Let's have a little quiz to check how closely you've been paying attention to Hawai'i's congressional delegation.
On Iraq: "This administration induced us into military intervention in Iraq under false pretenses. It underestimated the total cost of both the war and the peace."
On the Republican energy bill: "A disgrace epitomizing everything that's wrong with our national political process today. This is as good as it gets ... for hungry pigs slurping up the goodies at a plentiful trough."
On Bush tax cuts: "What the president is basically saying to our American family is this: I want to reduce our family's income, and I don't expect it to be made up anytime soon, if ever, but I'm not willing to reduce our expenses, so we'll just max out our debt and interest payments and hand the mess off to our children."
On the environment: "(The) administration has utterly failed to fulfill its obligation to provide good stewardship for our environment."
On the Bush budget: "It is spun as a fiscal rescue mission when in fact this administration created the very crisis it first tried to obscure, then to downplay, and now to address."
On Medicare prescriptions: "This bill ... is a Trojan horse which would insidiously, but surely, destroy a proven safety net."
If you haven't guessed already, the rabble-rousing quotes all came not from the liberal firebrand Abercrombie, but from Case, the self-styled political moderate.
It's interesting because Case has made his supposed centrist views and bipartisan outlook a pivotal issue in his campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, a fellow Democrat and acknowledged liberal.
"(The) mainstream — where most of us are — is not at the edges, but in the middle ground. That mainstream also does not view or evaluate issues through an overly partisan lens."
It's difficult to see these qualities in some of the rhetorical grenades Case has lobbed at Bush and the Republicans — or a compelling argument that he's any more able to work with the GOP majority than others in the Hawai'i delegation.
Case has split with Hawai'i colleagues on issues such as renewal of the Patriot Act and specifics of troop withdrawals from Iraq, but their records and rhetoric have been more alike than not.
If anything, Sens. Akaka and Daniel K. Inouye have been less inflammatory than Case and Abercrombie in partisan attacks on the Republicans.
This is not to criticize the substance of Case's views; from his runaway victories in both of his U.S. House elections, he's clearly well within the mainstream of Hawai'i political thinking.
It's just to make the point that Akaka and the others also appear to be within the mainstream that Case has defined by word and example.
As the campaign develops, Case must move away from generalities and sharpen his arguments about moderate leadership with convincing specifics.
If he can't make the moderation issue stick, all he'll have left is the difference in ages — Case is 53 and Akaka is 81 — as rationale for challenging a well-regarded incumbent in his own party.
The age issue alone won't likely win this election for Case in a culture in which we revere our elders and frown upon age discrimination.


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Police probe into claims Tories offering Brexit Party candidates incentives to pull out of election race
Nigel Farage has claimed he's been repeatedly offered a seat in the House of Lords to "go quietly".
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Nigel Farage has said the system is "corrupt and broken".
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THE METROPOLITAN POLICE is assessing two allegations of electoral fraud after claims the Tories offered peerages – titles which would in effect give them seats on the House of Lords – to senior Brexit Party figures to persuade them to stand down in the general election.
Lord Falconer wrote to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and Director of Public Prosecutions calling for a probe into what he said were "exceptionally serious allegations".
The Labour former lord chancellor said it should be investigated as a matter of urgency and must be looked at by police in order to maintain public confidence in the integrity of the election.
His letter to Dame Cressida Dick and Max Hill QC refers to Nigel Farage's claim that he and eight other senior figures within the Brexit Party were offered peerages.
Politics in this country is broken and corrupt. We need to Change Politics For Good. This is why: pic.twitter.com/kWEP5CTmYz
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) November 14, 2019
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Lord Falconer said he has seen evidence that the claims are correct, telling BBC Radio 4's Today Programme: "I've seen evidence from Ann Widdecombe that is a film in which first she says first of all that somebody from Number 10, not Boris Johnson, not Sir Edward Lister, not Dominic Cummings, first of all pushed her not to stand with, quote, 'moral arguments', then came back and pushed her not to stand on the basis that she be given a place in the negotiating team.
The law is that if somebody corruptly induces or procures another person to withdraw from being a candidate at an election, that is both a crime and a corrupt practice at an election, which can lead an election to be set aside.
The Metropolitan Police said: "The MPS has received two allegations of electoral fraud and malpractice in relation to the 2019 General Election.
"The MPS special enquiry team is responsible for investigating all such criminal allegations. Both allegations are currently being assessed.
"The MPS will not be providing comment about individual cases."
Farage has claimed he had repeatedly been offered a seat in the House of Lords in an attempt to persuade him to "go quietly".
He said that when that failed, people working "deep inside Number 10" had tried to bypass him, going directly to senior Brexit Party figures and suggesting eight of them could be made peers if they could persuade him to withdraw more of his candidates.
Even Boris Johnson's Chief Strategic Adviser Sir Edward Lister is calling our candidates and offering them jobs if they withdraw. The system is corrupt and broken. #ChangePoliticsForGood
In his letter, Lord Falconer cites the law which refers to "bribery" and "corruptly", inducing or procuring someone to withdraw from being a candidate at an election.
Commenting on the letter on the Today Programme, Michael Gove said: "I've got great respect for Charlie Falconer (Lord Falconer) but I think that this sounds pretty nonsensical to me."
Lord Falconer said that as breaches of the 1983 Act may have taken place, he is "formally requesting that the Director of Public Prosecutions do institute the necessary investigations and commence such prosecutions as he sees fit".
The Prime Minister acknowledged that there may have been "conversations" between senior Tories and people in the Brexit Party, but flatly denied there had been any offers of peerages, saying that was "just not the way we operate".
Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib, when asked if the Tory Party's denials were a lie, told Sophy Ridge on Sky: "Well I'm saying they're being economical with the truth for sure. Absolutely. It has been going on. Without a shadow of a doubt."
Lord Falconer said: "These are exceptionally serious allegations which the DPP must, in accordance with his statutory duty, fully investigate as a matter of urgency.
"In addition, in order to maintain public confidence in the integrity of our electoral processes and this election, it is crucial that the Metropolitan Police also examine these accusations."
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It is with a heavy heart I have decided not to contest Dudley North as a Brexit Party candidate.
I am putting country before party as it is highly conceivable my candidacy could allow Corbyn's Momentum candidate to win.
They are simply not fit to govern. pic.twitter.com/kfYIMV3CHJ
— Rupert Lowe (@RupertLowe10) November 14, 2019
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The row came amid growing pressure on Mr Farage in the run-up to the close of nominations on Thursday to stand down Brexit Party candidates in all but a few dozen constituencies to avoid splitting the pro-Leave vote.
The Brexit Party leader had already said they would not contest the 317 seats which the Conservatives had won in the 2017 election.
Suspicions that individual Brexit Party candidates were coming under pressure to stand aside were heightened after the prospective candidate for Dudley North announced he would not be running.
Rupert Lowe, a Brexit Party MEP and former chairman of Southampton FC, revealed his decision as nominations were closing – meaning it was too late for the party to put forward an alternative.
Lord Falconer's letter includes a mention of Ann Widdecombe, the former Tory MP now standing for the Brexit Party in Plymouth Sutton and Devonport.
Widdecombe said she was offered a role in the Brexit negotiations if she was prepared to stand aside.
Pressed on Widdecombe's claim, Gove said: "I haven't spoken to Ann and I don't know anyone who has spoken to Ann for months now."
Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson told the PA news agency: "Nothing would surprise me about the Conservatives these days given what they've been prepared to do.
"If Boris Johnson's prepared to lie to the Queen, lie to the country, you know, I'm going to stop being shocked at where his lack of boundaries lies."
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British millers make plans to keep flour flowing to Ireland
By Susan Reidy
LONDON, ENGLAND — To reduce tariffs as a result of Brexit, British flour suppliers are considering importing and milling E.U. wheat and selling the flour into Ireland, the Irish Times reported.
The plan is just one being considered in the event of a "disorderly" U.K. withdrawal from the E.U., said the National Association of British and Irish Flour Millers (nabim).
A majority of the bulk flour used in Ireland comes from two mills in Northern Ireland or other mills in Britain. About 4,000 tonnes of flour is imported every week. If the U.K. left the E.U. without a deal, tariffs on that flour would amount to €172 per tonne, or the equivalent of 15¢ per loaf of bread.
If U.K. mills sourced and milled E.U. wheat and exported the flour to Ireland, it would reduce the tariff impact by two-thirds, nabim officials said.
Ireland needs too much flour each week that stockpiling it isn't practical, the newspaper reported. Only a few weeks' worth can be stored at one time.
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Last week's disappointing jobs number could mean the Fed moves more slowly than expected with an interest-rate hike, but the quantitative easing trade has already moved, and beyond U.S. borders.
If you want to see where investors are betting on easy money policies from central banks to boost financial stocks, look no further than the relatively weak performance of U.S. bank stock exchange-traded funds in the first quarter as the yield curve flattened, and the outperformance of European and Japanese financials ETFs. The case for international financial stocks is a microcosm of the broader global equities bets focused on European and Asian stocks.
The domestic KBW bank stock index is down 2.17 percent year-to-date through April 6.
The KBW Global Financials Index (ex U.S.) is up 3.74 percent.
Fred Cannon, financial sector analyst at KBW, said the beating that U.S. bank stocks have taken recently is easy to explain. Investors had been betting since at least 2013 that an eventual Fed rate hike would increase the net interest margins of banks. Banks borrow short and lend long, and that makes the shape of the yield curve very important to banks. But the yield curve has flattened, against expectations, and that has diminished expectations for near-term net interest margin expansion.
"The flattening of the yield curve has killed U.S. banks," said Eric Dutram, ETF strategist at Zacks.
"U.S. banks had been strong outperformers relative to Europe, and now investors are looking for that trade in Europe, at least through 2015," Cannon said. U.S. bank stocks are up 10 percent in the past one-year period versus a negative return for the global financials, according to KBW data.
Speaking about both European and Japanese financials, he added that the more recent trade is "a play on asset and credit recovery in those markets and for those banks, and that has already played itself out in the U.S."
Among the best performers in the financials ETF space are hedged equity ETFs, and that's no surprise, as the hedge equity approach to ETF investing has been the biggest winner across all equities in 2015.
Dutram said the hedged equity trade, across the board, is a trade on the strength of the U.S. dollar more than on any individual sector—investors can target it through financials or any other kind of international equity. In choosing between Europe and Japan, Dutram thinks that the Japan trade has been extended for longer than the European opportunity.
"Europe's time is now," Dutram said. "If you really think Greece will run out of money, maybe Japan is the better pick, but the Japan story is a little played out," he added.
Dutram is less inclined to recommend some of the most niche international financial plays, even ones that have done well, like the Global X China Financials ETF (CHIX). He said the China A shares trend in the ETF space is worth following, but with a broader China A shares ETF like iShares China Large-Cap (FXI) already offering 40 percent of its exposure to China through local financials, he doesn't think there is the need for a dedicated China financials portfolio.
"Everyone is focused on the A shares frenzy, but you get a decent enough financials component in a regular China ETF while still getting access to other sectors," Dutram said.
Cannon said investors overlook the opportunity in overseas financials at their own cost. "The global ones need to be watched carefully," he said, adding, "That could play itself out for a while. If QE succeeds in Europe and there is significant asset recovery, we could see financials continue to show strength."
The KBW analyst explained that "banks in Europe still have heavy credit costs baked into them because the economy hasn't been good, so if QE works and expands asset values, we can see earnings recover nicely."
The financials ETF space offers the second most choices of any sector bet behind technology ETFs, with more than 30 offerings, and some other bets are doing well also, though they don't tend to attract much in the way of assets from investors.
Several other financial stock niches are beating the broader equity market in 2015, according to performance data from KBW's family of financial stock indexes, some of which have ETF counterparts.
Year-to-date, four of those six indexes beat the S&P 500 return of roughly 1.4 percent year-to-date (KBW Regional Banking is running neck-and-neck with the broader market while the insurance index has lagged because life insurance companies trade with long-term bonds due to the long-lived nature of their assets. When the 10-year is below 2 percent, the bond market will drag down life insurance stocks, which have large weightings in the insurance index.
Mortgage index has surprised this year because bond yields went down against expectations, and more than people expected. Coming into the year, people thought mortgage rates would be rising, putting a damper on refinancing activity.
Cannon said the Capital Markets Index—which includes all of the brokers—has done well, in part, because the beginning of the year has been volatile and the brokers and exchanges tend to outperform in these situations. There is such a thing as "good volatility," Cannon said, so short periods of the market moving up and down a lot are good for these firms, as long as it does not lead to investors bailing on the market entirely.
Dutram said that even though it's clear that "U.S. financials sort of fell out of favor for a few months and the funds are losing assets," once interest rates do rise, investors will take another look at the space. "We saw lots of interest in biotech, and it's been a strong performing segment, but if we see sector rotation, there could be a little more interest for regional bank and other U.S. rate plays," Dutram said.


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Luke Perry's final 'Riverdale' episode to air this week
Erin Jensen
"Riverdale" fans, get ready to say goodbye to Luke Perry.
The show's creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa revealed via Twitter that Wednesday's episode (8 EDT/PDT) is the final one Perry shot before he suffered a massive stroke and died March 4 age 52.
The "Beverly Hills, 90210" alum played Fred Andrews, dad to Archie (KJ Apa).
"This week's #Riverdale is the last episode Luke filmed," Aguirre-Sacasa wrote in a tweet that included a photo of Perry. "As always, Fred's imparting words of wisdom to Archie. A beautiful, true moment between a father and his son.
"Wish these scenes could go on forever..." Aguirre-Sacasa continued.
The aftermath:Cole Sprouse says 'Riverdale' cast is 'recovering' after Luke Perry's death
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Aquirre-Sacasa tweeted last month that the first episode to air since the actor's death would be dedicated to Perry, "as all episodes will be for the rest of our run."
Perry, a supporting player on "Riverdale," which focuses on the teen characters, has appeared in subsequent episodes. He didn't appear in every episode, but Fred offered wisdom and gravitas, needed traits in a small town where wild things happen.
USA TODAY has reached out to reps for "Riverdale" for more information about this week's episode.
Contributing: Bill Keveney
More:Luke Perry gets sweet photo tribute from his 'Buffy' co-star Kristy Swanson
More:'90210' cast reunited to mourn Luke Perry, Brian Austin Green reveals


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It wasn't a four day weekend, but it was darn close. Close enough to trigger "the curse" anyway – I caught a good one, a cold. Leah and Nathan both caught it too – so maybe I have an excuse. Current best victim to be blamed is Karen. Yesterday was sleeping and sneezing, and when I woke up today I knew that I better keep myself quarantined.
So its hot tea and vitamin C. I'm feeling far more lucid today though, which is a blessing. Yesterday it felt like I was mentally wading through molasses. Cold molasses. I hate that feeling. I'm hoping that chillin' out today will have me back and rarin' to go tomorrow.


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With their lavish collection of succulents, cacti, vines, and hanging plants are Wilton Garden Club members, from left, Patty Angione, Mya Smith and JoAnn Overton. All the plants were grown in the club's greenhouse for its annual plant sale May 7-8.
The Wilton Garden Club's greenhouse at Comstock is now in "high season," brimming over with aloes, aeoniums, echeverias, agaves, kalanchoes, sedums, haworthii, and dozens of other succulents, cacti, vines, and ferns, all cultivated by garden club volunteers to be ready for this year's 2010 Plants' Sale on the Wilton Village Green, Friday, May 7, from 4 to 7, and Saturday, May 8, from 9 to noon.
I wonder where Wilton is; what state we're talking about here?
Connecticut, our favorite Nutmeg State. And yes, those people refer to themselves as "Nutmeggers." I don't make up the news, I just report it.


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Better than a poet, wiser than a philosopher, more devoted than a priest, he became a soldier
He hated war, but he served. He just didn't need our thanks or our praise or our understanding. Because, of course, we couldn't understand.
The Lone Soldier(iStock / Getty Images)
By Joshua J. Whitfield|Contributor
11:00 AM on May 25, 2018
Sigfried Sassoon wrote a poem called "Reconciliation" just after the end of World War I. A century old this November, it's a poem about a truth still unlearned, truth beyond pieties, beyond pride.
Called "Mad Jack" by his men, Sassoon was a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Wounded early in the war, still he went back to the front. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery. Later, he was sent to a mental hospital in Scotland, purportedly for what we'd today call PTSD, but really because he'd begun to speak out very publicly against the war. Yet he still went back to fight. The war, not surprisingly, changed him for the rest of his life. "Everlastingly differentiated from everyone," he said, "except his fellow soldiers."
His poetry changed, too. Of that great fraternity of soldier poets, writing poetry wasn't as rare then as now, the last century far more literate than ours. He'd written poetry all his life; however, his early poetry was a bit too quaint, pastoral, privileged and romantic. That is, it wasn't very good.
But then, the war. His writing changed. "Darkness ... the mire was deep;" he tried to see Christ in the trenches, "in Hell's unholy shine" as he called it. Gone were cheap, privileged words, his romantic stupidity. Vast death had changed him. Better than a poet, wiser than a philosopher, more devoted than a priest: he'd become a soldier. He had learned truth only they know. "Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land," he wrote, "Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows ... dreamers; when the guns begin."
He hated war, like every good soldier. The jingoism, the idealism of the comfortable: he hated it all. He was a soldier, but he knew what that meant. Duty and sacrifice weren't cheap for him as they are for some. "War is our scourge; yet war has made us wise," he wrote; the meaning of these words would change for him. He hated war, but he served. He just didn't need our thanks or our praise or our understanding. Because we couldn't understand.
He lamented that "In fifty years, when peace outshines/ Remembrance of the battle lines,/ Adventurous lads will sigh and cast/ Proud looks upon the plundered past.../ They'll envy us." Like fools, he thought. He fought a war which taught most nothing; that explains the strangeness of the man the rest of his life. Because he, unlike many, had learned.
Which brings me back to what I want to talk about, to the poem "Reconciliation." Not fitting the narrative, not feeding the hatred still smoldering in the hearts of so many in November 1918, the poem angered many. It didn't share in the sort of triumph that condemned Germany to the hells so many British thought they deserved.
Instead, it was a poem about peace, how it's finally achieved. It was a poem, as its simple title makes plain, about reconciliation instead of triumph, the reunion of humanity instead of condemnation. This poem:
When you are standing at your hero's grave,
Or near some homeless village where he died,
Remember, through your heart's rekindling pride,
The German soldiers who were loyal and brave.
Men fought like brutes; and hideous things were done;
And you have nourished hatred, harsh and blind.
But in that Golgotha perhaps you'll find
The mothers of the men who killed your son.
You can understand why some hated it and why some hate it still. It refuses to honor our bitterness, refuses to vindicate. One wonders how loved ones and survivors read it. It speaks an angering and unwelcome truth, just when one's become comfortable with one's enemies. It shames the hells we've made with something we know is true, but which we nonetheless resent.
Which is why all the more it's a poem worth remembering, especially in our pettier but frighteningly no-less-divided world. And it's why I suggest Sassoon's poem is the perfect moral lesson for Memorial Day, even a century after it was written.
Because it's a lesson I hope we're not too bitter to learn. Because it speaks of a love that refuses to keep enemies, which is exactly the sort of love we need.
Joshua J. Whitfield is pastoral administrator for St. Rita Catholic Community in Dallas and a frequent contributor to The Dallas Morning News. Email: jwhitfield@stritaparish.net
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Q: SQL Copy part of a column into a new column I've inherited a poorly set-up data source. Given the current data structure of:

PreAddress                                          City    County
12312 Osprey Drive NW Gig Harbor                    NULL    NULL
12312 Osprey Drive NW Gig Harbor                    NULL    NULL
3022 SW Bradford St Seattle                         NULL    NULL
3022 SW Bradford St Seattle                         NULL    NULL
4605 Prestwick Lane SE Olympia                      NULL    NULL
921 129th Street Court East Tacoma Auburn/Pierce    NULL    NULL

I need to tear the City names out of the PreAddress column, and dump it in the City column, so it looks like:

PreAddress                                          City                    County
12312 Osprey Drive NW                               Gig Harbor              NULL
12312 Osprey Drive NW                               Gig Harbor              NULL
3022 SW Bradford St                                 Seattle                 NULL
3022 SW Bradford St                                 Seattle                 NULL
4605 Prestwick Lane SE                              Olympia                 NULL
921 129th Street Court East                         Tacoma Auburn/Pierce    NULL

Any SQL Gurus out there have any idea how to script that?
UPDATE
First Pass SQL:
USE [SMS]
GO

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#tmpCitiesCounties') IS NOT NULL
    DROP TABLE #tmpCitiesCounties
GO

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#tmpCityCleanup') IS NOT NULL
    DROP TABLE #tmpCityCleanup
GO

CREATE TABLE #tmpCitiesCounties
    ( [ccId] INT IDENTITY(1, 1)
                 PRIMARY KEY
    , [City] VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL
    , [County] VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL );

CREATE TABLE #tmpCityCleanup
    ( [Id] INT NULL
    , [Address] VARCHAR(64) NULL
    , [City] VARCHAR(50) NULL
    , [County] VARCHAR(50) NULL );

INSERT  INTO [#tmpCitiesCounties]
        ( [City], [County] )
VALUES  ( 'Battle Ground', 'Clark' ),
        ( 'Camas', 'Clark' ),
        ( 'La Center', 'Clark' ),
        ( 'Ridgefield', 'Clark' ),
        ( 'Vancouver', 'Clark' ),
        ( 'Washougal', 'Clark' ),
        ( 'Yacolt', 'Clark' ),
        ( 'Fircrest', 'Pierce' ),
        ( 'Gig Harbor', 'Pierce' ),
        ( 'Unincorporated', 'Skagit' ),
        ( 'Arlington', 'Snohomish' ),
        ( 'Bothell/Snohomish', 'Snohomish' );

INSERT  INTO [#tmpCityCleanup]
        SELECT  [SNPR].[Id]
              , REPLACE(LOWER([SNPR].[PreAddress]), LOWER([TCC].[City]), '') AS [Address After]
              , [TCC].[City]
              , [TCC].[County]
        FROM    [dbo].[SellerNetProceedsResult] AS SNPR
                LEFT JOIN [#tmpCitiesCounties] AS TCC
                    ON [TCC].[City] = RIGHT(LOWER([SNPR].[PreAddress]), LEN(LOWER([TCC].[City])))
        ORDER BY [SNPR].[Id] DESC

SELECT  [TCC1].[Id]
      , [TCC1].[Address]
      , [TCC1].[City]
      , [TCC1].[County]
FROM    [#tmpCityCleanup] AS TCC1

So, this chunk of SQL correctly tears things out (that temp table of Cities and Counties is truncated, as there are a lot more than I wanted to put in this post), but as in the case of the row above where it has "Tacoma Auburn/Pierce", the SQL above leaves "Tacoma" after removing "Auburn/Pierce".
If I then run the following sql code, I get no recognition between the two tables on the address:
SELECT  [TCC1].*
      , REPLACE([TCC1].[Address], [TCC2].City, '') AS [Address After]
      --, [TCC2].[City]
      --, RIGHT([TCC1].[Address], LEN([TCC2].[City]))
FROM    [#tmpCityCleanup] AS TCC1
        left JOIN [#tmpCitiesCounties] AS TCC2
            ON [TCC2].[City] = RIGHT([TCC1].[Address], LEN([TCC2].[City]))

Instead, the "Address After" column is just null.

Id      PreAddress                              City            County  Address After
151     12312 osprey drive nw Gig Harbor        Algona          King    NULL
150     12312 osprey drive nw                   Gig Harbor      Pierce  NULL

Perhaps I'm missing something.

A: You'd need to have a lookup table of the possible table names. Off the top of my head, maybe something like:
UPDATE Address SET
  PreAddress=Replace(a.PreAddress,b.City,''),
  City=b.City
FROM Address a INNER JOIN Cities b  ON b.City=RIGHT(a.PreAddress,LEN(b.city))

A: If this is a once off update as opposed to a regular fix-up, for an alternative to SQL you use a batch geocoding service that will format the address's, and you could load them back into the table.  You'd get co-ordinates that way too :).

A: May be this will work
 DECLARE @Tbl TABLE (
        Adress VARCHAR(100),
        City VARCHAR(100),
        County VARCHAR(1)
    )

    INSERT INTO @Tbl VALUES ('12312 Osprey Drive NW Gig Harbor',NULL, NULL)
    INSERT INTO @Tbl VALUES ('12312 Osprey Drive NW Gig Harbor', NULL, NULL)
    INSERT INTO @Tbl VALUES ('3022 SW Bradford St Seattle', NULL, NULL)
    INSERT INTO @Tbl VALUES ('3022 SW Bradford St Seattle', NULL, NULL)

    --Before Update
    SELECT LEFT(Adress, NULLIF(LEN(Adress)-7,-5)), REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(Adress),1,CHARINDEX(' ',REVERSE(Adress))-1)),County  FROM @Tbl
    --Something like this is what you need
    UPDATE @Tbl
    SET Adress = t.Adress,
        City = t.city,
        County = t.county
    FROM @Tbl t
    WHERE t.Adress = Adress
    AND t.City = City


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Graphite Health Hires Senior Intermountain Healthcare Executive as Chief Operating Officer Latest Updates 2021
Published on : December 1, 2021 Published by : peter
Graphite Health, a new member-led company intent on transforming digital healthcare to improve patient outcomes and lower costs, today announced that Ryan Smith, vice president and chief information officer of Intermountain Healthcare, will become its new chief operating officer. Intermountain was one of the first three health systems to join Graphite Health as an organizing member along with SSM Health and Presbyterian Healthcare Services.
"We're ecstatic to have an individual with Ryan's deep experience and acumen joining our team," said Ries Robinson, MD, CEO of Graphite Health. "Ryan understands the challenges of both healthcare system leaders and digital health entrepreneurs firsthand, and he will ensure Graphite Health creates a solution that enables healthcare's digital transformation."
"We're excited to have one of our top leaders become a key Graphite Health executive," said Dan Liljenquist, senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Intermountain Healthcare and board chairman of Graphite Health. "Ryan is one of the strongest operational leaders I've worked with and he brings an in-depth understanding of health system needs, coupled with a passion for digital transformation in healthcare."
Smith has extensive experience in leading information technology systems and teams at healthcare systems and private health care support organizations. In addition to his current role at Intermountain, he's also been senior vice president and executive advisor at Health Catalyst, a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, and senior vice president and chief information officer at Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the country. Smith earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Utah and an MBA from Western Governors University.
"Ryan is a highly strategic leader and this move further signifies how committed we are to transforming healthcare's digital ecosystem," said Marc Harrison, MD, president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare.
At Graphite Health, Smith will report to Robinson. He will be responsible for operationalizing Graphite Health's objectives, building and leading a diverse team, managing corporate partnerships, and managing critical deliverables.
"I've been intrigued by Graphite Health's unique value proposition from the beginning and have enjoyed being involved in the organization's strategic planning," said Smith. "I love my current role at Intermountain, but I see this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help shift digital health on an even broader scale. From my experience, I know how critical it is for healthcare systems to have a more efficient and trusted way to adopt valuable digital health tools, and for digital health entrepreneurs to have a more seamless way to scale and integrate within the complexity of healthcare systems. I'm thrilled to be joining this dynamic team to help bridge these significant challenges and ultimately bring value to all stakeholders."
Smith will continue to serve as CIO of Intermountain through first quarter 2022 as he ramps up in his new position at Graphite Health. This will ensure ample time to transition his current role.
As previously announced, Stanley M. Huff, MD, FACMI, chief medical informatics officer at Intermountain Healthcare will also join Graphite Health. Intermountain is licensing its medical informatics intellectual property to Graphite Health free of charge.
Building on a common data language, Graphite Health is creating a standardized, interoperable data platform that enables a secure and open marketplace to streamline the distribution of digital health solutions for both health systems and entrepreneurs. For entrepreneurs, the common data language addresses inefficiencies in data translation and supports the development of plug-and-play digital applications. In turn, health system members can implement trusted digital tools as easily as anyone can download an app from an app store to a smartphone. These improvements will lead to more convenience, better quality care for patients, lower costs, and overall efficiency.
About Graphite Health
Graphite Health is a member-led company intent on transforming digital healthcare to improve patient outcomes and lower costs. By making data interoperability easy and affordable, Graphite Health facilitates the rapid adoption of digital health solutions and uses that platform structure to run a secure and open digital app marketplace. This will bring significant efficiencies to health systems' operations, create a more modern and convenient patient experience that promotes better care, and make it easier for digital health entrepreneurs to implement their solutions at scale. Graphite Health is guided by the Digital Hippocratic Oath, which puts the privacy and trust of patients and providers first. Graphite's founding members include: Intermountain Healthcare, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, and SSM Health. For more information.
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Independence Day is usually celebrated — most vocally anyway — by used car dealerships and department stores. However, it's important for 'We the People' to remember who was driving the four-wheel liberty drive, no money down, no interest for 12 months, freedom machine that became the United States of America on the Fourth of July.
Chief among them, was Benjamin Franklin. Any exercise to choose just one Founding Father as 'the best' is inherently a subjective one. However, the following 6 reasons why Benjamin Franklin is the best will hopefully persuade you to agree.
Shortly after the United States declared independence in 1776, the future of the revolution would be determined — in part — by international relations. More precisely, whether or not the French could be convinced to throw lives and treasure at the British once again. French forces had also just been defeated by American colonists in the French and Indian War over a decade before.
In February 1778, Franklin convinced France to sign the Treaty of Alliance which declared war on Great Britain and allied the rival European superpower with the U.S. Many experts agree that without the help of thousands of French soldiers, it's expansive Navy, additional munitions, and an estimated 1.3 billion livres, American independence would not have occurred.
Front side of Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, signed by Benjamin Franklin. Credit: United States Senate, Center for Legislative Archives.
In a time and place where slavery was both widespread and inextricably tied to the nation's economic prosperity, one may be compelled to play the culture card. However, Benjamin Franklin was able to use his reason to deduce the immorality of slavery and would go on to organize one of the first anti-slavery societies in the U.S.
Albeit a tone which reads somewhat condescending today, in colonial America, to argue that blacks were just as capable and every bit as intelligent as whites was still a very dangerous argument to make.
Unlike many other Founding Fathers, Franklin didn't stop at personal pontification when it came to civil rights. In his later years he became a widely outspoken abolitionist and was President of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Shortly before his death on April 17, 1790, he petitioned the First Congress to abolish slavery.
His life story was synonymous with the American Dream. Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706, the third youngest of 17 siblings. His father was intent on sending him to become a minister. When Franklin instead applied himself to reading and writing, he was sent to apprentice with his older brother James as a printer.
While living the unglamorous life of an apprentice, the young Franklin poured over books in the shop and became a self-taught writer. Following a trip abroad to England, now a disciplined and savvy businessman, he bought his first newspaper — the Pennsylvania Gazette. In a few years it became the most popular publication in the colonies, filled with witty commentaries and revolutionary political ideas.
He later published the Poor Richard's Almanack, discovered universal properties of electricity, became the first postmaster of Pennsylvania, and founded one of the first non-religious universities in the US — the University of Pennsylvania. The rest, as they say, is history.
An accomplished publisher, writer and businessman. By his late 20s, Franklin had purchased the failing Pennsylvania Gazette and turned it into the most successful, and profitable, periodical in the new world. The famous 'Join or Die' political cartoon (authored by Franklin) first appeared in the Gazette's pages in 1754 in relation to the French and Indian War. It was later re-popularized following the enactment of the Stamp Act and became a hallmark of Revolutionary America.
New journalistic principles were invented while the Gazette was under Franklin's direction. The publication would feature conflicting arguments and commentaries (often written by Franklin himself) instead of maintaining one point of view. This practice would be the subject of considerable controversy, which prompted him to author the Apology of Printers. The letter is an expertly written defense that enumerates the principles that guide the publishing trade.
Benjamin Franklin was arguably the first published satirist in the United States. His good humor served him well not only as a diplomat but also as a writer. When writing he used comedy to appeal to a mass audience.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne, is oblig'd to sit upon his own arse.
He was one of the few Founding Fathers who never joined a political party. Like George Washington, Franklin remained independent of parties while others like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went on to become a Democratic-Republican and Federalist, respectively.


Packed to the Rafters stars James Stewart and Jessica Marais are expecting their first child. The gorgeous pair announced their news in a statement last week and are thrilled at the idea of being parents.
We can't wait to see Jessica and her new maternity wardrobe, as she continually tops the best dressed list.
Jess and James plan to marry next year, with the baby due in May.
She will look gorgeous pregnant and will be a stunning bride so we'll keep you up-to-date with all the baby and wedding news!


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Kingston school district expands summer school
Kingston school district superintendent Paul Padalino provided an update on the district's summer school program, which began Monday, July 5, at last week's school board meeting.
"This is the first time we've ever hosted our own summer school," Padalino said. "We usually have it with BOCES and many school districts participate."
Padalino said that there are 397 students in summer school at Kingston High School, 200 at J. Watson Bailey Middle School, 125 at George Washington Elementary School, and 100 at the students with disabilities program at Harry L. Edson Elementary School. He added that he expected the second summer session to be even larger.
"That requires the creation of a whole new master schedule and basically a mini-school year within the school (district)," Padalino said, adding that the district would like to continue in this vein. "We probably won't change this moving forward seeing the number of students we have participating. It far outnumbers what we've had in the past, and we're really excited to have this many students on our campuses…We're running a school district about the size of some of our neighbors during the summer here in Kingston. It's an exciting time."
The summer school program isn't just larger than in the past, it's different programmatically as well.
"We want to be academic, but we also want to hit that social and emotional piece of the puzzle and give students a reason to come, and the day is blended," Padalino said. "For example, a ninth-grade student may have math, and then his next period he's working with CCE (Center for Creative Education). It's almost like electives in a regular school day. Usually summer school is drill and kill. It's for students who weren't passing, especially at the secondary level, and it's Regents' review, Regents' review, Regents' review to get to that Regents' exam. We're extending the day a little bit, blending in those community partners."
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Evoque Data Center Solutions, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is recognized by industry analysts as one of the world's 20 largest data center firms. It owns and operates data centers across four continents, serving customers in multiple segments, including utilities, transport, energy, communications, healthcare, and technologies.
The Director of Competitive Intelligence for Evoque Data Center Solutions, Steve Friedberg, is tasked with identifying trends, keeping abreast of what's happening within the industry and sharing across the company, including its executives. The team's requirements are significant, with a need to keep track of new information, shifts in trends and updates among industry players on a daily basis.
To uncover these insights, the team had relied upon multiple sources, including Google Alerts, relationships with analysts, industry brokers and industry databases and newsletters. Steve found these traditional ways of searching to be time-consuming and did not always deliver the desired results. To aid the Evoque team in their quest for timely, high-quality and data-driven information, Steve sought a tool that would allow him to cut through the noise and help create a more efficient research process.
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sure enough, your name came up!!
Did a Yahoo search for Lexus GS300 sport and up you popped.
Google is the guilty party.
*sigh* Okay then, the great google *** really.
Every search engine that you use the words....lexus, jap, is200.....gives the first bunch of replies for links too LOC!!
Tried desperately to contact the 200BHP PLUS Club and another Toyota club advertised in the Japanese Performance mag but nay. Just wanted to speak to someone about a couple of issues but when I stumbled on this site I realised everything was here.
Big up to all da admin crew.
MSN search lead the way.
When will my Gold logo stuff appear on screen - I joined back in April ... !
had a big argument with Lexus Ireland and got a brand spanking new set under warranty !!!!
2 days warranty left on car the day I bought it !!!!
I found it very helpful and found it on Google.
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I got it on Google too.... now I'm on my second IS... and its Amarillo!!! I'm a lucky boy!


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Watch: 'Navvie' by Lunatic Soul
Following the premiere of "The Passage", the first single to be taken from the forthcoming seventh album Through Shaded Woods, due for release on 13th November through Kscope, Lunatic Soul have released a new track and video, the instrumental "Navvie".
Of the new track Mariusz Duda explains "Nav" (Polish spelling "Nawie") is the name for the Slavic underworld, and also denotes the souls of the dead, so it gives me great pleasure to welcome everyone to my musical underworld. The new Lunatic Soul album, "Through Shaded Woods", talks about breaking free from the great beyond, about making your way to the other side, about a second chance and coming back to life.
The "dancing souls" from the album artwork and the new videoclip makes the world turn green. Green is the colour of healing, hope and freedom. In these incredibly trying times, I wish each one of us exactly that: healing, hope and freedom."


"The experience was excellent. The hospitality was exceptional. We will be coming again to the suite with the balcony. The atmosphere is beautiful. The stars are so visible at night. Our breakfast was great. We felt at home. Please save us a room. We will be back in 2 weeks. Thanks for everything.
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the heavy duty suspension package maybe ??
You say they both came off of a 3rd gen, but were they different years? If one of them is a 73 & the other is a later model, that could be your answer. 73 was an odd year for everything it seems & a lot of the parts changed over the next year or two including suspension stuff. Also if that's a replacement spindle bought from a parts store, it could be the reason as well. Look in the interchangeability section. It could have been from a 70's F or X Body, a later model B Body, or even a GMC Safari/Chevy Astro van! I'm almost sure that the vans & 94-96 B Body required a different ball joint though.
ok weighed them in today the smaller one is 3 pounds lighter also went to junkyard to see what i could find saw something similar on newer impalas a possible one on a 79 camaro but didnt have any side by side comparrisons.
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Le Témoin du mal ou La Chute de l'ange au Québec () est un film américain réalisé par Gregory Hoblit, sorti en 1998.

Synopsis
John Hobbes, inspecteur de police intègre, rend visite à Edgar Reese, un tueur en série qu'il a arrêté, juste avant l'exécution du criminel. Ce dernier lui parle dans une étrange langue, et lui soumet une énigme. Malgré la mort de Reese dans la chambre à gaz, Hobbes et son coéquipier Jonesy sont confrontés à de nouveaux meurtres, qui semblent être l'œuvre d'un imitateur de Reese, et Hobbes reçoit des coups de téléphone anonymes nocturnes. Les énigmes laissés sur les scènes des crimes conduisent l'enquête de Hobbes vers Robert Milano, un ancien policier qui s'est suicidé  plus tôt. Hobbes rend visite à sa fille Gretta mais celle-ci élude ses questions en lui disant que l'affaire la dépasse.

Hobbes est ensuite contacté par le tueur, qui prétend être un démon nommé Azazel et qui peut posséder le corps de la plupart des êtres humains par simple contact, comme il en fait la démonstration à Hobbes. Malgré ces faits troublants, Hobbes reste incrédule mais Gretta lui confirme que son père avait lui-même été victime des manigances d'Azazel. En se rendant au chalet perdu dans les bois de Milano, Hobbes découvre que le policier avait l'intention de piéger le démon. Azazel provoque Hobbes en possédant son neveu Sam et en changeant ensuite de corps. Hobbes le poursuit et Azazel le force à abattre le corps qu'il possède devant plusieurs témoins. Hobbes découvre à cette occasion qu'Azazel peut aussi changer de corps à la mort de son hôte (et qu'il n'y a aucune façon de lui résister quand il emploie ce moyen). Le lieutenant Stanton informe ensuite Hobbes que ses empreintes ont été relevées sur les lieux de plusieurs des crimes et qu'il est désormais suspect. De plus, Azazel possède le corps de témoins qui affirment que Hobbes a ouvert le feu sans raison sur sa victime, resserrant l'étau sur l'inspecteur.

Pendant la nuit, Azazel possède le corps de Art, le frère de Hobbes, et le force à se suicider. Hobbes emmène Sam chez Gretta et met au point un plan quand la jeune femme lui apprend que, à la mort de son hôte, le démon ne peut posséder un corps que dans un rayon d'environ  et n'a pour cela qu'un temps limité avant de mourir à son tour. Hobbes retourne au chalet isolé de Milano, où Stanton et Jonesy se rendent à leur tour avec un mandat d'arrestation. Jonesy, possédé par Azazel, abat Stanton et se bat contre Hobbes. Durant le combat, Jonesy est touché par un coup de feu dans le ventre. Pendant que Jonesy agonise, Hobbes allume une cigarette empoisonnée qu'il avait préparée à l'avance et révèle à Azazel qu'ils vont tous les deux mourir puisqu'il n'y a personne d'autre à la ronde. Hobbes achève Jonesy et Azazel possède alors son corps mais celui-ci succombe vite aux effets du poison. Azazel pense qu'il va mourir lui aussi mais son esprit trouve un chat errant dans les parages (les chats semblant être avec les humains la seule espèce qu'il peut posséder) et s'empare de son corps.

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 Titre : Le Témoin du mal
 Titre québécois : La Chute de l'ange
 Titre original :
 Réalisation : Gregory Hoblit
 Scénario : Nicholas Kazan
 Décors : Terence Marsh
 Costumes : Colleen Atwood
 Photographie : Newton Thomas Sigel
 Montage : Lawrence Jordan
 Musique : Tan Dun
 Production : Charles Roven,  et Kelley Smith-Wait (coproducteur)
 Sociétés de production :  et
 Société de distribution : Warner Bros
 Pays d'origine : États-Unis
 Langue originale : anglais
 Format : Couleurs - 2,35:1 - DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS -
 Genre : Thriller fantastique
 Durée :
 Budget :
 Dates de sortie :
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Distribution
 Denzel Washington (VF : Emmanuel Jacomy) : John Hobbes
 John Goodman (VF : Jacques Frantz) : Jonesy
 Donald Sutherland (VF : Léon Dony) : le lieutenant Stanton
 Embeth Davidtz (VF : Coraly Zahonero) : Gretta Milano
 James Gandolfini (VF : Jean-Claude Sachot) : Lou
 Elias Koteas (VF : Emmanuel Karsen) : Edgar Reese
 Gabriel Casseus : Arthur « Art » Hobbes
  : Sam Hobbes
 Robert Joy (VF : Lionel Henry) : Charles Olom
 Frank Medrano : l'assassin de Charles
 Aida Turturro (VF : Catherine Artigala) : Tiffany

 Sources et légende : Version française selon le carton de doublage français.

Production

Tournage
Le tournage s'est déroulé à Los Angeles, Philadelphie et la forêt de  (dans le New Jersey).

Musique
  composée par Jerry Ragovoy en 1963, popularisée par la reprise qu'en ont faite  l'année suivante.
  par  (générique de fin).

Accueil

Critiques
Il a obtenu des critiques mitigées, recueillant 41 % d'avis positifs avec une note moyenne de  et sur la base de  collectées, sur le site .

Le film est un échec commercial, aux États-Unis il a rapporté seulement  pour , et  au  mondial. Il a réalisé  en Europe, dont  en France et  en Belgique.

Distinctions
Le film a été nommé au prix Bram-Stoker du meilleur scénario en 1999 et au prix du meilleur film aux .

Analyse

Références à d'autres œuvres
Dans la première partie du film, pendant que le personnage joué par Denzel Washington réveille son frère puis son neveu qui se sont endormis sur le canapé, la télévision diffuse La Maison du Diable de Robert Wise, un film en noir et blanc sorti en 1963. Plus tard, lorsque le héros est assis seul dans un bar en buvant une bière, ce sont des images du film La Monstrueuse Parade (, 1932) de Tod Browning qui défilent sur l'écran du téléviseur.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Film américain sorti en 1998
Film fantastique américain
Thriller (film) américain
Film à retournement final
Film en araméen
Film réalisé par Gregory Hoblit
Film tourné à Philadelphie
Film tourné au New Jersey
Religion au cinéma
Film mettant en scène un tueur en série

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The Business and Societal Case for Privacy
Words by Mary Mazzoni
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How Does Data Privacy Affect Corporate Responsibility?
This article series is sponsored by Symantec and produced by the TriplePundit editorial team.
American companies experienced nearly 500 data breaches in 2016 alone, and governments around the world are beginning to require more from private firms when it comes to protecting user data.
Most notably, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became enforceable in May of this year. The new regulation requires companies to, among other things, receive consent from users in order to store their personal data—and it applies to all companies that serve European citizens, whether the company is based in Europe or not.
While compliance with a new regulation often seems burdensome to global firms, data shows that the type of privacy policies required under the GDPR echo a rising clarion call from consumers, who studies show are increasingly concerned about misuse of their data.
The nonprofit think tank Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), in partnership with the Internet Society and the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, has surveyed global Internet users about privacy and security since 2014. In its most recent survey of more than 25,000 Internet users from 25 countries, 52 percent of respondents said they're more concerned about their online privacy than they were a year ago.
For 81 percent of these users, cybercriminals were the primary source of concern regarding online privacy. "Internet companies, such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, are a close second, with over 70 percent saying these businesses are a major source of concern over privacy," Eric Jardine, a CIGI fellow who has worked on the survey since its inception, told TriplePundit.
A growing number of users are acting on their concerns: 12 percent reported making fewer online purchases in the past year, 10 percent have closed social media accounts, and 7 percent say they're using the Internet less overall.
"The numbers indicate that despite how pervasive the Internet, social media and e-commerce have become, use of these technologies remains based upon trust," Jardine told us. "When trust goes, the first and foremost reaction by users is to change how they behave. In the extreme, that means not using a service or using a service more selectively."
Findings like these should make any company that handles user data stand up and take notice. We asked Jardine, who is also an assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech and researches cybersecurity topics at CIGI, why companies should care about their customers' views on data privacy and what they can do to re-establish consumer trust.
Data privacy is a competitive advantage
Research shows that robust and transparent data privacy policies can give companies a leg up on their competitors. When firms engage in consumer data protection and privacy efforts for less than one year, 66 percent report that they are effective in retaining customers, according to Boston College's 2017 State of Corporate Citizenship Report. More than 80 percent say the same if they invest in data privacy efforts for more than four years.
A 2018 study from the U.K.-based Global Alliance of Data-Driven Marketing Associations (DMA) further underscores these findings. Nearly 90 percent of the global consumers DMA surveyed cited transparency as the key to trusting organizations. "Improving transparency and control for people will help companies be in a much stronger position to engage them within the data economy," Chris Combemale, CEO of the DMA's U.K. group, wrote in the report.
Helping people understand why and how their data is being used is even more important for Internet giants, e-commerce companies and other firms that do business online, Jardine told 3p.
"Building a brand that is privacy conscious would certainly help Internet companies keep and attract customers, especially since many of the large Internet platforms are U.S.-based but need to tap into global markets to ensure growth over time," he explained. "If these companies cannot ensure that they will do their utmost to protect user data, global consumers will worry about the possibility of government surveillance or cybercriminals and choose to use an alternative service."
Privacy demonstrates your values
Beyond the fear that customers may go elsewhere—and other risk-aversion considerations like regulatory compliance—safeguarding user privacy gives your company an opportunity to demonstrate that you care about your customers. "In the digital age, personal data is intrinsically linked to people's private life and other human rights," the nonprofit NGO Human Rights Watch concluded in a recent blog post. "Everything a person does leaves digital traces that can reveal intimate details of their thoughts, beliefs, movements, associates and activities."
As companies collect more and more information about their customers—from identities and buying preferences to characteristics like race, sexual orientation and political affiliation—it grows harder for these firms to refer to themselves with words like "conscious" or "responsible" if they're not doing all they can to prevent this deeply personal data from being misused. This social connection is core to any company looking to leverage business as a force for good, and it's also a clear avenue through which to repair eroding consumer trust and put values front and center.
Such conclusions don't appear to be lost on top global firms. Earlier this year, IBM surveyed 1,500 business leaders whose companies were deemed early adopters of the GDPR to better understand their motivations. A whopping 84 percent believe that proof of GDPR compliance will be seen as a positive differentiator to the public, and 76 percent said it will enable more trusted relationships with customers and business partners.
Trust is a two-way street
While regulations like the GDPR put the onus on the private sector to keep user data secure, Jardine told us that both companies and consumers will need to shift their mindsets in order to re-establish trust in an increasingly Internet-driven age.
"Users need to adjust their mental frames," he explained. "Data stored online is not secure and always runs the risk of being compromised. It would be nice if it wasn't so, but perfect security is impossible to obtain while still having anything even remotely resembling a functioning, useful system."
While consumers are concerned about data privacy, research shows they're still willing to share their data with companies in exchange for enhanced services. DMA's study found that roughly half of global Internet users are "data pragmatists" who decide whether to share their personal information with an organization on a case-by-case basis, dependent on the benefits.
Still, trust plays a key role: 51 percent of consumers surveyed by DMA put trust in their top three factors that make them happy to share personal information with a company—and companies will need a multilevel approach to build that trust, Jardine said.
"Companies can help retain user trust by, first, providing as much security and possible and, second, making the aftermath of a malicious cybersecurity event less acute," he told us. "Financial service companies do this already. If your Visa card is stolen, which may invariably happen, the company does an investigation and then covers the losses and issues a new card. Users trust that Visa works to prevent card theft, but they also know the company will help to minimize the adverse effects of a malicious event."
Of course, not all companies are in the position to take such direct action. But taking steps to prevent data misuse—and clearly communicating how the company will respond to a breach if one occurs—remains paramount, Jardine said. "This sort of thing is harder for content intermediaries, as you cannot simply change out your personal photos or identity with the same ease as a credit card number," he explained. "Nevertheless, keeping this dual focus on prevention and remediation is the best approach to building a trust-infused product."
In response to findings like these, nearly 60 percent of companies surveyed by IBM said they're embracing the GDPR as a business opportunity rather than an impediment. Over the next few months, in partnership with Symantec, TriplePundit will dive into how leading companies plan to do this.
We'll explore the different ways that companies interact with vulnerable personal data—from user experience to supply chain management—and what they can do to better ensure privacy and security. We'll discuss how the growing push for greater transparency impacts different teams across your business and talk through how companies can continue to innovate while maintaining privacy. You can keep track of the series here.
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Mary Mazzoni
Mary Mazzoni, Senior Editor, has written for TriplePundit since 2013. She is also Managing Editor of CR Magazine and the Editor of 3p's Sponsored Series. Mazzoni's recent work can be found in Conscious Company, AlterNet and VICE's Motherboard. She is based in Philadelphia.
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The Caribbean Games  are a multi-sport regional championship event. The games are for countries in the Caribbean, Central American country Belize and South American Caribbean countries Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

The games are overseen by The Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees "CANOC"

The first edition of the Caribbean Games was held in Guadeloupe between June 29 to July 3, 2022.

History

Editions

Sports
 Athletics
 Basketball 3x3
 Cycling
 Futsal
 Judo
 Swimming
 Netball

Nations

See also
 Pan American Games
 Commonwealth Games
 Central American and Caribbean Games

References

External links
 2022 Caribbean Games
 CANOC

International sports competitions in the Caribbean
Recurring sporting events established in 2022
Athletics in the Caribbean
Athletics (track and field) competitions in North America
Athletics competitions in the Caribbean
Multi-sport events
Multi-sport events in North America