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Let's not split hairs.

Review on Nilibhringadi Taila: An Effective Keshya Medication

One third of the population, including both men and women, experience hair problems, making it one of the most prevalent issues in the world. Both men and women in India are very sensitive about their hair. Numerous reasons, including hormone imbalances, stress, rising work pressure, poor dietary practises, and excessive use of chemical cosmetics, have contributed to a rise in cases of hair diseases and hair problems. Losing one's hair can be embarrassing and detrimental to one's confidence and self-esteem. Ayurveda provides some successful external hair management therapies. The pharmaceutics and therapeutics of Ayurvedic dose forms are quite specialised. Sneha Kalpana is a collection of medicated Taila and Ghrita that treat a wide variety of diseases in people of all ages. Sneha kalpas produced by Ayurvedic pharmaceutics are broadly utilised for both cosmetic and therapeutic purposes. It is the only Kalpana used in all four ways that these formulations can be administered: Pana, Abhyanga, Nasya, and Basti. In Ayurveda, hairs are referred to as Kesha, and medications that are effective for hairs are referred to as Keshya medications. In this article we have made an effort to describe the formulation Nilibhringadi Taila which is described in Sahasrayogam and Chikitsa Manjari. Nilibhringadi Taila is an Ayurvedic and herbal oil, which is useful to improve the quality of hair, to treat split hairs, premature greying and baldness. All ingredients in formulation are best hair growth promoters. It is widely used and prescribed formulation in India. Here not much more work has been done on this formulation. So we are trying to review this formulation for further knowledge and scope.

Microtubule-associated ROP interactors affect microtubule dynamics and modulate cell wall patterning and root hair growth.

Rho of plant (ROP) proteins and the interactor of constitutively active ROP (ICR) family member ICR5/MIDD1 have been implicated to function as signaling modules that regulate metaxylem secondary cell wall patterning. Yet, loss-of-function mutants of ICR5 and its closest homologs have not been studied and, hence, the functions of these ICR family members are not fully established. Here, we studied the functions of ICR2 and its homolog ICR5. We show that ICR2 is a microtubule-associated protein that affects microtubule dynamics. Secondary cell wall pits in the metaxylem of Arabidopsis icr2 and icr5 single mutants and icr2 icr5 double mutants are smaller than those in wild-type Col-0 seedlings; however, they are remarkably denser, implying a complex function of ICRs in secondary cell wall patterning. ICR5 has a unique function in protoxylem secondary cell wall patterning, whereas icr2, but not icr5, mutants develop split root hairs, demonstrating functional diversification. Taken together, our results show that ICR2 and ICR5 have unique and cooperative functions as microtubule-associated proteins and as ROP effectors.

Film for the Future

Film for the Future Michelle Baroody (bio) and Maggie Hennefeld (bio) Lovers of film all know it as "an invention without a future," to quote the notorious, alleged proclamation by Louis Lumière in 1895.1 The medium has since survived its initial obsolescence, the insistent rise of a slew of rival technologies (television, video, internet streaming, etc.), multiple global pandemics, and the ongoing destruction of its volatile archives, among other existential catastrophes. Yet, despite film's resilient object lessons for futurity, the Covid-19 pandemic has somehow felt different: a final nail in the coffin? With the indefinite closure of movie theaters, cancelation of international festivals, and hemorrhaging revenue losses across the global industry, film's elasticity has at last reached its breaking point. Or has it? Despite the recession of collective viewing experiences, innovative new experiments proliferate in the pandemic's wake, emphasizing the virtues of virtual curation, the digitization of obscure and overlooked archives, and increasing accessibility of on-site events (such as special screenings, festivals, and panels) for spectators worldwide. These hopeful turns are exemplified by Another Screen: the "free streaming project by Another Gaze journal, created to foreground rare film work we deem worthy of feminist interrogation, across geographies and modes of production."2 Another Screen's collaborative programs spotlight the politics of feminist film collectivity, such as: "For a Free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women," "Hands Tied / Eating the Other," and "[Silence] […] [Laughter]," all curated with historical context, multilingual translations, and critical feminist essays.3 Shasha Movies launched globally in 2021; it is the first virtual platform dedicated to streaming films by and for Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) [End Page 139] makers and audiences, conjuring the power and reach of virtual programming toward transformative feminist ends.4 This unprecedented service realizes the open-access objectives of Habibi Collective, Shasha's organizers, an online archive founded in 2018 that is committed to elevating the voices of women and nonbinary SWANA artists and making film accessible to those who might not see these works otherwise. If the canon has too long been dominated by white, male, cishet auteurs and their on-again/off-again relationship with big Hollywood industry, the death of film has created space for collective voices, different perspectives, wayward formats, greater accessibility, and activist mobilizations. This is the story of the future of film, which is mischievously unfolding before our very eyes. Ends of Film? Film has spectacularly outlasted its own death more times than Wyle E. Coyote fatally nosedived off a cliff or survived his accidental self-immolation—which is not bad for a medium that cut its teeth on the morbid reanimation of irretrievable pastness and loss. "By the time you read this, cinema will have died," remarks Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece in her evocative introduction to the timely (too timely) 2020 edited volume, Ends of Cinema, "because cinema has ended many, many times and will surely end again in the near future."5 We opt for the term "film" over "cinema," not to split hairs about signifiers but to stir trouble through recourse to the medium's material base, which has been all but eclipsed by digital streaming during the pandemic. Though the ends of film (much like the pandemic) may feel endless, if nothing else, its prolonged finality has been deeply generative for film and media scholars, who have ragpicked at the ruins of the medium and its unruly social potentials across a vast range of locations, histories, practices, and contexts. What qualities are inflexibly essential to film? Its impression of reality, the collective projection of still-moving images onto a blank screen, and its celluloid base number among the many conventions threatened by our current conjuncture of home viewing and multimedia convergence. Recent film books theorize toward the friction between what cinema is/has been and what it irreversibly will have become. Shane Denson's Discorrelated Images (2020), James Leo Cahill and Luca Caminati's Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice (2020), and Caetlin Benson-Allott's The Stuffof Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television (2021) all pose versions of this chameleonic ontological question: not what is film (to invoke André Bazin's...

The Importance of Place in The Act (Hulu, 2019–)

Reviewed by: The Importance of Place in The Act (Hulu, 2019–) Charity Gibson Hulu's true crime drama series The Act (2019–) has stirred up much interest since its premiere on March 20, 2019. Hulu plans to extend the series (initially eight episodes), focusing on a different crime account each season. The first season of The Act covers the story of Dee Dee Blanchard (Patricia Arquette) and her daughter Gypsy Rose Blanchard (Joey King.) Dee Dee was stabbed to death by Gypsy's boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn (Calum Worthy) at Gypsy's request. For most of Gypsy's life, her mother had forced her to feign multiple serious illnesses including paralysis and epilepsy. Though she could walk, Gypsy constantly used a wheelchair. Gypsy met her boyfriend online and asked him to kill her mother to escape her infantilized and fabricated life. Having been tried for her crime and found guilty, Gypsy is serving a ten-year prison sentence (so light due to the mistreatment she faced), and Godejohn is serving a life-in-prison sentence. Critical reception to The Act has been mostly positive However, one less-explored angle is how The Act aligns with the category of midwestern media literature and, more specifically, Ozarks media literature. This series relies on literary techniques related to place, such as local color and the Midwestern Gothic, to rationalize the bizarre occurrences surrounding Gypsy and Dee Dee's relationship. Such techniques allow viewers to vicariously experience the catalyst and aftermath of a heinous murder while simultaneously maintaining a comfortable distance. The characters in the series are far from being stock characters and, instead, exhibit specific traits that tie them to place: the Midwest in general and the Ozarks in particular. Some would argue that the Ozarks belong to the Upland South rather than the Midwest.1 Others insist that Missouri is both a midwestern and a southern state, due to its divided affiliations during the Civil War.2 However, the federal government defines Missouri [End Page 111] as a midwestern state.3 Regardless of technical breakdowns, popular conception has equal if not more bearing in common understandings of the state. As Letricia Dixon notes, "The Midwest has become more an idea than a region."4 Therefore, while one could split hairs over whether the Ozarks portion of Missouri is technically within the Midwest or the Upland South, I recognize the Ozarks as a part of the Midwest that has its own specific subculture. Although documentaries of the Blanchard story usually delve into Dee Dee's past in Louisiana, The Act begins once Dee Dee and Gypsy have already relocated to Springfield, Missouri. The Blanchards are not depicted as Southerners, though Dee Dee spent most of her life in Louisiana and Gypsy spent close to half of hers there. Rather, The Act emphasizes the importance of current location and highlights ways in which Dee Dee and Gypsy are Ozarks residents. When Dee Dee takes Gypsy to the hospital, the camera fixates on the words "Springfield Emergency Center." Similarly, the camera highlights "Springfield Mall" during a shopping trip. In both scenarios, something sinister is in the works. In the former, Dee Dee pressures doctors to treat her daughter for a condition she does not have. In the latter, mother and daughter peruse the place where Gypsy will later secretly purchase the weapon used to murder Dee Dee. The association with place is not a positive one, as viewers are directed to connect the appalling acts with Springfield, Missouri, a place firmly situated within the Ozarks. Stereotypes abound about Ozarks people being backward and even dangerous. Anne Turner notes, "The Ozark native has long been stereotyped as a conservative, suspicious, often uneducated, poor, white hillbilly"5 Such beliefs may help viewers, possibly subconsciously, question how mother and daughter could torment each other so. The culminating emphasis on place occurs once Dee Dee is dead and Gypsy is on trial for murder. A close-up of the back of her jumpsuit reveals, again, the location: "Green County" For viewers outside of the Ozarks region, the name will not sound familiar, which may ease the minds of those outside of the area: such a crime happened there because of...

Portraits from Life: Modernist Novelists and Autobiography by Jerome Boyd Maunsell

Reviewed by: Portraits from Life: Modernist Novelists and Autobiography by Jerome Boyd Maunsell Mirosława Buchholtz Jerome Boyd Maunsell. Portraits from Life: Modernist Novelists and Autobiography. Oxford UP, 2018. 304 pp. £20.00 (hardback). "There is no such thing as a true portrait. They are all delusions and I never saw any two alike." This opening epigraph culled from Nathaniel Hawthorne seems preemptive, but in fact aptly sums up Jerome Boyd Maunsell's endeavor to expose individual and collective acts and states of delusion in portrait-making. Unabashed by Hawthorne's plump but personal claim, Maunsell digs deeper to the sixteenth-century Italy and brings to light Giorgio Vasari's anecdote of Parmigianino's work on his Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Maunsell's reading of the painting, both his own and that mediated by John Ashbery's ekphrastic poem of the early 1970s, leads to the conclusion that artifice and illusion are an inescapable part of the business of portraiture and especially self-portraiture. Parmigianino's disproportionately large hand in the foreground of his Self-Portrait signals ambivalently both making (and thus making available) and blocking the self from view. It seems that throughout the book, Maunsell looks for the writer's hand in its contradictory gestures of offering and withholding. Portraits from Life is refreshingly straightforward in its form: flanked with a short introduction and an epilogue, its seven chapters draw portraits of seven Anglophone novelists who between 1900 and just after WWII worked on their autobiographies [End Page E-4] and in doing so revamped or at least questioned the genre. Maunsell construes autobiographical writing as an act of self-invention, which occurred at different stages of the writers' lives. Hence the chronology in his book has less to do with the dates of birth than with the dates of "their performance as autobiographers" (6). The book is also straightforward in its freedom from both the academic jargon and the obligation to call to witness all the recently important theoretical stances. The author advertises it as "an experiment in biography," which "aims to tell a story, to craft a narrative," and hence "owes more to the procedures of biography than of literary criticism" (6). Despite this disclaimer, the book is well informed and meticulously researched, though it indeed does not seek to solve theoretical dilemmas besetting life-writing studies. For example, the distinction Maunsell makes between "autobiographies," which "broadly take life as a whole and focus on the author," and "memoirs," which "are often focused on only a part of a life, or on other people" (3), sounds provisional and questionable. In fact, on the following page, the crucial claim that "All autobiography is … group biography" (4) subverts this distinction. Uninclined to split hairs, Maunsell takes life writing as it comes with its insoluble complexities. In search of truth, he rightly avails himself of all forms of life writing, including diaries, letters, notebooks, and autobiographical novels. Despite the clear-cut division of the book into seven chapters, seven lives, and seven evolving autobiographical performances, the magic of the study lies to a large extent in various interconnections and entanglements of the seven autobiographical subjects. Parmigianino's oversized hand is still fresh in the reader's memory when in chapter 1, "The secret of my life," Maunsell adds another turn of the screw and shows not one but two hands at work on an autobiography. These are the hands of Joseph Conrad and his collaborator Ford Madox Ford. Henry James was skeptical when this ill-matched pair began working on the novel Romance, but, as Maunsell points out, quoting Nicholas Delbanco, the idea of co-writing fiction must have nevertheless appealed to James. In September and October 1902 he in vain suggested collaboration to H. G. Wells (qtd. in Maunsell 12; Delbanco 146–47) but in 1908 contributed to The Whole Family, a composite novel initiated by W. D. Howells. The immediate incentive for Conrad to collaborate on his autobiographical sea sketches collected later as The Mirror of the Sea (1906) was pecuniary. A model was easy to find in Ivan Turgenev's then widely read and influential Sportsman's Sketches (1852) (13). The uneasy collaboration was...

Analysis of cosmetic residues on a single human hair by ATR FT-IR microspectroscopy

In this work, ATR FT-IR spectra of single human hair and cosmetic residues on hair surface are successfully collected using a homemade dome-shaped Ge μIRE accessary installed on an infrared microscope. By collecting ATR spectra of hairs from the same person, the spectral patterns are identical and superimposed while different spectral features are observed from ATR spectra of hairs collected from different persons. The spectral differences depend on individual hair characteristics, chemical treatments, and cosmetics on hair surface. The “Contact-and-Collect” technique that transfers remarkable materials on the hair surface to the tip of the Ge μIRE enables an identification of cosmetics on a single hair. Moreover, the differences between un-split and split hairs are also studied in this report. These highly specific spectral features can be employed for unique identification or for differentiation of hairs based on the molecular structures of hairs and cosmetics on hairs.

How plants split hairs.

The unicellular three-branched trichomes, or 'hairs', of Arabidopsis provide a model system for studying cell morphogenesis in plants. Recent results, including the characterization of a newly identified mutant with multicellular trichomes, have led to a new view of how trichome morphogenesis might be controlled.

Which Side Are You On, APA?

Which Side Are You On, APA? Laurie Shrage (bio) The American Philosophical Association recently held one of its annual divisional meetings in a hotel in San Francisco whose workers had voted for a strike, were on strike call, and had called for a public boycott of the hotel. Both the APA Board of Officers and the Executive Committee (EC) of the Pacific Division failed to inform APA members and conference participants about the hotel situation in the months before the meeting, when they had this information. At the last minute, when several dissident APA members succeeded in getting information out to APA members around the country, many program participants were faced with crossing a boycott and possibly a picket line (hotel workers did picket the hotel on the first day of the meetings) to attend their sessions and fulfill other professional obligations. Some conference participants switched their room reservations to unionized hotels not on the union's boycott or strike list, and some managed to move their sessions to other venues, with the assistance of Pacific SWIP and the University of San Francisco Philosophy Department. Some philosophers simply boycotted the meetings and San Francisco. One philosopher who canceled his trip to San Francisco on hearing about the boycott told me that his grandmother would rise from her grave and strike him dead if he were to enter the conference hotel. His grandmother happened to be one of the founders of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. At the alternative meeting sites in San Francisco, some philosophers shared stories of their pre-academic careers as waitresses, bartenders, cashiers, and, yes, hotel workers. Some recalled parents' and grandparents' union activism. But unfortunately, the large majority of philosophers I encountered were naïve and ignorant about worker struggles and management efforts to undermine and break strikes. Indeed, our own professional organization seemed to be collaborating with management by suppressing information about the boycott that union members were trying to get to philosophers, by supplying APA members with misinformation about the labor dispute, and by discouraging APA members behind the scenes from moving their sessions and meetings. In the week before the meetings, officers of the Pacific Division told anxious APA members they could honor the boycott by not spending money at the hotel, even though union representatives had told these officers, months before the meetings, that this [End Page 234] would not help their cause. The hotels can easily absorb some loss of revenue during a contract dispute, but what does force management back to the bargaining table is when organizations and individuals stop doing business as usual with the hotel and stop legitimating management's actions with their presence in the hotel. One officer of the Pacific Division was also telling members that, if we canceled our rooms, hotel workers would lose work—implying that hotel workers really needed a weekend's wages more than the health care benefits they are fighting to maintain. This paternalistic concern was offered despite the fact that the workers whom this officer aimed to protect had voted to go out on strike and risk not only losing wages but their jobs. It was their representatives who asked the APA to honor the boycott by moving our meetings. As philosophers, we like to think for ourselves and devise our own creative answers to critical problems. As Phil's comments show, philosophers can split hairs over the moral obligations posed by different kinds of union actions. Yet, while thinking independently is very valuable, sometimes we need to listen to others and act in union with them. Historically, collective bargaining and resistance are the primary tools workers have had for demanding humane treatment and working conditions. I believe that if philosophers had been given accurate information about this labor dispute and a chance to debate the issues, together we would have honored this boycott and made plans months before the meeting to move to another site, as the American Anthropological Association and Organization of American Historians did. Philosophers, as university and college faculty members, are employees or workers, and we work under vastly different conditions. Some faculty members are permanent employees and receive health care benefits and pensions. Many...

Approaches to interface design

The current literature on interface design is reviewed. Four major approaches to interface design are identified; craft, cognitive engineering, enhanced software engineering and technologist. The aim of this classification framework is not to split semantic hairs, but to provide a comprehensive overview of a complex field and to clarify some of the issues involved. The paper goes on to discuss the source of quality in interface design and concludes with some recommendations on how to improve HCI methods.

Joining the Conversation with Diamond, Sheridan, and Trumbull

As a reader, I have often thought that the response and rejoinder section of journals tends to evoke a more emotional response than do most journal articles. Upon further reflection, I think it is more a case of a forum that reveals the depth of emotion that can be aroused by seemingly dispassionate journal articles. The tone, the voice, and the style of response and rejoinder are often quite different from that of the articles in any given journal, a sudden change in writing that implicitly permits authors a little more latitude to overtly or covertly reveal the emotional component that is part of all thought and theorizing, but that tends to be camouflaged by the conventions of scholarly writing. This change in convention can have a jarring effect; reading some responses and rejoinders can be like eavesdropping on an intimate quarrel in which people inadvertently expose their hurt feelings, their reproachful accusations, their petty jealousies, their intellectual obsessions, or their need to split hairs or to be right or to be noticed, all under the guise of academic debate. At times, it is a juicy, gossipy section, hinting at the relationships between authors, ongoing feuds, mutual admiration societies, and pet theories. On welcome and thankfully not infrequent occasions, the response and rejoinder section of ajournal is truly a dialogue, an open conversation that stimulates the reader, that includes the reader, that does not make the reader feel like an embarrassed eavesdropper. This is hard to achieve, and I do not know if we (Diamond, Sheridan, Trumbull, and myself) have done that here, but if there is one thing that unites our four pieces, it is this common view that scholarly writing can be personal, dialogic, and even dialectic. One of the ways to enjoin such a conversation is to candidly discuss one's own experience or reactions and then to really listen to what

How to split hairs on Fermi questions

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Philosophy in a Developing Country

Philosophy as an academic programme is very young in higher institutions of learning in Nigeria. Third World developing countries usually have concerns other than the teaching of philosophy on their agenda when trying to disburse their meagre resources for the educational sector. They would want to clothe, feed, house and provide medical care for their teeming populations first, and then people who want to T philosophize can do so. So their priority in the area of education is not I for people who will split hairs over words and concepts and theorise about lofty ideals—the popular image of the philosopher—but for the training of agriculturalists, technicians, doctors, engineers and others who can contribute much more tangibly to the development process. For this reason, many people regard a department of philosophy in a university as a luxury item which developing countries can ill afford. For this reason too, the philosophy department, usually the latest arrival in its faculty, is added as an appendix and is the first to be eyed when a scraping becomes necessary in the face of reduced subvention to the institution.

Dexamethasone Suppression Test: Technique and Accuracy-Reply

In Reply. —The Chief editor kindly permitted us the opportunity to comment on Dr Maruta's letter. Dr Maruta, like us, expresses a deep concern about the indiscriminate use of plasma values for the DST without considering the methods used to obtain the values. Undoubtedly, this has already created a great deal of confusion among psychiatrists who perform the DST for diagnosing endogenous depressions, and use 5 μg/dL as a cutoff point between DST suppressors and nonsuppressors. A value of 5 μg/dL does not mean the same of steroid, as the quantitation varies among laboratories using different methods. Dr Maruta's argument for corticosteroid concentration instead of true cortisol has some truth to it, but seems to split hairs. As long as corticosterone, the other major glucocorticoid in human blood, produces the same biological effects as

A note on the structure of tail hairs from a pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)

AbstractThe pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis), like the Nile hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), defecates by backing into vertical objects while making a series of rapid, propellerlike tail movements that spread a mixture of urine and feces in a wide swath. Split hairs from the distal ventral surface of the pygmy hippopotamus tail were studied with the scanning electron microscope to determine whether the splitting was a normal character of the hair or was due to damage. The results suggest that splitting is a normal feature of the hair that may facilitate the dispersal of urine and feces.

Presidents & Bureaucrats: The Politics of Foreign PolicyThe Imperial Republic: The United States and the World, 1945-1973. By Raymond Aron Beyond the Water's Edge: America's Foreign Policies. By Howard Bliss and M. Glen Johnson New Forces in World Politics. By Seyom Brown The Great Detente Disaster: Oil and the Decline of American Foreign Policy. By Edward Friedland , Paul Seabury

In the wake of Watergate and the Vietnam debacle, few presidents or bureaucrats would split hairs, as John F. Kennedy seemed to do when he said of his administration: Domestic politics .., .can only defeat Foreign policy can kill us. For scholars too, once cherished distinctions between domestic and foreign politics now seem artificial. Eight books on the recent past, present, and future of American foreign policy will be analyzed on the basis of how adequately they deal with the mingling of domestic and foreign concerns and with the policymaking processes that involve presidents and bureaucrats as allies and enemies.

Split Guard Hairs in Both Domestic and European Wild Swine

Split Guard Hairs in Both Domestic and European Wild Swine

Injury of Snap Bean Pods Associated with Machine Harvesting and Handling1,2

Abstract The harvesting of snap beans by machine caused obvious as well as unnoticed injury to the pods. All pods were injured, but injury varied in severity. Machine-harvested pods lost a significantly greater amount of weight than did corresponding samples of hand-picked pods. Cultivars differed in response to injury as well as ease with which they abscissed from the plant. The cv. Provider was easy to harvest by machine and received less injury than other cultivars studied. Snap bean cultivars with greater hair concentration per unit area lost weight more rapidly, and to a greater extent than those with sparse hairs. A small but significant amount of weight was lost through the pedicel and possibly the calyx. Pods with broken pedicel ends were similar in weight lost to pods having the pedicel removed. Broken shanks near the pedicel healed rapidly and did not contribute to a large amount of weight loss. Rubbing snap bean pods lightly caused a very significant amount of injury. The hairs on the pods were broken, split or pulled from the base, and these injured areas were the site of significant weight loss. Broken or split hairs did not heal, but continued to be a source of water loss.

The Escamilla Case in Court

The issue of U.S. Criminal jurisdiction to try Mario J. Escamilla for the alleged slaying of Bennie Lightsy, station manager on ice island T-3 (Fletcher's Ice Island) on 16 July 1970 was argued before U.S. Federal District Judge Oren R. Lewis in Alexandria, Virginia, on 5 May 1971. The judge found sufficient grounds for taking jurisdiction and proceeded with the trial. Escamilla was then convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He has appealed. Following are some observations on the jurisdictional aspect of the case. 1) It was evident throughout the hearings that the presiding judge wished, if possible, to decide the jurisdictional issue exclusively on the basis of U.S. domestic law, and that he was not disposed to address himself to abstruse questions of international law, once the Canadian waiver was on the record. At no point, therefore, did he express firm views on such matters as the international legal significance of T-3's origin, the possibility of permanent "possession" of such an island, the implications of a "ship" analogy as such for ice islands as a class, distinctions if any between ice islands and occupiable ice floes, and a host of other theoretical questions of universal, or at least arctic, applicability that might be considered of interest to an international lawyer. 2) In view of the very real, long continued, and unchallenged activities of U.S. Government agencies and Government grantees on T-3, the factual close connection between that particular ice platform and U.S. interests was so clear that the finding of proper criminal jurisdiction in the Escamilla case should probably not be given too broad a theoretical application. 3) One may argue that the case illustrated the extreme narrowness of the exclusively territorial basis for criminal jurisdiction (exceptions were noted) and that the judge was so troubled at the consequences of applying its pure logic in the Escamilla case that he chose instead to proceed on the basis of practical common sense and social responsibility, leaving it to others to split hairs over the meaning of commas in Section 7 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code or the analogies of ice islands with ships, guano islands, or commercial aircraft flying over the high seas.

Drill that can split hairs

Drill that can split hairs