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By Julianne Geiger - Jun 11, 2019, 3:30 PM CDT
Trafigura's six-month profit rose to 92 percent as its oil and gas trading desks offset weakness in other divisions, according to Reuters.
The hefty increase in profits for the six-month period ending March 31 were the direct result of the major volatility this year in oil prices, as well as its heavy presence in US oil exports, which have seen a marked increase.
Trafigura profits, as high as they were, would have been even higher were it not for some of its other segments that did more poorly, such as metals and subsidiaries Puma Energy and Tendril Ventures.
While the profit is remarkable compared to first-half 2018—it should be noted that H1 2018 profit was the lowest in years, at $221.8 million. The reporting period represented a 50% decrease in profits from the previous period.
By comparison, Trafigura's net profit for the six months ending March 31 was $425.7 million. Gross profit for that six-month period rose 50% to $1.47 billion.
Trafigura is the second largest oil trader behind Vitol, and was the largest exporter of US crude oil and condensate in 2017. Since then, Trafigura has focused on the United States to avoid the tighter commodity derivative trading regulations in Europe that come with the MiFID II.
Trafigura handles more than 5.5 million barrels per day of oil and other petroleum profits.
Trafigura's US export dealings is set to increase with its latest project in the Gulf of Mexico in Kleberg County. The terminal, if successfully built, will load oil onto VLCCs 12 miles away from shore, in federal waters, which would make it exempt from state regulations, which require companies to eliminate VOCs. The project is still awaiting approval, according to Caller Times.
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Home Sports College Basketball NCAA 2018 – 2019 college basketball complete season guide
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It's finally that time of year again for the 2018 – 2019 NCAA season to kick in, and we've got everything you need to watch for.
The 2017-18 college basketball season had everything a fan could dream of. Standout performances, a No. 1 seed finally falling in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and Villanova cutting down the nets for the second time in three seasons.
Oh, and Sister Jean and Chicago-Loyola giving hope to underdogs everywhere by reaching the Final Four.
A new season starts Tuesday, and it's been a long seven months to wait for a sport that seems to top itself every year.
To get you ready, we've got a guide on the top teams, players and other tidbits to look for in 2018-19:
Kansas. Bill Self has another strong recruiting class, a preseason All-American in Memphis transfer Dedric Lawson and a No. 1 ranking.
Kentucky. Coach Cal has another roster full of future pros. He's also got Reid Travis, a grad transfer from Stanford who happens to be one of the nation's top players.
Gonzaga. The Zags broke through to the Final Four two years ago. They could be even better this year.
Duke. Coach K outdid himself with this year's recruiting class with what could be three of the top five picks in the NBA draft.
Virginia. OK, so that first-round NCAA Tournament loss to UMBC was ugly and history-making. But the Cavaliers have nearly everyone back and plenty of motivation.
Tennessee. The Vols have never been to the Final Four. That could change this season — they're that good.
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Carsen Edwards, Purdue. He was super productive as a sophomore last season. Expect even more from him now that the Boilermakers need him even more.
Luke Maye, North Carolina. The player who hit the shot to send the Tar Heels to the Final Four in 2017 averaged a double-double last season and will be counted on even more this year.
R.J. Barrett, Duke. The athletic freshman has yet to play a game but has already created a buzz and could be the No. 1 overall pick in next year's NBA draft.
Dedric Lawson, Kansas. The former Memphis forward gives the Jayhawks plenty of talent and experience on an otherwise young roster.
Ethan Happ, Wisconsin. The Badgers sure are glad this multitalented big man decided to withdraw from the NBA draft. Opponents will not be.
Caleb Martin, Nevada. The do-everything forward's decision to return with twin brother Cody is a big reason the Wolf Pack are being mentioned as a Final Four team.
MID-MAJOR MONSTERS
Nevada. The Muss bus is loaded with talent and is driving toward what could be the best season in program history.
Loyola-Chicago. No way the Ramblers and Sister Jean will be overlooked again.
Western Kentucky. Top recruit Charles Bassey will push the Hilltoppers up the big hill.
Buffalo. Bulls have five of their top six scorers back from a team that knocked off Arizona in the opening round of the NCAAs.
Marshall. The Thundering Herd and coach Dan D'Antoni are looking for an even deeper March run after knocking off Wichita State in the opening round of the NCAAs.
FRESHMEN PHENOMS
Zion Williamson, Duke. Basket supports beware: One of the nation's top freshmen is a known rim wrecker.
Cam Reddish, Duke. Doesn't get the pub Barrett and Williamson get, but he's a legit top-five NBA prospect.
Romeo Langford, Indiana. Locking up the state of Indiana's best player was a huge get for coach Archie Miller as he tries to get the Hoosiers back to national prominence.
Charles Bassey, Western Kentucky. He eschewed the Power Five programs to stay in-state and could dominate Conference USA — and beyond.
Nassir Little, North Carolina. Long and athletic, he was a big get for coach Roy.
Bol Bol, Oregon. Manute's son can shoot inside, outside and swat shots, just like Pops.
TOP NONCONFERENCE GAMES
No. 4 Duke vs. No. 2 Kentucky, Tuesday in Indianapolis. It will be a blue-blooded kickoff to the season.
No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 10 Michigan State, Tuesday in Indianapolis. The opening act in Indy isn't bad, either.
No. 19 Michigan at No. 9 Villanova, Nov. 14. Early season, title-game rematch? Yes, please.
Ohio State at Cincinnati, Wednesday. It finally happened, and hoops fans are the beneficiaries.
Marquette at Indiana, Nov. 14. Marquette's Markus Howard vs. Indiana freshman Romeo Langford is worth it right there.
Arizona vs. No. 3 Gonzaga, Maui Invitational. OK, both teams have to win their opening games, but we can dream of the West's two marquee programs meeting in Maui, can't we?
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Cinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media, principally in the form of cinema, was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced by institutions such as states, corporations, and investment banks, as well as the emergence of a corporate media industry and system supported by state policy and integral to the establishment of a new consumer system. Lee Grieveson shows how media was used to encode liberal political and economic power during the period that saw the United States eclipse Britain as the globally hegemonic nation and the related inauguration of new forms of liberal economic globalization. But this is not a distant history. Cinema and the Wealth of Nations examines a foundational conjuncture in the establishment of media forms and a media system instrumental in, and structural to, the emergence and expansion of a world system that has been—and continues to be—brutally violent, unequal, and destructive.
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This guest post is published in conjunction with the annual conference of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, taking place in Seattle on March 13–17, 2019. By Lee Grieveson, author of Cinema and …
Lee Grieveson Wins 2018 Limina Award for Best International Cinema Studies Book
Congratulations to Lee Grieveson, whose book Cinema and the Wealth of the Nations: Media, Capital and the Liberal World System has won the Limina Award for Best International Cinema Studies Book published in 2018. Awarded …
Lee Grieveson is Professor of Media History at University College London. He is the author of Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early Twentieth Century America and coeditor of a number of volumes, including Inventing Film Studies, Empire and Film, and, most recently, Cinema's Military Industrial Complex.
"Lee Grieveson's bold historical analysis of the relationship between media and capital is nothing if not timely. ...[He] deepens the scholarship on cinema's social role beyond the dominant art and entertainment paradigms." —Reviews in History
"Lee Grieveson's cultural-materialist tour de force ruthlessly examines the global history of movies and money, detailing the sordid global backstory behind the uncertain and unequal balance between art and commerce. This rigorously researched and deeply felt radical media study evinces a perceptive and thoroughgoing analysis of a medium that has from its outset served an exploitative political economy."—Jon Lewis, author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
"The interpenetration of the state, finance capitalism, and film is central to this formidable book. I am awed by the volume of scholarship, the force of the analysis, and the style of the narrative. This is a book that will open up a significant subfield in film studies."—Colin MacCabe, Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh
"By combining perceptive film analyses and extensive archival research with an astonishing command of scholarship in a range of disciplines and an intense passion for politics, Grieveson poses a serious challenge to film and media historians: dig deeper, think bigger, be relevant!"—Peter Krämer, author of The New Hollywood: From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars
"Grieveson presents the definitive account of media's primacy to our modern world's corporatized and imperiled commons. This is paradigm-shifting work that lays bare for the first time—with lucidity, breadth of vision, and unparalleled detail—the logic of liberal capitalism underwriting film's and radio's infrastructural history in Britain and the United States."—Priya Jaikumar, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California
"This is an immensely ambitious study of the role film and radio have played in establishing the global economic dominance of the United States and the power of its large corporations. It evokes and (invokes) the work of Perry Anderson, Antonio Gramsci, Manuel Castells, and Immanuel Wallerstein and is surely the most succcessful attempt in this century to write a big picture history of vertical integration and corporate control of media production. We are all in Grieveson's debt for a landmark book that is certain to raise the level of scholarly discussion and in an age of continuing consolidation in the media industry could not be more timely."—Edward Dimendberg, Professor of Humanities, University of California, Irvine
"There are few books in film and media studies that can match the scope, erudition, explanatory ambition, and polemical edge of Lee Grieveson's invaluable history of how corporations and government agencies deployed and fundamentally shaped cinema (and other media) as an engine for and emblem of advanced liberal capitalism."—Gregory A. Waller, Provost Professor in the Media School, Indiana University
"Cinema and the Wealth of Nations is an extremely important book that, in terms of its potential influence on the field, is on a par with Georges Sadoul's Histoire générale du cinema (1946-1950) or The Classical Hollywood Cinema of Bordwell, Thompson, and Staiger (1985). This is one of the most consequential books of film history that I have ever read, and it is poised to ask us to deeply rethink the current state of the field of film history as practiced in the Anglo-American context."—Mark Lynn Anderson, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh OR author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America
"This book is a brilliant synthesis of biopolitical theory and concrete historical research. Grieveson shows us how the imperial ambitions of the United States materialize in the content and infrastructure of American media industries. His lucid and persuasive prose dramatizes the centrality of media systems in evolving conceptions of global governance and state power."—Anna McCarthy, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University
1. The Silver Screen and the Gold Standard
2. The Panama Caper
3. Empire of Liberty
4. Liberty Bonds
5. The State of Extension
6. The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization
7. The Pan-American Road to Happiness and Friendship
8. Highways of Empire
9. League of Corporations
10. The Silver Chains of Mimesis
11. The Golden Harvest of the Silver Screen
12. Welfare Media
13. The World of Tomorrow—Today!
Sources and Bibliography
British Association of Film and Television Studies (BAFTS) Best Monograph Award, British Association of Film and Television Studies
Limina Award, CINEMA & Cie. International Film Studies Journal
The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923
Cinema's Military Industrial Complex
Haidee Wasson, Lee Grieveson
Stealing the Show
Miriam J. Petty
Menus for Movieland
Richard Abel
Slow Fade to Black
Richard B. Jewell
The Curious Humanist
Johannes von Moltke
Foundational Films
Maite Conde
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Mock Classicism
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'It's happening in the bathrooms': Widespread misconduct reported at AHS
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Albemarle County Public School Board member Judy Le introduces herself at a meeting with parents on Tuesday.
ALICE BERRY, The Daily Progress
Parents are raising the alarm about what they say is rampant misconduct at Albemarle High School, including sexual assault.
Albemarle County Public Schools said it is investigating at least one incident, which it declined to identify as sexual assault and said involved the school's junior varsity football team in October, but parents at a public meeting on Tuesday evening with school board member Judy Le said that is not enough. They told Le they want school resource officers on campus, more surveillance and a review of the school division's policies regarding sexual assault.
"I really, truly believe there are more serious things going on in our schools than we're understanding," one parent, who asked not to be named, told Le at Tuesday's meeting.
Cristy Cambio, another parent who spoke at Tuesday's meeting, told The Daily Progress that she knew of two incidents of sexual assault occurring within the past six months at the school: one involving the junior varsity football team and another separate and unrelated incident.
Le declined to comment to The Daily Progress on either.
There have been wide reports of fights, truancy, vaping and sexual misconduct on campus at Albemarle High School this school year.
A Crozet Gazette story published on Oct. 7 said "brawls" occur at the high school on a weekly basis, teachers are struggling to discipline students and some personnel have already left.
Also in October, the county school division canceled a junior varsity football game and opened an investigation into what the division would only describe as "an incident."
"An incident occurred involving a few members of our junior varsity football team in the locker room. We still are learning all of the details and we engaged the services of the police department to assist us with our investigation," the school division said in an email to parents at the time. "Based upon our initial findings, we have instituted disciplinary measures in some instances."
That investigation remains open, according to school division spokesman Phil Giaramita.
Giaramita told The Daily Progress that the Crozet Gazette story was "written mostly on hearsay" and "a lot of what was alleged in the article was not true."
"Pick any year and there are going to be a number of disputes or disagreements among students," Giaramita said. "Those kinds of things over the course of the school year happen probably in most high schools."
But parents at Tuesday's meeting suggested there are more of "those kinds of things" happening than the school division even knows about.
"Are things really getting reported, are they actually being addressed?" one parent asked.
Other parents suggested incidents are occurring in corners of the school without surveillance, where teachers, faculty and staff cannot report or address them.
"Newsflash: It's happening in the bathrooms," Cambio said at Tuesday's meeting.
Cambio was one of the parents who suggested the division hire school resource officers to patrol the school.
The Albemarle County School Board voted to remove school resource officers in all schools in 2020.
Instead, schools have "student safety coaches," which Giaramita said check in with students periodically to make sure they feel safe. The division has also added social and emotional counselors, Giaramita said, and students can report bullying anonymously via an online system called Anonymous Alerts.
Parents Tuesday said that isn't enough.
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Acer announces its answer to iTunes: Alive
Anthony Ha	 November 23, 2010 6:14 PM
Taiwanese computer-maker Acer announced a wave of new devices today, including two Android tablets and a dual-screen tablet, but it wasn't just focused on hardware. It also announced Alive, which sounds like a media and application store for owners of Acer devices.
In its press release (reproduced on Engadget), Acer says it sees five main uses for Alive — listening to music and other audio content, watching movies and TV shows, reading e-books and periodicals, playing games, and downloading applications. This sounds like Acer's version of Apple's iTunes store, but Acer says this is "much more than a traditional content store."
Users will navigate the store by subscribing to channels, for example those representing their favorite movie genres or musicians. Some of the content will be free, while other content will require a payment or a subscription fee. Users will also be able to comment on content and share those comments with friends on social networks.
The press release includes a list of initial content partners, including music service 7 Digital, games supplier Casual Games, magazine distributor Zinio, and app distribution platforms Adobe InMarket and Intel AppUp. Acer plans to launch Alive in the United Kingdom and Italy in December, then roll it out to more countries and devices throughout 2011.


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A cultura capsiana (nomeada após a cidade de Gafsa na Tunísia), foi uma cultura mesolítica do Magrebe, que durou de cerca de  a , concentrando-se principalmente na moderna Tunísia e na Argélia, com alguns sítios atestados em Cirenaica (Antiga Líbia).
É dividida tradicionalmente em três variantes: a Capsien typique (Capsiano Típico), a Capsien supérieur (Capsiano Superior) e Capsien néolithique (Capsiano Neolítico) que às vezes são encontrados em sequência cronológico-estratigráfica. Eles representam variantes de uma tradição, a diferença entre eles sendo ambos tipológicos e tecnológicos.

Durante o período, o ambiente de Magrebe era uma savana aberta, muito parecido a moderna África Oriental, com matas atlânticas em altitudes mais elevadas. A dieta capsiana incluía uma grande variedade de animais, variando de auroques e bubalinos para lebres e caracóis; há pouca evidência sobre o consumo de plantas..  Durante a sucessão Neolítica da Tradição Capsiana, há evidências de um sítio, para domesticação, provavelmente de caprinae importados.

Anatomicamente, as populações capsianas foram do homo sapiens moderno, tradicionalmente classificado em dois tipos "raciais": proto-mediterrânica e Mechta-Afalou com base na morfologia do crânio. Alguns tem argumentado que eram imigrantes do leste, enquanto outros defendem a continuidade populacional com base em características físicas dos esqueletos e em outros critérios,.

Dada sua ocorrência generalizada no Saara, a cultura capsiana é identificada por alguns linguistas como um possível ancestral dos falantes de línguas afro-asiáticas modernos da África e Oriente Médio, incluindo as línguas berberes do Norte da África..

Nada é conhecido sobre a religião capsiana, mas seus métodos de enterro sugerem uma crença na vida após a morte. Arte decorativa é amplamente encontrada em seus sítios, incluindo pinturas rupestres figurativas e abstratas, é ocre é encontrado colorindo amos ferramentas e cadáveres. Ovos de avestruz foram usados para fazer miçangas e outros recipientes; conchas foram utilizadas para colares.

A prática Ibero-Maurisiana de exodontia dos dentes incisivos centrais continuou esporadicamente, mas tornou-se ara.

A indústria eburrana que é datada de 13.000 a 9.000 a.C. na leste africano, foi formalmente conhecida como "Capsiana do Quênia" devido as semelhanças na forma das lâminas de pedra.

As pinturas rupestres encontradas em Tassili n'Ajjer, ao norte de Tamanrasset, Argélia, e em outras localizações, retratam cenas vibrantes e vividas do quotidiano, no Centro Norte da África durante o Período Subpluvial Neolítico (aproximadamente  a ). Eles foram executados por um povo de caçadores, durante o Neolítico Capsiano, que viviam em uma região de savana repleta de búfalos gigantes, elefantes, rinocerontes e hipopótamos, animais que não existem mais na área agora desértica. As pinturas fornecem o mais completo registro de uma cultura pré-histórica africana.

Ligações externas

 Capsian African Neolithic Tools, Weapons and Artifacts
 Capsian North Africa
 Prof. David Lubell' home page at University of Waterloo
 L'Université de Genève - drawing of mircoliths from upper Capsian

Capsiana
Arqueologia da Argélia
Arqueologia da Tunísia
Arqueologia da Líbia
Arqueologia de Marrocos
História do Norte da África
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Q: C#: Accessing image added to project folder I would like to know following: I added the folder "Graphics" into my project and stuck a BMP in it. Now I would like to load the image from my code, but I cannot figure out how. I know its simple with resources but is there a way without adding the image into resources? Thanks

A: I once wondered about this too, so I figured it out and put it in a blog post. For your example, it should be something like this:
var a = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); // Or another Get method if you need to get it from some other assembly

var image = Image
    .FromStream(a.GetManifestResourceStream("DefaultNameSpace.Graphics.image.bmp"));

Remember to mark the image as an Embedded Resource and to dispose of the image when done so you don't get any leakage :)

A: You can load an image directly from the filesystem
Image img = Image.FromFile( "\Graphics\ImageName.bmp" );
The MSDN documentation is here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.image.fromfile.aspx
Obviously you would need to know the directory and name you are loading from.

A: To get an resource:
myNamespace.Properties.Resources.images.<imagename>

You can cast that to the type you need (or use a function for example FromFile)

A: You should specify on the file properties that it must be deployed when building the application :

Copy to Output Directory : Copy always

You can then access the file using the Image.FromFile method, the path will be the exact same one as in your project.

A: I used something like this.. got it in a YouTube tutorial video.
return new BitmapImage(new Uri($"pack://application:,,,/Images/imageFile.png"));

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This Week in IT: AWS re:Invent, Cuba Ransomware, LastPass Incident
AWS innovations, a new advisory on the Cuba ransomware group and another security incident at LastPass highlight this week's IT news.
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Editor's note: There is a lot going on in the world of IT, from emerging technologies to digital transformation and new cybersecurity threats. However, we can't possibly cover it all, so we'll bring you This Week in IT, a curated summary of IT and enterprise technology news stories each week.
AWS re:Invent Announcements
Amazon Web Services held its annual re:Invent conference this week in Las Vegas, and the cloud services provider made dozens of announcements of new products and services in data, security, AI, machine learning, cloud services and more.
These new offerings include, among others:
Eight new Amazon SageMaker capabilities for better governance and visibility into machine-learning model performance.
Five new database and analytics capabilities designed for faster and easier management and analysis of data at petabyte scale.
AWS Supply Chain, a new cloud application designed to improve supply chain visibility and help mitigate risks, lower costs and improve customer experiences.
AWS Clean Rooms, a new analytics service designed to help organizations easily and security analyze and collaborate on combined datasets without revealing underlying data.
Three new EC2 instances powered by new AWS chips for better performance at lower costs.
Amazon Security Lake, a new service that automatically centralizes an organization's security data from cloud and om-premises sources into a purpose-built data lake.
AWS SimSpace Weaver, a fully managed computer service designed to help customers build, operate and run large-scale spatial simulations.
Amazon DataZone, a new data management service designed to make it easier to catalog, discover, share and govern data stroes across AWS< on-premises and third-party sources.
Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift and Ramazon Redshift integration with Apache Spark.
Five new Amazon QuickSight capabilities to help organizations streamline business intelligence operations.
Learn more about AWS' announcements from re:Invent 2022.
CISA warns of Cuba ransomware
Nearly a year after first issuing an advisory, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a joint advisory with the FBI to educate organizations about the Cuba ransomware group and their known tactics.
The ransomware group, which CISA says does not appear to be affiliated with the country of the same name, first surfaced in December 2021. The number of U.S. organizations compromised by the group has doubled and the group has demanded over $145 million in ransom and has received over $60 million. Like other ransomware actors, they leverage bugs in commercial software, phishing attacks, compromised credentials and legitimate remote desktop protocol tools.
Read the advisory for more information.
LastPass notifies customers of new security incident
Password management company LastPass has notified all customers of a security incident within a third-party cloud storage service shared with affiliate GoTo. The malicious actor used information obtained from an August 2022 incident to gain access to some customer information, but the company maintains that password remain "safely encrypted due to LastPass's Zero Knowledge architecture. ."
In the notice, CEO Karin Toubba did not say what information has been accessed, but LastPass said it has engaged cybersecurity firm Mandiant to determine the scope of the incident and is deploying enhanced security and monitoring capabilities across its infrastructure to help detect and prevent further activity.
Read the notice for more information.
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Disassociating advocacy efforts from the Affordable Care Act can make them more effective, researcher finds
Adam S. Wilk, PhD, assistant professor of Health Policy and Management at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, recently published an article in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law that explores state policy makers' decisions in 2014 on a time-limited aspect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that provided increased fees for primary care services in Medicaid.
Wilk and his colleagues specifically focused on what appeared to be a paradox—several states continued this "fee bump" provision (which increased payments to primary care physicians caring for Medicaid patients), with the goal of improving Medicaid beneficiaries' access to care, yet chose not to implement Medicaid expansion under the ACA.
Using qualitative interviews and a limited quantitative analysis, the researchers worked to determine why states made these apparently contradictory decisions, which seem all the more perplexing when observing that virtually all financial projections showed that the Medicaid expansion was a net financial win for states, while an extended fee bump would involve significant state expenditures. So, why not opt to do both, or at least the former rather than the latter?
"Our most interesting finding was that while Medicaid expansion efforts in these states were sunk due to general antipathy toward the ACA, the states we examined were able to extend the fee bump by disassociating it from the ACA," says Wilk. In other words, avoiding talk of the ACA made these advocacy efforts more effective.
The researchers also saw that states had varying processes for updating their Medicaid fees from year to year. Those states with more closed processes involving fewer stakeholders tended to be more successful in pushing the fee bump through because they could do so quietly.
"Many of the people we talked to said the biggest reason they pursued this fee bump extension was that they wanted to do something for the disadvantaged populations in their state," says Wilk. "If they couldn't expand Medicaid, one thing they could do was extend the fee bump, which would maintain or improve their constituents' access to care. Some suggested it might also be a sort of 'make good' for health care providers in their states who treated Medicaid patients and were disappointed that the Medicaid expansion didn't pass."
As Wilk and his co-authors mention in the article, similar tactics could be employed during the Trump administration as policy makers tackle additional Medicaid and ACA-related legislation, or other policies associated with unpopular laws or an unpopular administration.
Wilk will be presenting the findings outlined in this article at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, held November 2-4, 2017, in Chicago.
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Branding: Keep it Simple
By Richard Young
Updated on: August 3, 2009 / 8:57 AM / MoneyWatch
One business discipline that remains high on any manager's agenda come rain or shine is branding - the thing that (in theory) can help you secure price premium, win new business and deliver efficient marketing. So I was intrigued by Fast Company magazine's brief look at the design history of 12 iconic brands.
The nuggets presented - they're very perfunctory stories -- contain all sorts of lessons about good branding that are well worth nicking. All of them accentuate simplicity as a key attribute of good brand design. For example:
Think global. Federal Express execs realised that their name was antithetical to a global audience -- which is pretty important if you're in shipping. So they shortened it to the simpler FedEx and a brand was born. (It's a relatively young brand, interestingly, formed in the 1970s. An iconic image can make you seem so much more established.)
Be flexible. MTV's brand has appeared in thousands of different forms, but it's always recognisable. That allows it to be innovative without losing effect. Again, a simple design treatment -- big M, small tv -- works best.
Be obvious. Whether it's text-heavy McSweeney's covers or the iconic Tiffany gift-box, all of these brands are utterly obvious with the treatment of their names and, in most cases, what they're selling. Again, it's really simple - a lesson our marketing friends at companies like Aviva would do well to heed.
But two other lessons - not in the article - occurred to me after reading it.
First, the best brands become synonymous with their activities. You Hoover the carpet. You FedEx an important document. You Google a rumour. You simply cannot create that effect - it's not something you ought to have as an agenda item at a marketing meeting, nor something you can encourage people to do.
It has to happen spontaneously as a result of great (and usually innovative) products and service. That said, it helps if you have the right brand name. Two-syllables is best, judging by those three examples, including a hard consonant sound. Worth bearing in mind - just like the FedEx execs did.
Second, it really doesn't matter how you brand your product or service - so long as you stick to your guns. According to Fast Company, "Pharmacist Dr. John S. Pemberton used two main ingredients in the creation of his famous beverage, coca plant and cola (or kola) nut. Frank Robinson, his partner and the company's bookkeeper (chief financial officer, perhaps, in today's terms), named the drink Coca-Cola."
Heck, if the bean-counter can come up with the name, perhaps its success is down to the fact they stuck with it so long. There was no expensive marketing genius applied at its inception, they just called it what it was.
Equally, the Campbell's Soup label -- iconic even without Andy Warhol -- is just some old award they won a century ago on a two-tone background.
(Quick aside: a colleague once interviewed Sir Tom Farmer, founder in 1971 of the Kwik Fit chain that was sold to Ford in 1999 for £1bn. The highly recognisable blue and yellow livery was the result of having paint left over from a decorating job when he opened his first workshop - he was too broke to buy fresh stuff.)
But keep using the same brand long enough and it embeds. It's a great lesson in these times when companies feel they need to rebrand and rename their organisations all the time, at great cost. It's much better to be simple and take a (very) long view of branding.
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Koreans eat porridge when they are sick because it is easy to digest and full of nutrition. I woke up with one of the worst headaches and sore throat a few days ago. The last thing I wanted to do was to cook so I just ordered in. The only problem was that I couldn't eat anything I ordered and just felt more nauseous. So the next day, I decided to make an easy juk (죽, porridge) with ingredients I already had at home. You can make juk with anything vegetables, meats, or leftover soups. Technically you are supposed to make juk with uncooked rice that has been soaking in water for at least an hour or two, but I often make it with already cooked rice which is a faster and easier way. Since I introduced how to make juk with already cooked rice and leftover soup in my earlier post about miyuk-juk, I will show you how to make dalk-juk or chicken juk with uncooked soaked rice. This recipe cuts corners and simplifies the dish by using chicken stock and leftover roasted chicken instead of the traditional way of stuffing a chicken with sticky rice and cooking it from scratch.
Rinse the rice several times and soak it for at least 2 hours. I soaked in overnight in the refrigerator so I could cook it in the morning.
If you have a food processor or a blender, pulse the drained rice a few times. You can skip this step if you like.
In a medium size pot on medium-high heat, drizzle a little sesame oil and sauté the rice for about 2-3 minutes.
Pour in the chicken stock or broth and stir. Bring it to a boil on high heat and lower the heat to medium-high to let it simmer. Stir often so the rice does not stick on the bottom. Cooking juk is almost like making risotto except that you don't have to pour the liquid a ladle at a time.
After about 15 minutes, add the finely chopped carrot and garlic. You can substitute other vegetables as well. A great option is to use Korean chives, boochu (부추).
Cook for about another 10-15 minutes until the juk is a consistency of a hot cereal or oatmeal. Stir in the scallions if you did not use boochu. Garnish with toasted sesame seeds.
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10.30- 12pm We move to the 3rd area of the tour, PatPong for some more crazy live shows. Plus there is live Thai Boxing. In this area you can also visit one of Bangkok's famous fetish clubs and of course there are other exotic shows. Safety is an import issue in this area and we make sure we only use venues which we know are totally safe for our customers.
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There is an amazing Thai boxing show put on at one of the bars we vist. There is no charge to see this show (boxing at the stadium can cost upto 2,000 THB each for tickets). This is a REAL Thai boxing show and features men and sometime women slugging it out. While there is no charge for entry customers are required to purchase at least ONE DRINK this will cost around 200 THB each.
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The dramatic Sky Bar on the 64th floor of Lebua State Tower featured in the movie Hangover2 is a very popular place for people to visit at night. Drinks are charged at international prices (around 450 THB ++per drink) This is a must stop for some people on the tour.
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Where did the year go? With the start of the new year, now is the perfect time to take stock of 2018's accomplishments and challenges, to look back over the year and assess what worked, what didn't work, and what we could have done differently.
Who should publish a year-end review? All constituencies! A year-end report gives you the opportunity to look back on the year with pride and satisfaction. Successful organizations consistently demonstrate and communicate value and benefit to members. Show your members what AGD is doing with their dues dollars. Showcasing your successes can also be a useful tool in attracting new members.
Simply put, you can't afford not to publish a year-end review. Your annual report helps to promote AGD and speaks volumes about the organization.
A cover letter, signed by the constituency president or other elected officer, addressed to the constituency members.
A succinct, easy-to-understand description of the organization.
A summary of the constituency's accomplishments or goals achieved during the year.
A section that identifies any issues or concerns and any resolutions that members should know about.
A section that outlines goals, programs and meetings for the upcoming year and other information that members need to know. This should come from the constituency president.
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Legally Blind Vegan Entrepreneur: I Want To Employ People With Disabilities
The vegan baker was struggling find a workplace - so she created her own
Diana Lupica
The bakery is inspired by Comer's Swedish heritage (Photo: Carina's Bakery Facebook)
A legally blind vegan baker in Beaverton, Oregon, has opened a plant-based eatery which employs people with disabilities.
Owner Carina Comer, was struggling to find a job - so she opened a bakery that employs other individuals with visual impairments.
"I'm legally blind and because of my love for baking and my struggle to find a place in the workplace, I wanted to open a bakery that employed people with disabilities," Comer told news outlet Katu.
The vegan spot, called Carina's Bakery, serves baked goods inspired by CEO Comer's Scandinavian heritage.
There are also signs in the eatery which alert the customers that all employees are visually impaired, and advise them to be patient.
"It takes us a little longer.
"We're still getting used to our adaptive system that has its own quirks," said Comer, referring to the adaptive devices she installed to assist them.
Comer went on to discuss veganism: "It fits in well with what I am trying to do with this bakery because I want people to feel like they belong and are being treated right, and I should do the same with the animals and the baked goods."
Carina's Bakery's grand opening is officially set for mid-November, but the eatery is open right now.
UK Entrepreneur To Address Poverty Issues With Vegan Eatery
Two Vegan Politicians Enter 2018 Congress Race
The Evidence Is In: Dairy Is Dying Due To Vegan Boom
Diana is a London-based writer dedicated to bringing you the latest updates in ethical consumerism and plant-based nutrition. She is a recent media graduate with extensive journalistic experience, and writes in hopes of changing the narrative. You can follow Diana on Instagram and Twitter @dianalupica


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Home	Business	UK launches 270 million pound fund to support green heating technology
UK launches 270 million pound fund to support green heating technology
by maria September 7, 2021
(Reuters) – The UK government said on Tuesday it has launched a new 270 million pound ($373.63 million) fund in its bid to gradually transition away from gas boilers over the next 15 years.
The Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) will only support low-carbon technologies, such as heat pumps, solar and geothermal energy, which would enable more places in the country to use these from 2022, according to a statement https://bit.ly/3zLcyB3 from the government.
GHNF is expected to fund the delivery of enough total carbon savings by 2050 to equal taking 4.5 million cars in England off the road for a year, the statement added.
(Reporting by Juby Babu in Bengaluru; Editing by David Gregorio)
London takes aim at New York with five-year financial plan
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Thx

A: You have a breaking > in your config.
Change:
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See if this will fix your issue.


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Sticking to a gym regime can be an arduous task for many, with 90% of all new gym members in the UK alone quitting after just three months. If only there was an active alternative that keeps people motivated, whilst harnessing human potential. Step in GoodGym.
The not-for-profit organisation was formed in September 2009 as a way to get people off the treadmill and into spending their time and energy doing good for their local community. To put it simply, GoodGym helps its members get fit, with a more tangible and fulfilling reward.
Already, the initiative is active in 47 areas across the United Kingdom, providing its runners with a choice of three different programmes to participate in.
There are "group runs", which give you the opportunity to run to an area, work with others on doing something good for the local area, such as clearing a community space or distributing flyers, and then run back. There is also the option of taking part in a "mission run", which involves members running solo to meet up with others at an elderly person's home to complete a task, such as changing lightbulbs or moving furniture, and then complete the "mission" by running the return route. The final programme is called "coach run". Here, GoodGym participants are individually paired with isolated older members of the community, who are known as coaches. Working with the NHS and local community centres, GoodGym then encourages runners to take a newspaper or a modest gift and hang out with their coach, who in return offers motivational advice for the run back.
GoodGym Founder Ivo Gormley explained why the initiative is so addictive: "Good Gym makes people feel good about who they are, it makes it easy to do good, and helps older people who wouldn't otherwise see anyone."
Gormley discovered that the charitable element of GoodGym provides excellent motivation for struggling runners. The impetus comes from the fact that your run has a purpose and that completing it can make a radical difference.
This idea was echoed by a regular GoodGym Runner:
"Before GoodGym I always lost motivation to stick at running or the gym but now I run two or three times a week. It's so fulfilling knowing that whilst I'm exercising, I'm also making a difference in the lives of others! I would encourage anyone to give it a go."
The innovative initiative reaches areas and people that would otherwise be without help, once again highlighting the power and potential that sport holds.
It has gained the attention of national papers, such as The Independent, too:
"Why burn energy in the gym when you could harness that effort to spruce up public spaces, or visit lonely pensioners?"
So far, GoodGym has achieved 114,667 good deeds and this number is increasing every week. A total of 77 new areas are in the proposal stage, with four of those starting imminently. If its success so far is anything to go by then it is an initiative that will only continue to grow.
This week's JTA Communicator of the Week goes to GoodGym, for its ability to not only get people active, but also for using sport as a vehicle to promote social cohesion and community wellbeing.
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And we shall know them by their whiny, poorly written, rhetorically deficient, bullshit press releases
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abortion, anti-choice, making it right, missouri, Missouri Democratic Party, platform, pro-choice, Stephen Webber
The Missouri Democratic Party State Committee upset a fringe anti-choice group this past weekend.
To recap, an anti-choice amendment was inserted into the party platform at the committee's meeting early in July. From a member of the platform committee:
"…I served on the MO Dem platform cmte for several months. We drafted a pretty good platform…"
"…still disgusted with the MO Dem Party's platform fail. Missouri needs more prolife Dems like we *need* another earthquake. We don't. Dems who do not support access to abortion and the conservative voters they will allegedly attract are the shiny object that distracts from building a platform that appeals to the thousands of voters who stay home because Republicans are regressive bigoted fiends and Democrats are obsessed with appealing to moderately regressive bigoted anti-women fiends…"
There was also an uproar from the base (majority) of party members who contacted their state committee representatives. This past weekend the Missouri Democratic Party State Committee met to reconsider the motion (uh, that's a parliamentary procedure – used to fix mistakes), with more members of the committee attending the meeting. They reconsidered the motion to approve the anti-choice amendment, removed it, apparently without dissent, and proceeded to approve the original party platform presented by the platform committee.
The representatives on the Missouri Democratic Party State Committee realized they got played and they fixed it. Democrats do that, they fix things.
Missouri Democratic Party Chair Stephen Webber – at campaign headquarters in Columbia, Missouri – August 7, 2018
And, of course, this upset a hack at "Democrats for Life"?:
Missouri Party Chairman Closes Door on Pro-Life Democrats – Eliminates Inclusive "Big Tent" Language Approved By Platform Committee
on 12 August 2018 Posted in Press Releases.
There is an important election coming up that will determine the balance of the U.S. Senate and the future of the U.S. Supreme Court. The election could also determine whether or not there will be impeachment efforts to rid the White House of Donald Trump. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is in a very close battle, and all Democrats would like to see her continue her tenure in the U.S. Senate.
Missouri Party Chairman Stephen Webber thinks that the best way to support Senator McCaskill and other Democrats in Missouri is to create an unnecessary battle over abortion.
A few weeks ago, there was a meeting to amend the Missouri Democratic Party platform. A vote took place, and the amendment was accepted. The Missouri Democratic Party then said that they welcome Whole Life Democrats in the party. The "conscience language" to include pro-life Democrats did not dilute the abortion-rights plank in the Democratic Party platform.
Unfortunately, it does not appear that the acceptance, along with the compromise language, lasted. Party Chairman Webber held a meeting this morning to strip the inclusive language from the platform because nothing says "We we want your vote" more than overturning a fair process of debate and approval. It is very unusual to remove language unilaterally after a platform has been ratified. It makes you wonder about the kind of pressure supposedly "progressive" groups exerted and why. They know that this removal will cause chaos.
They doth protest too much.
Now, just read that headline for accuracy.
Oh, it's all just so rich:
"There is an important election coming up that will determine the balance of the U.S. Senate and the future of the U.S. Supreme Court…"
The writer of the press release at "Democrats for Life" actually wrote that. They also wrote this:
Democratic Senators Use Religion to Discredit Pro-Life Judicial Nominee
STATEMENT OF KRISTEN DAY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OF DEMOCRATS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA
Democrats For Life of America (DFLA) expresses its disappointment with Democratic senators and interest groups who are attacking federal court of appeals nominee Amy Barrett for her personal religious views on the dignity of human life at all stages….
Amy Barrett was also one of the right wingnuts who was reportedly on Donald Trump's (r) short list for the current U.S. Supreme Court vacancy. The press release writer for "Democrats for Life" is definitely not worried about the U.S. Supreme Court the way the vast majority of Democrats are worried about the U.S. Supreme Court.
"…Missouri Party Chairman Stephen Webber thinks that the best way to support Senator McCaskill and other Democrats in Missouri is to create an unnecessary battle over abortion…" It's called projection. Look it up.
The platform committee did not approve the language. A single anti-choice member of the Missouri Democratic Party State committee pushed an amendment to the party platform prepared by a platform committee using language appropriated from a lunatic fringe anti-choice group. We don't know if the individual who pushed the amendment disclosed where that language came from when it was presented to the Missouri Democratic Party State Committee. We're asking now. Was that disclosed at the time of the early July vote?
The Missouri Democratic Party State Committee did vote for the amendment in July (it wasn't unanimous, that's for sure) and it was very controversial. Everyone heard from everyone else the instant the word got out about the circumstances.
"…It makes you wonder about the kind of pressure supposedly 'progressive' groups exerted and why…"
Oh, that's rich. It's called holding those who are supposed to represent you accountable. The why is easy. Because their authored amendment, like their press release, is just so much bullshit.
Nothing says "we want your vote" more to the vast majority of Democrats in Missouri than when the Missouri Democratic Party State Committee realized they were played and had the awareness and gumption to quickly fix it. The Missouri Democratic Party State Committee voted on August 11th to restore the original language of the platform committee (overturning the anti-choice amendment) in approving the platform – with 61 of 68 members voting yes, two abstentions. That's who "closed the door" on anti-choice fanatics.
And, just in case it slips anyone's mind:
"…And, by the way, there already is an inclusive stance on abortion. It's called 'pro choice.'"
The elephant in the room (July 3, 2018)
Against abortion? Don't have one. (July 6, 2018)
Getting played (July 8, 2018)
And they fixed it (August 11, 2018)
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Q: how do i rotate a value in assembly I am implementing a function in assembly x86 64 bits, which I am unable to alter:
   unsigned long rotate(unsigned long val, unsigned long num, unsigned long direction);

direction- 1 is left and 0 is right.
This is my code to shift left but its not working the last bit is off. Can someone help me please.
  rotate:
  push rbp
  push rdi
  push rsi
  push rdx
  mov rbp, rsp
  sub rsp, 16
  cmp rdx, 1
  je shift_left

shift_left:
   mov rax, rdi
   shl rax, cl
   mov rax, rax
   mov rcx, rdi
   sub cl, 64
   shl rcx, cl
   or rax rdx
   mov rax, rax
   add rsp, 16
   #I pop all the registers used and ret

A: x86 has rotate instructions.  Use rol rax, cl to rotate left, and ror rax, cl to rotate right.
It seems you didn't realize that cl is the low byte of rcx / ecx.  Thus shl rcx, cl is shifting the shift-count.  Your function is over-complicated, but that's normal when you're just learning.  It takes practice to find the simple underlying problem that you can implement in few instructions.
Also, I think mov rcx, rdi was supposed to be mov rcx, rsi.  IDK what mov rax,rax was supposed to be; its just a no-op.

It would be significantly more efficient to call different functions for rotate-left vs. rotate-right, unless you actually need direction to be a runtime variable that isn't just a build-time constant 1 or 0.
Or to make it branchless, conditionally do cl = 64-cl, because a left-rotate by n is the same thing as a right-rotate by 64-n.  And because rotate instructions mask the count (and rotate is modular anyway), you can actually just do -n instead of 64-n.  (See Best practices for circular shift (rotate) operations in C++ for some C that uses -n instead of 32-n, and compiles to a single rotate instruction).
TL:DR Because of rotate symmetry, you can rotate in the other direction just by negating the count.  As @njuffa points out, you could have written the function with a signed shift count where negative means rotate the other way, so the caller would pass you num or -num in the first place.
Note that in your code, sub cl, 64 has no effect on the shift count of the next shl, because 64-bit shl already masks the count with cl & 63.

I made a C version to see what compilers would do (on the Godbolt compiler explorer).  gcc has an interesting idea: rotate both ways and use a cmov to pick the right result.  This kinda sucks because variable-count shifts/rotates are 3 uops on Intel SnB-family CPUs.  (Because they have to leave the flags unmodified if the count turns out to be 0.  See the shift section of this answer, all of it applies to rotates as well.)
Unfortunately BMI2 only added an immediate-count version of rorx, and variable-count shlx/shrx, not variable-count no-flags rotate.

Anyway, based on those ideas, here's a good way to implement your function for the x86-64 System V ABI / calling convention (where functions are allowed to clobber the input-arg registers and r10 / r11).  I assume you're on a platform that uses the x86-64 SysV ABI (like Linux or OS X) because you appear to be using rdi, rsi, and rdx for the first 3 args (or at least trying to), and your long is 64 bits.
    ;; untested
    ;; rotate(val (rdi), num (rsi), direction (rdx))
rotate:
    xor     ecx, ecx
    sub     ecx, esi        ; -num

    test    edx, edx
    mov     rax, rdi        ; put val in the retval register

    cmovnz  ecx, esi        ; cl =  direction ? num : -num
    rol     rax, cl         ; works as a rotate-right by 64-num if direction is 0
    ret

xor-zero / sub is often better than mov / neg because the xor-zeroing is off the critical path.  mov / neg is better on Ryzen, though, which has zero-latency integer mov and still needs an ALU uop to do xor-zeroing.  But if ALU uops aren't your bottleneck, this is still fine.  It's a clear win on Intel Sandybridge (where xor-zeroing is as cheap as a NOP), and also a latency win on other CPUs that don't have zero-latency mov (like Silvermont/KNL, or AMD Bulldozer-family).
cmov is 2 uops on Intel pre-Broadwell.  A 2's complement bithack alternative to xor/sub/test/cmov might be just as good if not better.  -num = ~num + 1.
rotate:
    dec     edx             ; convert direction = 0 / 1 into  -1 / 0
    mov     ecx, esi        ; couldn't figure out how to avoid this with  lea  ecx, [rdx-1] or something

    xor     ecx, edx        ; (direction==0) ? ~num : num  ; NOT = xor with all-ones
    sub     ecx, edx        ; (direction==0) ? ~num + 1 : num + 0;
                            ; conditional negation using -num = ~num + 1.    (subtracting -1 is the same as adding 1)

    mov     rax, rdi        ; put val in the retval register
    rol     rax, cl         ; works as a rotate-right by 64-num if direction is 0
    ret

This would have more of an advantage if inlined so num could already be in ecx, making this shorter than the other options (in code-size and uop count).
Latency on Haswell

*

*From direction being ready to cl being ready for rol:  3 cycles (dec / xor / sub).  Same as test / cmov in the other version.  (But on Broadwell/Skylake test/cmov only has 2 cycle latency from direction to cl)

*From num being ready to cl being ready: 2 cycles: mov(0) + xor(1) + sub(1), so there's room for num to be ready 1 cycle later.  This is better than with cmov on Haswell where it's sub(1) + cmov(2) = 3 cycles.  But on Broadwell/Skylake, it's only 2c either way.

The total front-end uop count is better on pre-Broadwell, because we avoid cmov.  We traded an xor-zeroing for a mov, which is worse on Sandybridge, but about equal everywhere else.  (Except that it's on the critical path for num, which matters for CPUs without zero-latency mov.)
BTW, a branching implementation could actually be faster if the branch on direction is very predictable.  But usually that means it would have been better to just inline a rol or ror instruction.

Or this one: gcc's output with the redundant and ecx, 63 removed.  It should be pretty good on some CPUs, but doesn't have much advantage compared to the above.  (And is clearly worse on mainstream Intel Sandybridge-family CPUs including Skylake.)
;; not good on Intel SnB-family
;; rotate(val (rdi), num (rsi), direction (rdx))
rotate:
    mov     ecx, esi
    mov     rax, rdi

    rol     rax, cl         ; 3 uops
    ror     rdi, cl         ; false-dependency on flags on Intel SnB-family

    test    edx, edx        ; look at the low 32 bits for 0 / non-0
    cmovz   rax, rdi        ; direction=0 means use the rotate-right result
    ret

The false dependency is only for the flag-setting uops; I think the rdi result of ror rdi,cl is independent of the flag-merge uop of the preceding rol rax,cl. (See SHL/SHR r,cl latency is lower than throughput).  But all the uops require p0 or p6, so there will be resource conflicts that limit instruction-level parallelism.

Using rotate(unsigned long val, int left_count)
Caller passes you a signed rotate count in edi.  Or call it rdi if you want; you ignore all but the low 6 bits of it, and you actually just do a left-rotate in the range [0, 63, but that's the same as supporting left and right rotates with range [-63, +63].  (With larger values wrapping into that range).
e.g. an arg of -32 is 0xffffffe0, which masks down to 0x20, which is 32.  Rotating by 32 in either direction is the same operation.
rotate:
    mov  rax, rdi
    mov  ecx, esi
    rol  rax, cl
    ret

The only way this could be any more efficient is inlining into the caller to avoid the mov and call/ret instructions.  (Or for constant-count rotates, using an immediate rotate count which makes it a single-uop instruction on Intel CPUs.)