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Panel doesn't consider TLD in the first-ever new gTLD UDRP case
The first new gTLD domain name has been lost to a UDRP complaint.
The famous German bike maker Canyon Bicycles won canyon.bike from a registrant who said he'd bought the name — and others — in order to protect the company from cybersquatters.
The panelist in the case, WIPO's Andrew Lothian, declined to consider the fact that the TLD was related to Canyon's business in making his decision. Finding confusing similarity, he wrote:
The Panel finds that, given the advent of multiple new gTLD domain names, panels may determine that it is appropriate to include consideration of the top-level suffix of a domain name for the purpose of the assessment of identity or similarity in a given case, and indeed that there is nothing in the wording of the Policy that would preclude such an approach. However, the Panel considers that it is not necessary to do so in the present case.
Canyon had argued that the fact that it's a .bike domain reinforced the similarity between the domain and the mark, but it's longstanding WIPO policy that the TLD is irrelevant when determining confusing similarity.
The domain was registered under Whois privacy but, when it was lifted, Canyon looked the registrant up on social media and discovered he was very familiar with the world of bikes.
The registrant told WIPO that he's registered Canyon's mark "with the best of intentions".
Apparently, he's registered more than one famous brand in a new gTLD in the belief that the existence of the program was not wildly known, in order to transfer the domains to the mark holders.
He claimed "that many companies have been content with his actions" according to the decision.
But the fact that he'd asked for money from Canyon was — of course — enough for Lothan to find bad faith.
He also chose to use the fact that the registrant had made no attempt to remove the default Go Daddy parking page — which the registrar monetizes with PPC — as further evidence of bad faith.
The domain is to be transferred.
Common first name lost to URS complaint
The first controversial Uniform Rapid Suspension decision? Probably not.
An self-described "entrepreneur" from Texas has lost control of the domain dana.holdings after a URS complaint filed by Dana Holding, a vehicle component supplier. The domain has been suspended.
It's the first URS case where the second-level string, in this case "dana", has a hypothetical multitude of uses not related to the trademark holder's brand.
The respondent, one Farris Nawas, said in his URS response:
Dana is a common Middle Eastern female name. My family is of Middle Eastern descent. My intention is to establish a holding company in my native country and not in the United States. Upon my registration of the domain name www.Dana.Holdings, I discovered that Dana Holdings is nationally registered in the United states. Out of Courtesy, I approached Dana Limited corporation myself to let them know that I have registered the domain name with the intention of starting my own holding company.
The National Arbitration Forum URS examiner, Darryl Wilson, didn't buy it
While Nawas was not wrong about Dana being a common first name, I feel I'm on pretty safe ground saying the excuse about starting his own holding company was utter nonsense.
Nawas owns over 200 domains, most of which were registered during the first days of new gTLDs general availability and many of which appear to be cut-and-dried cases of outright cybersquatting.
He was called out by Forbes for registering tommyhilfiger.clothing. I've discovered he also owns such as names 4san.ventures and akfen.holdings, among others, which also seem to match company names.
Evidence of a pattern of cybersquatting can be used by URS panels to find bad faith, but that doesn't seem to have happened in this case.
Rather, Wilson seems to have taken Nawas' offer to sell the domain to Dana for "an unspecified amount" as evidence that he's a wrong 'un. Wilson found his explanation "dubious at best".
Will .exposed see a big sunrise?
Donuts' new gTLD .exposed goes into sunrise today, but will it put the fear into trademark owners?
It's arguably the first "ransom" TLD to go live in the current round and the first since .xxx, which scared mark holders into blocking over 80,000 domains back in late 2011.
Most new gTLD sunrise periods to date — most of which have been focused on vertical niches — have had sunrise registrations measured in tens or hundreds rather than thousands.
But .exposed, I would say, is in the same free speech zone as yet-to-launch .sucks and .gripe, which lend themselves well to having a company, product or personal name at the second level.
Brand protection registrars are encouraging their clients to pay special attention to this type of gTLD.
Will this cause a spike in sunrise sales for Donuts over the next 60 days?
It might be difficult to tell, given that Donuts also offers brand owners a blocking mechanism via the Domain Protected Marks List service, so the domains don't show up in the zone files.
But DPML blocks can be overturned by others with matching trademarks, so some trademark owners may decide to register the name instead for an overabundance of caution.
Go Daddy risking Oscars wrath with .buzz premium domains?
Kevin Murphy, March 7, 2014, Domain Registrars
The new gTLD registry Dot Strategy included many famous brands on its list of premium .buzz names, including two that could get its partner, Go Daddy-owned Afternic, in hot water.
Until a couple of hours ago, nic.buzz carried what appeared to be thousands of premium listings, organized by category and carrying prices of $1,000 and up, some of which seemed to target brands.
The names of several sports teams, such as 49ers.buzz and blackhawks.buzz, were listed for sale in the sports category (hat tip: Valideus' Brian Beckham).
I also spotted listings for domains such as photoshop.buzz (an Adobe software brand) in the technology category and hobbit.buzz (believe it or not, "Hobbit" is a trademark) in an entertainment category.
But the ones that really caught my attention were academyaward.buzz and academyawards.buzz, which carried prices of $1,900 each.
That's surprising because if you try to buy these domains you'll be instructed to contact Afternic, which is handling the premium process. And as of September, Go Daddy owns Afternic.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the Oscars and owns "Academy Award" and "Academy Awards" trademarks, has been locked in litigation with Go Daddy for the last four years.
The Academy claims that Go Daddy is cybersquatting due to its practice of making money parking its customers' domains, including domains containing Academy trademarks such as academyawardz.com.
Most recently, Go Daddy tried to get the appointed judge in the case kicked out, alleging that she's in the Academy's pocket.
While the lawsuit is certainly controversial, attempting to sell $3,800 worth of domain names matching the Academy's marks probably wouldn't help Go Daddy look less cybersquatty to its opponent.
It could be argued that many of the premium names that match brands are also generic — Black Hawks could be helicopters and I'm sure there are plenty of academies in the world that hand out awards.
A legitimate registrant could buy many of these trademark-matching listed names and fight off a UDRP, I reckon.
But when somebody lists the name for sale in a category appropriate to the class of trademark, I'd say that makes the name look a lot less generic.
Bieber is a surname presumably shared by many people, but when you list bieber.buzz for sale in a category related to entertainment it can only really refer to one person.
Somebody yanked the premium listings section from the nic.buzz web site after I requested comments from Dot Strategy and Go Daddy a few hours ago. This post will be updated should I receive said comments.
.buzz is currently in its sunrise period and is due to go to general availability in mid-April. As I've said before, it's one of my favorite new gTLD strings and I wouldn't be surprised if sells quite well.
UPDATE: Go Daddy said: "Afternic is working with dotStrategy, Co. (the .BUZZ registry) to review the list and revise as appropriate."
TMCH sends out 17,500 Trademark Claims notices in a month
Kevin Murphy, March 3, 2014, Domain Services
Just four weeks after the first new gTLDs went into general availability, the Trademark Clearinghouse has already sent out over 17,500 Trademark Claims notices to trademark owners.
A Claims notice is a warning that is generated whenever somebody registers a domain name that exactly matches a trademark listed in the TMCH's database.
The 17,500 number refers to post-registration notices sent to trademark owners, not pre-registration warnings delivered to would-be registrants.
Considering that there are somewhere in the region of 180,000 domain names in new gTLDs today, 17,500 represents a surprisingly high percentage of the market (high single figures).
Of course, not all of these will be due to cybersquatting attempts.
There are plenty of marks in the TMCH that are acronyms or dictionary words, either because they match a genuine brand or because somebody obtained trademarks on generic terms in order to game sunrise periods.
I'd count those as false positives, personally, but it's impossible to know without access to TMCH data how many of the 17,500 alerts delivered to date can be accounted for in that way.
There are 26,802 marks in the TMCH, according to the company.
Fifth URDP provider goes live
Kevin Murphy, February 25, 2014, Domain Services
The Arab Center for Dispute Resolution has gone live as the fifth approved provider of UDRP dispute resolution services.
The Jordan-based outfit, which says it has offices in "all Arab countries", says it "is uniquely positioned to address domain name issues pertinent to the region, while maintaining an international, multicultural disposition to case settlement."
ACDR was approved by ICANN to administer UDRP cases last May, over the objections of the Internet Commerce Association and others, which want UDRP providers bound to ICANN contracts.
The organization does not appear to be competing hard on price. A single-domain case will set trademark owners back a minimum of $1,500 ($1,000 to the panel, $500 to ACDR), which is the same as market leader WIPO.
It's actually a little more expensive than WIPO — a five-domain case will cost $1,700 compared to WIPO's $1,500.
Are these the 10 most-popular new gTLD domains?
I'm a firm believer that the success of new gTLDs will be measured not just in registration volumes but also in usage, and usage is a lot trickier to measure than domains under management.
One way of measuring usage that's very familiar to many domainers is Alexa, the Amazon-owned web metrics service that uses toolbars and other data sources to rank web sites by popularity.
This kind of popularity data has been incorporated into TLD Health Check for some time, as one of many means to compare TLDs.
Alexa data isn't perfect, but it is data, so I thought it might be interesting to see which of the 147 new gTLDs currently in the root are showing up in its daily list of the top one million domains.
There are 10 names, half of which are .guru domains, on yesterday's list. There are not many functioning web sites yet, but for whatever reason these domains all, according to Alexa, have traffic.
These are the domains, with their popularity rank in parentheses:
www.link (356,406)
The highest-ranking new gTLD domain on our list is actually banned by ICANN due to the purported risk of name collisions.
It's reserved by Uniregistry and will not resolve or be made available for registration for the foreseeable future.
I think what we're looking at here is a case of somebody (or more likely lots of people) using www.link in web pages when they really should be using example.com.
beatport.singles (538,603)
Possible cybersquatting? Beatport (I'm old and unhip enough that I had to Google it) is an online electronic music store and the domain is registered via Go Daddy's Domains By Proxy service.
The domain presumably refers to music "singles" rather than marital status, but it doesn't seem to resolve from where I'm sitting. Quite why it's getting traffic is beyond me. A typo in a URL somewhere? IP lawyers?
gtu.guru (589,205)
The first resolving name on our list leads to a work-in-progress Blogger blog. It's registered to a chap in Gujarat, India, leading me to infer that GTU is Gujarat Technological University. Another squat?
seo.guru (671,647)
The first domainer on the list, I believe. The guy who registered seo.guru paid roughly $2,500 for it during Donuts' first Early Access Program. It's currently parked at Go Daddy.
I'd hazard a guess that it's on the list because it's a dream URL for an SEO professional (or charlatan, take your pick) and SEOs checking its availability are much more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed.
deals.guru (790,778)
This one resolves to an under construction page.
I'd speculate that the pre-release $8,100 sale of deals.xyz caused a lot of domainers to check out whether the same second-level was available in other new gTLDs, spiking its traffic and causing an Alexa appearance.
nic.club (796,727)
The only registry-owned domain on our list — nic.club is the official registry web site of .CLUB Domains, which has its .club gTLD in sunrise until the end of March.
Is its appearance on the list indicative of strong pre-launch marketing or something else?
beekeeping.guru (857,778)
I'm not making this stuff up. This domain belongs to a British pest control company but resolves to a default Apache page. I can't begin to guess why it's getting traffic.
cp.wien (864,800)
An unregistered name in a sunrise gTLD. Possible name collision?
shop.camera (873,146)
Hot dang, we have a web site!
The domain shop.camera was only registered 10 days ago, but it already leads to what appears to be a fully-functioning Amazon affiliate site, complete with "Shop.Camera" branding.
freebitcoin.guru (994,404)
An email-gathering affiliate marketing site that I personally wouldn't touch with yours. Still, it looks quite slick compared to the others on the list and it appears that the owner has made some effort to promote it.
First new gTLD cybersquatting case goes to IBM
IBM has won the first Uniform Rapid Suspension case to be filed against a new gTLD domain name.
National Arbitration Forum panelist Darryl Wilson handed down the perfunctory decision February 12, just seven days after IBM complained about ibm.ventures and ibm.guru.
Both domains have now been suspended, redirecting to a placeholder web site which states:
This Site is Suspended
The Domain Name you've entered is not available. It has been taken down as a result of dispute resolution proceedings pursuant to the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) Procedure and Rules.
For more information relating to the URS, please visit: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/urs
It was a slam dunk case, as you might imagine — the URS is designed to handle slam-dunk cases.
The registrant, who we estimate spent $2,500 on the two names, did not do himself any favors by redirecting both names to IBM's .com site.
As we and Wilson both noted, this showed that he'd registered the names with IBM in mind.
IBM's mark is included in the Trademark Clearinghouse, so the registrant will have been given a warning at the point of registration that he may be about to infringe someone's IP rights.
Since the names were registered IBM, we're told, has purchased a Domain Protected Marks List block from the registry, Donuts, which will prevent the names being re-registered when they expire.
IBM files URS complaints against guy who spent $2,500 on two domains
If you were a cybersquatter, would you spend $2,500 on just two domain names without doing even the most basic research into whether you'd get to keep the names?
One individual from New Jersey has done precisely that, apparently, and has now been hit with what may well be the first new gTLD Uniform Rapid Suspension complaint, according to Donuts.
Donuts VP Mason Cole said in a DI comment today that the company has "been notified of an additional URS action involving two IBM names."
I believe he's referring to ibm.guru and ibm.ventures, two new gTLD domains I highlighted earlier today as being registered under Go Daddy's Whois privacy service.
Privacy protection has since been lifted from both domains, in accordance with Go Daddy policy, revealing the registrant (assuming it's not a fake name) as one Denis Antipov of New Jersey.
Both domains were redirecting to ibm.com when I checked a few days ago — showing that the registrant clearly had IBM in mind when he bought the names — but now do not resolve for me.
What's funny is that the registration date of the domains is January 31. Due to Donuts' Early Access Program, the registrant will have paid Go Daddy a total of $2,479.98 for the pair.
Now, he stands to lose that investment in a URS case that will set IBM back about the same amount.
Donuts' Cole said: "When infringement is alleged, we want to see the due process tools developed for new TLDs put to use. Registries are not trademark adjudicators — we implement the objective decisions of others."
UPDATE: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the price the registrant will have paid for these names.
TMCH sees cybersquatting in 1&1's pre-reg requests
Would-be cybersquatters have pre-registered new gTLD domains matching many famous brands, according to the Trademark Clearinghouse.
According to a bit of TMCH PR fluff coming out tomorrow, there are pre-registrations in .web for 40 out of the 50 most-valuable British brands.
I gather that the data came from 1&1, the most aggressive registrar in its pursuit of new gTLD leads, which has reported over three million pre-regs.
In what appears to be outreach to drum up additional trademark registrations, the TMCH said:
According to the Trademark Clearinghouse's data, unknown entities have already pre-reserved their interest in registering the domain names of 80 per cent of the UK's 50 most valuable under the .WEB domain name. Similarly, third parties have attempted to pre-order 78 per cent of the UK's top 50 most valuable brands under the .ONLINE domain name, 72 per cent under .APP, 70 per cent under .SHOP and 68 per cent under .BLOG.
It doesn't seem to be a problem peculiar to new gTLDs, however. The TMCH also said that 54% of these brands have holes in their defensive registration portfolio across existing TLDs such as .biz, .net and .co.
There were roughly 23,000 marks in the TMCH database as of January 21.
UPDATE: 1&1 has asked me to clarify that the company took no part in this research. TMCH says it obtained the numbers through searches on the 1&1 web site.

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Can We Talk? What Health Care Can Learn From Broadway
Tom Robertson, Executive Director, Vizient Research Institute
I have no musical talent whatsoever. I could not, as they say, carry a tune in a bucket. But I thoroughly enjoy Broadway productions, in particular the old Rodgers and Hammerstein classics. One of my favorite show tunes is "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific, in which Emile de Becque, a mysterious French plantation owner, contemplates meeting someone who will change his life. Another song from the same musical, "Happy Talk," has none of the life-changing gravitas of the signature show stopper – it serves as more of a diversion. In contrast to sweeping strings and a rich baritone voice, its melody is almost jangly. In many ways, "Happy Talk" aptly describes much of the policy conversation surrounding efforts to slow the rate of increase in health care spending.
A term that has become ubiquitous over the past several years, and one that has the potential to confuse business strategy, is "the shift from volume to value." The introduction of payment incentives linked to various measures of quality brought with it the terms "value-based payments" and "value-based purchasing." Despite the fact that the new incentives accounted for only a small portion of the overall payment – typically less than the percentage of a restaurant bill represented by gratuities – enthusiasm for the use of the term "value" seemed to grow exponentially. It culminated in the commonly adopted belief that we were experiencing a fundamental "shift from volume to value." Taken literally, the term asserts that volume is less important than it was before; in the extreme, it could imply that volume no longer matters at all. It's not uncommon to hear people refer to value-based payments as replacing fee-for-service methodologies. It's at that moment – when incremental incentives are confused with a wholesale shift away from fee-for-service payments – that our eyes are diverted from the road ahead and buzz words become dangerous.
Volume still drives revenue for health care providers. Health systems still worry about market share. Service line strategies are still anchored around growth. No one would be better off financially with markedly fewer patients. Ambulatory infrastructure with enormous fixed costs means that economic viability requires volume. When Medicare changed from cost reimbursement to prospective payment in the form of DRGs that was not the end of fee-for-service payments. The "service" was redefined as a hospital confinement rather than each component, but hospitals are still paid for each admission. Lengths of stay declined sharply as providers realized that throughput was essential in order to make room for the next patient – the next unit of service. If anything, the change to DRGs amounted to a shift from volume to more volume.
A review of claims data uncovered pervasive variation in care processes within health systems. Provider consolidation and system formation came with the promise of the right care at the right place at the right time. A closer look, however, found higher variation in resource consumption within health systems than exists between health systems. Had there been a real shift from volume to value in the way providers are paid, such intrasystem variation would have been difficult to accommodate. In large part, the persistent variation is a symptom of the lack of any shift away from volume. Health systems formed to protect or manage market share. The reality is that volume is every bit as important today as it was before anyone began talking about value.
The problem with waiting for payer systems to provide incentives for doing the right thing is that they rarely do. If we are to see a shift toward value, it's unlikely to be away from volume. A more realistic aspiration is to urge providers to improve value because it's the right thing to do, while acknowledging that volume will always matter. By being swept up in a wave of enthusiasm over an illusory "shift from volume to value," we risk being wrong twice. Volume will continue to drive economics, and the payment system will not sufficiently reward value … we need providers to increase value intrinsically.
Joan Rivers was a witty, acerbic comic whose catch phrase "can we talk?" always led to an unvarnished look at the things we did. I have no musical aptitude, but I have a musician's ear for economics. When I hear things that are economically out of tune, like a sharp or a flat note, it hurts my ears. Every time that I hear "the shift from volume to value," I just want to say "can we talk?"
About the author and the Vizient Research Institute™. As executive director of the Vizient Research Institute, Tom Robertson and his team have conducted strategic research on clinical enterprise challenges for 20 years. The groundbreaking work at the Vizient Research Institute drives exceptional member value using a systematic, integrated approach. The investigations quickly uncover practical, tested results that lead to measurable improvement in clinical and economic performance.
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Q: jquery last select selector value I've been trying to get my second select "selected" value, but it is allways returning me "". Actually i have selected the second option on the second select. It seems to keep returning me the first option and not actually the option that is selected.
This is the HTML displayed:

                <button class="btn btn-glintt btn-circle btn-lg" id="1" name="buttonFilterResultsCabecalho" disabled="">

                </button>

            <button class="btn btn-glintt btn-circle btn-lg" id="1" name="buttonFilterResultsCabecalho" disabled="">                      </button>
            <button class="btn btn-glintt btn-circle btn-lg" id="1" name="buttonFilterResultsCabecalho">                      </button>

                          <select class="form-control selectFilter" name="filterSelect">
                            <option value=""></option><option value="1">SGICM</option>
                            <option value="2">HIS</option>
                          </select>

                          <select class="form-control selectFilter" name="filterSelect">
                            <option value=""></option>
                            <option value="3">teste</option>
                          </select>

In this image you can notice that the second entry is selected:

I have already tried with:
$("select[class='form-control selectFilter']:last option:selected").val();

$("select[class='form-control selectFilter']:last option:selected").attr('value');

$("[name='filterSelect']:last").val();

Allways getting "".
If i try:
$("[name='filterSelect']").val();

It will return me "1" <- Expected value.
Can you help please?
EDIT:
When testing on chrome console with this HTML page and after selecting "SGICM" on the first select and "teste" on the second select, if i run:
$("[name='filterSelect']:last").val();
on the console, the output will be ""
EDIT2:
After some debugging and seeing that i was being able to get the right selected value in jsfiddle, concluded that after commenting some bootstrap and other template files used, selects were working properly. Will try to get to this later...

A: $("select[class='form-control selectFilter']:last option:selected").val()
 statement will return defined value, only if you have made selection of option in the last <select> (of relevant classes) element in DOM.
Following code works:
$("select").change(function(){
   alert ($(this).val())
});

If you want to realize a tree, I think you need either assign unique id for every select or add specific class name for the only last changed select
$("select[class='form-control selectFilter']").change(function(){
   $("select").removeClass("active_sel");
   $(this).addClass("active_sel");
   alert ($(this).val())
});

and after that you can use current select value:
$("select[class*='active_sel']").val();

A: You can use the selector:
$('option:nth-of-type(2)').eq(1)

and to get the value, you can use:
$('option:nth-of-type(2)').eq(1).attr('value')

Explanation:
You want the value of the second option of the second select.
The selector option:nth-of-type(2) means the second option.
The selector option:nth-of-type(2).eq(1) means the second option, the second time.

A: Actually worked around this and asociated an on change event to record the user selection on a global variable as I was not being able to get the select:last .

$(document).on("change","[name='filterSelect']",function(){
 alert($(this).val());
})

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A stapled hemorrhoidectomy or stapled hemorrhoidopexy is a procedure that is typically used for grade II or III internal hemorrhoids. In a sentence, this operation aims to remove internal hemorrhoids and gives some benefit to the enlarged external hemorrhoidal tissues. The remaining tissue is then repositioned back to its normal anatomic position and after the recovery process, the patient can return to a normal and much more comfortable life.
What you can Expect from a Stapled Hemorrhoidectomy Procedure
A stapled hemorrhoidectomy tends to be a quick procedure. In some cases, it is completed in under thirty minutes. Compared to other procedures, there is generally less reported pain and patients report being able to return to their normal lives much quicker than a traditional hemorrhoidectomy. That means a stapled hemorrhoidectomy is a safe and relatively low impact surgery that does not require a lot of aftercare or follow-up from the patient.
With that said, after the procedure, it is not uncommon to feel as though there is fullness or pressure in the rectum. This pressure can result in discomfort, but it should be noted that these symptoms usually dissipate in a few days. This fullness and pressure is a normal part of the healing process but if you notice other issues, such as unexpected pain or swelling, it is recommended that you reach out to your doctor as soon as you are able.
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What Are Hemorrhoids?
Hemorrhoids are swollen veins and tissue located in the anus and rectum. The most common cause of this medical condition happens as a result of straining while constipated but can also form as a result of sitting on the toilet for a long period of time, obesity, and even pregnancy.
What are the symptoms of Hemorrhoids?
Hemorrhoids can result in bleeding, prolapse, leakage, pain, itchiness, and discomfort. Thankfully, hemorrhoids are easily treatable, and most people can take preventative steps to ensure the medical condition doesn't recur.
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Hemorrhoids impact roughly 1 in 20 people. In addition to that, it is estimated that around 50% of people over the age of 50 have hemorrhoids or have had hemorrhoids at one point. However, only about 4% of the population will have hemorrhoid problems that require immediate or serious medical attention.
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Q: Mount unit with - in path active in systemctl status, but available for Requires in unit I'm observing the following behavior and am wondering whether I'm missing something or hit a bug: I'm specifying a .mount unit in a Requires stanza in a systemd unit. If the path contains a - (which is escaped with \\x2d in the system unit and commands) the start fails:
$ mkdir /tmp/dir /tmp/dir-0 /tmp/dir0
$ sudo mount --bind /tmp/dir /tmp/dir-0

causes sudo systemctl status tmp-dir\\x2d0.mount to correctly print
● tmp-dir\x2d0.mount - /tmp/dir-0
   Loaded: loaded (/proc/self/mountinfo)
   Active: active (mounted) since Tue 2018-08-21 20:34:58 CEST; 34s ago
    Where: /tmp/dir-0
     What: /dev/mapper/root-root

however a systemd unit test.service containing
[Unit]
Requires=tmp-dir\\x2d0.mount

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/echo "Hello world!"

to fail to start due to
> sudo systemctl start test.service
Failed to start test.service: Unit tmp-dir\\x2d0.mount not found.

If I use /tmp/dir0 as mountpoint and adjust the Requires unit it works fine. systemctl daemon-reload has been called between all changes.
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.

A: Change
Requires=tmp-dir\\x2d0.mount

to
Requires=tmp-dir\x2d0.mount

in your .service file.


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Volume 50 - Issue 1 - 01 February 1998
Subgroups of the Adjoint Group of a Radical Ring
B. Amberg, O. Dickenschied, YA. P. Sysak
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018, pp. 3-15
It is shown that the adjoint group ${{R}^{{}^\circ }}$ of an arbitrary radical ring $R$ has a series with abelian factors and that its finite subgroups are nilpotent. Moreover, some criteria for subgroups of ${{R}^{{}^\circ }}$ to be locally nilpotent are given.
Asymptotic Shape of Finite Packings
KáRoly Böröczky, Jr., Uwe Schnell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018, pp. 16-28
Let $K$ be a convex body in ${{\mathbf{E}}^{d}}$ and denote by ${{C}_{n}}$ the set of centroids of $n$ non-overlapping translates of $K$ . For $\varrho \,>\,0$ , assume that the parallel body conv ${{C}_{n}}\,+\,\varrho K$ of conv ${{C}_{n}}$ has minimal volume. The notion of parametric density (see [21]) provides a bridge between finite and infinite packings (see [4] or [14]). It is known that there exists a maximal ${{\varrho }_{s}}(K)\,\ge \,1/(32{{d}^{2}})$ such that conv ${{C}_{n}}$ is a segment for $\varrho \,<\,{{\varrho }_{s}}$ (see [5]). We prove the existence of a minimal ${{\varrho }_{c}}(K)\,\le \,d\,+\,1$ such that if $\varrho \,>\,{{\varrho }_{c}}$ and $n$ is large then the shape of conv ${{C}_{n}}$ can not be too far from the shape of $K$ . For $d\,=\,2$ , we verify that ${{\varrho }_{s\,}}\,=\,{{\varrho }_{c}}$ . For $d\,\ge \,3$ , we present the first example of a convex body with known ${{\varrho }_{s}}$ and ${{\varrho }_{c}}$ ; namely, we have ${{\varrho }_{s}}\,=\,{{\varrho }_{c}}\,=\,1$ for the parallelotope.
Weighted Norm Inequalities for Fractional Integral Operators With Rough Kernel
Yong Ding, Shanzhen Lu
Given function $\Omega $ on ${{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}$ , we define the fractional maximal operator and the fractional integral operator by
$${{M}_{\Omega ,\,\alpha }}f(x)\,=\,_{r>0}^{\sup }\frac{1}{{{r}^{n-\alpha }}}\,\int{{{_{|y|}}_{<r}}\,}|\Omega (y)|\,|f(x-y)|\,dy$$
$${{T}_{\Omega ,\,\alpha }}f(x)\,=\,\int{_{{{\mathbb{R}}^{n}}}}\,\frac{\Omega (y)}{{{\left| y \right|}^{n-\alpha }}}f(x-y)dy$$
respectively, where $0\,<\,\alpha \,<\,n$ . In this paper we study the weighted norm inequalities of ${{M}_{\Omega ,\,\alpha }}$ and ${{T}_{\Omega ,\,\alpha }}$ for appropriate $\alpha ,\,s$ and $A(p,\,\,q)$ weights in the case that $\Omega \,\in \,{{L}^{s}}({{S}^{n-1}})(s>1)$ , homogeneous of degree zero.
Green's Functions for Powers of the Invariant Laplacian
Miroslav Engliš, Jaak Peetre
The aim of the present paper is the computation of Green's functions for the powers ${{\mathbf{\Delta }}^{m}}$ of the invariant Laplace operator on rank-one Hermitian symmetric spaces. Starting with the noncompact case, the unit ball in ${{\mathbb{C}}^{d}}$ , we obtain a complete result for $m\,=\,1,\,2$ in all dimensions. For $m\,\ge \,3$ the formulas grow quite complicated so we restrict ourselves to the case of the unit disc $(d\,=\,1)$ where we develop a method, possibly applicable also in other situations, for reducing the number of integrations by half, and use it to give a description of the boundary behaviour of these Green functions and to obtain their (multi-valued) analytic continuation to the entire complex plane. Next we discuss the type of special functions that turn up (hyperlogarithms of Kummer). Finally we treat also the compact case of the complex projective space ${{\mathbb{P}}^{d}}$ (for $d\,=\,1$ , the Riemann sphere) and, as an application of our results, use eigenfunction expansions to obtain some new identities involving sums of Legendre $(d\,=\,1)$ or Jacobi $(d\,>\,1)$ polynomials and the polylogarithm function. The case of Green's functions of powers of weighted (no longer invariant, but only covariant) Laplacians is also briefly discussed.
Elementary Proof of the Fundamental Lemma For a Unitary Group
Yuval Z. Flicker
The fundamental lemma in the theory of automorphic forms is proven for the (quasi-split) unitary group $U(3)$ in three variables associated with a quadratic extension of $p$ -adic fields, and its endoscopic group $U(2)$ , by means of a new, elementary technique. This lemma is a prerequisite for an application of the trace formula to classify the automorphic and admissible representations of $U(3)$ in terms of those of $U(2)$ and base change to $\text{GL(3)}$ . It compares the (unstable) orbital integral of the characteristic function of the standard maximal compact subgroup $K$ of $U(3)$ at a regular element (whose centralizer $T$ is a torus), with an analogous (stable) orbital integral on the endoscopic group $U(2)$ . The technique is based on computing the sum over the double coset space $T\backslash G/K$ which describes the integral, by means of an intermediate double coset space $H\backslash G/K$ for a subgroup $H$ of $G=U(3)$ containing $T$ . Such an argument originates from Weissauer's work on the symplectic group. The lemma is proven for both ramified and unramified regular elements, for which endoscopy occurs (the stable conjugacy class is not a single orbit).
A ϕ-Invariant Subspaces on the Torus
Keiji Izuchi, Yasuo Matsugu
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018, pp. 99-133
Generalizing the notion of invariant subspaces on the 2-dimensional torus ${{T}^{2}}$ , we study the structure of ${{A}_{\phi }}$ -invariant subspaces of ${{L}^{2}}({{T}^{2}})$ . A complete description is given of ${{A}_{\phi }}$ -invariant subspaces that satisfy conditions similar to those studied by Mandrekar, Nakazi, and Takahashi.
On Critical Level Sets of Some two Degrees of Freedom Integrable Hamiltonian Systems
Christine Médan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018, pp. 134-151
We prove that all Liouville's tori generic bifurcations of a large class of two degrees of freedom integrable Hamiltonian systems (the so called Jacobi–Moser–Mumford systems) are nondegenerate in the sense of Bott. Thus, for such systems, Fomenko's theory [4] can be applied (we give the example of Gel'fand–Dikii's system). We also check the Bott property for two interesting systems: the Lagrange top and the geodesic flow on an ellipsoid.
Inequalities for Rational Functions With Prescribed Poles
G. Min
This paper considers the rational system ${{P}_{n}}({{a}_{1}},{{a}_{2}},...,{{a}_{n}})\,\,:=\,\left\{ \frac{P(x)}{\Pi _{k=1}^{n}(x-{{a}_{k}})},\,P\,\in \,{{P}_{n}} \right\}$ with nonreal elements in $\left\{ {{a}_{k}} \right\}_{k=1}^{n}\,\subset \,\mathbb{C}\,\backslash \,[-1,\,1]$ paired by complex conjugation. It gives a sharp (to constant) Markov-type inequality for real rational functions in ${{P}_{n}}({{a}_{1}},{{a}_{2}},...,{{a}_{n}})$ . The corresponding Markov-type inequality for high derivatives is established, as well as Nikolskii-type inequalities. Some sharp Markov- and Bernstein-type inequalities with curved majorants for rational functions in ${{P}_{n}}({{a}_{1}},{{a}_{2}},...,{{a}_{n}})$ are obtained, which generalize some results for the classical polynomials. A sharp Schur-type inequality is also proved and plays a key role in the proofs of our main results
Murnaghan-Nakayama Rules for Characters of Iwahori-Hecke Algebras of the Complex Reflection Groups G(r, p, n)
Tom Halverson, Arun Ram
Iwahori-Hecke algebras for the infinite series of complex reflection groups $G(r,\,p,\,n)$ were constructed recently in the work of Ariki and Koike [AK], Broué and Malle [BM], and Ariki [Ari]. In this paper we give Murnaghan-Nakayama type formulas for computing the irreducible characters of these algebras. Our method is a generalization of that in our earlier paper [HR] in which we derived Murnaghan-Nakayama rules for the characters of the Iwahori-Hecke algebras of the classical Weyl groups. In both papers we have been motivated by C. Greene [Gre], who gave a new derivation of the Murnaghan-Nakayama formula for irreducible symmetric group characters by summing diagonal matrix entries in Young's seminormal representations. We use the analogous representations of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of $G(r,\,p,\,n)$ given by Ariki and Koike [AK] and Ariki [Ari].
Intertwining Operator and h-Harmonics Associated With Reflection Groups
Yuan Xu
We study the intertwining operator and $h$ -harmonics in Dunkl's theory on $h$ –harmonics associated with reflection groups. Based on a biorthogonality between the ordinary harmonics and the action of the intertwining operator $V$ on the harmonics, the main result provides a method to compute the action of the intertwining operator $V$ on polynomials and to construct an orthonormal basis for the space of $h$ -harmonics.
Isomorphisms Between Generalized Cartan Type W Lie Algebras in Characteristic 0
Kaiming Zhao
In this paper, we determine when two simple generalized Cartan type $W$ Lie algebras ${{W}_{d}}(A,\,T,\,\varphi )$ are isomorphic, and discuss the relationship between the Jacobian conjecture and the generalized Cartan type $W$ Lie algebras.


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In addition to the trailers that American Horror Story dropped on its official YouTube page last week, the official American Horror Story Twitter page has been posted a new creepy clip or poster every day. Most recently, on Friday, fans got a 15-second clip of a woman walking through a giant honeycomb while hands reach out and grab her. (If you have trypanophobia, aka the fear of clusters of small holes like honeycombs, this might not be the American Horror Story promo or season for you.) The clip ends with the girl reaching out, with a hexagon drawn on her hand — a symbol that definitely seems like it's going to be important this season.
On Thursday the show also gave fans a peek at the official American Horror Story: Cult poster which features — you guessed it — honeycombs. The golden poster depicts a deathly pale woman with her head cut open. But instead of a brain, there's a big ol' honeycomb in her skull. Is anyone else getting major Jupiter Ascending vibes?
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Book Review: Nathan Bomey's "Detroit Resurrected"
November 29, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments
I've made it my mission to read all of the Detroit books. I started with Charlie LeDuff's sensationalist Detroit: An American Autopsy, then moved onto fiction You Don't Have To Live Like This, then David Maraniss's Once In A Great City. Most recently it was Nathan Bomey's Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back, which I just finished. I can't quite stomach Amy Haimerl's Detroit Hustle right now, but I do have a copy
and will get to it at some point.
Bomey's book, at 320 pages and replete with live-action, lawyerly, shit-talking dialogue, is a quick, comfortable read. It's rich and vivid, but not verbose, dense, or packed with a crazy technical analysis. He covers the mechanics of bankruptcy, the basics of Detroit's municipal finance, and the bankruptcy proceedings themselves, focusing principally on how the powers that be, among them Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, later-Mayor Mike Duggan, and various attorneys and judges, all butted heads to argue their points in figuring out what to do to fix Detroit's balance sheet.
POWER & DEBT
Much of Bomey's analysis focuses on the central debate surrounding the proposed liquidation of the Detroit Institute of the Arts to settle debts to creditors and the Grand Bargain, as it was later named, a deal to settle a portion of debts by bringing in foundation capital to shore up numbers on a deep red balance sheet. He also traces the origins, though somewhat inadequately (more on this later), of the power triangle between Kevyn Orr, Rick Snyder, and Mike Duggan.
The Grand Bargain was, without doubt, one of the most interesting political resolutions to the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history– a resolution to certainly one of the most precarious situations in American urban history. Bomey captures a sort of constructivist, human element of the bankruptcy– referring back to said shit-talking lawyers- and how social interactions rather than purely quantified power structures or monetary systems defined "make-or-break" moments in the proceedings. Most major breakthroughs in the proceedings he brings back to pivotal phone calls or moments, usually involving profanity-laden phone calls between six figure salaried executives (as these things usually go). And, well, a lot of things were accomplished, even though some folks lost out.
Former Emergency Manager and Jones Day attorney Kevyn Orr, courtesy of Bridge Magazine.
This ranges from the millionaire Jones Day lawyers to the millionaire Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to the multi-millionaire governor Rick Snyder. Did you notice something about the preceding sentence? Possibly the fact that they're all millionaires, and this is something that is often missed in the narrative about the bankruptcy.
This is sort of a product of Bomey's limited depth in tracking of the origins of Detroit's crisis. In his analysis, this is fairly limited to Kwame's business dealings and some peripherally connected things involving historical something something. In comparison, Maraniss's book paints a picture of a city on the edge, but he doesn't get more than knee-deep into the origins of the urban crisis, as Thomas Sugrue does. LeDuff, problematic but a dedicated Detroiter, is sensationalist but really seems to capture the gritty "ground level" of Detroit that Bomey seems to remark upon in a passing way– the sort of New York attitude of, "Wow, it's crazy that people actually live like this!"
These issues are less important in figuring out what to do next, but I mention the "millionaire" point because much of Detroit's new narrative is problematized by the disproportionate control of the city that has been handed over, sold, or transferred in some carte blanche manner, to millionaires and billionaires.
WHEN IN DOUBT, BLAME KWAME (OR COLEMAN)
I've noticed that white folk, especially suburbanites who refer to anything within the city limits as "downtown" and only come "downtown" to attend Red Wings games or hang out with Kid Rock or one of Gilitchville's monumental, taxpayer-funded abominations, usually blame Coleman Young or the riots, one, for the single moment in the downfall of Detroit.
Usually, as the limit of a conversation with one of These People approaches about two minutes, the probability approaches one that they will make some reference to "the blacks." To those who live here, it's fairly apparent. Detroit's legacies of racism are deep and foundational in the city's problems. Maraniss's book gets into this– sort of- but Detroit Resurrected leaves it on the sidelines. Kind of like the bazillionaire players in the bankruptcy narratives left it on the sidelines.
At issue in the Kwame era was the city's attempt to kick the debt-can down the road by raising basically investment capital on public bonds through a couple of maybe-semi-illegal-if-not-totally-shady shell corporations. No one seems to really debate that Kwame was corrupt, never mind that the origins of his era's problems find their roots many decades prior.
But Bomey isn't interested in academically problematizing the idea that a municipal entity, which exists by virtue of and for the preservation of human beings in a human community, could be effectively sold off to greedy Wall Street interests. Orr and the Jones Day club certainly weren't interested in this, either, and, although Orr is often painted by Bomey as an enormously pragmatic, human thinker who was able to accomplish a monumental feat against crazy odds (certainly an arguable point), discussion is almost totally absent about how utterly problematic the Emergency Management system imposed by a white Republican quarter-billionaire governor onto a majority of black Michiganders was. Rick Snyder is painted as a pragmatic, benign technocrat whose affinity for Detroit is at odds with a [racist, but Bomey avoids saying it] red state constituency that, along with the likes of L. Brooks Patterson, kind of hates Detroit.
Beyond Emergency Management, the most interesting thing to me about the bankruptcy is the move in the era of muncipal austerity toward replacing public services and expenditure with private foundation money. I've often found it ironic that Kresge is such a huge player in Detroit as K-Mart, the originator of the Kresge fortune, made its money by championing a new era of offshoring (and thereby indirectly contributing to the demise of urban economies in the so-called post-industrial era). Foundations are mandated to spend their money on philanthropic stuff, but so much is obvious– Bomey doesn't get into this very much except to say that it's notable. What is interesting to me is the fact that it is being done.
There is debate about the efficacy of private philanthropic expenditure, but one thing that is for sure is that foundations are 1) private, and 2) not mandated to distribute funding evenly across cities. Kresge underwriting Detroit's QLine streetcar in a city where buses don't run on time– or at all- was a good example and certainly carried a dubious value proposition.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, THAT UNMENTIONED DISASTER
Bomey's conclusion, where he actually goes so far as to invoke the "what about the schools," which, along with "what about the parking," is totally the "what about her e-mails" of urban revitalization. He does mention that the state's appointed emergency managers basically made a bad situation worse, but he doesn't trace that back to Snyder, which I view as pretty problematic. Snyder is a venture capitalist who has done a great job of transferring public resources to private interests in a state that struggles with poverty and unemployment that aren't really getting better. Emergency Management is a tried-and-true way to strip citizens of democratic process, and the bankruptcy wouldn't have been possible without it.
Darnell Earley was clearly a disaster in Detroit and in Flint. Kevyn Orr perhaps wasn't a complete disaster, and the bankruptcy perhaps wasn't the be-all, end-all of disasters, but the Emergency Management system is definitely a disaster for democracy– and in terms of the precedents it has set with regard to wealth and race disparity in Michigan's cities.
These problems mitigate the credibility of the total narrative, but they don't detract from the readability of it, and it isn't as though Bomey is making grossly inappropriate conclusions or factually untrue statements. Overall, I'd offer three and a half out of five stars or so, but I will say that Detroit Resurrected is great story and totally worth the read.
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Mariona Badenas, 25, of Spain, walked past, heading for the observatory, where a special telescope allows her to look at the sun's chromosphere, or second layer of atmosphere. — David Kelly, latimes.com, "Life on Mars gets a test run in the Utah desert," 23 June 2019 But because Earth would cover more of the space surrounding the sun, lunar residents wouldn't be able to see the chromosphere — the fiery region of high-energy flares ejecting from the sun's surface. — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, "A stunning solar eclipse visits the moon Wednesday during the lunar eclipse on Earth," 30 Jan. 2018 Eclipses can help researchers explore the difficult-to-see chromosphere—a thin layer at the base of the sun's corona. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Will You See August's Great Eclipse? This New Tool Helps You Find Out," 21 June 2017 Eclipses can help researchers explore the difficult-to-see chromosphere—a thin layer at the base of the sun's corona. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Will You See August's Great Eclipse? This New Tool Helps You Find Out," 21 June 2017 Eclipses can help researchers explore the difficult-to-see chromosphere—a thin layer at the base of the sun's corona. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Will You See August's Great Eclipse? This New Tool Helps You Find Out," 21 June 2017 Eclipses can help researchers explore the difficult-to-see chromosphere—a thin layer at the base of the sun's corona. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Will You See August's Great Eclipse? This New Tool Helps You Find Out," 21 June 2017 Eclipses can help researchers explore the difficult-to-see chromosphere—a thin layer at the base of the sun's corona. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Will You See August's Great Eclipse? This New Tool Helps You Find Out," 21 June 2017 While the videographers are at work, Zurbuchen will be operating a handheld spectrometer to analyze the sun's chromosphere and corona — the wispy, outer atmosphere that is only visible during a total eclipse. — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, "NASA research plane will fly from Seattle for eclipse mission," 11 Aug. 2017
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Living in a landscape of fear : the impact of predation, resource availability and habitat structure on primate range use.
Coleman, B.T. and Hill, R.A. (2014) 'Living in a landscape of fear : the impact of predation, resource availability and habitat structure on primate range use.', Animal behaviour., 88 . pp. 165-173.
Spatial variation in predation risk generates a 'landscape of fear', with prey animals modifying their distribution and behaviour in response to this variable predation risk. In systems comprising multiple predators and prey species, a key challenge is distinguishing the independent effects of different predator guilds on prey responses. We exploited the acoustically distinct alarm calls of samango monkeys, Cercopithecus mitis erythrarchus, to create a predator-specific landscape of fear from eagles to assess its impact on space use within mixed regressive–spatial regressive models incorporating data on resource distribution and structural characteristics of the environment. The landscape of fear from eagles was the most significant determinant of samango range use, with no effect of resource availability. The monkeys also selected areas of their range with higher canopies and higher understory visibility, behaviour consistent with further minimizing risk of predation. These results contrast with those of vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus aethiops pygerythrus, at the same site for which the landscapes of fear from leopards and baboons were the most significant determinants of space use. While highlighting that predation risk is a key driver of primate behaviour in this population, the landscapes of fear experienced by samango monkeys and vervet monkeys appear to differ despite exposure to identical predator guilds. This emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between the risk effects of different predators in understanding prey ecology, but also that closely related prey species may respond to these predator-specific risks in different ways.
Blue monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops, Cercopithecus albogularis, Fruit availability, Geographical information system (GIS), Intergroup competition, Local convex hulls (LoCoH) analysis, Spatial regression, Sykes monkey.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.11.027
NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Animal behaviour. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Animal behaviour, 88, 2014, 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.11.027


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What did the Fed do in response to the COVID-19 crisis?
Series: The Hutchins Center Explains
Eric Milstein and David Wessel Friday, December 17, 2021
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The coronavirus crisis in the United States—and the associated business closures, event cancellations, and work-from-home policies—triggered a deep economic downturn. The sharp contraction and deep uncertainty about the course of the virus and economy sparked a "dash for cash"—a desire to hold deposits and only the most liquid assets—that disrupted financial markets and threatened to make a dire situation much worse. The Federal Reserve stepped in with a broad array of actions to keep credit flowing to limit the economic damage from the pandemic. These included large purchases of U.S. government and mortgage-backed securities and lending to support households, employers, financial market participants, and state and local governments. "We are deploying these lending powers to an unprecedented extent [and] … will continue to use these powers forcefully, proactively, and aggressively until we are confident that we are solidly on the road to recovery," Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, said in April 2020. In that same month, Powell discussed the Fed's goals during a webinar at the Brookings' Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy. This post summarizes the Fed's actions though the end of 2021.
HOW DID THE FED SUPPORT THE U.S. ECONOMY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS?
Easing Monetary Policy
Federal funds rate: The Fed cut its target for the federal funds rate, the rate banks pay to borrow from each other overnight, by a total of 1.5 percentage points at its meetings on March 3 and March 15, 2020. These cuts lowered the funds rate to a range of 0% to 0.25%. The federal funds rate is a benchmark for other short-term rates, and also affects longer-term rates, so this move was aimed at supporting spending by lowering the cost of borrowing for households and businesses.
Forward guidance: Using a tool honed during the Great Recession of 2007-09, the Fed offered forward guidance on the future path of interest rates. Initially, it said that it would keep rates near zero "until it is confident that the economy has weathered recent events and is on track to achieve its maximum employment and price stability goals." In September 2020, reflecting the Fed's new monetary policy framework, it strengthened that guidance, saying that rates would remain low "until labor market conditions have reached levels consistent with the Committee's assessments of maximum employment and inflation has risen to 2 percent and is on track to moderately exceed 2 percent for some time." By the end of 2021, inflation was well above the Fed's 2% target and labor markets were nearing the Fed's "maximum employment" target. At its December 2021 meeting, the Fed's policy-making committee, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), signaled that most of its members expected to raise interest rates in three one-quarter percentage point moves in 2022.
Quantitative easing (QE): The Fed resumed purchasing massive amounts of debt securities, a key tool it employed during the Great Recession. Responding to the acute dysfunction of the Treasury and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) markets after the outbreak of COVID-19, the Fed's actions initially aimed to restore smooth functioning to these markets, which play a critical role in the flow of credit to the broader economy as benchmarks and sources of liquidity. On March 15, 2020, the Fed shifted the objective of QE to supporting the economy. It said that it would buy at least $500 billion in Treasury securities and $200 billion in government-guaranteed mortgage-backed securities over "the coming months." On March 23, 2020, it made the purchases open-ended, saying it would buy securities "in the amounts needed to support smooth market functioning and effective transmission of monetary policy to broader financial conditions," expanding the stated purpose of the bond buying to include bolstering the economy. In June 2020, the Fed set its rate of purchases to at least $80 billion a month in Treasuries and $40 billion in residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities until further notice. The Fed updated its guidance in December 2020 to indicate it would slow these purchases once the economy had made "substantial further progress" toward the Fed's goals of maximum employment and price stability. In November 2021, judging that test had been met, the Fed began tapering its pace of asset purchases by $10 billion in Treasuries and $5 billion in MBS each month. At the subsequent FOMC meeting in December 2021, the Fed doubled its speed of tapering, reducing its bond purchases by $20 billion in Treasuries and $10 billion in MBS each month.
Supporting Financial Markets
Lending to securities firms: Through the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF), a program revived from the global financial crisis, the Fed offered low interest rate loans up to 90 days to 24 large financial institutions known as primary dealers. The dealers provided the Fed with various securities as collateral, including commercial paper and municipal bonds. The goal was to help these dealers continue to play their role in keeping credit markets functioning during a time of stress. Early in the pandemic, institutions and individuals were inclined to avoid risky assets and hoard cash, and dealers encountered barriers to financing the rising inventories of securities they accumulated as they made markets. To re-establish the PDCF, the Fed had to obtain the approval of the Treasury Secretary to invoke its emergency lending authority under Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act for the first time since the 2007-09 crisis. The program expired on March 31, 2021.
Backstopping money market mutual funds: The Fed also re-launched the crisis-era Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF). This facility lent to banks against collateral they purchased from prime money market funds, which invest in Treasury securities and corporate short-term IOUs known as commercial paper. At the onset of COVID-19, investors, questioning the value of the private securities these funds held, withdrew from prime money market funds en masse. To meet these outflows, funds attempted to sell their securities, but market disruptions made it difficult to find buyers for even high-quality and shorter-maturity securities. These attempts to sell the securities only drove prices lower (in a "fire sale") and closed off markets that businesses rely on to raise funds. In response, the Fed set up the MMLF to "assist money market funds in meeting demands for redemptions by households and other investors, enhancing overall market functioning and credit provision to the broader economy." The Fed invoked Section 13(3) and obtained permission to administer the program from Treasury, which provided $10 billion from its Exchange Stabilization Fund to cover potential losses. Given limited usage, the MMLF expired on March 31, 2021.
Repo operations: The Fed vastly expanded the scope of its repurchase agreement (repo) operations to funnel cash to money markets. The repo market is where firms borrow and lend cash and securities short-term, usually overnight. Since disruptions in the repo market can affect the federal funds rate, the Fed's repo operations made cash available to primary dealers in exchange for Treasury and other government-backed securities. Before coronavirus turmoil hit the market, the Fed was offering $100 billion in overnight repo and $20 billion in two-week repo. Throughout the pandemic, the Fed significantly expanded the program—both in the amounts offered and the length of the loans. In July 2021, the Fed established a permanent Standing Repo Facility to backstop money markets during times of stress.
Foreign and International Monetary Authorities (FIMA) Repo Facility: Sales of U.S. Treasury securities by foreigners who wanted dollars added to strains in money markets. To ensure foreigners had access to dollar funding without selling Treasuries in the market, the Fed in July 2021 established a new repo facility called FIMA that offers dollar funding to the considerable number of foreign central banks that do not have established swap lines with the Fed. The Fed makes overnight dollar loans to these central banks, taking Treasury securities as collateral. The central banks can then lend dollars to their domestic financial institutions.
International swap lines: Using another tool that was important during the global financial crisis, the Fed made U.S. dollars available to foreign central banks to improve the liquidity of global dollar funding markets and to help those authorities support their domestic banks who needed to raise dollar funding. In exchange, the Fed received foreign currencies and charged interest on the swaps. For the five central banks that have permanent swap lines with the Fed—Canada, England, the Eurozone, Japan, and Switzerland—the Fed lowered its interest rate and extended the maturity of the swaps. It also provided temporary swap lines to the central banks of Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, and Sweden. In June 2021, the Fed extended these temporary swaps until December 31, 2021.
Encouraging Banks to Lend
Direct lending to banks: The Fed lowered the rate that it charges banks for loans from its discount window by 2 percentage points, from 2.25% to 0.25%, lower than during the Great Recession. These loans are typically overnight—meaning that they are taken out at the end of one day and repaid the following morning—but the Fed extended the terms to 90 days. At the discount window, banks pledge a wide variety of collateral (securities, loans, etc.) to the Fed in exchange for cash, so the Fed takes little (or no) risk in making these loans. The cash allows banks to keep functioning, since depositors can continue to withdraw money and the banks can make new loans. However, banks are sometimes reluctant to borrow from the discount window because they fear that if word leaks out, markets and others will think they are in trouble. To counter this stigma, eight big banks agreed to borrow from the discount window in March 2020.
Temporarily relaxing regulatory requirements: The Fed encouraged banks—both the largest banks and community banks—to dip into their regulatory capital and liquidity buffers to increase lending during the pandemic. Reforms instituted after the financial crisis require banks to hold additional loss-absorbing capital to prevent future failures and bailouts. However, these reforms also include provisions that allow banks to use their capital buffers to support lending in downturns. The Fed supported this lending through a technical change to its TLAC (total loss-absorbing capacity) requirement—which includes capital and long-term debt—to gradually phase in restrictions associated with shortfalls in TLAC. (To preserve capital, big banks also suspended buybacks of their shares.) The Fed also eliminated banks' reserve requirement—the percent of deposits that banks must hold as reserves to meet cash demand—though this was largely irrelevant because banks held far more than the required reserves. The Fed restricted dividends and share buybacks of bank holding companies throughout the pandemic, but lifted these restrictions effective June 30, 2021, for most firms based on stress test results. These stress tests showed that banks had ample capital to support lending even if the economy performed far weaker than anticipated.
Supporting Corporations and Businesses
Direct lending to major corporate employers: In a significant step beyond its crisis-era programs, which focused primarily on financial market functioning, the Fed established two new facilities to support the flow of credit to U.S. corporations on March 23, 2020. The Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility (PMCCF) allowed the Fed to lend directly to corporations by buying new bond issues and providing loans. Borrowers could defer interest and principal payments for at least the first six months so that they had cash to pay employees and suppliers (but they could not pay dividends or buy back stock). And, under the new Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF), the Fed could purchase existing corporate bonds as well as exchange-traded funds investing in investment-grade corporate bonds. An orderly secondary market was seen as helping businesses access new credit in the primary market. These facilities allowed "companies access to credit so that they are better able to maintain business operations and capacity during the period of dislocations related to the pandemic," the Fed said. Initially supporting $100 billion in new financing, the Fed announced on April 9, 2020, that the facilities would be increased to backstop a combined $750 billion of corporate debt. And, as with previous facilities, the Fed invoked Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act and received permission from the U.S. Treasury, which provided $75 billion from its Exchange Stabilization Fund to cover potential losses. Late in 2020, after the recovery from the pandemic was under way, and despite the Fed's misgivings, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin decided that the final bond and loan purchases for the corporate credit facilities would take place no later than December 31, 2020. The Fed objected to the cutoff, preferring to keep the facilities available until there was a firmer assurance that financial conditions would not deteriorate again. The Fed said on June 2, 2021 that it would gradually sell off its $13.7 billion portfolio of corporate bonds, which it completed in December 2021.
Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF): Commercial paper is a $1.2 trillion market in which firms issue unsecured short-term debt to finance their day-to-day operations. Through the CPFF, another reinstated crisis-era program, the Fed bought commercial paper, essentially lending directly to corporations for up to three months at a rate 1 to 2 percentage points higher than overnight lending rates. "By eliminating much of the risk that eligible issuers will not be able to repay investors by rolling over their maturing commercial paper obligations, this facility should encourage investors to once again engage in term lending in the commercial paper market," the Fed said. "An improved commercial paper market will enhance the ability of businesses to maintain employment and investment as the nation deals with the coronavirus outbreak." As with other non-bank lending facilities, the Fed invoked Section 13(3) and received permission from the U.S. Treasury, which put $10 billion into the CPFF to cover any losses. The Commercial Paper Funding Facility lapsed on March 31, 2021.
Supporting loans to small- and mid-sized businesses: The Fed's Main Street Lending Program, announced on April 9, 2020, aimed to support businesses too large for the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and too small for the Fed's two corporate credit facilities. The program was subsequently expanded and broadened to include more potential borrowers. Through three facilities—the New Loans Facility, Expanded Loans Facility, and Priority Loans Facility—the Fed was prepared to fund up to $600 billion in five-year loans. Businesses with up to 15,000 employees or up to $5 billion in annual revenue could participate. In June 2020, the Fed lowered the minimum loan size for New Loans and Priority Loans, increased the maximum for all facilities, and extended the repayment period. As with other facilities, the Fed invoked Section 13(3) and received permission from the U.S. Treasury, which through the CARES Act put $75 billion into the three Main Street Programs to cover losses. Borrowers are subject to restrictions on stock buybacks, dividends, and executive compensation. (See here for additional operational details.) Secretary Mnuchin, again over the Fed's objections, decided that the Main Street facility would stop taking loan submissions on December 14, 2020, as it was set to make its final purchases by January 8, 2021. The Fed also established a Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility that facilitated loans made under the PPP. Banks lending to small businesses could borrow from the facility using PPP loans as collateral. The PPP Liquidity Facility closed on July 30, 2021.
Supporting loans to non-profit institutions: In July 2020, the Fed expanded the Main Street Lending Program to non-profits, including hospitals, schools, and social service organizations that were in sound financial condition before the pandemic. Borrowers needed at least 10 employees and endowments of no more than $3 billion, among other eligibility conditions. The loans were for five years, but payment of principal was deferred for the first two years. As with loans to businesses, lenders retained 5 percent of the loans. This addition to the Main Street program lapsed with the rest of the facility on January 8, 2021.
Supporting Households and Consumers
Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF): Through this facility, reestablished on March 23, 2020, the Fed supported households, consumers, and small businesses by lending to holders of asset-backed securities collateralized by new loans. These loans included student loans, auto loans, credit card loans, and loans guaranteed by the SBA. In a step beyond the crisis-era program, the Fed expanded eligible collateral to include existing commercial mortgage-backed securities and newly issued collateralized loan obligations of the highest quality. Like the programs supporting corporate lending, the Fed said the TALF would initially support up to $100 billion in new credit. To restart it, the Fed invoked Section 13(3) and received permission from the Treasury, which allocated $10 billion from the Exchange Stabilization Fund to finance the program. Without an extension, this facility stopped making purchases on December 31, 2020, at Secretary Mnuchin's order.
Supporting State and Municipal Borrowing
Direct lending to state and municipal governments: During the 2007-09 financial crisis, the Fed resisted backstopping municipal and state borrowing, seeing that as the responsibility of the administration and Congress. But in this crisis, the Fed lent directly to state and local governments through the Municipal Liquidity Facility, which was created on April 9, 2020. The Fed expanded the list of eligible borrowers on April 27 and June 3, 2020. The municipal bond market was under enormous stress in March 2020, and state and municipal governments found it increasingly hard to borrow as they battled COVID-19. The Fed's facility offered loans to U.S. states, including the District of Columbia, counties with at least 500,000 residents, and cities with at least 250,000 residents. Through the program, the Fed made $500 billion available to government entities that had investment-grade credit ratings as of April 8, 2020, in exchange for notes tied to future tax revenues with maturities of less than three years. In June 2020, Illinois became the first government entity to tap the facility. Under changes announced that month, the Fed allowed governors in states with cities and counties that did not meet the population threshold to designate up to two localities to participate. Governors were also able to designate two revenue bond issuers—airports, toll facilities, utilities, public transit—to be eligible. The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) took advantage of this provision in August, borrowing $451 million from the facility. The Fed invoked Section 13(3) with the approval of the U.S. Treasury, which used the CARES Act to provide $35 billion to cover any potential losses. (See here for additional details.) The Municipal Liquidity Facility stopped purchases on December 31, 2020 when it lost Treasury support, per Secretary Mnuchin's decision. The New York MTA secured a second loan from the facility on December 10, 2020, borrowing $2.9 billion before lending halted.
Supporting municipal bond liquidity: The Fed also used two of its credit facilities to backstop muni markets. It expanded the eligible collateral for the MMLF to include municipal variable-rate demand notes and highly rated municipal debt with maturities of up to 12 months. The Fed also expanded the eligible collateral of the CPFF to include high-quality commercial paper backed by tax-exempt state and municipal securities. These steps allowed banks to funnel cash into the municipal debt market, where stress had been building due to a lack of liquidity.
WHY WERE THE FED'S ACTIONS IMPORTANT?
Steps taken by federal, state, and local officials to mitigate the spread of the virus limited economic activity, leading to a sudden and deep recession with millions of jobs lost. The Fed's actions ensured that credit continued to flow to households and businesses, preventing financial market disruptions from intensifying the economic damage.
In many other countries, most credit flows through the banking system. In the U.S., a substantial amount of credit flows through capital markets, so the Fed worked to keep them functioning as smoothly as possible. As one of our colleagues, Don Kohn, former Federal Reserve Vice Chair, said in March 2020:
"The Treasury market in particular is the foundation for trading in many other securities markets in the U.S. and around the world; if it's disrupted, the functioning of every market will be impaired. The Fed's purchase of securities is explicitly aimed at improving the functioning of the Treasury and MBS markets, where market liquidity had been well below par in recent days."
But targeting the Treasury market proved insufficient, given the severity of the COVID recession and the disruption of flows of credit across other financial markets. So the Fed intervened directly in the markets for corporate and municipal debt to ensure that key economic actors could raise funds to pay workers and avoid bankruptcies. These measures aimed to help businesses survive the crisis and resume hiring and production when the pandemic ebbed.
Banks also needed support to keep credit flowing. When financial markets are clogged, firms tend to draw on bank lines of credit, which can lead banks to pull back on lending or selling Treasury and other securities. The Fed supplied unlimited liquidity to financial institutions so they could meet credit drawdowns and make new loans to businesses and households feeling financial strains.
The authors did not receive financial support from any firm or person for this article or from any firm or person with a financial or political interest in this article. They are not currently an officers, directors, or board members of any organization with a financial or political interest in this article. Prior to his consulting work for Brookings, Dave Skidmore was employed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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Felicity Huffman
Felicity Huffman Will Finally Make Her TV Return After College Admissions Scandal
More than a year after the end of her prison sentence, Felicity Huffman is starring in a new comedy on ABC
By Lauren Piester	• Published November 30, 2020 • Updated on November 30, 2020 at 11:29 pm
Felicity Huffman is getting back to work.
More than a year after she completed her prison sentence for her part in the college admissions scandal, the 57-year-old actress has a new project in the works. She's even returning to ABC--the former home of "Desperate Housewives."
Huffman is starring in an untitled comedy series inspired by the life of Susan Savage, owner of the minor league baseball team the Sacramento River Cats. The single cam comedy follows a woman who unexpectedly loses her husband and inherits the baseball team he owned and loved. She navigates her new life with the help of her dysfunctional family, including her eldest son (Zack Gottsagen), a baseball devotee with Down syndrome, her new work family and the Sacramento community.
The pilot was written by Becky Hartman Edwards, who will executive produce alongside Huffman.
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This is Huffman's first new project since serving her prison sentence in fall 2019.
The actress pleaded guilty to charges of mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in May 2019 and completed her sentence in October. She was just one of many parents accused of paying for their children's admission into elite schools in the college admissions scandal – dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues" by the FBI. Huffman admitted to paying $15,000 to have an SAT proctor administer her daughter's exam. In a letter to the judge presiding over her case, she reflected on her actions.
"As painful as this has been, I am truly grateful for the lessons I have learned and for opportunity to change and live more honestly," she wrote. "I am now focusing on repairing my relationship with my daughter, my family and making amends to my community."
Actress Lori Loughlin is currently serving a two-month prison sentence for her role in the scandal, and her husband Mossimo Gianniulli is currently serving five months.
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Read this article on Mark Mitchell this morning. I've heard of him before as he transferred out of my old school district.
Sounds like he is the real deal. Unfortunately I've heard that Kentucky is his dream school.
Like any good prospect at Miege he won't end up at KU.
Do kids now even remember Releford?
@FarmerJayhawk Cozart too. Both went so well.
With the state of the football program in recent times, hard to blame the athlete. If I recall correctly Cozart did well at Boise State and now plays in the Canadian League and Ryan Willis is doing much better at Virginia Tech. than he did at KU.
@JayHawkFanToo Willis played pretty well for Va Tech this year and Cozart was a good second/situational option for a really good Boise team last year. Not to totally derail, but coaching is so underrated in football.
I agree. Hard…or maybe no so hard…to tell how these players would done under a different coach at KU.
Coaching is very important, and David was not good at it.
Nice guys rarely are good football coaches. There are some - Reid, Vermeil etc. but my best coaches over the years were hard arses.


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Q: Bind a key (for page transition with backspace) only if the key is NOT pressed in an input field? i don't know why, but i got this already to work but today it stopped working. The base code is:
$(document).bind("keydown", function(e){
    if (e.keyCode) code = e.keyCode;         // für alle Browser
    else if (e.which) code = e.which;         // für ie
    if(code==8) {
    $("#outer-frame").fadeOut(400, function (){ //content fade-out
        history.back(-1); //gehe einen Schritt in der Browser-History zurück
});
    return false; // Browser bricht ab
}
});

and i also had an if statement, don't know it anymore, it suddenly stopped working.
I want that the backspace key is bind to keydown and execute a page transition effect. No problem as long is i want to prevent the whole thing beeing called if a user hits the backspace key in an input field, es he would be redirected to the last page in his history.
PLS help me! It's so annoying if something just stopped working.
I used the :focus selector from css like if ( $("input:focus") ...
Just want to add that the browser switch is not from me, the bind event and if(code==8) was my coding, fade and history also but nothing unique you'll find a lot of examples so i did during during my research about different browser behaviour (where i found some similiar code, but i think that's jQuery ... and jQuery is awesome!).
I'm so happy with the solutions provided by Ken Egozi and SimpleCoder and really want to thank both of you for your help!

A: You need to continue (return true) if he key pressed within a textarea, a textbox or a password box.
Add
if ($(e.target).is("textarea, input[type=text], input[type=password]")) return true;

to your handler, before the if (code==8) bit

A: I would do this:
$(document).bind("keydown", function(e) {
    if ((e.target.nodeName.toLowerCase() != "input" && e.target.nodeName.toLowerCase() != "textarea") && e.which == 8) {
        $("#outer-frame").fadeOut(400, function() {
            history.back(-1);
        });
        return false; // unterbricht die Verarbeitung durch den Browser
    }
});

Also, just so you know, jQuery automatically normalizes the e.which property so:
if (e.keyCode)
    code = e.keyCode; // für alle Browser
else if (e.which)
    code = e.which; // für ie
if (code == 8) {

can be written as
if (e.which == 8) {