberian pig. These are the same streams that sculpted the rock, forming the Grotto of Wonders, the most visited natural monument in the province of Huelva.
The Grotto of Wonders
It has 1200 meters that can be covered in its entirety, something that makes it the most extensive tourist cave in Spain. The Grotto of Wonders was also the first to offer this type of tourism. Discovered in the 19th century, it was not until 1914 when it opened its doors to the public as the country's first tourist cave.Grotto of Wonders - Nacho Pintos / Flickr.com
And not only that, but the Grotto of Wonders is one of the most beautiful and best preserved in the world. Its exceptional set of galleries, lakes, salons and underground courses, have been carved by time and water in the heart of Cerro del Castillo. This cave is formed on Paleozoic limestones, which gave rise to a unique and continuous karst system millions of years old.
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Guided tours intern visitors more than 100 meters underground, where You can see caves with long corridors, stalactites and stalagmites arranged in incredible patterns. These formations have green, blue or pink reflections and calcareous roofs of unique beauty that are reflected in waters of beautiful inland lakes.
The grotto is distributed in three levels, of which only two are open to the public. On each level there are rooms that are extremely interesting and beautiful. We have the Hall of the Great Lake, the Hall of the Cathedral, the Bath of the Sultana, the Room of the Emerald, the hall of the Glassware of God, the Room of the Chickpeas and that of the Nudes. In total there are 12 rooms that are distributed in the two levels.
«The cave you are afraid to enter contains the treasure you are looking for.»
The visit lasts about 45 minutes and has no difficulty, although it requires precautions such as being alert to where you step to avoid slipping and crouching in some parts.
What to see around the Grotto of Wonders
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Aracena has an urban center full of monuments. You can admire convents, churches, houses with red roofs with old balconies, museums and cobbled streets. It was declared of Cultural Interest and is located at the foot of its old castle and of the Priory Church of Our Lady of Major Pain.
Iberian Ham Museum
It has seven rooms where everything about the production of Iberian ham can be discovered in an entertaining and educational way, through audiovisual media such as panels and projections. In addition, you can not fail to reward your palate with a tasting of the delicious local Iberian ham.
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The castle is another must-see in Aracena. This fortress dates from the 13th century andconsists of alcazaba, tower of the warden, cistern, walls flanked by towers and the houses of the Islamic era.
Let yourself be amazed by Aracena and its spectacular Grotto of Wonders. A unique place in the middle of a beautiful natural environment You can't stop visiting. You'll love it!

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Mazzy Star? I YouTube'd it -- was pretty ordinary.
If that's wrong, just link me up to something good.
It's very mellow, but it's the weirdest stuff I listen to.
I am a Alice n' Chains, Pearl Jam, STP guy, though.

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MP's rant about Louis Riel denounced by PMO
The Prime Minister's Office joined opposition politicians in condemning an Alberta Conservative MP for calling Manitoba founder and Métis leader Louis Riel a "villain," responsible for all those who died during the Northwest and Red River rebellions.
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WINNIPEG–The Prime Minister's Office joined opposition politicians in condemning an Alberta Conservative MP for calling Manitoba founder and Métis leader Louis Riel a "villain," responsible for all those who died during the Northwest and Red River rebellions.
Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring made the remarks in a December pamphlet to "set the record straight" about Riel's uprisings in the late 1800s.
Riel is considered Manitoba's founder but Goldring argues the Métis leader doesn't deserve to be seen as a Father of Confederation.
"Riel didn't `Father' Confederation; he fought those who did," reads the brochure, posted on Goldring's website but removed Friday.
"To unhang Louis Riel and to mount a statue to him on Parliament Hill would elevate anarchy and civil disobedience to (the level) of democratic statesmanship."
The Prime Minister's Office condemned the brochure and its view of Riel. "This document is absolutely not ... an initiative of our government or our party. This is a personal initiative of MP Goldring which we strongly disapprove of," said Dimitri Soudas, speaking for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
In November, NDP MP Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre) introduced a private member's bill to overturn Riel's treason conviction and recognize him as a Father of Confederation. Riel fought for minority rights within Confederation, Martin said. "To paint him as a traitor is to compound a historical injustice."
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Actually it can provide the operator the safest point for the tank delivery job. While using these there are no needs extra man as these systems are controlled by a single man. The machine can eliminate the need of second person by instructing the operator where to position the tank. While the operators are using the machine, they can enjoy the freedom about the movement around the entire factory when they are busy with the setting of the tank preciously into the position.
Basically the handheld transmitter has some unique characteristics, and they are as followed:
Besides that they are contained with a equipped mounted receiver and it has also some specification:
Industrial remote control systems are also available with the different kinds of models. These models are generally developed for the crane and service truck application and it requires 12 remote control functions. There are some modular components that includes in this model allow it for easy installation with the custom wire harness.
The transmitter and the receiver unit can control by 56 bit digital code eliminating the accidental operations. And if they are not working properly then no need to worry as the parts can be changed simply by the quick connect plugs and one can also connect the handheld and the receiver by using the simpler 'Learn' button.


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“There are clear inconsistencies in the multiple policy objectives that we’re now having to grapple with,” he said in a speech in London today.
“We want stability as well as growth. We promote growth at the same time we promote fiscal austerity. We have been told to lend more and at the same time to grow our capital both in absolute and ratio terms.”
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07 Apr The Positive in Negativity
The Corona crisis has brought in many changes in our day to day lives, the way we think and the way we approach a situation. A commendable thing that has come out as a result of this is Self-discipline. We are characters of a catastrophe movie and we have got to be our own heroes. Barring some people, who just don’t seem to understand the importance of this social distancing and lockdown or are intentionally breaching the safety rules, everyone else is serious enough to fall in line and follow what the authorities have been shouting from the rooftops.
The lockdown has locked us in our houses without house helps, without a smooth supply of groceries, without vegetable and fruits, without any place to walk around and without any place to go to.
Initially, I was very happy as if an unplanned vacation has started and I was happy with everyone at home – safe and in sight. Then began the phase of being worn out when I was tired of cooking and cleaning which left me wondering, “Who are these people who have all the time in the world to be innovative, creative and try new activities every day? The likes of Dalgona Coffee Challenge or Hand Emojis challenge or Online Antakshari; social media was overflowing with such posts” and here I was, unable to even keep up with my little one, daily chores and cooking. But after 8-9 days of sending SOS feelers to all the family members, fine-tuning our routines and making some adjustments, the new life and lifestyle found its way. Now it is liberating to know that we are home and safe with our dear ones, we have basic food supply and access to medication. Suddenly life seems stable and peaceful. This is all we need to live a satisfactory life.
Although the household chores are still as demanding but now I am happy to have a home big enough to fit in my family and just sufficient space to move around. Professionally, working from home is not feasible all the time but thanks to the current scenario, now we know the importance of life, family, health and mental peace. Our priorities are set right by this deadly virus. Minimalistic life suddenly has garnered understanding.
We don’t need to run from pillar to post to make ends meet. We don’t need to have an excess of everything. Abundance and excess have different meanings now. Air is fresher, rivers and oceans are cleaner, neighbours are caring, minds are clearer, hearts are thankful and smiles are unadulterated. Is this the blessed life we all long for?
After all this, the question that comes to my mind is, ‘Do we really need to run around helter-skelter all the time? Doesn’t it make us happy watching over our children while they grow and explore new things? When spouses work as a team while cooking or caring for elderly parents, does it not makes one feel complete?
What will happen after the lockdown is over? Will all of us move out like a flock of birds suddenly freed from a cage? Or will we have the patience and sense to take one step at a time and take to the old-new life slowly? Will we miss this lockdown phase for some reason or will we just be thankful that it is over? And most important of all, will we take home any lesson from this situation or just continue to live life as it was- complex and rushed?

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Cobbler is my kind of “fruit cake”. It’s fruit in cake, right? Ha! And so yummy. Blackberry cobbler is one of my husband’s favorite desserts. Somebody ordered one from me for Thanksgiving and my hubby almost cried watching it leave our house. I promised I’d make him one too once the Thanksgiving pies were eaten. I kept my word and made this beauty last night. I had one happy man at dinner time!
Freshly washed blackberries glistening in the light – just beautiful!
- 5 cups fresh or frozen blackberries
- 2 cups sugar, divided
- 2 cups flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup butter, melted
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a bowl combine 1 cup sugar with the blackberries and let sit while you prepare the batter.
- In a mixing bowl stir together the other cup of sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, and milk. Add melted butter and stir till completely mixed.
- Pour into an ungreased 9″x13″ baking pan. Scatter the sugary blackberries evenly over the batter.
- Bake for 45-55 minutes until golden brown.
Tip: I use five 6 oz clamshells of blackberries.
Warm blackberry cobbler topped with vanilla ice cream is hard to beat. I also like it in a bowl with milk. Or with a cup of coffee or just plain out of the pan. You really can’t go wrong with blackberry cobbler!
“Always make time for coffee with a friend.”

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Three steps forward, two steps back is the way that surveillance cameras are being implemented in this city. They’ll leave a few more up in the Entertainment District as they remove a batch elsewhere, now you see them now you don’t, nothing up this sleeve, which neighbourhood will they be in next? As though we wouldn’t notice that the screw only turns one way:
Updated (2010/06/02): The cameras are now up – 67 new cameras is the actual tally. See a list of locations here.
Related: More police security cameras approved for Toronto | EU Plans Massive Surveillance Panopticon That Would Monitor “Abnormal Behavior” | Toronto police board challenges chief on CCTV deterrence, demands ‘phase-in’ | Police laud Toronto surveillance cameras, critics not so sure | Criminologists: CCTV schemes in city and town centres have little effect on crime | UK House of Lords warns over ’surveillance state’ | Toronto surveillance project to enter new phase pending review | CCTV doesn’t keep us safe | CBC Radio Broadcasts Expose of North American Police State | T.T.C. Starts Camera Installation On Buses & Streetcars | Toronto police seek feedback on installing security cameras | Premier Thinks Yonge St. Cameras Should Stay, John Tory Wants Them In Ent. District | Cameras To Be Installed Downtown For Holiday Shopping Season | You Are a Suspect
Jennifer Yang, Toronto Star
May 14, 2010
Police began installing 77 more closed circuit security cameras around downtown Toronto Friday in preparation for the upcoming G20 summit.
They will remain up and in use until “the completion of the event, when there’s no longer an issue of security,” said Toronto police Const. Wendy Drummond.
The cameras are “similar to other ones we’ve deployed in the past,” Drummond said. “They’re going to be very recognizable. They will be clearly marked with ‘police’ on them.”
Drummond said the installations will occur over the next few weeks, with the first cameras going up Friday along Adelaide St. The exact locations will be disclosed to the public once they are installed, Drummond said.
Police will use the CCTV cameras to record and “relay visual information about an event unfolding in a given area over time.”
The cameras come in addition to 18 that had been installed in the Entertainment District prior to preparations for the G20. Each will have a prominent sign listing a phone number for people to call with questions or concerns, Drummond said.
“They’re very recognizable,” she said. “There will be no confusion over what they are.”
The G20 summit will take place June 26-27 at the Metro Convention Centre.
Drummond said installation of the cameras is governed by police procedures, the Criminal Code and the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
The cameras are also in compliance with guidelines outlined by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, she said.
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surveillance cameras | T.T.C. Starts Camera Installation On Buses & Streetcars | Toronto police seek feedback on installing security cameras | Premier Thinks Yonge St. Cameras Should Stay, John Tory Wants Them In Ent. District | Cameras To Be Installed Downtown For Holiday Shopping Season | Ontario cities can install red-light cameras

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HIV, hepatitis warning issued to 225 Fort McMurray clinic patients
Chief medical health officer says risk of contracting the disease is low
Alberta Health Services is warning 225 patients of a Fort McMurray clinic to get tested for HIV and hepatitis B and C.
Dr. Albert de Villiers, the region's chief medical health officer, says the risk of contracting the disease is low, but people
should get tested as a precaution.
"We have been advising them that they have been to a clinic in Fort McMurray where there were some issues with sterilization of medical equipment and they might have been exposed," de Villiers said Friday.
"The letter says they may have been exposed, there is very low risk, but they should go in for some blood tests to make sure that they did not contract any diseases. The three we are testing for are hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV."
Those being contacted are or were patients of the Dayspring Medical and Cosmetic Clinic.
Improper sterilization noted since 2005
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta investigated the clinic and determined it was not properly sterilizing equipment between 2005 and the middle of last year.
De Villiers said the clinic is now following proper sterilization procedures.
Some of the warning letters sent out two weeks ago have bounced back because people have moved away, but he said everyone will be notified.
The blood tests that have been completed so far have come back negative, he said.
In 2008, Alberta Health Services advised up to 1,300 patients to get blood tests because of infection control problems at the High Prairie Health Complex. An investigation concluded that some staff were reusing intravenous line syringes.
That same year the College of Physicians and Surgeons began inspecting medical facilities across the province.
College spokeswoman Kelly Eby said there have been 650 inspections since then and there have been seven cases that caused concern about sterilization procedures. They were reported to public health officers and the medical facilities were told to stop reusing improperly sterilized equipment.
Eby said that, overall, Albertans have no reason to believe that clinics are not following proper protocol.
"I think it has substantially improved because we have done a lot of education and awareness," she said. "We send information to the clinics before we even get there."

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On Tuesday, the Ministry of Fisheries, Marine Resources and Agriculture opened applications to assist in establishing Refrigerated Sea Water (RSW) and solar power systems.
The ministry revealed that an agreement has been signed between the government and Islamic Development Bank (ISDB) to ensure fishermen’s catch remains fresh for as long as possible and to solve the issue of ice availability during greater abundance.
Under this agreement, the programme will be conducted in two phases, and the ministry intends to aid 200 fishing vessels to establish the systems.
Vessels need to meet the following criteria to be eligible for it:
- Registered vessel with a legitimate license issued by the ministry for fishing
- Vessel need to be currently in use for fishing
- At least 50 feet in length, with minimum storage capacity of 15 tonne
- Enough space on vessel to install RSW system
In phase one of the programme, using information in the application and records with the ministry, RSW and solar power needed for the vessel will be identified.
Opportunity to take part in the second phase will be offered based on the technical specifications of those who expressed interest.
During the second phase, the applicant will be given a chance to choose a supplier from a list given by SME Development Finance Corporation (SDFC).
Following this, based on the chosen supplier, the pricing will be decided for the systems, and finally it will be installed.
Furthermore, training on operating these systems will be provided as well.
Fishermen can apply via SDFC’s website till December 31.


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Say What? Archive
What a long, strange strip it's been
Welcome to the Doonesbury Say What? Archive
December 16, 2011
"That's one of the things that I like about him -- because he's been consistent since he changed his mind."
Christine O'Donnell, endorsing Mitt Romney
December 15, 2011
"A lot of people agree with me. They find it amazing, that out of -- that all of a sudden, miraculously, this birth certificate just appeared. People have questioned the birth certificate, and many people do still question it."
Donald Trump, 12/5/11
December 14, 2011
"Just like Reagan, I will tell the truth at the risk of causing some confusion with the timid."
Newt Gingrich tweet
December 13, 2011
"I'm not going to kiss his ring, and I'm not going to kiss any other part of his anatomy."
Jon Huntsman on Trump
December 12, 2011
"I'm surprised that Mitt Romney said 'no,'...Frankly, I'm surprised because he really wants my endorsement. I mean, he wants it very badly."
December 11, 2011
"Something out of the Stalinist era."
Sen. Lindsey Graham on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
December 07, 2011
"No government in the world kills its people, unless it is led by a crazy person."
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
December 07, 2011
"I've been casting The Wizard of Oz. Obviously, Mitt Romney is the Tin Woodsman, without a heart. Rick Perry is clearly the scarecrow. He illustrates the point that what's scary about people is not what they don't know, but what they know that isn't true. Newt's the Wizard of Oz. There's nothing there -- he's ginned up this whole big thing."
December 06, 2011
"Was Brelake and the slightly told
Steve Geyer and gambling the wave of
all Minzy were the Boro Groves
and the moment as outgrabe."
Jabberwocky, as understood by an iPhone 4S
December 05, 2011
"If the economy continues to be bad and if the Republicans choose the wrong person, I would do it. You need a big name, and you need big money. And guess who's got that?"
Donald Trump, on reconsidering his decision not to run for president


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This article is adapted from Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880, by Stephen W. Sawyer (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Perhaps no one in Europe or the Americas did more to push the democratic question to the center of politics during the modern period than Alexis de Tocqueville. John Stuart Mill captured his significance when he unabashedly stated that Tocqueville’s Democracy in America was “the first philosophical book ever written on Democracy, as it manifests itself in modern society.” More than a century and a half later at the outset of the twenty-first century, political philosopher Sheldon Wolin opened his vast exploration of Tocqueville’s work by noting that “Democracy in America represents the moment when democracy first came into focus as the central subject of a political theory.” Tocqueville’s work convinced many that democracy was the inevitable path of modernity. In the decades that followed the publication of his first opus, political thought and practice would attempt to work through the many implications and contradictions inherent in the democratic problem as he understood it. Any attempt to place democracy at the center of an international political history of the state in the second half of the nineteenth century necessarily starts with Tocqueville.
Tocqueville has overwhelmingly been interpreted as a critic of the modern administrative state. According to the dominant interpretation, his account of the inevitable push toward a democratic “equality of condition” rendered central state administrative institutions a constant danger. From his celebration of an American weak state and vibrant civil society in his Democracy in America to his critique of the triumph of an overbearing French statism in The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Tocqueville’s account prophetically warned of the perils of a centralized administration in the modern world. He understood, we are told, that isolated individuals were produced by—and proportionately ill-equipped to resist—the omnipresent threat of a modern bureaucratic despotism designed to look after their every need. For Tocqueville, the individual equality necessary for distant administrative institutions to govern threatened individual liberty, which therefore could only be ensured by vibrant civic associations opposed to the state. To be preserved in this age of mounting equality, the story thus concludes, liberty required a relentless critique of administrative power.
There is no doubt that this interpretation captures an essential, perhaps even one of the essential, lines of reasoning in Tocqueville’s thought. Tocqueville did negotiate the tension between liberty and equality through a critique of state power. He did posit equality as a social condition. And he did think that liberty required an uncompromising recognition of the dangers of a centralized administration for modern liberty. Our awareness of these central strands of Tocqueville’s thought reach far back into the politics of Tocqueville’s rediscovery in the twentieth century, especially in the context of anti-totalitarianism, the rise of communist socialism and neoliberal critiques of the welfare state. Raymond Aron laid the cornerstone of Tocqueville’s rediscovery along these lines when he explained “Tocqueville means by the term democracy, a social state and not a form of government.” Following in this tradition, François Furet similarly noted that this emphasis on democracy as a social form blinded him to the positive potential of the state: “[Tocqueville] accumulated the political inconveniences of statification [étatisation], without yet presenting any of its practical advantages.” And Sheldon Wolin’s commanding intellectual biography states straightforwardly that for Tocqueville “the democratic state is a contradiction in terms.” Indeed, it is precisely as a liberal critic and theorist of democratic society—as opposed to a theorist or historian of democracy as a form of state—that Tocqueville’s work has been so generative for more than a half century.
And yet, there are some deep historical problems with such a reading of Tocqueville.
For one thing, it has entirely evacuated any positive conception of administrative power found throughout Tocqueville’s work. Of course, like his liberal contemporaries and predecessors, Tocqueville shared a suspicion of the absolutist and terrorist state. The state nonetheless sat at the center of his preoccupations. As we know, on a personal level, Tocqueville spent the better part of the July Monarchy and the Second Republic in the state’s service, not to mention his off-and-on lifetime engagement with local government in Normandy. Tocqueville spent the central years of his life as a “statesman.” This alone might raise doubts about a profound anti-statism in his work.
Beyond the personal, however, such an approach projects back onto Tocqueville a relatively limited conception of the state, one that is largely borrowed from twentieth-century European social theory and sociology—especially interpretations of Weber’s account of state power. Tocqueville clearly conceived of the modern state as a bureaucratic hegemon invented by absolutism and then realized through the despotic tendency within post-revolutionary French political culture. However, alongside this institutional account, Tocqueville also explored a history of different ways of deploying power, a diversity of technologies and objects around and through which regulatory capacities and administration were constituted. For Tocqueville, administrative power was not a thing, nor some singular mechanism that operated in the same way in all times and all places. It did not have normative or monopolistic properties which lorded over all societies across time and space. Rather, administrative power contracted, expanded, structured, invented, and interacted with a variety of other governmental and social practices over the longue durée. In short, for Tocqueville the state was a historical process.
What follows brings this line of thought under new light to understand how Tocqueville’s work contributes to a history of the democratic state. To do so, it shifts away from the overwhelming emphasis in Tocqueville’s thought on democratic equality and instead examines his perspective on the problem of inequality in modern democracy. An investigation of Tocqueville’s understanding of the problem of inequality reveals a profoundly revised vision of the relationship between democracy and the administrative state in his work. What appears is both a consistent critique and a recognition of the importance of administrative power and administrative law in modern democratic regimes. In other words, Tocqueville cultivated an ambivalence toward public administration that at once recognized its potential dangers while maintaining the imperative of effective administration in a modern democratic regime.
While one cannot deny Tocqueville’s usefulness as a critic of modern administrative power, it is equally important to recover this parallel stream in his work, which highlights his positive conception of administration. Across his oeuvre Tocqueville posed the question of how to cultivate an administration and public law that provided public services in the interest of the citizens within a democracy. From Democracy in America through The Old Regime and the French Revolution, and especially in his lesser-known texts on administrative law, he recognized that public administration and extensive regulatory power was necessary in modern democracy.
Tocqueville’s positive theory of the administrative state therefore went beyond prophetic foreboding, seeking to understand how this state could develop the infrastructural power and mechanisms necessary for the provision of services and goods in the public interest. He theorized a state in society: a state that did not so much dominate society as emanate from it. In doing so, he established a foundation upon which an entire generation of democratic thinkers would begin to reconsider the state in democracy.
Analyses of the problem of inequality can be found in many of Tocqueville’s texts, large and small, suggesting that this topic was of central importance to his conception of democracy. Tocqueville remained convinced that, if left unchecked, modern capitalism in a democratic society would generate what he called “a new aristocracy.” In his “Memorandum on Pauperism,” written following his visit to England in the 1830s, Tocqueville clearly admitted that “industry has preserved a form of aristocracy in modern nations, just as all the institutions and mores to which aristocracy gave birth are disappearing.” Tocqueville’s political economy was in effect pulled in two directions at once: toward a conception of an “equality of condition” on the one hand, but also toward a new form of modern inequality on the other. As he wrote in his discussion of the industrial proletariat in Volume II of his Democracy in America: “This state of dependence and misery in which one finds a portion of the industrial population is in fact exceptional and contrary to all that surrounds it.”
While there had always been inequalities, the situation of the new industrial proletariat was very different for example from the poor peasants of the past. “The isolation of distinct classes” was for Tocqueville an innovation of the eighteenth century. However, the modern centralized administrative state that had emerged from Absolutism and the late phases of the Revolution was poorly placed to overcome the new kinds of inequality emerging within democratic society. The new technologies of government that emerged during the administrative revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were more suited to isolating and levelling individuals than actually helping them. In the realm of the administrative state, this paradox raised the issue of how to solve modern social and political problems democratically without reinforcing the state’s nefarious tendencies to disempower individuals. Any remedy, in effect, ostensibly worsened the disease. So how could public authority respond to the tendency toward inequality without worsening the social atomization and disparities structurally produced by a central administrative power?
The response lies in a recognition that the history of administrative power in Tocqueville’s work is characterized by the coexistence of two historical forms of administrative power. “Under the old monarchy, there were only ever two ways of administrating,” Tocqueville argues, pointing toward administration by assembly or by a single appointed official. Let us refer to these two modes of administrative power under the titles local police regulation and central state administration. The former was traditionally used to govern cities, and as Tocqueville points out in The Old Regime and the Revolution, “the assembly not only governed and oversaw the administration, but administrated as well.” Local police regulation was inherited from the medieval period, slowly displaced by the new absolutist administrative apparatus. This new technique of government paved the way for a Revolution designed to “abolish the political institutions that had, for many centuries, reigned without rival.” Local police regulation, however, had not entirely disappeared: “In France, even in the eighteenth century, there are still a few vestiges,” he writes. Indeed, in some places he suggests that the competition—and incompatibility—between these two administrative forms helped shape the Revolution.
As is well known in the Tocquevillian story, absolutist central administration introduced a form of equality that would ultimately prepare the foundation for the democratic revolution. But, surprisingly, Tocqueville suggests that there was an earlier “democratic” form of administration grounded in local police regulation. “Louis XI restrained municipal liberties,” Tocqueville argues, “because their democratic nature frightened him; Louis XIV destroyed them without fear.” Tocqueville speaks of this “democratic” principle on a number of occasions. “During the middle ages,” he explains, “inhabitants administered themselves democratically . . . even in eighteenth-century France one could still find traces.” Hints of this previous democratic administration could be found everywhere: “Up through the end of the seventeenth century one can still find [cities] that continue to form little democratic republics.” And in some cases, it continued even up to 1789: “Until the Revolution, rural parishes in France conserved within their government something of this democratic nature.” This previous democratic tendency of local police regulation was distinct from modern democratic equality prepared by a centralized administration, since it had been largely dismantled by the new central state. Tocqueville’s history of administration and its relationship to democracy was, in fact, double.
But if it existed as a historical alternative, how did this regulatory power, this “democratic” administrative edifice, that Tocqueville introduces actually operate? Tocqueville provided a fairly clear analysis of his conception of this form of public authority. He defined the possibility for effective democratic intervention along three essential lines. First, as he insisted on numerous occasions, this public authority was not an autonomous territorial administrative apparatus. In keeping with the chiastic nature of modern democratic inequality, the construction of any permanent large-scale administrative structure would necessarily increase equality as well as servitude and atomization. It would therefore create a class of poor people without social resources, unable to respond to the periodic crises of industrial capitalism that increased modern inequality. But while it was necessary to avoid the construction of a habitual administrative apparatus, it was still necessary to have a public authority that intervened regularly into the daily lives of citizens.
The notes to his chapter on New England administration in Democracy in America reveal a kind of fascination with the effective regulation of daily life in New England. “Observe the Town Officer,” remarked Tocqueville, adding the extraordinary display of administrators in the smallest county: “Select men, Assessors, Collectors, Schools, Surveyors of highways.” Observing this list of administrators, what struck Tocqueville was not so much their incapacity to act, but rather their extraordinary penetration into everyday life: “Law descends into the minutest details,” noted Tocqueville in Democracy in America: “It determines both the principles and the means of their application; it encloses the secondary bodies and their administrators in a multitude of obligations.” He then provided a series of examples: “The State forbids traveling on Sundays without motive . . . the selectmen authorize the construction of sewers, designate places for building slaughterhouses, and where it is acceptable to build certain types of commerce that may be harmful for the neighborhood.”
So, as central as Tocqueville’s critique of administration was, it did not by any stretch lead to a blanket condemnation of intervention on behalf of public authority. Tocqueville’s argument was as far as one could imagine from a laissez-faire liberal critique of all public authority—it was a recognition of the capacity for regular public action in a potentially thriving democratic regime.
As Tocqueville understood it, this intervention of public authority was also often driven by necessity. That is, it needed to be able to intervene in moments of emergency or crisis in the public interest. This was particularly the case in the context of pauperism: “I recognize not only the utility, but the necessity of public charity applied to inevitable dangers . . . ; I further insist on its momentary utility in times of public calamity.” And then, highlighting the importance of state intervention in these cases, he writes: “The alms of the State are in such cases as instantaneous, unpredictable and passing as the harm itself.” The ambition of public authority was to act effectively and immediately when necessity called.
Finally, central to Tocqueville’s conception of the public authority was that it could not operate by creating an overarching, permanent and centralized administrative system. Instead, this model of public intervention had a larger, more ephemeral goal—it helped maintain and regulate public welfare. “This simple exposé speaks for itself,” noted Tocqueville in his essay on pauperism: the state is responsible for “the interest of order and public morals.”
So how might one explain the apparent paradox between Tocqueville’s critique of central administrative intervention, and his interest in this capacious mode of public interference into both the exceptional and the everyday features of modern democratic life? Throughout his work, Tocqueville’s conception of the relationship between democracy and the modern administrative state had a double character. Yes, there existed the dangers of excessive administrative centralization which engendered an alienating mode of individual equality. But there remained a second mode, which tied to the problem of alleviating inequality. This, more democratic administration in his view was grounded in modes of popular participation through both administrative surveillance and regular public consultation. Tocqueville imagined a robust regulatory power, operating the name of the public interest, acting in moments of social need and public crisis, and carefully adapted to its time and place. It was this second mode of state action, he argued, which offered a foundation for a just and effective mode of democratic administrative power.
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Network Rail had gradually increased its requirement from the initial 66,000 sq ft office space. Solicitors were working on the smaller deal when Network Rail decided that it was right for them to take all of the remaining space at the building on a 15-year lease.
Bruntwood's development director, Peter Crowther, said: "Commercially, this is great news for everyone involved, but we understand the deal has a much wider impact.
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Square One was bought by Bruntwood in 2002. Since then the firm has spent more than £11m refurbishing the former parcels depot.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to head the National Council for Climate Change (DNPI) coordination meeting at the Presidential Palace on Friday. “This is a routine meeting that is held twice a year. The agenda for the meeting is a report on the activities of the chairman and to receive instructions from the
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Agus added that the chairman of the REDD+ task force, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, would discuss mechanisms to reduce greenhouse emissions, as well as the REDD+ mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “The meeting this time is quite special because it will [discuss] the national act on reducing greenhouse emissions and REDD+,” he said as reported by tempointeraktif.com.