Michael Peters and Ergin Bulut (2011) Cognitive capitalism, education, and digital labor. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. (PB, pp. 341, £28.00, ISBN 9781433109812).
If the social factory is an image – understood here as a fraction of both a thing and its representation—its sensory motor circuit has intensified specific material tendencies active across far-flung assemblages of capital, affect, machines, (gendered, raced) populations, work, and values. The social factory, however, is a poor metaphor for societies of neoliberal control: a sieve with a variable mesh is better (Deleuze, 1996), but only as far as metaphors go. The ontological or affective turn in Western theory and practice, aside from nurturing a healthy skepticism for all metaphors, pushes radical materialist praxis to confront and provoke the contemporary crisis of capital itself.
The collection of essays gathered together in Cognitive Capitalism, Education and Digital Labor develops several of these new materialist directions with urgency and insight, at times tapping into, or better conjuring a kind of proleptic Marxist Zeitgeist: the potential and limits of the autonomy of living labour. Organised around both the 'Theoretical Foundations and Debates' (1-122) of the cognitive capitalism thesis, and its implications for 'Education and Labor' (123-287) today, the collection has stand-out essays by Antonio Negri, George Caffentzis, Sylvia Federici, Christian Fuchs, Ergin Bulut, Emma Dowling, Alex Means, Alberto Toscano, and Tahir Woods. Written for a general audience interested in the relationship between educational institutions, accumulation, activism, work, and the digital broadly construed, these essays explore the various dimensions of the crisis of capital and subjectivity today. Here, I review some of the major themes running throughout the essays.
As Alex Means argues in his excellent contribution to the volume, the current crisis is rooted in the transition from the industrial-Fordist model of national production in the 1970s to post-Fordist globalization in the 1980s and 1990s. Consequently, the reach and organizational power of the market has extended into ever more domains of life leading to a broad expansion of global corporate profit making. This radical expansion of privatization is broadly what is referred to, following Marx, as the real subsumption of living labor into capitalist production. Driven by a wave of privatization, wage repression (outsourcing, automation, free trade/labor zones, precarization, etc.), informational and communicative processes, and speculative innovations and semiotic manipulations in the financial markets, capitalist accumulation has deepened inequality and insecurity. 'Millions have lost their homes and livelihoods. Unprecedented wealth has been upwardly redistributed as publics have been left holding the bag—systemic risk, debilitating debt, and historic social disinvestments. While architects and cheerleaders of neoliberal globalization claimed that unbridled information-driven capital would usher in a new era of "friction-free" exchange in a "flatter" world, everywhere we turn we seem to be confronted with new walls, hierarchies, and points of conflict' (213).
Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphic, self-acting mules etc. These are products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of human participation in nature. They are organs of the human brain, created by the human hand; the power of knowledge objectified. The development of fixed capital indicates to what degree general social knowledge has become a direct force of production, and to what degree, hence, the conditions of the process of social life itself have come under the control of the general intellect and been transformed in accordance with it. To what degree the powers of social production have been produced, no only in the form of knowledge, but also as immediate organs of social practice, of the real life process. (Marx, 1993: 706, emphasis in original).
Part of what we see throughout the corporate world is a reinvestment in 'innovation' (entrepreneurial capture machines) as an always unstable, stochastic, and necessary process of capitalist accumulation in the age of the digital. As Antonio Negri limns it, the 'originality of cognitive capitalism consists in capturing, within a generalized social activity, the innovative elements that produce value…' (qtd. in Peters and Bulut, 2011: xxv). This insight is built on by several of the contributors who focus specifically on the creation of value in network societies. Christian Fuchs argues that computer networks are 'the technological foundation that has allowed the emergence of global network capitalism, i.e. regimes of accumulation, regulation, and discipline that are helping to increasingly base the accumulation of economic, political, and cultural capital on transnational network organizations that make use of cyberspace and other new technologies for global coordination and communication' (Fuchs, 2011: 86).
In other words, the social factory under cognitive capitalism has dispersed its dispositifs. Around the world we witness not only its consolidation in new media marketing strategies of value capture through social networks, but emergent techniques for modulating the embodied capacity to sense and affect. Indeed, the social network is parasitical on affect, as Cote and Pybus, Sylvia Federici, Michael Peters and Emma Dowling all note in this volume. Effectively, what these critics bring to attention is the real subsumption of living labour under capital—the real and practical folding in/of affective and labouring capacity is both a tendency and variable within the non-equilibrium systems of digital capitalist control. Indeed, as more and more forms of expression, labor, reproduction, care, emotion, and affect are incorporated into capitalist accumulation strategies (Dowling's analysis of affective labor in the restaurant industry is a clear example) the precariat develops pathologies of hyper-expressivity, as Franco Berardi puts it (Berardi, 2007). Think of the exhibitionism of Facebook and Twitter, of the continual revaluation of the self through Linkedin and XING. The workings of many aspects of everyday neo-liberal life is legible in the unending modulations, audits, measures, and evaluations of populations understood as human capital (the neoliberal University is the perfect laboratory for the training of commodities training commodities), instruments and targets of digital control. The cognitive worker as the perpetual self-entrepreneur gives the lie to the creative economy. It is not autonomous creativity but competition for innovative capture and individualism for value that is the dominant mode of autonomy in our time (movingly analyzed by Dowling in her post quoted above).
There are many examples world-wide of this struggle between real susbsumption and real autonomy in the far-from-equilibrium systems of biocybernetic control. My own research has focused on the social, economic, and political implications of the large-scale and rapid adoption of mobile phones throughout India in the past ten years. Real subsumption in this context has meant that the mobile phone has become a technology central to the workings of state and capitalist logistics (used, for instance, in tracking individuals, identifying movements, and securing populations both through the mobile itself and the process of securing a workable SIM card, as well as in extracting more and more labour time from workers constantly connected and audited through their mobiles). On occasion the mobile phone has also been used in radical and populist journalism uncovering police injustice and governmental corruption, or as a coordinating tool in activist events, or as a viral machine sending out and forwarding timely information or politicized memes; twenty years ago in Mumbai women did not leave the house without pepper spray, today those who can afford it make sure before stepping out that their mobile is fully charged. In India today, new forms of sociality, movement, rhythm, gesticulations, attention, vision, touch, and sound are emerging at different speeds, scales, and patterns of distribution. One cannot discount the political and material impact of these shifts immanent to the habits of digital media for revolutionary becomings. (De)habituation is the very process that take these networks far from equilibrium through continuous and simultaneous vectorings of reterritorializations, deterritorializations, and lines of flight. To affirm Marx's communisation as a process through one's diagrams of body-machines necessitates transversal connections, conjunctions producing monsters who never cease to leave the axioms of capital.
But accumulation by dispossession also continues apace. Following the work of the Italian autonomists, Alex Means argues in the volume that within the biopolitical economy capital is increasingly charged with the expropriation of 'value as "rent"—the becoming rent of profit'. The expropriation of rent can be in the form of primitive accumulation or what David Harvey calls '"accumulation by dispossession": the privatization of "fixed" assets like schools, transportation systems, hospitals, as well as natural resources and biogenetic materials. However, what is increasingly at stake is the capture of value directly on the basis of the common' (216). So can local critical events that reclaim and reorganize the commons (Tahrir, LSX, OWS, Occupy Mile End…) intervene in the general crisis of capital itself? As Peters and Bulut put it in the Introduction, 'it is safe to argue that we are in a period of universal crisis. Institutions built on the model of enclosed spaces, that is, the institutions of modernity—school, family, prison, factory, clinic—are in a struggle to redefine themselves. The modern institutions are struggling to survive within the crisis of flexible and informationalized capitalism whose survival is dependent on the very connections it promotes' (xxix). Certainly the crisis in technology, ecology, value, work, and subjectivity is global, but does it all arise from the conditions of cognitive capitalism, or are conditions more heterogeneous across forms of labor (factory, piecework, farm), and their effects more molecular and yet diffused?
For Peters and Bulut, and for many of the other contributors, 'cognitive capitalism' is a general term that has become significant in the discourse analyzing a new form of capitalism sometimes called the third phase of capitalism, emerging from mercantile and industrial capitalism, in which the accumulation process is centered on 'immaterial assets utilizing immaterial or digital labor processes and production of symbolic goods and experiences' (xxv). Throughout the volume, the language of crisis and transition produces an uncanny feeling of being poised on some fundamental transformation already lived: 'This place is pre-something', as China Mieville puts it in the London's Overthrow. Are we living through again, this time as farce, what Antonio Gramsci remarked as Europe's fascist conundrum, in which the 'old is dying and the new cannot be born: in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear'? (qtd. in Keyman and Koyuncu, 2005, 106). Is immateriality one such morbid symptom? And what exactly is immaterial about working in a Bangalore call centre for twelve hours a shift?
I end this review with a consideration of three themes central to the collection: the organic composition of industry (that is, the ratio between machinery and labour power in the production process); the political economy of affect (accumulation in the bodily mode); and the limits and potential of autonomy today.
In his appraisal of the cognitive capitalism theses, George Caffentzis argues that the image that Carlo Vercellone paints of the 'parallelism between contemporary cognitive workers and the proto-industrial cottage-industry workers of the 16th to 18th centuries should be taken either as a grain of salt or as a seed of truth' (45). For Vercellone, Caffentzis notes, the old putting-out system is a place where the direct producers were autonomous from the capitalist and need only meet him at the end of the labor process, i.e., 'at the point of "capture."' However, he goes on to argue that the historical accounts of the putting-out system show the merchant capitalist deeply involved in the planning and organizing of the work process, with often 'only a semblance of power over the instruments of production' (45). For Caffentizis, this tendency of piece wages to organize payment in the putting-out system is very important, 'especially if we run Vercellone's parallel the other way and see the contemporary cognitariat as the domestic industry laborers of our time' (45). This tendency toward piecework, 'an obscured and fetishized form of time-wages', is an image of the '21st century's cognitariat's plight' (45).
If we grant this argument (which we note is still tied to the basic humanist binary between bodies and machines – nanotechnologies and evolutionary algorithms, to name just two examples, blur this distinction), the implications are serious. The focus on the struggles in the knowledge-based sectors of the economy results in an overall neglect of class struggles taking place in the huge area of agriculture, for instance against land displacement, and in factory production worldwide, which together still account for about two-thirds of global employment (53-4). As an initial response (beyond the post-humanist critique), one might note that the cognitive capitalism thesis is not only about one area of capitalist production but, as crucially, about the gradual and increasing informatization of all aspects of capitalist production world-wide, which is one of the key dynamics effecting real subsumption.
… capital relations are always already social relations. Social networks enable an exponential explosion of such social and economic relations. And what is also produced in these social and economic relations—indeed, what causes them to coalesce in the first place—is the production of affect. It is this affective trajectory that we argue passes through the heart of what is immaterial labour—a modality of work that diffuses production (in subjectivity and consumption) throughout the extremities of the social factory (177-178).
For her part, Dowling draws a sharp distinction between affect and emotion. Thus, affect is 'an attention to the inter-, or better transactions that occur between and among bodies prior to and in excess of how they are cognitised or verbally expressed as feelings. Affect as a philosophical, psychoanalytical and neuroscientific concept is connected to the relationality of "sense" and describes physiological shifts or transmissions of energy, mood or intensity.…Affect is a "subjectively registered embodied experience" and emotion is a "cultural or discursive articulation of bodily response"' (204). If forms of cognitive capitalism seem to be so much more insidious today it is because subjectivation has become bound up with the conditioning of affective capacities, the modulation of dispositions for memory and action, the shaping of habits of consumption and communication: accumulation in the affective mode targets and agitates the capacity for sense and sensation in life itself.
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of this warning: which and whose autonomy are we referring to? The autonomy of the entrepreneur to capture value, or the autonomy of a precariat to create the conditions of their own emancipation? But perhaps there is a category confusion afoot in Toscano's formulations? Perhaps the life of autonomous living labour, in its qualitative difference from the entrepreneur's mode of capture, is lived in a non-dialectical difference that does not go all the way up to contradiction or even antagonism, and its political value lies in its unceasing lines of flight that create conjunctions between radical practices of communisation—potentializing, anomalous, and experimental forms of life that are no longer subsumable within capital's relations of measure.
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Amit S. Rai is Senior Lecturer in New Media and Communication at Queen Mary, University of London. He has taught at Florida State University, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Rule of sympathy: Race, sentiment, and power, 1760-1860 (Palgrave), and Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's new media assemblage (Duke). His articles have appeared in Cultural Studies, Social Text, Discourse, Third Text, Screen, Diaspora, South Asian Popular Culture, Camera Obscura, and the Women's Studies Journal.


The Phalacrocoracidae is a family of some 41 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants or shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed recently, and the number of genera is disputed. There is no consistent distinction between cormorants and shags as these appellations have been assigned to different species seemingly randomly.
They are medium-to-large seabirds. They range in size from the Pygmy Cormorant Phalacrocorax pygmaeus, at as little as 45cm and 340g, to the Flightless Cormorant Phalacrocorax harrisi, at a maximum size 100cm and 5kg. The recently extinct Spectacled Cormorant Phalacrocorax perspicillatus was rather larger, at an average size of 6.3kg. The majority, including nearly all Northern Hemisphere species, have mainly dark plumage, but some Southern Hemisphere species are black and white, and a few (e.g. the Spotted Shag of New Zealand) are quite colourful. Many species have areas of coloured skin on the face (the lores and the gular skin) which can be bright blue, orange, red or yellow, typically becoming more brightly coloured in the breeding season. The bill is long, thin, and sharply hooked. Their feet have webbing between all four toes, as in their relatives.
They are coastal rather than oceanic birds, and some have colonised inland waters – indeed, the original ancestor of cormorants seems to have been a fresh-water bird, judging from the habitat of the most ancient lineage. They range around the world, except for the central Pacific islands.
All are fish-eaters, taking small eels, other fish, and even water snakes. They dive from the surface, though many species make a characteristic half-jump as they dive, presumably to give themselves a more streamlined entry into the water. Under water they propel themselves with their feet, though some also propel themselves with their wings. Some cormorant species have been found to dive to depths of as much as 45 metres.
After fishing, cormorants go ashore, and are frequently seen holding their wings out in the sun. All cormorants have preen gland secretions that are used ostensibly to keep the feathers waterproof. Some sources state that cormorants have waterproof feathers while others say that they have water permeable feathers. Still others suggests that the outer plumage absorbs water but does not permit it to penetrate the layer of air next to the skin. The wing drying action is seen even in the flightless cormorant but commonly in the Antarctic Shag and Red-legged Cormorant. Alternate functions suggested for the spread-wing posture include that it aids thermoregulation, digestion, balances the bird or indicates presence of fish. A detailed study of the great cormorant concludes that it is, without doubt, to dry the plumage.
Cormorants are colonial nesters, using trees, rocky islets, or cliffs. The eggs are a chalky-blue colour. There is usually one brood a year. The young are fed through regurgitation. They typically have deep, ungainly bills, showing a greater resemblance to those of the pelicans, to which they are related, than is obvious in the adults.
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of some 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed recently, and the number of genera is disputed. There is no consistent distinction between "cormorants" and "shags" as these appellations have been assigned to different species randomly.
The double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It occurs along inland waterways as well as in coastal areas, and is widely distributed across North America, from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska down to Florida and Mexico. Measuring 70–90 cm (28–35 in) in length, it is an all-black bird which gains a small double crest of black and white feathers in breeding season. It has a bare patch of orange-yellow facial skin. Five subspecies are recognized.
The gangly Double-crested Cormorant is a prehistoric-looking, matte-black fishing bird with yellow-orange facial skin.
The Great Cormorant is the most widely distributed of all the cormorants, breeding in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
A large and conspicuous waterbird, the cormorant has an almost primitive appearance with its long neck making it appear almost reptilian.
Taxonomy: Pelecanus Carbo Linnaeus, 1758, Europe.
The little pied cormorant, little shag or kawaupaka (Microcarbo melanoleucos) is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the subantarctic. It is a small short-billed cormorant usually black above and white below with a yellow bill and small crest, although a mostly black white-throated form predominates in New Zealand.
Taxonomy: Hydrocorax melanoleucos Vieillot, 1817, "Australasie" = New South Wales. Polymorphic race brevirostris speculated to be a distinct species, but other than its possession of different morphs there appear to be no characters that distinguish the taxon. Proposed form melvillensis (from N Australia) is considered a synonym of nominate. Three subspecies normally recognized.
The Little Pied Cormorant is one of the most common of Australia's waterbirds, occurring on water bodies of almost any size. It is entirely black above and white below.
The Neotropic cormorant or olivaceous cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) is a medium-sized cormorant found throughout the American tropics and subtropics, from the middle Rio Grande and the Gulf and Californian coasts of the United States south through Mexico and Central America to southern South America, where he is called by the Indian name of "biguá". It also breeds on the Bahamas, Cuba and Trinidad. It can be found both at coasts (including some mangrove areas) and on inland waters.
A bird of the tropical waterways of Central and South America, the Neotropic Cormorant reaches the upper limits of its range in Texas and occasionally, the Great Plains.
Taxonomy: Procellaria brasiliana J. F. Gmelin, 1789, north-east Brazil. Sometimes placed in genus Hypoleucos. Long referred to as P. olivaceus, but brasilianus has priority; P. olivaceus thus a junior synonym. Proposed race chancho (Sonora, in NW Mexico) is synonymized with mexicanus, and hornensis (S Chile) with nominate. Two subspecies normally recognized.
Seawatching has been gaining popularity in recent years, whether watching from traditional coastal sites or from boats while on specific pelagic trips in search of seabirds and whales. Many seabirds will only be seen in flight, as they pass by prominent headlands or fly past boats, and viewing opportunities are frequently brief. This forthcoming book is the essential field guide for seawatching, specifically designed to address the particular problems and limitations with this kind of birding.


Stater Bros. Holdings Inc., parent company of Stater Bros. Markets, has elected Phillip J. "Phil" Smith to chairman of the board of Stater Bros. Markets, following the passing of Executive Chairman Jack H. Brown on Nov. 13. Smith formerly served as vice chairman of Stater Bros. Holdings—a position to which Brown appointed him in 2012.
Smith also was elected chairman, president and CEO of Stater Bros. Holdings.
As chairman of Stater Bros. Markets, Smith will "provide guidance and leadership to the company's executives and officers to ensure the continuity of Stater Bros. business operations and trusted brand," the San Bernardino, California-based grocery chain said in a statement on Dec. 12.
Smith has been with Stater Bros. for nearly 30 years and has more than 40 years of experience in the supermarket industry.
Smith joined Stater Bros. in 1987 as the company's controller. He was promoted in 1998 to VP-controller, and in 2000 he was promoted to VP-controller and chief accounting officer (CAO). In November 2000, he was promoted to SVP, CFO and CAO, and in 2006 he was promoted to EVP-finance, CFO and CAO.
Prior to joining Stater Bros., Smith served as VP/CFO at Market Basket Food Stores in East Texas from 1984-87. From 1975-84, he served as VP and controller for various divisions of Cullum Cos. Inc. in Dallas, Texas.
Smith holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Stephen F. Austin University in Texas.
"Given Jack's unwavering trust in Phil and long history of working together both within and outside of Stater Bros., I welcome and look forward to Phil's mentorship and direction," said Pete Van Helden, Stater Bros. Markets president and CEO.
Stater Bros. is the largest privately owned supermarket chain in Southern California and the largest private employer in both San Bernardino County and Riverside County. The company operates 169 stores and has 18,000 associates.


It's become a 21st century buzz word for the ambitious, and as such, has been taken seriously as a productivity enhancer by professionals in all lines of business.
For some managers, it is expected from their subordinates, even required. There are techniques that are touted as more effective than others for engaging in this type of task performance. And once we "get the hang of it", many of us credit it for the timeliness of our accomplishments and the conservation of our mental energy. It's called multi-tasking, and remarkably, despite all the importance we bestow upon it, it doesn't even exist!
It's true. Cognitive research has demonstrated that the brain cannot perform two or more complex tasks simultaneously. What many of us consider to be multi-tasking is actually the brain toggling back and forth between the tasks. And before you become convinced that multi-tasking by any other name is nonetheless a force for good that enhances your productivity, think again. To understand this paradox more deeply, let's explore the intricacies of so-called multi-tasking that may be sabotaging your mental resilience.
To make matters worse, another wild study that included MRI brain scans showed that folks who attempt to multi-task more often had less brain density in a crucial cognitive cortex known as the ACC (that inc.com articleagain.) In plain English, the act of multi-tasking, which is disadvantageous in the first place, physically gnaws away at your brain!
I've written and spoken about workplace interruptions by colleagues on several occasions. Less understood is how often we interrupt ourselves at work without even realizing it. Distractions like email alerts, social media and web browsing can interrupt our focus just as severely as an unexpected cubicle pop-in by a colleague. Near the top of this list should also be our attempt to multi-task, which, in and of itself, is a back-and-forth interruption onslaught. As author and leadership coach David Rock indicates, it takes up to 23 minutes to refocus after a workplace distraction. Apply this statistic to multi-tasking, when your brain is interrupting itself in perpetuity, and the saying, "chase two rabbits, catch neither" has even more profound implications.
The one-two punch of multi-tasking is fairly simple: Because professionals think they can multi-task, they also think they're good at it, and feel encouraged to do more of it! What's not often understood is that by engaging your prefrontal cortex in two directions at once, you're not working toward your goals. This keeps your career in stagnation, your stress level high, and your mental resilience compromised. The solution can also be simple: Commit to doing one thing at a time! Then, distribute this antidote to busyness around to your employees by way of suggesting they start scheduling their tasks accordingly. Set a smartphone timer as a gentle alert that it will soon be time to switch tasks. Eliminate the obvious distractions by closing down all other computer tabs and windows besides the ones related to the task at hand. Clear your desk of clutter and lock yourself into focus mode.
One way you can genuinely multi-task, with benefits, is by supplementing one mental activity with a physical activity. For instance, stepping away from a creative work task for a while can allow you to review your progress with refreshed eyes. Take yourself a fresh-air walk around the block before completing a workplace project. And here's one we can all relate to: Have you ever noticed how your best ideas seem to arrive while you're having a shower? If ever you reach a mental roadblock, exploit this concept by getting up from your desk and temporarily changing your environment. You'll be amazed how quickly and effectively those constructive thoughts start to rush in. Increased productivity will be the first tangible result, and a full mental energy tank is your personal reward!
Looking back so far on our GRACE in the WorkplaceTM series, it's profound how Resilience takes so many shapes: spiritual, physical, emotional andmental. Next, we'll spend some more time exploring Grit, or the G in GRACE. But not before I reveal my Word of the Year for 2018! Have a Happy New Year, and stay tuned.


Kyle Busch, center, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Va., Saturday, April 21, 2018.
It's no secret that Kyle Busch generates reactions in NASCAR. The 32-year-old superstar driver is similar to what controversial Sixers Hall of Famer Allen Iverson used to say about himself – a million people loved him and a million people hated him.
Busch is one of the most polarizing drivers on the circuit, and the man whose nickname is "Rowdy," says he is fine with that.
"I think it's a good thing when you're a polarizing guy and people are paying attention to you whether it's good or bad," said Busch, who began his path to NASCAR by driving a go-kart around the cul-de-sac of his family's home in Las Vegas when he was 6 years old. "I think it is obviously a better thing for you.
"Whether I'm liked or disliked for my success, that's not my problem. I just out there and do what I can and control what I can control."
Busch comes into Sunday's AAA 400 Drive for Autism at Dover International Speedway riding the hottest streak of his career.
Last week, Busch had his three-race winning streak snapped when he finished 13th in the Geico 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. It was just the third time Busch did not finish in the top five in 10 Monster Energy Cup Series races.
When Busch won the Cup Series title in 2014, he also had a three-race winning streak.
"It's not easy to come by, that's for sure," Busch said of a winning streak. "There's a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication and a lot of circumstances kind of have to go your way. Really at every race, the goal is to make it through unscathed and have a good day."
For people less familiar with NASCAR, it could be easy to believe that the driver with the best car should win the most races. Busch said it's never that simple.
At this level of competition, there is so much money, research and development dedicated to building cars, any advantage of technology will be slight and it never lasts long. Early in this season, the Ford cars seem to have the edge, but Busch in his Toyota has been on the podium as much as anyone.
He has three wins, the same number as Kevin Harvick, who drives a Ford.
"We've not been the dominant car in maybe any of these races, but we've certainly had our fair share of good fortune go our way to get where we are at this point," Busch said. "Most people, including the commentators, are saying the Harvick team seems to have the strongest cars right now, so it seems as though we're beating them with a little … inferior equipment, let's call it.
"We're not slouches by any means and we're doing what we need to do to take the checkered flags home."
If Busch appears to have taken a subtle dig at Harvick while complimenting his own team, it would not be surprising.
Given the aggressive racing styles, success and quick fuses both have, a rivalry was almost a given. Busch's career is littered with disputes with other drivers — some which have led to fines and probation. Punches have been thrown.
Still, with 46 career wins and 249 top-10 finishes, no credible argument can be made against Busch and his level of success on the Cup circuit.
"I think some people want to be the more liked guy," Busch said, " but in my regard, I'd rather be the most successful guy."


Testimony on Offshore Work COFPAES Administrator John Palatiello testified before the House Small Business Committee on June 18 on the issue of sending white-collar jobs offshore. The hearing was broadcast live on national cable television on C-SPAN.
The hearing was broadcast live on national cable television on C-SPAN. View the C-SPAN web cast of the entire hearing. Mr. Palatiello's statement can be found 45 minutes into the hearing.
However, upon researching this issue, it has come to our attention that there is a loophole in the SCA and its regulations that not only permits this practice, but indeed may provide an incentive. The Act and its regulations apply only to contracts performed in the United States. Thus if Firm A is submitting a proposal to a Federal agency and it will perform the work domestically, it is subject to the SCA wages. If Firm B is submitting a proposal, and it will perform the work through an offshore subcontractor, it is exempt from SCA.
This clearly undermines the intent of the law. It also disadvantages workers in firms that propose to perform domestically. And it puts those firms at a competitive disadvantage.
The specific exemption for work performed outside the United States is in 29 CFR 4.112.
The SCA only applies to work performed in the United States. On a Federal contract, to send work off-shore is technically not a SCA violation. Given the nature of our economy when the SCA was enacted, it is apparent that Congress did not anticipate offshore subcontracting. This is a loophole Congress did not consider, which should be closed. A number of state have laws regarding prevailing wages on state service contracts. At least four state legislatures, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland and Washington State have before them this year legislative proposals to prohibit offshore subcontracting. We respectfully urge the Committee to investigate this loophole in the SCA and assist in a regulatory or legislative solution.
Professionals in architecture, engineering and surveying are licensed by the states. In most cases, state law or regulation requires work, defined in state law as the practice of architecture, engineering or surveying, to be performed under the direct supervision of the licensed profession, and that the licensed professional be in "responsible charge" of such work. A question should be raised as to whether sending A/E work offshore meets the licensing law intent on direct supervision and responsible charge.
COFPAES is also concerned about work going offshore because of the predatory nature of Federal Prison Industries (FPI). As the Small Business Committee knows from its hearing held last November, FPI is rapidly moving into the services sector of our economy. Prison industries are looking to enter the commercial market for services, claiming a 1930s ban on interstate commerce for prison made products does not apply to services. FPI is targeting for domestic prison labor performance those commercial services that are going offshore. FPI's own documents show it is "broadening its prime contractor role … in the areas of … digitization of maps for GIS applications, digitization of engineering and facilities management drawings (am/fm), scanning and digitizing, CALS conversions." Thus, COFPAES is concerned that the trend toward offshore performance of architecture, engineering and mapping activities will result in a double-whammy for U.S. small business A/E firms – low wage competition from off-shore sources as well as from prison industries.
The recent trend toward offshore subcontracting is particularly troubling to small A/E firms. They are not as able as large firms to set up offshore subsidiaries or to negotiate teaming agreements with firms outside the United States.
Our greatest concern, is the fact that when one looks at what has happened in the manufacturing sector, one realizes that once an activity goes offshore, it does not come back home. We are concerned about the long term impact offshore subcontracting will have on the A/E profession and the U.S. economy.
We generally support free trade policies. We are generally resistant to government intrusion in the business affairs of our profession and our members business practices. It should be noted that for obvious anti-trust reasons, private firms or trade associations cannot enforce ethical policies that in any way limit sending work offshore. While this is an area where only government action can affect this activity, we urge caution by Congress and regulatory agencies. We appreciate the Committee's careful attention to this important matter and commend you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing.
Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee, I am John Palatiello, Administrator of the Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural & Engineer Services (COFPAES), a coalition of the Nation's leading trade associations and professional societies in the architecture, engineering, surveying and mapping field. Our members are the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), American Institute of Architects (AIA), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) and the Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS). Our coalition represents more than 500,000 practicing architects, engineers, surveyors and mapping professionals.
COFPAES was formed in 1966 to speak for the design professional community with a unified voice on Federal procurement issues. Paramount to the council is the qualifications based selection (QBS) process for government procurement of architect-engineer (A-E) services, which is codified in 40 USC 541 and part 36 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. This process has also been enacted in more than 35 states and is endorsed in the American Bar Association Model Procurement Code for State and Local Government.
For some time, the architecture, engineering, surveying and mapping (A/E) community has been concerned about the practice of sending production work offshore. U.S. firms send drafting, data conversion, scanning, digitizing, and other work related to design and mapping to subcontractors outside the United States.
Before September 11, there was discussion in the A/E community about the practice of sending certain work offshore for subcontractor performance. That discussion focused on whether this was a good business practice and whether this was an ethical activity.
Access to A/E drawings, mapping data and other work products of the design community can be used for nefarious and destructive purposes if in the wrong hands. Since the September 11 attacks, there has been increased concern about this issue.
For example, after September 11, GSA announced its new policy regarding access to A/E drawing of Federal buildings. GSA, along with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) issued a joint statement on dealing with unusual requests for building plans.
A number of Federal agencies revised public web sites and removed maps, drawings and other data about our critical infrastructure. For example, the U.S. Department of Transportation's web site on the National Pipeline Mapping System, which provided location data on interstate gas and petroleum transmission lines, was shut down.
While these may have been prudent and necessary steps, they could in some respects be tantamount to shutting the barn door after the horse has escaped.
There are instances in which U.S. firms send conversion work, mapping and other geographic and design information work offshore, to India, Pakistan, China, the Philippines, and other countries with lower labor costs. This practice raises issues regarding access to data about the location of power plants, buildings, pipelines, water supply systems, underground utilities and other critical infrastructure by individuals in foreign countries who have not been through any degree of security clearance and where control of access to data simply does not exist.
While the Federal "Buy America Act" (40 USC 10a) generally does not apply to services, for a Federal Government contractor to send work off-shore could be illegal and potentially dangerous. The only reason a firm would send work offshore would be to take advantage of lower labor costs. If a firm were to send Federal contract work offshore, take advantage of the lower labor costs, fail to pay the prevailing wage required by the contract, and pocket the difference, it could be in violation of contract clauses and subject the firm to fraud, personnel to criminal penalties, and possible Federal contracting debarment. We would urge the Committee's investigation of the legality of such a practice.
Federal A/E contracts and subcontracts are subject to the prevailing wage requirements of the Service Contract Act of 1965 (41 U.S.C. 351 et seq.). Many state and local governments have similar prevailing wage laws. Some would quickly assume that with regard to Federal contracts, this practice could not be taking place, due to the requirement that the prevailing wage be paid to prime contractors' workers and subcontractors' workers pursuant to the Service Contract Act of 1965 (41 U.S.C. 351 et seq. and 29 CFR 4.101 et. seq.) ("SCA").


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So I assume to have the chance for further improvement in the future after finishing my pre-masters year.
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Biografia
Attiva in gare FIS dal dicembre del 2005, la Sorokina ha esordito in Coppa Europa il 16 gennaio 2008 a Caspoggio in discesa libera (37ª), ai Campionati mondiali a Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011, dove si è piazzata 33ª nel supergigante, e in Coppa del Mondo il 27 novembre 2011 ad Aspen in slalom speciale, senza completare la gara.

Il 21 febbraio 2012 ha ottenuto a Mosca in slalom parallelo il suo miglior piazzamento in Coppa del Mondo (9ª), risultato bissato il 29 gennaio 2013 nelle medesime località e specialità, alla sua ultima gara nel massimo circuito. Ai Mondiali Schladming 2013, suo congedo iridato, non ha completato lo slalom speciale; si è ritirata durante la stagione 2014-2015 e la sua ultima gara è stata uno slalom speciale FIS disputato ad Abzakovo il 9 dicembre, chiuso dalla Sorokina al 8º posto.

Palmarès

Coppa del Mondo
 Miglior piazzamento in classifica generale: 99ª nel 2012 e nel 2013

Coppa Europa
 Miglior piazzamento in classifica generale: 127ª nel 2013

Nor-Am Cup
 Miglior piazzamento in classifica generale: 23ª nel 2012
 1 podio:
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Australia New Zealand Cup
 Miglior piazzamento in classifica generale: 3ª nel 2012
 Vincitrice della classifica di supergiante nel 2012
 Vincitrice della classifica di combinata nel 2012
 7 podi:
 3 vittorie
 2 secondi posti
 2 terzi posti

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SL = slalom speciale
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 2 ori (supercombinata nel 2011; slalom speciale nel 2012)
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 4 bronzi (discesa libera nel 2007; discesa libera nel 2008; slalom gigante nel 2010; discesa libera nel 2011)

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Ex-Commissioner of Police Mr Michael B. Matthews says receiving news of new homicides in the Virgin Islands is something that saddens him as the former commissioner in the Virgin Islands, since it feels like nothing has changed.
Mr Matthews was at the time speaking on the December 12, 2022, edition of Talking Points on ZBVI 780 AM with co-hosts Violet Thomas-Gaul and Damion C. Grange on the topic of the local police not being able to solve several homicides.
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Lack oftTrust & confidence in police are barriers- Mr Matthews
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The Hit Parade is the covers album by Tak Matsumoto in conjunction with several guest artists. It was released on 26 November 2003 through Vermillion Records.

Background
The album features cover songs, which were popular during 70's and 80's in the Japan music scene from following artist as Momoe Yamaguchi, Candies, Akina Nakamori or Tatsuro Yamashita.

The album has been performed by young artist from Giza Studio such as Mai Kuraki or Rina Aiuchi, and veterans artist from 90's such as Keiko Utoku or Koshi Inaba. Originally the 20 songs were recorded, however 17 were included. The recording started in 2002 and end in 2003.

The album jacket cover visually resembles to The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions by Howlin' Wolf.

In 2010, after fraud scandal with Azumi Uehara is 2003 album version out of print. However, on 31 December 2018, after fifteen years the album was re-printed, which included limited Kansai version of Koshi Inaba's Minano no Yoko, Yokohama, Yokosuka.

Promotion

Singles
The first promotional cover single was Ihoujin, originally performed by Saki Kubota and covered by Zard. The single was released on 27 August 2003. The B-side song includes cover of Ame no Machi wo, originally performed by Arai Yumi and covered by Akiko Matsuda from Ramjet Pulley. In the media, cover version of Ihoujin was broadcast as an insert theme song for Fuji TV television drama Anata no Soba ni Dare ka Iru. The single debuted at number three on the Oricon Weekly Single Charts and charted for sixteen weeks. The single has sold over 155,263 copies. The single was announced in 2003 as the 58th biggest selling single of the year.

The second promotional cover single was Imitation Gold, originally performed by Momoe Yamaguchi and covered by Mai Kuraki. The single was released on 8 October 2003. The B-side song includes cover of Watashi wa Kaze, originally performed by Carmen Maki & Oz and covered by Yuri Nakamura from Garnet Crow. The length of B-side song is over seven minutes, which makes the longest track from cover album. The single debuted at number one on the Oricon Weekly Single Charts. The single has sold over 75,000 copies.

Charting performance
The album debuted at number two on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart and sold 225,125 copies in its first week.

The album was announced in 2004 as the 27th biggest selling album of the year. The album sold more than 450,000 copies.

The album has been rewarded with The Best Pop-Rock album of year by Japan Gold Disc Award in 2004.

Track list

Personnel
Credits adapted from the album booklet.
Tak Matsumoto: guitar, vocal, arrange
Hideo Yamaki: drum
Akihito Tokunaga: bass, arrange
Yoshinobu Ohga: arrange
Koshi Inaba: Blues Harp
Akira Onizuka: acoustic piano, organ

References

Covers albums
2003 albums
Japanese-language albums
Tak Matsumoto albums
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"We had been closely monitoring Amu's health prior to his move as we were concerned then, and everything was done to prioritise his welfare and well-being. Leaving him behind in Japan was not an option, but the fact is that at the age of 27, he was a very elderly bear and despite being given expert care when he arrived in the UK – something he's not been able to receive before – he simply wasn't able to improve and the kindest option was to make sure he didn't suffer further."
"Amu's gentle nature had already touched so many staff at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, despite his short time there, and we know how saddened they are by this decision. We are extremely grateful to everyone in the Yorkshire team for their hard work and compassion and for giving him for the weeks he's been with them, the chance to live a happy life."
The four brown bears, 17-year-old brothers Riku and Kai, 27-year-old female Hanako and 27-year-old male Amu, were recently rehomed from cramped conditions in a museum in Japan where they had been living for most of their lives, and journeyed to the UK's Yorkshire Wildlife Park for lifelong care. The three other bears – Riku, Kai and Hanako – are in good health and are currently thriving in their new Yorkshire home.
It is thought that more than 400 other captive bears are living in poor conditions in Japan and Wild Welfare is working with zoos, the Japanese zoo association and animal welfare organisations in the country, to make long-term improvements for these other bears.
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Thank you WL for your generosity this year at We Care Warsaw 2021! Generosity is one word we love to use to describe our church family!
We gave away 511 bottles of laundry detergent, $5,600 in gift cards, 300 toys for the Christmas store, hundreds of family photos, and more! We had 280 volunteers from the church family to help out, so thank you!
What a fantastic way to show God's love to our neighbors. We had 590 people visit, and because of you we were able to love all of them well! Way to go, WL!
The 13th Annual We Care Warsaw in 2020 had to be redesigned and offered as a drive-through event due to COVID-19.
We were happy to be able to bless 325 families with groceries, laundry detergent, and gift cards. Even more significantly, we were able to pray with each family at the 2020 We Care Warsaw Drive-Thru.
At its peak, over 400 vehicles were in line in the church parking lot as well as circling Kings Highway, 13th Street, College Avenue, and Rupe Drive.
The generous donations of gift cards, valuing $6,000, more than doubled the average amount in previous years. The quantity of items in the grocery bags donated by World Compassion Network was doubled this year with funds from our church's We Care Warsaw account.
Thank you to everyone who provided donations and to the 60+ volunteers who served in-person during the weekend, as together "we allowed these good deeds to shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise our heavenly Father" (Matthew 5:16).
Thank you to everyone who helped this year at We Care Warsaw 2019! We had 1,215 guests who attended from our community, 377 volunteers from the church family who served, and many other volunteers from the community who participated.
We were able to provide numerous amounts of gifts to our community this year, such as 1,000 full-course hot turkey meals, 300 bags of groceries (one bag per family - provided by World Compassion Network), 250 bottles of laundry detergent, $3,250 in various gift cards, 175 haircuts, 247 family photos, 388 toys and educational materials for kids, 36 gift baskets, health screenings, and more.
Without your generosity, we would not have been able to provide for our community in this way, so thank you for your generosity! Let us praise God for his love and provision.
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Ursula von der Leyen is suspected of poor management and nepotism over her department's allocation of contracts and its decision to hire a consultant as her deputy. A parliamentary committee is set to investigate.
Opposition parties in the German Bundestag have agreed to launch a parliamentary investigation into Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen's role in a spending scandal involving her ministry's allocation of lucrative contracts.
Lawmakers from the Greens, Left Party and business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) approved the move after von der Leyen gave an "inadequate" testimony on the affair at a Defense Committee hearing Wednesday, Left lawmaker Alexander Neu said.
Von der Leyen, a member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), admitted in November that her ministry had made mistakes in allocating contracts to external consultants worth hundreds of millions of euros.
"There were violations of the provisions guarding the awarding of contracts," von der Leyen said. "The involvement of external parties did not always proceed correctly. That should not be allowed to happen."
The investigative committee will examine irregularities in a contract awarded to McKinsey and a €390 million ($442 million) IT contract given to another company that failed to pass through the company's supervisory board as required.
It will also investigate whether von der Leyen committed nepotism by hiring Katrin Suder, a former McKinsey consultant, as her deputy to oversee the ministry's arms procurement section.
Opposition lawmakers on the Defense Committee had complained that Suder, who quit the government early this year, had refused to speak with them over her role in the scandal. The investigative committee, unlike a standard parliamentary committee, can demand an oral testimony from witnesses.
Von der Leyen has denied that she had any influence over the hiring decision and defended the ministry's use of external consultants. "It is undisputed that we need external advice for these necessary projects," she said.
As for awarding contracts, she said the ministry had introduced "control" mechanisms to avoid future mistakes.
The "consultant affair," as it has become known in Germany, began in August after the National Audit Office raised concerns about wasted expenditures and nepotism within the Defense Ministry from 2015 to 2016.


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Warner Bros seems to have somewhat abandoned the UK when it comes to releasing older titles. They have an archive label that releases many classics in America and to be fair they are all region free so will play on UK Blu-ray players. That said it can be a pain and sometimes impossible to obtain them in the UK. Probably the only way to change this bizarre decision is if enough people ask them to reverse it. I mean don't they want our money. The film I'm taking a look at today stars the one and only Edward G. Robinson, so on with The Sea Wolf Blu-ray Review.
The fate of three people is about to be decided, one is George Leach, a man on the run from the police. He decides the best way to avoid them is to sign up to be part of the crew of the Ghost, a ship run by captain Wolf Larsen (Edward G. Robinson). No sailor in their right mind will work for him so he has to trick of forcibly obtain his crew.
The other two unfortunate souls are Ruth Webster an escaped convict and Humphrey van Wyden an author. Both are onboard a ship which collides with another resulting in both vessels sinking. Fortunately these two are rescued and taken aboard the Ghost, but they are in for a terrible surprise when they meet the ship's captain.
The film is directed by Michael Curtiz with the cinematography handled by Sol Polito. Its from 1941 and shot in black and white. The special effects / sets certainly look very good for the time whilst the pacing of the film is perfect as we see a decline in the captain's mental health.
The music is composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Edward G. Robinson excels in the role of the nasty sadist captain Wolf Larsen. He's a man of many contradictions; he sells out any and every one of his crew seemingly for his own pleasure. Maybe this is born out of those terrible headaches he suffers from that also cause him temporary blindness or maybe he's just not a very nice person. Either way Edward G. Robinson plays him to perfection making this The Sea Wolf compelling viewing.
The support cast all play their roles well ensuring that this is a must see film.
For me watching old classic films with actors such as Edward G. Robinson reminds you just how many great actors there used to be. He's an incredibly distinctive and unique actor that has massive screen presence. In fact I can't think of another actor that is similar to him, past or present.
The Sea Wolf is a compelling and at times atmospheric drama that should be on every classic film fans list of films to see and own.
Warner Bros have done an excellent job; the picture quality is flawless with no flickers or damage to report. The film is in black and white so seeing it without any annoying and distracting marks is simply a film lover's dream come true.
On the extras front the inclusion of a 1950's "Screen Director's Playhouse Radio Broadcast" is a rather nice little bonus and one I encourage you to listen to.
The Sea Wolf (1941) is available now on Blu-ray if you are prepared to obtain an imported version.
Edward G. Robinson excels in the role of the nasty sadist captain Wolf Larsen.
Loves horror films especially those from directors such as John Carpenter and Dario Argento. Also a big fan of Clint Eastwood films be they westerns or more of the Dirty Harry Kind. On a mission to see all great films be restored & released on Blu-ray so each one can by enjoyed & reviewed.