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15 August, New York, United States - On 26 June, in UNDP Hank Shannon room, The UNITAR New York Office convened a unique seminar on addressing multilateral peace and security issues through a lens of inclusiveness. In view of current critical challenges, the discussion specifically focused on strategies and realities for an inclusive Iraq. Well known scholars, Professor Thomas Hill from New York University Center for International Cooperation, Professor Eric Davis, from Rutgers University as well as a research fellow, Dr. Michael O’Hanlon, from the Brookings Institute led the discussion. This seminar served several purposes: to learn more about current and compelling challenges in regional and multilateral security; to discuss the notion of inclusiveness as policy goal; and, to discern the possibilities for starting an interdisciplinary research link with academia.
Professor Davis emphasized Iraq’s historic memory as a country of religious groups living side by side, not just Sunni and Shia, but also with Christians. He explained that this tradition should be extracted in terms of creating a national unity government. He also made it clear that the Sunni’s in Iraq are not by default supporting ISIS, even if they are not supportive of the present Government. On the other hand, Dr. O’Hanlon juxtaposed the possibility for moving forward with an inclusive government. On this issue of governance, one delegate questioned why the present government, which was recently elected to office, would have to accommodate a mandate it did not support. This brought into question elections and inclusiveness.
UN representatives from United Nations Development Programme, Office of Legal Affairs, and Security Sector Reform Unit (SSRU) also participated in the seminar discussion. SSR, for example, discussed its seminar in Baghdad in early June on democracy and security sector reform. The SSR Interagency Task force Coordinator, Snezana Vuksa-Coffman, pointed out how only though the creation of inclusive societies, were post conflict countries able to move forward from the scars of war, with a longstanding period of relative peace and respect. Delegates took a careful note of her recommendations.
The initiative for creating a link to universities for pre-search, issue spotting, and programming ideas was considered a worthwhile proposal, especially for fostering respect and inclusiveness. This link could provide a source for scholarly input for concerns in peace and development. In this regard, other issues that could be considered included the swelling number of internally displaced persons and refugees, the impact of conflict on development and the mechanisms for conflict prevention.
In the conclusion, the earlier points regarding Iraq’s historical respect for various religious groups living and working together, is an important beacon for Iraqi society. To this end, there was indeed great interest by Member States and by participants to continue exploring and discussing inclusiveness not only for Iraq, but for other regions and countries.
Shortly after the UNITAR NYO seminar, Security Council Members called on politicians to work together “in an inclusive and political process” to strengthen the country’s unity, sovereignty and independence.


“Unaccompanied minors” a colloquialism for the term “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UAC) defined in U.S. law as children under the age of 18 who arrive at a U.S. port of entry or who enter the United States without inspection. Policies developed to ensure the safety of this vulnerable population were enacted in 2008 under Chapter 8 of the United States Code at Section 1232. Under the regulations and subsequent legal rulings, these children were to be placed into the care of Health and Human Services – not ICE pending safe repatriation or placement in a qualified facility.
Since March, under the shroud of policies implemented as health directives to combat COVID-19, protection typically afforded these young migrants has been abandoned. ICE is detaining these unaccompanied minors in hotels while trying to summarily remove them from the United States. Lawyers for child advocacy groups are seeking legal intervention to end the practice.


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Lasrick writes "Danielle N. Lee, Ph.D, the Urban Scientist blogger at Scientific American, has been mistreated twice: once by the blog editor at biology-online.org and now by SciAm itself. The blog editor asked Dr. Lee to contribute a blog post at Biology-Online, and when she declined (presumably for lack of monetary compensation), the blog editor asked her whether she was 'an urban scientist or an urban whore.' Then, SciAm deleted her blog post, in which she wrote about the incident."
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Rattles are instruments of ritual used to put the participant in the correct state of mind for the ceremony. They also have a history of being toys given to infants, also to put them in the correct state of mind, i.e. quite.
The rattle babies seem to scream quietly, until shaken. They are a combination of our animal and human selves. As is the tradition in composite creatures they are given aspects of the animal they are combined with, sort of a shadow self and or an animal guide. I also feel compelled to give them the tools they may need to survive. A baby human, bird or deer all need protection and camouflage. A hawk needs the rabbit, a fish the sea. Batboy instead carries the weight of our fear of our animal selves in his little body. He carries the burden of the love/hate relationship we have with this myth of the super hero/monster. A human who carries too much animal, the unwelcome aspects (the wolf-the bat) becomes either a hero or quickly an evil creature to be avoided or stamped out. But as a baby we feel connected somehow to this animal and thereby to ourselves. I know some may look and see only the strangeness of it all but I’m hoping for a small recognition of the self.

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New battle over Hyde Park plansMontopolis Neighborhood Plan also postponed Last night, the Planning Commission postponed until July 10 consideration of whether to rescind the group’s approval of the Hyde Park Neighborhood Plan, but not without a fight. Commission Chair Betty Baker said Commissioner Silver Garza, who was absent, had asked to postpone the matter because he could not attend last night’s meeting. Garza, Baker and two other commissioners signed a letter asking the City Council to return the plan to them so they might reconsider their previous approval. That letter caused the Council to postpone consideration of the plan last week. (See In Fact Daily, June 15, 2001) Commissioner Robin Cravey was adamantly opposed to the delay. Baker said she was ruling—as Chair—that the request from Garza would be honored. Cravey, the parliamentarian of the commission, said he was appealing the ruling of the chair to the full commission. He took the position that the item was not properly on the agenda because those requesting it had not given a reason for reconsidering the contentious matter. The commission upheld Baker’s ruling that the item was proper on a vote of 4-3, with Commissioners Jim Robertson, Ray Vrudhula and Sterling Lands joining Baker. Commissioners Jean Mather and Lydia Ortiz voted with Cravey, and Commissioner Ben Heimsath, a Hyde Park resident, abstained. Baker asked for one neighborhood representative to tell the commission whether the case should be postponed until next Tuesday or July 10—since the commission is not meeting on July 2. Neighborhood leader Karen McGraw said, “Next week is the only week in my life that I have chosen not to be in this city because I have put in 10 years on this plan.” She said she wondered when all eight commissioners would be there, concluding, “How long will we be held hostage by the ( Hyde Park Baptist) church? Because they are using you.” Baker warned her, “We will not hold a public hearing on July 10. We will consider whether we can reconsider and rescind.” Lands made the motion to postpone. Heimsath abstained and the motion passed 4-3 on a vote identical to the previous one. The battle is basically over whether the church is required to comply with the Hyde Park Neighborhood Plan’s strict regulations or only with the regulations set forth in the church’s NCCD of 1990. (See In Fact Daily, May 23, 2001, May 24, 2001) The church had previously asked to be explicitly left out of the Hyde Park NCCD—a zoning overlay modifying the existing Land Development Code. The second was to add land to its own NCCD, which was created in 1990 to cover property the church owned at the time. Montopolis neighbors ask for delay Members of the commission also postponed a decision on the Montopolis Neighborhood Plan once again. The accompanying zoning issues, which were under a separate agenda item, were also put off. Both items will be addressed at the commission’s July 17th meeting. City staff requested postponement of the zoning issues related to the Neighborhood Plan, saying that there was not adequate notification to all the property owners. But staff recommended going ahead with consideration of the Neighborhood Plan itself. Mario Flores with the Neighborhood Planning and Zoning Department told Commissioners that delaying consideration of the plan could have some unintended consequences. “Other property owners can continue to bring their (zoning change) requests forward. It would cause a line of people to come up requesting action by the Planning Commission,” Flores said. “By adopting it now, we can preserve the vision and the land-use map that the neighborhood constructed.” Neighborhood activist and former Planning Commissioner Susana Almanza expressed frustration with the process up to this point. “Every time we have come up here the maps have changed,” Almanza said. “Last Thursday we had another meeting, and we were presented with another set of maps of our neighborhood plan.” Almanza requested additional time for members of the neighborhood to study the map. That map included a proposed airport overlay. That overlay is designed to prevent residential development on land under the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport flight path (see In Fact Daily, May 2, 2001). Principal Planner Carol Barrett told commissioners that the overlay had previously been presented to members of the Neighborhood Planning Team. “The meeting that was conducted last Thursday was for the Department of Housing and Community Development to present to the neighborhood a proposal for re-zoning for the potential Jockey Club tract. It did not change the content of the plan,” Barrett said. “The airport overlay proposed by the Department of Aviation has been on the map and presented to the Neighborhood Planning Team.” Cravey argued for hearing the plan and voting on it, Lands sided with Almanza and called for a postponement. “We honor the requests of other communities from other parts of this city,” Lands said. “It appears to me that if this community comes to us and makes a legitimate request, we should show to them the same level of interest in their concerns as we show to other communities.” The vote to postpone was 4-3, with Commissioners Ortiz, Robertson and Cravey opposed. Design Commission hears City Lofts' plan for condos Plans proceeding in spite of slowing economy A Dallas developer is moving forward with the Austin City Lofts (ACL) on Fifth Street and West Avenue, despite the downturn in the local Austin economy. The 11-story ACL is an 82-unit condominium project being developed by CLB Partners Ltd. CLB is best known for its flagship development of the 2011 Cedar Springs Road condominiums in downtown Dallas. Architect Brett Rhoadie of Page Southerland Page presented the ACL to the Design Commission last night. The project made its first round of city commissions last fall, when the developer was seeking variances to build in the 100-year floodplain. After negotiations with various city departments, Page Southerland Page has made some adjustments in the design of the project, which will sit on the east bank of Shoal Creek. The project will be located on the site where Miguel’s Imports is currently doing business, across from the new Post Properties project and the unfinished Intel project. The Design Commission is expected to make a recommendation on Smart Growth points on July 2. Rhoadie would like to see the project go to the City Council next month. Negotiations last fall between the developer and the city allowed variances for CLB to build up to 165 feet under DMU zoning with a CURE overlay. “We are almost finished with the Smart Growth process,” said Rhoadie, adding that he had one final meeting scheduled with the Downtown Area Neighborhood Association. “We’re ready to go back to George Adams with our final drawings—and submit your comments—in the next couple of weeks. “ The size of the ACL condominium units will range from 1,100 to 3,500 square feet, Rhoadie said. He gave no indication of the price range of the condominium units, but said that CLB is already selling them and intends to start early foundation work in August, with the intention of pulling a building permit in early September. The developer has purchased the Jaguar dealership next door, sold the property and leased it back for an ACL marketing center, Rhoadie told commissioners. Floodplain issues presented the biggest hurdles for the project. Negotiations with the city have included raising the building two feet off street level. The project was also pulled back 66 feet from the centerline of Shoal Creek. The lower level of the garden, where the service entrance and pools would be located, is 7 to 8 feet below the flood plain and would flood in a 100-year rain event, Rhoadie said. The garden will be surrounded by a limestone trellis, which will face Shoal Creek. CLB’s offer to build a trail along the east bank of Shoal Creek, Rhoadie said, was turned down by the city Parks Department because of a neighboring project’s plan to offer a hike-and-bike trail along the west bank. ACL, with its copper-plated shingle siding, will feature a ground floor garden on Shoal Creek, a Fifth Street arcade with 2,700 square feet of retail space and a four-story garage, with one floor underground. Six stories of the building will be devoted to flats. The top two floors will be two-story lofts featuring downtown views. Page Southerland Page is the architect on the CSC project downtown and the Barbara Jordan Terminal at the Austin Bergstrom International Airport. The limestone façade on the CSC exterior will be a feature of the lower floor of the ACL tower and possibly also the garage. Rhoadie said the developer is still debating whether the garage should be finished in a copper patina mesh or with the more expensive limestone façade. The design of the ACL will go to a three-member panel of the Design Commission for evaluation. The most significant objection to the project—raised by Commissioner Philip Reed—was a desire to see retail on the project stretch closer to the sidewalk and out to the corner of West and Fifth Street. Rhoadie told commissioners the retail on the project was not considered to be a moneymaking venture for the developer. Instead, the space would be offered up for low-intensity retail, such as a gallery or bookstore. The West Avenue side of the project, however, will be limited because of the need to provide emergency exits. Austin Energy regulations also stipulate that the transformer be located at ground level on the West Avenue side, leaving a blank wall along that face of the building. Rhoadie expressed some concern about a wall that might go up on the Marketplace Project on the opposing bank of Shoal Creek. Chair Juan Cotera pointed out that that project had not yet come before the Design Commission, while other commissioners commented that the Smart Growth matrix had increased out of concerns over the project. “It was the fertilizer from which Smart Growth grew, and all that it entails,” Commissioner Girard Kinney said. To which Cotera remarked that it was time to raise the standards. “And now it’s time to get rid of the fertilizer,” quipped Cotera. ©2001 In Fact News, Inc. All rights reserved. Seen lunching at El Sol y La Luna yesterday . . . Clarke Hammond, president of the South River City Citizens neighborhood group and Terry Irion, attorney for developer Michael Alelli of the condos Hammond has dubbed the Villas at Exposé. We’ve heard that Alelli hates that name, but that’s what happens when you locate across the street from “a gentlemen’s club.” . . . Documentary on Austin’s World War II veterans . . . A locally produced video project will enlist Austin’s youth to write, produce, edit and market the documentary. The Austin Project will host a round table today at 5:30 p.m.at the Lorraine “Grandma” Camacho Activity Center to introduce the project to the community. For more information call 391-1863 . . . Postponed again . . .The Planning Commission postponed a decision on a requested environmental variance for Clayton’s Crossing last night. Commissioners did hold a public hearing on the variance for a driveway on land owned by CongressmanLloyd Doggett (D-Austin), but wanted more information from city staff before taking any action. The item will be reconsidered at the July 10th meeting after commissioners get documentation on whether the site, which currently has two homes, is a legal lot. FYI Dallas Morning News Special Website on development districts: http://www.dallasnews.com/extra/0610denton/index.html
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Royal Plaza now open in downtown location
Royal Plaza Workwear is now open for business in their new downtown location.
The store is located at 76 Ontario Road and opened yesterday (Jan. 11).
Steve and Lori Vanhevel, owners of the Royal Plaza, are the owners of the corner property, which was the former location of Shanghai Restaurant, B & B Pet Supplies, Four Season Beauty Salon and the law office of Richard Pickett.
The building at 76 and 78 Ontario Rd. sustained damage in the April 15, 2010 fire, which destroyed the Dollar Haven building and closed the West Perth Youth Centre and Mitchell District High School COPE building.
Since the purchase of the building in July, the Vanhevels have completed extensive renovations.
"The entire interior of the building is new," said Lori, adding, "the building had a new face lift, new windows. We have had a lot of compliments about the facelift in the front, so we're excited. It (the building) has come a long way in a short period of time.
"This is a great location for us (Royal Plaza Workwear) to increase our visibility. We wanted to get onto main street," she said.
The move also came with a slight increase in square footage. Lori said she is offering all the same services and workwear.
"We still offer custom screening and embroidery, full line of men's workwear that is high visibility, men's and ladies work boots and we are now carrying nursing uniforms and other women's items," she said.
The newly renovated building will also house a new business. The Kitchen Block will open in March in the former B & B Pet Supplies location. There are no plans for the rear of the building at this time and apartments are planned for the second floor.
"There will be apartments above but construction on the second floor has not started," she said.
Lori said another positive aspect of the move was being able to supply the West Perth Youth Centre and COPE program with a new home. The centre is working hard to open at the 89 Ontario Road location - the former location of Royal Plaza Workwear.
Royal Plaza Workwear is open Tuesday to Friday 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or phone 519-348-4700.

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Hand-crafted 30 inch 16 strand necklace. Glisten and sparkle in this beautiful piece. Zulu inspired tube sections intermix with separate 16 strand sections. Matching earrings and bracelet are sold separately.

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The chairman of the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (HNIT), Muhiddin Kabiri, was pelted with eggs and tomatoes on a visit to the southern city of Kulob.
The leader of the HNIT branch in Kulob, Muhammadsharif Nabizoda, told RFE/RL that unknown protesters assaulted Kabiri in Kulob after he had arrived to meet with locals on June 10.
Kabiri was holding the meeting on private property after local tax authorities closed the HNIT's office in Kulob on June 9.
In April, HNIT's deputy chairman, Saidumar Husaini, his son, and a member of the party's supreme council were beaten by a group of unknown men in the eastern province of Gorno-Badakhshan.
The HNIT is the only Islamic party in post-Soviet Central Asia that is officially registered and represented in a parliament.


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Police have charged a 43-year-old woman in connection with a food tampering incident at a northwest Calgary Co-Op.
A charge of mischief over $5,000 was laid against Tatyana Granada in relation to metal pins found in cheese and flatbreads at the Oakridge Co-Op on March 11.
There were several previous similar incidents in January and February and police are continuing their investigation into those events. The store increased security after the initial incidents and the store was hit again twice in March.
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Oh, yeah! Gotta have these at a picnic here in Pa.! Prep/cook time does not include chilling for 8 hours.
- 12 large eggs
- 1 (16 ounce) cansliced pickled red beets, UNDRAINED
- 1⁄4 cup water
- 1⁄2 cup cider vinegar
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup diced onion
- Hardboil the 12 eggs; cool and peel.
- While hard boiled eggs are cooling, boil the undrained can of red beets with the water, cider vinegar, brown sugar and onion in a medium saucepan. Boil for 10 minutes.
- Pour beet mixture over the peeled eggs and refrigerate at least 8 hours or overnight.
I just did 6 eggs, they turned out very pretty abd tasted quite beetty! I think next time I will add a few spices to the mix to get more of the "pickle" flavour. We enjoyed them and I like the idea of another reviewer to make them into stuffed eggs as an appetizer. I will make them again, thanks for posting.
Very tasty and pretty. I'm going to use them for pink deviled eggs, topped with a sprinkle of bright red caviar. for Valentine's Day. I added 1/2 teaspoon of Kosher salt, some freshly ground pepper (mixed color peppercorns) and about 1/2 tsp. red food coloring to the boiled mixture (my beets (julienne sliced) were not bright enough.) I also used dark brown sugar because I had just enough in the tail end of a bag leftover from Christmas. The only other thing I did was slice the onion thin rather than chop it. I used a complete white onion, a bit more than 1/2 cup. Will serve on a bed of romaine with chilled canned asparagus, maybe some artichoke bottoms I have on hand if they taste good when I open the can, Thousand Island dressing and the deviled eggs. Hope it makes a romantic first course. I won't tell DH there are *beets* in the recipe. He thinks he doesn't like them and I'll eat the veggie mix later, maybe as a sandwich garnish-He'll only see the pink eggs! All I will have left to do is keep the kids from eating the eggs and the asparagus before dinnertime. Those things tend to disappear in a hurry at our house!
These were so pretty and such a change from my ho-hum white eggs,The taste was great and my husband loved them.Thank you for this recipe.Darlene

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Is the State Spending Wisely on Multiple Studies of Future Transportation Projects?
May 04, 2011
In 2002, state transportation officials hired a consultant called Wilbur Smith Associates to study the possibility of creating commuter rail service between New Haven, Hartford and Springfield. The cost of the study was pegged at $940,000.
Nearly a decade later, that consultant is still working on the revised and expanded rail project. The cost of the state's contract with Wilbur Smith has mushroomed by 585 percent to about $5.5 million. Officials say this consulting job should be wrapped up in another two years.
None of the added work was subject to competitive bidding. Some of it even involved evaluation of proposed rail improvements in Vermont and Massachusetts.
“Nice work if you can get it,” is the judgment of state Sen. Andrew Roraback, the top Republican on the legislature's Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee.
State Department of Transportation officials insist they followed all the rules and regulations, that the awarding of all that extra work was perfectly proper and sensible, initially because Wilbur Smith was the firm most familiar with the project, and later because Connecticut wanted to cash in on some of the billions of dollars in federal aid that President Obama made available.
“If we wanted to be players in the high-speed rail program, we had to move and move fast,” says DOT spokesman Kevin Nursick. “We don't make these decisions on our own. … This is what the law dictates, so we follow it.”
So far, Connecticut has pulled in $161 million in federal aid for the New Haven-to-Springfield rail proposal, which is expected to have an estimated $547 million in “preliminary costs.” If all goes smoothly, state officials say, improved train service could be up and chugging by 2016.
The federal high-speed rail money DOT was hungering for became available in 2009 — seven years after Wilbur Smith first began working on this project. Another DOT-Wilbur Smith study, this one of the I-84 and Route 8 interchange in Waterbury, lasted almost seven years at a cost of $1.16 million, a tab state officials say has the potential to go even higher.
Speed isn't something people associate with Connecticut's bureaucratic beast of a transportation agency. Critics have complained for years about the DOT's lumbering pace and glacial approach to accomplishing almost anything. Former Gov. M. Jodi Rell once got so frustrated she proposed blowing the whole damned department into pieces.
And the seemingly endless studies and evaluations of the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield project isn't an isolated phenomenon. Nursick says his agency often runs into situations beyond its control, including changes in state or federal policy and shortages of project funding.
URS Corporation AES, for example, was hired in 2002 to do a study of the Danbury Branch Line. So far, that contract has cost more than $3.5 million and the latest estimated completion target is “winter 2011.” Nursick says the first $1.4 million of the contract was for a “needs and feasibility study” and that a second environmental review, costing $2.1 million, was added in 2006. He explains the DOT routinely assigns these types of secondary studies to the firm that did the initial work.
Close, Jensen & Miller got a DOT contract in August 2008 to do an environmental impact statement of plans to widen Interstate 84 between the New York line and Waterbury. So far, that contract is worth nearly $3.7 million and DOT records show no estimated end date because state officials say there is no money available to actually do the widening project.
The name of this particular consultant has surfaced in connection with two other controversial DOT undertakings.
An independent state auditor found significant design errors in plans drawn up by Close, Jensen & Miller for widening I-84 in Cheshire and Waterbury. That project collapsed into a scandal involving drains that led nowhere, falling lamp posts, a bankrupt contractor, the firing of an inspection firm (the Maguire Group of New Britain), and criminal and civil investigations. Even before the state began to correct some of the hideous construction flaws, this baby had racked up cost overruns of $13.4 million.
Close, Jensen & Miller was also involved in planning another big DOT project along I-95 in East Haven, where design flaws allegedly contributed to $9.5 million in cost overruns. The president of the consulting firm, John Miller, who spent a decade as one of Connecticut's representatives on the Republican National Committee, rejected allegations about flawed design work and denied that political influence played any role in his company's getting state work.
The Maguire Group (the one that was supposed to be inspecting that debacle on I-84) was also the consultant for a long-running, on-again-off-again study of the environmental impact of completing the Route 11 project in southeastern Connecticut. As of 2007, the tab for that sucker had reached $4.9 million, but it may not be done yet because Gov. Dannel Malloy is now talking about finally finishing that highway..
Following the earlier scandal, the Maguire Group was sold and now has new directors, according to state officials. The DOT has decided to keep it on its list of approved consultants.
Simone Cristofori, director of DOT consultant selection, says Wilbur Smith and the other consultants for these studies were all chosen as a result of her unit's annual “pre-qualification” of firms for different types of work. Once a consultant has been deemed qualified for a particular category, that firm goes on a list.
When a project like the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield line study comes up, Cristofori says all pre-qualified consultants in the appropriate category are contacted. Those who want the job are reviewed and top contenders are called in for interviews and a selection is made as called for by state and federal law, according to Cristofori. After a consultant is picked, the DOT then negotiates a “fair and reasonable” contract.
Apparently, nothing in state or federal law prevents the DOT from repeatedly expanding and extending these kinds of consulting deals.
Tom Maziarz, head of the DOT's policy and planning division, explains that the original $940,000 Wilbur Smith contract was expanded by $1.5 million in 2008 to have the firm do an environmental evaluation of the commuter rail concept. Another $1 million was added in 2009 and it was upped again last year by a cool $2 million last year because the state needed a lot more work done in a hurry if it wanted to grab a chunk of the high-speed rail money Obama was handing out.
“We had to show we were ready to go,” Maziarz says.
The added work (paid for by Connecticut taxpayers) for Wilbur Smith included doing some “systems level, program level assessments” of the regional proposals for high-speed rail in Massachusetts from and Vermont. The out-of-state work was necessary, Maziarz says, because Connecticut's application for the high-speed rail funding was linked to regional rail plans for other parts of New England.
Expanding the Wilbur Smith contract made sense, DOT officials argue, because that firm was intimately familiar with the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield corridor from its previous studying. “They were the best positioned,” Maziarz explains.
Now, Wilbur Smith has been commissioned to do some “preliminary design work” for the project, which explains part of that $5.5 million total tab. Four other consultants are coming on board to design new stations, additional tracks and signals, and revamped bridges and other structures. “I'm not sure we have an amount set for that yet,” Maziarz says of the additional design work.
The DOT's critics say commissioning a study is a classic dodge for government officials who don't want to put their asses on the line.
“We in the legislature are guilty of this as well,” Roraback says. “We know that when we don't want to make a decision, the easiest way out is to ‘study' something. And the DOT can ‘study' with the best of them, and put off making decisions.”
One former state official, who asked not to be identified, believes the DOT's desire to do so many studies of the New Haven-Springfield project resulted in part from the agency's old-line antipathy toward mass transit.
“If there's one area of state government that gets a grade of ‘needs improvement,' it's [lack of] accountability,” Roraback argues. “And if there's one state agency that has the greatest need in the area of accountability, it's the DOT.”
“An open-ended consulting contract invites excess,” he adds. “Consultants are given what amounts to a blank check. … It's just a bad system.”


By Kevin Boneske
ASHWAUBENON – An axe-throwing establishment in the Bay Park Square was granted a Class B beer license last month by the village board.
The application from Blades & Boards stated all sales will happen at the front counter with alcohol consumption taking place inside the venue.
Village President Mary Kardoskee said the venue would not have a free-standing kiosk in Bay Park Square serving alcohol.
“It’s like the axe-throwing place that’s up on Ridge Road,” she said.
Trustee Jay Krueger said he was concerned about mixing alcohol with axe throwing, but the owners of Blades & Boards assured him the business tries to limit participants to two beers.
Rachel Rowell of Blades & Boards said the business has two other locations in Wausau and Oshkosh and has been involved in axe throwing for almost five years.
“We’re over-the-top safe, very family-friendly,” she said.
Rowell said Blades & Board, first and foremost, is an axe-throwing facility.
“We love to have that mom and dad and their 12- and 14-year-old… come in,” she said. “We have axe coaches. Every one of my team members are trained on safety and all of that. I do have actual professional axe throwers that are your coaches. They teach you how to throw, and then they stay with you and monitor you as you’re throwing.”
Rowell said axe throwing is “the new bowling.”
“There are games to play, all of that type of thing,” she said. “It’s really just good family fun.”
Trustee Tracy Flucke, who cast the lone dissenting vote, said she didn’t think axes and alcohol mixed very well.
Flucke also expressed concerns about having alcohol available in Bay Park Square.
Rowell said Blades & Boards would be selling beer and cider, not hard liquor.
“I allow food to be brought in, so it’s cost-effective to families,” she said. “If they want to bring in a pizza, or they want to bring in their (peanut butter and jelly sandwiches) from home, dad can have a beer while they eat their pizza.”
Rowell said Blades & Boards is not a bar.
“I get very vocal when put into that category because I am not that category at all,” she said. “It’s solely just another option for – like I said – a beer… just like you would have a beer at a bowling alley or a beer at Friday night fish fry with your family.”
Rowell said the locations in Wausau and Oshkosh serve beer.
“The real difference between my locations and any other axe house out there is that I individualize the lanes,” she said. “A lot of axe houses will put two targets together, and they don’t individualize. I individualize not only each individual lane with chain link and wood… but behind, so you’re throwing distance is 12 feet, when you’re throwing a typical Estwing axe. We extend that 17 feet, so there is plenty of space, and never is a spectator allowed in that area or around where that would be. We have a huge distance between the thrower and where the spectator would be.”
Trustee Gary Paul said he hadn’t heard any complaints about the axe-throwing facility on Ridge Road, and as long as Blades & Boards would monitor alcohol consumption and have people protected, he didn’t have a problem with it.
Rowell said axe throwing won’t be sustainable as a sport if it isn’t taken seriously in a controlled environment.
Kardoskee said alcohol is already allowed in an establishment in the mall with Dave & Buster’s granted a liquor license.
“And that (restaurant) is actually geared for children,” she said.
Village Manager Joel Gregozeski said maintaining a two-drink limit for individuals participating in axe throwing would be acceptable to run the business in a safe manner.
“We’ve never had an incident at either location, and it’s been almost five years,” Rowell said. “There just won’t be.”
In other action, the board approved a site plan for Nielson Communications to build a 3,000-square-foot garage addition to the south side of its existing building at 645 Mike McCarthy Way.
Gregozeski said the plan calls for the exterior materials to primarily be metal wall panels, which are required under the village code to have concealed fasteners.
He said a minimum 3-foot masonry wainscot is also required for all new metal wall panels.
Gregozeski said the asphalt parking lot will be extended and have curbing as required by the code, with a dumpster enclosure relocated to the west side of the parking lot among the trees.
Because the property is located in the village’s Sports & Entertainment zoning district, the site plan required final approval by the board after being recommended last month by the Plan Commission.


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(Persia Digest) – Iran will not interfere in Sudan’s internal affairs, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi announced referring to the recent developments in Sudan as an internal affair of the African state.
“Iran's principled policy is not to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries,” Qassemi said on Thursday.
According to the spokesman, Iran has always called for, and will continue to call for the stability and security of the Muslim countries.
“We hope that all Sudanese parties would pursue their demands with restraint and peacefully while using all peaceful means and adopting the policy of interaction and dialogue,” he added.
Qassemi also expressed hope that peace and stability will be restored to the country, as soon as possible.

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HCM CITY — HCM City needs to be supported by specific mechanisms and policies that are strong enough to remove bottlenecks faced by the city and enable it to create breakthrough developments, experts said. Over the past decades, the city has always maintained its role as the country’s economic locomotive, but its economic growth has slowed down in recent years. Speaking at the seminar ‘Removing obstacles to drive HCM City’s economic development' held in HCM City on Tuesday, Assoc. Despite its economic growth slowing down, the city still has abundant internal resources. "We need to identify and address long-term problems to enable HCM City to regain its position and growth," he said.
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Orchard Park Town Board members Wednesday night tabled a request to rezone industrial land at Southwestern Boulevard for a car dealership.
The land is near the parcel People Inc. wanted rezoned last year for a senior apartment building. The board turned down the rezoning, and the human services agency is challenging the denial.
The town is not interested in rezoning industrial land, board members said.
"We are trying to protect [industrial land]," Councilwoman Nan Ackerman said during the board's work session.
She also said the town is in the middle of litigation, and rezoning a nearby parcel would jeopardize the case.
The Planning Board recommended the Town Board deny the request from Ray Laks to rezone vacant land at the southwest corner of Southwestern Boulevard and Mid County Drive from industrial to business. The car dealer wants to build a 28,000 square-foot care sales and service facility.
Ackerman said she discussed the town's position with Laks, and suggested the dealer look at another parcel.
The Town Board tabled the request Wednesday night because, Supervisor Janis Colarusso said, "We need to have further clarification and work with our lawyer."
Town Attorney Leonard Berkowitz recused himself from the issue because he represents the owner of the parcel, and the board wants to meet with Deputy Town Attorney J. Michael Wolf.
Also Wednesday, the board heard from a resident who favors the return to two regular board meetings a month.
Louis L. Boehm of Lake Avenue, who frequently comments during the "business from the floor" portion of regular meetings, told the board "almost everyone in Orchard Park applauds" the board considering reinstating two meetings a month.
The supervisor announced during the January reorganization meeting that one of the two monthly meetings would be replaced with a work session. Residents complained that the public is not allowed to comment at work sessions and would have only one opportunity per month to talk at the single regular meeting.
"The practice of limiting public meetings to reduce the incidence of repetitious requests from their constituents instead of considering the veracity of these supported requests is not representative," Boehm told the board Wednesday.
Councilman Eugene Majchrzak said the reason the board added another work session was to give it time to meet with department heads and listen to their presentations.
"There was never the intention to limit the public to one opportunity a month to speak," he said.


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COLUMBIA — Flash flooding was reported early Monday afternoon in parts of Boone County.
The National Weather Service posted a flood warning for Boone County, southern Audrain County and northwestern Callaway County until 5:45 Monday afternoon.
At 2:31 p.m., law enforcement reported water up to a foot deep flowing over secondary roads between Sturgeon and Centralia in northern Boone County, according to the Weather Service in St. Louis. The Weather Service advised that flash flooding can be expected to affect the Sturgeon and Hallsville areas in particular.
Sanborn Field on the MU campus reported 1.19 inches of rain through 2:50 p.m. Monday.
Boone County also remains under a flood watch through Tuesday evening.
Flood warnings were posted earlier this afternoon for several streams and rivers west of Columbia, with the flooding threat expected to continue across the area through Tuesday.
Rainfall of more than an inch Monday across parts of central and west-central Missouri prompted the National Weather Service to issue flood warnings for watersheds that include the Petite Saline Creek near Boonville and the Moniteau Creek near Fayette.
Remember: Do not drive through flowing water. The Weather Service reminds the public that nearly half of all flood fatalities are vehicle-related and that motorists can lose control of their vehicle in as little as 6 inches of water.
In Columbia, rainfall from Jan. 1 through Sunday totaled 8.06 inches, 5.46 inches more than the average of 2.60 inches.
Those totals will no doubt climb given the 100 percent chance for rain, heavy at times, Monday and Monday night. Occasional showers and thunderstorms are likely on Tuesday, with more heavy rain possible.
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A natural response for the dogmatist to make here is to tighten and finetune their account so as to exclude the over-generalisation cases presented above. One notable example of such a view is proposed by Chudnoff. On Chudnoff’s view, it’s not sufficient for a perceptual experience to make it seem to you that p in order for it to justify your belief that p. Rather, the experience must instantiate the property of having presentational phenomenology with respect to p. Chudnoff (2013) sets out the notion of presentational phenomenology as follows:
What it is for an experience of yours to have presentational phenomenology with respect to p is for it to both make it seem to you that p and make it seem to you as if this experience makes you aware of a truth-maker for p (p. 37).
Crucially, what distinguishes Chudnoff’s view from basic PD is the addition of the truth-maker condition. On this account, if my visual experience of the mug on the desk immediately and defeasibly justifies my belief that there is a mug on the desk, it does so in virtue of having presentational phenomenology with respect to that proposition, i.e. it both makes it seem to me that there is a mug on the desk and makes it seem as if I’m visually aware of an item in my perceptible surroundings that makes that proposition true. Thus, we get the following restricted phenomenal dogmatist view:
Presentationalism: S’s perceptual experience is capable of immediately and defeasibly justifying her belief that p if and only if the experience both makes it seem to S that p and makes it seem as if S is perceptually aware of a truth-maker for p.
There are good reasons to endorse presentationalism. One of the central motivations for the view is that the notion of presentational phenomenology chimes well with various characterisations of the epistemically significant phenomenal character of visual experience offered by phenomenal dogmatists in the literature, while providing a more robust diagnosis of this character.Footnote 7 Moreover, the presence of the truth-maker condition makes Chudnoff’s account better able to deflect over-generalisation cases, e.g. if presentationalism is true, then Markie’s wishful prospector cannot be justified in their seeming-based belief that the pebble is gold because what makes that proposition true, i.e. the chemical composition of the pebble, is not something that can figure into visual seeming awareness. Therefore, because the visual experience does not make it seem as if the prospector is perceptually aware of a truth-maker for the relevant proposition, it cannot lend justification to the relevant belief.
Now, in light of this development, let’s return to the emotions. We can transpose the theoretical machinery of presentational phenomenology over to the case of emotional experience in order to construct the following restricted account of emotional dogmatism:
Restricted Emotional Dogmatism (RED): S’s emotional experience is capable of immediately and defeasibly justifying her evaluative belief e if and only if the experience both makes it seem to her that e, and makes it seem as if she is emotionally aware of a truth-maker for e.
One interesting thing to note here is that RED, insofar as it places epistemic significance on the emotional experience making it seem to you as if you’re aware of a truth-maker for an evaluative proposition, fits nicely with the comments provided by Goldie, Tappolet, and Johnston in §1. Recall that in their respective descriptions of the epistemic power of emotions, Goldie described emotional feelings as capable of “revealing things about the world”, while Tappolet suggested that emotional experiences “allow us to be aware of certain features of the world”. The suggestion here that emotional experiences provide us with some sort of unique awareness about things out there in the world seems to closely match RED’s requirement of emotional experiences making it seem as if we’re aware of truth-makers for evaluative propositions, i.e. things out there that make evaluative propositions true. Indeed, Johnston explicitly uses the language of truth-makers insofar as he claims that “affect discloses evaluative truth-makers” (2001, p. 206), and that this (at least partially) explains what he terms the “epistemic authority” (p. 205) of affective experiences. By including the truth-maker condition, then, RED coheres with views about the epistemic import of emotional phenomenology in the surrounding literature, inherits the general advantages of the basic ED account and receives support from a more theoretically robust epistemological framework which avoids the pitfalls of basic dogmatism.
However, RED also faces significant challenges. Before presenting my own critique, let us first address a challenge levelled against RED by Brogaard and Chudnoff (2016). In their analysis, RED is rejected on the grounds that it builds phenomenologically unrealistic contents into the scope of emotional seeming awareness. For Brogaard and Chudnoff, emotional experience cannot bring seeming awareness of truth-makers for evaluative propositions because evaluative properties are not suitable objects of emotional awareness. Crucially, this is because evaluative properties bear a normative dimension; they merit certain emotional responses. For an emotional experience to make it seem as if I’m aware of an evaluative property instantiated by an object, that emotional experience would have to reflexively present itself as being epistemically merited by the object. This, for Brogaard and Chudnoff, cannot be true. Whether an object merits that particular emotional response is not something I can be aware of via my own emotional phenomenology.
I will not pursue this criticism against RED. Instead, I will propose a different challenge which focuses not on RED’s putative commitment to controversial phenomenological assertions, but on its commitment to controversial epistemological results. My reason for this is twofold. First, note that whether one finds Brogaard and Chudnoff’s challenge compelling relies on their having the intuition that emotional experience cannot bear a very specific kind of self-reflexive phenomenology. This doesn’t strike me as a commonly held intuition. There are those in the literature who, at the very least, are amenable to the suggestion that emotions can be experienced as being epistemically merited with respect to their objects, and some even propose accounts of emotional phenomenology in which this is explicitly the case.Footnote 8 Second, and relatedly, it seems at least prima facie plausible that our intuitions have significantly more reliability and argumentative traction within the domain of epistemological theorising, given the frequency with which counterexamples are cited as compelling objections to epistemological views. Our intuitions when it comes to specific introspective phenomenological claims, on the other hand, are plausibly less widely-shared, less reliable, and less dialectically compelling. For these reasons, §3.1 will solely pursue the forthcoming epistemological challenge against RED.
Objection: the dilemma of evaluative truth-makers
Here, I argue that RED’s inclusion of the truth-maker condition spells serious trouble for the view. Specifically, RED faces a dilemma in what seeming awareness of truth-makers for evaluative propositions consists in. Take an experience of fear towards an approaching snake. In order for that experience of fear to justify the evaluative belief that the snake is fearsome, the experience must both make it seem to you that the snake is fearsome and make it seem as if you’re emotionally aware of a truth-maker for that evaluative proposition. But what is the truth-maker for this proposition? RED, as expressed thus far, is silent as to whether the truth-maker consists in the evaluative property of fearsomeness itself, or whether it consists in the non-evaluative properties instantiated by the snake that give rise to the evaluative property of fearsomeness, i.e. the sharp fangs, the aggressive movements, and so forth. Call these ‘the evaluative property reading’ and ‘the non-evaluative property reading’ of the truth-maker condition respectively. The problem is that neither of these options looks promising for RED.
Let’s begin with the evaluative property reading, which can be spelled out as follows:
REDEP: S’s emotional experience is capable of immediately and defeasibly justifying her evaluative belief e if and only if the experience both makes it seem to her that e and makes it seem as if she’s emotionally aware of the evaluative property putatively instantiated by the object.
Immediately, a problem arises here. Namely, while the inclusion of the truth-maker condition seems to suitably restrict dogmatism in the perceptual case, it’s not at all clear that this reading of the truth-maker condition restricts RED at all. Reconsider Brady’s suspicious interviewer. The worry is that REDEP can’t exclude the interviewer’s emotional experience of suspicion because their experience satisfies both the seeming condition and the truth-maker condition. That is, insofar as the emotional experience already makes it seem to the interviewer that the candidate is duplicitous (and they’re not aware of any reason to distrust this seeming), then plausibly their experience of suspicion also makes it seem to them that the candidate instantiates the property of ‘duplicitousness’. The evaluative property reading of the truth-maker condition doesn’t seem to be adding any further requirement to emotional dogmatism, given that any emotional experience which satisfies the seeming condition will also satisfy the truth-maker condition. What else could it mean for an emotional experience to make it seem to you that the candidate is duplicitous, other than making it seem as if you’re aware of the evaluative property of ‘duplicitousness’ putatively instantiated by the candidate? Naturally, then, REDEP will continue to over-generalise to problematic cases precisely because, in practice, it’s no different to ED.
At this point, the defender of REDEP may argue that the case is under-described. In response to this over-generalisation worry, they might attempt to re-describe the case in order to motivate the plausibility of conceding justification to the interviewer. They may suggest, for instance, that the interviewer’s emotional experience of suspicion makes it seem as if they’re emotionally aware of the duplicitousness instantiated by the candidate because the interviewer is picking up on subtle duplicitous-making features of the candidate, i.e. that their emotional seeming awareness of duplicitousness is caused by their perception of certain mannerisms and micro-behaviours indicative of duplicitousness, such as avoiding the gaze of the interview panel, excessive talking, smirking, etc. Thus, the defender of REDEP might argue that the emotional experience makes it seem as if they’re emotionally aware of the property ‘duplicitousness’ instantiated by the candidate because they’re aware of the relevant pattern of non-evaluative properties. If this is the case, then conceding justification on the basis of these emotional seemings doesn’t seem problematic.
The problem with this response is that REDEP lacks the ability to distinguish between a case like this, i.e. a case in which the emotional seeming awareness of duplicitousness is caused by a seeming awareness of a pattern of duplicitous-making features of the candidate, and a case in which the emotional seeming awareness of ‘duplicitousness’ is caused by epistemically dubious cognitive biases (e.g. suppose that the candidate is a woman and the interviewer is unknowingly biased against women). The worry is that, insofar as the epistemically relevant emotional seemings—i.e. the seeming that the candidate is duplicitous and the seeming awareness of the evaluative property ‘duplicitousness’ instantiated by the candidate – can be grounded in either of these causal explanations, REDEP doesn’t have the tools to differentiate the good and bad cases; both types of emotional seemings (i.e. those produced by epistemically legitimate means and those produced by epistemically illegitimate means) have the same justificatory power. This is a bad result.
So, if the source of RED’s continued vulnerability to the over-generalisation problem is conceiving of truth-makers for evaluative propositions as evaluative properties themselves, why not abandon this claim and insist instead that the truth-maker for an evaluative proposition is the relevant set of non-evaluative properties instantiated by the object which would make the proposition true? This is the non-evaluative property reading, and can be spelled out as follows:
REDNEP: S’s emotional experience is capable of immediately and defeasibly justifying her evaluative belief e if and only if the experience both makes it seem to her that e and makes it seem as if she’s emotionally aware of the set of non-evaluative properties that, if instantiated, would give rise to the relevant evaluative property, and so make e true.
The attraction of this reading is that, unlike REDEP, it avoids obvious over-generalisation cases like the biased interviewer. Recall that, in this case, the interviewer’s emotional seeming awareness of the candidate’s duplicitousness is caused by their bias against women. This case would not meet the requirements of REDNEP precisely because the interviewer’s emotional experience is not making it seem as if they’re aware of the set of non-evaluative properties that would make the proposition ‘the candidate is duplicitous’ true. Rather, their experience is being triggered by the combination of their sexist bias and their perception of the candidate’s gender. Clearly, mere seeming awareness of the candidate’s gender does not amount to seeming awareness of the candidate instantiating particular non-evaluative properties which would make the proposition ‘the candidate is duplicitous’ true. Thus, REDNEP avoids the charge of over-generalisation because it can epistemically differentiate between the good case (i.e. the case in which the interviewer’s emotional seemings of duplicitousness are caused by their perception of duplicitous-making non-evaluative features of the candidate), and the bad case (i.e. the case in which the interviewer’s emotional seemings of duplicitousness are caused by their perception of the candidate’s gender and their bias against women).
The problem, however, is that REDNEP is now too restrictive. If we identify these conjunctions of non-evaluative properties as truth-makers, then very few of our emotional experiences would be capable of bearing justificatory power. It seems that only very basic emotional experiences, like fear of a snake or disgust towards spoiled milk, for example, are reliably capable of bringing the required wide-ranging emotional seeming awareness of the relevant non-evaluative properties that would make the relevant proposition (e.g. ‘the snake is fearsome’, or ‘the spoiled milk is disgusting’) true. Emotional experiences which do not figure into this very basic category often don’t bring awareness of the relevant non-evaluative properties.Footnote 9 Take an emotional experience of awe towards a piece of artwork which does not bring full seeming awareness of the non-evaluative properties which would make the proposition ‘that artwork is beautiful’ true, or an experience of amusement towards a particular state of affairs which does not bring seeming awareness of the particular amusement-making non-evaluative properties. Despite the absence of such fine-grained seeming awareness, it seems entirely possible that emotional experiences of this sort are capable of providing a positive epistemic contribution to the status of the corresponding evaluative beliefs. Thus, robbing these emotions of immediate justificatory power on the basis of their not fulfilling the strict phenomenological requirements for REDNEP strikes me as bad news for the view.
Here, there are two possible responses available to the defender of REDNEP. The first of which is to concede that, understood this way, the view ends up being restrictive but deny that this is problematic. Indeed, the defender of REDNEP might stress that the lesson to be learned from the over-generalisation problem is that we should be casting a narrow net around the emotional experiences capable of bearing justificatory power. We want to rule out cases in which emotional seemings look like they’re not grounded in epistemically legitimate observations of the relevant non-evaluative properties, and the best way of doing this is to impose strict constraints on what counts as emotional seeming awareness of truth-makers. If a consequence of this is that relatively complex emotional experiences which do not bring seeming awareness of the relevant non-evaluative properties end up getting ruled out of the account (insofar as they do not make it seem as if one is emotionally aware of a truth-maker for the relevant evaluative proposition), then so be it. The worry with conceding epistemic austerity here, however, is that one desideratum for a plausible version of a justificatory thesis of emotion is that it can account for how a broad catalogue of our evaluative beliefs can be justified by emotional experiences. If endorsing REDNEP means that we can only consider very basic emotional experiences as capable of bearing justificatory ability, then our dogmatist approach to emotional justification is failing to provide a satisfactory picture of the immediate justificatory capacity of emotional experience.
Secondly, the objector might argue that in these scenarios—take the amusement case, for example – my emotional experience is, in fact, making it seem as if I’m aware of the relevant collection of non-evaluative properties which would make the event amusing, I just can’t articulate exactly what those properties are. One suggestion in support of this might be something like the following. When prompted, i.e. when asked ‘what’s so funny?’, I can gesture vaguely towards the features of the situation that make it amusing, such as the particular comment made, the context in which it was made, and so forth, even if I can’t express the amusing-making minutia. In other words, I’m not at a complete loss as to what it is about the situation that makes it amusing, and this is all that’s needed for evidence of emotional seeming awareness of the relevant conjunction of non-evaluative properties. Therefore, we can tell some story about having emotional seeming awareness of the relevant truth-maker in these cases, and REDNEP doesn’t end up being objectionably restrictive with respect to the kinds of emotional experiences is bestows with justificatory power.
The problem with this response is that further ambiguity in what emotional seeming awareness of truth-makers consists in raises difficult questions for REDNEP. If all that matters for emotional seeming awareness of truth-makers is that the experience makes the subject capable of gesturing towards the non-evaluative features of the object which would make the relevant evaluative proposition true, then it becomes less clear that REDNEP is able to rule out problematic cases. Take the suspicious interviewer whose emotional seemings that the candidate is duplicitous are caused by sexist bias. Plausibly, their emotional experience of suspicion will make them capable of saying something about what seems to make the candidate duplicitous (e.g. “there’s just something about them”), but this still seems insufficient for the interviewer to be justified in their belief that the candidate is duplicitous. Substantively relaxing the notion of awareness in order to let in cases where the emotional experience doesn’t make it seem as if one is aware of (i.e. able to identify) all of the relevant non-evaluative properties runs the risk of letting the epistemically illegitimate cases like biased suspicious interviewer in through the back door.
In summary, RED is confronted with a troubling dilemma. Either we identify evaluative properties themselves as the truth-makers for evaluative propositions (REDEP), in which case the view continues to over-generalise, or we identify the relevant aggregate of non-evaluative properties as truth-makers for evaluative propositions (REDNEP), in which case the view rules out emotional experiences which, plausibly, are capable of immediately justifying the relevant evaluative beliefs. If endorsing RED means that we must commit to either an objectionably profligate account of emotional justification or instead one which is objectionably austere, then RED does not provide a suitable framework for thinking about the immediate justificatory power of emotional experiences.


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"The state clearly won this case, and I wasn't going to leave that room until I was sure that was reflected.''That's juror Kevin Edwards, commenting on the remarkable defense verdict in the Broward citrus canker case. Remember, this was a trial where liability was presumed, and the jurors were only deciding damages.
Plaintiffs' attorney Bobby Gilbert, who called the verdict a "partial victory and a partial defeat," was already talking appeal:
Hmm, as I suspected yesterday, this is not good -- indeed, the jury found the State's science "credible." That's a big problem, unless Bobby can get the appellate court to keep it out.
After the verdict was read, several jurors told homeowners' attorney Robert Gilbert that state scientists' assertion that the trees were subject to future infections was credible. Gilbert had fought to bar that testimony from trial.
''The judge allowed them to hear flawed science, and that was the determining factor in the jury's decision,'' Gilbert said. ``I wouldn't use the word insult, but the award was far less than full compensation, and we're not satisfied.''
The state embarked on its aggressive eradication program in 2000 to prevent the spread of canker -- a disease harmless to humans but one that blemishes fruit and debilitates trees. Despite a decade of work and about $1 billion in costs, the program failed. The state and the federal government abandoned the practice in 2006.
Attorneys for the state looked at the verdict as a partial victory, taking note of the praise jurors found in their evidence.
That could bode well for the state, which faces similar court challenges in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Lee and Orange counties. The state destroyed about 578,000 trees ''exposed'' to canker, including 133,700 in Broward and 249,000 in Miami-Dade.
''This was a defense verdict,'' said state attorney Wes Parsons. ``This was within the realm of what we thought might happen. We felt the trees lacked value of any kind.''
Both sides are expected to appeal the decision -- the state wanting to pay less and attorneys for homeowners hoping a new jury will raise the value of the trees.
Several homeowners, present for the 7 p.m. reading of the verdict, expressed disappointment. ''This is a big defeat,'' said Tim Farley of Parkland, who lost eight trees to the program in 2000. ``The Department of Agriculture put on a smoke screen, and the jury didn't see through it. This is not just and fair compensation.''
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The world was white-washed. Where barren trees had once cast their skeletal silhouettes into a grey sky, now they were adorned with budding leaves of snow. The drab streets, cracked beneath the weight of growling cars, had been transformed to white avenues a-purr with muffled motors.
Grey clouds had torn away to reveal an everlasting expanse of blue. Sunlight spilled out of the sky onto the snow, making sidewalks glitter. Depressed houses, huddled down for warmth, blinked open their shuttered eyes, and added their own icicle-laden sparkle to the world.
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