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Lim, The Handbook of Technical Analysis
If you use technical analysis in your trading you owe it to yourself to study Mark Lim's The Handbook of Technical Analysis (Wiley, 2016). It's a hefty book, nearly 1,000 pages (which for some strange reason is not available in hard cover, only in paperback or in a digital edition). You certainly won't read it straight through in a couple of sittings. But it is a treasure trove of information and often subtly different interpretation, not simply a rehash of all the other books on technical analysis that are available. It is also, as the cover says, a suitable text for those studying for certification as a technical analyst in the U.S., UK, or Australia.
The book could have used a good proofreader, but otherwise it is a first-rate self-study guide and reference book. Those who buy the book also have access to an online test bank.
Enough said. It's a keeper.
Gentry, Small Stocks, Big Money
"Microcaps are a three-card-monte play. If you don't know how to play, stay away." This is the advice of Greg Sichenzia, a lawyer whose firm services small public companies.
Sichenzia is one of twelve people Dave Gentry profiles in Small Stocks, Big Money: Interviews with Microcap Superstars (Wiley, 2016). I chose the verb "profiles" rather than "interviews" not because I didn't want to repeat a word from the subtitle but because this is not a book of interviews. The only exception is an edited transcript of an interview the author conducted with Bill Hench on his Small Stocks, Big Money TV show.
Gentry is the CEO of RedChip Companies Inc., an international investor relations, media, and research firm focused on smaller-cap stocks. Its main clients are companies who want to increase their retail and institutional shareholder base. So, it is fair to say, he is a small/micro-cap promoter. His book, however, should give the retail investor pause.
Several of the men profiled in this book are active investors. For instance, Barry Honig and Phil Frost invested in MusclePharm "when it was a subpenny stock and hemorrhaging losses. They restructured the company, did a reverse split, and led a $10 million capital raise." (p. 5) And recalling his experience with Interclick, Honig said: "I had grown tired of backing make-believe CEOs and entrepreneurs, so my partners and I went on the board, took a hands-on approach, built the company, and put in a solid management team, then sold the company to Yahoo." (p. 91)
Although Gentry devotes an appendix to pointers for investors who are interested in the microcap space (drawn from RedChip's weekly newsletter), the reality is that most retail investors have neither the resources nor the savvy to invest intelligently in individual microcaps. Fortunately there are ETFs that track the Dow Jones Select Microcap Index. Over a 10-year period, from 8/31/2004 through 8/31/2015, the index gained 100% compared to the S&P 500 and DJIA, which returned 83% and 72% respectively. (p. 165) Interestingly, as the chart Gentry provides indicates, DJSM outperforms the other indexes on the way up and more or less tracks them on the way down.
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El-Erian, The Only Game in Town
Although central banks take center stage in Mohamed El-Erian's The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse (Random House, 2016), the action that occurs, or should occur, in the wings is the more interesting and challenging part of this book. Unless, of course, you're a central banker.
The world, El-Erian argues, is traveling toward a T junction (or, if you prefer statistical models, will be confronted with a bimodal distribution). The road we are currently traveling on, "one engineered and maintained by hyperactive central banks, will likely end within the next three years, if not earlier, to be replaced by one of two roads that fundamentally contrast in their implications and destinations. One road … involves a restoration of high-inclusive growth that creates jobs, reduces the risk of financial instability, and counters excessive inequality. It … also lowers political tensions, eases governance dysfunction, and holds the hope of defusing some of the world's geopolitical threats." (p. 22) This is the utopian road. The other road would undermine all of these ideals. It is the task of governments, companies, institutions, and households—the task of all of us, to steer ourselves onto the better road.
Right now the advanced economies are trying to cope with ten critical issues. These issues are (and I quote El-Erian in each case because I assume he spent considerable time getting the wording just the way he wanted it):
"Repeatedly inadequate and unbalanced economic expansion, reflecting cyclical/secular headwinds, highlights the extent to which many advanced economies still lack proper growth models."
"Unemployment remains too high in far too many advanced countries; and it is getting more deeply embedded in the structure of those economies and, therefore, will become that much harder to solve."
"Fueled by an unusual combination of cyclical, secular, and structural factors, the worsening of income and wealth inequality has been so pronounced within countries that it now also undermines opportunities."
"The loss of institutional credibility is part of a more generalized erosion of trust in politicians and the 'system' as a whole."
"National political dysfunction is still a headwind to overcoming economic malaise and restoring genuine and durable financial stability."
"As national dysfunction undermines global policy coordination, traditional core/periphery relations fail and geopolitical tensions escalate."
"With systemic risks migrating from banks to nonbanks, and morphing in the process, regulators are again challenged to get ahead of future problems."
"When the market paradigm changes, as it inevitably will, the desire to reposition portfolios will far exceed what the system can accommodate in an orderly fashion."
"Yet none of these uncertainties and fluidities seemed to disturb financial markets that, operating with unusually low volatility, went from one record to another. As such, the contrasting gap between financial risk taking (high) and economic risk taking (low) has never been so wide."
"All of this adds up to considerable headwinds for the better-managed part of national, regional, and global systems."
How can we address these issues? Central banks, however willing they may be to do whatever it takes, cannot deliver the desired outcomes, cannot effect systemic and lasting change. Instead, every decision maker in both the public and private sectors must pitch in.
El-Erian sets forth some specific recommendations for achieving the better alternative. As an investor, however, he has to accept the high probability that things could go either way, that the distribution of potential outcomes is bimodal. In light of this distribution, how should investors position their portfolios? Here are a few of his ideas. Beware of liquidity traps, trade up in quality, barbell risk exposures, and hold relative (e.g., foreign exchange) as well as absolute positions.
The stakes are high, but "where we actually end up is still a function of choice rather than destiny." It is up to all of us to help improve the prospects for good outcomes, "in the process also increasing our ability to better navigate bad outcomes should the world come out of the T on the wrong road." (p. 242)
Moore, Digital Wealth
Robo-advisors have become increasingly popular wealth management services, although they still represent just a sliver of the wealth managed by human advisors. Automated, algorithmic programs can construct portfolios, rebalance them, and even harvest tax losses. They cost a fraction of what a typical financial advisor charges, and they do a better job of asset allocation and fund selection. What, of course, they can't do is to hold the nervous investor's hand in times of trouble, although they can send soothing messages.
Simon Moore is the CIO of FutureAdvisor, one of the largest digital asset managers. In Digital Wealth: An Automatic Way to Invest Successfully (Wiley, 2016) he explains the basics of constructing a diversified, cost efficient, tax efficient portfolio using ETFs. And, as might be expected, he argues that financial software is superior to human beings in setting up and managing an investment portfolio.
What should be of interest to all investors who have not committed to a digital service, whether they manage their own money or rely on a financial advisor, is how the FutureAdvisor algorithms go about rebalancing a portfolio. Moore argues that "if and when any rebalancing does occur, it should ideally be combined with other portfolio considerations such as tax efficiency, cash and dividend investment, and consideration of whether the initial fund selection is still valid in the presence of current expense ratios, commissions, and bid-ask spreads." (p. 123)
There are two basic ways to go about rebalancing: a time-based system and a threshold system. In the former, the portfolio is rebalanced every quarter, let's say, quite independently of market conditions. Threshold-based rebalancing, by contrast, "makes moves when they are large enough to matter to the portfolio. … "[I]f your portfolio is set up to rebalance once a quarter, then you'll get a rebalance once a quarter whether the market is virtually flat or experiencing the largest volatility in history. However, in those same environments threshold-based rebalancing would avoid rebalancing in a virtually flat market and potentially balance more than once during a period of high volatility." (pp. 123-24)
FutureAdvisor goes a step further, using a tiered rebalancing approach. "[I]t appears optimal to use threshold-based rebalancing but to implement it in a tiered fashion so that trades are made only when there is a deviation that matters at the level of portfolio construction. However, the need for rebalancing also interacts with other features of the algorithm in minimizing trading costs, so often rebalancing trades is combined with other trading goals, resulting in less portfolio turnover. For example, sometimes rebalancing can effectively be done for free if a tax loss harvesting trade is occurring or there is sufficient cash in the account to be invested and the algorithm can see those opportunities and take advantage of them." (p. 125)
I have no doubt that wealth management algorithms will become omnipresent, whether as stand-alone products or as must-have tools for human financial advisors. It's time for investors to understand them better and decide what role they should play in their own long-term wealth management.
Murray, The Mark and the Void
Paul Murray's comic novel The Mark and the Void was briefly noted in this week's New Yorker, and I thought it might be a welcome change of pace from the volatile markets. What can I say? I abandoned it halfway through. Rather than write a whiny post about stereotypes, I'll simply point readers to the review in The Guardian. Even though it's critical, it's more favorable than mine would have been.
Faber, Invest with the House
Meb Faber, a popular blogger and CIO of Cambria Investment Management, got on investors' radar screens with The Ivy Portfolio. Since that first co-authored book, he has written Shareholder Yield, Global Value, and Global Asset Allocation. His latest book is Invest with the House: Hacking the Top Hedge Funds (The Idea Farm, 2016).
The same general strategy that informs this book is the rationale behind AlphaClone, a company Faber helped cofound in 2008 but in which he is no longer actively involved. That is, piggyback on the stock picks of the best investors.
Any investor can access the SEC's EDGAR database and, 45 days after the quarter's end, view the holdings of every institutional fund with assets under management of over $100 million. Yes, this information may be stale; it provides insight into funds that hold stocks for a reasonably long time (mainly value managers), not those with a high turnover rate. Moreover, the 13F filings list only long positions, so the individual investor has no idea whether or how these long positions are being hedged and what "stand-alone" shorts the fund may hold.
Even so, can the individual investor gain an edge by cloning? Faber answers this question by analyzing the 13F quarterly filings of twenty prominent value investors, going back to January 2000. He creates historical stock portfolios, equal weighting the top ten holdings of each manager's portfolio. And he rebalances quarterly, adding and deleting holdings and calculating performance as of the twentieth day of the month.
The annualized performance of the S&P 500 from 2000 through 2014 was 4.31%, with a volatility of 15.24%, a Sharpe ratio of 0.16, and a maximum drawdown of 50.95%. This is the benchmark against which Faber measures the performance of his cloning strategy.
Although Faber no doubt cherry-picked the twenty funds (plus, in appendices, more funds that don't have such a long track record) to ensure that his cloning strategy would be successful, the results are impressive. Cloning Berkshire, for instance, using Faber's methodology, investors would have had an annualized return of 10.53% with a lower drawdown. Cloning David Tepper's Appaloosa, the return would have been 20.94%, though with more volatility and a higher drawdown.
Faber's book not only offers investment ideas but is fun to read. Each chapter introduces the reader to the hedge fund manager and his philosophy before crunching numbers.
And lest the individual investor think, for whatever reason—ego probably topping the list, that he doesn't need to imitate others, here's a sobering statistic: "Simply picking a stock out of a hat means you have a 64 percent chance of underperforming a basic index fund and a 39 percent chance of losing money!" (p. 13)


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Q: Example of using multiple transactions with same session I am fairly new to Hibernate. I am trying to understand sessions and transactions using the example below.
I have an event management system. I have an entity called Event, and a user can edit an Event.
Should I save a session as an instance variable in the service class and use it to do multiple
Transactions in different methods ? I also would like to use it as  a cache.
Where should session object be stored ? Or how to best achieve what I am trying to do
below - I have two transactions - first will fetch as event object and second needs to edit it and save it to the
database.
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     Session session ;

     Constructor () {
         session = sessionFactory.getSession();
     }

     //First transaction

     public Event getEvent() {

        begin new Transaction on session.
           Fetch new Event object
        End new transacton

        return event; //to display to user
     }

     //Second transaction

     public void editEvent(String newName, Date newDate) {

         begin Transaction
           Obtain the Event object from the session which was result of First transaction above
           event.setName(newName);   //This should be in persistent state and affect the database
           event.setDate(newDate);
         end Transaction
      }

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Thank you so much in advance :)

A: You need to consider the session the transaction.   If your ServiceClass is used in multi-threaded environment (such as Servlets) then specifying it in a field will cause threading issues.  To avoid this problem, put the session creation in the editEvent() method, which should:

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*Create the session

*Start transaction

*Retrieve entities from database via session

*Make changes to the entities

*Commit transaction

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Canada kidnapped a Chinese Princess. China reacts with great restraint but that may not last very long if the West's disingenuous narrative endures.
[In Depth] Report by Micheal John | Editor
The United States is unable to compete with the global 5G leadership of China. It is trying to kill a company, Huawei Technologies, which is one of the foremost innovators in 5G – AI – IoT . It does this by pushing other nations with scare tactics and even told the Philippines President to abandon all such ties to China which would end all the country's cellular services.
Read: Choking on my Kikiam I listen to Pompeo in Manila by Sharon Santiago on March 1, 2019 at 6:11 pm
One of America's greatest fears is China's leadership in Artificial Intelligence. That fear is more like paranoia as the USA is well ahead of the world in most aspects of AI.. The USA would be better served by cooperating with China and other nations to enhance that technology for the benefit of global human development.
The United States President Trump is not a friend of Canada but a clear and present danger. Trump has in effect blackmailed the Canadian Prime Minister using trade tariffs and the end of NAFTA. Trudeau has thus uncharacteristically assailed a Huawei corporate leader, a woman the USA says has conspired to break Iran sanctions to which Canada does not subscribe. This is the worst slam Canada has taken from the USA in the history of the two nations. America is no friend of Canada. Trudeau needs to pull up his socks.
Warring with China is the idea of doddering old psychopaths: Trump and Bolton. No wonder Gen. Mattis fled.
The "People's Liberation Army of China" (PLA) has over two million fighting forces and more than half a million training reservists.
China's People's Liberation Navy (PLN) has 255,000 personnel, 512 warships and a little over 700 fighting aircraft.
The "People's Liberation Air Force" (PLAF) has 398,000 active personnel and over 3,000 fighting aircraft.
China's Space Program began exploring the dark side of the moon in January of this year.
China also has a missile branch of the military with a dedicated 100,000 active personnel. As a response to US Missile Defence Systems it has perfected the hyper-sonic glide vehicle (HGV), dubbed the "Wu-14" by the United States, which was detected flying at 10 times the speed of sound during a test flight over China, a little more than five years ago. Today that vehicle is substantially faster.
"The China Academy of Engineering Physics is the key organization in developing and maintaining China's nuclear force. It employs tens of thousands of personnel and its scientists are capable of conducting all aspects of nuclear weapon design research, including nuclear physics, materials science, electronics, explosives, and computer modeling." Source: DIA Read if you wish -> DIA China Military Power final report released 2019/01/03.
Base Xisha to the Chinese and Paracel Islands to Vietnam and Thailand. Photo Credit: Feminine-Perspective Magazine
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 4th, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, president of the State Council, and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited the cultural and art circles and social sciences committee members of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on the afternoon of March 4. 2019
The leader of China is not only extraordinary, but he is extremely intelligent, driven, widely respected and powerful.
These two men are intellectually ill-equipped to take on China's leadership. Their combined acumen, leadership abilities and experience is in aggregate no match for Xi Jinping. They are fools to attempt a war of any kind with China. Cooperation, coexistence and shared global leadership compromises the best way ahead say Civil Society's best and brightest minds.
"China's government is very easy to get along with as long as certain lines are not crossed," says a former female officer of the Chinese Army who uses the name Elaine and prefers not to be identified by more than that. Her late father was a senior officer in the Chinese Army and her family continues to live in a pensioners' home not far from Beijing.
"The Chinese people are genuinely terrified of the West and especially afraid that the West will try and take away from the Chinese all of the good parts of life that the people have recently achieved through sacrifice and hard work.
"China's growth has been so staggering that people living very well today can remember when they had nothing, and I mean n o t h i n g. They are afraid to lose this they now have earned," notes the former Army junior officer.
"Every week we hear something bad about what the West has done against China. I did not get a good understanding in my mind until I lived in North America for a couple of years and hear what people were saying and why they hate China. If I would believe all the stories I read on Social Media about China, I would hate China too. But that is banned and I cannot see that any longer now that I am back in China. I thank our government for that because I do not want my children to be exposed to hate," she added.
The RINJ Foundation Women like Elaine are to be found all over the world in almost every country on the planet.
China's Communist Party's perception that China is facing unprecedented security risks is a driving factor in China's approach to national security.
In May 2015, China's State Council Information Office published a white paper titled China's Military Strategy, which outlined how Beijing views the global security environment, China's role in that environment, and how the PLA supports that role.
The document presented a vision for the PLA's services and emerging security domains that would transform the PLA from its legacy posture to one focused more on long-range mobility.
Within the context of Beijing's "period of strategic opportunity," Beijing calculates in China's Military Strategy that world war is unlikely in the immediate future, but China should be prepared for the possibility of local war. Authoritative Chinese publications typically avoid explicitly listing direct threats, but these threats can be gleaned from several documents that point to Beijing's security concerns.
Beijing's primary threat perceptions include sovereignty and domestic security issues that it believes could undermine the overriding strategic objective to perpetuate communist rule. These include longstanding concerns regarding Taiwan independence, Uighur and Tibetan separatism, and perceived challenges to China's control of disputed areas in the East and South China Seas.
Authoritative documents also highlight the Korean Peninsula as an area of instability and uncertainty, and express concern regarding unsettled territorial disputes along China's border with India, which periodically result in tense standoffs like the one that occurred in the summer of 2017 in the disputed Doklam region.
Finally, while it calls for a peer-to-peer cooperative relationship with the United States, China also believes that U.S. military presence and U.S.-led security architecture in Asia seeks to constrain China's rise and interfere with China's sovereignty, particularly in a Taiwan conflict scenario and in the East and South China Seas.
Since at least the 1990's, Beijing has repeatedly communicated its preference to move away from the U.S.-led regional security system and has pursued its own regional security initiatives in support of what it views as a natural transition to regional predominance.
Source: US Defence Intelligence Agency
Read if you wish -> DIA China Military Power final report released 2019/01/03.
China said Monday it was pressing Spy Charges Against the 2 Michaels
Chairman Kim Jong-un and Michael Spavor, a Canadian Idealist
Michael Spavor in 2010 – Photo Credit: AFP – The Canadian "Boy Scout"
Michael Spavor created a North Korean tour business that opened doors for cooperation and understanding between the West and the DPRK
Extraordinary Canadian speaks Korean and connects business-to-business between China and North Korea to China's extraordinary benefit
Michael Kovrig is at the center of the crisis. He is a former Canadian Diplomat who joined an intelligence gathering group founded by George Soros.
George Soros, Founder of Group Kovrig Joined
A Former Canadian Diplomat Is Accused of Spying Against China
This is a death sentence and an end game for Canada/China relations.
Canada spying on China is another act of war. Ottawa thus far is out of its league.
Michael Kovrig joined an American intelligence gathering group founded by George Soros in February 2017 after leaving Canada's diplomatic service. He had worked in Beijing which is why he was of interest to the Soros' group, according to sources.
Kovrig allegedly conducted research and provided analysis on foreign affairs and global security issues particularly in China, Japan and the Korean peninsula says the group's web site page about Kovrig.
China calls that spying this week.
China has arrested Kovrig alleging that he was in possession of information China classified as secret and that he was operating as an NGO in China without following China's procedure of registering the NGO as one that is working in China.
There is nothing about China's treatment of suspected spies that anybody would wish for themselves although China's treatment of such detainees is far less brutal and less inhumane than what former detainees of America describe. Neither country has a good human rights record. Neither country is a full democracy–they are about the same. This is not a war Canada should be part of.
China's Policies on NGOs are Straightforward and Strict
Perhaps Mr. Kovrig was never told by his employer about this error and therefore there was no wrongful intent on Kovrig's part thus he is the innocent actor of a not-so-diligent employer?
Could the matter be cleared up retroactively by filing correct documents? Has that been done yet? China needs the opportunity to decide if it welcomes this NGO. If it chooses negatively, it could then send Mr. Kovrig packing back to Canada.
"This should have been done already but has not been attended," answers Elaine.
A Chinese official informally at a coffee shop explained to FPMag that the Beijing government seeks the opportunity to accept or deny which NGOs operate in the country to make certain there are "only approved practices giving no risk to the people of China" and that there is no unwarranted overlap of functionality".
China may not be happy with the presence of Mr. Soros' group. In fact that may well be why Chinese law enforcement is action-oriented, notes the official.
The Controversial George Soros Group Kovrig Joined.
George Soros and his non-profit "Crisis Group" were peer-reviewed in the Third World Quarterly in 2014 with 10 critiques of the organisation, ranging from its influence on foreign-policy makers, "manufacturing" crises, and the methodologies it deploys in gathering its research notes a seasoned Wikipedia editor.
The Third World Quarterly exposè explores the different ploys and strategies used by the Soros group to influence policy makers, especially its communication strategy, the different values and ethics that are highlighted, and the 'causes' that are promoted. It is a worthwhile read.
America and the Soros' group are in an aggressive war mindset toward China but Beijing saw this coming and is well-prepared. Nevertheless, Mr. Soros' non-profit's connections to the conflict are not flattered anywhere in the media or academia.
Meanwhile Canada's attack on Sabrina Meng is an act of aggression against China and the war could be very rough on Canada as it joins and becomes attached to a screaming level of antipathy to the largest nation on Earth.
There is nothing arbitrary about the arrest of Kovrig which was about to happen anyway following an almost two year investigation.
Michael Spavor: an Epic Case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Despite appearances, Mr. Spavor has done nothing at all to warrant a China jail cell.
Michael Spavor, 'The Canadian idealist who soared on his hopes for a better North Korea brought crashing back to earth in China' writes Keegan Elmer of the South China Morning Post.
Writer Keagan Elmer succinctly sets out in a solid report what we all know of Michael Spavor. He is "an extraordinary dude" with a loving, caring personality. Frankly, there is no other kind of Albertan. Spavor stands head and shoulders aligned with the best. He did not spy on China. China's best and brightest investigators will eventually figure out the misunderstanding and reinterpret the relationship with the Soros' group member and release Mr. Spavor who hopefully will continue his relationship-building work to the benefit of the Chinese people.
Hopefully also, Canada will break away from the United States' crusade to hurt 1.4 billion Chinese people who are tired and fed up with the derogatory and disingenuous antipathy toward the 5000 year-old China.
"If Canada wants to continue its disingenuous line to China about the the Meng Wanzhou detention not being "political" it should perhaps try to take the arrest of Kovrig and company seriously for what it is," says Elaine. "It's a very serious matter."
The two Michaels have not yet been charged apparently but when it comes to that, it may become irreversible.
Additional Reading on the Meng Wanzhou Topic:
Why is Trudeau Suckling Trump? Meng Wanzhou case is Weird.
What does 5G mean to the safety of women and children? MWC2019
America Can Compete In 5G Infrastructure
Chinese Students in Canada Must Respect Free Speech
China as enemy of the West is self-fulfilled prophecy
Canada War with China is political interference with industry?
Meng Affair: Trudeau Monkey for organ-man Trump
Canada Women's Group Slams Trudeau Mistreatment of China
Attacking China because Huawei is amazing is immoral war.
Why is China so angry about the Meng kidnap?
Proof: Beware Five-Eyes Anglo SmartPhone spies. Not China.
Meng Case and Schellenberg China Case unrelated.
Canada disgraced itself in Meng Wanzhou Case [In-depth Feature]
Women, Sheroes of 2018
Trudeau and Trump Kidnapped a Shero (Editorial)
Sabrina Meng May Acquiesce to Extradition
Dollar Slides as Canada Fronts US War on China
Meng Wanzhou Kidnap is Political. Trump in Control. Canada in danger.
Five Eyes on: Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, Meng Wanzhou.
Kidnapping China Princess Meng is War Declaration
Canada Should Release Sabrina Meng Wanzhou
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Chapelle ()  is a village and former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.

It was first recorded in 1363 as Cappella. It was named Chapelle-près-Surpierre until 1953, when the name changed to Chapelle.

The municipality also contained the villages Coumin-Dessus and Coumin-Dessous. It had 85 inhabitants in 1811, which increased to 129 in 1831. It then decreased to 120 in 1850, 113 in 1900, 117 in 1950 and 64 in 2000.

In 2005 the municipality was incorporated into the larger, neighboring municipality Cheiry.

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Q: Pro and Cons while comparing SSR using backend framework and fullstack framework What would be micro level and macro level pro and cons when we would be comparing SSR (server-side rendering) using backend frameworks (like Django, flask etc) and fullstack framework (like Sveltekit, NuxtJS, NextJS etc)
Both type of frameworks do server SSR (server-side rendering) but there ways are very different. In case of backend framework we write our own HTML with some template engine and on other side modern fullstack framework have there own component system that generate HTML.
If we compare booth's working then what would be pro and cons of each?


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Obama bans eastern Gulf drilling for 7 years
By the CNN Wire Staff
December 1, 2010 8:00 p.m. EST
The ban on drilling in the Gulf is a result of the
April 20 explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama will not be allowing new drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico for at least seven years, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Wednesday.
The exploration of drilling possibilities in sensitive areas of the Arctic will proceed "with utmost caution," he said.
Obama's decision effectively reverses White House plans announced at the end of March to open the Gulf region -- along with other large swaths of U.S. coastal waters -- to oil and natural gas drilling.
Under the plan, roughly two-thirds of available oil and gas resources in the eastern Gulf would have been opened to drilling. Areas located within 125 miles of the Florida coast would have remained off limits.
Photo by John L. Wathen, Flight by SouthWings
Salazar said the seven-year ban is being imposed as a result of lessons learned from the April 20 explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf, which killed 11 people and triggered one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.
An estimated 4.9 million barrels (206 million gallons) of oil gushed into the Gulf before the broken well, 5,000 feet below the surface, was capped.
There is a broader recognition of the need for a more "robust safety regime" and additional environmental analysis in the Gulf, Salazar told reporters.
He dismissed concerns that the decision will seriously damage efforts to further develop domestic energy resources, noting that roughly 29 million acres already under leases in the Gulf have not yet been developed.
Rep. Ed Markey, one of the most vocal BP critics in Congress, said the announcement shows the White House "has heeded the lessons of the BP disaster."
"This plan will move America forward on a prudent path until we can ensure that when an oil company drills ultra-deep, it is ultra-safe," the Massachusetts Democrat said. "Opening up wide swaths of our coasts to oil drilling before we put the proper regulatory measures in place would have been a mistake."
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, said it is "good the president is listening to the people of Florida."
The administration lifted a six-month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling in October.
Salazar has argued that the moratorium provided time to make sure accidents similar to the BP disaster won't occur again, and that rig operators are prepared to deal with worst-case scenarios if they happen.
Critics of the ban, including Republican leaders, Gulf state officials and Gulf Coast residents, said it only hurt oil and gas workers in hard-hit coastal communities, where hundreds of jobs were lost because of the disaster.
Lousiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican and a frequent critic of the Obama administration's handling of the Gulf spill, said in a statement, "This announcement from the Obama administration today will undoubtedly send more economic capital and even more jobs overseas, in the wake of those oil rigs that already left our waters for Egypt, the Congo and Nigeria during the 'arbitrary and capricious' moratorium on deepwater drilling."
Environmental groups and other supporters of the moratorium argued that it was necessary due to a lack of effective regulation of deep-water drilling that allowed the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent spill to occur.
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C N Cisco December 9, 2010 at 4:12 PM
Good! Some of you may not agree, but banning Off Shore Drilling in the Gulf is the right thing to do. We need to think Long Term on this topic. If all you are concerned about are Jobs Lost, you are thinking in Short Term Dollars and not in ...Long Term Environmental Recovery and you sound just like BP. Get on the Right Side of The Planet and those who inhabit it-not just humans who behave like apes raping our natural resources and exploiting workers with dangerous and toxic conditions for a Resource WE DO NOT NEED! Thi is the time for a push towards Clean Energy. Dont worry BP, I hear Obama is working to extend unemployment insurance.
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Election process hits environment of Assam's Mangaldai College
Darrang district admin yet to clean Mangaldai College campus which has been used for election purpose
MAYUKH GOSWAMI
MANGALDAI , May 12, 2019 7:35 pm
Semi-decomposed garbage in Mangaldai College campus. Image - Northeast Now
The much-publicised 'Swacch Bharat' slogan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned out to be a farce at Mangaldai in Darrang district.
The environment of the Mangaldai College campus, which has been under the control of Darrang district administration since mid-March for election purpose, is a clear example in this regard.
The foul smell, coming from the semi-decomposed dumps of both bio-degradable and non-biodegradable substances and the used temporary latrines, has created an unhealthy environment in the college campus.
No efforts have been made to dispose the garbage and other substances even after the end of the polling process.
Dr Khagendra Kr Nath, the principal of the college, alleged before the media that an unhygienic state of environment has been prevailing in the college campus.
He also said the students, who are appearing in the ongoing examinations of second and sixth semester since May 7, have experienced the foul smell of the semi-decomposed goods even from the examination halls.
"On the day of polling, around seven to eight thousand people had taken meals and all the dumped residues have remained in the campus even for more than three weeks after the polling," said Nath.
The Mangaldai Lok Sabha constituency went to polls on April 18, 2019.
"The temporary latrines have also been polluting the whole atmosphere. The foul smell has engulfed the class rooms where the students have been appearing in semester exams," added principal Nath.
Temporary latrines used on polling day. Image – Northeast Now
The playground of the college, which was used for vehicles on the day of the poll, has also become bumpy and not fit for use due to the broken bricks and sand gravel that were thrown on the field for traffic movement.
Principal Nath also alleged lack of necessary cooperation from the district administration to bring in a quick solution to the problem.
"The administration is well aware of the situation. But I can't say that I have been getting necessary cooperation from them. I again request them to urgently look into the matter," he said.
Urging the district administration for making alternative arrangements to conduct elections in future, Nath further informed that the college has been used for elections almost in two-year intervals.
The students have to suffer academically for minimum of 30 days to maximum of 72 days, he added.
Meanwhile, Darrang deputy commissioner Ghanshyam Dass, who has been sent a 'WhatsApp message by Northeast Now to know about his reaction on Sunday, is yet to react.
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Police shootings and social media: Why some black people believe no one cares
For some African-Americans, videos of shootings have become a mental and emotional drain that underscores a persistent lack of empathy for people of color. Others say such videos are necessary to raise broader awareness and foster solidarity.
Evan Vucci/AP/File
A man wears a hoodie which reads, "Black Lives Matter" as he stands on the lawn of the Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington during a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March in 2015.
By Jessica Mendoza Staff writer
@_jessicamendoza
Brooklyne Gipson loves social media: she's on Snap, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter multiple times a day.
But when an officer-involved shooting of a black person hits the headlines, she's learned to avoid social networks. The inevitable onslaught of graphic photos and videos, she says, causes her to spiral into a mess of anger, grief, and fear – as though she's hearing of a death in the family over and over again.
"I've gotten to the point where I won't watch anything," says Ms. Gipson, an African-American doctoral student in communications at a local university. "That sounds very callous, but I can't be sitting here thinking about this all day and be scared."
The sentiment skims the surface of a complex web of emotions expressed by members of black communities across the country, as videos and images of police shootings flood the Internet and social media.
For some, like Gipson, the barrage has become a form of trauma, a mental and emotional drain that underscores a persistent lack of empathy for people of color. Others say such videos, while heartbreaking, are necessary to raise broader awareness of the struggle black Americans continue to face. Still others see the communal reliving of violence as a means of fostering solidarity within their communities.
Woven through these narratives is a shared experience of fearing and being feared, passed down through generations, that shapes the relationship that African-Americans and other black communities have with law enforcement today.
"It's not usually the one video that traumatizes. It's a lifetime of experiences," says Monnica Williams, a clinical psychologist and University of Connecticut professor who specializes in the intersection of race, culture, and mental illness.
"African-Americans have been dealing with historical trauma and community trauma and individual trauma in the form of racism and discrimination" for centuries, she says. "These videos are the icing on the cake."
For Tinbite Tamiru, it began in 2013 with the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. At first, she says, she felt shocked and sad. But as the shootings continued and videos, images, and commentary began streaming into her social media feeds, Ms. Tamiru says her grief transformed into anger, and then into a call to action.
Soon she was spending hours online, devouring articles around police use-of-force and racial discrimination and sharing her own views. The habit gave her anxiety, and for a brief period she deleted her social media apps in an effort to tend to her own mental health.
"If a video has gone viral of a shooting, I can't sleep that whole night," says Tamiru, an event planner in Falls Church, Va. "I'm perpetually upset that people aren't upset [along] with me. It's a lot of frustration."
Research has begun to tie symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the experience of racism. In 2012, a study out of Boston University found that perceived discrimination was "significantly higher" among African-Americans than Asian-Americans and Hispanics. At 9.1 percent, African-Americans – who are considered to be at less risk for other anxiety disorders – also had a higher prevalence rate of PTSD than the other groups surveyed, the study found.
Perceived racism by way of social media sites can also have negative effects on individuals' physical well-being, says Morgan Maxwell, a social psychologist who examined the issue in her doctoral dissertation at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
"People are not only experiencing anger; they're also experiencing a bodily response to the racism that they're seeing on social media," says Maxwell, now a post-doc at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County.
The physical symptoms are often accompanied by a range of emotions that for some, devolve into numbness or despair.
"You get angry, you get sad, and then you get desensitized. And you go, 'Well that's kind of just what happens,' " says Travon Epps, a television and film producer in New York City. "Because you start to think that no matter if you're guilty or innocent, if you have weapons or not, if you cooperate or you don't, you're going to get shot."
The feelings elicited by videos and graphic images online speak to deeper concerns and older traumas that those without the lived experience of black communities may fail to truly grasp, psychologists say.
"I don't think many white people can really understand how terrifying this is for most black people in this country, and how this is a chronic thing that is associated deeply with identity and self and goes back through hundreds of years," says Jonathan Kanter, director of the Center for the Science of Social Connection at the University of Washington in Seattle.
"There's a gap in empathy and perspective," he says.
Jessica Mendoza/The Christian Science Monitor
'I've gotten to the point where I won't watch anything,' says Brooklyne Gipson, a doctoral student in communications at a Los Angeles university, shown on Oct. 8, 2016. 'I can't be sitting here thinking about this all day and be scared.'
Gipson, the Los Angeles doctoral student, recalls one of her mother's key commandments when she and her siblings were growing up: Never play with toy guns.
"You know the little orange water guns?" she says. "Our parents were like, 'No, you can't play with those, because someone might think it's a real gun and something might happen.' "
Gipson says the rule stems from her mother's anxieties from a childhood spent in rural Mississippi in the 1960s and '70s. Gipson used to think her mom's fears were relics of the past. Then in November 2014, Gipson watched a video that showed police officers shooting 12-year-old Tamir Rice as he was playing with a BB gun one snowy day in Cleveland.
Suddenly her mother's concerns seemed less overblown.
"Just thinking about my little cousins who may not be listening to auntie telling them not to to do that – it's really scary," Gipson says.
Across the country in Atlanta, David Mitchell stresses over how to talk to his son about how to behave when police stop him in traffic. The boy is only 9, but Mr. Mitchell says someday his son's life might hinge on the success of that conversation.
"I have to give him different tools," Mitchell says. " 'What would you do when you encounter law enforcement? What do you do when you're about to deal with conflict with someone else and the police come?' "
"That's a whole different level of anxiety around raising your kids, the kind of stuff my white counterpart is not having to tell his son," he says.
Even when parents do manage that conversation with their children, it can serve to confuse instead of clarify. Gregory Hector, another Los Angeles resident, remembers talking with his mother about how to get around gang activity in their neighborhood when he was a young boy.
"Then right after gangs, we talked about how to interact with police – the people who were supposed to protect me from those gangs," Mr. Hector says. "How am I supposed to fight these people who disregard the law if I'm afraid of the people who are supposed to be helping me? It's a feeling you're not supposed to have."
Calls for transparency are among the reasons footage of officer-involved shootings have become so ubiquitous online. By urging the release of such videos, advocates had hoped to pressure law enforcement into accountability.
But some have begun to wonder if constantly subjecting black communities to images of violence on black bodies is doing more harm than good.
"Here is the thing I've been hearing from black people: Too much. That is what people are saying at this point right now," says Lanita Jacobs, a professor of anthropology who teaches African-American culture and interethnic violence at the University of Southern California.
"It's become so pervasive that other important conversations that need to be had can't be had," adds Mitchell, the father from Atlanta, who works in community services and education. Poor black families in his community, he says, "can't talk about education and what it takes to get involved with their kids because they're stuck with, 'Are my kids even safe in the neighborhood?' "
Others say that as exhausting and painful as the discourse has become, it needs to continue until those outside black communities embrace the message of accountability and empathy that these videos seek to send.
"I see people who have a comment about every other tragedy that happens, except black ones. I think [that] silence is very loud," Gipson says.
Some would like to see coverage and commentary that focuses less on shock value and more on urging people to empathize and understand.
"There can be a real danger in watching these videos from behind a computer screen but not talking to our black neighbor," says Stephanie, a graduate student of public health at Tulane University in New Orleans, who asked that her last name be omitted. "How narratives are framed is very essential to reaching understanding."
Others, like Tamiru in Virginia, are struggling to reconcile the negativity they see online with a worldview that gives people the benefit of the doubt.
"The country as a whole isn't Twitter, isn't Instagram. There are people who are empathetic," she says.
"And there's this resurgence of black and African pride, aesthetically in hairstyles and fashion, and of being proud of slogans you wear on your shirt and stuff," she adds. "People are feeling proud and resilient and strong. It's heartening."
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The robbery of jewels is an often repeated theme in the online slot world, so the theme of Microgaming's 3 reel classic slot, Jewel Thief, should be more than familiar to anybody has ever played an online slot game before. This release breaks from the norm, and offers multiple paylines as well as a special feature, so the excitement level is somewhat more than you would get in a standard classic title; however the basic theme doesn't come off as well.
Anybody interested in having a peak at this 3 reel, 3 payline online slot will need to choose their coin denominations first, which range from a lowly $0.25 up to $5. Once this has been done, players can opt whether or not to go for the maximum of $15 for all 3 lines, play a simple $0.25 per single payline minimum bet, or go for something in between those wagers.
There are six icons in this slot that can be used to accomplish a winning payline. The single bar, double bar and triple bar are all common icons, whilst the combination lock is designed to fit in with the theme of the classic slot. Other icons include the game's logo and a blue, glittering and shiny diamond – the jewel you are predictably trying to steal.
There is but one special feature in this classic slot, so when players encounter it, they better make it count. That special feature is the wild symbol. In this classic slot, that icon is represented by the game's logo. As with any wild, in any slot, this wild symbol will substitute itself for any symbol the player needs to complete a winning payline, making it an invaluable tool in the player's arsenal to win a big payday when playing the Jewel Thief classic slot.
Players can only wager 1 coin per line, so this makes the pay table somewhat simple to understand. Any 3 bars will payout the lowest coinage in the slot, with 5 coins being the prize for this combination. A better combination is 3 single bars on a payline as this offers 5 times that amount, for a total of 25 coins. The medium paying symbols are the double bars and the triple bar icons, which award payouts of 50 and 100 coins respectively, whenever 3 of their symbols appear on a payline.
Finally, the best paying standard icons are the combination lock and blue diamond symbols. The former will offer 300 coins when 3 are struck on a payline, while the latter offers a giant 500 coin payday for 3 icons on any active payline.
Any gamer hoping to walk away with a big jackpot should pay attention now, because by lining up 3 of the wild game logo icons, you will win a jackpot. However, what the jackpot is depends entirely on what payline you strike 3 of the icons on. Doing so on the first (central) payline will see you win 1,500 coins. Doing so on the second payline (top) will see you win 3,000 coins. Yet, if you manage to line up all three symbols on the bottom payline (the third line), you will win a top non-progressive payout of 6,000 coins.
Although this slot does contain a number of standard classic slot icons, and the graphics are okay at best, half of the icons are relevant to the theme. This makes it worth a look if you are finicky about themes, because many other classic slots' icons have little to do with their themes.
In real money, players can win up to $30,000 with a maximum stake and a jackpot win.


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import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

/**
 * Create a new thread that can inherit the locale setting
 * from parent thread.
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 * @author wangqi
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public class LocaleThreadFactory {

	static final AtomicInteger poolNumber = new AtomicInteger(1);
	final ThreadGroup group;
	final AtomicInteger threadNumber = new AtomicInteger(1);
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	LocaleThreadFactory() {
		SecurityManager s = System.getSecurityManager();
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		namePrefix = "pool-" + poolNumber.getAndIncrement() + "-thread-";
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		LocaleThread t = new LocaleThread(group, r,
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Brendan Burchard has had enormous success as a self-made business coach and speaker and is clearly well tuned to the needs of an audience who will pay 1000s of dollars to attend his presentations.
I have read his work for many years and followed some of his courses.
And therein lies the problem with this book. He expects his readers to just sit back and be fed what they already have heard a hundred times before and pay for the privilege.
Not all of us find endless lectures and sermons from a pontification position useful.
In fact most of us find them of little value and actually very tedious.
I dislike being preached at and this is precisely what Brendon specialises in.
He is a marketing man and knows how to use the emotional trigger words ad naseum. But it is too easy to go on, and on, and on about banal detail and not deliver practical suggestions.
The Manifesto is not a manifesto. It is a summary of problem areas about life.
it does not ask questions but expands on very general points which add little value on what it basically common sense. The structure feels like an artificial construct to fill pages which had me skipping forward to try and find something useful.
There is nothing new here and the content could easily have been condensed into 60 useful pages without loosing anything.
And please, publishers, change the font. I read this book on a MacBook and the font is so horrible it put me off reading even before I started.
Overall I was very much looking forward to reading something of value here and was very disappointed.
Disclaimer. I obtained this copy through Netagalley.
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I recently purchased this book through Kindle expecting some practical advice to be contained within it. Unfortunately I had to agree with this reviewer. The book could easily be condensed into a few pages of practical advice rather than a bullet list of problems, with no solutions.
There might be a few gems in the text but they're buried under so much fluff. I think a reader I better off reading blog posts from zenhabits or the minimalist. They offer similar advice but in the much denser package without all the baggage.


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WIN THE BATTLE. DESTROY THE ENEMY. FIGHT LIKE HELL.
CANCER DEATH MATCH is a war of epic proportions waged by cancer patients and former servicepeople/ex-military. The real enemy in our sights: the ridiculous usage of war imagery used to discuss illness and disease. Come to CANCER DEATH MATCH and shout your loudest YOU CAN BEAT IT, your most gruesome battle language, and demonstrate your aggressive positivity at our players, and then go home, and try to never again use this disastrous language. Beyond belittling the real violence and trauma caused by armed conflict, war metaphors and body-as-battleground language blends victim-blaming with often-unrealistic expectations and lazy empathy, and are scientifically proven to be unhelpful and distressing to people with cancer.
Illustration by Jason Elvis Barker. Created for Forest Fringe at Latitude Festival.
CANCER DEATH MATCH was a video game competition fought between a team of cancer patients and a team of army veterans. The event was hosted by Holestar and Brian Lobel.


Boots. Socks. Undergarments. These are simple, everyday items.
For most of us, when our socks have holes in them, our shoes are past their recommended mileage, and the elastic in our underwear is shot, we roll up to our favorite retailer and purchase replacements. But, what if these simple, everyday items could get you one step closer to a job with a living wage, food for your children, and a permanent home?
What if these items were simply out of your financial reach?
For the working poor of the Midlands, new shoes, socks, and undergarments can mean being prepared for new opportunities. For so many of the working poor of the Midlands, the gift of new shoes, socks, and undergarments is opportunity.
The mission of The Cooperative Ministries is to increase the economic independence of the poor and working poor in the Midlands.
In 1982, five Midlands churches founded The Cooperative Ministries to answer God's call to help the poor. Today, the cooperative includes over 120 partner agencies. God's call to help the poor has been heard and is being answered by the tireless partners, team members, and volunteers of The Cooperative Ministries.
We build bridges to tomorrow by meeting immediate needs and teaching skills and providing resources for long-term independence and stability.
They serve the poor through crisis assistance and sustainability programs such as counseling and crisis services, food vouchers, rent/mortgage and utilities assistance, and a furniture and clothing bank.
TRUMC already has a strong relationship with Cooperative Ministries as a a host and source of volunteers for its clothing bank.
In keeping with the TRUMC Foundation objective to honor God by supporting mission work, the Foundation identified with The Cooperative Ministries mission to help the poor and is pleased to announce that a $2000 donation was given to this outstanding organization.
The $2000 gift to Cooperative Ministries will not go to their operating budget but has been directed to a special need. Our gift will help with the purchase of new work boots and new no-slip shoes to help people get a new job. Our investment will help pay for underwear and socks.
These simple items are real, tangible help for the Midlands working poor and another example of the TRUMC Foundation's mission to answer God's call and promote His message of love and caring.


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David Bernard
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David commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1999 from the NROTC program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. From 2000-2004, David served as an Air Support Control Officer in Marine Air Support Squadron 2 (MASS-2), in Okinawa and MASS-3 in California. This included exercises in the Philippines, Hawaii and Spain. In 2003 David served with MASS-1 as part of Task Force Tarawa during the invasion of Iraq.
After 2004 David moved to Colorado where he attended the Colorado School of Mines and became a member of the Foothills Detachment 469 of the Marine Corps League and a member of the Marine Memorial Association.
David joined the Marine Memorial Foundation in 2017 with the goal of ensuring that the Memorial remains dedicated to all Marines and that the planned renovations are practical and sustainable.
David currently resides in Westminster, Colorado with his wife Debi and son Zander.
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According to ThisDay, There are strong indications that former President Goodluck Jonathan may have gone into temporary self exile in Cote d'Ivoire, following reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may arrest him on his arrival in Nigeria from his overseas tour on allegations of corruption and misappropriation of billions of dollars in the five years during which he was Head of State.
Several sources close to the ex-president, who confirmed that Jonathan had sought refuge last week in the West African country, also blamed the heightened attacks on oil and gas installations by Ijaw militants in the Niger Delta, resulting in the loss of an estimated 800,000-900,000 barrels of crude oil per day (bpd), to what they claimed was "the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to renege on his promise that his predecessor had 'nothing to fear' from him (Buhari) after he handed over the reins of power on May 29, 2015".
Immediately after his electoral victory in 2015 and at his presidential inauguration, Buhari, in what was seen as a political gesture, had stated that he would not go after his successor, despite allegations that the former president had presided over widespread corruption during his five years in the saddle.
However, since Jonathan's departure, anti-corruption agencies led by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have swept in on several associates of the former president on allegations of money laundering, diversion of public funds and contract scams, mostly linked to defence sector contracts and the purchase of arms used for the prosecution of the war against Boko Haram in the North-east.
In recent weeks, the EFCC has in addition to arresting and prosecuting several public office holders who served under the Jonathan administration, arrested some of the closest allies of the former president including his cousin, Mr. Aziobola Robert, in connection to a $40 million pipeline surveillance contract, and his former principal secretary and confidant Mr. Hassan Tukur.
A source, who spoke to ThisDay on Jonathan's decision to give Nigeria a wide berth, said the former president was reliably warned by security sources of the plan to arrest him once he stepped into the country, hence his decision to seek exile in Cote d'Ivoire.
Jonathan, the source disclosed, departed Nigeria for the United States almost two months ago travelling to several cities but stayed in New York for some two weeks. After departing the US, he travelled to London to be with his children for a few days, preparatory to his return to Nigeria.
But while in the UK, he was warned by sympathetic officials in different arms of government of the government's decision to arrest him once he returned to Nigeria.
On getting wind of the plan, Jonathan, ThisDay gathered, contacted a few West African leaders including the President of Cote d'Iviore, Mr. Alassane Outtara, who offered him a safe haven until the coast is clear for him to return to Nigeria.
Sources close to the president said since the information of the government's resolve to arrest Jonathan swept through the Niger Delta, Ijaw militants have gone berserk and stepped up their attacks on oil and gas installations in the region. They are said to be hell bent on shutting down oil output completely.
One source said the militants are targeting all onshore and shallow water installations, from where Nigeria derives the bulk of 90 per cent of its foreign exchange earnings and may head for the deep offshore oil fields if the federal government does not back down.
In order to stem the renewed wave of attacks, governors in the region have scrambled and sent teams to the creeks to placate the militants, but so far their efforts appear to have fallen on deaf ears.
The governors are particularly concerned that the attacks on oil installations would hurt the Niger Delta states the most due to the attendant decline in revenue.
When contacted on the plan by the government to arrest Jonathan and his purported exile, Buhari's media adviser, Mr. Femi Adesina, said he was not aware that the former president was in exile, adding that questions on his arrest could only be addressed by the security and law enforcement agencies.


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Requesting a termination of proceedings under the UDRP: A case of prejudice
In Loco Tecnologia da Informação v. Perfect Privacy[1]
Panels resolving UDRP matters have a broad power conferred by Paragraph 10(a) of the Rules which states: "the Panel shall conduct the administrative proceeding in such manner as it considers appropriate in accordance with the Policy and [the] Rules". Additionally, Paragraph 17(b) of the Rules gives panels the power to terminate the matter at the request of one of the parties and for the other party to raise any objections to the termination. Together these sections give panels the power to terminate a claim with or without prejudice to the Complainant. Terminating a complaint without prejudice simply means reserving a decision in the matter, leaving the Complainant with the right to bring the complaint again at a later date. Panels will consider the reasons for requesting a termination as well as the other parties' objections before deciding to terminate with prejudice. Naturally it will be in the Respondents' interest to terminate with prejudice.
In the case of In Loco Tecnologia da Informação v. Perfect Privacy a Brazilian tech company requested to have their complaint terminated after being granted multiple time extensions and failing to come to a settlement with the Respondent. Their request came after the Respondent had spent time and money making submissions in the matter. The Respondent objected to the Complainant's request to terminate without prejudice, submitting that the termination should be with prejudice as well as a finding of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH), which was ultimately granted.
No Bad faith if Complainant did not exist before registration
The Respondent registered the domain name <inloco.com> in 1999 but the Complainant company did not incorporate until years later and only registered their IN LOCO trademark in 2017. This makes it practically impossible for the Complainant to succeed in their claim because they would not be able to show that the domain name was registered in bad faith – at a time when they did not yet exist and had no interests that could have been targeted by the Respondent. Bringing a doomed claim supports a finding of RDNH and in this matter the panel found that the Respondent was entitled to have the RDNH request dealt with in spite of the matter being terminated because like a counterclaim, it is a separate question. History between the parties suggest that the Complainant had been unable to purchase <inloco.com> and now sought to use the UDRP to take it procedurally.
In responding to the request for a finding of RDNH, panels may have to look to the whole of the evidence and decide on the matter as they usually would have done. The reason is that making a claim that would have been successful, almost certainly would not have amounted to an abuse of process. But a claim that would have failed, although not determinative, is far more suggestive of the whole claim having been an abusive one.
The complaint's claim in relation to the 'bad faith' requirement was essentially that the Respondent hadn't been using the domain name for any discernible purpose. Unfortunately for them, passive holding of a domain name is not itself an act of bad faith and this was the reason their complaint failed. In addition, the panel found that Complainant had engaged in RDNH for reasons which are instructive as to facts which make a finding of RDNH more likely:
1. The Complainant did not provide any evidence of the Respondent using the domain name to target C or its interests;
2. The Complainant did not acquire rights to the name until 15 years after Respondent had registered the name. They could not have satisfied the bad faith requirement and their claim was doomed to fail;
3. Multiple attempts to buy the domain name failed – the Complainant likely used the UDRP to acquire the domain name for commercial reasons, not to address an issue of cyber-squatting.
It is also important to note that an unproductive delay and subsequent withdrawal of the claim will often not be favourable to Complainants, due to it increasing the likelihood of a Panel finding that the UDRP was being used to punish the other party financially.
[1] The Hon Neil Brown QC was a member of the Panel in this proceeding


Campbell goes on to highlight some of the key points he made during those lectures: that doctors now fill the role shamans once did, and that when a boy was stricken with madness in the old days he was not electrified and analyzed, but taken out into the woods where he could experience himself in nature and transcend the madness. Campbell suggests that schizophrenia, much like religious rites in tribal cultures, is a way for humans to interpret the symbols that have inspired them for ages.
It is so terrifying nowadays however because we are no longer taught a version of the monomyth as children. Because we no longer learn the symbols, we no longer have shamans who understand them, and so this madness has become an epidemic that doctors try to suppress rather than guide those stricken by it to self-identification.
There are two types of schizophrenia according to Campbell: 'essential,' marked by withdrawal from the outside world (these are those who talk to themselves, curl up in a ball, and rock back and forth), and 'paranoid,' marked by a remaining lucidity that's extremely sensitive to the world yet through a skewed lens based on one's own projected fantasies and fears.
This last type, paranoid schizophrenia, is the patron of the myth we call conspiracy, and of those who we affectionately call the conspiracy theorists.
I recently sat down and watched the 2012 mockumentary, The Conspiracy, directed by Christopher MacBride. The movie is a fantastic insight into those who see patterns and those who suppress them. It explores something that has become a modern myth in face of globalization, invasive tech, and the lack of religion. Many can't come to terms with the fact that the world is chaotic, that there are ten million organizations doing ten million things, and so they feel the urge to bring them together under a single umbrella.
Every event is connected and is part of some secret organization's grand plan.
This is what Terrence, the subject of the documentary our two main characters, Aaron and Jim, are making, believes is the absolute truth. He's pinned hundreds of newspaper articles to his wall and has built a web of connections between world events. We, as the viewer, believe the story will revolve around this man. That this movie will simply detail how his mind works and, on a larger scale, how the minds of conspiracy theorists in general work.
Not far into the film however, Terrence goes missing. Jim kind of gives up on the project, but Aaron obsessively presses on.
Pretty soon Aaron pieces together the mystery Terrence was trying to solve. He claims there is this secret society, this overarching group, that has been manipulating world events for centuries (reminiscent of the claims made by the YouTube sensation, the Zeitgeist: The Movie).
Jim, hesitant to press on, reluctantly follows Aaron on this wild ride. They eventually find themselves, despite numerous threats from strange CIA-style men, sneaking into a Tarsus Club meeting, Alex Jones style, where they encounter a ritual indoctrination ceremony.
Before we continue, let's go back to Campbell for a moment. The world is now absent of myth, he says, so people have a hard time coming to terms with pain and suffering. Long ago they blamed bad things on the gods. Nowadays, a time when the gods no longer exist to the vast majority, people must blame something else.
Man is now the creator, God is now in the image of man, and we as a collective group are forging forward with things that could have only been imagined in science fiction before. Because of that many claim that man is manipulating the weather, controlling the fate of the earth, and orchestrating humanity's existence.
And to a degree nature is now more than ever tied to human actions. We are in a large sense controlling the fate of the earth. But truth, as postmodernism most certainly conveyed, is fickle. It is not an absolute. It's dependent on perspective, propaganda, and so many other factors. It is easily manipulated and subjectified.
Even when a picture tells a thousand words, it often tells it out of context.
I myself don't swing one way or another. There are 'facts' built into both ways of thinking. Both arguments have valid premises. What's interesting to me is how this has become kind of a religion in and of itself. Instead of blaming Zeus, we now have hidden organizations like The Conspiracy's Tarsus Group.
ISIS, that terrible band of thugs currently marauding across the Middle East (as our own colonists once did here in the West), for example, has a curious name. Isis, in Egyptian lore, was the mother symbol that brought the pieces of Osiris back together when his brother Set dismantled his body.
Interesting that the only good thing, if we can call it good at all, that ISIS has done is bring the broken nations of the Levant together to fight for one cause.
And of course, ISIS, like all major events in the news, has its conspiracies already. It is part of the scheme, part of God's… The Government's… The Illumanati's... [Insert Organization]'s grand plan. Funded by the CIA, just like 9/11. The beheading videos are the stuff of Hollywood, like the moon landing. Or something along those lines.
There are too many versions to be definitive.
What is definitive is that people are making connections. They're validating their mythology. It's easier to think someone is orchestrating this hatred and violence for some greater good or ultimate goal. And there are supporting facts, of course. It's no secret the U.S. government has funded organizations like the Taliban in the not-so-distant past to fight Soviet forces. Our government has been manipulating the Middle East since the fifties.
But things aren't so simple. There is a chaos. There is a natural progression and not everything fits simply into a box.
These symbols that people are seeing however are not a conspiracy. They are a natural function of man's mind. They help us humans explain and understand the world around us. Dreams do it for our daily lives. Religions and nationalism once did it for our communal life (and still do in many parts of the world… see Daniel Dennet's TED Talk, Dangerous memes). In the absence of that we've created our own personal religions where the gods are corporations and the heroes and villains are entire governments.
Life is a storybook and the fate of our race is an epic. We've woven a continual patchwork of narrative that extends from the beginning to the end over and over again throughout history. It is only natural, whether born of truth or paranoia, that we continue the tradition today.
Of course these name games and thought puzzles often are not serious critiques. Anyone who makes such an abstract claim such as the one that ISIS was given this name because it represents a figure out of the old religion likely knows deep down that this is a chicken-or-the-egg conundrum. It is a great insight into how the human mind works, placing symbols on groups and events, instinctually categorizing, well after the event.
This fault in logic comes when one places effect before cause because of circumstantial evidence.
Anyone who has ever formulated a plan with a group of people then tried to execute that plan to a T knows that grand schemes often take on lives on their own, dependent on each contributor's personality and a multitude of external and unforeseeable factors. They never quite end up in the same place that was first conceived.
The grand scheme of "The Conspiracy," the big kahuna that brings every other conspiracy together into a simple and organized history of events, is damn near impossible. There are too many power struggles to make this work. Though it may be a simple, if not daunting, task to trace the history of a conspiracy back to the origins of civilization—even beyond it, to a race of ancient aliens that come down and teach humanity the secrets of the universe (see the History Channel's Ancient Alien series for more one this)—it would likely be built on a mountain of conjecture. Order out of chaos.
A claim like this one, that ancient aliens taught humanity it's secrets, that this is where stories of gods and demons came from, begs the question: "Well, where did they come from?" Did an ancient race teach them also? How far does it go back? Where did the mind begin? God? Eternity?
Is humanity so stupid that we have to pin an organizing body on the events that surround it, on its very growth?
It is this question that brings us to the true concern of conspiracy theorists. Joseph Campbell talks often of the absence of religion and the gods. They are no longer necessary and we (the sane ones at least), according to Campbell, no longer can believe in them with all our knowledge of the universe. A void appears. An absence in the deepest recesses of our souls.
Without religion, that societal institution that allows us to interpret the abstract symbols our ancient mind created, symbols that picked us up out of the darkness and into civilization through our constant questioning and striving to understand, without that we all become schizophrenic. If the gods are no longer orchestrating our actions, then who is? Governments? Corporations? Secret Societies?
Zeus has become the man behind the curtain and his pantheon microbiological agents of mind control. We see the lesser gods in corporate logos and say a secret society of satanic priests have built an altar of the supermall. All without the consideration that maybe humanity thrives on this type of religious symbolism. That maybe man needs to make a religion of society, or else society may not function and grow as it has for the last couple million years.
All this doesn't really matter. The symbols we are attempting to interpret come from inside. From the subconscious. Reaching outward for answers only frustrates us and complicates things further.
A perfect representation of the subconscious and perennial human tendency to create order out of chaos, to fit pieces of the puzzle together into a coherent picture, is illustrated by David Kwong in his TED Talk, Two nerdy obsessions meet—and it's magic.
"You are all wired to solve," Kwong says after he asks a woman, Gwen, from the audience to come onstage and color a few animals with different colored markers. The participant amazingly colors the animals as Kwong had expected she would, his prediction validated by a coloring he completed before the show.
Kwong explains that he knew Gwen would color the drawings as he intended because he had added subliminal messaging to his speech. The phrase "You've all read Don Quixote, haven't you?" became an indicator to color the donkey red for example.
Of course, Kwong manipulated his audience in one way or another. The subliminal messaging to begin with. But we all know magicians often have an accomplice in the crowd. This could have all been a grand conspiracy.
So it is with the events of the world. The pieces of the puzzle are certainly out there. It's not hard—given time and patience (and a creative mind)—to piece them all together.
The question remains: is there really some grand conspiracy that's persisted through the ages, or is it that many simply suffer a mass delusion, a strange cultural schizophrenia that's become ever so prevalent in the absence of religion, without a vehicle by which to understand and interpret the symbols that surround us, those fundamental pieces of our intelligence that Joseph Campbell marks as the division points between man and the other animals, those primitive drivers of our natural instinct to solve?
Jim and Aaron, our industrious filmmakers and main characters of The Conspiracy inevitably are caught during their foray into the Tarsus Club's meeting. It appears to the viewer that Jim has given into the group while Aaron, still hell-bent on outing them, seems to be murdered as the Tarsus Group's sacrificial bull. We are later told this was just a joke, meant to scare Aaron and Jim. Jim's body language during his final interview and the fact that Aaron has disappeared much like Terrence, makes us question this claim.
Jim does however finally get the chance to interview William Jensen, COO of the Tarsus Club, who has a final thought for us (which again relates to Daniel Dennet's TED Talk on Dangerous memes).
And this is where the myth truly falls: Somewhere between lies and truth. There is truth in all the conspiracies we tell ourselves (small and large), no matter if the conclusion is absolute truth or not. We get the pieces to the puzzles from true observations. And there are in fact horrible deeds, or devious actions, people in power take to orchestrate mass support or fear to accomplish some greater action (think of the many black flag operations governments throughout history have carried out). But at the end of it all, it is nearly impossible to discern the real, definitive truth. There is simply too much noise and, quite frankly, it is all a matter of perspective.
Schizophrenia or the Only Way Forward?
I turn back to Campbell now.
I can only wonder what he'd say about all this, what his stance would be. He talks much of globalization and of collaborating across governments so that we can end fighting among ourselves and move to the universe at large. He talks of the necessity and inevitiability that the wars in the middle east will cease in due time and that as a collective we will reach out past the moon (he experienced the moon landing on TV himself shortly before his death), and into the stars, where we will discover our true Selves.
I can only imagine that he'd take Jensen's side. For Campbell, coming together collectively was representative of coming together on an individual basis. The further we reached outward, the further we'd understand our internal Selves. And of course, sacrifices are necessary for this. That is what the hero's journey (the same as the schizophrenic's journey) is all about. Reaching out and interpreting the symbols and reflecting what is learned in the macrocosm on a microcosmic level.
In his conclusion at the end of his 1971 essay, "Envoy: No More Horizons," the last of essays in his book Myths to Live By, Campbell reveals that "our depths are the depths of space," before asking the question: What is to be the new mythology?
We must forge forward collectively to peace with each other, peace with the universe, and peace with ourselves, so that we can discover the myth that lives in us all.
This message is beyond politics, but if the new political mythology is a means to this end, then I say: let us forge forward with these delusions. We will find truth in myth somewhere.


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According to Amazon's cloud CEO, sustainability and profits "do not have to be at odds."
Selipsky remarked that Amazon's entire corporation aims to be carbon-neutral by 2040, a decade earlier than the Paris climate agreement.
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Revenue, undertaken well by stakeholders, and working on measures to safeguard the environment while also reducing climate change are not mutually incompatible, according to Adam Selipsky, CEO of cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), on Monday.
In an interview with Jim Cramer for "Mad Money," Selipsky stated that Amazon's entire corporation aims to be carbon-neutral by 2040, a decade earlier than the Paris climate agreement.
"Sustainability and profitability don't have to be in conflict," Selipsky said, citing instances at Amazon and AWS that make excellent commercial sense simply because they are better for the environment, such as energy-efficient cloud data centres.
More fundamentally, he stated that the corporation is incorporating low-carbon concrete into its data centres and office buildings, as well as looking for sustainable jet fuel to carry items. According to him, Amazon has decreased average packaging waste per shipping by 38% since 2015.
Selipsky also mentioned Amazon's acquisition of electric truck producer Rivian Automotive — a hub in the company's climate wheel — noting that by year's end, Amazon would have thousands of Rivian cars on the road delivering deliveries in the United States alone.
Rivian obtained a $700 million investment from Amazon and a pledge from the e-commerce and data centre giant to acquire 100,000 custom-built electric delivery trucks as part of a strategy to electrify its last-mile network by 2040, just two years before its initial public offering in 2021.
Cramer questioned Selipsky if he believes his children would agree that Amazon makes sufficient efforts to protect the environment. "I hope they don't think we're doing enough yet," Selipsky added, noting that the firm is still in its early stages. He noted that while Amazon may not have all of the solutions, he believes it is on the right course.
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