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Leonardo DiCaprio
Who Is Leo?
41 year-old American
(Finally) Oscar-winning actor and film producer
Estimated net worth $245M
Were you surprised when Leonardo DiCaprio gave a passionate speech about climate change as he accepted the Oscar, a moment he had been waiting for 22 years? I was.
The gist of his speech was this: He doesn’t take anything for granted, be it the Oscar or this planet; and we should stop procrastinating, and do something together.
Global Activist
The Oscar was hardly the first time Leo used his influence to amplify the message. He is one of the few people admired by the general public and the head of state alike, and Leo the activist utilizes his unique position.
He started Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation back in 1998, which has awarded over $45M of grants to 78 projects concerning oceans, forests, wildlife, and climate.
Leo joined in People’s Climate Change March in 2014 alongside 400,000 people in NYC, and has spoken at numerous events including: UN Climate Summit, US State Department’s Our Ocean conference, and World Economic Forum in Davos.
Leo the Activist: Dressed Down (Photo: Peter Foley, epa)
Leo the Activist: Dressed Up (Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Investor and Divestor
His activism started with donating money and performances, like narrating for the film The 11th Hour. But it has evolved: Leo actively employs his own fortune to make the point now.
Last fall, Leo invested in a trash-hauling startup called Rubicon Global. He had invested in other environmentally focused startups before, including an electric car maker, and a synthetic diamond startup Diamond Foundry. As a limited partner of Obvious Ventures, Leo invests in more environmental solutions companies.
He also joined Divest/Invest, an initiative to drop fossil fuel from your investment portfolios.
Fossil fuel divestment is growing fast. Over 500 organizations and 2,000 people have pledged to remove fossil fuel from their $3.4 trillion assets.
Divest/Invest pledge has ballooned 52x in 15 months
And this is not just a tree-hugger movement any more. Leo is joined by pension funds, universities, and investment firms that are worried about the business and financial risk of the fossil fuel industry. Even The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, built with profits from Standard Oil Co., has joined in.
Cliff notes: Scientists have calculated how much fossil fuel we can use before raising the global temperature by 2 degrees and causing an irreparable damage to our environment.
This means fossil fuel energy companies may be valuing themselves based on the natural resources they will never be able to use. It's making many investors nervous.
Based on his pledge to divest, Leo and his foundation will go through a process to eliminate coal, oil, and gas businesses from their investment portfolios.
Unfortunately, the process takes much longer than you’d think—according to actor Mark Ruffalo who joined Divest/Invest a year earlier, it will take him 3–5 years to finish.
What Triggered Leo?
Leonardo DiCaprio is a celebrity who dates supermodels… But when it comes to environmental activism, I don’t suppose he was so different from many of us: A concerned consumer unsure of what to do.
Clearly, that’s no longer the case. He knows how to use his resources, including his own investments, to make a difference.
Watching his oscar speech, I wondered what triggered the change: What propelled him to become such a vocal thought leader?
Turns out, the trigger was his meeting with then-Vice President Al Gore at the White House in 1998, same year Leo started his foundation.
Let’s find out how Gore, the influencer’s influencer, operates. | positive |
If your kids didn't already want to be astronauts when they grow up -- just wait until they get a look at the Z-1.
It's NASA's next generation of spacesuit, and bears more than a passing resemblance to the suit worn by Buzz Lightyear in Pixar's beloved Toy Story films.
The Z-1 Prototype Spacesuit and Portable Life Support System 2.0, produced for NASA by the David Clark Company, is white with fluorescent green stripes, and features a large, hemispherical transparent dome helmet --just like Lightyear's.
Named one of Time magazine's inventions of the year, the suit is designed to take astronauts into long missions into deep space. It features a rear-entry port that gives galaxy-hopping space rangers an easy way to dock with shuttles and space stations without the need for an airlock. Ingenious!
The Z-1 is a prototype, NASA stresses, and will be subject to further revisions before it's actually put into use by NASA in 2017 -- hopefully by which time the U.S.'s space program will again be in full swing.
And this isn't the only Buzz Lightyear/NASA crossover: Disney and NASA have joined forces to develop hands-on educational activities and exhibits centered around the character's fictional voyage to, and 450 days spent living inside, the International Space Station.
It's part of a program to increase kids' interest in space travel and the sciences. | positive |
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Madesquare, a new startup that helps people create crafts using photos from their camera rolls, launched its first iOS app on Thursday.
The app capitalizes on the popularity of square-shaped photos and iPhone photography by letting users customize and order products printed with their favorite photos. The company's products include postcards, ceramic magnets, wooden blocks, calendars and canvas prints.
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Molli Sullivan, Madesquare's director of marketing, says she and her three cofounders (all DIY enthusiasts) drew inspiration from crafts on Etsy and Pinterest — but ones they weren't able to easily replicate.
"We were always looking online for different ways to bring our memories to life," Sullivan told Mashable. "Transferring the digital photos we love taking but making them more tangible, something you can hold onto."
Madesquare's app allows users to customize orders with photos from their camera roll. The app also includes step-by-step DIY guides. Image: Madesquare
Users begin by selecting from one of the 20 available products, which range in price from $2 photo strips to $70 canvas prints, and selecting a photo or series of photos from their camera rolls. Images are cropped into a square to fit. Madesquare then generates a preview of the end result, which can be adjusted a final time by customers before beginning the checkout process.
The app also features DIY projects, created by Madesquare's founders, that feature how-to's like creating a recipe box with customized recipe cards or decorating a room with photo clings.
The team's appreciation for square photos has roots in Hipstamatic, one of the first apps to popularize square-shaped filtered photos on the iPhone. Sullivan is a former employee of Hipstamatic, and one of her cofounders, Laura Buick, is the wife of the company's founder and CEO Lucas Buick.
Madesquare is now available for iOS. | positive |
Watch 4 Entrepreneurs Give Their Smart Tips to Success | Glamour Skip to main content Newsletter Story Saved To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories Close Alert Close Sign In Search Search Style Beauty Entertainment Wellness Culture Video Women of the Year Open Navigation Menu Menu Story Saved To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories Close Alert Close All Videos You Sang My Song In 2 Minutes 5 to 75 Evolution All My Exes 4 Entrepreneurs Give Their Smart Tips to Success About Produced by Glamour and WIRED Brand Lab for smartwater. Entrepreneurs Aminatou Sow, Joe Holder, Billie Whitehouse, and Jessica Nabongo define what success means to them and how to achieve it your way. Released on 09/25/2019 Transcript I think the most notable thing I've created was Nadi X, our smart yoga line that has embedded technology throughout the hips, the knees, and the ankles. Jet Black is a travel agency that focuses on increasing tourism to countries in Africa, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Tech Ladymafia is really a support group for women who are in tech. The Ocho System is a wellness philosophy, but it's kind of dealt into my belief that one can help others and others can help one. Success for me is all about my freedom and everything that I'm doing is always aligned with my values. For me, it's about feeling good in who you are every single day. Success is really like continuing to push yourself, and continuing to learn. It's all about continuous growth, just take it step by step. Thinking about success is just like a one and done. That's a very narrow way of thinking. A common misconception of success is that has really to do with things. A lot of people just want more, that's not gonna bring you happiness. I tend to keep my blinders on so I'm not looking left and right to see what everyone else is doing. Take a meditation for 10 minutes in the afternoon. Surround yourself with peers who push me to work harder. Then, it's just setting up an infrastructure for your success, to make sure that you invest in yourself. The way I come up with new dreams is really around watching people. Understanding culture and different facets, and just other thought leaders, and very spaces outside of disciplines of mine. I try to take little tid bits from them and see where I could apply that into my line of work. My goals are always based on my interests at the time, but also will have a positive impact on different communities around the world. Successful behavior is really around modeling yourself. If you ever want to build a personal brand, it has to be authentic to who you are. There is no success without some form of failure. If I'm gonna share with you the highs, I'm also gonna share with you the lows. We are all just trying to figure out this weird journey called life. Making your own rules is not following someone else's. Hide Up Next 70 Men Ages 5-75: How Do You Define Success? The Secret to Succeeding at Work, According to Some of the Most Successful People We Know 16 Ways to Screw Up a Job Interview—and 4 Ways to Get It Right The Key to Career Success is Curiosity and Confidence Yara Shahidi Tribute - Women of The Year 2019 Estelle on the Friendships That Shaped Her Men Ages 5-75: What's the Most Attractive Quality in a Partner? Serena Williams Presents Gigi Hadid With Her WOTY Award 70 People Ages 5-75 Answer: What’s the Most Important Issue Facing the World? Episode 4: Comedian Luna Malbroux Uses Her Stage to Promote Diversity and Inclusion Authentic, Accessible, Relevant Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest Tiktok More from Glamour About Glamour Newsletter Signup Masthead Glamour Media Kit Coupons See More Stories Fashion Beauty Wellness News & Culture Sex & Relationships Site Map RSS Feeds Accessibility Help Condé Nast Store Contact Glamour Condé Nast Spotlight Do Not Sell My Personal Info © 2022 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Glamour may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices | negative |
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AP Photo/Hani Mohammed Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email Ideas This Is the Political Moment to Stop Supporting the Saudi War in Yemen The deadly attack on a school bus with a U.S. laser-guided bomb should, at last, end Washington's backing. Bonnie Kristian | August 22, 2018 Commentary Yemen White House By Bonnie Kristian fellow, Defense Priorities August 22, 2018 Commentary Yemen White House The Saudi-led coalition intervening in Yemen blew up a school bus this month. The targeted strike killed 51 people, 40 of them children aged six to 11, wounding nearly 80 more. And it used an American bomb. The war in Yemen has been raging for three and a half years now, usually out of sight and mind for the American public. Though deemed the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the miserable state of this small Mideast nation has largely been ignored by the U.S. media and the political establishment. (In a particularly egregious example, MSNBC made but one tangential reference to the conflict in Yemen for a full year. The network had plenty of time for stories about Stormy Daniels, however.) But the bus bombing won’t go away so quietly. Americans have learned with horror that the weapon used was a 500-pound laser-guided MK 82 bomb manufactured by Lockheed Martin, a U.S. defense contractor. Its sale to the Saudi coalition was approved by our State Department. In addition to selling the Saudis weapons, our government refuels their planes, helps enforce their naval blockade, and offers intelligence and strategy advice. American boots are on the ground and U.S. drones are in the air over Yemen, facilitating the Saudi-led campaign that bombed the bus. Washington’s fingerprints are all over this, and Americans are rightfully asking why. There’s no good answer, only a litany of reasons the United States should end our intervention in Yemen forthwith. On the legal front, U.S. involvement in Yemen was never authorized by Congress as the Constitution demands. In fact, it was never substantively debated in Congress at all. And Congress shows no sign of revisiting this failure: This year’s National Defense Authorization Act, passed overwhelmingly by both House and Senate and signed into law by President Trump last week, will continue to subsidize the Saudi war effort through 2019. The bill’s provisions on Yemen went all but unnoticed on Capitol Hill. From a strategic viewpoint, facilitating this war contributes nothing to American security. This has been evident from the beginning. The very day the Obama administration announced, in March of 2015, that it would give “logistical and intelligence support” to the coalition fight, Commander Gen. Lloyd Austin of U.S. Central Command testified in a Senate hearing that he did not know why the intervention was happening and what would be considered a win. “I don’t currently know the specific goals and objectives of the Saudi campaign,” Austin said, “and I would have to know that to be able to assess the likelihood of success.” Austin’s honesty is to be commended, but his ignorance, given his role, should have been a titanic red flag. The reality is this campaign has nothing to do with America, and no plausible route to anything resembling success. Yemen’s war, a local concern thousands of miles from our shores, cannot harm vital U.S. interests. If anything, Washington’s support for the coalition intervention has made Americans less safe, contributing to a power vacuum where al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, which is focused on 9/11-style attacks in the West, can flourish. In the years since Austin’s revealing comment, it has become increasingly impossible to deny, in the words of Stephen Seche, a former U.S. ambassador to Yemen nominated by President George W. Bush, that foreign interference in Yemen “has made not just the region, but the world, less safe.” “It is not the responsibility of the United States alone to resolve this crisis,” Seche continued, “but American leadership is needed to bring it to an end. We shouldn’t mistake the absence of headlines for an absence of urgency.” The tragedy of this school bus bombing has brought the headlines, and it should bring urgency, too. The United States could help resolve this crisis if Washington were willing, but now is the time to act. The Trump administration should withdraw American support from the Saudi-led coalition. Stop sharing intelligence; stop refueling planes; stop lending credibility to this catastrophe by associating it with the United States; and stop selling the Saudi regime and its partners weapons like the one used in this inexcusable attack. This shift would not require the Trump administration to do anything politically risky. It would end a foolish and counterproductive Obama-era intervention, one of the “dumb wars” Trump railed against on the campaign trail. It doesn’t put any U.S. troops in danger—on the contrary, it would bring Americans out of an active war zone. It would save taxpayer money rather than spending it. This should be a no-brainer, and the political moment is right. U.S. support for the Saudi coalition intervention in Yemen was illegitimate from the start and has proved a catastrophic failure from every angle. It’s time to stop contributing to this crisis. 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When I was a chick of 19 working at the New Musical Express, I took a stroll one day down Carnaby Street, our main thoroughfare, with our receptionist and my then close friend, the 22-year-old Danny Baker. After some minutes of mocking the tourist-trap windows, we became transfixed by an item in one such boutique. "NAZIS - POLAND TOUR 1938" sticks in the mind still, and around this T-shirt, swastikas swirled, serene.
I stopped and pointed. I grabbed Danny's arm, and whirled him round to look. I remember to this day what he said: "Fuck, no..." We went into the shop. An Asian man was behind the counter. "Excuse me, mate, but do you know what you've got in your window?"
"You want the swastika?"
"No! No, I don't want fucking swastika!" Being a devotee of Rock Against Racism, I was thinking we might just leave, and tugged at Danny's sleeve. "Dan..."
"Look, mate," Danny had his hands in the window display by now, "it's a fucking swastika ! You can't do that! It's just not on! Maybe you don't know. You can't do that here! " He began to dismantle the display, at which point the shopkeeper started to help him. By this time I was, pathetically, cringing in the corner, almost in tears: despite the leather and the sneering, I was obviously English to the core and highly embarrassable, and this was about as far from a quiet day's window-shopping as it got.
I sometimes wonder how this scene would play in the political climate today, 20 years on, when hysteria matters more than history: would we be youthful idealists, or brutish white proles harassing a decent Asian shopkeeper? No doubt some professional multiculturalist would jump up and down, explaining that the swastika was an ancient Hindu symbol of peace - though I don't know how this would tie in with the invasion of Poland.
When the window had been rearranged to Danny's liking, we went back to the office. After the excitations of punk, the NME was just starting to be desperate then, not to say desperate to prove its anti- Nazi credentials, and someone overheard us talking about what had happened. Excruciatingly, it went straight into the paper, turning what had been a private Special Moment into a monstrous pose.
No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of your average music paper reader, and sure enough there were letters aplenty in response. About 90% had a common theme, namely: "Would these fashionable young people have reacted so dramatically to the sale of communist insignia? If not, why not, considering that communism has killed more people than fascism?" The answer, of course, was no. If we'd have seen a display of even halfway-decent communist insignia, we'd have rushed inside. The one thing anyone, regardless of their political orientation, ever wanted when a friend went to the USSR was a bag of dinky medals. (I can hear the doubters and sneerers muttering that that's all there was to bring back as a gift from the Soviet Union, but I'll ignore them.) Besides, after two years spent explaining to our slightly backward art-school punk compadres that it wasn't nice to wear swastikas, we felt no guilt in sporting a discreet cameo of Vladimir Ilyich.
The answer is still, of course, no. Charles Murray, answering the letters, summed it up brilliantly by pointing out that while fascist uniforms and insignia were sexual fetishes, communist ones - though more beautiful and though worn by the victorious - were not. Fascists are secretly pleased and sexually excited by the cruelty their cause has inflicted; we, and I still use that word proudly, are mortified beyond all alibis, but still have to drag ourselves away from staring into the abyss because we simply see no other long-term alternative to creating a just world.
The recent visit of the Chinese president, and his position vis-à-vis "General" Pinochet (love that camp old title! Pretty good for a guy whose idea of battle was dropping unarmed civilians out of helicopters), not to mention the idea of a day to commemorate the Holocaust, has got the usual group of seat-sniffers carping on about there being no difference between communism and fascism. About 1% of people may be genuinely sincere when they say this, but the great majority are, it must be said, Nazi-loving sickos seeking to cloak their greater crimes in the greater number of communist ones. It is right to jail Pinochet while talking to Jiang, and it is right to remember the crimes of the Nazis with a special revulsion.
To put it brutally, communists may have killed more people than fascists, but we're still not as bad. Communism commits evil when it goes wrong; fascism commits evil when all goes to plan. No one, not even Stalin, ever became a communist in order to do evil, whereas that's the whole point in becoming a fascist.
I've noticed, too, that people who throw around the number of deaths under Stalin and Mao as if that was the final word on the matter tend to throw up their hands in horror if anyone suggests that the millions who have died in the name of religion serve as witnesses to the fact that it is inherently evil. You could even, following the same piles-of-corpses logic, make a case for the family being inherently evil, on the grounds that some 80% of killings take place in it.
But no one would dream of claiming that . Communism alone is slandered as nothing more than the sum of its deaths. Indeed, if you were serious about evaluating the evil of a regime by the number of deaths it caused, you'd have to say the British Empire was worse than the Nazis. Which I don't for a moment believe.
When we feel more revulsion for the smaller crimes of fascism, we are not being illogical but recognising that a philosophy that is noble but that sometimes goes horribly wrong is still superior to one based on cruelty and inequality. Communism, like Christianity, is a willingness of the heart as much as anything else; a desire for a better world that is easy to mock but hard to live without. Fascism is about killing people.
At the end of the day, any moderate democrat who pours equal scorn on both extremes had probably best not look too hard into the mirror. Because, while we can quantify the deaths caused by both communism and fascism, we will never know how many deaths have been the result of capitalism; of nothing more noble than a rich man wanting to be even richer, and sacrificing the health and lives of millions of workers to achieve this. Don't even try to count how many people capitalism has killed, because not only will you not know where to begin, but also it will never end. | positive |
Russell Street Report Street Talk Ravens Offense Needs a Little Juice
After cutting Vonta Leach loose in the off-season, 2nd year FB/ H-Back Kyle Juszczyk is slated to start in 2014 with an opportunity made of solid gold knocking at the door.
Juszczyk, 23, has a ton of upside as an H-Back due to his versatility, toughness and receiving ability, and thanks to the arrival of offensive genius Gary Kubiak, he has the potential and the opportunity to become the Ravens breakout player on offense in 2014.
Kubiak’s high-powered attack features a heavy dose of H-backs, while Kubiak himself is undoubtedly the best OC in the NFL at utilizing the H-Back, and in return, his H-Backs respond by putting up solid numbers while becoming an invaluable part of the Offense.
The most notable example is current Eagles H-Back James Casey, who put up 52 receptions for 590 yards (11.3 avg.) and 4 TD’s as the featured H-Back on Kubiak’s Texans squad in 2011 and 2012, and Garrett Graham, who also saw time at H-Back in 2012 and racked up 28 catches for 263 yards (9.4 avg.) and 3 TD’s. Graham saw time at H-Back in the early stages of 2013, before taking over as the starting TE after current Ravens TE Owen Daniels was lost for the season in week 5 due to a fractured fibula.
After completing his collegiate career with the Harvard Crimson ranked 6th in receptions (125), 7th in receiving yards (1,576) and 3rd in TD’s (22), Juszczyk was drafted in the 4th Round of the 2013 NFL Draft and appeared on ST in all 16 games last season, recording 5 tackles.
Looking beyond Juszczyk’s skill set as an H-Back, ”Juice” is also Ivy-league smart (Literally) on and off of the field and he was impressive in pass protection last preseason. But with Leach off to the city that never sleeps, he’s going to have to step up as a lead blocker for Ray Rice & Co.
The spotlight will be on the Harvard grad this summer to prove that his lead blocking skills in the run game have improved but drawing from his tenure at Cambridge, Ravens fans should feel confident that Juice can make it happen at the next level. Juszczyk was a rock-solid blocker in all phases of the game at Harvard, and after a year of learning behind Leach and making the transition from the Ivy League to the NFL, look for Juszczyk to put an end to this lingering question this summer.
For Juszczyk, 2014 is a perfect situation in every sense of the term. If the plan goes off without a hitch, look for Juice to become Kubiak’s Swiss-army knife on offense, not only making an impact in the passing game but also by paving the way for ball carriers and by stepping up and becoming Joe Flacco’s bodyguard in the backfield.
Knock knock.
Mr. Juszczyk, the opportunity of a lifetime is at your front door. | positive |
New research on the burrows of scorpions in diverse environments finds that these predatory arachnids build strikingly similar architectural features in their homes. The study, published recently in the journal The Science of Nature, was conducted using molten aluminum casts and 3D scanning, and suggests that common features of scorpion burrows are part of their "extended physiology" and are vital to the arachnids' survival in some of the world's most inhospitable places.
"This work is about how burrow architecture can extend an animal's physiology by performing functions its body would otherwise have to do on its own, like maintaining a comfortable temperature or improving ventilation," said Berry Pinshow of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, who led the new study.
Many animals, ranging in size from ants to aardvarks, inhabit burrows, including hundreds of scorpion species of at least 10 different families.
"It's amazing how ubiquitous scorpion burrows are in some parts of the world, yet very little has been done to study them until now," said Lorenzo Prendini, a curator in the American Museum of Natural History's Division of Invertebrate Zoology and co-author of the new study.
Scorpion burrows can differ drastically, running the gamut in size and design from short runs to complex spiral tunnels up to 9 feet long to multi-entrance communal structures. Some burrows are used for less than 24 hours while others serve as a semi-permanent home in which a scorpion can spend most of its life and more than 90 percent of its time.
"As ectothermic, or so-called 'cold-blooded,' animals, scorpions rely on energy from the environment to regulate their internal temperature," said Amanda Adams, lead author of the publication in The Science of Nature and a former postdoctoral researcher at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research who is currently at Texas A&M University. "Various features of the burrow assist the scorpion in meeting the biological challenges of its environment."
To explore how scorpions use their burrows to their advantage, the researchers examined the burrow architecture of three scorpion species from the same family, Scorpionidae: Scorpio palmatus, found in the Negev desert in Israel; Opistophthalmus setifrons, from the central highlands of Namibia; and Opistophthalmus wahlbergii, from the Kalahari desert in Namibia.
After removing the scorpions from their burrows and taking temperature and humidity measurements at various points along each burrow, the researchers poured molten aluminum--heated in the field with a gas-powered kiln to more than 660 degrees Celsius (1,220 degrees Fahrenheit)--down each burrow to create a cast of its intricate structure. Once exhumed, the casts were scanned to create 3D digital models of the burrow that were analyzed with a computer program.
The scientists found three common burrow features: A horizontal platform near the ground surface that might provide a safe place for the scorpion to "doorkeep"--monitor the presence of potential prey, predators, and mates--and warm up before foraging; at least two spiral or switch-back bends that might deter predators from digging them up, or prevent air flow from the surface, thereby maintaining relatively high humidity and low temperature; and an enlarged terminal chamber at a depth at which temperatures are almost constant, providing a refuge during the heat of the day as well as a place to feed, mate, molt, and give birth.
The research team also found that burrow architecture may change in response to soil composition, hardness, and moisture. For example, the burrows the scientists examined from sandy soil were deeper than those from hard soil.
The researchers point out that although many questions remain unanswered concerning the burrow environment and natural history of burrowing scorpions in general, the shared features of these three species have been shaped through natural selection for millions of years and may be equally important to other burrowing scorpion species around the world.
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Other authors on this paper include Eugene Marais from the National Museum of Namibia and J. Scott Turner from the State University of New York.
This work was funded by the Israel Science Foundation grant # 136/10, the Human Frontier Science Program grant # RGP0066/2012-TURNER, the Jacob Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation, and the Society of Experimental Biology. | positive |
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Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade
NBER Working Paper No. 21742
Issued in November 2015
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This essay provides an overview of the major emissions trading programs of the past thirty years on which significant documentation exists, and draws a number of important lessons for future applications of this environmental policy instrument. References to a larger number of other emissions trading programs that have been implemented or proposed are included
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If you live in San Francisco (or spend much time on social media) you probably saw a lot of discussion last month about Proposition F, a controversial proposal to regulate short-term property rental services like Airbnb. You may also know that Airbnb spent millions opposing the measure, many times the budget of the proposition’s supporters. Here’s what you might not know: the bill’s opposition also got a little unexpected assistance from the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown process.
Just a week before the vote, the only television ad supporting the measure disappeared from TV, YouTube, and the website of the organization that created it. Watch the ad yourself and see if you can guess why:
Did you catch it? The “Hotel San Francisco” lyric and the soundalike background music were enough to earn a cease-and-desist letter and DMCA takedown notice from attorneys representing The Eagles’ Don Henley and Glenn Frey. Henley and Frey’s lawyers threatened to sue for massive damages if ShareBetterSF didn’t pull the ad.
If this story sounds familiar, that might be because political ads are often the targets of unfair DMCA takedowns. In 2008, the Obama and McCain campaigns were both hit with takedown notices for using news footage in their advertisements (from CBS and NBC, respectively). In 2009, NPR filed a YouTube takedown notice on an ad that criticized same-sex marriage; the ad had used a brief soundbite from an NPR program. In all three cases, a court would have recognized that the campaigns were within their rights. The ads use the clips simply to provide information; they don’t imply the news organizations’ endorsement or affect their viewership in any way. But thanks to the DMCA’s takedown-first-and-ask-questions-later procedure, none of them ever went to court.
The makers of “Hotel San Francisco” were clearly in the right too, but it didn’t matter. As they told the Internet Archive, there was no purpose in challenging the takedown. Even if they had immediately counter-noticed, the ad still wouldn’t have been restored for 2 weeks—too late to have any effect on the election. Once again, the DMCA was used to shut down political expression with no consequences for the sender. As the 2016 campaigns get into full swing, expect to see more of this kind of abuse.
This story might give you déjà vu for another reason: it’s not the first time Don Henley has accused the creators of a satirical political ad of copyright infringement. In 2010, Henley sued Senate candidate Charles DeVore for his parodies of two songs in political advertisements. A U.S. District Court rejected Henley’s claim that the ads falsely implied that he’d endorsed DeVore, but ruled that they did constitute infringement of his copyright.
We disagreed with that ruling, but whatever you might think of it, the facts here are very different. ShareBetterSF selected “Hotel California” to make a specific political point. The use was noncommercial and highly transformative, and it couldn’t possibly harm any market for the original work—all factors favoring fair use. But none of that mattered in light of the takedown.
Again and again, overzealous DMCA takedowns disregard fair use. That’s unfortunate, because fair use is designed to ensure that copyright law is compatible with the First Amendment. When fair use is overlooked in the face of a takedown notice, it really means that freedom of speech is compromised.
EFF is fighting to make sure the targets of DMCA abuse can hold the abusers accountable. In the meantime, we have been documenting the worst abuses in our Takedown Hall of Shame. Given its dangerous consequences for political speech, this takedown has earned a spot. | positive |
In 2014, Drunken Cat Comics released its first full length graphic novel, entitled Fear of Flying. The journal comic documented a year in the life of the comic artist, Brian Canini, his burgeoning long-distance relationship, frustrations with work and his travels bringing him from San Diego, California back home to Columbus, Ohio. The book went on to be one of their best sellers and received the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo's 2014 prize for Best Graphic Novel.
Fear of Flying
The Big Year is the follow up to that book. It chronicles the next big chapter in Brian's life.
From Brian:
I got engaged to the love of my life in November of 2014. Looking into the future it was clear to me that the following year of my life was going to be epic; Amy and I were deep into the house hunting process, the wedding date had been set for June 27th and planning was in full swing. It occurred to me that it could be fun to document these life-changing events for myself and others.
So on January 1st of 2015 I set out and began what was planned to be a year’s worth of journal comics. Typical of life (and journal comics), more happened than I was expecting. Mid-summer, Amy revealed that she was pregnant. The book suddenly covered every major event in adulthood. I decided to extend the book for the length of the pregnancy, since the baby being born felt like a more appropriate ending than the arbitrary December 31st date that I had originally planned on. Making the book 400+ pages long.
Over the course of a little over a year, Amy and I bought our first house, got married, went to a foreign country for our honeymoon, discovered we were pregnant, went on a cruise to some more foreign countries, and had a baby.
Not surprisingly, the comics in this book cover all sorts of territory, from things that happened in my day-to-day life to introspective thoughts about life and love to just plain silliness. It’s amazing what can happen in a little over a year.
Comics in this book will include tales about:
buying your first house
wedding planning
stress
customs in foreign countries
living with cats and dogs
spelling
love
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money worries
the horrors and joys of pregnancy
coffee
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renewals of faith in humanity
and all the other things that make life worth living
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The arrests are linked to fraudulent nods for city contracts, including tenders for the 2010 restoration of the Julius Caesar wing of the palace where city councillors meet, Rome's financial police said in a statement.
A senior official from Rome's cultural heritage agency, which manages the capital's archeological sites, was among those arrested, police said.
The official is alleged to have given preferential treatment to businessman Fabrizio Amore, who is already under investigation as part of a vast probe launched in December into allegations that a mafia network skimmed off public funds for years.
More than 100 people, including former mayor Gianni Alemanno and prominent business figures, are under investigation in the so-called "Mafia Capitale" probe.
Police in charge of the investigation believe the network was run by Massimo Carminati, a notorious one-eyed underworld figure with links to the far right.
Last week, Italian police arrested 44 people accused of dealings with Carminati, whose gang thrived on rigging Rome public contracts on everything from garbage disposal to park maintenance.
Officers cuffed local politicians from both the left and right, including regional councillor Luca Gramazio from Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, accused of serving as a go-between for corrupt businessmen and the mob.
Tuesday's fresh arrests caused a stir in the Italian capital, with Marco Vincenzi, head of the local wing of the centre-left Democratic Party, resigning and the opposition calling for the resignation of mayor Ignazio Marino.
Some opposition figures even called for Rome's municipal government to be dissolved, charging that it has been "infiltrated by mafia". | positive |
Microsoft and Dropbox are teaming up today to more closely integrate Dropbox into Office. The surprise partnership will benefit Dropbox users who use Office across desktop, mobile, and the web as Microsoft’s productivity suite will soon become the standard way to edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files stored on Dropbox storage. Office for iPad will benefit the most, with an update coming in the following weeks that will allow Dropbox users to link their account directly to the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint iPad apps.
Dropbox files and folders will appear directly in Office for iPad
"Access to Dropbox content popped as one of the very first [Office for iPad] requests that customers had," explains Kirk Koenigsbauer, head of Microsoft’s Office Engineering team. "They want access to where their content is. We’re doing it to make sure customers have a great experience." Although Microsoft has its own OneDrive cloud storage, Dropbox will appear alongside Microsoft’s own service in the Office for iPad apps, allowing users to natively browse, open, and edit Office documents stored on Dropbox from directly within the app.
Dropbox is also adding options to its own mobile apps to push its users over to Microsoft Office to edit documents. If you’re on a mobile device that doesn’t have Office installed then you’ll be prompted to download the apps to edit, and any changes will sync back directly to Dropbox seamlessly, just as you’d expect. Microsoft's Office for iPad and Android apps currently require an Office 365 subscription to edit documents. While Microsoft hasn't announced anything just yet, now would be a perfect time for the company to drop the price to free to make this a success. Microsoft is also adding the ability to share Dropbox files from within its Office apps using Dropbox's own sharing functionality.
"It’s really about creating a deep connection between Dropbox and Office."
"It’s really about creating a deep connection between Dropbox and Office," says Ilya Fushman, head of product for Dropbox and Dropbox for Business. "We think this is a huge win for our users. We think this will result in the best possible experience for people trying to get work done, and trying to get work done on the go." The move comes just months after Dropbox unveiled its "Project Harmony" work to bring collaborative features to Microsoft Office. "We’re continuing that experience," explains Fushman. "That experience is really about making it simple and easy to work on the desktop." Most of the changes that Dropbox is partnering up with Microsoft for are focused on web and mobile.
In the first half of 2015 Dropbox is planning to support Office Online directly from its web app. Editing for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents will be managed through Microsoft’s Office Web Apps (Office Online) by default, and the documents will be stored back to Dropbox. 35 billion Office documents are stored on Dropbox, so it’s no surprise both companies want to work more closely together.
While the partnership clearly benefits both parties and mutual customers, it’s just the latest in a series of moves from Microsoft under new CEO Satya Nadella. "More broadly this is an example, like the relationship we have with SalesForce and other companies, where we’re increasingly looking to provide a better customer experience all up," says Koenigsbauer. "That’s working with partners beyond Redmond, and that’s important to us."
"Both sides are dedicating people and budget to make this project happen."
Koenigsbauer refused to discuss the terms of the partnership, but did note that "both sides are dedicating people and budget to make this project happen." It’s hard not to see this as a big win for Microsoft and a clear strategic move to keep rivals like Google from offering similar deals. Microsoft is increasingly facing more and more competition to unsettle its Office dominance, and this move maintains the status quo and will help tempt consumers over to its Office 365 subscriptions. For Dropbox it’s a lot easier to partner with companies and build a platform rather than try and create a rival to Microsoft Office. Dropbox’s updated apps will be available across mobile platforms in the coming weeks alongside Microsoft’s own Office apps. Additionally, Dropbox has also committed to building a Windows Phone version of its app which will be available in the coming months. | positive |
A frantic feline was saved by police officers in downtown Winnipeg during the morning rush hour on Wednesday.
Officers swept into action, closing the major intersection at Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard. Then they had to coax out the cat, which had sought safety under their cruiser.
One officer inched under the car on his belly and pulled out the trembling tabby, while his partner wrapped it in a blanket.
Semi-trailers and cars lined up waiting as drivers watched the action, along with staff in nearby stores and restaurants.
“They had fully stopped traffic in the middle of Portage Avenue to actually help a cat who was obviously scared out of its mind and had no idea what was going on. It was unbelievable,” said Samantha Franco, a server at Stella's Cafe and Bakery, who watched the whole thing from the window.
CBC News reporters Chris Glover and Katie Nicholson happened to be passing by the scene when it happened.
They tweeted photos and comments, which immediately caught fire on social media.
"Not crazy news but kind of a nice thing to see. And all the staff at Stella's kind of melted," Nicholson tweeted.
"Now that's great & we need more positive stories like this," tweeted Lesia Anna. "#WPG should start demanding more GooD news to be broadcast. Let's get #Wpg on the map as the MOST positive city anywhere." | positive |
H+ implanted channel waveguides in buried epitaxial crystalline YAG:Nd, Tm layers and infrared-to-blue upconversion characterization Study at UCC | Current Students | Research | Staff | Teaching & Learning | Visitors | Alumni | About UCC UCC | UCC Library | IRIS H+ implanted channel waveguides in buried epitaxial crystalline YAG:Nd, Tm layers and infrared-to-blue upconversion characterization CORA Home → Research Institutes and Centres → Tyndall National Institute → Tyndall National Institute - Journal Articles → View Item JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it. Files in this item Name: 3109.pdf Size: 981.0Kb Format: PDF Description: Published Version View/Open H+ implanted channel waveguides in buried epitaxial crystalline YAG:Nd, Tm layers and infrared-to-blue upconversion characterization Szachowicz, Marta; Joubert, Marie-France; Moretti, Paul; Couchaud, Maurice; Ferrand, Bemard; Borca, Camelia; Boudrioua, Azzedine Date: 2008-12-01 Copyright: © 2008 American Institute of Physics, This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. The following article appeared in Szachowicz, M., Joubert, M.-F., Moretti, P., Couchaud, M., Ferrand, B., Borca, C. and Boudrioua, A. (2008) 'H+ implanted channel waveguides in buried epitaxial crystalline YAG:Nd,Tm layers and infrared-to-blue upconversion characterization', Journal of Applied Physics, 104(11), pp. 113104. doi: 10.1063/1.2976303 and may be found at http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2976303 Related: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2976303 Citation: Szachowicz, M., Joubert, M.-F., Moretti, P., Couchaud, M., Ferrand, B., Borca, C. and Boudrioua, A. (2008) 'H+ implanted channel waveguides in buried epitaxial crystalline YAG:Nd,Tm layers and infrared-to-blue upconversion characterization', Journal of Applied Physics, 104(11), pp. 113104. doi: 10.1063/1.2976303 Published Version: 10.1063/1.2976303 Abstract: Nd, Tm:YAG codoped single crystal waveguides were studied in order to discover if the presence of Nd3+ ions favors blue luminescence at 486 nm. Innovative implantation techniques were applied to locally change Delta n and form varied H+ implanted channel structures in Nd, Tm: YAG buried epitaxial waveguiding layers. The guided blue luminescence due to the Tm3+ (1)G(4)-> H-3(6) transition was studied under infrared excitation at 785 nm (Tm3+ absorption) and 808 nm (Nd3+ absorption) for the epitaxial planar waveguides of different Tm3+ and Nd3+ concentrations for all the implanted channel waveguide structures. Show full item record This item appears in the following Collection(s) Tyndall National Institute - Journal Articles [1422] Search CORA Search CORA This Collection Browse All of CORA Communities A-Z Authors Titles Keyword / Subject Date UCC Theses This Collection Authors Titles Keyword / Subject Date My Account Login CORA information About CORA How to submit your research How to submit your UCC thesis Benefits of archiving in CORA Copyright Statistics Most Popular Items Statistics by Country Most Popular Authors For information or help contact the IR Manager at UCC Library, email:cora@ucc.ie or Tel. +353 21 420 5109. Feedback Password Login Theme by Dspace Software Copyright © 2002-2008 The DSpace Foundation This website uses cookies. By using this website, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the UCC Privacy and Cookies Statement. For more information about cookies and how you can disable them, visit our Privacy and Cookies statement | negative |
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Formation switches are pretty frequent in the world of football, with managerial tussles—particularly at the top level—constantly seeking to expose weaknesses and source new strengths via numerical shakeups. When two great minds lock horns, it becomes a genuinely fascinating dose of intricate tinkering and tweaking.
The monikers we use to describe footballing systems—4-4-2, 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 etc.—can be a little crude and undersell the complexity of what we’re seeing. Barcelona use a 4-3-3 almost 100 percent of the time, but from Pep Guardiola to Gerardo Martino to Luis Enrique, their style has changed tangibly, and numerical definitions can’t attest to that.
Some clubs change formations and, because of their “philosophy,” handle it well. Swansea City utilised a 4-4-2 diamond to great effect at the tail end of 2014-15, Paul Lambert’s Aston Villa changed shape every second week, and Guardiola’s Bayern Munich...well, sometimes they play with just a single centre-back, and it’s actually a left-back.
But other teams seem to struggle, and there’s a notable pattern of teams who play 4-4-2 very regularly struggling to adapt to one-striker formations. The majority of teams used to playing with just a single striker can switch to just about anything, but it seems there’s a particular sticking point when teams go from 4-4-2 to 4-3-3.
Under Antonio Conte, Juventus played 3-5-2 regularly and dominated Serie A using it, but they fell short on the continental stage. In 2013, after losing comfortably to Jupp Heynckes’ Bayern in the Champions League quarter-finals, an inquisition was started (although Barcelona’s 7-0 aggregate loss the following month suggested Juve actually did pretty well).
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What could Conte do to make his club a powerhouse in Europe as well as in Italy? The answer seemed obvious: the back three isn't cut out for the top level. The following year they travelled to the Bernabeu and made the change, opting for a 4-3-3. It didn’t really work.
Going from two strikers to one was a problem, and it wasn't until Massimiliano Allegri was installed in 2014 that a 4-4-2 diamond—still inclusive of a strike partnership, yet also switching from three to four in defence—led them to a European final against Barcelona. He’d found the best of both worlds and correctly identified that 4-3-3 wasn't really an option.
Within the madness of the recent Premier League festive fixtures, we saw Leicester City dial back their explosive 4-4-2 system and switch to a 4-3-3 for the visit of Manchester City. Two games in four days can kill the legs—particularly in a system as direct as Claudio Ranieri’s—and the tempering was very likely a wise choice.
Holding a City side featuring David Silva, Kevin De Bruyne and Sergio Aguero—regardless of their pitiful away form—to a goalless draw is a success, no question, but the offensive performance was all over the place. It’s no real concern given the Foxes should revert to 4-4-2 when the fixture list unclogs, but it was a rather prescient reminder of the issues faced by teams trying to switch from two strikers to one.
Firstly, the striker’s role changes dramatically when leading the line alone. Jamie Vardy has scored 15 goals this Premier League season, an incredible feat, and he has done it thanks in part to playing off a strike partner.
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The Englishman loves to dart wide into the channels and chase hopeful passes outside the centre-backs, utilising his extreme speed and tenacity to reach balls many could not. He’s able to depart the No. 9 territory and fetch those because a strike partner—usually Shinji Okazaki—continues to occupy at least one of the centre-backs and gives Leicester a presence in the middle.
Vardy has the option of cutting back in with the ball one-on-one or feeding it inside to his partner. While Okazaki holds the central territory and links with him, the central midfielders (N’Golo Kante and Danny Drinkwater) steadily step forward to anchor the Foxes’ advanced position.
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But when Vardy is on his own, he zips wide to chase passes—as he did against City—and has nothing to aim for and no one to help. If he departs the No. 9 space, the opposing centre-backs can feel free to follow him and corner him, as there’s no one else to mark. Vardy played a very lonely role on Tuesday. Without Okazaki or Leonardo Ulloa to occupy and hold, he filtered wide, collected the ball and had no options to press forward with.
Teams who regularly use a 4-3-3 would modify the approach in two ways: either play straight to Vardy rather than hit the channels (though that might require a stronger centre-forward), or build slower, likely via the three central midfielders and a pushed-on full-back.
Another key is the central midfielders’ roles in the attack, and the responsibility of a No. 8 in a 4-4-2 is rather different to a No. 8 in a 4-3-3. If Vardy must split wide to collect channel balls, he needs a runner from the next line to offer support, but Kante and Drinkwater—ingrained in the steadier disciplines of the 4-4-2—didn't free themselves enough to help.
The man difference is Gokhan Inler. He was brought into the XI in place of the second striker, moving the 11th man from just off Vardy to behind the two central midfielders. That necessitates Kante or Drinkwater to push forward constantly when the ball goes up to the striker, and to fill the space Okazaki or Ulloa might.
It’s likely Ranieri will have outlined these role differences, but it’s tough to override four months of doing the same thing over and over when it brings so much success. You can’t blame Kante for not thrusting forward as much as necessary—and he was probably absolutely knackered, too.
We’ve seen similar struggles at the Vicente Calderon in recent years, with Atletico Madrid’s inability to play with a 4-3-3 defying belief at times. How can it be that a lineup containing all the on-paper strengths of this formation fail to carry it out so regularly? How does a front three of Antoine Griezmann, Fernando Torres and Yannick Carrasco produce so little?
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It’s all in the details of the roles, and what the players are used to. Atletico have very few players consistently breaking beyond the lines in midfield, and because the No. 8s are used to doing a bit of everything in a 4-4-2, they struggle to assign themselves responsibilities (anchor, mediator, surger) in a 4-3-3.
There are, of course, teams who manage to flit between 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 well, but those sides almost never consider the 4-4-2 to be their bread and butter, and can often simply be a nuance in the system when dominance of possession is achieved. Real Madrid play borderline 4-4-2 with Cristiano Ronaldo up front, but that’s only because they achieve incessant pressure and can handle counter runners with minimal numbers in reserve.
When Borussia Monchengladbach beat Bayern Munich 3-1 at the start of December, they temporarily switched away from a flat 4-4-2 to do so, but played Lars Stindl just off Raffael up top in a 3-5-2. Manager Andre Schubert understands the attacking DNA of his side requires two up top and isn't willing to revert to one in an attempt to “shore things up.”
Leicester, Atletico and Juventus have all shown over the past three years that it’s difficult—and in some cases nigh-on impossible—to go from 4-4-2 to 4-3-3 due to the severe differences in responsibilities for the players. It’s just too much of a culture shock too fast, and it won’t surprise to see others fail with the transition in the future.
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FC Bayern München could scarcely have had a more heart-wrenching conclusion to last season, losing on penalties to Chelsea FC in the UEFA Champions League final at their own stadium. Jupp Heynckes, though, is not a man to wallow in disappointment and already has his sights firmly fixed on 2012/13. The venerable coach speaks to UEFA.com about bouncing back, raising spirits and meeting expectations.
UEFA.com: How pleased are you with pre-season so far?
Jupp Heynckes: Things are going rather well considering conditions have not been easy. I have had my entire squad available for one week now, except the injured David Alaba and Rafinha. The lads are working hard and are focused, so there is real competition within the team. I like that, but we still have lots of work to do.
UEFA.com: How have your new signings been accepted within the club?
Heynckes: Our new players – Dante Bonfim, Mario Mandžukić, Xherdan Shaqiri, Claudio Pizarro, Tom Starke and Lukas Raeder – feel very good here. I get the feeling that they like Munich, FC Bayern and their new team.
UEFA.com: What is the mood like at the club?
Heynckes: I hope we can create a spirit of optimism within the team, the entire club and especially among the fans. We haven't won silverware for two years and that is enough. We will do everything to get that final few per cent and then see what happens.
UEFA.com: Before the Bundesliga begins, the first round of the DFB-Pokal takes place from 17 to 20 August. What do you expect from that competition?
Heynckes: Last season we managed to reach the final [where Bayern lost to Borussia Dortmund]. That has to be our goal again. However in this competition, as in the Champions League, you also depend on the draw and on your form on the day. You cannot make up for a bad day or a difficult draw in the next game.
UEFA.com: Who will win the league this term and which team could be the surprise package?
Heynckes: What do you think our fans would say if I said anyone other than FC Bayern? Of course Dortmund are favourites after winning back-to-back titles, but we accept that challenge. I can also see Schalke and Mönchengladbach challenging for the championship again.
UEFA.com: Last season you got to the UEFA Champions League final in your own stadium and lost on penalties. Could that mean heavy legs for the players or extra motivation to take that last step this time?
Heynckes: The Champions League final in Munich has gone, it has to be forgotten. We all had a long break and time to process what happened. Now we are working on new challenges. I am sure we will accept them with enthusiasm and passion.
UEFA.com: What is the minimum goal in this term's UEFA Champions League?
Heynckes: The minimum goal is to have a successful group stage and to reach the round of 16, but that should not be the end of it. Bayern belong among Europe's four strongest teams and we have to confirm that. | positive |
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FREMANTLE CEO Steve Rosich says the Dockers' interest in contracted Greater Western Sydney forward Cam McCarthy will not disappear.
With less than two days remaining on the NAB AFL Trade Period the Dockers CEO told AFL.com.au their interest in the 20-year-old McCarthy would remain "ongoing".
The Giants have so far resisted all attempts to enter into trade negotiations in relation to the West Australian during this trade period and have pledged to throw their resources towards ensuring McCarthy can settle comfortably in Sydney.
The Dockers have offered pick No.22 and a future first round pick for McCarthy who declared his desire to return home after two years and 21 games at GWS.
But the Giants have held their line that McCarthy, who has two years remaining on his contract, will not be traded.
However, Rosich said the Dockers wanted the chance to negotiate with the Giants.
"Our interest as a club is ongoing and we feel as though he is a player that would fit into our list," Rosich said.
"Cam and his management have been very direct with us that they want Cam to return to Western Australia for personal reasons, and has also advised us that he does not want to continue his career at GWS."
Rosich said McCarthy's desire to return to Western Australia for personal reasons was genuine.
"It's pretty clear that Cam and his management are seeking an opportunity here not for commercial reasons given the sorts of contractual terms we have discussed with Cam's management," Rosich said.
Giants coach Leon Cameron has acknowledged McCarthy had experienced homesickness, but the club is understood to be putting in place a range of measures to ensure the support he has in Sydney is strong and that he can connect with his family.
"I’m sure when Cam comes back and starts on the ninth of November, he’ll get really heavily involved. We’ve just got to work out a plan to make sure he spends time with his mum and dad and his sisters as well," Cameron told NAB AFL Trade Radio.
The Giants secured McCarthy with pick No.14 in the 2013 NAB AFL Draft. | positive |
Changes to hit Repatriation Hospital as part of SA health sector shake-up
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Proposed wide changes to South Australian health services will see inpatients at the Repatriation General Hospital in Adelaide redirected elsewhere.
Patients will be directed to sites including Flinders Medical Centre in the southern suburbs where 55 new rehabilitation beds will be established along with a new psychogeriatric ward at a cost of more than $150 million.
SA Health Department said patients could also be redirected to Noarlunga Hospital, further south, as it became a statewide centre for day surgery.
Noarlunga's walk-in emergency department would be closed and re-established across the road at the site of an existing GP Plus clinic.
Health Minister Jack Snelling estimated 87 per cent of patients requiring emergency care at Noarlunga would be seen more quickly.
In the northern suburbs, repat patients could be sent to Modbury Hospital as it became a major rehabilitation and sub-acute centre with a focus on rehabilitation and geriatric care.
A dedicated centre for elective eye surgery would also be established at the hospital.
A health spokesman said the Repatriation Hospital at Daw Park, which currently has 240 beds, would still be used for services such as prosthetics.
Too many people presented to our EDs with life-threatening situations are delayed. An ambulance is called and they may need to be moved elsewhere. That can have significant impacts on whether they live or die. State Health Minister Jack Snelling
He said staff would be redeployed to other sites but did not rule out the chance of redundancies.
The spokesman did, however, rule out the prospect of any job cuts from bringing forward a relocation of the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital to a site alongside the new Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH).
That relocation originally was scheduled for 2023 but the Government said it was keen for an earlier move once the new Royal Adelaide opens next year.
The proposed changes were announced as part of the Government's Transforming Health initiative.
It would cost $252 million over four years and include a new $15 million "Centre for Excellence" for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
This would be established to replace services at ward 17 of the Repatriation General Hospital, which the Government no longer considered "fit for service" due to ageing facilities.
The building was built in 1942 but workers at the Repat said some facilities were only five years old.
About 10 per cent of the building is used to support war veterans ranging from long-term patients to those returning from conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq,
Mr Snelling said a wide range of veterans' groups would be consulted to find the most suitable location for the new centre.
Full emergency departments 'symptom' of hospitals' problems
Mr Snelling said the changes were in response to federal cuts to the state's health budget and ongoing strain on metropolitan emergency departments.
He said the issues Adelaide had with full emergency departments were a "symptom of problems in other places in the hospital".
"The problem we have, is once a decision's been made that a person needs to be admitted, is getting an acute bed up in the ward," Mr Snelling said.
"Too many people presented to our EDs with life-threatening situations are delayed.
"An ambulance is called and they may need to be moved elsewhere.
"That can have significant impacts on whether they live or die."
Clinical ambassador of the Transforming Health paper, Professor Dorothy Keefe, said the proposals resulted from nine months of consultation with the industry's best.
She said currently mortality could vary by up to 50 per cent between metropolitan hospitals, accounting for 100 lives a year.
"Imagine knowing that some people die, who should live," she said.
She blamed infections and hospital travelling times, among other scenarios for the mortality rate.
At any one time, there are approximately 80 to 100 patients who have been treated in hospital and are ready to be discharged but can't secure accommodation in an aged care facility or another suitable setting State Health Minister Jack Snelling
The Government said services from Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre and Saint Margaret's Rehabilitation Hospital would be "integrated" into the system, with 22 extra rehab beds to be established at Modbury Hospital.
St Margaret's is expected to stay open with a "health focus into the future" but the fate of the Hampstead centre is yet to be determined.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is to become SA's new "home of multi-day elective surgery", with an increased focus on rehabilitation and treating patients with diabetes or obesity.
Its capacity for psychogeriatric patients would be increased from 20 to 40 beds to accommodate redirected patients from the Repat.
The new RAH would become the major multi-trauma hospital for SA and, along with Flinders and Lyell McEwin hospitals, would be be considered a "super site" for major emergencies and the priority location for responding ambulances.
Overhaul 'chaotic': Opposition Leader
Opposition Leader Steven Marshall called the overhaul chaotic and said it put patients' lives at risk.
He said sending patients with life-threatening illness to one of three "super emergency departments" would increase travel times.
"This is definitely going to cost lives," Mr Marshall said.
"We've got the worst and the second-to-worst emergency departments in the nation and the Government's response is to send more patients to those emergency departments.
"In fact, our best performing emergency department is the Noarlunga Hospital, which they plan to close."
Mr Snelling said health leaders had agreed 50 health standards that should be met in the system needed to change from about 300, in an effort to re-configure the system.
"I won't rest until I'm satisfied we don't just have pockets of excellence in our system, we have consistency of excellence," Mr Snelling said.
He said the changes would result in freeing up more beds for seriously ill people by giving them access to acute beds being occupied by long-term patients.
The changes include contracting out the management of 40 maintenance beds to the private sector.
"At any one time, there are approximately 80 to 100 patients who have been treated in hospital and are ready to be discharged but can't secure accommodation in an aged care facility or another suitable setting," Mr Snelling said.
The Government's paper outlining its health changes will be open for public submissions until February 27.
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Born to RIDE
Unlock all trophies
1.8%
Ultra Rare 19.02%
Rare
Connection
Complete your first online race
10.3%
Very Rare 31.96%
Uncommon
Digital Championship
Complete an Online Championship
4.5%
Ultra Rare 24.55%
Uncommon
Friends will be friends
Enroll one of your friends in the team
6.0%
Very Rare 28.17%
Uncommon
Tag Team
Win a gold medal in a Team Race event on the World Tour
18.4%
Rare 32.46%
Uncommon
Bite my dust!
Win a gold medal in a Drag Race event on the World Tour
30.2%
Rare 40.72%
Uncommon
Against the clock
Win a gold medal in a Time Attack event on the World Tour
25.5%
Rare 38.76%
Uncommon
Give way!
Win a gold medal in a Track Day event on the World Tour
20.6%
Rare 34.87%
Uncommon
Durable
Win a gold medal in an Endurance event on the World Tour
8.6%
Very Rare 25.27%
Uncommon
Be a racer
Buy an Aprilia bike
20.8%
Rare 34.98%
Uncommon
Handmade perfection
Buy a Bimota bike
7.3%
Very Rare 26.21%
Uncommon
Ultimate riding machine
Buy a BMW bike
19.1%
Rare 32.68%
Uncommon
True red passion
Buy a Ducati bike
29.0%
Rare 40.50%
Uncommon
The power of a dream
Buy a Honda bike
19.9%
Rare 34.13%
Uncommon
I'm ready to race
Buy a KTM bike
20.0%
Rare 33.45%
Uncommon
Italian Motorcycle Art
Buy a MV Agusta bike
23.7%
Rare 37.52%
Uncommon
The Way of Life
Buy a Suzuki bike
20.0%
Rare 33.89%
Uncommon
British Pride
Buy a Triumph bike
13.3%
Very Rare 29.82%
Uncommon
Electrifying
Buy an Energica bike or a Lightning bike
4.2%
Ultra Rare 23.40%
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Rev up your heart
Buy a Yamaha bike
21.7%
Rare 34.62%
Uncommon
American Muscles
Buy an EBR Bike
4.6%
Ultra Rare 24.68%
Uncommon
This is Ride!
Enter the World Tour game mode
76.8%
Common 78.92%
Common
Starting from the bottom
Reach the 300th position in the World Tour Rankings
48.7%
Rare 57.68%
Common
Step by step
Reach the 200th position in the World Tour Rankings
27.6%
Rare 38.98%
Uncommon
Top 100
Reach the 100th position in the World Tour Rankings
20.6%
Rare 33.64%
Uncommon
Keep Going!
Reach the 50th position in the World Tour Rankings
18.1%
Rare 32.02%
Uncommon
High Society
Reach the 25th position in the World Tour Rankings
17.0%
Rare 31.12%
Uncommon
Top 10
Reach the 10th position in the World Tour Rankings
16.0%
Rare 30.41%
Uncommon
Monocycle
Pull a continuous wheelie for 8 seconds in any game mode
13.9%
Very Rare 28.96%
Uncommon
For the fans
Pull a stoppie for 2 seconds in any game mode
25.6%
Rare 36.01%
Uncommon
They used to call me McFly
Use Rewind in any game mode
65.7%
Common 70.15%
Common
Try and get me
Reach 280 Km/h (174 mph) in any game mode
38.6%
Rare 45.80%
Uncommon
A ghost has appeared
Complete a valid lap in Time Trial mode
30.6%
Rare 44.62%
Uncommon
Men at work
Enter the bike settings menu
54.6%
Common 60.60%
Common
Admiring
Enter the Free Camera menu from the pause screen in any race
28.1%
Rare 43.48%
Uncommon
Just the beginning
Reach a total of 5 bikes in your collection
26.6%
Rare 38.60%
Uncommon
One bike leads to another
Reach a total of 10 bikes in your collection
18.3%
Rare 33.07%
Uncommon
Spacious garage
Reach a total of 15 bikes in your collection
13.9%
Very Rare 29.97%
Uncommon
Last one, I swear!
Reach a total of 20 bikes in your collection
12.2%
Very Rare 29.56%
Uncommon
Personal touch
Buy a new component for one of your bikes
52.1%
Common 59.66%
Common
Swag!
Change your rider's gear
30.3%
Rare 44.59%
Uncommon
Half you, half me
Complete a race in Split Screen mode
28.4%
Rare 30.37%
Uncommon
It's better with friends
Complete 20 online races
3.3%
Ultra Rare 21.92%
Uncommon
Halfway
Win a Bronze medal in 4 different Elite Trophies on the World Tour
15.2%
Rare 30.60%
Uncommon
I've lost count
Reach a total of 25 bikes in your collection
7.4%
Very Rare 25.22%
Uncommon
The Collector
Reach a total of 50 bikes in your collection
2.9%
Ultra Rare 20.94%
Uncommon
The Aristocrat
Change the "Title" of your rider
14.7%
Very Rare 36.12%
Uncommon
The world is yours
Win a Gold medal in each Elite Trophy on the World Tour
9.1%
Very Rare 25.97%
Uncommon
Best in the World
Reach the 1st position in the World Tour Rankings
15.4%
Rare 29.94%
Uncommon | positive |
Why the restaurant industry created no new jobs last month - Inter Reviewed News Business Entertainment Lifestyle Sports Tech Apk Games Breaking News Best Honda Car Mods for GTA 5 – FandomSpot Nova Scotia will hold a briefing when the Fiona storm assessment begins PDF Reader 1.2.3 APK (MOD, Unlimited Monthly) for Android Harry Styles has to stop singing “What Makes You Beautiful” at his concerts Hellpoint: Best Armor, Ranking Man wanted in downtown Toronto for alleged sexual assault, police say – Toronto Best GTA 5 Iron Man Mods & Skins Worth Trying – FandomSpot Node Video 5.3.0 APK (MOD, Premium) for Android Understanding The Importance Of Business Data Backup Meghan Markle ‘yelled’ at employees, leaving them ‘broken’ and ‘trembling’ with fear, the new book claims Home/Business/Why the restaurant industry created no new jobs last month Business Why the restaurant industry created no new jobs last month snopxSeptember 5, 2021 13 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Tumblr Pinterest Reddit Since Kayleigh Caamaño and her husband, Jann, opened a pizza restaurant three years in the past in Stephenville, Texas, filling open positions has by no means been a difficulty. “We’ve all the time had an issue getting good folks, however we’ve by no means had an issue hiring folks,” Caamaño mentioned. That’s partly as a result of the restaurant is positioned nearly a mile away from Tarleton State College’s campus, the place some 14,000 undergraduates college students had been enrolled final fall. “Now it’s modified to the place total folks simply aren’t making use of,” she mentioned, or the few who do apply ghost them after interviews or stop earlier than they even begin working. Caamaño’s expertise aligns with what many different eating places house owners have possible been dealing with. “ Within the meals companies {industry} particularly, payrolls declined by 42,000 in August ” Final month there have been no new jobs created throughout your entire leisure and hospitality {industry}, in line with the jobs report printed on Friday. In whole, some 235,000 jobs had been added within the U.S. final month — far under the 720,000 jobs economists had forecast. Within the meals companies {industry} particularly, payrolls declined by 42,000 in August. Eating places struggled to recruit and retain staff earlier than COVID-19 Even earlier than the pandemic, recruiting and retaining staff “had been the {industry}’s prime problem for a few years,” mentioned Hudson Riehle, senior vp for analysis on the Nationwide Restaurant Affiliation, a commerce group that represents greater than 380,000 eating places. Lengthy hours and difficult work situations include comparatively low pay for restaurant servers; the median wage was $24,190 a 12 months in 2020, in line with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That problem has intensified as extra Individuals have gotten vaccinated and began to dine out once more. “As customers have stepped up their restaurant utilization, {industry} visitors has elevated, making a better want for workers,” he advised MarketWatch. In January, 8% of restaurant operators rated recruitment and retention of workforce as their prime problem; by June that quantity had risen to 75%, the best stage ever recorded, in line with an August report by the Nationwide Restaurant Affiliation. Excessive demand for employees in different industries, caregiving obligations and security issues related to COVID-19 are collectively holding again employees from taking jobs within the restaurant sector, Riehle mentioned. Economists are blaming the lackluster August jobs report — and the truth that no new jobs had been added within the leisure and hospitality {industry}, which incorporates eating places — totally on the extremely transmissible delta pressure of COVID-19. “It’s believable that many staff determined to ‘sit out’ the delta spike and use the time to seek for jobs that provide higher pay and safer work situations,” Aneta Markowska and Thomas Simons, economists at Jefferies, mentioned in a word on Friday, referring to the leisure and hospitality sector. Caam’s is positioned close to a university campus, which normally makes it straightforward to recruit staff, however currently hardly anybody has utilized for 5 open positions, mentioned co-owner Kayleigh Caamaño. Photograph courtesy of Kayleigh Caamaño “We now have been hard-pressed to assist supply [talent] into the hospitality {industry},” mentioned Richard Wahlquist, president and CEO of the American Staffing Affiliation, a member-based group representing recruiters and hiring managers. “ ‘It’s believable that many staff determined to ‘sit out’ the delta spike and use the time to seek for jobs that provide higher pay and safer work situations’ ” — Aneta Markowska and Thomas Simons, economists at Jefferies “The delta variant has put a dampener on labor provide,” he advised MarketWatch. Members that he works with are “seeing extra hesitancy to return again into the labor market than they might have anticipated.” Caamaño is skeptical that delta is the explanation she and her husband can’t fill job openings “Lots of people round right here don’t take COVID severely,” Caamaño mentioned. Faculty children could also be deterred from working on the restaurant due to COVID, she mentioned, but it surely doesn’t appear prone to her, provided that “they don’t hesitate to nonetheless exit to eat or go to the bars.” Presently, she and her husband want to rent a meals runner, bartender, pizza prepare dinner, kitchen prep prepare dinner and a dishwasher. Her crew of 11 staff has managed to get by with out the extra staff over the course of this 12 months, she mentioned. “ ‘My husband and I try to wrap our brains round it, however we actually can’t determine why folks don’t must work.’ ” — Kayleigh Caamaño, co-owners of Caam’s However not too long ago the restaurant needed to cease serving lunch briefly on weekdays whereas one worker was out on trip and two others couldn’t work after they had been uncovered to somebody who had examined optimistic for COVID-19. Caamaño hasn’t thought of elevating the pay for the open positions; the restaurant already pays greater than neighboring institutions as a result of it permits staff to maintain their recommendations on prime of their hourly wages, she mentioned. She additionally doubts that additional unemployment advantages are holding again folks from making use of for jobs, as a result of Texas was amongst 26 states that minimize unemployed folks off from the additional $300 per week in unemployment advantages early, earlier than they expire this weekend. “My husband and I try to wrap our brains round it however we actually can’t determine why folks don’t must work,” Caamaño mentioned. 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Contact Us – Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy Remote Learning Home About Us About Reach2 Headteacher’s Welcome Hiring NSN Facilities Meet The Team Recruitment Vision and Ethos Admissions Academy Information Academic Performance Curriculum Overview Overview English & Reading Mathematics Science Art & Design Computing D & T Geography History Modern Foreign Languages Music PE PSHE (including RSE) Religious Education Outdoor Learning 11 Before 11 Personal Development PSHE (including RSE) Developing Pupils’ Character Wider Opportunities Inclusion & Equality British Values SMSC Thrive Citizenship Early Years Foundation Stage Ofsted Policies Pupil Premium Safeguarding School Meals Sports Premium Parents Anti-Bullying E-Safety Enrichment and After-School Clubs Letters Newsletters Parent Support and Info. PSFA Restorative Practice School Meals SEND Term Dates Uniform 11 before 11 Children Class Pages EYFS Year 1 Classes Year 2 Classes Year 3 Classes Year 4 Classes Year 5 Classes Year 6 Classes Pupil Parliament Our Governance Contact Us PSHE Remote Learning Home About Us About Reach2 Headteacher’s Welcome Hiring NSN Facilities Meet The Team Recruitment Vision and Ethos Admissions Academy Information Academic Performance Curriculum Overview Overview English & Reading Mathematics Science Art & Design Computing D & T Geography History Modern Foreign Languages Music PE PSHE (including RSE) Religious Education Outdoor Learning 11 Before 11 Personal Development PSHE (including RSE) Developing Pupils’ Character Wider Opportunities Inclusion & Equality British Values SMSC Thrive Citizenship Early Years Foundation Stage Ofsted Policies Pupil Premium Safeguarding School Meals Sports Premium Parents Anti-Bullying E-Safety Enrichment and After-School Clubs Letters Newsletters Parent Support and Info. PSFA Restorative Practice School Meals SEND Term Dates Uniform 11 before 11 Children Class Pages EYFS Year 1 Classes Year 2 Classes Year 3 Classes Year 4 Classes Year 5 Classes Year 6 Classes Pupil Parliament Our Governance Contact Us PSHE Contact Us Please use the information below to contact Northfield St. Nicholas Primary Academy. If you have any general queries please contact Sara Mayer on [email protected] or call 01502 563528. Please note, if you want a copy of any of the information on this website, we can provide this free of charge. Head Teacher: Mr I W Owens SENCO Our SENd Co-ordinator is Lindsay Higgins Safeguarding Leaders If you have any concerns regarding the welfare of a child at Northfield please contact our safeguarding leaders are Lindsay Higgins DSL and Jade Howgate. They can be contacted by phoning the school on 01502 563528 Chair of Governors: Mrs C Earl – [email protected] Address: Northfield St. Nicholas Primary Academy St Margaret’s Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR32 4HN Telephone and Fax: 01502 563528 Email: [email protected] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Northfield-St-Nicholas-Primary-Academy-953411824748694/ Twitter: Follow @nsnacademy @nsnacademy Tweets by nsnacademy NSN Facebook Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy 1 day ago We are delighted to be able to share our Ofsted report with you which recognises the hard work of our whole school community. We hope you are as proud as we are! ... See MoreSee Less Photo View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy 1 day ago Parents' Coffee Morning on Tuesday 4th October between 9am and 10am. ... See MoreSee Less Photo View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy 2 days ago What great fun Year 1 and 2 have had in Potions Club! The children have enjoyed this sensory and unforgettable experience of making fizzy, sparkly potions. Take a look at them! ... See MoreSee Less Photo View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy 2 days ago This half term's Power of Reading book is Lubna and Pebble. The children took part in an exciting and engaging acting activity. They created freeze frames as Lubna and discussed how she felt. This is a great opportunity to develop our emotional literacy and prepare them for writing character descriptions. ... 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See MoreSee Less Photo View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email Contact Us Northfield St. Nicholas Primary Academy St Margaret’s Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR32 4HN Named contact: Sara Mayer Headteacher: I W Owens Head of Governance & Policy: Katherine Alexander SENDCo : Lindsay Higgins Chair of Governors: C Earl Safeguarding Contacts: Lindsay Higgins (DSL), Jade Howgate (SO) Website Policies Cookie Policy Website Privacy Policy Telephone and Email Telephone & Fax: 01502 563528 Email: [email protected] Website: https://nsnacademy.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nsnacademy Facebook: ww.facebook.com/Northfield-St-Nicholas-Primary-Academy REAch2 Academy Trust Founded in 2012, REAch2 Academy Trust is the largest primary-only academy trust in country. www.reach2.org Registered Address: REAch2 Academy Trust Henhurst Ridge Primary Academy Henhurst Ridge Burton-Upon-Trent DE13 9TQ Tel: 01283 246433 Email: [email protected] © 2018 Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy All Rights Reserved. | Log Northfield St Nicholas Primary School is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children. It has thorough safeguarding and recruitment procedures. If you have any concerns regarding the welfare of a child at Northfield please contact our safeguarding leaders: Lindsay Higgins DSL and Jade Howgate SO. They can be contacted by phoning the school on 01502 563 528 | negative |
SEOUL, South Korea — The Army has issued a policy requiring that mothers be given time to breast-feed and express milk on the job, making it the final branch of service to adopt a policy. The directive, signed by Secretary of the Army John McHugh and dated Sept. 29, says commanders must provide breast-feeding soldiers with a private space with a lock, electrical outlet and access to a safe water source for pumping during duty hours. That space can be within a restroom, but “must be a fully enclosed, separate area designated for breast-feeding” and cannot be a bathroom stall. Soldiers should provide notice soon as possible that they plan to breast-feed after returning to duty so their chain of command can determine how to support them, it says. The directive did not specify how much time will be allowed for pumping or how many daily breaks will be allowed, noting that the amount of time needed to express milk depends on several factors, including the age of the infant and distance of the pumping location from the workplace. “Commanders and soldiers will balance lactation support and readiness,” it said, adding that mothers are required to provide their own pumping and milk storage equipment. The directive says breast-feeding soldiers remain eligible for field training and mobility exercises, but their commanders must provide a private space for them to express milk during exercises. The new policy goes into effect immediately and applies to active-duty, National Guard and Army Reserve troops. The issue of breast-feeding in the military has drawn increasing attention in recent years, from whether servicemembers should be allowed to publicly feed their children while in uniform to whether mothers should be required to cover themselves while nursing on military installations. Earlier this year, two U.S. commands quickly pulled new policies that required mothers to breast-feed discreetly or cover themselves after drawing a backlash from nursing moms. Military policies on breast-feeding vary by service. The Air Force, Navy and Marines protect a servicemember’s right to breast-feed, mandating or strongly encouraging commands to provide clean spaces that are not restrooms for pumping, and delaying deployments in the months after childbirth. Tricare, the military’s health insurance, announced in the summer that it would begin covering breast-feeding supplies such as pumps as well as lactation counseling. | positive |
Lashing accused texted victim after attack, court told
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One of the three men accused of breaking into a Sydney unit to whip a man for defying Islamic law texted and phoned the victim days after the attack, a court has heard.
Police say Christian Martinez, 31, was held down on his bed and lashed 40 times with an electrical cord for drinking alcohol.
Three men have been charged over the incident at Silverwater in Sydney's west.
One of the men, Zakaria Raad, was granted bail after his lawyer told Burwood Local Court he was only in the unit block to do some electrical work.
But the prosecutor said he texted and phoned the victim days after the attack.
Meanwhile, Wassim Fayad, who was granted bail earlier this week, returned to court today to provide a new residential address.
Topics: courts-and-trials, assault, crime, islam, alcohol, silverwater-2128, sydney-2000
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New research by Stay Metrics, a provider of evidence based driver engagement, training and retention solutions for motor carriers, shows a trend in the attitudes of experienced drivers towards pay that may cause more worries for carriers concerned with turnover.
A team led by Stay Metrics Director of Research, Timothy Judge, PhD, recently examined a large sample of driver survey responses and data from carriers in 2016 and 2017, correlating the professional experience of drivers with pay satisfaction and turnover decisions.
“At Stay Metrics, we endeavor to take a scientific approach to answer important questions for the trucking industry, and rely on the research and insights we gain from working with more than 80 carriers,” said Judge, who is the executive director of the Leadership Initiative in the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University.
Comparing results from 2016 and 2017, the study shows that drivers with more experience (5+ years) are more dissatisfied with their pay than drivers with less experience. The effects of experience on pay dissatisfaction were not large but statistically significant.
Another finding is that experienced drivers are more likely to indicate pay as the most important factor in their decision to join a different carrier. Judge, who is the most published and cited author in top-tier journals of applied psychology and management research, notes that employee satisfaction with pay is rarely a top predictor of turnover in any industry, including trucking.
The study found that the retention advantage of experienced drivers is eroding, but the dissatisfaction with pay is not a significantly more important predictor of driver turnover from 2016 to 2017.
While experienced drivers are more likely to say they value pay, it isn’t necessarily a bigger factor in their turnover decisions.
“It is important to remember that experienced drivers care about more things than pay, and they still have retention rates significantly higher than less experienced employees,” he said.
During the second half of 2017, the driver market has tightened amid rising freight demand and ELD rule compliance. Amid this change, a number of carriers have announced significant pay increases and sign-on bonuses with record high payouts. These and other factors have influenced the changes in driver attitudes towards pay.
“Drivers know freight rates are going up and pay raises are imminent. While carriers must stay competitive with pay, the new research highlights the opportunity for carriers to increase job satisfaction with recognition and rewards programs, and by showing greater appreciation and respect,” said Tim Hindes, chief executive officer of Stay Metrics.
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Watch all Breaking Bad moments inspired by Pulp Fiction - Auralcrave Facebook Twitter Instagram Spotify Linkedin Youtube Mail Languages Skip to content Auralcrave Stories for open-minded Music Cinema & TV Art Lifestyle Literature Places Stories Trends Auralcrave Books About Aural Team Search November 29, 2018 Cinema & TV / Premium Watch all Breaking Bad moments inspired by Pulp Fiction Posted by Carlo Affatigato In that journey inside the world of homemade (or rather camper-made) methamphetamine showed in Breaking Bad along its five seasons, all references, easter eggs and explicit influences weren’t completely evident at first glance. Probably because our attention was focused elsewhere: in seeing where the evolution of Walter White would arrive, from being a family father victim of the health system to becoming the lord of drug distribution in New Mexico. Best sci-fi on Amazon Prime - Watch... Please enable JavaScript Best sci-fi on Amazon Prime - Watch them now Nevertheless, the references are there. One of the most frequent is Pulp Fiction, the gangster cult-movie directed by Quentin Tarantino in 1994, and recently a video has become popular in Internet, showing in two minutes all the scenes where Breaking Bad paid homage to Pulp Fiction. If some homages could have been recognized immediately (for example, Jane’s overdose in the second season, which follows very closely the vicissitudes of Mia Wallace), others weren’t very explicit and could appear as totally new, watching the video (like the many parallels between Walter White and Butch, the Pulp Fiction character played by Bruce Willis). The video has the dual function of both discovering new hidden elements of Breaking Bad‘s beauty and highlighting once again the reasons why people loved it so much. Share this story: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Breaking Badeaster eggshomagePulp Fictionreferences Published by Carlo Affatigato Auralcrave founder, web content creator since 2010, life coach, husband, father, fond of art, culture, society, psychology, economics, politics, games. He believes that every area of knowledge has stories worth to be told and he's sure that doing it makes the world a better place. View all posts by Carlo Affatigato Post navigation Previous Post Mad About You: behind the meaning of Hooverphonic’s song Next Post Portishead, Roads: the hidden meaning of an introspective song Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment * Name * Email * Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. The new Auralcrave book D I S T U R B E D The insane stories of ther worst serial killers of all time Buy it on Amazon Discover all Auralcrave books Follow Auralcrave by email e-mail Subscribe Join 1,543 other subscribers. Auralcrave is a registered trademark. All rights are reserved. The unauthorized use and the copy of contents without express authorization is forbidden. For any request, contact us by mail. By navigating this website, you agree to use cookies. To find out more, including GDPR Compliance and how to control cookies, see our Privacy, Cookie & GDPR Policy The images on Auralcrave or similar could be downloaded and edited on depositphotos.com. About | Team | Privacy Policy | Contact | negative |
As the pair faced off in a pivotal scene, Nicholson pulled out the weapon - much to the surprise of DiCaprio as well as director Martin Scorsese.
Scorsese says he still shudders about the incident when he thinks about it.
Talking about the scene he said: "The first thing Jack did was sniff the glass and say, 'I smell a rat.'
"And then he pulled a gun on him. He didn't tell me he had a gun. It was great.
"We took a lot out, but Leo's reaction is real-time."
He added: "I still get chills," when Nicholson says, "I smell a rat."
Scorsese, 68, told author Richard Schickel for new book, Conversations With Scorsese: "It's so real to me."
The scene took place as Nicholson, who plays a mob boss in Boston, searches for a traitor within his organisation.
DiCaprio played an undercover police officer who infiltrates Nicholson's gang in the 2006 film.
The Departed won four Oscars, including Best Director for Scorsese. | positive |
PARIS — The Canadian law professor who resigned this month as head of a United Nations inquiry into last summer’s Gaza conflict said his appointment had been troubled from the outset by intense pressure from Israel’s government, which accused him of a pro-Palestinian bias.
The professor, William Schabas, also said in an interview in Paris last Thursday that he had been subjected to a stream of vulgar and violent emails and several death threats that appeared to have emanated from a range of locations, including from Canada and the United States. Some called him a disgrace and “a self-hating Jew,” he said, and they were among the milder ones.
Professor Schabas resigned last week after the United Nations began a formal inquiry into a possible conflict of interest by him, in response to an Israeli complaint that he had done consulting work for the Palestine Liberation Organization and had failed to disclose it before he was appointed.
He acknowledged having done the work, but asserted it was insignificant and irrelevant to his objectivity, so he had never brought it up before he was invited to lead the commission of inquiry. However, he said in his letter of resignation, the distraction created by the formal investigation of his background would have undercut the Gaza commission’s report, so he decided to quit. | positive |
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán receives Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina Husein Kavazović – miniszterelnok.hu back Prime Minister Viktor Orbán receives Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina Husein Kavazović 29. 04. 2016. | source: miniszterelnok.hu Prime Minister Viktor Orbán invited the Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina Husein Kavazović to Budapest on a working visit. Photo: Károly Árvai/Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister The Islamic cleric attended a banquet with the Prime Minister in Parliament, and then travelled to Baranya County, where he held talks with leaders of the County and the City of Pécs. He was also scheduled to give a presentation at the University of Pécs, entitled “Islam in the Balkans”. Mr. Kavazović will also visit the most significant Islamic memorials in Baranya County. Photo: Károly Árvai/Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister The most important topics of Mr. Kavazović’s discussions include Hungarian-Bosnian relations in the past and the present, European prospects for Bosnian Muslims and possible solutions to the problems Europe currently faces. related posts Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Close relations between Budapest and Banja Luka must be developed We must not give way to anarchy tags Bosnia and Herzegovina islam © All right reserved, 2022. | archive | impressum | negative |
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The amount of encryption we use on the web is growing at a pretty rapid rate these days. Obviously there’s the likes of WhatsApp and iMessage doing the end-to-end encrypted messaging thing, but we’re also seeing websites themselves adopt HTTPS in record numbers. For example, 20% of the Alexa Top 1 million websites are redirecting insecure requests to secure ones.
Encryption has been gaining traction for many reasons, not least of which has been governments’ increasing desire to look at their citizens’ traffic. There were the Ed Snowden leaks which really got us thinking about these things then subsequently, the the Snoopers’ Charter in the UK and more recently, the US government deciding that broadband privacy rules aren’t actually that important. All of these events have contributed to people’s desire to encrypt their traffic therefor protecting their browsing habits from those who wish to watch them. Because that’s what the green padlock in the address bar means, right? Well, not entirely, and the reason why is important to understand.
When your browser makes a connection to an HTTPS website, there’s a negotiation phase in which the browser and the server converse about how they’re going to do encryption. This communication – complete with which site the user is connecting to – is observable by a man in the middle; you know, the sort of parties we want to keep traffic private from. Once the negotiation phase is complete, all data is properly encrypted and it can’t be observed or modified which is precisely what protects your passwords and your bank statements. But there’s a problem, and it’s one that most people don’t give much thought to. Let me illustrate:
Only a couple of days ago, The Next Web reported that Pornhub had gone HTTPS. Now this is good for all the same reasons that it’s good for any website, but it’s important to understand just how much protection encrypted web traffic actually gives you. In the news story above, TNW talks about how HTTPS helps users “feel secure” whilst satisfying their kinky fetishes. But there’s a really important nuance to understand here: Because of the negotiation I mentioned earlier on, even with the presence of HTTPS a man in the middle still knows when someone is going to Pornhub. That alone could be quite embarrassing, but they also know how frequently those they can observe visit such sites. They know how many requests are being made and how much data is transferred and when you start to consider all that meta data that constitutes, suddenly the privacy aspect of HTTPS don’t look so rosy any more.
As it relates to the fetishes TNW mentions, it’s a double-edged sword. A website using HTTPS protects the actual locations on the site being browsed so in the case of an adult website, someone intercepting the traffic doesn’t know which parts of the site are being accessed. However, whilst the abovementioned site is a pretty generic one in terms of it being adult content that caters to a broad range of desires, consider for a moment the very specific nature of some domains. Now I’m not going to list them here because your imagination is more than capable of conjuring up the sorts of names that would genuinely be embarrassing to most people, so you can see the problem and how people may get the wrong idea about what HTTPS means.
HTTPS is an essential security control for all sorts of very good reasons, in fact it does great things for us beyond security alone too. But let’s not be under any illusions about the extent to which it anonymises traffic. If you really don’t want your ISP seeing which sites you visit, get a VPN… then it’s just your VPN provider that sees your weird fetishes! | positive |
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The pharmaceutical giant will keep 600 jobs on the campus as a national real estate investment group seeks to reposition the site.
An aerial photo of the Pfizer campus in Pearl River. (Photo: Pfizer) Story Highlights Buyer is a national real estate investment company.
Pfizer will retain some research and development and manufacturing at the site.
New owner IRG envisions a mixed use for science, technology, educational and retail businesses.
PEARL RIVER - Pfizer has sold about 200 acres of its property here to a real estate group that wants to create a campus that would mix science, technology, educational and retail businesses.
Under the agreement, the California-based Industrial Realty Group gets 2 million square feet and about 38 buildings containing laboratory, pharmaceutical manufacturing, office and support space. Pfizer retains ownership of about 25 acres including three buildings.
"Rockland County's premiere research facility will be re-imagined into a shopping, dining, meeting and educational destination at Pearl River's historic campus," reads a description on a website about the project.
"The site has extensive potential,"John Mase, IRG's chief executive officer, said in a statement. "IRG will pursue redevelopment with opportunities for retail, office, industrial and other commercial users. We have already had a wide range of tenants show interest in the project."
A preliminary agreement to sell the property was announced in May.
Pfizer is keeping its research and development facilities at the Middletown Road site, as well as undeveloped land on the property, said Susan Rutledge, Pfizer's Pearl River spokeswoman. The drugmaker will continue to manufacture its Prevnar vaccine under a short-term lease-back agreement with IRG through 2016. Manufacturing of Pfizer's oncology drugs will remain at the Pearl River campus under a long-term lease.
Buy Photo A sign at the Pfizer campus in Pearl River. (Photo: File photo by Akiko Matsuda/The Journal News)
Pfizer plans to keep up to 600 jobs onsite after 2017, with a research site and oncology medication production located there, Rutledge said.
Other businesses at the site – Protein Sciences and Anellotech – will be leasing space from IRG.
Amy Wertheim of Stop Anellotech said the grassroots group opposing the bio-tech facility hopes IRG will properly remediate the land that will be developed. The group is awaiting a court decision regarding Anellotech, a petrochemical start-up that opponents fear will negatively affect air quality and public health.
Orangetown Supervisor Andy Stewart said he hoped the sale of the vacant land and buildings "will result in good, clean redevelopment of this site that will begin to fill the hole in the local tax base left by Pfizer's downsizing process. ... I am looking forward to a fair and thorough review of any proposals IRG brings to the town."
County Executive Ed Day said he supported IRG's plan to repurpose the property, and called the fact that Pfizer would keep hundreds of jobs at the site "a tremendous accomplishment given the circumstances."
"This is a revenue story to make sure that taxes are moderated in Rockland County," said Day, who noted the property was a major town and school district taxpayer.
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There are about 1,300 Pfizer employees in Pearl River, a number that will remain steady until June. In the late 1980s and early 1990s there were about 5,000 workers at the site under former owners, including Lederle Laboratories.
The site is where Dr. Ernst Lederle produced diphtheria antitoxins in 1907. Throughout the years, vaccines for smallpox, typhoid and pneumonia were developed there.
The Rockland Economic Development Corp. and its former president, Michael DiTullo, worked closely with Pfizer and IRG during the transition.
"We at the REDC look forward to working with IRG in re-positioning this very valuable property as a future site of job creation in Rockland County," said Richard Struck, its interim president and CEO.
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This month’s kudos go to Margaret Noble’s 12th-grade class at High Tech High Media Arts in San Diego. Noble assigned her class to create interactive artworks around the theme of children’s books of the future, and the results are amazing — see the video below. Additional thanks to Jgombarcik, Taher Jafferjee, and Todd J. Elliott. The writer was Mat Honan, the illustrations are by Christoph Niemann and Daniel Salo was the photographer. | positive |
The Rent Is Too Damn High, But It’s About to Get a Whole Lot Higher | Observer Search for: Submit Observer Business | Arts | Entertainment | Newsletters Entertainment What to Watch Books Reviews Movies TV Theater Music Arts Visual Art Business Management Media Technology Space Lifestyle Fashion Travel Beauty About Masthead Editorial Ethics and Guidelines Advertise With Us Observer Advertising Guidelines Events Newsletters Politics The Rent Is Too Damn High, But It’s About to Get a Whole Lot Higher A rent stabilized apartment is often spoken of as a kind of golden ticket in New York, the rare real By Kim Velsey • 05/01/13 1:26pm Bad news Jimmy: The rent is going up again! A rent stabilized apartment is often spoken of as a kind of golden ticket in New York, the rare real estate find that will enable its lucky denizen to stay in a neighborhood, a borough, and increasingly, a city where housing is becoming a luxury commodity. A rent stabilized apartment is not only a renter’s insurance against being priced out of their current place, but a magical amulet against a future move to Hoboken or Jersey City. Not that rent-stabilized apartments are particularly cheap, only cheaper. Nor does stabilization mean that tenants are protected from hefty rent increases, only that those rent increases will be determined by the Rent Guidelines Board, rather than their landlords. And this year, the increase looks likely to be considerable: between 3.25 and 6.25 percent for a one-year lease and 5 and 9 percent for two year leases, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. The leap is particularly high compared to last year’s 2 percent for a one-year and 4 percent for a two-year increase. And in a city where more and more New Yorkers are struggling to make the rent as it is, it might well push more than a few households past their financial breaking points, a situation acknowledged by at least one owner member of the nine-person board, which is appointed by the mayor. Not that it changed his opinion on the rent hike; in fact, he thought it should be hiked even more. While Steven J. Schleider conceded to The Journal that there were a “large number of at-risk families” (indeed, with a shrinking pool of affordable housing options, more and more working poor families are falling into homelessness), he argued that most tenants could afford to pay higher rents to cover landlords’ increasing costs and recommended an increase of as much of 11 percent over two years. As for those at-risk families? He thought that increased government subsidies and programs should be used to help them. A nice way to pass the buck, but hardly likely, particularly all the budget shaving that’s currently happening as part of the sequestration. The RGB will hold public hearings on the increases, including one on the evening that they officially set the increase on June 20, but the actual math, as well as the wheeling and dealing behind setting the yearly rate, is cloaked in secrecy. Basically, the RGB says that it sets the range of the increase after determining the increased costs for landlords over the past year. This year, fuel oil, water and sewer, and property tax all increased. And naturally, landlords are eager to pass all of those costs onto tenants. Which would be fine if the incomes of the city’s low and middle-income residents actually increased along with their rent costs, rather than stagnating. But hey, at least the city’s many frustrated renters have an anthem now: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHEitsYJnmw] Filed Under: Politics, Real Estate, rent guidelines board, The Rent is 2 DAMN High, rent increases, Rent wars, rent-stabilized apartments, RGB SEE ALSO: Manhattan’s Getting a “WeWork For the .01 Percent” Contact About Advertise Advertising Guidelines Newsletters Masthead Editorial Ethics Sitemap Privacy Terms Cookie Settings Do not sell my data Powered by WordPress VIP We noticed you're using an ad blocker. We get it: you like to have control of your own internet experience. But advertising revenue helps support our journalism. To read our full stories, please turn off your ad blocker. We'd really appreciate it. How Do I Whitelist Observer? How Do I Whitelist Observer? Below are steps you can take in order to whitelist Observer.com on your browser: For Adblock: Click the AdBlock button on your browser and select Don't run on pages on this domain. For Adblock Plus on Google Chrome: Click the AdBlock Plus button on your browser and select Enabled on this site. For Adblock Plus on Firefox: Click the AdBlock Plus button on your browser and select Disable on Observer.com. Then Reload the Page | negative |
Kaspersky Antivirus Software: Made in Moscow, Popular in the USA, and Under FBI Investigation
“We discussed fighting terrorism and cybersecurity.”
– Vladimir Putin on his meeting with Donald Trump, 7/7/17, as reported by Sputnik
Kaspersky Labs is a leading provider of antivirus software used in the USA. The company is headquartered in Moscow and led by Eugene Kaspersky.
Who is Eugene Kaspersky? Kaspersky, 51, is a charismatic computer prodigy and a billionaire. He has been welcomed in the US but increasingly draws suspicion. He was educated at a KGB-funded school in his twenties and consults for the Russian Defense Ministry… but Kaspersky has also worked with the FBI. Kaspersky Lab software has been installed for the US Bureau of Prisons and other government agencies.
Kaspersky Labs has business partnerships with Best Buy, Facebook, Microsoft and other leading US companies.
Amid concern about Russian interference in US elections, the FBI is investigating Eugene Kaspersky’s activities and alliances. The FBI’s interest was publicized with a June 28 “swoop” on more than a dozen US-based Kaspersky employees for questioning.
Update: On July 10 the Chicago Tribune reported that US Homeland Security has documents showing Kaspersky Lab as having a Russian military intelligence number assigned by the FSB, Russia’s spy agency.
Comey to Congress, Kaspersky to Reddit
In May 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey and other leaders in US espionage advised Congress that Kaspersky’s antivirus code was vulnerable to Kremlin influence. However, they did not offer a “smoking gun” that Kaspersky had colluded with the Russian government.
Simultaneously Eugene Kaspersky was hosting an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit. There he addressed the claims immediately and offered to meet with Congress. In a May 11 press release he stated, “I respectfully disagree with their opinion, and I’m very sorry these gentlemen can’t use the best software on the market because of political reasons.”
A Reddit user asked why Kaspersky paid Michael Flynn $11,250. Kaspersky explained that the payment was compensation for a speech. Kaspersky Government Security Solutions had paid Flynn the amount in October 2015 purportedly for “making remarks” at an event in Washington.
Kaspersky insists that his company’s work is all defensive, not offensive. He states this boldly on his blog. Recently he offered to share the Kaspersky Labs US source code with the FBI and move more of his work to the USA in an effort to alleviate security concerns.
High Technology From Moscow?
Years ago when we received Kaspersky antivirus software with a Best Buy computer purchase, the “security gift” made us curious. The name Kaspersky Lab stood out. Most antivirus software advertised to US consumers at the time, in our awareness, had either:
– A “brandable name” (e.g., Malwarebytes or ScanGuard) or
– A northern European sort of name such as McAfee or Norton
It seemed a bit odd to receive from Best Buy an antivirus program produced by a company with headquarters in Russia, given the tenuous relationship between Washington and Moscow. Russia just didn’t seem like the go-to place for US computer security.
We didn’t yet realize that Avast Software is Czech (and Czechoslovakia is riddled with Russian spies) nor that other antivirus software commonly used in the US is imported from or downloaded from companies based in Romania, China and other foreign locations. What are we thinking, America?!
When US Americans choose antivirus software, it seems most secure to buy American. Leading antivirus providers based in California, for example, are Symantec (Norton Antivirus) and McAfee.
Of course, buying American doesn’t rule out the chance that you’re being surveilled by a government. It just ups the likelihood that the government isn’t foreign. More on that later.
Eugene Kaspersky Mini-Biography
Eugene Kaspersky, or Yevgeny Kaspersky, was born in Russian in 1965. In 1987 he graduated from the KGB Higher School with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. (The school has since been renamed the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science.) That same year he met his first wife, also a computer technology expert, at a KGB vacation resort.
Apparently he became interested in computer security in 1989 when confronted with the Cascade virus, which made text fall to the bottom of a computer screen. He sought out more viruses, wrote code to defeat them, and began distributing antivirus software to his friends.
At the time, Kaspersky was working at the Ministry of Defense. An unknown influencer arranged for Kaspersky to leave the military and work in the private sector. Kaspersky moved to the private company KAMI to pursue his antivirus product development full-time.
At KAMI Kaspersky worked alongside his wife Natalya Kaspersky. The two then co-founded Kaspersky Lab with a friend in Moscow in 1997. Eugene has been CEO since 2007. The company employed around 3000 people at our last check.
Kaspersky travels extensively for business. He frequently attends well-publicized entertainment events, and he parties with celebrities. Those who are suspicious of his alliances with the Russian government surmise that while on business, he nurtures old spy relationships to benefit his government.
Eugene Kaspersky and Your Online Identity
Eugene Kaspersky is a proponent of all Internet users having a digital ID. He argues that digital IDs would reduce cyberwarfare.
Opponents raise privacy concerns because the group overseeing digital IDs would be subject to corruption.
Kaspersky is among many Russian and Chinese proponents of changing the governance of the Internet. Currently the ITU — a group of nonprofits with a strong “western” character — oversees domain names and helps keep the Internet functioning. In Kaspersky’s view, the ITU should be comprised of national governments with access to all Internet users digital fingerprints.
The treaty now overseeing international telecommunications is up for possible revision in December 2017.
Security Soap Opera: Kaspersky, Best Buy, the FBI & the NSA
Domestic and international computer surveillance can create strange bedfellows. Here are a few facts to keep in the back of your mind as stories about cybersecurity unfold.
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The airy miniCheck textile is applied for the front panel, which is a highly elastic 3D knit fabric that’s been specifically developed with breathability and aerodynamics in mind. At the rear, the Stabilizator V7 textile is incorporated, which stabilizes the jersey with its limited vertical-stretch composition, especially when the pockets are loaded up. The aggressive in-saddle position pro riders take inspired the material choice for the sleeves and upper back panel, which needed to be as buttery smooth and flexible as possible. The fine-gauge warp knit Push-Pull textile was just the ticket, providing high UV protection along with its quick-drying, bi-stretch properties. Specifications: Brand new Aerodynamic Breathable and lightweight 3 back pocket - Triple Ramp Pockets UV-protection Racing fit *Team NTT Pro Cycling is a World Tour Team competing at the highest level in the cycling world. A successful team with stage wins in Giro d'Italia, Tour Down Under, Paris-Nice and the European Championships. Team NTT has several well-known team profiles, including Roman Kreuziger, Michael Valgren, Edvald Boasson Hagen, the South African national road race champion Ryan Gibbons and the European time trial champion Victor Campenaerts. Product type PRO-OWNED: When an item is marked as, PRO-OWNED, it means that the item has previously been owned by either a professional cycling team or a professional cyclist. PRO'S CHOICE: When an item is marked as, PRO'S CHOICE, it means that the item was purchased through the official supplier. We select items that are chosen by the professionals. Why these stickers? We started purchasing our goods exclusively from the professional cyclists and cycling teams. 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Earlier Friday, we highlighted some of the Buffalo Bills' "rising" after three weeks of organized team activities (OTAs).
Now it's time to look at the other end of the spectrum: which players left something to be desired in OTAs? It's a harder question to answer, since the practices are voluntary, are not held in pads, and are geared towards installation -- not necessarily evaluation.
With that in mind, here are our notes on some players who didn't have as good a showing in OTAs as we would have expected:
EJ Manuel had an up-and-down performance during OTAs, particularly struggling with downfield throws. Kevin Hoffman/USA TODAY Sports
QB EJ Manuel: The Bills' chances this season start and end with Manuel. Naturally, that's going to put a spotlight on his every move in OTAs, minicamp, and eventually training camp. There were times over the past three weeks when Manuel showed poise. In Thursday's final OTA, Manuel looked calm and collected in pouring rain as he completed several throws in a row. On the other end, there were times when his performance wasn't ideal. One might expect a second-year quarterback to have a comfort level throwing downfield, but Manuel leaned heavily on dump-offs and scrambles in OTAs, saying afterward that he needed to take what the defense was giving him. That's smart, but only to a point. When the Bills needed to move the ball in two-minute drills, or needed to score a touchdown in red zone drills, his accuracy left something to be desired.
WR Sammy Watkins: Watkins might have been a victim of his own success in rookie camp. Those three days of practice last month consisted of positional drills and routes against air, and Watkins looked the part. His catch radius and precision with his footwork are unmatched by any other receiver on the roster. Yet as OTAs progressed, Watkins reminded us that he's still a rookie. The mental part of the game -- lining up after the huddle, reading defenses, etc. -- just wasn't at the same level as some of his teammates, who needed to direct Watkins to the right spot at times. Again, he's new, so that's not out of the ordinary. But if there was one red flag to be had from Watkins' OTAs, it was his drops this week. His final week of practice was his sloppiest from a pass-catching standpoint. The sticky mitts we saw in rookie camp and early in OTAs weren't there, although they could easily return in minicamp. We'll just have to wait and see.
On a side note, why would the NFLPA, the organization whose purpose is to represent and protect players, schedule their rookie premiere when teams were conducting OTAs? Watkins missed two of the Bills' nine OTAs because of that event, which includes a photo shoot for trading cards. Watkins should have been on the field learning the Bills' offense, and that's entirely the fault of the players' union, not him.
TE Scott Chandler: There are few players as well-spoken and respected as Chandler within the Bills' locker room. But the 6-foot-7 tight end, who will turn 29 in August, looked older than his age in OTAs. He's coming off knee surgery and was limited the first few days of OTAs as he continued to recover, but when he was on the field, he looked uncomfortable. Perhaps that will change once training camp rolls around. But not having drafted a tight end, the Bills need Chandler to be their top target at the position. After watching Chandler run on the practice field the past few weeks, I have questions if he's the right piece for what the Bills want in a fast-paced, athletic offense.
WR Mike Williams: When Williams arrived via trade in April, my first reaction was that he could be a top target in the Bills' offense. I'm less convinced now. Williams didn't stand out in OTAs and seeing him in action, there isn't a particular skill that he brings to the table that is different from the rest of the receiver group. If Watkins and Robert Woods become fixtures on the outside and Chris Hogan can continue to contribute in the slot, Williams starts to slide down the depth chart. The Bills will keep Marquise Goodwin and Marcus Easley on their final roster, so Williams will have to fight Hogan and T.J. Graham for the final spot. He could change my opinion in minicamp or early in training camp, but for right now I wouldn't call his spot on the team a sure bet. | positive |
Bowling….The Good Life? – the-vu Skip to content the-vu Menu Legal disclaimer Art Dance Earth Jeffrey the Barak Objects People Philosophy Places Scooters & Rides Bowling….The Good Life? December 1, 2016 August 1, 2001 by editor By Cynthia Bellai Do you know Ed, the bowling alley lawyer? He caught his wife fooling around with the postman, went back to his hometown, ran into the girl he had a crush on in high school, bought the local bowling alley as an excuse to stay near her, and found his legal services to be in demand. Ed and I have a lot in common, except the part about being a lawyer. And the part about the wife and the girl. Still, the bond between us is strong because Ed owns a bowling alley and I want to own one. Lest anyone get the wrong idea, my epiphany came to me long before NBCs hit show began airing last fall. I have friends who can attest to it. I can even remember the moment the idea smacked me right in the head. I was attending a friends birthday party at a very cool, very tiny bowling alley in Montrose, having a great time, when I suddenly thought (and I believe I even said it out loud), Telluride needs a bowling alley. Now I need to explain a little something about Telluride. Located in southwest Colorado, its about one mile long and half a mile wide, over 9,000 feet above sea level, and has a local population of approximately 1500 (not counting the dogs that seem to be in abundance there). Being an old mining town, the main activity of any evening is drinking. No kidding. Theres at least fifteen bars in this little box canyon retreat. To date I have never seen a town more beautiful than Telluride, which is why I have been going back there consistently for the last ten years. But theres more to my desire for having a business there than living in such wonderful territory. I truly believe that Telluride needs a bowling alley. They have plenty of outdoor activitiesskiing, hiking, horseback riding, rock climbing, mountain biking, fishing, hang gliding, etc. But what is there to do on a rainy day? Not much, except go to the movies. Same with the evenings. And what about folks like me who want to have fun without expending a lot of physical energy? Again, were relegated to the bars or the movies. There is plenty of space available for an alternative recreational activity. But the other reason why Telluride has such an attraction for me is its community. Unlike more urban settingswhere people live close together physically but on different planets sociallyor more rural settings where people may share the same concerns but live miles apart, Telluride seems to have a living, breathing community heart. The people of the town are close both physically and socially. They play together, work together, and solve (or debate!) community issues together. They certainly dont always agree, but they do try to improve and preserve the spirit of Telluride. Thats the kind of town that I would like to be a part of. And those are the kind of people Id like my bowling alley to servefamilies, neighbors, co-workers, and everybodys children. And for the most part, bowling is a group activity. Its just not that much fun when you bowl by yourself. You need your friends and family around to tease you relentlessly about your gutter balls. So what steps have I taken toward my goal? Not many, unless you count a lot of daydreaming. A couple of months ago I decided I needed a second job, and it occurred to me that for wanting to own a bowling alley so badly, I knew absolutely nothing about it. I started applying for jobs at bowling alleys in the Los Angeles area until I finally found one at the lovely Mar Vista Lanes. Now I can learn and observe from the inside, so that I can one day fit all the pieces together. To be perfectly honest with you, I never considered my desire to own a bowling alley to be unusual. It was just an idea that occurred and then continued to grow on me. But the few people Ive mentioned it to have been fascinated by both the idea of doing it and by the idea of me doing it. I suppose its a profession that most people dont even consider. I do remember when I was very, very young, my first best friends grandparents owned a bowling alley. And while I also thought that was unusual, I think I felt that way because they were the only people I knew who actually owned a business. Most of the adults I knew at the time just worked for different companies. What I find to be amusing about the whole idea is that I am neither a good bowler nor an avid bowler. Even now that Im working at a bowling alley, I rarely bowl. A great score for me is 90 (out of a possible 300). I cant bowl for beans. But it doesnt matter, because I have just as much fun doing it if I score 10 or 300. And that, to me, is the undeniably best thing about bowlingyou can have a great time whether you suck or excel at the game. (Not to mention the fact that it has been unscientifically proven that drinking improves your bowling score. What other sport can claim that?) So slap a pair of red, white and blue shoes on me and call me hookedthe world of bowling is calling my name and the San Juan Mountains are beckoning this mountain mama home. With a lot of luck, a lot of hard work, and a lot of community support, you and I will be bowling in Telluride! (Many thanks to the Montrose Bowling Alley for the initial inspiration.) When not working at the splendiferous Mar Vista Lanes in Los Angeles or the equally enchanting Avalon Transportation Company, Cynthia Bellai can usually be found lounging around Mexico or Colorado, not working on her Master’s thesis. 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MasterCard in collaboration with Standard Chartered launch interactive payment card with built-in display and touch-sensitive buttons for enhanced control and security
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Singapore, 7 November 2012 – MasterCard Worldwide, in collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank Singapore, has unveiled Singapore’s first interactive payment card, or security token card, using MasterCard’s Display Card technology, heralding the next generation of payment cards.
The MasterCard Display Card, manufactured by NagraID Security, looks and functions almost exactly like a regular credit, debit or ATM card, but features an embedded LCD display and touch-sensitive buttons which allow a cardholder to generate a One-Time Password (OTP) as an authentication security measure.
At present, banking institutions that necessitate a higher level of security for their online banking services require the use of a separate authentication token or device. The innovative 2-in-1 device, which combines the functionality of a standard payment card with a state-of-the-art security token, currently reflects the customer’s OTP. In future, this card could incorporate additional functionalities and be able to indicate other real time information such as available credit balance, loyalty or reward points, recent transactions, and other interactive information.
From January 2013 onwards, all Standard Chartered Online Banking or Breeze Mobile Banking users will use the Standard Chartered security token card as a new personal security device for higher-risk transactions such as payments or transfers above a certain amount, adding third party payees, or changing personal details.
V. Subba, Regional Head of Retail Banking Products, Singapore and Southeast Asia, Standard Chartered Bank said: “In Singapore, many customers bank with multiple banks. We brainstormed on ways to make it convenient and yet secure for customers. The question was: instead of sending customers another bulky token, could we replace something which already exists in the customer’s wallet? That was when credit, debit and ATM cards, immediately came to mind.”
“As a lead innovator in the banking industry, we believe this is what sets us apart from competition. Our online banking platform is multi–award winning. We have been awarded the best consumer internet banking platform for Singapore by Global Finance for three consecutive years. The new Standard Chartered multi-function token is another good example of our customer-centric innovation.”
Matthew Driver, president, South East Asia, MasterCard Worldwide said: “MasterCard continues to be at the forefront of payment technology. From launching the first ‘paper’ card in the 1950s, to introducing magnetic stripes and EMV chips for secure, digitised payments, we are pleased to have been able to support the launch of Singapore’s first Display Card by Standard Chartered. With the continued growth in online and now mobile initiated remote payments, consumers are naturally demanding increased security. The innovative features of the Display Card serve to address this need, whilst empowering consumers to do so much more with their payment cards.”
MasterCard Display Cards are being deployed in increasing numbers by innovative banks all around the world, with Standard Chartered Bank launching the largest deployment of Display Cards to date. All MasterCard Platinum and Bonus$aver credit cards as well as MasterCard Super Salary, XtraSaver, Bonus$aver debit cards issued in Singapore will now be Display cards.
Cyril Lalo, CEO of NagraID Security said: “We highly commend the initiative of Standard Chartered Bank as this deployment once again highlights the increasing popularity of Display Cards. Earlier this year NagraID Security ramped up production capacity by investing heavily in equipment and human resources in order to meet the growing demand for Display Cards. The increased throughput, combined with the experience acquired during the past 2 years from the close collaboration with MasterCard and Gemalto, enabled the implementation and deployment of this scale in a record-breaking timeframe.”
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MasterCard Display Cards herald a new era in card payments, extending the payment card with interactivity. Display Cards feature a small display and one or more touch sensitive buttons in addition to all the traditional payment card features. Display Cards can be used as “Authentication Cards” for secure, portable and cost-effective remote authentication of online banking and e-commerce transactions by using the card to generate One-Time-Passwords (OTPs). Or they can be used as “Information Display” Cards enabling cardholders to access critical information such as account balance anywhere, anytime – enhancing payment or banking experiences in a number of ways. MasterCard first launched the Display Card in 2010.
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MasterCard (NYSE: MA), http://www.mastercard.com/,is a global payments and technology company. It operates the world’s fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. MasterCard’s products and solutions make everyday commerce activities – such as shopping, traveling, running a business and managing finances – easier, more secure and more efficient for everyone. Follow us on Twitter @MasterCardNews, join the discussion on the Cashless Conversations Blog and subscribe for the latest news.
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MILLCREEK — More than 60 pounds of "high-quality" marijuana were seized from a home in Millcreek on Wednesday, police said.
A search warrant was served on a house at 1553 E. 3115 South. It resulted in the discovery of 63 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $225,000 to $250,000, said Unified Police Lt. Brian Lohrke. Approximately $23,000 in cash was also seized.
The marijuana was all contained in vacuum-sealed bags inside plastic storage bins.
The investigation began due to tips from neighbors who reported a lot of short-term, in-and-out traffic at the house, Lohrke sad.
Kevin Mechling, 31, was arrested for investigation of drug possession and drug distribution. Detectives believe Mechling was supplying lower level dealers in the area, he said.
Despite finding 63 pounds of marijuana, Lohrke said the crime was still classified as a potential misdemeanor and Mechling was not booked into jail. No weapons were found in the house. He will be ordered to appear in court at a later time.
Investigators were still trying to determine Thursday where Mechling was getting the marijuana. Lohrke said there was no evidence of a growing operation inside his house.
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Craft beer has a complicated relationship with pilsner. It’s the world’s most widely consumed, most widely copied and emulated beer style, but the vast majority of those beers either don’t actually qualify for the “pilsner” style guidelines or come anywhere close to the Brewers Association definition of “craft.” And yet, it’s also a style with a rich history, dating back to the famous ur-pils of 1842, Pilsner Urquell. For more detailed information on the style’s history and current role, by the way, check out our companion piece: Let’s Talk Beer Styles: Pilsner, which was published when we last blind-tasted this style back in 2016.
In modern American craft beer, pilsner has seen a resurgence … or perhaps the right word is reclamation. American craft brewers have refused to let companies like Anheuser-Busch or Miller present a sole definition of “pilsner” with insipid beers in the mold of Bud Light—watery, flavorless yellow suds that for decades corrupted the good name of pilsner in the U.S.A. and made American beer a punchline in Europe. Obviously, things have changed.
In reality, no nation is presenting such a tremendous variety of pilsners today as the U.S.A. When you see the word in a craft brewer’s lineup, you never truly know what to expect. It could be a classical German or Czech-style pils, or a throwback “pre-prohibition” American lager. It could feature fruity, nouveau American hop varieties to such an extent that it comes off as an “India pale lager.” It might even be a faux-pilsner fermented with light, neutral ale yeast for the sake of efficiency and turnaround time … although if you ask us, that’s cheating. Regardless, you’ll find all of them in abundance these days. It is, all in all, a good time for pilsner, and a good season for pils. And so, let’s get on with the blind tasting.
A Note on Beer Acquisition
As in most of our blind tastings at Paste, the vast majority of these pilsners were sent directly to the office by the breweries that choose to participate, with additional beers acquired by us via locally available purchases and the occasional trade. We always do our best to reach out to breweries we’re aware of that make exemplary versions of particular styles, but things always do slip through the cracks. We apologize for a few significant omissions that we couldn’t acquire, either due to seasonality or market shortages. There will never be a “perfect” tasting lineup, much as we continue to try.
Rules and Procedure
- This is a tasting of pilsners, largely determined by how the breweries chose to label their products. All beers had to be labeled as “pilsner” in some capacity. No pseudo-pilsner ales were accepted. When in doubt, we simply allow a brewery’s marketing to define a beer’s style, and expect them to stick to the designation they’ve chosen.
- All types of adjuncts and flavorings were allowed. There was no specific ABV limit.
- There was a limit of two entries per brewery. The beers were separated into daily blind tastings that approximated a sample size of the entire field.
- Tasters included professional beer writers, brewery owners, brewmasters and beer reps. Awesome, Paste-branded glassware is from Spiegelau.
- Beers were judged completely blind by how enjoyable they were as individual experiences and given scores of 1-100, which were then averaged. Entries were judged by how much we enjoyed them for whatever reason, not by how well they fit any kind of preconceived style guidelines. As such, this is not a BJCP-style tasting.
The Field: Pilsners #134-51
To our surprise, pilsner proved to be a somewhat divisive tasting. It revealed one of the rare, justifiable divergences in personal tastes between Paste blind tasters—we just came to find that some of us appreciated a different sort of pilsner than others.
As a result, there often wasn’t much consensus on each day of blind tasting. Whereas some tasters tended to prioritize getting an expressive noble hop character in their pilsners, others focused more on a clean, crisp malt character as the most important element. Still, there were some occasions when a beer perfectly lined up in such a way as to please every palate. Unsurprisingly, those are the pilsners that did best.
Conversely, the worst-performing pilsners were often ones with obvious brewing defects. Sadly, there were some downright buttery, papery, funky or otherwise messed-up lagers in this tasting. Likewise, it was rather difficult for pilsners with unusual adjuncts (such as fruit or spices) to rise to the top in a field where crisp grain and hops are the norm. Good on ya for trying, but citrus ginger pilsners are still a tough sell.
As always, the beers below that didn’t make the top 50 are simply listed in alphabetical order, and as a result are not ranked. I repeat: These beers are not ranked.
Adirondack Brewery Bobcat Pilsner
Ale Asylum 12 oz. Curl
Angel City Brewery Pilsner
Austin Beerworks Pearl Snap
Bauhaus Brew Labs Wonderstuff
Bear Republic Brewing Co. Double Aught
Bell’s Lager of the Lakes
Blue Point Brewing Co. Delayed Pilsner
Blue Point Brewing Co. Pinstripe Pils
Boneyard Beer Co. Pabo Pils
Brooklyn Brewery Pilsner
Capital Brewery Special Pilsner
Cherry St. Brewing Cooperative Tata
Coney Island Brewing Co. Mermaid Pilsner
Connecticut Valley Brewing Co. Sky’s the Limit
Crux Fermentation Project Pils
DC Brau Brewing Co. Brau Pils
Drake’s Brewing Flyway Pils
Dry Dock Brewing Co. Pilsner
Elevation Beer Co. Pilsner
Epic Brewing Co. Blue Ski
Fieldwork Brewing Co. Outdoor
Fieldwork Brewing Co. White Ribbon
Fine Creek Brewing Co. Zwickel Pils
Foothills Brewing Co. Torch
Founders PC Pils
4-Hands Brewing Co. City Museum Pils
4-Hands Brewing Co. City Wide
4 Noses Brewing Co. Perfect Drift
Four Peaks Brewing Co. Hoppy Pils
Fremont Brewing Co. Parkland
Full Sail Brewing Pils
Full Sail Brewing Session Pils
Fulton Beer PILS
Great Lakes Brewing Co. Turntable
Great Raft Brewing Southern Drawl
Heavy Seas Beer Pounder Pils
Hermitage Brewing Pilsner Limited Release
Highland Brewing Co. Half Yuszch
Hops and Grain Brewery Dispensary
The Hourglass Brewery ‘Gogh Czech Yo’Self
Idyll Hounds Brewing Co. Ghost Crab Pilsna
Karl Strauss Brewing Co. Follow the Sun
KC Bier Co. Pils
Kros Strain Brewing Magnum P.I.lsner
Live Oak Brewing Co. Pilz
Maui Brewing Co. Pau Hana Pilsner
Middle Brow Beer Co. Queen
Nebraska Brewing Co. Nebraska Pils
New England Brewing Co. Elm City
NoDa Brewing Co. QC Pils
Pilsner Urquell
Port City Brewing Downright Pilsner
Prison City Pub & Brewery Work Work Work
Proof Brewing Co. Proof Pilz
Radeberger Pilsner
Reuben’s Brews Pilsner
River North Brewery Pils
Rockyard Brewing Co. Primadonna Pilsner
Rogue Ales Yellow Snow Pilsner
Saint Arnold Brewing Co. Summer Pils
Saranac ADK Pils
Schlafly Pilsner
Short’s Brewing Co. New Style
Short’s Brewing Co. Spruce Pilsner
Sierra Nevada Nooner Pilsner
Societe Brewing Co. The Heiress
Speakeasy Ales & Lagers Pop Gun
Squatters Provo Girl Pilsner
Summit Brewing Co. Dakota Soul
Swiftwater Brewing Co. Round Tripper
Three Taverns Prince of Pilsen
Threes Brewing Vliet
Troegs Brewing Co. Sunshine Pils
Two Roads Brewing Co. ‘Ol Factory
Uinta Brewing Co. Mango Lime Pilsner
Urban South Brewery 2nd Set Pils
Victory Brewing Co. Prima Pils
Weihenstephaner Pilsner
West End Brewing Co. Utica Club
Widmer PDX Pils
Wolf’s Ridge Brewing Pilsner
Wren House Brewing Co. Big Spill Pilsner
The Finals! Pilsners #50-26
The Finals: Pilsners #50-26
A word on the concept of “hype” as it applies to pilsner: It basically doesn’t apply. Unlike so many other beer styles, pilsner falls victim to the continued perception, even among those who appreciate them, that even the best pilsner is “just a pilsner.” As a result, there are maybe only a handful of beers in the entire pilsner world that would qualify as “whales” to beer traders. I’m not sure there even is a pilsner with a rating higher than 4.0 on Untappd, even from the likes of Hill Farmstead.
The side effect of this is that it makes the results of our blind tasting perhaps look a bit different than one might anticipate. The reality of pilsner is that there’s a lot of good pils—quite a lot of it, really—just sitting under our noses a lot of the time, and not always from the breweries we expect. In fact, a whole lot of great pilsner is made by large, older regional breweries who have been faithfully brewing it for decades. Hyped young upstarts may also produce a great pilsner, but this tasting saw more high-placed finishes from older regional craft breweries than just about any we’ve done in recent memory. And that’s not a coincidence—it’s an indication of how undervalued good pilsners tend to be. So the point is: Don’t sleep on “big craft” pilsners. There’s more good ones out there than you realize.
50. Sixpoint Brewery The Crisp
City: Brooklyn, NY
ABV: 5.4%
The verdict: This beer has been around long enough now to be venerable by American pilsner standards, but it’s still a crushable classic. The hop character of The Crisp is noble, but with hints that might make you suspect it was American—a little bit of orangey citrus that you don’t typically get out of European hop varietals, but still on the restrained side. It’s light of body, balanced, and well, “crisp,” yes. That’s all it needs to be.
49. Live Oak Brewing Co. Gold
City: Austin, TX
ABV: 4.8%
The verdict: To be honest, we expected some pretty big things from Live Oak in this tasting, after their amazing Hefeweizen crushed 58 other brews to win our blind tasting of hefes and American wheat beers. In execution, though, both their entries turned out to be good—but not quite the world beaters we thought they might be. Gold edged out the flagship Pilz to make the ranked portion of the list on the strength of its nicely balanced hop character. With hints of buzzy spice and touches of citrus zest and grassiness, its profile almost seems slightly more Czech than it is German to our palates, but either way it’s a warm weather crusher for summer on an Austin patio. Very versatile stuff.
48. Alesmith Brewing Co. Spezial Pils
City: San Diego, CA
ABV: 4.9%
The verdict: This “spezial” pilsner from Alesmith has no shortage of character for its relatively small stature, blending a somewhat unusual combination of malt, hop and mildly fruity notes with more sweetness than a lot of these bone dry beers. There’s no shortage of hops employed here, which contribute some grassiness to the nose, along with a lemon note that almost becomes “lemonade” as a result of fairly significant (for the style) residual sweetness. Slightly bready maltiness ties everything together, while the hops journey off in a couple different directions at once, trading off between green/floral and touches of more unusual, exotic fruitiness. For a second there, one taster even thought this one had a slight “watermelon” note, but in a way that isn’t unpleasant.
47. The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery Captain James Jack Pilsner
City: Charlotte, NC
ABV: 4.8%
The verdict: Bit of a long name for a pilsner if you ask us, but who are we to judge? This lager is propped up by a formidable wall of bready, doughy malt, to the extent that it almost comes off as a lighter American pale wheat beer or a hefeweizen, without the hefe yeast character. In our book that’s a good thing, though, balanced out with subtle hints of noble hops. This pilsner isn’t really trying to blow the doors off; it’s just crisp, clean and approachable, with enough malt complexity to be worth mentioning.
46. WeldWerks Cereal Keller
City: Greeley, CO
ABV: 4.7%
The verdict: This light-bodied, unfiltered lager takes an existing kellerbier from WeldWerks and dresses it up (or is it “dresses down”?) with the addition of some flaked corn for that so-called “pre-Prohibition” American lager character. And it works pretty well—the result is a mild, friendly, very clean and quaffable beer that is easy on the hops but has just enough interesting stuff happening on the malt side of the spectrum to make it interesting. Very light in color (even for the pilsners), it’s a beer that every tasting sheet describes as “bready” somewhere, and it goes down very easily.
45. Ipswich Ale Brewery Pesky Pils
City: Ipswich, MA
ABV: 4.5%
The verdict: Ipswich takes the recipe for a pretty proper Czech pilsner—German malt and Saaz hops—and then throws a little bit of a monkey wrench into it with the addition of Lemondrop hops as well. The result is subtle on the lemon side, but it does have a nice hop nose on it; perfumey, with touches of florals that are balanced by a grainy malt character with a decent amount of complexity. Ipswich is a brewery that excels in bread-and-butter classical beer styles, and this is another good example of the styles of beers that they tend to do best.
44. Smog City Brewing Little Bo Pilsner
City: Torrance, CA
ABV: 4.4%
The verdict: There was a lot of discussion at the table during this particular Paste tasting as to what words like “crisp” and “crackery” might mean when describing a pilsner, but most agreed that this entry was both of those things by any definition. Well balanced all around, this clean pilsner is a little on the perfumey side on the nose, with slightly grassy hop notes and a bit of peppery spice. It doesn’t throw in its lot too strongly on any one note, nor is it all that assertive, but it is very nicely balanced.
43. Creature Comforts Brewing Co. Bibo
City: Athens, GA
ABV: 5.5%
The verdict: The year-round pilsner from Creature Comforts is a bit of a blend of styles, incorporating both noble hops and a touch of New Zealand hops as an x-factor. The former actually come through more strongly, as Bibo comes off as a fairly authentic continental pilsner, with some very nice floral notes on top of crisp, subtle malt. There’s a touch of minerality here that makes the beer stand out, but overall it’s quite balanced, with a slight edge to the noble hops and a little bit of corresponding bitterness. To our taste, pilsner should probably have at least a little bit of bitterness, so that’s by no means a bad thing.
42. Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery Four Pass Pilsner
City: Denver, CO
ABV: 5%
The verdict: It’s an appreciable quality when you know after the first taste exactly what a beer is trying to be, and there’s no doubt after the first sip that this is “German-style pilsner.” To quote from one score sheet: “Immediate classic noble hop flavors, floral and lightly bready.” Delicate bitterness offers just enough by way of balance, although it probably could have even been a little bit more assertive in that department. It was another good pilsner among many we sampled from Colorado, a state that is always very well represented in these blind tastings.
41. Red Brick Brewing Co. Dry Hopped Pilsner
City: Atlanta, GA
ABV: 5%
The verdict: It feels like something must be in the water at Atlanta’s oldest brewery these days. Red Brick Brewing Co. recently re-emerged into our blind tastings with a very impressive #12 placement out of 151 pale ales, and here they are again using American hops in an impressive way. This one eschews the traditional German/Czech pilsner mold and throws in with American hop varietals—a move that worked very well for certain beers in this tasting, and very poorly for others. Here, it works: The result is on the dank side, although its greener notes are also balanced out by some sweet orange/grapefruit citrus as well. There’s even a little bit of malt balance, which is swept away in some of the more intense pilsners that feature American hop varietals. Whatever is going on at Red Brick right now, it’s clear they’ve figured some stuff out in terms of hops as of late, and are producing some of their best beers as a result.
40. Indeed Brewing Co. B-Side Pilsner
City: Minneapolis, MN
ABV: 5.1%
The verdict: The nice thing about brewing a modern pilsner is that even if you want to stick to “noble hops,” there’s a much greater variety of German-grown hops than there used to be. Case in point, Indeed’s pils makes use of Mandarina Bavaria, a nouveau German varietal that often has more in common with American hops than it does with the classic Hallertauer. Perhaps oddly, the result almost strikes us as more of a Czech pils thanks to its slightly green and resinous hop spice, but there is a note of pithy citrus in there as well, as well as some bready malt. It’s a solid German pils with a twist of modernity.
39. Destihl Brewery Normal Pils
City: Bloomington, IL
ABV: 5%
The verdict: When we think of Bloomington, IL’s Destihl, it’s typically because we’re tasting some kind of sour beer style and they’ve delivered another puckering offering, but this pilsner was a pleasant and unexpected change of pace. Hops are the star of the show here, although they present a little bit differently than in some of the other German pilsners—lots of florals, yes, but also a big note of zingy lemon citrus zest that is quite pleasant. There’s a bit of bitterness here as well, and a soft—almost sort of “chalky”?—texture that sounds odd but works well. All in all, a solid pils that trends toward the hops.
38. TRVE Brewing Co. Cold
City: Denver, CO
ABV: 4.9%
The verdict: TRVE is another brewery you’re probably more likely to hear about in conjunction with something big, bold, unusual and perhaps sour than as makers of a fine pilsner, but good pilsners know no bias in terms of their origins. They don’t really offer any description of this beer beyond “kellerpils,” but it’s not the unfiltered nature that is going to catch your attention—it’s definitely the hops. This one hits with an immediate wallop that is floral and orangey all at once, big and assertive up front, but then finishes dry. Actually on the thinner side in terms of texture, it’s pretty unbalanced in favor of the hops, but they hit a very crowd-pleasing note, and hit it hard.
37. Saint Arnold Brewing Co. 5 O’Clock Pils
City: Houston, TX
ABV: 5%
The verdict: Saint Arnold is a brewery that does classic styles well, and it figures that they would go the extra mile with their pils by employing a decoction mash, which is a much more time-intensive process. The result is an extra layer of toasty malt complexity. The can talks up the Saaz hops on display, but this is more of a balanced pils, perhaps even with a slight malt dominance. It’s a bit darker and toastier in nature—almost having just the tiniest hint of “roasty”—which works well with moderate bitterness and some earthy hop notes. It’s like the “toasted oats” of pilsners, and we can dig that.
36. 10 Barrel Brewing Co. Out of Office
City: Bend, OR
ABV: 5.6%
The verdict: I have to hand it to 10 Barrel on the name of this beer—every time we send out a call for beer styles, I receive dozens of “out of office” automated email replies from brewery PR people, so this hits home. This beer is a thoroughly, aggressively American pilsner that can’t rightly be called a pilsner at all—but it is very tasty, and that’s what counts. It has clearly been dry-hopped heavily with American hops, but quite skillfully—This one is citrusy and deeply resinous, with sweet pine needle aromatics and a touch of what one taster insisted was “white grape.” The hops don’t contribute much in the way of bitterness, so it’s clear these were largely late additions. As I stated above, we had a fair number of pilsners in this tasting that were intensely hopped with American varietals, and quite a few of those didn’t work. This one does. Note: 10 Barrel is owned by AB InBev, but credit where credit is due on this one.
35. Lift Bridge Brewery Getaway Pilsner
City: Stillwater, MN
ABV: 5.5%
The verdict: If any region of the country should logically be the breadbasket of pilsner, it would probably be the upper Midwest, so we’re not surprised to see a lot of solid entries from the likes of Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. Lift Bridge is a solid brewery that often flies under the radar, so it’s fitting that you can describe their pilsner in the same way: Clean, with a nice bready/doughy malt note that subtly builds throughout, supported by ample floral and earthy hops. Good balance, good subtlety, good all around.
34. Summit Brewing Co. Keller Pils
City: St. Paul, MN
ABV: 5.1%
The verdict: This well-liked unfiltered pilsner from Summit has done very well in previous Paste blind tastings, and it did almost as well again here, against a significantly tougher field. It still stands out nicely for its malt complexity in particular—the beer is built atop a bed of malt that is alternatively grainy, bready and a little bit on the toasted side. Hops present with a nice twist of floral and light lemon citrus. This beer inspired a few comments about other aspects as well on the score sheets. “Very soft mouthfeel, feels delightful,” reads one. “On point blend of German and American influences, has real character,” reads another. Another excellent year-round beer.
33. 3 Sheeps Brewing Co. Pils
City: Sheboygan, WI
ABV: 5.3%
The verdict: You don’t really need to do a lot to have a good pilsner. So often it’s more about simply avoiding things done wrong. Case in point is this pilsner from 3 Sheeps, which isn’t all that assertive, or explosive, or even distinctive—it’s just very nicely made. Crisp grainy malt is the star of the show here. The brewery makes this pilsner with Cascade rather than noble hops, but a more subtle hop rate means that the “American” character doesn’t really pop. Instead, it just gives way to very gentle, smooth, easygoing maltiness with touches of grain and corny sweetness. And that’s all it needs to be! Perhaps that doesn’t sound like a strong enough endorsement, but we’ll just say this: You could make some killer beer brats in a can of this.
32. Lagunitas Pils
City: Petaluma, CA
ABV: 6%
The verdict: Okay, who else has been drinking this classic pilsner for years without ever noticing that it tips the scales at 6% ABV? Not quite traditional, but it certainly plays to this beer’s advantage. Regardless, Lagunitas Pils truly is a classic of the genre these days, a beer that has been helping redevelop the American taste for genuinely hoppy pilsner for more than 15 years at this point. You can feel a bit of its bigger stature on the palate—one tasting sheet amusingly refers to it as “strong and clear-eyed”—but it’s the hops that are driving the car here. Some of the spice and earthy qualities of Saaz are present, but there’s also a distinct “dank” impression there as well; a shock coming from Lagunitas, right? Perfumey, slightly piney and with just a ghost of supporting malt, it’s still quite quaffable despite being one of the bigger pilsners we sampled.
31. Highland Brewing Co. Pilsner
City: Asheville, NC
ABV: 5.5%
The verdict: This is the perfect example of a larger regional brewery making a really good pilsner that some drinkers may overlook. This beer was good when it was first released a couple years ago, and it’s still very solid now. It’s “German-style,” but it sort of comes off as slightly more Czech, with a big punch of noble hops that are spicy, earthy and slightly herbal in nature. Malt is slightly on the sweeter side here, which actually works pretty well with the hop character to form the impression of a “heartier” hoppy pils. This stuff certainly has some backbone to it.
30. Finback Brewery Telephone Lines
City: Queens, NY
ABV: 5.2%
The verdict: How far can you go in hopping a pilsner with American hop varietals before it starts to come off as some kind of hazy session IPA? Well, the answer is “at least this far,” because Finback’s take on the American-hopped pils is rather delightful. This one gets a big dose of Citra in the dry hop, and how often is that an unpleasant thing to hear? The result is slightly resinous, bright and citrusy, and very inviting. There’s a little bit of “juicy” here, but nothing to get worked up into a tizzy about. Likewise, there’s actually a degree of bitterness present as well, which helps to balance everything out. If you’re doing a hazy pilsner these days and throwing American hops in there, we’re probably hoping that it will taste more or less like this.
29. Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co. Rocket 100
City: Austin, TX
ABV: 5.1%
The verdict: Austin is simply a great city of German-style beers—between Live Oak and Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co. (it’s easier to just say “ABGB”), you’ve already got two of the best. But when it comes to “pilsner,” ABGB has that style on lock. They’re a brewery that produces three different pilsners, and all three have won GABF gold at some point in the last few years, in the “American,” “German” and “Czech” categories. Rocket 100 is the American entry, which the brewery takes to mean “our interpretation of lagers brewed by German Immigrants before Prohibition,” with the addition of a little corn. It’s not quite as hop-forward as its German and Czech brothers, but still contributes some buzzy spice, moderate bitterness and a solid foundation of crackery malt. Of the three ABGB pilsners, we find this one the most on the “neutral” side, but it’s still exemplary in its own way. With that said, they make at least one (and maybe two) pilsner that is even better.
28. 18th Street Brewery Best Patio Pils
City: Hammond, IN
ABV: 4.9%
The verdict: Three different score sheets on this beer all use the word “Euro,” so there’s probably something to that assessment. 18th Street’s offering is all about the malt complexity for the most part. It’s quite bready and one of the most distinctly “yeasty” pilsners in the tasting, with a doughy quality that works well with a moderate dose of perfumey hops. “Bright and bready, very approachable” says one score sheet. This chewy pils feels downright wholesome, in a way.
27. New Realm Brewing Co. Euphonia
City: Atlanta, GA
ABV: 5%
The verdict: This interesting pilsner from former Stone brewmaster Mitch Steele is one with some intriguing, late-developing character. On the initial sip it’s very enjoyable for its pillowy soft texture and generous dose of floral hops, but then it has an unusual quality where growing bitterness develops slowly but surely on the back end. It’s very much in the German style, with plenty of flowery hop impressions, and that bitter finish we alluded to yields a very dry, mouth-coating sensation after each sip that would probably make it a good food beer for dishes that need something to rein you back in. The word for this pilsner might be “sophisticated.”
26. Half Acre Beer Co. Pony Pils
City: Chicago, IL
ABV: 5.8%
The verdict: Half Acre is a brewery we often think of in conjunction with great pale ales and IPAs, but they do just as well when playing around with noble hops as well. Pony Pils is a legit German-style pilsner—I write that because one score sheet literally says “legit German-style pils” on it—that very nicely features some flowery German hops on top of a bed of slightly sweet, grainy malt. There’s just enough bitterness in play to know that you’re drinking a real pilsner, with a crisp, dry finish. It really is textbook German pilsner, perfect for the 16 oz can you so often expect to contain IPA these days.
The Finals! Pilsners #25-1
25. Revolution Brewing Rev Pils
City: Chicago, IL
ABV: 5.5%
The verdict: It’s truly fitting for this beer to be back-to-back with Half Acre’s Pony Pilsner, considering that they’re two of Chicago’s best year-round pilsners from two of the city’s larger craft breweries that are in direct competition with one another. Compared with the former, Rev Pils is a bit more intensely hop-forward, with more of the spicy, green, almost resinous quality you expect to sometimes get in Czech pilsner, although they still call it German stye. Either way, it’s just another profile that is a matter of taste—you might prefer the more floral pilsner, or the spicier variant. Either way, this one brings a lovely noble hop buffet.
24. Evolution Craft Brewing Co. DelMarVa Pure Pils
City: Salisbury, MD
ABV: 4.8%
The verdict: Evolution refers to this one as an “Eastern shore take on a Czech-style pilsner,” and the result is interesting. It’s a little bit on the sweeter side than some of the others, with a hop-forward profile that balances elements of green grassiness and florals, but also more than a little bit of citrus, with almost a tiny bit of “juice.” Although it’s more hop than malt-forward, each element of its hoppiness is well balanced with the next, helping the final product appear multi-dimensional. Or as one score sheet put it, “not too much of anything, just balanced, tasty hoppiness.”
23. Bearded Iris/Threes Dreams of Yesterday
City: Nashville, TN
ABV: 4.8%
The verdict: This collaboration beer between Bearded Iris and Threes can boast the most unusual single ingredient of the pilsner tasting: Oyster shells! Yes, this pils is apparently brewed with some small allotment of oyster shells, which are intended to add a subtle salinity to the proceedings. Would you ever suspect that, if you were just handed this beer and told it was a pilsner? We think not, but it’s quite a good pils all on its own. Delightfully redolent in noble hops, there’s a ton of floral character on the nose of this one, which is balanced on the palate by crisp, crackery malt, like Saltines. Regardless of whether the oyster shells really made an impact, it’s an impressive bit of composition and restraint from two breweries that are known for big, in-your-face NE-IPAs.
22. Yazoo Brewing Co. Daddy-O Pilsner (/w Ariana and Callista)
City: Nashville, TN
ABV: 5%
The verdict: Nashville’s Yazoo sent in two pilsners for this tasting, and both of them were far above average—these guys know how to make some classic pilsners, clearly. While their year-round regular version of Daddy-O succeeds more as a result of malt complexity, this variation that calls out an addition of Ariana and Callista hops understandably finds itself somewhat more hop driven, although it’s still pretty balanced overall. Fresh cut grassiness is present on the nose, on top of a wheaty, bready sort of malt body. It’s an easygoing beer, what one tasting sheet refers to as “kind to the palate.” Although other breweries may have taken nouveau hop strains like Ariana and Callista and decided to make single-hop IPAs with them, Yazoo went for a decidedly more subtle approach.
21. Breakside Brewery Pilsner
City: Portland, OR
ABV: 5.2%
The verdict: There’s more going on in this unassuming little pilsner from Breakside than initially meets the eye. On the nose this pils is certainly hop forward, but more complex than most, boasting notes of perfume, spice and citrus all at once. It’s a little bit sweet on the palate, and slightly resinous, with an unexpected fruity note that almost makes one think of melon. A different taster focused more on the hop spice, noting its “peppery finish.” It’s the kind of complexity in an unassuming beer style that we’ve come to expect from Breakside, a brewery with an exemplary batting average in these blind tastings. They regularly do just about everything well.
20. Wrecking Bar Brewpub Vivant
City: Atlanta, GA
ABV: 5.5%
The verdict: Just about any brewpub would kill for the consistency displayed in blind tastings by Atlanta’s Wrecking Bar—I’m honestly not sure they’ve ever entered a beer that has missed the ranked portion of a list. Their pilsner, Vivant, channels a lot of the vibrancy of a great Czech pils, with a subtly fruity twist. When people describe pilsners as “spicy,” it’s this kind of profile they’re talking about—a combination of grassiness and peppercorn-like spice, with a herbaceous quality blended in as well. This one proudly wears those hop flavors on its sleeve—“a spicy noble hop showcase,” as one tasting sheet puts it. Nice stuff.
19. Firestone Walker Brewing Co. Pivo Pils
City: Paso Robles, CA
ABV: 5.3%
The verdict: At this point, it would be more of a surprise to see this beer not perform well in a pilsner tasting—it’s been one of Firestone’s most awarded beers since debuting back in 2012, around the same time that pilsner started gaining more cache with craft beer geeks. The brewery starts with a fairly classical German pils recipe that trades in slightly bready malt and floral hops and then twists it a little bit with an additional dry-hopping with newer German Saphir hops, which gives the hop character some slightly New World citrus edge. Or as one score sheet puts it, “A quality blend of pilsner styles that finishes right.”
18. Smartmouth Brewing Co. Safety Dance
City: Norfolk, VA
ABV: 4.8%
The verdict: Smartmouth is a brewery that we’ve sampled in a few of these tastings, but Safety Dance is without a doubt their most impressive entry to date. This one is more or less a noble hop bomb, something that can get out of hand if done poorly, but in this case the hops really pop. There’s lots of floral notes and a lot of noble spice all at once, but with only mild corresponding bitterness, suggesting that these were mostly late additions. American craft beer drinkers don’t often get to taste what a large dose of European hops can taste like, which makes beers like Safety Dance an especially novel experience.
17. Yazoo Brewing Co. Daddy-O Pilsner
City: Nashville, TN
ABV: 5%
The verdict: The variation of this beer we already handled earlier on this list is one that features hops more prominently, while the original is a bit more focused on malt subtleties. This one is just really nicely understated, with a grainy quality that fades into slightly corny sweetness and a touch of something like vanilla, balanced out by a tiny bit of hops—if anything could get away with calling itself “pre-Prohibition-style” pilsner, this seems like the kind of thing where it would apply. “Crisp, clean and refreshing, with just enough of a hop kick” reads one score sheet. “That’s my pils JAM” reads another. This strikes us as the kind of beer that could get overlooked pretty easily, but shines in a blind setting.
16. COOP Ale Works Saturday Siren
City: Oklahoma City, OK
ABV: 5.3%
The verdict: This beer from COOP is another prominent entry in the “Americanized hops” camp of pilsners, and it handles itself with some nice balance. It happened to be on the table on the same day as 10 Barrel’s Out of Office, and the two share some similarities—both on the woodsy, perfumey, almost resinous side while also packing some floral notes—but of the two, COOP’s entry is just a bit more subtle and balanced, which is always a good thing when it comes to pilsner. One tasting sheet calls it “India pale pilsner” while also admitting that it doesn’t go too far, while another says “dry-hopped pilsner … but excellent.” More proof that American hops work in pilsner, if done right.
15. Left Hand Brewing Co. Polestar Pilsner
City: Longmont, CO
ABV: 5.5%
The verdict: This year-round pilsner from Left Hand has been on the shelf for more than a decade, and it’s one we have to admit we’ve often overlooked … but we won’t be anymore, after tasting it blind. This one hits the palate as classical German pils—clean and a little bit bready, with mild fruitiness and perhaps just a hint of banana, which is chased by floral and herbal hops, in good balance. It’s deeply drinkable, what one score sheet referred to as “clean, mild and crushable.” There’s clearly a reason it’s been a year-round beer for 13 years or more.
14. Threes Brewing Kicking & Screaming
City: Brooklyn, NY
ABV: 5.2%
The verdict: I didn’t even notice when we revealed this beer that it reads “foudre-fermented pilsner,” which is certainly an unusual twist on the formula. Regardless, we didn’t really get any oak or woody impressions to speak of out of it, so any character imparted by the foudre is on the subtle side. What this beer does have in spades is noble hops, and specifically Saaz, which imparts a really nice spicy character and peppery note. In addition to the green/herbal notes, there’s also a bit of orange or tangerine zest in there. All in all, Brooklyn’s Threes contributed some very solid pilsners—both on their own, and in collaboration with Bearded Iris.
13. Ayinger Bavarian Pils
City: Aying, Germany
ABV: 5.3%
The verdict: We had a smattering of German-made pilsners in this tasting for the sake of history, but here’s the thing: American-made versions of German pilsner have diverged to the point of almost being a new style, and most of the German-made ones honestly don’t play well to the American palate these days—especially when they’re not fresh. We simply produce crisper, much hoppier beer over here for the most part, even when using noble hops. The German-made pilsners, by contrast, tend to be significantly more toasty, darker and malt-focused, and few of them really excited tasters in a blind setting. The exception was (unsurprisingly) from Ayinger—a pilsner that really nails the smooth, bready, slightly toasty malt and yeast character while balancing it with subtly floral hops. Even if you do prefer the way that American craft brewers are now interpreting this style, it’s still impossible to overlook this classic. As one taster wrote, “A German loaf of beer, with the noblest hops.”
12. Oskar Blues Mama’s Little Yella Pils
City: Lyons, CO
ABV: 4.7%
The verdict: Oskar Blues are well known for being pioneers in terms of canned craft beer, and this tasty lager certainly helped the beginning of canned pilsner’s reclamation by the craft community when it was first released about a decade ago. It feels like a little bit of a blend of styles, although it leans Czech in the end—mildly toasty malt meets with a moderate level of spicy and earthy hops, in good balance. It can boast a somewhat creamier texture than most of the other beers on the table, which isn’t something we necessarily would have expected, but it plays well. It remains one of the best craft pilsners you can hope to find in a gas station cooler.
11. DC Brau Brewing Co. Keller Pils
City: Washington, D.C.
ABV: 4.8%
The verdict: DC Brau’s regular pilsner just barely missed the ranked portion of the list, but the unfiltered version is the really impressive star of the show. This beer has a very pleasant, slightly chewy sort of texture that you can probably attribute to a bit more yeast in suspension. That yeast amplifies its gentle breadiness, but at the same time this is still a pretty hop-forward pils, rocking the spicier, earthier, slightly grassy hop notes. Firm (but approachable) bitterness holds everything in place. This beer is very much a pils; you wouldn’t mistake it for anything else.
10. Urban Chestnut Brewing Co. Stammtisch
City: St. Louis, MO
ABV: 5.4%
The verdict: The last time we blind-tasted pilsners in 2016 we had only 62 entries, and Urban Chestnut’s wonderful pilsner rose to the top—just one of several German beer styles they’ve wowed us with in these blind tastings. This time around, in a field that was more than twice as large, they still managed to land Stammtisch in the top 10 … because it’s just a damn good beer. This time around it struck us as perhaps a bit less hoppy in the past, which is probably the result of tasting a lot of American-made pilsners that have greatly upped their hop rates. Rather, Stammtisch highlights the slight toastiness and gentle sweetness and smoothness of German malt. There’s a rounded texture to this beer, and a subtlety to its malt profile that slowly transitions into floral hops and moderate bitterness on the back end. Impeccably balanced, it continues this St. Louis brewery’s streak of making superlative versions of classic German styles.
9. The Shed Brewery Hellbrook Pilsner
City: Middlebury, VT
ABV: 5.5%
The verdict: I don’t think any of us has ever sampled a beer from The Shed before, but Hellbrook is certainly a strong way to debut in these blind tastings. This one is light, crisp and almost ethereal in quality—very much in the German pilsner style, but subtle and pristine. Light floral hops fade into a slightly perfumey note and a kiss of sweet malt and a twist of lemon citrus. It’s a perfectly balanced, unassuming sort of beer without any kind of flaw we could possibly think to mention. A connoisseur’s pilsner.
8. Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. Paradise Rd. Pilsner
City: Buellton, CA
ABV: 5.5%
The verdict: “Definitely a proper pils” begins one of the score sheets on this year-rounder from Figueroa Mountain. Like the previous beer on this list, Paradise Rd. is a testament to subtlety and balance. A clean, crisp, sparkling malt profile is the foundation for a moderate level of hoppiness that balances floral and herbal hop notes in equal measure. Each score sheet at some point mentions the authenticity of its “Euro profile,” while praising the restrained balance between malt, hops and drinkability. “Right down the middle,” says one score sheet. “Can hardly ask for better than this.”
7. Crooked Stave Von Pilsner
City: Denver, CO
ABV: 5%
The verdict: You’d be forgiven for primarily just associating the name “Crooked Stave” with sours and wild ales—it often feels like every bottle they have on the shelves falls into one of those two camps. But under the radar, this brewery is also producing a dynamite pilsner—something I was already aware of when I named this beer one of my favorites at the 2017 Firestone Walker Invitational. In the blind format, it proved just as lovely—a very hop-forward kellerbier, with an intriguing hop profile that marries spice and grassiness with a melange of citrus notes. Various tasters pegged that citrus presence as orange, or lemon, or grapefruit, but it’s certainly distinctive, and does so without dominating the beer’s entire profile. Moderate bitterness is also present, trying everything together. This is a great example of hoppy pilsner that stands out for how subtly it offers a twist on a classic archetype.
6. pFriem Family Brewers Pilsner
City: Hood River, OR
ABV: 4.9%
The verdict: pFriem has become a reliable presence in these blind tastings, with increasingly impressive performances that imply a brewery operating at the top of its game. Their pilsner, like most of their hop-forward beers, features a complex array of aromatics: Classical German florals, but also grassiness and a twist of lemon. Crisp malt is backed up by just a touch of wildflower honey sweetness. As one score sheet reads: “Light grassy aromatics, very bright and crisp, subtle citrus, balanced.” It’s a thing of beauty that gets its complexity out of a blend of old world and new world German hops, and the result feels expertly calculated.
5. Hanging Hills Brewing Co. Hills Pils
City: Hartford, CT
ABV: 5.9%
The verdict: Another brewery we’re relatively unfamiliar with, and another exemplary, balanced pilsner—this is shaping up to be an interesting top 10. Hills Pils is light of body and texture despite actually being one of the stronger pilsners in the tasting at 5.9% ABV. Its malt profile is delicate, crisp and grainy/crackery, supported by light floral hops, a little bit of lemon citrus and enough sweetness to not be completely dry—and even a little bit of bitterness as well! It is, suffice to say, a pretty classical pilsner, and one that doesn’t really throw in too strongly on any one flavor note. From one score sheet: “Light, crisp, refreshing and everything a pils should be.”
4. Creature Comforts Brewing Co. Legend Has It
City: Athens, GA
ABV: 5.5%
The verdict: You could make a strong argument that this beer is the least “pilsner” submission of the entire tasting, but damn is it delicious. The second collaboration between Creature Comforts and hip-hop duo Run the Jewels is a pilsner of unsurpassed dankness, a veritable hurricane of resinous and non-classical noble hops. It’s hugely dank and green in terms of its hop character, or “for the 420 enthusiast,” as one taster wrote. From another score sheet: “Mega hoppy pils, like India pale pilsner. Almost overwhelming, but delicious.” Fact of the matter is, this beer could never be considered to reside anywhere near the realm of tradition, but it ended up being the most impressive and memorable use of American hops we witnessed during the tasting. It has more in common with IPA for the most part than it does pilsner (sans bitterness, which is largely absent), but if you’re seeking a dank, hoppy experience, it’s a revelation. If that flavor profile is your jam, then this is a must-find beer.
3. Blue Pants Brewery Pils
City: Madison, AL
ABV: 5.6%
The verdict: Some of the very best pilsners of this tasting came from the sources we weren’t necessarily expecting. Blue Pants is a brewery we’ve had some good hop-forward beers from in the past—particularly their hop-bursted IPAs—but who knew that they had a world-class pilsner in the stable as well? This one was on the table on the same day as the Wrecking Bar Brewpub’s Vivant Pilsner, and the two share fairly similar profiles—primarily hop-forward and spicy/earthy in nature, although the Blue Pants entry is slightly more reined in and balanced, which is what helped to put it over the top with tasters. “Right-on with the spicy hops; textbook,” says one enamored scoresheet. A very lovely beer for lovers of noble hops.
2. Burial Beer Co. Shadowclock Pilsner
City: Asheville, NC
ABV: 5.5%
The verdict: We’ve always liked this year-round pilsner from Burial, but it feels like with this #2 finish, the product in the can has taken another step forward. Dry-hopping with Sterling and Tettnang provides it with a bevy of hop characteristics: Perfumey florals, some peppery spice and a little bit of herbality that one taster described as being almost minty. It’s hop-forward without being one-dimensional, and assertive without losing any drinkability. As one taster wrote: “Lovely! A hint of malty sweetness with a great mouthfeel and the right hops for the job.” It’s a superlative pilsner, and one we’re pretty thrilled to be able to pick up any day of the week in local Atlanta package stores.
1. Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co. Industry Pils
City: Austin, TX
ABV: 4.9%
The verdict: When I wrote earlier about ABGB’s “American pilsner,” Rocket 100, I noted that all three of the brewery’s separate pilsner styles—German, Czech and American—have individually ended up winning GABF gold in the last few years.
Suffice to say, this is not a coincidence—not one bit. Unlike in a category such as IPA, where we so often disagree with the results of competitions such as GABF, their taste in pilsners is 100% spot on. Industry is simply the best American-made version of a classical German pilsner that you’re going to find in the world today—it blows the competition away, and in our mind it’s the blueprint for what a German pilsner should be. Assertively floral on the nose, it balances very light, crisp, crackery malt with a plethora of perfumey/floral hop notes and supple bitterness. But more than that, there’s a minerality to this beer that was almost unique among the field of 134—a hard to define quality that is probably related to water chemistry that was only replicated by a few of the other beers we tasted. To be honest, the only way you’re really going to understand is to hunt some Industry down and try it for yourself. And that’s absolutely something you should go out of your way to do.
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Could this be the holy grail? The best car ever featured on Build-Threads.com? For those of you who are keen followers of the Facebook page, you’d be well aware that I’m quite the Ferrari tragic, and that as far as supercars go, I’d have a hard time deciding between an F40 or a Lamborghini Miura (if the opportunity ever happened to arise). I’m that much of a tragic, in fact, that I signed up to Ferrari Chat a long time ago just so I could view images that are restricted to members. This build comes from that very forum, but I’m not about to make you sign up to view it. Instead, I have personally asked the owner of this car, Tim, for his permission to re-post the entire thread on these very pages, and thankfully he said yes. I think this build is so incredible that it should be shared with a greater audience, so I’d like to thank Tim for allowing me to post it here.
This F40 is listed as Chassis No 84326, and was rotting away in a garage for 8 years before Tim snapped it up and sought about having it brought back to better than it’s former glory. This isn’t a made-for-TV hack job, this is a no-expense-spared restoration of one of the greatest supercars of all time. I’m so used to seeing F40’s in their finished guise, carefully polished with gleaming paintwork, but to see one in various states of undress has given me a whole new appreciation for both the shape and the engineering behind it. I hope you enjoy this build as much as I have…
All text and images below are taken from http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/288gto-f40-f50-enzo-laferrari/396915-f40-lm-restoration.html
Thanks to our Dutch friends on F Chat, I have managed to unearth its history and as chronologically we should start there, here are some great shots courtesy of them during the 1996 BPR.
So, we have stripped her down to almost a bare shell, and the aim is to upgrade all areas to full spec whilst leaving the engine as it raced, and we are lucky in that Michelotto has agreed to supply us with parts, specifically brakes, hubs, suspension etc which he is normally not happy to do unless for an ex race car.
The real issue has been whether to restore or continue its evolution and I eventually decided that I would continue its evolution seeing as how it achieved no great success on track in its original format and has continued to evolve during its life so might as well continue now. Consequently, as it is described by Michael Sheehan as an LM/GTE, I thought I might as well continue updating it accordingly.
When I bought it, it looked good as per images I will post in a next instalment, but once we got into the detail, it turned out it was a real mess, and 8 years in a damp barn had taken their toll.
Aside from the original Michelotto LM’s, the 27 other cars as listed by Michael Sheehan in his definitive article on the LM, all started their life as road cars. 84326 was no different and finally ended up in an unusual configuration running twin KKK turbos with twin waste gates and adjustable boost putting out approx 720 BHP. It competed in some races in the 1996 BPR without any distinction and probably it’s greatest claim to fame was that it lapped Hockenheim quicker, just, than a Maclaren FI GTR, so it was no slouch. It is also featured in the book covering the series.
As some of you may have read the thread about chassis 84326, a non Michelotto F40LM which raced in the BPR in 96 and which had been rotting in a garage for 8 years and I bought a few months ago. Described by Mike Sheehan as LM/GTE it is one of 27 non original cars converted by privateers.
No, I won’t campaign her but use primarily on the track for fun. Hope to follow the Mille Miglia in the Ferrari parade perhaps and do a few events. Work is being done by a small shop in the UK called Mototechnique who I know from old when they rebuilt my 365 Spyder and they recently did a full ground up on a 250 GTO, so they know their stuff-real old fashioned artisans.
The strip down begins and note the Air Jack inlet just behind the door which we will recite in the lower rear clam as well as sorting the shut line.
Car was delivered to a small restoration company, Mototechnique in Surrey England who restored my old Daytona Spyder 25 years ago and seems to have got even better having recently done a ground up 250 GTO restoration.
The strengthened wishbones which now are to be replaced with all new Michelotto ones, the modified front assembly still with its vestiges of road car use, the oil rad which had been bizarrely resited to the front, all headed for the bin!
Afraid the next few posts are all going to be about stripping before we can focus on rebuilding and evolving this car as it would have been, had a team had the interest, and money, to do so.
You can also see the disaster that are the old fuel tanks which also join the growing scarp heap. More about those later.
More images of suspension and brakes, all heading for the bin. Apparently in 96 these were genuine Group C but in my mind have no place on this car. All very interesting but off they come.
Engine and gearbox still in situ at this stage as needed for checking panel clearances in the body shop so they are correctly stressed as well as ensuring we get the right clearances on the fuel tanks as they are very close to the manifolds. More on the fuel tank saga with the next post, as that was another discovery, but here, as you can see, we have now got them out and they too have gone to the bin.
We then got the chassis on the computerised jig to set all our minds at rest and amazingly it was good news for a change: ‘the straightest F40’ they had ever come across, and they have done a few. Great to know we have a really good undamaged and true base to build up on given the history and the time and money being invested. All measurements have been recorded for the future as in due course I will put a book together on the history and the journey from start to finish as a permanent record.
A couple more shots of the interior as it all comes apart. The wiring was a mess, added to and cut out with no logic-German engineering? Hardly. Note the large red fog light in the first image hanging down to the left of the wheel. Believe it or not that was an oil pressure light. Clearly the driver was going to have a hard time explaining if he had grenaded the engine due to low oil pressure. Simple, ugly, effective but now history. Remains of the Fire extinguisher system on the floor which will also be replaced. Given what we found and to be revealed in a future post, it could well have come in handy. Had it been charged.
Pedal box en route back to Michelotto for some minor adjustment pending a brand new full magnesium LM one which will take a few months, so at least we can keep going. Apparently they are producing some new ones for a customer who has their cars in inclement conditions and need replacing and so we will wait for that.
All the discs have spider cracks after hard racing so they are gone. Both hubs and discs will be replaced with beautiful lightweight Michelotto LM discs and hubs. One hub also totally finished so just as well.
Anyway, no surprise that this is all in as bad condition as the rest of it. Turbos and wastegates off to a specialist for rebuilding and refinishing, the wastegates needing to have specific care taken so they dont blow off even slightly early. Everything will be cleaned up and probably ceramic coated.
Well we now have the manifolds and turbos out. Unusually this car ran twin KKKs with twin waste gates and produced about 640 BHP before it was fitted with adjustable boost which apparently took it to 720.
Always amazed at the skill of someone taking a flat piece of metal and teasing it and cajoling it into complex shapes. I could not even do that with paper.
If, in years ahead when I am gone and the car is with a new owner, anyone who was totally hung up on originality can always revert to the cells, should they still be available.
Consequently we decided to avail ourselves of Mototechnique’s metalworking skills and fabricate our own. The interiors are being sanded to provide a key for a sealant, and then the tanks themselves will be clad in carbon fibre and then filled with foam. This solution is FIA approved so the car can still race if we ever wanted to and yet provides a belt and braces solution which takes advantage of modern developments in materials, has no weight penalty (possibly a small saving), and will hopefully last the life of the car. More detail as they get built up but here you can at least see the start, together with dry fitting in the chassis as they go along.
Original car ran with tanks cloaked in a sort of rubberised paint and were well past their sell by date. They are different to road tanks as fuel pumps etc are external for racing. We looked at fitting new cells which only have a 5 or possibly 10 year life(jury seems to be out on this) and as I plan on keeping this car a long time, we decided we did not want to have to take her apart again in a few years time, so we wanted to do better and evolve. Also as the US cars had alloy tanks, this was hardly stepping into the unknown.
Whilst we have the engine out and broken down, thinking about pulling the heads just to check as it would be a shame to go this far only to find some problem later. Apparently recently rebuilt but after what we have found so far, it might be nice to see for ourselves.
Note still dry fitting the tanks as they are gradually made up, but in a week or so they should be all clad in carbon and good to go.
Finally a filthy engine is released. 24 years of road and racing grime removed in a few hours and what a result. We then will break down the gearbox and on Michelotto’s recommendation, replace second gear as it is apparently a known weak spot when you start pumping more power through it, especially when used in anger as in racing. Also considering changing the crown wheel and pinion as apparently this car ran in excess of 220 and again on his advice, he suggests a reduction to give us a top speed of about 190/195 which is what he gears his current race cars to, even at Le Mans. The gain, obviously, is in acceleration.
Slowly reducing the car to individual pieces! At this rate I can see the house going, but doing it right is becoming more addictive than drugs.
Well, the alloy tanks are effectively finished save for some lugs and heatshields, and shortly, thanks to this forum, we will start to dress them in fibreglass and then the Carbon. You can see one old, slightly singed tank and the new one alongside. Cannot wait to seem them wrapped and finished but suspect that might be a week or so away.My outrageously priced birthday present, well hardly a present, from Michelotto should be shipping at the end of next week so that should really prove to be a turning point when we get our hands on that stuff. Big box opening moment when that arrives. All in all I am hoping that in a couple of weeks or so we can start proper construction and begin to assemble.Generally progress has been slower than I would have liked due to pressure at the shop, but we are still moving forward and learning every inch of the way.
Well, a last gasp for attention for a week or so before the F70 launch when there will be only one thread to follow.I wont bore you with the ongoing work to the fuel tanks for now but we are almost getting to the bottom of the destruction phase. Here she is, down to basics, shortly to be masked up and off to the sand blasters who will strip off all the old chassis paint so we can get back to bare metal, prime and recoat in the correct Michelotto silver. Considered doing it manually and then came to the conclusion that the only way to get into every nook and remove all the grime was to blast it and that way we will get a perfect finish.There is that word again, ‘Perfect’ which normally equates to $.
Shell now all masked up and ready to have the chassis back to bare metal so should be the last time I see that in black. Meanwhile gearbox tear down has revealed that reverse gear is now useless and that has created a whole bunch of issues as Ferrari want to sell you reverse, Ist and the main shaft for $15K, so we have to find our way round that which may mean getting the part made up. More on this to follow.
We have now just about finished the front structure save for the locking pins etc and to remind you here is a photo of what went before. The weight saving is dramatic, the new unit being mere ounces.Interesting to note the modified central battery position and twin jacking points of the original. We are maintaining the battery position and replacing the jacks with Krontec units as used in F1 and most top end GT cars.
Well, this really is as low as you can go. From where we were to where we are and given where we are my time frame has gone out of the window as like all restoration jobs, this one has ballooned! Bear in mind this car recently went to the Le Mans Classic twice, driven in both directions and apparently never missed a beat.In conditions reminiscent of a Victorian workhouse the chassis is now being blasted back to bare metal and from there the build up can hopefully start in earnest. Interesting to see the central battery position. Suspension parts still being fabricated in Italy by Michelotto but we hope to have them within a week or so but he missed my birthday. Biggest issues remain on what we are to do with the engine etc but more on that to follow.
OK, well here is the gearbox all stripped down and unfortunately reverse has developed evidence of heat cracking on the synchro ring. As I mentioned earlier, $15k from Ferrari as that includes first gear and the shaft but we are lucky in the UK to have one of the world’s top restoration companies, Crosthwaite and Gardiner, who, if you can credit it, have recently completed manufacturing, from scratch, an Auto Union D type for Audi complete with V16 as well as a pair of Mercedes W125’s. Check out their website Crosthwaite & Gardiner Fascinating. Consequently reverse gear, I suspect of a rather higher quality than factory, for my little effort should pose few issues. I think we will also be coming back to them for some further engine work but more about that later.In these images welcome to the workings of the F40 gearbox and as I said we are taking the precaution of replacing second gear as that was a weak spot especially with all the extra power.The other picture is off the LSD which was not working properly so we have stripped it down to find the friction plates are worn and useless. Ferrari don’t offer friction plates as replacement parts and prefer you to buy an entire diff so we are examining our options.Is this too much detail?
hilst I struggle with my server and turbo decisions, more progress on the fuel tanks. Here you see them being coated with fibreglass and then we start the Kevlar lay up as in the last photo.The finished articles will be works of art.
Well here is the trail from what they were to what they are. Perfect. In fact so good I would like perspex wheel arches or a clear panel in the wing!Strong, light, durable and to me, a work of art. What’s not to like? It also gives a good idea to you of the standard I am trying to attain with the rest of the project but a very long way to go…..So these now go into storage for a few months. Quite a few……as you will learn shortly
The Flywheel and clutch.The clutch is no issue and we will replace with an AP race unit. The Flywheel is. Very different from a stock flywheel and yet still road driveable and they have taken literally kilos out of it. Unfortunately the teeth that engage with the starter motor are finished and cannot be remachined and there are other issues so we will need to replace and right now it looks like we might have to make our own and then rebalance with the crank.Anyone have any ideas out there?Chassis now back from being stripped and perpetration is starting and details in the next post.
Looks like we have agreed with a specialist flywheel manufacturer to have a duplicate made, exactly the same but to a higher standard which will take a while. This will probably be mated to a three puck clutch. Meanwhile we are also having reverse gear manufactured and for those interested here is the problem, not on the gears but on the flange. Thery look like scratches but under magnification they are actually cracks. Not cheap as upon inspection by Crosthwaite and Gardiner, it is apparently very complex to manufacture and they should know.
An update on the chassis. Now back from having been ‘blasted’ and years of crud stripped away. This will then be primed and expoxyed prior to dry mounting the suspension, then we will finally have a chassis ready to spray the special silver.I am hoping for part of the Michelotto late Birthday surprise to arrive next week which will then enable us to dry mount the suspension and make any changes prior to the chassis paint. That will be really exciting to open as much of it had to be newly fabricated and bought sight unseen! We already know that for some reason the upper wishbone mounts are turned through 90 degrees so there will be work to be done.Maybe three weeks away from real progress?
Just a few more general shots of how the car was which may be of interest. This was some weeks ago and so now well in the past.The entire heavy front section has now gone and will be replaced with the lightweight alloy LM structure as posted previously.
Back to the present.A few shots of the engine in strip down. Blue injector rails and injectors all going off to a specialist to be matched.This is the problem lightweight flywheel and clutch. New flywheel is now being made by Ark Racing a specialist Flywheel manufacturer and they are working with AP who are assembling a clutch for us.The silver lining in the new flywheel is that it will have 60-2 timing pins for accurate setup with the Motec gear, whereas the existing had just 4 rather bent ones, so that would have had to have been addressed anyway.
Chassis now being sprayed with primer and then two coats of epoxy before a top coat of the Michelotto silver. If only Michelotto would either answer the phone or get me my parts things would be looking encouraging!
Now two coat epoxied. Next step to dry mount the air new jacks, sort out the roll cage and then look at dry mounting the suspension which, all being well, should be with us next week. Then we get to top coat the chassis with the Michelotto silver. That will mark the start of real progress.And a Happy Easter Holidays to all my (probably few) readers!
Really just for those who are interested to see what the inside of an F40 engine looks like. Hopefully not a sight I will see again.Valves all OK and heads are only a few thousand miles old but seats will still be perfectly matched. One bore slightly scored so that will also be polished out at Crosthwaites. Biggest delay will be the flywheel which is now in manufacture by Ark racing but will take four weeks and we cannot get on with the dynamic balancing until then so will finish engine strip-down and then focus on the chassis which should work well as we expect parts from Michelotto this week. Expect being the operative word.Whilst it is an expensive pain to find all these issues, the plus point is we know we will end up with an absolutely perfect engine and drivetrain, top to bottom, fully matched and better than when it left the factory. Had we not torn it down completely we could have been facing much bigger bills in a few thousand miles.I suppose that is my penance for buying an old race car.
Crankshaft out and away for polishing and dynamic balancing. All new bearings will be fitted. Meanwhile work continues of the bodywork with the rear clam being adjusted to accept revised position for air jack inlet which, so as to be road legal, cannot protrude and so has to be slightly recessed.
We are currently working our way through installation of the air jack system and still awaiting delivery from Michelotto which is causing us a delay. We are fitting a top of the range (read expensive) Krontec system and tidying up the chassis. Then after we get the delivery and dry mount the suspension, finally everything comes off for final chassis silver paint.For those of you worrying about the look of the carbon, don’t, it is just masking tape residue and once the chassis is painted will all be cleaned up.
Okay, this is the last post for a few days, but this pm re finally received our first shipment from Michelotto. He has nothing on the shelf so all our suspension has been fabricated especially for us and referenced like a tailor made suit. Beautiful and more detailed images to follow, but here is the front LM unit against another classic Ferrari front hub and brake assembly-any guess what it is from and no more posts until someone gets it?
I have to say that I am actually enjoying posting this thread far more than I thought being able to share my adventure with interested and knowledgeable others, and as a fan, it occasionally seems surreal that I get to deal with Cristiano Michelotto direct. Only last night at 11pm, at dinner my phone rings and I find myself speaking to him and he is e mailing me all the details for the suspension geometry setup, albeit it would be nice if we had the parts to start with!Whilst waiting for someone to get closer on the suspension question before I post more images of our progress, I have to make a tyre, or what you call tire, decision. The only tires that really work on the car are either the new Goodrich G Force Rivals or the Toyo R888. Unfortunately the Goodrich which would be my preferred choice, are not street legal in the UK and whilst it will spend most of its time on the track, it will occasionally venture onto the street. The car would therefore be effectively uninsured.The R888 is almost as good a tire with a crazy tread pattern, as below, which does not really suit the look of the car but will make it handle great on track and on the street. One or two owners here in the UK are using these on their standard F40’s and love them.The final choice is to go back to the old Pirellis, possibly, which look right but simply no longer have the performance.Any thoughts as I am leaning to the Toyos and so as to fir the suspension etc we need a tire?
On the Tyre front, many thanks for the thoughts especially Paul and GV27 which means I might well opt for now for Goodrich and import from the States. One issue is that I really would like a 35 profile rear but it just seems impossible to find although I have one of the top tyre guys in the UK working on it for me and so hopefully will be in a position to make a decision imminently, as I need to so we can move forward on bodywork etc. I can see I may end up with a set of street tyres and possibly a set of track tyres or slicks, not that I have driven much on slicks.Back to the car, as the ‘prize’, have a look at a few details of the Michelotto front suspension. Not a simple bolt on so we will have to make some minor changes to the pick up points, but that will then enable us to move forward and hopefully in 10 days time we might have the rest of the order, ductwork, brakes, anti roll bars, rear suspension, uprights etc.Being racing parts the wishbones have not been treated so we are looking at powder coating or similar. All beautiful very high quality aircraft grade materials.Note the hand written reference on the hub. Tailor made.
So we are starting to rebuild our engine as you can see from the attached with all new bearings and now looking to find out the tolerances for pistons and liners but for some reason Ferrari don’t have this information and apparently there are no less than 3 f40 engine rebuilds in the UK stuck for lack of this information.We acquired a workshop manual hoping this would provide the answer-no. Anyone out there have any knowledge? All we have been informed is that the pistons are matched to the liners for clearance and there are various batches used which are colour coded to denote their tolerance but that does not help us.
Just had a look at our brand new shiny OZ rims fresh out of the box and at first site, beautiful….until you get closer.Amazing at this price, cannot live with it, so we will have to strip them down and sort them out. Easier than fighting with Italy.
Don’t know if this is of interest to many, but it is to me, as we have stripped the car we have found many small mods that differentiate this race car from a street car. Latest is that due to the far higher loads placed on the suspension through both the wider tyres, slicks cornering and braking loads, not only were the wishbones bespoke and strengthened (for sale if anyone is interested), but even the pick up points have all been beefed up, front and back as in this blurry example.
A little Michelotto suspension detail and part explanation of the cost. Note the TITANIUM extremity for camber control adjustment. Very neat. Very expensiveAnd a pile of rubber which certainly looks like it should grip…But turning the steering wheel at low speeds is going to be a workout.
As regards the black gate for the gear lever, I think you should just anodise your existing. A trip to Michelotto would be very interesting as he currently has some interesting cars in there and seems very receptive to genuine enthusiasts. I too hope to make the trip later in the year.Back to the project, a few pics of some details. First is another detail of a beautiful wasted bolt and again shows the attention that goes into some of this race kit.Next up, we found a relative bargain. Turns out the differential was pretty shot and we decided rather than just replace the plates, as the rest was not great, to source a new one from Ferrari which has just arrived. I never want to take this car apart again and hopefully after this rebuild it will effectively be a zero miles car.Finally the gearbox rebuild has started, new bearings, new second gear and we are waiting on our ‘reverse engineered reverse’ from Crosthwaites.Meanwhile, major delivery from Michelotto ‘expected’ early next week which means we can really start to move forward.
Well whilst we are somewhat stuck on resolving our engine and gearbox issues, progress on the front suspension at least. Track rod ends are hanging as bespoke rose joints are awaited from Italy.As you can see, front all now ‘soft’ mounted pending arrival of the rear suspension which needless to say was promised for last week and the week before etc etc but is still with Michelotto. Once we have that we can fit rear suspension and the uprights for the front, all brakes and anti roll bars front and rear and then take it all off again so as to finally start to finish the chassis, getting it top coated in the silver.Then we can start to move forward properly and to have a finished effectively rolling chassis would be a major landmark, probably even a half way point?
For those interested in the detail, acting on C Michelotto’s advice, we are changing the longer geared Euro spec Crownwheel and Pinion for the shorter geared USA version. This car was apparently timed at 227 MPH with the Euro version, but it is a rare track where you can avail yourself of this, hence the decision to add even more to the acceleration potential.Like the toffee coating?
For those who are interested in the set of LM style OZ rims I promised to post a pic or two. Apologies for the quality but this gives you an idea, unmarked, and they should slot onto the standard hub.
Thanks for all the interest and support. Strange, I never thought I would enjoy posting the journey as much as I do, I thought it would be quite trying but in fact the reverse. Very satisfying to share the ups and downs of this adventure with all enthusiasts here with varying levels of knowledge resulting in many useful thoughts and opinions, but all bonded by a common love of the Marque. Brilliant.Meanwhile, CM made a delivery! Yes, 8 weeks late but look what turned up, two sets of rear wishbones assemblies. I will post more once we have had the chance to unpack properly. Apparently the anti roll bars etc are due to leave Italy today and the brakes etc tomorrow. We shall see, but all being well, we might have all these vital components within a week or so and then we can really crack on, at least with the chassis etc.
No sooner said than done…………Some delicious detailing
So now we have the front and rear suspension just about mounted. Few alterations needed and the works of art will shortly be in place. Interestingly I note that the front uprights are made of Avional, apparently a super strength lightweight Swiss alloy (had to look that one up) and the rears are Magnesium, again, all with Titanium adjustment. Expensive, but you begin to understand why.Now we have all the set up info from Michelotto we are fine checking with computerised Spanesi Touch system to ensure everything is absolutely spot on.Adjustable LM brakes, adjustable anti roll bars, Carbon Fibre ducting, Magnesium pedal box, master cylinder and light weight Konis etc are hopefully incoming tomorrow!! Hopefully.Everything will be offered up to the chassis, adjusted and fixed before disassembly for final chassis paint.Got to love those rear tyres!I am hoping that by the end of next week, we might finally be in the paint shop…….maybe
Just a small update. Nothing from Michelotto-disappointing but not unexpected. More chasing but then the day is still young.Meanwhile we have been finishing off the LM front assembly so all we now need is a delivery to finish mounting and checking everything before the paint shop beckons.
Gear box rebuild now well underway. New bearings, new 2nd gear and shorter ratio crown wheel and pinion all being installed. Then it is off to Crosthwaites for fitting of reverse and final set up and result a zero miles gearbox.Another partial delivery from Michelotto to include LM brakes, magnesium pedal box, carbon fibre cooling ductwork, track rod ends etc etc and I will post pics of these once unpacked, but frustratingly we are still short of the lightweight Koni shocks and springs which we need to be able to set the ride height and deal with the bodywork before final chassis and body paint and final assembly, so blame Michelotto for the shortage of posts. Apparently leaving Italy today but I have heard that before!
Last post for a week or so or until Michelotto delivers the springs and shocks.Body now back on temporarily to sort ride height, clearances, panel gaps etc but to do it properly we need shocks if you are reading this Cristiano-Please! In theory sent last week but I have heard that before……..please prove me wrong!
Well here we are with a few more parts from Michelotto. LM brakes and discs, LM magnesium pedal box with front/rear bias controller, LM anti roll bars, track rod ends (now fitted as per pic), carbon cooling ducts etc etc, but not the lightweight shocks and springs which we are still waiting for.Please Cristiano, we need them.
Better pic of track rod ends installed and completed front assembly
TREASURE! Finally it looks like we have our missing parts which is great news.
Work has started in earnest on the body. All panels have been refitted so as to start panel alignment and weight will be added to engine bay so as to represent engine in position and ensure that the panels are gapped ‘under load’.Underside of front clam was a mess so that will be prepared and brought up to standard with new ductwork etc.Gradually moving closer to paint, chassis and body, indeed at least we are now in the body shop! Cannot wait and will update further after visiting the shop tomorrow.
Some further shots of the front clam.Here you can see our original clam before and midway through the restoration process. We have taken literally pounds of filler out of it, so much that you can easily tell the difference just by lifting it. It will be finished off with new arches and ductwork and then a final internal layer of Carbon Kevlar so it will be both lighter and stronger (and more beautiful) than where we started.
And how we got there, or rather poor James in the DIY spacesuit did……
Whilst we labour for the next few weeks to get the bodywork perfect, progress is actually being made elsewhere mechanically. Engine is now in all its component parts and we have been working on the gearbox which is now ready for its new gears and awaiting the Crosthwaite and Gardiner reverse which they are apparently making to a higher quality than Factory as you would expect from such a firm. New crown wheel and pinion with shorter gearing installed as well as new differential and bearings and once we have reverse, the gearbox will be finished up.In these images you can see the backlash being set up with a dial gauge and also the crown wheel and pinion being painted with engineer’s blue to check mesh engagement. Last shots, all finished up and ready for the gears.Once finally assembled all casings will be resprayed.
For those of you interested in the detail of what must be one of the world’s most expensive pedal boxes. Next to it is the original so you can get an idea of the difference. And the quality.This was, like everything else, not a stock item, but being a magnesium casting was not viable to be made in a series of one. We were however very fortunate to be able to piggyback on an order from the Sultan Of Brunei who purely coincidentally had to replace two of his on his LM’s which have rotted away in the humidity of their non air conditioned storage and needed replacement. Good timing as otherwise I am not sure what we would have done.The cable attached to the clutch pedal is the front/rear brake bias adjuster which ends up on the dashboard.
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Temporary engine in place so that all the panels can be correctly gapped ‘under load’.Front clam now well on the way to paint…..
More images of prep work on the body. All old and defective panels such as cooling ductwork and wheel arches are being renewed in Kevlar as appropriate. A lot of work to return it to as new. Side pods are now off so we can get access to the final part of the chassis for paint, and yes it looks like paint next week! That is truly exciting and finally as opposed to digging a hole we can start to fill it in. A potential turning point and I find myself wishing away time.
We took the block off to Crosthwaite and Gardiner who checked them all thoroughly and said they were actually all OK, the slight scar was merley cosmetic which was a relief. They are fitting new piston rings, LM style titanium conrods and once the crank is back from repolishing and the new flywheel delivered, we can start a slow assemble. I think the chassis will probably be ready ahead of the engine but that is no bad thing. Very comforting to have Crosthwaites involved with their reputation and abilities, probably one of the World’s best : www.crosthwaiteandgardiner.com – fascinating to see what they get up to.
Cam lobes were slightly worn but enough meat on them for a grinding so they have gone out to a specialist. So right now that means crank is out for repolish and new bearings, LM Titanium conrods in manufacture, lightweight flywheel in manufacture, cylinders being rehoned as necessary, turbos/manifolds being built up and inlet trumpets will all be stripped down, cleaned and parts replated as necessary. All taking place at different specialists and one fine day the jigsaw will be reassembled.Apparently, even in its sorry state it was recently recorded on the dyno at 650BHP at the rear wheels, so looking for a little more by the time we have perfected it, a more ‘reliable’ 700 is the target but this time with the suspension and brakes to handle it.
Well finally, hopefully, the last shots you will see of the old.We are now taking up all Mototechnique’s spraying facilities. Chassis stripped of all roll cage and stregthening in one paint bay for final prep and paint next week, and all body panels in other paint bay for final prep and primer this week.Then we can start to put Humpty back together again.And yes, for those really paying attention, I know about the front tyres!
A few pics of the body panels in prep. Laying up the new Kevlar underneath the front clam so now light and strong. Plan is to get primer on the roof and chassis this week and then all being well colour next.Reason for the increase in images is trippling in manpower which, once we have the chassis and body sorted will mean things drift back to normal which from a financial viewpoint is comforting.
Meanwhile, we are sending the inlet manifolds off for the Zircotec finish as keeping the charged air cool is clearly a plus and anything we can do to reduce the temp of these will be a good start.Meanwhile a few more pics of progress. Here you can see the last photo (I promise) of the chassis pre final paint, the areas where we have been working on the jacking system etc being two pack expoxied before the mist coat and top coat are applied next week. Final prep for various panels and they are being primed today whilst the new fuel filler caps are blended in and the work comes to an end on the sills. All being well, everything except the front clam will at least be in primer next week, and chassis painted.
A final shot for the weekend that has just come in which I had to post as so pleasing. New filler caps now all neatly feathered in and panel just about ready for primer next week.
Just looking through the photos from last week and one recent one shows the chassis now with a mist coat so as to reveal any minor aesthetic imperfections in the frame which can then be dealt with. You can also now clearly see the refitted rear air jack mounts.Note in the background that she is in good company in the workshop, in one instance quite humbling.
Meanwhile, for the first time in a long time excitingly the upper and lower rear clams are now finally in one colour. In case you thought they were destined for Chris Evan’s White collection, they are not but at least it is primer and I begin to feel we are coming out of this tearfully expensive hole. These sort of jobs are quite draining in more ways than one as you keep on having to write out cheques and yet the car looks worse and worse and it gets more and more depressing until you finally reach bottom and start to climb out and I think that is almost where we are. Maybe another two weeks to be confident that it is all not a waste of time, effort and money but now beginning to feel more positive.Work continues on the front clam but still a week or so away from primer as so much detailed work on wheel arches and all the Kevlar ductwork which is quite extensive on the LM. That should be a work of art when finished and be interesting post before and after shots.
Aside from the finished fuel tanks and Michelotto parts, finally another finished item in the shape of our Motec gear arrived today as this seems the most reliable and adjustable kit out there (with great knowledgeable local support), well proven in racing F40’s and appears very similar to some Michelotto LM’s (as attached) when their old digital board gives up. Nice to have a few finished items appearing as the jigsaw pieces start to arrive from different quarters. What we really need next is a reverse gear from Crosthwaites so we can finish the gearbox.Not quite sure whether to fit the change up lights or not-pondering……
Another part of the jigsaw arrives.Latest 3KG Lifeline 360 extinguisher system just arrived. Used to only be available as 2.25KG but literally just released the larger version. Four nozzles in the engine bay, 2 in the cockpit and no mess to clear up if ever used. I hope not but these cars, as already pointed out on this thread, do occasionally have a issue.
A lot of work going into what was a pretty ratty front clam. Here you can see some of the Kevlar being laid up, wheel arches being bonded in and preparation being made for the ductwork. What a change – kilos of weight removed and we are ending up with a lighter stronger unit from where we started. Another week to go on this and then all the bodywork will be behind us.
Starter motor has been sent away for matching to the new flywheel, which is currently in manufacture and due in a week or so, and will be overhauled at the same time.Final prep work underway to the underneath of the sills and these will be in primer early next week.Just another arty shot of the front clam lay up on-going. A lot of detailed and intensive work here.
If you look back through the thread there are images of the brakes that were fitted during the cars racing era which were Group C, allegedly off a 962 Porsche. The only sensible alternative today are made by Brembo and they offer an upgrade for the standard F40 as attached (last pic shows difference) but you need the bigger rims to fit the discs. We have full LM units which are very different, different discs, calipers, pedal box, master cylinders etc. (see a few pages ago for pics)We are fortunate in that the car started its race life already one of the 27 LM/GTE conversions as to convert a standard road car to this spec would today be even more eye watering and possibly not an enhancement investment wise given the high value/cost of a road car. Aside from the obvious, there are just so many details that separate a road car from an LM, but even then you would not have that vital race history.
That is exactly my aim, to create a car that can be used rather than become a garage queen, and hopefully finished to a higher standard than any of the competition and good for another 25 years.Meanwhile, we have rear clams in primer and finally side pods in primer, all looking very neat and tidy with faired in fuel caps etc, just waiting for the final front body panels to join them.Next up refit the suspension (again) and the panels to the chassis, line up all the panels so as to get the gaps correct in situ, something Ferrari never did, make final adjustments and then actually paint the panels red! Meanwhile front clam, which can be treated separately and in relative isolation to the rest as it only has a junction with the chassis rather than other panels, can be done once we have finished all the ductwork. Then all the suspension has to come off again (4th time) for chassis paint.I feel I just about have my fingertips on the edge of the hole now-maybe a couple of weeks before final assembly actually starts and I can see out of it.
Well two steps forward one step back. All the main panels primed and fitted, save for the front clam, all married up and pretty much ready for paint. Or so we thought.
Rear suspension off again and then on for the 4th time to sort hand brake(to make it street legal)and soon to come off again.Then turns out a well known weakness of these cars is for the chassis member to rub against the inner side of the rear clam by the engine bay glass and create an annoying squeak. This has reared its head on this car as you can see being inspected in the 4th pic. So just as we thought we were going red, rear clam has to come off, wax mold made of offending chassis member, clam adjusted, and then of course as the clam will sit slightly lower,we will have to rematch the panel fit. Again.Silver lining, at least by doing it thoroughly and right, we won’t have to repaint the clamTired of 50 shades of grey………
Work has started on eradicating that annoying squeak where the frame member rubs against the rear clam. Wax mould taken, clam adjusted and then refitted with resulting re gapping of panel joints.
Work going well on the front clam and looking to have it in primer by the weekend. Despite life being too short, we are putting a humungous amount of time and effort into this panel and still have some way to go but a long way from where we started. And squeak free.
Meanwhile back in the real world, the apparently to be accepted squeak has now been dealt with and the panels re-gapped but it has delayed the plan to get the primer on. This 50 shades of grey thing seems endless.Getting closer.
Suspension on again for the fourth time! And then only needs to come off once more for painting and chassis paint. Then it goes back for real.
More work on the front clam to sort out the ductwork, then back on to check before going back into the body shop for final prep but there are still two final ducts that cannot be fitted until we have the radiator in place.
Couple of other shots from last week. More work on the front clam and appreciate the background.The quality of cars passing through Mototechnique’s workshops is truly amazing. More to follow….
Back in the paint shop, hopefully now with definite intent of colour, and the final shots, I think, of the prepared and un-painted front clam. Wednesday it will be in primer.Work continues on final preparation and the rear panels and roof are just about ready for paint having been primed and baked. We will see colour this week!Hopefully also a week of deliveries as we assemble all the parts out being made/treated by specialists. Manifolds with Zircotec coating, new turbos again Zircotec treated, new lightweight flywheel and clutch, reground camshafts and maybe even our re-polished crank. Or at least that is the plan, but to be honest we are not being held back so none of this is on the critical path, as yet.
Just look what the Postman surprised us with today – our Zircotec treated inlet manifolds!For those who are unaware, Zircotec is a ‘plasma-sprayed ceramic coatings to protect components from the effects of fire, heat, wear, abrasion and corrosion’. In this instance it will help keep our charged inlet air at a lower temperature which means ‘increased engine performance, eg. a 30 degree C drop in intake air temperature can deliver a 6% increase in power, or can increase engine efficiency leading to less fuel usage’.Used extensively in F1, Nascar, GT racing, Classic cars etc, this hot engine bay seems to be the place to use it and we will also be applying their process to both our exhaust manifolds and hot side of the Turbos.Another work of art to be set alongside the Carbon tanks, Michelotto suspension etc.Yet again, note the background car, yet another classic into their shop for a bit of work.
The very last shot of the front clam before we apply polyester spray filler, a sealing coat which will tie all substrates together before final finishing and full priming. Just checking the Perspex headlight covers for a perfect fit and then off to the spray booth tomorrow.Some colour by the weekend? Not on this panel, but hopefully elsewhere.
You will all be relieved to see that you never have to look at any more shots of the multi-hued front clam undergoing work (except on the underside) and it is finally close to joining the other panels in grey primer. This polyester spray filler bonds the various substrates and then into the oven before final finishing and grey primer tomorrow. Relief.Thanks Greg for you post and after all this work I too really do hope it pays off in years of enjoyment-this is a long haul and if you read back through the thread there was a stage I thought it would be over in 4 months. Ridiculous knowing myself and my goals. | positive |
A Nintendo fan's project to digitally preserve every SNES game has ended in defeat after the US Postal Service (USPS) lost a package containing 100 cartridges.
The parcel contained between $7500 and $10k worth of vintage games, which were en route to amateur archivist Byuu.
The package made the journey from Frankfurt to Byuu's home state of New Jersey, but after this was lost by the USPS. It was the second of five planned shipments of games from a European collector, who has now been left without a large chunk of their collection.
Byuu had planned to borrow the games, 100 at a time, dump the cartridge's contents, then repackage them and send them back. This worked fine for the first 100, so Byuu was eagerly awaiting the second shipment to continue his work.
After the shipment went missing, Byuu spent weeks appealing for help on Reddit from anyone who worked within the USPS or knew anyone at its New Jersey processing centre. The sender had insurance, but only for its travel to the US. Beyond that, it was lost. Sadly, after more than a month of no word, Byuu's luck seems to have run out.
For those thinking "clearly this is a scam", Byuu is a well-known member of the emulation community and author of his own SNES emulator, higan, which is widely regarded as one of the best there is.
As our own Chris Bratt found out when investigating Nintendo's own Virtual Console service, many of the pirated SNES ROMs available online are not true copies of the game - they've been edited in some way. Not even Nintendo has the original digital images of all these games - which is how copied games find their way onto Nintendo's own store.
Writing on Reddit last night, Byuu admitted defeat. His focus is now to reimburse the European collector for the games which were lost - people have suggested he set up a GoFundMe to help, which he said he may do.
But the preservation project is over - at least, for now.
"I'd rather start working on reimbursing the sender now, as game prices only go up," Byuu wrote. "He lent me 100 valuable games (Vampire's Kiss, Incantation, Hagane, Mega Man 7+X+X2+X3, etc etc), and now I can't send his games back.
"It was a terrible mistake have him trust the mail system. I'm not going to risk anyone else's games like that again." | positive |
nil values are the worst. They crop up where you didn't expect them. Their presence forces you to litter your code with conditionals: checking, checking, and checking again if a variable contains nil .
Today I'm making available a classic screencast from the RubyTapas archives. In it you'll see a way to remove nils while dramatically simplifying some typical web application logic, using the Special Case Pattern.
But! There's more. Today by special permission I'm also bringing you a video from the Upcase Weekly Iteration archives! In this bonus video, you'll watch Ben Orenstein and Joe Ferris apply a variant of the Special Case pattern, the Null Object pattern, in order to clean up some Rails 4 code.
Enjoy!
So that's the Special Case pattern.
Sometimes, you have a special case where the “special” behavior you need is defined as: “always do nothing”. There's a name for this “special case of Special Case”: the Null Object Pattern.
Now here's Ben Orenstein and Joe Ferris of Upcase, with a demonstration of how to apply the Null Object pattern to a Rails project:
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Episode Script
For those who prefer reading to watching. This is for the RubyTapas episode only, not the Upcase video.
Here's a typical helper method from a web application. It looks to find a current user by checking in a session object. If it can find one it returns it; otherwise it implicitly returns nil .
def current_user if session[:user_id] User.find(session[:user_id]) end end
Let's look at some places where this method is used.
Here's some code to greet the user when they first arrive at the site. It checks to see if there is a current user. If so it uses their name; otherwise it uses the name “guest”.
def greeting "Hello, " + current_user ? current_user.name : "guest" + ", how are you today?" end
Here's a case where we render either a “log in” or “log out” button depending on whether there is a user.
if current_user render_logout_button else render_login_button end
Here's some code that optionally renders an admin panel. Before it can check to see if the user is an admin, it first has to check that there is a user at all.
if current_user && current_user.has_role?(:admin) render_admin_panel end
In some cases we might want to show different results depending on what a user is allowed to see. Once again, we switch on the presence of a user object.
if current_user @listings = current_user.visible_listings else @listings = Listing.publicly_visible end # ...
So far we've just been querying the user object. Here's some code that updates an attribute on the user. But first it has to check that the user is non-nil.
if current_user current_user.last_seen_online = Time.now end
Here's a snippet of code that adds a product to the user's shopping cart. If they are logged in, it should go into their persistent user cart. Otherwise it should go into a special session-based cart.
cart = if current_user current_user.cart else SessionCart.new(session) end cart.add_item(some_item, 1)
All of the code we've been looking at has a common characteristic: it's uncertain about whether there will be a user object available. As a result, it keeps checking over and over again.
Let's see if we can get rid of this uncertainty. Instead of representing an anonymous session as a nil value, let's write a class to represent that case. We'll call it GuestUser .
class GuestUser def initialize(session) @session = session end end
We rewrite the #current_user method to return an instance of this class when there is no :user_id recorded.
def current_user if session[:user_id] User.find(session[:user_id]) else GuestUser.new(session) end end
We add a #name attribute to GuestUser .
class GuestUser # ... def name "Anonymous" end end
This nicely simplifies the greeting code.
def greeting "Hello, #{current_user.name}, how are you today?" end
In the case where we render either “Log in” or “Log out” buttons, we can't get rid of the conditional completely. But what we can do is add an #authenticated? predicate method to both User and GuestUser .
class User def authenticated? true end # ... end class GuestUser # ... def authenticated? false end end
By using this predicate method in the code for rendering the button, we end up with code that states its intent a little better.
if current_user.authenticated? render_logout_button else render_login_button end
Next let's take a look at the case where we check if the user has admin privileges. We add an implementation of #has_role? to GuestUser . Since an anonymous user has no special privileges, we make it return false for any role given.
class GuestUser # ... def has_role?(role) false end end
This simplifies the role-checking code. No more check to see if the current user exists.
if current_user.has_role?(:admin) render_admin_panel end
Now what about the code for showing different listings to different people? We implement a #visible_listings method on GuestUser which simply returns the publicly-visible result set.
class GuestUser # ... def visible_listings Listing.publicly_visible end end
Then we can reduce the listings code to a one-liner.
@listings = current_user.visible_listings
We also implement attribute setter methods as no-ops.
class GuestUser # ... def last_seen_online=(time) # NOOP end o end
This enables us to eliminate another conditional.
current_user.last_seen_online = Time.now
In order to implement a shopping cart for users who haven't yet logged in, we make the GuestUser ‘s cart attribute return an instance of the SessionCart type that we talked about earlier.
class GuestUser # ... def cart SessionCart.new(@session) end end
Now the code for adding an item to the cart also becomes a one-liner.
current_user.cart.add_item(some_item, 1)
What we've done here is identify a special case—the case where there is no logged-in user. And then we represented that special case as an object in its own right. As a result, we were able to simplify quite a bit of our code. And it's not just simpler—it reads better too!
There's a name for this, and unsurprisingly it is the “Special Case” pattern. It's one application of a more broad observation: anytime a program keeps switching on the same condition over and over again, that's a good indication that there's a new kind of object waiting and wanting to be discovered.
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Christmas Hat Market 2019 by type and application, with sales market share and growth rate by type, application 2024 — Teletype Join Shantanu Dutta @dattad September 23, 2019 Christmas Hat Market 2019 by type and application, with sales market share and growth rate by type, application 2024 "Christmas Hat Market" report 2019-2024 concentrates on the significant Applications and constraints for the Manufacturers. Christmas Hat Market Research Report also provides a granular analysis of the market share, segmentation, earnings forecasts and geographical regions of the market. 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Shenghong Group Co Ltd Fuzhou Huasheng Arts & Crafts Co Ltd Enquire before purchasing this report - https://www.marketreportsworld.com/enquiry/pre-order-enquiry/13441881 Scope of the Report: The worldwide market for Christmas Hat is expected to grow at a CAGR of roughly over the next five years, will reach million US$ in 2024, from million US$ in 2019, according to a new study. This report focuses on the Christmas Hat in global market, especially in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East and Africa. This report categorizes the market based on manufacturers, regions, type and application. Purchase this report (Price 3480 USD for single user license) - https://www.marketreportsworld.com/purchase/13441881 By the product type, the market is primarily split into Cotton Polyester Canvas Others By the end users/application, this report covers the following segments Home Use Commercial Use Others Table of Contents 1 Market Overview 1.1 Christmas Hat Introduction 1.2 Market Analysis by Type 1.2.1 Cotton 1.2.2 Polyester 1.2.3 Canvas 1.2.4 Others 1.3 Market Analysis by Applications 1.3.1 Home Use 1.3.2 Commercial Use 1.3.3 Others 1.4 Market Analysis by Regions 1.4.1 North America (United States, Canada and Mexico) 1.4.1.1 United States Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.1.2 Canada Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.1.3 Mexico Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.2 Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy) 1.4.2.1 Germany Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.2.2 France Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.2.3 UK Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.2.4 Russia Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.2.5 Italy Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.3 Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia) 1.4.3.1 China Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.3.2 Japan Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.3.3 Korea Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.3.4 India Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.3.5 Southeast Asia Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.4 South America, Middle East and Africa 1.4.4.1 Brazil Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.4.2 Egypt Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.4.3 Saudi Arabia Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.4.4 South Africa Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.4.4.5 Turkey Market States and Outlook (2014-2024) 1.5 Market Dynamics 1.5.1 Market Opportunities 1.5.2 Market Risk 1.5.3 Market Driving Force 2 Manufacturers Profiles -------------------- 3 Global Christmas Hat Sales, Revenue, Market Share and Competition by Manufacturer (2017-2018) 3.1 Global Christmas Hat Sales and Market Share by Manufacturer (2017-2018) 3.2 Global Christmas Hat Revenue and Market Share by Manufacturer (2017-2018) 3.3 Market Concentration Rate 3.3.1 Top 3 Christmas Hat Manufacturer Market Share in 2018 3.3.2 Top 6 Christmas Hat Manufacturer Market Share in 2018 3.4 Market Competition Trend 4 Global Christmas Hat Market Analysis by Regions 4.1 Global Christmas Hat Sales, Revenue and Market Share by Regions 4.1.1 Global Christmas Hat Sales and Market Share by Regions (2014-2019) 4.1.2 Global Christmas Hat Revenue and Market Share by Regions (2014-2019) 4.2 North America Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 4.3 Europe Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 4.4 Asia-Pacific Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 4.5 South America Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 4.6 Middle East and Africa Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 5 North America Christmas Hat by Country 5.1 North America Christmas Hat Sales, Revenue and Market Share by Country 5.1.1 North America Christmas Hat Sales and Market Share by Country (2014-2019) 5.1.2 North America Christmas Hat Revenue and Market Share by Country (2014-2019) 5.2 United States Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 5.3 Canada Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 5.4 Mexico Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 6 Europe -------------------- 8 South America Christmas Hat by Country 8.1 South America Christmas Hat Sales, Revenue and Market Share by Country 8.1.1 South America Christmas Hat Sales and Market Share by Country (2014-2019) 8.1.2 South America Christmas Hat Revenue and Market Share by Country (2014-2019) 8.2 Brazil Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 8.3 Argentina Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 8.4 Colombia Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 9 Middle East and Africa Christmas Hat by Countries 9.1 Middle East and Africa Christmas Hat Sales, Revenue and Market Share by Country 9.1.1 Middle East and Africa Christmas Hat Sales and Market Share by Country (2014-2019) 9.1.2 Middle East and Africa Christmas Hat Revenue and Market Share by Country (2014-2019) 9.2 Saudi Arabia Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 9.3 Turkey Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 9.4 Egypt Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 9.5 Nigeria Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 9.6 South Africa Christmas Hat Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019) 10 Global -------------------- 11 Global Christmas Hat Market Segment by Application 11.1 Global Christmas Hat Sales Market Share by Application (2014-2019) 11.2 Home Use Sales Growth (2014-2019) 11.3 Commercial Use Sales Growth (2014-2019) 11.4 Others Sales Growth (2014-2019) 12 Christmas Hat Market Forecast (2019-2024) 12.1 Global Christmas Hat Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate (2019-2024) 12.2 Christmas Hat Market Forecast by Regions (2019-2024) 12.2.1 North America Christmas Hat Market Forecast (2019-2024) 12.2.2 Europe Christmas Hat Market Forecast (2019-2024) 12.2.3 Asia-Pacific Christmas Hat Market Forecast (2019-2024) 12.2.4 South America Christmas Hat Market Forecast (2019-2024) 12.2.5 Middle East and Africa Christmas Hat Market Forecast (2019-2024) 12.3 Christmas Hat Market Forecast by Type (2019-2024) 12.3.1 Global Christmas Hat Sales Forecast by Type (2019-2024) 12.3.2 Global Christmas Hat Market Share Forecast by Type (2019-2024) 12.4 Christmas Hat Market Forecast by Application (2019-2024) 12.4.1 Global Christmas Hat Sales Forecast by Application (2019-2024) 12.4.2 Global Christmas Hat Market Share Forecast by Application (2019-2024) 13 Sales Channel, Distributors, Traders and Dealers 13.1 Sales Channel 13.1.1 Direct Marketing 13.1.2 Indirect Marketing 13.1.3 Marketing Channel Future Trend 13.2 Distributors, Traders and Dealers 14 Research Findings and Conclusion 15 Appendix 15.1 Methodology 15.2 Data Source Browse complete table of contents at :- 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Armada FC Communications | Oct. 4, 2016
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville Armada FC technical director Nathan Walter announced on Tuesday the appointment of Mark Lowry to the club’s head coaching position, removing the interim tag. The announcement comes on the back of the Armada’s 1-0 victory over Minnesota United FC Saturday evening in Minnesota, and a four match unbeaten streak.
Since taking over as Interim Head Coach on August 7, Lowry has led the team to a 2W-5D-2L record, including leading the Armada to its first road victory in club history. In his first match in charge, Lowry coached the Armada to a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Fury at TD Place Stadium on Aug. 13. That victory snapped an NASL record 25 match winless streak away from Jacksonville.
“We were looking for a coach who is passionate, hardworking and most importantly teaches the game,” said Walter. “We have all seen the ability of Mark over the last nine games, and we look forward to the future success he will bring to this progressive football club.”
Lowry originally joined the Armada in September 2015 as an assistant coach under then Armada FC interim head coach Eric Dade. He was then retained for the 2016 season as an assistant coach. He was appointed interim head coach following the dismissal of Tony Meola on August 7, and has been in charge of the Armanda since.
A native of Birmingham, England, Lowry has spent a significant amount of time coaching at various levels. He coached four years at Orlando City SC’s U.S. Soccer Development Academy program and coached for Orlando City’s U-23 PDL squad. Prior to Orlando, Lowry gained extensive experience as a player, academy coach, and scout in the English professional system. Lowry was a player scout and academy coach for Wolverhampton Wanderers FC in 2009 (then EPL) and a player scout for Birmingham City FC in 2007 and 2008 (then EPL). He currently holds his UEFA “A” coaching license.
Lowry will take the field for the first time without the interim tag this Saturday, October 8th, at Community First Park at 7:00 PM as the Armada take on NASL Spring Champions Indy Eleven. | positive |
10. They Dedicated An Entire Year To Their Mascot's Brother
Super Mario has been Nintendo's mascot for as long as anybody can remember, that dungaree-wearing moustachioed champion of the jump. He's starred in dozens of games and spin-offs throughout the decades and his draw and appeal shows no sign of slowing down. But what about his brother?
Historically, Luigi has always lived in Mario's shadow, often relegated to the butt of jokes and lambasted for his cowardly nature. But Nintendo attempted to change all that in 2013 when they proclaimed it the Year Of Luigi, promising to celebrate the lesser brother and planning several Luigi-centric launches. Needless to say, fans were ecstatic. Mario may be the hero, but Luigi is something so much more he's flawed. How can you not empathize with him? You'd be terrified too if your mansion was filled with ghosts.
As for whether or not there's any correlation between the Year Of Luigi and the $456 million yen loss Nintendo suffered that year, well, that's for you to decide... | positive |
Not to be outdone by LG’s solar-powered phone we saw yesterday, Samsung have announced their own solar handset that can supposedly generate enough power through its cells to “call anytime, anywhere.”
The phone, like the LG model, is being showcased at Mobile World Congress 2009 and is quite an attention-grabber with its full-touchscreen display and uncompromising styling. The rear of the phone is covered in solar cells that integrate well with the design and following with the “eco” theme, the casing is made of PCM plastic extracted from recycled water bottles.
The phone includes an “eco-walk” function that presumably aims to encourage people to walk more often, calculating CO2 emissions you’ve saved by not driving on-the-fly with its built-in pedometer. This function is extraordinarily gimmicky and largely inaccurate – how on Blue Earth does it know what kind of car you drive and its emissions? Many of the people this would appeal to would, I’d imagine, have either downsized their car or upgraded to a hybrid or even an electric model, which, depending on where they source their electricity, could render this function worthless.
On a positive and practical note, the phone does have the ability for a user to switch off Bluetooth and dim the screen when trying to charge by solar power alone. The handset will also come with an energy efficient charger to top you up on days with little sun, or for users in sunless countries.
Samsung’s Blue Earth will be free from Brominated Flame Retardants, Beryllium, and Phthalate and will apparently see a European release in the second half of this year.
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Samsung Introduces “Blue Earth” – The First Solar Powered Full-Touch Phone Barcelona, Spain, February 16, 2009 – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today unveiled the innovative solar powered full-touch screen phone “Blue Earth” at Mobile World Congress 2009, alongside Samsung’s vision for environmental sustainability. Under the slogan: “The Blue Earth Dream: Eco-living with SAMSUNG mobile”, Samsung reinforced its commitment to protect the environment through the design of eco-friendly products and a programme of activities for its customers. Designed to symbolize a flat and well rounded shiny pebble, Blue Earth is the first solar powered full-touch screen phone. By charging with the solar panel located on the back of the phone, users can generate enough electronic power to call anytime anywhere. Blue Earth is made from recycled plastic called PCM, which is extracted from water bottles, helping to reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions in the manufacturing process. The device, including charger, is free from harmful substances such as Brominated Flame Retardants, Beryllium and Phthalate. The latest in a series of eco-friendly products, Blue Earth comes with a unique user interface which is designed to draw attention to preserving our fragile environment. Simple to set screen brightness, backlight duration and Bluetooth to an energy-efficient mode, this new user interface allows the user to be energy-efficient with just one click of ’Eco mode’. Through the ‘eco walk’ function the user can count their steps with an in-built pedometer, calculating how much CO2 emissions have been reduced by walking as opposed to motor transport. This unique function allows user to calculate the value of this footprint through the number of trees that have been saved. The packaging for Blue Earth is designed to be both small and light, made from recycled paper, and comes with a 5 star energy efficient charger which uses standby power lower than 0.03W. As part of the Voluntary Agreement of European Commission IPP (Integrated Product Policy) pilot program, Samsung has agreed to start using rating on energy consumption on the no-load mode of the mobile device charger. “Samsung’s ‘The Blue Earth Dream’ demonstrates our small but meaningful commitments for the future and our environment,” said Mr. JK Shin, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication Division of Samsung Electronics. “We are committed to achieving the highest eco-status with our customers and business partners by providing the best eco-products and promoting eco-activities.” Get in touch with Samsung Mobile! Learn more about ‘The Blue Earth Dream’ and other eco-friendly initiatives at www.samsungmwc.com and visit us at Hall 8, Stand 8a139 at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona. About The Blue Earth Dream The Blue Earth Dream conveys hope and sets goals for sustainable growth and life. In increasing environmental awareness, Samsung is developing ways to reduce CO2 emissions and to save energy at every stage of the product life cycle, as an effective response to climate change. Milestones have been put in place to eliminate hazardous substances from handsets and packaging will be designed from recycled materials. Samsung will encourage its customers to recycle handsets at a growing number of special take-back points worldwide.
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Marshall's Bar sits next to a bait shop on Jefferson Avenue in Jefferson-Chalmers, one of Detroit's most eclectic and unusual neighborhoods. It's a place where urban gardens dot a landscape of both vacant and well-maintained homes, many of which have canal access and boats docked in the yard. Like those homes, the bar has access to Fox Creek, which runs behind it to the Detroit River. It's not unusual for customers to arrive by boat, tying off their watercraft for a few drinks.
The backyard is where we find 29-year-old Zachary Stratford smoking a cigarette. He lives at nearby Grayhaven Marina Village and races sailboats.
"There's some jackasses," Stratford says of the place. "There's some really cool people. There's some people we give a hug to when we come in. It's a neighborhood bar."
Inside, Marshall's has a fire capacity of 49, and not a whole lot of frills. There's a jukebox, a pool table, and vintage album covers lining one wall. Many of the ceiling tiles are painted: as in, customers take them home and bring them back decorated.
The bar has served customers since the Prohibition era. It was owned from the 1970s onward by Ted Kapuscinski, a former relief pitcher for the Tigers, until his death this summer, according to customers and staff.
Regular Jon Goodloe, 59, was having a drink at the bar on a recent sunny afternoon. Goodloe has been coming to Marshall's for two decades.
"It's a great little kind of hole-in-the-wall," he says.
Five years ago, Marshall's was for the most part quiet and patrons were older. It got so quiet, he says, that a family of black mink had taken up residency in the backyard. Goodloe says that's no longer the case. The bar gets busy on Saturday nights, and it's popular with 20-somethings too.
Bartender Niki Jackson, Goodloe's girlfriend, says she first became a regular at Marshall's before going to work there.
"It's very diverse. It's like a home away from home," says Jackson, 33. "We all refer to each other as family — and I met my love here."
A few feet away, 24-year-old Charlie Magee and 22-year-old Jack Campbell are shooting pool.
"The No. 1 word about this place is 'community,'" says Magee, who lives in Grosse Pointe Park. "It's white, black, old, young, boat mechanic — you get everything."
Marshall's has succeeded with the "dinosaur approach," Magee says: The bar remains unchanged, but tastes always "circle back to Marshall's being cool again."
It's not a bad time to take note of the venerable bar. In July, the Jefferson-Chalmers area was named a "National Treasure" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the first such designation in Michigan. The neighborhood has new investment, and a renovation of the historic Vanity Ballroom is allegedly in the works.
Longtime customer Goodloe says he's excited about the attention the neighborhood around Marshall's is receiving.
"If you own property, you're in good shape," he says. "If you want property, you better hurry up and buy some."
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Glaeser & William R. Kerr Share Twitter LinkedIn Email Working Paper 19013 DOI 10.3386/w19013 Issue Date May 2013 This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation. While arguments exist for and against policy support of entrepreneurial clusters, our understanding of what works and how it works is quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Acknowledgements and Disclosures This paper has been prepared for the Innovation Policy and the Economy Forum, April 2013. We thank Josh Lerner, Erin Scott, and Scott Stern for helpful comments. 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Sample slice markers were added to Renoise in version 2.7. In this article, I will go into a little bit more depth about what they are, how they work, and some interesting uses you can put them to. So if you haven't yet familiarised yourself with this feature, read on.
Before starting, it helps to have a MIDI keyboard hooked up to Renoise. But if not, triggering notes from the computer keyboard will of course work as well.
What's a Slice Marker?
Here's what the slice markers look like.
At first glance, they might appear to be some sort of warp/stretch markers, but appearances deceive. Slices do not warp or time-stretch the audio in any way, they are simply trigger points within a sample.
The most obvious use for them is to chop up a beat. Both the hip hop and drum & bass genres are almost entirely built on this technique. Load up a drum loop and hit the button in the toolbar above the sample waveform display. Renoise will now try to detect the attack of each individual hit in the sample. Since there is some guesswork involved, this process is not always 100% accurate. Should that happen, you can always adjust the created slice markers manually by dragging them, adding new ones by enabling the button or delete them by double clicking (alternatively select a bunch and hit Del on your keyboard).
If you get too many or too few markers, you can try adjusting the percentage value next to the button. It controls the sensitivity of the beat detection; the higher the number, the more markers are created.
Real-time Triggering
Now to the interesting bit, triggering slices from the keyboard. Move over to the Sample Keyzones tab. You should now see something like this.
As soon as you add a slice marker in the Sample Editor, the Sample Keyzones will switch to Drum Kit mode and automatically manage the keyzone layout for the instrument. This means that each individual slice will be mapped to its own key on the keyboard. The first zone represents the full beat, while all the rest are assigned to one slice each. At this point, you're all set to create a completely different beat by some judicious hammering on your keyboard to try different combinations out.
By default, Renoise will lay the slices out in consecutive order, using both white and black keys. If you'd prefer to only use the white keys for triggering your slices, click the arrow next to the Drum Kit button in the toolbar above the keyzones display and choose "Use White Keys Only". Then click the Drum Kit (short for "Generate Drum Kit") button and the slices will be repositioned to white keys only. To change the starting key for the slices, edit the note value labelled "from".
When playing a slice on the keyboard, you'll notice that it will stop playing as soon as playback reaches the start of the next slice. If you'd rather the slice carried on playing past the next boundary for as long you hold down the key, head back to the Sample Editor and locate the button in the top toolbar. This toggles the playback behaviour between stopping at the next slice and continuous play. Which mode you will use depends a little bit on what you're trying to create. If transplanting the original loop into something at a different tempo, it helps to have single-slice triggering enabled, but if not, try and disable it. If you're lucky it might give rise to some hard-rocking syncopated funk.
Sequenced Triggering
You can of course record your rearranged beat to the pattern using the notes assigned to the various zones, but there's also another way. Renoise has always had the S sample command for triggering samples at an offset, you can read about its traditional use here. For a sliced sample however, the command works differently. Notice the number displayed in the little flag at the top of each slice marker. Use this with the S command to trigger that slice.
Note that you will need to enter the note corresponding to the very first keyzone, i.e. C-4 by default.
If you enter a note corresponding to one of the slices, the S command will then offset into that slice. It will then work just like the S normally does, but only for that particular slice. I.e. the slice will be split into 256 evenly sized chunks which you can jump to by specifying a number between 00 and FF for the S command.
Slices are Aliases
If you now open the Instrument Settings tab and choose the Sample subsection, you'll see that there's an entry in the sample list for each slice. These are not normal samples, but are actually aliases to the sections of the full sample created by the slice markers. These aliases will get updated automatically as you move slice markers around in the main sample. For that reason, you can't edit the waveform of these samples since they are only read-only windows onto the full sample residing in sample slot 00.
If you want to apply any destructive sample edits to one slice only, you can still do this by selecting that slice only in the master sample waveform. To make this easier, turn on Snap and choose Markers from the drop-down. Selections will now snap to slice boundaries, and double clicking while holding down Ctrl will automatically select a whole slice.
You can however edit all the properties of these sample aliases, creating variation by modifying the way individual slices sound. Volume, Panning, Transpose, Loop etc all apply separately to each individual slice. Try setting a loop on some of the slices, or pitching some of them down/up using the Transpose slider.
Should you wish to convert the slice aliases into real samples once you are happy with your cuts, you can do that by right-clicking in the Sample Editor, go to the Slices submenu and choose "Destructively Render Slices". This converts the sliced instrument into a regular multi-sample instrument.
As you move around in the sample list editing properties, you will notice that the sample display changes to show the waveform of only that slice. By default, triggering notes from the keyboard also causes the selected slice to change to the last one triggered. If you find that this gets in the way, there is an option to switch it off labelled "Auto-Select Played" to the left above the waveform display.
Beyond Beats
Going beyond basic beat slicing, slice markers are also useful for a lot of other things. For longer vocal or instrumental takes for example, it's often easier to split the different phrases up with markers instead of chopping the take up into individual samples. That leaves more flexibility for finetuning later. They're also perfect for more radical vocal chopping or general reconstructing effects, which those of you into the sound of Todd Edwards will probably appreciate more than others.
And why stop at vocals or beats? It's great fun to throw in snippets of full tracks, slice them up tightly and then completely reconfigure them. Load up a suitable sample, and before you run the automatic beat detection, enable looping on the original sample. This is because any properties set on the master sample before slicing will be copied over to all of the slices. If you forget this step and want to make all slices loop after you've sliced, you can also select all aliases in the sample list and enable looping in the properties to apply it to all of them in one go. This will create lots of different-length loops which more often than not give rise to interesting rhythmic/melodic effects when triggered in suitable combinations. By loading up a sample from a 70s/80s soul or rock track, looping and sequencing a few short slices, adding a kick and a hihat, you will be able to reproduce the entirety of The Field's early oeuvre in no time.
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Amazing: US Debt Decreased by More Than $60 Billion Since Trump Inauguration
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The US debt reduced by more than $60 Billion since the Trump Inauguration!
On January 20th, the day of the Trump Inauguration, the US Debt stood at $19,947 billion. On March 8th, more than a month later, the US Debt load stood at $19,879 billion. Trump has cut the US Debt burden by $68 billion and 0.3% in since his inauguration!
By comparison, under President Obama, the US Debt burden increased by more than $320 billion after his inauguration through March 8th 2009. Obama increased the US Debt by 3.1% during this time period and signed the trillion dollar ‘Stimulus’ bill which is widely considered a colossal failure and waste of US tax dollars as well. The failed ‘Stimulus’ did not kick in till later in Obama’s first year leading to Obama’s first year deficit of $1.4 trillion. Overall Obama doubled the US Debt during his Presidency and set records for highest deficits and the largest debt increase by any President ever.
One month after the Trump Inauguration US Debt was down $12 billion now it is down $68 billion.
With Trump the stock market is up, jobs are increasing, salaries are increasing and debt is down…
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Steaks! Yum! Haha, so I finally broke down and did steaks for a theme. I have nothing against steaks, I LOVE me a rib-eye steak, but I wanted to try new things for the most part on each theme, and I’ve made steaks before. Plus a good steak is really simple, all you really need is some salt and pepper.
So for this theme, I was wondering what I could do, and a chef I was talking to suggested a butter and herb, breadcrumb crusted steak. I was sold at butter.
I decided to make a twice cooked potato and some peas to go along with this. I also broiled the potato at the end with the steak, to crisp up the top.
The crust adds a whole new dimension of flavors, but still keeping the steak as the center of focus. I thought it was delicious!
Here is the topping all flattened out.
1 Tbsp + 1C butter, softened
2 Tbsp minced shallots
1/4 C thyme leaves
1/4 C chopped parsley
2 C brioche bread crumbs
3/4 C diced bone marrow (I couldn’t find any, but I would imagine this would have been even better)
1 tsp salt
sweat shallots in 1 T of butter
add thyme and parsley and mix, cool
combine with bread crumbs and rest of butter
fold in bone marrow and salt
place between 2 sheets of parchment paper and roll til 1/8 in thick
punch into shape of steak
place on top when you flip steak the first time
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To know more about global tel link, the global tel link app, the jail phone system, or how to add money for jail calls at texas department of criminal justice (tdcj), contact us with the following information: If you don’t know the offender’s tdcj number, provide date of birth, or at least age and county of conviction. (a) the department shall develop and maintain a system for the resolution of grievances by inmates housed in facilities operated by the department or under contract with the department that qualifies for certification under 42 u.s.c. [email protected] we believe in helping our customers navigate this difficult time. In order to receive calls from an inmate, the texas department of criminal justice (tdcj) requires that you register and meet the following requirements: This phone is available for inmates to make calls to arrange bail, inform family of their circumstances or to reach an attorney. Before you can receive calls from a tdcj inmate, you must first register your telephone number: Phone calls with your inmates at clements can burn a hole in your wallet if you aren’t careful. The hcso has nearly 5,100 employees and 200 volunteer reservists dedicated to ensuring the safety of more than 4.1 million residents who call harris county home. Almost every day unless there’s a security issue that prevents it. Collect call phones are available to make calls outside of the local dialing area. You must agree to the following conditions: How to register to receive texas prison inmate phone calls You can request information on someone held in the texas prison system by email. You need to complete your texas prison phone registration to receive friends and family inmate calls, as requested by the texas department of criminal justice (tdcj). Texas inmate phone system debuts: You are the registered owner of the phone that. 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The river eventually opened out into Loch Etive, a beautiful ending to a good trip. After that it was off to the Clagaig for some food before heading to Glen etive to find a camping spot for the night. As it was getting dark, John and myself managed to squeeze in a few laps of Triple Step on the Etive whilst the otheres finished pitching the tents. Tuesday morning came around too soon after the long previous day. However, after we had aroused everyone from be we decided it would be a good wake up for everyone to be thrown off Triple Steps in their boats. Normally this can be a very pushy rapid but in the low water levels it was a perfect introduction to waterfalls for the group. After this we headed to the Spean Gorge. I had never seen the section this low before but it turned out to be a fun little run. All the rapids were run except for headbanger which at these levels exposed a hideous looking siphon. The river was fun, if not a little frustrating with the rock bashing and constant stop-starting with such a large group. After a search for water we had run out of options for the Wednesday. I had never seen all the rivers this low, even on previous summer trips. We therefore decided to head to the Nevis Range and hire some bikes for the day. The weather was perfect. Clear blues skies with nice views all around. After a brief play on the various skills loops we all headed off on the Blue Witches trail. A fun day was had by all even if it did get a little competitive between the boys! Thursday we all headed up to the River Garry, another dam release guaranteeing us some water. The river was a pushy grade 3 and allowed us to really push the freshers ahead of our Alps trip. A few swims later and everyone got off the river happy as we headed to Fort William for the luxury of a hostel and night out. Friday we all awoke bleary eyed but keen to paddle. We thought we’d end the trip on a high and headed back to Glenn Etive to slide down the Allt a Chaorainn. After carrying our boats for _ and hour up the side of a mountain we reached the get in. Disaster! There was not enough water in the river! We had to then, downheartedly carry our boats all the way back down. We all wanted to get wet so we finished the trip by swimming down Triple Step on the Etive and finding some good jump spots. All in all a fun trip was had by the whole group despite poor water levels. The west of Scotland is an area I love and I still consider it to be the most beautiful place in the world to paddle. 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I never thought I’d be writing book reviews, more so a guide to book reviewing. But thanks to a good man I know through Twitter and who shares the same liking for blogging and books that I do, I am now going to lay down a ten seven step guide to the art of review writing.
Disclaimer: This is meant for the simpler folks who don’t review books professionally and who have just started or want to start book reviewing.
1) It is not rocket science: All you have to do is describe what you thought of the book. Did you like it, love it, hate it? What did you like and why you liked it? Since giving unsolicited opinions is such a great pastime for most of us, one would think reviewing books should be a cake-walk, right? Well, it’s not that easy but it’s not that difficult either. You just have to try and be articulate and let your readers/friends know what you thought of the book.
2) Introductions please: It’s always good to start with a brief synopsis of the book. Jumping right into the details of the heroine’s sorrow at losing her grandmother might leave the readers a bit confused. Lay the groundwork first by telling people what you are going to review or talk about. Let them get a feel for the book before they get to your opinions of it. You can either take the synopsis from the cover or give your own version. A well framed description of the book can create a good deal of interest amongst your readers to continue through your review. Drawing a few character sketches can also help you to progress better.
3) Keep the butler out of it: Everyone hates spoilers, but thanks to human nature and its workings, we cannot keep from yelling about the butler who killed the cheating husband's mistress. Try to work your way through the review without letting on the secrets, the tricks that keep the reader turning the pages. This doesn’t just apply to whodunits and mystery thrillers but any and every book. Try and evaluate as to which pieces can be given away and which should be kept to ensure that the reader gets his money’s worth from the book.
4) Let’s not forget the real hero: The author. The man/woman behind the scenes. I think this is where the true review lies- what you think of what and how the author wrote. If you’ve read many books by the same author you’d be more aware of his tools and devices in narration, of his style and his so-called USP. It can make for good reading if you can shed some light on it and let the readers know how the author bends words to move the story ahead, to bring elements of surprise or create something unheard and unseen before. But here you too, you must know to exercise some restraint, keep it relevant and not go overboard with superlatives. You can say XYZ is the best, but it would be nice to know why you think so.
5) Every read is an experience: With every book you pick up to read, you start an experience that will be unique to that book and you. There are books that make you laugh, shed tears, wonder, reminisce or make the cogs in your head run at double speed. Then there are those that will leave you frustrated, angry, sleepy, give you a déjà vu feeling and so on. Try to recollect that experience and consider it when you write a review. Being objective in your review vis-à-vis the content, plot, and writing style is good, but a review can hardly ever be non-personal. I’ve seen that my liking for a book is influenced a lot by the time or frame of mind I was in when I read it. Try to draw the best out of that experience and share it through your review.
6) Don’t get swayed by the lynch-mob: This is your review, your personal account of your experience with the book. Just because the book lies on the list of top 100 books of the century doesn’t mean you should like it or lie about liking it. Also, because everyone is trashing the book doesn’t mean you have to jump into the bandwagon. Since you are not responsible for the sales of the book, neither do you stand to lose or gain anything by how the book is received, why not be honest with it? There’s a difference between a recommendation and plain pimping, know where to draw the lines. Your readers can see through a dishonest review.
7) Mind your language: Last but not the least, please respect the language in which you’ve read the book and are writing the review. You are not writing a review using a tweet or SMS, so drop the chat-SMS-tweet lingo. Please use healthy and wholesome words, not their chopped off vowel-less versions. You will not be penalized for using up many words or characters. Nothing is more off-putting than seeing chat/SMS jibber jabber like lol, cuz, u, luv, etc. in a review. And grammar, yes grammar. You want your reviews to be read and considered, letting your readers see that you have basic grammar knowledge will help the process. Also, there’s spell-check if you’ve not noticed. As I said in the first point, it is not rocket science. But if you want to write a good review, a review that serves its purpose of helping a reader decide about a book or even just make for an interesting read in itself, you have to know how to communicate.
I think this should do for now. I hope this helps and you start spewing seven reviews a week. If it doesn’t, well, go read some other articles with 20 steps.
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If the first courtroom hearing in Tom Brady’s litigation with the NFL is any indication of where the proceedings are headed, don’t expect a settlement any time soon. The two sides seem prepared for a legal battle that could last into September or even beyond. While most of Wednesday’s proceedings occurred in private, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman allowed media—including court reporter Stephen Brown and his outstanding live tweeting—to hear some of the discussion between the judge and NFL attorney Daniel Nash and NFLPA attorney Jeffrey Kessler through a closed-circuit feed.
Here are my five legal takeaways:
1. Judge Berman seemed very skeptical of the NFL’s core allegation that Brady participated in an alleged ball deflation scheme.
The legal question in Brady’s case is not whether Brady “did it.” It’s whether the NFL lawfully applied Article 46 of the collective bargaining agreement in investigating and punishing Brady. Yet on Wednesday Judge Berman appeared unexpectedly interested in whether, in fact, Brady “did it.”
Most tellingly, Judge Berman pressed Nash, the NFL’s attorney, for reference to actual evidence that Brady participated in a ball deflation scheme. Judge Berman also signaled skepticism in the NFL’s factual case by highlighting that Brady played better with over-inflated footballs than with under-inflated ones. In response to this line of questioning, Nash conceded that no direct evidence of Brady’s involvement in a ball deflation scheme or conspiracy exists. He further granted that the NFL possesses no texts or other forms of evidence that directly prove Brady’s involvement. Nash, however, insisted that the absence of direct evidence does not clear Brady nor does it mean that the league wrongfully applied the collective bargaining agreement.
• Manning: Brady apologized for email remarks revealed during Deflategate
Brady and the NFLPA hope that Judge Berman finds the NFL’s case against Brady so devoid of evidence that the judge can’t bring himself to conclude that the NFL lawfully punished him. While there is always risk in predicting how a judge will rule based on a judge’s line of questioning, Judge Berman’s noticeable skepticism of the NFL’s alleged facts is clearly an encouraging sign for the Brady camp. Attorney Alan Milstein, who has litigated against the NFL and tried cases before Judge Berman, told SI.com Wednesday night: “After what we heard today, I think Judge Berman will absolutely vacate Brady's suspension.”
2. Jeffrey Kessler admitted that one version of Deflategate could have occurred.
It’s worth remembering that Kessler’s role is not to disprove the NFL’s allegation that the New England Patriots orchestrated a scheme to use slightly-underinflated footballs in the 2015 AFC Championship Game. Kessler’s job is to disprove that Brady had any involvement with a scheme.
This dynamic was apparent when Kessler conceded the possibility of Patriots equipment assistants Jim McNally and John Jastremski deflating footballs in hopes of helping Brady. Recall that in his NFL appeal testimony, Brady noted that he prefers that footballs be on the lower end of the NFL’s allowable scale of 12.5 to 13.5 PSI. Kessler—undoubtedly with his clients, the NFLPA and Brady, in mind—stressed that even if McNally and Jastremski undertook a ball deflation scheme, they would not have done so under Brady’s direction. Further, Kessler stressed, no evidence shows any involvement by Brady. Reading between the lines, Kessler seemed to allow for the possibility that McNally and Jastremski might have overzealously tried to implement Brady’s instruction that the footballs be closer to 12.5 than 13.5 PSI. If that scenario took place, Brady would not be at fault. But McNally and Jastremski would be.
By conceding that a ball deflation scheme might have occurred, Kessler wants Judge Berman to focus not on the broader controversy of Deflategate but on the absence of evidence linking Brady to it. As a result, do not expect Kessler to expend much time highlighting the multiple scientific reports that contend that if the Patriots’ footballs were slightly under-inflated in the AFC Championship Game, it was due to Ideal Gas Law and atmospheric conditions rather than to subterfuge and deception. Kessler’s job is not to help out the Patriots. It is to ensure that Brady prevails in court.
3. Daniel Nash reminded Judge Berman that he should defer to Goodell.
It may seem odd to hear an attorney tell a judge, in so many words, that the judge must accept the attorney’s position, but NFL attorney Nash adopted such an approach today. Nash reiterated to Judge Berman the NFL’s core legal argument that under federal law, courts are expected to accord high deference to arbitrators. There is no debate that Goodell was acting in the capacity of an arbitrator when he upheld Brady’s four-game suspension.
Nash also wants Judge Berman to recognize the power of Article 46. It grants Goodell ultimate authority to conclude what constitutes “conduct detrimental to the integrity of, or public confidence in, the game of professional football,” whether such conduct warrants a punishment and, if so, whether the punishment should be a fine or suspension. In other words, even if Judge Berman concludes that Brady should have only been fined, Goodell, according to Nash, had the legal right to suspend him.
Nash raised these arguments after likely sensing Judge Berman’s skepticism about the NFL’s facts. Judge Berman may have also given Nash reason to worry when he questioned—as many have—what the Wells Report meant by Brady being “generally aware” of a ball deflation scheme. From Nash’s perspective, however, these worries are irrelevant. Goodell, as Nash asserted, was granted almost unlimited authority by the NFLPA to exercise judgment in player conduct matters. Nash even highlighted Goodell suspending Ray Rice as an example of his authority (even though Rice’s suspension was later thrown out by former U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones on grounds Rice had been double punished).
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In short, Nash wants Judge Berman to focus not on what may be a weak case against Brady, but on the legal right of the NFL to punish Brady even in a weak case.
4. NFL might regret its preemptive lawsuit in New York.
Both the NFLPA and NFL clearly engaged in “forum shopping” when they sought federal court intervention on Goodell upholding Brady’s four-game suspension. The NFLPA filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota in hopes that the case would be assigned to U.S. District Judge David Doty. Judge Doty is considered player-friendly and recently ruled against the NFL in the Adrian Peterson case. Like a smart defensive coordinator, the NFL anticipated the NFLPA’s move by filing a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York before the NFLPA could file in Minnesota. By filing first in New York, the NFL made it much more likely the litigation would be heard in New York rather than Minnesota.
• Transcript shows Brady denied ever deflating footballs
Initially, the NFL’s legal strategy seemed astute and one step ahead of the NFLPA. But as the litigation has played out, the NFL’s first filing may have backfired. First, Judge Doty was not assigned the case. Instead it was assigned to U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle. Second, early indications suggest that Judge Berman is far from an ideal judge for the NFL. Last week Judge Berman ordered the release of Brady’s transcript in spite of the NFL’s request that it be kept confidential, and today he expressed significant doubt in the factual narrative offered by the league.
5. Jeffrey Kessler may have opened the door for a settlement—and the NFL might be wise to walk through it.
As I wrote in an SI.com article published on Tuesday, both Brady and the NFL have many reasons not to settle. Judge Berman, however, seems adamant that the two sides find common ground. The parties seem to understand the message. In response to Judge Berman’s implicit critique of Brady not sharing all electronic evidence with attorney Ted Wells, Kessler acknowledged that Brady could have acted differently. Keep in mind, Kessler is not known for making acknowledgments that raise questions about his clients. Kessler’s willingness to do so today was likely with at least two strategic goals in mind.
For one, Kessler’s concession makes him appear reasonable, which likely plays well with Judge Berman. The judge has repeatedly stressed that both parties have an obligation to engage in good faith settlement talks, and good faith implies both sides act reasonably in making demands.
Second, Kessler may be signaling to the NFL that if the league offers a settlement where Brady would receive a reduced punishment, Brady might be willing to admit that he could have been more cooperative. This admission would be far different from Brady accepting the conclusions of the Wells Report. Brady, who testified under oath that those conclusions were wrong, would risk potential perjury criminal charges if he now admits that Wells was correct. An admission by Brady that he “could have been more cooperative,” in contrast, would not carry any legal risk. Such an admission would also be fairly insignificant when compared to an admission of cheating.
Nash and the NFL legal team are likely also thinking about ways to settle with Brady. With that in mind, Judge Berman’s focus on the absence of direct evidence implicating Brady likely came as both a surprise and disappointment to the NFL. The NFL believes that if Judge Berman focuses on process, the league should win the case. Whether that assertion is true is debatable—the NFLPA has offered a number of persuasive arguments that the NFL’s application of the CBA to Brady was flawed—but clearly the NFL is on stronger legal footing if Judge Berman focuses on process rather than facts. For that reason, Judge Berman asking multiple questions to Nash about the NFL’s evidence linking Brady to an alleged ball deflation scheme was not a favorable development for the league. While it’s possible that Judge Berman could rule for the NFL even if he doesn’t believe Brady partook in an alleged ball deflation scheme, he might reluctant to do so.
Along those lines, the worst-case scenario for the NFL would be to lose to Brady. The league would lose its most significant legal challenge while under the leadership of Roger Goodell, and other players would have greater incentive to sue whenever they are suspended. While we don’t know the terms of the NFL’s best settlement offer to Brady to date, those terms obviously haven’t convinced Brady to say “yes.” If the league is now more concerned about losing to Brady, it stands to reason the league might offer Brady better terms.
Michael McCann is a Massachusetts attorney and the founding director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. In the fall 2015 semester, he will teach an undergraduate course at UNH titled “Deflategate.” McCann is also the distinguished visiting Hall of Fame Professor of Law at Mississippi College School of Law.
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There is an unhealthy public sentiment, I think, fueled by a few firebrands that is resulting in a wholesale rejection of experimentation and ambition. In Germany in 1932 there was a wild proposal for a peaceful, broader union for a disjointed continent reeling from the horrors of the Great War that captivated the public in ways that no national party or platform could, unfortunately humanist and engineer Herman Sörgel's grandiose plans were overcome by other events. Perhaps public distrust of demagogues would have served the world better in some instances.
Sörgel's movement was based on the prescient warning that governments must keep pace with technological developments or else risk becoming merely an instrument or a nuisance for innovators. The most significant change that the native of Regensburg on the Danube had experienced personally was that the sluices and dams along German waterways had successfully harnessed the rivers for commercial use and looking toward the example of the nautical empire of Venice and other port cities, Sörgel proposed no less than damming the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar to the Dardanelles in the Black Sea in order to reclaim fertile and productive lands (Neuland) from the Mediterranean basin and selectively flood the Sahara Desert, making the African continent more self-supporting, in his view, and undoing geology and reuniting the land-masses as Atlantropa plus getting a surplus of hydro-electric power in the bargain. I am not sure if this project was feasible, but he went as far as deploying a security detail to Gibraltar to stave off attempts of sabotage by jealous Anglo-Saxons should the building ever get underway. Projects like the Aswan High Dam and enormous wind parks or even the monumental engineering effort to save Venice itself from flooding were perhaps less lofty but probably also neither assailable without Sörgel's vision. The project failed and the regime that came into power prevented his further work, although the engineer contributed a great deal to the electrification of Germany and expanding the network of river traffic. There is an institute dedicated to his study and publications in Bad Homburg, not so far away, that I plan to visit. | positive |
Desperate wannabe homeowners, meet Megan Young.
Unlike many of her peers, she believes the answer to expensive house prices is not to make compromises on what and where to buy. This 32-year-old IT consultant in Toronto is a committed renter.
Ms. Young lives in Toronto's lively Annex neighbourhood in a two-level, two-bedroom apartment in a house that costs $1,830 a month. "It's exactly what I want," she said. "I love walking along the tree-lined streets, I love my massive deck, I'm a 10-minute walk from four subway stations."
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Personal finance orthodoxy says that renting is throwing your money away and that buying means building equity in an investment that will rise in value over time. This is the weakest of oversimplifications, but let's say you believe it. How can you reconcile the financial benefits of ownership with the fact that housing is so overheated in some spots that the chief executive officers of two banks last week called for the government to cool things down?
On Saturday, we ran stories about how millennials are responding to high urban house prices by moving to the suburbs. Click here and here to read them. Ms. Young lives in a downtown neighbourhood she couldn't afford to buy in, with money left over for travel, checking out Toronto's restaurant scene and hobbies such as scuba diving.
Travel's big with her. Her goal is to save $2,400 a year for this purpose and then top up her savings as required for specific trips. She has recently spent time in New York and London, and is planning something bigger over the next year. "I'm looking at doing either a scuba diving trip or a small group trip to an offbeat destination – parts of Eastern Europe or South America, Northern Africa. Travel's a very important part of who I am in my life. I'm not willing to compromise that for a [house]."
Renting allows Ms. Young to afford other things besides the classic millennial lifestyle. Even while pounding down her student loan, she's saving and investing in both a tax-free savings account and a registered retirement savings plan. She'll have the debt paid in full in November and plans to substantially increase her retirement savings.
The mobility that comes from renting has been a career booster for Ms. Young. She's lived in Ottawa, Calgary and Toronto, and moving was never complicated by having to sell a house.
While working in Calgary several years ago, she found the rental market to be unfriendly to tenants and considered advice from a colleague to buy a home. "I ran the math and decided I couldn't imagine extending myself like that [financially]," she said. "Also, I would have been stuck in Calgary. I would have been committed to the city if I'd done that."
An important aspect of Gen Y personal finance is uncertainty – plans can quickly change as a result of events such as getting married or having kids. Let's call Ms. Young a near- to medium-term renter, at least. Buying is something she plans to look at when she's met one these two financial goals – having $250,000 in retirement savings or having an annual income of $250,000.
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Such ambitious plans. Might she not stumble along the way? Ms. Young points out that, as a renter, she has the advantage of having predictable living costs every month. There are no homeowner emergencies to drain her cash.
One of the drivers of millennial home buying right now is the fear of missing out. There's a sense, and it's quite justified, that current price trends in some cities will make ownership impossible in the future. Ms. Young says she's not worried about missing out, in part because she thinks housing prices could fall at some point. But she's also a contented renter who is in no rush to take on the costs and responsibilities of ownership.
"I'm not staying up at night worrying that I'm missing out on buying a house," she said. "There are people in New York City – and Toronto seems eager to compare itself to New York, I notice – who rent, and they rent there happily for their entire life."
Desperate Gen Y home buyers, consider the rental lifestyle before you settle for that tiny condo or the house in the distant suburbs. Renting's less of a compromise than you might think.
This story is part of our enhanced Generation Y coverage, designed to help millennials navigate their finances. This tool can help you decide where you can afford to rent while this one can help you figure out if you can afford to move out. Follow the discussion on social media by looking for #genYmoney. You can also join The Globe and Mail's Gen Y Money community on Facebook. | positive |
The NBA season is two-thirds over, but for Jeremy Lin it might just as well be starting. With just 27 games left on the Nets’ schedule, and Lin finally making his return Friday in Denver, the team and its oft-injured floor general are hoping to win as many as possible.
“I’m excited to see Jeremy back and trying to get some momentum going into next season with our lineups and see who plays well with whom and who plays well with Jeremy at quarterback, your point guard,” coach Kenny Atkinson said. “It’s important.”
“Win as many as you can. We’ve only won nine games, and that hurts everybody in the organization,’’ Lin said. “At this point I could really care less about a lot of other stuff, other than this team needs a win. We need to feel what it means to win. We need to build a winning culture, and my only goal is to get as many wins as we can.”
Victories have been a foreign concept, with the Nets mired in the NBA cellar at 9-47 and stuck in a league-worst 14-game losing skid. Much of that is due to Lin missing 44 games, including the last 26.
But Lin spent much of the All-Star break in California, working out with shooting coach Doc Scheppler and a Nets team employee. Finally set to return, Lin and the Nets are hoping Friday serves as a reset — albeit a rusty one.
“You think you’re going to be able to do that move, move at that speed, jump that height, and it’s just unrealistic being out eight weeks,” Lin said. “So right now it’s just trying to get my body back to where it was before and then I’ll be able to do more of the stuff I want to do. There’s really no way other than to just go through it. It doesn’t matter how much rehab I do; I’m going to have cobwebs.”
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“I have to go in there and take those takeoffs where it’s like, ‘Ugh, well I can’t jump like that yet.’ Your body has to go through that, and then adjust, and within a few games the next time I jump it’ll feel normal again. I just need to go through it. There’ll be frustrating times, I know, times I expect to be able to get by somebody or I know I can, but then I can’t. That’s part of it.”
Part of it may be a minutes restriction, though the performance team hasn’t yet determined that.
Nevertheless, Atkinson admitted a preference for starting his floor general, restrictions or not, to see him play with Brook Lopez.
“My gut, to be honest, I’d like to start him. But we’re going to get all the information and then make the decision,’’ said Atkinson. “It’s part of the fresh start, seeing him with Brook. If we can do that, that’d be ideal.”
“Above that, is Jeremy’s health and how that works in with his minutes; but my gut is even if the minutes are a little [restricted] we can probably work it where he can get with that first unit and get with Brook. We need to feel that out obviously.”
Atkinson added Lin’s return could lead to two-point guard lineups, with Lin on the floor alongside either Spencer Dinwiddie (6-foot-6) or Isaiah Whitehead (6-4). | positive |
Dominic Treadwell-Collins, Executive Producer, announced earlier this year that he was creating a transgender character and he was determined to have a transgender actor in the role. Following that announcement, a number of transgender actors put themselves forward for the role and, as well as working alongside groups within the transgender community, EastEnders undertook workshops to find an actor. As soon as they found Riley, the character of Kyle was developed and created.
EastEnders is Riley’s first television role. Riley’s first appearance as Kyle will be on screen this month (October 2015) but little will be known about this mysterious character for quite some time. Following his brief appearance, Riley will return permanently at the end of the year.
Speaking of joining EastEnders, Riley said “I am extremely excited to be joining EastEnders. I can honestly say that I have now fulfilled my two biggest dreams – to be living my life as a man and to be an actor. I cannot wait to really get stuck in with filming and I look forward to seeing what is in store for my character.”
Dominic Treadwell- Collins, Executive Producer adds “From Mark Fowler’s HIV to Colin and Barry’s first gay kiss, EastEnders has always led the way in changing audience’s perceptions about ‘difference’ – and ultimately making the world a better place. It has been my intention for a long time to cast a trans actor playing a trans role – and we have been so careful to ensure that we cast the right actor for the part. I’ve sat in many acting workshops over the years with our Casting Executive Julia Crampsie and her team – but never have we been so moved by the incredible life stories and wealth of talent that we experienced over our several weeks of workshops with transgender actors. The people we met showed us a strength and bravery that took our breath away – and to go through as much as they have while maintaining humour and a positive view on the world is testament to what special people we met.
In Riley, we have found not just a talented actor but also an inspirational young man whose warmth immediately comes through the screen. And this isn’t about tokenism. Alex Lamb and his story team have worked with Riley to create an EastEnders character who is fresh and relatable – but also comes with his own stock of secrets and is going to be thrown right into one of our biggest stories for the end of the year. I hope that the audience will take Riley and his character to their hearts as quickly as everyone here at EastEnders has done.” | positive |
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I didn’t think I’d actually see someone try the thought experiment mentioned in this post, but by golly, someone has. That was a discussion of the attempts to simulate the workings of an actual brain, neuron connectivity and all, and the article I quoted went into great detail about just how far we are from being able to do that. (Anyone at the moment who tells you different is either stretching the truth, is deeply misinformed, or is both at the same time, which is not an unlikely combination).
The article said along that the way: “As an overly simplistic comparison, imagine taking statistics on the connectivity of transistors in a Pentium chip and then trying to make your own chip based on those statistics. There’s just no way it’s gonna work.” My own comment was that “Your chances of success with that statistical approach to a Pentium chip are not good at all, but they’re a lot better than the chances of it working on brain tissue.” (Many readers will be immediately reminded of the famous “Can A Biologist Fix a Radio” paper, and that linked post above will send you to several discussions of it on this site).
What I can report now, courtesy of Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution, is that people have now tried to reverse-engineer the old 6502 chip in such fashion. First the engineers got a crack at it: the Visual 6502 project photographed the layout of the chip at high resolution and tried to model it from just that data. Since they know what the chip is made out of (one transistor after another!) and since its architecture is not all that complex (and we know a lot about computer chip architecture), they were able to recreate the functions of the chip from their connectivity models. That’s actually pretty impressive – I’m not sure how it would work on a more modern chip, but I’m surprised that it worked at all.
But then the biologists tried it out. This paper details an attempt to study the 6502 chip using the tools we have available to study nematode brains and the like, and it’s titled “Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Mcroprocessor”. I’ll let the abstract speak for itself:
There is a popular belief in neuroscience that we are primarily data limited, that producing large, multimodal, and complex datasets will, enabled by data analysis algorithms, lead to fundamental insights into the way the brain processes information. Microprocessors are among those artificial information processing systems that are both complex and that we understand at all levels, from the overall logical flow, via logical gates, to the dynamics of transistors. Here we take a simulated classical microprocessor as a model organism, and use our ability to perform arbitrary experiments on it to see if popular data analysis methods from neuroscience can elucidate the way it processes information. We show that the approaches reveal interesting structure in the data but do not meaningfully describe the hierarchy of information processing in the processor. This suggests that current approaches in neuroscience may fall short of producing meaningful models of the brain.
Even unlimited data would not help, they say, with the tools and techniques we’re using. You can get as much “behavioral” and phenotypic data as you want from a 6502 chip, but it doesn’t help. Trying to learn what’s going on from the equivalent of brain lesions was, for example, not too informative. They used Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, and Pitfall as behaviors of the chip and tried to learn backwards from those:
Lesions studies allow us to study the causal effect of removing a part of the system. We thus chose a number of transistors and asked if they are necessary for each of the behaviors of the processor (figure 4. In other words, we asked if removed each transistor, if the processor would then still boot the game. Indeed, we found a subset of transistors that makes one of the behaviors (games) impossible. We might thus conclude they are uniquely responsible for the game – perhaps there is a Donkey Kong transistor or a Space Invaders transistor. Even if we can lesion each individual transistor, we do not get much closer to an understanding of how the processor really works. This finding of course is grossly misleading. The transistors are not specific to any one behavior or game but rather implement simple functions, like full adders. The finding that some of them are important while others are not for a given game is only indirectly indicative of the transistor’s role and is unlikely to generalize to other games. Lazebnik [9] made similar observations about this approach in molecular biology, suggesting biologists would obtain a large number of identical radios and shoot them with metal particles at short range, attempting to identify which damaged components gave rise to which broken phenotype.
Other tools that map closely to those of neuroscience were similarly ineffective – they generated large amounts of data, as large as you want, but still could not recapitulate what was going on in any useful sense. Now, as the authors freely admit, microprocessors are very different from brains. But the differences are mostly that brains are far, far more complicated – so if the tools we’re using on brains can’t even tell us much about a 1980s microprocessor (a very simple system by brain standards), then what can they tell us about their actual field of study? The authors suggest that as newer methods are developed, they should be benchmarked to what they could tell us about the 6502 processor as a way of seeing if we’re making any real progress.
So Lazebnik’s radio-fixing paper is indeed having an influence. His criticism of biological techniques and biological thinking is (to me) its strongest part – he goes on to say that there are a number of more productive techniques that biologists have been giving short shrift to, but that’s always where he’s lost me. I don’t think the situation is even that good when it comes to neuroscience, for example: where are these better techniques? Ray Kurzweil, to pick one bold futurist, has us by 2019 with a much (much!) better understanding of the brain than we currently have. Things are really going to have to pick up, let me tell you. | positive |
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Unintended Consequences of Central Banks Money Printing, Bubbles in Emerging Markets
The central banks of the developed world are printing money and are engaged in a very-low-interest-rate regime. What does that mean for emerging markets? It is more than just a dilemma, it is a tri-lemma – they have problems not just coming and going but also sitting still! I am in Zurich tonight after a long day, with a 4:30 AM wake-up call to get back home, but deadlines are deadlines. So, to make this one easier on me as well as hopefully instructive for you, you will get chapter 15 of my new book, Endgame, in which coauthor Jonathan Tepper and I speculate about the future of emerging markets in general and investments in them in particular. We once again are on the New York Times best-seller list this week, by the way (thanks to many of you).
Loose Monetary Policies and Emerging Markets
The reviews keep coming in. I have never met Anthony Harrington, but he is clearly a keen and astute analyst, since he has called this book a must-read. Seriously, he homes in on one aspect that I think is critical; and that is the issue of trade deficits and fiscal deficits and how they affect each other. You can read his work at http://www.qfinance.com/blogs/anthony-harrington/2011/03/23/mauldins-end-game-teaches-politicians-the-basics-but-are-they-listening-austerity-measures.And this week, if you have not yet bought your copy, let me commend you to my friends at Laissez Faire Books. I have been buying books from them for nearly 30 years. They are the best source for Austrian economics and libertarian books, along with the usual offering of investment books current in the market. They have matched the Amazon price for Endgame; but if you are interested, move around their website and pick up a few other things along with my book. http://www.lfb.org/product_info.php?products_id=1014&PromoCode=L401M301And now, let’s look at emerging markets.So far we have focused on the United States and other mature, developed economies that have far too much debt. With Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland at close to zero percent interest rates, it seemed like a good idea to stimulate the economy. However, emerging markets that maintain pegged currencies or that shadow the dollar are essentially reduced to importing excessively loose monetary policies. Reserve growth across many emerging countries has been very strong over the last year. Emerging Asian countries account for almost 50 percent of global foreign exchange reserves. Huge Asian reserve growth since early last year is a result of mimicking loose monetary policies in the developed world to keep their currencies competitive. China has accumulated the most reserves of any emerging market country. This is directly related to its currency peg and its need to recycle the dollars it gets from its exports.A result of Asian emerging markets’ importing loose monetary policy from developed markets is that domestic inflation rates are rising quickly, as policy rates remain too accommodative. Asian emerging market countries are facing a trilemma: They can fix any two of a pegged exchange rate, free flows of capital, or independence in monetary policy, but not all three. The end result is likely to be higher policy rates and currency appreciation. (See Figure 15.1.)
Bubbles in Emerging Markets
Many emerging markets will double or triple over the next few years. Emerging markets are extremely small as a percentage of total global market capitalization. When investors diversify away from developed markets, it will be like putting a fire hose through a straw. Liquidity from developed markets will overwhelm emerging markets. Part of this is from investors in the developed world wanting to go where the growth is, but part of it is a result of quantitative easing all over the world, especially in the United States. That is why you see emerging markets like Brazil taxing inbound capital flows in an effort to keep their own economies from developing a bubble. (See Figure 15.2.)
There are good reasons why the United States and the United Kingdom are among the highest capitalizations. In part, this is because a higher percentage of companies are publicly traded in the United States and the United Kingdom, whereas in other countries, many more are privately held, family-owned, or indeed government-run. Individually, almost all emerging markets are less than 0.5 percent of total world capitalization, as Figure 15.3 shows.
To further emphasize the small size of some emerging equity markets and their potential to grow, in Figure 15.4 we have compared the total market caps of some of these markets alongside the market caps of some well-known blue chip stocks (in millions of $).
Consider the following examples: Microsoft has a bigger market cap than all of Indonesia, General Electric and Wells Fargo have market caps almost double that of all of the Philippines, Monsanto and Time Warner have bigger market caps than all of Vietnam and Pakistan, and GAP Inc’s market cap is almost double that of Sri Lanka’s.
In the reflation trade, a few characteristics drive outperformance in emerging markets:
• Generous liquidity, that is, rapid monetary expansion
• Positive demographics
• Declining real interest rates
• Underleveraged consumer
• Banking sector with low loans-to-GDP ratio
The main countries that satisfy these requirements are Turkey, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, and Brazil.
Local conditions in some emerging market countries will act as a fire starter to excessive liquidity from abroad. In countries like Indonesia, Brazil, and Turkey, due to solid economies, increasing productivity, and thus falling inflation, they are transitioning to lower interest-rate regimes. This often has the consequence of detracting investors from the falling returns on cash and debt products and pulling them toward higher-yielding equities.
Further, large populations and still relatively low levels of GDP per capita give some idea of the scope for expansion in countries like China, India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka if the prosperity of more developed economies, such as Taiwan and the Czech Republic, is anything to go by.
In this scenario, liquidity is likely to remain well above the norm for some time, and China will be little different from the other emerging markets:
Small markets + Ample liquidity + Investor risk appetite
+ Historically low interest rates = Bubblelike conditions
Chinese equity, property, and other asset markets will benefit hugely. China differs from many other emerging markets because it has tight capital controls that keep a lid on overseas speculation. If these controls were relaxed, however, and the currency allowed to freely fluctuate, then all bets are off as to the effect on Chinese markets. This would be no different from Japan in the 1980s, when the capital accounts were opened up and the yen was allowed to float. Indeed, many if not all of the bubbles that have occurred since the Dutch Tulip Mania in the seventeenth century have been precipitated by a combination of financial liberalization and innovation.
There is always a bull market somewhere. If you go back to the 1970s in terms of loose monetary policies and excessive government debt, does that mean that we’ll see a repeat of a decade in the doldrums for U.S. and European stock markets? Possibly, but it should not matter to a global macro investor. Again, there are always bull markets somewhere.
Figure 15.5 shows that from 1970 to 1985, if you had invested $1 in the United States, you would have $2 by 1985. If you had invested in Japan, you would have made $6 over the same period, and if you had invested in Hong Kong, you would have made more than $8. Emerging markets will be the big winners of the loose monetary policies around the world. Just as the Fed’s loose monetary policy after the Internet bubble burst created the housing bubble, the Fed’s money printing will inflate emerging markets.
The surplus liquidity isn’t likely to ignite an inflationary boom in the U.S. economy if consumers refuse to borrow and spend. But that liquidity has to go somewhere, and emerging markets look like the most likely destination. Emerging markets and commodities took the first hits in the credit implosion because they were viewed as warrants (longterm call options) on global growth.
As history shows, the leading sector of the previous bull market typically is not the leader of a new bull market. The emerging markets look like they are the new global leaders. Emerging economies account for 43.7 percent of global output and, according to the IMF, will account for 70 percent of the world’s growth going forward, yet they represent only 10.9 percent of global stock market capitalization. China by itself makes up 15 percent of the global economy but less than 2 percent of market cap, while the United States provides 21 percent of output but 43.4 percent of market cap.
Most investors weight the American and European markets too heavily. This is partly due to home bias in investing, but it is really more like a drunk searching for his keys under the lamppost. He searches there not because he is likely to find his keys but because there is light. In the same way, most investors in emerging markets do not look for the right data and merely decide to either take risk and invest or reduce risk and withdraw funds. Their investments into emerging markets are unsystematic.
Most investors buy or sell emerging markets indiscriminately based on their willingness to take on further risk or shed risk. Figure 15.6 shows the extremely high correlation between the VIX Index, global equity volatility, and the U.S. dollar versus South African rand exchange rate (USDZAR). You can’t make up charts like this.
During the emerging markets rally in 2006 and 2007, almost all markets traded in line with the others. Figure 15.7 shows that for much of 2006, the Indian Sensex and the Mexican Bolsa Index had a 96 percent correlation, even though their economies could not have been more different. (File under the “investors are lemmings” category.)
Emerging markets could easily be the next bubble. However, they don’t even need to be the next bubble or the next big thing for investors to profit from them. As recessions ended in the United States and Europe in 1992 and 2003 and central banks kept liquidity flowing freely, almost all emerging markets rallied indiscriminately.
Loose liquidity and undervalued emerging market currencies are leading toward excess foreign exchange reserve accumulation and loose credit conditions. Underleveraged emerging markets with higher velocity will continue to benefit from the accommodative monetary policies of a developed world beset with high debt and low monetary velocity. Continued reserve accumulation can lead to inflationary pressure, overinvestment, complications in the management of monetary policy, misallocation of domestic banks’ lending, and asset bubbles.
Difficult Choices
We have written about the difficult choices developed countries will face as they deal with the hangover from too much debt. Emerging market countries face the flip side of the same problem. They are, for the most part, underleveraged and have higher monetary velocity, yet they are importing the loose money policies from the United States and Europe.
What can emerging markets do to try to reduce inflows of hot money and prevent bubbles? There are a number of tools available to policy makers of liquidity-receiving economies in response to excess global liquidity and large capital inflows. As the IMF has pointed out, emerging markets can allow a more flexible exchange rate policy. They can accumulate reserves (using sterilized or unsterilized intervention as appropriate). They can reduce interest rates if the inflation outlook permits, and they can tighten fiscal policy when the overall macroeconomic policy stance is too loose. All of these involve difficult tradeoffs where the costs and benefits are not obvious.
The bottom line is that governments around the world need to be alert and make difficult choices to deal with a world excess liquidity. From an investor’s point of view, we would enjoy the current ride in emerging markets but recognize that they are high beta to the U.S. economy and stock markets. The next time the United States goes into recession—and there will be a next time—it is likely that emerging markets will suffer significant losses. So, emerging markets are a trade and not a long-term investment.
That being said, at the bottom of the next U.S. recession, we think emerging market countries could see their economies and stock markets finally decouple from the United States, and at that point, they could become the trade of the decade. We suggest that investors use the time to find specific stocks and not just country ETFs, or find someone who can do that work for you. Fortunes can be made if you do your homework.
Snowbird, New York, Portland, and La Jolla
Let me remind you that my conference in La Jolla is filling up and the registration deadline is looming. As I said last week, at my Strategic Investment Conference, the first two questions that each speaker will get at the end of their presentation will be, first, “What will happen when QE2 goes away?” and second, “Under what conditions will the Fed launch QE3?”
I will pose them to Martin Barnes, Marc Faber, Louis-Vincent Gave, Paul McCulley, David Rosenberg, and Gary Shilling – and John Paulson has agreed to speak as well! They will be joined by Neil Howe (The Fourth Turning, and demographics guru) and George Friedman of Stratfor, as well as your humble analyst and Altegris partner Jon Sundt. I mean, really, is there a conference anywhere this year that has a line-up that powerful?
The conference is April 28-30 in La Jolla. It is filling up fast. You can register at https://hedge-fund-conference.com/2011/invitation.aspx?ref=mauldin. Sadly, it is for accredited investors only, but I will report back to you the answers from the speakers to those questions.
As noted at the outset, I am in Zurich tonight. The weather in Europe this week has been fantastic, some of the best I have ever had. London, Malta, Milan, Zug, Zurich – just brilliant. I had dinner outside with Massimo Lattman on Lake Zurich tonight. A very successful entrepreneur and manager, he had such great stories and insights to share, on a gorgeous night. You live for moments like that.
Saturday I am off to Snowbird, Utah, for my partner at SMG Steve Blumenthal’s 50th birthday party, then on to New York on Sunday for meetings and media to help promote the book. I will detail the schedule next week.
I will also be providing the keynote address for the West Coast-based investment advisory firm of Arnerich Massena at their 2011 Investment Symposium, on April 11-12, in Newberg, Oregon, outside of Portland.
OK, don’t tell my kids about this next bit. (When we travel together, I am a bit of a stickler about schedules. Moving seven kids and their families with kids can get to be a logistical issue. Dad can get on their case if they don’t move fast enough.
So, last night I was with Niels Jensen on the train from Milan to Zug, our destination a quaint little “village” in Switzerland near Zurich. Lots of fund managers are moving there for tax reasons, lifestyle, etc. It was late and I was writing away on the train, deep in my creative throes, charmed with an idea for a new research report I am writing. Niels said, “John, you might want to pack up. We are getting close.” I looked at my watch and thought I had five minutes, so I kept typing away. Creative juices and all, you know? You’ve got to give the Muse her lead.
However, we pulled into the station sooner than I expected. I started packing up quickly, but there were a lot of wires and stuff. Spilled the last of the Prosecco on my coat (is that maybe why I thought I was creative?). I ran to the door, only to have it close and lock, and watched Niels, standing with my luggage on the platform, waving goodbye as the train pulled out! Nothing to do but feel like an idiot and travel on to Zurich, then take the next train back (this one with local stops) to Zug. I got to the small hotel. No one was at the desk or would answer the phone. Not knowing what to do, I looked around and saw there was a key on the counter. Next to it was a note reading, “Mr. Mauldin, your luggage is in your room. Have a good night.” Anywhere else this is an invitation to free luggage. In Zug, I guess, this is how they take care of latecomers.
The next day, as we are back at the train station, heading for Zurich, this gentleman walks up and asks, “Are you John Mauldin? I have this new econometric model I’ve been wanting to show you.” So, on the train to Zurich I looked at feedback mechanisms and how they can be used to analyze markets. Actually quite intriguing. It is a small damn world, but a really fun one.
It is time to hit the send button. The wake-up call will come way too soon. But, there is a party going on underneath my hotel room window. They are singing songs from the ’60s and ’70s here in the Old Town in Zurich. Maybe just one drink and then bed. Have a great week! Auf wiedersehen!
Your loving Switzerland analyst,
John F. Mauldin
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29 Mar 11, 09:54 YOU SAID DEFLATION
This author said we would be in massive deflation 2 years ago. He is clueless like prechter.
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Jacinda stumbled into a $520bn minefield
Jacinda Ardern's 'captain's call' to consider introducing a Capital Gains Tax in her first term was the strategic error that may have cost her the Prime Minister's job for at least three years. Bernard Hickey analyses that near-fatal decision and why it was so dangerous to even touch the hair trigger of the most explosive issue in New Zealand's political economy.
If only she had known how big a minefield it is, she might have made a different decision in her second week in the job.
Flushed with the success of her first week in charge of the Labour Party and a building wave of 'Jacinda effect' support, Ardern decided her 'relentless positivity' and an ambition to really deal to the housing crisis convinced her she could venture forth into a capital gains tax debate.
Her predecessor Andrew Little had decided that Labour's campaigns for a CGT (excluding the family home) in 2011 and 2014 had been one of the 'big hairy' policies that had scared middle New Zealand off voting for Labour. He also ditched Labour's plan to increase the age of eligibility for New Zealand Superannuation. Ardern kept the policy of leaving the age of eligibility at 65, but decided that her generation needed to know she was serious about addressing the housing affordability crisis.
If only she had known what she was dealing with, she might have made a different decision in those days before agreeing with Grant Robertson to let it be known in his debate with Steven Joyce on The Nation on Saturday August 12 that Labour would not rule out a CGT in its first term.
It seemed harmless enough at the time.
The exchange on The Nation that Saturday morning just 11 days after Ardern was elected leader looked like a statement of the obvious that was designed to fly through the keeper.
Asked by Lisa Owen if he could rule out a CGT in Labour's term, Robertson said: "We’ve got a tax working group. I can’t pre-empt what they’re going to come back and decide."
Sensing he was tip-toeing into the minefield, Owen pressed again: "So you can't rule it out? Could come in the first term?"
'Careful where you step'
Watching Robertson's response was like watching someone look over their shoulder while walking forward into a field marked "Mines. Danger!"
"I can’t pre-empt what that group says, but here’s the important point — right now today we have something called the bright-line test that the National Party brought in. It says that if you sell a house that’s not your family home within two years, you’ll pay tax on it. Steven has a form of capital gains tax."
The attempt at distraction only served to pique Steven Joyce's interest. In that moment, Joyce knew he had found a way to disarm the 'Jacinda Effect.'
Immediately, he pounced, setting out National's entire election strategy in one statement on the hoof.
"I think there’s a problem there for the Labour Party, because they’re dodgy on tax. They’re refusing to say about the capital gains, they’ve mentioned a water tax last week, but they won’t tell us how much it is, and then, of course, they’ve got a regional fuel tax they won’t talk about where it goes beyond Auckland," Joyce said.
Within days, Joyce was talking about Labour's 'seven new taxes' and directing his ad agency to focus National's attack on Labour's tax plans. In the last two weeks of the campaign, National's attack ads on tax flooded the nation's Facebook news feeds and successfully caused National's rebound in the last two weeks.
Within two days of Robertson's soft reversal of Little's CGT first-term-rule-out, Ardern confirmed that she had endorsed the change in strategy from her predecessor.
I remember, slightly dumbfounded the next week, asking Ardern why she was taking the risk of poking the capital gains beast when Labour's own (very clever) policy was to extend National's two-year capital gains tax to five years. That would effectively tax capital gains by landlords in the first five years without prompting an attack from National, who could not credibly attack an extended version of a policy they had introduced themselves.
Ardern's argument was that housing affordability was an urgent issue and she could not afford to wait to help a generation locked out of the housing market.
"I am maintaining our right and ability to act on its (the working group's) findings and do the right thing when we’re in government. We’re yet to know what that will be though,” she told reporters on the Tuesday after Robertson's Saturday morning comments.
“I’ve been very, very transparent on this. We do not think that assets are treated fairly, relative to other forms of taxation in New Zealand. The fact that someone can go out and work a 40-hour week and pay tax on that, while someone can own multiple homes, flick them off for capital gain and is often not treated in that same fair manner, is something that needs to be addressed,” she said.
“Most countries have. New Zealand sits on its own in that regard."
Ardern again made clear it would not apply to the family home, but the genie was well and truly out of the bottle by then.
Why is it so explosive?
People often under-estimate what is at stake in the debate about CGT.
They essentially don't understand how New Zealand's households go about building wealth and arranging their finances. It's an easy mistake to make if you don't own property and you've never built or owned your own business, which Ardern has not done. (She has only recently bought a home with her partner Clarke Gayford).
The family home is at the centre of the New Zealand household's financial thinking. The numbers are enormous and are the most powerful force dragging on any attempts at changing the trajectory of New Zealand's political economy. Regular workers can earn twice and three times more just by owning property than they can from a real job, where they have to pay tax.
'Don't you dare touch my capital gains'
There is so much to lose for property owners, who vote at much higher rates than renters, and for New Zealand's 450,000 small businesses with one to five employees.
The numbers are astonishing and should have been laid out in front of Jacinda Ardern before she decided in a moment of 'Jacinda effect' confidence that they could be overcome.
Just have a look at table C21 in the Reserve Bank's series of statistics on household wealth. It shows that household net wealth rose $520 billion between September 2008 and the March quarter of 2017. That was largely because of a $320 billion rise in the value of housing and land - none of which was taxed. Some of the rest were rises in the value of capital in businesses, which is untaxed.
It is the dirty little secret of New Zealand's financial life. There is much more money to be made - tax free - by buying rental property funded by bank loans than by actually working in real jobs. The leveraged returns over the last two decades have increased household net worth from $427 billion in September 1999 to $1.38 trillion by March of 2017.
That is trillion with a 'T'. That $1.38 trillion is 5.1 times GDP. The gains since National was elected in 2008 are equal to twice the GDP of the country. Over 60 percent of New Zealanders own property and they know their net worth in their bones. It's no accident that homes.co.nz has become a very popular site because it allows home owners to effectively check their net worth daily as their property values rise.
Going for the CGT jugular
Joyce and English sensed the vulnerability and quickly engineered a campaign to highlight the potential risks of a capital gains tax for small businesses that are funded off the family home and for families who depend on the inheritance handed on when an elderly relative passes on.
They then leapt on the possibility that Labour's Tax Working Group would suggest a land tax. They knew this all too well, given their own 2009 Tax Working Group had recommended just such a land tax.
Bill English used a trip to a Lower Hutt retirement village, Ryman Healthcare's Bob Scott complex, on September 5 to ram the point home.
English said Labour needed to be clearer about its position on tax so Kiwi voters could be fully informed.
“You take a group like this (referring to the Bob Scott residents), superannuitants all own their own houses, a lot of them own their own houses, but they don’t have much income," he said.
“They already pay rates and now the Labour leader is floating the idea that there’ll be a land tax on top of your rates."
Within hours, Ardern had to rule out such a tax.
Here comes an inheritance tax
Less than a week later, English highlighted the risk that a Capital Gains Tax could turn into an inheritance tax. He did that while talking to vegetable packers in Levin - many of whom could only ever aspire to home ownership and the windfall capital gains that have come with it.
The idea is that the family home exemption would evaporate upon death. It was an easy accusation to make in the vacuum left by Ardern's reliance on the un-made recommendations of the unformed tax working group.
"I presume, for instance, for the inheritance tax - which has widespread impact because it's for every family where the parents die and leave the house - every family whose older parents own a home when they pass away - it now looks like Labour is entertaining the idea of an inheritance tax on that house," English said with a smile.
"If they bought it 20 years ago for a couple of hundred thousand and now they can sell it for a million then how's it going to work?
"Labour should be upfront with the public. What they're asking the public to do is to vote for a committee in this election to decide one of the most critical issues for our economic success, and that is how the tax system works.
"They're asking New Zealanders to hand them their ATM card and they'll give it back in a year when they've decided how to spend it."
“New Zealanders need to know what they mean by that, otherwise Labour is asking for New Zealanders to give them a blank cheque, that is, ‘Vote us in and we can think of any tax at any rate and you have to pay it, and by the way what we’re spending it on we can’t really show it will make any difference’.”
Again, within hours, Ardern and Robertson ruled out an inheritance tax.
The reversal of a captain's call
By September 14 the pressure was intense and the weight of that $520b of untaxed capital gain became too much for Ardern to bear. She reversed her captain's call and said voters could say in the 2020 election whether legislation for a CGT excluding the family home would apply after the election. She had essentially adopted Little's stance again.
No doubt Labour's focus groups and internal polling showed that the dirty little secret of New Zealand life was too dirty to be laundered in public and through the tax system.
"I think it was a crazy brave thing to do," said Stephen Mills from Labour's polling company UMR of the CGT captain's call.
"When I first heard about it (leaving open a CGT in a first term) I put my head in my hands and made a secular prayer that I hadn't heard what I'd just heard," Mills told Kathryn Ryan earlier this week.
Ardern's captain's call was all designed to buy Labour and Generation Rent another six to 12 months of time of a CGT to influence the behaviour of property buyers.
In essence, the political risk was not worth the reward.
Those attacks on Labour's CGT plans through mid to late August coincided with a rebound in polling support for National. They cost Ardern the election.
If only she had known she was attacking $520 billion worth of wealth, she might have thought more than twice in her first week in the job that it was worth the risk. | positive |
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Scream Queens has been renewed for a second season, Fox announced at the Television Critics Associations press tour on Friday.
In season 2, the Ryan Murphy horror-comedy is moving away from the college campus, and will instead be set in a hospital, where some of the most fascinating and bizarre medical cases are under observation — anyone else getting an American Horror Story: Asylum vibe?
“I don’t think it’s anything like Asylum, which was set in a period,” co-chairman and CEO Gary Newman said. “The medical is an incredibly rich area to tell stories in. Ryan has always loved the medical area. Nip/Tuck was a show he really enjoyed the creative on. It seemed like a great, broad area.”
Casting for the second season will be announced at a later date, though some of the cast from the first season is expected to return. Initially, EW had heard that a summer camp theme was in the running for a second season, but the concept has shifted to the hospital.
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“Ryan intends to bring some of the actors from the first installment back,” co-chairman and CEO Dana Walden said. “I believe they will be the same characters. We’ve just started having very preliminary conversations so not 100 percent sure exactly what their plans are, but the initial conversations were very much to return some of the characters.”
Newman added: “It really hasn’t been decided who’s coming back and how many of them who will be playing their old characters or not. Ryan, Brad, and Ian are actually working right now on that. We’ll all be sitting together pretty soon and hearing their take on it. Our instinct is that at least a few of those characters will be back with the same actors playing the same roles, but it will be anthological in that there will be a time jump and it’ll be in a different setting.”
In its first season, Scream Queens averaged a rather big gain in its Live vs. Same Day numbers (7.2 vs 2.7 million viewers). Scream Queens hails from Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan and Alexis Martin Woodall. | positive |
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