A Transfer Made in Connection with a Securities Contract May Not Be Avoided Under Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code

(Excerpt) Under title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”), a bankruptcy trustee has the power to avoid, or claw back, certain transfers of property made before a bankruptcy filing. A trustee may avoid transfers such as those that are preferential under section 547 and fraudulent transfers under section 548. Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code generally provides that a transfer made by, to, or for the benefit of a commodity broker, stockbroker, financial institution, or securities clearing agency in connection with a securities contract cannot be avoided. In 2018, the Supreme Court clarified the scope of the section 546(e) safe harbor and held that the relevant transfer to consider is the overarching transfer between the end parties, and not transfers made between financial institutions that are mere intermediaries. This article discusses the requirement that a payment must be made “in connection with” a securities contract for it to not be avoidable under the Bankruptcy Code. The kinds of transactions addressed are examples of transactions that have been disputed and the cases illustrate the approach courts take to determine whether the section 546(e) safe harbor applies. Part One discusses the definitions in the Bankruptcy Code that courts rely on when adjudicating cases involving the safe harbor provision. Part Two emphasizes that courts generally only apply the safe harbor where there is an exchange that is made to complete a securities contract. Part Three highlights that a court will not protect a transfer made that is only tangentially related to a securities contract and not a part of the deal itself

The Continuum of words, voice and music.

This text offers some principal and methodogical issues on studies of timbre in words, music and vocal performance. Timbral relationships between word and music can be conceptualized as a continuum following an fictive axis running from meaning and timbre of words, through melody and music to performance. Sometimes the order might be different, but the ingredients will always be there. To get a grip on the totality of timbre and meaning involved in the songs and performances of one single artist, Swedish balladeer Olle Adolphson, a study was conducted along this research design. The interplay between the inherent timbres in vowel sounds and melody were firstly studied in the songs themselves and relationships were noted that showed signs of systematic appearance. Perspectives from these observations were intergrated with analyzes of timbral bearings on meaning and signification in words and musical settings of a number of songs. Following the axis to performance, aspects of timbre were studied with aid of visual representations of the signal as waveforms, melograms and spectograms, verifying observations and as tools for identification and discussion. The study points further towards timbre and emotional cues in vocal performances as signs of individual/envi¬r¬o¬ment interactions

The cytotoxicity of fatty acid/α-lactalbumin complexes depends on the amount and type of fatty acid

peer-reviewedComplexes of the milk protein, α-lactalbumin, and the fatty acid, oleic acid, have previously been shown to be cytotoxic. Complexes of α-lactalbumin and five different fatty acids (vaccenic, linoleic, palmitoleic, stearic, and elaidic acid) were prepared and compared to those formed with oleic acid. All complexes were cytotoxic to human promyelocytic leukemia-derived (HL-60) cells but to different degrees depending on the fatty acid. The amount of fatty acid per α-lactalbumin molecule was found to correlate with the cytotoxicity; the higher the number of fatty acids per protein, the more cytotoxic the complex. Importantly, all the tested fatty acids were also found to be cytotoxic on their own in a concentration dependent manner. The cytotoxic effect of complexes between α-lactalbumin and linoleic acid, vaccenic acid, or oleic acid was further investigated using flow cytometry and found to induce cell death resembling apoptosis on Jurkat cells. Practical applications: Cytotoxic complexes of α-lactalbumin and several different fatty acids could be produced. The cytotoxicity of all the variants is similar to that previously determined for α-lactalbumin/oleic acid complexes.This work was supported by the Food Institutional Research Measure (FIRM, project no. 08RDTMFRC650) of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, Ireland

Sound, mind and emotion - research and aspects

Sound, mind and emotion Rapport nr 8 (seminarier 1 jan, 11 april resp 25 maj 2008) Innehåll: Patrik Juslin: Sound of music - Seven ways in which the brain can evoke emotions from sounds, Ulf Rosenhall: Auditory problems - not only an issue of impaired hearing, Sören Nielzén, Olle Olsson, Johan Källstrand & Sara Nehlstedt: The role of psychoacoustics for the research on neuro-psychiatric states - Theoretical basis of the S-Detect method, Gerhard Andersson: Tinnitus and Hypersensititvity to Sounds, Kerstin Persson - Waye: "It sounds like a buzzing wasp in my head" - children's perspective of the sound environment in pre-schools, Björn Lyxell, Erik Borg & Inga-Stina Olsson: Cognitive skills and perceived effort in active and passive listening in a naturalistic sound environment, Åke Iwar: Sound, Catastrophy and Trauma, Kerstin Bergh Johannesson: Sounds as triggers - How traumatic memories can be processed by Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. 138

Scandinavian Immigrant Literature

When today’s Midwest” opened to settlers in the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of European immigrants joined Americans streaming into the area. Eventually, these immigrants constituted almost half the population of the plains and prairies. Although many old country habits and traditions disappeared quickly under the pressure to assimilate, several immigrant groups persisted in using their own languages to record their lives. Scandinavian immigrants left one of the richest records of Western farmlife in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, not only in their diaries, journals, and ethnic histories, but particularly in their literature. Over eighty novels and short story collections trace the Scandinavian farmsteading experience in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas

DC field induced enhancement and inhibition of spontaneous emission in a cavity

We demonstrate how spontaneous emission in a cavity can be controlled by the application of a dc field. The method is specially suitable for Rydberg atoms. We present a simple argument for the control of emission.Comment: 3-pages, 2figure. accepted in Phys. Rev.

Struggle of the story: towards a sociocultural model of story world tension in communal consumption

This article examines the consumption of climbing tourists to Norway and Sweden to show how consumers are captured by collective story worlds in communal consumption. Whereas prior marketing research has been preoccupied with narrative transportation as a mental imagery process, we suggest a sociology of narrative approach that focuses on the institutional shaping of communities within which consumers engage in cultural formation with a shared social and historical context. Our empirical findings show that consumers in the climbing community experience two distinct story worlds, with different ethos, conventions and content rules, that structure why and how stories are told. We extend existing knowledge within marketing through a multifaceted understanding of how collective narratives operate and present a sociocultural model of story world tension in communal consumption.Struggle of the story: towards a sociocultural model of story world tension in communal consumptionpublishedVersio

Competing orders of worth in extraordinary consumption community

Author's accepted version (post-print).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Consumption, Markets & Culture on 25/04/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10253866.2018.1456429.Available from 26/10/2019.acceptedVersio