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Ottawa, November 22, 2018 - A new report released today reveals the disconnect between Canada's promises on climate change and the actions of its official export credit agency, Export Development Canada (EDC), in propping up the oil and gas industry.
Disclosures and analysis of transaction-level data reveals that EDC provides, on average, over $10 billion in government-backed support for oil and gas companies every year. Between 2012 and 2017, EDC provided twelve times more support for oil and gas than it did for clean technologies. In the first two years of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, EDC provided more support for oil and gas (22.4 billion) than was provided during the last two years of the government of his predecessor, Stephen Harper (20.9 billion).
Underwritten by Canadian taxpayers, EDC's finance is make-or-break support for many fossil fuel businesses and large oil and gas projects. By shifting lending and insurance risk onto the Federal government, EDC provides substantial commercial and competitive advantage for domestic fossil fuel producers, alongside federal and provincial producer subsidies. Canada has repeatedly committed to phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, but has yet to announce a clear path for ending either budgetary subsidies for oil and gas, or for ending Export Development Canada's fossil fuel finance.
The report's release comes in the midst of two ongoing reviews of EDC's governance. International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr has asked EDC to thoroughly review its internal practices at the same time the government is also reviewing EDC's governing legislation. The report shows how Canada can align EDC's mandate with best-in-class policies and with global goals that Canada has committed to, including the Paris Agreement on climate change.
EDC is falling behind the curve. In 2017, the World Bank Group established a new standard for climate leadership by ending financing for upstream oil and gas activity after 2019. Other multilateral development banks, including the African Development Bank and Asian Development Bank, have already ruled out financing for oil and gas exploration activities. Just last week, it was reported that Spain's new climate change law would freeze and ultimately phase out both fossil fuel subsidies and government-backed investments in fossil fuels.
The latest climate science calls for a rapid shift away from fossil fuels. In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that global emissions must decline by 45 percent in just 12 years, reaching zero in just 38 years, in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and provide the best chance of avoiding catastrophic impacts from climate change.
The report: "Risking It All: How Export Development Canada's Support for Fossil Fuels Drives Climate Change" was published by Oil Change International in partnership with the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Environmental Defence Canada, Équiterre, Above Ground and Climate Action Network Canada. It can be found here.
You may also read the Questions & Answers document written by Annie Bérubé, Equiterre's Director of Government Relations.
EDC is a government-backed institution created to 'support and develop Canada's export trade by helping Canadian companies respond to international business opportunities,' whose financial issues are backed by the full faith and credit of the Government of Canada.
Every 10 years, the Minister of International Trade must initiate, as per the Export Development Act, a review of EDC's mandate and activities, in consultation with the Minister of Finance. In addition, International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr has requested that EDC undertake a thorough review of EDC's ongoing risk assessments and transaction due diligence.


House price growth slowed to 0.5% in the year to December 2018, Nationwide's House Price Index has found.
Prices fell by 0.7% from November to December to average at £212,281.
Annual house price growth has slowed considerably since December 2017, when it stood at 2.6%.
Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist, said: "UK house price growth slowed noticeably as 2018 drew to a close, with prices just 0.5% higher than December 2017.
"Indicators of housing market activity, such as the number of property transactions and the number of mortgages approved for house purchases, have remained broadly stable in recent months, but forward-looking indicators had suggested some softening was likely.
As ever, the headline figures mask significant regional disparities.
Between Q4 2017 and Q4 2018 Northern Ireland saw annual growth of 5.8%, followed by the East Midlands and Wales at 4.0%.
The London commuter belt saw prices fall by 1.4%, while they also fell by 0.8% in London and stayed flat in outer South East England.


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The Poodles – 'Prisma' – Album Review
Published on February 7, 2018 February 3, 2018 by 2loud2oldmusic
Not a huge cover albums fan, I was very apprehensive on this release. I do like cover songs, you know, maybe throwing one on an album, but not a whole album. Cover albums can be very hit or miss. The band either interrupts the songs in to their own sound or they copy it exactly adding nothing special and that is always my fear.
The Poodles decided to do a covers album for their 7th studio album and all though I am a huge fan of the band, this worried me greatly. But being a fan, a did give it a spin. The good news is the band took an approach of picking songs from artist that are not in their specific genre of glam metal and they definitely achieved that goal. The album title 'Prisma', I can only assume was picked to signify the songs would be looked at from different angles or viewpoints and they would add their own color to them. And was that achieved? Well, let's discuss that and find out.
The opening track of the album sounds like pure, classic Poodle. The song is "Crazy Horses" by the Osmond Brothers from 1972. Yes, I said that right…the Osmond Brothers. Now that is definitely going outside your genre. The song is cranked up much heavier and would fit perfectly on any Poodles' album. What helps is that I am not real familiar with this song so I have no preconceived notions of what this song should sound like. Their first choice is making me think this might be a great covers album.
The next song, however, I am very familiar with. It is "Maniac" by Michael Sembello and was from the 'Flashdance' soundtrack. I know what this song sounds like and I do have a preconceived notion of what I think it should sound like. They keep a lot of that sound, but they take into the Poodles sound and rock it out. I could sing along with this one right out of the gate and I loved every note. Jakob Samuel can sing and he tears this one up. This was a fun one and now I was getting excited. Would that excitement hold up?
Yes!! "Love is Gone" is up next and this one is a cover of the David Guetta song. Great, an electronica song by a famous DJ (I said that sarcastically BTW). The Poodles start it off with the familiar piano sound and then turn it up a notch and make it a great rocker. The guitar work by Henrik Bergqvist is incredible and the double bass drum work by Christian Lundqvist is the kick in the ass this song needed. Another keeper.
The band jumps to the 90's with the cover of Depeche Mode's hit "It's No Good". The take the song and bring in to the 21st Century. The take a song by a band that usually has depressing songs and beefs it up into a modern rock song rather than new wave, synth pop.
"Don't Worry Child" is the next cover. This one is originally done by Swedish House Mafia. The song reached #6 on the US charts in 2012 and was a massive worldwide hit. They take this House Music/Electronica type song and do what they have been doing so well so far and turning into heavier rock song and this one becomes a great power ballad.
The first misstep for me comes with the Elton John cover of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". They don't really offer anything new to the song and although they do a solid version, it is a hard song to make your own as the original is so recognizably Elton. It leads a little Karaoke for that, I am not a fan of this one.
They redeem themselves with a song that is so recognizable for the band Blondie, "Call Me". Surprisingly, the heavier sound and amazing vocals by Jakob really kick this up a notch and turn it in to another Poodles sounding song with some amazing guitar work. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this one as I thought it would wind up like the previous song. It also had a nice touch of having a female come in during the song and with her angelic voice sing some parts that are so high I don't think Jakob could hit them.
"Go You Own Way" was originally by Fleetwood Mac and this is the second song that doesn't work for me either. They did make it heavier, but it falls flat in the end. It sounded too Pop and not heavy enough to feel like a Poodles song. Plus, it is one of those songs if I want to listen to it, I really want the Fleetwood Mac version.
I give Jakob and the band some credit for this next one. They actually try to tackle an Adele song. The chose to cover "Set Fire to the Rain" and Wow!!, did they really bring it on this one. They kept true to the style of the original and added more power to the music and I was stunned that I like it…I liked it a lot!! They turned it in to a power ballad with a lot of heart (at least in my opinion).
Now the last song on the album was by a metal band that you might have heard of called Deep Purple. They did a very respectable rendition of "Soldiers of Fortune". With this one they did not try to convert it to a Poodles song and they kept to the original song with the acoustic guitars and the addition of the string instruments. I mentioned earlier that I don't usually like when a band does that, but I forgive on this one. Why? Because it was nice hearing them play in a completely different style. It showed me they could do more than their Glam roots. It isn't my favorite song on the album, but it is one of the better ones. A very nice way to end the album.
1. Crazy Horses – The Osmond Brothers – Keeper
2. Maniac – Michael Sembello (From Flashdance) – Keeper
3. Love Is Gone – David Guetta, Chris Willis – Keeper
4. It's No Good – Depeche Mode – Keeper
5. Don't You Worry Child – Swedish House Mafia – Keeper
6. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John – Delete
7. Call Me – Blondie – Keeper
8. Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac – Delete
9. Set Fire to the Rain – Adele – Keeper
10. Soldiers of Fortune – Deep Purple – Keeper
8 keepers out 10 songs – 80% (4.0 out 5.0 stars) I have to say this was a surprisingly great album for me. I don't normally dig the cover albums, but they made it fun and picked several songs that I wasn't overly familiar with and so their versions worked for me. The key to the success was the made the songs mostly sound like they were originally done by the band and would fit on any of their albums. That can be hard to pull off, but they did it. I am a little biased as I do love this band and I will take any kind of music I can get from them and even though it was a covers album, it is the Poodles and it is nothing short of great!
Categories Album Review, New Releases, Rock, Uncategorized•Tags Adele, Blondie, Call Me, Covers Album, Crazy Horses, David Guetta, Deep Purple, Depeche Mode, Don't You Worry Child, Elton John, Flashdance, Fleetwood Mac, Go Your Own Way, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, It's No Good, Love is Gone, Maniac, Michael Sembello, Prisma, Set Fire to the Rain, Soldiers of Fortune, Swedish House Mafia, The Osmonds, The Poodles
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7 thoughts on "The Poodles – 'Prisma' – Album Review"
EclecticMusicLover says:
Great review John. They do a respectable cover of Swedish House Mafia's "Don't You Worry Child" a song I love. Will have to check out more of this album.
2loud2oldmusic says:
Thanks. It was a fun little album despite the fact it is a covers album. I am a huge fan of their sound so I did enjoy it.
stephen1001 says:
The original it's no good is my favourite depeche mode song – fortunately this version works too!
Glad you liked it. That was one of my favorite DP songs as well.
DM not DP
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 Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation (OAR)
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WHO Mask Study Seriously Flawed
Published: Sept. 9, 2020
Updated: Sept. 18, 2020
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The WHO-commissioned meta-study on the effectiveness of facemasks, published in the medical journal The Lancet in June 2020, has been instrumental in shifting global facemask policies during the covid pandemic. However, the meta-study, which claimed a risk reduction of 80% with facemasks, is seriously flawed on several levels and should be retracted.
Results of WHO meta-study on facemasks (The Lancet)
A. General flaws
Of the 29 studies analyzed by the Lancet meta-study, seven studies are unpublished and non-peer-reviewed observational studies that should not be used to guide clinical practice according to the medRxiv disclaimer (references 3, 4, 31, 36, 37, 40 and 70; see table above).
Of the 29 studies considered by the meta-study, only four are about the SARS-CoV-2 virus; the other 25 studies are about the SARS-1 virus or the MERS virus, both of which have very different transmission characteristics: they were transmitted almost exclusively by severely ill hospitalized patients and not by community transmission.
Of the four studies relating to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, two were misinterpreted by the Lancet meta-study authors (refs. 44 and 70), one is inconclusive (ref. 37), and one is about N95 (FFP2) respirators and not about medical masks or cloth masks (see detailed analysis below).
The Lancet meta-study is used to guide global facemask policy for the general population. However, of the 29 studies considered by the meta-study, only three are classified as relating to a non-health-care (i.e. community) setting. Of these three studies, one is misclassified (ref. 50, relating to masks in a hospital environment), one showed no benefit of facemasks (ref. 69), and one is a poorly designed retrospective study about SARS-1 in Beijing based on telephone interviews (ref. 74). None of these studies refer to SARS-CoV-2.
The authors of the Lancet meta-study acknowledge that the certainty of the evidence regarding facemasks is "low" as all of the studies are observational and none is a randomized controlled trial (RCT). The WHO itself admitted that its updated facemask policy guidelines were based not on new evidence but on "political lobbying".
In view of these shortcomings, University of Toronto epidemiology professor Peter Jueni called the WHO study "methodologically flawed" and "essentially useless".
B. Study misinterpretations
As mentioned above, several studies have been misinterpreted by the authors of the meta-study. All of the misinterpretations resulted in falsely claiming or exaggerating a benefit of facemasks. In the following, only the four studies relating to SARS-CoV-2 are reviewed. (HCW: health care worker)
Heinzerling et al. (ref. 44): The meta-study claims that 0 of 31 HCW wearing a facemask and 3 of 6 HCW not wearing a facemask got infected. This is not correct: the study showed that 0 of 3 HCW wearing a facemask and 3 of 34 HCW not wearing a facemask got infected. This result was not statistically significant (p=0.73). Moreover, of the 3 HCW who got infected, one reported wearing a facemask "most of the time", but the meta-study classified this HCW as "not wearing a facemask".
Wang et al. (ref. 41): This study, which did show a benefit of facemasks, was about N95 (FFP2) respirators in a health-care setting, not about medical masks or cloth masks.
Wang et al. (ref. 70): The meta-study claims that 1 of 1286 HCW wearing a facemask and 119 of 4036 wearing "no facemask" got infected. This is not correct: according to the study, 78.3% (94/120) of infected HCW were in fact wearing a surgical mask, and only 20.8% (25/120) did not wear any mask when exposed to the source of infection. The "1 of 1286 HCW" mentioned in the meta-study refers to HCW wearing an N95 (FFP2) respirator, not a medical or cloth mask.
Burke et al. (ref. 37): This study had no results relating to the use of facemasks.
Non-covid studies were also misinterpreted or misrepresented by the the Lancet meta-study authors. For instance, in the case of the non-covid study with the allegedly biggest impact of masks (Kim et al. (ref. 49) about N95 respirators in a hospital with MERS patients), the meta-study authors incorrectly mixed serological and PCR results, again exaggerating the benefit of (N95) masks. The actual results of the Kim et al. study were not statistically significant (p=0.159).
Update: A US researcher reviewed all 29 studies and found numerous additional mistakes.
C. Studies relating to "social distancing"
In an additional section, the WHO meta-study evaluated studies on the benefit of "social distancing" measures. However, several independent experts have shown that this section is seriously flawed, too, as the authors again misinterpreted several studies and made several statistical errors. As with the studies on facemasks, all of these mistakes resulted in falsely claiming or exaggerating a benefit of "social distancing" measures.
For more information on this section, see PubPeer (and links therein) and the CEBM review.
As shown in this analysis, the WHO-commissioned meta-study on the effectiveness of facemasks and social distancing, published in The Lancet, is seriously flawed and should be retracted. Health authorities may want to reconsider their covid policy guidelines.
See also: Are face masks effective? The evidence.
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Original study: Chu et al., Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis, The Lancet, June 2020, Volume 395, Issue 10242, P1973-1987.


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I QUIT TEACHING AFTER TEN YEARS – MY LAST DAY
December 3, 2019	100	By Stanley Isaacs
(door opens) (footsteps) – We need to talk. (rhythmic music) And that's it. That's it, we're done. Things are clean. This is the last time
I'm gonna be in the classroom for a long time. It feels really weird. I've been here every workday for the last decade of my life. I wanna show you
guys this really quickly. Ryan Holiday helped
us get a classroom set of "The Obstacle is
the Way" for my students. And that really
meant a lot to me. He helped push the Donors
Choose campaign on his Twitter and got us funded, I think,
within two or three hours. We got a
classroom set of the book. I think it was really
meaningful for the kids. It's really cool to be
able to bring something that means so much
to me to them as well. Probably one of
the biggest highlights of my teaching career. So that was kind of weird. What was really
weird about that was, I kept sitting there thinking, like I need to be
nostalgic about this, or I should be more upset. I'm just not. The thing is, I just
don't have any feelings about it at all. It's not bittersweet,
I'm not angry, I'm not happy, nothing. Stoicism, I guess. And I feel weird, kinda bad, that I'm just out,
just outta there. But the thing is, it's just, I feel very
stoic about the whole thing. Like this is not
good or it's bad. It's just what's happening next. And it's not you,
it's not me. You know? It's not personal with my job. It's none of that stuff. It's just time. I feel like this should be
a long, poetic video, right? This should be something serious about why I'm leaving teaching and all of that other stuff. I just don't have the
bandwidth to care anymore, not about teaching or about
kids, or anything like that, I don't have the
bandwidth to look back. I'm so focused on going forward and the future, and my clients, and what's coming next, which I'll tell you guys
about in maybe 30 seconds. But I just don't wanna
pay any mind or anything to bad times I've had,
bad memories, or frustrating things
that have happened in the past that have led me to
start side businesses and led me to switch schools, and led me to now just
wanna leave teaching. I'm gonna finish
this when I get home. I'm pretty sure
what I'm doing right now is not only unsafe
and possibly unethical, but illegal in
the city of Chicago. For the final time ever, (clicks) Ta-da, success. We did it.
Tagsand brendan hufford i love teaching i quit my teaching job not quit my job quit teaching quit teaching and happy quit teaching now what quit teaching what next Teaching the transition out of teaching why i hate teaching why i love teaching why i quit my teaching job why i quit teaching
Callie Matthews says:
I know exactly how you feel… apathy.
Sabrina Cherry says:
Ayeee this video a year old and I'm just now seeing it but Wassup Brendon I remember you working at Epic Academy
Person of Earth says:
I must admit that single mothers can get a bum rap as well. Well, I was a single mother. I was married for 19 years and when my marriage was over, I raised my children alone (no step father required). My children are grown and are 36, 32 and 23. My eldest son is a programmer, my daughter is a mother but has a degree in forensic psychology and my youngest is studying to be a paramedic. Some single mothers do the best that they can.
Lady Court Tales says:
I need an alternative. I quit.
Fox Trouble says:
Pussies run America that's the problem with everything
GunTotinMinnesotan says:
I quit after two years. I was invited to teach under a community expert clause because I didn't have a teaching license. I can't say I'm any sort of expert, but I can say the schools will undergo big changes soon or fail all together.
bat man says:
A friend of mine this was last year was her first full year of teaching she quit she was an English teacher in Ohio she quit because of the students the parents nobody wants the parent anymore no my daughters 23 and I'm going to be honest with you she was actually a pretty decent kid but she never disrespected me I think she knew not to disrespect me and I never disrespected my parent or my grandparents and my grandfather would he bust that ass my grandmother would bust that ass if you stepped Outta line with them you got lit up but I could always go to them and talk about anything that was bothering me didn't matter what but they wasn't my friend they were there to make sure I was on a path that I needed to be on and I thank them for that now if more parents would be like that we have teachers that wasn't quitting
Azolio Eroach says:
It looks like the only people who want to teach are the ones who want to have sex with the students…😨😝😒🙁
Mr. Common Sense says:
He should tell us why that a majority of Chicago public teachers send their own children to PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
chrissinn100 says:
That was a waste of time….
Private Account says:
Teaching is a crappy job… most jobs are.
Administrators in education are incompetent and incapable. Most private sector bosses are.
Parents are ignorant aholes. Most customers are.
Suggestion… do not pour your life into your work unless it is your own business.
Agent_of_Chaos says:
I quit teaching after 1 yr. My hats off to you sir
Jim Dandy says:
Three minutes into this video he's wondering why he's quitting, I'm wondering why I'm watching!
cogen651 says:
This guy leaves his job yet doesn't give us details as to why except that it's "the adults fault." Give me a break.
The crisis in the publics is the nonsense called" education theory". These experts clopping around in their cheap suits and stupid high heels, sporting a bs Ed.d doctorate earned on the taxpayer dime are what is wrong. They have NEVER done anything meaningful in their lives. They bullied kids for a few years, got their asses handed to them by a precocious 10 year old too many times , and rushed pell mell to administration where they could bother and bully bright college educated teachers.
Seriously, bright folks either remain as teachers or ditch education in its entirety. Those who promote themselves out of the classroom are first class losers who have no other options . Seriously, they went to a local high school, attended a mediocre no name college and then hauled ass right back to a middle school for kids that were not quite adults, but not youngsters either. After 3 years they had been mentally worn down due to their low 80's IQ. With nothing else even possible they rushed off to earn theirEd.D.
In summary, contrary to the past 10 year bash fest on teachers, the best and brightest either remain teachers or get the hell out. Those who promote themselves are absolutely the least talented and capable.
Christ Follower says:
I think incompetent parents is part of the problem. It is horrible parenting to buy your child who is under 16 a smart phone. That's a good way to mess with their identity, their social and family relationships, and it causes many kids to not pay attention in class because their brain has been used to getting endorphins from the constant stream of "endless" social media.
frankdrebin says:
Malcom X on the wall. Can't imagine why he doesn't want to discuss why he's leaving teaching. So, what's the point of the video? Going to assume he just doesn't want to be called RACISS!
James Williams says:
Segregation is the only answer
We all know it's black kids causing the problems. Segregation is the only answer…
Elizabeth Coleman says:
This is my eleventh year and it will be my final. I wasn't excited about starting this year for the first time ever. So it's time. I am going to become an electrician.
Tammy Bunting says:
I'd quit this is an epidemic now.
Krissi Berry says:
you're free! its harder for men in the profession according to studies…i leave when i win the lotto 🙂
RJ FP says:
The teachers unions must be stopped from ever being near children again. The NEA is a communist thug criminal enterprise.
BuddySyst3m says:
video starts at 1:40
Julie Bowers says:
Stoicism or burn out? I am a dinosaur in public education, having taught special education for 20 years. I quit several times and went back. To quote Ben and Jerry, I know it is my calling because pretty much everything else is not. I quit several times in frustration but always returned. My ex used to say, how many times are you going to try that? I still love teaching students. What I do not love is being micromanaged and overworked and disrespected. I am one who though Mr. Hollands Opus was tragic in that he had to neglect his family in order to be considered a good teacher.
What is the point of this video? Why make this if you're not going to talk about the problems with education? It's just a vacuous video journal entry from a random person.
Roland Hawken says:
Those who can do ,do those who can't teach ,those who can't teach take PE
Heil Shitler, mein failure (see if anyone can guess the reference).
Cray Fishe says:
Fuck off, white traitor.
Donald Thomas says:
I lasted an entire 3 years…….I moved to China and have taught here 8 years.
Dr. Fastestinthewest says:
I retired 3 times. My last gig was teaching high school for 15 years. I learnt a lot. I was retired and didn't need the money, but thought I could help kids – so I got certified to teach school in Texas. School Boards are scammed by the federal government with required brain washing training. The administration buildings are loaded with waste. Education Region Centers are full of socialist. I had 6 bosses all at the same time supervising my work. The list includes the School Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum Director, Social Studies Director, Principal, and Assistant Principal. These bosses could come into my classroom at any time for supervision purposes. I worked in a predominately black high school for a couple of years. The school assemblies never played the National Anthem, but always played the "Black Anthem". The Dunbar High School in Fort Worth, Texas was out of control. I had eggs thrown at me in the classroom. I had rocks thrown at my car. Upon my retirement in Texas, social security took 30% out of my social security because of an off-set penalty for teaching school in Texas. The federal government can go to hell. I'm a disabled combat vet scammed out of my government worthless Veteran Affairs care too. I'm very happy in retired life. Eaglegards…
milkmandan77 says:
I don't know.. Done with work everyday at 3 and only working 185 days per year sounds like a good deal.. Find a good school and a teach a difficult subject (ie one only smart kids can handle) and I'd imagine you'd be golden.
Gabriel Davidson says:
I think they call that "Apathy…" Mazel Tov in your endeavors…
dmurphy1578 says:
15 years and I walked away in April last year. I was done but tying to finish out the year. An administrator thought putting me down one day was a good move. Walked out called in sick for the last 100 days and got a whole new career.
Anrcs Mxms says:
Quit teaching? In Chicago? Gee, I wonder why.
Joe York says:
Did you know that numbness is an emotion?
K Foster says:
intro way too long
Be Real says:
Los últimos 3 años fueron tremendos: estudiantes, padres, administración y ¡YO misma! Amo a los estudiantes, preparé lecciones y al final era una babysitter ó referee.
mikekitsune123 says:
I quit teacher after 10 years. The students are so out of control and unsafe here in Ontario Canada that the risks are way to high to continue this type of career.
homeschooling for everybody
johnmuckleroy says:
Our country is collapsing.
Paul Hill says:
Boring. Try making an interesting or 'politically incorrect' video next time. Maybe one where you talk about teaching blacks 🙂
First off, awesome editing mate. And yeah, agree just look towards the future.
I was also wondering If I missed the part where you said why :/ lol
Subbed, hope you're following your path!
Kevin Byrne says:
0:01 — As soon as I saw the poster of Malcolm X high on the wall, I knew why you quit.
Allen Smith Hobby and Wargames says:
The trashification of the American family the last fifty years finally setting in…..really, really sad.
Common Core…..isn't it great??
J ROTHCHILD says:
Dont make another, you just wasted my time!!
Educator Sharmin says:
david nichols says:
Why the moronic soundtrack?
Little Chicago says:
Hey, I quit teaching after forty years. I love teaching, but it is not the same anymore. I would love to do some substitute teaching just to stay in game a bit. Too dangerous. Too many social justice warriors in the ranks of the students, parents, principals, senior administration at the district level who are looking for ways to be offended at the drop of a hat and file a complaint. Teachers who now survive are adept avoiding the political correctness landmines. Teachers who have to prepare their students for standardized tests are content to play the game of sorting the children into various levels of winners and losers. If your district leaders are staunch supporters of standardized testing, you will immediately know that those administrators are totally incompetent and that very little of educational value is happening there. Stay away from teaching if you are serious about teaching. Brendan, best wishes in your future endeavours.
Brendan Hufford says:
Want to know the REAL reason I quit teaching? Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC4S9kqyMVM&index=10&list=PL_DO6_8ffPG5wJ3GcCRbujjZ_O_nO65pj&t=0s
Joseph Walden says:
Basically you are a loser who abandons anything that doesn't go his way,
or you are completely faking your teaching credentials to post racist commentary.
Areli阿列莉 says:
Hello it's my second year and my first with 11 yo children and I can't wait to leave. Sometimes they are in good mood and we work together but there are some days when they don't want to do anything. Really I'm so frustrated. Thanks for this video.
Anakin Skywalker says:
I had an economics teacher who was poached by a private school and when he was asked why he was leaving he simply said "because they're going to pay me twice as much" fair play, when your income can go from £30k to £60k and be teaching better students in a nicer environment who would turn down that offer. Unfortunately he was the only good teacher in that department (And was also head of it)
Yard Dog says:
You failed. Otherwise you would actually tell us WHY as opposed to lying to us.
PG Skills says:
I see the comment board full of people assuming he quit because of the issues associated with teaching inner city youth. People are reading way too much into that pic of Malcolm X in his classroom. Here's a clue: He taught psychology, sociology, and some "experimental" government/home economics class, at a charter school. He wasn't at one of those inner city public schools that are the easy target for your (often racist) vitriol. Most charter schools can, and often are, very selective. They aren't forced to put up with all the disciplinary issues, and they have many tools they can use to get rid of under-performing kids who will bring the school's success rate down. This may not be the case at his charter school, but it very much is the case in charter schools here in NYC. So his experience was nothing like that of other teachers who retire and tell horror stories about having their treasured white knighthood squashed in the concrete jungle of urban education. He has no clue about any of that and it's obvious. All that being said, his own reasons for quitting teaching are still valid. The nigh-Lovecraftian layers of bureaucracy, inefficiency, and lack of proper funding of our education system here in the US are major issues. Teaching pre-university level in the US offers only a subsistence level income and garners little respect in our society, by and large, yet requires paying for a Master's degree. Granted, as Master's degrees go, it's small potatoes.
Do I think he'd have a different outlook on the whole thing if he had worked at an actual public school in the Bronx, Harlem, or Washington Hts.? Hell yeah. But they don't teach psychology and sociology at those schools. They're too busy trying to teach high school seniors how to add and subtract. That borrowing and regrouping stuff, y'know. Super complex.
Arkangelos X says:
Chicago is a shithole.
Ronald Picker says:
When I started teaching (back in 1973,) we (our graduating class of educators) were told the average teacher lasts 4 years in the field.
Sean Jackmond says:
What a stupid , self indulgent video. Spare us next time, huh!
Shams Elahi says:
Let foreign teachers take there place
Thomas Soue says:
I just retired after 22 years. I'm 57 but it wasn't worth it I wasn't teaching but babysitting. Bought a cheap house about 10 years ago and paid it off.
Teaching sounds awful. High school was shit, and I would never go back even as a teacher.
Bob Brown says:
Hey Brendan saw you over on one of Russell Brunsons videos and wanted to come over and check out your channel and say Hi and support! Looks like you are on to the next chapter on your journey! Look forward to seeing more of your videos !
nobackhands says:
10 years…left after one month
MFL Teacher Kerry A K Francis says:
so many amazing teachers have left the field in these last years. Sad. I feel as though I can´t be full time anymore. It´s just that change is needed at times. Good luck with the future!!
E Pappas says:
I'm in my 18th year and I still enjoy it- 7 years to go
meyersonfire says:
if you wasted your students' time like you just wasted mine, you should quit teaching ANYBODY
V C says:
What did you do for a new job after teaching??
James West says:
Miss Crabtree would have hung in there!
Acid Reflux Charlie says:
Teach in rural areas. No thugs there
vjenckz says:
A ton of teachers in the US and UK are flocking to China because pay is great here and pressure is much lighter. Our family paid off $55k in school loan debt while here! Contact me if you're interested in teaching in China. I can give advice and connect you with great places to work <3
I would suggest it to both teachers who want to come to teach forever and those who want to dabble in it before deciding. Teachers who are passionate will be able to teach other teachers. Peer teachers are thirsty for best practices to reach their students, who actually care and who want to learn, supported by parents who invest in their kids. It's so different. There's a huge understanding that children are the future.
Michelle Wei says:
Today I had quite a conversation with a clerk at a Game Stop store. Come to find out, he said "I use to be a school teacher". Now, next time, I'm going to ask him just why.
Ivy Agnes Nguyen says:
I tutor maths at a community college & get the best of all worlds: helping people learn, ZERO bad behaviour, mature students, a lot of holidays (we can choose our schedule and semesters/terms to work ahead of time), & all students get my undivided attention. I'd never want to deal with all the craziness & bureaucracy that being a /real teacher/ has. One downside is I need to have multiple streams of income to make up from them unpaid holidays & limited hours I get. But the job itself is great.
Katy McNiff says:
The vast majority of us will quit the field. The average career lifespan for a teacher is currently 7 years. In my state of Arizona, it is 3.5. Why? We went into it knowing that it would be hard, but having worked a plethora of jobs in my life, I can honestly say that I got more respect from angry retail customers on Black Fridays. If you want to know why we are quitting: look at the parents, look at admin, look
at the politicians feeding you the lie that we work part-time and get summers off. It isn't worth it for many. Heck, Taco Bell recruits at Teacher's Strikes because it knows that the Assistant Manager positions typically pay more than a teacher's salary.
uberlib teach trying to help the yoots instead received sum " cultural enrichment" but you still don't get it
Captain Ken says:
Love the attitude 🙂
princeasante1 says:
Liberals, many of them teachers, have ruined public schools. In order to learn, you need discipline.
Kimberly Saunders says:
I quit after 12 years of being a teaching assistant. Feeling weird as well. But I definitely needed to leave. It was extremely toxic and unhealthy. On to new things and I'm ready to learn some new skills.
Cool Runnings 1911 says:
Wish I had the guts to quit my teaching job. I already dread this year, and tomorrow is just the first day. This is my 11th year teaching.
Johnny Numbers says:
Spot on! You're not obligated to explain any more. From one teacher to another, thank you for your service.
Man With A Plan says:
Teachers are shmucks anyway. It's a good thing you quit.
catholics4unity says:
I taught for 32 years. In 2011, I was forced to sign a confidentiality agreement because someone I help get hired in, allegedly slept with the superintendent and his boyfriend. I was called into HR to sign and agreement after they demanded to tell what I knew. I thought the agreement would protect me, but it didn't.
I worked for Grand Rapids Public Schools in the state of Michigan and it's one of the most corrupt school districts in the state. Incompetent people run the school system. They obtain their job through nepotism, cronyism sexual favors, and to fulfill affirmative action quotas. Sadly, a lot of the administrators were poor teachers and are even poorer administrators. If they feel threatened by you, they target you, to get rid of you. This is what happened to me.
It's just one giant swinging culture in the administration. Certain teachers join the swingers club, to get further ahead within the system. Some teachers sleep with other administrators, just to get a positive evaluation. I had more dignity than that.
I would have liked to worked for a couple more years, but I got tired of working for stupid and vindictive people. I'm glad I'm out of the school system and enjoying my retirement and my pension.
Lamp in Deep Waters says:
This test crap has taken my straight A student to hardly passing Mark's because the teacher isnt teaching anything. my kid is too smart, shes been playing the teacher and taking advantage of how frazzled she is because shes bored. My child had the same teacher for 2 yrs and advanced beyond her grade a whole year during that time. but you want to tell me her poor Mark's are her fault? How about the teachers too busy with tests and assessments she cant teach, kids see weakness and pounce.
dks13827 says:
Get the 70 IQ kids into their own classes. That way they can learn to their level and …. they won't hurt the smart kids.
Paul Dias says:
I have been teaching for 30 years and I can not stand teaching in the public school system. My first five years I taught in a private school and I loved it. I can't stand the leftist politics, administrators who act as if they know more about teaching than the teacher, the teachers union that support every cause I don't and every cause I do support they don't, parents who are convinced their child can do no wrong, teenage attitudes, etc… I wish I can get out.
Gary Murphy says:
It's only getting worse. Parents can't or more often won't discipline their kids. The school says push them through no matter what. Teachers aren't allowed the authority to control their classroom. Yes good teachers are leaving in droves and kids are failing basic reading, math, and writing skills and most have no grasp on history or civics what so ever. Shut down the Department of Education immediately and let school return to local control the way it was meant to be.
Robert Lovett says:
Learning to read and write is a white thing! Therefore it's racist and must be resisted at all cost.
MrMfloor says:
Administration puts all the burden of discipline on the teachers. Unruly students are not dealt with they just sent back to class
I taught for 2 years in LA unified school district and let me tell you that it was a blessing to be laid off and never looked back
Jeffrey Lightbourn says:
How much more difficult is it to teach at a private school vs a pre-jail, I mean public school?
Johnsc11904 says:
I like teaching. I love the kids.
Female Protagonist Full Movie says:
After I did my practice teaching, I realized that I wasted the four years of my life studying Education. I hated it! Now, I'm looking for an another career.
JoeCnNd says:
Did you turn your camera on the previous night before you left so that you could do that entrance.
Everyone should get to teach in the worst school for a day and see if it's what they wanna do before they waste an education.
irish327 Rose says:
So you left us hanging. Completely pointless video.
Liberals have ruined the education system. They abhor discipline, bring race into everything and would rather teach about LGBT and race issues than math, science or social studies. Get liberals out of education and watch test scores soar.
I hope I'm wrong. Send me a link showing otherwise.
I'll send some stories I found on the internet after I finish working. I found one story from California that claims 75% of black males can't read or write. Anyways, I'm a little short on time right now. Also, I'm not quite sure how to send links in the comment section so I need a little bit of time to figure that out.
Talk to you again soon. Can all this be explained away simply with white racism?
Puff Dragon says:
Thumbs down for the retarded music.
Mit Yelsob says:
The hardest part is that there are kids who don't do as you tell them. You spend most of your time trying to coral them into behaving and even then it is like whack-a-mole. The minute you get one kid to behave another one pops up and starts and when you get that kid to behave another kid starts acting up. I end up yelling at them most of the time and it isn't something I want to do.


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Q: Astyanax Composite Keys in Cassandra Im trying to create a schema that will enable me access rows with only part of the row_key.
For example the key is of the form user_id:machine_os:machine_arch
An example of a row key:   12242:"windows2000":"x86"
From the documentation I could not understand whether this will enable me to query all rows that have userid=12242 or query all rows that have "windows2000"
Is there any feasible way to achieve this ?
Thanks,
Yadid

A: Alright, here is what is happening: based on your schema, you are effectively creating a column family with a composite primary key or a composite rowkey. What this means is, you will need to restrict each component of the composite key except the last one with a strict equality relation. The last component of the composite key can use inequality and the IN relation, but not the 1st and 2nd components.
Additionally, you must specify all three parts if you want to utilize any kind of filtering. This is necessary because without all parts of the partition key, the coordinator node will have no idea on which node in the cluster the data exists (remember, Cassandra uses the partition key to determine replicas and data placement).
Effectively, this means you can't do any of these:
select * from datacf where user_id = 100012; # missing 2nd and 3rd key components
select * from datacf where user_id = 100012; and machine_arch = 'x86'; # missing 3rd key component
select * from datacf where machine_arch = 'x86'; # you have to specify the 1st
select * from datacf where user_id = 100012 and machine_arch in ('x86', 'x64'); # nope, still want 3rd

However, you will be able to run queries like this:
select * from datacf where user_id = 100012 and machine_arch = 'x86'
   and machine_os = "windows2000"; # yes! all 3 parts are there

select * from datacf where user_id = 100012 and machine_os = "windows2000"
   and machine_arch in ('x86', 'x64'); # the last part of the key can use the 'IN' or other equality relations

To answer your initial question, with you existing data model, you will neither be able to query data with userid = 12242 or query all rows that have "windows2000" as the machine_os.
If you can tell me exactly what kind of query you will be running, I can probably help in trying to design the table accordingly. Cassandra data models usually work better when looked at from the data retrieval perspective. Long story short- use only user_id as your primary key and use secondary indexes on other columns you want to query on.

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Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of 'Breathless,' dies at 88
PARIS (AP) — Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the iconic French New Wave film "Breathless," whose crooked boxer's nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country's most recognizable leading men, has died at 88.
His death was confirmed Monday by the office of his lawyer, Michel Godest. No cause of death was given.
Belmondo's career spanned half a century. In the 1960s, he embodied a new type of male movie star, one characterized by pure virility rather than classic good looks. He went on to appear in more than 80 films and worked with a variety of major French directors, from Francois Truffaut to Claude Lelouch and Jean-Luc Godard, whose 1960 movie "Breathless" ("Au Bout de Souffle" in its original French title) brought both men lasting acclaim.
Belmondo's career choices were equally varied, from acclaimed art house films to critically lukewarm action and comedy films later in his career.
His unconventional looks — flattened nose, full lips and muscular frame — allowed him to play roles from thug to police officer, thief to priest, Cyrano de Bergerac to an unshakable secret agent. Belmondo was also a gifted athlete who often did his own stunts.
French President Emmanuel Macron called the actor a "national treasure" in an homage on Twitter and Instagram, recalling the actor's panache, his laugh and his versatility. Belmondo was at once a "sublime hero" and "a familiar figure," Macron wrote. "In him, we all recognize ourselves."
France bounded into Belmondo mode at news of his death, with praise from politicians of all stripes pouring in. The media played old movie clips that caught the athletic Belmondo in the heart-stopping acrobatics he was known to love, from sliding down a rooftop to climbing up a rope ladder from a moving convertible.
"I'm devastated," an emotional Alain Delon, another top cinema star, said of the death of his longtime friend on CNews.
Even Paris police headquarters offered its condolences for Belmondo, who played a police officer in numerous films, tweeting that "a great movie cop has left us."
Belmondo, affectionately known as Bebel, was born on April 9, 1933, in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine into an artistic family. His father was renowned sculptor Paul Belmondo and his mother, Sarah Rainaud-Richard, was a painter.
Belmondo played soccer and trained as a boxer before quitting school at 16. He took up acting in the 1950s at the Paris Conservatory, where one of his teachers, Pierre Dux, famously told him that his career as a leading man was doomed because of his looks. People would burst into laughter if they saw an actress in Belmondo's arms, Dux said, according to biographer Bertrand Tessier.
French theater critic Jean-Jacques Gautier wasn't impressed either, once saying: "Mr. Belmondo will never enjoy success with his ruffian's mug."
At his final conservatory competition, the jury failed to give him the recognition he thought he deserved — so he gave the judges an obscene parting gesture.
The star began acting in small provincial theaters and caught the eye of aspiring filmmaker Godard in Paris in 1958, who asked him to appear in a short film. At first, Belmondo didn't take Godard seriously.
"I spoke to my wife about it, and she said, 'Go ahead. If (Godard) hassles you, punch him,'" Belmondo told the Liberation newspaper in 1999.
Belmondo was given his first important role by director Claude Sautet in "Classe tous risques" (Consider All Risks) in which he starred alongside Lino Ventura in 1960. The same year, Godard called Belmondo back to appear in "Breathless" — which became one of the breakthrough films of the French New Wave. The movement, which included Truffaut, grouped filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s who abandoned traditional narrative techniques and were known for their mood of youthful iconoclasm.
Belmondo played opposite American actress Jean Seberg, who appeared as the street-smart aspiring reporter who, in the film's key moment, sold the International Herald Tribune on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Belmondo sometimes said he acted in Godard's first film and would act in his last. But he didn't link his name exclusively with one director and worked with most of France's top filmmakers — and many of Europe's most well-known actresses, including Jeanne Moreau and Sophia Loren.
Following the huge success of "Breathless," Belmondo showed the vast array of his talent and his versatility in dramas ("Leon Morin, pretre"), arthouse movies ("Moderato Cantabile") and blockbusters ("Cartouche").
In "Un Singe en hiver," a French classic directed by Henri Verneuil in 1962, Belmondo impressed the legendary Jean Gabin.
"You won't tell me anymore: 'If only I had a young Gabin.' You have him!" Gabin told the director about Belmondo.
In Truffaut's 1969 "Mississippi Mermaid," Belmondo played a tobacco farmer and starred opposite Catherine Deneuve. Belmondo and Danish-born Anna Karina played a couple on the run in Godard's 1965 "Pierrot le Fou." Belmondo also won a Cesar — the French equivalent of an Oscar — for his role in Lelouch's 1988 film "Itinerary of a Spoiled Child," his final big success.
During the second half of his career, Belmondo opted for high-paying roles in commercially successful action films. He played a tough detective in "Cop or Hooligan," and a World War II ace in "Champion of Champions."
In the 1980s, Belmondo returned to the stage, his first love, and won back the doubting critics. His comeback role was in a 1987 Paris production of "Kean," about an actor famous for his uncontrollable temper and genius.
Belmondo, who had recovered from a stroke in 2001, is survived by three children, Florence, Paul, and Stella Eva Angelina. Another daughter, Patricia, died in 1994.
Funeral arrangements weren't immediately known.
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Green Grass – polski zespół bluesowy założony w 1989 roku w Bydgoszczy, przez Jacka Herzberga – gitara i śpiew, Radosława Gacę – gitara, Mariusza Siejka – bas.

W 1990 roku Radosław Gaca i Mariusz Siejek zrezygnowali ze współpracy z zespołem. W 1991 roku Jacek Herzberg zorganizował nową obsadę zespołu w której skład wchodzili: Jacek Herzberg – gitara i śpiew, Roman Wiśniewski – gitara, Andrzej Neumann – gitara basowa, Jarosław Koźbiał – perkusja, Grzegorz Kargól – harmonijka. W takim składzie zespół występował do roku 1997. W tym też czasie z zespołem współpracowali: pianista Wojciech Hamkało (1992-1993), harmonijkarz Paweł Marcin Szymański (1993-1994), harmonijkarz Jacek "Woda" Stachurski (1995-1997). W latach 1998–2002 skład zespołu tworzyli: Jacek Herzberg – gitara i śpiew, Marcin Grabowski – kontrabas, Piotr Gosiewski – gitara, Miłosz Karczewski – perkusja, Michał Kielak – harmonijka. Do tego składu w roku 2000 dołączyli: Tomasz Kotowski – piano, Tomasz Gluska – trąbka, Krzysztof Węgierski – trąbka, Marcin Muras – puzon. Od 2003 roku zespół występuje w składzie: Jacek Herzberg – gitara i śpiew, Dariusz Głowacz – gitara, Jarosław Ignaszak – fortepian, Tomasz Tabaka – gitara basowa, Robert Robaszkiewicz – perkusja. Generalną zasadą zespołu jest odwoływanie się do czarnych korzeni bluesa.

Dyskografia

Albumy
 1993 Ostatni raz
 2001 Tańcz z nami
 2004 One Man Band
 2007 Blues dla Majki

Składanki
 1997 Encyklopedia Muzyki Popularnej – Blues w Polsce
 2006 Piosenki bydgoskie
 2008 Antologia Polskiego Bluesa – blues i okolice

Bibliografia
 Pruss Zdzisław, Weber Alicja, Kuczma Rajmund: Bydgoski leksykon muzyczny. Kujawsko-Pomorskie Towarzystwo Kulturalne. Bydgoszcz 2004

Polskie zespoły bluesowe
Muzyka w Bydgoszczy


A drama following a man who becomes a murder suspect after discovering the dead body of his neighbor's son.
When Ben Crawford finds murdered body of his neighbor's young son in the woods, he quickly goes from being a Good Samaritan to the primary suspect in the investigation. Ben is now forced to look into the crime himself in an effort to clear his name, digging deep into the lives of his suburban neighbors and exposing their deep, dark secrets.
That's too bad. I enjoyed both seasons and liked the fact that they were totally different stories. I try to follow too many different shows, so when they have 9 month breaks in between seasons, it's too hard to remember all of the details from the previous season unless you rewatch the last few.
ABC, just a thought here... maybe you should come up with some GOOD shows to begin with so you don't have to CANCEL shows all of the time. It's getting real old investing time in a show only to have it CANCELLED after ONE (1) Season od LESS!
ABC, I'm done with you and your nonsense, hope you go the way of the Dinosaur & Block Buster. I'm off to go watch some HULU or NEXFLIX shows, they are so much better anyway.
I love the show too. I hope ABC renews Season 3. Make me wonder if Juliette Lewis may not be returning(cause what happening in the ending of the Season Finale episode) and having news kind of Detectives for whole news murder cases that goes along with Secret and LIES!!! I like Season 2 better than Season 1 because it a lot going on in and out around the Warner family. Great storylines.
I love this show. I really like the cast of the second season. I really enjoyed it a lot. I'm looking forward to season three and see what happens to Cornell.
Loved the 1st season story, I already knew each season was going to be different actors and stories except Cornell. I got to say I'm not impressed with season 2 and the acting is kinda cheesey in season 2. I find my mind wondering when I try to watch it.
I like the show too. I searched and it maybe returning Sept. 25th.
I hear comments that the father may not be on the show anymore. Maybe because he is on the show called SHOOTER on July 19th.


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CurrentOpinion
Khashoggi the Tragedy, Yemen the Statistic
Faraz Raza Bukhari
"I'm not saying the killing of Khashoggi should be an afterthought to the crisis in Yemen, but rather… attempting to understand why it is that the murder of a journalist can incite a righteousness that the deaths of over 10,000 haven't been able to."
When it comes to the 'who's who' of journalists, I will admit that I am not the most learned. You could have mentioned the word 'Khashoggi' to me one thousand times over the last few years and I would not have known who he was… until this month.
A quick summary of the situation (and I do mean quick): Khashoggi was an advisor to the Saudi royal family who fell out of favour, exiled himself to the US and criticised the regime from the States. Cue October 2018 where he visits the Saudi consulate in Turkey (to obtain a document showing he had divorced his ex-wife in order to marry his fiancée) and never returns. A huge fiasco ensues where KSA continue to change their story, revealing more information drip by drip (at the time of writing, they admitted that the murder was 'premeditated').
The death, in and of itself, is wrong. The murder of any innocent civilian should be enough to warrant critique. The fact that he was a legal, permanent US citizen and was murdered for, ultimately, his journalistic endeavours (a profession which has almost always universally been protected for its commitment to out truth) has made things incredibly worse, testified by the fact that we're still talking about it almost a month later.
It has, however, been around 50 months since Houthi rebels took over most of the capital of Yemen, 44 months since a Saudi-led coalition began air strikes against the country, 25 months since a Saudi-led airstrike hit a crowded funeral killing 140 and injuring 500, and 17 months since an outbreak of Cholera killed 2,100 and affected almost 900,000 others in the country. The head of programmes for Oxfam in Yemen called it "…one of the world's worst crises", and the senior UN official in the country stated that "the world has turned a blind eye to what's happening in Yemen". 8.4 million (around the population of London) are at risk of starvation and 75% of the country is in need of humanitarian assistance according to the UN. Almost 400,000 people under the age of 5 are at risk from severe acute malnutrition and half the population are facing "pre-famine conditions" leading to perhaps "the worst famine in the world in 100 years."
The link? State-sponsored terror.
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Don't get me wrong; I'm not trying to play oppression Olympics here. I'm not saying the killing of Khashoggi should be an afterthought to the crisis in Yemen (although most things ought to be), but rather attempting to look at the entire thing from a more philosophical perspective; attempting to understand why it is that the murder of a journalist can incite a righteousness that the deaths of over 10,000 haven't been able to (or at the very least, haven't been able to sustain).
This is the way the world operates. We turn blind eyes because it is in our (see: governments, corporations etc.) benefit to do so. We profit greatly from the sales of arms to such countries and we do not look back because if we don't sell them, someone else will, and we can provide them with assistance on how not to target civilians and this helps to support British jobs. There are those that simply forego such facts in their arguments but that is often problematic because it doesn't accept the world for what it is: a world in which classical principles and values do matter, but only to the extent where they do not impinge on other principles and values, the ones which allow countries like the US and the UK to sell arms to assist in war crimes, where countries are happy to help bomb mosques whilst their neighbours continue to spew sermons about peace and respect to one's brethren.
In doing so, we have chosen to devalue the principles of justice and of truth in order to sustain ourselves for maybe another few years, another few decades. I see where those who make these decisions and those who agree/do not care are coming from; it is just…not right.
What does being right have to do with anything? Well, it has to do with the idea that if in our lives, the few years we have on this earth before we inevitably depart, we cannot advocate for humanity, stand up to injustice wherever it may present and sacrifice worldly benefits for the pursuit of justice… what do our lives amount to?
I do not just speak to those who know nothing about injustices or who choose to hold back for worldly gain but also to those who have chosen to play pick and mix with principles, allocating them to where they see fit. There are countless people today who turn a blind eye to Yemen because it raises too many difficult questions. The regime that murder innocent civilians and have oppressed minorities within their own country for decades, if not centuries, also happen to be, for a lot of people, the moral compass with which they guide their life or, at the very least, a 'respected' nation because they hold the keys to the two most holy sites in Islam. Attention is directed at Syria and Palestine but little at Yemen. I speak only from my personal experience and observations, but I doubt many would argue against the point that Yemen has remained an afterthought. Upholding principles and values are not paths of least resistance and the raising of difficult questions is often the first sign of a correct recalibration of one's moral compass.
There are those who will read this and think this has nothing to do with me, why should I care? All I can say is that morality is the only thing we have in this world; the way one conducts themselves and the ethics they uphold. To quote Imam Hussain:
"If you do not have any religion, then at least be free in your present life."
I am not saying that it is only the religious that have this sense of the afterlife and one's actions in this world having a direct effect on the next, but rather whatever one believes, whether it is in a God, in Gods, in no God or anything in between, at least be free in this world, be free to choose right over wrong and be free from the agendas of those so clearly in amorality.
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The final edition of the V8 powered Formula One season is set to commence on the 17th of February in Australia. According to the governing body, from the 2014 season onwards, the constructors will have to design 1.6 liter turbo charged V6 engine based vehicles. Some of the constructors though of redesigning the engine on the vehicle instead of designing the whole vehicle and hence this year has a vast variety of vehicles from different constructors.
Sahara Force India's race car for the 2013 season of the Formula One is known as the VJM06. This vehicle is an alteration of the Mercedes powered Formula One vehicle rather than a whole new creation. The nose and side panels have been redesigned to maintain the norms set up by the governing body and that is the only major difference that this car sports.
Ferrari's car for the 2013 season is the F138. This vehicle sports the duck bill nose and the lower half of the vehicle has been put through some serious changes, hence improving the aerodynamics of the vehicle. The F138 however has received juts minor modifications to the exterior and when compared to their race car used in 2012, the vehicle uses the same engine with some minor body work.
Lotus is still using the Renault powered engine that was used in the 2012 season as the car was very successful last year. The front and rear suspension along with the nose has been enhanced to improve the aerodynamics of the vehicle and those are the only changes that the vehicle has endured. The rear body work has also been modified and the MP4 28's center of gravity has been altered to enhance aerodynamic of the vehicle.
McLaren is using the MP4 28 this season and the vehicle is powered by a V8 engine developed by Mercedes. Some minor modifications have been made over last year's vehicle and the suspension and the nose of the vehicle has been altered to enhance aerodynamics. And the nose has been raised since last year by raising the center of gravity.
The Sauber C32 Ferrari is powered by the Type 056 V8 engine developed by Ferrari and this engine was first used in the vehicle in 2006. The engine has been used on successive vehicles without many modifications and the only change made to the body is that the noise has been lowered. Mercedes will be featuring the W04 for the 2013 season and the vehicle features a vanity panel along with an additional five wing panel to improve aerodynamics.
Marussia has its hopes pinned on to the MR02 and this vehicle features the advanced KERS system. Powered by the Cosworth's CA2013K engine, the car is quite powerful and features enhanced aerodynamics. Caterham will race with the CT03 Formula One car and the side pods on the vehicle have been changed in order to enhance performance. The vehicle sports the RS 27 engine from Renault and will feature the KERS technology for the 2013 season.


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Entrepreneurship grants
Recipients of Cambridge Judge start-up grants have raised over £5 million in funding.
Recipients of start-up grants from an Investment Fund at Cambridge Judge Business School have collectively raised more than £5 million since the grants ranging from £3,000 to £20,000 were first awarded 18 months ago.
The early, unconditional grants have helped these ventures gain credibility among investors, and to pay for a variety of start-up costs to get the companies off the ground.
The Investment Fund for early stage ventures was established at Cambridge Judge through an anonymous benefactor of 500,000 euros (about £400,000), and made its first grant of £15,000 in December 2013 to geopolitical risk analytics firm Cytora – which has completed a successful seed round of funding and in the process of completing its next funding round.
Like all recipients of the Investment Fund grants, Cytora has participated in the Accelerate Cambridge programme that mentors start-up ventures through several stages of development. Other such recipients have included giftgaming, an in-game advertising company; KisanHub, a farm-management software firm; Media Gamma, an online advertising futures and options exchange; AlgoDynamix, a financial risk-analytics software firm; SensorHut, an optical chemical-sensing company; and Healx, which finds novel uses for drugs to address rare diseases.
Funding commitments to date among companies receiving Investment Committee grants include: £300,000 for Cytora, £375,000 for Media Gamma, £300,000 for AlgoDynamix and £250,000 for SensorHut.
The Investment Fund is administered by a committee chaired by Sir Paul Judge, an original benefactor of Cambridge Judge Business School, which decides which applicants are awarded grants and the amount provided. So far, 17 grants have been awarded totalling nearly £200,000.
"These grants are awarded to ventures that are at such an early stage of development that they don't yet qualify for proof-of-concept funding, but having worked with them at Accelerate Cambridge we recognise their potential and talent," says Hanadi Jabado, Director of Accelerate Cambridge.
These grants are given with no strings attached, and we take no equity in the ventures.
Jeremy Sosabowski, co-founder of AlgoDynamix, says the grant received from the Investment Committee enabled the venture to pay for legal costs to set up the company, conduct primary market research and other launch activities.
"We most certainly achieved a higher valuation" through refining the venture's value proposition through the Investment Committee grant, says Jeremy. "In fact closing the seed round would have been very difficult without this grant."
Rael Cline, CEO of MediaGamma, says the Investment Committee grant "propelled us forward by half a year and allowed us to gain critical insights at an early stage," while Giles Baker, co-founder of KisanHub, said the grant "gave our shareholders external validation of our founding team and our business."
Marc Stettler, co-founder of SensorHut, said the grant helped purchase a key piece of equipment essential for the firm's research and development. "Without this instrument, we would not have been able to do any evaluation of the technology or have any results to show potential investors or customers," he says. "We would not have been able to afford this on our own so this really was a key enabler."
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Smart set top box wins Sentech's Hack the Future contest
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Sentech, in its move to embrace 4IR technology and innovation, recently hosted a an online hackathon.
The "green team", led by Cape Town-based Michael Aldridge, won the first place at the three-day event for its smart set-top box solution.
The Hack the Future Challenge comprised a hackathon with a R185 000 prize pool and an ideation challenge, with R10 000 for the winning team.
Sentech's head of research and innovation, Dumisa Ngwenya, said the hackathon is a way of building a talent pool and using new tech to assist Sentech and the broadcasting industry as a whole. "We're moving beyond the theory of new technologies; we've deployed new technology such as 5G and cloud computing to bring advanced use cases and, ultimately, provide a better user experience for citizens. Don't just think out the box, there is no box!"
Speaking on behalf of his team, Michael Aldridge says the idea for a smart set-top box has been some years in the making. He's watched the country's broadcast migration struggle, including the scandals surrounding government's procurement of set-top boxes (STBs). He says that smart STBs such as the one he and his team worked on could be an asset to households.
"Many people in South Africa, especially in rural areas, lack Internet connectivity and computing capacity. While they may have access to smartphones, those offer very limited computing capacity," he said. Smart set-top boxes differ from usual STBs in that they can connect to the Internet and can act as a WiFi hotspot for other devices.
"The smart STB turns any TV monitor into a mini-computer. This can help bridge the country's digital divide," he said.
Comms ministry readies SA's data, cloud policy
Aldridge works as the head of technical operations at Cape Town TV, a community television station. He previously worked with Sentech in developing a prototype of a digital receiver. The smart STB solution was submitted in both the hackathon and ideation challenges.
As a mini-computer, the team's smart set-top box has all the functionality of a basic PC. It will come preloaded with open source software such as a word processor, e-mail and a Web browser. It can be used to write code, and will also have USB ports and an Ethernet connection. STBs also allow for data-casting, which, Aldridge says, could be used to provide additional services such as e-government and e-learning.
The team hopes that the R95 000 cash prize will help get the smart STBs to market by late next year or 2022.
The Kreate team, with its unified communications platform Qtune, came second, while third place went to Naki Technologies for its solution using chatbots to meet the customer service challenges presented by COVID-19.
Catering to local needs
The ideation challenge was open exclusively to Sentech customers, partners and service providers. The challenge was won by ICT solutions services provider Broadsmart for its online transcription tool iScribe.
The tool aims to fill the gap left by international transcription tools, which don't typically cater for South Africa's indigenous languages. iScribe transcribes audio and video using AI and machine learning. It's available for free or paid subscription that offers live transcription of content as well as human editing of the text.
Broadsmart previously worked with Sentech on various projects, including last year's GovTech conference.
Explaining how iScribe could add value to Sentech's ecosystem, Broadsmart software engineer Kweku Quansah says: "Sentech provides a number of broadcast services for TV and radio. What happens when a segment you're interested in is in a language you don't understand, like English? iScribe can give you that content as written text, taking it from English to your native language."
The solution's algorithm is still being trained for each local language.


Bedroom Design / January 24, 2019 / Amie Thibault.
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One of the most inexpensive bedroom design ideas is to replace your cabinet knobs or pulls with new cabinet hardware. There are many brands that offer inexpensive options that look terrific despite their reasonable prices. Some brands that pride themselves on durability and affordability include Amerock Hardware, Belwith Hardware and Liberty Hardware.


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EA temporarily turns off Star Wars Battlefront 2 microtransactions
"Sorry we didn't get this right."
Henry Stenhouse
Gaming's greatest u-turns
Battlefront 2 has ditched microtransactions, but who else in gaming history has performed a massive climbdown?
EA has disabled microtransactions in Star Wars Battlefront 2 for the time being.
How could EA have done loot boxes better? Here're our thoughts.
In a blog post titled "An update on Star Wars Battlefront 2," EA has announced the surprising decision to completely disable microtransactions. The move comes following a huge uproar over the game's unreasonable time required to unlock features, and cries that it employed a pay to win system.
The post, made by DICE's general manager, Oskar Gabrielson, acknowledges user complaints on the issue, even outright apologising.
"It's clear that many of you feel there are still challenges in the design," Oskar writes. "We've heard the concerns about potentially giving players unfair advantages. And we've heard that this is overshadowing an otherwise great game. This was never our intention. Sorry we didn't get this right."
The anger over the game's system led to EA holding the most downvoted comment ever on Reddit, and the company recently reduced the cost of the game's important heroes by 75%. However, this change received only a tepid response, and the level of discontent was such that the controversy was acknowledged large-scale media in CNN and the BBC.
This latter escalation — along with lower than expected pre-orders — is likely to have played a big role in the recent change; Disney (owners of the Star Wars brand) are known to take a firm hand on any negative attention for thee series. According to Venturebeat, Bob Iger, Walt Disney Company chief executive reportedly called Electronic Arts chief executive officer Andrew Wilson to discuss the matter directly. If Walt Disney's head honcho is taking steps, then you know the severity of the situation.
Though drastic, the change seems sensible, mimicking Activision's decision to delay CoD: WW2's microtransactions until servers were fixed. They aren't gone for good, but Oskar says the team "will now spend more time listening, adjusting, balancing and tuning."
Delaying transactions alone won't fix the current level of grind required to unlock the game's full content, but changes are coming. "The ability to purchase crystals in-game will become available at a later date, only after we've made changes to the game," Oskar explains. "We'll share more details as we work through this."
What form these changes will take remains to be seen, but if EA are hoping to simply ride it out until the anger dissipates, they may be in for a challenge, as many would-be purchasers seem set on holding their ground.
Expect further information from both EA and DICE in the coming weeks when any news on these changes arrives.
Henry Stenhouse serves an eternal punishment as the Associate Editor of AllGamers. He spent his younger life studying the laws of physics, even going so far as to complete a PhD in the subject before video game journalism stole his soul. Confess your love of Super Smash Bros. via email at henry.stenhouse@allgamers.com, or catch him on Twitter.
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