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5 Most Underrated Van Gogh Paintings
5 Tips for Mother of the Bride to Wear on a Destination Wedding
Party Season Kicks Off In Mykonos For Summer 2018
Apple about to Release New Emoji for 2017
66 percent of Americans under 30 disapprove of President Trump, poll finds
Absolutely Stunning New Poster for Alien: Covenant Released
'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Almost Had A Lot More Cameos!
Amazon hit with class-action lawsuit over eBook price fixing
Jamie Lynn Spears Calls Elon A 'CAT KILLER'? Could POOR Elon's Cars Be To Blame For Such A CATastrophe?
HBO Has Tapped a Russian Director for The Last of Us's Pilot
Sylvain Sylvain of New York Dolls Dies At Age 69
LeBron James on first brief footage for 'Space Jam 2' teaser trailer
Kylie Jenner's Bodyguard Puts Baby Daddy Rumor to Rest
On Saturday, Chung took to his Instagram , which has a substantial following of over 735,000 followers, and wrote, "I am a very private person and would normal...
Lost in Space Renewed for Season 2
Even the robot ended up being a complex character. The reimagining of the 1960 Irwin Allen classic debuted on the streaming service in April to largely positi...
Chanel Iman Is Pregnant, See The Beautiful Photos
In another set of images shared on the platform, the 27-year-old cover girl poses, topless and belly exposed, in Calvin Klein underwear and denim jeans alongsid...
Cannes festival organizers sign pact for gender parity
It was a historic moment as Hollywood star Cate Blanchett , this year's president of the Cannes Film Festival jury, led a women's march up the stairs of the ...
Kim Kardashian West says being a mother of three can be "overwhelming"
Earlier in the day, the 39-year-old single mom cuddled the LipKit queen's daughter Stormi, and shared a video of the moment on social media. Answering a quest...
Lindsey Buckingham says Fleetwood Mac fired him because they 'lost their perspective'
Fleetwood Mac will embark on a tour of North America later this year, starting in October and running until April 2019. 'This was not something that was real...
Israel Bags 2018 Eurovision Win, Supporters Celebrate In Tel Aviv
According to the rules of the contest, next year the song contest will be held in the country, the artist which won. Barzilai will perform her song on Monday ...
Ryan Reynolds Dresses As Rainbow Unicorn To Sing "Annie" Showtune
Imagine you're just sitting there, judging a reality TV singing competition and suddenly, a guy wearing a silver cape and a unicorn mask appears . "How did Dea...
Harrison Ford Crashes Alden Ehrenreich's Solo: A Star Wars Story Interview
Johnson, who's also developing a new Star Wars movie trilogy , joked you're probably not looking for the "hard-edged film criticism" from his Instagram Story. ...
Taraji P. Henson Is Engaged to Kelvin Hayden: 'I Said Yes Ya'll!!!'
As Nicki Swift previously reported, Henson confirmed her relationship with the former National Football League star back in December 2017. Concise News lear...
Drake Is Going on Tour with Migos
Drake has announced a tour with his Walk It Talk It collaborators Migos that will stop at the Air Canada Centre over two nights in August . Drake has ...
Authorities ID Man Killed In Exchange Of Gunfire With Local Deputy
The two deputies arrived to find the employee standing behind a grey pickup truck in the auto wash line. The sheriff's office says the shootout happened Satur...
Women of colour easier to discredit: Salma Hayek on Harvey Weinstein scandal
Now is the time for female film makers to show audiences and industry leaders, "look what you were missing all this time", she said. I had a good run but now it...
Duke of Edinburgh appears ready for royal wedding after hip surgery
Prince Philip has been seen out and about for the first time since his hip operation - and with one week to go until his grandson's wedding. There had been...
Poppe makes finale, Clarksville parade, Allison concert on Tuesday
Country superstar and Idol victor Carrie Underwood mentored the contestants and sang her latest song, " Cry Pretty ". Sunday's finale will air at 7 p.m. It'...
Juventus Clinch Seventh Straight Serie A Title After Roma Draw
Roma , who had Radja Nainggolan sent off in the second half for two bookable offences, were already guaranteed a Champions League place after Inter Milan lost a...
NBC swoops in after Fox cancels 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'
It feels like it goes along shows like A.P. Bio, Will & Grace, Superstore , and The Good Place . By Friday night it was an NBC series. The midseason schedul...
Gotham to end with Season 5 on Fox
Fox has renewed Gotham for a fifth and final season, it was announced late Sunday night. Gone were fan-favorite comedies Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Last Man on Ea...
'Avengers: Infinity War' continues dominating Mother's Day box office
In its third weekend , Disney and Marvel's superhero blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War continues to dominate the box office , earning an estimated $6...
Janhvi Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor post heartwarming pictures on Mother's Day-See Inside
Sridevi's husband Boney Kapoor and their daughters Janhvi and Khushi Kapoor will be in attendance at the event, reported Hindustan Times . According to ...
Khloe Kardashian reveals first video of daughter True on Instagram
The decorations seem to have been a surprise for the new mama, who revealed in a blog post earlier this week that she was planning to keep her Mother's Day lo...
Lisa Vanderpump's brother found dead of suspected drug overdose, report says
Sources said Vanderpump has been left devastated and is traveling to the United Kingdom for the funeral , the Daily Mail reported. Very sad news to report ...
'Lethal Weapon' renewed for third season with Seann William Scott onboard
Warner Bros . alerted Fox to the issue and told the network they coudn't keep the actor on if the show if renewed - even just from a financial standpoint it wou...
Bishop with Winston-Salem ties to preach at royal wedding next weekend
Their choice of Curry, 65, is likely to transform the tone of the church ceremony. He is the first African-American bishop to have served as the Episcopal Chu...
'SNL' Cold Open Honors Mother's Day in a Hilarious Way
Luke Nell's mother told him she had heard enough of his Trump jokes. Mikey Day asked his mom, "Did you think that I'd be on " SNL " some day?" After Nell exp...
Kevin Can Wait: Cancelled; No Season Three for CBS Monday Night Sitcom
Remini also said that working with Kevin James on a second TV show was a "Godsend" and that she will miss laughing with him every day the most. 'You accepted ...
Queen gives seal of approval to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding
Representing Markle, the design to the right of the text includes the rose, the national flower of the United States, while two golden poppies are the state flo...
André 3000 Releases 2 New Songs for Mother's Day
It's Mother's Day, and something very unexpected has happened-André 3000 has released two new songs . The first song, "Me&My (To Bury Your Parents)", was wri...
Massive fire breaks out in Dubai Marina tower
The cause of the fire is yet to be determined. Director-General of the Dubai Civil Defense, Rashid Al-Matrooshi said that it took firefighters 45 minutes to p...
What Mom Really Wants For Mother's Day
Gabrielle & Teresa Union have a very loving and playful relationship, with the proud mom recently telling The Grio exactly why she's so happy for her baby g...
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There's excitement in the air!! This November promises to be the busiest month for us in the Nigerian tech space. So much to look up to. Today of all days, the beautiful Xiaomi Mi 4 found its way to Mobility Towers, and as always we do a quick unboxing before taking out time to review the device.
Remember that Xiaomi just launched in Nigeria through Jumia. The available models for now are the Xiaomi Redmi 2 and this Mi 4. The Xiaomi Mi 4 is a 5 incher screen with 1080p display, 3 GB of RAM, 3080 mAh battery, our unit here is the 16 GB model. See the full specs sheet HERE.
The brown box containing this device is tightly packed. At the top lies the phone. Beautiful. Elegant. Beneath that you find the USB cable, 2A wall charger, and a few booklets. That's that. Now to the phone itself.
This phone would just appeal to you at first sight. It's that beautiful. The sides are made of polished metal. Power button and volume buttons on the right, SIM tray on the left. Then USB v 2.0 port with speaker grills below. At the top lies the 3.5 mm earphone jack with a black dot beside it – probably a sensor of some sort.
The back is sealed, and made of glossy plastic as the battery is non removable. The phone currently runs MIUI v6, but I'm pretty sure an update is waiting once it's connected to a network. Spoiler Alert!! 😀 the front camera tried to predict my age when I was testing out selfies.
This phone is beautiful inside out. Expect the review soonest.
Patiently waiting for the full repertoire of Xiaomi products in Naija,they sure have some very compelling products in their arsenal..


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Plan B, II
When we ran our Plan B contest last semester (choose the best country to live in while we await the decline and fall of the US empire), we never voted on a winner because our automated survey instrument broke down. But instead of voting, we should pick a winner from emigration patterns:
The Heritage Foundation suggests some more obvious choices in its 2009 Economic Freedom Index. Five English speaking — or at the very least English friendly — countries rank ahead of the United States (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand). Right behind the U.S. is Canada, Denmark, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Chile. Should the U.S. continue its slouch towards socialism, all of these would be likely places for some of America's best and brightest to land in the event of economic collapse.
It turns out that Costa Rica, one of the entries, doesn't look so good.
Costa Rica is ranked #46 on the Economic Freedom Index. Costa Rica already has national health care and is working towards being carbon neutral. While it has small government and lower taxes than the U.S., good luck opening a business or getting a hearing in court in a reasonable amount of time. Corruption is a big problem in Costa Rica, with Heritage proclaiming, "The government does not emphasize enforcement of anti-corruption laws, regulations, and penalties. Some foreign firms have complained of corruption in the administration of public tenders."
If we zone for it, will they come?
Disturbed by the dearth of art cafes, book stores, and coffee shops, the Nashville Planning Commission is trying to get rid of used tire stores, pawn shops, and payday lenders.
..the zoning isn't market-driven: On Gallatin Pike, the new zoning didn't create a stampede of desired businesses [clamoring] to replace the title pawn stores and other undesirables.
This kind of command-and-control central planning seems to be making a comeback in Washington as well.
What do you do with a major in Cultural Anthropology?
Go to Iraq:
Human Terrain System [is] an attempt to bring cultural awareness to the military. When the United States is fighting counterinsurgencies in both Iraq and Afghanistan, such knowledge is priceless and indispensable. One has to win the population over, not kill them. Knowing the local customs is vital. Indeed, one of the lead advisers to Gen. David Petraeus was David Kilcullen, a former infantry-company commander with a Ph.D. in political anthropology.
If that doesn't work, I would advise enrolling in Vanderbilt's Summer Accelerator Program.
DISCLAIMER: I teach in the program.
Strangely timeless potest songs
Songwriter Bob Walkenhorst is making a comeback:
Give a man a free house and he'll bust out the windows
Put his family on food stamps, now he's a big spender
No food on the table and the bills ain't paid
'cause he spent it on cigarettes and PGA
They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please
They're feeding our people that government cheese
It's the man in the White House, the man under the steeple
Passing out drugs to the American people.
NY encourages high income earners to move to TN
NY State plans new "temporary" income taxes, designed for the next three years:
The plan would raise $4 billion a year by creating two new tax brackets, the highest one affecting those who earn $500,000 or more. If approved by rank-and-file lawmakers in the Assembly and State Senate, the tax increases would be a major victory for unions and liberal advocacy groups and a signal of the new balance of power in Albany, where Democrats won control of both houses of the Legislature and the governor's office in last year's election.
Although the proposed tax has been called a "millionaires' tax," it would affect those with incomes starting at $300,000, who would be taxed at a rate of 7.85 percent. The highest bracket would carry a tax rate of 8.97 percent — the same as New Jersey's current highest rate.
Tennessee has no income tax.
Stocks vs. Bonds: who wins?
In equilibrium, the risk premium that compensates investors for holding relatively risky stocks is about 2.5%. But, as the above graph of stock-bond returns shows, (from John Mauldin, Why Bother with Bonds), there are plenty of periods when bonds outperformed stocks. The period ending in 2008, is one such episode. Each of the horizontal lines denote periods where bonds outperformed stocks.
Market timers vs. asset allocators
Jeremy Siegel, Stocks for the Long Run
Labels: 10. Strategy-the quest to slow profit erosion
Management Advice for Troubled Times
The latest issue of Business Week offers a series of articles on "breakthrough management ideas for a world in which the game will never be the same." One of the recurring themes is the need to move quickly.
John Chambers, Cisco CEO: "Without exception, all of my biggest mistakes occurred because I moved too slowly."
Ray Davis, CEO of regional bank, Umqua Holdings: "Standing still is how you kill the company."
What would happen if we let the banks go under?
New entrants would appear. Kroger now offers mortgages with your groceries
APR* as of 03/24/2009
30 year fixed 4.875 0 4.914
5/1 ARM 4.875 0 4.518
Jumbo 30 year fixed 5.625 0 5.637
Scotland is taking our best and brightest
From a serial entrepreneur who is moving his company to Scotland:
We will reincorporate the company in Scotland- form a new Scottish entity and have it acquire 100% of the US entity.
I will remain in the States, but we will pass all of the revenue through Scotland to avoid the higher US corporate taxes.
The Scottish government has 35 'recruiters' on the ground in the States (10 in Boston, 5 in NYC, and 20 in Silicon Valley). Their purpose is to recruit entire companies or specific operations of existing companies to Scotland. They are doing a roaring business.
Scotland has decided that they are going to create a knowledge-based workforce and economy. They have allocated a significant amount of grant money to attract companies to 'Silicon Glen'.
We are qualified for $2+ million in grants. This is a prime reason for us to consider Scotland.
Another reason is that Scotland's high tech expertise in display and voice recognition technology is ahead of the States. Both technologies are key to our product.
Another reason is that the Scots allegedly have a much higher work ethic than the Americans do. I am extremely put off by the entitlement mentality that grips the upcoming generation of Amwerican workers. I don't want to hire any of them.
Another reason is that the 'Card Check' legislation is very likely to pass. Moreover, the unions are planning to specifically target the high tech sector. I do not want to ever deal with that issue. It will kill many businesses - especially in the tech fields - where you have to be able to change strategy and direction quite quickly.
Finally, our current administration is highly anti-business, which is the best reason for me not to bother starting a new company based in the States.
Wisdom from dead white guys
Winston Churchill:
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy, its inherent value is the equal sharing of misery."
Joseph Schumpeter (via former student John Tamny):
In his 1942 book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Schumpeter asked the essential question: "Can capitalism survive?" His unsettling answer was, "No. I do not think it can." Schumpeter's words were in no way meant to denigrate capitalism, instead he felt "its very success undermines the social institutions which protect it."
...the commercial success wrought by the pursuit of profit has created an unproductive elite that lives off the very business profits that it regularly casts a skeptical eye on.
... Schumpeter was of course talking about a United States that he envisioned post World War II, but his fears then don't stray too far from the concerns of many today. Indeed, he worried that as wars usually accrue to the power of the state, that heavy government spending "would likely evolve into total government control over investment."
Protectionism begets discrimination
Good post on the zero-sum fallacy behind protectionism:
The Employ American Workers Act (a part of the stimulus bill) makes it difficult for companies helped by the federal bailout plan known as TARP to hire skilled immigrants.
Policies like these, and the discrimination that usually goes with them, are fueled by the mistaken theory that a job held by an immigrant is a job that cannot be held by an American. We will ultimately see the Employ American Workers Act as unjustified, just as we now regret the "marriage bars."
The "marriage bar" is a discriminatory employment practice that was common years ago, even if it seems unfamiliar today. The marriage bar actually had a couple of versions: a "hire bar" in which a woman would not be hired if she were married, and a "retain bar" in which single female employees were fired when they married.
What can we learn from Sweden?
How to get rid of companies that produce stuff that no one wants:
Struggling for its own survival, G.M. has said it will completely pull out of Saab by the end of 2009, a course that Ms. Olofsson, the enterprise minister, described as tantamount to declaring "that they wash their hands of Saab and drop it into the laps of the Swedish taxpayers."
She said: "We are very disappointed in G.M., but we are not prepared to risk taxpayers' money. This is not a game of Monopoly."
Why study econ?
In defense of a liberal arts education (via Greg Mankiw's blog):
Companies like to hire economics majors from liberal-arts colleges not because the students have been trained in business, but because they have a solid background in the liberal arts. What I hear from businesspeople is that they don't care what a job candidate has majored in. They want students who can think, communicate orally, write, and solve problems, and who are comfortable with quantitative analysis. They do not expect colleges to provide students with specific training in business skills.
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Democrats vs. incentives, III
Treasury Secretary Geitner wants private sector help to buy the bad assets off the balance sheets of banks. But how much will we have to pay them to help? The recent attacks on incentive pay suggest that we will have to compensate companies for dealing with the government. And if the participating companies cannot use incentive pay, we might expect all their best people to leave.
Senior executives on both sides of the Atlantic on Friday warned of an exodus of talent from some of the biggest names in US finance, ...
"There are three big industries where the US has global leadership: financial services, media and technology. Introducing this 90 per cent tax is like taking one of those industries out the back and shooting it," said a top Wall Street executive.
Labels: 01. Introduction: What this book is about, 19: The Problem of Adverse Selection
Small car demand collapses
Consumer demand for small cars reached a peak in the summer of 2008, coinciding with very high gasoline prices. Now that gas prices have fallen, so has demand for small cars.
Practically every small car in the market is stacked up at dealerships. At the end of February, Honda Motor Co. had 22,191 Fits on dealer lots -- enough to last 125 days at the current sales rate, according to Autodata Corp. In July, it had a nine-day supply, while the industry generally considers a 55- to 60-day supply healthy.
If expectations are rational, consumers should be looking ahead to the price of fuel over the lifetime of the automobile. That demand has collapsed so suddenly suggests either that consumers expect gas prices to stay low, i.e. that we will not recover quickly from the recession, or that expectations are not forward looking, and are instead driven by the current gas prices.
The Advantages of Falling Slightly Behind
An interesting study from a couple of Wharton professors looks at how the halftime score at basketball games predicts the ultimate winner of the game. As expected, teams trailing at halftime generally lower probabilities of winning the game. So, what makes the study interesting? The authors found that teams trailing by one point at halftime had a higher win probability than those leading by a point at half time. Two explanations could account for this - either slightly trailing teams pick up second half performance or slightly leading teams slack off.
Using some lab experiments, the authors found that individuals performing a task who were told they were slightly trailing tend to increase performance; the leaders showed no slacking off. Prospect theory, with its observation that people feel losses more than gains, can provide one explanation for why the trailers worked harder.
It appears that this phenomenon applies to individuals and teams. Does it apply to companies as well? If so, we would expect that companies slightly trailing their competitors to step up their performance.
Our Creditors
Here are the ten countries that own the most US treasuries as of December 2008. No wonder China is worried.
Will wages adjust to offset the new tax progressivity?
In equilibrium, we know that workers must be compensated for jobs that require higher levels of investment in human capital, like physicians. If not, people would exit these professions into those that require fewer investments. Likewise, if we increase the progressivity of the tax system, we should expect a compensating wage increase. Evidence that this happened in Canada in 1967
...our results suggest that the progressivity of the Canadian income tax system significantly affected wage settlements and that the implicit tax increases attributable to this progressivity were at least partially forward shifted into higher wage rates.
Is the US too big to fail?
If we aren't already, President Obama's budget will get us there soon. Our largest creditor (1 trillion)--the Chinese--are worried that we wont be able to pay them back:
"We have made a huge amount of loans to the United States. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I'm a little bit worried," Wen said at a news conference following the closing of China's annual legislative session. "I would like to call on the United States to honor its words, stay a credible nation and ensure the safety of Chinese assets."...
Washington is counting on China to continue buying Treasuries to fund its massive stimulus package. Last month, visiting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reassure Beijing that government debt would remain a reliable investment....
"They are worried about forever-rising deficits, which may devalue Treasuries by pushing interest rates higher," said JP Morgan economist Frank Gong. "Inside China there has been a lot of debate about whether they should continue to buy Treasuries."
Once the Chinese stop buyinig treasuries, long term rates should increase.
Noteworthy blog
Matt Blinkley points me to Baseline Scenario, written by three econ. professors. Simple, clear (leftish?) commentary on the crash.
From SC Governor Mark Stanford on turning down stimulus money:
"What you're doing is buying into the notion that if we just print some more money that we don't have and send it to different states, we'll create jobs," he said. "If that's the case, why isn't Zimbabwe a rich place?"
Zimbabwe is printing trillion dollar notes and its currency has an expiration date on it in an attempt to combat 80% unemployment.
God help Venezuela
Ever since Valley Forge, when George Washington put controls on the price of meat and found that the supply disappeared, politicians have had a hard time understanding why they markets react so negatively to government regulation. President Chavez is repeating George's mistake:
First, President Hugo Chavez announced that he had ordered troops to intervene in the country's rice production.
He accused rice producers of evading a law on controlled prices.
"They are making a mockery of the Venezuelan people," said Mr Chavez.
He said companies were refusing to produce sufficient quantities of standard white rice - which is subject to price regulations - and were producing flavoured varieties instead to avoid government controls.
'No such law'
Polar foods, one of those involved, said there was no law which obliged them to produce a certain quantity of basic white rice.
Within the day there was such a law. The government introduced quotas on 12 basic foods, including rice.
Walmart vs. Target Expansion Strategy
Check out FlowingData.com for a couple of really cool graphs that show the geographic expansion of Walmart and Target over the years. Aside from the fact that the technology is wicked cool, it's interesting to contrast the two expansion strategies.
Walmart tended to expand geographically out from Arkansas in a stepping-stone fashion, and its sphere of influence slowly expanded radially outward. Target, in contrast, established multiple beachheads across the country - it was more willing to open new stores far away from home. And, once located in that far-away area, it would open more stores in that area. (HT: Peter Klein)
Friday night smackdown: Stossel vs. Obama
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Risk premia are way up
In September, Corporate borrowing costs have skyrocketed relative to Treasuries. The graph measures the spread of coporate borrowiing over Treasuries with the pre-payment risk removed from series. This is called the Option Adjusted Spread.
Who Wins with the New Housing Plan?
According to the WSJ, the plan rewards vice and penalizes virtue:
President Obama continues to insist that only "responsible families" will benefit from his foreclosure prevention program. Addressing Congress last week, Mr. Obama said his plan "won't help speculators or that neighbor down the street who bought a house he could never hope to afford." Sorry, Mr. President. It's becoming increasingly obvious that your plan is going to help tens of thousands of borrowers who put the "liar" into liar loans.
There is a moral hazard in rewarding bad decisions. But it's worse than that: The White House plan contains penalties for everyone else. The mortgage "cramdown," allowing bankruptcy judges to reduce the amount owed, can only make investors less willing to lend to future homebuyers..
Unemployment in historical perspective
From Woodward & Hall's blog.
Who benefits from class warfare?
SWHC=Smith & Wesson Holding Company
RGR=Sturm, Ruger & Co.
GSPC=S&P 500 index fund
Obama is not who we thought he was
David Brooks puts things into perspective:
But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. There is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once.
So programs are piled on top of each other and we wind up with a gargantuan $3.6 trillion budget. We end up with deficits that, when considered realistically, are $1 trillion a year and stretch as far as the eye can see. ...
The U.S. has never been a society riven by class resentment. Yet the Obama budget is predicated on a class divide. The president issued a read-my-lips pledge that no new burdens will fall on 95 percent of the American people. All the costs will be borne by the rich and all benefits redistributed downward.
The U.S. has always been a decentralized nation, skeptical of top-down planning. Yet, the current administration concentrates enormous power in Washington, while plan after plan emanates from a small group of understaffed experts.
The U.S. has always had vibrant neighborhood associations. But in its very first budget, the Obama administration raises the cost of charitable giving. It punishes civic activism and expands state intervention.
The U.S. has traditionally had a relatively limited central government. But federal spending as a share of G.D.P. is zooming from its modern norm of 20 percent to an unacknowledged level somewhere far beyond.
...In the past weeks, Democrats have legislated provisions to dilute welfare reform, restrict the inflow of skilled immigrants and gut a voucher program designed for poor students. It will be up to moderates to raise the alarms against these ideological outrages.
UPDATE: Obama is killing the stock market
The illusion that Barack Obama will lead from the economic center has quickly come to an end. Instead of combining the best policies of past Democratic presidents -- John Kennedy on taxes, Bill Clinton on welfare reform and a balanced budget, for instance -- President Obama is returning to Jimmy Carter's higher taxes and Mr. Clinton's draconian defense drawdown.
John Taylor at Vandy
The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor John Taylor of Stanford University and the Hoover Institution will deliver the David Steine Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, March 10th from 4 to 5:30 PM in Wilson Hall 103. The title of Professor Tayor's talk is: "Getting Off Track: How Government Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis."
John Taylor served as senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors from 1976-1977 and as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors from 1989 to 1991. He was also a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers from 1995 to 2001. The lecture will also be streamed live on this web site and will be archived for future viewing.
Iceland is a hedge fund
Iceland is interesting mainly because it is so closely associated with the inflating and bursting of the world's credit bubble:
it is Iceland's de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance—resulted from a stunning collective madness. What led a tiny fishing nation, population 300,000, to decide, around 2003, to re-invent itself as a global financial power?
How did this happen?
For the past few years, some large number of Icelanders engaged in the same disastrous speculation. With local interest rates at 15.5 percent and the krona rising, they decided the smart thing to do, when they wanted to buy something they couldn't afford, was to borrow not kronur but yen and Swiss francs. They paid 3 percent interest on the yen and in the bargain made a bundle on the currency trade, as the krona kept rising. "The fishing guys pretty much discovered the trade and made it huge," says Magnus. "But they made so much money on it that the financial stuff eventually overwhelmed the fish." They made so much money on it that the trade spread from the fishing guys to their friends.
It must have seemed like a no-brainer: buy these ever more valuable houses and cars with money you are, in effect, paid to borrow. But, in October, after the krona collapsed, the yen and Swiss francs they must repay are many times more expensive. Now many Icelanders—especially young Icelanders—own $500,000 houses with $1.5 million mortgages, and $35,000 Range Rovers with $100,000 in loans against them. To the Range Rover problem there are two immediate solutions. One is to put it on a boat, ship it to Europe, and try to sell it for a currency that still has value. The other is set it on fire and collect the insurance.
Sometimes you measure your accomplishments by the enemies you make
By this account, our own Jim Cooper is doing pretty well, although we are hoping he moves up on Pelosi's list.
5. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.). The fiscally conservative gadfly would have topped the list had he not reversed his first stimulus "no" by voting in favor of the final package.
Even so, the most outspoken of the Blue Dog Democrats is still on thin ice with leadership, thanks to his comment that he "actually got some quiet encouragement from the Obama folks" for initially bucking Pelosi on the stimulus. That required a hasty Obama-Pelosi cleanup effort that resulted in a Cooper clarification - although he continues to express dissatisfaction with what he sees as Pelosi's top-down leadership style.
Modern Portfolio Theory tells us to hold a balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds. If we want higher returns, we have to increase the portion of our portfolios devoted to risky stocks.
Jeremy Siegel takes this argument one step further and notes that if you have a longer time horizon, e.g., 20 years, there is no tradeoff between risk and return: holding bonds serves only to reduce return:
Stocks on the long term have returned 6.8% per year after inflation, whereas gold has returned -0.4% (i.e. failed to keep up with inflation) and bonds have returned 1.7%. The equity risk premium (excess return of stocks over bonds) has ranged between 0 to 11%, it was 3% in 2001[8]also.
John Mauldin has a good column on the revenge of the market timers. He shows, in the table below, that it matters when you get into the market.
The implied prescription is to look at market fundamentals and enter the market only when stocks are relatively cheap (as Shiller's methodology currently says it is).
Next time, we won't be so easily duped
Martin Marietta and Vulcan Materials Company produce construction aggregates in the United States. When President Obama sold us on the $800B stimulus bill in December, it was mostly about bridges and roads, precisely the kinds of projects that would benefit the two companies. Consequently, their stock prices soared.
But by February, when it became clear that the stimulus contained only $30B for infrastructure, the stock prices told us what it was likely to accomplish.
Friedman can never be replaced
Uncle Milton famously predicted that the EU would not survive its first recession:
His theory is now being put to the test. A deep recession and a protracted credit crunch have munched their way across the eurozone, leaving the 16-nation currency bloc mired in crisis.
Economies are contracting at breakneck speed, social unrest - fuelled by soaring unemployment - is growing, and several member states have had their credit ratings downgraded. The possibility that at least one member of the zone will default on its debt in the coming months has alarmed economists and politicians alike.
There seem to be two big problems: (i) how to keep the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, and now Ireland) from a national default that would cause them to abandon their Euro; and (ii)
Some countries of Central Europe, like the Czech Republic and Poland, are doing relatively well. Others, like Hungary, Romania and the Baltic states, are in a state of near-meltdown. But only two newer members - tiny Slovenia and Slovakia - are protected by being inside the euro zone, and there was little support Sunday for changing the rules to allow more to join quickly.
Tobin Replacing Friedman?
Meet James Tobin, 1981 Nobel Prize winner and "inventor" of Tobin's Q.
After a three-decade run, the free-market philosophies of Friedman that shaped U.S. policy are being eclipsed by the pro- government ideas of Tobin, the late Yale economist and Nobel laureate who brought John Maynard Keynes into the modern era.
Tobin's stamp is on the $787 billion stimulus signed by President Barack Obama, former students and colleagues say. His philosophies are influencing Austan Goolsbee, a former Tobin student advising Obama, and Ben S. Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve. Unlike Friedman, Tobin provides guidance for today's problems, said Paul Krugman, a Princeton University economist.
Atlas Shrugged vs. Audacity of Hope
If the economy keeps going the way it is, Ayn Rand will best the President:
Whenever governments intervene in the market, in short, readers rush to buy Rand's book.
Heads, AIG wins; tails, the taxpayers lose.
Not only did AIG offer banks a way to make more risky bets,
How did banks get their risk measures low? It certainly wasn't by owning less risky assets. Instead, they simply bought A.I.G.'s credit-default swaps. The swaps meant that the risk of loss was transferred to A.I.G., and the collateral triggers made the bank portfolios look absolutely risk-free. Which meant minimal capital requirements, which the banks all wanted so they could increase their leverage and buy yet more "risk-free" assets. This practice became especially rampant in Europe. That lack of capital is one of the reasons the European banks have been in such trouble since the crisis began.
But AIG didn't hedge any of their own bets:
At its peak, the A.I.G. credit-default business had a "notional value" of $450 billion, and as recently as September, it was still over $300 billion. (Notional value is the amount A.I.G. would owe if every one of its bets went to zero.) And unlike most Wall Street firms, it didn't hedge its credit-default swaps; it bore the risk, which is what insurance companies do.
UPDATE: by propping up AIG, it looks like we are bailing out the European Banks.
Incentives and Security
This still doesn't seem right to me:
An employee of Whole Foods in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was fired in 2007 for apprehending a shoplifter. More specifically, he was fired for touching a customer, even though that customer had a backpack filled with stolen groceries and was running away with them....
Almost certainly, Whole Foods has a no-touching-the-customer policy because its attorneys recommended it. "No touching" is a security measure as well, but it's security against customer lawsuits. The cost of these lawsuits would be much, much greater than the $346 worth of groceries stolen in this instance. Even applied to suspected shoplifters, the policy makes sense: The cost of a lawsuit resulting from tackling an innocent shopper by mistake would be far greater than the cost of letting actual shoplifters get away. As perverse it may seem, the result is completely reasonable given the corporate incentives — Whole Foods wrote a corporate policy that benefited itself.
At least, it works as long as the police and other factors keep society's shoplifter population down to a reasonable level.
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L'ensemble scolaire Saint-Joseph-de-Tivoli, communément appelé Tivoli, est un établissement scolaire privé catholique sous tutelle jésuite, situé à Bordeaux.

Historique

Implantation
Relevant de la tradition pédagogique du Ratio Studiorum de l'ancien collège de la Madeleine (fondé en 1572 et fermé lorsque les jésuites sont expulsés en 1762), le nouveau collège Saint-Joseph, ouvert d'abord à La Sauve (1850), s'établit en 1859 à Bordeaux même, sur le domaine des frères Labottière, dans le quartier de « Tivoli », avant d'être transféré sur le domaine de Peyreblanque (Caudéran) à son actuel emplacement (40 avenue d'Eysines).

Le lycée est inauguré le .

L'établissement est géré depuis quelques années sous contrat d'association.

La tradition jésuite
De tradition jésuite, l'établissement comporte des classes de maternelle, une école primaire, un collège, un lycée (sections S, ES, L et STMG) ainsi qu'un établissement supérieur préparant aux BTS CGO, diplôme de comptabilité et de gestion et diplôme supérieur de comptabilité et de gestion.

L'accent est aussi mis sur l'apprentissage des langues vivantes. Il est ainsi proposé des échanges internationaux en Allemagne, en Espagne ainsi qu'en Australie et aux États-Unis. Le projet éducatif jésuite, prônant l'ouverture aux autres, le partage et l'échange, a également mis en place l'association Tivoli Sans Frontières (T.S.F) en 1988 qui, chaque année, permet à des lycéens d'aider des villages d'Afrique à se développer en construisant des écoles et des dispensaires.

Classement du lycée
En 2015, le lycée se classe  sur 46 au niveau départemental, en termes de qualité d'enseignement, et  au niveau national. Le classement s'établit sur trois critères : le taux de réussite au bac, la proportion d'élèves de première qui obtient le baccalauréat en ayant fait les deux dernières années de leur scolarité dans l'établissement, et la « valeur ajoutée » (calculée à partir de l'origine sociale des élèves, de leur âge et de leurs résultats au diplôme national du brevet).

Anciens directeurs
 Henri Lespinasse de Saune (1850-1929), en 1898-1899 avant de devenir missionnaire et évêque à Madagascar

Anciens élèves

Source : annuaire du lycée
 Timothée Piéchaud (1850-1905), médecin et professeur, titulaire de la première chaire de clinique infantile de France
 Alfred de Vial (1859-1931), président du port autonome de Bordeaux, directeur de la chambre de commerce de Bordeaux
 Marcel Prévost (1862-1941), romancier et auteur dramatique
 Félix de Vial (1863-1949), général
 Paul Glotin (1870-1933), industriel distillateur-liquoriste et homme politique
 Martial Piéchaud (1888-1957), écrivain
 Ferdinand Piéchaud (1890-1958), médecin et professeur
 François Leuret (1890-1954), médecin et homme politique
 Louis Piéchaud (1892-1965), écrivain et journaliste
 François de Vial (1904-1985), diplomate, juste parmi les nations
 Jean Lacouture (1921-2015), journaliste, historien et écrivain - promo 1939
 Hélie de Saint Marc (1922-2013), résistant et officier de l'armée française
 Jacques Belisle Fabre (1925-2001), président du tribunal de commerce de Bordeaux - promo 1943
 Paul Glotin (1933-2011), chef d'entreprise et personnalité du monde viticole bordelais
 Bertrand Piéchaud (né en 1941), artiste peintre et sculpteur
 Alain Afflelou (né en 1948), opticien et homme d'affaires
 Pierre-Henry Maccioni (né en 1948), préfet de département et préfet de région
 Nicolas de Tavernost (né en 1950), président du directoire de M6
 Philippe Chalmin (né en 1951) économiste néoclassique - promo 1968
 Pierre Durand (né en 1955), champion olympique d'équitation
 Olivier Marchal (né en 1958), acteur et réalisateur
 Pascal Bataille (né en 1960), producteur et animateur de télévision - promo 1977
 Cyril Viguier (né en 1963), homme de communication et de médias
 Pascal Obispo (né en 1965), auteur-compositeur-interprète
 Thomas Hugues (né en 1966), journaliste et présentateur télé - promo 1983
 Matthieu Lecuyer (né en 1980), pilote automobile
 Julien Lescarret (né en 1980), matador
 Lou de Laâge (née en 1990), actrice

Notes et références

Articles connexes
 Établissements scolaires jésuites
 Éducation jésuite

Voir aussi

Source
 « Un paradis… en plus » par Jean-Claude Lasserre, l'histoire architecturale du lycée Saint-Joseph de Tivoli, article publié à l'automne 1989 dans Le Festin n° 1

Lien externe
 Site internet de l'ensemble scolaire Saint-Joseph-de-Tivoli

Bordeaux
Lycée à Bordeaux
Lycée privé en France
Collège privé en France
École primaire privée en France

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Family Dogs
Interactive Database of NYC Dog Names Provides Endless Distraction
by Laurie L. Dove Jul 5, 2017
New Yorkers love their dogs, and the internet loves a searchable data visualization. We're all in luck. Andy Katz/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images
It's easy to fall in love with a new furry friend, but a new name? Not so much. If you're having trouble settling on the perfect name for your dog and are looking for inspiration, take a gander at New York City's dog name database.
The annually updated database features an interactive map and a search bar that will allow you to fritter away hours of time — whether you're searching for the perfect pet moniker, or are simply curious about the creativity of NYC's pet parents.
Certain dog names are popular in some New York neighborhoods, while almost non-existent in others.
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The list is produced by NYC's Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, and the data comes from city dog registrations. Legally required, but frequently shirked, NYC dog registration is something the department hopes to spur with this database. The interactive online map is also a fantastic way to settle the classic Nintendo versus Sega debate, as you can discover how many people named their dog Mario (16) versus Sonic (11).
The top takers in the city? Standards like Bella (1,358), Max (1,268), Charlie (868) and Coco (652).
However, in 2016, an interesting foodie trend emerged. New Yorkers chose to name an increasing number of dogs after fruits, vegetables, spices and herbs. Visit an NYC dog park and you're likely to run into Ginger (348), Pepper (270), Olive (174) or Cinnamon (75). And if you really want to stir up a pet frenzy, call out a few other animal names New Yorkers settled on for their canines, such as Bear (308), Tiger (104), Moose (75) or Panda (63).
The database even has a map of unique dog names broken up by neighborhood. In the Lower East Side, for instance, the most popular canine moniker is Bebe, while on the Upper East Side, Nellie takes the top spot. And according to the database, there are even three proud pooches named Beyoncé.
Do names matter? For pet parents, the answer is a resounding "yes." Names that rhyme with frequently spoken words, or that are similar to the name of another family member can confuse a dog and will slow response times. Some dog trainers suggest that a two-syllable name — like Buddy, Bella, Teddy or Lucky — is most easily learned by dogs.
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NBC to air 5 'Thursday Night Football' games in 2016
Updated: 3:30 PM EST Feb 1, 2016
WXII12 is adding more primetime football to its schedule this fall.The NFL announced Monday that it has agreed to a two-year deal that gives NBC five Thursday Night Football games. All the NBC games will take place in the second half of the season and will be simulcast on NFL Network.Steve Burke, chairman of NBCUniversal, released the following statement:"Thursday Night Football is an important addition to NBC's #1 ranked primetime lineup, and the perfect complement to our award winning Sunday Night Football broadcast. The NFL is a terrific partner, and we could not be more pleased about expanding our relationship."CBS had aired eight TNF games in the past two seasons, and they will still air five Thursday games in the first half of the season. CBS and NBC will use their own announcers and production teams.NFL Network will still televise eight games exclusively, which will include late-season Saturday matchups and other to-be-determined games.
WXII12 is adding more primetime football to its schedule this fall.
The NFL announced Monday that it has agreed to a two-year deal that gives NBC five Thursday Night Football games. All the NBC games will take place in the second half of the season and will be simulcast on NFL Network.
Steve Burke, chairman of NBCUniversal, released the following statement:
"Thursday Night Football is an important addition to NBC's #1 ranked primetime lineup, and the perfect complement to our award winning Sunday Night Football broadcast. The NFL is a terrific partner, and we could not be more pleased about expanding our relationship."
CBS had aired eight TNF games in the past two seasons, and they will still air five Thursday games in the first half of the season. CBS and NBC will use their own announcers and production teams.
NFL Network will still televise eight games exclusively, which will include late-season Saturday matchups and other to-be-determined games.


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Speaking Secrets: Sharing stories of sexual abuse amidst #MeToo
By: Georgina Campbell
Wellington issues reporter, NZ Herald
georgina.campbell@nzme.co.nz
This article by NZME journalist Georgina Campbell explains why she decided to create the Speaking Secrets podcast, a co-production by NZ Herald and Newstalk ZB. For the series trailer, listen to the podcast below. You can subscribe to Speaking Secrets on iHeartRadio and iTunes.
The problem with breaking the silence is you have to work out how to clean up the mess.
For victims and survivors of sexual abuse and harassment it's not just sharing their story, it's everything around it.
It's the fear of being pitied or judged, of destroying their careers, and upsetting loved ones.
It's the years of therapy, the giving up on dreams - but knowing that if they don't speak out, then who will?
Speaking Secrets tells the stories of New Zealanders on their own terms and also reveals that mess.
Tears are shed and emotions run high, but this issue cannot be sugar coated.
I don't want New Zealand's experience of the #MeToo movement to be about flitting from one scandal to the next.
People should know that sex can be difficult after rape because even when you're married, you still get flashbacks to that night.
They should know a sexual harassment incident can make someone fear going to the supermarket.
Flight attendants reveal sexual harassment
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'He wanted me naked': Sex harassment of young doctors
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Young doctors on harassment in the job
That disclosing child abuse can make your loving parents think they failed to keep you safe, even though it wasn't their fault.
The media has an important role to play in the #MeToo movement by being a channel for people to share their stories, but it should not be the threshold for speaking out in this country.
Survivors who haven't broken their silence should know that many people choosing to tell their stories publicly have taken several steps to get to that point.
They've called helplines, told friends, filed police reports or reached out to a family member.
That's speaking out too.
This series continues a conversation in New Zealand and asks questions.
Do we report being groped at a concert or do we worry about detracting resources from other offending?
Should parents try to control what kids do, and what they have access to on their cellphones?
Do male victims feel left out of the #MeToo movement?
The answers aren't always clear cut, but speaking out is a light in the darkness.
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Q: Should I use a dedicated IP when sending email from AWS SES? I have been using AWS SES for a year now for my SaaS. I added DKIM, SPF and DMARC. Yet some people are still not receiving emails. I provide instructions for them to add my domain to their safe senders list. That seems to resolve it. I would like to avoid end-users having to do that.
I am wondering if using a dedicated IP would help to improve delivery. Anyone has experience with that?

A: Yes, as at first sight you have done everything correctly but we are missing some information that could be useful;
The email look like what ? as if it look like spam, even if it's not, some mail server might classify your mail as such. It's generic tip, but like too many images, or too big images without body content is a sure way to get your spam score go highter.
I would quote a site for such tips;

Create a text version
The email message should have a text version. The textual content of
it should not completely differ from the HTML message.
Avoid usage of spam sensitive words and phrases
Avoid words like Cialis, Levitra, soma, valium, Xanax, talks about
price per dose, mentions of other drugs and their chemical names,
pharmacy, Viagra, fast delivery, attempts to disguise words like
Viagra and porn. In short: avoid all words that spammers also
frequently use. Do not disguise words, or use misspellings of
forbidden words.
Use normal text inside hyperlinks, instead of the URL
Do not create hyperlinks that have the URL between the opening and
closing tag, because some email clients interpret this as a phishing
attempt.
Example:
http://www.google.com www.google.com
Because the original link is replaced by our pic server domain
(http://pic.vicinity...) the link will be blocked because email
clients will find this discrepancy misleading to subscribers. Better
do something like this:
Click here to visit a great search
engine
Use a proper from address
Do not end your from address name with digits (e.g., do not use info123@yourcompany.com.
Do not start your from address with digits (666info@yourcompany.com).
Always use a from address. Do not use a free mail address as from address (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Chello, et cetera).
Do not capitalize your from address or subject line. Avoid using capitalization in your message body.

Use a proper subject line
Avoid using dollar amounts in your subject line.
Do not talk about losing pounds or weight loss in your subject line.
Do not try to appeal to subscribers with false promises.

Avoid HTML errors, unsupported techniques, obscure content,
obfuscation
Do not use JavaScript, Flash, forms, and other unsupported techniques.
Do not use an HTML font colour similar to background, large font sizes, and lots of different font colours.
Do not hide text (for example using CSS display none) or other content hiding techniques.

Images
Use short image names. 1.jpg is better than header.jpg
Your email should not contain large images, and must have a normal image/text ratio

HTML
Remove any unneeded HTML. Remove HTML errors as much as possible. Keep your HTML code clean.

This seem unimportant, but keep in mind small error, like the reply-to, if it point to a domain that does not resolve to the IP of the sender, your spam score will go highter. It's all thing that make you more easy flagged as spam.
Second point, does you have checked your IP reputation ? In RBL list you can find if your IP was used in the past to send a lot of spam or not, and they can tell you if you have spammer neighbourhood too.

A: I understand you consider sending emails from your dedicated IP INSTEAD of AWS SES.
saying shortly: "I will do myself"
The cons with AWS SES is you share reputation with other users.
The pros is AWS SES have a dedicated profesionnal team that are more experienced than you in mailing.
pure supposition: they even have contact/direct access/custom rules with Gmail, Microsoft teams because they are so big.
e-mail content as well is important as answered by yagmoth555. you may send an example spam to SES support so they can analyze.
Even if technically you implement all the best practices (SPF, DKIM,...) note that an IP has to build his reputation over time.

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Skin grafts demand that healthy skin from somewhere on the body be removed and placed on the diseased or damaged area. This new device essentially rolls out a new layer of 3D-printed skin tissue, or bio-ink, onto the areas in need. The portable device weighs just over two pounds and looks more like a packing tape dispenser than a printer.
While it has not been tested on human patients yet, the device has shown positive outcomes on rat and pig wounds. The team is currently working to demonstrate how their device compares with the established tools and approaches in use.


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The Algerian Fennecs take on the Egyptian Pharaohs for a place in the 2010 World Cup on November 14.
"It's sport," says an Egyptian on youtube. "May the best win!" adds his Algerian friend in the same video.
A group entitled "I love the country of a million martyrs... It's only a match" has gathered support on Facebook.
"Far from conspiracy theories, the biggest benefactor in this media storm is certainly the Egyptian regime who is delighted to see the people concentrated on secondary issues," wrote Alexandria-based blogger Ismail Alexandrani.
"We have huge problems in our country that we have to solve... The Israelis are laughing at us," said Islamic scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi from Egypt, urging the crowds to use their brains. Algerian scholar Sheikh Abasi Madani echoed his concern.
Egyptian writer Ahmad Udwan asks what makes Egyptians and Algerians turn out to the stadium in thousands, and take the victory of one football team over the other so seriously.
I don't love or hate football, but I do hate problems, instability, and everything else that calls for disregarding reason. I do not believe that football, matches or sports on the whole call for these trivialities, but what is happening these days is enough to make one nauseous.
The angry have occupied the stadium, and sport no longer means decorum, taste or morals, but instead calls for politics between the feet of competing players and invites strife and hatred between peoples.
Those who follow the performance of football teams to the crowd's cheering will find inconceivable the extent to which this issue has taken over people's minds at the cost of matters important to the entity of Arab states.
Football has become a field to ignite wars between the Arab peoples and created a great rift between them despite the religious, blood and linguistic ties they have shared for centuries.
Forget about the analysis of the match. Crowds were prepared with flags representing their country, even with flags drawn on faces. The lion's share of the joy was for the general public and the poor. I don't know how, but those who complain about a lack of bread at home buy a flag costing over EGP 50.
It seems that we live in a time when victories have become cherished and setbacks common, and there is nothing left for the desperately defeated of Egypt and Algeria but to take victories hostage to sit on the throne of football.
It seems that the only function of the flags is to bring together these peoples towards what could make some of them as if hypnotized, to turn their necks towards flimsy issues that call for nothing but chaos, to lead these drowning people into poverty and ignorance about demanding their rights.
This is, indisputably, a true picture. The Arab media on all levels is an influential factor on the minds of society that can convince the swimmer among people of important issues. Where was the Arab media during these setbacks?
Who does not believe in the influence of the flags on people like me to sit in one of Cairo's many cafes to sample the enthusiasm of those present, the joy we have forgotten in consecutive years of setbacks and, as one supporter explained to me, to cheer him up from his troubles and the social, political and everyday defeats of most?
A good study is needed here on the influence of this phenomenon in rallying thousands of thousands in Egypt and elsewhere intoxicated with victory, while, when Gaza was choking in its own blood, we witnessed only flimsy protests that did not match Palestine's bleeding.
It is not strange that these protests were oppressed by the authorities, while the destruction during the football demonstrations was no harm. Here is the great difference. Who do you think is the winner and who the loser?