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STRONG RATING GIVES MOCC MOMENTUM
1 month 3 weeks ago By Courier Staff
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published by the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan on Nov. 22.
EDISON'S THREE MILLION DOLLAR PHONOGRAPH
100 years ago, the Menno Opera House hosted a well-known soprano named Mabelle Wagner Shank, who was accompanied by a new record player — and
Looking Back: The Week of Nov. 25
Hutchinson Herald
Judith Isaacs
Judith Isaacs, 84 of Menno, S.D., passed away Tuesday, Nov. 19 at the Menno-Olivet Care Center. A private family memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorials are to be directed to the Menno-Olivet Care Center.
CITY OF FREEMAN DECLARES SNOW EMERGENCY
The city of Freeman has issued its first snow emergency of the season. Crews will begin clearing streets at 5 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27. All vehicles parked along city streets must be moved until the snow has been moved, per city ordinance.
PHOTO OF DAY: WEATHER PREPAREDNESS
A city truck is loaded with sand and ready to hit the streets in anticipation of the first major winter weather event of the season.
PHOTO OF THE DAY: BRAND-NEW DAY
Lynn Bietz, a clerk in the treasurer's office, helps Menno's Scott Simonsen renew his license plate tags Monday morning, Nov. 25 at the new Hutchinson County Courthouse.
PHOTO OF THE DAY: SIGNATURE STEEPLE
In Freeman's early years, the steeple of the Bethlehem Reformed Church stood out | {
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Q: How do you access a vector of unique_ptr I am trying to get the hang of smart pointers. I have a vector of unique_ptr to double array which I am able to create, but can't access it.
vector<unique_ptr<double[]>> arrDoubles;
//...
unique_ptr<double[]>dataArr(new double[size]);
arrDoubles.push_back(move(dataArr));
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auto datAr = arrDoubles[0];
gives the following :
error: use of deleted function 'std::unique_ptr<_Tp [], _Dp>::unique_ptr(const std::unique_ptr<_Tp [], _Dp>&) [with _Tp = double; _Dp = std::default_delete<double []>]'
A: You are trying to create a copy of a unique_ptr which can't be done. Use a reference.
auto& datAr = arrDoubles[0];
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Last week was National Fraud Awareness Week, and there's no better time to think about protecting yourself. These fraud awareness tips can help.
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In honor of Father's Day this month, I wanted to take some time and talk about my dad's shoes.
My dad (and my grandpa before him) owned the funeral home in the small Illinois town where I grew up. He wore a suit and tie every day, which required a men's leather wingtip shoe to complete the outfit. My hometown was a blue-collar, working man's town. Most dads went to work in steel-toe boots and flannel shirts.
I was pretty active in sports, and at my games, you could always pick out my dad from the sea of other fathers in their jeans and flannel. His size-12 wingtips made a certain slapping sound walking across the wooden basketball court that other dads' shoes didn't make.
Thinking back, it was a comforting sound. It meant he was a busy guy, but he still had time to make it to my games.
Like most teenagers, I thought my father's fashion sense was ridiculous. I can't recall ever seeing him wear a pair of blue jeans and athletic shoes. The man mowed the grass in his wingtips!
The only pair of casual shoes I can recall was a pair of white flat-bottomed canvas basketball shoes that Dad said were sacred. They were his beach shoes, his "go-on-vacation" shoes. He claimed to have owned the same pair since high school. I suppose if you mow the grass in your wingtips, you don't wear out and stain your white canvas basketball shoes.
As the years went by, even a well-loved pair of basketball shoes eventually falls apart. One day, they did. Dad walked out into the ocean and came back out without the soles. We buried the shoes on the beach that afternoon. Dad said a few words and shed a slight tear. I kind of did too. Those were the shoes Dad wore when he was playing—playing with us on the beach, in the water, taking time to be with just us kids.
Dad is retired now, and I haven't seen him in wingtips since. He does have a pair of leather sandals that he's quite fond of. They are fine by themselves, but when he puts his wool white socks on with shorts, my mother and I both cry foul.
Dad sees no reason for all the commotion. He's comfortable with who he is and how he looks. As a retired and respected businessman, I guess he's earned the right to dress whatever way makes him comfortable. He's a good dad; I'll cut him some slack. At least he doesn't mow in wingtips anymore.
As is the case with many fashions throughout the years, canvas flat-bottomed basketball shoes have come back into fashion. The most popular brand is called Chuck Taylor or Chucks, named after a basketball player who started wearing them in 1917.
I recently bought a pair for myself in navy blue. I wear them on the weekends or when I feel like acting like a kid. I bought my dad a pair for his 70th birthday. I haven't seen him wearing them yet.
I wonder if he thinks my fashion sense is ridiculous. Maybe.
When I was (considerably) younger, I read that a concert I wanted to attend was "SRO." I was certain that meant "Sold Right Out," and there was no way we could go. I was disappointed, but hey, you can't win them all. Years later a friend told me another show was "SRO," and I only then found out it meant "Standing Room Only." My misunderstanding became the source of much merriment.
Industry-specific terms, acronyms and lingo are common in almost every business. I know the health insurance business has a lot, but have you ever heard two electricians talk? What about computer repair technicians? It's all foreign to me.
Terminology, acronyms, and lingo are simply shortcuts for information-sharing between people in the same business. They are not meant to exclude others, but they do. The difference between the terms "copayment" and "coinsurance" can seem small, unless you are the person paying the bill. So, what can we insiders do to lessen the impact and be more inclusive?
About two years ago, Health Alliance started an internal plain language push. We took a close look at our written materials—brochures, guidebooks, letters, our website, and more—and realized we could make things easier to understand. We simplify or explain industry lingo, without losing the important information.
If you're on the receiving end of lingo, stop and ask for clarification. If that is not possible, jot down a note so you can follow up on your own. This is especially important with your health care. Make sure you understand what your doctors tell you. They are insiders to the medical world, so they might not realize you need more explanation. Always ask questions if you're confused. Your doctor will appreciate you taking the time to make sure you understand so you can take good care of yourself.
I am sure some of you are frightened to know I am learning how to text on my smartphone. Many of you are familiar with this digital language and its acronyms and lingo, but it's new to me. Don't worry, I was pointedly told "LOL" doesn't mean "lots of love." LAL (Live and Learn). | {
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Macbeth (The Notes) (Compagnie des petites heures) @ Sortie Ouest, Béziers, France, 2014Adaptation
Cahiers Élisabéthains
Macbeth (The Notes), based on Shakespeare's Macbeth, devised and directed by Dan Jemmett, written by Dan Jemmett and David Ayala for Compagnie des Petites Heures, Sortie Ouest, Béziers, France, 15 January 2014, stalls, left.
Review by Florence March and Janice Valls-Russell, IRCL, Université Montpellier 3
Dan Jemmett's engagement with Shakespeare has connections with France's Languedoc region. He produced Les trois Richard [The Three Richards] at Montpellier's annual, open-air Printemps des Comédiens Festival in June 2012 and was back in January 2014 for the première of his take on Macbeth. A fifty-minute drive from Montpellier, in the middle of (frequently windswept) vineyards on the outskirts of Béziers, Sortie Ouest is the Printemps des Comédiens' winter-season outpost.
Almost disappointingly, there was no wind to cause flapping of canvas and other evocative atmospherics, as we stepped from the night outside into a marquee with a dark, plain stage: Macbeth's 'night', la nuit, that acted as a leitmotiv throughout the show, frequently linked to 'horror' and 'unrepresentable'.
Macbeth (The Notes) is a post-performance debriefing session between a fictional director, David Ayala, alone on stage, and members of his company – us, the audience – after the opening night of a production of Macbeth. Dan Jemmett approaches Macbeth through a running commentary on all the possibilities the text offers the stage, inviting the audience to approach the play as an open text and his own show as a process rather than a product. This bold approach favours an original pact, based on a dynamic relationship, between the actor and his audience. Ayala addressed spectators individually in the familiar 'tu' form (despite the title, the play was performed mostly in French), as Stéphanie, Jean-Claude, Rachid, Nora, Claire, Thierry – actors, designers, costume-makers, sound or light technicians.
Dressed in a dark suit and open-necked shirt, notebook in hand, he bounced in, praising everyone before pinpointing the stronger and weaker points of their Macbeth. This was a very physical performance, with a brisk tempo. Ayala snapped in and out of his role as director, houselights up, moving around the stage, addressing members of the audience, then seguing into key passages of the play or less conspicuous ones – such as the old man's description of the tempest – as he stood in a spotlight that focused mainly on his face, with the house going dark, before leaping back into the role of director as the lights came up again. Tattered nerves behind the apparent bonhomie were suggested by bouts of irritation at technical hitches that needed to be ironed out before the next performance: squeaking castor wheels on which a miniature Scottish castle was wheeled onto the stage, the gun used to try and kill Banquo that didn't go off… As he spoke there was, of course, nothing to be seen onstage.
The illusion of informality allowed Jemmett and the audience to question not only the source text but also the adaptive process. The fictional director decided to delete Hecate's part in Act 3 and suggested cutting Lennox, an embedded figure of the spectator whose very presence conditions the show, before reading his lines and changing his mind. Jemmett thus parodied his own stance as adapter and director. Occasionally slipping into the English text, Ayala debated with himself over translation issues: should 'Thane' be translated into French, and how? How should one understand 'amazedly'?
Following in Shakespeare's tracks, Jemmett also questions the very medium he uses in metatheatrical references. How do you bridge the gap between dramatic and performance time? How do you enable the audience to visualise what is not visible onstage? What kind of body does a witch have? At this point, the fictional director insisted on the audience closing their eyes, calling on the spectator's imagination for assistance, then went on to offer a metonymic representation of the witches by twitching his face into three different grimaces.
In the end, Ayala mused, it's probably simpler to do away with all forms of artifice, including Banquo's ghost. We were plunged into the heart of the paradox of theatre: 'it's not about words, it's about pictures'; 'think of Shakespeare as the cinema of the Renaissance'. Throughout most of the performance, which mixed slapstick and moments of great intensity, it was through an alliance of words and the actor's body that Ayala conjured up his production of Macbeth: as he gestured, moved and spoke, we 'watched' the video screen at the back of a steadfastly dark set, picturing the heath and battlements. We 'heard' the sound effects (and those squeaking wheels), we 'observed' Duncan in his bath, with his cigar and Scotch, and Macbeth coming up to murder him. We gasped as Ayala, reading the passage about Duncan's horses, became the self-cannibalising beasts – a moment of 'absolute evil'.
How does one 'kill' a child onstage? Ayala-director opted for a marionette, miming the puppet-holder then the puppet, legs and arms jerking as it lay on the floor – but the disarticulated puppet was overacted and some members of the audience laughed through the whole sequence.
The director grabbed his bilingual edition of Shakespeare's tragedies in the canonical Pléiade collection and started reading the passage where Macduff learns of the murders of his wife and children. But he broke off, overwhelmed by the emotional charge of the scene, acknowledging the actor's solitude, which obliquely referred to his own – Ayala's – in this demanding solo performance, and the limits of textual gloss – be it that of the fictional director, the real one, or readers of Shakespeare in the audience…
Such direct, physical engagement with the text, metaphorised by the Pléiade volume, can only find a visual resolution in performance. Ayala stepped behind a see-through black screen upstage, where he cast off, with his clothes, his part as fictional director. Naked, imposing, firmly planted on the boards, Ayala summoned up the physicality of the theatre. Stepping into a white bathtub that had been concealed until then, he immersed himself by degrees in the bloodbath, both Duncan and Macbeth, in a parodic scene of self-baptism. He raised his blood-smeared hands that could not be washed clean of sin, looking directly at the spectators who were left to gloss the scene for themselves, taking over from the fictional director who had vanished from the stage. Ayala and Jemmett composed a powerful final tableau as they superimposed red on black and white, blood on foul and fair: in the theatre, 'words, words, words' call forth images.
Dripping blood Ayala/Macbeth slowly walked downstage toward the audience to deliver the 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow' soliloquy which, beyond giving Shakespeare the final say, sounded like a recurrent invitation to the audience to return the next evening, and the evenings after that, to pursue this collective exploration of the Shakespearean text in performance.
Florence March is professor in 16th and 17th century British drama at Université Montpellier 3 and a member of the IRCL, at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Her current research focuses on Shakespearean stage configurations in 20th and 21st century Europe, the place and function of Shakespeare in the Avignon and Montpellier international Festivals, and the relationship between stage and audience or 'pact of performance'. She is the author of Shakespeare au Festival d'Avignon. Configurations textuelles et scéniques, 2004-2010 (2012).
Read a full-length version of this review in Cahiers Élisabéthains 86 (spring 2014).
Compagnie des petites heures
Author: Cahiers Élisabéthains
Founded in 1972 and published uninterruptedly ever since, Cahiers Élisabéthains is an international, peer-reviewed English-language scholarly journal publishing articles and reviews on all aspects of the English Renaissance.
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The city of Fernley, NV is located in Lyon County just 30 minutes from the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area and all its recreational, economic and cultural amenities. Home to about 19,700 residents, this census-designated place offers residents and future homeowners a wide variety of real estate opportunities, great schools and colleges, a flourishing economy, and plenty of recreational activities.
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Open hours 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Open all week.
Lemnos at the dawn of the 20th century
Moudros Bay and the settlement
The heart of the naval fight in the Aegean (1912-1913)
Moudros during World War I
Lemnos during a period of big changes (1912-1923)
Moudros > The Exhibition
The permanent exhibition's concept is the historical narrative for the strategic importance of Moudros Bay and its connection to the big historical Greek and international events, as it became the base of the Greek naval fight for the liberation of the Aegean islands and the starting point of the Allies during World War I especially for the Gallipoli campaign. Moudros and generally Lemnos occypu a large part of the collective memory of Australians and New Zealanders of the ANZAC troops, that started from Lemnos for the Gallipoli battle, while many were hospitalised or were buried in the cemeteries around Moudros.
MOUDROS MUSEUM
The Information Centre for the History and Maritime Tradition of Moudros, located in the heart of the historic bay of Lemnos, narrates the nautical history of the early 20th century in a unique way, bringing to life a series of events that changed the course of history. The museum offers a unique experience for every visitor, through a rich photographic material, audiovisual projections and interactive applications.
WORTH VISITING
http://www.nhmuseum.gr
Hellenic Maritime Museum
http://hmmuseum.gr
Τhe Βattleship «G.Averof»
http://www.averof.mil.gr/
Imperial War Museums
http://www.iwm.org.uk/
https://www.awm.gov.au/
The Information Centre for the History and Maritime Tradition of Moudros is located at the old school building in the southwestern part of Moudros, near the port area.
Information Centre for the History and Maritime Tradition of Moudros
Limani Moudrou, Moudros 814 01
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Hi, Hal Aaron Cohen here… I make a living playing music, schlepping my PA system, a shitload of gear and musical instruments from one place to another to perform for the masses of people out there starved for entertainment. They must be starved, otherwise, why are they hiring me?
Seriously, I have a long history with music, from my days as a singing waiter in Santa Monica, California till today, where I'm still slinging my axe in venues here on the East Coast. Between then and now, I have enjoyed many close encounters of the musical kind with some incredible people. I count myself very fortunate to have met and befriended so many talented and gifted people along the way. Hopefully, through this podcast, you'll get to meet many of them.
Lots of the folks I have encountered have been through performing, but I also hosted open mics and showcases of my own for about ten years, in several venues including The Chimneysweep Lounge in Sherman Oaks, Highland Grounds as an occasional sub, Acoustic Soup at the Bookgrinders in Van Nuys (later moved to the Hothouse when a little old lady form Pasadena mistook her gas pedal for the break and instantly put Bookgrinders out of business), Rusty's Surf Ranch on the Santa Monica Pier, the Oyster House in Studio City and one other (the name escapes me at the moment but I'll find out soon enough).
Though I personally have enough stories of my own to fill a podcast for years, my passion has always been just being a part of the scene. I love performing as much as I enjoy hosting. There are many stories out there, far more interesting than my own and they need to be told, dammit! And I'm here to listen and share them with YOU!
For some background into my beginnings, my journey from Philadelphia to California… please check out My Great American Journey here. | {
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George Clooney Launches Expletive-Filled Rant Against COVID-19 Deniers
George Clooney (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)
George Clooney is calling out people who refuse to wear their masks amid the coronavirus pandemic. The actor made it clear that he is fed up with anti-maskers and was not afraid to express his frustration during an appearance on SiriusXM's "The Howard Stern Show" Wednesday.
"This thought where everybody is like, 'Well, it's my freedom.' It's like, that's not how this s--- works, dumb---," he said, Newsweek reports. "Your freedom is this: You're free to smoke until your lungs turn black, but you can't do it on the bus. And you're free to drink until your liver comes out your ass, but you can't drink and then get behind the wheel of a car."
Clooney added that, although a vaccine was on the way, it did not mean people could let their guard down.
"Put on a f---ing mask and we'll get through this. We've got vaccines coming — let's save another 60,000 lives before the vaccines," he said.
Speaking with Stern, Clooney said he agreed with Tom Cruise's outburst at crew members who were not following COVID-19 protocols on the set of "Mission: Impossible." During his rant, Cruise threatened to have anyone not obeying the rules fired. In expletive-filled remarks captured on audiotape obtained by The Sun, the star and producer of the action film yelled at the crew about lapses of social distancing and other rules that allow movies to be made during the coronavirus pandemic.
Clooney said he understood why Cruise reacted the way he did.
"He didn't overreact because it is a problem. I have a friend who's an AD [assistant director] on another TV show who just had the almost exact same thing happen with not quite as far out a response," he said, according to E! News.
"You're in a position of power and it's tricky, right? You do have a responsibility for everybody else and he's absolutely right about that. And, you know, if the production goes down, a lot of people lose their jobs," he added. "People have to understand that and have to be responsible." | {
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When the pastor asked me to use this verse for this week's bulletin cover, I have to say that I didn't really know who A.W. Tozer was, so I did a little research and discovered the he was a prolific Christian writer and pastor living in Ohio. He became a pastor in 1919, at the age of 22 and along the he became a prominent leader in The Christian and Missionary Alliance. His message was for us to have a deeper walk. I think this will just be the beginning of my research and reading more of A.W.Tozer. In the meantime, I take a moment to pause when I read this quote to renew my commitment share the Good News wherever and whenever I can.
Ps 139: 15-16 You are not a Mistake!
Thanks for the A.W Tozer reference. Love the saying and your picture! | {
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Precision Laser cut Kit to construct Fantasy Football Pitch.
Precision Laser cut Kit to construct a working scoreboard, ideal for Blood Bowl or other Fantasy Football games.
Precision Laser cut Kit to construct Fantasy Football spectators stand with wooden stairs to rear. Coloured decorative shields included.
Precision Laser cut Kit to construct roofed VIP stand with overhanging balcony for your match patron and officials.
Kit to construct pitch perimeter. 3 Barriers 270mm long, 4th barrier includes gates. Coloured shields included.
Precision Laser cut scatter template. Constructed from Heavy duty 3mm Perspex. Ideal for Bloodbowl and other Fantasy Football games.
Classic Edition for original 29mm grid.
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Precision Laser cut playing pieces. Constructed from Heavy duty 3mm Volcanic Orange Perspex. Ideal for Bloodbowl and other Fantasy Football games.
5 x Status ring designed to fit around 25mm diameter round base with 'Knock Down' engraved front and back.
5 x Status ring designed to fit around 32mm diameter round base with 'Knock Down' engraved front and back.
5 x Status ring designed to fit around 25mm diameter round base with 'Stunned' engraved front and back.
5 x Status ring designed to fit around 32mm diameter round base with 'Stunned' engraved front and back. | {
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The animal's loud vocalizations, from which the term bush baby is derived, have proven to be the means by which the many different species have been identified. Only a decade ago, less than half a dozen species of bush baby were known, but currently over 20 species are recognized, and some experts feel that there may be as many as 40.
Weighing around seven ounces, the lesser bush baby's coat is gray with yellow-tinged underparts. Their fur is dense, wooly, longish, and slightly wavy. Their large ears are crossed by four transverse ridges and can be independently and simultaneously bent back and forth and wrinkled downward from the tips at will. This furling and unfurling of the ears is occurring constantly when the animals are investigating something, and produce a very lovable, quizzical expression in the animals.
Some bush babies, including the lesser bush baby, are vertical clingers and leapers, springing up to 15 feet in a single bound as they travel through the forest from vertical support to vertical support. Ground travel in this species is accomplished like the sifaka, by a series of kangaroo-like bipedal hops. Other species of bush babies, such as the much larger thick-tailed bush baby, although certainly capable of leaping, seem to prefer to run on all fours along the tops of branches.
The thick-tailed bush baby is a nocturnal forager feeding on gum and animal prey, including butterflies, moths, and beetles. Up to half of this specie's diet will consist of thick gums from trees and the remainder made up of fruits, leaves, and insects.
When bush baby females come into estrus, males will approach with a low clucking vocalization, and as they start to mount, they will emit a loud call which ends in a whistle. Most scent marking in the wild is done by males marking their territory by means of "urine washing" in which males will urinate into their cupped hand which is then vigorously rubbed on a branch to deposit the scent. In the wild, bush babies mate every four to eight months, with gestation lasting about 124 days. Females 'park' their infants in constructed nests while they search for food, moving them away from danger by carrying them in their mouths. Infants are weaned at around 61 days of age, and become sexually mature at 9-12 months of age. Young males leave their mothers when they become mature, but females may stick around their mothers for longer periods.
The bush baby lives in small family groups of two to seven individuals. These groups may consist of an adult pair with or without young, two adult females plus infants or an adult female with young. Such groups spend the day sleeping together at the same site, but split up at night to forage. Males may fight aggressively to defend a home range which overlaps the range of one to five females. Males will emit a territorial advertisement call, which might be answered by neighboring animals, resulting in back and forth calling for up to an hour. Other vocalizations consist of a clicking sound by which the young call their mothers, and a louder version of the same call which adults use in assembling at their sleeping site as well as a high pitched alarm call. Bush babies will spend most of the night foraging alone and usually reassemble in small groups at dawn before sleeping in a nest or similar retreat, such as a vine tangle or a hollowed-out tree. It appears as if males migrate from their natal group when they are about one year old, while females have a tendency to stay around longer. Dominant males are noticeably larger than submissive males and are much more active scent markers.
Populations of thick-tailed bush babies are fairly large and ubiquitous. They are found throughout much of eastern Africa and are known to survive well in suburban areas. Its habitat is semi-arid Acacia woodland, savanna, and forest edge and extends across the belt of equatorial Africa.
Bush babies were part of the Duke Lemur Center's historic colony until 2018. We no longer house any bush babies in Durham.
There are many species of bush baby all classified in the genera Galago, Otolemur and Euoticus.
Natural Range : Central Southern Africa.
Diet : Gum and animal prey, including butterflies, moths, and beetles. | {
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Adam Schefter, Mike Florio spar over Ravens reporting
The Baltimore Ravens have had a long week filled with positive COVID-19 tests and schedule changes, and the fluid situation has led to a bit of a spat between two of the NFL's most well-known reporters.
ESPN's Adam Schefter reported on Thursday that Ravens coach John Harbaugh informed players they will not be allowed to enter the team's training facility until Monday at the earliest. Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk described that report as "premature at best, incorrect at worst." Schefter then doubled-down by noting that Harbaugh had confirmed the report.
Ravens' HC John Harbaugh just confirmed to ESPN that he told the team tonight that players will not be allowed to go into the training facility until Monday at the earliest. https://t.co/HESwy2Y5Op
Florio then tweaked his report slightly.
"Let's try this another way. Per source, this isn't Harbaugh's call to make," he tweeted in a follow-up. "Decisions have not yet been made."
The sparring match certainly seems a bit petty. Whether closing the facility is Harbaugh's call to make or not, the COVID-19 situation in Baltimore reportedly has the team rattled. It would make sense for Harbaugh to tell players they don't have to come to work even if he's not technically the one who decides when the facility opens and closes.
As of Friday morning, the Ravens were still scheduled to face the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. Lamar Jackson is among the players who will not be available if the game is not postponed. | {
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This entry was posted on Thursday, August 12th, 2010 at 11:14 am and is filed under Daily Run. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | {
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"The hell are you staring at."
"Did not hear me or something stop staring at me..."
She grabbed her wallet. "Shut up." She handed him his dog tag. "You might want this back right?"
"Wallets? CAN YOU EAT THEM!?!?!" Bruce grab a wallet and bite it.
"What is it Yukimora?!" She looked at Bruce. "No but Yam's head is."
"the dog tag turned back into a shadow and connected to yami" thought you could out slick me huh? "yami pulled out his real dog tags" ummmm dude "as bruce bit into the wallet yami sighed" i guess you can say its edible "yami looked at yukimora at like yukimora and sighed again" dude she totally forgives you. HEY ISYAH!! you forgive yuki boy dont cha?
Bruce stared at yami with big shining eyes." Your head is edible? Can i try it?"
eh its nothing isyah...*thinking about what happened to naomi the scenes played in his head as if it had just happened hours ago he still blamed himself for it* i just wanted to say that i am sorry..
She growled at Yami which wasn't common for her. "Yes eat his head." She looked back at Yukimora "Your something else Yukimora." | {
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My wife picked up a 12V Power Wheels Classic Chrome Harley-Davidson Motorcycle for me from a thrift store yesterday for only $15. It came with the battery and charger. Unfortunately, the battery is toast. I will gut the battery for its connector. Otherwise, the motorcycle functions great. I don't have any immediate plans to mod it. Here are some pictures of it.
Very nice that chrome just looks great on those. Its a flipper if you dont' want to keep it.
I just started checking out all these Power Wheels but this is the cleanest and nicest bike i've seen. I like that you're not going to mess with it (yet anyways). It looks great just like it is.
Looks good. Shame about the front wheel though....it's supposed to have the razor cut look like the rear one.
Yeah, I wonder why it's like that. Strange.
I just sold this vehicle with a good 12V 9.5Ah Power Wheels battery and 12V Power Wheels standard charger for $100 on craigslist.
Very Nice! I love a good flip! | {
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Q: Using redux best practice with promises export function postRegister(credentials) {
console.log(credentials);
return dispatch => {
return fetch('/user/register', {
method: 'post',
body: JSON.stringify(credentials),
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
})
.then(response => response.json())
}
}
I have few doubts regarding code above.
*
*Can I use export () => {} instead of writing the word function here? Just to stay cleaner.
*dispatch is a global variable? I did not see it's imported or required somewhere in the file.
*Is specifying headers necessary here? I'm seeing that in every of the api call.
*Why there's no catch in this promise call? Overall the code is bad?
A: *
*No really, you could but you need a name to actually use it in your components.
*No, dispatch is a parameter of the arrow function, you can also define getState to access the current redux state. By the way, you can totally assign new names if you want.
*It depends on your server, but generally if you are using a JSON API, you would want to send that header.
*Yes, overall that code doesn't look good, I would recommend using a middleware to handle the fetch requests, your actions should only send the configurations such as the url, body, method, etc... and your middleware should handle adding common headers (such as the content-type).
You could have an action like this:
export function postRegister(credentials) {
return {
types: [REGISTER, REGISTER_SUCCESS, REGISTER_FAIL],
promise: {
url: '/user/register',
data: credentials,
},
};
}
Something as simple as that, then your middleware should do the fetch and dispatch the action types based on the server response.
If you want to know more about how the middleware should handle the fetch request and dispatch the actions, make sure to take a look at my post here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39971763/146718
A: *
*not unless it is export default. since later u will need to import it by name.
*no, dispatch is an argument that is passed to your function:
(dispatch) => {}
*Totally depends on your application, server, request, etc.
*you could add .catch((e) => {}) your self, or use some interceptors for generic errors, do a dipatch from there and add a reducer which will handle these actions. you could read more here:
What is the best way to deal with a fetch error in react redux?
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Sticking to an Alkaline diet can be difficult.
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Planet Alkaline is a certified organic handler, and strives to source organic produce 100% of the time.
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A positive way to appreciate food. | {
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Tricoryne, rod jednosupnica iz porodice čepljezovki. Postoji deset vrsta raširenih po Australiji, Novoj Gvineji i Tasmaniji
Rod je opisan 1810.
Vrste
Tricoryne anceps R.Br.
Tricoryne corynothecoides Keighery
Tricoryne elatior R.Br.
Tricoryne humilis Endl.
Tricoryne muricata Baker
Tricoryne platyptera Rchb.f.
Tricoryne simplex R.Br.
Tricoryne soullierae T.D.Macfarl. & Keighery
Tricoryne tenella R.Br.
Tricoryne tuberosa Keighery & T.D.Macfarl.
Izvori
Hemerocallidoideae | {
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NEW 2017 3D Tender collection coming soon!
Putting the final details together for what promises to be a really exciting new collection from 3D for both the Air Deck Tenders and the small to mid size Aluminium collection of Rigid Inflatable Boats. Highlights include a new TWIN V shape tender that build and on the amazing success of the TWIN AIR but now incorporates as V Shape hull increasing seaworthiness and directional stability. And then theres a new Aluminium range, the Ultimate which offers exceptional quality / value, especially with an Ultimate 3 metre Hyperlon boat retailing for £2250.00!! All going LIVE on the website shorty - here's a few photos in the meantime.
3D will being delivery their brand new LUX line RIBS from March 2016. The LUX line is aimed at the more luxury minded customer who's looking the renowned 3D quality, performance and value but all with a splash of luxury. There are 3 models in the line up, 440, 500 and 540 and all feature in board fuel tanks, high quality upholstery and sports design consoles. Pricing is extremely competitive with the top end 540 retailing for just £7495.00.
First shots of the new 3D Tender Aluminium Safety Boat showing the reinforced tubes and transom together with the self drawing cockpit. Boats in stock and ready to go plus we have demo boats to try so contact us for details .
3D Tender are set to launch its new range of Club Rescue boats very soon. Based on the highly acclaimed XPRO reinforced aluminium 420 and 370 the new Rescue boats have been further refined to provide the prefect solution for Club and Sailing centre coach and safety boats. Featuring additional tube reinforcing strakes and high quality marine grade aluminium hulls which are fully auto draining removing the need to ever bail out the boat whilst on the mooring. Ocean First Marine have demo boats available of Clubs and Centres to use so contact OFM asap to book your demo.
3D TENDER - OFM official UK Distributor!
3D Tender are the market leader in Lightweight inflatable Air Deck tenders and we're delighted to providing distribution for the complete collection here in the UK. As well as the Air Deck tenders, 3D has a fantastic collection of super lightweight aluminium hulled semi rigid inflatables as well as top end RIBS for serious recreational or professional use. Finally a dedicated range of aluminium safety RIBS designed specifically for school and sailing club rescue use complete the collection. Contact us now for more info or you can buy here secretly online. | {
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and intersecting lines, 1883.
In the late 1840's the Aurora Branch Railroad was built to better connect Aurora with Chicago. The railroad maintained important repair shops and roundhouses at Aurora. Its connection at Aurora to Galena, on the Mississippi River was the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad. These railroads were early parts of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.
The lines were renamed, first in 1852 as the Chicago & Aurora Railroad and later in 1855, after linking with the Illinois Central, as the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.
The Illinois Central Railroad was a successful railway which connected the northern states with the southern states. It began in the early 1850's with a land grant for a line to run from the top of Illinois to the bottom.
In the 1860's the Illinois Central added a line leading into Iowa.
Later in the 1870's and 1880's the railroad acquired existing lines in southern states, expanded connections, and eventually covered more than 3,000 miles, with lines crossing Mississippi from New Orleans to Louisville, and in the north, expansion westward through Wisconsin and the Dakotas to Omaha, Nebraska.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Illinois Central Railroads were two of the most popular railroads of the 1880's.
This detailed map of the midwestern states shows relief by hachures, drainage, cities, towns and counties. Railroad network is color-coded. Displayed are portions of Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. It was published in 1883 by Rand, McNally & Co. | {
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Voila Gianna is a lightweight, strong, simple, elegant leather bag perfect for your companion to the office, hanging out at the mall with friends and relatives, and for you everyday everyday daily activities. If you are on of genuine leather bag lover women and are looking for a lightweight, classy, elegant, simple, medium sized designed tote bag, Voila Gianna Leather Tote Bag is the perfect choice.
Voila Leather once again launch a new genuine leather tote bag – a lightweight medium sized handmade genuine leather bag with a classic, elegant, simple design for you, leather bag lovers.
Voila Gianna Leather Tote Bag is a lightweight, medium sized, simple designed leather tote bag handmade using supple, flexible, soft, tender, flexible, not hard, not stiff charactered premium nappa cow leather material in classic light brown coloring – an elegant, classic camel color perfectly suitable with your colorful fashion outfits.
Voila Gianna frontside is a handle strap ring, 3 round rivet studs decorating its nicely line stitched handle strap, while its backside is decorated with two straps. Voila Gianna interior is wrapped with light and strong polyester fabric lining, completed with two small pouches for keeping your valuable trinkets. | {
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The Niger Garden City Property Company Limited, is a project development and management company with extensive network that includes some of the world's best fund managers and development experts.
The Niger Garden City Property Company Limited in a Public/Private Partnership Arrangement with National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) desires to develop a modern city with first rate infrastructure comparable to any in the world.
The Niger Garden City offers a new environment of highest standards conforming to global "Green" best practices which comprises of various housing types and commercial units of high aesthetic value built with bespoke quality.
The Niger Garden City is desirous to develop the following on a parcel of land measuring about 2000 hectares.
(2) Water/Theme/Amusement Parks, Hotels, Shopping Malls e.t.c. Applications are hereby invited from reputable and interested Contractors and Suppliers with relevant experience and good track records for pre-qualification for the under listed works.
(2) Tax Clearance and VAT Certificates for the last three years.
(5) Resume of key professional staff to be involved in the project with evidence of registration with relevant professional bodies.
(7) A sworn affidavit that no Board member of the Niger Garden City property Company Ltd, has vested interest in the company.
(8) A sworn affidavit that none of the Directors has been convicted in any country for any criminal offence.
Contractors and Suppliers should note that they will be required to pay a non-refundable fee of N10,000 (Ten Thousand Naira only) for the collection of the forms.
Application forms are available for collection at under listed accredited firms.
Closing date for the submission of the pre-qualification forms is 3rd August 2015.
Please note that this pre-qualification is not an invitation to the financial tender as only those who are successful during the prequalification will be invited to the financial tender.
That by the submission of the pre-qualification document, Niger Garden City Property Company Limited is neither committed or obliged to award and contract to any contractor or supplier.
That this advertisement for invitation to pre-qualification shall not be considered as a commitment on the part of the Niger Garden City Property Company Limited nor shall it entitle any Contractor or Supplier to make any claims whatsoever and or seek any indemnity from Niger Garden City Property Company Limited, Interested parties should contact the following accredited firms for registration.
1 Niger Garden City Project Office National Inland Wateways Authority Onitsha Area Office, Onitsha Anambra State.
7 Fellybest Muti -Links Co.
12 Joeworld Projects Nig. Ltd.
15 Bestlink Express Ltd. No. | {
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Participation in various Ministry of Economics committees, for the preparation of the draft Presidential Decree of the evaluation of stock of non-listed companies limited by shares, and the preparation of the 1992 Accounting Books and Records Code. Speaker in various professional and training seminars. Contributor in various journals, Business and Corporate Law, Tax Legislation Journal and Tax Review.
Athens Bar Association; International Fiscal Association; F.D.A. (Founding Member). | {
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This year's BYU Women's Conference theme comes from the Psalmist: "For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly" (Psalm 84:11). This comprehensive promise gives us great hope; hope that the Lord will not just light out path, but defend us against any difficulties we might encounter; hope that we will not just receive grace—forgiveness for our sins as a free gift from our Savior—but glory as well: "no good thing" withheld from "them that walk uprightly." In The Lord Will Give Grace and Glory: Talk from the 2014 BYU Women's Conference, you will find eighteen addresses that will also give you that hope of the Lord's help, His grace and glory, in your life.
The power and blessing of divine grace is discussed in chapters from presenters such as Elder Quentin L. Cook and wife Mary G. Cook, Elder Bruce C. Hafen and wife Marie Hafen, Relief Society general president Linda K. Burton, Young Women general president Bonnie L. Oscarson, Primary general president Rosemary M. Wixom, Virginia H. Pearce, and Mary Ellen Edmunds. | {
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The Cloud Poodll Assignment Submission allows students to record audio or video as assignment submissions. It has no dependencies and recordings are stored in the Poodll cloud. The teacher has a choice of audio and video recorders to use. It supports time limits, and falls back to file upload when the device does not support HTML5 recording. It can also generate subtitles (.vtt format) automatically.
The Cloud Poodll assignment uses the Cloud Poodll API. Your Moodle site needs to be registered.
The default media type of the recorder. Can be changed when creating the assignment.
if the browser does not support recording with HTML5 for the selected media type, with warn the user or offer an upload screen.
It is also possible to set the size of the audio/video players as they appear in the submissions list and on the grading or summary pages. Videos, in particular, if too large can make the submissions list page hard to use. | {
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Pay attention to the water you take in each day– Your Life Line.
Tony Robbins Talking about Alkaline Water! – Most of us heard about Tony! Listen to what he has to say.
– This Is How To Get Your Body pH Balanced!
– Do your own google search or research so you know to check your food from store to your shelves! | {
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Empower Girls, Don't Blame Them
Posted on 30 October, 2013 4 August, 2013 by s.e. smith
Being socialised as a woman in this society is extremely difficult. You spend your entire life essentially learning that no matter what you do, you can't win. You're either too meek or too aggressive, too big or too small, too loud or too quiet, not driven enough or too focused on work, shrewish or too much of a doormat. Every single possible move you make is carefully scrutinised, analysed, and then thrown in your face as evidence that you are inferior and should work harder.
This is a sexist society, one where women at all intersections face significant social obstacles, many of which are exacerbated by additional issues specific to individual women; for example, disabled women face ableism in addition to sexism, and the two can combine in very ugly ways. Sexism, thus, is a frequent topic of conversation for us as a collective society, as we look at its origins and how to fight it.
One of the most commonly-cited issues when it comes to sexism is the lack of women in positions of respect and power, making it difficult for girls to find role models, and forcing women to struggle as they try to advance socially. Thus, a number of people and organisations have suggested that young girls need to be 'empowered' to engage more fully with society, be assertive, and take their rightful place as social equals rather than lesser human beings who are only around to be decorative, quiet, and subservient.
Yet, sometimes this language strays dangerously close to victim-blaming. The problem is that while it is necessary to break the socialisation chain and push society to rethink the way it interacts with young women and girls, it's also necessary to acknowledge that young women and girls can't do this on their own. The problem here isn't that they aren't trying hard enough, but that society is putting immense pressure on them; which means it's up to us to provide empowering environments and fight for their place in society, to create a world in which equality is such a part of life that they can't imagine the world any other way.
Which is a lot of work to put on our shoulders, especially since many women of this generation are dealing with the same socialisation and struggling to move past and through it. But it's not fair to act like young girls are to blame for what they'll experience as they grow, and to demand that they push through complex social barriers because that's what they 'need' to do in order to succeed. What they need to succeed is nurturing and support, not 'empowerment' terminology that really effectively just blames them for not being empowered enough.
At the same time that girls are given powerful tools for succeeding in society, we must be careful to reinforce the fact that they are not to blame for what happens to women in society. That women struggle in a variety of ways for fair and equitable treatment, and that those who aren't able to break the glass ceiling, or command respect, or build fair lives, aren't somehow defective and less capable than those who are. Because this is a system stacked against women from the very start, one in which women are expected to succeed against all odds; and those odds may shift when young women are girls are empowered by receiving education in supportive environments and being mentored by successful adult women, but they still aren't in women's favour.
To pretend that a single generation of empowered young girls can somehow overturn millennia of sexism is absurd, and to some extent damaging, as the implied subtext there is that if they don't, they have failed. On the contrary: every one of us is part of a hard and complex battle, and it's one that won't be resolved in a generation. There's a reason women and people socialised as women have been fighting for equality for a long time, and why they will continue to do so after this generation is gone.
In an institutional culture of sexism where the status quo is one in which men are in charge, and in which those men are specific kinds of men, it should not come as a surprise that women don't always succeed, even when they've been injected with a dose of empowerment. It behooves us to be careful about how we discuss empowerment, young women, society, and how to get closer to equality; because if we aren't careful, we run the risk of sending the message to young women that if they aren't able to overcome the obstacles set in front of them, they're failing.
But those obstacles move, and they have a tendency to pop up again after you think they've gone away. That's not something most girls and young women are prepared to deal with, no matter how empowered they are, and with constantly shifting obstacles, women are forced to constantly be on the lookout. Hillary Clinton, for example, still deals with sexism every day even though she was one of the most powerful women in the world, and provided an excellent example of an empowered, assertive role model for women across the US. Her success isn't evidence that 'anyone can do it,' but rather that women face an uphill battle, and even when they come almost to the top, people will still be there ready to undermine them.
Empowerment should be as much about teaching women and girls to support each other and confront the system collectively as it should be about individual experiences, which unfortunately are often the focus. Beware the lesson that tells girls to bootstrap their way to equality, for such lessons rarely end well.
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Episode 573| Hiring FT vs. PT, WordPress Consolidation, and More Bootstrapper News
In Episode 573, Rob Walling chats with Einar Vollset and Tracy Osborne about the part-time contractor versus hiring full-time debate, the acquisition of Sandhills Development, as well as the launch of a TinySeed Europe.
The topics we cover
[02:14] FT vs PT Contractor
[09:06] When could part time contracting work?
[10:25] Sandhills Development acquisition
[14:50] TinySeed Europe announced
[21:04] DuckDuckGo and Privacy
Links from the show
Episode 551 | Task-level vs. Project-level Thinkers, No Such Thing as an Autopilot Business, and More (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Awesome Motive has acquired our WordPress products and services – Sandhills Development, LLC
Josh Pigford on Twitter Regarding FT vs PT Contractor
DuckDuckGo and Privacy
Careers — TinySeed
Invest — TinySeed
Tracy Osborne on Twitter
Einar Vollset (@einarvollset) | Twitter
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Rob: Welcome back to Startups For the Rest of Us. I'm your host, Rob Walling. This week I sit down with Einar Vollset and Tracy Osborn to talk through some bootstrapper news stories. I've received feedback from several listeners that they really enjoy these episodes. Oftentimes, the things we bring up here, it's the first time that they've heard about them. They weren't paying attention to Twitter, Hacker News, or wherever we might have heard about these.
Hopefully, these are not only educational, but also entertain you and hopefully help drive your business forward. Today we talk about the part-time contractor versus hiring full-time debate. We talk about the acquisition of Sandhills Development, which is one of the largest independent WordPress product companies. We talk about the launch of TinySeed Europe, and we talk about a few other new stores. Hope you enjoy these.
If you recall, Einar Vollset, my co-founder and general partner at TinySeed. He's been on the podcast many times. He knows enterprise sales, cold outbound outreach. He knows a ton about SaaS, M&A. Then Tracy Osborn is our program director at TinySeed, and she is a former startup founder who has written several books on design and development. Now she keeps the trains running on time internally with TinySeed. Hope you enjoy today's conversation.
Tracy Osborn, welcome to Startups For the Rest of Us.
Tracy: Yeah, happy to be back.
Rob: Einar Vollset, you as well.
Einar: Thanks for having me.
Rob: All right. I'm excited to dip into some bootstrapper news, as we like to call it. First story is there has been discussion. I've seen most of it on Twitter, although we have one Hacker News link as well. It's a tweet that links out to Hacker News. Yes, it's all on Twitter.
A founder friend of mine, back in April of this year, had pointed me to a tweet by Josh Pigford that talked about him being curious with his new effort, maybe about hiring everyone as part time contractors, meaning no W-2 and no full-time. I believe Sahil from Gumroad has structured Gumroad maybe like this. Again, we'll link these tweets up, but in essence, Josh said in his second tweet he was linking to Sahil's blog post that says we have an anti-overtime rate that once you work past 20 hours a week as a contractor, people can continue to work, but it's a reduced hourly rate. So it really does discourage full-time work.
The next one is Josh talking about how to give equity to part-time contractors based on how much they work and how much they get paid. These were all in April and July. I remember talking with my friend back in April of I didn't think it was a good idea.
Just having managed teams of part-time contractors and then having managed teams of full-time folks, there's a time and a place for both. I think we've actually discussed that specific thing on this podcast. But then fast forward to September, it was just less than a month ago, Josh published something saying we ended the experiment, we're no longer pursuing building maybe around part-time fractional employees. Here's the note I sent to the team last week. While I'm still bullish on the concept, I no longer believe it can work for new product software companies, at least it didn't for us.
He wrote kind of a memo about it. What I appreciate about Josh is he experimented with a lot of different things, and some of them, when I see him, I think that's not going to work and others I think, he has a shot at making it work. But he usually circles back and tells us if it works, and I think that's helpful for the community. Tracy, what are your thoughts on this approach?
I realize I've given my opinion already, but I'm curious if either you think it's a really good approach based on what we're going to be funding our 59th company or something here in the next couple of weeks. You have a view into a lot of SaaS companies in TinySeed.
Tracy: Yeah, I looked at some of the threads that Josh did. He went into the reasons why it didn't work. The thing that stood out to me is the thing I expected to see, which is a part-time contractor is really great for one defined task, designed set task that he's hitting session after session. Once you finish that, you're done with your job for the day.
He had planning or long-term thoughts. When you're hiring someone for your company that needs to not only just hit the things you need to do that week, but you also need to start planning out, how are things going to evolve in the next couple of years? What does that look like? What is that future planning? That's almost impossible to do, I think, on a part-time cadence because it's just so set around tasks.
I think Josh also went into the fact that managing people who are part-time was hard to do because he had to really define. I forgot exactly how he phrased it, but he had to define it. That's one of the tasks they had to do is think about that long-term. It was lots of micromanagement and it turned into a big effort on his end in order to do that. It's the thing where it's just like, it's really good for defined tasks, but you can't expect without a lot of hand-holding some of that long-term planning.
Rob: Yeah. I often talk about task-level thinkers, project-level thinkers, and owner-level thinkers. I think of contractors, usually, a lot of them are task-level folks. Then you can find a few who may be project level if you seek that and you pay for that, but I haven't worked with contractors who are owner-level thinkers who, like you said, are doing the long-term vision. Einar, what are your thoughts?
Einar: Yeah, I agree with that. I was always similarly quite suspicious that it wouldn't work. Because the main thing for me is that if everyone is just part-time and task level, then all the state has to be in Josh's head by himself. It's got to be a lot of work. The downside to having employees, there's plenty. They have drama, family issues, and all that stuff. But the upside is, particularly if you're full-time, they spend their time thinking about and keeping state in their heads when you don't have to.
You can delegate in a way that you can't do if they're just working 15, 20 hours a week for you and it's very, very part-time. It's one of those things. I think Sahil instincts with Gumroad, maybe that's more in a maintenance mode, in which case, it could work better. But I certainly think if you're more Greenfield, then it's going to be very hard.
Rob: Trying to push things forward. I think of the word ownership and I don't mean equity. Like you're saying, mental ownership of a task where you go home, you think about it at night, you think about it while you're doing dishes of like, ah, I can make this better. Because I was a contractor. I was a software developer for eight years on and off.
As much as I cared about some of the jobs, it's a little bit like being a mercenary. I don't mean that in a bad way. You get paid to ship products and if I ship code, that is fine. But anything beyond that, there was a little motivation, I think, to leave it better than when I arrived.
I think of these black box tasks. I have videos that I need edited or I have maybe a particular integration that I need built. These are things that are pretty easy to spec out and define them very well. I think that's where we use part-time contractors. It's like, I know exactly what I need. But when we get into building new products, the creative thinking, and needing to—I think I can imagine trying to manage five full-time employees who are doing things versus, what do you need, 10, 15 contractors to do it? That just feels like a mess. Then you need middle managers by the time you're a 15-person company in my head.
Einar: Yeah, and now they're going to be part-time middle managers. That starts to become really complicated.
Rob: Yeah, exactly.
Tracy: I also wanted to say, I wish it would work out because it's like the dream. Work for a company for four hours a day. Not necessarily work at another company, but maybe you can support yourself, and then you have the rest of your day to pursue your own personal projects or do other things. I don't want to say, oh, you can only have employees who are only thinking 24 hours about your company because that's not what you want. You want to have someone to be able to have that in space. But part-time makes it really hard to have, like you said, that creative thought process.
Einar: Also a question, how part-time do people really want to go? I think a lot of people would be like, yeah, I'd love to have a three-day weekend. But really, do people really just want a five-day weekend, or will they actually end up doing the people who want that are people who have their own project and are actually working much more than full time?
I can't imagine not working five days a week. I would just be lost. I would just wander around. I would have to come up with a work-like project in order to keep my mind screwed on straight.
Rob: I would think that these folks would have other clients is the idea. It seems like we agree that we're not generally bullish on this approach. There might be a time and a place for black box tasks and stuff like that, but what's the positive spin on this? When will this work or what's cool about this if it works?
I think one thing that came to mind is you, I think, could have interchangeability. I think one of the ideas here is not to have any linchpin person that if they leave, they leave everything on the table. But again, even as I think of these positives, I think, yeah, but then…
Einar: That's a negative, though.
Rob: It really is.
Einar: In itself, it really is negative. If you're like, yeah, this guy, whatever. Just put him in front of the computer screen and then he'll type up more code. I'm like, meh.
Rob: Imagine that codebase—mess.
Einar: Yeah, the code base is going to be a mess and it's like, then who's thinking about the state at all? That doesn't sound fun. No, that sounds terrible, actually.
Rob: Yeah. I have a tough time. If I was a 23-year-old software developer and just wanting to work on projects here and there, that could be great for me. Back when, this is more maybe 12 years ago where I did have just a team, I had 10 different contractors who all did the little things and were all super task-based. It was VAs, there was a designer, and there were a couple of developers.
It was fun. It was a total lifestyle business. That's the place where I think this works. But I think the moment you become more ambitious and you're like, I do want to build a bootstrap that's a seven-, eight-figure business, I really don't see this working from the start. I think if you make it work, you will be the exception rather than proving it out.
All right, story number two is that Awesome Motive has acquired Sandhills Development's products and services. If you haven't heard of these companies, you've probably heard of the WordPress plugins that they manage. Sandhills used to own and sold AffiliateWP, Easy Digital Downloads, Sugar Calendar, WP Simple Pay, and the Payouts Service. Awesome Motive was started by Syed Balkhi.
He started WP Beginner, which is a really popular WordPress learning site, then started OptinMonster back in probably 2013, I believe, WP Forms, MonsterInsights. He acquired several others and now he buys sometimes fractional ownership like he'll buy a certain percentage of a company and sometimes he does entire acquisitions.
This is another (effectively) string of WordPress consolidation that is happening. There aren't that many seven- and eight-figure WordPress product companies left that have not been gobbled up by WP Engine, Liquid Web, GoDaddy. Awesome Motive is doing a lot of consolidation. I'll weigh in on my opinion of whether that's good or bad. But I think to Einar first, what is your take on this? Do you feel like this is an inevitability given any space that operates for this long?
Einar: Yeah, I think it's almost inevitable. I feel like WordPress, and it still does, had this hacker side project, build a little thing, make enough money to truly lifestyle business it. While at the same time, at least until recently, there wasn't a lot of push from the financial roll-up people. They usually stayed away from WordPress for whatever reason. They might do roll-ups.
For a while, it seemed more common to do roll-ups in the Shopify space on that platform than going after WordPress, which doesn't make a ton of sense to me just because WordPress is open source so you don't have quite the same platform risk. But certainly, I see that on some of the M&A side that it's still early days in the WordPress space. The price expectations of the buyers and the sellers are quite different from the more open or more generic SaaS, software as a service, software as buyout space.
I think it's a natural conclusion of this. People are like, oh, […], this could work here too. No problem and prices are low, so why not? The roll-up play should work in WordPress as well, if not better than in Shopify. Because WordPress is 25%, 30% of all the websites. It's a big market.
Rob: I was trying to think about whether I think this is good or bad for space because whether it's inevitable or not is one question, but is this better? I think having more things, there's the power of scale. Awesome Motive knows what they're doing with WordPress. I think they don't have a monopoly position on anything. I don't think they own all the big plugins in any one space.
I could be wrong, but I think they still have competition from WooCommerces and from Delicious Brains. There are a few others that are doing it. Again, there are not that many, but it's nice that I don't think there's been that kind of consolidation. So I don't know. WordPress, they're always so opinionated about this stuff. I'm sure there are some hefty opinions, but I don't think it will negatively impact us as a user.
I still use WordPress with my robwalling.com site. I struggle to see how it would impact that. I guess the ecosystem of consultants and agencies may be impacted by this. But I feel like if Awesome Motive and whoever's doing the consolidation, the WP Engines, the Liquid Web is back to them. If they're doing a good job being stewards of these products and these plugins, then it'll be good. If they're doing a […] job and they're rolling up just to roll up and increase valuations, then I think it will be bad. Maybe that's my ultimate conclusion is it depends on how good of a steward they are of the products.
Einar: Yeah, I agree with that. I actually think WordPress in general is an odd space. I think it may be because of Automattic, it's an unusual company in itself, like being an open-source company. It's not like Shopify or any of these companies. So that might be just contributing to the nature of that whole space.
Rob: Tracy, do you have any closing thoughts before we move on to our next topic?
Tracy: Nope. I think Einar said it all.
Rob: Our next story, I bet you two had to do a lot of reading about this. I just sent you a lot of background so you understand it. TinySeed announced TinySeed Europe a week or two ago. We announced it at our European event. It was two weeks ago.
We are raising a fund in Europe to fund European startups to essentially extend, replicate what we've done here in the Americas with our Americas fund. Einar, what was the impetus for this? Why are we moving into Europe?
Einar: There are some good reasons and there are some bad reasons. I'll start off with the good reasons. Good reasons are we have amazing deal flow there. We're seeing this bootstrap, SaaS, independent SaaS community grow, not just in Europe, but partly in the Middle East and Africa too. We want to invest in more of those companies.
To be honest with you, the requirement to become a US entity became a burden for some of these early-stage firms. Being able to have a dedicated fund that can invest directly into these European opportunities certainly was interesting. Our investors too are like, there's no real reason why a B2B, SaaS company, whether it's based in France, South Africa, or New Mexico, what's the difference? Most of them sell internationally. They have international customers and they operate in English. Really, it's a global market for most of these things. Those are good reasons.
Originally, the plan was to raise our previous fund, to raise a large fund. This is where the bad reasons come in. It has to do with basically SEC regulations on how many investors we could take. It meant that we were forced to take higher and higher minimums. Splitting the funds up to have our US fund or our Americas fund be mostly US companies, and then this Europe fund is mostly European companies started to make sense. Also, just from the boring investor perspective, some people lived in Europe and wanted exposure only to US companies and vice versa. So it made a lot of sense.
I think there has been a lot of interest, certainly. The European startup environment, it's interesting. It's where the US was three or four years ago. There's now a lot more of the more traditional venture startup stuff. But I think only now people are starting to think like, oh, you can get funding for these kinds of indie SaaS businesses that don't necessarily aren't trying to be on the unicorn route.
Rob: Yeah. Just to clarify, I should have said this earlier, but TinySeed Europe will invest in the European time zone. That goes down through Africa, the Middle East, and all that. Tracy, what are your thoughts on this having been on the inside, thoughts on hiring a replacement of sorts, or a replica of yourself? We're hiring a program manager out in Europe.
Tracy: Einar went over some of the, like I said, administrative aspects of the program. One of the big program benefits to having a dedicated European batch is that we have funded folks who are located in the European time zones, that area through the Americas fund. But because as a team, we're all US, North America-based. We moved their calls around to make it work for everybody. If anyone who is in Europe, the Middle East, or anything like that were attending calls that were super late at night.
They've all been very enthusiastic about it. We have something we set upfront, being like, hey, by the way, we're happy to fund you, but because we have to schedule the calls for our own time zone, people opted into that. That means that for the European one, the European fund, the European accelerator, as you said with the time zone, the calls and everything will be scheduled in a more reasonable time zone for anyone who is in that accelerator program, which makes me very, very excited.
It also goes for our in-person events. We are just restarting now. We would have our in-person retreats generally in North America unless we attached it to MicroConf Europe. For the last one we did in Portland this past September, we didn't get to have a lot of European founders come over because of the expense, time, and everything to fly all the way over to Portland. That also means that all of our in-person retreats will be in a more reasonable location for all these founders and make it easier for them to attend these events.
I'm very excited about that aspect of the program. I'm very excited that we can have a dedicated, everything set up. It's European folks, European, UK, Middle East, make everything just a lot easier for them. I think it's very exciting that we can do that, finally.
Rob: Yeah, I'm excited about it. Obviously, if you want to learn more, if you're a bootstrap or mostly the bootstrap founder, tinyseed.com to get on that list because it's not going to be very long before we're going to open applications early next year.
Tracy: Yeah, it will probably be in January. I'm confident saying that.
Rob: All right, good. Program manager-wise, tinyseed.com/careers if you might want to come work with three of us.
Tracy: Yeah, I have to jump in here because I'm very excited about that position as well. I came into the program manager position for TinySeed as a former entrepreneur. I had just shut down my startup, WeddingLovely, which was quite sad. You can hear about it on this podcast. But I was at a place where I love the startup fields, looking for something that was still in the entrepreneurial area, but I wasn't quite ready to start a new project.
TinySeed was a really great place for me to land. I was able to use everything I learned as a startup founder and use that to help out the founders that are in the program. This program manager position was not just for executive assistants or anything like that.
It's really great for anyone who might be in a place in their life where they've done startups and they're looking for something new, but maybe they don't want to jump into doing a whole new thing on their own. They want to be part of a team. Just wanted to say that anyone who happens to be in that place, I think this would be a good fit.
Rob: And I would be remiss. As we move on to our next story, if I did not say, tinyseed.com/invest if you're interested in investing in early-stage B2B SaaS companies located in European time zones.
Tracy: Einar was giving you eyes. Don't forget.
Rob: Indeed. All right. Our next story is a tweet from DuckDuckGo from October 11. This was maybe two weeks ago. I'm going to read their tweets, so these are their words.
"Google complies with invasive "keyword warrants" that identify anyone who searched for a term. Twitter user @iblametom reports," and then he links to a forbes.com article. "DuckDuckGo doesn't have any search histories by design, and because of that, has had zero search warrants of any kind since our founding in 2008." This tweet has almost 15,000 likes, 308, quote tweets, and 4800 retweets.
I think this fits into the privacy that has already become a thing and is becoming an even more important thing. It felt like it got kicked off with Snowden, the Snowden revelation, that we're all being monitored in the US. Tracy, you have often on this podcast, especially in the bootstrapper news episodes, talked about the privacy elements of email inboxes, blocking, tracking pixels so they can't see you opening them. I think you had said that you thought it was going to become a more prominent thing that tech would move in this direction. Talk to me about your thoughts on this whole idea.
Tracy: Yeah. I am only hesitating here because that's normally my way forward, but then I was reading something about the Google search warrants. This is because it could be hearsay, but it's something like search warrants or someone who is searching for a person's name, person's address, person's phone number. All three of those things would come up with the fact that that person was doxxing, stalking, or something for that other person.
Basically, it's hard because there were good reasons to have these privacy violations or this for-warrants that go out for some certain reasons where there is a bad actor who is doing something bad, and they search and we're able to use that information to find and stop that person from potentially causing any sort of harm.
When I read those things, it's just like, ugh, that's such a good reason, but it's always that slippery slope where it can be used for a lot of good reasons. But there's a lot of bad reasons where warrants can go out for some dirty cop or whatever. Uses a warrant to go out and pull information on someone, looks at someone's search history, those kinds of things.
I don't have a good response to this other than this general. I wish that the world was a place where we could use this information for good. Why Snowden came out with all this stuff, oftentimes the information is used for bad. DuckDuckGo having those search warrants because they don't track that history, there's also good and bad there.
For the average person who doesn't want to have any other random stuff being used for bad by bad actors, then DuckDuckGo is great, but there was response to this tweet which is like, hey, DuckDuckGo, aren't you saying, hey, sexual predators use our program, use our browser for your thing. It's going to be using you for a warrant.
Rob: It's that interesting balance. It's always that balance between national security, state security, or security of each of us, and privacy. Those two things tend to be in opposition. I will say Einar, before I roll over to you, DuckDuckGo has been giving a masterclass in how to use your 900-pound gorilla competitor. Use their number one thing against them.
In airports for MicroConf, I would see DuckDuckGo billboards that were basically saying, we don't track you and Google does that kind of stuff. They've been stiff stuck to that positioning for 13 years. I think he said they launched in 2008, it's 2021. That is unusual for a startup to come up with effectively positioning of like, hey, we're going to be privacy-focused and that's it. That's their number one bell that they ring and they're growing. They have more adoption every month that goes by.
Tracy: I use it, I should say, for all of my screaming into the void. It is my primary browser.
Rob: My question to you Einar is, it's not only how far do we think this move towards privacy will continue, but will normal people ever care? Will my mom and dad ever care about that? The massive 80%, 90% of the world, will they care about this or do you think this is just going to be continued to be at the edges with those folks like developers and more tech-savvy people?
Einar: I think it'll be at the edges. That's what I think. In general, I feel less worried about Google warrants. I feel like if there's an actual warrant and a process, then I have no faith in the justice system that it's not going to get abused willy-nilly. My view is I'm going to use DuckDuckGo, but I would prefer the rest of you to use Google so that if there were any warrants that needed to be issued to you guys, then that would be fine.
That's my view. I'm not quite so privacy-obsessed. The NSA doesn't need to get warrants to figure out what they need to do, basically. That's my view on it. But in general, yeah, I think it's more edge cases, but it's a big market. So okay, maybe 10% of people care, but that's 10% of all the people in the world, which is a good chunk of change for DuckDuckGo, for sure.
Rob: That's going to wrap us up today. Tracy Osborn, folks can find you at @tracymakes on Twitter. Thanks so much for joining me.
Tracy: I know that you almost said Tracy makes first.
Rob: I did,
Tracy: I heard it.
Rob: I often call you Tracy makes, it has your name. I struggle to call Patrick McKenzie Patrick McKenzie. I always say patio11, what's up? That just becomes a name
Tracy: I'm tracyosborn.com, but it's @tracymakes on Twitter because I could not get it on Twitter.
Rob: I remember this. Einar Vollset, you are at @einarvollset. People are just going to have to go to the show notes because I'm not going to spell that one, where you rant about the San Francisco Giants.
Einar: Yes, pretty much. They're out now, so that's okay. It's fine, I'm over it.
Tracy: Has Twitter returned to some semblance of normalcy or is it still?
Einar: I'm over it.
Tracy: Okay.
Rob: All right. Thanks so much for joining me.
Einar: Thank you.
Rob: Thank you for joining me once again this week. Whether you've been listening for a month, a year, or a decade, it's always great to have you on board. I'll be back in your ears again next Tuesday morning. | {
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Centurion Debuts in Downtown Union, NJ with Luxe Apartments and Modern Amenities
Posted on March 3, 2020 March 3, 2020 by Editor
Leasing is officially underway for CENTURION UNION, a new collection of 80 upscale apartments and a full suite of modern amenities in the heart of Union Center, where long-cherished restaurants and shops mix with a new array of dining and retail services.
Ideally situated at 975 Bonnel Court, the eye-catching five-story building features generously-appointed one- and two-bedroom residences attractively priced from $1,930 a month. Initial occupancy is scheduled for March 1st, 2020.
The Marketing Directors, exclusive leasing and marketing agent for CENTURION UNION, has opened the building's rental program from an on-site leasing office with a fully-furnished model available to view.
"The opening of CENTURION UNION ushers in a new era for Union Center, where municipal efforts to create a vibrant new lifestyle experience along Stuyvesant Avenue have taken root," said
Manuel A. Fernandez, Founder of American Landmark Development. "As the first new construction residential building to be introduced in Union's reimagined downtown in three decades, CENTURION UNION delivers a modern residential opportunity to this flourishing and close-knit neighborhood while placing residents just steps from a diverse offering of dining, retail and conveniences."
CENTURION UNION is a striking architectural addition to Union Center. Inside, expansive living spaces boast nine-foot ceiling heights, wide wood-style plank flooring, vented in-home washer and dryers by GE, and kitchens with full-size slate GE appliances, gas range stoves, island/peninsula work spaces and quartz countertops. Luxurious baths are equipped with glass-enclosed showers, porcelain tile and polished chrome fixtures.
Residents will have access to a modern suite of amenities to provide a complete lifestyle experience, including a state-of-the-art fitness center, game room, resident-only lounge, flexible co-working space, children's playroom, dog run and onsite parking.
"CENTURION UNION is an exciting new lifestyle choice for residents looking to reside in one of Union County's most eclectic downtowns," said Adrienne Albert, CEO of The Marketing Directors. "We expect it to appeal to renters from throughout the spectrum, from young professionals and couples seeking a convenient commute to work regionally or in New York City to empty-nesters looking to downsize to a more maintenance-free and city-centric lifestyle. We also anticipate significant interest from those working at major nearby employers such as Bed Bath & Beyond, Overlook Hospital, Merck, Celgene, and Prudential Financial.
Union Center is quickly gaining momentum as a sought-after downtown setting with its unique character and streetscapes rooted in tradition and history. Its small-town charm is evident in family-run dining staples like Cioffi's, the famed Italian restaurant which opened over 40 years ago on Stuyvesant Avenue, as well locally-owned ethnic eateries serving Thai, Japanese, Mexican, Columbian, Portuguese, Filipino and many other global cuisines. Classic pubs and local boutiques also line the downtown streets. These established businesses have been joined by newer retailers such as Crow and the Coconut Yoga and B Fit n Focused Fresh Juices.
Commuting is a breeze from Union which lies at the crossroad of Routes 78 and 22 and the Garden State Parkway. New Jersey Transit's Union Station provides service to Newark Penn Station. Buses to New York City depart just a quick walk from Centurion on Morris Avenue.
CENTURION UNION is the first of a multi-phase project in Union Center, where American Landmark Development has been designated by Union Township as the redeveloper of the Stuyvesant Avenue Redevelopment Project. The initiative is infusing a new level of energy and excitement into Union Center with nearly 300 new homes and approximately 27,000 square feet of retail space housed in four buildings once complete.
The development is also the first in a new signature series of CENTURION rental communities planned by American Landmark Development in key New Jersey urban markets.
For additional information on CENTURION UNION and to schedule a visit to see the furnished model and amenity space, please visit www.LiveCENTURION.com or call 888-910-0975. The onsite Leasing Center is located at 975 Bonnel Court, Union, NJ 07083, and open daily.
About The Marketing Directors
The Marketing Directors is a renowned development advisory with over 35 years of experience working exclusively on behalf of real estate developers to design, market and sell residential homes. The Marketing Directors team is a collective of strategic thinkers, market experts and trusted partners. Headquartered in New York with offices and sales teams active across North America, The Marketing Directors has helped clients successfully sell-out hundreds of new developments accounting for more than $30 billion in total sales.
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Despite an incredible amount of rainfall, a home in far southwest suburban Lemont continued to burn Wednesday night.
Officials said the home, on the 16400 block of Alba, in Lemont, was struck by lightning.
The family was inside at the time and called 911 after hearing a large crack, Lemont Fire Chief Carl Churulo said.
All members of the family were able to get out of the home safely, he said, while the entire second floor of the home was engulfed by flames.
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The Chevening Youth Forum (CYF) – South East Asia Edition is a platform to bring together Chevening Alumni and up to 300 young future leaders from across Southeast Asia to discuss insights, challenges and opportunities to the progress and development of ASEAN, aimed at creating opportunity for Chevening alumni members to contribute to the development of the region through engagements with the young leaders.
The Chevening Youth Forum (CYF) was inaugurally convened by Chevening Alumni Brunei and Chevening Alumni Malaysia in March 2018 in Kuala Lumpur. The 2nd Edition of CYF – South East Asia Edition is jointly hosted by Chevening Alumni Indonesia and Chevening Alumni Brunei and will focus on the theme "Empowering Youth for ASEAN 4.0" to collectively explore how youth can lead ASEAN into the 4th Industrial Revolution. The forum format consists of forum sessions, shape session as well as open space session on diverse topics with the goal of sparking collaboration and inspiring action.
Chevening is the UK government's international awards scheme aimed at developing global leaders and is funded by the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and partner organisations. Chevening offers a unique opportunity for future leaders, influencers, and decision-makers from all over the world to develop professionally and academically, network extensively, experience UK culture, and build lasting positive relationships with the UK.
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Xu used WCM777 Ponzi funds to buy mum a house
Dec.16, 2014 in WCM777
Last we checked in, the WCM777 Receiver's Third Interim Report detailed that in February of 2014, $1 million in stolen Ponzi funds was transferred to Phil Ming Xu's sister.
This was done under the guise of Xu's company ToPacfic, who on paper were purchasing garments.
Trouble is, Xu transferred the million odd dollars back in February 2014. As of October his sister's company, Mana Fashion, still had the garments in storage.
Despite paying for the goods, WCM777 had done nothing to acquire them.
Sound fishy? You bet.
The garments in question were purchased by Xu's sister over 2011 to 2013. Despite initially not co-operating with the WCM777 Receiver, Xu's sister eventually handed over the goods.
After acquiring them, the Receiver then promptly sold the garment collection to a wholesaler for $295,000. Money that will at a later date be eventually returned to WCM777 investors.
In the meantime, what of the $1 million Xu transferred to his sister? Where did that money go?
According to a December 12th filing by the WCM777 Receiver,
Following the $1 million check to MaNa Fashion, written and deposited on February 28, 2014, on or around March 13, 2014, MaNa Fashion initiated a wire transfer of $730,000 to Olympus Escrow Corporation ("Escrow"), apparently to fund the purchase of real property located at 6812 Sultana Ave., San Gabriel, CA 91775 with a purchase price of $730,000.
This wire transfer was made with the same funds obtained from ToPacific on February 28, 2014.
The buyer of the Property, Xiaomei Deng ("Deng"), is the mother of Xu and Wang, as discovered in documents produced in response to my subpoena of Escrow and as confirmed by their counsel.
$270,000 for the actual garments and $730,000 on a new house for mother? Oh dear.
As indicated in a grant deed issued on March 13, 2014, title to the Property was transferred to Deng through this purchase.
Obviously Xu couldn't just buy his mother a house with WCM777 funds, so the elaborate ruse to launder the money through his sister was hatched.
A detailed review of Deng's account statement reveals that it had a balance of approximately $1,000 prior to the funding provided by MaNa Fashion, and at the end of March, 2014 (following the purchase of the 19 Property), the account had an ending balance.of approximately $670.
As shown on the March 2014 statement, all other deposits during this period totaled only $40,540.95.
Thus, the vast majority, if not all, of the funds used to purchase the Property are directly traceable to the funds from ToPacific.
So what happens now?
Based on the nature and timing of the purported sale of garments to ToPacific (which occurred on February 28, 2014, less than a month before the filing of this action), the fact that the garments never left MaNa Fashion's control, and the subsequent transfer of $730,000 to Deng to fund the purchase of the Property, I believe the purported sale of garments to MaNa Fashion was nothing more than a sham to funnel money out of the Receivership Entities to purchase the Property in Deng's name.
As such, the Receiver has requested that the Californian Western Division District Court to
enter an Order immediately freezing the Property and prohibiting any sale, transfer or encumbrance of the Property.
The Receiver believes this is necessary, because there's a high chance
that the Property may be sold, transferred or otherwise encumbered, and the derived proceeds dissipated overseas or elsewhere to avoid disgorgement.
Whether or not Xu's mother and/or sister are currently living in the house is unclear.
Either way, yesterday the court granted the Receiver request. That means that sometime early next year, the property Xu bought for his mother is going to be auctioned off.
No word yet on the other million Xu transferred to his sister's other companies, JJ Sparkles and Yuanhao.
Footnote: Visit the WCM777 Recevership website for a copy of the Receiver's "freeze request" and subsequent order granting it.
WCM777 victim payouts planned for mid/late 2015 - Nov 28th, 2014
WCM777 issued cease and desist in California - Jan 27th, 2014
Lawyers Barnett & Linn ok'ed WCM777 profit points? - Oct 29th, 2013
SEC file charges against WCM777 & Ming Xu - Mar 28th, 2014
WCM777 Receiver's Fourth Interim Report - Apr 23rd, 2015
6 Comments on "Xu used WCM777 Ponzi funds to buy mum a house"
Dec 16th, 2014 at 2:25 pm LB(Q)
More properties to come =)
Jan 1st, 2015 at 11:46 pm LB(Q)
And a minor update..
Dr. Phil is circulating a form letter for "Believers" to send to the receiver and SEC..
Dear Krista and SEC:
I am member of WCM777. WCM777 is a great company with great mission. Phil Ming Xu, the founder, is a visionary for the Kingdom and an ordained pastor. The company's management team didn't do the right job and twisted his vision to build a close loop collaborative economy to avoid future potential crisis.
Actually, Phil Ming Xu had managed to sustain the company by creating a marketplace offering over 20,000 products to members. Also Kingdom Card resolved the payment obligation to members. He has saved the Company from possible Ponzi. But SEC took over the Company.
This is not right. He never had the intention to fraud people. This can't be called Ponzi. He just didn't choose the right people to execute his vision.
He is a responsible man. Even after the asset is seized, he is still working hard to help us. We saw his vision and his action. We choose to trust him.
I and all members of WCM777, hereby request to return the seized money to Phil Ming Xu's Company and let the Company to continue its vision to build City Upon Hill and bless people.
Associated links –
blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_67bfab070102vb68.html
(PMX Blog regarding the chain letter)
huarenone.org/golbal-news/global-news/shizheng/2857-3000
(Looks to be a PR Newswire type of deal)
Jan 1st, 2015 at 11:59 pm Whip(Q)
ASD all over again.
Jan 2nd, 2015 at 12:52 pm lb(Q)
Actually the process newswire clone is another Ming creation.
K Chang
Jan 2nd, 2015 at 1:53 pm K Chang(Q)
LB: Dr. Phil is circulating a form letter for "Believers"
And there's tons of idiots who sent in letters of support for Zeek and telexFree. it justs slow down the courts and results in slowing down the money being returned to them.
Heck, as I used the example many times before: if you're in the Matrix, you'd want the "juicy steak" and be plugged "back in".
PPBlog
Jan 2nd, 2015 at 2:07 pm PPBlog(Q)
There's also a petition drive attributed to "Steve Hoffman" in apparent response to the fact that some WCM777 affiliates were gathering money directly from recruits. Among the petition claims is that "most people will not have the proof of payment required by the SEC."
Longtime observers will note that alleged Zeek winner Jody Dunn — formerly with the Imperia Invest scam broken up by the SEC in 2010 — created significant problems for himself by collecting Imperia money from prospects.
"Significant problems" = charged with securities fraud, the sale of unregistered securities and acting unlawfully as a broker/dealer.
About 7,133 people with hearing impairments entrusted millions of dollars of Imperia money to Dunn, who allegedly raked his cut off the top.
How many WCM777 investors paid their upline sponsors is unclear. The same thing happened in Zeek, TelexFree, CKB/CKB168, ASD and AdviewGlobal.
There was plenty of information about this odious practice online long before WCM777 even launched, but promoters still ended up doing the same thing.
There are multiple dangers, including the creation of an underground economy not unlike the black market peso exchange in Colombia.
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Q: How to get URL params in React by using useParams() I have implemented react-router-dom for routing purpose. I want to use useParams() in my component.
Here is My Code
// routing
import { Switch, Route } from 'react-router-dom';
import Mypage from '../components/Mypage/Loadable
<Switch>
<Route path="/ok/:id">
<Mypage/>
</Route>
<Switch>
MyPage.js
import { Link, useParams } from 'react-router-dom';
let {id} = useParams(); // ===> This says **Object(...) is not a function**
return ( <p> id : {id} </p>)
A: May be you should consider checking documentation of React Router V6
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According to new figures released this week, online gambling has now become the largest single gambling sector out of all UK gambling activities, accounting for 33% of gambling done in Britain in the last year. The study was conducted by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), with the data collected from between April 2015 – March 2016. Using industry statistics from all UK licensed gambling operators, the UKGC found that online gambling generated a gross gambling yield of £4.5 Billion.
In comparison, the National Lottery generated £3.5 Billion, high street betting generated £3.3 Billion and traditional casinos generated £1 Billion. This makes online gambling the highest grossing sector of the UK gambling industry, with this being the first time it has been documented by an official study.
It's no surprise to most online players that slots, casino games and sports betting dominated the online gambling market, with the gap between sports betting and its nearest competitor, betting exchanges, spanning over £1.5 Billion. It's unlikely that any of these top forms of online gambling are likely to be overtaken any time soon.
The success of online gambling within the UK gambling industry is great news, but it is having demonstrable knock on effects on the rest of the industry. The decrease in high street betting shops and bingo locations is very likely caused by a migration of players to online alternatives. This has also caused an decrease in employees of the gambling industry, as the main source of employment shifts to online casinos, which are more automated and so require less staff to handle the increasing player base.
Even with these shifts within the industry, it'll be interesting to see how gambling operators react in order to handle the migration of their players online. Will we see more high street operators putting more focus into their online services, or will there be a push by operators to get players back into the high street stores? Hopefully, the UKGC will keep up their recent trend of in depth studies published to the public, so we can continue to track the gambling industry as it becomes increasingly dominated by the online sector. | {
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Their Formula One campaign may be lacklustre these days but their production car program certainly isn't. Overnight McLaren unveiled its most powerful Sports Series model to date with the 600LT.
The Woking company's latest track-ready road car is based off the existing 570S model which sees a host of upgrades including a diet to sharpen its performance credentials. The 'LT" designation is a significant one as it references the 'Long Tail' moniker which was used in McLaren's victorious 1997 Le Mans campaign with the F1 GTR 'Long Tails'.
The 600LT employs a host of carbon fibre panels when compared to its standard 570S sibling. Fitted out with the full catalogue of MSO's carbon fibre options, the 600LT manages to drop 96kg to just 1,247kg. From there the car is equipped with a tuned version of the 570S' 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 engine which now develops 441kW of power and 620Nm of torque. Spent gases are expelled through a very cool vertical exhaust system which is shorter and more extreme than the one seen on the McLaren Senna.
There's even heat shielding on the rear wing mid-section to prevent it from catching fire as the hot exhaust flows around it. This shortened exhaust system allows the 600LT to wear a more aggressive rear diffuser for generating greater levels of downforce at speed.
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Debt Rattle April 25 2020
April 25, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:17 am Finance Tagged with: Amazon, Bank of China, Banks, Bolsonaro, bonuses, coronavirus, Covid19, cruise ship, Fentanyl, Japan, plaque, PPP, small business, strokes, testing, Trump, Winnie, Wuhan
Jack Delano "Untitled" near Durham, North Carolina 1940
• Wuhan Was The Fentanyl Capital Of The World. Then Coronavirus Hit (LAT)
• 'Wuhan Plague' Plaques Are Popping Up Around Atlanta (Vice)
• Trump Owed Tens Of Millions To Bank Of China (Pol.)
• Trump Doesn't Owe Bank of China Money (Christopher Balding)
• Small Business Owners Asked To Sign PPP Loans Without Forgiveness Pledge (IC)
• Small Business Rescue Earned Banks $10 Billion In Fees (NPR)
• People In Their 30s And 40s, Barely Sick With COVID19, Die From Strokes (WP)
• South Dakota County Offers Drive-Through Covid-19 Testing Friday (Strong)
• Nearly 60 New Coronavirus Cases Confirmed On Cruise Ship In Japan (R.)
• China Pressured EU To Drop COVID19 Disinformation Criticism (R.)
• US Weighs Taking Equity Stakes In US Energy Companies – Mnuchin (R.)
• Economics Professor: Australia Would Be 'Better Off' Without Lockdown (DM)
• Brazil Justice Minister Resigns Over Bolsonaro's Investigations Meddling (IC)
• Denver Health Execss Get Bonuses 1 Week After Workers Asked To Take Cuts (CBS)
• Amazon To Be Fined €100K For Every 'Non-Essential' Delivery in France (RT)
Daily US coronavirus death toll down sharply in past 24 hours to 1,258, the lowest daily toll in the country in nearly three weeks: Johns Hopkins
4/24/20 – Top 12 State Cases
New York: 271,590
New Jersey: 102,196
Mass : 46,023
Illinois: 39,658
California: 39,254
Pennsylvania: 38,652
Michigan: 36,641
Florida: 30,174
Louisiana: 26,140
Connecticut: 23,921
Texas: 22,806
Georgia: 22,147
• "At least 30 New Yorkers ingested household cleaners in the 18 hours since the president suggested using it to fight #coronavirus"
• "The timing on the bleach stuff is interesting, since the DOJ started cracking down on MMS, the diluted form of bleach being sold as a miracle cure for any disease under the sun on social media… six days ago."
• Cases 2,845,858 (+ 100,389 from yesterday's 2,745,469)
• Deaths 191,791 (+ 6,055 from yesterday's 185,156 )
From Worldometer yesterday evening -before their day's close-
From Worldometer – NOTE: among Active Cases, Serious or Critical fell to 3%. Among Closed Cases, Deaths have fallen to 20%
From SCMP:
From COVID19Info.live: Note: Turkey, Russia, UK are the biggest risers
Keep it locked down.
For drug traffickers interested in getting in on the fentanyl business, all roads once led to Wuhan. The sprawling industrial city built along the Yangtze River in east-central China is known for its production of chemicals, including the ingredients needed to cook fentanyl and other powerful synthetic opioids. Vendors there shipped huge quantities around the world. The biggest customers were Mexican drug cartels, which have embraced fentanyl in recent years because it is cheaper and easier to produce than heroin. But the novel coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan late last year before spreading across the planet has upended the fentanyl supply chain, causing a ripple effect that has cut into the profits of Mexican traffickers and driven up street drug prices across the United States.
Few industries — illicit or not — have been unscathed by the pandemic that has upended the global economy and killed more than 190,000 people worldwide. The narcotics trade, which relies on the constant movement of goods and people, has been stymied by lockdowns, travel bans and other efforts to contain the virus, according to government officials, academic researchers and drug traffickers. Mexican production of fentanyl and methamphetamine appears especially hard hit. Both drugs are made with precursor chemicals that are typically sent on planes or cargo ships from China, where despite U.S. pressure to ban them, they continue to be sold legally. That supply chain was shut down in January when authorities in Wuhan enacted a lockdown that forced residents to stay inside for more than two months.
In February, after a major manufacturer of the chemicals closed, vendors began posting apologies on the online sites where chemicals are typically sold, said Louise Shelley, a professor at George Mason University who tracks global fentanyl production. "They were saying: 'We're not producing or selling or shipping,'" she said.
The headline says: "racist". I like everything Winnie.
Racist plaques depicting Winnie the Pooh holding a bat with chopsticks have begun to pop up around Atlanta, and police have no leads as to who is responsible. The round, bronze and teal plaques bearing the words "Wuhan Plague," referencing the Chinese city where the coronavirus originated, first appeared April 13 on an electrical box in Inman Park, according to Atlanta police. Another appeared three days later at a coffee shop in the neighborhood of Reynoldstown. The most recent incident occurred on April 18 at Atlanta's Candler Park Market. Winnie the Pooh's association with Chinese culture originated in 2013 when parody comparisons between the cuddly bear and Prime Minister Xi Jinping went viral on social media — and China then banned Pooh images.
The plaques appeared to be glued to the sites where they were posted. Hodgepodge Coffeehouse owner Kristle Rodriguez said her employees alerted her to the plaque at her site. Rodriguez said she immediately called the cops and the building's landlord, who quickly removed the plaque. "The adhesive was still wet, meaning this happened late morning or early afternoon," she wrote in a Facebook post Friday. "This isn't amusing, funny, politically incorrect, edgy, or punk rock. This is super fucking gross and racist. There's enough xenophobia and ignorance being spouted from this administration, we certainly don't need street art reinforcing this shit."
Curious article, because it's not true.
But Trump himself has taken on debt from China. In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced one of Trump's most prized New York buildings for almost $1 billion. The debt included $211 million from the state-owned Bank of China — its first loan of this kind in the U.S. — which matures in the middle of what could be Trump's second term. Steps from Trump Tower in Manhattan, the 43-story 1290 Avenue of the Americas skyscraper spans an entire city block. Trump owns a 30 percent stake in the property valued at more than $1 billion, making it one of the priciest addresses in his portfolio, according to his financial disclosures. Trump's ownership of the building received a smattering of attention before and after his 2016 campaign.
But the arrangement with the Bank of China in 2012 has gone largely unnoticed. The questions surrounding Trump's ties to the Bank of China come as his campaign is claiming that Biden would be a gift to the Communist country and America's chief economic rival. After the first version of this article was published, the Bank of China issued a statement Friday evening stating that it sold its debt on the building weeks after the 2012 loan on the property. Vornado Realty Trust owns 70 percent of the building. "On November 7, 2012 several financial institutions including the Bank of China participated in a commercial mortgage loan of $950 million to Vornado Realty Trust," said Peter Reisman, managing director and chief communications officer of Bank of China U.S.A.
"Within 22 days, the loan was securitized and sold into the [commercial mortgage-backed securities] market, as is a common practice in the industry. Bank of China has not had any ownership interest in that loan since late November 2012."
Balding explains.
Let me explain the deal structure and why Trump doesn't owe Bank of China money. First, Trump is a minority passive owner of a real estate trust. 30% so not nothing and he is the president but it isn't even his company. He doesn't manage it even before he became president 1/n
Second, the nitty gritty of the financing goes like this (and this is very common in general especially in real estate) assume Citibank agrees to lend the building $1 billion to refinance their loan in 2012. Rather than lend the entire $1 billion themselves, Citibank will 2/n
get on the phone to other banks to take a piece of the $1b they need to raise. Let's assume in this case it was five banks of $400m, $200m, $200m, $100m, and $100m. In this case Bank of China is one of the $200m slots. They lend that company the $1b to refinance their other 3/n
loan. However, the banks aren't done. They don't want to make a 10 year loan on real estate when they make more money from fee and churn of debt securities. So right after they made they $1b loan, Citibank lawyers (I don't know if it was Citibank just an example) are 4/n
Drafting offering documents to sell off different pieces of the entire $1b loan to investors. The $1b loan is not actually 5 different loans but 5 different injections into a special purpose vehicle that is capitalized with the loan capital from those banks. The SPV 5/n
Which will receive the annual payments then sells off pieces of the loan in say $10m or $25m increments to investors. The banks then receive all of their original loan back as the entire $1b is sold off piece by piece. Typically, banks will have capital out on these projects 6/n
In the US, small is ugly.
Randy George had never laid anyone off in his 20 years running his bakery and café in Middlesex, Vermont. But after Vermont Gov. Phil Scott shut down restaurants to slow the spread of the coronavirus, half of his sales disappeared virtually overnight. He's had to put 28 of the staff of Red Hen Baking Co. on furlough. George decided to sign up for a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program, created by Congress's CARES Act relief bill to help small business owners stay afloat. At first, the program was funded with $350 billion, an amount that ran out about two weeks after it began; Congress is now working on a deal to add another $320 billion.
The key feature of these loans, which are being run by the Small Business Administration, is that they are supposed to be entirely forgiven if an owner spends most of the money on payroll and doesn't lay anyone off. The details of how that forgiveness will work, however, are far from clear, making some small business owners wary to use it at all. In bank loan contracts reviewed by The Intercept, owners have been asked to sign onto terms that said that "forgiveness may apply" or "all or part of the Loan may be forgiven" — releasing the banks from liability but giving business owners no contractual guarantee of loan forgiveness, or even guidance on how to comply with the rules or how to pursue it. One didn't mention forgiveness at all. The application materials, which are produced on SBA letterhead, have even fewer details.
"Loan forgiveness will be provided for the sum of documented payroll costs, covered mortgage interest payments, covered rent payments, and covered utilities," most applications read. No other information is offered about what "covered" means. The CARES Act contains some details about how these are defined, but it's buried in an almost 900-page bill. And no concrete information has been given to small business owners about how they should go about getting their loans forgiven. Some owners were told that to gain forgiveness, they'd have to submit a request to their banks. Others were told that they have to go straight to the SBA. That's left many people questioning whether the loans will indeed be converted to grants at all. "The keystone, the cornerstone of this program is not assured," George said.
Won't surprise a single soul.
Banks handling the government's $349 billion loan program for small businesses made more than $10 billion in fees — even as tens of thousands of small businesses were shut out of the program, according to an analysis of financial records by NPR. The banks took in the fees while processing loans that required less vetting than regular bank loans and had little risk for the banks, the records show. Taxpayers provided the money for the loans, which were guaranteed by the Small Business Administration. According to a Department of Treasury fact sheet, all federally insured banks and credit unions could process the loans, which ranged in amount from tens of thousands to $10 million. The banks acted essentially as middlemen, sending clients' loan applications to the SBA, which approved them.
For every transaction made, banks took in 1% to 5% in fees, depending on the amount of the loan, according to government figures. Loans worth less than $350,000 brought in 5% in fees while loans worth anywhere from $2 million to $10 million brought in 1% in fees. For example, on April 7, RCSH Operations LLC, the parent company of Ruth's Chris Steak House, received a loan of $10 million. JPMorgan Chase & Co., acting as the lender, took a $100,000 fee on the one-time transaction for which it assumed no risk and could pass through with fewer requirements than for a regular loan. In total, those transaction fees amounted to more than $10 billion for banks, according to transaction data provided by the SBA and the Treasury Department.
As he used a needlelike device to pull out the clot, he saw new clots forming in real time around it.
Thomas Oxley wasn't even on call the day he received the page to come into Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. There weren't enough doctors to treat all the emergency stroke patients, and he was needed in the operating room. The patient's chart appeared unremarkable at first glance. He was male, no medications, no history of chronic conditions. He had been feeling fine, hanging out at home during the lockdown like the rest of America, when suddenly, he had trouble talking and moving the right side of his body. Imaging showed a large blockage on the left side of his head. Oxley gasped when he got to the patient's age and covid-19 status: 44, positive.
The man was among several recent stroke patients in their 30s to 40s who were all infected with the virus. The median age for that type of severe stroke is 74. As Oxley, an interventional neurologist, began the procedure to remove the clot, he observed something he had never seen before. On the monitors, the brain typically shows up as a tangle of black squiggles – "like a can of spaghetti," he said – that provide a map of blood vessels. A clot shows up as a blank spot. As he used a needlelike device to pull out the clot, he saw new clots forming in real time around it. "This is crazy," he remembers telling his boss.
Reports of strokes in the young and middle-aged – not just at Mount Sinai but in many other hospitals in hard-hit communities – are the latest twist in our evolving understanding of the mysteries of covid-19. Even as the virus has infected nearly 2.8 million people worldwide and killed 195,000 as of Friday, its origins, biological mechanisms and weaknesses continue to elude top scientific minds. Once thought to be a pathogen that primarily attacks the lungs, it has turned out to be a much more formidable foe – affecting nearly every major organ system in the body.
Foreseen by @barabasi https://t.co/bwqBRTiVEn
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) April 25, 2020
Small is beautiful. A lot of the solutions will have to come from communities.
A health center in Stanley offered one of the first COVID-19 test drive through services in the state that did not require symptoms or pre-screening. As southern Mountrail County continues to be a hotspot for COVID-19, one medical center stepped up to offer free drive through testing without an appointment. At least 160 cars came through the testing site in Stanley from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with some holding as many as nine people who wanted to be tested. "We're preparing probably to do between three and 400 tests," said Dr. Rich Laksonen. Stanley is not in the southern part of the county, but Laksonen said the center wanted to help the state learn more about where the virus is spiking in the county.
"Being that we are the facility that services the count, we saw that need to determine where in Mountrail County these hotspots are located," said Laksonen. Laksonen said they were compelled to drop restrictions on the site making it "no appointment, or symptoms necessary." It's one of the only in the state. "We also wanted our residents in northern Mountrial County to come in and get a test whether we have symptoms or not," he said. Laksonen said the community was appreciative of the effort. Medical staff say it is too soon to tell how many will test positive. It will take 24 to 48 hours for the dozens of people that came out Friday to know their results.
It's fitting this should be in Japan again.
Nearly 60 new cases of coronavirus infections were confirmed among crew members of an Italian cruise ship docked in Japan, domestic media reported on Saturday. With testing of all crew members now complete, the new number, reported by public broadcaster NHK, brings the total infections onboard the Costa Atlantica to around 150, roughly one quarter of the vessel's 623 crew members. TV Asahi said 57 crew members tested positive. The infection cluster onboard the vessel docked in Nagasaki comes as hospitals are running out of beds in some parts of Japan, where the national tally of virus cases has risen above 12,800. Some 345 people have died.
Of those infected onboard the Costa Atlantica, only one crew member has been admitted to hospital, NHK said, while others remain on board, having shown slight or no symptoms. The vessel has been docked in Japan since February for repairs and maintenance after the pandemic prevented scheduled repairs in China. Nagasaki authorities had quarantined the vessel on arrival, and ordered its crew not to venture beyond the quay except for hospital visits. But prefecture officials said earlier this week that some of the crew had departed without their knowledge, and sought detailed information on their movements.
And China refuses an international investigation.
China sought to block a European Union report alleging that Beijing was spreading disinformation about the coronavirus outbreak, according to four sources and diplomatic correspondence reviewed by Reuters. The report was eventually released, albeit just before the start of the weekend Europe time and with some criticism of the Chinese government rearranged or removed, a sign of the balancing act Brussels is trying to pull off as the coronavirus outbreak scrambles international relations. The Chinese Mission to the EU was not immediately available for comment and China's Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to faxed questions about the exchange. An EU spokeswoman said "we never comment on content or alleged content of internal diplomatic contacts and communication with our partners from another countries."
Another EU official said that the disinformation report had been published as usual and denied any of it had been watered down. Four diplomatic sources told Reuters that the report had initially been slated for release on April 21 but was delayed after Chinese officials picked up on a Politico news report hat previewed its findings. A senior Chinese official contacted European officials in Beijing the same day to tell them that, "if the report is as described and it is released today it will be very bad for cooperation," according to EU diplomatic correspondence reviewed by Reuters. The correspondence quoted senior Chinese foreign ministry official Yang Xiaoguang as saying that publishing the report would make Beijing "very angry" and accused European officials of trying to please "someone else" – something the EU diplomats understood to be a reference to Washington.
The four sources said the report had been delayed as a result, and a comparison of the internal version of the report obtained by Reuters and the final version published late Friday showed several differences. For example, on the first page of the internal report shared with EU governments on April 20, the EU's foreign policy arm said: "China has continued to run a global disinformation campaign to deflect blame for the outbreak of the pandemic and improve its international image. Both overt and covert tactics have been observed."
Yeah, let's buy us some shale.
The U.S. government is considering taking equity stakes in U.S. energy companies as it seeks to help the nation's oil and gas sector amid the coronavirus outbreak, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday. President Donald Trump, speaking at a White House event with Mnuchin, said he wants to help industry and suggested the federal government could buy fuel for the country in advance as well as purchase airline tickets in advance. "We're looking at a whole bunch of alternatives," Mnuchin said. "You can assume that's one of the alternatives, but there's many of them," Mnuchin said, referring to possible equity stakes.
The oil sector has been hit hard by a dramatic drop in demand as the coronavirus has effectively shut down economies around the globe. "The energy business is very important to me, and we're going to build it up. This really hurt the energy business as much as any other business because it totally knocked out – the supply kept coming," Trump said. Trump helped negotiate a reduction in output from OPEC and other countries including Russia, but the move has not removed the market's oversupply. The president encouraged Mnuchin to look at buying oil for later use. "The United States is the largest user of oil. We could buy oil at a great price into the future. That gives them the infusion they need, and we have oil at a great price into the future," Trump said.
Well, if you wait long enough… Meanwhile, there are no buyers for your products anyway, so why bother?
An economics professor has been slammed as 'cold' and 'heartless' for suggesting Australia prioritised health over the economy by going into coronavirus lockdown. University of New South Wales Professor Gigi Foster sparked outrage from fellow panellists and other economic professors while answering questions about the impacts of shutdown measures on Q&A on Monday. Professor Foster suggested Australia hadn't properly weighed up the economic consequences of tough restrictions introduced to reduce the death toll, and argued the 'economy is about lives' too. 'What frustrates me is when people talk about the economic costs of the lockdown they often don't think in detail in terms of counting lives,' Professor Foster said.
'Has anyone thought about how would you get a measure of the traded lives when we lock an economy down? What are we sacrificing in terms of lives? 'Economists have tried to do that and we try to do that in currencies like the value of a statistical life. 'If you do that kind of calculus you realise very quickly that even with a very, very extreme epidemic, in Australia, we are still potentially better off not having an economic lockdown in the first place because of the incredible effects that you see. 'Not just in a short-run way but in many years to come.' Her views prompted a shocked response from fellow panellists on the ABC program.
'How can you say that?' ACTU secretary Sally McManus fired back. 'We're avoiding what's happened in the UK, what's happening in the US, the idea of having our ICUs overrun, our healthcare workers dying as well is just the most horrible thought.' 'It's horrible either way,' Professor Foster replied. 'The coronavirus has made the world awful. There's absolutely no doubt about that. 'In order to have a proper discussion about trade-offs, you need to think in terms of lives you're giving up. 'I know it's invisible lives and difficult to imagine when we aggregate, for example, all of the health effects and the mental health effects and the effects of people right now who have illnesses other than COVID-19.'
Moro is no Mother Teresa himself.
As the country slept Friday morning, far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired the Federal Police Director Maurício Valeixo, bringing to a head a long-simmering battle with Justice Minister Sergio Moro. Moro, in turn, promptly resigned — in a new, major episode of deepening chaos in Brazilian politics. The official notice firing the Federal Police head bears Moro's digital signature, but in a press conference Friday morning, the outgoing justice minister claimed that he was not informed of the move and did not sign the document. This and other revelations made by Moro could serve as grounds for impeachment, if the Brazilian body politic can muster the political will to support such a drastic measure. Members of Congress are already gathering signatures for a congressional inquiry into Moro's allegations.
In his press conference, Moro suggested that Bolsonaro removed Valeixo because the president opposed investigations being conducted by the Federal Police. "He was concerned about investigations underway in the Federal Supreme Court and that a change would also be opportune at the Federal Police," Moro said of Bolsonaro's thinking. Moro said Bolsonaro's concerns were not a reasonable justification for firing Valeixo, but added that he nonetheless searched for "an alternative solution, to avoid a political crisis during a pandemic." In the end, Moro said, "I understood that I could not set aside my commitment to the rule of law."
Notably, the Federal Police are conducting several investigations that could impact Bolsonaro, his politician sons, and several members of their inner circle. Moro loomed large over Brazilian politics during the past several years, even before he accepted Bolsonaro's offer to serve as justice minister. He was the judge at the center of the influential Operation Car Wash anti-corruption investigation that put former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in prison, removing the popular politician from the 2018 presidential election and clearing the way for Bolsonaro's victory. When he entered government, Moro was among the most popular political figures in the country and was seen as an important ally for Bolsonaro, but also as a potential rival in the 2022 elections.
The ex-judge's standing, however, was seriously weakened after The Intercept began publishing an explosive series, in English and Portuguese, on malfeasance and potential illegal actions by Moro and Car Wash prosecutors. As a result of the series, Lula was eventually released from prison.
Is there anything more American?
Top executives at Denver Health Medical Center received significant bonuses this month for their performance in 2019, ranging from $50,000 up to $230,000, one week after frontline hospital workers were asked to voluntarily take leave without pay or reduce their hours as the hospital dealt with the financial downturn resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. On April 3, Denver Health CEO Robin Wittenstein emailed hospital workers noting "the current situation will stress us financially." She announced a hiring freeze and asked employees to voluntarily take leave without pay, use personal time off or reduce their normal work week.
"The goal is to reduce our total salary expense without the need to lay off employees or implement mandatory PTO/furloughs," wrote Wittenstein. She said the hospital was also considering mandating workers to use their paid time off, mandatory leave without pay and other steps. "The goal is to avoid these extreme measures if at all possible," she wrote. One week later, on April 10, Wittenstein and her executive staff saw their 2019 Management Incentive Plan bonuses deposited into their bank accounts.
Macron pleasing the unions AND his small businesses.
Amazon will face a fine each time it delivers non-essential goods in France until it improves the safety conditions of its workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The company earlier closed its warehouses in protest. On Friday, an appeals court in Versailles, outside Paris, upheld last week's ruling, which restricted Amazon's French warehouses to only shipping IT products, health items, groceries and pet food until it ensures the safety of its workers. Jeff Bezos' e-commerce giant was given 48 hours to comply with the ruling, and will be fined €100,000 ($108,020) for every delivery that doesn't meet the court's requirements.
On April 14, a court ruled that Amazon had failed to guarantee the safety of its workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and said that the company must submit an updated professional risk assessment before it can resume full operations. Amazon argued that it had already updated its work safety protocols and introduced disease-control measures to prevent its workers from being infected with the coronavirus. Following the ruling on April 14, the company completely shut down its French warehouses until Saturday.
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April 25, 2020 at 11:17 am #57878
Jack Delano "Untitled" near Durham, North Carolina 1940 • Wuhan Was The Fentanyl Capital Of The World. Then Coronavirus Hit (LAT) • 'Wuhan Plag
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I like that picture. Everybody happy to pose for Jack.
Do they know, or even suspect, what's coming…
Celina Lin:
What a great way to explain futures contracts…
…and negative oil prices… 😉
I remember when I believed that the "reporters" job was to investigate and find news to report to the poor ignorant rif-raf
₿oogaloo
There is certainly a diversity of viewpoints here, but also some glue that holds us together. And our shared perspective is certainly at odds with the establishment narrative, which is nonstop mind- and soul-destroying propaganda. The more we can do to expedite the natural demise of this corrupt system, the better. This is our duty. Can we agree on a blueprint of 95 theses to nail to the door?
Ex-PFC Chuck
Just a nit, but Mountrail County is in northwestern North Dakota, not South Dakota. It's 300 or so miles from the SD hotspot in Sioux Falls, SD.
http://www.johndayblog.com/2020/04/crowning-achievements.html
There has never been a successful vaccine for any coronavirus in all of human history, and now that scientists have discovered approximately 30 different strains of the virus that will just make the task of trying to develop a vaccine even more complicated.
Sadly, the reality of the matter is that this virus is going to be with us for a very long time to come. Eventually herd immunity will hopefully be achieved, but until then a lot of people are going to get sick and a lot of people are going to die.
And fear of this virus is going to be with us for a long time to come as well, and that is going to paralyze our economy whether there are lockdowns or not.
The bottom line is that this virus is not going to be stopped, and the economic collapse that has now begun is not going to be stopped either.
The Facts That Prove That Almost Everyone Is Wrong About This Coronavirus Pandemic
Clif sends this article, which looks at the propaganda-narrative war between the US and China about the origin of this viral plague, and where the blame might be assigned. This is a battleground for global hearts and minds between an aging empire, and a much older, but rising empire. (Are there any other options I can have?)
The political and media class in the United States is doing all it can to inculcate the public with the idea that China is to blame for Covid-19. With over forty thousand Americans dead from the virus, this narrative has tremendous propaganda power. But the more information is revealed about the details surrounding the origins of the virus, the more vulnerable Washington's narrative becomes.
https://medium.com/@rainershea612/uncomfortable-questions-are-going-to-keep-coming-up-about-americas-role-in-spreading-covid-19-5dc5466b508b
Referenced in that article is this article, Last Man Standing, from a month ago, which makes the case that the current global pandemic, first apparent to us in Wuhan, in January, was seeded there by American military participants in the global military game in Wuhan. Some of the Americans got really sick with something, had to be hospitalized and couldn't compete in their events. Could have been coronavirus, as we look back.
The soldiers stayed in a hotel near the wet-market, and trained near Ft Detrick, Maryland.
Enticing circumstantial evidence. There's more.
https://www.unz.com/article/last-man-standing/
David Stockman: (He's 73 years old, and I'm not taking-his-side, but presenting it.)
I think for once, Donald Trump was right when he worried out loud the other day that the cure may be far worse than the disease.
Governors – mostly Democratic governors and mayors of major areas of the country – have imposed Lockdown Nation. It's a complete economic disaster.
It's a wrong policy from a public health point of view and an economic point of view.
It is hitting, like a ton of bricks, a highly fragile and vulnerable economy that was living hand to mouth anyway because of the kind of highly counterproductive monetary and fiscal policies and debt build-up we've had over the last 30 years.
If you look at the data for New York—which is the epicenter of the whole COVID-19 pandemic—it is abundantly clear that COVID is not some kind of latter-day Black Death plague that takes down the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, and everyone in between.
It is a kind of super winter flu that strikes fatally, almost entirely, the elderly population that is already afflicted with many life-threatening medical conditions—or what the technicians call comorbidities.
The shutdown, which I call the "plenary lockdown policy," is wrong. Closing all the businesses except a tiny, arbitrary set of essential operations is courting disaster for no good reason...
For those under 50 years of age in the state of New York, the death rate is slightly under 5 per 100,000.
That isn't a disaster. That isn't a plague or a calamity.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/ripple-effects-government-lockdown-are-only-starting-take-shape
MICHAEL HUDSON:
Just think of when, in the debates with Bernie Sanders during the spring, you had Biden, and Klobuchar keep saying, 'What we're paying for Medicare-for-All will be $1 trillion over 10 years.'
Well here the Fed can create $1.5 trillion in one week just to buy stocks.
Why is it okay for the Fed to create $1.5 trillion to buy stocks to prevent rich people from losing on their stocks, when it's not okay to print only $1 trillion to pay for free Medicare for the entire population? This is crazy!
The idea that only the rich should be allowed to print money for themselves, but the government should not be allowed to print money for any public purpose, any social purpose — not for medicine, not for schools, not for personal budgets, not for full employment — but only to give to the 1 percent. People hesitate to think that.
They think, 'It can't possibly be this bad.' But those of us who have worked on Wall Street, for 50, 60 years in my case, that's what the numbers show.
And that's why you don't have the media talking about actual numbers. They talk about, you know, just words, and they use euphemisms, and it's the kind of Orwellian vocabulary, describing an inside-out world that they're talking about.
Transcript – US coronavirus 'bailout' scam is $6 trillion giveaway to Wall St – Economist Michael Hudson explains
"In the US, the number of deaths passed 50k on Friday while the case total passed 900k early Saturday, leaving the country well on the way to the 1 million case mark. The US would be the first country to report 1 million confirmed cases. "
Don't listen to Trump.
The country with the lowest numbers is number one.
vicod19 attacking all the care homes in the world by the workers
Show me the data, study, to prove that the care homes were infected by the workers working in multiple care homes.
In the USA Patient zero was a senior, in a care home on the west coast. Make the link to all the care homes across Canada and USA.
I don't think that was even possible, probable or feasible for vicod-19 to have infected the weak people, in all the care homes in the world, in any pattern you could draw.
And we're over 200,000 deaths globally
Its hard to do edits.
Arttua
"Randy George had never laid anyone off in his 20 years running his bakery and café in Middlesex, Vermont…He's had to put 28 of the staff of Red Hen Baking Co. on furlough."
That's our favorite bread about 10 miles from here, and there is not as much of it available as pre-pandemic.
D Benton Smith
For the sake of you all letting me get through this comment to it's conclusion before dismissing me out of hand as a pontificating ivory tower philosopher, let's just stipulate upfront that we ARE now in a situation that poses a significant threat to our lives and/or well being in one way or another.
In any disaster that's serious enough to significantly threaten your life there are just TWO immediate objectives:
#1. Do whatever it takes to remain alive. If there is mortal danger, then don't fall victim. Don't get dead. If it's a false alarm then make your call on whether it is or not and proceed accordingly. In either case, you HAVE TO BE ALIVE in order to move on to the next vitally important step.
#2. Do whatever it takes to prevent this sort of shit from ever happening to you again.
Now there is one additional major point to make, which is also painfully simple (although not at all obvious) and that is the plain fact that . . .
. . . those places (or systems) that come through the crisis with the least amount of damage are going to have a distinct advantage (at least temporarily) over those people that get the stuffings kicked out of them. ( example: New York and Washington had a much nicer 1946 than Berlin and Hiroshima.)
If you need or want to know what is going to happen next in this house of mirrors then look to those places (and systems) that are traversing and emerging from the crisis in relatively undamaged condition. These places are simply the 'who/what/where' that they are, and probably NOT AT ALL WHO YOU EXPECTED.
Senegal, Africa, for example. https://youtu.be/tqKBNQzEROc
And why are these TYPES of enclaves of reason the right places to look for role models and crystal ball into the future? Because they are the ones best applying objectives #1 and #2 (above.)
I can tell you with extremely high probability (i.e. 100%) that having just been through a more or less existential threat to existence EVERYBODY is going to do their damnedest to make sure nothing like this ever happens to them again. If the Covid 19 debacle was any kind of serious then you can bet the farm that the people who emerge from are going to be even MORE serious. No more bullshit.
They are going to at least TRY do whatever it takes to never have a replay of this pandemic, or any similar threat to their physical and financial health. Those two objectives SHALL be the narrow focus of everybody's actions going forward, and until further notice.
I strongly recommend RE-examining the information and projections and solutions in terms of the above facts. Is the WHO a dead monster walking (thus safely now ignored) or does it require a proactive coups de grace? Is electro-finance (as per usual) going to recover or is the smart money moving into local agriculture and cottage industry?
The answers to both questions is already out there, in usually overlooked places. Heads up.
Now there is one additional major point to make ….
the smart money moving ….
I would think that "we" at TAE have the smart but our actions are limited by the amount of money that we have to set up our "safe zone".
(oppps! Also limited by our age, and health)
This will get down into the rocks of why we are ruled by a minority.
Okay, we print $1T, $10T for health care. What then? One, it goes passthrough to the exact same billionaires who hijacked and killed our former semi-capitalist system from the 80s. That's why they wrote ACA, why prices rose 10%pa for 10 years before and after, and why their stocks spiked when it passed. So you wouldn't be providing health care, you be providing free profits. Which is the same as now, but without a fake pizzeria out front for the organized crime money laundering all the policemen know about. Considering what health care has been doing since 1990, that may even be more efficient. I've never seen anyone waste resources like they do.
But more important, if they did print money, bail out, ACTUAL health care, or ACTUAL people, those small individual people would immediately trade for resources. That is, time, bandages, medicines, lawn mowers, roof shingles, and as those people get paid, everything else: steak dinners, nice dresses, Mexican vacations, heavy shoes… What does that mean? $10T in INFLATION. So?
So if you hand $10T, or most of it, to a few insiders like Zuck and Bezos and Gates, they DO NOT BUY anything. They hoard it and use the added leverage to tell people what to do. Like kill themselves by the thousands in Gates and Bezos' case. NO inflation. = System goes on and does not die. = No one is mad, or at least not as mad as if you HAD destroyed the system like Argentina.
This is why you can only bail out the few and not the many. Because if you bailed out the many with the many, you'd have pulled yourself up by your own ankles. Bailouts, governments, billionaires, can ONLY ever TAKE money from the majority and give it to their own minority selves. With a slick con job over top. How could everyone take from everyone and everyone get rich? If we did that it would be free trade and a voluntary market, that is, capitalism. Least-bad, least-expensive, most efficient, and what they can't stand, not controlled, chaotic and unorganized as the people it's made of.
So of course the point is well-taken: it's about priorities. We buy real military goods and suffer the real inflation and loss that creates. That's literally what Eisenhower's speech was about, and about the danger of this EXACT minority, a secret one according to Kennedy, that would do this, extract from the majority for their own power and to our own destruction, perhaps total. All I'm adding is the technical reason of why it can only happen in one direction, which is why you can never set up a system of government redistribution since it MUST and can ONLY be used this way. And that recommends therefore smaller governments that do NOT print money for health care because not only won't they, they mathematically can't. 2nd law of thermodynamics. No free lunch. Europe you say? Which only pays high services with very high taxes, and only because they use our multi-billion military force for free.
So as they print $10T (already) it will again double over every time period, so $20T by June, $40T by December and so on until that money finally reaches the people, which is the only place this black hole of compounding debt could actually 'repair' the economy. When it does, we will have all that backlog of inflation, and the system will stop because they broke the only rule: money can only be redistributed FROM the poor. Bailouts can only be for the few, the rich. But it needed to end and I'm not sorry to see it go. This lesson that everyone cannot live at everybody else's expense and that we live and eat through work, are only the best possible reasons to turn.
Maybe then we can all work, all get the fruits of our labors, and all understand that no one prospers by theft. Til we do it all over again.
There is certainly a lot of smart in the TAE cohort , but I suspect a lot of years as well. I, for one, am definitely a geezer (72).
Advanced age changes both perspective and skin in the game, both of which then necessarily change the strategy. My strategy is unavoidably different than the strategy of a young couple with toddlers (and on top of that my own life has been so extremely unconventional that it's utterly unusable as a model for anyone .) Some of the specific skills acquired, however, are very much applicable by anyone at any time.
Foremost among the implements in this modest tool bag is the certain knowledge that the present moment (and all of its conditions) are the absolutely inevitable consequence of previous actions by someone or other. In other words, you can't change the past. But being totally honest about what the past really was can help direct the little bit of power we have to shape the present ( and the future consequence of the things we do in shaping the present with some goal in mind.)
If there is a present lack of resources like time, money, possessions or mobility to achieve an immediately desired objective then that is just a fact. And that fact is the consequence of earlier actions by self and others. It's worth noting, too, that no matter where someone is on the scale of 'have and have not' there will still be the feeling of lacking resources needed to get some particular wanted thing'
All you can do then (in fact all any of us can do, at any time ) is to recalculate the problem into terms of "what must I achieve that is within the capacity of the resources which I either have now or can get my hands on in time to help."
The bitter irony is that this problem is the SAME problem faced by both Bill Gates, and the Ethiopian herdsman who is one goat away from death by starvation.
Sure wish I could paint a kinder picture of the clockwork we live in, but to the absolute best of my knowledge the only bright spot is that we demonstrably do have awareness and free will. With them we not only will but shall do the best we can with what we've got.
PlanetaryCitizen
An example of something along the line of DBS's two objectives and smart responses….
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-vietnam-quarantine-mobilization/
US to blame? What advantage does a military contingent offer in an intentional virus release, that an agent posing as obscure tourist can't accomplish leaving little to trace/blame. And if carried there because of an accidental release by a US lab, I would have expected rest home wipe-out in the US far in advance of the January "discovery".
Rather, the games offered a rather unique distribution opportunity to infect the military personnel of the world. Who had the most to gain? Should we expect a surprise military action in the next few weeks? They would be the guilty party.
@ Dr.D
I get what you are saying about only being able to redistribute from the poor to the rich, but it's just not so.
Marx explained that laborers must be included in the market as the market, by getting a significant amount of the excess production of their labor, not-merely-the-minimum-to-survive.
Michael Hudson really does know what the world looks like from the control-panel of the panopticon.
He repeats himself constantly, but it's still ok to listen to what he says, even just once.
Caitlin Johnstone has a really good presentation today, about being born into humanity.
Birth From The Second Womb
"We talk a lot about politics and revolution in this space, but in reality what we're really waiting for is humanity's birth from its second womb. For the human species to drastically shift from its second-womb relationship with mental narrative, wherein it can always be propagandized toward self-destructive behavior, into a relationship where thought is no longer a story to be compulsively believed but a tool to be used freely to create beautiful things."
Karl Marx was doing just fine until he got to the part about proposing solutions. His solutions are hog wash just on the face of it, and truly insane if you care to drill down.
So, I guess you could say with some fairness that he was HALF right. He was only thinking about HALF of the paradigm, so it's no surprise that he only came up with HALF the answer.
He was, in other words, not too much better or worse than the rest of us : a halfwit
Doc Robinson
Regarding Dr D's warnings about inflation resulting if something like "Medicare for All" was set up in the USA, I'd like to point out…
"Today, the United States spends more than $3.2 trillion a year on health care… At $10,000 per person, the United States spends far more on health care per capita and as a percentage of GDP than any other country on earth in both the public and private sectors while still leaving 28 million Americans uninsured and millions more under-insured." [according to Bernie Sanders]
So if these large amounts of money are already being spent, how can making the system more efficient (cutting out the insurance company middleman profits and negotiating drug prices down) be necessarily inflationary?
my parents said know
This is a Whitney Webb article from over at The Last American Vagabond. I consider her so good that I wonder why she's still alive.
The Subsidy Effect: If widgets cost 10 and you have to have one and the government subsidizes them at 10, then widgets soon cost 20. Hyper-wealthy people benevolently petition the government to raise the subsidy to 20- hell, 30, 40, 100. Instant inflation.
A real economy is labor producing output- food, widgets, services, infrastructure, art, tech, science, entertainment, etc. Labor ought to be THE asset in a real economy. Labor makes something and sells it to someone who uses that capital (NOT necessary, but highly convenient- barter works, too) to buy something someone else made, etc.
I read that data is the new oil. Check out the government report Webb highlights. Be very afraid.
Get rid of the [every expletive I can think of] "smart"phone.
"why she's still alive"
An rotten choice of words on my part- may the gods of journalism keep her safe.
"…. to raise the subsidy to 20- hell, 30, 40, 100. Instant inflation."
IT'S TOO LATE!
If the wages are not raise to be greater than inflation, then too many people/customers cannot afford the product.
FORD had the right idea but the rich business men were afraid to do the same. Therefore, that possible social/economic structure died at birth.
That's okay because we knew what you meant. Like my Dad used to say, "Take me by what I mean, not by what I misspell".
Whitney is a world class world treasure investigator, and obviously ain't skeered.
The more we can do to expedite the natural demise of this corrupt system, the better. This is our duty. Can we agree on a blueprint of 95 theses to nail to the door?
I've been in for 17 years; go for it… 😉
Come to think of it: they've been doing a splendid job of self destruction all by themselves…
I'd be at a loss on how to do it any better… or faster. 😉
A Lesson on the value of Time and Money.
Working in Africa, I once naively asked an native African why he didn't work harder?
In broken English, he replied, "Little money, little work"!
It hit me like a bolt of lightning, but I grasped instantly what he meant!
If he worked harder, he then needed to consume more food! The amount of money he received didn't allow him to buy more food.
I soon realized from further experiences, nothing happened quickly in Africa.
If you wanted to make something happen quickly, you had to pay!
Thus time is money.
I had the money. They had the time!
I had a choice!
I could trade money for time or not!
I have never forgotten this lesson!
Today, for the first time up here in Toronto this spring, I broke quarantine and spent several hours raking dead leaves in my backyard, trapped last fall by the arrival of winter snow.
It was a nice sunny balmy 13 degrees Celsius or 55 degrees Fahrenheit outside!
Sad to say, the exercise proved what a couch potato I am!
April 26, 2020 at 1:13 am #57909
Another unexpected surprise this weekend is my wife and I are finally free to talk to each other again!
Ever since my daughter came home, from her coronavirus closed university, we have had to be as quiet as mice, so as not to disturb my daughter studying for and writing her final exams online.
My wife has a quick temper, and so does my daughter! I wonder where she got that from! Not wanting to be the jam between two slices of bread, I naturally try not to get caught in the middle!
My wife is also rather forgetful, so she would start trying to talk to me in the kitchen where I hang out as the family's short order cook! My daughter would then get mad at my wife for making too much noise!
(My daughter tolerates me better simply because I feed her!)
It also doesn't help that my deaf wife likes to talk without her hearing aids on! That means she tends to shout rather than talk! Now you see why my hearing daughter gets upset so easily!
Oh, yes I almost forgot! The reason we can finally talk again, is my daughter wrote her final exam last night! Hurray!
Thank God for small mercies!
V Arnold:
If I nailed a N95 mask to the door, would that do?
Again I am with DBS. I think it really is time to muster the will to action. Analysis is good but you can always judge what is going on not by what someone says but by what they do. If you aren't doing anything then you are just talking. Put plans to work!
I have, for a long time thought to myself – don't take life too seriously and pay attention to what Jesus and Buddha are saying regarding illusion and peace of mind – but act as if no one will save your wretched body and life but yourself. Like Dr D is always bangin' on about – war lords and rich bastards are always looking at a dynamic model of accumulation – and what we have and are is what they are trying always, and with insane determination, to accumulate. Fuck em. I don't want everything but I want time to laugh, healthy children, clean water and food and the right to access land.
This is why the crossroads of Permaculture and TAE have been where I stop and take stock. Also why the chinese art of war strategy works best for me (I don't have Assange's courage or brain) "Stoop to Conquer". Keep a low profile my good friends – don't ruffle too many feathers but don't give anymore away than you have to in work, time, assets and labour.
They want your money and stuff – so earn as little as you can. They are not yet costing to come in with bulldozers to rip out your nut trees or soil. They want you to always need them too. Turds. So build your house with mud and straw or sticks or rocks. What ever is on site. I'm preaching to the converted so maybe I sound like a talker but this week I planted about 70 trees for customers and then came home to dig trenches by hand through rocky hard soil with a mattock to install irrigation main line for our 22,500 litre water tank. Infrastructure I own. No fluctuating prices. Pay as you go where ever possible and regard debt as last resort very carefully managed.
Rambling but pumped. For this 48 year old to have had to good fortune to read and interpret the combined intelligence and analysis of this crowd is humbling. Also V Arnold and DBS – kiss and make up (please). They are just opinions/thoughts and none of us are that special.
Karl Marx in person.
In 1983, I got to see, first hand, how the Russians pulled themselves up by their bootstraps!
Well, first of all their boots didn't have any straps. At least not in Siberia!
Maybe if they had tried pulling up on their ankles, it might have worked better?
Carl Marx's solutions did not take into account basic human nature.
You see in Russia, everyone was waiting for the other guy to do the heavy lifting to get to worker's utopia!
The problem was the other guy was waiting for them to do the heavy lifting!
So nobody was doing any lifting, heavy or not!
Since they all worked for the government, nobody could be held responsible!
If from drinking the Kool-Aid, you foolishly insisted upon working, the rest of your co-workers would soon make you stop, one way or another, because you would make them look bad!
Doesn't that sound pretty much like how our government doesn't works?
Sure… 😉
Oxymoron:
I think what you are trying to say is called a state of confusion!
If you listen to what a person says and then watch what they do, this creates a state of confusion because they don't match!
Naturally, to undo this state of confusion, you just watch what they do, and ignore what they say!
Trudope says don't go to the cottage! Trudope goes to his cottage.
I am going to my cottage!
See, I am not confused at all!
I've learned that I can't oppose the system- I must go skew.
My fear, it doth envelop me
'Til what I fear is all I see.
I turn my eyes to what is real-
Then none can manage how I feel.
Check out the white house's ai and american industry spiel. Read it and weep.
Glad to see you have kept your sense of humor!
I left the rat race 19 years ago, so 2 years ahead of you!
Mind you, I probably got a head start at the ripe old age of 47!
The usual cycle of life goes something like this: You are born, you grow up, you go to school, you get a job, as you gain work experience supposedly you move up the ladder until you reach your level of incompetence, then your grow old, then you retire, then in your golden years you lose your marbles before regressing to your childhood, then you end up in a nursing home, then you die. These days of the coronavirus, of course!
So, you start life being a dependent child and end your life being a dependent child.
Because I never reached my peak, I got an early start, regressing toward my second childhood!
I have certainly lost all of my marbles! However, I still have a few lose screws!
So now you know how I got an earlier start, regressing to my childhood, than most folks!
My parent said know:
You just need to pretend to go along!
Russian saying about communism: We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us!
After 70 years, it worked!
Watch what they do – ignore what they say.
Now I know why I am slow at picking up the threads of truth – I still hope that what bubbles out the mouth means something….
For 70 years the Russians watched their leaders and ignored what they said!
Nothing got done!
The rest is history!
Zerosum:
It doesn't really matter how the coronavirus gets into nursing homes!
Once in, it spreads like wildfire!
At this rate, the coronavirus will soon run out of nursing homes to visit.
Sadly, the coronvirus death rate will only fall when it runs out of victims.
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December 22, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.
When Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, surrounded by marching bands, flower-covered floats and high-stepping horses, takes off along Colorado Boulevard on Jan. 1, it could be the second-most exciting ride of his life.
For the 57-year-old former fighter pilot, the thrill of being grand marshal of the 121st Rose Parade, "2010: A Cut Above the Rest," may rank a few notches below his wild ride of Jan. 15, 2009.
Sullenberger became an overnight hero when he and his crew landed U.S. Airways Flight 1549 in the icy waters of the Hudson River in New York City, in full view of many Manhattan-ites, saving the lives of all 155 people aboard.
Photographs of passengers huddled along the wings, a flotilla of rescue craft bobbing around them, left an indelible image around the world.
Now, almost exactly a year later, with the world watching yet again, Sullenberger said he can't wait to be part of what he calls "the world's parade."
"We've only watched it on TV, but I always had a dream that one day we'd see it in person – and this is the way to do that!" he joked.
In the year since he hit the headlines, Sullenberger has become a frequent talk-show guest, was given the keys to New York City, wrote a book – "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters," the first of two in a $3-million deal – and went back to work, flying part-time for U.S. Airways.
He even had his own parade – his hometown of Danville honored him and his wife Lorrie on Jan. 24 – and he was nominated for the "Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year" by the American Mustache Institute. Plus, in a nod to the flock of birds that shut down both his plane's engines and forced the landing, there's his namesake cocktail: The Sullenberger – two shots of Grey Goose and a splash of water.
At first, he said, all the attention was "overwhelming." Responding, he said "didn't come naturally – quite the opposite."
"It was a life-changing event," Sullenberger said. "But I'm 57, I'll be 58 in January. I had a lot of life experience to draw on and put it in perspective."
The acclaim has come with "new obligations and opportunities – I'm working harder than I've ever worked, including flying," he said. "But my biggest surprise is that here we are, 10 months later, and people are still recording great interest."
Sullenberger was born and grew up in Denison, Texas, graduated from the Air Force Academy and later served as a fighter pilot from 1975 to 1980, attaining the rank of captain.
He's not the first legendary pilot to lead the 5.7-mile parade.
The Apollo 12 Astronauts, Buzz Aldrin and John Glenn were all grand marshals, and dashing WWI "Ace of Aces" Eddie Rickenbacker took the role in 1957 – not to mention William "Captain Kirk" Shatner in 1994.
And, Sullenberger said, he's not even the first person born in Denison to be grand marshal.
"My one connection with grand marshals is that President Eisenhower, like me, was born in Denison, Texas," he said.
Sullenberger will ride in the Rose parade with his wife – a fitness trainer with her own San Francisco exercise show on TV – and their two children.
He said he plans to "have some fun" with the whole Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game experience, brought about by the first "good news" story of 2009.
The place, timing and the way the landing happened had a lot to do with its impact, the unassuming pilot said.
"At the time, people were searching for good news, a reason to feel hopeful," Sullenberger said. "And this was a life-affirming event."
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Pellon no-return gates are used to guide animals along the exit passage from a milking parlour or -robot.
There are two types of no-return gates – saloon gate and the individual gate.
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A Look Back: Feb. 27, 1922
The front page of The Repository from Feb. 27, 1922 tells the storyl in its headline:
"Court Declares Suffrage Amendment Valid,"
Court declares suffrage amendment valid
The 19th Amendment to the constitution of the United States stood strong following court action in 1922.
"Court Declares Suffrage Amendment Valid," a banner headline in The Evening Repository reported on its front page Feb. 27, 1922.
The Supreme Court had dismissed a suit filed by a New Yorker seeking to challenge the amendment. Thus the amendment for woman's suffrage was declared constitutional.
"The power of Congress to propose the amendment to the state legislatures for ratification was assailed by its opponents on the ground that the people reserved to themselves in their state constitutions the right to regulate suffrage," The Repository explained through an Associated Press story, "and that the federal government legally could not have anything whatever to do with the 'sovereign power' embodied in suffrage qualifications."
Au contraire, the Supreme Court concluded.
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Sport Wimbledon Tennis
Last remaining Brit Johanna Konta out of Wimbledon as draw opens up for Serena Williams
9th July 2019 Charlie Stong 0 Comments
Britain's Johanna Konta is out of Wimbledon after a stunning performance by underdog Barbora Strycova on Centre Court this afternoon.
The world number 54 trailed 4-1 in the first set, when Konta seemed to be breezing to another semi-final.
But Strycova broke back to make it 4-3 and then took the tiebreak.
Konta had trailed before in this tournament, to both Sloane Stephens in round three and Petra Kvitova yesterday in round four, but this time she could not find the extra gears needed to come back, and Strycova took the second set 6-1 to set up her first grand slam semi-final, against none other than Serena Williams.
In Centre Court's first match of the day, seven-time Wimbledon champion Williams made it to her 12th semi-final at the All-England Club with victory over Alison Riske.
Riske, who had beaten world number one Ashleigh Barty on Court 2 yesterday, broke Williams' serve to go 3-1 up in the first set, but Williams broke back immediately.
There were two more breaks in the first set before Williams broke again, and held her nerve to take it 6-4.
But Riske is nothing if not gutsy, and she fought back well in the second set, breaking Williams to make it 5-4, then holding her own serve for one set all.
The players exchanged breaks of serve again in the decider, before Williams made the decisive break in the penultimate game, then served out the match.
Serena Williams celebrates beating Alison Riske on day eight of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon.
After the match Williams said: "I wouldn't have won that match a couple of weeks ago, she was playing so great.
"It's a long arduous road, it's not easy. I'm so pumped.
"I just needed to just fight. Alison, I mean, she played great throughout the whole tournament.
"She's beaten so many amazing players, players that have had great years. She was not giving it to me. I needed to step up and take it. That's what I had to do."
Former world No.1 Simona Halep fought back from 4-1 down in the first set against against China's Zhang Shuai before winning 7-6 6-1.
Halep said: "I have expected her to play so well. She beat me the last two times that we played. I was a little bit nervous before the match, a little bit stressed.
"I knew that she's going to come and hit the balls very strong. Also when she hits them, the ball doesn't bounce that much. It's really tough to return.
"But I kept fighting. I knew that I have to be 100 per cent for every ball, then I will break her rhythm a little bit. It happened in the second set."
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Assemble the Mavic Pro Parachute Mount | Fruity Chutes!
This guide will help you pack and prepare the Harrier Drone Parachute Launcher. You can purchase the Mavic Pro Parachute Launcher here. Before starting make sure you have done the initial folding of the Iris parachute. Refer to How to fold an Iris Parachute. Follow this guide up to Step 22.
Here are all the components needed for the Mavic Pro Parachute system.
We start by installing the Mayday Fail Safe Controller into the mount. TIP - Before you start you can use some masking tape to secure the hinge pins to the mount so they do not fall out.
Holding as shown ease the Mayday past the vertical catches. Note the orientation of the buttons and connectors.
Then push back under the horizontal piece.
Cut the Velcro so it just fits on the battery and battery compartment.
Put the other piece on the back of the battery.
This shows the Velcro installed on the battery. Note the orientation relative to the battery wires.
This shows both the Mayday and Battery installed and in the correct orientation.
Next route the battery power connector with the JST connector around the bottom of the mount and under the clips.
Pull the power wire back until the connector is as shown.
Then plug in the JST (2 pin) to JR Servo (3 pin) adapter onto the battery connector.
Route the extender around the mount and under the clips.
Make a single loop as shown in the routing. This positions the JR 3 pin connector at the right place to connect to the switch.
Then complete routing around the mount top and under the clips.
Place the switch into the mount tabs. The switch is oriented so the male connector goes to the mount top so it can plug into the extender. The female end faces down so it can wrap around under the Mayday and plug into it.
The switch is not secured to the mount.
Stow the extra wire under the wire clips.
Route the female JR end around the side and bottom and stow under the clips.
Plug into the Mayday power connector (back connector that is wider). The power connector is marked with a "P" next to it.
Test the connection by turning on the power. Push the switch down to turn on.
Next we are going to mount the Harrier 40mm canister to the mounting cradle. For this you need the 8" long Velcro strip.
Start by routing the Velcro strip through the mounting slots.
This shows the strip installed and centered.
This shows the launcher base aligned with the cradle correctly.
Wrapping the Velcro around the launcher.
The launcher is all set!
Again secure under the clips.
Plug into the Mayday servo output (marked with a "S"). Again secure the wire under the flips. This view shows the completed mount bottom. The extra battery connector is used for charging.
Now we mount on the copter.
Remove the hinge pin so the closure can be opened.
Flip the closure door up.
Drop the Mavic down into the mounting band. Note there are alignment tabs on the bottom that engage into the Mavic bottom center between the sensors. Adjust the mount so the bottom of the mount is flush and centered on the Mavic bottom. When properly aligned the closure door will just reach around the Mavic body securely.
Note the battery release buttons each fit into the opening on the body. There is also a button clearance cut under the Harrier mounting cradle. These help keep the mount in place on the body and from sliding around.
This view shows the proper alignment of the mounting body which is critical to the fit.
The hinge pin ends are folded down and tucked next to the stops that keep them from backing out.
Now we will rig the harness to the copter. NOTE: Some of these slides may be out of order due to a bug in the Gallery. So review the remaining slides to see how to rig the copter.
Work the harness into the harness stow on each side and pull on the end so the line is taught.
Pull tight. Next we will work the harness into the harness stows on each side.
Open the quick link and connect over the harness loop ends.
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ZONAL EXAMINATION CENTRES TO ENHANCE SECURITY OF EXAMINATION MATERIALS-ECZ
A POLITICAL ACTIVIST ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY BASED LEADERSHIP
EAZ BACKS GOVT ON SALES TAX
By Christopher Chisi
The Examination Council of Zambia (ECZ) has embarked on zoning of school examination centres in a bid to enhance security of examination papers and further prevent examination leakages and other forms of malpractice from occurring.
ECZ Director, Micheal Chilala says working with the Ministry of General Education structures at headquarters, provincial and district levels they have identified centralized points where examination materials will be stored under enhanced security arrangements.
Dr. Chilala said this in Lusaka during a media briefing where he announced examination reforms they are implementing in order to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in the way examinations are conducted in the country.
"A total of 1,502 schools have been identified, of which 1009 are zonal centres in that they have cluster schools to cater for, while 493 are stand alone, because of their geographical location. It Is therefore expected that majority of the examination centres are not expected to keep examination materials ,except in standalone centres and should also have same security arrangements as the zonal centers," Dr. Chilala revealed.
"When the planned arrangements are implemented, we will have moved a great deal to safeguard the examination materials and eliminate leakages of examinations papers."
He further revealed that in an effort to enhance access to education and examination the ECZ will award examination centres status to all schools recognized by the ministry of general education.
Dr. Chilala noted that there has been a public concern that some pupils move longer distances to sit for examination in different schools from where they learn.
He regrets that this has led some pupils to drop out of schools system all together because they probably had nowhere to stay while they wrote examination.
"This calls for the Ministry [of general education] to ensure schools have appropriate facilities before they are authorized to operate in order to maintain the required standard for learning and assessment," he said.
"To achieve this the Provincial Education Officers must ensure that all recognized schools ,both public and private ,are presented to the examination Council of Zambia for the award of Examination Centre numbers before August 2019 ,which will be used during the year 2020 examinations."
Meanwhile the ECZ Director says the institution has developed a system for provision of Statements of Results online.
He indicated that the 2018 examinations were the last to use manual Statements of Results.
"The innovations of accessing results online by candidates will help reduce on the costs which ECZ had been incurring to purchase paper and print the results," he explained.
"We have also invested in automating the process of test development to reduce human involvement in the construction of question papers. Once we implement the system by next year, 2020, there will be full accountability for those involved in the setting of examinations through the system and we will drastically reduce the cost of test development."
He stressed that it is their considered view that the reforms are justified to ensure the ECZ examinations continue to be relevant, credible and comparable with international standard in assessments. | {
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PEAK program volunteer Maggie Klumpp is among the 2017 recipients of the LIVE UNITED award for her continuous dedication to the Mt. Pleasant area's after-school program. Presented by the United Way of Gratiot & Isabella Counties, the award honors key volunteers for their work to improve the community.
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10 Commissioned report
Absenteeism, Presenteeism and Shirking
Sessions, J. G. & Brown, S., 2005, In : Economic Issues. 9, 1, p. 15-21 7 p.
A Canonical Model for Interactive Unawareness
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Access to scientific literature in India
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Access to vaccine technologies in developing countries: Brazil and India
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ACE versus CBIT: Which is Better for Investment and Welfare?
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A Computer-Based Incentivized Food Basket Choice Tool: Presentation and Evaluation
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A contingent valuation of the 2012 London Olympic games - A regional perspective
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A Cross Section Approach to Measuring the Shadow Economy
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Activism, separation of powers and development
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Actual and Optimal Labour Supply
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A debt sustainability analysis of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic: a non parametric approach
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A Different Rationale for Redistribution: A Reply to Bjornskov
Cullis, J., Hudson, J. & Jones, P., Apr 2011, In : Journal of Happiness Studies. 12, 2, p. 349-351 3 p.
A different rationale for redistribution: pursuit of happiness in the European Union
Cullis, J., Hudson, J. & Jones, P., 1 Apr 2011, In : Journal of Happiness Studies. 12, 2, p. 323-341 19 p.
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A discrete choice model of transitions to sustainable technologies
Zeppini, P., Apr 2015, In : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 112, p. 187-203
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Pollution tax
A 'divide and choose' approach to compromising
Postl, P., 2013, In : Economics Letters. 119, 2, p. 204-209
Beta distribution
Social choice rule
Adjustments in the housing market after an environmental shock: Evidence from a large-scale change in aircraft noise exposure
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Search behavior
Affirmative action in contest games
Franke, J., Mar 2012, In : European Journal of Political Economy. 28, 1, p. 105-118 14 p.
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A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations
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A Generalized Tullock Contest
Chowdhury, S. & Sheremeta, R., 2011, In : Public Choice. 147, 3, p. 413-420
Agent-based learning in 'Islands' with 'Sticky Information': an explanation for the persistence of real effects
Easaw, J. Z. & Ghoshray, A., 2006, In : Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. 38, 1, p. 263-268 6 p.
Agent-based
Sticky information
Relative income
Agricultural commodity price shocks and their effect on growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Addison, T., Ghoshray, A. & Stamatogiannis, M. P., Feb 2016, In : Journal of Agricultural Economics. 67, 1, p. 47-61
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A heteroskedasticity robust Breusch-Pagan test for contemporaneous correlation in dynamic panel data models
Halunga, A. G., Orme, C. D. & Yamagata, T., 1 Jun 2017, In : Journal of Econometrics. 198, 2, p. 209-230 22 p.
Aid, poverty reduction and the 'new conditionality'
Mosley, P., Hudson, J. & Verschoor, A., 2004, In : The Economic journal. 114, 496, p. F217-F243
Aid and terrorism: a dynamic contracts approach with interlinked moral hazard
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Aid volatility, policy and development
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Aiutare chi, aiutare casa, aiutare quando?
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'All for one and one for all': Transactions cost and collective action
Jones, P., 2004, In : Political Studies. 52, 3, p. 450-468 19 p.
collective behavior
A Markov switching unobserved component analysis of the CDX index term premium
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Markov switching
Term premium
Unobserved components
Equity returns
Unobserved components model
A methodology for determining the 'cash economy' in the European Union via an announcement effect'
Cullis, J. & Morley, B., 1 Aug 2017, In : European Journal of Law and Economics. 44, 1, p. 113-129 17 p.
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Hooper, T., Cooper, P., Hunt, A. & Austen, M., Jun 2014, In : Ecosystem Services. 8, p. 65-74
ecosystem service
A micro foundation of core stability in positive-externality coalition games
Finus, M. & Rundshagen, B., 2006, In : Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. 162, 2, p. 329-346 18 p.
Positive externalities
Microfoundations
Coalition structure
Coalition formation
A model-based indicator of the fiscal stance
Polito, V. & Wickens, M., Apr 2012, In : European Economic Review. 56, 3, p. 526-551 26 p.
Budget constraint
Short-run
A multilevel cross-lagged structural equation analysis for reciprocal relationship between social capital and health
Sessions, J., Yu, G., Fu, Y. & Wall, M., Oct 2015, In : Social Science and Medicine. 142, p. 1-8 8 p.
social participation
An advisor like me? Advisor gender and post-graduate careers in science
Gaule, P. & Piacentini, M., 1 May 2018, In : Research Policy. 47, 4, p. 805 - 813 9 p.
Analysis of tax incentives for energy-efficient durables in the EU
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tax incentive
Analyzing the effectiveness of international environmental policies: The case of the Kyoto Protocol
Almer, C. & Winkler, R., 1 Mar 2017, In : Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 82, p. 125-151 27 p.
panel data
An analysis of the titles of papers submitted to the UK REF in 2014: authors, disciplines, and stylistic details
Hudson, J., Nov 2016, In : Scientometrics. 109, 2, p. 871-889 19 p.
evaluation research
An axiomatization of difference-form contest success functions
Cubel Sanchez, M. & Sanchez-Pages, S., 2016, In : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 131, p. 92 105 p.
An axiomatization of learning rules when counterfactuals are not observed
Mengel, F. & Rivas, J., 2012, In : The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics. 12, 1, p. 1935-1704
Axiomatization
Axioms
Ancillary benefits of climate policy
Markandya, A. & Rubbelke, D. T. G., 2004, In : Journal of Economics and Statistics / Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik. 224, 4, p. 488-503 16 p.
An den Fäden Brüssels – Der europäische Beschäftigungspakt darf nicht zu einem Bündnis auf Kosten der Erwerbslosen werden
: Brussels Holding the Reins – The European Employment Pact Must not Be Made at the Expense of the Unemployed
Feldmann, H., 28 May 1999, Rheinischer Merkur, 22, p. 15.
An economic approach to reducing water pollution: point and diffuse sources
O'Shea, L., Jan 2002, In : The Science of the Total Environment. 282-283, p. 49--63 15 p.
point source
point source pollution
An empirical analysis of the impact of the credit default swap index market on large complex financial institutions
Calice, G. & Ioannidis, C., Dec 2012, In : International Review of Financial Analysis. 25, p. 117-130 14 p.
Market index
Credit default swaps
Empirical analysis
An empirical analysis of the structure and stability of communist foreign trade 1960-68
Lawson, C., Apr 1974, In : Europe-Asia Studies. 26, 2, p. 224-238 15 p.
An Empirical Analysis of UK House Price Risk Variation by Property Type
Morley, B. & Thomas, D., 1 May 2016, In : Review of Economics and Finance. 6, 2, p. 45-56 1923-7529-2016-02-45-12.
Price risk
An empirical study of nonlinear adjustment in the UIP model using a smooth transition regression (STR) model
Li, D., Ghoshray, A. & Morley, B., Dec 2013, In : International Review of Financial Analysis. 30, p. 109-120 12 p.
Empirical study
Smooth transition regression
Interest rate differentials
Regression model
Nonlinear adjustment
An empirical test of new developments in coalition theory for the design of international environmental agreements
Finus, M., Saiz, M. E. & Hendrix, E. M. T., 2009, In : Environment and Development Economics. 14, 1, p. 117-137 21 p.
A new perspective on the issue of selection bias into randomized controlled field experiments
Belot, M. & James, J., Sep 2014, In : Economics Letters. 124, 3, p. 326-328
Self-selection
Selection bias
A New Strategy for Robbins' Problem of Optimal Stopping
Meier, M. & Soegner, L., 2017, In : Journal of Applied Probability. 54, 1, p. 331-336 | {
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Two USB ports makes it more convenient for you.
2 Recalls energy stock of LED light.
LED Indicator, showing charging status and on / off status.
Environmentally friendly and economic efficiency.
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Coronavirus deaths in China top 1,000 as investors seek safety in gold, dollars
By Shivani Singh, Stephanie Nebehay
BEIJING/GENEVA (Reuters) - The death toll in China climbed above 1,000, as the World Health Organization (WHO) cautioned that the spread of cases outside of China could be "the spark that becomes a bigger fire" and said the human race must not let the epidemic get out of control.
Hubei province, the epicentre out the outbreak, reported 103 deaths on Monday - the most in any single day - after 91 deaths on Sunday. But the 2,097 new cases was down from the previous day, when there were 2,618.
It is not the first time new cases have fallen. Hubei reported 2,841 cases on Feb. 7 and 2,147 the next day.
There are now over 42,000 confirmed cases in China as well as 319 cases in 24 other countries, including one death, according to WHO and Chinese health officials.
The Diamond Princess cruise ship with 3,700 passengers and crew on board remained quarantined in the Japanese port of Yokohama, with 65 more cases detected, taking the number of confirmed cases from the Carnival Corp-owned CCL.N vessel to 135.
As scientists race to develop tests and treatments, the WHO says 168 labs globally have the right technology to diagnose the virus. Companies have been struggling to find clinical virus samples needed to validate the diagnostic tests they have developed.
Worries about the coronavirus kept investors on edge with safe-havens like gold rising and the dollar hitting a four-month high against the euro on Monday.
In Europe, shares in car companies .SXAP exposed to China slumped, while prices of oil, iron ore and copper fell on worries over weaker Chinese demand because of the outbreak.
Wall Street rose on optimism for corporate earnings and the economy, with the Nasdaq hitting a record high. [MKTS/GLOB]
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British Airways cancelled all its flights to mainland China until the end of March.
Wu Fan, vice-dean of Shanghai Fudan University Medical school, said there was hope of a turning point in the outbreak. But WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday there had been "concerning instances" of transmission from people who had not been to China.
"It could be the spark that becomes a bigger fire," Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva.
An advance team of international WHO experts arrived in China to investigate the outbreak. Its death toll has now surpassed that of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed hundreds worldwide in 2002/2003.
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Chinese cities have become virtual ghost towns after Communist Party rulers ordered lockdowns, cancelled flights and closed factories and schools.
Ten extra days had been added to the Lunar New Year holidays that had been due to finish at the end of January to help slow the virus' spread. Even on Monday, many workplaces remained closed as people worked from home.
Few commuters braved the morning rush-hour on one of Beijing's busiest subway lines. All wore masks.
One Beijing government official, Zhang Gewho, said it would be harder to curb the spread of the virus as people returned to work. "The capacity of communities and flow of people will greatly increase the difficulty," he said.
Hubei, the province of 60 million people hardest hit by the outbreak, remains in virtual lockdown, with its train stations and airports shut and roads sealed.
China's central bank has taken steps to support the economy, including reducing interest rates and flushing the market with liquidity, and will also now provide special funds for banks to lend to businesses.
President Xi Jinping said the government would prevent large-scale layoffs, Chinese state television reported.
Xi was shown on television inspecting the work of community leaders in Beijing and wearing a mask as he had his temperature taken. He said China would strive to meet economic and social targets for the year.
One senior economist has said growth may slow to 5% or less in the first quarter.
More than 300 Chinese firms including Meituan Dianping 3690.HK, China's largest food delivery company, and smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp 1810.HK were seeking loans totalling at least 57.4 billion yuan ($8.2 billion), banking sources said.
E-commerce firm Alibaba BABA.N said its affiliate, Ant Financial's MYBank unit, would offer 20 billion yuan ($2.86 billion) in loans to companies in China, with preferential terms for Hubei firms.
Apple's AAPL.O biggest iPhone maker, Foxconn, won approval to resume production in the eastern central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, but only 10% of the workforce managed to return, a source said. Foxconn, formally Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd 2317.TW, won approval to resume partial production in the southern city of Shenzhen from Tuesday.
A prolonged and widespread coronavirus outbreak could hit the Japanese economy, affecting tourism, retail and exports, an International Monetary Fund official said. Canada said the outbreak will hit tourism and its oil industry.
For a graphic on Comparing new coronavirus to SARS and MERS:
Reporting by Shivani Singh and Stephanie Nebehay; Additional reporting by Sophie Yu, Ryan Woo, Huizhong Wu, Liangping Gao, Stella Qiu, Colin Qian, Brenda Goh in Beijing; Joyce Lee and Hyunjoo Jin in Seoul; Kylie MacLellan and Kate Kelland in London; Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago; Writing by Nick Macfie, Giles Elgood and Lisa Shumaker; Editing by Angus MacSwan, Timothy Heritage and Bill Berkrot | {
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and the foundation upon which sustained human progress has been built everywhere. If all adults on the planet could read and write and had opportunities to take advantage of these capabilities, economic growth, poverty, health, and political participation would all improve. Female literacy shares a particularly powerful relationship with development, especially through health improvements for children, as the more educated a mother the more likely her children are to survive and thrive. Studies have shown that half of the reduction in child deaths in recent decades is the result of increases in the education of women of reproductive age. Countries that improve female literacy at faster rates can also accelerate reductions in fertility, potentially triggering the much sought after "demographic dividend".
Despite these benefits, global progress in reducing illiteracy has stalled. The adult illiteracy rate has fallen by 26% since 2000, well short of the 50% target, according to UNESCO. As a result, an estimated 770 million (14%) of the world's adults cannot read or write, including 480 million women who make up almost two-thirds of the world's illiterate adults. The greatest concentration of illiterate adults is in South Asia, but most of the countries with the highest rates of illiteracy are in Sub-Saharan Africa. 10 countries account for 70% of the world's illiterate adults, including India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Brazil, Egypt, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In a subset of 12 "hotspot" countries, more than 70% of adult women are illiterate, including Niger, Chad, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Benin, Guinea, Mali, the Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Ethiopia.
These countries should set ambitious goals to reduce adult female illiteracy to 20% by 2020 and to eradicate adult illiteracy by 2030. Countries that have already achieved 80% adult female literacy should move straight to the eradication target. Because of the powerful influence of mothers' literacy on child development, countries, especially those in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, should implement programs to increase both the supply of literate mothers and demand for their skills. Investments should benefit mothers in the populations where female literacy is lowest and child mortality is highest. Countries should provide special incentives for mothers to develop their literacy skills, including by linking mothers' literacy progress to their children's educational performance, by improving the home learning environment, and increasing labor market attachment. Conditional cash and non-cash transfers, as well as the full engagement of telecommunications technology (e.g. mobile phones) in literacy efforts targeted to mothers, can act as powerful incentives for progress.
The United Nations (UN), its agencies, and development partners should reinforce the illiteracy eradication goal under the Sustainable Development Goals and ensure that 100% of adults achieve literacy by 2030. The UN Secretary-General should establish a Special Envoy for Illiteracy Eradication and a program architecture modeled on the highly successful polio eradication effort. The UN should support the special focus on mothers' literacy and increase integrated female literacy, health, and labor market investments in the countries where more than 60% of adult women are illiterate. The UN should also develop special indicators to measure literacy progress among mothers with dependent children and integrate these indicators into the official indicators that are measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
The relationship between education and human development is profound and under the right conditions, mutually reinforcing. The more educated a population, the faster individuals can take advantage of opportunities for advancement and the faster a country is advancing the more it needs a skilled population to feed growth. | {
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Q: Power BI by item Slice date calculate percent complete period It is necessary to calculate the percentage of the completion of the period by the Slice of the date, i.e. 100% is from 01 to 31 days, 97% is from 01 to 30 days, etc. or 1 day is 3%.
The % period formula looks something like this ((current day - 1 day)*100)/period
Tried to describe it like this
Period = CALCULATE((TODAY()-1)*100)/sum(GKB[stat_date])
But the output is 0.11...
Since there are no separate columns Start date and End date, but only a slice element with a slider, I don't understand how to implement this and why to start.
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Q: Username wrapping Just observed that lengthy usernames are not being gracefully handled in the user id box such as can be observed in this question. And this is not a corner case. It's customary in certain south american cultures to form a name from names of a number of relatives. It'd be nice to either enforce a name maxlength or provide tooltips/hover info. This has been observed on Chrome, the latest build
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MCCOOK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of two people killed when the car they were in rammed into a semitrailer in southwest Nebraska.
The collision occurred around 10:45 a.m. Tuesday on U.S. Highway 83, about 9 miles (15 kilometers) north of McCook. The Nebraska State Patrol says the northbound car crossed the center line and hit the oncoming semi.
The patrol identified the car driver as 72-year-old William Shanahan, who lived in Maywood, and his passenger as 64-year-old Georgia Connor, who lived in Stratton.
The patrol says the truck driver wasn't injured. He's been identified as 46-year-old Brian Els, of Benkelman. | {
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Senior shines in college summer league
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From All-Star to record holder, senior infielder Jimmy Norris is at the top of his game. Norris is in the midst of his second stint with the Brazos Valley Bombers as he competes against other student-athletes in the Texas Collegiate League.
The Texas Collegiate League is a university-level summer baseball league featuring a total of six Texas and Louisiana-based teams. The league is active from May 28 to Aug. 7.
This is Norris's second consecutive season with the Bombers. He earned a permanent position with the squad after originally being brought on as a temporary player.
"I got a call last summer … three days before the season started from Coach (Curt Dixon) of the Bombers," Norris said. "(He) said they needed a temporary guy to come fill in a spot."
Taking Dixon up on his offer, Norris ended up breaking the Bombers' single-season stolen bases record. He finished in a four-way tie for fourth place in the entire league with 22 stolen bases.
"I ended up doing really well and turned a temporary position into a full-time signing," he said.
The Bombers finished the 2014 season with a record of 45-15. The team defeated the Victoria Generals in the TCL Championship Series, becoming the first team to capture back-to-back titles in league history.
"(In) last year's championship series, we won on a crazy comeback on a walk-off and ended up winning game three for the championship," Norris said. "The whole team got to celebrate … champagne on the field and everything. That was probably the most memorable (moment)."
The Texas Collegiate League features student-athletes from across the country. Norris is one of the few Division III players in the league this season, along with the Comets' third baseman, Brandon George, who suffered a shoulder injury in June that shut him down for the rest of the summer season.
"We got four guys from (Texas A&M University), four guys from (Oklahoma State University). We have a lot of huge school (Division I) guys," Norris explained. "A couple of my teammates already got drafted … It's real competitive down here."
Earlier this season, Norris was selected as a reserve infielder for the 2015 TCL All-Star game for the first time. He was one of 12 players to represent the Bombers during the day's festivities.
"I came in the third or fourth inning … went 2-for-3 and had a couple steals. I had a good game," Norris said. "Before the game we (took batting practice) and there (were) 15 (Major League Baseball) scouts up there watching us. So it was pretty cool."
Even though the odds are stacked against him, Norris's end goal is to one day play in the MLB, although he said playing in the minors would also be an accomplishment for him.
His passion for the game began at an early age.
Baseball played an integral part in his family's history.
"(I began playing baseball) as early as you can start, probably since I was about five years old," Norris said. "My uncle played for the (Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers) for a few years, my dad played in the minors for the Indians, and both my brothers played in college as well. We all played baseball since we were born."
Head UTD baseball coach Shane Shewmake said Norris has a non-stop motor and exceptional work ethic, making him a vital part of the team.
"He's not going to get outworked by anybody. He's scrappy, he's hard nosed, (his) uniform is always dirty," Shewmake said. "He's a leader by example, more than anything."
Norris approaches each baseball game he plays in the same manner, whether it's during UTD's regular season in the spring or during his stint with the Bombers in the summer.
"I bring the same intensity to every game," Norris said. "When you're on the field that's just something you have to do."
Originally a transfer from McMurry University, Norris will enter his final year as a Comet this fall. He looks to improve on all aspects of his game this summer, especially his batting mechanics.
"[I'll] take everything I've learned … and do everything I can in the off-season to get ready," he said.
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Retiring President of the Supreme Court says Legal Aid cuts caused 'serious difficulty'
In 2013, legal aid was cut to many civil law cases with the aim of saving £350 million a year in England and Wales. These cuts have caused 'serious difficulty', however, to the justice system.
The government had intended to pilot early legal advice in some welfare cases and provide extra financial court but Baroness Hale of Richmond, retiring this month, said 'I don't think that anybody who has anything to do with the justice system of England and Wales could fail to be concerned about the problems which the reduction in resources in several directions has caused for the system as a whole.'
The outgoing President particularly highlighted the negative impact this has had in family courts. She stated that 'It's unreasonable to expect a husband and wife or mother and father who are in crisis in their personal relationship to make their own arrangements without help… [and] there may be an imbalance in resources because of the lack of access… it is that lack of initial advice and help which is a serious difficulty'. She also added that providing additional resources at an early stage ensures many disputes can be resolved without the need to go to court or to 'stretch their finances'.
The Ministry of Justice has responded by claiming that the government is 'piloting early legal advice in certain welfare cases [and has] committed £5 million for a Legal Support Innovation Fund to identify and resolve legal problems'.
The Criminal Bar Association is in agreement with Lady Hale, and last year advised its members to strike. The chair of the CBA, Angela Rafferty QC, said that the poor and vulnerable were 'being denied access to justice' due to this underfunding.
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It's a nice spot where you can see all around Port Stephens from the height of above 160m. What I like about this place is that it's very close. You don't need to drive for hours upon a windy road to get a nice view. It's so close, just 5 mins drive, and it has such an amazing view. The only disappointing thing is a technical building at the lookout place, but it shouldn't spoil the beauty of the view. If you are in Nelson Bay, do it! Go and see it. | {
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Understanding of how people function in an open office plan has evolved over the last 20 years. There has been a large amount of research into the effects of the acoustics in the workplace and how this effects productivity and wellbeing. As a result of this acoustic panels are becoming increasingly popular due to the panels characteristics such as; controlling reververation, reduce of speech level and even introducing good sound into a space to help reduce distractions.
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Savanna submits plans for 170-unit condo in Morningside Heights
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Savanna has submitted plans to the Department of Buildings to construct a 32-story, 170-unit condominium tower at 543 West 122nd Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.
The new structure is located a block north of Columbia University and just south of Columbia's $6.8 billion, Manhattanville Campus expansion.
Paying homage to the original name and landowner of Morningside Heights, this condominium will be called Vandewater.
Savanna bought the property from the Jewish Theological Seminary
Savanna has hired IINC Architecture & Design as the lead design architect for both the interior and exterior design. They will be working alongside the executive architect of record, SLCE.
Plans for the building include a mix of one, two, three and four bedroom layouts, along with 24,000 s/f of luxury amenities. Halstead Property Development Marketing (HPDM) is handling sales and marketing.
Additional partners include The Seventh Art for branding and creative, The Wright Fit for fitness and Michael Van Valkenburgh for landscape architecture.
"We are excited about the plans for this special standout property, which will bring a unique luxury product to Morningside Heights," said Chris Schlank, managing partner, Savanna.
"Our team is working collaboratively to deliver a property that will enhance, serve and pay homage to this historic neighborhood – one that has truly become an extension of the Upper West Side while maintaining its own cultural and academic roots."
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Мо̀йо де' Ка̀лви (; , Мой) е село и община в Северна Италия, провинция Бергамо, регион Ломбардия. Разположено е на 654 m надморска височина. Населението на общината е 207 души (към 2017 г.).
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There are many things that could easily grab everyone's attention! Some of them are hilariously funny while others are unusual or curious. The best things you can see while browsing online are those that cannot be seen every day! In fact, some of the things listed below are not just rare; they are astonishing! Seeing such things provokes the mind and this is the kind of amusement we all want to see.
Now this is some way to kick off the list! This photo would be really hard to explain if you don't know what actually happened here! It could spark many theories but as sometimes things go, the truth behind it is fairly simple! This is the arm of a man who spent an hour sanding a piece of wood! All the tiny pieces of sawdust created a thick layer supported by the hairs on his arm. The photo is really curious and we are glad he shared the image.
As we all know, nothing could beat nature when it comes to mesmerizing beauty! Nature is the best artist that will ever exist and the sights it has to offer are often too beautiful to be described or replicated. They just have to be seen to be believed. This amazing waterfall is a good example and we really love the effect it created! The water cascading down created a beautiful rainbow effect which is like nothing we have seen before.
This is another interesting way to show nature's skills when it comes to creating stunning works of art. This image could be explained in a number of different ways. It sort of looks like the fossilized skin of a dragon, and it also resembles an acorn pattern. In reality it is something much more common. This is simply a rock formation! It is definitely not the typical rock formation, though. It looks like someone spend a lot of time carving it!
Upon taking a first glance at this photo, there is nothing that special about it. You can see a city park walkway photographed in mid-spring, which is kind of nice. However, the main detail here is that it is not actually a walkway, but a river! Yes, that is right – the river is simply covered in thousands of petals. The cherry blossom petals have the prettiest color which is why they made the whole scenery look like it came out of a fairytale.
No matter how curious a person is, they could see new things every single day! Even the smartest people on Earth could not claim that they have seen it all! Well, some people might believe it but they would definitely be wrong! As you can see, this is a plant like no other! The image was shared by the person who bought it. In case you are still wondering, it is a banana tree! The beautiful plant made is wish we had one here, too.
Well, this is obviously one of the most stunning images on the list! The force of nature is definitely something to be respected and to be feared! Thunderstorms are dangerous but you need to admit that they are also beautiful! In fact, we love observing huge cloud formations, just like the storm chasers we used to watch on TV before. Of course, they were after tornadoes but that is too dangerous for us and we stick to regular storms.
The image you see here shows that nature can show off its skills in more ways than just create amazing sceneries and beautiful plants! This cute lizard shows how this is done! We have seen many different kinds of reptiles before but a two-dimensional lizard is definitely something new to us! It appears to be completely flat, which is probably a special feature enabling the animal to survive in its typical habitat.
We believe that travelling has many benefits and it is definitely the best thing for any human to experience. Some of the perks of travelling, however, are quite unexpected. This is especially true when it comes to flying! As you can see, someone noticed something really weird while looking out the window. There is a cloud that appears to have a perfect square shape! It was actually created by passing planes.
This is one really cool item and we were almost certain that we knew what it was. It looks just like a ball made of marble and it is very beautiful. However, it turned out that it was something really different. Apparently someone boiled some eggs and neglected one in the fridge for a month. This is the egg's yolk! It looks like nothing we have seen before and the person who shared the image also stated that not only it looks like a piece of marble, but it has the same consistency as well! The accidental marble egg is definitely worth keeping!
Here is another stunning photo that shows a part of the world we have never seen before! It was taken in Iceland and there is no wonder that it shows a place which is extremely cold. These strange formations are actually ice caves that extreme climbers and researches love to explore. The brave person captured in this image.
It seems that woodworkers need to wear some kind of protective clothing while doing what they do. They probably have protective goggles and headphones but we guess it is just not enough. There are armored gloves on the market and many other things. We guess a suit with long sleeves would prevent all that sawdust from sticking to their arms! As you can see, this woodworker did not wash it away immediately and it resembles dry soil, he could chip pieces of it! We guess that the sawdust really irritates the skin, which is an unpleasant experience.
Sometimes and image may reveal ordinary objects in extraordinary way, which is exactly the case here! It is hard to tell what these objects are at first glance, but we know exactly what we are looking at. The image is full of trains! Yes, that is exactly what you see in it. Hundreds of train cars are stacked in this depot and photographed from a high altitude, possibly from a drone. The image has a kind of surreal feeling to it. It looks like a play set for kids, but these sets do not come with so much train cars in them! The whole scenery looks awesome and it is definitely a sight we do not see every day.
Now this is one really curious phenomenon! We know how magnetic fields work in theory, but it is definitely better to see how a certain item acts like a magnet than to just read about it! In this case it is even more intriguing in this case, because the magnet is an unlikely item – a knife! It was able to attract the metal chippings on the work table of this person. The end result of the magnetic attraction looks like a work of art and we like it a lot.
There are many places on our planet that look more or less surreal! Some of them even seem to defy common logic, because people who are not familiar with some particular laws of physics would accept such facts as fiction and nothing more. We believe that the sight of these currents meeting in the middle of the ocean is definitely such a thing. The eyes need to see it in order for the mind to believe, right? Well, this is one of the things that need to be seen by everyone. It is also something that can be observed in only a few locations around the world.
Wrapping up the list with this image seems to be appropriate because it is another of nature's wonders that is the best addition to the ones we already presented. It is a chicken, which is obvious, but it is not an ordinary chicken! The pattern on its back is really complicated and it looks mesmerizing. In fact, this is the prettiest chicken we have ever seen and it can really enter a beauty contest against a peacock, for example! | {
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Q: Does a futex wait/wake pair achieve acquire/release semantics? Given this pseudocode, where there is globally an atomic int a initialized to 0:
Thread 1:
// ... some code here (X) ...
a.store(1, relaxed);
futex_wake(&a);
Thread 2:
if (futex_wait(&a, 1) == woken_up) {
assert(a.load(relaxed) == 1);
// ... some code here (Y) ...
}
Ignoring the possibility of spurious wakeups; can we deduce from the code above that the code X synchronizes-with Y? Basically, it boils down to whether futex itself is meant to achieve acquire/release semantics across a wait that is woken up.
A bit of context: TSAN does not understand the futex system call (e.g. see here, here).
Now, normally, when using futex in order to implement a mutex, semaphore or some other synchronization primitive, one also has an atomic variable that gets loaded with acquire ordering by the "locking" side, and stored in release ordering by the "unlocking" side. (Above, I'm deliberately using relaxed semantics instead.)
That acquire/release is enough to achieve synchronization, be formally correct, and it's recognized by TSAN (which does not report anything for locks implemented this way, e.g. QBasicMutex in Qt).
This question is mostly about the suggestion offered in the forum post linked above to mark futex operations themselves with acquire/release semantics. Would such tagging be correct?
(I know that the C++ abstract machine does not know anything about futex. It does not even know anything about pthreads, but TSAN does, and knows that e.g. code that happens before a pthread_create also happens before the code running in the newly create thread. In other words, this is not a language lawyer question...)
A: From man futex(2):
The loading of the futex word's value, the comparison of that value with the expected value, and the actual blocking will happen atomically and will be totally ordered with respect to concurrent operations performed by other threads on the same futex word. Thus, the futex word is used to connect the synchronization in user space with the implementation of blocking by the kernel. Analogously to an atomic compare-and-exchange operation that potentially changes shared memory, blocking via a futex is an atomic compare-and-block operation.
That total ordering corresponds to C++ std::memory_order_seq_cst:
A load operation with this memory order performs an acquire operation, a store performs a release operation, and read-modify-write performs both an acquire operation and a release operation, plus a single total order exists in which all threads observe all modifications in the same order.
In other words, futex syscall does in the kernel the equivalent of C++11:
a.compare_exchange_strong(..., std::memory_order_seq_cst, std::memory_order_seq_cst);
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This girl wanted a new hat.
A blue and grey hat to be exact. Something fun and warm.
I showed Abbey a few patterns to choose from and she picked this one.
She can wear it down on her forehead just above those pretty eyes or pushed back a little.
There is even room should she have a ponytail.
Worn like this, it resembles a snood.
Great spiral pattern on the back, this Drops Design pattern is designed as a guys hat.
I followed the L/XL sized because Abbey likes her hats big. But that required me to do lots of rounds of decreases to tighten around her temples. She tried it on as I went to be sure it fit just right.
Now this girl wants a new scarf.
This is such a pretty hat, and it looks great on her!
Pretty hat on a beautiful young lady. I believe she got her Daddy's eyes! You're on a roll with your crocheting…great job!
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The production of antibodies by B cells positively contributes to the adaptive immune response. However, B cells can also have an immunosuppressive effect through the production of the cytokine interleukin-10 (IL-10). To identify additional immunosuppressive factors produced by B cells, Shen et al. screened genes encoding secreted proteins that were differentially expressed in B cells stimulated with ligands for the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and CD40 but not those stimulated only with the TLR4 ligand, which increases IL-10 production. The authors identified Epstein barr virus-induced gene 3 (Ebi3), which encodes a protein that dimerizes with either p28 to form IL-27 or with p35 to form IL-35. Analysis of various B cell–specific knockout mice revealed that lack of IL-35 production specifically in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis (EAE mice) resulted in worse disease, which was associated with increased infiltration of activated cytotoxic T cells in the central nervous system. Furthermore, B cells lacking the ability to produce IL-35 isolated from the EAE mice also exhibited increased markers associated with antigen presentation and were more potent at stimulating the proliferation of and production of inflammatory cytokines from T cells isolated from the same mice. Although lack of immunosuppression worsens autoimmune disease, it can improve resistance to pathogens. Indeed, the B cell–specific knockout mice that could not produce IL-35, because they lacked the gene for either p35, Ebi3, or CD40, were resistant to Salmonella infection, which was associated with increased inflammatory responses of T cells toward the pathogen. Analysis of single B cells from wild-type mice infected with Salmonella revealed distinct IL-10– and IL-35–producing populations of B cells, both of which were positive for markers of mature plasma cells, which are the antibody-secreting cells. Thus, plasma cells not only promote the adaptive immune response but also help to keep this response in check by producing immunosuppressive cytokines.
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Tom Naeger
Conversely, that was also one of those games where if RIT had allowed just 2 or 3 goals, we'd be bemoaning the missed chances... again
I think we can finally call ourselves grumpy old men... :D
Downstate_RIT_Fan
Been grumpy since the playoff loss to the Purple Eagles last year. :)
I know, I know, gotta let it go! :)
Usually we can blame poor performance on injuries, but it seems like injuries haven't been as much of a problem this year, is that true? Also, if you were the coach, what would you do to try and turn things around for the rest of the season?
TigerFan86-87
Usually we can blame poor performance on injuries, but it seems like injuries haven't been as much of a problem this year, is that true?
Well, I don't know all of the numbers, but they have only lost half as many Norrishes for the entire season compared to last year.
LtPowers
Also, if you were the coach, what would you do to try and turn things around for the rest of the season?
If I knew that, I'd be the coach.
Powers &8^]
Even so, it's been a big loss for sure. It makes our blue line pretty young.
Injuries are never a science. Many can be just to much to over come, but sometimes it just takes one. I've often wonder what would have happen Garbowsky's Junior year if he had not gotten injured for most of it. At the same time you can't really give them the proper respect an injury deserves cause then what does it say about the player replacing the injured one. Everyone gets them, you hope not to many of your key players, you go one when they happen.
As for what I would do if I was the coach...
I offer this fully admitting that Wayne Wilson has many more NCAA wins than I do. I have nothing but admiration and respect for the man who I want to be RIT's coach till he is ready to hang it up. And also lets remember that they just dominated one of the better teams in the league on Saturday.
That being said as Crash said to the skipper in Bull Durham, Scare them, they are kids. I am a big fan of Wayne's calm approach and always keep his cool. But at some points I sure hope he scares them and open up on them in the room. I get a little tired of the supportive talk, which you should be, but there are times kids just need a kick in the behind. At most you only get 4 seasons here guys, make them count because when they are over you will never forget them and give just about anything to go back.
The other thing is stop the dang ride the hot goaltender train. It's not working. I like Andriano and still have high hopes for him, but I think he should have had a start long ago. As Short should have as well. The impression I got was there was going to be a short (no pun) rotation and then a decision was going to get made. That never happen, Drackett has a bunch of talent and I like him too, however it shocked me how he just seemed to get the keys to the car from the start. When he had a hiccup the entire team started to go off the tracks. Let me again express how highly I think of this coaching staff, but I honestly have been at a loss this season and last at the goal-tending decisions. There have been lessons over the years on goaltenders like Jared DeMichiel and Jordan Ruby that just seem to have been forgotten. Even though I thought Rotolo was the more talented goaltender I was amazed at how long they rode him till giving Short a shot after the wheels had already come off on that season. Given Rotolo's back to back night history and they fact that he was very good in the previous year's playoff run after he was injured and had rest just screamed don't ride him into the ground. They did and he had nothing in the tank by years end. He was a man and gave it his all and I doubt would complain. I would have given all 3 guys at least 2 starts before going with a guy back to back. At this point I am honestly not sure what the right move is, other than hope what he is doing now works out.
blazer777
Do the tigers have a fourth goalie they can put in to get a win or two?
Nb: couldn't hear the game tonight so I haven't a clue how this went down
We are definitely grumpy old men today. I hope the Tigers can turn it around tonight. I wonder who is starting in goal tonight? Roll the dice.
Andriano, supprissing no?
komey1
Here's my problem with this take. We aren't in the practices or locker room so we don't really know much of what is going on behind the scenes. Coach probably had some plans in mind at the start of the season but plans change. As noted philosopher Leonard Snart (Captain Cold) said:
Make the plan
Expect the plan to go off the rails
Throw away the plan.
Dracett got the keys early based on the great game he played against Northeastern. Neither him or Short played well the next weekend. The pregame show after Short's start wondered by Drackett didn't start after his game. Then they apologized after Dracett's clunker against RPI - a loss that looks worse the way they are playing. Short rebounded with a few good games, including the shiutout against Providence. However 2 not so great games put him on the bench.
IMO, no goaltender has really earned enough of a benefit of the doubt to withstand a couple bad games.
IMO, no goaltender has really earned enough of a benefit of the doubt to withstand a couple bad games.Agreed and I had wondered about what was happening at practice and behind the scenes often last season. I don't like speculating as it's unfair to the student athletes. However, what is not speculation is the results have been poor. It's always a cruel business of what have you done for me lately...
That was a heart pounding last ten minutes. Congrats to the Tigers!
Much needed win. Adriano and Peacock came up huge.
From tonight's pregame, it sounds as if the Tigers did everything right last night except score. It was much more even than the score would indicate.
I'm glad the Tigers got a win tonight; looks like Berrafato almost stole a tie for the Crusaders.
jflory81
Good to see the Tigers come back from some adversity tonight. Not getting the full two points after blowing a two goal lead might have been disastrous with where this team's psyche had seemed to be.
Also interesting to see Adriano in there again tonight after giving up 4 goals last night - that indicates to me that the team's defensive play last night was not where the coaches wanted it, because generally when you give up 4 something isn't working in your own end, be it your defensive play or your goaltending. The 36 shots against is another clue that Friday might have not been the defense's best night. After tonight's game you have to think they're going to roll with Adriano again at least to start next weekend; he seems to be giving them some consistency in net that Drackett and Short could not manage.
tonight's game you have to think they're going to roll with Adriano again at least to start next weekend; he seems to be giving them some consistency in net that Drackett and Short could not manage.
"Consistency". That's the magic word right there. Seems like the Tigers can play with anyone if they are running on all cylinders.
that indicates to me that the team's defensive play last night was not where the coaches wanted it, because generally when you give up 4 something isn't working in your own end, be it your defensive play or your goaltending.
I don't think the defense has been as good as anyone thought it would be at the start of the year. It's not like these are freshman out there making mistakes, but players with experience. You can't pin this just on the loss of Brady Norish. The players playing got plenty of experience last year when the Norish twins went down. When they minimize their mistakes and play well, the team usually wins. When they don't, the goaltending has not been able to bail them out all the time.
I didn't hear Saturday's game, but did listen on Friday. The impression they gave during and after the game was pretty much all negative. With the exception of a 5-10 minute stretch in the second, it never sounded like the Tigers generated much pressure on offense at all. Coach said that Holy Cross worked harder than the Tigers. He followed that up by trying to walk that back a bit when he said that RIT worked hard, though, just not as hard as they did.
I didn't hear Saturday's game, but did listen on Friday. The impression they gave during and after the game was pretty much all negative. With the exception of a 5-10 minute stretch in the second, it never sounded like the Tigers generated much pressure on offense at all. Coach said that Holy Cross worked harder than the Tigers. He followed that up by trying to walk that back a bit when he said that RIT worked hard, though, just not as hard as they did.After a night in the hotel with a couple of drinks can make radio guys sound more cherry... | {
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In the Face of Presumptions: An Interview with Barry Moser
01. Interview
02. Self-Interview
03. Moser's Top Ten Creations
Barry Moser is a big bear of a man with a bald head and a full white beard. He is also a portrait of contradictions.
Moser is a longtime New Englander who banters with fellow artists and intellectuals in the five-college region of Massachusetts, but he has the Tennessee accent of a Bible-Belt preacher—which, for a time, he was. He refers to himself as both a traditionalist and an iconoclast, and has the spontaneity of an artist but the perfectionism of an engineer.
Of all these seeming inconsistencies, the most intriguing to me is that Barry Moser is a self-proclaimed agnostic, yet he devoted five years to his magnum opus—illustrating the entire King James Bible with over two hundred wood engravings.
Why would he do this? Why would a doubter become immersed in the biblical text at the most intimate level, the realm of images, illustrations, and deep meaning? What was the five-year journey like? And how could he experience such a baptism, yet remain on the banks of the Christian life? These questions are the subject of this interview. But first, a few more images from Barry's life.
Moser was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1940. He put himself through the last two years of college as a Methodist preacher, but his calling to the ministry didn't stick. Although he was accepted into the divinity school at Vanderbilt, he declined to attend and moved to New England, where he taught for five years. It was during this time that he began to learn the crafts of etching and wood engraving.
He forged himself into an extraordinary bookman and one of the world's great illustrators. Added to that, he became a brilliant wood engraver, a painter, a designer, a publisher, an author, and a frequent lecturer on the arts of the book. His journey has included teaching stints at the Rhode Island School of Design and Smith College.
Since 1969, when he composed his first line of hand-set type, Moser has illustrated some of this century's most beautiful private press books. (See the listing of "Moser's top ten creations.")
But he never forgot his early love for the Christian Scripture. In the early '90s, Moser had an opportunity to combine his two passions, becoming the progenitor, designer, and illustrator of a new edition of the King James Bible for the Pennyroyal Caxton Press. Pennyroyal is Moser's private press. Bruce Kovner, chairman of The Caxton Corporation, a NYC investment banking group, provided the funding: two million dollars of it, in fact. Thus, the name Pennyroyal Caxton.
The result was one of the greatest feats of book artistry of the century, noted not only for the extraordinary beauty of its 236 black-and-white illustrations (each from an intricate wood engraving by Moser), but also for the perfection of its typesetting and printing. Today, copies of the original four hundred-print letterpress edition live in some of the most prestigious book collections in the world, including the National Gallery of Art, the Israeli Museum, the British Museum, and The Vatican Library. If you are thinking of adding this Bible to your private collection, you may want to check your bank account. It currently sells for $12,500. The trade edition was later published by Viking Studio, making Moser's stunning masterpiece available in a form affordable to anyone with a love of Scripture, a love of beautiful books, or both.
The interview that follows serves as a bridge between the most recent past issue of Conversations (Scripture and Formation) and the current issue (Obstacles to Union). We wanted to pull up a chair for Barry Moser so we could hear more about both his magnum opus—illustrating the entire Bible—and what he has experienced as obstacles to a desire to pursue union with God.
GWM: Let me just jump right in. How is it that a self-confessed agnostic would devote almost five years to producing an illustrated Bible?
BM: I taught myself the arts of typography and book design. If one does that, one finds out very quickly that all the great monuments of printing have been Bibles. As a friend of mine put it, you can walk the history of printing on the spines of Bibles. I simply wanted to join the club, you might say. I was also aware that no artist in the twentieth century had undertaken the entire thing as a book in the codex form. Salvador Dali did a couple of dozen prints for a Biblia Sacra (a Latin Bible), but they were literally stuck in after the book was printed. Also, he did most of his images for the New Testament, which seems a mite off-balance to me. Anyway, I figured somebody ought to have the gumption to do it, so why not me?
GWM: There was nothing that drew you to this particular project at a personal or spiritual level?
BM: At that time, I can't really say there was. My motivation was then strictly typographic and artistic. Now, in retrospect, I think it is more likely than not that I was, underneath it all, seeking a new path to the waterfall, as it were. An attempt to connect with the empyrean in a manner consistent with who I am now, not the emotional and obvious way that I did as a nineteen-year-old preacher boy.
GWM: I'm wondering if there were any moments when you felt a connection to the celestial as you worked on the project. I've read where you state, "What keeps me from being an atheist is that every now and again, I feel that ascendancy; I feel that I become part of it. But such moments are rare. And to make matters worse, those moments are so fleeting and twinkling, I usually don't know they happened until later." Barry Moser, In the Face of Presumption: Essays, Speeches and Incidental Writings. (Boston: David R. Godine) 2000) 78.
Feeling the ascendancy. Did you ever feel this while working on the Bible?
BM: I wish with all my heart I could say yes, I did at every moment—that I felt some divine hand guiding me. But I did not. At least not often. There were those rare times when I felt a—I don't have a word for it—an elation, I suppose, a joyful feeling of accomplishment, of having achieved something I had never achieved before, but even those moments were always after the fact.
Like, for instance, when I did the crucifixion: I knew it was going to be hard, and since I had done a fairly successful one for my Dante years ago, I decided to quote myself. It was a safe and emotionally dull image, certain to wrinkle no noses, offend nobody, and certain to cause no deep reflection on the Passion. I later decided this was its weakness. Too namby-pamby and not at all what I really wanted to do. What I wanted to do was get in there and mingle with that ugly and mordacious crowd. I wanted to hear the carrion birds squawking and bickering when they went for the eyes. I wanted to see the feral dogs fighting over the blood or tearing open the legs. To be there, as the old spiritual says, "when they nailed him to that tree." So I did a second version that was much more to the heart of the matter as I saw it. Ultimately, I included them both, using the first one as a sort of afterword—like God's quietly saying, "This is my son . . ."
I did not know that I was in an ascendancy, a state of grace, at that moment. I still do not know that. I do feel it, however.
And, too, it wasn't a "moment." It took a week or more to work out that composition and another week to engrave it. And after it was done and the pages printed, I noticed they were the only pages in the entire book on which there were no words. What that means, if anything, I do not know, but it was then that I felt perhaps I had been in an ascendancy, in a prevenient state of grace, as it were. That was one of those rare moments when, upon reflection—and out of exhaustion and undoubtedly listening to a mass by Thomas Victoria or something, and, who knows, perhaps sipping a dry martini—I thought it possible that the Holy Spirit—again, if you will allow a reprobate use of that sacred term—had moved through me. I didn't see it coming, nor did I pray for it to happen. I didn't even know it was happening as it was happening. Can't explain it any better than that. Sorry. It's a mystery.
GWM: I am touched by your humility in your reference to the Holy Spirit. I'm also struck by the fact that you were not afraid of a mammoth undertaking. When I looked at the more than two hundred images from the wood engravings you created, I was stunned by both the detail and the emotion. Yet even at the end of this project, you refer to yourself as agnostic. Sorry to be stuck on this, but how do you contrast agnostic and atheist in personal terms?
BM: Let me preface my answer by saying that I do not think of myself as an arrogant man. An atheist, it seems to me, is as certain about his or her belief as is the ultraconservative, literalist Christian, Muslim, or Jew. I equate certainty with arrogance. Agnosticism is merely taking the position of saying, "I don't know." And I don't. In fact, I know very little. I suspect a lot, but I know very, very little.
GWM: Years ago, I was teaching a class in which it was important to examine spiritual maturity. I remember constructing a spiritual maturity scale—just for fun and with tongue, at least partially, in cheek—in which we rated the confession "I don't know" toward the top and "I know that I know that I know" at the very bottom. The point was, it's impossible to know, so let's confess that and continue the journey. But let me get back on track.
Barry, in your collection of essays, In the Face of Presumption, you state that your family members were not readers: "I don't even remember someone reading to me." Moser, 25. Yet you have become not just a wordsmith, but a booksmith with few peers. Please say more about your journey from literary deprivation to abundance.
BM: We were just talking about this over dinner not long ago. I was slightly dyslexic as a kid and found reading a terrible chore. Having parents who read only the papers and a few bestsellers here and there did not abet my desire to read. Neither did my slow stumbling over one-syllable words when called upon to read in class. So I just didn't read. I read Classics Illustrated to prepare for exams—no need to say that I did not do well on those exams. Today, however, I find that my natural slowness in reading has been a great asset to my work. My wife tells me she thinks I am one of the most observant readers she has ever known. If that is true, it is because I read pretty much word for word, looking for detail to make sure I don't screw up. It's a real embarrassment to paint a character with red hair when on page 48 the author clearly states (and perhaps only that one time) that the character is raven-haired. In my profession it pays to go slow, to be careful.
GWM: While my confession is far less shocking, I'm sure that if the rural Georgia school I attended had had a school psychologist, I would've been diagnosed with dyslexia—among other things. I hated to read and always tried to change the subject if folks started talking about what they'd been reading recently. But I know what you mean as far as finding a bright side to being a, let's say, very deliberate reader. Plus, now that I've discovered books on CD, a whole new world has opened—but enough commiserating.
Tell us more about the history of this present project—The Pennyroyal Caxton Edition of the Holy Bible. I understand you once said that if you could do [illustrate] just one book, it would be the Bible.
BM: I did say that, and now that it's done, I'd say it again. I'd like to start all over again. Nothing is ever perfect. I see things, lots of things, I would do differently. For anyone in my "bidness," as Miss O'Connor might have put it. . . .
GWM: And for those who don't speak Southern, you just said "business."
BM: Thanks.
GWM: I just didn't want any of our readers to think your dyslexia had become expressive.
BM: Thank you. For those in my "bidness," the Holy Bible is the profession's Everest. It is like what Michael Jordan said about playing basketball in Madison Square Garden . . . until you've played there, you've still got something to prove.
GWM: So, in one sense, you decided to tackle this project because it was there and it was big.
BM: That's fair to say.
GWM: But even so, a project like this can also be a canvas for projection. I'm struck by an essay you wrote entitled, "Refiner's Fire." You say, "I was refined through the fires of my own particular and unique history and experiences—an early mentor, a racist family, military school, thirty years of teaching and rearing my own family, and now what seems like a lifetime of studying and practicing my craft, polishing it over and over like my grandfather polished his sword." Moser, 22.
How has the context of your life story affected your ability to do this project?
BM: It is very important for a writer or an artist to sit up and pay attention. Nothing should escape your notice—even though, considering the current hypocritical, arrogant, and mendacious political milieu in this great nation of ours, paying attention can drive a guy nuts! And all things noticed inevitably go into the cauldron that comprises your own unique history. For me, it was a racist family; angry, bigoted cousins; and my six years at Baylor, the preparatory school I attended
in Chattanooga, where I had to struggle just to keep up and to keep trying even in the face of certain and inevitable defeat, especially in the classroom and on the athletic fields. Going into that Bible project, I did not know that I would succeed—and I am not yet entirely convinced that I did. In fact, I thought it very likely that I would not. But I had to try. I had to at least do that.
My years in the classroom have taught me just how much I don't know, as have all these thirty-odd years of designing books and engraving images. I think it was E. L. Doctorow who said that every time you start something new, it's as if you're starting all over again from the beginning. Things you thought you knew, you don't know. With the Bible, it was this verity in spades. I am still learning, thank God, and I hope that's always the case.
All this history comes into play with my images for the Bible. I am certain that all those years of marching with an M-1 rifle paved the early ground of my typographic interest—all that lining up and dressing down, all that counting cadence. It left its mark. I sometimes feel that my life with type was inevitable.
And I'm sure this history plays a big part in my built-in iconoclastic, in-your-face attitude. I did not make these images to be a comfort for the pious. I did not look for nor want the approbation of the saved. Hell, no. In fact, if anything, it would be just the opposite—shock the old fogies! Make them think about a familiar story in a new way. Bring them face to face with the poverty of Jesus and ask them to consider the contradiction and hypocrisy made manifest by the wealth and pomposity of so many self-righteous Christians, Bible-thumping televangelists, and religious corporations. Let's confront the rape of Tamar directly. Let's shove past the pious and symbolic interpretation of that wonderfully erotic love poem called The Song of Songs, of Solomon—call it what you may—and see the lovers in their embrace among the mandrake, hellebore, and other flowers. Let's question why an angel of God stayed Abraham's knife when he was about to slaughter Isaac and did not do the same to save Jephtha's daughter. I could go on, but your journal ain't long enough.
GWM: We've been known to print extra pages when someone is baring his soul. Barry, given the theme of this current issue, obstacles to union, I'm wondering, to use your terms, whether "the wealth and pomposity of so many self-righteous Christians, Bible-thumping televangelists, and religious corporations" have made an impact on your own spiritual pilgrimage.
BM: You mean other than just astounding me and pissing me off with their pious, self-serving arrogance?
GWM: Assuming our publishers will let you say that in print, yes.
BM: Well, from that specific group, no. They just basically irritate me, make me want to puke, like when I see and smell maggots and detritus on the bottom of a garbage can.
GWM: Don't hold back on my account.
BM: Two incidents that happened years ago did turn me away from the church—by which I mean from the social church. The first incident involved a young girl in my youth group at a church where I was the assistant minister and youth director. She got pregnant, and when [the fact of her pregnancy] came out, the entire congregation of that church turned their backs on her. The only place she and her boyfriend were welcome was in my Sunday school class. They'd come to my class and then leave and go home. I lost my job over it, but that's beside the point. My real hurt was the irreconcilable chasm between that congregational behavior and the word of the Gospel as I read it.
The other incident involved a black man who worked for my daddy back in the '60s. His name was John. He was a deacon in his church—a Baptist church, I believe it was—out near Howard High. John was always asking me, the preacher-boy, to go to church with him. Well, you realize, given the times, that was a social impossibility, especially as far as my family was concerned. Again, to make a long story short, I went to church with John one summer Sunday. Not only was I warmly welcomed in that church that day—the only white face within a half-mile radius—I was invited to sit on the dais with the preacher and to give the morning prayer, which I did. The point of all this is that John could never have gone to church with me. If he had, he would have probably been hanged in the front yard of the church—me too, for breaching the racial divide. Like the young pregnant girl's situation, I simply could not reconcile this betrayal of charity with the way I read the Gospel and understood the ministry and teaching of Jesus. Couldn't make sense of it. So, like ol' Huck Finn, I figured that if they were right and I was wrong, I'd just have to go to hell.
As I said, this all happened in the early '60s, within a two-year period of time. And it thoroughly disgusted me, so I did what I do best in such circumstances: I left. I left the church, I left my family, and I left my beloved Dixie.
Over the past five years, I have often thought that my making of the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible might turn out to be a new sort of ministry, a sort of picking up where I left off—just using a different medium of communication. Who knows?
GWM: Barry, I appreciate your raw honesty. And your reference to Huck Finn was striking to me because in reading your essays and listening to you now, the abrasive but keen insights of Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] so often come to mind. If you could travel back in time and see yourself again as that nineteen-year-old "preacher boy"—before being hit by those two bolts of hypocrisy—how would you have approached the task of capturing images from the Bible then, versus your work in the present project?
BM: I don't really know, of course, but I am fairly certain that the images I might have invented at age nineteen would have been sickly saccharine and painfully pious. This was the form of my religiosity at the time. I held the Bible to be the infallible, inerrant word of God. I thought of myself as a pious, saved Christian who knew the will and mind of God. No question about it. It was, of course, my mind I knew, not God's—and I can see now that I didn't even know that nearly as well as I thought I did. Who does at nineteen? My mind was of the same stripe that, three-hundred-odd years before, would have followed the conventional wisdom of the religious leaders and plopped old Galileo's arse in the hoosegow for promoting his heresy that the earth was not at the center of the universe. Thus, I have to deduce that any images coming out of that time and that mind-set would have aimed at convenient sanctimony because I would have been doing it for my juvenile understanding of "the glory of God."
Now, I am not saying that what I did as a crusty old man at the turn of the century was not for the glory of God. Perhaps it was. It's another one of those things I don't know. The conscious reality is that I did it for myself. It was, in a very significant and personal way, an old reprobate's prayer to an elusive deity. Perhaps you know this already, but the ancient Hebrew word for prayer is the same as the word for work. This is why I included the last line of Nehemiah's book, accounting for his work rebuilding the walls around Jerusalem, as the very last line in the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible, falling on the tail of two pages of acknowledgments. That line, loosely translated, reads, "Remember me for my work, O Lord."
GWM: It is easy to hear your own prayer in those words. You have said you see yourself as both a traditionalist and an iconoclast. This is fascinating. I can see your iconoclastic contours, but please say more about yourself as a traditionalist and how this paradox has played out in your life.
BM: I don't see this as a paradox. I am a traditionalist in that I adhere to the tenets of past times, especially the early Italian and German Renaissance. I respect craftsmanship and endurance. I also look to the likes of Thomas Eakins and Albrecht Dürer for my inspiration—and I mean that in the true meaning of "breathing in" with them. Without them and others of their ilk, I don't think I could breathe at all. I have no truck with notions of talent or creativity or inspiration in its broadly misused sense. I believe in solving problems. And, as with the Bible, I often set them for myself. I believe with Flannery O'Connor that God and posterity are served only by well-made articles. I also believe with John Gardner that no artist or writer worth his or her salt ever sits down to express himself. We sit down to write a sonnet or an ottava rima. To invent an Ecce Homo or a Deposition. To compose a symphony in C major or a concerto for violin.
I am an iconoclast only in that I choose to see, and work hard at seeing, things in surprising ways. For instance, Potiphar's wife is usually depicted as a sultry young thing who came on to Joseph, unleashing a torrent of sordid events. I tried to break that image (the meaning of iconoclastic) by being sympathetic towards her. Hey, she was married to a politician, and if nothing else, that makes her a sympathetic character in my book. So perhaps her husband is just too busy for her. So perhaps she sees this young hunk and comes on to him and is rejected by him. What a sad woman she must have been, especially if we see her not as a young beauty but as a middle-aged woman who is starved for affection. This interpretation does not in any way conflict with the text. It merely offers another reading, much like the Jewish midrash expanding biblical texts, explaining the story further and giving names to the unnamed.
GWM: I have great admiration for those who respect mystery, and I certainly appreciate your humility in that description. Barry, you state, "This work has brought me back to prayer—and I don't mean clasping my hands together and getting down on my knees and mumbling Our Fathers. I mean the understanding that what-ever God is, He-She-It knows my heart's mind and my heart's voice. I will never know what God is. I, like Aquinas, believe that whatever I can think God is could not be what God is—simply because I've thought it. For me, God is—and must be—a mystery. This work I have done is a song to whatever God is. It is an expression of gratitude for having the strength, ability, and energy to do the work and for the opportunity to live long enough to see it fulfilled." Moser, 178. Please say more.
BM: I don't know that I can. That sentence did not just tumble off the tongue. It probably took me all day to write that sentence—that's the way I write—and I think it says it well enough. Today, five years after the completion of my Bible, I can and will say the same thing about all my work, whether it be of a religious nature or purely secular. You'll note I did not say "spiritual nature," since I think of all my work as spiritual, but now that I've said that, I wish I hadn't because the bloody word spiritual, like creative, has been so casually overused that it no longer means anything. As long as I am trying to make something better this time than I did the last, my "prayerfulness" is, I believe, strengthened. I am a worthier person for it. And by worthier, I mean worthier to myself. I take—here's an iconoclasm for you—Jesus' exhortation to "Love one another as you love yourself" to mean exactly and literally that. Love as you love yourself. If you are not comfortable with who you are, if you do not love yourself for who you are, then what love you have to give away is a weak and poor thing to give. Understand, I am not advocating self-delusion, self-indulgence, self-deception, self-importance, nor self-aggrandizement, but merely the idea of being comfortable within yourself by constantly trying to understand, accept, and love yourself for who you are. That's a tall order to fill. You can figure God into that formula anywhere you wish, or not, but for me, I have to try constantly to better that clay pot into something which, by some act of grace, God's wine may (or may not) have been placed.
GWM: What things have best helped you to be able to accept and love yourself?
BM: My family and my understanding of the nature of work. My family because it is the experience of family that best teaches us to get outside ourselves—you simply cannot be inside yourself all the time and be a full participant in family life. And only when we get outside our self can we look back at it and examine it. The experience of family teaches us that. It also teaches us that you can love and enjoy a person despite that person's shortcomings and faults. That is key to me, key to the deepest aspect of self-love, which is to be able to recognize that which should be disciplined, as well as that which should be celebrated. And that's where work comes in: I am my own harshest critic—you have to be if you are worth a tinker's damn as an artist—and after a day of constant self-criticism, it's good to be able to have the self-confidence and honesty to admit that the day's work was crap, or that it was good, and in either case to be able to relax and go have a cold martini or whatever else helps end that day so you'll be ready to get up and at 'em the next day.
GWM: Last question. Of all the 236 engravings you created for the Bible project, which one, for you, inspires a desire for union with God?
BM: My first thought, the image that jumped immediately to mind, was Jonah, the image I titled "And the Sea Stopped Raging," where old Jonah is just about to be gobbled up by that big fish—but I don't know why, so I'll go with another choice: I'll choose "My Life Is Wind." It's the image of Job, who, like us all in these tragic days of war, greed, hypocrisy, and mendacity, sits in his pit of ashes, or dung, depending on your translation. For me it inspires, though that's a suspect word in my vernacular, a desire—no, a yearning—for justice, wisdom, charity, and truth.
GWM: Barry, I've enjoyed this time with you. Your insights and opinions are often uncomfortable, like a bucket of cold water—well, to borrow a title from you—"in the face of presumption." But I also found myself struck by your sense of respect for the mystery that surrounds us.
I'd like to close this interview with some better questions, so I'll let you ask them. What follows is your self-interview.
Q: You really do believe that God is intervening in this work, don't you, you old reprobate?
A: I wish I could believe that.
Q: Honestly now, deep down, you do have a sense that something—even if you don't choose to call it God—is at work here. Something other than your own puny self.
Q: What is it, then?
A: I don't know. It just seems that time after time, when something like this Virgin image has to be done over again or, in this specific case, over and over, I always come up with something that makes the whole of the work better—even if it has to be done over for reasons that are extra-pictorial.
Q: Well, why do you resist so strongly admitting that it might be God at work here? You used to believe that God was omnipresent, that He could do anything. You used to believe that He directed your life, that He kept you from danger—like that day in 1958 when you damned near got shot. That threw you into the ministry, albeit you were a boy. Now you resist the possibility of divine intervention.
A: Why do you call God "He"?
Q: Convention. I don't believe any more than you that God has any sex. But that's beside the point. You're avoiding my question.
A: I know I am. I don't know why I resist. I think that, in part, it is because it's too simple. To believe something like that is to deny the complexity of what God must be if God is.
Q: Why?
A: Look at what the Hubble telescope can see, for God's sake—damned near to the end of the universe, and at that, it's looking in only one direction. It ain't even looking in all the possible directions. Can't, because there are an infinite number of them. Look at the structure out there. And that's just outer space. Same thing goes for inner space. Huge, both ways, so huge I can't imagine that any human being, pitiful and tiny as we are, has the ability to understand, to even grasp a feather of the wings, if you will, or a mote of dander from the hair of whatever created all that. . . .
Q: [But] why don't you accept it? Embrace it. Maybe it would make you a more complete human being, a better person.
A: Because it's just too easy. And besides, I don't feel that anything is spiritually broken and in need of repair.
Q: Are you sure?
A: Yes. Well . . .
Q: Oh, God, I give up. Why don't you just get to work?
A: Hey, don't go bitching at me. You're the one with all the questions.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1982
Frankenstein, 1983
The Divine Comedy, 1980–84
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1990
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1985
Moby Dick, 1978
Jump! 1986
The Tinderbox, 1990
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1985
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The establishment of the academic grant allows McMaster University to recognize and acknowledge that it is located on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee nations, and within the lands protected by the "Dish With One Spoon" wampum agreement. It also allows the University to recognize the City of Hamilton's role in treating Inuit peoples with tuberculosis after the Second World War. The Hamilton Sanatorium on the Mountain was once home to the largest year-round community of Inuit anywhere in the country.
Requirements: To be awarded to students who self-identify as Inuit, or as Status/Non-status First Nations from the Six Nations of the Grand River or the Mississaugas of the New Credit, who are entering a Level I baccalaureate degree program with a minimum average of 75%, and demonstrate financial need. The academic grant is renewable for 3 additional years at the same value for those who remain enrolled full-time and achieve a minimum grade point average of 8.0.
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Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan Will Attend Jokowi-Ma'ruf's Inauguration
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JBN.CO.ID ■ The Presidential Secretariat is preparing accommodation for a number of state guests who plan to attend the inauguration of elected President and Vice President Joko Widodo and Ma'ruf Amin on 20 October.
"We the palace has prepared the best vehicles for all state guests and their range. Likewise hotels and others," Head of the Presidential Secretariat Heru Budi Hartono, Wednesday (10/16/2019) told reporters in Jakarta.
According to him, a number of state guests had also arranged official meeting schedules or "courtesy calls" with President Joko Widodo.
According to Heru, the Ministry of State Secretary had held a joint meeting with the Indonesian MPR Secretariat General regarding the inauguration of Jokowi-Ma'ruf.
"Especially security," Heru said, explaining the discussion of the meeting.
A number of heads of state and heads of government and representatives plan to attend the inauguration of Jokowi-Ma'ruf including the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, King of Swaziland, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, and Prime Minister Australian Minister Scott Morrison, and Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan.
Earlier the Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko said that the inauguration ceremony for President Joko Widodo and Vice President Ma'ruf Amin would be carried out simply after the inauguration at the MPR RI.
A number of components of the community plan to provide support at the inauguration celebration event, one of which is holding a cultural parade that will be held from the Horse Statue or Hotel Indonesia Roundabout area, Jakarta on Sunday afternoon (10/20/2019).
A number of cultural attractions are planned to be displayed by several artists from art galleries.
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Ten millionth vehicle built at Nissan Sunderland Plant
Friday 28 June 2019, 2:29 PM
Nissan Sunderland Plant becomes the fastest UK site to reach the milestone
On average the plant has built a car every two minutes since production started
Parked bumper to bumper, the 10m cars would stretch around the globe
SUNDERLAND, UK – Nissan Sunderland Plant is celebrating another record breaking milestone as the ten millionth vehicle rolls of the production line.
It has taken the plant 33 years to reach the ten million mark – making it the fastest car factory in the UK to the landmark figure. It also means that, on average, a new car has been built in Sunderland every two minutes since production started in 1986.
And if all ten million cars were parked nose to tail they would stretch for more than 42,000km – which is enough to go all the way around the equator of the world, with a few to spare.
Steve Marsh, Nissan Sunderland Plant Vice President, Manufacturing, said: "Building ten million vehicles is a tremendous achievement for everyone associated with the plant.
"Reaching this huge figure has called on all the ingenuity, commitment and spirit of our highly skilled workforce, many of who hail from the North East of England.
"Together we are determined to continue to drive up the high quality standards our customers have come to expect over the last three decades."
The ten millionth car was a Vivid Blue Nissan Qashqai Tekna, complete with ProPILOT technology, which controls the steering, acceleration and braking in a single lane on highways during heavy traffic congestion and high-speed cruising. The pioneering crossover is also the most produced model at the plant, contributing more than 3.4 million to the overall figure. Micra is the second most produced car, with close to 2.4 million being built in Sunderland.
Qashqai is one of nine main models to be built at the plant since the first Bluebird was built in 1986 and it is one of three currently made at the plant, alongside the all-electric LEAF and Juke. Last year production of Juke passed one million, with Primera the only other model to hit seven figures at just under 1.5 million.
Nissan Sunderland Plant was built on the site of a former airfield, with a ground breaking ceremony taking place in July 1984. The first Bluebird rolled off the line two years later in 1986, and production for the first year was 5,139. The total workforce at that time was 470, compared to about 7,000 today.
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About Leslie Irwin
So far Leslie Irwin has created 23 blog entries.
2015/16 Season In Review
Smuin's 2015/16 season ended this weekend after our final performances of Dance Series Two at the Sunset Center in Carmel. Full of exciting dance works, classic Smuin favorites and highly anticipated world premieres, this season is one to remember! Here are some highlights from the year. "Smuin Ballet is back in action!" [...]
2015/16 Season In ReviewLeslie Irwin2017-05-22T20:22:24-07:00
Punctuating Movement: A Conversation on the Creation of Oasis
Last weekend, Dance Series Two opened at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. At Smuin's Opening Night Dinner, the creators of Oasis spoke about the process of designing a new dance work. Check out our recap of the conversation below! Beginning a Ballet Artistic Director Celia Fushille met choreographer Helen [...]
Punctuating Movement: A Conversation on the Creation of OasisLeslie Irwin2017-05-22T20:22:24-07:00
"Ingenuity and Gumption:" Smuin Ballet's Dance Series Two
Dance Series Two, News & Events
Smuin Ballet's Dance Series Two opened at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco this past weekend. Featuring the world premiere of choreographer Helen Pickett's Oasis, and revisiting Jiří Kylián's classic Return to a Strange Land and Val Caniparoli's Tutto Eccetto il Lavandino, the program offered a wide variety of musical and [...]
"Ingenuity and Gumption:" Smuin Ballet's Dance Series TwoLeslie Irwin2017-05-22T20:22:24-07:00
A Tribute to Smuin Dancer Susan Roemer
Following an incredible nine-year career of dynamic dance performance and expressive movement with Smuin Ballet, Susan Roemer will step away from performing and focus on her growing career as a costume designer. With her keen artistry and tremendous skill as a dancer, she's performed many key roles in Smuin productions over the years, and is [...]
A Tribute to Smuin Dancer Susan RoemerLeslie Irwin2017-05-22T20:22:24-07:00
Spring Events with Smuin Ballet
Dance Series Two
Smuin's spring season is abuzz with activity! Join us for for any or all of these delightful gatherings to celebrate Smuin Ballet and the opening of our phenomenal program Dance Series Two. The series includes the premiere of Helen Pickett's much-anticipated Oasis with an original score by Netflix's House of Cards composer Jeff Beal. [...]
Spring Events with Smuin BalletLeslie Irwin2017-05-22T20:22:24-07:00
On the Road with Smuin Ballet
This February, Smuin Ballet traveled to Sarasota, Florida to perform our Dance Series One program. Presented by Sarasota Ballet at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, Smuin's five performances were a sold-out success. "We enjoyed wonderful exchanges with their directors, staff and dancers," said Artistic Director Celia Fushille. Smuin Ballet enjoys a long history [...]
On the Road with Smuin BalletLeslie Irwin2017-05-22T20:22:24-07:00
Oasis: A World Premiere in the Making
Dance Series Two, Featured
Last week, Helen Pickett returned to the studio to continue developing her upcoming world premiere for Smuin Ballet. Oasis, a nearly 25-minute work in seven parts, focuses on the idea of water in its many forms. Pickett began developing Oasis with the Company dancers in October, but the origin of the piece traces back to another [...]
Oasis: A World Premiere in the MakingLeslie Irwin2017-05-22T20:22:24-07:00
Distinctive, Exhilarating, and Infectious: Choreography Showcase
Choreography Showcase, Featured
Smuin Ballet's 2016 Choreography Showcase just concluded its run at ODC Theater January 29-30. Featuring 11 works from eight Smuin dancers, the performance offered a variety of musical choices, choreographic styles, and costume designs. The music ranged from Debussy to Missy Elliott to Bon Iver, while several pieces featured original costumes by Company member Susan [...]
Distinctive, Exhilarating, and Infectious: Choreography ShowcaseLeslie Irwin2017-05-22T20:22:24-07:00
Nicole Haskins Takes on Creative Challenges
The 2016 Choreography Showcase is this weekend! This unique opportunity offers a space for Smuin's dancers to choreograph short pieces on one another and perform them in a professional setting. Recently, we spoke with Company member Nicole Haskins about her experience in choreography and her piece for this year's showcase. Nicole in Helen Pickett's [...]
Nicole Haskins Takes on Creative ChallengesLeslie Irwin2017-05-22T20:22:24-07:00
Capturing a Season: Telling Smuin's Story in Images
What goes into producing a new season at Smuin Ballet? After the repertoire has been confirmed and venues are secured, it's time to create a visual library for the season. Since dance is a very visual medium, Smuin produces original photography to tell the company's story through each of the season's programs. Inspiration images [...]
Capturing a Season: Telling Smuin's Story in ImagesLeslie Irwin2017-05-22T20:22:24-07:00
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Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work
IZA DP No. 13053: Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work
Vanessa Burbano, Nicolas Padilla, Stephan Meier
In an effort to better understand occupational segregation by gender, scholars have begun to examine gender differences in preferences for job characteristics. We contend that a critical job characteristic has been overlooked to date: meaning at work; and in particular, meaning at work induced by job mission. We provide empirical evidence of the importance of gender differences in preferences for meaning at work using mixed methods. First, we demonstrate the universality of gender differences in preferences for meaning at work using a cross-country survey covering individuals in 47 countries. We show that these differences become more pronounced with greater levels of education and economic development, suggesting that their importance is likely to increase over time. To address potential social desirability bias in responses about job preferences and to examine whether differences in preferences translate into differences in important behavioral outcomes, we next conduct a conjoint analysis of a cohort of MBA students at a top US university and track their behavior over two years. We show show that preferences for meaning at work, particularly meaning induced by job mission, explain gender differences in not only types of courses taken, but also job industry placement during and after the MBA, thus helping to explain the under-representation of females in higher-paying industries. Overall, this research establishes that men and women differ in their preferences for meaning at work, with important implications for our understanding of the drivers of occupational segregation and of the consequences of corporate mission and purpose.
gender segregation by occupation
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With the impending government shutdown that will no doubt be avoided "just in the nick of time," with the nail-biting made for TV drama that is American politics, many very important stories are going unaddressed, as usual. If indeed the government is shut down this time, I for one do not see that as a bad thing. Maybe we will finally see that the people do not need its hovering hand to go on about our lives. Yet, the-powers-that-shouldn't-be clearly do not want us recognizing their utter irrelevancy today, and it is for that reason alone that, more than likely, an agreement will be made — no doubt including some less than desirable factors, just before the clock runs out … phew.
In today's show we discuss a horrifying new bill that could lead to the use of isotopic nanotechnology to track and monitor legal cannabis sales. This goes back to the same discussion of why the government feels it has the right to tell us what we can and cannot do with our own bodies, and the larger issue of regulating the substance the vast majority of Americans agree should be decriminalized.
We discuss the illegal and intentionally provocative US actions in Syria along the Turkish border, and how it aims to disrupt the relationship of Turkey with both Iran and Russia, in effect ruining any positive steps toward peace that have been made without the US — which is exactly the aim. This seems to connect to the recent failed false flag drone attack carried out against Russia's airbases.
There is a lot of speculation being floated in regard to this memo, as words such as "explosive" "shocking" and "alarming" are being thrown around. Some partisan networks and journalists are even claiming this could lead to the removal of senior FBI and DoJ officials, and even the end of the Mueller investigation altogether.
At this point the memo itself has not been made public, so any speculation, especially that coming from MSM and their "unnamed" sources who have claimed to have read the memo, should be taken with a grain of salt. | {
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CMA 50th Anniversary Red Carpet Photo Gallery: Carrie Underwood, Tim and Faith, Miranda Lambert, Garth and Trisha and More
The stars came out tonight (Nov. 2) for the 50th Annual CMA Awards held at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. In celebration of the golden anniversary, legends and today's hottest artists walked the expansive red carpet before entering the tribute filled show. From Charlie Daniels, The Oak Ridge Boys and Charley Pride to Garth and Trisha,…… MORE
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The 64th annual BMI awards—where country stars get decked out and awards are doled out—were held last night (Nov. 2) at the BMI offices in Nashville.The event honors songwriters and publishers of the most-performed country songs of the past year. It was a big night for Kenny Chesney, who was honored with the BMI President's…… MORE
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I recently re-read George Soros' lectures at Central European University from October 2009. He gave five of them and they will be something I return to over time. Soros' most formative experience was as a 14-year-old in 1944 and having escaped the Nazis out of Hungary. His father saw the writing on the wall and was able to arrange for him and his family to escape, as well as others. Soros saw the devastating consequences of totalitarian systems. This, in conjunction with studying with philosopher Karl Popper in London, inspired a lifelong quest by Soros to develop a coherent philosophy to help explain how individuals and societies process the world and how important an open society is for the fostering of free expression and debate because no one has a monopoly on the truth.
Soros developed his theory of reflexivity over time and this served him extraordinarily well as it was instrumental in helping him earn billions of dollars as a global macro investor during his illustrious investing career. As a point of reference in 1981, he managed $100 million, of which $40 million was his capital. Today he has an estimated net worth of over $25 billion.
Soros initially believed that open societies allow for the pursuit of truth and understanding. This is because it is in such an environment that society and its members can have the highest probability of processing the world with an emphasis on the cognitive function in which knowledge and truth flow from the external world to the mind.
This is only half the story, however, as humans are inherently limited in what they can process and retain and suffer from distortions and partial knowledge as well as insecurities, desires, incentives, constraints, and mental shortcuts which can lead to the manipulative function being more in control and taking charge and subordinating the cognitive function. This leads to the mind flowing to the external world and creating distortions. This can only go so far, however, as eventually, reality will be so different than what was expected that great disappointment will ensue. This does not mean, however, that great damage cannot take place up until the awakening occurs.
How is this for an example of the manipulative function taking control?
Apparently, enough people believed Donald Trump, along with other bold claims to have him become elected president. Or maybe they didn't believe him and were voting against Hillary Clinton. Peter Thiel said that people took Trump literally but not seriously when it should have been the opposite. Unfortunately, when one is elected to office they have to step up to the plate and be serious and literal if they want to be effective. I digress.
Trump actually had to do the messy work of spearheading legislation and not just cutting a deal. To use Trump's words, it was a disaster how he and the Republicans handled it. Someone focused completely on the objective function (to the extent we can block out the manipulative function completely) could have easily predicted this. I did and I am no political expert.
In my 30 years at CWS, I have interacted with hundreds of people. Those who have tried to influence me and those who I have tried to influence. I have come to learn to listen very carefully to what people say and how they say it. One of my favorite pieces of advice is that it's better to be a meaningful specific than a wandering generality. When generalities are the basis of the communication at the expense of specifics my huckster antennae goes up and there is very little chance I will do business with that person, especially if they are always in selling mode. Trump never speaks in specifics and only in generalities. He is always selling or trying to persuade and details get in the way of this. When it came to Obamacare repeal and the replacement I looked at the competing interests, the lack of any evidence that Republicans were prepared to advocate and implement versus oppose and block and the speed with which they were trying to jam an incredibly complex restructuring of one-sixth of the economy down the throats of the American people. When I come across ideological behavior that is devoid of balance and common sense I just shake my head and smile to myself knowing that money not only flows from the impatient to the patient as Warren Buffett has pointed out but from the steadfast and ideological to the flexible and objective.
Soros is a great believer in reality shaping people's thoughts and beliefs as well as the converse: people's thoughts and beliefs shaping reality. They feed off of each other. He uses an example in his lecture that when someone says it's raining outside that this statement can be tested whether it's true or not. When someone says these are revolutionary times, this can't be. But if someone truly believes that, then they can act in ways to reinforce that belief, especially if they are in a position of power or influence (e.g. Steve Bannon).
If lenders believe that apartments are very good collateral to lend against because delinquencies and losses are so low, what they may not realize is that this is the case because lenders keep loaning against the collateral which pushes up demand for the investments and prices rise which translates into higher equity values and safer loans. The observer is influencing what is being observed. Bubbles form when reality initially conforms to the beliefs of the many and this then gives them more confidence to get in deeper as their initial hypothesis passes the early tests. Eventually, the vast majority is all in and then something changes to make people realize their reality is not conforming to their expectations and the great unwind begins. This is when the observation that markets go up like an escalator and drop like an elevator manifests itself.
This is why I recently sold off most of my equities position in my 401(k). There was a kernel of truth that Trump would be good for business and earnings and sucked people into the market which led prices to rise and made people think they things would get better financially for them which in turn has pushed consumer confidence up and then brought more people into the market.
The manipulative function then began to dominate the cognitive function since everything was banking on the come and betting on someone who had no experience running anything for which he didn't have full control and who was surrounded by equally inexperienced people. It felt a bit like vaporware to me. This influenced the Fed to raise rates based on future expectations versus any concrete evidence that the economy had reached escape velocity. In fact, to the contrary, data has been soft as evidenced by GDP Now and the difference between soft and hard economic data.
The trend in the above chart makes one wonder what the Fed is seeing that others are not. Perhaps it's the next chart which shows the disconnect between soft, sentiment and expectations data and hard economic data.
This could be a very interesting test of Soros' reflexivity in which the observer influences what is being observed. People saw a sea change in the election of a "pro-business" president in Donald Trump versus the "anti-business socialist" Barack Obama. Animal spirits kicked in and equity prices shot up which fed into consumer confidence and then influenced the Fed's thinking as now it could also bank on the come with unemployment below 5% and inflation reaching its 2% target (let's not forget that this was a minimum target) and seeing escalating consumer confidence, higher stock prices, and the prospects for tax cuts, infrastructure spending, and deregulation as reasons to move rates higher to not get behind the curve. It also feeds into the narrative that we are headed in a new direction and now, finally, we can reach escape velocity and get back on track to more normal 3% growth.
The Fed being on board was the last major missing piece of confirmation needed for this narrative to fall into place. No worries about ignoring some disconfirming evidence such as lower GDP estimates, a bit of a flattening yield curve, a weakening dollar, softer oil prices, deteriorating global trade, the prospect of trade frictions, a White House in complete disarray, a legislative agenda that is at great risk due to a Republican civil war brewing, no White House leadership or command of policy details, and a more confident Democratic party that sees very little to gain in working with the president. The international situation doesn't look to sanguine to me either, just to throw another wrinkle into the narrative.
On the other hand, perhaps I'm wrong and the market is right. Copper prices have been known to be a good reflection of economic activity and the following chart shows they've held their significant gains since the election, although they are off their highs.
On the other hand, if we look at how the "smart money" hedgers are positioned in the futures market, one can see that they haven't been this short for the 10 years of this chart and their normal positioning is to be long. So this leads me to question whether the manipulative function is still ahead of the cognitive function and there will be a reconciliation at some point in the medium term.
All I can say is this should be a fascinating time for those who strive to be rational and objective to see how far the manipulative function plays out because it seems like it is in full force. Even if my move out of equities and into fixed income turns out to have been the wrong decision due to material underperformance, I think I will be at peace with the decision because I feel like I made the adjustment for the right reasons and without real money on the line, then it would have just been an intellectual exercise. Now I have skin in the game to monitor and test my beliefs so I can learn from the experience and help me make better decisions in the future. I am betting that the objective function will outperform the manipulative function unless the manipulative function becomes so powerful that it significantly changes the trajectory of the economy and earnings in a reflexive way. I believe the objective will defeat the manipulative function. Time will tell.
Do you have skin in the game? Do you feel that the objective function will outperform the manipulative function? It certainly is a fascinating time! | {
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Developer sues Oakland Twp., says zoning practices discriminate against elderly
By Rebecca Kruth • Jul 31, 2015
A Michigan company says Oakland Township lacks accommodations for the elderly and disabled.
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A Michigan developer is suing Oakland Township for what the company alleges are discriminatory zoning practices.
Moceri/DM Investments says the township blocked the company's plans to build a multi-unit housing development on 42 acres of land it owns on the township's southwest side.
The company says the development was designed to accommodate elderly and disabled people at "an affordable cost."
Dominic J. Moceri, a company partner, said the plans were voted down in a 2013 referendum, though officials had already granted site approval.
He said the move violates the civil rights of the elderly and disabled by trying to keep them out of the township.
"We have the freedom to move where we want in this country," Moceri said. "To be denied access to a community because you have special needs is a violation of law."
Moceri said Oakland Township lacks adequate accommodations for both groups.
"[Our company has] built a lot of multimillion dollar homes in Oakland Township, but those are wants, those are desires," he said. "Now we're talking about the needs of our residents, current and future."
Joan Busing, a former township supervisor, is also named as a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Oakland Township Manager Warren Brown said he has no comment on the matter "because of pending and ongoing litigation."
Disabiities
Wayne, Oakland counties sued over "unconstitutional" foreclosures
By Sarah Cwiek • Jul 20, 2015
Michigan's two largest counties are illegally foreclosing on thousands of properties for delinquent taxes, according to class-action lawsuits filed this month.
Wayne and Oakland counties have both foreclosed on thousands of properties for unpaid taxes in recent years.
But in doing so they've denied property owners their due process rights, according to the lawsuits filed in circuit courts for both counties.
Michigan's treatment of developmental disabilities has come a long way, still more to be done
By Stateside Staff • Jul 13, 2015
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One of the most profound changes in Michigan has been the way we care for and treat people who are developmentally disabled.
In 1970, there were 14,000 people living in 13 institutions in Michigan. Today, there are no institutions in the state with the last one being closed in 2009.
The graying of Michigan
By Jack Lessenberry • Apr 13, 2015
Jack Lessenberry talks about the aging population in Michigan
Remember when people used to make fun of Florida as "God's waiting room" because of all the elderly who went there to live out the last years of their lives?
Well, here's something startling: Michigan is rapidly becoming an old people's state. Instead of arguing about whether maize and blue or green and white should be our state's official colors, we might be more honest if we made them gray and white.
Michigan ranks low in long-term elderly care
By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jun 19, 2014
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The state of Michigan still has a way to go when it comes to serving its aging residents.
A new national scorecard by the AARP ranks the state 31st in terms of long-term services and support for the elderly.
The report also focused on how well states support family caregivers who provide the bulk of care for older Michiganders. This can cause stress and financial burden on those families, especially those who are juggling their own families and full-time jobs. | {
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FOREX-Dollar higher as euro sags; Aussie firms on China data
Vatsal Srivastava
* Graphic: World FX rates in 2019 tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh
* Euro hovers near mid-Nov low versus the dollar
By Vatsal Srivastava
SINGAPORE, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The dollar held near three-month highs versus the euro on Thursday, supported by sustained strength in core U.S. inflation and weaker-than-expected data out of Europe.
While headline U.S. inflation logged its weakest pace in 1-1/2-years in January, traders focused on the core price gauge, which was up for the third straight month, giving the dollar some impetus.
The euro was trading below the psychologically important $1.13 level at $1.1283. Earlier in the session, it hit an intra-day low of $1.1245.
The greenback was hit earlier this year by the Federal Reserve' shift to a cautious policy stance. However, the latest data suggests the central bank will need to stay vigilant on pricing pressures even as it adjusts to heightened growth risks.
"The trend in core U.S. inflation remains steady, against some concerns of a potential decline..indeed at 2.2 percent year-on-year, the current reading is up from the 1.8 percent reading a year ago," said Rodrigo Catril, senior currency strategist at NAB. "Overall the data suggest that we cannot rule out a resumption of Fed rate hikes later in the year."
The Australian dollar, often considered a barometer for global risk appetite, was up 0.3 percent at $0.7110, having gained about 0.5 percent in the previous session on optimism about the China-U.S. trade talks. The strength in the Aussie was also buoyed by stronger-than-expected economic data out of China, Australia's largest trade partner.
China's January dollar-denominated exports rose 9.1 percent from a year earlier, while imports dropped 1.5 percent, both beating analysts' expectations, official data showed on Thursday.
The dollar index, a gauge of its value versus six major peers, was marginally higher at 97.20, having gained 0.5 percent in the previous session. The index has rallied 1.7 percent so far this month, after two consecutive months of losses.
That contrasted with the wobbles in the euro. The single currency, which has around a 58 percent weighting in the dollar index, has tumbled 1.63 percent this month on the back of weaker-than-expected economic data out of the euro zone and expectations the European Central Bank will remain highly accommodative this year.
Euro zone industrial production fell more than expected in December, official estimates showed on Wednesday, pulled down by a drop in the output of capital goods, used for investment.
Political uncertainty in Spain, the currency bloc's fourth largest economy, has further hampered the euro.
Spain's parliament rejected a draft 2019 budget on Wednesday after Catalan separatists turned their back on the government, pushing the country close to an early national election amid an increasingly fragmented political landscape.
Broad risk appetite in financial markets has been on the uptick in the past couple of days on rising expectations of a breakthrough in the trade impasse between United States and China.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are in Beijing for high level talks.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the talks with China were "going along very well" as they try to resolve the tariff dispute ahead of a March 1 deadline.
U.S. tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports from China are scheduled to rise to 25 percent from 10 percent if the two sides don't reach a deal by the deadline, increasing pressure and costs in sectors from consumer electronics to agriculture.
Elsewhere, the yen was steady at 110.99. The dollar has gained against its Japanese rival in recent weeks, up 1.9 percent so far in February. Analysts believe that Japanese demand for foreign bonds is one factor leading to weakness in the yen.
The New Zealand dollar rose by 0.3 percent to $0.6820, having rallied hard the previous day after the nation's central bank adopted a less dovish line on policy than many of its global counterparts.
Reporting by Vatsal Srivastava Editing by Shri Navaratnam and Sam Holmes | {
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