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IRS Explains New $1M Compensation Deduction Rule

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IRS Notice 2018-68 explains how publicly held companies, and non-public organizations that are required to file statements with the SEC, can determine whether payments under compensation agreements — including deferred compensation agreements — are deductible under the modified $1 million compensation limitation in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for post-2017 years.

Code Section 162(m) was amended late last year by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Act). As amended, Section 162(m) provides that publicly held companies, and non-public organizations that are required to file statements with the SEC, may annually deduct up to $1 million of compensation paid to a covered employee. The definition of covered employee has been changed to include both the principal (aka chief) executive officer (PEO) and the principal (aka chief) financial officer (PFO) who served in that role at any time during the year, the employees who are the three highest compensated officers (other than the already included PEO and PFO), and individuals who were covered employees at any time after December 31, 2016. Prior to the change, the $1 million limit did not apply to performance-based compensation or commissions, and covered employees only included the chief executive officer employed on the last day of the year and the four highest compensated officers (not including the CEO). The amendments were effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017 and would not apply to compensation paid pursuant to a written binding contract that was in effect on November 2, 2017 and was not modified in any material respect after that date.

Note:    This is old news for certain health insurance providers: the Affordable Care Act restricted to $500,000 deductible compensation paid to “applicable individuals” (generally, all employees and directors) for services rendered in a taxable year beginning after 2012 and for services performed in a taxable year beginning after 2009 and before 2013 that were deductible in a taxable year beginning after 2012. However, while this ACA rule has similarities to the general limitation of Section 162(m), there are many differences in their details.

IRS Explains New Law

In August, in response to requests for guidance, the IRS issued Notice 2018‑68 to address the definition of covered employee and the application of the written binding contract exception.

Once Covered, Always Covered

The Tax Act eliminated the last day of the year requirement for the PEO to be a covered employee and provided that once an individual becomes a covered employee, even after termination or retirement, he or she will always be a covered employee, as will the covered employee’s beneficiaries. This means that all future payments to the individual and his or her beneficiaries will be counted in the $1 million annual deduction limit, and that an individual who is the PEO or PFO for just a part of the year will be a covered employee in perpetuity.

Note:    This also means that an officer who receives a single, large retention bonus may become a covered employee forever if the bonus positions them as one of the three highest-paid officers in that year.

Also, individuals who were covered employees under prior law during 2017 will continue to be covered employees in 2018 and beyond, requiring the entire amount of remuneration payable after December 31, 2017 generally to be considered under the new rules, including the grandfather rules.

Some Contracts Grandfathered – If Not Materially Modified

The amendments to Section 162(m) do not apply to remuneration payable under a written binding contract in effect on November 2, 2017 that is not modified in any material respect after that date. A binding contract is one in which the company must pay under applicable law (e.g., state contract law) if the employee performs the services or satisfies the applicable vesting conditions stated in the contract.

Grandfathered Written Binding Contract

Compensation under a contract that is “grandfathered” is subject to the rules prior to November 2, 2017. Any amount of compensation that exceeds the amount that the company was obligated to pay currently or in future years based on the contract as of November 2, 2017 is not grandfathered. Grandfathering will reflect the employee’s status under prior law. If the employee was not previously a covered employee, grandfathering applies (until there is a material modification) even if the payment is not subject to performance criteria. For example, base salary under a 2016 contract with a PFO would be exempt from the new rules because the PFO would not have been a covered employee under the old rules. But if the employee was a covered employee under prior law, then grandfathering hinges on whether the compensation was performance-based or if there was a termination of employment before the end of the year in which the payment was made — in which case the employee would no longer be a covered employee under prior rules. For example, the Notice describes a situation where deferred compensation (not performance-based) is paid to a PEO who served through December 31, 2019 pursuant to an agreement that was entered into in 2016. Since the 162(m) limitations would have applied under prior rules, there is no grandfather relief for any of the compensation. However, though not explicit, the example implies that if the PEO retired before the end of 2019, under prior rules he or she would not have been a covered employee at the time of payment in April 2019 and the deferred compensation would not be subject to the deduction limitation. Discretionary clauses can affect grandfathered status. If the company has discretion to reduce or not pay the compensation, even if the discretion is not exercised, then compensation only up to the amount that cannot be reduced is grandfathered. Many agreements provide the company with discretion to reduce the amount payable — for example, if targets are not reached. The Notice includes an example whereby a covered employee under a bonus plan could receive up to $1.5 million, but the employer retained the discretion to reduce the bonus to $400,000. Although the employer paid the employee $500,000, only $400,000 was grandfathered.

Note:    Most contracts do not specify the amount of the potential reduction. Many practitioners are interpreting the language in the Notice — with the specific reference to applicable law — to mean that whether no amount, or the amount actually paid, is grandfathered depends on the applicable state’s contract law.

Material Modification

If a material modification is made, then the grandfathering does not apply for any payments following the modification. A material modification will subject the entire amount of the payment following the modification to the new rules under Section 162(m); a change that is not a material modification will only affect the additional compensation produced by the modification. Note that reasonable cost-of-living increases are not considered an increase that results in a material modification, but that increase itself is not grandfathered. A separate contract or agreement that provides for an increase in compensation or the payment of additional compensation is a material modification if the facts and circumstances demonstrate that the additional compensation is paid based on substantially the same elements or conditions as the compensation under the original written binding contract. Contract renewal considered material modification. Contracts that automatically renew unless notice is provided by either party are considered to have been renewed as of the date on which termination would be effective if such notice was given. For example, an employment agreement with a three-year term beginning on January 1, 2016 that automatically renews for another three years — unless the company terminates the agreement 60 days before the end of the three-year term — will be considered to have been renewed on January 1, 2019. Therefore, the payments made on or after that date would not be grandfathered. Contracts that may be terminated unilaterally are considered to have been renewed as of the date on which such termination could have been effective; however, contracts that terminate only upon an employee’s termination are not considered terminable. Amendments to accelerate or defer payment generally considered material modifications. However, an acceleration is not a material modification if it is discounted to reflect the time value of money; similarly, a deferral is not a material modification if the increase is based on a reasonable rate of interest or a predetermined actual investment.

Analyze Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans Carefully

Post-2017 distributions from account balance plans are likely grandfathered for those who were not covered employees under prior law for deferrals and contributions made through November 2, 2017 (and in some cases even thereafter) if all such amounts were made pursuant to a binding agreement in effect at November 2, 2017. Nonqualified defined benefit plans might be grandfathered for accruals even beyond November 2, 2017, but only if such accruals are made pursuant to a binding agreement in effect at November 2, 2017 and the plan does not provide for unilateral plan changes or termination by the company; otherwise only accruals through November 2, 2017 would likely be grandfathered for such employees.

Stock Appreciation Rights, Stock Options, Restricted Stock

Performance-based stock appreciation rights and nonstatutory stock options granted pursuant to a written binding contract before November 2, 2017 — even though exercised in the future by a covered employee — will be grandfathered. The treatment of restricted stock has not changed since it is not, and never was, considered performance-based compensation.

What Should Companies Be Doing Now?

There are a number of actions companies subject to Section 162(m) should be taking at this time:

  • Prepare a list of current covered employees and continue to monitor who is a covered employee, including beneficiaries
  • Carefully review and inventory all written compensation plans and agreements — including nonqualified plans — and determine which may qualify for grandfathered status
  • For grandfathered agreements, determine the extent to which amounts are grandfathered — especially for those subject to discretionary adjustment (though it is not entirely clear if general discretion to decrease the payment without specifics would effectively reduce the grandfathered amount to zero) or unilateral plan termination
  • Consider structuring new agreements to make payments through annuities or installments spread over multiple years on a post-retirement basis to allow efficient utilization of the $1 million exemption

In Closing

Though the IRS attempted to address many questions that were raised with the amendment of Section 162(m), there are still several that remain unanswered and for which the IRS has requested comments. In the meantime, companies must make a reasonable, good-faith interpretation in applying the law.


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Wire it in bipolar parallel as specified on the data sheet.

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    Keep your eyes peeled I am going to open testing ASAP, however due to real life commitments I wish to hold it off until Friday week.
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    Ok cool :)
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    Using donations on themselves and keeping extra money is not illegal at all, If you had a large minecraft server, like them even if you tried to spend all your donations on the best hardware, advertising, hosting, etc you can find. You will no doubt have some money left over. MobDisguise wasn't made to be a donation item so why should the developer get payments? though.. most servers use it as a donation perk, and if I did I would sure as hell donate some money to the developers if so. I do agree on legendarycraft being very greedy however, they receive TONS of donations, then on top of that they ask people to donate for them to go to minecon?
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    Friday week? Mind = Blown.
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    You seem to not realize the definition of a donation for a cause, or the legal basis behind it.
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    Let's keep this on-topic, or I'll have to lock it.

    Also, absolutely no advertisements, please!!
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    lol, i must have been one of the few that actually used it for servers on separate machines.
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    There were a few, but I rarely got complaints about the proxy not always supporting it, which suggested few people used it that way. There was (is) an issue with the way minecraft works, and it doesn't handle multiple connections from a proxy very well, due to flood protection.
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    So is there any update? Can we still see some beta releases friday? Thanks :)
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    Well that was posted a week ago, meaning last friday, so...
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    No he ment this friday
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    Yeah this Friday.
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    Should we waiting for a release today? :) Sooo excited!
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    This may not be entirely accurate but, I think Skitscape's server use http://assetgateway.com/minecraft/cloud-overview/ (And I believe levelupmc do too) If you have the money for a good cloud system and still for good hardware etc. I would go with Assetgateway (@Coelho) But until md_5 remove the 20 player limit any big servers: http://assetgateway.com/minecraft/cloud-overview/ .

    Also md_5 why do citi-build.com not have the 20 player limit?

    EDIT: I was correct skitscape and levelupmc use assetgateway :p
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    Because some people are special and got it before the release. I really don't like the philosophy of Asset Gateway, and I am still looking to make RubberBand free and perhaps open source.
    It is really not that hard to make a 'cloud plugin' and trying to charge literally hundreds of times what it is worth isn't very good imho.
    Anyway I'll keep you posted.
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    Guys, I can tell you after working/developing coulds, that in the end they are just not meant to be. The stability of a cloud is very hard to maintain, and can take months of finding the right proxies/servers to handle a Cloud in a bugfree enviroment.

    Minecraft was not made to be stretched to these kind of limits, it would be wise to wait until the 1.5 mod API to actually start seriously considering this. Most servers who have used clouds, have turned them off due to many issues that come with them
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    Donald Scott

    AssetCraft (our MC cloud) comes with DDoS protection. That alone makes it worth the cost to servers that really need the cloud...

    The fact is large servers want reliability, and that is what they pay for.

    -Don Scott
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    I get that fact, what about all these other people who cannot afford your ddos protection?

    By the way the fact the you tag your post with 'AssetGateway Administrator' actually detracts from its quality.
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    Free, as in free without the 20 player limit -- free free?
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    Well, we have no intention of selling a service that clients will have trouble with. Leaving all your servers venerable to an attack at one central network bottleneck is not wise. (Just look at all the attacks on our current clients.) As such we provide protection at an insane rate, (1/4th the competition), but yes, we are limiting people who can't afford our base $99 service.

    We strive to be a premium service with happy customers. With AssetCraft not only are you protected from downtime, but if you need help setting up or integrating a custom plugin, we will help you. With a free product (like yours) it's more difficult to maintain that level of personal support.

    We completely support you md_5 with your free alternative, but don't discount the value of what we offer.
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    If it's open source we could remove the limit ourselves. ;)
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    Derp. :3

    Hey, I'm tired -- Don't judge. :p
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    • Spreading false information is uncool
    AssetGateway has zero known issues, but I can't say the same for "Rubberband" unfortunately.

    md_5 has no intention of making Rubberband open source, as he states in his posts

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    He didn't say he would, but that doesn't guarantee that he won't.
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    People who can't afford the protection most likely won't be subject to such attacks, as they most likely own smaller servers, and most likely use a shared/Minecraft host opposed to a dedicated server or VPS, in which any reputable host would offer good DDoS protection where as you're left in the open when using a dedicated server/VPS.

    We do indeed use assetgateway on Skitscape's server, as DDoS attacks happen daily and never seem to stop (as should be expected).

    I was replying to a post which quoted that post and the post I quoted clearly acknowledged that there were intentions of making it free and/or open source.

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IT’S SNOWINGGGGGGGGG!!!!! Button snow anyways… so I had to celebrate with some Christmas crafty action.

I made this simple paper wreath, and will share my tutorial in a sec. I also created these paper trees that I found in an old Martha Stewart magazine! Let me see if I can find the instructions online… HERE they are  🙂 They are so charming and simple. I just traced different sized dishes and cut them out to get my circles. One day I will have Martha’s circle cutter! (HINT HINT HUSBAND.) I also used straws to hold them together, not skewers, and I skipped the trunk.

Next I  whipped up my first button tree ornaments of the season! These are so nifty and simple to make- give them a try! Here’s how I did it:

Fold 10″ of beading wire in half, and twist the loop end a few times to create the hanger. Slide a bead (the star) up to the loop, then add buttons through both wires(use diagonally-facing holes if you are using 4-hole buttons) going from smallest to largest. I use about 12-13 buttons for this step. To make the tree stump, slide about 5 smaller brown buttons on the wires, and to finish it off, simply twist the two end wires together, cut it to leave about 1-2 centimeters, then roll it up like a snail, hiding it under the bottom button. So, give them a try and don’t forget to Share your photos with me on Facebook or Instagram!

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I am just SO pleased with how this project turned out! It really didn’t take long, considering there is a bit of cutting to do! I have seen paper leaf wreaths around, but not with 3-D leaves and sweet button berries, so I took pictures as I created, so I could share them with you!

First things first, you are going to need some leaves! The size can vary depending on how big you want your wreath to be. It is a very simple shape, so once you create one you like, you can use it as a template. I just cut out a few at a time from an assortment of green scrapbook paper that I had kicking around. Then I pinched and folded the leaves at one end. This doesn’t need to be perfect because the bottoms of the leaves should be hidden for the most part.

Once the leaves were cut and folded, I started to hot glue them like so onto a cardboard ring.

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Once I went all the way around the ring, I started to add a final layer of leaves in the middle (to cover the blank spaces I am pointing at in the above photo).

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It was very pretty after this step, and would work well as a summer or spring wreath,  but it definitely needed something for the season!

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I used more hot glue & added a simple paper bow and embellished the wreath with button berries. I am embarrassed to admit this, but I originally didn’t think of using buttons until my daughter heard me thinking out loud,  “Hmmmmm what do I have that’s red, small, and round? Mercie! Do you have any red beads?” She laughed at me and handed me a jar of buttons. OF COURSE! Seriously, my brain is fried these days. The 5 kids are eating my brain. Good thing they’re cute 😉

Oops I dropped a family photo here. Haha! I love us. Here we are at Swan Lake with our Autism Support Dog, Landon (Who happens to have his own Facebook and Instagram pages, so be sure to follow him to see how much he has benefited our 10 year old son, who has autism and is profoundly disabled.)

Photo cred: Matt Ferguson Photography (He is the best, and doesn’t usually do portraits, but takes in.cred.i.ble shots of Beautiful British Columbia!

Well, this might be my only Tutorial until the new year, but please do check out my Christmas category on here- there are lots of fun and delicious holiday projects for you to create!

If you want to see what I am up to, I over-share on Instagram, share fun ideas over on Facebook, and am followed by Gordon Ramsay over on Twitter! (Pardon the shameless bragging.) So come give me a follow! I really appreciate your support, and hope you have a great, and stress-free holiday season!

Happy Crafting 🙂

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Lest We Forget: What Remembrance Day Means to Me.

Remembrance day is tomorrow, and I wanted to share what it means to me, and how much art can connect people all over the world.

A few years ago I painted this for my dad, and what happened next was something I could have never expected.

I envisioned a paper airplane in the sky while I was creating this. I feel it symbolizes innocence and the memory of war. The poppies are mourning, bowing their heads.

Now, let me introduce you to my Grandfather.

My dad’s dad, Clifford Battison Murray, died in World War II. Here is a write up about my Grandfather and his aircrew that went down on Feb 20 1944:

He was Pilot 2. It’s so crazy to see how young most of these men were when they made such a huge sacrifice! My Grandfather was only 26 and his wife had just had her second child, my dad, a few months before- he didn’t even get to meet his new baby.

At the time that I first posted about Remembrance Day, My little brother had just finished up his basic training. Now he is a Combat Engineer, and I still can’t help but think about what other young men seem to be doing with their lives. I understand that not everyone feels they should be in the military, but thinking about my grandfather, and reading about all the people who gave up so much just so they could liberate others is really intense. It sure is a lot different than prestiging in Call of Duty.

So, what happened after I gave my dad this painting?

After I posted about this painting 3 years ago, I was contacted by someone who was claiming to be a relative. This was very strange and exciting for me, because we were not in contact with or aware of hardly any relatives growing up. He found me because I linked the Aircrew Remembrance Society, who shared the above story of my grandfather, in my blog post. The ACRS added my painting to their site, and a long-lost cousin who was doing some family tree research happened upon it. He was able to contact this girl who claimed to be Clifford Battison Murray’s granddaughter, and since then, I’ve been so blessed to meet so many relatives from around the world.  I’ve become really close with my new cousins, and they even share my love of buttons, crafts, humour, science and food!!!!!! How exciting is that?

A friend who’s husband is a Veteran contacted me about doing a custom painting- she collected his Royal Canadian Air Force buttons from his uniforms and wanted me to create something special for him. Per Ardua Ad Astra (“Through adversity to the stars”) is the moto of the RCAF. I painted this Air Force blue and of course, I added some poppies under the tree. Now THAT is one special button tree. It was an honor to paint this one!

fan art

Here is a painting that a fan from Pakistan did using my ‘how to paint poppies’ tutorial. This was their first acrylic painting! Awesome, hey? Thanks for sharing, Tasneem!

Well, thanks for reading, and I hope you will be spending some time remembering the sacrifices made by many brave people tomorrow.

❤ Dot

I will end this post with my favourite Remembrance Day quote:

Our battlefields, safe in the keeping

Of Nature’s kind, fostering care,

Are blooming, our heroes are sleeping,

And peace broods perennial there. ~ John H. Jewett

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Why is Kapha dosha important?

Why is Kapha dosha important?

A balance of Kapha dosha within the body is crucial for relaxation, rejuvenation and easy going attitude. When out of balance, Kapha dosha brings drowsiness, heaviness in the body and lethargy in the being. These conditions further aggravate issues of weight gain or weight management, water retention, excessive phlegm formation, kidney stone formation and more. It tends to make one very rigid  and less flexible.

One of the prime areas of operation of Kapha dosha is above the diaphragm. It is particularly very active in the respiratory system. Aggravated kapha leads to excess phlegm formation, a sinus, a running nose and problems with breath. Phlegm and mucus when being formed in excessive quantities  is prone to getting infections and could even lead to formation of pus. Aggravated Kapha also makes the digestive system sluggish that one could live without food for very long, and one may pass excess mucus in their feces. Aggravated Kapha increases emotional disturbances. One tends to become extremely emotional and attached.

Tips to subside aggravated Kapha :
- Get involved in strenuous to medium exercise regimen
- Including spices like garam masala, black pepper, some chillies in your diet that can help fight infections, stimulate the digestive fire and flush out toxins from the body.
- Triphala powder can help flush out mucus from the colon.
- Eating light and avoiding intake of excessive milk and milk products can further help reduce kapha dosha and mucus formation.
- Drink herbal teas like Suprabhat Chai, Moringa and Mint

A deficit kapha dosha, on the other hand, leads to poor and slow recovery from wounds or illnesses, and improper development of bodily tissues, i.e dhatus. It also makes one feel less rooted, and established in self. One could also feel a lack of love and compassion, and dissociated with the surrounding environment.

How to improve Kapha dosha deficit :
- Ensure intake of oils and ghees in your diet in moderation
- Do not eat excess sweets or over processed foods since they give rise to poor quality of dhatu formation.
- Rest and sleep well. Do not overindulge in rest, since that could aggravate kapha, whereas, overindulgence in work could aggravate Pitta.
- Indulge in oil massages, spas, and rejuvenation therapies for utmost relaxation, which supports the bodily tissues to recover and develop adequately.

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HYDERABAD: The Election Commission of India has sought views of the state government on conducting elections for MLC seats under MLA quota.

Six MLC seats under MLA's quota fell vacant on June 3 with the tenure of six TRS MLCs, Gutha Sukender Reddy, Nethi Vidyasagar, Bodakunti Venkateswarlu, Kadiyam Srihari, Mohd Fareeduddin and Akula Lalitha, coming to an end.

Normally, EC conducts elections before the seats fall vacant but it delayed the procedure because of Covid second wave.

The EC's move triggered speculations that the Huzurabad Assembly by-election would be held soon based on the state government's opinion on MLC

Official sources said the EC sent a letter to Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar on Wednesday seeking the government's view on holding MLC elections. Sources said that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is in favour of holding elections as Covid cases have come down drastically in the state and there are no lockdown restrictions anywhere.

Moreover, MLC polls will not involve any campaigning or public gatherings because only 119 MLAs are eligible to vote.

In fact, even polling may not be required as the ruling TRS can bag all six seats on the back of the absolute majority it enjoys in the Legislative Assembly.

Opposition parties lack the strength even to field their candidates. Out of 119 MLAs in the House, the TRS has 102 and its friendly party AIMIM has seven. Opposition Congress and BJP have just six and two members, respectively.

With this, TRS MLC candidates will be declared unanimously and as such the state government wants EC to hold the elections at the earliest.

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31 August 2005

The future of Russia

Because I am about to teach a course in Russian politics, I am following the news out of that country a little more closely than usual. I have already pointed to stories like this which are nothing less than tragic: Russians, Dying Younger, Have More Abortions Than Children. But there is perhaps a glimmer of hope in the following report: Russia leads in GDP growth - figures. Mere economic growth is hardly an answer to the ongoing social and demographic crisis of postcommunist Russia. Yet if couples are less worried about the birth of a child pushing them into abject poverty, they may opt for more children.
Hurricane Katrina

CTV reports: Weakened Katrina could hit Ontario Wednesday. In fact, we're already getting lots of rain, along with gusts of wind.

30 August 2005

Benedict XVI and religious freedom

The new Pope has chosen September as a month to pray "That the right to religious freedom may be respected by the government of all peoples." May God see fit to answer this prayer.
Fetal pain study: conflict of interest

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published the results of a study purporting to show that unborn babies younger than 29 weeks do not feel pain. Now a conflict of interest has been uncovered: one of the authors had worked for an abortion advocacy group and the other is the medical director of an abortion centre at a major hospital in the US. JAMA's editor claims to have been unaware of these connections before the article was published.

29 August 2005

Pinker's 'calling'

In that TIME issue on evolution, there is a revealing comment by Harvard's Steven Pinker:

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

Am I the only one to think it incongruous that someone so vociferously opposed to intelligent design (and who, not incidentally, also justifies infanticide) nevertheless manages to invoke the language of calling, which, of course, would seem to presuppose the existence of a caller. Or is the notion that humanity is under a "highest calling" another of those naive impressions we are "called" to dispel through scientific investigation? If so, then Pinker is needlessly creating more work for himself.
Iraq and the limits of the US presidency

For someone who grew up in the US during the Vietnam War, the following reports bring back painful memories of a turbulent era: Bush warns of more sacrifice in Iraq, protesters rally; and Sunnis pledge to fight Iraq's constitution. True, that earlier conflict cost the US some 58,000 lives, while current war-related deaths have not yet reached 2,000. Vietnam was also part of a larger global superpower standoff, while the current war is not. Yet the open-ended conflict, coupled with declining presidential approval ratings, seems distressingly familiar.

The following stands out because it underscores a serious flaw in the Bush administration's approach:

In an effort to shift public perceptions, Mr Bush last week gave three speeches in as many days, vowing that America would not be pulling out of Iraq. "As long as I'm the President, we will stay, we will fight and we will win the war on terror," he said.

"As long as I'm the President. . . ." Even if we assume the justice of the current US cause in Iraq, the fact is, and always has been, that Bush will be president only until January 2009. From the outset, a prudent Iraq policy would have had to take into account, not only the Iraqi political culture, but also the temporal limits of the Bush presidency and the possibility that his successor might see fit to change course. If invading and securing Iraq — not to mention something as nebulous as winning a war on terror — could not be done within this time limit, then an alternative policy ought to have been considered. Good defence policy does not occur in a political vacuum and must inevitably account for such variables. Not to do so is a mistake that Bush's father, who undoubtedly had the best grasp of foreign policy of any 20th-century US president, would not have made. The younger Bush's principal failing is that he seems not to have relied on his own father's better judgement in this area.

So, George, please swallow your pride and give Dad a call.
NAFTA troubles

Fewer Americans than Canadians are aware of this story: PM ponders recalling MPs over trade tiff. Here's the crux of the matter: "The United States has said it will continue to impose duties on Canadian softwood lumber despite a North America free-trade agreement appeals panel ruling that the duties violate the NAFTA." One wonders what the point is of having a tribunal to settle international disputes if one of the parties repeatedly refuses to abide by its rulings.
Health benefits of coffee

Here's good news for some people: 'Java Jive' beneficial in moderation, study says. All the same, I've been off the stuff since 1993 and I have no intention of going back.

28 August 2005

Mars nonevent

Many people have received an email about this and believed it: 'Spectacular' view of Mars turns out to be hoax. So put away your telescope and go to bed early instead.
A 'disaster of biblical proportions'

Please pray for the people of New Orleans, especially the poor who have no means of their own by which to evacuate.

27 August 2005

From our recent travels

With "Sue" at the Field Museum, Chicago

26 August 2005

'What is to be done?'

A pamphlet by this title was written just over a century ago by one Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known to the world as Lenin. Now Comment has re-posed the question as it begins a new series of weekly articles. Editor Gideon Strauss opens with his introductory remarks, unsurprisingly titled, What is to be done?, announcing a new neocalvinist manifesto, arriving, like one of the great 19th-century Russian novels, in weekly instalments.

I will let you guess the author of the first contribution in the series: What is to be done … in political theory? This article notes that the two most influential political theorists of the modern era, John Locke and Karl Marx, were antipolitical yet contributed to the general drift towards statism in contemporary political practice. It goes on to survey four recent efforts to renew political theory, concluding with six signposts towards a better alternative.

While we're on the subject, I might also draw your attention to a piece by Michael C. Hogeterp, Broadbent’s Lament … and a politics of hopeful citizenship? Mr. Hogeterp works for the Christian Reformed Church in government relations and is a 1992 graduate in political science from Redeemer University College. The alert reader will take note of the reference to Bernard Crick's writings in this article and the political theory article. Coincidence? Um, not exactly.
Course materials online

Our new academic year begins in a week and a half. Accordingly, I have posted the syllabuses for the courses I will be teaching, along with supportive material. These include Introduction to Political Science, Russian Government and Politics and Ancient & Mediaeval Political Theory. For the second course I have considerably revised and updated the following documents: The Commonwealth of Independent States and other former Soviet republics and A Capsule History of Russia. I may still make some incremental changes in these, but by late next week they will be finalized.

25 August 2005

The 'timing' of creation

Having read the lead article in this issue of TIME Magazine on the evolution controversy in the States, a possible alternative comes to mind. Could it be that God created, simultaneously and ex nihilo, everything in the cosmos fully complete and complex and, rather than giving it the mere appearance of age, gave it a genuine history, capable of being investigated scientifically? If so, then the timing of creation, from a human perspective at least, would not be a relevant consideration. Just a thought.

24 August 2005

Decline of faith in Europe

Readers of this blog know of my ongoing interest in the phenomenon of secularization, which has decimated the churches and societies of Europe, Québec and elsewhere in the western world. Here is James M. Kushiner writing on Faith in Britain 50-50:

The fact is that many Europeans just gave up believing quite some time ago, even if they didn't completely discard the ritual of baptizing their children and getting married in the church. Why? Secularism, yes, but that's just a circular argument. I have wondered to what extent two World Wars on the continent of Europe, mostly involving "Christian" nations, have contributed to the decline of faith. No wonder drug usage in the British Isles is so high. I suppose it numbs the pain of living in a meaningless culture.

I too have wondered about the role of the world wars. For those who lived during the "bourgeois century" between 1815 and 1914, it would have seemed inconceivable that Europe, which had recovered surprisingly well from the Napoleonic debacle, could once again be plunged into another continental war, much less two such wars, in so short a time.

I recently reread Michael P. Fogarty's classic Christian Democracy in Western Europe: 1820-1953, which was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 1957. Fogarty reported that, at the time he wrote, there was a belt of high religious observance extending from Flanders to Venice, which was bounded by relative spiritual wastelands on either side. (Even then the Scandinavian countries were devoutly secularist, it seems.) This European "bible belt" was the heartland of the christian democratic parties, over whose uncertain prospects Fogarty nevertheless managed to summon up some optimism.

Of course, half a century later we now know that France's Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP) did not survive the end of the Fourth Republic in 1958. The Netherlands' three christian democratic parties, including Abraham Kuyper's Anti-Revolutionary Party, would eventually merge in an effort to cut their losses. Even the once orthodox Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland, the sister church of the CRCNA, would largely succumb to the same trends affecting the rest of Europe and disappear altogether into a generic protestant body. Italy's Democrazia Cristiana all but vanished slightly more than a decade ago, along with much of the post-war Italian political status quo.

Fogarty wrote only a decade after the Second World War. European Christendom was already pretty shaky, but it was holding its own, at least in certain regions. If the world wars were a major precipitating cause of its decline, then they didn't have this effect immediately. It took the turmoil of the 1960s to do that.

Yet, as I've observed before, when people cease to believe in the God who has revealed himself in Jesus Christ (or, in the case of Jews, in the Torah), they do not stop believing in general. Something inevitably comes in to fill the vaccuum. Will Europeans be able to maintain the richness of their civilization and the stability of their institutions on the basis of an unprecedented faith in a deracinated humanism? Probably not. It remains to be seen, then, what will come next.
Robertson's fatwa

Pat Robertson is too often made the whipping boy of the media. All the same, one suspects that his most recent comments represent at the very least a significant public relations failure: U.S. evangelist calls for assassination of Chavez. I wonder what the good people at Regent University, where I spoke in February, think of their founder's remarks?

23 August 2005

New party redundant?

One wonders whether this country really needs another party that claims to stand for what the Cosmopolitan Party of Canada stands for. Read in particular about its cosmopolitan spirituality, which eclectically and selectively draws on the supposed universal principles common to all religions. Judging from past experience, I think it is fair to observe that professed cosmopolitans are the most parochial of all spiritual communities, primarily because they cannot bring themselves to recognize the particular and exclusive character of their own commitments. Funny, but I thought we already had people like that running our country.
Francis Schaeffer's legacy

I have just finished reading Nancy Pearcey's Total Truth, probably the thickest in the recent series of worldview books which have been produced by thinking Christians. I may comment on this book at some point, but what immediately stands out for me is her debt to Francis Schaeffer, who, along with his wife Edith, founded the l'Abri Fellowship 50 years ago. I have known any number of people over the years who were impacted by the Schaeffers' ministry in that unlikely corner of Switzerland. Pearcey was one of these, and she speaks in fond terms of her reconversion to christian faith through the Schaeffers' leading.

My own youthful contact with Schaeffer was through some of his writings, and I will admit to being somewhat less than favourably impressed at the time, for reasons I may come back to later. After three decades, I cannot recall which of his earlier books I read, but I'm fairly certain one of these was Escape from Reason. Of his later books the one I definitely recall reading was How Should We Then Live, whose subtitle, The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture, seemed to me to be a particularly egregious example of a publisher overselling a book.

Francis A. Schaeffer

I recently found three Witherspoon lectures on Schaeffer's thought, one by Darryl Hart, who incongruously compares him with Russell Kirk; a second by Greg Jesson; and a third by Kenneth Myers. Of the three, I found Myers' reflections the most thought-provoking, especially his discussion of Schaeffer's apparent "bohemianism," as it translated into an excessive mistrust of legalism and tradition. Here is Myers:

Consider this passage in one of the appendices to The God Who Is There (1968), titled "The Problem of the Middle-Class Church in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century": "Mature Christians must summon the courage to distinguish, under the Holy Spirit, between unchangeable biblical truth and the things which have only become comfortable for us." Surely there are aspects of the Church's life which are neither unchangeable biblical truth nor merely comfy habits, but deliberate and wise practices accepted and sustained in an effort to embody unchangeable biblical truth and confirm its living significance in our lives and in those of our children. Schaeffer does not seem to recognize this essential middle phenomenon.

This is characteristic of a reluctance--if not a refusal--in Schaeffer to recognize the salutary (indeed necessary) place of tradition within the Church, tradition not as a means of revelation but as a set of practices adopted to continue in the task of discipleship. Schaeffer seems more aware of the way in which the presuppositions of modern thought find their way into art, music, literature, and shared life than he does of the necessity for the Church's presuppositions to become incarnate in its life. He was certainly concerned throughout his life that visible and costly love be made evident in the life of local churches, and (in places like Art and the Bible) he repeatedly addresses the question of the responsibility of the individual artist to produce works that were consistent with a Christian worldview. But I am not aware of any sustained effort on his part to reflect on how local churches can become countercultural communities and not simply lifestyle enclaves. The bohemian side of Schaeffer seemed to resist reflection about how the Church's commitments to its truths become institutionalized. His writings pay much more attention to the institutions of the state than to those of the Church. Indeed, there are passages in Schaeffer's work where, in a hyper-Protestant manner, he pits the authority of the Church against the authority of the Bible.

I am insufficiently conversant with Schaeffer's life and thought to judge whether Myers' assessment is accurate. However, confirmation may lie in the fact that Schaeffer's son, Frank, left behind his Reformed upbringing and converted to the Orthodox Church, something of which his father would have heartily disapproved if he had lived long enough to see it.

I notice that the original l'Abri in Huémoz, Switzerland, is now being run by the Schaeffers' granddaughter and her husband. Other l'Abri locations are to be found in England, the Netherlands, South Korea, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Sweden and British Columbia. Whether they are still attracting the same sorts of searching young people who went to l'Abri in its heyday in the 1960s and '70s I don't know. I hope so. I wish them God's blessing in their efforts.
Coming soon. . .

. . . to a library shelf near you: "Persuaded, Not Commanded: Neo-Calvinism, Dignitatis Humanae, and Religious Liberty," by yours truly, in a collection of essays on this Vatican II document shortly to be published by Sheed & Ward, and edited by Kenneth Grasso and Robert P. Hunt. I'll let everyone know when it's out.

20 August 2005

I hear the dinosaurs singing

This is old news which I missed back in 1998, before I had a daughter who would find it so fascinating: Scientists Use Digital Paleontology to Produce Voice of Parasaurolophus Dinosaur. Hear for yourself what they came up with.

Pavel Ríha

One artist's rendering of two
Tornadoes in southern Ontario

We don't often get storms like this in our part of the world, where we tend to think of severe weather coming in frozen form.
Chicago and back again

Earlier in the week we returned from a visit to the Chicago area and Michigan where we visited family on both sides. Here are some highlights and observations:

  • The Chicago area contains some 9 million people as compared to the 12 million living in Ontario, Canada’s largest province. Consequently, the 10-county metropolitan area is a huge sprawling mass of urban-suburban settlement, with not enough open spaces in between. One of these spaces is the Morton Arboretum, which is not dissimilar to Hamilton’s Royal Botanical Gardens. We didn’t get there this time, but perhaps we will during our next visit.

  • The Chicago area is crisscrossed with wide thoroughfares with sometimes as many as 20 lanes pouring into a single intersection. Now imagine a power outage in which an absence of traffic lights turns such an intersection into an impromptu four-way stop. Yes, we did find ourselves at one of these.

  • Everything in the Chicago area seems to have two-tier pricing, with lower prices for locals and higher for outsiders. This includes the supermarkets and the toll roads.

  • A highlight of our trip was a visit to the Field Museum of Natural History, downtown Chicago. With Theresa’s recent interest in dinosaurs, we decided to indulge this with a tour through its special exhibit, Dinosaur Dynasty: Discoveries from China. A permanent part of the museum’s collection is a complete tyrannosaurus rex (or perhaps tyrannosaura regina) skeleton called Sue.

  • Michigan’s unofficial motto is “Great lakes, bad roads.” Detroit, in particular, appears to be exceedingly poorly run in this respect. For those attempting to cross the Ambassador Bridge into Canada, Interstate 94 is currently closed for construction at the exit to Interstate 96, with “helpful” signs vaguely advising drivers to “Use alternate route.” Strangers are left to figure out for themselves what such a route might be. (How many returning Canadians have met a cruel fate wandering through the side streets of this dangerous city?) We decided to get off at Livernois Avenue (also in poor shape) and head north to 96. Yet the entrance to 96 is not clearly marked either, so we nearly missed it. Then there was the driver who kept running red lights in front of us. And the car which cut us off in full sight of one of Detroit’s finest, who did absolutely nothing. And. . . well, you get the picture.

  • Next time maybe we’ll try the Blue Water Bridge at Sarnia-Port Huron.

  • In the US a pocket full of change is likely to add up to a dollar or two and includes lots and lots of pennies. In Canada a pocket full of change could total ten dollars or more, but with fewer pennies. American bills are harder to tell apart. You need to keep alert to be sure you’re receiving the correct denominations.

  • If you’re ever in Hillsdale, Michigan, a quite pleasant place to stay is the Dow Center on the Hillsdale College campus. Very impressive. Nicely run with friendly staff. The walls are covered with pictures of eagles, to which people there seem to have a curious devotion.

  • Hillsdale, Michigan’s motto: “It’s the people.” To which one is tempted to respond: What’s the people?

  • Two more weeks before classes start. Back to work.
  • 19 August 2005

    Unexplained crash

    The mystery deepens surrounding that downed Cypriot airliner.
    More on institution-building

    Here are two more recent contributions to Comment: The first is by the remarkable Mr. Rob Joustra, an historian and political scientist with an interest in the arts: Building Institutions: Makoto Fujimura and the International Arts Movement. The second is by Wheaton College's answer to Abraham Kuyper, Dr. Vincent Bacote: The Spirit and institution-building. Coming soon: "What is to be done . . . in political theory?"

    18 August 2005

    One of these days I'll have to blog about the Cypriot dialect of Greek, known in standard demotic Greek as Κυπριακά (Keep-ree-a-KAH) and in Cypriot as Τζυπριώτικα (Cheep-ree-O-ti-ka). In standard demotic Greek one would say: Εγώ κ'εσύ θα πάμε στην Κύπρο ("I and you will go to Cyprus.") In the Cypriot dialect one would say: Εγιώνι τζι'εσούνι έννα πάμεν στην Τζύπρον. Why the difference? It's a long story.

    17 August 2005

    Brother Roger murdered

    To call this news sad is an understatement: Taizé Religious Community Founder Slain.
    The meaning of 'Varosha'

    Varosha is a roman transliteration of the Greek Βαρώσια. Βαρώσια in turn comes from the Turkish word merash, meaning "swamp." This, at least, is what I hear from someone on the Return to Varosha list.

    Later: Someone else on the list claims it comes from the Turkish word varosh, meaning suburb. My own considerably abbreviated Turkish-English dictionary cannot confirm either of these meanings, but I suppose they're plausible.
    Mystery solved

    Several months ago I asked whether there really might be a hymn titled, Gladly the Cross I'd Bear, which generations of children had mistaken for Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear. Well, there isn't. But a certain Angharad has cleared up the mystery. It seems that in 1894 the great Fanny Crosby wrote a hymn, Keep Thou My Way, whose third stanza contains the line, "Gladly the cross I'll bear." Now I can sleep at night again.

    15 August 2005

    Cyprus crash

    So soon after the Anorthosis football victory, Cyprus is in mourning.

    14 August 2005

    Famagusta and the future of Cyprus

    In recent months I have been on an email list called Return to Varosha, Famagusta, Cyprus. I joined this list at the invitation of the moderator, who, I assume, must have come across my own Cyprus page. Participants include those who have had some connection with the Varosha section of Famagusta south of the old walled city, whose inhabitants were almost wholly Greek prior to the troubles of 1974. It is now an uninhabited ghost city, surrounded by a fence guarded (lightly, in some places) by the Turkish military.

    David Koyzis

    The abandoned city of Varosha
    from south of the Green Line

    Varosha was the centre of the tourist industry in Cyprus after independence in 1960 and for the next 14 years. I myself never had the opportunity to go there, but my father was raised there and my relatives were exiled from there in '74. Many people on this list have indeed lived there, and this includes some British families as well. I have been moved by their expressions of love for a place to which they cannot return. They tell of favourite restaurants, ice cream shops, beaches, hotels, schools, streets and other once familiar landmarks.

    Although I can feel no nostalgia for a city where I've never been, I am getting a pretty good sense of the politics surrounding the issue of Famagusta, which is apparently being held as a sort of pawn by the Turks, to be used at some future negotation to settle the Cyprus issue.

    Last year, in the runup to Cyprus' entry into the European Union, the people of both sides of the island voted in a referendum on the Kofi Annan Plan to unify the island. Turkish Cypriots in the north voted in favour, while Greek Cypriots in the south voted against, at the urging of their fairly new president, Tassos Papadopoulos.

    To be sure, the plan was inequitable in many respects, although the list members have mentioned another reason for its rejection which had not occurred to me before. Since 1974, much of the tourist industry has moved south to such cities as Paphos, Limassol and Ayia Napa, the last of which was once a sleepy village now turned into a garish resort city. If the north is opened up and the barriers removed, much of the tourism on which the south is dependent could move to the less expensive north. If the Varosha section of Famagusta is reopened, these southern cities could end up suffering economically as a consequence. Since no one wishes to see his restaurant or hotel lose business, he would quite naturally vote to maintain the status quo — which means no to the Annan Plan.

    Former residents of Famagusta look at this differently, of course. They just want to go home. Their houses are deteriorating physically and badly need to be restored. All they want is to reclaim something of their former lives in a city cruelly taken from them. If this means accepting an imperfect settlement to a three-decade-old stalemate, so be it.

    Return to Varosha

    The fence around Varosha

    My prayer is that they will indeed go home again before too long. To paraphrase the Jewish Passover liturgy: Next year in Varosha. . . .

    10 August 2005

    Concert notice

    Given my longstanding interest in the Genevan Psalms, I would love to attend this event: Concert of Psalms at Concord church.

    09 August 2005

    The diaeresis

    English is nearly unique among European languages in having so few diacritical marks. I've recently received a new computer, and one of the things I have done is to enable the language functions so that I can type in French, German and Greek. If I have need of other languages, it is fairly simple to add them by clicking on START, then SETTINGS, then CONTROL PANEL, and then REGIONAL AND LANGUAGE OPTIONS.

    One of the diacritical marks that appears occasionally in English is the diaeresis, which is placed on the second of two adjacent vowels, thereby indicating that they are pronounced separately. One word containing this mark is naïve, which is, of course, a loan word from French. In some older books one also sees coöperate spelt with a diaeresis, though this seems to be less common nowadays. Following this logic, one might conceivably come across preëminent, although, to be honest, I've never seen this spelling in use anywhere.

    Our surname in Greek contains a diaeresis (also called a dialytika) over the letter ι, as in Κοϊζής, pronounced Koi-ZEES. The presence of this diacritical mark is an indication that the o and i sounds are pronounced separately, an unusual pronunciation in modern spoken Greek, wherein ι, η, υ, ει and οι are now pronounced identically. Without the diaeresis, our surname would sound like Kee-ZEES. Its presence is evidence that the name was not originally Greek but was transliterated from another language, probably French, where it may originally have been Coizy.

    My father was not born with this surname. In fact, he was born without a surname at all, only a patronymic. Not until later did he adopt our current surname, with which his grandfather and, apparently, father were born. Since the diaeresis is scarcely used in English, he made the Κοϊ into Koy, with a y replacing the ϊ. Some of my relatives in the US and elsewhere spell our name Koizis, but no one has retained the diaeresis.

    07 August 2005

    Political reverberations from a football victory

    Cyprus is a much smaller country than Turkey. Thus the victory of Anorthosis Famagusta over Trabzonspor continues to stir up emotions in both countries, as reported in this Cyprus Mail article: How a football club came to symbolise Cyprus. Incidentally, although I have not personally met sociologist Nicos Peristianis of Intercollege, who is quoted at length in this article, I did know his sister when we were both living in Toronto 25 years ago. Small world? Perhaps. Then again Cyprus is a small island.

    Later: I found the websites of the two clubs, Trabzonspor and Anorthosis. Note that the latter flies the flag of Greece prominently in the upper left corner. This would appear to indicate a rightwing nationalist political orientation. The flag of the Cyprus Republic is nowhere in sight. That dampens my enthusiasm somewhat. Yet Anorthosis did win the match and thus deserves to be congratulated.

    06 August 2005

    A Sinai treasure

    Here is one place that would be well worth a visit: St. Catherine's Monastery, the oldest such monastery in continuous use.
    Orthodox group leaves ecumenical body

    Could this be the beginning of a trend: Antiochian archdiocese votes to leave church council? The National Council of Churches sees itself as the principal ecumenical body in the United States, but, if enough Orthodox jurisdictions withdraw membership, it will be increasingly sidelined, especially given that the Roman Catholic Church and most evangelical protestant bodies remain outside. Here is another report on this development from the Institute for Religion and Democracy, an organization explicitly targeted for opposition by the NCC. Oddly enough, the NCC website is not yet carrying the news.
    New Comment articles

    This week’s edition of Comment boasts three new articles. The first, North America and the New Christendom, is by Gideon Strauss. Drawing on Philip Jenkins’ observation that the global centre of Christianity is moving south, Strauss argues that North American neocalvinists have resources from which the new African and Asian Christians might well benefit.

    The second, Heidi Metcalf’s The destructive power of good, offers a disturbing look at the practice of human trafficking around the globe, along with biblical hope for a way out.

    The third, Pantagruelian paradoxes and post-Modern cop-outs, sees author Brian Dijkema revisit the recent Koyzis/Jape debate, with a persuasive response to Fr. Jape’s spirited, if not altogether convincing, broadside.

    By the way, I have just received a copy of the WRF’s Best of Comment, an impressive-looking publication which deserves a wide reading.

    04 August 2005

    And now for today's sporting news. . .

    Our top story: Anorthosis of Cyprus triumph in grudge Turkey game. This was an unprecedented football (i.e., North American soccer) match pitting a Greek Cypriot team exiled from the occupied "ghost city" of Famagusta against a Turkish team from the ancient city of Trabzon. Ironically, prior to the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, even the latter was once occupied by Pontic Greeks, who called it Τραπεζούντα (Trapezounda). This city was the seat of the last independent Byzantine outpost to be conquered by the Turks in 1461, eight years after the conquest of Constantinople.
    Another priest 'disciplined'

    The ongoing drama of the Episcopal Church's implosion moves to Saginaw, Michigan, where Bishop Edwin Leidel of Eastern Michigan has deposed the Rev. Gene Geromel, an orthodox priest in his diocese. However, 13 of Leidel’s fellow bishops have declared Fr. Geromel a priest in good standing in their own dioceses. As one commentator put it, "The boundaries of inclusion grow ever narrower."
    Our new governor general

    The Queen will have a new representative in Canada next month to replace the outgoing Adrienne Clarkson. She is Michaëlle Jean, a Haitian-born journalist familiar to Québec television viewers. She is being touted as the first black to fill the governor general's post, the third woman, and the second non-Canadian-born since 1952. Before that year governors general were always sent from Britain, appointed from the aristocracy or even the royal family. The one exception was Scottish novelist John Buchan, known during his tenure in Canada as Lord Tweedsmuir. In 1952 Vincent Massey became the first Canadian-born governor general. Since then the office has alternated between an anglophone and a francophone. However, with Mme. Jean's appointment, we will have had two CBC/SRC journalists in a row, which some might deem a minor breach of convention. At age 48 Mme. Jean will become one of the youngest persons to represent Her Majesty in the True North.

    Michaëlle Jean
    Christian heritage day

    The province of Ontario has come up with its own solution to the problem of religious diversity: Give Christians their own heritage day, along with Greeks, Poles and other cultural groups, thereby putting ultimate belief on a par with ethnicity. What would Bob Ferguson think of that?

    Sights and Culture

    in typical costumes
    performing typical dances

    03 August 2005

    Osama's new suzerain

    A smooth transfer of power for this oil-rich middle eastern kleptocracy: King Abdullah receives oaths of loyalty.
    Darwin and ID

    Are male academics programmed by natural selection to defend Darwin over Intelligent Design as a means of protecting their status against rivals? David Klinghoffer thinks there's something to this.

    02 August 2005

    Little on church-state separation

    The Rev. Kevin Little is a minister in the United Church of Canada and a one-time candidate for the House of Commons. One assumes from this op-ed piece in the Toronto Star that he would oppose Bob Ferguson's draconian proposal to regulate all religions but his own. Indeed Little recalls his own denomination's roots in Methodist social and political activism. Arguments for separating church and state did not stop his forebears from pushing for medicare, unemployment insurance and other social programmes which Canadians now take for granted.

    Now if only Little could manage to correct his faulty comprehension of the personalism of Emanuel Mounier and Jacques Maritain. Pierre Trudeau may indeed have believed that "faith was irrational and therefore did not belong in public discourse," but he would have received scant support for this from the likes of Mounier and Maritain.
    Turkey's EU bid

    Must Turkey recognize the Republic of Cyprus before accession talks can begin with the European Union? Yes, says the French Prime Minister. Austria's Deputy Chancellor agrees. Ankara will not be pleased.
    The ICR: a viable alternative?

    Someone responded to my request for biblically consistent resources on dinosaurs by referring me to the Institute for Creation Research, an organization of which I know little other than its name and less than positive reputation in most scientific circles. After perusing some of its materials on dinosaurs, I would judge that this group's approach seems to amount to: (1) denying the evidence for the great age of the earth and its fossilized creatures, (2) denying that there was ever a time when mostly dinosaurs inhabited the earth, (3) affirming, against considerable evidence to the contrary, that human beings and dinosaurs cohabited earth, (4) finding evidence for dinosaurs in the Bible (e.g., Job's leviathan and behemoth), (5) ascribing the various sedimentary layers in the earth's rock formations to the biblical flood, and (6) reading the Bible in a woodenly literal way as if it were a scientific treatise. While not wishing to impugn the sincerity of the good people at the ICR, I am inclined to think an approach is needed which better accounts for empirical evidence as well as for the different literary genres in scripture itself. At the same time, as I admitted earlier, I am hardly an expert in this field.
    Prayers requested

    Please pray for my niece, Bethany Givens, who is spending the summer and autumn in Tanzania and has now contracted malaria.

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ST. LOUIS, June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Perimeter Solutions ("Perimeter Solutions" or the "Company"), a leading global manufacturer of high-quality firefighting products and lubricant additives, today announced an agreement in which EverArc Holdings Ltd. ("EverArc") (LSE: EVRA), a publicly-listed acquisition company with fully committed capital, will acquire Perimeter Solutions from SK Invictus Holdings S.à.r.l., an affiliate of funds advised by SK Capital Partners, LP ("SK Capital") in a transaction valued at approximately $2 billion.

Upon closing of the Transaction, it is intended that W. Nicholas Howley and William N. Thorndike, Jr., Founders and Co-Chairmen of EverArc, will serve as Co-Chairmen of the combined business. The Company's current management team, led by CEO Edward Goldberg, will continue to lead Perimeter Solutions.

"This transaction is a great opportunity for Perimeter Solutions to partner with an experienced team with an extensive operating and investing track record," said Perimeter Solutions CEO Edward Goldberg. "EverArc's fully committed capital provides Perimeter Solutions access to resources to further enhance our integrated product and service offering and, most importantly, provide crucial protection to communities around the world and peace of mind to our customers as they increasingly rely on our services. We thank SK Capital for our successful and collaborative partnership and are excited to join forces with a unique partner like EverArc."

"Perimeter Solutions' comprehensive, safe and effective wildfire prevention and suppression technology is more critical than ever as the severity of wildfires unfortunately shows a steady increase around the world," said EverArc Holdings Founder Haitham Khouri. "The Company's unwavering focus on consistent innovation, exceptional service and strong and durable relationships with key customers have all contributed to its unmatched success. As a public company, Perimeter Solutions will have even greater, long-term access to additional debt and equity capital. We look forward to partnering with Eddie and the rest of Perimeter's talented team in the Company's next phase of growth."

"EverArc's goal is to give our shareholders private equity-like returns with the liquidity and long-term focus of a public market," said W. Nicholas Howley and William N. Thorndike, Jr., Founders and Co-Chairmen of EverArc. "To do so, we target specific economic criteria, including: recurring revenue streams; long-term secular growth tailwinds; high-value yet low-cost products and services; high returns on tangible capital; and accretive growth through acquisitions. We believe that Perimeter Solutions is an excellent fit with our target criteria and look forward to supporting the Company's growth objectives."

"We have been delighted to partner with the management and employees of Perimeter Solutions over these past three years. Since our acquisition, we have successfully transitioned what was previously a non-core segment within a public company into a thriving standalone organization, with an uncompromising commitment to the highest quality, safety, and reliability standards. The Company has grown significantly during our ownership, driven by investments in innovation and commercial excellence, as well as five highly strategic add-on acquisitions," said Aaron Davenport, a Managing Director of SK Capital. "We believe Eddie and the Perimeter Solutions management team are well-positioned to carry this momentum forward and we wish them all the best under EverArc's ownership."

Transaction financing is fully committed and, consistent with EverArc's structure, is not subject to shareholder approval. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 2021, subject to customary closing conditions. EverArc will now begin the process to transition its public listing from London to New York, where the combined entity is expected to begin trading in Q4 2021.

The Valence Group of Piper Sandler and Morgan Stanley acted as financial advisors to EverArc and Greenberg Traurig LLP acted as English and US legal advisor and Maples and Calder acted as BVI and Luxembourg legal advisor to EverArc in relation to the Transaction. Kirkland & Ellis LLP acted as legal advisor to SK Capital Partners. Morgan Stanley and UBS acted as placement agents in relation to the Private Placement.

About EverArc Holdings Limited

EverArc Holdings Limited (LSE: EVRA / EVWA) is a publicly-listed acquisition company that was formed in November 2019 to undertake an acquisition of a target company or business.

About Perimeter Solutions

Perimeter is a leading global manufacturer of high-quality firefighting products and lubricant additives. The Fire Safety business includes formulation and manufacturing of fire management products along with services and pre-treatment solutions for managing wildland, military, industrial and municipal fires. The Oil Additives business produces high quality phosphorous pentasulfide ("P2S5") utilized in the preparation of zinc dialkyldithiophosphate ("ZDDP") based lubricant additives, providing critical anti-wear solutions for end customers. Across both businesses, Perimeter Solutions provides world class technology, proprietary formulations, leading innovation, high levels of service and supply chain expertise.

About SK Capital

SK Capital is a private investment firm with a disciplined focus on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors. The firm seeks to build strong and growing businesses that create substantial long-term value. SK Capital aims to utilize its industry, operating and investment experience to identify opportunities to transform businesses into higher performing organizations with improved strategic positioning, growth and profitability as well as lower operating risk. SK Capital's portfolio of businesses generates revenues of approximately $11 billion annually, employs more than 16,000 people globally and operates 150 plants in 28 countries.

Forward Looking Statements and Disclaimers

This press release does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to purchase, otherwise acquire, issue, subscribe for, sell or otherwise dispose of any securities, nor any solicitation of any offer to purchase, otherwise acquire, issue, subscribe for, sell, or otherwise dispose of any securities.

The release, publication or distribution of this press release in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law and therefore persons in such jurisdictions into which this announcement is released, published or distributed should inform themselves about and observe such restrictions.

Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements which are based on EverArc's expectations, intentions and projections regarding the Company's future performance, anticipated events or trends and other matters that are not historical facts, including: (i) expectations regarding the anticipated closing date of the Transaction; (ii) intentions regarding changing its jurisdiction of incorporation, filing a registration statement with the SEC and relisting on a U.S.-based exchange; (iii) expectations regarding the future operating and financial performance of the Company; (iv) expectations regarding the Company's growth prospects and the EverArc team's role in its growth and expansion plans; (v) intentions to capitalize on strategic opportunities to expand; (vi) expectations regarding the post-closing composition of the Board of Directors and management team of the Company; (vii) expectations regarding funding of the Transaction; and (viii) intentions to raise additional proceeds from an equity issuance prior to closing and expected use of such proceeds. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including: (i) economic and market conditions, competition, operating difficulties and other risks that may affect the Company's and/or EverArc's future performance; (ii) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the definitive agreement entered into among the parties thereto in connection with the Transaction; (iii) the risk that securities markets will react negatively to the Transaction or other actions by EverArc, the Company and/or the combined company after completion of the Transaction; (iv) the risk that the Transaction disrupts current plans and operations as a result of the announcement and consummation of the Transaction described herein; (v) the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Transaction and of the Company to take advantage of strategic opportunities; (vi) costs related to the Transaction; (vii) the limited liquidity and trading of EverArc's securities; (viii) the ability of EverArc to successfully effect a listing of Perimeter Solutions S.A.'s securities on a U.S.-based exchange in the anticipated timeframes; (ix) the Company's ability to drive growth and to sustain such growth; (x) EverArc's ability to raise additional proceeds on acceptable terms; (xi) changes in applicable laws or regulations (or the interpretation thereof); (xii) the possibility that EverArc and/or the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and (xiii) other risks and uncertainties.

Given these risks and uncertainties, prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may, and often do, differ materially from actual results. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of such statements and, except as required by applicable law or regulation, neither EverArc nor the Company undertake any obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Nothing in this announcement constitutes or should be construed as constituting a profit forecast.

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Take Five with...Tanya Kim: My TIFF Essentials

The stars have begun touching down in Toronto for the 40th annual film festival, and as the new co-host of City’s Entertainment City and Your World This Week (Rogers Digital Channel 1), Tanya Kim is ready to hit the ground running. For the last 14 years, the pop-culture pro has covered red carpets and movie sets all over the world. Now, she’s teaming up with new co-host Adam Wylde to bring viewers the latest from TIFF's prestigious premieres and candid conversations with some of the festival’s most famous talents.

READ MORE:Artistic director Cameron Bailey shares his TIFF essentials

“I’m super-stoked! It feels awesome,” she says. A familiar face to viewers, Tanya took some time off from TV following her tenure at etalk. She revealed to Hello! that time away from the camera has given her a fresh perspective and boundless excitement when it comes to the 10-day fest. “If everyone could experience that time off and afford to be able to do so, I highly recommend it,” says Tanya. “Life’s not as fun if you don’t have a minute to sit there and appreciate it.”

Here, the friendly host shares her must-have items and the must-see stars that will help to make this her best TIFF yet.

Tanya and co-host Adam Wylde. Photo: © City

This is the Super Bowl of our industry! Besides water, mints and hand sanitizer, it’s important to have healthy snacks with you so that you can eat on the go. I’ll pack something that’s easy and won’t ruin your lipstick, like Vega snack bars.

I love Pai Skincare’s Rosehip BioRegenerate Oil. It keeps your skin smooth, supple and hydrated morning, noon and night. I can’t live without that stuff. The brand’s based in London, England and they’re just starting to come to Canada. A friend of mine introduced me to this stuff and I cannot live without it. I also love their Chamomile and Rosehip Calming Day Cream. I used to sunbathe all the time. Now, my dermatologist has me regularly using lots of SPF. For day, I’ll use L’Oreal Paris Silky Sheer BB SPF 50 on my face, which has a slight tint.

It takes a village! I’m working with a stylist and they’re helping to put together the looks and jewelry. The heels I’ll be wearing are actually a collection of my own that we’re going to be using a lot, courtesy of Browns Shoes. In terms of practicality, you want to make sure that you have gel pads in your shoes if you tend to get sore. I don’t personally use them, I just suffer through it with a smile. But I’ve heard those work wonders! I’ll carry flats for sure, to slip on when I’m running to and from places.

If there ever is downtime during the festival, I’ll enjoy a nice steaming cup of green tea. Also, daily workouts and meditation are really important for me. I know it sounds crazy, but if I can fit in a workout, I find that it actually helps to reboot the system. It’s a comforting, familiar thing that I do every day. If I can’t get to a ballet boot camp class at Barreworks, then I’ll sit and meditate. If you can do more than a minute that’s wonderful, but even a minute is good!

This year’s list of celebrities coming to TIFF is huge, and the great thing about the festival is that it gets bigger every year! I’m looking forward to seeing Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman. It’ll also be good to see Sandra Bullock, it feels like it’s been a while since we’ve seen her [in town]. I hope some of our favourite Canadians like Rachel McAdams come out as well. It’s always nice to see her and it’s like a reunion on the red carpet.

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