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By Jennifer Blair
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Can you make money preconditioning feeder calves?
The answer depends on whom you talk to.
Attendees at a University of Calgary conference last month were told about an Indiana producer who pocketed an extra $80 per calf by preconditioning his animals.
"The producer realized that the more days he preconditioned those calves, the more money he made," Dr. Mark Hilton, a veterinarian with Elanco Animal Health, said at the U of C Veterinary Medicine Beef Cattle Conference.
But most Alberta producers aren't fully preconditioning — a practice where a feeder calf is vaccinated, castrated, weaned, and fed from a feed bunk — because there's not a strong economic incentive, said Dr. Cody Creelman of Veterinary Agri-Health Services in Airdrie.
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"Guys are very, very hesitant to keep their cattle around if they're doing a preconditioning program where those cows are backgrounded for a little bit post-weaning before they're shipped off — introduced to a bunk, introduced to stored feed and water troughs," said Creelman.
"They say, 'If one animal dies, that's basically my entire profit margin for doing this preconditioning.' They like to defer their risk in terms of mortality to the feedlot."
However, these two views aren't irreconcilable — rather it's all about the specifics, and the economics, of individual operations.
Indiana study
In the case of the Indiana producer, who was the subject of an 11-year research project, "the profit was directly tied to average daily gain," said Hilton.
"The big deal in dollars with preconditioning calves is putting weight on those calves efficiently," he said.
Newly weaned cattle are "pretty darn efficient at putting a pound of gain on," but as their weights go up, so too do the costs per pound of gain. As a result, producers are generally better off taking advantage of those 'cheap' gains, he said.
"Our cost of gain was very reasonable on these calves."
At the beginning of the project, the average daily gain was 1.2 pounds, but as the producer tweaked the feed ration and gained more experience with preconditioning, he "pushed three pounds a day of gain once we got those calves on a ration that was really good," said Hilton.
"Weight gain the first year was 58 pounds, and by the end (of the study), we were putting 200 pounds on these calves. That's what really paid for him."
And as he added more days of feeding for those calves, his profit "tended to go up."
"We started out feeding these calves for 48 days, and then he decided that feeding for 70 days made him a lot more money."
But even with the increased gain and preconditioning bonus, his profitability "really changed a lot over the years," said Hilton, adding that feed costs were the No. 1 reason for that.
"We don't have much control over that, but I can control gain on those calves by putting them on a ration where they do really, really well," said Hilton.
"We're in charge of the weight, and when we put weight on these calves, the owner made money."
By the end of the project, the producer "got $174.30 more for these calves than he would have."
"It cost him $93.60 to put that on, which gave him a net profit of $80.70 per calf. Over the years, that was about $90,000 extra," said Hilton.
By comparison, the producer made $20 per cow per year in his cow herd.
"He made $80 by owning a calf for 63 (extra) days. That's four times as much money for owning a calf for two months versus owning a cow for a year."
The situation in Alberta
The biggest barrier for most Alberta producers is that auction marts don't pay extra for preconditioned calves.
"Cow-calf producers are right in saying, 'I'm not sure if I'm getting an appropriate premium for all the work I'm putting in to do the preconditioning.' That's a very fair statement," said Creelman.
"What you would need to do is figure out for yourself what that cost actually is."
Producers are often guilty of not knowing their breakeven costs, but it's critical in a preconditioning program.
"Most importantly as a cow-calf producer, you have to know your true input costs and figure out what works best for your system," said Creelman. "Preconditioning might be really good for one person and they can make money at it, but they may not be able to do it in another system.
"Before you implement a program, know what the cost is to do preconditioning."
In general, a 30-day preconditioning program costs about $50 a head in production costs, including feed, veterinary care, yardage and interest, he said.
"Each producer is going to have to figure out a number for themselves, and that's the number you're going to need to work with carrying forward when you're talking to a feedlot."
But the "real work" is in marketing those preconditioned calves.
"It's hard to get that premium back on your calves in a typical open auction mart system," said Creelman, who advocates selling direct to feedlots using tools like e-sales and satellite auctions. That way, producers can track the performance of their calves through the system to command higher prices with that buyer in subsequent years.
"I do think that's the best system to be able to see the benefit from preconditioning," said Creelman. "You can say, 'My breakeven is $50. We followed these calves through last year and saw that they had pretty good carcass data and half the bovine respiratory disease and half the death loss that was average for your feedlot. If we calculate that all out, we get $100, so let's meet in the middle at $75.'
"But that takes a lot of work and takes a lot of time to develop the relationships."
Producers need to remember that preconditioned does not always equal more money, he added.
"We're very market dependent in our industry. Sometimes, doing all of these nice things on the cow-calf side can negatively impact your overall revenue," said Creelman.
"You do need to find the balance and recognize that you're in a free-market system where things can change from year to year."
Hilton was at pains to emphasize the Indiana producer didn't see an immediate benefit.
"We didn't do all this at once. This took a while to happen, and he could have easily thrown in the towel the first year," he said.
"I get really tired of reading that someone tried something once and it didn't work, so they're not going to try it again. If it didn't work the first time, maybe you didn't do it right."
Creelman also said there's a steep learning curve in getting a handle on "all the tools and options out there."
"It does take more work. It takes more planning. From that regard, it is a little trickier," he said.
And with recent high prices, most producers have just been enjoying the ride, he added.
"When you're making money without doing it — like what the industry has been experiencing over the last five years — that extra hard work isn't seen as worth it," he said.
"But I always say most good things are hard."
This article was originally published in the July 18, 2016 issue of the Alberta Farmer Express.
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Dated 17 August 2021: I'm only still watching Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai! because it is new
The Dark Realm might not have been a meritocracy.
I probably would not have started watching Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai! (The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!) if there had been more shows to watch this season. The best thing it seemed to have going for it was some speculation prior to its start that it would be controversial in certain circles for reasons I did not explore (but which I assume are probably related to the titular character's pantsless child form). However, after three episodes, it does not appear as if anyone gives a shit about this—at least not enough to attack it.
At least her labor is being exploited now.
As far as its qualities go, entertainment-wise, Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai! is just okay at best. None of its jokes land for me. It certainly would not be my first recommendation to anyone looking for a series with this sort of setup. Y'all would be much better off watching Machikado Mazoku or Hataraku Maou-sama! or Gabriel DropOut instead. Even with not much else to watch this season, I'm still going to drop it if the reappearance of the mahou shoujo who wrecked Jahy's kingdom doesn't improve things significantly. So far, she's had zero lines and only a few seconds of screen time, but her school-uniform alter ego is in the ED experiencing various misfortunes. I do appreciate me some unrighteous misfortune.
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Dated 10 February 2020: Adding Slave Hero to Isekai Quartet hasn't ruined it yet
"Naofumi, what are we going to do inside the Shield Prison?"
Finding out that the cast of Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari (The Rising of the Shield Hero) was joining Isekai Quartet did not exactly fill me with a lot of confidence about its second season (which inexplicably isn't called Isekai Quintet), but it's been okay so far. Then again, the Shield Hero cast hasn't been in the first four episodes very much. Most of my trepidation derives from my fairly negative impressions of Shield Hero as a show (I watched 13 episodes), my lack of interest in the characters, and the rather defensive attitude the franchise's more vocal supporters seem to adopt on the Twitter. These did not seem to be ideal additions to a comedy about characters being portrayed as dipshits.
Aqua is sort of racist, to tell you the truth.
Naturally, the Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! cast fits right in, because they're dipshits to begin with. Aqua is a delight—so much so that I want retcons of other Tenchan roles except portrayed as basically Aqua analogs. (For example, Asseylum Vers Allusia from Aldnoah.Zero except with Aqua's personality and intelligence. You can't tell me Slaine's tragic loyalty to Aqua Vers Allusia wouldn't have improved the second season.) Given a choice, I'll definitely take idiots like Aqua over sourpusses like Naofumi when it comes to wacky comedy crossovers.
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Dated 20 August 2019: Dr. STONE is neither a doctor nor a stone
Guess who gets to be Eve and Adam? Go on, guess.
I wasn't really planning on watching Dr. STONE, but its premise involving mankind (and one particular species of bird, for some reason) being petrified for eons before re-emerging in a new primitive society sounded too weird to completely dismiss. Then I kept seeing reports that it was legitimately good, so that's basically how I got myself into this mess. It turns out the anime is pretty good (I have no idea about the original manga), despite my general loathing of shounen jive. Unfortunately, one of the lead characters shouts all of his lines (which, it seems from the Twitter, is a trait some people actually enjoy?!) because he's constantly excited or agitated about something. God, just chill out a little bit, okay? At least he's not as bad as Zenitsu from Kimetsu no Yaiba, since at least Taiju isn't a shithead. I swear to Haruhi, these two are the evil opposites of Momo from Machikado Mazoku who is wonderfully chill all the time. Maybe there is a Law of Conservation of Indoor Voice that I don't know about.
Senku pretends he's not trying to impress the
first blonde girl he's met in the new world.
Despite this, Dr. STONE manages to be interesting, if absurd. This is very much a cartoon, but it doesn't ignore the fundamental questions a viewer will likely come to ask. For example, why did everyone turn to stone? Why was Senku the first one revived? If you start drawing the girls with Key eyes, does it increase the likelihood one of them will contract Key AIDS? These are the sorts of things a sophisticated anime audience demands to know of its shounen anime. Dr. STONE doesn't actually answer all of these questions right away, but it acknowledges they exist. It seems I can expect to be watching this show for at least two cours, and it is paced accordingly. After seven episodes, the anime is only just now starting to introduce outside characters. Thankfully, they don't seem to be shouting literally all of their lines. One of them does appear to be totally dying of Key AIDS, though. P.S. Spoilers.
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Dated 31 December 2010: 2010 Girl of the Year
Aoba is the Best Girl of 2010 even though
Adachi Mitsuru can only draw one face.
Congratulations to Tsukishima Aoba, 2010's Best Girl. This was a pretty easy choice despite a lot of strong contenders. More about Aoba herself and the rest of this year's nominations below.
Shimizu sees Goro again after a long absence.
Shimizu Kaoru from the sixth season of Major got an automatic nomination by virtue of being last year's winner. Unfortunately, Shimizu did not get many scenes during this epic baseball show's final season, and had many of her presumably more important moments from the manga relegated to the montage during the last episode. I suspect Major probably has enough material for a seventh season, but I don't think we'll get any more in anime form unless there are OVAs.
This usually means somebody's about to get fucked.
I've decided to add Mouri Ran to basically every Best Girl of the Year list from here on out on general principle because Ran is one of anime's All Time Babes. Detective Conan doesn't change much and appears capable of running indefinitely, and Ran is enough of a sweetheart that she could potentially win this contest any year, so consider her a baseline metric of sorts. Certainly anyone below the Mouri Ran Line has no hope of winning.
Katja breaks Sasha's brain.
Only people who watched Seikon no Qwaser will fully understand why Katja gets a nomination. Too many people either did not watch the show at all or gave up on it far too early to fully appreciate just how ridiculous Qwaser managed to be. Katja's contributions are too numerous to list here, but I'll point to three key moments that cemented her nomination in 2010's Best Girl competition: (1) The scene where she connects her phone to her television. (2) The railgun powered by breast milk. (3) The scene where incorruptibly loyal Hana comes flying in out of left field.
Yamada is basically Ranpha, the early years.
Yamada from B Gata H Kei barely makes the list for being outrageous (only medium outrageous in a year containing Seikon no Qwaser) and for being an excuse for Yukarin to say amazing things.
Be glad this isn't a Key story, Yuki.
Nagato Yuki qualifies this year because of the Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie. As I've said before, this is more her movie than Haruhi's. Now, in order to answer the obvious question that people who have seen the movie must be asking without venturing into spoiler territory before those who have not seen it, let me just say this: Based on how Kyon views Nagato in the beginning of the film, the middle, and the at the end, I think the impact she has on him (and hopefully the viewer) elevates her into the upper pantheon of this year's nominees.
Squids love the long ball.
A late arrival, especially because I did not start watching Shinryaku! Ika Musume until it was already half over, Ika Musume herself easily gains a nomination as one of 2010's Best Girls. A genius at everything (except invading) and filled with verve and imagination, Ika Musume should be on everyone's list of this season's Best Girls. Well, I guess there is that technicality about whether or not squids can be girls, but I consulted the judges panel and they allowed it.
Nobody on the team trains harder than Aoba.
Finally, our victor, Tsukishima Aoba from Cross Game wins the title of Best Girl of the Year for 2010 with her solid showing throughout the yearlong baseball anime. Aoba nearly won the title last year, and was an early favorite to win even though Cross Game ended in March.
The best coaches are in the stands.
-Charles M. Schulz
It's easy to describe Aoba as another Haruka Tomatosauce tsundere, but I believe Aoba honestly hated Kou when they were children—jealous of the attention he got from her sister. However, Aoba grudgingly comes to respect Kou's physical talents for baseball and dedicates her considerable knowledge and love for the game into transforming him into the type of pitcher who can make her sister's dream come true. My memory is very hazy on this point, so the accuracy of the following anecdote is suspect at best: I believe Don Drysdale once lamented it was a shame the Los Angeles Dodgers did not have a pitcher with Orel Hershiser's brain in Kevin Gross' body. That's basically the idea behind the Aoba + Kou combination in Cross Game. It's a pity Adachi Mitsuru could not re-write the rules of Japanese high school baseball, but Aoba's head—and her heart—were enough for her to win it all this year, even if her arm could not officially compete.
That's still an awesome phone.
If you're wondering why Shikinami Asuka Langley didn't win by default, it's because Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0 came out in 2009. Also Soryu > Shikinami.
[Update: Added Panty from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.]
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Dated 13 August 2007: Incorruptible Loyalty. In consideration of two-dimensional crushes
Shinji is aghast. Rei should be ashamed.
Asuka loves Kaji. And Mana is quite the sticker-whore.
Who is the best anime/manga character of all time? Of ALL TIME. This is a question frequently discussed (usually inadvertently) in many forums and channels (although the term "best" is usually taken to mean "hottest"). These discussions often arise in the form of binary comparisons of characters from popular contemporary shows such as "Teana > Subaru" or "Shamal > Signum" that ultimately lead to final decrees such as "FATE > *."
Nanoha and Fate.
Fate > Nanoha.
Whatever the cause, and regardless of form, one thing is certain: Anime fans are fickle. Inevitably, their favorite characters are quickly replaced season by season; demonstrations and pronouncements of current favorites (such as message board avatars) are ephemeral, soon replaced, and sooner forgotten.
Saber, Emiya, and Rin.
Rin > Saber.
I've mentioned this phenomenon among anime fans in the past, and the general consensus seems to be that this flightiness is entirely normal. After all, they are fully cognizant of the fact that their favorites cannot love them back; these fans are not delusional even as they compulsively download and hoard pictures of their favorite characters and collect figurines and paraphernalia emblazoned with their likenesses, only to begin the cycle anew next season when they develop a new favorite in a month or two.
Meyrin, Athrun, and Lunamaria.
Meyrin > Lunamaria.
I am not damning this behavior. I am merely setting the stage for the real object of my curiosity: Why is it so rare to find a fan with unshakable, indefatigable, incorruptible loyalty to a single character—one for whom there is no superior, no equal, no rival, no successor? To be honest, in the past seven or eight years during which anime emerged as my primary hobby, I can think of very few people who appear completely devoted to a single character. Bear in mind that this is a fandom in which nearly unimaginable perversions, grandiose neuroses, and unspeakable habits are not at all uncommon. And yet, I know of far more people who genuinely enjoy, for example, guro than I know people for whom there is adamantly only one best character. Are the latter the more perverse, since they are the more rare?
Souju and Sara.
Souju > Sara.
Perhaps this behavior is related to the aforementioned tendency to associate "best character" with "hottest character." Relying on the old standard, "familiarity breeds contempt," (or the more modern axiom, "show me a hot girl, and I'll show you a guy who's tired of fucking her"), it seems natural that people who are fully aware their 2-D love affairs will remain unrequited must quickly find and fixate on new characters as their fervor for their current favorite inevitably fades. So, do the rare Incorruptible Few not realize that their idols can't love them back, or is it that they just don't care?
Sara.
A Little Princess > The Secret Garden. Wait....
My optimism tells me it is the latter. For that reason, as far as I am concerned, for these few, their unique peculiarity is an attribute—their uncommon determined, dedicated devotion their defining characteristic. And so, so damning if I am wrong.
P.S. Asuka > *
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Dated 18 June 2007: Macross 7
Gigil is the best singer in Macross 7.
Well, at least he is through the first 36 episodes.
I didn't think much of Gigil at first. As far as antagonists go, he didn't seem all that interesting. However, the big ugly bastard has won me over with his incorruptible loyalty to Sybil.
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George Ritzer: The Cathedrals & Dinosaurs of Consumption
georgeritzer on August 17, 2011
Today we have a guest post from Distinguished University Professor and social theorist George Ritzer. This text is only part of the talk Dr. Ritzer will deliver in Las Vegas on Friday, August 19thas part of the Consumer Society Research Network conference. Ritzer's work on the technologies of consumption is in full force in this essay. The technologies of consumption in the form of ever more spectacular "cathedrals" of consumption are coming to look more and more like "dinosaurs." This essay to provides an important backdrop of the current economic situation in Las Vegas, one in which Ritzer argues mirrors larger trends in consumerism and globalization.
There is, at least from my point of view, no better place to discuss the crisis and contradictions in consumption in the US, especially in its cathedrals of consumption, than in Las Vegas, the city devoted to, and built on, consumption and defined globally by its iconic cathedrals of consumption; the major daftar idn poker casino-hotels on the Strip. It is here that we witnessed what was arguably the greatest consumer-driven expansion in the US in the run up to the Great Recession and, as a result of the latter, perhaps the greatest economic setbacks. Unemployment in Las Vegas rose as high as 15% and is still over 12%. That was due to online game such as fluffy favourites slots, many people turn to play at home than going out in land-based casino. New construction is virtually non-existent. The foreclosure rate, while slightly down from 2009, remains the highest, and by a wide margin, of all the metropolitan areas in the US. Gaming revenue dropped by $2 billion at the depth of the recession and is still down about $1.5 billion from the peak. The largest casino hotel conglomerates- MGM and Caesars- continue to report huge losses largely because of debt incurred during the Great Recession. Upon reviewing hows the world of land-base casino stands nowadays, it was devastated I can merely say that the heat is on slot this very day and becoming more phenomenal. Mirroring the global economic shift to the Far East, Las Vegas is no longer the gambling capital of the world and has been surpassed by both Macau and Singapore. There are a lot of online casinos available out there. So you may have the freedowm to choose the mobile casino that you like the most. You can join many online casino at the same time then you can change to play different games in different online casino if you aren't enjoying one of them or its bonuses aren't advantageous for your style of play. Of course, top online casino malaysia is the best for you which it offers a lot of different types of games and promotions as well. For those gamblers who doesn't like crowds and smoky environment, online mobile casino is the best choice for you! You can start playing immediately without waiting for others. The most popular games are ready for you when you're ready to play too at anytime!
Of course, the cathedrals of consumption would not be in crisis was it not for the broader problems facing consumption and the economy more generally. Most of the leading cathedrals of consumption on the Vegas Strip were constructed in the boom decades running up to the onset of the Great Recession in 2007 and they were built, and expansions and other cathedrals of consumption planned, in the expectation that the boom would continue. The recession hit the Strip, as well as Las Vegas more generally, like a sledgehammer and both have yet to recover. The gaming conglomerates that dominate the Strip (MGM, Sands), as well as gambling globally, were also hit hard, although they have largely recovered, at least as far a share price is concerned.
While the recession seems to have abated (although there are signs as I write of a "double-dip"), at least for the moment, there are deeper and longer term crises and contradictions facing the cathedrals of consumption:
First, they were erected during a period in which consumption increasingly dominated the American economy and relatively few questions were raised about such a focus on consumption and a corresponding lack of concern with production. However, in light of the recession, the rise of China as a production colossus, and the huge US debt to it and others, real questions have been raised about the long-term viability of a consumption-oriented economy. Can we consume our way to economic success? Could we ever have really done so? We incurred massive and ultimately unsustainable personal and national debt while we continued to fall short of a full-scale consumption society. Where would we have stood in terms of such indebtedness had we achieved the "dream" (nightmare) of a society fully devoted to consumption (and to jobs devoted to serving those who consume)?
Second, the irrational exuberance of the pre-recession era which, among other things, led to massive overbuilding in many places in the US (for example, American Dream Meadowlands [formerly Xanadu] Mall outside New York City) and the world (most notably Dubai, but also Spain), including Las Vegas in general and the Strip in particular. The housing market in Las Vegas is a disaster; one of the worst in the US. Most new construction is, at the minimum, on hold. Hotel rooms are readily available, often at bargain prices. There are plenty of empty seats at the gaming tables. Las Vegas shows are available at deep discounts. Partly constructed casino hotels, some perhaps never to completed, are to be found on the strip and those that are recently completed have plenty of empty rooms.
And, third, those un-, and recently, finished casino-hotels are, like Dubai's Burj Khalifa and the Palm islands and its hotels and attractions, "dinosaurs of consumption". The dinosaurs of consumption are huge and expensive to build and operate cathedrals of consumption that were planned and in some cases built in the period of irrational exuberance before the onset of the Great Recession. They are "dinosaurs" because they, like dinosaurs themselves, are ill-suited to the environment in which the find themselves and are facing the possibility of extinction.
Among the unfinished dinosaurs of consumption on the Vegas Strip is the bankrupt Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Construction on the nearly $3 billion, 4,000 room hotel was halted in 2009 and has yet to resume. The site was bought by financier Carl Icahn at auction in 2010 for a mere $150 million. Then there is the similarly unfinished $4 billion Echelon; building was suspended there in August 2008. The Harmon at City Center was supposed to have a 28 floor hotel topped by 21 floors of condos; only the exterior of the hotel was built and it may well be demolished because of design flaws. The exterior of the Octavius Tower at Caesar's Palace is completed, but its inside is bare. St Regis Residences to be built between the Venetian and Palazzo was planned to have nearly 400 luxury condos with some priced as high as a million dollars. Construction on it was halted in 2008 but the steel beams are camouflaged in a wrap designed to make it appear like a finished (a simulated!) building. Another unfinished hulk, not camouflaged, is the planned 19-story Wyndham Desert Blue time share near the Rio casino-hotel. Aliante Station in North Las Vegas is bankrupt and the area around it has not been developed as planned. Other unfinished condos and shopping malls litter the Las Vegas landscape far off the Strip.
The largest landscape of consumption, encompassing a number of cathedrals of consumption, is City Center, the biggest private construction project in the history of the US (estimated at $11 billion dollars). It encompasses one structure that is already a dinosaur (The Harmon), while others could achieve that status since they have been losing money and many condos remain unsold. Also within City Center is Crystals, a "soaring cathedral of ultra-high-end shopping" (Fortini, 2011). On a recent visit to the 3-floor, 23,000 square foot Prada store in Crystals there were 3 employees and no customers. It is described as the "saddest shopping center on the planet"…and the "world's most splendid ghost mall". It is, in my terms, and "island of the living dead" where the shoppers are described as being "devoid of spirit". (Of course, there are many such islands in Las Vegas; in fact, there is little in the way of a "sea of life" between the islands, at least on the Strip.) The restaurant Beso and the nightclub Eve have already gone out of business. In fact, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that Crystals as well as City Center itself will become dinosaurs, or in the case of the latter home to at least several dinosaurs. The existence of one or more dinosaurs (such as the Harmon) at City Center makes it likely that others will experience the same fate. However, given the magnitude of the investment, it may be that City Center as a whole is too big to fail. This is especially the case because a series of hulks there like the Fontainebleau and Echelon could be contagious and threaten other casino-hotels there, as well as ultimately at least some of those on the Strip itself.
What I want argue is that the dinosaurs of consumption in Las Vegas (and elsewhere) are highly visible symbols and metaphors for the excesses of consumption, the hyperconsumption, that characterized the developed world, especially the US, in the boom years, even decades, that preceded that Great Recession. They stand as constant reminders of that excess and the hubris associated with it.
Clearly, hyperconsumption is ultimately unsustainable economically, and certainly ecologically and arguably even morally. Even a cursory examination of Las Vegas' cathedrals, and especially its dinosaurs, of consumption should make that abundantly obvious. They should remind us, and the rest of the world, of the folly of such a form and level of consumption. However, the world has clearly not learned the lessons as reflected in the fact that Las Vegas is being outdone by spectacular developments in Dubai, Macau and Singapore.
While this problem strikes quite near to home, if not literally in our home, for many of us, Las Vegas and Dubai are notable not only for their dramatic dinosaurs of consumption, but also for homes and communities that are extinct or nearly so. The landscape of Las Vegas is littered with unfinished buildings, homes and communities. Many homes have been foreclosed on, abandoned, or offered for sale at discounts that seemingly no matter how deep the discounts people cannot be induced to buy them.
The issue, of course, is whether what is described above is just part of a short-term slowdown or whether it is part of a long-term change involving retrenchment following a period of irrational exuberance in consumption in general and in the cathedrals and landscapes of consumption in particular. More generally, one is led to wonder whether we have witnessed the end for many of the collective dream that untold happiness lies in consumption, especially in the excesses associated with the themselves excessive cathedrals of consumption. If we are, it is possible that the Strip's cathedrals of consumption will at some point in the future not simply be debris or fossils from an earlier era, they will be little more than what Walter Benjamin called "traces" of that earlier epoch. Furthermore, Benjamin discusses the decline in quality of the traces or detritus left behind as epochs pass from the scene. It seems likely that the detritus left behind by today's Las Vegas (e.g. an abandoned New York, New York or Excalibur) is likely to pale in comparison to the detritus of past epochs such as the Eiffel Tower. We have become accustomed to seeing traces of America's industrial era in the rusting hulks that were our textile, steel and automobile factories. It is not outrageous to think that Las Vegas faces a similar future with the unfinished hulks dotting the Strip (and the rest of Las Vegas today) today being the precursors of tomorrow's abandoned hulks. It may be that Las Vegas and its cathedrals of consumption are too big to fail, but we thought that about Lehman Brothers and many of Detroit's great factories (e.g. River Rouge). At the minimum, watching and studying our cathedrals of consumption is a useful and abundantly obvious way of getting a handle on the state of consumption, and more generally the economy, today. In the past (and likely in the future), their spectacle drew consumers. However, it is not only the positive aspects of the cathedrals that are easy to see, but so too are the negative aspects. It is clear in Las Vegas today that its cathedrals of consumption are beginning to fray. Further signs of fraying will begin to threaten the spectacle that is at the heart of the city; the more the Strip looks tattered and torn, the fewer the number of, and the less well-heeled, the visitors who will be lured to the city. When that process begins in earnest, it will be difficult if not possible to reverse as Detroit has learned as a result of another era and type of economic decline.
Rob — August 17, 2011
interesting, though Las Vegas's condition may have more to do with cycles of real estate speculation than with cathedrals of consumption falling out of favor. I think LV offers a seductive promise to developers more than consumers, of a blank slate for any sort of experiential-retail ambition. But the spectacles are erased and forgotten. If resort-style experiential consumption has become a dinosaur, it's perhaps because new,nimbler forms of commodified experience are being sold, online and elsewhere?
Wouldn't be shocking to see the most recent round of development end in a series of imploded buildings (as have earlier rounds -- all the hotels of the Rat Pack era are gone), but would be shocking if nothing was built to take their place in the bubble years that will eventually come.
Brian K. — August 17, 2011
I grew up and lived in Las Vegas between 1989 and 2002. During my time there, a constant refrain from Very Serious People was how Vegas was living on borrowed time -- the sustainability of its spectacle and grandeur were imperiled by Atlantic City, then Indian casinos, then riverboats, then Macau... Professor Ritzer, like every previous detractor, fundamentally underestimates the capability and flexibility for Vegas to reinvent itself for whatever the market of consumers desires.
This isn't simply posturing to boost or valorize my hometown; the data does not bear out the prognostications of these pundits. At the peak of the bubble in October 2007, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority recorded 3.3 million visitors. And in the midst of the recession and double-down austerity of June 2011 (most recent data published - http://www.lvcva.com/press/statistics-facts/visitor-stats.jsp), how many visitors did Las Vegas attract? 3.3 million. This isn't to say that everything is honky dory -- gaming revenue and tax collections are off between 15 and 25% from peaks in 2006 and 2007.
However, the onus of Las Vegas's travails is not on the workers and managers (as is the case with Detroit) whose wages and profits were paid by tens of millions of willing consumers, but on the machinations of distant regulators, developers, and arbitrageurs. Therein is where this essay should, but failed, to make a contribution: the ways in which globalization create feedback loops which accelerate, centralize, exaggerate, and diffuse social and market forces. The funny thing about cathedrals and dinosaurs is that they didn't all disappear or become historical novelties -- the gritty survived the cataclysms of asteroids and Holy Roman Emperors and continue to adapt, persist, and pervade to this day.
So to take Professor Ritzer up on his prediction that the Strip will be littered with unfinished hulks of consumerist hubris in the years to come, I offer a wager: a $100 gift certificate for him to the College Park Beltway Plaza Mall if the 2020 LVCVA hotel occupancy rate is below the 1989-2007 average of 90.8% or $100 gift certificate for me to The Crystals (or whatever is Vegas's latest & most ostentatious mall in 2020) if it is not.
David R. Dickens — August 17, 2011
I agree with much that George Ritzer has to say about Las Vegas and overconsumption but, as a sociologist at UNLV who has co-authored a book on Las Vegas and published several articles on postmodern culture, I would point out that his account is superficial. Like his other work on consumer culture, Ritzer fails to recognize the political economic dimension (the role of shady banks, financiers, developers, and real estate speculators) that are the more fundamental factors affecting not only Las Vegas, but the rest of the country, and world, as well.
Replqwtil — August 20, 2011
I see the point of Prof. Ritzer's piece here as trying to isolate the shifts in culture which a shift in praxis might be showing. Pointing out that he does not take into account this or that historical, political or economical fact is to miss the point that he is not talking about the failure ot Las Vegas. He is talking about the failure of an entire culture of hyperconsumotion, using Las Vegas as an example which demonstrates the failure of a consumerist system of belief. Las Vegas could well be reborn, but it will not be the same if the underlying culture truly is rethinking its dependence on consumption. If that shift were to come about, then these grand cathedrals of consumerism will be dinosaurs. They will be fossilized remains that need to be ignored, torn down, reappropriated, or replaced.
What I'm saying is that this isn't really about Las Vegas, it's about the climate which bounds the construction of Las Vegas, along with the rest of the world.
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Schaffhausen, 15 January 2018 – IWC Schaffhausen unveiled three limited-edition "IWC Tribute to Pallweber" wristwatches with jumping numerals at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) in Geneva, as part of the jubilee collection, to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary. The company is incorporating a digital hours and minutes display in a wristwatch for the very first time. IWC started using this form of time display in pocket watches back in 1884. The display was a revolutionary development for its time.
When creating the IWC-manufactured 94200 calibre, the watch designers developed a new solution for the technically sophisticated digital display (patent pending). While toothed cogs moved the discs in the historic Pallweber pocket watches, the impulse that advances the single-minute disc is now supplied by a separate wheel train with a barrel of its own. A release mechanism that establishes a connection to the watch's main wheel train unlocks the train every 60 seconds and then immediately locks it again. After 10 minutes, the single-minute disc moves the 10-minute disc forward by one position. Every 60th minute, the hour ring jumps to the next numeral. The fact that the flow of power in the main wheel train is uninfluenced by the separate wheel train in the display discs guarantees a precise rate and a high 60-hour power reserve.
Just like on the historic Pallweber pocket watches, the display discs are connected by a mechanical linkage with a star wheel (Maltese cross drive) and can be easily moved forwards or backwards using the crown.
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The alkali metals are some of the most reactive elements in the periodic table. The alkali metals include: lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, and francium. Although often listed in Group 1 due to its electronic configuration, hydrogen is not technically an alkali metal since it rarely exhibits similar behavior. The word "alkali" comes form the Arabic word "al qali," meaning "from ashes". Similarly he word potassium is derived from potash. (The name derives from pot ash, which refers to plant ashes soaked in water in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing the product before the industrial era.) The alkali metals react readily with water to form hydroxide ions, creating alkaline solutions (pH>7).
The Group 1 alkali metals are the first column of the table. This means they are built upon their previous element, a noble gas. The noble gases have branches that are capped with neutral endings. Therefore they cannot react. The next step to build on a noble gas is to add two protons to one of the neutral endings and convert it into a lithium nuclet. This gives each of the alkali metals a valence of 1 and makes them highly reactive.
Lithium follows the noble gas helium. It's most abundant isotope is lithium 7 which means it's nucleus has 7 protons. Lithium is the first solid element. It has one ring of five which gives it a valence of 1.
Sodium follows the noble gas neon. It consists of one backbone nuclet which has a neutral ending on one side (green) and a lithium nuclet (red) on the other side. The neutral ending cannot react and does not effect valence. The lithium nuclet has a valence of 1 due to its one ring. This results in sodium having a valence of one.
Potassium is the next element after Argon. It has two backbone nuclets. There are 3 exposed endings. Two of the endings are neutral endings (green) and one is a lithium nuclet (red) with a valence of 1. This results in Potassium having a valence of 1.


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Facebook suspends Trump until 2023, shifts rules for world leaders
PMN Technology
Elizabeth Culliford
Facebook Inc on Friday suspended former U.S. President Donald Trump until at least January 2023 and announced changes to how it will treat world leaders who break the rules on its site.
Facebook had suspended Trump's account the day after the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot, determining he had incited violence. That suspension will last at least two years from the date of the initial block and would only be lifted if the risk to public safety has receded, Facebook said on Friday.
Trump criticized the decision as a form of censorship and an insult to his voters.
This new timeline denies Republican Trump a major social media megaphone ahead of the November 2022 congressional elections. However, it means he may be able to return to Facebook well before the next presidential election in late 2024.
Trump has been permanently banned by Twitter and remains suspended by Alphabet's YouTube after the riot. Trump, who this week shut down his recently-launched blog, has teased plans to start his own platform.
"Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr. Trump's suspension, we believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols," Facebook's head of global affairs Nick Clegg said in the post.
Facebook's oversight board, an independent group funded by the company who rule on a small slice of controversial content decisions, in May upheld the company's unprecedented block on Trump. However, the board ruled it was wrong to make the ban indefinite and called for a "proportionate response."
In a statement on Friday, Trump slammed the decision and repeated false claims of voter fraud: "Facebook's ruling is an insult to the record-setting 75M people, plus many others, who voted for us in the 2020 Rigged Presidential Election. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing, and ultimately, we will win. Our Country can't take this abuse anymore!" Several investigations have not found evidence of election fraud.
Trump added, "Next time I'm in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. It will be all business!"
Facebook said it would work with experts to decide when the public safety risk had subsided for Trump to be restored to its platforms. It said it would evaluate factors including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markers of civil unrest.
It also said there would be a set of escalating sanctions that would be triggered if Trump broke further rules that could lead to his permanent removal.
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, speaking to reporters, said of Facebook's decision on Trump that it felt "pretty unlikely that the zebra is going to change his stripes over the next two years, we'll see."
Social media companies have grappled in recent years with how to handle world leaders and politicians who violate their guidelines.
On Friday, the Nigerian government said it had indefinitely suspended Twitter's activities in the country, two days after the company removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists.
In a major reversal that also came as part of Facebook's Friday responses to its oversight board, Facebook said it was "removing the presumption we announced in 2019 that speech from politicians is inherently of public interest."
The company said it now would weigh violative content from politicians against the potential risk of harm in the same way it does for all users. It will also disclose when it does use its "newsworthiness" exemption.
However, a Facebook spokesman confirmed politicians' posts will remain exempt from third-party fact-checking.
Facebook has come under fire from those who think it should abandon its hands-off approach to political speech, but has also been criticized by those, including Republican lawmakers and some free-expression advocates, who saw the Trump ban as a disturbing act of censorship.
Its decision on Trump and new policy changes could have major ramifications for how Facebook handles rule-breaking world leaders and officials on its services. It said that public figures who violate its rules by inciting or celebrating ongoing violence or civil unrest could be restricted for periods ranging from one month to two years.
Social media companies have faced calls from some rights groups and activists to be more consistent in their approach to other leaders who have violated or pushed their rules. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and lawmakers in India's ruling party have drawn scrutiny.
Facebook also gave some transparency into its standard system on how many "strikes" users can receive before suspensions, which normally last up to 30 days.
The Trump case has been seen as a test for how the company responded to the ruling and recommendations of its recently-established oversight board.
The board also recommended Facebook review its role in the election fraud conspiracy that led to the Jan. 6 siege, which Facebook said it would partially implement through its partnership with academics studying the role it played in the 2020 U.S. elections. Facebook said it was implementing 15 of the 19 board recommendations.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Culliford and Akanksha Rana; Additional reporting by Steve Holland, Susan Heavey, Paresh Dave, and Trevor Hunnicutt; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty, Arun Koyyur, Nick Zieminski and Grant McCool)
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Q: Como hacer validaciones en datatables? He averiguado en la pagina oficial de Data Tables como hacer validaciones, pero me parece algo muy complejo como para lo que estoy realizando.

La validación que requiero es un poco parecido a como si lo realizara con PHP pero en este caso es en un ciclo for en JS manejando el Data Tables.

EL CODIGO:

 var table_show = $('#table_students').DataTable({
            "language": {
                            "sProcessing":     "Procesando...",
                            "sLengthMenu":     "Mostrar _MENU_ registros",
                            "sZeroRecords":    "",
                            "sEmptyTable":     "",
                            "sInfo":           "Mostrando registros del _START_ al _END_ de un total de _TOTAL_ registros",
                            "sInfoEmpty":      "Mostrando registros del 0 al 0 de un total de 0 registros",
                            "sInfoFiltered":   "(filtrado de un total de _MAX_ registros)",
                            "sInfoPostFix":    "",
                            "sSearch":         "Consult Students:",
                            "sUrl":            "",
                            "sInfoThousands":  ",",
                            "sLoadingRecords": "Loading..",
                            "oPaginate":
                             {
                                "sFirst":    "Primero",
                                "sLast":     "Último",
                                "sNext":     "Siguiente",
                                "sPrevious": "Anterior"
                            },
                            "oAria":
                             {
                                "sSortAscending":  ": Activar para ordenar la columna de manera ascendente",
                                "sSortDescending": ": Activar para ordenar la columna de manera descendente"

                            }
                        },
                    });

    list_data();
        function list_data()
        {
    $.ajax({
                        url: 'calificaciones_estudiantes',
                        type: 'POST'
                       })
                .done(function(result)
                {
                    var answer= $.parseJSON(result);

                    if(answer.estado == "vacio")
                    {
                        var response = '
'
                        + '¡Error!' + ' ' +answer.mensaje + '
';
                        $('#alert').html(response);
                    }

                    if(answer)
                    {
                        for (var i = answer.length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
                        {
                            var rowNode = table_show
                           .row.add([
                                        answer[i].nombre_estudiante,
                                        answer[i].fecha_calificacion,
                                        answer[i].area,
                                        answer[i].calificacion
                                    ])
                           .draw()
                           .node();
                        }
                    }
                })
                .fail(function() {
                    console.log("error");
                    });
            }

LO REQUERIDO:

Un estudiante puede tener diferentes calificaciones, por lo cual para "no perderme" por que son muchas calificaciones, quisiera validar si answer[i].calificacion = "bueno" entonces que me muestre las letras de color verde por ejemplo, si es malo que me las muestre rojo...

El problema es que no sabría como hacer esa validación en ese caso. agradezco de antemano si me pueden colaborar.

A: En tu ciclo for dentro de la petición ajax agregaría un if lineal quedando de esta forma:
for (var i = answer.length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
{
  var rowNode = table_show
  .row.add([
    answer[i].nombre_estudiante,
    answer[i].fecha_calificacion,
    answer[i].area,
    (answer[i].calificacion == "bueno" ?
        "bueno" :
        "malo")
  ])
  .draw()
  .node();
}

En el caso de que tengas 3 mas datos de los que quieres validar solo hay que anidar los if ejemplo:
(answer[i].calificacion == "bueno" ?
  "bueno" :
  //segunda validación
  (answer[i].calificacion == "regular" ?
    "regular" :
    "malo"
  )
)

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Grizzlies send former 1st-round pick Jarell Martin to Magic
PMN Basketball
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Grizzlies have sent forward Jarell Martin and cash considerations to the Orlando Magic in exchange for centre Dakari Johnson and the draft rights to Tyler Harvey.
Martin, 24, played three seasons with the Grizzlies and averaged 6.2 points, 4.0 rebounds and 18.3 minutes in 142 games. The Grizzlies took the 6-foot-10 forward from LSU with the 25th overall pick in the 2015 draft.
Orlando is trading Johnson just three days after acquiring him from the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Johnson, 22, played 31 games for the Thunder this past season. The 7-footer averaged 1.8 points, 1.1 rebounds and 5.2 minutes.
The Magic selected Harvey with the 51st overall pick in the 2015 draft. Harvey, 25, played for Antibes in the French LNB Pro A during the 2017-18 season.
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My name is Sarah, I'm 20 years old. I'm from Connecticut and I was born Deaf. I'm a third year at Northeastern University. I'm studying Human Services and I'm getting a minor in Sociology. I know I want to work with children and I want to help kids who have disabilities to grow up and do anything they want to do.
When I was a kid I did ballet soccer, basketball, cheerleading girl scouts, everything! [laughs] It was kind of nice to… be able to prove to my school that just because I can't hear doesn't mean I can't participate. One of the biggest challenges that I've had is living on my own. Something might happen, so I've definitely had to teach myself to become more careful and more aware since I live on my own.
One of the things I've had to become more aware of is fire safety. Cooking fire is one of the leading causes of home fires in the nation. When I'm cooking I have to be careful of what I wear so if I'm wearing a scarf or have my hair down it could catch on fire, So I have to make sure I'm wearing the right clothes.
Another thing that I learned about cooking is never leave my cooking alone never walk away or go into another room always stay with whatever I'm making. If there's a grease fire, if you put water on it, it's going to expand and explode, so never put water on a grease fire. Put a lid on a fire.
I live in a dorm that has a special fire alarm. So, if the fire alarm ends up going off there's a flashing light that will get my attention and then I can get up and get out of the dorm. You should always have a sprinkler where you live.
Automatic fire sprinklers will put out fires and give you time to get out of the building.
If the fire alarm goes off I should always know two ways to get out of the building in case there's a fire. You want to make sure you have a second way out in case the first way, the way you came in, is blocked. No matter where you are, if you're at your dorm, classroom, movie theatre, restaurant, anywhere you are you should know two ways to get out. You should practice getting out your second exit because you want to make sure it's not blocked by bicycles or trash cans or anything else.
It's very important that I prepare for a fire emergency regardless of where I am: school, my dorm, classroom, movie theatre, anywhere. You can always talk to a fire safety official or someone from the fire department to learn more about fire safety.
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At this time, even the prisoners that were locked here before Roja's existence knew his name.
The Strongest Admiral in the History of the Marine!
He destroyed a Yonko alone!
He fought against Shanks and Kaido with their crews and still won.
The happiness brought by Magellan's defeat disappeared with Roja's entrance.
The Guards were the one being Joyful now. Shiliew saw Roja after so many years and felt Sorrow and joy at the same time.
The temperature in the third level seemed to drop at an alarming level.
Roja first glanced at the fallen Magellan, then at the Prisoners, and finally, his gaze fell on Luffy and the others.
Roja snorted and glanced coldly at the prisoners, which made them overflow with cold sweat. They couldn't help but shudder and step back.
Roja took a step and the Venom on the ground Froze.
Crocodile's eyes were cold. He knew that he had to defeat Roja to leave this place. A sandstorm filled with Venom attacked Roja.
Ivankov did the same and launched an attack on Roja. With this, everyone there seemed to attack.
Roja waved his sword, and a thick Ice Wall appeared in front of him, blocking all of the attacks coming toward him. Even the sandstorm was frozen which formed a huge chunk of Ice.
Roja swung his sword out, and the just formed Ice was split in half. The attack continued toward Crocodile who was amazed and directly used his Fruit and scattered with the Sand.
Daz Bones who was defeated by Zoro before crossed his arms and tried to resist Roja's attack, but he was directly sent flying and crashed in the distance.
The attack created a massive crack in the ground of the Third floor.
However, this time, Roja looked at him calmly. He reached out his hand and caught Luffy's fist. The latter's attack couldn't even make Roja's hands shake.
Roja swung Luffy's arm and threw him far away.
At this time, Ivankov and Crocodile attacked at the same time. Roja with an indifferent look in his eyes swept his sword at them. Whenever the attack went, everyone turned to Ice.
Crocodile's sand directly turned to ice and Ivankov retreated without taking any risk.
Roja looked at Crocodile with cold eyes and stepped out. He suddenly appeared in front of him and hit him.
Crocodile was caught off guard, but he transformed into sand and seeped into the earth.
Ice started condensing under Roja's feet, and it spread all over the place.
He struggled to get out, but this time, Roja directly swung his sword at him.
He couldn't resist, and blood splashed all over the place.
And just like this, one of the Shichibukai, Crocodile, died!
Ivankov was speechless. If the prisoners weren't released, then the probability of them escaping will become too low. Releasing the prisoners was their only Choice, but this time, it was meaningless.
Roja waved with the back of his hand, and Ice Dragon rushed Toward Ivankov. The latter tried to resist but failed as Roja used Busoshoku along with this attack.
Ivankov flew straightly and fell far away.
He was defeated with just one attack!
Roja stepped forward, he countered Zoro who attacked him and turned him into ice. Then he touched the ground.
This time, Luffy and his crew finally realized Roja's power. He was merely playing with them last time. He didn't plan to catch them from the start. If he were earnest, they wouldn't last even one attack.
Usopp, Chopper, Franky, and the others tried to resist but were frozen. Only Robin stayed in her place without resisting at all. He didn't move at all from the moment Roja arrived. Finally, Roja walked toward her.
He looked at her and shook his head slightly and walked past her.
Before he said this, Robin was really nervous, but after she heard this, she finally breathed a sigh in relief as she knew that he wasn't that angry.
Roja passed Luffy and the others and came in front of the prisoners.
In the beginning, they tried to assist Crocodile and Ivankov to attack Roja, but Roja smashed them, he killed Crocodile, sent Ivankov flying, and Froze the Straw hat pirates.
They were too scared right now.
Seeing Roja come over, they almost couldn't breathe. Some people stepped back and started Running toward the Fifth Level.
A large number of prisoners ran away.
Everything was a mess, But Roja who heard their words held Sen Mabroshi and pushed the Bankai's power to the extreme.
In an instant, most of the third level directly changed from a desert to a cold and place full of Ice. It became just like the Fifth level.
All the prisoners were frozen in place at that moment, all sounds disappeared.
Roja stood there and looked at the prisoners before turning away and saying these words.
Even the riot that Magellan and all the guards failed to suppress was suppressed in a moment by Roja alone.
The riot that was ignited inside Impel Down was suppressed in a moment by Roja, while Magellan was defeated by the prisoners.
It took him only a moment!
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In the early 1880s when the Switzerland's cold winters (bad weather) forced many Swiss farmers indoors, they did not die of hunger or migrate to other nations, but this helped them to find work creating and assembling watch components indoor. As a result, Swiss watchmakers were able to produce watches at much higher volumes than their rivals.
Rather than find sustainable solutions to Africa's current economic situation, African leaders have become international beggars, engrossed with constant solicitation of grants and mortgaging the future generations with unrepayable loans from other continents.
The common trend is that Africa is now a dumping ground for used items and goods made by other continents. These goods create jobs, add values to the producers' capitals and assets, as well as create markets to improve the living standard of other continents prior to their importation in Africa. With this, the goods do not contribute to the growth of African Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as GDP measures the total value of everything produced by all the people and companies in the country. Economically, this reflects negatively in Africa's balance of trades with other continents. So, whenever Africans import, they shrink their hard currency reserves and devalue their indigenous currency.
All hope is not lost. To create sustainable economic development and lift Africa from the agony of poverty and hunger, we need leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs and businesses to make serious commitment to market-creating innovation.
Africa's ability to sustain its economic growth will depend mainly on how quickly it will be able to shift from reliance on traditional commodity markets to modern economic structures that focus on market-creating Innovation, which is defined as innovation that transforms existing product and service offerings into products and services that are cheap enough and accessible enough to reach an entirely new population of customers. Because this type of innovation opens up new markets and embraces new consumers, it thereby makes economies expand by creating new jobs as new supply chains are created around them. It makes complex and expensive products simpler and affordable and attractive to previous non-consumers, that is, the segment of the population who would benefit by owning a product, but cannot afford it due to the product's cost or its complexity. This is what Africa needs, because when you create a business that targets a segment of the market that has never been targeted in Africa, you will inevitably hire people to make, distribute, sell, and service the product.
In the early 1900s, only extremely wealthy people in the United States could afford automobiles and less than 10% of U.S roads were paved. When Henry Ford informed his partners and investors that he wanted to develop cars that the average American could afford, Malcomson's banker and uncle, John Gray, put in $10,500 into the venture.
A massive effort to develop American roads went underway shortly after with funds from gasoline taxes. In this case, the innovation caused the economic development and infrastructure spending. Before Henry Ford democratised automobiles, there were more than 1,000 automobile manufacturers in the United States. Most of them focused on sustaining innovation and efficiency innovation that were targeted at the richest members of society and as such, had limited impact on the U.S economy when compared to Ford Motor Company.
Sudanese billionaire, Mo Ibrahim, tapped into this struggle when he built Celtel long after GSM revolution in other continents. In 1998, he started a wireless telecommunications company in Malawi, Zambia, Sierra Leone, and Congo, some of the poorest countries in the world. Mr. Ibrahim's company, Celtel, opened up new markets and embraces new consumers, creating new jobs and supply chains in countries where it operated. Seven years later, and after building a business model targeted at non-consumption, he sold his company for $3.4bn.
At the end of the day, African leaders must realise that it is not societies or governments that create jobs, but it is entrepreneurs and businesses that choose to spend or not, invest or not, hire or not. This insight should give African leaders and policymakers the ability to collaborate with companies, entrepreneurs, and investors as never before to create the conditions most likely to unlock sustainable economic growth in Africa.
But one thing is sure, developing market-creating innovations requires greater investment in smart government than in the common practice of extractive based development in Africa. We must enhance ease of doing business in Africa and support any well-established investment and innovation with capacity for transformative economic development and national prosperity.
While we have considered this, it is also noteworthy to consider the all-inclusive innovation – sustainable innovation. Find out from our next article how sustainable innovation can help Africa to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) by the year 2030.


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Man found in jail parking lot dies
'We gave him every chance we could'
Diane Turbyfill dturbyfill@gastongazette.com
A man died Tuesday night after deputies found him unresponsive in the parking lot of the Gaston County Jail on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Gastonia.
The man went to the jail complex with two women to pay a fine. The women went inside while the man slept in the backseat of a Ford truck, according to reports.
The women, ages 55 and 36, later told police that their friend was snoring when they left him.
When the women returned, they said, the man was not breathing.
One of the women ran to a deputy who was sitting in a patrol car on the property at about 7:45 p.m.
Because of the unconscious man's size and position, the deputy found two other officers to help pull the man out of the truck.
Deputies performed CPR on the 31-year-old until medics arrived and took over.
The Cherryville man was taken by ambulance to CaroMont Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
"The deputies did a good job working on this guy until we got there. We gave him every chance we could," said Mark Lamphier, director of Gaston Emergency Medical Services.
Officers from several agencies and firefighters all arrived to help, Lamphier said.
Investigators recovered a metal container with eight Oxymorphone pills and eight Oxycodone pills, according to reports. They also recovered a metal snorting straw and a metal tube with white powder residue inside, according to reports.
The cause of death will not be determined until an autopsy is conducted, police said.


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These recordings feature artists' original illustrations embedded in the transparent vinyl on both sides of the 78 rpm record. Tom Saffady, a successful and prolific inventor, owned and managed Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, MI., which produced the recordings. They were released between May 1946 and April 1947. Only 74 titles are known to have been created on 10-inch Vogue picture discs.
The illustrations on each side of the record are usually related to the title of the song on that side. Illustrations were quite romantic in tone for love ballads, colorful and exotic for foreign-influenced music, and cartoonish for humorous songs, etc.
Vogue picture records were produced using a complicated process whereby a central core aluminum disc was sandwiched between the paper illustrations and vinyl. Saffady and his engineers spent several months working out the bugs that often resulted in torn or dislodged paper illustrations before perfecting the process. Tom Saffady died at 37 years of age (1954) following a battle with leukemia.
(Ah Yes) There's Good Blues Tonight
A Man, a Moon and a Maid
At Sundown
Baby I Fond Out All About You
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Do Me a Favor; He Loves Me
Doodle Doo Doo
Grandpa's Gettin' Younger Ev'ry Day
If I Could Be With You
In the Moonmist
La Rumbita Tropical
Let Me Take You in My Arms (Quierate En Mis Brazos...
Musicomania
Papa Dip; Turk's Blues
Piper's Junction
Rhapsody in Blue (Part I)
Rhapsody in Blue (Part II)
Rhumba Lesson No. 1
Serenade to a Pair of Nylons
She's Funny That Way
Some Sunday Morning
Sugar Blues
Tear It Down
The Trial of "Bumble" the Bee
Vem, Vem (The Cuban Kissing Game)
What Am I Gonna Do About You


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Trump pollster's campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat
The 27-page report pins Trump's loss on voter perception that he was untrustworthy and disapproval of his pandemic performance.
It is unclear if Trump has seen the report.
| Evan Vucci/AP
By ALEX ISENSTADT
Former President Donald Trump has blamed the election results on unfounded claims of fraud and malfeasance. But at the top levels of his campaign, a detailed autopsy report that circulated among his political aides paints a far different — and more critical — portrait of what led to his defeat.
The post-mortem, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, says the former president suffered from voter perception that he wasn't honest or trustworthy and that he was crushed by disapproval of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. And while Trump spread baseless accusations of ballot-stuffing in heavily Black cities, the report notes that he was done in by hemorrhaging support from white voters.
The 27-page report, which was written by Trump chief pollster Tony Fabrizio, shows how Trump advisers were privately reckoning with his loss even as the former president and many of his supporters engaged in a conspiracy theory-fueled effort to overturn the election. The autopsy was completed in December 2020 and distributed to Trump's top political advisers just before President Joe Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration.
The findings are based on an analysis of exit polling in 10 states. Five of them — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — are states that Trump lost after winning them in 2016. The other five — Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas — are states that Trump won in both elections.
The report zeroes in on an array of demographics where Trump suffered decisive reversals in 2020, including among white seniors, the same group that helped to propel him to the White House. The autopsy says that Trump saw the "greatest erosion with white voters, particularly white men," and that he "lost ground with almost every age group." In the five states that flipped to Biden, Trump's biggest drop-off was among voters aged 18-29 and 65 and older.
Suburbanites — who bolted from Trump after 2016 — also played a major role. The report says that the former president suffered a "double-digit erosion" with "White College educated voters across the board."
The picture of the election presented in the report is widely shared by political professionals in both parties, if not by Trump and his legions of his supporters. Trump never offered a concession to Biden, and up until his final days in office, he clung to the debunked idea that the election had been stolen.
Fabrizio declined to comment on the post-mortem. A Trump spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump's personal behavior, the autopsy makes clear, contributed to his defeat. "Biden had a clear edge over POTUS on being seen as honest & trustworthy," Fabrizio writes.
Trump's response to the pandemic was also critical. The autopsy says that coronavirus registered as the top issue among voters, and that Biden won those voters by a nearly 3-to-1 margin. A majority registered disapproval of Trump's handling of the virus.
Most voters said they prioritized battling the coronavirus over reopening the economy, even as the president put a firm emphasis on the latter. And roughly 75 percent of voters — most of whom favored Biden — said they favored public mask-wearing mandates.
The report also indirectly raises questions about the reelection campaign's decision to pause advertising on TV over the summer and save resources until the fall. According to the findings, nearly 9-in-10 voters had made up their minds about whom to support by the final month of the race.
Fabrizio isn't the only Trump adviser who has presented a post-mortem since Nov. 3. John McLaughlin, another Trump pollster, published a report on the conservative Newsmax website the week after the election.
Meanwhile, advisers to former Vice President Mike Pence brought in multiple pollsters to brief him on their conclusions after the election, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Among the takeaways was that Trump was gaining during the final weeks of the race and that his rallies had helped propel Republicans running in House and Senate races. But the pollsters also made clear that while there was substantial support for Trump's policies, there was widespread exhaustion with the president.
Within Trump's inner circle, Fabrizio had long espoused the belief that Trump needed to prioritize the pandemic in order to win reelection. Last summer, he penned a 79-page memo arguing that Trump needed to focus first on dealing with the pandemic rather than reopening the economy and recommending, among other things, that he should have been encouraging people to wear masks rather than mocking the practice.
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Research suggests an emphasis on SEL enhances, rather than distracts from schools' core missions of promoting academic achievement and attainment; improves other aspects of students' lives above and beyond the effects of academic achievement; and addresses the increased emphasis on these competencies in state standards and assessments, as well as from employers and higher education institutions. Though the evidence review focuses on explicit, free-standing SEL instruction that aims to develop specific competencies, the report also encourages consideration of alternative approaches such as teaching practices and efforts to create a schoolwide climate that foster SEL, as well as integration of SEL into academic curriculum.
After summarizing the portions of ESSA that can be used to fund SEL and the level of evidence required for each, the report identifies 60 SEL interventions that meet ESSA requirements and provides substantial supporting materials to allow readers seeking a specific intervention to identify the best-suited approach. While these 60 interventions were for K-12 students, the report includes a chapter that provides guidance on how to adapt these and other interventions based on local needs and priorities.
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Conex-PL is a knowledge-based scoring function for protein-ligand interactions.
We suppose the interaction potential to be decomposed into a polynomial basis with expansion coefficients that can be found from a knowledge base with a convex optimization procedure. To do this, we assume that for a set of interaction sites located on the protein and ligand atoms, there is a linear functional dependent from the pairwise distances between the sites that indicates whether a configuration of a receptor-ligand complex is a native or a non-native one. The linear functional itself takes a simple form of a scalar product between a features "structure" vector and a scoring vector.
Extraction of geometrical features, or the site-site distance distributions. For the typization of atomic sites we use our recently developed Knodle tool.
These continuous features are projected into a set of discrete features.
A Support Vector Machine quadratic optimization problem is solved to find the interaction potentials in form of a scoring vector.
To score an unknown configuration, a vector of its geometrical features is multiplied by the scoring vector, resulting in a relative binding energy prediction.
Figure 1. Schematic representation of the training stage (top) and the scoring stage (bottom) of the method.
Method validation was done on the Comparative Assessment of Scoring Functions (CASF) 2014 benchmark. It included four tests that were already applied for 20 popular scoring functions assessment by the benchmark authors.
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