Editor's Note: This article was originally published in ProPublica, on June 2, 2017, and is reprinted with permission under a Creative Commons license. Revkin provides an analysis of economic forces beyond the reach of the Paris climate accord, forces that are at work regardless of the US or other nations are committed to the Paris agreement.
One reality is that the agreement was always going to reflect, more than determine, whether the world develops a sustainable relationship with the climate system. The language was intentionally "soft" on what countries pledged to do domestically. There was no other way to get nearly 200 sovereign states to the table. And there was little reason to aspire to more.
The forces both driving and constraining worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases are largely outside the top‑down influence of some accord. Rising global energy needs and the enduring abundance of fossil fuels are driving fuel demand and emissions growth. Dropping costs of renewable energy, the increasing substitution of natural gas for coal, and a growing focus on energy efficiency in developing economies are slowing emissions.
But obviously the agreement wasn't soft enough for Trump, who made no mention of the clear risks from climate change laid out by his secretary of defense, James Mattis, after his confirmation hearing earlier this year, but warned of "massive legal liability" if the United States remained a signatory.
years for the consequences of his decision to play out. He included enough nuance—including the notion of working with Democrats to "negotiate our way back into Paris" or crafting something to replace it—to keep everyone guessing.
And separate from Thursday's announcement, he had already decided on steps that could undermine international action. For example, his earlier decision to cut funding to United Nations programs related to the climate agreement (not to mention funding for Population programs) is going to have substantial adverse impacts on its own. And if his budget cuts for climate science and programs aimed at fostering environmental resilience are not altered by Congress, there'll be lots more real consequences not directly related to Paris.
China is clearly past the peak of the domestic coal-burning binge of the early 2005 that fueled its dizzying recent rate of urbanization and industrialization. But it will be burning billions of tons of coal or turning it into cleaner natural gas for at least several more decades. Synthesizing gas from coal is great for curbing urban air pollution, particularly if the gas substitutes for burning coal as a domestic heating and cooking fuel, as is still common in China. But there's a climate cost, as Princeton researchers have found, because the energy required to synthesize the gas is supplied by, yes, coal, producing more greenhouse gases.
And Europe, while generally basking in the glow of the Paris Agreement, has been quietly lobbying the Trump administration since February to fast-track approvals of multibillion-dollar terminals for exporting America's abundant shale-drilled natural gas as liquefied natural gas, or LNG, across the Atlantic. Who's the fossil fuel villain there?
In an interview in early April at a conference on sustainable energy in New York City, Maros Sefcovic, vice president of the European Commission for energy policy, said LNG exports were a central focus of meetings earlier in the year in Washington with Trump administration officials. The hope is to cut European dependence on piped Russian gas—and to provide the flexible power generation needed to balance variable output from solar and wind installations.
Later that month, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry used an appearance at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance meeting in Manhattan to announce the approval of a giant Texas LNG export terminal, owned by Qatar, ExxonMobil, and others.
It's important to note that expanded gas exports to Europe were also a goal of the Obama administration, both for economic and strategic reasons. President Obama had also urged fracking-averse Europe to do its own energy development, as well. Hillary Clinton, too, took heat from environmentalists during her campaign for her longstanding support of natural gas drilling, and natural gas exports.
The proposal to renegotiate the U.S. terms is interesting—is it just a distraction tactic? Perhaps, but if we really want to put the future of the planet first, we do need to think about how to make the agreement both more effective and more acceptable to nations with substantial fossil reserves—or the U.S. won't be the last one to jump ship.
It is worth noting that the site of next year's round of annual climate change negotiations, announced Thursday by the United Nations, will be Katowice, Poland—a city in the heart of the Polish coal belt. Poland signed the Paris Agreement along with the rest of the European Union last October, but only after gaining concessions allowing its coal use to continue.


Conventional wisdom holds that Libertarian Party candidates draw votes away from Republican candidates. However, some exit polling from Tuesday's midterms shows that wisdom may not be true.
Reason's Brian Doherty looked at the exit polling in North Carolina and Virginia and found that it's not necessarily true.
It isn't common for Democrats to accuse Libertarians of "spoiling" elections for them, but a look at NBC News exit polls show that Haugh voters indeed came more from people who consider themselves "moderate" (5 percent of self-identified moderates went Haugh) and even "liberal" (4 percent of liberals voted for Haugh) than from conservatives (only 2 percent of whom voted for Haugh). Those were the only three choices for self-identification.
In other exit poll results, Haugh's portion of the vote fell pretty steadily as age groups got older—he got 9 percent of the 18-24 vote, and only 2 percent of the 50-and-over crowd.
Other interesting Haugh exit poll results: His overall man/woman breakdown was the same, 4 percent of each in the exit poll. Haugh's numbers got progressively smaller as voter income got bigger—he earned 6 percent of the under-$30K vote but only 1 percent of the over-$200K vote. Libertarians aren't just for plutocrats.
One can't assume the 3 percent Rs would be voting [Gillespie] in my absence—it's quite likely these R voters would have joined the 7 percent of Rs voting for Warner. Polls throughout the race showed Warner enjoying double-digit support among Rs, and a fair number of Rs told us they can't stomach voting for [Gillespie]. A lot of business-type Republicans consider Warner acceptable, so probably many Rs who really disliked [Gillespie] voted for me because I was preferable to Warner, but would otherwise have voted Warner not Gillespie. So those R Sarvis voters were "taken" from Warner not Gillespie.
Similar thing happened last year, with pretty high certainty. A poll in September showed that *among Sarvis supporters*, 60+ percent had a favorable opinion of Gov. McDonnell, but 70+ percent had an UN-favorable view of Cuccinelli. So I was a vessel for moderate, R-leaning, anti-Cuccinelli voters who preferred voting for me to voting for MacAuliffe, i.e., I "took" moderate R votes from MacAuliffe.
Moreover, my share of the Independent vote clearly skewed younger, so from voters not inclined to vote D than R.
I agree with Sarvis's analysis of his own voters, that they're moderate and left-leaning. Sean Davis at The Federalist analyzed the 2013 Virginia Governor's race that Sarvis brought up in his e-mail to Doherty and found that Sarvis may have actually helped Democrats in that race. As Ben Dominich, also at The Federalist points out, Sarvis ran on some progressive-leaning positions on economics in the 2013 race. I'm sure Sarvis simply held on to some of these 2013 voters.
This is the culmination of a progressive shift within the libertarian movement that is gaining traction, particularly within the Libertarian Party. Many so-called "second wave libertarians" and "millennial libertarians" are trying to merge progressivism and libertarianism to form a left-libertarian fusion of sorts. Also, most conservative-leaning libertarians and "conservatarians" (who are still the vast majority in the liberty movement) have already rejoined or never left the Republican Party.
So the party that needs to worry about the Libertarian Party, most of the time, are the Democrats, especially as the LP continues to shift towards the left.
So far today, we have posts from Matt Souders and Sarah Baker as to why voting a certain party affiliation is a better idea for libertarians. They're well reasoned, well backed up, and ultimately, I believe, short sighted.
I have a different idea: forget the letters next to the names. Forget "tactical" voting. If libertarians, as a movement, want to make real change, they need to vote independently, without any care for party affiliation. In some cases, they should even write in a vote for someone off the main ballots.
As a libertarian, I'm used to being toyed with. Republicans want my vote to fix the economy. Democrats want my vote to address social issues (translation: "lol smoke weed erryday y'all") and to keep us from going to war. And every time we've gone one way or the other, we've gotten burned.
The Tea Party was started largely as a protest against goverment overspending, and candidates were elected to office – including in a massive wave in 2010 – to address that. Unfortunately, once they got into office, spending didn't go down appreciably in many cases. Instead, they spent all their time implementing what I derisively call "Jesus Laws": socially conservative laws put in to please white, middle-aged and older Christian voters. If you hate abortion, you love the Tea Party, but otherwise, I'd argue they've done more harm than good.
Of course, the Tea Party burns today as a fight against the mainstream Republicans who have run the party for so long and who have contributed to so many of our problems, including our blown up debt. Men like John McCain and Peter King are anathema to these people for their desire to wage war for any reason and being "squishy" on spending. The ironic thing, from the perspective of the Tea Party, is that they keep invoking the name of Reagan, who was the catalyst for the big-spending Republican Party.
Democrats, of course, have always been the big spenders, but at least they will care about social liberties and not going to war, right? Not so fast. The same Barack Obama who was so anti-Iraq War in 2003, and who ran on being against it in 2008 – arguably winning on that front – has since engaged us in multiple illegal wars in Syria and Libya, and is engaging in illegal actions in Iraq once again as a fight against the Islamic State. Civil liberties? Hah, ask the conservative groups targeted by the IRS, and the reporters and whistleblowers being targeted by the government in the war on leaks. All of this from a man who campaigned against the very things he now stands for. For Pesci's sake, it took Joe Biden's diharrea of the mouth to get the President to come around on gay marriage.
The underlying point is that the people campaigning to reform the system often get co-opted by it, and being a part of a major party hurts that. The party simply doesn't help outliers, and trying to take the party from within is going to prove to be a very hard road – one that could take a generation – for liberty-minded people on either side of the divide. Candidates become different people once they've been voted into office; their responsibility to their constituents largely ends at that point, as shown by the extraordinary retention rate in Congress. Once in office, the peoples' use is finished, and they are summarily discarded.
We've heard it before: "A vote for X is a vote for Y". This often comes about when libertarians – either in primaries, or in general elections where they're petitioning candidates or running on a big-L Libertarian ticket – represent a threat to the status quo. Most recently was the case of Robert Sarvis, who many argue cost Ken Cuccinelli the governor's mansion in Virginia by drawing 6.5% of the vote, well above Terry McAuliffe's margin of victory.
This is a good thing, which is not something I say because I personally find Cuccinelli repulsive; that would be the case if Sarvis or anyone else took things to the other extreme and cost a Democrat an election. Anything that upsets the two-party apple cart is a positive development. The system needs a few shocks. If that means some weak candidates of either party have to get voted out, so be it.
One of the most common refrains we hear is that Republican or Democrat, it doesn't matter because it's just two heads of the same dragon. Outside influences – of all shapes and sizes – are like a knight fighting that dragon. The odds are against him, and it's very likely he'll be burnt to a crisp by their fire, but even dragons get tired from constantly fighting off outside threats. Also, the more third parties get involved, the more powerful their influence with the media. The best part of Robert Sarvis drawing "only" 6.5% of the vote in Virginia is that it caused a lot of writers to drop a lot of ink/pixels noting how upsetting a force his candidacy was. Even Gary Johnson's largely Quixotic bid for the Presidency, which drew 1% of the vote, was good for bringing positive attention to libertarian causes. It's a slow trudge, but the more attention it gets, the better.
Besides, the other half is just as bad, right? So what if a Terry McAuliffe wins an election? Or even Barack Obama or George W. Bush? Liberals who hated Bush likely wouldn't have loved Gore, and conservatives who deplore Obama wouldn't be happy with McCain or Romney, either. If they're saying they're simply marginally more happy, they've already lost. Eating crumbs off the table still leaves a person malnourished.
After all this, it's obvious that we should all rally around the Libertarian Party as our cause celebre, as Sarah argues in her post, right? Not so fast. A closer look shows they're unreliable at best, and outright using the party at worst. For the most part, the Libertarian Party has been a sort of rehabilitation centre for C-list Republicans, the equivalent of a baseball player being demoted to the minor leagues to work on his swing before being promoted back to the big time.
I need to preface this with an admission: I voted for Barack Obama in 2008. I'm not even ashamed of it. While I didn't buy the "Hope and Change" nonsesne, I did at least concede at the time that he wasn't Bush, and wasn't a Republican. However, another major thing in his favour was that the Libertarians were putting forth an embarrassing ticket of Bob Barr and Wayne Allyn Root.
Bob Barr was elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican during the Newt Gingrich-led Republican Revolution. While in office, Barr was such a hard supporter of the War on Drugs that he was voted out of Congress… with support from the Libertarian Party he would eventually represent. He also supported the Defense of Marriage Act before he was against it, voted for the Patriot Act, and voted for the Iraq War. The LP went from destroying Barr's career to building it back up again, only to watch him go back to being a Republican in 2011.
As for Root, I'll let my colleague Doug Mataconis take this one. Root, by the way, rejoined the Republican Party in 2012.
The Libertarian Party is used to grifters. Even Ron Paul used the ticket in 1988 to run for President, before almost immediately switching back to the Republican Party after the 1988 election. When it's not doing rehab, the Libertarian Party has a succinct problem with crackpots and kooks; Michael Badnarik, the 2004 candidate for President, is a 9/11 truther.
None of this is intended to persuade anyone to vote one way or the other. In fact, the whole point of this is to point out an obvious truth: our current system isn't working, and those who allow themselves to be co-opted by larger forces almost always end up disappointed.
What I will call for, however, is a call to conscience. Individual votes are ultimately irrelevant so long as one is voting to their personal convictions, and a request for those who tactically vote – like those who would vote for Mitt Romney despite prefering Gary Johnson – to reconsider. If you think a candidate is a preferable candidate, vote for that candidate. If that candidate lost a primary, write him in. If you think Elmer Fudd is a better option, guess what? Write in Elmer Fudd! Why not? We know he supports the Second Amendment, at least.
The key is never to fall in line with big-party dogma, it's to ensure that people are voting with their hearts, saying what they want, and in the process sending a very strong message that the status quo is not acceptable. If we can't even show individual liberty in the ballot box, how can we hope to achieve it in the legislature?


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AFTERSHAKESPEARE
It's not been easy trying to get inside the mind of this most incredible genius of words, yet the journey we started over 13 years ago has been exhilarating, to say the least. Whilst there are many companies throughout the world regularly presenting Shakespeare's plays in very different ways, the approach we have taken revolves around providing answers to this contention:
Taking as a given truth Richard Eyre's statement that Shakespeare gave us the DNA
of our Theatre, how then can it best be passed down the line to:
a) give new and sustainable life to his own work (phase1)
b) create new work that is inspired, influenced by, or flows out from
the tradition Shakespeare worked in (phase 2)?
That is what we set out to do, and since then we have written and performed 5 sequels to Shakespeare's original plays, and 2 plays that take us into the workings of Shakespeare through his plays.
We believe our approach of staying faithful to the original works by putting them in a very different setting results in a startling rejuvenation of the text, giving them a whole new life and meaning; reaction from audience members and press give evidence to this.
Our After Shakespeare work is specially written to offer contemporary new insights into Shakespeare's original plays whilst retaining Shakespeare's original words/themes/characters.
At the same time we are in the process of publishing our AfterShakespeare works, for more details please click here.
For a selection of Reviews and Audience Feedback quotes from all After Shakespeare productions please click here.
For a copy of our AfterShakespeare approach, please click here
This work is described in more detail in our AfterShakespeare Collaboration website - please click here
AFTER SHAKESPEARE: Reworkings of Shakespeare's Plays
King Lear (alone)
Nominated for the GM Fringe Best Adaptation Award 2018
Nominated for the GM Fringe Best Spoken Word Award 2018
2018 Greater Manchester Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe
2017 Bristol Shakespeare Festival, Bath Fringe, Oldham, Buxton Festival Fringe
2016 Greater Manchester Fringe, Birmingham, Camden Fringe
2015 Birmingham Fest, Buxton Fringe
Shakespeare's play, adapted by Edinburgh Fringe award-winning playwright Frank Bramwell. Was Shakespeare right to kill off King Lear at the end of his play? As our starting point we take Kent's question at the end of the play: "Is this the Promised End?"
Below is a selection of quotes from Reviews and Audience Feedback; for more please click here
"The production gives an insight into the inner thoughts and feelings of King Lear, exploring the role from the perspective of both an audience and an actor and goes into the heart of the character.
" . . . but Young has taken on a great responsibility to perform the grand and complex role at extremely short notice, and to perform alone in an intimate space was highly applauded and clearly respected by every audience member."
"Frank Bramwell directed well using all the space that the Old Joint Stock Theatre provides. Bramwell made excellent use of the dark and eerie atmosphere with slow music as a background to Lear's speeches throughout the production. General blocking and the ideas behind Lear's actions were well thought out."
"Bob Young, as Lear, gave a strong and nuanced performance, particularly given that he had to stand in late for the original actor. Being alone contributes to the nihilism, as well as the sense that Lear may be solely responsible for his tragic downfall. King Lear (Alone) gives the audience much to think about, with rich symbolism in an engaging interpretation."
Cordelia / Fool
two sides of the same coin?
Winner of the Birmingham Fest Best Adaptation Award 2018
2018 Bristol Shakespeare Festival, Birmingham Fest, Buxton Fringe
Powerful one-man play, a thought-provoking reworking of King Lear, as told through Cordelia and Fool.
This powerful one-man play is a thought-provoking reworking of the original text to provide a unique insight into the mind of the disturbed King Lear himself.
Traditionally it is thought that the two roles of Cordelia and Fool could have been played by one actor, and this is the contention behind the play. However, more importantly, is the psychological connection between the characters of Lear, Cordelia and Fool – are they, within the context of Shakespeare's voyage of discovery, all manifestations arising out of the same psychic disturbance?
The play also explores the technique and craft of being an actor, with much of the action taking place within the Tiring House, as well as on the stage where King Lear the play is being performed.
For a selection of quotes from Reviews and Audience Feedback please click here
An Audience with Sir John Falstaff
Falstaff's never-before-revealed true-life story!
Falstaff, as big as life, revealing all, telling it as it should have been told!
Falstaff regales us with his true-life story - and his never before revealed relationship with William Shakespeare. The fat knight himself, in the flesh, is here to answer the questions that audiences have long sought to ask!
Falstaff is here to tell us the real truth about his life as one of Literature's biggest characters, also his fractured relationship with his one-time mucker William Shakespeare. As well as regaling the audience with anecdotes and larger-than-life stories, he has, at last, a chance to tell it all, from his point of view. Quotes from Shakespeare's plays are used, as well as Falstaff's very own words.
Both the comic and tragic sides to Falstaff's life are laid bare before the public, in the course of which we get to understand something about how Shakespeare's possibly greatest character became a literary giant.
Romeo & Juliet for all Time
Winner of the Hairline Best Play Award 2004
Nominated for the Buxton Fringe Best New Writing Award 2004
2012 Old Joint Stock Theatre
2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Buxton Fringe Festival, Birmingham Fringe Festival
Romeo & Juliet For all Time-a sequel to the original tragedy, and its performances in Buxton Festival Fringe earned it a nomination of Best Writing Award. Next, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with 2 four-star reviews and then a Hairline Highlight Award for being one of the top ten plays that stood head and shoulders above other reviewed plays. Revived at the Old Joint Stock Theatre Birmingham July 2012.
"The playwright, Frank Bramwell, has struck on a very clever idea and created an intelligently written play which luckily never slips into an English Literature style discussion. An amusing and moving performance."
"I don't think I've ever seen such raw energy and physical commitment in a Fringe performance the audience loved them and showed it enthusiastically at the close."
"This was a complex and very clever new look at the play. Take your sharpest wits with you, and listen carefully, but also be prepared to be carried along by the pace, skill and style of the presentation."
"Its very rare for our staff to be so united in their glowing praise of a Fringe Show but all those who saw it were stunned, and everyone unable to make it this time was very disappointed to have missed out. James, the venue manager, genuinely rated your show among the top six Fringe shows he has seen in his decade working at the Festival. An outstanding show, overall it was both a pleasure and an honour to have Romeo & Juliet For All Time in our venue."
Ophelia, Princess of Denmark
Ophelia, Princess of Denmark-Ophelia is mad. And dead. And trapped in time with Hamlet and Claudius, who seem to have a little problem re-adjusting to their changed circumstances. A play that re-examines the themes and issues that Shakepeare raised in his original play - and some that he didn't.
"It stands as an imaginative, fairly free-wheeling response to the original, in which the delight exists in the exploration itself and in the spirit of invention."
"The relationships between Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius and others, various, are taken apart and differently examined; the play put me in mind of the mathematical discipline of permutations and combinations. Debates within the play are both serious and playful."
"Sharp performances from the three actors. Rebecca Rogers creates with great naturalness; Ben Norris's Hamlet has great charm."
Tempest Fugit / Prospero's Will
2006 Greenwich Playhouse, London
Tempest fugit:Prospero's Will-based on The Tempest, the third in the line of Frank Bramwells specially written plays to re-energise Shakespeares plays. Prospero is marooned on the magical Island, and is soon joined by Caliban, Ariel, Miranda and Ferdinand, there follows a deep exploration of the original plays inner workings as we go through Prosperos mind.
"Very imaginative idea! I was very impressed with this performance."
"All of the performances were excellent."
"Congratulations on a most imaginative production with excellent performances by the cast. Bring more of these ideas to Greenwich or, at least, to London."
"Well worth catching, an absolute gem! The time certainly flew by!"
". . . when it comes to Shakespeare "re-written" I get very sceptical. But I was proven wrong as Heart Productions pulled out all the stops and the audience was treated to a delicious journey through Prospero's messed-up mind."
"I went to see this play not knowing what to expect, and I was most impressed with everything I saw. As well as committed, talented actors, all aspects of the production greatly added to the whole evening's entertainment.
"The play itself is a wonderful re-exploration of Shakespeare's original, from a totally different perspective."
Macbeth Killing Time
2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Macbeth Killing Time-is in the same mould as Romeo and Juliet For all Time - this time Macbeth, who has been waiting for 400 years, is tried for the crimes of the original tragedy by two jobbing Angels, Kramm and Delos. The plays were awarded three and four stars by reviewers.
". . . a strong piece of Theatre. The mix of the Bards script and Frank Bramwells words works well here and is helped by the enthusiastic actors."
"Frank Bramwell's play, however, is that very rare bird, a genuinely unusual take on the play, which remains true to the spirit (and the words) of the original whilst making us question our assumptions about it."
"It's a very original and clever piece of work . . . very compelling and, at times, even amusing . . "
"Excellent, evocative, emotional, real, entertaining!"
"This production was not as expected, not dreary Shakespeare but a fine twist by Bramwell. Excellent production for the fringe."
" . . . a beautiful play, beautifully performed."
AFTER SHAKESPEARE: the Man
Time Out of Joint
Will Shakespeare is alone, desperately trying to finalise the script of Hamlet. During the long night-time hours he has two female visitors; one is the Dark Lady of his sonnets, the other is a 'mere milkmaind' who was his first ever love. These muses provide him with rather more dramatic inspiration than he bargains for . . .
"What this play is very good at doing is raising an intrigued eyebrow. It constantly suggests possible inspirations for moments of Shakespeare's plots (I think all from 'Hamlet') and even certain turns of phrase."
"If you want to get an inside look at the trouble and turmoil swirling around in William Shakespeare's head, look no further than the brilliantly conceived Time out of Joint premiering at the Edinburgh Festival."
"An absolute must-see for any Shakespeare fan or writer who's ever had an encounter with writer's block"
2004 ARC Arts Centre
Time after Time-our very first production. Using a mixture of Shakespeare's original words and new ones written for the piece, the play was a glorious romp through the night time dreams of William Shakespeare.
"Overall Time After Time is a superb, delightful production."
"Shakespeare's great creations are forever being interpreted from a new angle, transmuted by the light of innovation."
"Time after Time" constitutes the underlying theme of Frank Bramwell's strongly-researched and excellently presented production, which provokes a plethora of thoughts and dreams."
"An excellent and beautiful setting for an extraordinary and fascinating production."
"Thoroughly enjoyed everything about the performance."
"You have inspired my Shakespearean studies."
"Very clever and integrated famous quotes / references well."
"Overall it was a really enjoyable performance and certainly deserves to be seen by a bigger audience"
AFTER SHAKESPEARE: the Plays Inside Out
We will soon be turning our attention to producing a series of 'pocket size' versions of the original Shakespeare plays; the events of the original plays, seen through the words of the key characters, modified to fit with the sensibilities of modern day audiences, as alternative takes on the original plays.
We are starting the series with the writing of Lear: Inside Out and we will update the website once the play is ready for performance and for publication.
AFTER SHAKESPEARE: the Plays Retold
Our latest venture is a retelling of the original plays by adding to the original script a newly written central Narrative voice; we believe this will not only add another dimension but also give modern audiences more accessibility to them.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first to be worked on in this fashion. The introduction of a Narative voice in the play allows us to perfom the piece as a Radio play within a Theatre setting. This same device also lends itself to the play being produced as a stand alone book.
Click here to return back to The Plays page

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St Mirren are searching for a new manager now that relegation to the Championship has been confirmed.
And the Paisley club say they expect Gary Teale to apply for the post he has occupied since replacing the sacked Tommy Craig in December.
St Mirren picked up their eighth win of a disappointing Premiership campaign at Ross County on Saturday.
But their nine-year stay in the top flight was brought to an end the night before when Motherwell beat Kilmarnock.
"As a board of directors we have always made what we believed to be the best decisions for the good of the club," read a statement from the Buddies.
"This season, unfortunately, we have got some of those decisions wrong, and we hold our hands up and accept responsibility."
Teale, 36, was put in charge until the end of the season and has spoken regularly of his desire to stay on.
However, he must now enter an open selection process if he is to lead the team next season.
"We are now inviting applications from managers interested in managing this great club with first class facilities and excellent young players," added the statement.
"The board would like to place on record our thanks to both Gary Teale and David Longwell for taking over the reins after Tommy Craig's departure and whilst the job of avoiding relegation proved to be a step too far their commitment, effort and endeavour has been there for all to see.
"We would expect Gary to put his name forward for the vacant manager's position and we will duly consider his application along with all others we receive."


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Nucky makes a New Year's resolution, while Margaret looks at a hospital expansion. In the meantime, Gillian makes a new business and Van Alden calls a gangster. First episode of the third season!
Nucky travels to New York City to relax but we won't miss the opportunity to make new deals. Meanwhile, Chalky and his daughter disagree on her future with Samuel, and Eli meets his new boss.
Nucky agrees to accompany Margaret to Church to receive an honor. Later, he makes a deal with Gyp, while Van Alden regrets his intentions about his co-workers. Also, Richard sets a new record.
Nucky and Owen end up spending the night hiding out from the Feds because of tracking down a liquor thief. Meanwhile, Mickey makes a call that may bring far-reaching consequences.
After dealing with Nucky, Rothstein sends Gyp a message. In the meantime, Van Alden and Sigrid receive an unexpected guest. Gillian worries about her business and Margaret experiences awkward moments at the hospital.
At Easter Sunday, Gyp joins his family for dinner, goes to church and meets his boss. Richard goes to Julia's house where his father is fighting a drunk man. In the meantime, Margaret, Nucky and the children accept an invitation from Eli.
Nucky wants to get rid of the Attorney General, so he makes an ambitious play, and Gillian starts to plan the revenge. Meanwhile, Margaret and Owen travel to the countryside to look for a pony for Emily, when they meet Dr. Mason.
Nucky recovers from the concussion in a suite at the Ritz Carleton, while thinking to enlist partners in a war against Gyp Rosetti and Joe Masseria. How will his allies react? Meanwhile, Margaret manages a birthday party for Emily when her issues with Owen take an unexpected turn.
Nucky decides to double his efforts down on his war against Gyp and Joe, so he sends emissaries to Chicago to meet Torrio and ask him for help. In the meantime, the bishop disbands Margaret and Mason's classes, so he suggests they finish their classes at a store front.
These is a rough day for Nucky: Margaret and the kids are gone and Eddie needs medical care, while Eli is in Chicago hoping for reinforcements. Nucky meets Chalky, who is still interested in a club on Atlantic City's strip, to look for his protection.
Season Finale! Atlantic City is in chaos, while the gangs take over the city. Gyp, Masseria and their men against Nucky and Chalky's crew. The key to this mess is that phone call that Nucky is about to make to deal with Rothstein.


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Indiana Hoosiers guard Robert Johnson (4) shoots the ball against Purdue Boilermakers center Isaac Haas (44) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. (Michael Hickey for The Star) Michael Hickey, Michael Hickey for The Star
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Purdue Boilermakers head coach Matt Painter walks out onto the court before the game against the Indiana Hoosiers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. (Michael Hickey for The Star) Michael Hickey, Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers head coach Matt Painter and Indiana Hoosiers head coach Archie Miller meet before the game at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. (Michael Hickey for The Star) Michael Hickey, Michael Hickey for The Star
Members of the Purdue Boilermakers are seen before the game against the Indiana Hoosiers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. (Michael Hickey for The Star) Michael Hickey, Michael Hickey for The Star
Indiana Hoosiers forward Juwan Morgan (13) shoots the ball against Purdue Boilermakers center Isaac Haas (44) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Indiana Hoosiers guard Robert Johnson (4) and Purdue Boilermakers guard P.J. Thompson (11) meet with officials before the game at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. , Michael Hickey for The Star
Former Indiana Hoosiers player and Indiana Pacer Victor Oladipo walks onto the court before the game against the Purdue Boilermakers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Former Indiana Hoosiers player and Indiana Pacer Victor Oladipo watches the video screen as he's honored before the game against the Purdue Boilermakers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers center Isaac Haas (44) is seen after the game against the Indiana Hoosiers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers head coach Matt Painter reacts after a play during the game against the Indiana Hoosiers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Indiana Hoosiers students are seen before the game against the Purdue Boilermaker at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers head coach Matt Painter is seen before the game against the Indiana Hoosiers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. M Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers center Isaac Haas (44) talks to Purdue Boilermakers head coach Matt Painter before the game against the Indiana Hoosiers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
An Indiana Hoosiers student is seen before the game against the Purdue Boilermakers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers forward Vincent Edwards (12) shoots a jumper against Indiana Hoosiers forward Freddie McSwain Jr. (21) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Indiana Hoosiers forward Freddie McSwain Jr. (21) shoots the ball against Purdue Boilermakers forward Matt Haarms (32) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers guard Dakota Mathias (31) and Indiana Hoosiers guard Josh Newkirk (2) chase down the loose ball at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Indiana Hoosiers head coach Archie Miller has words with Indiana Hoosiers guard Josh Newkirk (2) during the game against the Purdue Boilermakers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Indiana Hoosiers forward Juwan Morgan (13) shoots the ball against Purdue Boilermakers forward Matt Haarms (32) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers forward Matt Haarms (32) and Purdue Boilermakers forward Vincent Edwards (12) talk during the game against the Indiana Hoosiers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Indiana Hoosiers guard Josh Newkirk (2) shoots the ball against Purdue Boilermakers guard Dakota Mathias (31) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Indiana Hoosiers guard Robert Johnson (4) shoots a three pointer against Purdue Boilermakers guard P.J. Thompson (11) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers center Isaac Haas (44) makes a move to the basket against Indiana Hoosiers guard Zach McRoberts (15) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers forward Vincent Edwards (12) dunks the ball during the game against the Indiana Hoosiers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers center Isaac Haas (44) shoots the ball against Indiana Hoosiers forward Freddie McSwain Jr. (21) during the game at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers guard Carsen Edwards (3) shoots the ball over Indiana Hoosiers guard Aljami Durham (1) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Indiana Hoosiers forward Juwan Morgan (13) shoots the ball against Purdue Boilermakers forward Vincent Edwards (12) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers forward Matt Haarms (32) blocks the ball as Indiana Hoosiers guard Josh Newkirk (2) shoots at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers center Isaac Haas (44) dunks the ball as Indiana Hoosiers forward Juwan Morgan (13) looks on Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers forward Matt Haarms (32) blocks the shot of Indiana Hoosiers guard Josh Newkirk (2) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers forward Matt Haarms (32) dunks the ball against the Indiana Hoosiers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers guard Carsen Edwards (3) shoots the ball against Indiana Hoosiers guard Devonte Green (11) Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers center Isaac Haas (44) dunks the ball against the Indiana Hoosiers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers forward Vincent Edwards (12) shoots the ball against Indiana Hoosiers guard Josh Newkirk (2) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
Purdue Boilermakers center Isaac Haas (44) shoots the ball against Indiana Hoosiers forward Freddie McSwain Jr. (21) at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. ( Michael Hickey for The Star
Indiana Hoosiers forward Freddie McSwain Jr. (21) goes up for a rebound against the Purdue Boilermakers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2018. Michael Hickey for The Star
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I thought this movie was funny because one little bird went on a phone line. Then another one came on and hit the other bird in face!
Then this big blue bird said "hi" in a really funny voice. But when the big blue bird went on the line he fell off but he was so big that he brought the whole line to the ground.
The little bird flew right off the line in to the air and feathers started to fall from the sky. One small bird came down and he was naked! The big bird started to laugh!
I thought the short was not the best. The graphics and the sound did not match up with each other. The sound effects were completely fake. Don't bother watching this Pixar short.
I thought the movie was funny! The first reason it was funny is because the way the small birds started a fight. Reason 2 is when the big bird interrupted the small birds then the small birds started making fun of him. Reason 3 is when the big bird went on the power line and it bent down and then one bird got annoyed and pecked him. And then the big bird fell of and the power line flipped up in the air then the little birds got thrown up in the air by the power line then lost their feathers this movie is good for humans of all ages.
I thought this movie was funny! I thought it was funny because the birds were fighting with tweets. There was a bigger bird who was making weird noises. The birds were messing around too much and they flew up into the air and came down featherless. People of all ages, I recommend you see this movie.
I thought this move was boring because there was not enough action. The second reason is, it was not realistic. Last but most certainly not least, there was no excitement and there weren't any scary parts. I think kids ages 1-5 will enjoy this move, if they don't like shows with action or adventure.
I thought this movie was hilarious. In the movie a big blue bird speaks really funny. I liked when the big bird flew over to the power line and sat in the middle of the small birds. The big bird made the wire fall down and all the small birds fell down with it. Kids of all ages will laugh.
I thought that this movie short was funny because two birds get on the line and start to fight. The big blue bird says HI in a funny voice. The big bird gets on the line and it starts to sink. The big bird lets go and the little birds launch up into the air. All the feathers fall then a bird falls. It had no feathers only one feather on its head. The big bird laughs really hard. All the birds fall and they feel embarrassed. People of all ages should watch this film.
One day there was a bird then a second then a third then more they were all fighting because they were all bumping into each other. A big bird came. The little birds were all sitting on a power line. Once the big bird flew on the power line it bent and went down. Then the big fell only a tiny bit the little birds FLEW UP IN THE AIR!!The big bird laughed because all of the little birds lost their feathers. I think EVERYONE can watch this movie it is on You Tube.
I love this movie I think it is funny!!
This movie is funny and enjoyable. Here are some reasons why I enjoyed it. The birds fight because they are squished. Then a big blue bird that was different from the small blue birds sat on the line and bent it down. The next thing that was funny is the little birds start pecking the big bird's feet. When the big bird fell, off the line the line shot up and the little birds flew up in the air. When they landed they were naked they had no feathers. Everyone all ages should watch this movie short. It was really cool and funny you will love it.


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Lisa is responsible for Enterprise Financial Crimes Compliance globally. She is the BSA Officer for US Bank and is responsible for the oversight and management of AML Compliance, Counter-Terrorist Financing, Economic Sanctions and Anti-Bribery Compliance.
Her organization provides the company and business units with direction, guidance, monitoring and assistance necessary to comply with effective compliance laws and regulations. Lisa joined US Bank in February, 2015. Prior to joining US Bank, she has spent the last 16 years in senior management positions leading varous AML and Fraud organizations.
Before moving into the banking industry, Lisa was a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service with both protective and investigative responsibilities. Lisa has been instrumental in estabilishing and maintaining working relationships with law enforcement and related government agences on investigative matters.
Lisa is based in Charlotte, NC and is a graduate of Radford University. She is both ACAMS and CFE certified and participates in many industry groups and was a special invitee to the 25 most powerful women in Banking gala ( America Banker) in 2016. Lisa speaks regularly at conferences and serves on the board of the ACAMS Carolinas chapter and International Banking Security Association (IBSA). Additionally, Lisa serves on several financial crime conference committees and is involved in her local community.


We have seen the left make demands of others they could never expect of themselves, but now they have shed all appearance of at least having moral claims to their stance, they have now shed all civility in their attacks. The Left knows if they don't take back both houses, they could face a set back that is unthinkable to them, expect the Liberal Left to move to new depths of depravity.
The liberal left knows they are in trouble, latest polling, which at one time showed them with a sizable lead, now shows the numbers tightening, this can only be seen as a movement in the GOP's favor, something the left just can't figure out right now how to overcome. Almost overnight the DNC has seen polling slip from a 16 point lead to the figures we now have, today there is shown a 4% lead by the DNC, but also a 4% undecided, in election times these usually slide towards the incumbent party.
If the Liberal left loses this election, and then 2020, you will see a party in full disarray, even worse then they already are. They have given up on presenting a message, when they do it is something as stupid as Pelosi telling her constituents, "I will raise your taxes," like this is going to draw her a huge following. Kind of reminds me of the newest AT&T commercial, a man comes up to the house, knocks on the door, and then proceeds to offer a deal to the man of the house that has him paying more, getting less, all while acting like he is giving him a great deal. I have to ask, "Does the Liberal Left really think Americans are this stupid?" Sadly I turn on the TV, watched Tucker last night talking to a African American man who held a event called Reparation Happy Hour, he got over 150 young white people (for the most part), to pay so the, as he termed it, Brown and Black people could drink and socialize without white people, yet on their reparations. I sadly hung my head and thought, yep, our liberal left youth are truly this stupid.
Seems these people forget, it was the minority of whites that owned slaves, yet it was 620,000 lives lost (that would be equivalent to 6.2 million lost today), all while fighting to end the blight called slavery in the South, you want reparations, I would say the bill was paid in blood. and if you wish to be technical, what about the fact that in the South Free Blacks had a higher percentage of slaveholders then whites did? In New Orleans over 40% of the free black population owned at least one slave, what about them. What we have is a generalization by the RACIST liberal left, facts and historical accuracy means nothing, rhetoric and feelings mean far more.
But it does not stop here, the left showed their true colors with Roseanne, they screamed to the high heavens when she made a tweet that was without excuse, refused to accept her apology, then had the show shut down right there on the spot. While I am no fan of Jaret, feel she is a disgrace as a person, one of the largest dangers to the US behind Obama, a great danger than anything we have faced since the 2nd World War. But as a person of Jewish heritage I have seen what racism can do to a people, there is no call for racist attacks, but to claim what she did was unforgivable, yet that same night Samantha Bee had aired a show where she grossly suggested Ivanka sexually entice her father, then called her the "C" word. If anyone had said this about Michelle or one of Obama's kids, the left would still be screaming for their head, but because Samantha said she was sorry, this was all forgiven. Can we say double standards?
What is more, you now have platforms like Google and their ties to the liberal left, they put out a definition of the California GOP as having ties to Fascism or Nazi's, of course, they took it down, but what type of idiot put this up in the first, place? I think we all know the answer to that, a loony liberal.
This was not corrected until Vice ran a story and Kevin McCarthy also brought it to national attention.
The left seems to not realize that the nation is watching this, it is not the far left I care about, Lucifer could run for office, as long as he says he is a liberal, they would vote for him, but the Center Left, Center Right voters that are seeing this, they see the madness displayed for all to see, the very ones that voted for Trump see your disrespect and hatred for them, and you think they are going to vote how you wish? I think we will see a repeat of this election coming up, sorry about the language, but every time I see this, for some odd reason it just picks up my spirits.
As I have said before,"Be careful, when you are in a minority, attacking the majority, more so when this one makes up 70% of the population, if they tire of it, you may find what you and your fathers fought for, due to you are acting just like the people that oppressed you, you may find all that great men and women fought for, gave up their lives to fight for can and may be undone in a very short order as the people you are trying to prosecute and attack tire of it and realize they do make up the overwhelming majority.
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Who has been named the interim Finance Minister?
Piyush Goyal has been named the interim Finance Minister.
Which Country breaks off Diplomatic ties with the US?
Venezuela breaks off Diplomatic ties with the US.
Which Bank has appointed Ravneet Gill as MD & CEO?
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Global Investors summit is held in which City?
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Which country growth to accelerate from 7.4% to 7.6% in FY20 according to UN report?
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Jane joined Business Science UK in 2001, after completing her BA and MA in Economics. In the last 16 years Jane has risen from graduate econometrician to Managing Partner, heading up the team since autumn 2009. In that time the team has successfully grown from five analysts to over 40.
Jane has experience across all sectors and many brands including RBS, Direct Line group, Boots, Sky, GSK and IKEA.
Jane was voted one of MediaWeek's 30 under 30 in 2008.
Matt joined the team in 2004 after spending a year client side in a marketing role for a major manufacturer. Matt has worked across a number of accounts in the entertainment and Retail sectors and currently focuses his time on developing new tools and solutions for our clients.
Ffion joined Business Science in 2004 as a BSc Economics from Leicester University and MSc Economics graduate of UCL. Ffion has worked across many of our clients and therefore has strong cross sector experience including Finance, Retail, Charities, Pharmaceutical and FMCG. She has worked both with UK clients and globally. Ffion is highly skilled at building strong partnerships with our clients and integrating with their teams. The analytics she delivers is always bespoke and responsive.
Ffion now heads up the teams across our Northern UK offices, bringing a wealth of experience and ensuing the work delivered is to the same high standard as our London office.
George came fresh to Business Science after his BSC and MSC in Business Economics and Finance and has been with us since 2006. During his time here George have worked across some of our biggest accounts including Sky, Mars, Prudential, COI and RBS. Over that time he's overcome the challenges of integrating analytics into the heart of media planning, managing and optimising spend across a wide portfolio and ensuring that Business Science insight always informs and improves strategy.
Sarah Stallwood joined Business Science in 2006 after gaining a Dual MA and a BA Hons in Economics and subsequently working for IBM and Ninah Consulting. Sarah has worked across a number of brands and sectors including VW, RBS Retail, Digital UK and Cancer Research UK. Sarah has been key to building partnerships with new clients and broadening and deepening our analytical offering.
Sarah is now focused on extending our reach to clients outside of MediaCom and working to improve our external links to develop our thought leadership across the industry.
Camilla joined business science in 2009 as Senior Econometrician after two years at the Nielsen Company. She works with clients across a variety of industries, including technology, FMCG and charity. Currently she focuses on retail and entertainment. Outside work, Camilla loves baking. She is also a keen runner. (To burn off those cakes!). Camilla has an MA in Quantitative Marketing and Management Science from the University of Rotterdam.
Sam has recently joined Business Science UK with over 12 years of Marketing Analytics and consultancy experience. He has worked across many industries including automotive, retail, telecoms and FMCG.
Sam was a joint co-author of the IPA Marketing Effectiveness Grand Prix winning paper : John Lewis – Making a nation cry… And buy (2012). While in the same year being co-author of a further 4 papers.
Olga joined Business Science UK team in 2008 after running our Business Science team in Russia for a few years. She has over 12 years experience in the media industry running econometrics and marketing effectiveness projects across a wide range of industries and clients including Pepsi, VW Group, Mars, Nokia, P&G, Dell, GSK, Shell, Cancer Research UK, Bayer and others. Olga is an expert in turning the data into useful and actionable insights which help her clients to improve their business performance. Olga holds a MSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.
Victoria has 12 years' experience in leading analytical engagements, with expertise in the fields of marketing, competition, price dispersion and substitution analyses. She received her M.A.(res.) in Economics from the Hebrew University and worked on numerous projects in academic, public and business areas. Her experience in marketing analytics ranges from FMCG and retail clients to global financial service providers and consumer electronics manufacturers.
Prior to joining MediaCom in February 2013, Victoria led the analytics team of MarketShare EMEA and headed a research team for the Chief Government Statistician of Israel.
Clem joined Business Science in 2014, and has over 10 years experience in marketing analytics both agency and client-side. She's worked across Entertainment, Gaming, FMCG, Retail, Transport, Pharmaceuticals, and Finance with a current focus on Beauty, Healthcare, and Retail. Clem studied a Natural Sciences degree at Cambridge University.
Outside of client work, Clem is developing new tools with a particular focus on integration with 20/20 systems thinking.
As MediaCom's lead global analyst on Royal Dutch Shell, Laima is an expert in evaluating historical media performance, assessing opportunities and advising clients on the optimum investment laydown going forward across lines of business, brands and markets.
Having worked on a wealth of very successful British brands, including, bmibaby, Thomas Cook, Clarks, ITV and McDonald's analytics, Laima has solid experience in the travel, retail and entertainment sectors. She also has experience working as part of a start-up consulting for a new school for children with special needs in Indonesia.
Laima gained an MSc in Econometrics at Vilnius University, Lithuania. Besides being a keen power-of-media examiner, Laima enjoys baking and mt-biking.
Emma joined Business Science in 2008 after gaining a BSc in Economics at Loughborough University and has since worked her from Graduate Econometrician to Associate Director. She is an award winning member of the team having co-authored the Gold and Grand Prix IPA Effectiveness paper for Digital UK in 2012 and winning Marketing Weeks Insight Innovation award with Skoda in 2016.
Emma has a wealth of experience across Finance, Public, Telecommunications and Automotive sectors. Outside of client work, she manages our recruitment programme.


Feeling tired, irritable and sick at the slightest whiff of your man's aftershave probably isn't quite how you imagined spending the first months of your pregnancy.
You're battling all-day morning-sickness and the famed ginger biscuits aren't helping.
MorningWell is an audio program of music and audio signals that aims to ease the symptoms of morning sickness. And a British study has shown that in 90 percent of cases it works.
It's no real surprise your ears are linked to your stomach just think how queasy you feel when you're off-balance. The audio program is believed to work as it interrupts the passage of signals between the brain and gut that would normally cause sickness.
Ginger tea isn't to everyone's liking and some researchers are concerned about the effects of excessive ginger intake during pregnancy on your unborn baby. So why not try peppermint tea, which is equally good at settling your stomach.
Make a note of what times of the day you feel sick and your particular symptoms, and you'll get to know when your 'safe' periods are so you can plan your meals for then.
Also write down the key things you're doing in the day, such as activities, meals and location. It might help you to identify your sickness triggers so you can avoid them.
Take a break from your stuffy office at lunchtime to get some fresh air and keep you on an even keel for the rest of the afternoon. That's great advice even when you're not pregnant.
Made from sources like plants, animals and minerals, homoeopathic remedies can be very helpful in treating morning sickness. And being very diluted they're considered safe and free from adverse reactions when prescribed by a registered homoeopath.
Michelle Hookham, national president of the Australian Homoeopathic Association, advises that as it's a very individualised treatment and you should seek help from a professional.


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Are we all looking at each other, thinking data security is someone else's job?
It's always a blow to find out your personal data has been misused if not outright stolen and made to work for an ill-intentioned third party. Corporations, academic and scientific institutions, healthcare organizations, and government agencies work with extremely high stakes if data is susceptible to disruption or exposure. Most of us are well aware of some level of risk when we disperse the account of our lives across the web. How do we manage that risk? We can ignore it and proceed with no forbearance. We can take a range of precautions – from frequent password changes to complex encryption – and then perform social and professional tasks with greater confidence. Perhaps the most undesirable and unrealistic option: we can stay off the Internet altogether. As technology quickly moves forward to integrate our physical and psychological worlds with the virtual world, vulnerability increases when convenience does.
Whose responsibility is it to quell our concerns about data security? Does the data giver, the data collector, the data holder, or the data dispenser protect the user? Perhaps none of those people, but the engineers must make the data flow systems and methods safe. What do the legal departments do about making and enforcing the rules? Are we all looking at each other, thinking data security is someone else's job?
No, not all of us. Through a search using IP.com's InnovationQ, it becomes obvious that many organizations and inventors are addressing data security worries.
Analysts, systems engineers, software designers, and many more are reviewing past errors while predicting and preventing future problems. These operatives are finding answers to problems such as security threats, data breaches, unauthorized information sharing, and data misuse. Their new algorithms and novel mechanisms are at the front line, working against hackers and data abusers. Some of their innovations are patented, some are in the application stage, and others are defensive publications.
Following are five examples of solutions that inventors have presented over the past two to three years. Each includes an excerpt copied from the document's abstract.
Excerpt from Abstract: However, most organizations do not understand how to quantify and assess these risks/threats yet alone assess different preemptive actions for mitigating impact. It would therefore be beneficial to provide organizations with a software based system that provides threat information gathering, incident reporting, and asset identification/valuation as part of its compounded intelligence and supports predictive context specific analysis of risks and countermeasures. Further, distributed countermeasure monitoring provides incident levels of known and unknown, or yet to be categorized threats.
Excerpt from Abstract: This document describes apparatuses and techniques for monitoring social media for breach of organizational privacy… Based on a ratio of amounts of the private data and public data disclosed, a score is provided that indicates a degree to which the social media content breaches organizational privacy.
Excerpt from Abstract: A computer-implemented method for detecting information leakage by an organizational insider may include (1) identifying a set of organizational insiders of an organization, (2) identifying a set of public forums used by one or more organizational insiders, (3) identifying a set of messages posted to one or more public forums, (4) creating a message record corresponding to each message, with the record including a message summary, and a set of message metadata fields, (5) consolidating message records with common metadata fields into a message summary record, and (6) identifying, based on the message summary record, an information leakage threat.
Excerpt from Abstract: A method of securely distributing and storing content may include receiving user content and identifying a number of storage servers that are configured to receive portions of the user content. The method may also include dissecting the user content into content portions for storage in the storage servers.
Excerpt from Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for protecting social media data from unintended third party access.
Excerpt from Text: The method and system enables a user to define an additional security mechanism through data tagging, in addition to a traditional identifier (ID) and password, to control the access to user data. The data tagging can be applied to one or more of, but not limited to, a forum, a single message or picture. The additional security mechanism uses a communication channel.
Sometimes, we as end users are so excited about the newly possible, i.e. what we can do, we lose sight of what we should do. Thankfully, diligent intellects are working for the good side in an attempt to stay ahead of those with dangerous applications for information technology. Our part in the effort is to work smart, stay vigilant, and implement the viable solutions that the innovators present. Keeping our personal and professional data safe is everyone's job.
For more information on developments in data security and methods to gain insights on that information, you can work with InnovationQ at IP.com.


As IPython notebooks become more popular for sharing and collaboration, the potential for malicious people to attempt to exploit the notebook for their nefarious purposes increases. IPython 2.0 introduces a security model to prevent execution of untrusted code without explicit user input.
The whole point of IPython is arbitrary code execution. We have no desire to limit what can be done with a notebook, which would negatively impact its utility.
The security problem we need to solve is that no code should execute just because a user has opened a notebook that they did not write. Like any other program, once a user decides to execute code in a notebook, it is considered trusted, and should be allowed to do anything.
The notebook secret being stored in the profile means that loading a notebook in another profile results in it being untrusted, unless you copy or symlink the notebook secret to share it across profiles.
Any output generated during an interactive session is trusted.
A notebook's trust is updated when the notebook is saved. If there are any untrusted outputs still in the notebook, the notebook will not be trusted, and no signature will be stored. If all untrusted outputs have been removed (either via Clear Output or re-execution), then the notebook will become trusted.
While trust is updated per output, this is only for the duration of a single session. A notebook file on disk is either trusted or not in its entirety.
These two methods simply load the notebook, compute a new signature with the user's key, and then store the newly signed notebook.
If you find a security vulnerability in IPython, either a failure of the code to properly implement the model described here, or a failure of the model itself, please report it to security@ipython.org.
If you prefer to encrypt your security reports, you can use this PGP public key.
Some use cases that work in IPython 1.0 will become less convenient in 2.0 as a result of the security changes. We do our best to minimize these annoyance, but security is always at odds with convenience.
We plan to provide a mechanism for notebook themes, but in the meantime styling the notebook can only be done via either custom.css or CSS in HTML output. The latter only have an effect if the notebook is trusted, because otherwise the output will be sanitized just like Markdown.
share a notebook secret, and use an IPython profile dedicated to the collaboration while working on the project.
in each profile, and only sharing the secret once per machine.


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Reviews Required by Other UVA Oversight Bodies
UVa Conflict of Interest Committee
University Radiation Safety Committee (RSC)
Cancer Center Protocol and Review Committee (PRC)
Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) / School of Medicine Grants and Contracts Office
School of Medicine Clinical Trials Office
Investigators must submit other required institutional review committee approvals (Conflict of Interest Committee, Institutional Biosafety Committee, Radiation Safety Committee, General Clinical Research Center Advisory Committee, Protocol Review Committee etc.) to the IRB.
Though other institutional committees share the responsibility for following guidelines in our collective effort to protect human subjects, ultimately the final authority for participation of human subjects in research falls on the IRB.
Researchers must obtain approval from PRC prior to the protocol being submitted to the IRB. Researchers are not required to wait for the approval of the other UVa institutional review committees before submitting a proposal to the IRB. However, the researcher will not be allowed to enroll subjects until the investigator forwards documentation of approvals from other institutional review committees to the IRB. At that time, the modification will be reviewed and the researcher will be sent notification that they may begin enrollment.
UVa Conflict of Interest Committee (COI)
The Conflict of Interest Committee for Management of Institutional Financial Interests in Research
The University of Virginia Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies appoints COI that operates administratively under the AVPRGS. The COI is made up of two faculty members, one senior administrator, and various non-affiliated community members, representing diversity of expertise needed to adequately review potential institutional conflicts of interest. This committee reviews cases in which an institutional official or the institution itself holds a significant financial interest that may affect or appear to affect the results of a research project and determines whether the research can be conducted at the University and any resulting management strategies. Management strategies are developed and implemented to address conflicts of interest and to assure that the institution may satisfy any research obligations in an objective manner and to avoid and/or mitigate concerns of bias. Approved management plans are forwarded to the IRB by the COI to communicate any requirements for disclosure in informed consent documents. The COI may recommend that the research may not be conducted at the University of Virginia.
The University has an established Radiation Safety Committee (RSC) to oversee all uses of radioactive material permitted by its licenses. This committee, through appointment of a subcommittee (HIRE-Human Investigations Involving Radiation Exposure), reviews any research that involves use of X-ray, radioisotopes or lasers. The RSC is administratively located in the Environmental Health and Safety Office (EHS) and provides expertise with regards to accepted radiation protection practices and regulations. This committee reviews any research that involves the use of X-ray, radioisotopes, or lasers. Approval by the IRB is contingent upon approval by the RSC; however, review by the two committees may occur concurrently. The RSC is charged with ascertaining that all experimental or research uses of radioactive materials and/or ionizing radiation in or on human subjects conform to the currently accepted radiation protection regulations and practices, and the University of Virginia Radioactive Material Licenses on file with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Virginia Department of Health. If RSC review is completed after the IRB review, the IRB chair reviews any RSC comments. If the chair believes the suggested changes are appropriate and qualify as minor modifications, the IRB chair reviews these through an expedited process. If changes exceed minor modifications, the IRB chair refers the application back to the full board for review. The protocol will not be opened to enrollment until IBC approval is received by the IRB-HSR.
The IBC is administratively located in the VPRGS and reviews all University research and teaching activities conducted by faculty, staff, students and/or visiting scientists on University property that involve the use of biological agents. Biological agents are defined as microorganisms, recombinant DNA experiments as defined by NIH Guidelines, materials derived from human and non-human primates, or biological toxins. Registration with the IBC is required prior to initiation of research with biological agents. If applicable, the IBC notifies the IRB of its approval of projects using biological agents , but deliberations of the IBC are not shared with the IRB unless there are specific subject protection issues raised by the IBC. IRB approval is contingent upon IBC approval when the research involves gene If IBC review is completed after the IRB review, the IRB chair reviews any IBC comments. If the chair believes the suggested changes are appropriate and qualify as minor modifications, the IRB chair reviews these through an expedited process. If changes exceed minor modifications, the IRB chair refers the application back to the full board for review. The protocol will not be opened to enrollment until IBC approval is received by the IRB-HSR.
The role of the PRC is to review all studies involving patients with cancer that have not received a NIH or equivalent peer review. NIH-equivalent peer reviews would include those by the American Cancer Society, Department of Defense, or National Science Foundation. In practice, the Committee reviews all studies involving patients with cancer that are sponsored by drug companies and in-house studies. The Committee does not provide a formal review of Cooperative Group protocols (COG, RTOG, ECOG, NSABP, ACOSOG, and Coalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups) because these studies have already received an exhaustive peer review by the National Cancer Institute through its Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) Branch. IRB approval is contingent upon approval of the PRC.
Staff of the IRB and OSP SOM Grants and Contracts Office will share contract and study information as necessary for each industry sponsored protocol to ensure that protocol, consent, and contract language are consistent with language required by 45 CFR 46.116 and 21 CFR 50.20 and .25
Staff of the IRB and IRB members may consult with the University Privacy Officer on matters concerning the management of personal health information (PHI) as it relates to the enforcement of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 research regulations.
An approval from the School of Medicine Clinical Trials Office will be required if:
The UVa PI is the PI for all sites in a multi-site trial
The UVa PI is the holder of the IND or IDE ( will also check need for IND/IDE)
IND/IDE held by outside PI
The determination of whether or not an IND application is required is made by the IRB-HSR.
The School of Medicine Clinical Trials Office (SOM-CTO) staff is available to assist the investigator in contacting the FDA and writing a position statement to the IRB-HSR regarding the need for an IND.
If it is determined that an IND is required, the SOM-CTO personnel are also available to advise researchers regarding the application preparation.
In addition the IRB requires researchers to obtain SOM- CTO approval for these types of studies. The SOM-CTO review includes careful attention to the Data Safety Monitoring Plan, and Data Collection Forms. This review must take place before the IRB will allow subjects to be enrolled.
The UVA office of Information Security (InfoSec) is responsible for the review and approval of the Data Security Plan in selected circumstances. Some examples of criteria that would result in InfoSec review being required are:
The study team is collecting data using an individual use device (personal laptop, camera, tape recorder, a medical device that stores data or images, cell phones etc.)
The study team is storing data on a server that is on the list of InfoSec-approved servers, or on individual use devices as described above.
The Data Security Plan is generated by Protocol Builder simultaneously as the Protocol Template is built. Once prereview is complete, the study team will obtain InfoSec approval if necessary.
To submit to InfoSec study teams are requested to email the Data Security Plan to it-security@virginia.edu
InfoSec reviews the Data Security Plan to be sure that:
The collection and storage of data is consistent with HIPAA regulations (if applicable)
The data are being collected and stored in such a manner that the intellectual property is protected from theft.
InfoSec welcomes early discussion for studies involving the use of cell phones, website collection of data etc. For more information on InfoSec: http://www.virginia.edu/ispro/
IF InfoSec approval is required it must be obtained before IRB approval will be issued.


HIS 2. The civilizations that developed in Greece and Rome had an enduring impact on later civilizations. This legacy includes governance and law, engineering and technology, art and architecture, as well as literature and history. The Roman Empire also played an instrumental role in the spread of Christianity.
I can give examples of and explain the impact ancient Rome has had on later civilizations.
Ancient Rome has left a lasting impact on the world. Although officially ending before the year 500, many aspects of Roman culture, society, government, religion, etc. have influenced the way we live today. This project will allow you to look more deeply at some aspect of ancient Rome and how it has impacted later civilizations and our own.
Working in a group of no more than 3, or alone if you choose, you will choose one topic from ancient Rome to teach the class about and explain how it influenced other cultures or even our culture today.
or is it uniquely Roman?
-What does it say about ancient Roman Culture and the people?
-How did it influence/effect ancient Roman society/culture/government/et?
impact on other civilizations or our own.
-How has this topic influenced civilizations who have come after ancient Rome/the world?
-Give specific examples of this topic and its use or influence in other civilizations or it influence on today's world.
Now you must put your information together in project format. It is up to you how you do it. We will be working on this project next week and it will be due the following so I expect excellence and effort. This is not something that can be put together in 2 class periods and receive a passing score. You must clearly demonstrate that you used class time wisely and worked to your full potential to do well.
This project will be presented to the class so you want to make sure your information is clear and easy to understand.
SOME RESOURCES TO USE:These websites are a good starting place but you may have to be more specific in your searches depending on your topic. ALWAYS get the teachers advice before doing a Google search! IF YOU CANNOT CLICK ON A WEBSITE THEN JUST COPY IT AND THEN PASTE IT INTO A NEW TAB!
What is Ancient Roman Medicine? Great article!!!
1. Information given on the chosen topic and its importance and relevance in ancient Rome. 15 pts.
2. Information given on the connection between this topic and a later civilization or today's world. 15 pts.
3. Project is put together neatly and creatively with little to no spelling or grammatical errors. 10 pts.
4. Project is presented to the class in a 2-5 min presentation. Presenter/s are informative and clear. 5 pts.
Entrance Ticket - 1/29/14Choose one person from group to do this (all should give input into answers). Copy and paste questions below into Google Doc, answer and share with me.
2. Are you having trouble finding any information?
3. Will you be ready to present tomorrow?
4. If you answered NO above, please explain why?


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Dr. Rebecca Brown Masters the Politics of Poverty
By Eugene S. Robinson
SourceAlvaro Tapia Hidalgo for OZY
Because everybody is born broke.
Nothing is fair. Sports, politics, casinos — maybe especially casinos. Because the reality is, in lots of cases, the house wins, always has and always will, and how this sits with you has everything to do with what you might be moved to do about it.
"I'm gifted, or cursed, with an excessive amount of empathy," says Dr. Rebecca Brown from her new office near Boston's Dudley Square. After nearly a decade dealing with issues surrounding poverty, first as deputy director of research at Urban Strategies Council in Oakland, California, and now as CEO of Equity Focus Consulting, Brown is setting about doing for the Boston Public Schools district what most directly needs to be done to minimize the misery.
In very specific terms: targeting resource allocation, programming and school practices to the unique strengths and barriers of marginalized students by using big data to shine a light on disparities in academic, social and health outcomes. At Urban Strategies, Brown pored over reports from the Oakland Unified School District until a picture emerged that suggested something other than the obvious. Buried in data on who was being suspended, their race, level of English fluency and whether they were foster kids or not, and so on, was this: African-American male students were six times more likely than white male students to be suspended, at least once, in any given calendar year. In elementary school, specifically, African-American males were getting suspended nine times more than white males.
For? And here's the nugget that stopped Brown in her tracks: 44 percent of the suspensions were because of "defiance."
[Eliminating poverty is] largely aspirational, even in the long term. [But] one's vision shouldn't be limited.…
"This is an incredibly subjective, poorly defined metric," says Sarah Marxer, Urban Strategies' senior research associate. "And very likely offensively culture-bound." Brown's analysis and willingness to ask the hard questions, according to Marxer, "led to a statewide effort with the Office for Civil Rights to turn this into legislation that created remedies."
Score one for the kids, communities and Brown, who explains that having a profound exposure "to the unfairnesses of the world" is what makes her "feel called to speak up about them."
It's a surprising explanation from the daughter of a banker father whom Brown describes as "extremely conservative" and an educator mother who believed that success is achieved "almost entirely by hard work and a supportive family." But Brown soundly rejects the implication that what fueled her journey from a childhood in Minnesota, Missouri, Montana and Nebraska to an interest in poverty crusading was a reaction against homegrown conservatism. "I was social-justice-minded at a very young age," says the 47-year-old. And with a bachelor's degree in economics and psychology, a master's in organizational behavior and a doctorate in organizational psychology, Brown has built a reputation for mounting structural, not political, attacks on systemic poverty.
Structural, and informed by John Powell's work on targeted universalism, or the notion that strategic investments in communities can produce broad-scale development. Brown first encountered Powell's theories as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, sending her on a deep dive into educational equity issues and how intimately they are connected to housing stability, economic opportunity and criminal justice reform. After time in the trenches as a teacher, Brown saw a chance to contribute in a more meaningful way by joining Urban Strategies, an organization trying to influence legislation — with the pie-in-the-sky goal of eliminating poverty in the East Bay.
Rebecca Brown + her fine furry friend Emma.
Source Courtesy of Rebecca Brown
Brown would be the first to agree that the mission to eradicate poverty is "largely aspirational, even in the long term," but she also maintains that "one's vision shouldn't be limited, even if the goals along the way need to be more realistic." Goals that, Brown argues, should begin here: educational equity, because being not poor starts with having the educational means to advance. Seems like common sense, backed by data Brown gathered in Oakland, but doing well in school begins with students showing up, and chronic absenteeism is inextricably linked to social instability issues.
Meal programs and a later start time to the school day are steps in the right direction, something realized well beyond the Oakland borders. Moreover, "if you focus on reading, and your goal is how to get people there, you're already doing better than when you operate from the deficit of underachievement," says Bart Victor, Cal Turner professor of moral leadership at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health.
But poverty, says Victor, is "a condition of 'un-freedom'" — which is where any discussion of poverty inevitably dovetails into considerations of race.
In the U.S. at least, Brown found that "when we break down ethnicity within low-income and higher-income populations, you still find disparities by race/ethnicity in and out of public school populations." Conflating poverty, school reform and race is bold, but Brown's sole concern is being effective. Accounting for social pathologies while structuring strategies to correct them, "rather than hiding behind poverty as the explanation for it all," Brown says, might work better. With school absenteeism, for instance, the problem calls for stopping the blame-the-parents game and looking at issues affecting students' home lives — from health to transportation to domestic violence — and carefully addressing them.
Brown is not alone, or unique, in her anti-poverty campaign. In January, a Whole Foods in Nevada announced it would donate 5 percent of one day's total sales to anti-poverty initiatives, and the company's gone macro with its Whole Planet Foundation's global disbursements of $69 million (in 2017) to alleviate poverty. But such efforts are not without their detractors, including President Donald Trump, who at a recent Republican retreat, according to Newsweek, talked about making cuts to anti-poverty programs, expanding on a theme he put forth at Davos that "the single-best anti-poverty program is a very simple and very beautiful paycheck." Adds Trump supporter Martin Galinski: "You're not going to 'cure' poverty by paying for programs to fight poverty."
"For the conservative crowd," Brown says, "I think there is a perception that the playing field is level and that the U.S. in particular is a meritocracy." And liberals? "There's still a perception that the issue is entirely about poverty, without acknowledging additional biases around race and ethnicity."
Heavy lifting that's all in a day's work for Brown — at the end of which, she says with a laugh, "I snuggle with my dog and watch bad TV."
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