Tuesday, July 17, 2007

There's another piece by Ed Husain on the need to confront rather than creatively empathize with Islamist ideology. It's in today's Evening Standard (and not, as far as I can tell, online), and it has some critical words for Ken Livingstone: Appeasement is not an answer to the bombs The threat of radical Islam is as great as ever - and those, like the Mayor, who seek to gloss over the danger, should heed this warning Ed Husain Once again, London is plunged into fear and confusion. Perhaps we had been lulled by a series of successful convictions of bomb plotters. But all along, the jihadists were at work, building their cells, arming themselves, recruiting, making plans. And it is only by a miracle that London escaped carnage far, far worse than that wreaked on 7 July 2005. Police seem to have a good chance of rounding up this particular real estate sales associate ell. But either way, radical Islam is back with a vengeance. In fact, it never left. So I listen to the Mayor of our great city and I wonder, what will it take for him to wake up? More bombs in central London? Another attack on the Tube? As someone who was seduced by Islamists such as Omar Bakri, I know how charismatic these firebrands can be. But at the time, I was an impressionable teenager. What's Ken's excuse? Don't get me wrong.

When the British TV special, The Great Global Warming Swindle called on MIT's Professor Carl Wunsch to explain climate change , he thought it an educational opportunity. Now that he's seen what remained after some highly 'polemic' editing, he knows better- here's what Wunsch has to say about how TV misrepresented his views: "I believe that climate change is real, a major threat, and almost surely has a major human-induced component. But I have tried to stay out of the `climate wars' because all nuance tends to be lost, and the distinction between what we know firmly, as scientists, and what we suspect is happening, is so difficult to maintain in the presence of rhetorical excess. In the long run, our credibility as scientists rests on being very careful of, and protective of, our authority and expertise.... Many of us feel an obligation to talk to the media---it's part pc anywhere trial f our role as scientists, citizens, and educators. The subjects are complicated, and it is easy to be misquoted or quoted out context. My experience in the past is that these things do happen, but usually inadvertently --- most reporters really do want to get it right. Channel 4 now says they were making a film in a series of "polemics". There is nothing in the communication we had (much of it on the telephone or with the film crew on the day they were in Boston) that suggested they were making a film that was one-sided, anti-educational, and misleading. I took them at face value---clearly a great error.

Chao v. Hotel Oasis, Inc., No. 06-1021 affirms the judgment secure web browser f the district court in a wage and hour dispute in an FLSA case. The hotel seems to have not only paid people below minimum wage, but maintained two sets of books. During pre-trial proceedings, the government and the defendant stipulated that 1) the hotel was currently in compliance; but 2) the hotel was subject to the FLSA because it’s annual dollar value was over $500,000. The stipulation wasn’t in writing or signed by the parties, but the District Court memorialized it in an order that wasn’t objected to. Then the hotel tried to back out of the stipulation, arguing that its lawyer didn’t have authority to enter into it, and later that it was mistakenly entered into. During a prolonged trial, the defendants again tried to argue that there simply wasn’t evidence that the hotel was that big. Also, the District Court precluded the defendant from introducing “Rule 1006" summaries of expert testimony regarding the hotel’s “annual dollar value” because, amongst other things, the underlying expert testimony was inadmissible, since the expert reports had not been disclosed. The District Court even says it gave the defendants a chance to show that the stipulation was wrong, but they didn’t do it, and told the parties that they could file a “joint proffer” of the “Rule 1006" summaries, so the First could have a complete record. The First holds that the order (memorializing the stipulation) became the “law of the case.

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When the British TV special, The Great Global Warming Swindle called on MIT's Professor Carl Wunsch to explain climate change , he thought it an educational opportunity. Now that he's seen what remained after some highly 'polemic' editing, he knows better- here's what Wunsch gel packs as to say about how TV misrepresented his views: "I believe that climate change is real, a major threat, and almost surely has a major human-induced component. But I have tried to stay out of the `climate wars' because all nuance tends to be lost, and the distinction between what we know firmly, as scientists, and what we suspect is happening, is so difficult to maintain in the presence of rhetorical excess. In the long run, our credibility as scientists rests on being very careful of, and protective of, our authority and expertise.... Many of us feel an obligation to talk to the media---it's part of our role as scientists, citizens, and educators. The subjects are complicated, and it is easy to be misquoted or quoted out context. My experience in the past is that these things do happen, but usually inadvertently --- most reporters really do want to get it right. Channel 4 now says they were making a film in a series of "polemics". There is nothing in the communication we had (much of it on the telephone or with the film crew on the day they were in Boston) that suggested they were making a film that was one-sided, anti-educational, and misleading. I took them at face value---clearly a great error.

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