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Thakur Chandsheel an officer of 1999 RPS batch was born in a small village of Jharkhand in the year 1971.He did his schooling at his native place and he has completed his higher secondary education from St. Columbia's School ran by Missionaries.
Thakur has done his MA, LLB from Delhi University and MA HR, PA while in service. After getting his posting in police department he has also attained an UN Peace Management Course in 2008 from Italy after which he got posted as Civil Affair police Liaison Officer in Cyprus in 2012-13.
After serving UN for more than a year Thakur came back to India in 2013. Thakur currently holds a position of Additional SP , District, Udaipur, is a gentleman, energetic with his focus on executing his responsibilities , calm, visionary , straight forward and non corrupt personality and serving Udaipur with zeal.
Sir kindly tell us about childhood days, the place where you born and bought up and collage you attended.
I was born on 15th September at Gola village of Ramgarh cant Jharkhand, I initially went to a local school at my native place but later my parents enrolled by at St. Columbia's School ran by missionaries. Later I joined University of Delhi for higher education.
I have done MA, LLB from Delhi University, I was always found reading books and writing articles and also remained the Editor of the College Magazine.
How did you start your career? Do you always wanted to be a police officer?
Ans: I didn't want to be a police officer, being a son a doctor, nobody wanted me to be a cop, but in 1999 I got a chance to appear in the RAS Examination and got selected in the police department.
Beside being a part of UN Peace Keeping Mission I remained posted as Deputy SP RAC (India Reserves )Delhi, Rajsamand, Pali , Kota,Ajmer, RPA Jaipur and Udaipur.
After getting promoted as Additional SP I have served as Additional DCP Jodhpur, Additional SP Bhiwari and currently serving as Additional SP District Udaipur.
Sir tell as something about your family.
My father is a doctor and wife and mother are home makers, I am blessed with 2 daughters; Reading novels and books are my hobbies and I am a big movie buff and watch almost all movies if I get time on weekends.
After getting posted as Additional Sp District Udaipur what initiative taken by you for the betterment of people?
I am member of a team for taking action on the rehabilitation of the drug addicts by connecting them to the Anti Drug Abuse drive of the police department called as ' Pahal' under direction of my SP Sri Rajendra Goyal.
We are also taking strict actions against the people involved in eve teasing and those who are alluring people for wrong purposes.
I am also associated with country's first 'Lady Police Patrolling Team' which is formed by a group of specially trained police-women working as quick response police team to curb all types of crime in the city.
I have also been a part of many community initiatives for eradicating social evils like Motana, and Witch hunting; promoting women empowerment , and building bridges between society and police during my postings at Udaipur , Kota and Rajsamand.
Sir what do want to say to the people of Udaipur.
Let's make Udaipur cleaner and greener and a safer place for everyone specially for women, children and tourists.
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Avonia was separated from Anacampseros by Rowley in 1994, but the divorce has not lasted for very long. DNA evidence provided the basis for not only reuniting the two genera but for putting them in a new family the Anacampserotaceae as a split from Portulacaceae (2010). However Avonia and Anacampseros are readily recognisable as subgenera because Avonia has flowers with very short stems, (they are long on Anacampseros), and has tiny leaves usually covered by scales, (larger obvious leaves not covered by scales in Anacampseros).
The typical Anacampseros retusa grows over a wide area of the Western and Northern Cape Provinces of South Africa and it has rosettes of dark green or purplish glabrous retuse leaves; there are hairs and bristles in the axils but they are not particularly obvious. In the middle of the Knersvlakte on quartz-strewn planes near Groot Graafwater can be found the very different-looking subspecies lanuginosa that is the subject of this note. These plants produce very long hairs that completely obscure the plant bodies, but it can be seen in the habitat photo that, in the wild, the hairs become matted together. This photo was taken on a field trip with Steven Hammer in 1988 but it was not until 2003 that it acquired a name when Graham Williamson christened it in Excelsa.
Fig. 1 A. retusa subsp. lanuginosa in habitat.
After seeing the wild plants of subsp. lanuginosa, I subsequently raised it from fresh seed (Anacampseros seed can be fairly short-lived). However it proved to be a tricky subspecies to cultivate and was extremely susceptible to rotting off after a few years. Like most Anacampseros, it is self-fertile and I did maintain it through several generations by further seed sowing until one year it disappeared once more into the garden waste bin and I had no seeds left to hand.
Growers will often rate Avonia species more highly than Anacampseros, but a number of Anacampseros are slow-growing and tricky; growing a good large plant of the easier ones is an achievement. The mini caudiciforms: A. comptonii and bayeriana are almost impossible to cultivate for any length of time.


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Q: Architectural decision : QT or Eclipse Platform? We are in the process of designing a tool to be used with HDEM(High Definition Electron Microscope).We get stacks of 2D images from HDEM and first step is 'detecting borders' on the sections.After detecting edges of 2D slices ,next step is construct the 3D model using these 2D slices.
This 'border detecting' algorithm(s)  is/are implemented by one of professor and he has used and suggests to use C.(to gain high performance and probably will parallelise  in future)
We have to develop comprehensive UI ,3D viewer ,2D editor...etc and use this algorithm.
Application should support usual features like project save/open.Undo,Redo...etc
Our technology decisions are:

A) Build entire platform from the
  scratch using QT.
B) Use Eclipse Platform

Our concerns are,
if we choose A) we can easily integrate the 'border detecting' algorithm(s) because the development environment is C/C++ But we have to implement the basic features from the scratch.
If we choose B) we get basic features from the Eclipse platform , but integrating C libraries going to be a tedious task.
Any suggestions on this?

A: I'd go for Qt any time:-)
If you need a IDE framework to build your project on you might want to consider Qt together with Qt creator. The latter is a really nice IDE to develop with and can be extended with custom plugins, pretty much like eclipse.

A: If you need performance and a well-controlled process I'd suggest going the Qt way.
Qt has a well documented class library that should make implementation of basic features fairly easy and intuitive. It also has OpenGL support for 3D and good 2D editing capabilities.
I've recently built a monitoring application with a custom UI and it was fairly easy once you get past the basic concepts behind the framework.

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) — not to be confused with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) — is an autoimmune disease that can have very serious consequences. (IBS, on the other hand, is a functional bowel disorder. In other words, there are no significant physical conditions that contribute to the problem; hence it's a functional disease.) According to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), IBD affects more than 3 million American adults, nearly triple previous estimates.1 There are two types of IBD: Crohn's disease Ulcerative colitis Both of these IBD conditions involve chronic inflammation in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Symptoms include abdominal cramps, fatigue and diarrhea. IBD also raises your risk of developing colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer in the U.S.
The U.S. food system is set up to protect industrialized, centralized food production and distribution, while efforts to decentralize food are kept strictly under wraps. There are many problems with this system, including the fact that food production is often out of sync with demand, leading to excessive amounts of waste. In 2016, for instance, the industrial dairy industry has dumped 43 million gallons of milk due to a massive milk glut. The glut is the result of a 2014 spike in milk prices, which encouraged many dairy farmers to add more milk cows to their farms. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data shows that dairy cows have increased by 40,000 in 2016, with a 1.4 percent increase in production per cow. With too much milk and nowhere to sell it, prices have tanked. Milk prices declined 22 percent in recent months to $16.39 per 100 pounds — a price so low some farmers can no longer afford to even transport it to the market.1 The milk glut isn't only affecting the U.S., either. It's been felt globally, which means milk producers can't export their surplus milk. What's a dairy farmer to do with a surplus of milk? Dump it — on fields, into animal feed or added to manure lagoons.
When consumers purchase organic produce, they expect to avoid vegetables and fruits that have been genetically modified or sprayed with dangerous pesticides. The unsettling reality, however, is that cross-contamination between GM plants and conventional or organic plants is not only possible—it is already happening. Millions of acres of GM rapeseed, which is used to make canola oil, the most popular cooking oil in North America, are being grown—in Canada and Australia in particular, but also in the US. This GM rapeseed has spread across the world, growing wild in ports, railway beds, along highways, and other areas where it has "escaped" during transport. Not only is it growing wild—it has contaminated another Brassica, the parent of cruciferous vegetables known as Brassica rapa. Organic broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Napa cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and more are now under threat.


Quentin Tarantino came up with a beaut of an idea — a bunch of brainstorms, in fact — for a madcap World War II cartoon. And then never really figured out what to do with them. Inglourious Basterds is a movie about the writer-director's fevered obsession with movies and, I regret to report, not terribly much more.
When you factor out the countless in-jokes and references to other films (most of which will mean zip to 99.9 percent of the audience), what you're left with is an extraordinarily longwinded, often stunningly dull and frankly insensitive comic fantasy about Jews exacting payback from the Nazis.
There are an awful lot of characters and storylines in this movie, but only three of them really matter. The German-born actor Christoph Waltz has resurrected his career in the role of SS officer Col. Hans Landa. He won the Best Actor award at Cannes in May and has received glowing notices for his performance. The thing is, his character, nicknamed "The Jew Hunter," is something of a one-trick pony, not to mention a cliché. The history of cinema is jam-packed with Nazi officer characters who are gracious and civil one moment and calmly barbaric the next. Now it must make room for one more.
The talented French actress Mélanie Laurent plays Shosanna Dreyfus. As a teenager, she escaped into the woods after witnessing the massacre of her family at the hands of Col. Landa. Years later, we find her living under an assumed name in Paris, operating a small jewel of a movie house and hatching a plan to lure the Third Reich's high command to the place and burn it to the ground with everyone from Joseph Goebbels (Sylvester Groth) to the Führer himself (Martin Wuttke) locked inside. Even in this picture's topsy-turvy comic book universe, it's a tad much to expect us to play along with. We're talking about some of the most powerful and paranoid people who ever lived. In what world would they neglect to bring a small army's worth of security?
Thank God for Brad Pitt. The film comes to life almost solely when he's on screen, and, if you're like me, you'll wind up wishing Tarantino had resisted the temptation to show off and simply made a movie about Pitt's character and the men he leads.
Tarantino pays homage to the squad in the title of his picture but gives way too little attention to it in the story he tells. Only one of the eight Basterds, Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth) is allotted even a single dimension — he beats prisoners to death with a baseball bat. (Yes, Quentin, we enjoyed The Untouchables, too). Several squad members are denied even a single line.
The original script included backstories for Raine and a number of his men, but the auteur got so carried away cramming in extraneous characters and subplots that the Basterds end up little more than question marks with machine guns. Even Pitt's character winds up more or less a celluloid pile on the cutting-room floor. That glaring scar around his neck, for example? A remnant of an attempted lynching never referenced in the final version of the film, never accounted for in the matrix of his savage motivation, but pivotal to his fleshing out in the original screenplay.
Can you believe a mere 15 years have passed since Tarantino gave the world the masterpiece that was Pulp Fiction? Here's the bottom line: The man's still capable of coming up with snazzy ideas, cool twists and the occasional run of inspired dialogue — just not enough of them to sustain a two-and-a-half-hour-long film. I could barely make it through his half of Grindhouse, though I can watch his early work on a weekly basis and never cease to be astounded.
Inglourious Basterds is a fading talent's attempt to distract from his diminished artistry with what looks like a precocious film student's riff on Nazis, the Holocaust and a ridiculous, giggling Hitler. Pitt's performance provides a handful of gut-busting moments, but, those aside, the first casualty of war in this case is fun.


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Here is What Hedge Funds Think About Carter's, Inc. (CRI)
How do we determine whether Carter's, Inc. (NYSE:CRI) makes for a good investment at the moment? We analyze the sentiment of a select group of the very best investors in the world, who spend immense amounts of time and resources studying companies. They may not always be right (no one is), but data shows that their consensus long positions have historically outperformed the market when we adjust for known risk factors.
Carter's, Inc. (NYSE:CRI) has seen a decrease in hedge fund sentiment in recent months. Our calculations also showed that cri isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
Let's analyze the fresh hedge fund action surrounding Carter's, Inc. (NYSE:CRI).
What does the smart money think about Carter's, Inc. (NYSE:CRI)?
At Q1's end, a total of 19 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of -14% from the fourth quarter of 2018. On the other hand, there were a total of 31 hedge funds with a bullish position in CRI a year ago. With the smart money's positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists a few noteworthy hedge fund managers who were increasing their holdings substantially (or already accumulated large positions).
More specifically, Valinor Management was the largest shareholder of Carter's, Inc. (NYSE:CRI), with a stake worth $63.7 million reported as of the end of March. Trailing Valinor Management was Diamond Hill Capital, which amassed a stake valued at $55.9 million. Polaris Capital Management, Millennium Management, and Citadel Investment Group were also very fond of the stock, giving the stock large weights in their portfolios.
Seeing as Carter's, Inc. (NYSE:CRI) has experienced declining sentiment from the smart money, we can see that there lies a certain "tier" of funds that decided to sell off their full holdings by the end of the third quarter. Interestingly, Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capital said goodbye to the biggest stake of the 700 funds monitored by Insider Monkey, worth close to $22.2 million in stock, and Sara Nainzadeh's Centenus Global Management was right behind this move, as the fund said goodbye to about $2.8 million worth. These moves are important to note, as total hedge fund interest dropped by 3 funds by the end of the third quarter.
Let's check out hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Carter's, Inc. (NYSE:CRI). We will take a look at Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO), Medidata Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:MDSO), Science Applications International Corp (NYSE:SAIC), and Americold Realty Trust (NYSE:COLD). This group of stocks' market values are similar to CRI's market value.
AGO 34 559263 1
MDSO 16 214798 5
SAIC 28 356290 4
COLD 27 907693 11
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We saw the first clues hinting at an Apple car-building project back in February. Rather than information leaking out of Apple directly, it was evident that the Cupertino tech giant had become involved in a 'hiring war' with electric car pioneers Tesla motors. Putting two and two together and adding a few morsels of insider talk, the media concluded that Apple was gearing up to enter the electric automobile business, possibly with technology-packed self-driving cars.
The Wall Street Journal has recently got an update about the Apple car project from "people familiar with the matter". It indicates that Apple has spent the last year investigating the project, its feasibility and legal/commercial matters and is now committed to the project.
With everything now in place internally, and any possible regulatory obstacles considered, Apple has decided to accelerate its efforts to get the car to market. Cupertino has already a 600-strong team working on the project but project leaders have now been given the green light to triple the workforce, to get things rolling.
The indications are that the first car won't be fully autonomous, despite Apple hiring such experts already. Self driving cars are part of a longer term plan, say insiders. So we might expect the first cars to be fully electric, but packed with driving tech assistance, rather than a system that takes over driving duties. Apple's targeted ship date of 2019 isn't necessarily going to be the date in which consumers can buy these cars, says the WSJ.
With oil prices and therefore petrol prices going down recently, it is thought that electric cars have become less attractive to the buying public. However, with better batteries and longer ranges supported by electric cars, alongside future oil price increases and government encouragements to go electric, the tide may turn by Apple's 2019 product shipping target.
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There you go Hexus peeps, a few buzzwords to get your Apple rants flowing.
Seriously though, which element of all existing cars do we think Apple will file a patent for on the back of this?
Can you imagine how many workers will kill themselves in their car plants from being grossly under-paid and working in abysmal conditions?
But people will still pay twice the competitions price tags to get the Apple logo, even though their cars will probably decide where you can drive and how fast….


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Following the public exhibition held on 31st January 2019, Miller Homes has now submitted a reserved matters application to Chichester District Council for the residential units proposed within Parcel 2A in Phase 2 of the Part 1 site at Whitehouse Farm. Details of the application will be available on Chichester District Council's planning portal in due course.
Separate reserved matters applications will be submitted in due course for Linden Homes' residential proposals for Parcel 2B and the on-site sports pitches.
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Further to this, Linden Homes and Miller Homes will bring forward future reserved matters applications for Phases 3 to 6 of the Part 1 site from 2019 onwards.


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Some Denver short-term rental owners are giving up their licenses, rather than risk criminal charges
City officials have started sending out primary residence affidavits to ensure rentals are not being run illegally
By Saja Hindi | shindi@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: September 4, 2019 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: September 4, 2019 at 2:13 pm
Hundreds of Denver property owners are shutting the door on short-term rental investments as Denver cracks down on rule-breakers in a way no other American city is doing.
As of Thursday, 154 people have surrendered their licenses and another 126 have withdrawn applications this year as four people faced felony criminal charges for falsifying documents related to their rental properties, according to data obtained by The Denver Post from the city's Department of Excise and Licenses. In 2018, 93 surrendered licenses and no one withdrew an application.
The surge in surrenders and withdrawals has come as the city began asking property owners to sign affidavits, swearing they were in compliance with a rule that their short-term rental locations were also their primary residences. This summer, the Denver District Attorney's Office, in cooperation with the excise and licenses department, began filing criminal charges against people who investigators say lied on their paperwork.
"This was a unique tactic that would really put people in a position where they really have to come clean and it's working," said Eric Escudero, excise and licenses department spokesman. "(Hosts) are realizing the seriousness of this and it's been an effective tactic that helps us better regulate an industry that's very difficult to regulate."
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The rules for short-term rentals such as Airbnb and VRBO were established by the Denver City Council in 2016 after residents began complaining that people coming and going from houses were disrupting residential neighborhoods. Denver is the only city in the country that asks license holders suspected of cheating to sign affidavits.
Those who support the city's rules say they protect residents and neighborhoods while critics accuse the city of going overboard with unwarranted enforcement.
"This tactic was conceived in an overall effort to improve our short-term rental compliance with existing laws," Escudero said. "Short-term rental rules are in place to protect the integrity of Denver's neighborhoods and curtail short-term rentals that could negatively impact affordability in Denver, which is a huge point of emphasis."
But Daniel Recht, a lawyer representing a property owner charged with a felony in connection with an Airbnb listing, called the city's rules "disturbingly atypical and unusual."
The debate will continue, but the numbers show Denver officials are serious about enforcement.
The city received 648 complaints about short-term rentals between Jan. 1, 2018 and Aug. 13, according to data from excise and licenses. Of those complaints, 491 involved primary residence violations. The rest were related to licensing and impacts on neighborhood such as noise or safety issues.
"It's not an effort to get people in trouble, but we take this very seriously," Escudero said. "We get an average of three complaints per week, so we have to listen to those complaints. We have to take action."
Under Denver ordinance, anyone listing a house for a short-term rental must register with the city and pay for a license. If the city has reason to believe the rental property is not an owner's main residence, then investigations and enforcement steps begin. That's when investigators can ask property owners to sign the affidavits. The enforcement action can range from warnings to fines to felony charges.
Between March 1 and Aug. 27, the city held 46 investigative hearings, which resulted in either a surrendered license or a primary residence affidavit sent, data from excise and licenses show. Of 186 instances where the city has attempted to deny licenses, 83 property owners withdrew their applications, 15 cases were closed because owners dropped out of the process and six licenses were denied. Another 34 received affidavits they needed to sign to verify the properties were primary residences; 30 received licenses. The remaining cases are pending.
Denver has one of the highest compliance rates in the nation for short-term rental licenses, Escudero said. That's, in part, due to the enforcement although other theories also exist when it comes to Denver property owners following the rules, he said. As of Thursday, 75% of the homes listed online were registered with the city, excise and licenses data showed.
The compliance rate has been on the rise as word has spread about the rules and as excise and license investigators respond to complaints. Investigators start with warnings and gradually become more aggressive.
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The first criminal charges came in June when Alexander and Stacy Neir were charged with attempting to influence a public servant in connection with their rental property. The couple lived in Stapleton but were listing a house in the Berkeley neighborhood and another near Jefferson Park on Airbnb, according to their arrest affidavits. They had signed documents saying those homes were their full-time residences.
However, Recht, the attorney representing Alexander Neir, said the affidavits were vague and ambiguous. The forms were emailed without any explanation but with a request the couple sign them and send them back.
No one interviewed the Neirs or asked them about signing the affidavits, Recht said. The excise and licenses office, however, says its employees contact short-term rental owners before sending the forms.
"This all raises the question of whether disagreements regarding the interpretation of the bureaucratic regulation should be resolved via felony prosecutions," Recht said. "We would suggest not."
The affidavits are often used as a last resort after investigations reveal problems, Escudero said. Licensees who don't want to sign the documents can take the issue to an investigative hearing, Escudero said.
In April, the Denver Office of Economic Development and Opportunity determined short-term rentals in Denver don't appear to be negatively affecting the housing market or affordability mainly because of the primary residence requirement.
"This prevents investors from purchasing housing that would otherwise be used for normal, long term residential purposes, thereby decreasing the housing supply and inflating prices," the report stated. "The enforcement of these regulations is critical to ensuring that short term rentals do not inflate housing prices in Denver."
The move has elicited mixed reactions, even from those who are running legal short-term rentals.
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Pat Romero, 80, of Denver is preparing the room for AirBnB guest at her home in Denver on Thursday. August 29, 2019.
Pat Romero, who rents out the second story of her historic 1885 house, sees both sides. As a traveler who uses Airbnb, she has stayed in primary residences and full-time rentals, and sometimes, she enjoys having a whole place to herself.
Years after retirement, the 80-year-old Romero decided to use the house as a short-term rental for additional income. Barely a day goes by when the room isn't rented out.
"Airbnb gave me some structure," Romero said.
Airbnb company spokeswoman Laura Rillos declined an interview with The Denver Post, but sent a statement saying, "Airbnb is an economic lifeline for Denver families and an important part of the local economy, and we remain committed to working with the city to ensure short-term rentals continue to strengthen the community."
VRBO officials did not return multiple requests for comment.
Adam Hevenor, a Denver Airbnb host since 2015, said he opposed the city's regulations when they were created because he thought it was an attempt to push out short-term rentals. Airbnb also was against the rules and organized a meeting for its clients to encourage opposition, he said.
"But over time, I've come to realize that Denver's rules are very sensible," Hevenor said. "They're able to balance (running) Airbnbs like we do but also keep the housing market under control."
Residents, particularly real estate agents, who are running afoul of the rules, frustrate Hevenor. Requiring rentals to be primary residences keeps competition down, making it more difficult for investors to buy up properties to rent, he said.
And despite the regulations, Hevenor said he found the license easy to obtain.
"We've had good experience in general," Hevenor said. "It generates a fair amount of income and we have pretty steady demand."
Story updated at 2:11 p.m., Sept. 4, 2019 to provide updated information on the number of complaints against Denver short-term rental operators and how many of those involved primary residency complaints.
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Saja Hindi is a breaking news reporter for The Denver Post. She previously worked at the Fort Collins Coloradoan and the Loveland Reporter-Herald, and before that in print and radio in North Carolina. During that time, she's covered politics, social issues, law enforcement and public safety, with a focus on accountability.
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ANDAM adds Hermès, Kering and LVMH execs to board
ANDAM, France's leading independent award for young talent, has added three high-level luxury executives from Hermès, Kering and LVMH to its board in a significant overhaul of the organization.
Jean-François Palus - Photo by Benoît Peverelli
In something of a surprise ANDAM announced that Guillaume de Seynes, Hermès director general; Jean-François Palus, the rugby-fan director general of Kering and Sidney Toledano, the CEO of the LVMH Fashion Group, had all been elected members of the Conseil d'Administration, or board of ANDAM.
The news will be seen, in part, as a rapprochement between ANDAM and LVMH, which has focused in the past half decade on its own LVMH Prize, albeit the two prizes have slightly different formats.
Founded in 1989 by fashion editor Nathalie Dufour, ANDAM has grown to be a highly influential award for young international talent, with a proven track record of picking important up and coming designers. Its first winner was Martin Margiela, and subsequent laureates have included Viktor & Rolf, Jeremy Scott, AMI, Iris Van Herpen and Y/Project.
Sidney Toledano - Photo: ANDAM
This year its total annual prize is €500,000 making ANDAM – whose full name is the Association Nationale pour les Développements des Arts de la Mode - the richest award in fashion.
The president of ANDAM continues to be Guillaume Houzé, a senior member of the family that owns Galeries Lafayette, France's most important department store chain. Under his influence the award has increasingly focused on innovative and technological start-ups in fashion.
"The confidence that the house of Hermès and groups like LVMH and Kering accord us by joining our board honors the history of ANDAM, and is a testimony to our association's central role in the transformation of fashion," Houzé said.
Guillaume de Seynes - Photo: ANDAM
Many other key luxury and fashion brands are represented on the board of ANDAM, which is legally an association of public interest in France. It includes representatives of Chanel, Longchamp and multiple fashion organizations including the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode; fashion school IFM; the Ministry of Culture; the Decorative Arts Museum of the Louvre; fashion financing agency Défi; and Madison Cox of the Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent Foundation. Bergé having been a key and constant supporter of ANDAM throughout his life.
The actual election to the board took place in December, but maintaining the French quango tradition of taking days or even weeks to announce a decision, the news was only released on Wednesday.
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Well, I'm a little late on this. Pope Francis released his environmental Encyclical recently. This Encyclical is revolutionary in human history, even though the power of the Pope, these days, is diminished. An example of the relative im-Potence of the Pontiff, in Americaland, is the hurried scramble of Republican Catholics - (more-so, unrepresentative Presidential candidates) - to publicly rebuke the Pope's Encyclical, saying, "He should stick to traditional Church teachings, and stay out of politics! We think he is going too far!"
Hey - remember the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, when the Pope reigned politically over most of Europe, and beyond? And what religious wars, or religious movements, are NOT political.
Catholic does not mean an excuse to retreat into narcisstic delusions of moral correctness, justifying all vices and CONSUMPTIONS.
"Going too far?"! We face the fastest, most immediate global MASS EXTINCTION, of all time, and his giving of his opinion means that he is GOING TOO FAR?!
I'll tell you right now! As much as I praise the Pope for this - it should have happened 100 years ago, and drastic international action should have begun 50 years ago. In the big picture, this little Papal fart of dismay is NOTHING - it's too late. Too little, too late. Yet, I applaud anyone who tries, and swims upstream against the tide, despite all indications of impending demise.
"Going too far" - pfft!
The main thing is this: I want to cover the Encyclical itself, here.
I was hoping to do the current post on Father's Day, which would have been slightly apt. (At least the Encyclical resounded w/ a few Catholics around that day). It would have also have given my the chance to post lyrics from a song which I listened to recently. (I think that, "Sword," is, strangely, my next favourite Morrissey album to, "Maladjusted".
Something got stuck in his throat!
NPR's Melissa Block speaks to John Carr of Georgetown University's Initiative on Catholic Thought and Public Life about Pope Francis' call to moral action on climate change.
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Catholics across the nation are reacting to a sweeping encyclical issued by Pope Francis on the issue of climate change. The 184-page papal letter explains that it is a global problem with far reaching environmental and social ramifications.
Will Pope Francis' Climate Encyclical Change the World?
The Catholic Church doesn't endorse specific political parties or candidates, Shea said. So, even though the encyclical calls for action on climate change, "this isn't going to be giving you voting instructions," Shea told Live Science.


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"World economy is quite fragile, yet India is much better placed today due to improvement in its macro-economic fundamentals," Jaitley said at the meeting.
NEW DELHI: Government's measures to eliminate the shadow economy and tax evasion are expected to have a positive impact on the country's gross domestic product and fiscal consolidation in the long run, finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.
The country appeared to be much better placed with improved macro-economic fundamentals, Jaitley said while chairing a meeting of the Financial Sector Development Council (FSDC) here.
The FSDC, which has all financial sector regulators as members, reviewed major issues and challenges facing the economy in its first meeting after the demonetisation of high-value currency notes from November 9, 2016.
RBI governor Urijit Patel, Sebi chief UK Sinha, IRDAI chairman TS Vijayan, PFRDA chairman Hemant G Contractor, chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian and top officials of the finance ministry attended the FSDC meeting.
The FSDC reviewed the status of non-performing assets (NPAs) of banks. The chief economic advisor also made a presentation on the state of the economy. "The council reviewed major issues and challenges facing the economy...," a statement from the finance ministry said.
Also, the regulators offered suggestions and proposals for the 2017-18 union budget, which the council deliberated upon. The budget is proposed to be presented on February 1.
"The council also reviewed the present status of NPAs in banks and measures taken by the government and RBI for dealing with stressed assets and discussed on further action in this regard," the statement said.
The FSDC discussed the initiatives taken by the government and regulators for promoting financial inclusion and financial literacy, the statement said. A report on the activities by a FSDC subcommittee chaired by the RBI governor was placed before the council. The council also reviewed action taken by members on decisions taken in earlier meetings.
"The council also discussed issues pertaining to fintech, digital innovations and cyber security. The council took note of the initiatives taken in this regard by the government and the regulators and discussed on further steps to be taken," the finance ministry statement said.
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The House Intelligence Committee stated Donald Trump has never been involved in any collusion with Russia. Speaking to Sputnik, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel noted that the Obama and Clinton teams are likely to find themselves in trouble and revealed how the current US president could win the 2020 race by a landslide.
"The House Intelligence Committee Report is an excellent first step, predictable, and Chairman [Devin] Nunes should be praised for his tenacious determination to examine evidence and expose truth," Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist Charles Ortel told Sputnik.
On April 27, the House Intelligence Committee released the results of its probe into alleged ties between Russia and the Donald Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race, saying that it found "no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government."
According to Ortel, "the Obama and Clinton camps, as well as the mainstream media have much to lose as the public reads this report and even more once details of the Inspector General Michael Horowitz's extensive work evaluating the hobbled investigation into the mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and others while and after Clinton served as Secretary of State, using alias email accounts, private servers and unauthorized private electronic devices."
The Wall Street analyst pointed out that "the American public understands that the Russia collusion narrative is a false distraction, yet the mainstream media cannot bring itself to admit mistakes clinging to the fiction," referring to national polls.
The Democrats and their financial backers kicked off an all-out anti-Trump campaign following his win in November 2016. As Kenneth P. Vogel of Politico noted on November 14, 2016 George Soros and "other rich liberals" worked out a plan of "full-on trench warfare against Trump from Day One." The newly elected president faced protests, and smear campaigns including those targeting his close associates. The US intelligence agents and former Obama officials added to the mess by leaking confidential information and throwing sand in the Trump administration's gears.
One of the tools used to cast shadow on Trump was a dodgy dossier written by Christopher Steele, a former head of the Russia Desk for British intelligence (MI6), which alleged that the US president was on the Kremlin's hook. The dodgy dossier allowed Trump opponents to enforce the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on his former aide Carter Page. As the House Intelligence Committee found, the Steele dossier accusations were groundless.
As it turned out later, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign hired Fusion GPS in spring 2016 through a "series of intermediaries" to carry out an investigation on Trump and his alleged ties with Russia. For its part, Fusion hired Steele as subcontractor. However, that was not all.
Besides Steele, Cody Shearer, a former journalist and longtime Clinton operative, has been searching for dirt on Trump since August 2016, as The Daily Caller revealed in February 2018. The media outlet noted that Shearer obtained information from an unidentified foreign source, adding that this unverified data was passed to Steele and then found its way to the FBI.
The two dossiers contain a lot of similarities, which prompted RealClearInvestigation.com to raise the question "about the role of Clinton partisans and the extent to which the two dossiers may have been coordinated."
According to Ortel, the Steele and Shearer dossiers appear to be a mere hoax cooked up by the Clinton campaign to hijack Trump's victory.
"The Clintons are experts at 'gas-lighting' — accusing others of behavior that they themselves have been practicing for decades," the Wall Street journalist said. "Going back in national politics certainly since 1996, the Clintons stand accused of soliciting contributions for their various causes from suspicious characters inside and outside the United States, using shadowy intermediaries including Shearer and many others. American presidents make decisions that can cost enemies dearly and make friend even more wealthy."
Ortel, who has been conducting a private investigation into the Clinton Foundation's alleged fraud underscored that "what really needs to be understood is who stood to gain most from a Clinton victory in 2016 and how many different operatives were involved coaxing money out of donors from 2013 forward (especially via the Foundation)."
On the other hand, it "deserves focus is on why Bernie Sanders is no more upset that Democratic primaries were apparently rigged against him," the investigative journalist highlighted.
"What seems the case is that machinery in our [American] security services likely was weaponized before and after Donald Trump won the presidency," Ortel presumed. "This process involved a large number of people, many of whom likely remain as government employees. A massive housecleaning is long overdue and many officials involved as well as their outside operatives need to be exposed, investigated, prosecuted, and, once convicted, incarcerated."
Meanwhile, information emerged that prominent American tycoon George Soros was also behind the Fusion GPS investigation into Trump.
On March 8, Oleg Deripaska, the founder of a Russian aluminum company Rusal, noted in his op-ed for The Daily Caller that "on March 16, 2017, Daniel Jones — himself a team member of Fusion GPS, self-described former FBI agent…- met with my lawyer, Adam Waldman, and described Fusion as a 'shadow media organization helping the government,' funded by a 'group of Silicon Valley billionaires and George Soros'."
The media outlet reached Adam Waldman, who confirmed Deripaska's story, while Jones, Fusion GPS, and a representative for Soros did not responded The Daily Caller's request for a comment.
The newly released House Intelligence Committee report also refers to Daniel Jones in a footnote (page 113). Jones, who is currently leading the Penn Quarter Group (PQG), a research and investigative advisory based in Washington, D.C., told the FBI in March 2017 that "PQG was being funded by 7 to 10 wealthy donors located primarily in New York and California, who provided approximately $50 million." Jones further added that PQG was cooperating with Fusion GPS and Steele in order to "continue exposing Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election."
While the report obviously takes the heat off of Donald Trump, it at the same time, pins the blame on Russia for alleged "interference" in the 2016 presidential elections. De facto, it repeats the unsubstantiated narrative of the Hillary Clinton campaign which it has pushed ahead since summer 2016 to dump Trump.
"The Russian active measures campaign against the United States was multifaceted," the document claims. "It leveraged cyber-attacks, covert platforms, social media, third-party intermediaries, and state-run media."
Presenting no solid evidence to back the accusations and leaving no room for discussion, reasoning or counter argument, the document makes Russia the main culprit behind the year-long internal political infighting between various power clans in the US: "Russia's active measures campaign achieved its primary goal of inciting division and discord among Americans. For more than a year, US politics have been consumed by bitter recriminations, charges, and counter-charges about the attacks," the report insists.
People pause near a bus adorned with large photos of candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump before the presidential debate.
So, what impact will the House Intelligence Committee's probe results have on the situation in Washington in the context of upcoming 2018 congressional elections and 2020 presidential race?
"Barring health emergencies, and even in the event of a massive stock and credit markets correction, President Trump will win re-election in 2020, possibly by a landslide," Charles Ortel suggested. "Before then, Democrats have a tougher road than Republicans in Senate races in that about 10 Democratic Senators are up for re-election in states that Trump won solidly in 2016."
The Wall Street analyst believes that "the key driving factor in American elections is how voters feel about the economy and its prospects."
"In a scenario where markets crack before November 2018 (as they did before November 2008) economically responsible Democrats (there are very few of these) and the 'Try-Something-Other-Than-Capitalism' wing of the Democratic Party may pick up seats in this upcoming midterm election," he presumed, adding that "should markets remain strong, and should jobs and incomes continue rising, Democrats are set to be crushed again."
"Most of these seem un-tethered by reality, and trapped in pockets like NY, CA, DC where elites listen to themselves, but not to the mass of American voters," Ortel added.
The views and opinions expressed by Charles Ortel and Ekaterina Blinova are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of Sputnik.


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