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Filed under: Clearing,Derivatives,Economics,Exchanges,Politics,Regulation — The Professor @ 7:23 pm
I've written over the years that I expect that financial markets will receive more anti-trust scrutiny than has traditionally been the case. Liquidity effects impede competition in execution. A variety factors relating to risk, notably diversification and the fact that an option on a portfolio is less costly than a portfolio of options, create strong natural monopoly elements in clearing. The transactions costs that arise when concentrated upstream and downstream industries interact make vertical integration efficient. All of these features give rise to potential anti-trust concerns.
Last year the USDOJ was investigating the data provider Markit and ICE Trust CDS clearing for potential anti-trust violations. Friday it was announced that the European Union is picking up the cudgels, and also investigating Market and ICE Trust:
Lack of transparency in markets can lead to abusive behavior and facilitate violations of competition rules," Joaquin Almunia, the EU's competition commissioner, said in an e-mailed statement. "I hope our investigation will contribute to a better functioning of financial markets.
"What we are looking at is whether the main players in the market have behaved badly, have entered into anti-competitive agreements or abused a possible dominant position," Amelia Torres, a commission spokeswoman, told reporters in Brussels today.
ICE in Atlanta didn't return a phone call and an e-mail seeking comment. ICE's U.S. clearing arm is owned by dealers including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and UBS.
Goldman Sachs declined to comment on today's probe, said Michael Duvally, a spokesman for the bank in London.
Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, JPMorgan, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, UBS, Credit Suisse, RBS, Societe Generale, HSBC, Wells Fargo and Citigroup also declined to comment.
The agreements with ICE have clauses on preferential fees and profit sharing arrangements "which might create an incentive for the banks to use only ICE as a clearinghouse," the EU said. That may block other clearinghouses from starting up and limit choice for CDS dealers, it said. [Emphasis added.]
The investigation will also cover fee structures used by ICE to check if they give "an unfair advantage to the nine banks by discriminating against other CDS dealers."
The italicized portion suggests that the EU has a lot to learn about clearing. As noted above, and as I've written about numerous times here and elsewhere, there are strong efficiency reasons for concentrating trade clearing in a single CCP. Concentrating clearing maximizes netting possibilities. It economizes on the use of capital by permitting more efficient margining. Due to diversification and the option-like nature of counterparty risk, the more positions that are cleared through a single CCP, the smaller the capital required to ensure a given probability of CCP default.
This all means that dealers have a very strong incentive absent any fee and profit sharing arrangements to use a single clearinghouse. Moreover, informational considerations make it desirable for firms to use a single CCP: that way, the CCP has a more complete picture of each firm's risk, whereas if a dealer clears through multiple CCPs none of them will have a good understanding of the dealer's true riskiness. Thus, dealers have a good motive to provide dealers with an incentive to bring all their business to the common CCP, all the better to keep an eye on one another.
This all also means that the market for clearing is almost certainly unlikely to be highly competitive. That it is delusional to think that there will be robust competition between CCPs in the long run: maybe multiple CCPs will start up and compete for the market, but eventually, the economies of scale and scope that characterize clearing will result in one winner taking all. CDS dealers, or dealers in any derivative, are unlikely ever to have much choice in clearing–or to want it.
Since dealers are the main users of CCP services, and since a single CCP is likely to dominate any market, it is also the case that dealers are going to control and/or own CCPs in order to limit their vulnerability to the dominant CCP's market power. Indeed, this integration also contributes to efficiency by reducing markups over marginal cost and also reducing transactions costs. Dealer control is also necessary to align risks and control; if dealers are the residual risk bearers in a CCP, it is efficient to have them control the CCP to prevent excessive risk taking.
But as I've written ad nauseum over the years, the economies of scale and scope that make clearing a natural monopoly, or close to one, can be exploited to exercise market power.
There are no easy resolutions to these issues. Clearing–and execution as well–are like other network industries. And every network industry–every one–has posed similar thorny difficulties. For the most part, financial exchanges and clearing have escaped the regulatory and anti-trust scrutiny that industries like electricity transmission, gas pipelines, and telecoms have received. But that's changing. The EU investigation is a harbinger of that. And if the initial announcement is any indication, the EU has not progressed very far down the learning curve on the issues related to clearing. Until they do, the potential for ham-handed, counterproductive anti-trust and regulatory intervention is quite high.
This also demonstrates one of the potential consequences of force feeding clearing. Not only is force feeding problematic from a systemic risk perspective, it will also create competitive issues. And the tension between desires to increase competition and desires to ensure the safety and soundness of CCPs are likely to result in regulatory mistakes–serious regulatory mistakes–in the future.
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Our hour, our war
The Times Literary Supplement, 4.7.2
http://the-tls.co.uk/archive/story.aspx?story_id=2108042&window_type=print
Steven E. Aschheim
ERINNERUNGEN. By Hans Jonas. 503pp. Frankfurt am Main: Insel.
24.90euros. 3 458 17156 8
The philosopher Hans Jonas (1903-93) is best known in the
English-speaking world for his pioneering studies of Gnostic Religion.
Professional philosophers are likely to be familiar with his early
(1969) ruminations on the ethics of experimenting on human subjects,
but only initiates will be aware of his ongoing attempts to formulate
a post- idealist ontology of nature able to account "for the broad
organic basis on which the miracle of mind is perched", or his
reflections on post-Auschwitz theology (he never recovered from the
shock of his mother's murder there). His 1978 work The Imperative of
Responsibility brought him great fame in Germany. But this impassioned
plea for the creation of a collective ecological ethic which, through
stringent governmental measures, would muster the necessary resources
and control the runaway dangers of technology to save a threatened
planet "for future generations", had little impact elsewhere. His
influence on Anglo-American thought, it must be said, never
approximated that of many of his mentors, colleagues and friends who
figure prominently in Erinnerungen, his memoirs. Yet this does not
detract from their interest and value. For, by the compelling way that
Jonas recounts his life in Germany, Palestine/Israel and North
America, this becomes an evocative portrait of an exceptionally
productive and fascinating generation of Weimar intellectuals who made
their way through a traumatic century and in diverse fashion helped to
shape our understanding of it.
In a recent work (2001), Richard Wolin portrayed Jonas as one of
Heidegger's Children who, until 1933, "thought of themselves as
assimilated Germans rather than as Jews" (the stark dichotomy itself
is misleading). The degree to which Jonas's thought and person
remained in thrall to his teacher Heidegger may be open to question,
but not, as these memoirs graphically document, the lifelong
centrality of his Jewishness. This well preceded the rise of Nazism.
Jonas was raised in a home that effortlessly combined German Bildung
with an untroubled affirmation of Jewishness. More-over, already in
1918, in an obviously declasse act - and much to the chagrin of his
baffled father - Jonas became a committed Zionist. Remarkably,
although it was a tiny minority movement, in the course of his Zionist
meanderings Jonas came upon a host of distinguished dissenters whose
thought would later leave its mark well beyond the boundaries of
Weimar Germany or, for that matter, Zionist or Jewish circles - among
them Hannah Arendt, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem
and Leo Strauss. Quite exceptionally, he spent 1923 at a Hachsharah, a
training farm for future settlement in Palestine. Indeed, unlike most
of his other German-Jewish Zionist friends, Jonas adopted a peculiarly
militant posture, sensitive to anti-Semitic slurs and dreaming of
Jewish armed valour and honour.
These predilections, no doubt, partly account for his incisive
intuitions as to the nature of Nazism. He left Germany a few months
after the takeover of power and settled in Palestine in 1935. There he
composed a remarkable document: an impassioned 1939 call to Jewish men
to take up arms ("This is our hour, this is our war"). At a time of
great bewilderment, he presciently identified the unimaginably radical
nature of Hitler's aims. National Socialism, he wrote, had undertaken
this war against the Jews as "a world-principle" and against the
"naked possibility of our existence on Earth. We are its metaphysical
enemy, its designated victim from the first day on and no peace will
be granted us as long as that principle or we ourselves, either the
one or the other, still live".
No other nation, he declared, was threatened with the negation of its
very humanity: "We are witnessing a war of extermination that has been
declared against our entire being and which is proceeding un-checked".
Because the Jews were threatened with destruction as a group, they had
to fight back as a group or a Volk. To that end, Jonas fervently
advocated the formation of a specifically Jewish Brigade, in which he
fought when it was finally created in 1944. Earlier, he volunteered
for the paramilitary Haganah, and in 1948 participated in the Israel
War of Independence.
Of course, this image of Jonas as Muskeljude and militant fighter
distorts the larger picture.
It obscures his warmth and compassion (hidden in a footnote is the
story of how in 1938 he carried a fatally wounded Arab to hospital
through the streets of Jerusalem) and, above all, his passionately
pursued intellectual interests and friendships.
Indeed, it was during his period of service in the Jewish Brigade
that, in a series of letters to his wife, Lore, he first formulated
his post existentialist philosophy positing the relationship of the
organic to Being, the "phenomenon of life". His years in Jerusalem
were spent in the presence of a stimulating and playful Mannerbund of
German-speaking scholars, dubbed by Gershom Scholem as "Pilegesh"
(formed from the initials of its various members and meaning
"concubine" in Hebrew), who spent much time in intense philosophical
discussion and writing affectionately ironic poems about each other.
The formidable Scholem - always fascinated by the mystical, the
demonic and antinomian - encouraged and gobbled up Jonas's work on
Gnosticism which, with its subversive implications for established
religion, was so congenial to his own project (almost all these
German-Jewish Weimar intellectuals probed pre-or post-liberal
Enlightenment worlds). Despite these friendships, in 1949, Jonas left
for Canada to seek better academic prospects than he had hitherto been
able to secure in Israel. The relationship with Scholem and his
friends later became severely strained though not broken - when, in
1952, after Scholem exerted enormous efforts and successfully obtained
for Jonas a formal position at the Hebrew University, he declined the
offer and went on to various posts in Montreal, Ottawa and the New
School for Social Research.
The character sketches of Jonas's subsequently famous friends and
acquaintances are among the joys of this volume. The contemporary lion
of neoconservatism, Leo Strauss, emerges as an early sympathizer of
Mussolini yet entirely unworldly and shy, guiltily torn between his
Orthodox upbringing and the unshackled philosophical quest for truth;
the great Marxist scholar George Lichtheim whose years in Palestine,
and role as translator of Scholem's masterwork on Jewish mysticism,
are now largely forgotten - as an over-bred, charming, deeply
self-ironic personality, an "Edel-Marxist" who never set foot in a
factory, an autodidact and eternal outsider, constitutionally unable
to sustain relationships with women (for a while he was obsessed with
Susan Sontag), and who in the end, tragically, committed suicide; and
Jacob Taubes, as a mercurial, occasionally brilliant scholar of
religion, whose serial plagiarism and charlatanism were visible to all
except, perhaps, to himself. When Karl Lowith was asked about one of
Taubes's works he commented that it was indeed excellent.
"That's not surprising; one half of it is by him and the other by me."
The Palestine years were important, but most of the abiding
influences, relationships and disappointments in Jonas's life stemmed
from his student and early teaching years in Weimar Germany between
1921 and 1933. At the centre stands the defining presence of Martin
Heidegger (his other teacher, for whom he felt a lasting respect and
affection, was the theologian Rudolf Bultmann). Upon first hearing
Heidegger, Jonas reports, "something happened to me". Without really
understanding, he realized that something electric, "secret" and
immensely significant was being said. From then on, he knew that
philosophy was the way and proceeded to shape his own thought along
the lines of Heideggerian existentialism. He experienced Heidegger's
turn to Nazism as an immense shock, "a world-historical shame", a blow
to the very soul of the philosophical enterprise. The hurt went deep.
It was hard, he later told a group of theologians, to celebrate Man as
the "Shepherd of Being" when he had ceased so grievously to be his
brother's keeper.
Unlike Hannah Arendt, Jonas did not early on renew the relationship.
Yet the pain, combined, perhaps, with the desire to meet and confront
him, persisted. They did so, finally, in 1969 in Zurich, where, as
always with Heidegger, the things that most needed to be said remained
unspoken.
Whether or not Jonas actually succeeded in conceptually freeing
himself from the problematic aspects of this inheritance remains an
open question. But as his account makes clear he explicitly attempted
to formulate a post-Heideggerian and post-Holocaust world-view. His
work is shot through with reflections on ethics (allegedly neglected
by Heidegger); it is receptive to Judaeo-Christian theological
perspectives (as opposed to what Jonas saw as Heidegger's
neo-paganism); and his firmly grounded "organic" ontology sought to
counter the nihilism he took to be implicit in Heidegger's work
(Gnostic and Heideggerian thought, Jonas maintained, were mutually
illuminating phenomena).
Perhaps not surprisingly, the adoring circles around the radically
innovative Heidegger, described by Jonas as a kind of Wunderrabbi,
contained many young Jews (among them Lowith and Gunther Stern). The
best-known of Jonas's fellow students was Hannah Arendt, with whom
Jonas formed an admiring, lifelong, though stormy friendship (the
turbulence was occasioned by his bitter dissent from her Eichmann book
and her refusal to countenance any criticism of it). Both the
philosophical and amorous aspects of the Arendt-Heidegger relationship
have by now been thoroughly explored. But, as her closest confidant at
the time (and perhaps as a way of subtly indicating to Jonas that he
should desist in any thought of becoming her suitor), Arendt, swearing
him to secrecy, made him uniquely privy to how the affair began. As
the teacher and pupil talked during student hours and dusk descended,
Heidegger neglected to turn on the light.
When the interview ended and Arendt was about to leave the room, he
suddenly fell to his knees and stretched out his arms. "I took his
head in my hands", Arendt told Jonas, "and he kissed me, I kissed
him." As with Jonas, the definitive verdict regarding Heidegger's
long-term influence on Arendt's work is not yet in.
But her early reconciliation with him, Jonas insists, was bound to the
indissoluble tie of a first, passionate love.
Jonas's memoirs (based on taped conversations with Rachel Salamander)
are replete with similar observations in which the philosophical and
the personal become thickly intertwined. They are peopled by
personalities whose thought has become a familiar part of
twentieth-century intellectual and cultural sensibility. Above all,
they trace the ways in which these quintessentially Weimar
intellectuals were formed and then, faced with crucial political and
intellectual dilemmas, variously chose to make their lives. It is a
testament to Hans Jonas's decency and honesty that in these matters he
seems always to come out as a mensch.


Additional information: Son of the late Col. and Mrs. Cheape, of Wellfield, Fife; husband of Carsina Gray-Cheape, of Carse Gray, Forfar.
Unit Text: In command of "G" Coy. 2nd Bn.
Additional information: Younger son of the 4th Earl of Minto, K.G., and of the Countess of Minto, of Minto House, Hawick, Scotland.
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. D. 2.
I am somewhat puzzled with Esmond Elliot's connection to the Forfarshire parish of Aberlemno.
His sister was married to Lord Charles Mercer Nairne (also killed in the Great War) of Meikleour near Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
It's amazing how names turn up unexpectedly.
The Minto family appear to own a chunk of nearby Angus. Melgund Ruin being still in their ownership.
So perhaps on the memorial as they were the landlords of the parish?


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The artists who make up interDuck understand their work as a combination of conceptual art and Pop. The name of the show, DUCKOMENTA prominently features the word "duck". The "o" in the middle relays viewers' amazement when they behold the show. "MENTA" refers to the word "document", alluding to authentic evidence...


As any pet-loving homeowner can attest, playful dogs and fluffy felines liven up the house and enrich our lives. But did you know that many people unwittingly expose their pets to harmful substances? A surprisingly large number of household items, from indoor plants to cleaning products, can trigger sickness and internal problems in animals. If you have concerns that your pet has been exposed to something dangerous, contact your vet immediately or call the Animal Poison Control Center hotline at (888) 426-4435. Even if your pets are healthy and happy, take steps now to keep them that way. Check out this list of 20 common items that can harm them, and learn how to maintain a safe and nontoxic environment at home.
Cat owners should never purchase soaps, cleansers, or other products containing essential oils. If ingested, the aromatic compounds can damage a feline's intestines, central nervous system, respiratory system, and liver.
If your pet chews on fabric softener sheets, it will be exposed to cationic detergents, which are known to cause oral ulcers, intestinal upset, and fever. Keep the sheets away from pets or choose safer products, such as dryer cloths and balls, instead.
While dried grout will only cause mild stomach upset if ingested, uncured alkaline products are poisonous for pets. Always inspect the ingredient list before using a product, and keep home renovation supplies away from cats, dogs, and other animals.
According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, cleaning your pet's cage or play area with bleach will not cause harm, as long as you thoroughly wash and dry it afterward. But homeowners should think twice before using the corrosive substance with pets nearby, since it can damage eyes, irritate skin, and cause a poisonous reaction if ingested.
Does your pet enjoy licking furniture or rolling on the carpet? It could be ingesting or absorbing harmful cleaning products. Pet owners should consider using nontoxic alternatives, such as vinegar and baking soda, to clean pet-friendly areas of the home.
Thanks to its laxative properties, petroleum jelly will cause intestinal issues if eaten by dogs and cats. Store all cosmetic products — including lotions, hand soaps, and makeup— in areas that your furry friends can't reach.
Keep the toilet lid down at all times. Germs and bacteria lurk in the bowl, and toilet cleaning chemicals like bleach can poison animals. If your rambunctious puppy enjoys slurping toilet water, purchase a pet fountain as a healthier alternative.
Never give your pet any human medications since they can cause vomiting, diarrhea, kidney failure, liver damage, intestinal ulcers, lowered heart rate, and bleeding in the stomach, among other issues. Medications that are particularly harmful include Adderall, aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, Kaopectate, Pepto-Bismol, and decongestants.
Planning an outdoor adventure? Instead of applying DEET products to your pet, ask the vet for pet-safe mosquito protection that won't harm Fido when he inevitably licks the product off his fur.
Humans aren't the only ones negatively impacted by cigarettes. Nicotine can cause sickness or death if eaten by pets, and secondhand smoke harms pets just as much as people.
Any savvy pet owner knows that certain human foods can poison their pets. The danger list for both dogs and cats includes grapes, raisins, avocados, gum and breath mints containing xylitol, macadamia nuts, onions, garlic, chives, alcohol, coffee, and chocolate.
The Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine states that tulips, foxglove, philodendron, poinsettias, and lilies cause feline poisoning. Symptoms include sluggishness, seizures, vomiting, diarrhea, drooling, and more. For a complete list of toxic and nontoxic plants, check out the ASPCA's comprehensive database.
Thanks to its pretty appearance and delicious smell, many gardeners enjoy using cocoa mulch in their landscaping—but pet owners should avoid it or risk poisoning their animals. Rely on pet-safe fertilizer options, such as manure, compost, blood meal, and fish emulsion, instead.
Chemicals designed to kill insects and rodents can also kill pets if ingested in large quantities. Always cover birdcages and fishbowls when spraying insecticide inside your home, and consider trying natural alternatives like cedar oil for outside areas.
According to the Pet Poison Helpline, as little as a tablespoon of ethylene glycol, a chemical found in antifreeze, can cause kidney failure in dogs. Keep antifreeze away from pets, or use one containing propylene glycol when animals are around.
Homes built before 1978 may contain lead paint. Any animal who eats this poisonous substance may experience vomiting, lethargy, abdominal pain, blindness, hysteria, seizures, and other gruesome symptoms. Get your home tested for lead paint if you're unsure, and take necessary steps for removal—after all, lead paint poisons humans too!
If your playful pup or curious cat chews on batteries, alkaline or acidic compounds get released, and the animal may start drooling, pawing at the mouth, and vomiting. Rinse your pet's mouth out thoroughly after exposure to batteries, and contact your vet immediately.
Cats and dogs enjoy playing with shiny things, and holiday decorations are no exception. Tinsel, ribbons, fairy lights, and stray electric cords, however, are choking hazards, and they can damage the digestive system if eaten. Always invest in cord protectors, and make sure your kids know that decorations aren't pet toys.
Pets can choke on any small coin, but pennies minted after 1983 also contain zinc. The toxic heavy metal, which is absorbed quickly by household animals, can cause a fatal blood disorder in dogs.
Rubber bands, plastic bags, toothpicks, and paper clips can easily become lodged in your pet's throat. Store all of these supplies out of reach of pets, and train animals not to snoop in desk drawers.
Take a moment to go around the house to either get rid of these items or to put them in places where your beloved pet can't reach. You can't have your eyes on your furry friend at all times, but you can take the right measures to make sure they don't get into anything that will hurt them or make them sick.


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Jamie Bittner
Jamie Bittner joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in December 2021.
She is a graduate of Penn State University where her studies focused on journalism, history, and political science.
Bittner is a two-time Edward R. Murrow and Emmy winner for her investigative and documentary coverage.
She has worked in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. at stations that include WTAE-TV, WLWT-TV, WPMT-TV.
As a former Pennsylvania Capitol reporter, Bittner covered high profile stories such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccine rollout, elections, unemployment, and housing. Her award-winning coverage on the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana nationwide led to a case in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court over the rights of people on probation. Bittner has covered national crime stories such as the Pulse nightclub shooting. She also worked as a newsroom manager in Pittsburgh, PA during the Tree of Life synagogue shooting. Her documentary work has featured the state of local police departments and movements for equal rights and reform.
Bittner is overjoyed to be back on Capitol Hill as part of the Gray TV family to bring vital coverage to communities who deserve answers from their elected officials. When she is not tracking down leaders and witnessing democracy in action, you can find her volunteering at animal shelters, watching football, and spending time with her family and rescue pets.
Virginia's senators look ahead to Youngkin administration
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Charlottesville Public Works is facing a staffing shortage just as people across the city brace for the possibility of more winter weather.
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Pfizer's Paxlovid and Merck's Molnupiravir are now both available in Charlottesville to help fight COVID-19, but in limited amounts and with some drawbacks.
Man killed in escalator accident at Stony Point Fashion Park
Man killed in escalator accident at Stony Point Fashion Park.
Nelson County brewery sold, closing Jan. 30
Nelson County's Wild Wolf Brewing Company will be serving its last pint at the end of the month.
Court awards Warmbier family $240K
A New York court is awarding the family of a University of Virginia student who died after being detained in North Korea $240,000, according to the Washington Post.
UVA doctor enters guilty pleas in child pornography case
The University of Virginia Medical Center is reviewing the employment status of one of its neurologists who has admitted to child pornography charges.
Juice Laundry in Charlottesville taking acai off the menu
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see if this is enough?
read my reply to Neil.
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i have paid to soyoustart cpanel vps license cost via paypal "transaction id : 4ET244195N3778248"
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package io.netty.handler.codec.mqtt;

import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
import io.netty.util.internal.StringUtil;

/**
 * Payload of {@link MqttConnectMessage}
 */
public final class MqttConnectPayload {

    private final String clientIdentifier;
    private final String willTopic;
    private final byte[] willMessage;
    private final String userName;
    private final byte[] password;

    /**
     * @deprecated use {@link MqttConnectPayload#MqttConnectPayload(String, String, byte[], String, byte[])} instead
     */
    @Deprecated
    public MqttConnectPayload(
            String clientIdentifier,
            String willTopic,
            String willMessage,
            String userName,
            String password) {
        this(
          clientIdentifier,
          willTopic,
          willMessage.getBytes(CharsetUtil.UTF_8),
          userName,
          password.getBytes(CharsetUtil.UTF_8));
    }

    public MqttConnectPayload(
            String clientIdentifier,
            String willTopic,
            byte[] willMessage,
            String userName,
            byte[] password) {
        this.clientIdentifier = clientIdentifier;
        this.willTopic = willTopic;
        this.willMessage = willMessage;
        this.userName = userName;
        this.password = password;
    }

    public String clientIdentifier() {
        return clientIdentifier;
    }

    public String willTopic() {
        return willTopic;
    }

    /**
     * @deprecated use {@link MqttConnectPayload#willMessageInBytes()} instead
     */
    @Deprecated
    public String willMessage() {
        return willMessage == null ? null : new String(willMessage, CharsetUtil.UTF_8);
    }

    public byte[] willMessageInBytes() {
        return willMessage;
    }

    public String userName() {
        return userName;
    }

    /**
     * @deprecated use {@link MqttConnectPayload#passwordInBytes()} instead
     */
    @Deprecated
    public String password() {
        return password == null ? null : new String(password, CharsetUtil.UTF_8);
    }

    public byte[] passwordInBytes() {
        return password;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return new StringBuilder(StringUtil.simpleClassName(this))
            .append('[')
            .append("clientIdentifier=").append(clientIdentifier)
            .append(", willTopic=").append(willTopic)
            .append(", willMessage=").append(willMessage)
            .append(", userName=").append(userName)
            .append(", password=").append(password)
            .append(']')
            .toString();
    }
}

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10 Best Bond Movies
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The James Bond series is the longest-running film franchise with an astounding 23 and counting films over a 52 year period. To say that Bond has had a profound effect on popular culture and filmmaking in general would be a vast understatement. James Bond represents an idealized masculinity with his jet-setting lifestyle full of fast cars and fast women. He's also a deeply flawed character with questionable morals and many of his films have come under fire from critics due to their poor representations of women and minorities. That being said, many of the films are still entertaining and the modern Bond films have done a lot to address these criticisms. Out of 23 films, there have been some significant hits and misses and there are definitely some turds and gems in the mix. The following 10 Bond films are arguably the best in the series and shouldn't be missed by anyone with an interest in the series.
10. License to Kill (1989)
There is not a lot of love out there for Timothy Dalton's 2nd and final outing as James Bond. A lot of negativity surrounds this 1989 film, as many fans were critical of its darker tone. It also didn't help that the film performed poorly at the box office, which contributed to the series taking a six year hiatus. Nevertheless, in retrospect, License to Kill is very underrated and actually has more in common with the more recent Bond films than some may think. Dalton's brooding, revenge-seeking portrayal of 007 is similar in many ways to Daniel Craig's highly regarded take on the character, which makes all the criticism of Dalton confusing. Bond's quest to go rogue and take down a drug kingpin who attacked his friends feels like a plot that Craig's Bond would tackle, and while there are some significant missteps, License to Kill deviates from the typical feel of the franchise in enough interesting ways to make it one of the better Bond outings, despite its reputation.
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9. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Roger Moore had the longest stint as Bond, appearing in seven films over a 12 year period (1973-1985). Unfortunately, Moore also has the unfortunate distinction of appearing in some of the worst films in the entire franchise, his tenure defined mostly by its campiness and ridiculous concepts. Luckily, his third outing as the iconic British spy was a hit and made up for the dreadful Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). The Spy Who Loved Me encompasses pretty much all of the tropes that have become synonymous with the franchise: cool gadgets, fast cars, beautiful women, and entertaining villains – the recently deceased Richard Kiel appears as the iconic villain Jaws. It's simply a fun Bond film in the classic sense and sometimes that's good enough.
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8. Dr. No
It's hard to believe the Bond films have been around since 1962 and Dr. No is the one that started it all. The great thing about this film is that it feels so assured and well-thought out – this is not a series that needed a few films to find its footing, that's for sure. Sean Connery simply embodies the role from the very beginning; it's not hard to see why it was so difficult for another actor to fill his shoes after he left the role. Granted, Dr. No does feel stripped down compared to many films in the series – there isn't much action and the film is smaller than most, being set primarily in only one location as opposed to the globe-trotting the series has become known for. Regardless, Dr. No still holds up surprisingly well for a 52 year old film and absolutely still stands as a top 10 film in the franchise.
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7. Goldfinger
The third film in the franchise, Goldfinger is often credited with being the first film to establish the "Bond formula", namely the tropes that would carry through to many of the other films (gadgets, girls, villains – see also The Spy Who Loved Me). Goldfinger is arguably the Connery-era film that holds up the best, as it has several thrilling set pieces and a fun but ridiculous story to boot. Tasked with stopping Goldfinger, an international gold tycoon, from upending the world's economy by flooding Fort Knox with radiation, Bond has to contend with such iconic figures as Oddjob, Goldfinger's hat-throwing henchman, and Pussy Galore, a pilot played by Honor Blackman with one of the best double entendre names in the series. Goldfinger is arguably the best "classic" Bond to revisit, as it represents the beginnings of so many Bond conventions.
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6. The Living Daylights
The best Bond film of the 1980s, The Living Daylights was the first and best film of Timothy Dalton's underrated, much-too-short run as Bond. Of all the films in the pre-Daniel Craig era, this one feels the most like a modern Bond film and that's a very good thing. In addition to Dalton's fantastic work as a more physical, serious Bond, The Living Daylights also delivers a fantastic plot filled with double-crosses and international arms dealings. It also has a phenomenal final act set in the deserts of Afghanistan, centred around a mid-air brawl set on a plane that would go on to inspire a similar scene in the popular Uncharted video game series. The Living Daylights doesn't quite match up to the quality of the last few Bond films, but it is an important and underrated entry in the series that proved Bond could be a more serious and physical presence long before Daniel Craig stepped into the role.
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5. From Russia With Love
Although Goldfinger is the Connery film that holds up the best, From Russia With Love is the best Bond outing the Scotsman ever did. Released in 1963, only a year after Dr. No, From Russia With Love is very much a hard-edged spy/espionage films, whereas most of the other Bond films are more cartoonish and fantastical. As the title implies, Bond is sent to Russia in order to retrieve an encryption device from a nefarious criminal organization called SPECTRE. One of the great things about this film is that it really helps fill in the world of James Bond after the relatively low-key plotting of Dr. No. SPECTRE are a significant addition to the series, so much so that the next Bond film is bringing it back, and is titled after the organization. As if that wasn't enough to elevate it to the top five, From Russia With Love also has one of the greatest fight scenes in the series, a brutal bare-knuckle brawl in a cramped train compartment.
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4. Goldeneye
Goldeneye was a very significant film because it not only introduced a new Bond in Pierce Brosnan but had to prove that the franchise was still viable after a 6 year hiatus from 1989's License to Kill, the longest wait between films in series history. Thankfully, Goldeneye was not only worth the wait but became a fan-favorite in its own right, and is considered one of the best films in the franchise. Goldeneye has so much going for it: a great villain in the former friend-turned-enemy Agent 006, played by the always reliable Sean Bean, strong female leads in computer hacker Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco) and the domineering villainess Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), and a self-aware story that directly addresses the misogynistic nature of Bond. Plus, Judi Dench makes her first appearance as Bond's superior M, which remains one of the best casting decisions in the series.
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3. Skyfall
For being the newest film in the franchise, Skyfall commits a major blunder by repeating the misogynist tropes of the old Bond (Bond essentially rapes a woman in her shower). Despite this error in judgement, Skyfall is one of the most exciting and original Bond films ever made – a film that honors the character's past while setting its gaze squarely on his future. Directed by Sam Mendes, a filmmaker known for his dramatic pictures, Skyfall continually questions Bond's relevancy in a more digitally-connected world, especially when Bond is an aging, fallible man (the film begins with Bond seemingly dying after being accidentally shot off a moving train). In addition, Skyfall offers up one of the best third acts in the series with a unique twist that helps fill in Bond's past, an aspect of the character that has never really been addressed on screen. Mendes is returning to helm next year's SPECTRE and if he can fix the misogynistic tendencies of this film, he might just make the best Bond film of all time.
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2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The best Bond film pre-Daniel Craig and close to being the best ever made, On Her Majesty's Secret Service is more famous for its behind-the-scenes drama than the film itself, which is a shame because it's a true gem. Released in 1969, this was the first Bond made without original actor Sean Connery. Debuting in his one and only appearance as Bond, Australian model George Lazenby is better in the role than he has any right to be, and Diana Rigg turns in one of the greatest performances by a Bond girl in the series. Accompanied by a sensational score composed by John Barry, and an epic ski-chase that would inspire a similar scene in Christopher Nolan's Inception, On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the gold standard of classic Bond and the most underrated film in the series.
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1. Casino Royale
The film that reinvented Bond for the 21st century and saved the franchise from mediocrity and becoming a parody of itself, Casino Royale is not only the best Bond film but one of the best action/spy films of the new millennium. Pretty much everything about this film is top notch, from the black and white cold open to the honest-to-goodness love story underlying all of the action. Daniel Craig owns the role completely and brings a much-needed physicality and pathos to the role, silencing all of the critics who thought he was wrong for the role because of his blond hair, of all things. Romantic, stylish, cool, and exciting, Casino Royale simply encompasses every quality that a Bond film should aspire to and absolutely deserves to be called the best of this 50+ year old franchise.
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The original architectural layout of this house has a number of features in common with New Kingdom Egyptian houses more widely. The deposits, floors, finds and features excavated within these spaces have challenged some of the more architecturally-based assumptions we held about how different areas of this house were used by its inhabitants, and have also provided us with an interesting - if still not completely understood - story of modification and adaptation over time.
Starting from the front of the house, a large space (D12.7.6) was added outside the house's original front door later in its history, extending the residents' property far into the adjacent street D12.10. The room's initial floor brick pavement was covered by a series of sandy potsherd-rich deposits much like those in D12.10; the space was almost certainly an unroofed courtyard and seems to have acted in part as a dump for household rubbish. The house's new front entrance to the west of this courtyard was enclosed by a low horseshoe-shaped retaining wall that contained an exceptionally exciting find: the upended fragment of an inscribed sandstone door lintel.
The find depicts a seated woman with a small monkey standing at the foot of her chair and is part of a larger scene, the other pieces of which are now either lost or remain unexcavated. Significantly, the woman's name is inscribed above her, providing us with one of the very few examples of a named non-royal individual that have so far been found at the site. This recycling of inscribed stone architectural elements – in this case by being built into a wall serving the more prosaic function of keeping rising street deposits from entering the house – is a common feature of later phase buildings at Amara West.
If the issue of rising street levels was a problem after extension D12.7.6 was built, it was certainly already causing difficulties earlier in the house's history, when a retaining wall and low staircase, continuously added to over time, lead down to the original front doorway of the house. This entrance would have originally been framed by sandstone doorjambs, which were both cut out after the abandonment of D12.7 and probably reused elsewhere. Happily, the doorway's original stone threshold was still intact, and proved to be another recycled piece of an inscribed stone door lintel. This stone contained a small portion of a hieroglyphic offering formula, as well as the highly worn traces of a possible seated figure and chair in its centre.
The house's entrance room (D12.7.5) beyond this doorway would have originally been a particularly impressive space, with a brick paved floor and probably the only vaulted ceiling within the building. This room also contained an entrance into the houses kitchen - possibly a later addition to the house and blocked off in the final phases of occupation. The kitchen contained four bread ovens built over at least two construction phases. Next to this oven room was a small annexe created by a flimsily constructed wall, which contained the site's first evidence of animal stabling, in the form of preserved sheep or goat dung pellets and a thick brown organic crust. Micromorphological investigation will allow us to confirm if these deposits are the result of animals living in the room, or perhaps relate instead to the storage of dung, which may have been burnt as a fuel. At any rate the possible presence of animals or animal waste next to a cooking area raises questions of how residents' health may have been impacted upon. It is also interesting to consider that any animals kept in this room would have been lead into and out of the house's only entrance – its formal stone front door – which was also used by the house's residents and any visitors.
This room lead into a long central space (D12.7.4), which was equipped with a single grain grinding emplacement and contained a thick sequence of sandy surfaces interleaved with numerous water-laid silt lenses. This type of surface, which formed over an original mud plaster floor, could be formed by the frequent splashing of water over time, in order to keep down dust and form a compact surface. The surface is suggestive of an outdoor space, implying that instead of being an indoor room, D12.7.4 may instead been an open or only partially roofed internal courtyard.
As well as leading into the rear suite of the house, one end of D12.7.4 contained a doorway leading into a room containing nothing except an enormously large hole! Similarly arranged houses at Amara would strongly suggest that this room (D12.7.9) originally contained a staircase, providing access to an upper story or roof. Mud bricks were frequently dug out of the site in later times to be used as fertiliser or building materials, and a dense brick staircase would certainly have been a tempting target to these people, who have thoroughly removed any trace of its existence!
An unusual feature of D12.7 is the way in which all internal doorways – the majority of which had outward facing 'insets' that may have originally accommodated stone doorjambs or even wooden doors – were at some point in the house's history all modified by the construction of one or two small walls within these insets. Was this the result of changing architectural fashions, the desire to reuse architectural elements elsewhere, or perhaps the intentional narrowing of doors in an effort to restrict the amount of light or wind entering rooms?
This is not the only enigmatic aspect of D12.7's doorways. Three roughly arm-length holes were found cut into the bases of walls, either in or immediately next to these entrances (more may still remain to be discovered, hidden behind the doorway modification walls mentioned above). One of these holes contained a small intact jar, laid upon its side with its mouth facing outwards. The burial of infants or foetuses in pots is known from other New Kingdom sites, but this vessel was filled only with windblown sand; its original significance to those who placed it here remains mysterious.
Room D12.7.1, with mastaba-bench at the back.
One of the most intriguing results of the season's excavations has come from the most 'formal' room of the house, D12.7.1, which is furnished with a long, low mastaba seating platform, hard mud plaster floor, central hearth and a dado of white wall plaster (an arrangement similar to rooms in house E13.7, for example). Towards the north of this room we found an enigmatic installation (12068) not yet attested at either Amara West (and I have yet to find parallels from other New Kingdom town siites), formed of a mud plastered lower basin connected by a small channel to an upper basin. This upper basin contains a distinctive torus or 'donut' shaped basket impression flanked by two ceramic pot stand impressions, all made when the mud floor these objects sat upon was wet.
The exact function of feature 12068 is unclear, but its use does seem to have involved water – probably stored in ceramic vessels sitting upon these pot stands and then perhaps directed into or over the basket before being drained into the installation's lower basin. It is uncertain what substances, if any, might have been put inside this basket, but a clue is provided by the lenses of red pigment deposited in the lower basin and also splashed upon the floor and walls around the feature. It seems plausible then that 12068 functioned as a pigment processing and mixing installation, although it may also have served other purposes that are for now less clear to us.
Due to its height above the rest of the room's floor, we first thought that 10268 must be a late addition to the room, perhaps built once the presumably more formal original functions of this room had ceased to be as important. However, a sondage through the floor of D12.7.1 has partially revealed an earlier basin (12164), sitting on the earliest exposed floor of this room and adjoined by another torus-shaped basket impression. The apparently long-term presence of these installations, which could be linked to household-based craft or decorative activities, challenges our existing understanding of these 'formal' rooms, implying that a more multifunctional use of space may have been the norm at Amara West – even in quite large houses such as D12.7. As always, this prompts the difficult but important question of what else might have gone on within house rooms that has not left such obvious and well preserved traces, a problem that I will continue to address over the course of my PhD research through the micromorphological and geochemical analysis of this and other houses' floor deposits.
Space D12.7.1 was flanked by a pair of similarly sized long and narrow rooms, reminiscent of the official storage magazines found within the town walls at Amara West. The northernmost of this pair (D12.7.3) in particular contained many flat stone slabs upon the floor, which may have been used as termite-proof bases on which to sit perishable items or wooden objects. Most evocative of storage were the many clay seal impressions found embedded in the soft silty floor of the southernmost of these rooms (D12.7.2), suggesting that this household participated in the town's wider elite or official storage and sealing practices. The house also yielded impressions of larger stamps, some with royal names upon them. Back in D12.7.2, we were also lucky enough to get a glimpse further back in time, with a set of garden plots unexpectedly appearing just beneath the floor of this room, pointing to an agricultural use of the land later built over by this house.
Some work still remains to be done in D12.7. It is particularly important for our understanding of the house's means of production and self-sufficiency to know whether the cooking facilities found in D12.7.7 were an originally planned part of the house or not. We also need to know how long these ovens were used for before the room and its neighbour D12.7.8 were eventually sealed off for good. Future excavations outside the house should also help to reveal D12.7's temporal relationship with its neighbour D12.6 and a series of other houses to the north, helping us to build up a better picture of urban development in this area of the town. In addition, the ceramic assemblage, artefacts and other samples will need to be analysed, to provide more insights into life in the ancient house, when it was created (we provisionally date it to the late 19th or early 20th dynasty, around 1170BC) and when it was finally abandoned.
While house D12.7 has not given up all of its secrets, the 2014 excavations here have provided a detailed insight into the history and use of a large house at Amara West, showing in particular how what may at first appear to be a relatively standard architectural configuration can be modified and adapted over time – or perhaps even from the outset – to suit the needs and lifeways of its inhabitants.


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The Secret Marriage è un cortometraggio muto del 1913 prodotto dalla Kalem e diretto da J.P. McGowan.

Trama
Jim Wayburne, un uomo dal carattere molto forte e virile, quando si reca a sud dove deve occuparsi in qualità di ingegnere della costruzione di una ferrovia, si innamora di Nelly Marson, la figlia dei suoi ospiti. Lei, però, anche se colpita dalle sue qualità, dichiara che non lo ama abbastanza da diventare sua moglie. Si innamora a prima vista, invece, di Ned, il fratello di Jim, quando viene in visita. Lui la induce a un matrimonio segreto ma quando lei insiste per rendere pubblico il loro legame, Ned si esaspera e se ne va via, lasciando al fratello una nota dove gli chiede di rimandargli tutti gli effetti personali che ha lasciato a casa. Jim, che non ha mai smesso di amare Nelly e non sapendo nulla del matrimonio, nutre la speranza che lei possa cambiare idea nei suoi confronti. Quando legge il biglietto del fratello che gli fa capire cosa sia veramente accaduto, va alla sua ricerca ma scopre con orrore che Ned è stato ucciso.Intanto Nelly racconta il suo segreto ai genitori che stanno per cacciarla da casa ma torna Jim con la triste notizia della morte del fratello. Il tempo passa e guarisce molte ferite. In un momento di pericolo, Jim salva Molly e si rende conto che è lui l'uomo destinato a proteggerla per tutta la vita.

Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla Kalem Company.

Distribuzione
Distribuito dalla General Film Company, il film - un cortometraggio di una bobina - uscì nelle sale cinematografiche degli Stati Uniti il 23 aprile 1913.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Cortometraggi drammatici

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