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The Scotsman · Dec 10, 2012

Dominant Celtic blow away Kilmarnock, and the post-Champions League blues

IT was perhaps only appropriate that Celtic should choose the same venue where they became SPL champions so emphatically seven months ago to deliver the clearest signal yet that they are ready to retain their title with plenty to spare...

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Sutton Makes Bold Parkhead January Transfer Claim

CHRIS SUTTON has made the bold January transfer window claim that this will the biggest window of Rodgers reign.

Rodgers Delivers Very Positive Ryan Christie Update

BRENDAN RODGERS has given Celtic fans somewhat of a boost after The Bhoys woeful performance in Edinburgh on Sunday afternoon.

Lawwell’s frustrations start to impact on the pitch

With four matches to go before the winter break Celtic are behind a club that struggles to attract 5,000 of their own fans to home matches and a tribute act that has been a laughing stock for six years...

The fact and fantasy of the January sales in Glasgow

I reckon that it is a rare enough event that Celtic have lost two games on the bounce under Brendan Rodgers.

Celtic’s forgotten midfielder is in demand

“These kinds of players cost a lot of money but if there was an opportunity there we’d look at it, obviously...

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Manager: Performance level was not what we’ve been used to

BRENDAN Rodgers was naturally disappointed with both the performance and result at Easter Road as his Celtic side, on the back of qualifying for the last 32 of the Europa League on Thursday night, lost 2-0 to Hibernian...

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‘Needs to Start’ – These Celtic Fans Agree On the One Positive from Easter Road Defeat

Most Celtic fans will be in agreement there are not many positives to take from their 2-0 defeat to Hibernian on Sunday afternoon.

Jackie McNamara & Simon Donnelly with A Celtic State of Mind

A Celtic State of Mind was recently named as the UK’s Best Football Podcast at the prestigious 2018 Football Blogging Awards.

The photograph that proves the Madness in Scottish Football

EASTER ROAD today, with the Celtic supporters on the right and the a few hundred Hibs fans – if that – on the left.

Hibs Stupid Ticketing Policy Cost Them And Us Today. No Wonder Scottish Football Is Sneered At.

Celtic fans have reacted in fury at the sight of hundreds, if not thousands, of empty seats at Easter Road today, as Rob Petrie’s latest decision saw our allocation reduced to a handful.

‘An Absolute Jinx’ – Some Celtic Fans Have Seen Enough After Latest Defeat

If you’re a superstitious person or even followed football since the 90s, you will know there is a certain amount of stock in omens in our game.

‘Disgraceful’ Celtic stars slated as fans demand Brendan Rodgers spends big – Hotline

Tony Haggerty took your calls as Hoops supporters were left livid after a much-changed side slipped to defeat against Hibs...

‘Out fought and out played’ brutal twitter comments back up Sutton’s assessment

This morning Brendan Rodgers revealed his need for two new strikers with Chris Sutton believing that a heavy spend in January is essential to get Celtic back on course...

Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers provides Ryan Christie injury update

The midfielder was stretchered off against RB Salzburg amid fears he’d sustained a serious injury...

Celtic keeper Craig Gordon warns players must step up before January transfer window – or face being replaced

CRAIG Gordon last night admitted that Celtic players face being replaced by January transfer window recruits if they continue to perform as badly as they did in their 2-0 defeat to Hibernian...

Brendan Rodgers Takes the Blame for Celtic’s Defeat at Hibs And Laments ‘Indiscipline’

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has taken the blame for his side’s defeat at Easter Road this afternoon, after deciding to switch to an unexpected back-three in the capital...

Craig Gordon admits Celtic players are wary of being axed

Craig Gordon admitted that Celtic’s players are fully aware they will be axed if they don’t raise their performance levels, with Brendan Rodgers looking to revamp his squad in January...

Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers points finger at sloppy defence as he defends tactics

Rodgers refused to use the tough Europa League shift against Salzburg on Thursday as an excuse for his side’s dismal defeat to Hibs...

Team News: KT, Rogic, Lustig and Christie OUT, Broony, Izzy, Ntcham and Ajer IN

CELTIC manager Brendan Rodgers has named a changed side from the one which lost to Salzburg on Thursday night.

Hibs 2 Celtic 0: Rodgers’ Seven and Hell

HIBS 2 CELTIC 0 BRENDAN RODGERS celebrated a magnificent seven at Hampden two weeks ago as Celtic beat Aberdeen 1-0 to win the Betfred League Cup – his seventh successive silverware triumph...

RTÉ Sport · 12h

Rodgers admits Celtic need new strikers in January

Brendan Rodgers acknowledged the need to replenish his striking options in January after Celtic ended the 2-0 defeat by Hibernian at Easter Road without a recognised centre-forward on the pitch...

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Scotzine · 13h

‘We Didn’t Play Well and That’s My Fault,’ Rodgers

BRENDAN RODGERS watched Celtic collapse to a 2-0 loss to battling Hibs at Easter Road this afternoon – and accepted the blame for the loss of three points...

Scotzine · 13h

Hibs Troll Celtic After Easter Road Victory

HIBS Twitter account has taken a shot at Celtic by posting a ‘You’re Welcome’ to Kilmarnock for keeping them top of the league this afternoon...

STV Sport · 13h

Rodgers to add to Celtic striker options in January

The Celtic boss admitted he needed reinforcements after seeing is side lose 2-0 to Hibs...

STV Sport · 13h

Celtic fans chief tweets critical message over Hibs’ ticket allocation

Celtic’s supporter liaison officer sent a pointed message aimed at Hibs over the ticket allocation for the game between the sides...

We rate Celtic’s players as they slump to a defeat against Hibernian

Celtic continued their poor away form this season as they slumped to a 2-0 defeat in Leith after a goal from Vykintas Silka seconds into the game and a second.

Europa League draw guide: Who can Arsenal, Chelsea and Celtic face?

The Europa League group stage proved to be a walk in the park for Arsenal and Chelsea and they will be joined by Celtic too as the trio of British sides sealed a spot in the round-of-32...

Celtic ratings from their defeat at Easter Road: James Forrest and the goalie get pass marks but as for the rest....

Continue reading “Celtic ratings from their defeat at Easter Road: James Forrest and the goalie get pass marks but as for the rest....” on Herald Scotland.

BBC · 13h

Rodgers ‘expects better’ of much-changed Celtic after 2-0 loss to Hibs

Celtic “expect to be better” when they make changes to the team, says Brendan Rodgers after the defeat by Hibernian...

BBC · 13h

Rodgers gives injury update on four players

Before kick off today Rodgers explained the injury situation to Radio Scotland: “Mikael picked up a knock and we’ll check on him for the midweek game, Kieran has had a hip issue which was feeling sore after the other night...

Brendan’s Plan To Sign Two Strikers Is Ruthless. But It’s Definitely The Right Thing To Do.

You cannot have watched our lamentable performance today, our complete lack of a creative spark, and doubt that Leigh Griffiths’ personal problems have given the manager an additional headache he really didn’t need...

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Rodgers predicts shock early return for Christie!

“He is now weight bearing, you never know, you never know, maybe next weekend but it was a sore one...

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Lawwell’s frustrations come back to bite

Four months after the window closed the team was given the runaround by Hibs, sit behind a club that struggle to attract 5,000 to home matches and could be leap-frogged by a tribute act that has been a laughing stock for six years...

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Jackie McNamara & Simon Donnelly with A Celtic State of Mind

A Celtic State of Mind was recently named as the UK’s Best Football Podcast at the prestigious 2018 Football Blogging Awards.

Half Hour Hoops · Dec 12

HHH #50 We Gotta Talk About Scott Brown.

Peter and Ryan this week cover the last weeks games and go over all the news and talking points...

Half Hour Hoops · Dec 12

View fixtures League table

1 “Rangers” 17 10 4 3 39 14 25 34
2 Kilmarnock 18 10 4 4 28 18 10 34
3 Celtic 16 10 3 3 36 10 26 33
4 Aberdeen 17 9 3 5 22 18 4 30
5 Hearts 18 9 3 6 23 24 -1 30
6 Livingston 18 8 4 6 24 16 8 28
7 St Johnstone 17 8 4 5 21 22 -1 28
8 Hibernian 17 7 5 5 28 19 9 26
9 Motherwell 17 5 3 9 18 27 -9 18
10 Hamilton Academical 18 4 1 13 12 38 -26 13
11 Dundee 17 2 3 12 14 36 -22 9
12 St Mirren 18 2 3 13 13 36 -23 9

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No let-up in HMRC football pursuits

News that Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric, former manager and owner of Portsmouth FC respectively, will face trial in January over allegations they attempted to defraud HM Revenue and Customs will cast a long shadow within the football business in what is shaping up to be a landmark year for the game’s relationship with tax authorities.

Unlike Rangers on-going HMRC case, which is a mere tribunal that will decide if a liability demand is valid, Radknapp and Mandaric face criminal charges.  Redknapp is one of England’s most popular sporting figures but no more so than former jockey, Lester Piggott, who received a three year jail sentence for tax evasion in 1987.

High profile wins, at Crown Court or a First Tier Tribunal, are likely to bring in more undeclared tax than a bus load of cartoon characters in bowler hats.

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  1. Masons, referees, blindfolds, bad decisions.

    Yes, maybe here is a link!

    What am I saying AAHHHH!

  2. They say that anti-pesticides are becoming less useful as the vermin become immune to their effect.

    The increased infestation on this site would suggest that our anti-pesticide witticisms are proving ineffective as they are flying over the heads of the uneducated.

    Anybody know how to dumb down?

    P.S. I reckon truth’s last attempt at a joke, on the previous thread, was him proving he did not know the ordinal that comes after third.

  3. Bobby – yes I am always weary of those knees.

    But truth be told its something I have been thinking about for a while – I’m 44 and its a big step – but what the hell you only live once. I could move to England (not short of job offers) – but needs to be something more radical for me.

    Lots of discussions with family ahead – but mind is made up.

    I have met Salmond on two separate occassions – once at a conference – he was charming publicly. Once where I helped host his visit to our workplace. We were in dispute with Unions at the time (these days I am a member of the management team) – he was a disgrace, a bully and didnt know how to deal with anyone directly. He blamed his staff for the visit – god knows how they put up with him.

    Alex Salmond – first dictator of an independent Scotland – has a certain ring to it dont you think?

  4. Awe naw

    from earlier thread, your post reminded me of going to Liverpool v Newcastle about 10 years ago with a friend who is a liverpool fan.I bought a celtic/liverpool scarf and got abuse from behind, unpleasant personal crap and anti celtic stuff. I chortled to myself when Shearer equalised and then a Danish fan asked the goons behind me to take a photo of him, they couldn’t even find the button ! I gave a nice little grin.

  5. Br\o/gan R\o/gan Trevin\o/ and H\o/gan on

    from the previous post.

    I note your comments and realise that this is a decision that is a long time coming and not taken likely.

    Whatever and wherever you decide for yourself and your family– God speed and best wishes in all things.

  6. lennybhoy

    Paul posted at the end of the previous page

    I knew some would miss it…. o))

  7. TBB

    No journalists name and they never named the match commander. I would expect more info from the invisible man. Still remain unconvinced.

    They say they are trying to locate the offenders but have never contacted the club ????

  8. truth

    I am normally pleasant and welcoming to thee, I can’t help thinking though that you don’t follow a football club and have a political interest in blogging on cqn (nothing wrong with that to be honest), out of curiosity, who played in defence behind Laudrup ?

  9. Neg Anon

    I understand how you feel as it’s a dangerous time for catholics/Irish in the best wee bigoted country in the world.

    Have been in New York for 20 years and love the fact that my kids could wear any sporting jersey they chose without me have to be paranoid about some hun attacking them.

    Lived in London before that for ten and that was ok except for a little brush with a hun at a party who asked me what school i went to.My retort of not the same one as you ya OB had people wondering why i suddenly reacted that way.He knew and left.

    America is not perfect but i feel a lot safer here than i ever do when returning to Britain and the ned culture that pervades.

  10. fan-a-tic says:

    13 November, 2011 at 16:57

    Neg Anon

    I understand how you feel as it’s a dangerous time for catholics/Irish in the best wee bigoted country in the world.

  11. Barrach Obampot on

    fritzsong @16:37 from the previous thread.

    Here is the link for template letters to your MSP about the deleted COPFS data and the Offensive Behaviour at Football Bill;

    gallagher the Lou Reed “interview” with Jeremy Vine is on the BBC iPlayer now I think.

    Jeremy Vine didn’t.

  12. I heard ther polis launched a daybreak raid on one of the GB’s hooses yesterday morning- huckling the poor soul for a weekend lie in and a Monday morning court appearance- possible the arrest they need to back up the songs complaint. When you think of the times we have heard the mini orcs, ironically chanting Paedo at us as well as the banned hello hello ditty, the sheep singing about our Glasgow slums and apparent diet of rats, and the rest of the SPL huns telling us that NL is a self abuser, and not one polis has been offended by any of that- what are real motives behind this?

  13. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo

    Thank you for your help and very kind offer. I hope, until third time and we will meet.

  14. Awe Naw

    What 4 “Celts in riot” headlines? I don’t look at the Sun but if the guy has previous, evidence it, so we can expose him for falsehood and bias.

  15. Br\o/gan R\o/gan Trevin\o/ and H\o/gan says:

    12 November, 2011 at 23:29

    As good as post as I have ever read on here. Thank you for posting that.

  16. Murray and Bain in jail and Rankers relegated to the bottom division and the titles won during their illegal acts revoked – justice demands nothing less

  17. Teammanager Harry Redknapp vom englischen Erstligisten Tottenham Hotspur ist am Donnerstag wegen Steuerhinterziehung angeklagt worden.

    Dies teilte ein Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft mit.

    Redknapp soll zwei Zahlungen fuer Olivier Barnard und Pedro Mended des ehemaligen Geschäftsführers Milan Mandaric in Höhe von insgesamt 203.000 Euro über ein Konto in Monaco erhalten und an der Steuer vorbeigeschleust haben.

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It has recently been reported that the Obama administration is seriously considering transferring the lead executive authority for targeted killings from the CIA to the military’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). President Obama should commit to implementing this in his forthcoming promised reforms of U.S. targeted killing policies.

My new CFR Policy Innovation Memorandum, Transferring CIA Drone Strikes to the Pentagon, explains how this decision would enhance U.S. national security:

  • Improve the transparency and legitimacy of targeted killings, including what methods are used to prevent civilian harm.
  • Focus the finite resources of the CIA on its original core missions of intelligence collection, analysis, and early warning. (There is no reason for the CIA to maintain a redundant fleet of armed drones, or to conduct military operations that are inherently better suited to JSOC, the premier specialized military organization. As "traditional military activities" under U.S. law, these belong under Title 10 operations.)
  • Place all drone strikes under a single international legal framework, which would be clearly delineated for military operations and can therefore be articulated publicly.
  • Unify congressional oversight of specific operations under the armed services committee, which would end the current situation whereby there is confusion over who has oversight responsibility.
  • Allow U.S. government officials to counter myths and misinformation about targeted killings at home and abroad by acknowledging responsibility for its own strikes.
  • Increase pressure on other states to be more transparent in their own conduct of military and paramilitary operations in nonbattlefield settings by establishing the precedent that the Obama administration claims can have a normative influence on how others use drones.

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E! News obtained documents on Monday, which confirmed that the Glee star’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was 0.095 percent at the time of his death, which is considered proof of intoxication under state law.

The toxicology report for Mark (35), who died on the 30 January 2018 from asphyxia by hanging, showed there were no traces of drugs in his system, reports People.

His death came just before he was to be sentenced for possession of child pornography.

Mark was arrested back in December 2015 after federal investigators reveal they found more than 25 000 images and 600 videos depicting child pornography on computers that belonged to Mark, reports Daily News.

The report also detailed what the actor did the last night before his death. Mark was apparently last seen alive while watching television with his father, John, in the living room.

According to Fox News, his mother, Condy, then noticed that her son and his car were missing around midnight. His roommate  found his house arrest tracking device "down the street".

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Inq28 – An introduction

I have talked about my fascination for Inq28 in many of the past articles and even some reviews, but as not everybody might be familiar with it, I'd like to explain what it is and where it came from.

Inq28 is short for Inquisitor 28, meaning Inquisitor in 28mm scale. Inquisitor was a roleplaying miniature game released in 2001 by the Games Workshop subsidiary Specialist Games, a company founded as an umbrella for all the non-core games (Blood Bowl, Epic, Necromunda and so on) published by GW. Other than the other games, Inquisitor went with a 54mm scale, and focussed very strongly on the individual characters. For Inquisitor was a softcover rulebook released, and often bundled in a starter kit with two of the 54mm scale miniatures and a pair of D8.  To give you an idea of the scale, here's a brief comparison of the Artemis and an Imperial Soldier in 54mm next to similar miniatures in 28mm. The 28mm Artemis is a conversion, made by myself in 2011, long before he got a official model with Death Watch Overkill in 2016.

Inquisitor Rulebook Inquisitor - 54 vs 28mm Scale Inquisitor - 54 vs 28mm Scale

As Inquisitor did not really cover point values and it was advised to use a game master, it relied strongly on the role playing and narrative component of the idea. It was non competitive, and the larger scale opened up new opportunities, but was the games major problem on the other hand, as you would require a complete new set of terrain, that would work with the larger scale. As the rulebook covered a lot of great artwork and most player were already within the Warhammer "circle" and owned at least a couple of miniatures from the Warhammer 40,000 range, people stayed with the idea but converted it into the already used 28mm scale. Therefore Inquisitor 28, or short Inq28.

And some didn't even stick to using the Inquisitor rulebook, they went on to use the old Necromunda rules or other rule sets, that they felt would. It is important to highlight, Inq28 isn't about a specific set of rules, within the scene a lot of different rule sets are used, depending on your group's preferences. And Games Workshop, or better said Fanatic Press and Specialist Games released a lot of additional content for the side games, providing the communities of Necromunda and Inquisitor with tons of pages of additional content. These enabled you to use even more exotic miniatures and inspired you to move beyond the limits of your imagination.

Necromunda Rulebooks Citadel Journal Fanatic Magazin

Inq28 is a very broad topic, and it is nearly impossible to explain it in only one article, so see this as a first introduction to Inq28, followed by further posts that will cover possible rules, references, links to communities and artists that coin the Inq28 scene.

Inquisitor warbands are usually around 3-5 characters, so even for a skirmish that is a low amount of models. In Inquisitor your warband is gathered around a protagonist, often an Inquisitor or some sort of character, that would inspire others to follow him. This character gathers an entourage of all kinds of different other character types, found in the lore of the Warhammer 40k universe (and the fund is here way deeper than just the fluff in the rule books or codices, it is gathered from the novells, from the Citadel Journals and so on). So your warband can be gathered around an Inquisitor from the Ordo Hereticus, Xenos or Malleus, a puritan or radical. And by that his motives and tools may be kept strict to the protocol or be wild and deep in the grey area. Or your warband isn't even build around an Inquisitor, maybe it is Rogue Trader with his retinue, an lower Imperial Agent on a secret mission, a demagoge of the dark gods, a cult leader or some imperial noble, with to much money to spend.

To give you an example using my rather large collection of old- to mid-hammer Warhammer 40k range, two exemplary warbands for Inq28.

On the left we have an Inquisitor that I converted from a Primaris Psyker to look like similar an older Eisenhorn. He's accompanied by a hired gun from Necromunda, an imperial Agent that went along to gather samples (he's from the old Warhammer 40k starter box Battle for Macragge), an imperial Flagellant and a meta-human ratling sniper.

On the right an old Rogue Trader era Adeptus Mechanicus miniature with power axe, supported by a hired gun from Necromunda, an old Servitor and a converted Cadian Karskin for some additional firepower.

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You could easily set up a Inq28 warband from one of the last boxed sets, like Kill Team Rogue Trader. Elucia Vhane, with two of her voidmen, a dog and a deathcult assassin.

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Or to move from the "loyal" warbands to followers of the chaos gods. One of the rogue psykers from Blackstone Fortress, along with a chaos cultists, a traitor guardsman and pox walker, as well as a converted Blightking with parts from the Ork Nobz, so look like a meta-human pit slave.

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Another band around a model from Blackstone Fortress, are these emissaries of the imperial house of navigators, the Navis Nobile. Having a bullgryn and an imperial soldier to guard them.

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All these examples are rather settled, not even touching that Blanche / Blanchitsu style, often found with Inq28 warbands. But that's a topic for a different blog post. I wanted to give you an idea of what Inq28 is about, a warband that has a motivation, a story to tell, using the broad lore of the grim dark. So expect this series to be continued soon, covering some of the communities and websites that are home to some of the greatest projects within the Inq28 sub-genre.

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It's 11 AM on Monday, but Josh Kulp of Honey Butter Fried Chicken and Sunday Dinner Club already looks beat. "We had the biggest night of Honey Butter's life on Saturday," he explains. "We sold out of chicken by 7:30. It was insane." Apparently, as soon as the polar vortex was over, a significant portion of Chicago's population decided to celebrate by eating Honey Butter's fried chicken.

Today, however, Honey Butter is closed; and Kulp and his business partner, Christine Cikowski, and some of their staff—or rather staffs—aren't here for chicken. Instead it's a busy day for their other business, Sunday Dinner Club, the underground dining club that Honey Butter evolved out of. This is actually the first time that Sunday Dinner Club's staff has used the Honey Butter kitchen, because the two are legally separate—Kulp and Cikowski have partners in Honey Butter, but own Sunday Dinner Club outright—and as separate businesses, they can't share a kitchen without a shared kitchen license from the city. Honey Butter got the license in time this year, so it will be the prepping location for the series of events that the people on Sunday Dinner Club's e-mail list look forward to each year: a month and a half of dinners starring the classically rustic French dish cassoulet.

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Cikowski can't say exactly how many seasons of cassoulet dinners they've done—eight or nine is her best guess—but it's been an annual tradition and their most popular event almost since they started hosting underground dinners in her apartment nearly a decade ago. But why cassoulet?

"I think we were looking through Alice Waters's cookbook [Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook] and saw cassoulet, and said, 'We should do cassoulet,'" says Cikowski. "Well, I've lived in France for a little bit, too, and definitely had a lot of French cooking influence. And also, I had taken a job at Blackbird, so there was that influence too. But looking through the book at the cassoulet menu we were thinking, this is going to take a few days to make, we should make it a special."

"I think we have looked for those dishes, like mole in Mexico or cassoulet in France, that have a good long storied tradition to them," says Kulp.

"And make them our own," adds Cikowski.

The recipe evolves every year as they discover new things to try—one recent addition is San Marzano tomatoes stewed in duck fat, an idea they got from a Joël Robuchon recipe—but they've pretty much nailed down the technique for producing it in large quantities. With two or three dinners a week plus half a dozen private parties, they're looking at about 20 nights of cassoulet dinners, with the ability to add more as requests come in to their website. So the plan is to make and deep-freeze about 500 portions in 40 aluminum pans. The scale of today's work is evident in the supplies around the room—60 pounds of dry cannellini beans, a full tub of fat yellow onions, two entire pork bellies cured to bacon by Nueske's, a whole box of salted ham hocks from Slagel Farms.

Though the menu will be the same, Kulp says there's a definite difference in tone between the dining club dinners and the private dinners. "When people know each other at dinner club, it's a little more exciting affair," he says with a laugh. "When you sit at a communal table at Sunday Dinner Club normally there's a lot of connections and people know each other, but having a little bit of stranger-ness around you, I think gives people some shame. When you're in a room of 24 people and they're your friends, that's when . . . wildness happens."

"We've only had people dancing on the table once or twice over the years," he adds helpfully.

They start with a meeting to work out the battle plan, rattling off what they need to make based on the dining preferences that came in with the reservations. There's the vast quantity of the regular cassoulet, and later they'll make a smaller batch of vegetarian cassoulet with a completely different recipe. And then?

"We'll have to make one small pot without pork," Cikowski says.

"So we have a person who eats meat but not pork?" asks Kulp.

"We have a couple of those that I saw," Cikowski says.

"No 'no duck' person?"

"No, none of those."

"We have a friend who came one year," Kulp explains to me, "and he's a total meat eater but he won't eat duck because he grew up on a duck farm. So we had to make it without the duck fat. Because it reminded him of—"

"The family ducks," Cikowski interjects.

"Little Ducky," Kulp says.

The beans go on first, in five stock pots of different sizes. The onions are added with the ham hocks as soon as they're cut, and other aromatics such as leeks and carrots follow, all big enough to be easily fished out once they've given up their flavor. Most of the other meats that will go into the finished dish will be held until the cassoulets are assembled, but the fresh sausages will be poached in the bean liquid, transferring their own flavor to the beans. Not only the beans but the liquid they sit in will be integral parts of the dish. The "bean stock," with all its vegetable and meat flavor, becomes the main source of the jus that will be ladled over the cassoulets when they're served.

Once the beans are started, Cikowski pulls out a tub of confit duck legs embedded in white fat with thyme sprigs jutting out of it like it was a frozen pond. It goes in the oven for a few minutes to soften up the fat, and then she settles in for what she guesses will be about four hours of picking the meat off the duck legs. For her, cassoulet is a typical comfort food in that "it isn't all that hard, it's just labor intensive. And labor intensive in a way that's not challenging. I mean, cutting up bacon is not a hard thing to do. Cutting vegetables, soaking beans, poaching sausages—none of these things is very challenging as kitchen tasks."

If there's a creative side to cassoulet, it's in deciding what goes into it. "The origin of cassoulet was people using up ingredients they already had," says Cikowski. "They already had duck confit made, in these villages in France. They already had their sausages. And they would just put it all together, because it was all the leftovers."

Sunday Dinner Club bought or made everything fresh for the cassoulet, but the act of deciding what would go into it is still a highly personal act. "There are a lot of people, especially in France, who would tell you that this is what cassoulet is or this is what needs to be in cassoulet," Cikowski says. "When we make cassoulet, we make it with what we can get from here. And I think this is the truest we can be to the French way of making cassoulet, which is using what we have from the region that we're from. Here, we have access to a lot of different local meats, we use a lot of smoked bacon and sausage. Bacon isn't traditionally found in most cassoulets, but we're from the midwest. We like bacon."

Kulp picks up Cikowski's point. "We have a few things that are consistent, like our saucisson à l'ail is always from Fabrique Délices in California, it's a cured garlic sausage that's like a signature thing for us. The lamb this year is from Slagel, which is beautiful, legs of lamb which we get whole and butcher. We have Big Fork sausage from here in Chicago, which I just love. It has great smoke flavor."

"The bent this year is definitely toward smokiness," Kulp says. "Nueske bacon is incredibly smoky. This year, we're putting a lot of smoke into our cassoulet. And I had a guy from France one time say it's not really cassoulet, because you'd never use bacon in it. You'd put in unsmoked pork belly. Well, that's great, and I'm sure that cassoulet's great, but again, I love smoke, and we're kind of going at it with our own sensibilities. We like to say we put in the Chicago cassoulet bits."

"That's what I just said," Cikowski says from the other side of the room.

"Did you just say that? I just said we like to say that," Kulp laughs.

"Well, at least we're on the same page, Josh," Cikowski says.

Tomorrow: assembling the cassoulets

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South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk (3-Iron, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring) makes movies that can be viscerally shocking and intellectually challenging; they're rarely as soporific and reductive as this 2008 tale of the supernatural. A Japanese calligrapher in Seoul (Jo Odagiri) discovers that his nightmares about his ex-girlfriend and her new lover are being acted out by a pretty sleepwalker (Lee Na-yeong); hoping to keep the young woman out of harm's way, he moves in with her and coordinates their sleep schedules so that his dreams won't influence her unconscious. Once Kim establishes this conceit, though, he does little with it, stumbling to a feeble conclusion in which a butterfly (a Korean symbol for marital bliss) provides ironic commentary on the fates of his hapless characters. In Japanese and Korean with subtitles. 93 min.
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Jim Muro's crazed 1987 horror comedy is a unique snapshot of its times, when bad-taste humor intersected with Reagan-era loathing of the poor. The owner of a skid-row liquor store uncovers an ancient case of hooch called Viper and sells it for a buck a bottle to the bums who congregate around a nearby junkyard; when they drink it, their flesh melts into puddles of multicolored (but mostly blue) goo. The movie is a smorgasbord of smut, gross-out gags, and grisly special effects, with politically incorrect digs at blacks, women, the disabled, Vietnam vets, and, of course, the destitute. There's something to offend everyone, though the perversity can be inspired: puckish oboe music accompanies a scene of a woman being crushed by her horny, 300-pound boss, and the score turns to jolly barrelhouse rock 'n' roll as a bum chases around the junkyard after his severed penis, which is being tossed back and forth by his guffawing buddies. This may make you laugh, or it may make you sick (or both). 101 min.
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- Guess whether President Clinton and Congress will agree in 1995 to reduce your tax rate on long-term capital gains, make you eligible (again) to deduct contributions to your individual retirement account or change other relevant tax code sections.

To deal with investment-related tax questions and tax-related investment questions in ways that enable you to maximize your net return, you have to split them into their tax and investment aspects and differentiate between what's known and what's speculative.

The tax part of the reader's question is easy. If you realize more in capital losses than in capital gains, the IRS permits you to deduct a total of up to $3,000 against ordinary income. A net loss in excess of $3,000 has to be carried over to next year.

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You do have to be sure to wait 30 days, however, before buying your funds back because the IRS would disallow the loss if you bought "substantially identical" securities sooner. It apparently does not rule out your purchase of similar funds, though.

The investment part is more tricky. If a fund was suitable for you, you remain optimistic about it, and you really want to hold it for a few years, you could run the risk of its share price rising while you're out of it. This may be a small risk, but it's a risk.

Speculation about market prospects also has to enter into your calculation as to whether to realize (additional) long-term capital gains this year and pay a tax of up to 28 percent or wait for the possibility of a tax cut-but run the risk of gains shrinking.

Besides realizing losses, about the only other fund investment steps you can take this month to hold down your 1994 income tax are:

- Make deductible contributions into retirement accounts.

- Avoid buying funds outside of retirement accounts before record dates for their year-end distributions of income and capital gains. By phoning companies whose funds interest you, you should be able to get the dates, as well as good estimates of the amounts.

Fidelity's erroneous estimate of a year-end distribution of $4.32 per share for its Magellan Fund and the subsequent announcement that the fund "likely will have no year-end distribution" were rare.

If you had noted a net realized loss of $766.5 million, or about $1.40 a share, in Magellan's Sept. 30 semiannual report, you would have questioned that it would have realized enough gains by Oct. 31-the IRS cutoff for the calculation-to have to pay out $2 billion.

What can you plan to do to maximize your 1995 after-tax return?

- Take advantage of opportunities to reduce your taxable income by investing in tax-deferred retirement accounts, such as IRAs, 401(k) plans or simplified employee pension plans.

- If you invest in bond funds outside of tax-deferred accounts, use tax-exempt instead of taxable funds, provided you're at least in the 28 percent bracket. They should provide you with more income.

- Divide your equity fund investments between tax-deferred and taxable accounts in such a way that those you buy in taxable accounts are least likely to pay out large dividends and capital gains.

An April 1993 study by Joel M. Dickson and John B. Shoven of the Stanford University Department of Economics demonstrated how much investors' returns can be enhanced when funds defer realizing capital gains.

"Many funds, perhaps most, realize very large fractions of their accrued capital gains each year," they had found. "This . . . eliminates an investor's opportunity to defer taxes on accrued capital gains and adversely affects after-tax returns to a fund's shareholders."

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Why I Don't Trust the New King James

By Ron Rockney

I have a lot of Christian friends who use the New King James (NKJV). They have been convinced that the genuine King James Bible is old and out of date... it needs to be brought "up-to-date." These are great folks. I love them. They are like family. I have no problem with them. I just don't trust that book. Whenever they read out of a New King James, I check it against my tried-and-true King James. I want to know what God REALLY said. Sometimes they match . . . and sometimes not.

Here are just three quick examples of the kinds of problems in the NKJV that cause me to not trust it. You may be aware of more, but I want to keep this short. These are just examples.

  1. The first one I became aware of is in Acts chapter 3, where there are not one, but TWO verses (13 and 26) that say that Jesus is God's servant. But my Bible says, in those very same verses, that Jesus is God's SON. Friends, those are just not the same. Which one is it? Is He God's servant, or God's Son? We really need to get this one right! And I just don't have time to read a Bible that doesn't.

  2. In 1st Corinthians 1:18, my traditional King James tells me that the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those that perish, but the power of God to us who are "saved." But the NKJV tells me that it is the power of God to us who are BEING saved. Once again, those are not the same. If I had been raised Catholic, I would be very comfortable with the words "being saved" because I would have been taught all my life that you cannot really KNOW you are saved. You are on the road to salvation. And if I attend mass and confession faithfully, get the last rites at death, and then suffer a few centuries in the flames of purgatory for my sins, then what I have done can be added to what Jesus has done and together, hopefully, it will be enough to get me in to heaven. But I'm not Catholic. I don't believe that. I have believed on Jesus, and HAVE eternal life. Jesus finished the job. It's a done deal.

  3. There is a little something that has been added to Luke 23:34. I've been told that it was not in the first edition of the NKJV, but added later. It's just a little footnote. Not important, right? But here we are, looking at one of the big differences between Christianity and the other religions of the world, where the Creator of the universe allows his creatures to torture and crucify Him. There, on the cross, he looks up and prays, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." That's big stuff. He forgave the Jews, the Romans, everyone, for this supreme insult. (And He forgives me, too). But there is that little footnote, that says something like this: "NU brackets the first sentence as a later addition." Oh, so they are telling me that the "better manuscripts" leave this out, that it was added later? You mean, Jesus really didn't say that? He really didn't forgive the Jews? I guess if I was into replacement theology, I might like to believe that God has cast off his people and replaced them with someone else. Then I would have to ignore the verses that say the promises to Abraham were forever. But you see, I'm not into that stuff. I still believe that the Jews are God's chosen people, that Israel is His chosen land, and that He is going to keep all those promises.

The NKJV is just full of "footnotes" that tell me what I have just read might not have been in the original. Think a minute. Do you really think that builds faith? No, of course not. So why are we giving a doubt producing Bible to a generation of young Christians? Is that really what they need? Or do we need to tell them that sure, the King James is written in classical English. And yes, we need to learn the meanings of those classical English words just like we go to school and learn the meaning of new words that are part of the great technologies we use every day. It's called getting educated.

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The FBI's investigation into a college basketball corruption scheme alleges that a top-rated prospect, Brian Bowen, took a $100,000 bribe to join the University of Louisville, reports The Courier Journal. Time

College basketball has to be great entertainment to have survived and thrived this long within its own personal cesspool.

The scandals roll on, numbing us to the point where nothing’s shocking. Now, it’s assistant coaches accused of taking bribes for getting recruits to sign with “advisors’’ and “agents’’. High school kids, not yet in college, signing with agents.

And of course, what would a scandal be worth these days if it didn’t somehow involve Louisville? What would a scandal be worth without an indignant denial from Rick Pitino? This guy is a real piece of work. It’s one thing to deny, deny, deny. It’s another to launch an ongoing assault on our collective intelligence. Slick Rick was “shocked’’ to learn that one of Ville’s stud recruits received a “six-figure payment’’ to commit to the Cardinals.

Same as he was shocked to learn one of his assistants had turned a dormitory into a gathering place for hookers and recruits. And how dare anyone assume he, Rick Pitino, would be involved in anything so unseemly.

Here are the basics of the latest bombshell involving good-ol’ college basketball:

Under the first group of charges, the U.S. Attorney is alleging that assistant coaches at Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and USC "took cash bribes" in order to steer elite basketball players toward certain financial advisors and sports agents. The assistants named in the indictment are Chuck Person (Auburn), Emanuel Richardson (Arizona), Lamont Evans (Oklahoma State) and Tony Bland (USC).

Each of the coaches is charged with bribery conspiracy, solicitation of bribes, honest services fraud conspiracy, honest service fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and Travel Act conspiracy. The U.S. Department of Justice said each of the coaches faces a maximum sentence of 80 years in prison.

In the second set of allegations, authorities say that James Gatto, on behalf of an unnamed "sportswear company," funneled "six-figure payments" to three players, who, in exchange, committed to play for particular college programs affiliated with the company. Gatto is the director of global sports marketing for Adidas. This set of charges includes a reference to a "public research university located in Kentucky." University of Louisville interim president Gregory Postel confirmed in a statement that Louisville is the school mentioned. (ESPN)

This has gone on for decades. I almost feel bad for the assistants named, one of whom, Book Richardson, worked for Sean Miller at Xavier. They’re not the only ones. They’re just the ones being named. For now.

The whole system is corrupt. This isn’t news. This latest case is just reinforcement. And it’s only beginning. The worst folks you want on your case are IRS folks. Second-worst are FBI folks.

Back to Pitino. The columnists are out in force now, wondering if he can “survive’’ this or suggesting he shouldn’t. Well, why shouldn’t he? Louisville has shown again and again that its regard for rules and regs stands firmly behind its need to win basketball games. The shameless quotient there has never been higher.

If ‘Ville doesn’t can this guy and his partner in crime, AD Tom Jurich, the feds will do it for them. Here’s a column from Yahoo’s Pat Forde, who once wrote a book with Pitino on how to be, um, successful:

Pitino and Jurich both need to go. And the basketballs need to be put away for a year or more.

Shut the thing down.

That’s right. The death penalty, which hasn’t been used in more than three decades. Pitino scapegoated Andre McGee the last time he declared his innocence/ignorance. Somehow, it worked. It won’t this time.

(An update since this was written: Louisville fired Pitino — who had survived the Katina Powell/Andre McGee sex scandal — on Wednesday morning, and also fired athletic director Tom Jurich.)

Now, then. . .

THE REDS HAVE A BAD RECORD, which wasn’t exactly unexpected. With five to play, they’re 66-91, tracking for 67 or 68 Ws. If 68, that would equal what they did last year, which was four games better than 2015.

What is encouraging is how they’ve played, start to finish. The Reds are still fully engaged, still into the game in front of them. Tuesday night was a good example. They got behind 0-4 in the 1st, yet in the 9th had the tying run at 2nd with one out. This on the road against a team exhausting all possibilities, trying to win a WC berth.

Props the Club for that. The individual players who have not packed it in, the manager who has set that tone. It was a very good ballgame last night, which isn’t always what you get from a last-place team in the embers of September.

Particular kudos to Votto and Cozart, consummate professionals, and to Tucker Barnhart, who has done good work w/all these kid pitchers he has helped to bring along.

That said, praise for trying hard isn’t something we make a habit of in This Space. If you are a professional, effort is implied in the contract. This isn’t Knothole. But human nature being what it is – and the Big 162 being the biggest grind in sports – effort at least deserves mention.

Howevuh. . .

A look at a few key stats shows zero improvement in pitching from the two previous seasons. In fact, it’s gotten worse.

In ’15, the Reds were 12th in ERA in the NL, 12th in HRs allowed, 13th in walks and had a FIP of 4.24.

In ’16: 13th, 15th, 15th, 5.24

This year: 15th, 15th, 15th, 5.10.

What you have to see during a rebuild is progress, as reflected on the bottom line, not the intangible line. It’s accurate to say that, despite the late-year improvements made by Romano, Castillo and BobSteve, the pitching is no better than it was when the reboot began.

We can suppose that late-season goodness will translate into pitching improvement next season. But that’s crystal-ball stuff, and mine is perpetually in the shop.

Meantime, the offense is plenty good enough.

So here’s your assignment, Mobsters: In evaluating 2017, do you see more/less/same light at the end of the tunnel that you saw on Opening Day?

I like the rotation’s chances to be better. I don’t like the bullpen’s, at least as it exists right now. I think a few guys had career hitting years. I don’t know about Winker and Ervin. September baseball is fickle.

Now, then, Rehash-apolooza. . .

Tonight @fccincinnati supporters turned out in big #s to speak in favor of public-private partnership that leverages 250 million in private$

That was a tweet from FCC’s man in charge Jeff Berding, after a meeting Tuesday night, before the HamCo commissioners, asking them to spend tax money on a new futbol stadium.

I love FCC. I love the way they do business, the passion they’ve engendered, the hopes for a bright future they’ve inspired. I hope they’re around a long time.

I don’t want to give them a dime for a stadium.

The word “partnership’’ is interesting. Having written about two previous “partnerships’’ between private sports entities and public taxpayers, I can say this about that:

It ain’t no partnership.

Maybe I’ve missed it, but I haven’t heard anyone connected with FCC promising to share its private profit with its public partners. I haven’t heard anyone suggest that if/when we sell the team, we will share with our partners the likely large profit we’ll make, partly because our partners helped us pay for our new building.

I’m thinking of finding a “partner’’ to help me buy a place in Indian Hill. When I sell the place, I will keep any and all profits from the transaction.

Thanks, podnah.

THE ANTHEM DEBATERS wonder what effect kneeling has on TV viewership. And, possibly on the NFL’s future in general. USA Today has one answer:

One problem with making a direct, causal link between NFL ratings and protests: The firestorm of controversy in the past few days doesn't explain the downdrift of ratings during the season's first two weeks, when any kneeling protest drew little attention, said Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst for Leichtman Research Group, a research firm that tracks media and entertainment.

Fewer U.S. homes, 79%, are getting pay-TV service, down from 84% in 2014, Leichtman says. And that fragmentation of the viewing public as more customers cut, shave or shirk the pay-TV cord impacts viewership, too. NFL ratings do not include most streaming options.

The NFL was losing a little traction pre-kneeling. Head trauma, abuse of females, wanton franchise-shifting, overall arrogance and greed. Public getting fed up, re-purposing its Sundays.

IT’D BE NICE TO GET SOME FEEDBACK from black veterans regarding the protest. It’d be nice if someone high-up in the military said something yay or nay. It’d be nice if an authority higher than social media-ists had something substantive to add.

Haven’t heard anything from folks whose opinions would carry actual weight.

NOR HAVE I HEARD MUCH BLOWBACK from players in response to Trump’s claim that football isn’t violent enough. Maybe we could put the president in a leather helmet and have him field a few punts. No fair catches allowed.

MLB’S QUEST TO SPEED UP GAMES would be aided a bunch by eliminating or greatly reducing the number of times a catcher can visit the mound. It’s ridiculous, and getting ridiculous-er.

TUNE O’ THE DAY. . . Temptations from about 1967. The more things change. . .

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The Weinstein Company is remaking the classic Akira Kurosawa movie Seven Samurai and they’ve hired a director. His name is Scott Mann, and he’s best known for, well, nothing. But he did once direct a movie called The Tournament, which starred underrated Stargate: Universe actor Robert Carlyle in the story of 30 deadly assassins descending on an unsuspecting town for a last man standing competition. That sounds sort of like a Seven Samurai style movie. Good enough to get the job?

Purists are, predictably, up in arms over the notion that someone would dare to remake Kurosawa. I’d be upset too, Seven Samurai is a great film, if it hadn’t already been remade before, to wildly successful results. The 1960 western The Magnificent Seven is a Seven Samurai remake and it’s a pretty great film in its own right. And that was made only four years after Kurosawa finished his movie. Nearly 50 years later, it seems completely valid to do it again, even if they’re putting it in the hands of someone like Mann, who hasn’t really done enough to earn anything, let alone the work of Kurosawa.

At least they aren’t doing it on the cheap. Variety says Weinstein is giving Mann a $60 million production budget to work with, a nice sum for The Weinstein Company and enough to come up with a gritty, battle in a small town movie which is exactly what this should be. They’re going to contemporize the story for this reinterpretation, which should help make that $60 million go even further.

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Steve Jobs' Resignation Won't Dull Apple's Shine

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The resignation of Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs is unlikely to diminish the company's power in the tech world, according to industry analysts.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs' resignation on Aug. 24 has sparked a not-unexpected flurry of analysis and commentary from across the technology industry. Tim Cook, previously COO, takes on the role of Apple CEO, while Jobs remains the company's Chairman.

"Apple's product development road map stretches into multiple years ahead and has been shaped both by Jobs and by the organization he built," Forrester analyst JP Gownder wrote in an Aug. 24 corporate blog posting. "Jobs' departure won t affect Apple's product portfolio, quality or competitiveness for a long time--if ever."

Gownder also suggested that Apple's combined talent outweighs the possible impact of its leader's permanent departure: While Steve Jobs will go down in eventual history as an outstanding innovator, leader and world-changer, Apple is actually much more than its leader alone."

Other analysts echoed that point. "Apple has been run by a team of very accomplished visionaries that includes Tim Cook, Phil Schiller, Jonathan Ive, Scott Forestal, Ron Johnson and a host of others," Carl Howe, an analyst with the Yankee Group, wrote in an Aug. 25 blog posting. "Steve was the public face of the company, but we shouldn't think that he was the only one making all the decisions."

Indeed, Apple is widely expected to release its next-generation iPhone (widely dubbed the "iPhone 5" by the media) in either September or October, following that with the next iPad sometime in early 2012. In the short term, that one-two punch of product releases could convince skittish investors that Apple indeed remains on track. The company retains considerable market share in the smartphone and tablet segments.

"Mr. Cook is universally regarded as a strong leader and supply chain expert, and we believe he is well suited to lead Apple to significant growth over the next few years," T. Michael Walkley, analyst with Canaccord Genuity, wrote in a co-authored research note Aug. 24. "Further, we believe Apple has a deep and talented executive team in the areas of supply chain management, hardware/software design, and product marketing."

Cook himself reportedly issued a note to Apple employees, assuring them of business as usual in the days ahead. "I want you to be confident that Apple is not going to change," the newly minted CEO wrote in an email to Apple employees, quickly reprinted on Apple-centric blogs such as 9to5Mac. "Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that--it is in our DNA."

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Regularisation of Illegal Homes. Approved in the Draft Law on the 07/10/2014 by the Regional Government of Andalucia

The Junta of Andalucía has taken the first step towards the regularisation of the 300.000 plus illegal properties located in the autonomous region with the approval of a preliminary draft of a new bill.

The modification introduced will apply to three articles in the LOUA (Ley de Ordenacìon Urbanistica en Andalucia). The effect of this will be widespread, permitting owners of these illegal dwellings, the entitlement to the legal provisions of water and electricity supplies. The properties will also have easy access to register their homes in the ‘registro de la propiedad’ (land registry).

To regularise a property (which does no imply legalise) and to meet the criteria, owners must accredit that the build had been completed at least six years before the application date, and not be subject to court proceedings or administrative sanctions.

Furthermore, the drafted modification contains a mandate stating that the municipalities must, within two years from the date of law becoming operative, initiate procedures to identify isolated properties in ‘suelos no urbanizable’ (non urban land).

What are the consequences of the modification to the aforementioned articles?
Uppermost it will give legal security to properties with these irregularities, that these edifications will be categorised into a similar scheme as that known as ‘afuera de ordinación’ (indeterminate, not defined). This will enable the property owners to seek authorisation to carry out repairs and maintenance on their homes to a standard of habitation, this in keeping with health and safety standards and allowing the registration of the title deeds in the ‘registro de la propiedad’ (land registry). This will ensure the legal connection of the necessary utilities.

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Democracy in Crisis: Books Trump Should Read: "The Emperor," by Ryszard Kapuscinski

A remarkable work of reporting by Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times  earlier this month described, in almost excruciating detail, the disarray of the Trump White House.

It is a nocturnal tale of palace intrigue.

“President Trump loves to set the day’s narrative at dawn, but the deeper story of his White House is best told at night.

Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit. In a darkened, mostly empty West Wing, Mr. Trump’s provocative chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, finishes another 16-hour day planning new lines of attack.”

This lede carries an almost deafening echo of another lede, the opening of “The Emperor,” Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski’s book about the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, in 1974.

“In the evenings I listened to those who had known the Emperor’s court. Once they had been People of the Palace… I visited them after dark. I had to change cars and disguises,” Kapuscinski wrote at the beginning of his classic book.

Back in 1990, Lawrence Weschler argued in the Threepenny Review, that the “The Emperor” was “the best diagnosis of the situation in Poland in 1978—which is to say the last years of Edward Gierek’s fabulously corrupt and incompetent regime.”

Kapuscinski was Poland’s foremost foreign correspondent and, on the one hand, the book is precisely what it purports to be: reporting from Ethiopia. But on the other hand, as Weschler, who covered Poland for the New Yorker, pointed out, everybody in Poland took the book as an allegory for their own political situation.

“At another level,” Weschler wrote ‘Kapuscinski’s text works as a “general allegory—a piercing dissection of the dynamics and contradictions inherent in any and every courtly situation (political, corporate, cultural, academic, institutional)—how authority itself first comes to be engendered but then inevitably congeals and finally evaporates entirely.” (For more Weschler on Kapuscinski see here)

Thrush and Haberman’s story also functions on an almost mythical—not to say unfactual—level as it details the chaotic last couple weeks.

“Cloistered in the White House, he now has little access to his fans and supporters — an important source of feedback and validation — and feels increasingly pinched by the pressures of the job and the constant presence of protests, one of the reasons he was forced to scrap a planned trip to Milwaukee last week. For a sense of what is happening outside, he watches cable, both at night and during the day — too much in the eyes of some aides — often offering a bitter play-by-play of critics like CNN’s Don Lemon.”

It is striking, though, that Kapuscinski’s tale is about the fall of regimes, while the New York Times story is about the shaky beginning—and it is both terrifying and somehow comforting that the dawn of this regime is indistinguishable from dusk.

The level of chaos, especially surrounding Steve Bannon, one of the sources of power within the administration, is frightening, especially when we recall how the Bush team missed a lot of intelligence that may have thwarted the 9/11 attacks due to their inexperience. And the Bush team had a deep bench of lifelong public officials and veterans of numerous administrations on board.

Still, we can’t apply Kapuscinski's allegory directly to our situation. Like families, every unhappy era is unhappy in its own way. But they belong to the same genre, The Palace in Disorder, and there are lessons we can learn. When insecure rulers flail, those around them fall.

“The custom of relating things by word of mouth had this advantage: if need be, the Emperor could say that a given dignitary had told him something quite different from what had really been said...Thus the Emperor heard from his subordinates not what they told him but what they thought should be said.”

I wrote to Thrush and Haberman to see if they were aware of the Kapuscinski echo. Thrush wrote back and said that he had read some Kapuscinski—”The Soccer War” and “Travels with Herodotus”—but noted that the only Kapuscinski passage he could recall “is this paraphrase 'The definition of a wall is anything taller than a man.'”

I couldn’t find the passage in a quick search (I’ve been meaning to read “The Soccer War,” now I have an excuse), but it sounds almost prophetic, something Trump may say someday soon when the great wall turns out to be a janky fence.

This is the first installment of Books Trump Should Read, a new blog where Democracy in Crisis contributors read literature in the light of current events.

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