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KC BLAU READS AT SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
Quite excited to announce my first public reading in Vienna at one of my favorite bookstores:
Space will be limited so get there early!
MEET THE AUTHOR – KC Blau and Shakespeare & Company
Date: Friday, September 16
Place: Shakespeare & Company, Sterngasse 2, 1010 Vienna
No woman knows, or ever has known, or ever will know, what she does when she enters into association with a man.
Fact and fiction weave together with history and romance in this
Women and Wild Savages Cover
tragic yet inspiring tale of Lina Loos' struggle for love, liberation and self-fulfillment during her years of marriage to the renowned architect, Adolf Loos. Women and Wild Savages takes readers on a journey deep into the heart of fin-de-siècle Vienna and introduces you to some of her most memorable figures such as Café Central's infamous poet, Peter Altenberg, and women's rights activist Marie Lang
TRADE AGREEMENTS: MAIN STREET VS. WALL STREET
"Our trade agreements should not just be for Wall Street, they should also be for Main Street. And the problems that we've had is that we've had corporate lobbyists often times involved in the negotiations of these trade agreements but in the end, AFL-CIO haven't been involved, working ordinary people haven't been involved and we've got to make sure that our agreements are good for everybody. Globalization is creating winners and losers but the problem is, it's the same winners and the same losers each and every time." – Barack Obama, pre-presidency, August 7, 2007 on MSNBC televised 2008 Democratic Primary Debate
Free trade agreement proponents will claim that they want to do away with restrictions that hinder the free flow of goods amongst nations. Yet now more than ever many of the restrictions serve to help keep the Davids and Donnas of this world competitive with Goliath. If we don't give the "little" guys and girls the tools to compete, they are crushed before they even step one foot into the ring. Even the multi-million dollar corporate cronies, when they load down their caddies with bags of clubs and hop into their golf carts to set out for another fine day on the green teeing off for the next deal with politicians, military generals or business partners see the point of giving each other handicaps to keep the game fair and "allowing players of different proficiency to play against each other on somewhat equal terms."
Free Trade Agreements are not allowing anyone into the game except those with access to the private club. The agreements are negotiated, drafted and implemented to maximize profits and advance the interests of international mega-conglomerates, not to benefit 2007 Obama's ordinary, Main Street citizen as mentioned above.
HE WHO CONTROLS THE SOWING OF THE SEEDS WILL ENSURE THAT HE AND HIS WILL BE THE ONES TO FATTEN FROM THE HARVEST
The problem with the trade deals is who are behind them – corporations and lawyers, not you and me. The US President did not spend his days sitting on his throne, entertaining audiences of his troubled, out-of-work, in-debt constituents while his court scribes recorded their concerns and his court experts drafted them into an agreement to approach fellow rulers abroad in order to promote peace and prosperity at home. No. Only the concerns of those dining at the tables of the royal court feasts were heard. But somehow the rest of us should believe that these deals will nevertheless mean a betterment of our everyday lives. Not only is the normal public not included in the drafting of the agreements, interest groups aren't either. So non-profit agencies, public organizations and experts cannot weigh in on things like environmental concerns, public health and safety issues and implications for workers rights.
The entire management of the free trade agreement talks has exposed the fact the leaders of democratic nations who have been elected to represent the people are simply not doing so. It is the 21st century version of taxation without representation. The public coughs up the millions of dollars needed to send politicians and government officials around the world to draft, negotiate and adopt a deal that the public is not even allowed to read or witness. Think about that for a moment. If your pre-nuptial agreement were like a free trade agreement, it would be like your future-spouse-to-be having you pay for the years it takes him/her and his golfing/spa and drinking buddies/girlfriends to draft a document you're not allowed to look at it, share with your lawyers or have something to say about but "It's okay, sweetheart, trust me, it's for your benefit, not mine."
In fact, the trade agreements have been shrouded in such secrecy that the representatives of the EU Parliament were not even permitted to have a copy, but were given two hours viewing time in a special room without advisers or professionals whose language and legal skills would help these politicians untangle the intentional or unintentional obfuscations woven into the agreement. Who comes up with such things and what are they smoking? Worse yet, who ducks their responsibilities to their electorates and allows themselves to be treated in such a way and why?
To be fair, the US government has now released parts of the agreement but it is not the full agreement itself and a very controlled release. So to return to the pre-nuptial comparison, wouldn't you begin to suspect that the incriminating articles that allow your spouse-to-be unlimited viewing time of adult websites or wardrobe expenditures and liberation from all household duties are not going to be the ones he/she agrees to let you view beforehand?
KC Blau, for example, likes to proudly display her hard-earned Elf Spotting Certificate
If these agreements are being implemented on behalf of the well-being of Joe, Dick, Harry, Hans and Heidi, why all the secrecy? Shouldn't politicians be bragging about and showing off all their sweat-ridden work? Shouldn't the fruits of their efforts be plastered all over billboards along the highways to give drivers stuck in traffic with no WIFI something to look at and be publicly televised to offer ordinary citizens deprived of the Austrian Weather Panorama a channel they can tune into, glaze over to and fall asleep to after a stressful day at their second or third workplace? When something is as stellar as the politicians are touting it to be, you would think politicians especially would move heaven and earth to have framed versions displayed on every refrigerator and work cubicle from Bendar Seri Begawan to Birmingham, Alabama, rather than making efforts to hide it in some locked, stuffy room in Brussels with no admirers save a few tired, but dedicated EU reps and politically interested city mice.
Austria Label for Austrian Products
BYE BYE BUY LOCAL
The trend to buy local products seems to have gone global and for good reason. While friends of mine in the US in NYC and NC have joined local co-ops to receive fresh farm produce from local growers, Austrian friends and colleagues make efforts to heed little red stickers at their grocery stores indicating when products have come from Austria. The buy-local trend makes sense. When you buy products locally grown and produced you are helping the neighboring farms and businesses continue to grow, thrive and operate within the community. Your actions are also reducing the environmental footprint associated with goods that must be shipped over great distances using fuels and polluting the environment. Unfortunately, the trade agreements strive to restrict labeling currently used to promote local products.
Cow grazing on Alpine meadow in Alpbach, Austria
Austrians care about the traditions and culture of Austrian milk from Austrian cows who spend their summers lazily munching down sweet flowers and grass in the rolling fields of the Alpine meadows. Multi-national million-dollar diary corporations don't.
ARE GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS AND PRODUCTS HARMFUL?
Label showing product made without gene modification
Probably not. But it could also be just too early to know for sure. But maybe you're someone who is still not convinced. You continue to suffer nightmares induced by images of a GMO-ridden future as portrayed in Paolo Bacigalupi's excellent biopunk science fiction novel, The Windup Girl and have therefore found some sense of comfort in the control GMO-free labels have given you. You can make the decision for yourself whether it matters or not that your corn has been created in the test tubes of the chemical laboratories of multi-million dollar companies and not Mother Nature's earth-authentic cradle. Under the trade agreements the labeling of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) as genetically-modified would be impermissible.
HEALTH CARE COSTS AND DRUG COMPANIES
Patents on drugs would be extended so that it will take longer for generic drugs to be allowed into the market as competition. Such restrictions basically amount to government-granted monopolies for the drug producers. When only one company is offering the medication for an ailment of the population, that company can set whatever price they want for that product because there is no competition to drive the price downward. So prices and profits remain high and increase health care costs. Granting pharmaceutical companies such patent extensions constitutes a form of protectionism for a private company which is in blatant opposition to the principles of free trade and the promotion of public health.
Some recent examples of how such power can be (and is) blatantly abused by CEOs of pharmaceutical companies have come to light. The first one includes Turing Pharmaceuticals's CEO Martin Shkreli raising the price of the company's AIDs drug, Daraprim, 5000 % from 13.50 USD per pill to 750 USD per pill overnight and making himself, overnight, the "most hated man in America." The second example is that of the activities of the drug company Mylan, which lobbied the US Congress to require EpiPens in all US schools. Then they hiked the price of those EpiPens over 400 % from 100 USD to 614 USD. The company's CEO Heather Bresch sold 100,200 of her shares in the company and earned herself more than 5 million USD from the sale before the release of a report by David Maris of Well Fargo showing that Mylan had raised the prices of seven of its products by 100% or more and 24 products by 20% or more. And these are the profit-driven Dagoberts whose interests we should be protecting through our free trade agreements?! Seriously?!
See FDA website for information about the amount of money that can be saved in health care through the use of generic drugs.
http://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/buyingusingmedicinesafely/understandinggenericdrugs/ucm167991.htm
GOOD-RIDDANCE TO THE PROMOTION OF INDEPENDENT ARTISTIC EFFORTS SUCH AS LOCAL FILMS AND ART IN LOCAL LANGUAGES CONCERNING LOCAL PEOPLE, HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUGH GOVERNMENT FUNDING PROGRAMS
Subsidies currently the norm in Europe (think of French films or Austria's Bergdoktor!) would no longer be permitted.
USAGE OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION COURTS IN PLACE OF PUBLIC COURTS
International arbitration courts were initially put into place to reduce costs of court cases by making a system in which the ruling is binding and cannot be appealed – thus shortening cases that could last years due to the ladder of appellate courts, and to allow corporations to solve disputes with corporations (two opponents of relatively equal economic standing) by allowing their cases to be heard in a forum that is more flexible than courts. In addition, there was the added bonus, as far as corporations are concerned, that the decisions are not public record and therefore damage amounts paid and culpability found, could be kept from the scrutinizing public eye and from possibly being used in similar cases in the future by additional damage victims in class action suits (which arbitration makes impossible). The problem however, is that this form of parallel justice system is not presided over by impartial judges paid by a neutral source. Judges are paid by the arbitration parties to the case and corporations can re-hire judges for future cases, of course, when their judgements appear to be pro-company. It is a complicated, messy, system that started off with good intentions but has been abused in a way to take away the rights of "ordinary, working men" (try signing an employment contract, retail agreement or patient release form in the US nowadays without an arbitration clause agreement). (see/listen to NPR's report: Have We Lost Our Constitutional Right in the Fine Print: http://www.npr.org/2015/11/12/455749456/have-we-lost-a-constitutional-right-in-the-fine-print)
THE NEW EMPEROR – WHOSE RULES RULE?
A major problem opponents of the trade agreements have is that all signatories of the trade agreement are required to make their laws and regulations conform to this agreement. That means that national laws will subsequently be secondary to the laws of the agreements. That alone should be enough to make ordinary citizens lose sleep. Unfortunately, whereas many like to claim that Brexit was a protest to the status quo, I believe it was also a "yes" vote to taking back local power. And this is important. This is a lot of what is fueling Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric. He is disingenuously claiming that he will empower the little guy. He won't. But he has parroted his empty promise often enough that many believe he wants to.
GIVING THE POWERFUL EVEN MORE POWER
A relatively small number of mega corporations control many of the products the public consumes. These include familiar corporations like Procter and Gamble, JP Morgan Chase, Google and General Electric. Consolidation and monopoly is growing, not slowing. Americans of my generation who were raised on fears of an international communist domination should get their heads out of the sand and read Vladimir Lenin's book from a century ago called "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism." Lenin predicted current trends and developments in which mega-corporations grow and grow, and as they grow, they become more powerful and wipe out smaller competitors, thus leaving in the end, only a few very powerful businesses dominating everything produced and consumed in the form of monopolies. "If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism." And this concentration of all goods, he argued, is what in the end leads to communism (not the generically-imposed, government-induced, post-1945 Russian version).
If you believe competition promotes innovation and quality, then a continual destruction of competitors through the continual rise of a few, powerful mega-corporations that have higher revenue turnovers than the GDP of many smaller nations, should be raising some serious alarm bells. The state of free press is a prime example of a unsung heroic victim of this development. A little over 20 years ago, more than 50 media companies controlled our information flow in the US. Today? Just 6 companies control all US media. This gives six CEOs control of all the information that we receive about everything. A clear example of how we have let the private interest supersede the democracy-based interests of the public.
BUSINESS VS. PUBLIC INTERESTS
We have to stop pretending that the profit-driven interests of international companies, no matter where they are based, automatically coincide with the national security and welfare interests of the constituents of the home nation. They often do not. And for this reason it is a blatant conflict of interests to allow the agendas of private companies to dominate the content of international agreements concluded between and amongst nations. Interdependence is good and can be a tool in promoting peace and prosperity but it cannot be allowed to come at the expense of the ability and capability for self-reliance.
It's like in North Carolina when the hurricane warnings are raised. Sure you have a BigWig's around the corner but when the storm hits and the grocery store is suddenly closed for business until further notice, you better hope you've squirreled away an ample enough supply of bread, water, candles and Cocoa Puffs to weather you through the storm. The more we move industries and agriculture completely abroad (because it is more profitable for our companies to produce where labor is cheaper and workers' rights weaker), the more we eradicate local industries, the greater the danger of positioning ourselves at the mercy of those we have come to depend on to supply us with our essential needs.
History abounds with examples in which the interests of international trade were explicitly at odds with the welfare of a nation's populace. Look, for example, at Britain and Europe's exporting opium to China in the 18th and 19th centuries in order to counter the trade imbalance between China and themselves. While the Western partners (particularly Britain) were eager to import Chinese goods such as teas, silks and porcelain, the largely peasant population of China had no need for Western goods. This made silver and gold the only possible trade currency (as opposed to goods) for Western traders to use to attain Chinese goods. Then comes opium. The West discovered they could send opium to China and receive the sought-after Chinese goods in return. As opium became more widely available and fell in price in China, the number of addicts shot up as well. Naturally the Qing dynasty grew alarmed and tried to restrict the import of foreign opium. This led to the First and Second Opium Wars.
While you could and should argue that we've since progressed, opting for trade battles to be fought in courts (even if they are imbalanced arbitration tribunals) rather than on the battlefields, that is not the point. The point is that a country's responsibility for the well-being of its populace cannot be subjugated to the interests of private international corporations seeking nothing more than an increase in the bottom lines of their balance sheets. And disputes should be solved diplomatically by fair and impartial forums weighing more factors than loop-holes and fine print. But the current trade agreements aren't setting out innovative plans that learn from the disturbing lessons of the past in order to achieve this. Similar to an International Court of Justice and Human Rights, maybe we need an International Court of Trade, Environment and Human Welfare.
Still not convinced that trade agreements are being made for corporations and not you and me? Allow recent historical examples of how free trade agreements are being used (abused) to promote corporate (as opposed to public) interest. While reading, keep in mind the economic consequences for some of these local, small-budget governments that have been sued by major, multinational companies with high revenues.
CORPORATE LAW $UITS FOR LOSS OF POTENTIAL PROFIT
This is an amazing phenomenon that has come from free trade agreements. Companies are suing governments over laws that they perceive disadvantageous to their businesses by making major claims for loss profits. The costs of these law suits can quickly escalate and become too costly for local governments to properly defend themselves. Trade agreements make governments liable if laws to protect consumers have negative consequences for businesses. If you are manufacturing CFCs and a law is passed that no longer allows you to sell aerosols powered by CFC chemicals because studies show that these eat away at the protective ozone layer around the earth and are therefore bad for the environment and public health, of course you will lose profits. And you should. And no one and nothing should be forced to pay you for those losses or allow you to overturn those laws. In fact, you should be required to pay something to humanity for blatantly ignoring the impact of you profit, greed-driven, ignorant business pursuits.
Should public servants who are working on the clock for public tax dollars, be facilitating measures that will subsequently put local, regional, state and national governments' back against the walls as they have to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars (sometimes millions) to defend policies, measures and laws put into place to protect local environments, as well as the public health and safety of local communities?
Examples of such cases are as numerous as they are disturbing:
FRACKING: The Calgary-based oil- and gas-drilling company Lone Pine which was registered in Delaware at the time sued Quebec under NAFTA for 250-million dollars in damages as a result of Quebec's moratorium on fracking to prevent fracking exploration under the St. Lawrence Seaway. (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/03/quebec-fracking-ban-lawsuit_n_4038173.html)
SMOKING: Challenges to cigarette packaging restrictions – an effort to promote public health by cutting down on cigarette sales through a measure proven to be low-cost and effective came to a head when Philipp Morris sued the little country of Uruguay for such laws. Philipp Morris sued for loss of profits and wanted to pressure Uruguay to reverse its laws. (http://www.iisd.org/itn/2011/07/12/philip-morris-v-uruguay-will-investor-state-arbitration-send-restrictions-on-tobacco-marketing-up-in-smoke/)
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OF WATER: Metalclad is a US company that built a processing plant for toxic waste in Mexico. The local government refused to issue a building permit after an environmental impact report from a government engineer raised concerns about the project's consequences for local ground water. When building didn't stop, the local government declared the area an environmental refuge. Metalclad challenged the decision under NAFTA and was awarded 16.8 million USD (!).
In another case, under NAFTA, Methanex, a Canadian firm, challenged the state of California's ban on the use of MTBE (a groundwater pollutant) in gasoline in a suit claiming a billion dollars in damages for good will, reputation and future profits. How is a state like California supposed to dish out a billion dollars to a private company?
DIGITAL AND INTERNET RESTRICTIONS
A short video from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp) and Santiago Rocha (sound quality not the best) on the topic of free trade agreements and digital rights.
The winners? The lawyers and mega-corporations. The losers? Working, ordinary people as mentioned in Obama's 2007 speech.
As a person who supported the Obama campaign(s) and believes in the ideals of a party that says it promotes "equal opportunity, consumer protection, and environmental protection," I find several of the leading democratic party candidates stand on these free trade agreements, as they are being negotiated and drafted, mind-boggling. But then again, I have find many things mind-boggling concerning the democratic party in recent times. But what's a girl to do?
DEMOCRATS AND THE SPLIT PERSONALITY REGARDING FREE TRADE
Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have done complete U-Turns when it comes to free trade which gives the impression that aliens have inhabited their bodies and are using them to amuse themselves and confuse the American public. President Obama uses a pro-Free Trade Agreement jam on the popular show Jimmy Fallon to reverse campaign promises rather than fulfill them. Watch closely from 4:28 – 5:36 >> almost a fifth of President Obama's cool, groovy rap is dedicated to the not-so-cool product-placement-promotion of the Free Trade Agreement. This can't be the same man who gave the speech(es) further down below opposing NAFTA and vehemently denied reports that he had been secretly communicating with Canada during the campaign to ignore his anti-NAFTA campaign mumbo jumbo since it was just campaign rhetoric. Say it isn't so.
OBAMA AND FREE TRADE
Obama as US President : Slow Jam on Jimmy Fallon
Below, Barack Obama as presidential candidate, speaking about free trade agreements in 2007 as quoted in the beginning of this blog post and claiming that we need to ensure we elect a president who "is not simply subject to the whims of corporate lobbyists." A president who will ensure "we have a voice in Washington." What happened between then and now? What??? It's like we should be making an appeal to Obi Wan Kenobi to help us out because at the moment, he truly seems to be our only hope.
HILLARY CLINTON AND FREE TRADE
As Secretary State, Hillary Clinton traveled around the globe singing the praises of the exact same trade agreements she now is saying she would oppose if elected. However, her predecessor's track record and her own topsy-turvy, two-faced relationship with the subject matter, raise serious concerns about the extent of the sincerity of this promise. Will she keep her promise, once elected, and stop these free trade agreements in their tracks, or as President Hillary Clinton will she suffer the same post-election amnesia as Barack Obama?
Collage from Anti-TTIP and TPP protests
Don't get me wrong, I do not think the solution is to vote in a narcissistic, spotlight-hungry, lifelong-privileged Mr.-Heat-Miser-Lookalike. I think we have to hold those we elect accountable to their campaign promises and accountable to the public, "ordinary, working, Main Street man's (and woman's)" interests that they have taken oath to swear to uphold. Perhaps what we need is compensation. Not for loss of profit but for loss of credibility and democracy.
AFTER NOTE: Perhaps the real motivation for the urgency of these agreements and an explanation for the about-face many politicians have made with regards to them has more to do with remaining competitive in a world market with China as a player. But if so, this is not the way to go about it because it weakens the ability of regional and local businesses to compete on an international scale and takes away many of the democratic rights and safeguards of citizens in the process.
Democratic Party Wikipedia Entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29, Accessed August 28, 2016
http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/U.S.-EU-Free-Trade-Agreement-TTIP
Read more about TTIP and Brexit in a previous post: https://www.kcblau.com/brexit-legacy/
KEITH JARRETT: A MUSICAL GENIUS IN DESPERATE NEED OF A SNICKERS BAR
He walked onto stage and the applause swelled. I had never seen the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein so jam-packed full of people. Every single one of the 1744 seats and 300 standing places was filled with the face of an adoring fan anxiously awaiting the warm greetings of a Musical Meister.
What we got was the ranting, reprimanding threat of a diva: "I will not play a single note until the two people who just took a photo leave this concert hall. If you're sitting beside them, urge them to leave or I won't play." Like a toddler mid-tantrum, he stomped off the stage and the lights went back up.
A disturbed chatter arose from the crowd. The Viennese consensus? He's nuts. And they weren't referring to the photo-taker caper(s). Just enough time ticked by for us to begin to wonder what the Musikverein's refund policy is on our not-too-cheap tickets when the artist throws a fit and refuses to perform. In the nick of time, a gentleman (hero?) in a dark t-shirt rose from the center of the audience, about 25 rows deep, from a section where tickets no doubt cost upwards of 120 € each, stood up, bumped his way past the stunned fellow concert-goers in his row and exited the auditorium with a shake of his head. Many of us harbored serious doubts whether the departed was the culprit but the ritual sacrifice being made, the self-chosen martyr offered up, the show could go on.
A man in a suit who we recognized from before Cellphone Gate as the gentleman who informed us that there'd be a live recording and we must refrain from extraneous noises reappeared on stage. In a more apologetic than admonishing tone, he reminded us of the "Künstler's" need to concentrate. Finally Mr. Jarrett re-entered and I no longer know if anyone clapped at this point. Here and there I believe but the unbridled enthusiasm of his initial entrance was history. Why? Three reasons. First, stunned people can't clap, they're too shocked to move their hands (see photo of my stunned face included herein). Second, who could tell what might set him off again – perhaps clapping out of rhythm, for example. Third, we all just wanted to put the embarrassing moment behind us as quickly as possible and move on with things.
Mr. Jarrett sat before his grand piano and pounded the keys as if they too were personally involved in the photo-taking infraction. Disjointed chords of choppy scales torpedoed into the loges left and right. Irritated notes wrestled in an angry sea of quick, successive sounds.
Keith Jarrett Tickets to Vienna Musikverein, July 2016
He was angry. The music was angry. And I was angry.
But by the third piece, then there was light. Staccatos grew more and more interspersed with light, playful notes. By the fourth piece, I could bring myself to join the others and clap, now convinced that it would have been a grave mistake to march out of the hall with Mr. T-Shirt Man in a show of solidarity and a refusal to accept such treatment of us non-genius, musical-lover mortals (as a firm believer in the age-old advice: you are responsible for how you let others treat you). But the lesson was obvious: Keith Jarrett could clearly get away with mistreating his audience members because he truly is a musical genius. The epiphany made me sad for artists specifically and humankind in general.
For years Keith Jarrett's Cologne Concert, Paris Concert and Vienna Concert from his 1991 appearance in the Vienna Opera House have been some of my most beloved, trusted accompaniments while writing. Sit down, crank it up and within 5 minutes you are in the "mood" and the words stream across the page like currents in a waterfall.
He isn't hitting pre-prescribed notes. This is improvisation. He is sitting at his bench and coaxing the keys to come together in just the right manner to take his listeners on a magical journey of his making. His music elevates all present to a higher, better, otherworldly place.
By the end of his concert I enthusiastically joined the standing ovation. Not just one but three – or was it four? — encores. His final piece, a playful, soulful version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" seemed like the artist's version of an apology of sorts. It was that moving. Then he said, "Thank you," but couldn't leave us for the night with happy, fuzzy feelings to accompany us home. No. He just had to add, "Now aren't you glad you were strong? Aren't you glad you were smart?"
To quote Homer Simpson: "D'Oh!" [slaps hand to forehead].
The concert was recorded live. Mr. Jarrett's hyper-sensitive (compulsive?) tendencies made me wonder why he does live recordings. Wouldn't a studio recording be easier to control all variables possible when you pack 2000 people in a room? It's a contradiction, I suppose. The man who demands such utmost control and obedience of an audience of thousands chooses live recordings and improvisation.
At the same time, after intermission, it wasn't an apology, don't get me wrong, but perhaps a justification. Kind of. Mr. Jarrett said that all the picture-taking makes him feel like a caged animal. He also added: "People who think they can interfere with processes is what's f—ed up the world today." I get that. But what's really f—ed up the world is a general lack of empathy. And when thousands of people from all over the world, all walks of life who could be mid-living all the tragedies and challenges life can throw at you, re-arrange their day-to-day existence, coordinate and pretty themselves up to join together at a certain time and place to spend precious, never-to-be-re-gained hours of their life, just to hear you play your music, to join you on a journey to a higher place blindly following nothing more than the next musical note – that is something rather extraordinary and the opposite of f—ed up. And if you give that a bitter after-taste (or before- and after-taste), then shame on you.
There is a synergy between an audience and artist that no studio can give. A synergy in a Golden Hall that has been home to such beauty and artistry of some of history's and the world's best talents for over 140 years. A synergy that lingers beyond the 2 seconds the notes are held suspended, a synergy that transcends space and time and I think you must know that, Mr. Jarrett, which is why you record live. So chill. You're playing jazz, the chillest tunes of them all. Appreciate the joining together to experience a precious parenthesis in time.
I'd like to end with a bit of advice for future concerts:
* to potential Keith Jarrett concert-goers: go, the music will be amazing, but for God's (Keith Jarrett's and the concert's) sakes, keep that trigger finger off the camera icon.
* to Mr. Jarrett: get a grip, chill and have some empathy. If the audience peeves you off, do like Bob Dylan did when he gave a concert in Burg Clam – don't acknowledge the audience at all. Not one word. Not "Hello" "How are you" or "Thanks." If they're like me, sure, they'll feel snubbed but better snubbed than down-right insulted.
* to concert organizers, you saints, you:
if tales from a Berlin concert are to be believed, be sure to have the piano tuned before the concert;
hang up plenty of signs politely advising that the diva "artist" requires utmost concentration and concert-goers who cannot refrain from taking photos kindly will be asked to leave
give that musical genius a Snickers bar. Or two. Or three. (supposedly they're good at humanizing divas). And who knows? Maybe there's a commercial spot in his future and you can turn lemons into lemonade.
Anger advice: It's better to distract than vent because getting it out can intensify the emotion. Go figure.
I love the podcast the Hidden Brain and this is a fascinating take on what makes Keith Jarrett's Cologne Concert so phenomenal (though I doubt Keith would agree):
NPR Podcast, Hidden Brain: In Praise of Mess: Why Disorder May Be Good For Us
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE TEA AND CRUMPETS JEAN-CLAUDE, OR A MORE PERFECT UNION
When the final count was announced for the Brexit vote, perhaps none was more surprised than Britain itself. Except maybe Brussels.
But I was surprised too. Surprised by so much surprise. Especially after this weekend's headline buried deep inside the paper. I guess if the news isn't conducive to the current political agenda, it's good to bury it. Who needs high blood pressure? Nevertheless the audacity of Jean-Claude (or is it Jean-Icarus?) Juncker so soon after Brexit is astounding. It truly is.
In case you missed it, basically the lost-touch-with-reality EU president stated that the EU would decide on Ceta, the very controversial trade agreement with Canada, without including the 27 remaining EU nations. The deal with Canada is largely considered to be the precursor to the TTIP deal with the US and Juncker's true colors are suddenly showing. The man is threatening to simply barrel through a trade deal that will have major consequences for the environment, consumer safety and judicial processes for Europeans (and Canadians, and then Americans) without a democratic process that would allow the concerned citizens who will be most affected to weigh in. Seriously? Is there a large metal rock somewhere up in Brussels that thou hath been hiding under the past two weeks, Honorable Mr. Juncker?
But I'm not the only one indignant. Even the level-headed Germans were "riled up". Though they aren't worried about a very unpopular deal being made over the heads of their citizens, they are worried, according to Germany's Economic Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, that such an "incredibly foolish" act could kill the even more unpopular agreement, TTIP with the US.
Holy smokes, Batman! Looks like we need a super hero to fly to Belgium and give these bureaucrats a good serious fire-poker pinch. They're all living in a cave.
I'm not opposed to trade agreements, open borders or closer ties amongst nations. I'm all for it. But I am opposed to trade agreements drafted by lawyers of multinational enterprises under the guise of benefiting Jane, Dietrich and Jorge while taking away their rights and protections. Besides, I had always somehow been under the impression that public servants were put into office to serve the people. But if their mission is to serve the people, and deals like Ceta and TTIP do not serve the people, then no deal should be made. It's not difficult. It's not like the Austrian Math Matura. It's easy in fact. And when bureaucrats from Brussels opt to pass dirty deals done dirt cheap nevertheless, it tends to really peeve people off. It tends to get them upset. It tends to make them lose faith about who or what they are serving. In fact, it gives the impression that the interests being served are as secretive and far removed as politicians helping multinational companies cut billions of dollars from tax bills. Deals kept under wraps until Mr. Ordinaryman with nothing to gain except renewed confidence in the fairness of the universe has the guts to reveal all in a leak – a LuxLeak, for example — and have himself rather than those scheming the system put on trial. In fact it kind makes the majority of us mere mortals have an idea of what the starving folks outside royal gates must feel like when they hear the words: "Let them eat cake" before they… Well… History, like Shakespeare and Greek mythology, has plenty of examples of what happens when a privileged few let hubris and greed get the best of them while overhearing the cries of the disenchanted people.
Days before the Brexit vote, none of my friends (some even from the UK) could fathom a future without Britain in the EU let alone the kind of person who could seriously consider Brexiting. But I could.
I am not anti-EU. I rallied behind Austria's membership decades ago. As a college major in international relations while the EU was still in the infant stages of a EEC, I was a flag-waving EU supporter. I liked the idea of a borderless continent. I liked the idea of an ever-lasting inter-dependency that promotes peace. I liked the idea of folks from different nations getting along and cooperating to make life better for everyone. But as much as I absolutely love the idea of the EU, I hate seeing signs of cronyism. A lot has happened since my initial dreams for Europe. And I can relate to those who have become disillusioned with the brave new world a united Europe once promised.
But am I so disgruntled (or "batshit crazy") that I think Britain is right to throw in the towel and hit the road? Definitely not.
Britain, have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately? Your hair is thinning, the royal luster is fading, and to be completely honest, as a good friend, I need to tell you that you've shrunk. Yep. Don't take it wrong. You still got the odd sense of humor we all love, and Shakespeare will always be yours but you're no longer the tough guy you used to be. So when Russia or China or – yes, even my homeland — come knocking and want to talk business, it can be quite an advantage to have 27 others by your side, showing a united front.
But you were so busy whining about all the Poles moving into the neighborhood, that you became deaf, and I'm sorry to say, blind. And dumb.
After reeling from the shock and the appeals, of "Dearest Britain, say it isn't so," and turning-lemons-into-the-lemonade hope that perhaps Northern Ireland and Scotland will finagle a way to stay, I, like the rest of Europe, sobered up to the reality that Britain has officially filed the divorce papers. While the passionate French demand that Britain pack its black pudding, get the hell on its way and don't let the door smack it in the derrière on the way out, the cool-headed Germans keep urging everyone to, "Stay rational, bitte sehr!"
Long-term relationships are hard. They just are. They demand compromise and sacrifice. And somewhere along the line, you have to be convinced that the relationship is bringing more benefits than harms. Otherwise, it is indeed more healthy to probably call it quits.
But I see remnants of old border booths, hear students from all over a peaceful Europe congregate together in the metro, pay for my cappuccino in Italy with the same Euros I use to buy my Schnitzel in Vienna and I feel like the benefits of a European Union still outweigh the harms.
But statements like Juncker's make hanging on to that belief hard at times. I have to wonder if his dream of a united Europe has any resemblance to mine.
In his book, The Prophet, Kahil Gibran describes the perfect union. He writes that a perfect union has spaces in the togetherness, and the winds of the heavens dance between the parts that are joined together not with a bond but rather a moving sea. The sides of the union fill each other's cups without drinking from the same cup. Give each other bread without eating from the same loaf. Dance together but allow dances alone, stand together, yet not too near: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, he writes, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
What kind of union is the EU striving towards? Absolute oneness or something better? I think it is the lack of clarity and communication of this very basic goal that is causing so much trouble.
Brexit in the EU, Trump in the US, Hofer in Austria, these uprisings, upsets, overturns, and shock-waves are about a generation that believes its voice has been lost. I do not support these fear-mongering movements pouring kerosene on fiery frustrations. I read Juncker's words and the frustration burns in my veins as well. But nothing in me is convinced that razing the current structures to build a wall, a fence or border-closed sign is the answer. No, I think we should call in the exterminator, chase out the vermin and take back the dream. Throw open windows, beckon in some fresh air and make it a home where the interests of the people, and not the cronies, are served.
Since life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday, dearest EU, learn from your mistakes and conscientiously determine what the Brexit legacy will be. Will the EU merely survive this crisis or turn it into an opportunity? And I don't mean an opportunity for the cronies.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/685124/EU-Juncker-Germany-slashes-members-TTIP-Ceta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_Leaks
John Oliver, Tobacco, Free Trade Agreements and the case of Australia and Uruguay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH4q8
John Oliver and Brexit (while there was still hope): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgKHSNqxa8
John Oliver and Brexit (after): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh0ac5HUpDU
For your reading pleasure the 1598 pages of the "Consolidated" CETA text. http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2014/september/tradoc_152806.pdf


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Brooks Koepka learned his lesson: Don't trash talk Michael Jordan at clutch time
By Brian Wacker
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ESPN's documentary, "The Last Dance," on Michael Jordan's final season with the Chicago Bulls has delivered a trove of fun and insightful stories. His competitiveness—and love of golf, of course—are well documented and have been prevalent elements throughout the series.
Which brings us to one particularly memorable round that Brooks Koepka played with his Airness in South Florida. Appearing on Monday night's edition of "SportsCenter" with Scott Van Pelt, the four-time major champion recounted the day.
"I was 1 up going to 17 tee," Koepka said. "We'd been jawing all day and we have like a 40-yard walk back to the 17th tee and he hasn't said much the last couple of holes. I said something like, 'I've got you right where I want you.'"
Or not. Koepka quickly learned that it's best not to trash talk Jordan, no matter the playing surface.
"He just tees the ball up, takes his practice swing and looks at me. 'It's the fourth quarter, baby, I don't lose,'" Koepka recalled.
You can guess what happened next.
Jordan went on to win the 17th and 18th holes and won the match, according to Koepka.
Lesson learned.
"It's probably the last time I've smack-talked him," Koepka said. "I have not played him since, but hopefully we'll tee it up again soon."

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Nuit d'amour est un album studio de Bernard Lavilliers sorti en 1981.

La pochette de l'album est une photo noir et blanc de Jean-Baptiste Mondino.

Titres
Tous les titres sont de Bernard Lavilliers, sauf mentions.

 Night bird (Lavilliers-François Bréant)
 Changement de main, changement de vilain (Lavilliers-Jean-Paul Hector Drand)
 Eldorado (Lavilliers-Bréant)
 C'est du rock'n'roll
 Pigalle la blanche (Lavilliers-Eric Dufaure)
 Betty
 Nuit d'amour
 Les barbares (version 81)
 La malédiction du voyageur (Lavilliers-Bréant)

Anecdote

L'album vinyle d'origine comprend deux disques 33 tours, l'un d'entre eux ne contenant que les deux chansons Night bird et Les barbares.

Notes et références

Album de Bernard Lavilliers
Album musical sorti en 1981
Album publié par Barclay Records
Album numéro un en France

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Dr Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam's Blog
Founder and CEO of Golden Ant Enterprises (GAE)
Golden Ant Enterprises (GAE)
Some reasons to think AIDS is man-made
Dr. Rom Chakravarti	Uncategorized	 November 5, 2020 2 Minutes
1, The history of eugenics and the paranoia about "overpopulation" in what was called the "Third World" in the 1960s and 1970s.
2. The exhortation by Sir Charles Darwin (British nuclear physicist and grandson of the famous biologist) at the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) in 1959 to apply their minds to developing a solution "more brutal than warfare" to reduce the population of what he called "backward countries" whose increasing populations he claimed was a threat more serious than nuclear warfare.
3. The publications by the Stanford University professor Paul Erlich, including the influential best-seller "The Population Bomb".
4. The 1950 recommendation by Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet for Australian scientists to develop the biological weapons industry and use bioweapons offensively against civilian populations in Indonesia and Asia, saying that "poverty and disease alone have kept our coloured neighbours in check".
5. The Syphilis progression studies done in Tuskegee on "Black" Americans.
6. The other nations that have been involved in the development of biological weapons during the Second World War and Cold War.
7. The 1969 request to the US Senate by Dr. Donald Macarthur for money to develop a refractory germ that causes collapse of the immune system and his claim at the time that many countries were working on such a germ.
8. The research that was done at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute at the University of Melbourne by Macfarlane Burnet after he returned from a visit to the British biological warfare laboratories at Porton Down. This was on genetic engineering using plasmids, T-cell and B-cell (lymphocytes) function and monoclonal antibodies. It is also relevant that before he got involved in immunology, Burnet was interested in what were called "exotic viruses" which were systematically collected from tropical regions and injected into a range of experimental animals (including monkeys and, at this time, chimpanzees).
9. The global epidemiology of AIDS, vested interests in creating disease, and the history of scientific racism, colonial atrocities in Africa and the history of Belgian biological and chemical warfare as well as that of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
10, The reasons behind what were called "Pattern 1" and "Pattern 2" epidemiology of AIDS and the fact that the previous targets of genocidal eugenics programs were notable "high risk populations".
11. The sources for funding of the AIDS programs and their connection with the white-supremacist eugenics movement.
AIDS conspiracy
biowarfare
Published by Dr. Rom Chakravarti
I am the Founder and CEO of Golden Ant Enterprises (GAE). GAE enterprises include the Holistic University Network (HUN) which was the world's first network of virtual universities. These universities are non-competitive and do not award degrees or diplomas. The flagship university of the HUN is the Holistic University of Brisbane (HUB) which has several Facebook pages, including the HUB Art Gallery, HUB Forensics, HUB Legal Department, HUB Science, HUB Neuroscience, HUB Biology, HUB Psychology, HUB History, HUB Music, HUB Publications and HUB Health. GAE also includes: 1. The Global Knowledge Network (GKN) including the Holistic Education Network (HEN), Gondwana Free Education (GFE) and Wise Owl Learning (WOL) which also have Facebook pages. 2. GAE Data: https://GAE.data 3. Dr. Rom's Bird Sanctuary: https://www.facebook.com/DRBirdSanctuary 4. Gondwana Mining Corporation (GMC) 5. Global Solar Grid (GSG) 6. Global Power Grid (GPG) Other GAE ventures include the Gondwana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), GondTech, HUB Engineering, HUB Banks, Purple Dolphin Technologies (PDT), Cosmopolitan Green Ecology (CGE), Cosmopolitan Green Architecture (CGA), Cosmopolitan Music Theory (CMT), ZAGUR Communications, Biometric Data Analysis (BDA) and Solar Direct Light Technology (SDLT). These too have Facebook pages which you are invited to visit.	View all posts by Dr. Rom Chakravarti
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The Australian Government vs the World's Tech Firms War has taken its first casualties: sulky, literalist Facebook has scrubbed its network of all news, leaving those Australians who rely on it in the dark and at the mercy of fake news, hearsay, and drivel – so, in many ways, things are exactly as they were.
Moaning that the government hasn't been clear enough in its legislative efforts to make firms pay for the news content they display, the gigantic time-wasting enterprise has blanket banned everything from its blue pages – health services, charities, dingo grooming services (probably) etc.
Rather than galvanising the support of the social media-addicted public behind it, the recalcitrant network has scored yet another own goal (not that they ever seem to hurt it) by bringing the people out in support of the government.
Of course, it's perhaps not for nothing that this sudden rebellion in the face of the seemingly indomitable tech firms has happened in Australia, which as far as I can tell is sort of run/owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Fellow content parasite Google has already acquiesced to the new rules and agreed to pay for the news it displays – well, pay Mr Murdoch, anyway.
It's hard to know which side to root for: the obnoxious, tax-dodging, democracy damning, fanatical information spreading side, or Facebook.
Yet more Facebook news: the social media giant/world controller has announced plans to try and combat misleading information about climate change.
Apparently recently learning of the threat to human survival, and the efforts of some to tell lots of lies about it, the company will now attempt to tags posts that disseminate fluid mendacity with labels that direct readers to its own Climate Science Information Centre. We're all saved!
Cambridge academic Dr Sander van der Linden has been roped in to help Facebook with its rampant carbon fabrication problems.
She said: "The spread of damaging falsehoods endangers the level of international cooperation required to prevent catastrophic global warming.
"Facebook is in a unique position to counter the circulation of online misinformation, and the new climate 'myth-busting' section is an important step toward debunking dangerous falsehoods."
She could, of course, have added that it's in the primary position to spread those damaging falsehoods in the first place, but it's 2021 now and a bit late to worry about something we should have dealt with about 15 years ago.
But good luck, anyway.
The world's latest richest man, and sometime accuser of people being paedophiles sans evidence, Elon Musk, has reached out to another very rich man, Vladimir Putin, to invite him for a digital chat.
The Kremlin has described the offer to shoot-the-polonium on the app Clubhouse as "very interesting", adding that it "would be a great honour to speak with you".
According to this typically speculative Independent article I ripped this story from, Mr Musk may be eager to discuss his Starlink satellite project, which aims to bring high-speed space-based internet to the world.
Having already fallen out over satellites with the world's most powerful man – Jeff Bezos of Amazonia – the Tesla boss is more than likely keen to get the Russian leader on side, as the country has its own internet satellite service, Sphere.
Having said that, he invited Kanye West for a Clubhouse chat last week so maybe he's merely being wacky. It'll be Les Dennis next week.


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MicroStrategy Tutorial | What is MSTR Reporting Tool?
ByDavid Taylor	Hours Updated January 22, 2022
What is MicroStrategy?
MicroStrategy is an enterprise BI application software. It supports interactive dashboard, highly detailed reports, ad-hoc query, automated report dispute, and Microsoft Office integration. Micro Strategy also supports mobile BI.
You can connect MicroStrategy reporting tool with any data, including big data, flat files, social media data, and so on. It offers an intuitive way to create and modify BI reports and dashboards.
In this MicroStrategy tutorial for beginners, you will learn:
History of MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy Architecture
How to Install and Setup MicroStrategy
Features of MicroStrategy
Important terms using in Microstrategy
Advantages of MicroStrategy
Applications of Microstrategy
Various Objects in MicroStrategy
Top Microstrategy Interview Questions and Answers
In 1989, MicroStrategy was founded on the concept that in future organizations need to utilize the power of their data.
In 1992, MicroStrategy gets its first big client when it signed a $10 million contract with McDonald's.
In 1995, the company introduced relational OLAP product suite for decision support applications.
In 1999, MicroStrategy launched the world's first personal intelligence network. (Strategy.com)
In 2004, MicroStrategy delivered Bl technology to users of Microsoft Office applications.
In 2006, MicroStrategy introduced a Multidimensional Expressions engine for optimizing dynamic MDX syntax.
In 2012, MicroStrategy delivered enhanced data discovery features in Visual Insight.
In the year 2014, MicroStrategy made powerful analytics and mobility available on Amazon Web Services.
In 2016, MicroStrategy made its MicroStrategy Desktop product free for every user.
In 2018, MicroStrategy transformed visual data discovery by introducing a native MicroStrategy Library App for smartphones.
The Architecture of MicroStrategy strategy is constructed with a three-tier structure. Let's learn MicroStrategy architecture with each layer in this MSTR tutorial:
First-tier contains two databases:
Data warehouse: contains information for a user to analyze.
Metadata: stores information on data stored in Datawarehouse.
The second tier consists of MicroStrategy Intelligence server. It helps you to execute your reports against the data warehouse.
The third tier is the MicroStrategy Web client or Mobile app, which provides reports to the end users.
Here is the step by step process on how to install and setup MicroStrategy:
Step 1) Subsribe to MicroStrategy BI Tool
Go to the link and click "Continue to Subscribe."
Step 2) Accept the Terms
Next, accept the terms and conditions of the tool
Step 3) Continue to Configuration
Wait for some time. Once the page shows "Continue to Configuration" button. Click on it
Step 4) Keep default settings and Launch the software
Keep the settings default and click "Continue to Launch."
Step 5) Review the settings
Keep the settings default and Click "Launch."
Step 6) Wait for the confirmation
You will be shown a confirmation screen. Wait for some time, for instance, to launch.
Step 7) Get the public IP of the instance
Find the public IP of the instance from your EC2 Console.
Step 8) Start using MicroStrategy
Use the link:
http://<ip-address>:8080/MicroStrategy/servlet/mstrWeb
To access MicroStrategy
In our case, the link is
http://ec2-54-86-245-204.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/MicroStrategy/servlet/mstrWeb
Here are the essential features of MicroStrategy:
Ease of use and self-service
Offers highest user scalability
Plug and play components
Highest report scalability
Automated report maintainability
Highest data scalability
Allows you to prompt parameterized reporting
Helps you to format tabular grid reports using a range of built-in styles
Conditional formatting of data and visual indicators
Allows you to convert tabular reports in the form of graphs and charts
You can drill down granular level data using Microstrategy
Allows you to export inMS-Excel, HTML or text formats
Important terms used in MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy offers an excellent feature for data discovery. It is part of the BI process which allows you to connect data from disparate sources in the form of data silos. The tool also helps you to connect data in formats like big data, flat files, etc.
It is a method for cleaning and transforming data in a format which can be adapted easily for extracting business insights. It allows you to structure, cleanse, and enrich data to perform business intelligence reporting.
Data Mining and Predictive Analysis
MicroStrategy offers data mining features like report designers to business users and analysts. It allows you to build predictive analytics reports and distribute them to any device.
Library of Analytic Functions
MicroStrategy offers a comprehensive library that provides data mining, financial and mathematical functionalities. It helps to tie data, performance metrics, and statistical analysis reports.
Extensible Visualization Library
MicroStrategy offers hundreds of open source tools for visualizing the data along with the built-in tools. It allows you to deploy the visualization builder, or you can also even build a new visualization from.
Real-time Dashboards
The real-time dashboard allows you to work with real-time data. It also helps to monitor business information in real-time. You can also get a regular update with the latest data.
MicroStrategy offer option of Embedded BI which allows you to connect with SharePoint, WebSphere, NetWeaver, etc. The tool provides a simple integration kit that includes sample coding and documentation.
Here are the major advantages/benefits of using MicroStrategy reporting tool:
It can connect with existing enterprise apps and systems.
It is deployed in the cloud. Thus, it saves your infrastructure costs.
It is a useful tool for solving big data related issues.
It offers features for mobile analytics.
It allows you to directly access a database with in-memory
Provide BI ecosystem which helps you to eliminate the requirement for other tools
It is user-friendly, thus eliminating the need for IT support.
It offers advanced and predictive analytics features
Below are the applications of MicroStrategy BI tool:
Allows you to garner customer feedback using social media analysis
It is used for Predictive analytics in the banking and insurance domain.
Offers omnichannel experience using many different customer touchpoints
Helps you launch new products with the help of market and customer data
It helps you to convert big data into reports.
Configuration Objects
In Microstrategy, Object appears in the system layer for use in multiple projects. It includes configuration objects such as Schedules, Data Warehouse, and Login ID.
Schema Objects
They are used for the logical representation of structures in Data Warehouse. This type of objects acts as a building block for BI. This helps you to map columns in database, functions, and operations.
Report Objects
This objects layer helps you to assembles the building blocks from the Schema and Analysis. It provides insightful textual and visual analysis.
Public Objects
Helps users to access the project and create objects to store them in personal folders during the project. Non-Administrative users can only view objects on the public folder so you can't delete or create new objects in public folders. For example, Drill Maps, Documents, Templates and searches, Metrics.
MicroStrategy is an enterprise BI application software. It supports interactive dashboard, ad-hoc query, Microsoft Office integration, etc.
MicroStrategy helps you to connect with existing enterprise apps and systems.
It offers the highest user scalability.
Data Wrangling is a method for cleaning and transforming data in a format which can be adapted easily for extracting business insights.
Data discovery allows you to connect data from disparate sources in the form of data silos.
Data mining features like report designers allows building predictive analytics reports.
Library to analytical function helps you to tie data, performance metrics, and statistical analysis reports.
The extensible visualization library allows you to deploy the visualization builder or enable you to build a new visualization form.
The real-time dashboard allows you to work with real-time data.
MicroStrategy offer option of Embedded BI which allows you to connect with SharePoint, WebSphere, NetWeaver, etc.
The Mstr Architecture is constructed with a three-tier structure.
Configuration, Schema, Report, and Public are important Objects used in MicroStrategy.
MicroStrategy is used for Predictive analytics in the banking and insurance domain.
Top 42 Microstrategy Interview Questions & Answers in 2022


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Fred Hiatt: Billionaires can be good for democracy
By Fred Hiatt Washington Post
Feb 4, 2019 at 2:52 PM Feb 4, 2019 at 9:44 PM
It's open season on the wealthy. Resentment of the rich, lately a feature of the populist right, is sizzling on the populist left, too, with the premise that "every billionaire is a policy mistake."
The impulse underlying that slogan is right. Over the past decades, the gap between rich and poor has widened in this country, and the next president and Congress should take steps to reverse that trend.
But people should think twice before seeking to flatten every tycoon. It may seem counterintuitive, but billionaires can be good for democracy, and a bulwark against tyranny.
To understand why, think back in history - precisely two years back. Or rather, think back to what has happened since then.
The greatest fear in February 2017 was not of plutocrats but of a challenge to our constitutional norms. A newly inaugurated president was attacking the judiciary and the media. He seemed intent on bending the civil service to his will by discrediting it as the "deep state."
He appointed a commission to generate phony evidence of voter fraud that he would, presumably, use to enact changes in voting law to perpetuate his party's rule. He was preparing to manipulate the census for the same reason. His Justice Department was using its awesome power to try to block a merger advantageous to a cable network he loathed.
The Republican-controlled Congress played along, staging phony investigations of federal law enforcement. It even enacted a wealth tax, well before Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., proposed hers - but its was a tax on the endowments of rich private universities, which Republicans saw as a bastion of liberal resistance.
Today, having captured the House and feeling optimistic about 2020, Democrats are focused more on how they might wield power than on Trump's potential abuse of it. And maybe the threat to democracy has receded.
It's a bit soon to relax - and certainly, before we move on, we should think about what will have given American democracy its resilience if it does emerge from this trial.
One piece of that answer - not the only one, by any means, but an important one - is our deeply entrenched, richly diverse civil society. Those private universities with the self-confidence that big endowments can bestow.
Politically diverse think tanks that propagate ideas from governments-in-waiting while providing some accountability for the one in power now. An equally diverse array of media. Nonprofit foundations, testing and promoting policies that the government may not favor.
Other democracies envy the United States for this vibrant, independent, thickly muscled web of institutions and its check on government overreach. And these institutions would not exist but for the generosity of those billionaires and their millionaire fellows.
Not surprisingly, our feelings about this tend to vary by the case. Liberals are not happy when Murdochs or Mercers build up right-wing media but may look more kindly on progressive magnates saving or creating publications old (The Atlantic) or new (The Intercept).
To state the obvious, we at the Washington Post feel fortunate to have a wealthy owner, Jeff Bezos, who has given us the space and time to find our footing in the digital age.
Similarly, some liberals may resent the Koch brothers advocating smaller government but feel differently when George Soros advocates the decriminalization of marijuana.
There is, in fact, a long tradition of tycoons using their wealth to promote policies or foster research where government is absent or opposed. Some of their obsessions are wacky and fall by the wayside. Others end up having staying power and positive effects: Andrew Carnegie's free lending libraries, Julius Rosenwald's schools for black children in the Jim Crow South, Bill and Melinda Gates' promotion of vaccines and other public-health measures that have saved millions of lives.
I'm not suggesting that most rich people are selfless or far-sighted. No doubt the rapacious Washington football team owner whose recent purchase of a $100 million superyacht caught Warren's eye is more typical than are Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, who have pledged to give their fortunes away.
The rich, virtuous or not, certainly shouldn't be allowed to own the political debate, which is why we need public financing of elections, fuller disclosure of contributions and other campaign finance reform.
And for the richest 1 percent of Americans to own 40 percent of the nation's wealth, up from 33 percent in 1962, is corrosive and unhealthy. A wealth tax may be unconstitutional and impractical, but you could promote greater equality with such measures as beefing up the estate tax, taxing capital gains at the same rate as other income and imposing a progressive consumption tax.
But we should also remember that private wealth over the generations has endowed our society with independent centers of power and thought that help protect our liberty.
Fred Hiatt is the editorial page editor of the Washington Post


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Anterior instability of the shoulder is characterised by bipolar lesions – the Bankart lesion with glenoid bone loss on 'glenoid side' and the Hill- Sach's defect (HSD) on the 'humeral head'. It is well known that the recurrence of the dislocation is likely to be more frequent even after surgical repair in the presence of these lesions. Currently, by and large, two surgical options are available to address the glenoid side lesion:Bankart repair (soft tissue procedure) or Latarjet procedure (Bony procedure). Both the procedures have stood the test of time and have proved to be reliable and reproducible. Based on the amount of glenoid bone loss (roughly, the cut off at 25%) choice of surgery offered for this condition is reasonably straight forward. Bankart repair (Arthroscopic/open) for <25% bone loss and Latarjet for>25% bone loss is widely practiced. Although the Hill-Sachs defect remains very frequent in almost all cases of anterior instability of the shoulder, the role and management offered for Hill-Sach's defect remains debatable and controversial. Various surgical procedures have been described to correct Hill Sach's defect include filling of the defect with infraspinatus (remplissage) or bony procedures like reconstruction with an osteoarticular humeral head allograft or partial resurfacing arthroplasty. This review discusses the role of Remplissage procedure with respect to Bankart repair in cases with medium to large Hill Sachs defects.


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Lieutenant General James Longstreet
Longstreet, James
Edgefield District, SC
Gainseville, Georgia
James Longstreet was the son of a farmer and had 11 brothers and sisters. He spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia. After the death of his father in 1833, he went with his mother to Somerville, Alabama. He entered West Point from Alabama in 1838. He graduated 54 out of 62 in the Class of 1842.
Longstreet was commissioned in the Infantry.
He served in the Indian Campaigns and in the Mexican War. Brevetted 2nd lieutenant of the 4th Infantry for tours in Missouri and Louisiana, he served with the 8th Infantry in Florida. Longstreet participated in the Mexican War under Gen. Zachary Taylor and later joined the forces with Gen. Winfield Scott for the expedition to Mexico City. After he was shot in the thigh in Chapultepee, while he was carrying the regimental flag, he went home and married Marie Louis Garland, the daughter of one of his former brigade commanders. He was brevetted to major.
After the start of the Civil War, Longstreet resigned his commission as a major in the U.S. Army on June 1, 1861, and joined the Confederacy. Seeking the post of Paymaster, which he held in the U.S. Army, he was instead appointed to Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. As a result of his skillful leadership at 1st Manassas/Bull Run, he was promoted to major general.
Being promoted to be the Confederacy's senior lieutenant general, he led an independent expedition into southeastern Virginia where he displayed a lack of ability on his own. Rejoining Gen. Robert E. Lee, he opposed attacking at Gettysburg in favor of maneuvering Meade out of his position. Longstreet had come to believe in the strategic offense and the tactical defense. He felt that the Gettysburg Campaign should be a strategic offensive but a tactical defensive plan and thought that Lee thought the same way. His delay in attacking the Union army on the 2nd day at Gettysburg and his lethargy in organizing "Pickett's Charge" on the 3rd day exposed him to the most vindictive criticism by Southerners after the war.
Detached to reinforce Gen. Braxton Bragg in Georgia, he commanded a wing of the army on the second day at Chickamauga. In the dispute over the follow-up of the victory, he was critical of Bragg and was soon detached to operate in East Tennessee. Here again he showed an incapacity for independent operations, especially in the siege of Knoxville.
During the Wilderness Campaign, he was wounded by being accidently shot by his own men on May 6, 1864. The bullet had entered near his throat and went into his right shoulder. He was out of action until October 19. He resumed command in October during the Petersburg operations and commanded on the north side of the James River. He remained with Lee through the surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. Lee referred to him as "My Old War Horse" and his men called him "Old Pete."
After the war, Longstreet became president of an insurance company and supervised the Louisiana State Lottery. Later, he befriended President Ulysses S. Grant and became a Republican, by which he alienated fellow Southerners. He served as President Rutherford B. Hayes Minister to Turkey. He also served as commissioner of Pacific Railroads under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, from 1897 to 1904, and became a U.S. Marshal for Georgia.
Southern sentiment turned against him with increasing vehemence as it became more evident that gettysburg had been the turning point of the war, and that he might be considered largely responsible for the Confederate loss. As a result of this, he had to rely on his political appointments for a living.
Being criticized by many former Confederates, he struck back with his book, From Manassas to Appomattox. He outlived most of his high-ranking postwar detractors. He died at Gainsville, Georgia, on January 2, 1904, the last of the high command of the Confederacy. He is buried in Alta Vista Cemetery, Gainesville, GA .
Lieutenant General - October 9, 1862
Department of Virginia and North Carolina: February 25-May 1863
Department of East Tennessee: November 5, 1863-April 12, 1864


to that Guix, and run the job evaluation code in that inferior.
have a Cuirass instance running the latest and greatest.
hydra: Move job definitions to (gnu ci).
hydra: evaluate: Add the checkout to the store.
hydra: Compute jobs in an inferior.
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Q: how to solve the issue with group by and aggregate function in postgresql I am trying to write a query for dividing the two SQL statements but it shows me
 ERROR: column "temp.missed" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in
 an aggregate function
  SQL state: 42803

although when I do group by temp.missed, it seems to be working but shows wrong results because of multiple group by.
I have following tables in PostgreSQL
 create table test.appointments (
      appointment_id serial
      , patient_id integer references test.patients(id)
      , doctor_id integer references test.doctors(id)
      , appointment_time timestamp
      , appointment_status enum('scheduled','completed','missed')
      );

 create table test.visits (
      visit_id serial
      , patient_id integer references test.patients(id)
      , doctor_id integer references test.doctors(id)
      , walk_in_visit boolean
      , arrival_time timestamp
      , seen_time timestamp
      );

I have written following query for finding Missed appointment rate (missed appointments / total appointments) but its shows the above mentioned error.
  select tem.doctor_id, (temp.missed::float/tem.total) as ratio from
    (select doctor_id, count(appointment_status) as missed from appointments
     where appointment_status='missed' group by doctor_id)as temp
      join (select doctor_id, count(appointment_status) as total from
      appointments group by doctor_id) as tem  on temp.doctor_id =
       tem.doctor_id group by tem.doctor_id;

A: You don't need all those subqueries - a count function applied to a case expression would be much simpler:
SELECT   doctor_id,
         COUNT(CASE appointment_status
                    WHEN 'missed' THEN 1
                    ELSE NULL
               END)::float /
         COUNT(*) AS ratio
FROM     appointments
GROUP BY doctor_id

A: You can simplify the query a lot and if you are using PostgreSQL 9.4 you can use a very nice and clear syntax:
SELECT   doctor_id,
     COUNT(appointment_status)::float
       FILTER (WHERE appointment_status='missed') /
     COUNT(*) AS ratio
FROM     appointments
GROUP BY doctor_id

The FILTER will affect only the COUNT it is after, so in this case it will only count missed appointments.

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Q: how to fix 2 Models showing up at the time I'm fetching data from a database and creating a model for each document of the database. But what happens is; it works well with a single document but when I tried the same with two documents, both models show up at the same time.
How can I show one specific model at a time instead of two?


I'm really excited to see these Olympics. Beijing did an amazing job with the opening ceremony/game hosting in August 2008 and Vancouver has a tough act to follow. Also, these Olympics are being touted at 'the warmest Winter Olympics ever.' While the East Coast of the USA is pummeled with almost four feet of snow, Vancouver is having snow flown in! I also think the Vancouver logo leaves a little to be desired.
So what am I looking forward to the most? Speedskating (if for no other reason than to root on Apolo), Hockey (this level of hockey is only seen once every four years…soak it up while you can) and Ski Jumping. Seriously. Ski Jumping is FRIGGIN AWESOME … and I never get a chance to see it unless it's during the Olympics. I prefer ice-dancing to ice skating, but I'll imagine I'll tune into that a little as well. Luckily for me, the Vancouver location will lend itself to a lot of live events…way better than the eight-hour delay in Beijing!
So while I can't tell you the athletes on team USA or predict favorites in several events, I am excited to watch these games unfold with the rest of you. Look for as much up-to-date info as possible. Look for plenty of human interest stories. Look for the 'regular' sports stories to take a little bit of a back seat these upcoming weeks.
What are you looking forward to about these games? Do you have any favorite events?


With great joy I greet you all and I thank you for the warm welcome you have accorded me. After the wonderful meetings that took place in Berlin and Erfurt, I am happy now that I can be here in Freiburg with you, in the warm sunlight. A special word of thanks goes to your dear Archbishop Robert Zollitsch for the invitation – he was so insistent that in the end I had to say, I really must come to Freiburg – and for his gracious words of welcome.
"Where God is, there is a future", as the motto of these days reminds us. As the Successor of Saint Peter, who was commissioned by the Lord in the Upper Room to strengthen his brethren (cf. Lk 22:32), I have come gladly to you, to this beautiful city, in order to pray together with you, to proclaim the word of God and together to celebrate the Eucharist. I ask for your prayers, that these days will be fruitful, that God will deepen our faith, strengthen our hope and increase our love. During these days, may we become aware once more how much God loves us and that he is truly good. And so we must be full of confidence that he is good to us, that he has power for good, that he carries us and all our cares and concerns in his hands. And we want to place all this consciously into his hands. In him our future is assured: he gives meaning to our lives and he can bring them to fulfilment. May the Lord accompany you in peace and make us all messengers of his peace! Thank you very much for your welcome!


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Singapore Airlines opens digital innovation lab
9 Feb 2019 by Jenni Reid
Singapore Airlines has opened a digital innovation hub called Krislab, where it says its staff will develop new ideas in collaboration with outside partners, start-ups, incubators and accelerators.
The carrier said its aim was for SIA Group to "fully embrace digitalisation and technology in all aspects of its business operations."
Krislab staff will explore projects around artificial intelligence, virtual reality, data analytics, blockchain and more.
It is intended to give the airline a boost in areas such as revenue management, smart seats, virtual training, and predictive maintenance for aircraft.
Last year Singapore launched a blockchain-based digital wallet called Krispay for its Krisflyer frequent-flyer members and it has previously stated its ambition to be the "world's leading digital airline."
Krislab partners include Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research, and the National University of Singapore.
Singapore also said it would offer a training programme open to all employees that would "nurture digital mindsets" and teach new skills.
"The launch of Krislab is a significant step forward in our digital transformation journey and encapsulates our ambition to be the leading digital airline in the world," said Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Choon Phong.
"We are fully committed to further enhancing our digital capabilities by providing the right tools and infrastructure for staff to develop their ideas, as well as collaborating with external partners and start-ups to help solve business challenges."
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Tags: Singapore Airlines
Marriott CEO says those responsible for data hack 'will never be known'
Billions are wasted on unproductive meetings, report says
Unused aircraft cargo space can be used for virtual reality and other digital experiences: design firm
Krisflyer launches Krispay digital wallet
Singapore Airlines aiming to become world's "leading digital airline"
Singapore Airlines improves digital offering


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I have been a member of MO and of math.SE for a long time now. My participation in MO has been mainly lurking because I am not a researcher but a student who aims to become one. So, logically, I have been much more active on math.SE.
However, on the last months my questions have started getting very little attention: little upvotes, little answers. Of course, it might be because their quality has fallen. It might also be a generalized tendency.
In my view, your questions are at a good level for MO. A good indication of this is that (as you implicitly point out) you're getting lots of upvotes but almost no answers on MSE.
I like the detail you put into your questions, and I think that will go down well. If you're asking questions as a result of going through textbooks and getting stuck, probably the most important points are (i) to keep up that level of detail, (ii) to make sure you've made a sustained effort to answer the question yourself before asking on MO, and (iii) to make it clear in your question that you've made that effort.


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In the Image Viewer, go to Menu, then to Study, then to Manage Report Workflow, and then Choose Datasource.
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Hello. Just purchased 08 cobalt lnf with exactly 100k miles. Previous owner was the only one owner and did great maintenance on it did everything required and then some. Was wondering if I should change water pump if it hasn't been changed? But current one seems fine. Love to hear some advice on this please....................oh yeah I'm new proud owner of her and I'm excited!!!
Last edited by Roguefit203; 02-10-2019 at 07:17 PM.
I wouldn't change the water pump unless you need to get in there to replace timing chain or something as long as there is no indication it isn't working properly. I changed the water pump recently with the front cradle dropped and it wasn't too bad but you have to take the T-stat housing loose to get the water pump out as well. Not sure how much different the cross-pipe is on the LNF but your turbo and exhaust may get in the way also. If you ever do change the water pump I would recommend also going back in with the Cloyes balance shaft/water pump chain kit. It comes with new chain, guides, tensioner, and sprockets.
The special tool keeps the old sprocket in position so that the balance shafts don't accidentally get out of time from loose chain?
Don't mess with it if it's not broken. Timing chains are suppose to last the life if the engine. You hear some cases of chains stretching or one of the guide bolts sheeting off, you only hear of the few that broke due to manufacturing faults or lack of maintenance, I have 116k on mine (knock on wood) and I don't hear any noise. Allot if it has to do with how well you maintain your car. Personally I change my oil on all my cars at 3000 miles regardless of what the manufacturer says it can go. Going with a new engine may seem better but your gonna be paying 1500 for the engine and labor on top of that plus all the turbo gaskets and hardware and anything else that breaks.
Thanks for that piece of info, appreciate it. Yeah I think I'll just leave it alone. Car runs good well maintained and all. It would of just been a piece of mind type of thing. Just trying to make car last.
I agree about dealerships. Same here with the oil changes and all. I'm running on 21 psi and seems strong since getting it years ago. Just wish last owner didn't put catless downlipe uggh . To loud for my comfort. Lol! But I guess performance it helps . Idk kinda wanna go with a hi flow cat tho.
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( function ( M, $ ) {

	var NearbyApi = M.require( 'modules/nearby/NearbyApi' ),
		WatchstarApi = M.require( 'modules/watchstar/WatchstarApi' ),
		Nearby = M.require( 'modules/nearby/Nearby' );

	QUnit.module( 'MobileFrontend modules/nearby/Nearby (1 - no results)', {
		setup: function () {
			this.spy = this.sandbox.stub( NearbyApi.prototype, 'getPages' )
				.returns( $.Deferred().resolve( [] ) );
		}
	} );

	QUnit.test( '#render empty list', 4, function ( assert ) {
		var $el = $( '<div>' );
		new Nearby( {
			latitude: 37.7,
			longitude: -122,
			range: 1000,
			el: $el
		} );
		assert.ok( this.spy.calledWithMatch( {
			latitude: 37.7,
			longitude: -122
		}, 1000 ), 'Check API got called' );
		assert.strictEqual( $el.find( 'li' ).length, 0, '0 pages render.' );
		assert.strictEqual( $el.find( '.error' ).length, 1, 'Error message shown.' );
		assert.strictEqual( $el.find( '.loading' ).is( ':visible' ), false, 'No loader shown.' );
	} );

	QUnit.module( 'MobileFrontend modules/nearby/Nearby (2 - has results)', {
		setup: function () {
			var resp = {
				query: {
					pages: {
						2: {
							watched: ''
						},
						3: {},
						4: {}
					}
				}
			};
			// prevent hits to api due to watch status lookup
			this.sandbox.stub( WatchstarApi.prototype, 'get' ).returns( $.Deferred().resolve( resp ) );

			this.getLocation = this.sandbox.stub( Nearby.prototype, 'getCurrentPosition' )
				.returns( $.Deferred().resolve( {
					latitude: 37.7,
					longitude: -122
				} ) );
			this.spy = this.sandbox.stub( NearbyApi.prototype, 'getPages' )
				.returns( $.Deferred().resolve( [
					{
						title: 'Sutro Tower',
						id: 2
					},
					{
						title: 'Golden Gate bridge',
						id: 3
					},
					{
						title: 'Golden Gate Park',
						id: 4
					}
				] ) );
		}
	} );

	QUnit.test( '#render with a location', 2, function ( assert ) {
		var $el = $( '<div>' );
		new Nearby( {
			latitude: 37.7,
			longitude: -122,
			range: 1000,
			el: $el
		} );
		assert.ok( this.spy.calledWithMatch( {
			latitude: 37.7,
			longitude: -122
		}, 1000 ), 'Check API got called' );
		assert.strictEqual( $el.find( 'li' ).length, 3, '3 pages render.' );
	} );

	QUnit.test( '#render with location error', 4, function ( assert ) {
		var $el = $( '<div>' ),
			n = new Nearby( {
				range: 1000,
				el: $el,
				errorType: 'location'
			} );
		assert.ok( this.spy.notCalled, 'Check API didn\'t get called on this case.' );
		assert.strictEqual( $el.find( '.error' ).length, 1, 'Check error got rendered' );
		assert.strictEqual( $el.find( '.error h2' ).length, 1, 'Check error has heading' );
		assert.strictEqual( $el.find( '.error h2' ).text(),
			n.errorMessages.location.heading, 'Check it is the correct heading' );
	} );

	QUnit.test( '#render with current location', 2, function ( assert ) {
		var $el = $( '<div>' );
		new Nearby( {
			useCurrentLocation: true,
			range: 1000,
			el: $el
		} );
		assert.ok( this.getLocation.calledOnce, 'Check API got called' );
		assert.strictEqual( $el.find( 'li' ).length, 3, '3 pages render.' );
	} );

	QUnit.module( 'MobileFrontend modules/nearby/Nearby (3 - server errors)', {
		setup: function () {
			this.spy = this.sandbox.stub( NearbyApi.prototype, 'getPages' )
				.returns( $.Deferred().reject() );
		}
	} );

	QUnit.test( '#render with a server error', 3, function ( assert ) {
		var $el = $( '<div>' ),
			n = new Nearby( {
				latitude: 37.7,
				longitude: -122,
				range: 1000,
				el: $el
			} );
		assert.ok( this.spy.calledWithMatch( {
			latitude: 37.7,
			longitude: -122
		}, 1000 ), 'Check API got called' );
		assert.strictEqual( $el.find( '.error' ).length, 1, 'Check error got rendered' );
		assert.strictEqual( $el.find( '.error h2' ).text(),
			n.errorMessages.server.heading, 'Check it is the correct heading' );
	} );

	QUnit.module( 'MobileFrontend modules/nearby/Nearby (4 - Around page)', {
		setup: function () {
			this.spy = this.sandbox.stub( NearbyApi.prototype, 'getPagesAroundPage' )
				.returns( $.Deferred().reject() );
		}
	} );

	QUnit.test( '#getting a title will trigger a different API method', 1, function ( assert ) {
		var $el = $( '<div>' ),
			pageTitle = 'Hello Friends!';
		new Nearby( {
			pageTitle: pageTitle,
			range: 1000,
			el: $el
		} );
		assert.ok( this.spy.calledWithMatch( pageTitle, 1000 ), 'Check API got called' );
	} );

}( mw.mobileFrontend, jQuery ) );

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Director: Alex Magaña
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