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Mylan Institutional LLC Initiates Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Levoleucovorin Injection Due to the Presence of Particulate Matter
Mylan N.V.
ROCKFORD, Ill., March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Mylan Institutional LLC is conducting a voluntary nationwide recall of two lots (see table below) of Levoleucovorin Injection, 250 mg/25 mL tothe consumer/user level. The lots were manufactured by Alidac Pharmaceuticals Limited and distributed by Mylan Institutional LLC. The Levoleucovorin Injection is being recalled due to the presence of particulate matter identified as copper salts. The particulate matter was discovered during 12-month stability testing.
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Administration of a sterile injectable that has foreign particulates has the potential of severe health consequences. Intravenous administration of a solution containing particulates could lead to local irritation, vasculitis/phlebitis, antigenic or allergic reactions, and microvascular obstruction, including pulmonary embolism. To date, Mylan has not received any reports of adverse events related to this recall.
Levoleucovorin injection is indicated for rescue after high-dose Methotrexate therapy in osteosarcoma; for diminishing the toxicity and counteracting the effects of impaired Methotrexate elimination and of inadvertent overdose of folic acid antagonists; and for the use in combination chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil in the palliative treatment of patients with advanced metastatic colorectal cancer.
Levoleucovorin Injection, 250 mg contains 25 mL sterile solution in a single-use vial. Each vial is packaged in a carton containing one single-use vial. The batches were distributed in the U.S. between August 2017 and July 2018. The recalled lots are as follows:
Product Description and Strength
Levoleucovorin Injection 250 mg/25 mL
25 mL vial
APB032
Mylan has notified its distributors and customers by letter and is arranging for return of all recalled products. Following are actions for wholesalers, retailers and consumers:
Wholesaler: Immediately examine your inventory, quarantine and discontinue distribution of these lots. In addition, if you have further distributed the product, please identify your retail level customers and provide a list of customers via Microsoft excel file to mylan7079@stericycle.com within 10 business days. Stericycle will notify your retail level customers that received the affected batches.
Retailer: Immediately examine your inventory, quarantine and discontinue distribution of these lots. Additionally, if you have further distributed the product, please identify the consumer and notify them immediately of this product recall. The consumer should be instructed to contact Stericycle at 1-866-551-2706 for the documentation packet to return the product.
Consumer: Please contact Stericycle at 1-866-551-2706 for the documentation packet to return product to Stericycle.
Consumers with questions regarding this recall can contact Mylan Customer Relations at 800.796.9526 or customer.service@mylan.com, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. EST. Consumers should contact their physician or healthcare provider if they have experienced any problems that may be related to using this drug product.
Adverse reactions or quality problems experienced with the use of this product may be reported to the FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program either online, by regular mail or by fax.
Complete and submit the report Online: www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm
Regular Mail or Fax: Download form www.fda.gov/MedWatch/getforms.htm or call 1-800- 332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre- addressed form or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178.
This recall is being conducted with the knowledge of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
About Mylan
Mylan is a global pharmaceutical company committed to setting new standards in healthcare. Working together around the world to provide 7 billion people access to high quality medicine, we innovate to satisfy unmet needs; make reliability and service excellence a habit; do what's right, not what's easy; and impact the future through passionate global leadership. We offer a growing portfolio of more than 7,500 marketed products around the world, including antiretroviral therapies on which more than 40% of people being treated for HIV/AIDS globally depend. We market our products in more than 165 countries and territories. We are one of the world's largest producers of active pharmaceutical ingredients. Every member of our approximately 35,000-strong workforce is dedicated to creating better health for a better world, one person at a time. Learn more at Mylan.com. We routinely post information that may be important to investors on our website at investor.mylan.com.
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9 Most Beautiful Kundan Rangoli Designs That Will Blow Your Mind: Rangoli, a beautiful artwork that has been decorating the houses of Indian for many years. It is spreading happiness at every festival. From its origin to today, the rangoli has changed a lot from a traditional way of styling and designing to very complex but even more beautiful ones. The most beautiful change that happened in the rangoli designs is "Kundan Rangoli".
Here in this post, we will provide you the 9 Best and most beautiful Kundan Rangoli Designs that will blow your mind. We advise you to share them with your friends and relatives also.
1. If blue is your color theme for the occasion, then you must go for this Kundan Rangoli Design. It will surely catch the attention of everyone. Light blue rhinestones are perfectly designed along with white and light and dark brown pearls. The white pearls are used to outline the inner lining of the design pattern.
2. The use of blue and dark pink stones are always the best combination and in this design, it is looking very beautiful. In the middle, a big round white stone is used to enhance the beauty of the Kundan Rangoli Design. The leaf shapes with flower shapes inside are also attracting the attention of the viewer.
3. This vibrant pink Kundan Rangoli looks very beautiful due to its perfect design. The use of the brown and green stones are also a source of attention.
4. Among all the Kundan Rangoli Designs, this peacock couple design is the best one. This pretty design pattern is suitable for all kind of occasions. If you draw it and hang it on the wall as a wallpaper then everyone will love it. There are two types of Kudan rangoli techniques used in this design. The floating one – which is used to draw its feather and normal but colorful beads are used to draw the peacock body.
5. A beautiful flower shaped design pattern with a flower drawn with maroon and golden color and leaves are with green color. It is a perfect rangoli design for floor and also for the wall. You can easily draw it on any special occasion.
6. If you are looking for some attractive Kundan Rangoli Design then you must try this one. It is a beautiful and perfectly drawn Rangoli Pattern with 4 peacocks. Each people is beautifully designed with blue, white and golden beads. We recommend you to try it in a rangoli competition.
7. A star shape Kundan Rangoli Kolam is waiting for you so that you may draw it on a special occasion and catch the attention of the competition judges. If you are an expert and in a competition then this design is a perfect choice for you.
8. Another star shapes Kundan Rangoli Pattern beautifully crafted with red, brown, and green color beads and stones. The shapes that are outside the design are also the source of attraction.
9. This design pattern is for blue color lovers. The use of blue powder color with light greenish blue beads and stones is the most beautiful one. This heart-shaped rangoli is perfect for the entrance of the puja-ghar during any special occasion.


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Sutton Coldfield Observer 23rd November 2012 – Sport does a lot more than just get us fit – ask Jessica Ennis, who was bullied at school
Home » Latest news » Running » Sutton Coldfield Observer 23rd November 2012 – Sport does a lot more than just get us fit – ask Jessica Ennis, who was bullied at school
Who would have thought that our Olympic Gold Medal winning heptathlete, Jessica Ennis was bullied at school? Listening to Radio 4's Woman's Hour earlier this month, Jenni Murray was talking to Jessica who revealed how, as a school girl, she was bullied for being small & skinny. The well-spoken Yorkshire lass was the first to admit that she was insecure as a child.
Jessica was asked what she had gained from her sport. She explained how when she was young her parents had sent her outside to 'exercise to burn up some energy'. She joined an athletics club aged 13yrs and never looked back. The sport gave her confidence and made her feel good. Jessica went on to say how sport had taught her a lot, given her her personality, a structure to her life, a belief in herself, made her strong and powerful.
We can't all experience that transformation: a small, skinny bullied school girl to a strong and powerful Olympic Gold Medallist. But sport can help us to gain self-confidence, self-belief and indeed it does. Taking part in sport will increase our fitness, making us stronger and giving us that feel good factor. If we feel happy with our body image we will feel more confident and cope better with work and life in general. It doesn't matter what sport we do so long as it is something we enjoy – then it is easier to commit to getting fit!
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La fortalesa (títol original en anglès: Castle Keep) és una pel·lícula bèl·lica estatunidenca, dirigida per Sydney Pollack, estrenada el 1969. Ha estat doblada al català.
El film és una adaptació de la novel·la homònima de William Eastlake.

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Al mes de desembre de 1944, en la Batalla de les Ardenes, una contraofensiva dels alemanys contra les forces aliades, un grup de vuit G.I.s, dirigit pel major borni Falconer es refugia al castell de Malderais, un casalot aïllat del .

El comte Henri Texier i Thérèse, la seva jove esposa que resulta ser igualment la seva neboda, hi viuen sense fills, ja que el comte és impotent, envoltats inestimables obres d'art. El major decideix, malgrat l'oposició del seu segon, el capità Beckman, boig per l'art i especialista de les miniatures en ivori del , d'instal·lar-se en el lloc i de fer-ne una plaça forta.

A poc a poc, la vida s'organitza. Henri Texier no veu d'un mal ull la relació amorosa de Thérèse amb el major, esperant un embaràs de la seva esposa; un idil·li té lloc entre el sergent Rossi i la fornera del poble, el marit del qual és al front; el soldat Benjamin, el desig del qual és esdevenir escriptor, comença la redacció d'una novel·la mentre els altres membres del grup són clients assidus d'un prostíbul dels voltants.
Per tal de facilitar la seva progressió cap a Bastogne, els alemanys decideixen conquerir Malderais. Massa pocs de cara a la força enemiga desplegada, els G.I.s són davant un cruel dilema: o bé resistir i protegir el castell, o bé abandonar aquest últim i fugir però així permetre als alemanys penetrar fàcilment a la ciutat belga. Decideixen resistir.

Repartiment
 Burt Lancaster: Major Abraham Falconer
 Patrick O'Neal: Capità Lionel Beckman
 Jean-Pierre Aumont: el comte de Maldorais
 Peter Falk: Sergent Rossi
 Astrid Heeren: Thérèse
 Scott Wilson: Caporal Clearboy
 Tony Bill: Tinent Amberjack
 Al Freeman, Jr.: Soldat Allistair Piersall Benjamin
 James Patterson: Elk
 Bruce Dern: Tinent Billy Byron Bix
 Michael Conrad: Sergent DeVaca
 Olga Bisera: La dona del forner
 Caterina Boratto: La reina roja

Lloc de rodatge
 Un bosc de l'ex-Iugoslàvia ha servit de marc per al rodatge de la pel·lícula i el castell ha estat construït en aquest país, a Sremska Kamenica. En realitat, el castell de Maldorais mai no ha existit, no més que el poble belga de Ste-Croix.

Referències

Pel·lícules d'acció dels Estats Units
Pel·lícules de comèdia dramàtica del 1969
Pel·lícules sobre el Front Occidental de la Segona Guerra Mundial
Pel·lícules basades en novel·les
Pel·lícules del 1969 doblades al català
Pel·lícules dels Estats Units del 1969
Pel·lícules dirigides per Sydney Pollack

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Finance Teaching and Research after the Global Financial Crisis
Indian Institute of Management Working Paper No. 2011-03-02
19 Pages Posted: 25 Mar 2011
See all articles by Jayanth Rama Varma
Jayanth Rama Varma
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad
Date Written: March 22, 2011
Finance has come in for a great deal of criticism after the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008. Clearly there were serious problems with finance as it was practiced in the years before the crisis. To the extent that this was only a gap between theory and practice, there is a need for finance practice to go back to its theoretical roots. But there is a need to re-examine finance theory itself.
The paper begins with an analysis of what the crisis taught us about preferences, probabilities and prices, and then goes on to discuss the implications for the models that are used in modern finance.
The paper concludes that the finance curriculum in a typical MBA programme has not kept pace with the developments in finance theories in the last decade or more. While a lot needs to change in finance teaching, finance theory also needs to change though to a lesser extent. Many ideas that are well understood within certain subfields in finance need to be better assimilated into mainstream models. For example, many concepts in market microstructure must become part of the core toolkit of finance. The paper also argues that finance theory needs to integrate insights from sociology, evolutionary biology, neurosciences, financial history and the multidisciplinary field of network theory. Above all, finance needs more sophisticated mathematical models and statistical tools.
Keywords: global financial crisis, finance teaching, finance research
JEL Classification: G10, A20
Varma, Jayanth Rama, Finance Teaching and Research after the Global Financial Crisis (March 22, 2011). Indian Institute of Management Working Paper No. 2011-03-02, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1793197 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1793197
Jayanth Rama Varma (Contact Author)
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad ( email )
Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380 015
HOME PAGE: http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~jrvarma/


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NZ earthquakes: Wellington cut off, mass evacuations begin in south
By MiNDFOOD	| November 15, 2016
Yesterday an earthquake, today a flood: a scene in Petone, Wellington, today
Wild weather lashes NZ's capital, a day after a massive earthquake killed two people and caused major damage
Wild weather lashed Wellington today, cutting the New Zealand capital's land links to the rest of the country, just a day after a massive earthquake killed two people, disrupted the lives of thousands of residents and tourists, and caused billions of dollars of damage.
As hundreds of aftershocks rumbled on, some of earthquake strength themselves, the two highways and railway line out of Wellington were closed when torrential rain and gale-force winds whipped the region.
Residents were evacuated from houses in Porirua and Karori after landslips threatened to bring them down.
Many schools were closed and pupils sent home. The few workers who had returned to their offices in the central city were asked not to try to get home until after 6pm, because roads are flooded, commuter rail services were suspended this afternoon following more aftershocks, and buses are stretched beyond their current limited capacity.
The Hutt Valley was worst affected by the floods because the Hutt River overflowed its banks, while power was out in northern suburbs around Porirua.
The cordoned-off area in the central city was widened after inspections showed earthquake damage to some buildings and the risk of falling glass or concrete was more severe than first thought.
These include Westpac Stadium (the Cake Tin), where the Phoenix' weekend football game has been called off; TSB Arena and Statistics NZ's new national headquarters on the waterfront; as well as major office and retail centres.
In Kaikoura, the northern South Island town most affected by yesterday's quakes, the Defence Force began flying stranded, distressed tourists and shaken locals out of the shattered coastal region.
It is running a shuttle service with four military helicopters to bring supplies in and take people out but bad weather is hampering the operation.
Two NZ Navy ships will arrive at first light tomorrow to complete the evacuation. The US has offered the USS Sampson, in Auckland to mark the Navy's 75th anniversary, and its two helicopters; Malaysia has offered a military helicopter.
It's estimated 1200 tourists are in the popular destination – headquarters of New Zealand's whale-watching safaris. The Chinese Government chartered a helicopter to fly its nationals out, and a travel operator chartered a private plane to take 30 tourists to Christchurch.
The town is severely damaged and has no effective power, communications, roads, water or sewerage. Last night the district council said there was three days' water left. The hospital is full.
It's hoped to open a one-lane, inland road to Kaikoura in 2-3 days. The main route – the coastal road State Highway 1 – and the rail line that runs next to it are wrecked.
The New Zealand Parliament met in Wellington this afternoon, with Prime Minister John Key and Opposition Leader Andrew Little making statements of condolence and support about the earthquake and its aftermath.
Key, Finance Minister Bill English and acting Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee fronted a press conference to update developments.
Things weren't going to revert to normal quickly. "It's going to take quite some time to get back to the way [things] used to be," English said.
There was significant damage in Wellington and Kaikoura. Disruption to transport links would be major, with both the Picton and Wellington ports damaged, and North-South Island links would be disrupted for "quite some time".
"This is going to add up to something fairly significant," English said.
Damage to State Highway 1 and other infrastructure was so severe transport authorities may look at realigning parts of the network.
"The slips are of a scale that are very meaningful. So one of the questions will become, in rebuilding the road, is it absolutely in the right place? Is rail in the right place? And how susceptible is it to a future earthquake or slip?" Key said.
The lesson from Christchurch's 2011 earthquakes was that damage which initially appeared innocuous could end up being quite serious.
The Government was relying on people having their own insurance but in circumstances where that was not the case it would "potentially look to give them some support", Key said.
The Government would look at help to keep Kaikoura businesses afloat. Many relied on the passing tourist trade and would struggle with no road or rail links, he said.
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Yampa Valley Data Partners sheds light on Northwest Colorado economics
Janelle O'Dea
For this holiday season, it's Yampa Valley women who have the purchasing power.
"Purchasing power" or "real dollar values" refer to the value of dollars in a single year, according to Katherine George, of Yampa Valley Data Partners.
Using real dollar values allows for comparison over a number of years.
In Moffat County, women's real dollar values increased by 15 percent between 2000 and 2012, according to YVDP's Regional Economic Forecast Fourth Quarter News. But Moffat County men lost about 10 percent in purchasing power in the same period.
Routt County men had a 13 percent decline in real wages and women maintained (did not gain or lose) their real wages in the same period.
Income inequality in Colorado and in the Yampa Valley explains much of the real wage value decline, the report said. Women's growing role in the labor force also has an effect on the numbers.
Income of the richest fifth of households increased in both Moffat and Routt counties.
The poorest fifth of households lost 15 percent in income in Routt County and the poorest fifth of households' income in Moffat County gained 15 percent.
"Changes in the past 25 years to corporate governance and financial regulation at the macro-economic level explain the income and wage gap between the richest and everyone else," the report said.
While purchasing power has taken a hit, unemployment numbers are more encouraging.
Moffat County's unemployment rate dropped from 5.8 percent last year to 3.8 percent this year. Routt County's rate also dropped, from 5.3 percent to 3 percent.
The 2014 report said, however, this drop has created a labor shortage for Routt County.
Retail sales remain strong in Routt County while Moffat's have suffered. Routt County is expected to experience a 5 percent growth in retail sales this year compared to last, and Moffat County is expected to "underperform" in this category this year.
Both the Moffat County and Routt County housing markets remained stable or experienced growth "in recent months." Moffat County had lower than average foreclosure rates and Routt County also experienced a low foreclosure rate in September 2014.
Moffat had three foreclosures in September while Routt had five.
Out of Moffat County's top five industries, mining continues to lead the way in terms of wages earned. A total of 511 employees pulled in more than $10 million in the first quarter of 2014.
Routt County's finance and insurance industry generated more than $29 million for its 300 employees.
Retail trade and accommodation/food services employed the most people in Moffat and Routt counties, respectively.
Both Moffat and Rout counties experienced an uptick in coal production, while the state of Colorado as a whole declined.
Oil production fell in Moffat County by 29.4 percent from last year, and fell 23.4 percent in Routt County.
Natural gas production decreased 16.6 percent in Moffat County but grew 16.6 percent in Routt County.
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Best NBA Players of All Time
News >Best NBA Players of All Time
By: Eniko
Shaquille O'Neal was the most dominant player
Kobe Bryant won 5 titles and was in the All-Star team 18 times
Michael Jordan and LeBron James are considered the best players
It is one of the most famous sports leagues in the world, with the best basketball players, fantastic atmosphere and legendary arenas. The NBA is loved by fans everywhere, even people who are not interested in basketball are aware of the teams and their stars. In the best NBA players of all time we find the most amazing players, who changed the history of the sport for ever.
The documentary about Michael Jordan's last season is one of the most watched programs on Netflix at the moment. It shows how curious people are for the life of one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Jordan and his teammates were part of the American 'Dream Team which won the Olympics in 1992 and 1996. The members of this team all played in the NBA, which is the world's best basketball league with top level games and the best players of the world. Fans could see the greatest talents there from the earlier eras up to today, let's see the best of them.
10. Shaquille O' Neal – A center with killer shooting percentage
Shaquille O'Neal was one of the most dominant players of the NBA. It was almost impossible to defend against him, as his enormous size (2,16 m tall and 147 kg) was matched with great athleticism. He wasn't only great in scoring, but in rebound and defense as well. He led the Los Angeles Lakers to three consecutive titles in 2000, 2001 and 2002. But after his tension with Kobe Bryant O'Neal had to leave the club. He joined the Miami Heat and won his fourth title with them. He was the MVP in 2000 and was voted to the NBA All-Star team 14 times during his career. O'Neal was a great entertainer as well as we have mentioned earlier.
9. Tim Duncan – The Big Fundamental
Duncan played during his whole career with the San Antonio Spurs which signed him in 1997. He won five championships with the team between 1999 and 2014, he was the MVP in 2003 and 2004. He was also selected in the NBA All-Star Team 15 times. Duncan was a very efficient player, especially in defending. But unlike many other big players, he didn't like to show off and remained a quiet, normal guy without any glimmer.
Every one of them are legends.
8. Kobe Bryant – A great player with a tragic end
Kobe Bryant was signed by the Los Angeles Lakers straight from high school in 1996. He spent his whole career at the club, winning five championships with them during 20 years. He was called the 'Black Mamba' as he was so cool and accurate with his shots as the venomous snake. Bryant was in the NBA All-Star team 18 times, the NBA MVP in 2008. He also had the second most points scored in a single game (81 points). Sadly he lost his life in a tragic helicopter accident with his daughter this year as online sportsbooks news in the US were also reporting.
7. Bill Russell – The first black superstar
Bill Russell played in a much earlier era of the NBA, between 1956 and 1969 for Boston Celtics. He won 11 championships with the team, which is the most anyone has ever won. Russell was one of the best defenders of the game, with fantastic shot-blocking and rebounding skills. He became the first black superstar of the NBA and also the first black coach to win a championship with his former team. The team is not in the favorites to win this season with the odds of 21.00 at 1xBet Sportsbook but can win the Eastern Conference where it has the odds of 7.50.
6. Wilt Chamberlain – One-man powerhouse
Wilt Chamberlain was a huge player, with his 2,16 m height he was one of the tallest players in the 1960s. No surprise he was great in rebounding, with almost 23 rebounds on average. But he was also a great scorer, his scoring average of 30.1 points per game is the second highest behind Michael Jordan. Chamberlain is the only player to score 100 points in a single game. He won two championships with Philadelphia 76ers and Los Angeles Lakers. He was voted to the All-Star team 13 times.
5. Larry Bird – 'Larry Legend', the deadly shooter
Larry Bird also played for Boston Celtics in his whole career between 1979 and 1992. He wasn't the most athletic player, but he made up for that with his great shooting skills and his intelligence for the game. Bird won three championships with the Celtics and was in the NBA All-Star team 12 times. He was the league's MVP three times in a row, one of only three players to achieve that. He became the coach of Indiana Pacers and was named as the Coach of Year in the 1997-98 season.
4. Magic Johnson – The assists king
One of the biggest rivals of Bird was Earvin Johnson Jr, or as more known, Magic Johnson. Their rivalry started in the NCAA Championship final and they continued to meet each other in three more NBA finals. Johnson played for the Los Angeles Lakers and won 5 titles with the team. He won 3 MVP Awards and was in the All-Star Team 12 times which could have been even more if he didn't have to retire early due to his illness. Johnson introduced a fast-paced style of basketball and was a key player of the Showtime Lakers with the next person on the list.
Some of them retired peacefully – Image via Pixabay
3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – All-time leading scorer of the NBA
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played with Johnson in the Los Angeles Lakers and achieved even bigger successes. Before playing in the NBA, he won three consecutive NCAA titles. You can already find odds for the winner of the next season's NCAA champion on 1xBet.
He was drafted by Milwaukee Bucks in 1969 where he played six seasons and won one title. Then he joined the Lakers and won five more championships. Kareem was one of the best NBA players of all time and still holds the record for most MVP Awards (6), most points scored, most rebounds, most blocks, most games played and most wins.
2. LeBron James – The most recent biggest star
LeBron James joined the NBA after high school, at the age of 18. Since then he has been a key player in the teams he has been playing, Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat and since 2018 Los Angeles Lakers. He led his teams almost on his own to eight finals and won three of them. He is an all-round player, great in scoring, rebounds and passing. James was the NBA MVP four times, and was named to the NBA All-Star team 16 times. He won the Olympic Games with the US team in 2008 and 2012. Online gambling sites in the US are predicting similar successes in the next Olympics. He is 35, but still one of the best players of the league. His odds to be this regular season's MVP is 9.00.
1. Michael Jordan – 'His Airness'
There is a debate within basketball fans if Jordan or James is the best player of all time. But for me, it must be Michael Jordan as he represents the sport all over the world. He was the greatest scorer, he won the league's scoring title 10 times. But Jordan was great in defense as well, and was selected in the all-defensive top team 9 times. He led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles in the 1990s. He got 5 MVP Awards and 14 NBA All-Star Team nominations. Of course, Jordan was also a member of the 'Dream Team' which conquered the world in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. Probably he is more known to the younger generation for his shoes, which made him a billionaire. But he had such a huge impact on the sport that he must be first on the list.
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What ever happened to "competitiveness"?
As I was doing some research on the current debate on industrial policy (see last week's posting), I was struck by something missing. Economic competitiveness rarely gets mentioned in the policy discussions now days. The concern that we need to compete with other nations is common, especially with respect to competing with China. But the rubric of "competitiveness" as a framework for policymaking seems to have disappeared from the public discourse.
First, a little history. The term came into the public discourse in 1984 when President Reagan created the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness (aka the Young Commission), chaired by then HP CEO John Young. In part, the Commission seems to have been set up to counter the focus on industrial policy by the democrats in an election year.
Whatever the reason for its establishment, the Young Commission succeeded in changing the terms of the debate. It shifted focus 90 degrees from policies for specific industrial (often referred to as horizontal policies) to a focus on crosscutting policies that (theoretically) benefit all industries (vertical policies). Their 1985 report Global Competition: The New Reality stated that "Competitiveness can be defined as the degree to which a nation can, under free and fair market conditions, produce goods and services that meet the test of international markets while at the same time maintaining or expanding the real incomes of its citizens." Note two important concepts: test of international markets and rising standards of living.
Young then went on to form the Council on Competitiveness in 1986 to carry on the Commission's work and the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 addressed a number of competitiveness issues, including establishing a Competitiveness Policy Council (something that I was heavily involved in).
While the CPC had its funding eliminated in 1997, other organization such as the Council on Competitiveness, carried on the work. The World Economic Forum (WEF) annually publishes its Global Competitiveness Index and IMD (International Institute for Management Development) issues a World Competitiveness Rankings. Most recently, the Council on Competitiveness established a National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers.
Over the years the framework for analyzing competitiveness has evolved only slightly. The Young Commission report laid out four pillars of competitiveness:
technology;
capital;
human resources;
and, trade.
The Competitiveness Policy Council started with eight issue areas:
capital formation;
education;
training;
public infrastructure;
corporate governance and financial markets;
trade policy;
manufacturing; and,
critical technologies.
WEF's Competitiveness Index covers 12:
institutions;
infrastructure;
ICT adoption;
macroeconomic stability;
health;
skills;
product market;
labor market;
financial system;
market size;
business dynamism; and,
innovation capacity.
All of these provide a framework of components for understanding a nation's competitiveness.
The Council on Competitiveness' National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers has taken a slightly different approach. Rather than looking at components of competitiveness, they identified three challenges:
Developing and Deploying at Scale Disruptive Technologies
Exploring the Future of Sustainable Production and Consumption, and Work
Optimizing the U.S. Innovation System
Based on analysis by a working group in each area, they developed a nine point action plan, to be explored further:
Build a Diverse Pipeline of Innovators – Encourage and support more women, and racial and ethnic minorities in the pursuit of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Prepare America's Workforce for the Future – Invest more in STEM education and worker retraining for coming market disruptions.
Expand the U.S. Map of Innovation Investment Hubs – Build more diverse engines for innovation across the United States.
Secure U.S. Capabilities in Critical Technologies – Including microelectronics, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology.
Strengthen U.S. Economic Resiliency – Regain control of critical supply chains and reduce dependency on China and other foreign sources.
Confront China's plans for technological, military, and commercial supremacy.
Amplify U.S. University Investments – Particularly in technology transfer, commercialization and industry engagement.
Bridge the "Valley of Death" Gap in Innovation – Grow government investment in small business innovation, startups, and the testing of new technologies.
Deepen the Sustainability Culture in U.S. Businesses – Including more efficient use of energy, use of cleaner energy, and more sustainable materials sourcing.
These are all good ideas. And they expand the problem-set implied in the original definition of competitiveness to include environment sustainability.
However, I wish they were more explicitly tied to a competitiveness framework. For example, short-term thinking in companies' management practices and in the financial markets were identified as an area of concern in the Young Commission and CPC reports—growing out of their frameworks that explicitly looked at financing and the financial markets as a component of competitiveness.
We need a way to look systematically at the foundations of our economic competitiveness. Just as monitoring one's personal heath is better than waiting for a diagnosis and way better than just treating the symptoms, we need a mechanism to go beyond the current problems.
Taking this more comprehensive approach would complement the work of existing organization, such as the Council on Competitiveness. I would note that the law creating Competitiveness Policy Council is still on the books. Maybe it is time to revive it. The argument is being make that Congress should resurrect the Office of Technology Assessment to provide more systematic, comprehensive, and long-term analysis on technology issues. The same argument holds true for the Competitiveness Policy Council.
Author intangibleeconomyPosted on September 28, 2020 Categories Articles1 Comment on What ever happened to "competitiveness"?
You say tomato, I say … Industrial Policy
As I have noted before, the concept of industrial policy is making a resurgence. But is beginning to sound like the old song, "You say tomato, I say tomahto" (or the modern version "you say GIF, I say gif"). In this case, you say industrial policy, someone else says innovation policy – and they really mean technology policy.
Here are a few examples. Caleb Watney in "Untangling innovation from industrial policy" argues that we shouldn't use the term anymore — it is too encompassing and therefore vague. Adam Thierer in "On Defining 'Industrial Policy'" takes the narrower approach, focusing on "developing or retrenching selected industries to achieve national economic goals" (a definition he borrows from historian Ellis Hawley as published in the 1986 AEI book The Politics of Industrial Policy). Dylan Gerstel and Matthew P. Goodman (From Industrial Policy to Innovation Strategy: Lessons from Japan, Europe, and the United States) seem to wrap industrial policy in the rubric of innovation policy, by which they really mean technology policy.
These discussions recount the debate over industrial policy in the 1980s. As someone who was heavily involved in those debates, the current discussions have a feeling of déjà vu. Back then, I tried to make sense of the various conceptual frameworks and approaches to industrial policy (see "A Reader's Guide to the Industrial Policy Debate"). Many of today's arguments fall into those same rubrics.
In some cases, the debate is on aid to a specific industry, (e.g. save the semiconductor industry, save the auto industry, save the …) – what I have called the problem-solving approach. The danger in this approach is that it fails to consider the system-wide effect of these actions on the economy as a whole. In other cases, the debate focuses on a specific policy (e.g. trade protection, Buy America, R&D tax credits) in an instrument-specific approach. The danger here is in the law-of-the-hammer: give a child a hammer and everything looks like a nail. In other words, the policy instrument is used not necessarily because it is appropriate but because it is available.
Another version, industrial policy is essentially manufacturing policy (what I labeled back in the 1980s as the "reindustrialization" approach). And while I am a strong manufacturing-matters advocate, I also strongly believe that industrial policy goes beyond manufacturing.
Two other versions of industrial policy routinely appear in the debate. I had labeled these as the "industrial triage" and the "reallocation" approaches. In industrial triage, some industries are doing fine while others are doomed to decline so attention should be paid to those where government help would be the most effective. The reallocation approach is similar in that it seeks to move resources from "sunset" industries to "sunrise" industries. While not using the same terms as before, part of the current debate over "industries of the future" is built upon this argument. Of course, both of these are subject to the classic criticism of "picking winner and losers." Advocates for these approaches often respond with the argument that picking winners is exactly what we should be doing.
Only occasionally raised in the debate is the most comprehensive version of what I labelled "structural industrial policy" that focuses on the entire production system and multiple economic objectives. The earlier example I gave of this approach is the Japanese developmental state. It should be noted however that such an approach is difficult to establish and maintain due to a number of issues including political capture.
I would also note that the politics of industrial policy has changed very little over the past few decades. With some notable exceptions (such as Senator Mario Rubio), liberals argue for a more activist industrial policy while conservative argue for less. As a result, we tend to have a fear driven policy that appeals to both liberals and conservatives. Today, we have a fear-of-China industrial policy. In 1980s it was a fear-of-Japan industrial policy. In 1950s and 60s had a fear-of-Russia industrial policy. One could even argue that Hamilton's Report on Manufacturing and Henry Clay's American System were in part fear-of-Britain industrial policies.
I understand the political value of the fear-of approach and the reluctance to advocate for a systemic structural approach. Absent a national security rationale, such a more comprehensive approach brings attacks of "centralized planning." But without the more systemic structural view, industrial policy devolves into piecemeal reactive actions. Such an outcome simply reinforces the critic that industrial policy is ineffective and captured by special interests. To avoid that outcome, we need to raise the debate to a higher conceptual level.
Author intangibleeconomyPosted on September 24, 2020 Categories Articles2 Comments on You say tomato, I say … Industrial Policy
Understanding Intangibles as an Investment
One of the difficulties in managing intangibles has been making them understandable and measurable. The Corrado, Hulten, and Sichel (C-H-S) framework has done an excellent job of this at the macroeconomic level. But at the firm level, little has changed on that subject since my working paper Reporting Intangibles back in 2005.
That may be changing. Michael J. Mauboussin and Dan Callahan at Morgan Stanley have produced an excellent primer for investors: One Job: Expectations and the Role of Intangible Investments.
The paper looks at the nature of intangibles and how to measure them. When it comes information provided to investors, however, Mauboussin and Callahan's bottom line is that the bottom line has lost its usefulness. "It used to be that earnings were on the income statement and investments were recorded mostly on the balance sheet," they note. "The rise of intangible investments means that the bottom line is now a mix of earnings and investment." Since accounting standards "do a poor job of reflecting the rise of intangible investment," their advice is that a "thoughtful investor's best response is to make the adjustments necessary to see the world as it is."
Thankfully, the article provides some guidance on how to make that adjustment and allocate information provided by companies between expenses and investments. They cite a 2017 paper by Luminita Enache and Anup Srivastava (E-S), "Should Intangible Investments Be Reported Separately or Commingled with Operating Expenses? New Evidence." As Mauboussin and Callahan describe it:
Their [Enache and Srivastava] approach starts with total SG&A [sales, general, and administrative costs] subtracts R&D and advertising, generally considered intangible investments, to come up with what they call "Main SG&A." They then assess what part of Main SG&A is necessary to maintain the business ("Maintenance Main SG&A") and designate the remaining Main SG&A to intangible investments ("Investment Main SG&A"). Maintenance Main SG&A, which is matched with sales, captures costs such as office and warehouse rents, customer delivery costs, and sales commissions. Investment Main SG&A reflects spending that seeks to build organizational assets and includes employee training, customer acquisition costs, and software development.
Updated to 2019 data, this approach is generally consistent with the macroeconomic findings, based on C-H-S.
Of course, this does not answer all of the questions about accounting for intangibles. For example, there is still the question of valuation of an asset that cannot easily be separated from the value of the ongoing enterprise. And, as Mauboussin and Callahan note, applying the E-S framework can be difficult.
But still, the Mauboussin and Callahan article is a useful step forward and should be widely read.
Author intangibleeconomyPosted on September 17, 2020 Categories Articles2 Comments on Understanding Intangibles as an Investment
More on beyond the Endless Frontier Act
In an earlier posting I discussed the proposed Endless Frontier Act and counterproposal "Improving the Endless Frontier Act" (by Windham, Hill, and Cheney) recently published in Issues in Science and Technology. That issue also contained three other articles on the same topic.
One of those is a direct defense of the Endless Frontier Act: "To Compete with China, America Needs the Endless Frontier Act." In it, MIT President Rafael L. Reif argues that:
We need to fill the gap in the nation's research system that opened with the disappearance of institutions such as Bell Labs, which did pathbreaking research that resulted in revolutionary technologies such as the transistor. And we also need to accelerate the movement of technological advances into the marketplace.
He agrees that other mechanisms, such as DARPA-like entities, would be useful (a key argument of Windham, Hill, and Cheney). But the heart of his argument is the need for "a new Technology Directorate at the National Science Foundation to fund use-inspired basic research, primarily at universities, focused on advancing key technology areas."
He does acknowledge the point I raised about existing NSF programs:
Some current NSF programs do nod in the direction of technology development, and those efforts could remain in the existing directorates. They are no substitute for a new directorate that would have the sole purpose of fostering basic research explicitly to advance specific technological solutions, whether those solutions relate to artificial intelligence, climate change, or cyber security.
The key concepts here are basic research and university-based. In contrast to the argument of Windham, Hill, and Cheney, Reif believes that university-based, use-inspired basic research is the best the way to plug what he refers to as the Bell Labs gap.
Melissa Flagg and Paul Harris, "How to Lead Innovation in a Changed World," disagree. They argue that the Endless Frontier Act is based on science and technology system that no longer exists.
When [Vannevar] Bush called on government to take the lead [in The Endless Frontier], industry and philanthropic spending were declining, but today the opposite is the case. … Industry R&D now accounts for the largest portion (70% in 2018) of national spending. Even with an increase in federal government investment, it is unlikely that this would change.
Furthermore, in recent decades, the nature of industry R&D and its relationship with government has transformed in ways Bush wouldn't recognize. … The tech companies have created their own ecosystems of science collaboration, talent pipelines with universities, and innovation centers offshore. …
The globalized nature of the leading US technology companies highlights how the broader science and technology system has changed. Over just the past 20 years, global investment in S&T has tripled to over $2.2 trillion. The United States now accounts for just over 25% of the global total, with Chinese science having grown quickly to an almost equivalent size. But that leaves half of global science and technology made up by a diverse group of countries led by Japan, Germany, South Korea, India, France, and the United Kingdom.
They argue that:
US S&T policy must now progress from its successful postwar framework to a new framework fit for the twenty-first century. Without this, future policy interventions run the risk of wasting scarce resources, or worse, reinforcing existing problems and inequalities. The nation needs more systematic analysis of all the different inputs for science and technology—funding, yes, but also human capital, infrastructure, and the policy and regulatory framework—and new approaches to optimizing these in what is a very different environment.
Thus, while Reif argues that the Endless Frontier Act is needed because it goes beyond "just doing more of the same," Flagg and Harris argue that the Act is exactly doing more of the same.
Greg Tassey takes a different tack in "The Endless Frontier Act Could Foster Technology Job Growth Across the United States." Tassey begins by supporting the legislation. But by the fourth paragraph, he has gone beyond the Act and points out a major area of needed improvement:
To be truly successful, however, the new measure must include a "master recipe" or conceptual model of the major technical, organizational, and institutional elements necessary to create an effective innovation hub. Modern technology evolves through a series of research and development phases, production steps, and marketing efforts—all of which require some degree of public input. Each set of suppliers—representing different tiers in the high-tech supply chain—requires special technology, capital, labor, and infrastructure assets. These resources, in turn, are applied at different phases of the development life cycle—each with its own needs for public technical infrastructure support
Thus, the proposed legislation should identify the full set of institutions that will support both a technology's evolution and its subsequent production and commercialization, as well as a policy mechanism for evaluating and analyzing those roles. The range and complexity of these assets is varied, and therefore must be systematically analyzed in terms of the policy tools that should be incorporated in the legislation.
The rest of the article is a tour de force of what a national Technology-Based Economic Development (TBED) policy would look like. Tassey, a former Chief Economist at NIST and a leading expert on, has written much over the years on the need for and the vision of an American technology and manufacturing policy. This article is a good summary of the latest thinking on technology policy.
These four articles (the three discussed above and the one on which I discussed before) agree on one point: we need to rethink and update our S&T policies. As Rafael Reif stated, "Just doing more of the same will not get us where we need to be."
What that means is unclear. Let's continue to have the debate on where we need to be and how to get there. My hope is that the Endless Frontier Act will stimulate that debate. My concern is that in the rush to do something, it will short-circuit the debate. And that would be a terrible missed opportunity.
Author intangibleeconomyPosted on September 15, 2020 Categories Articles1 Comment on More on beyond the Endless Frontier Act
A warning from Dr. Fauci
Dr. Fauci and his colleague David Morens have published a thoughtful paper putting the current pandemic in perspective – and a warning. The paper, "Emerging Pandemic Diseases: How We Got to COVID-19" was published last month in the prestigious journal Cell
In addition to being a short history of pandemics and a tutorial on infectious diseases, it clearly places the COVID-19 pandemic (and the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the illness) in the context of the broader interaction between humans and nature. As such, their analysis offers a grave warning for the future:
SARS-CoV-2 is a deadly addition to the long list of microbial threats to the human species. It forces us to adapt, react, and reconsider the nature of our relationship to the natural world. Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are epiphenomena of human existence and our interactions with each other, and with nature. As human societies grow in size and complexity, we create an endless variety of opportunities for genetically unstable infectious agents to emerge into the unfilled ecologic niches we continue to create. There is nothing new about this situation, except that we now live in a human-dominated world in which our increasingly extreme alterations of the environment induce increasingly extreme backlashes from nature.
Science will surely bring us many life-saving drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics; however, there is no reason to think that these alone can overcome the threat of ever more frequent and deadly emergences of infectious diseases. Evidence suggests that SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 are only the latest examples of a deadly barrage of coming coronavirus and other emergences. The COVID-19 pandemic is yet another reminder, added to the rapidly growing archive of historical reminders, that in a human-dominated world, in which our human activities represent aggressive, damaging, and unbalanced interactions with nature, we will increasingly provoke new disease emergences. We remain at risk for the foreseeable future. COVID-19 is among the most vivid wake-up calls in over a century. It should force us to begin to think in earnest and collectively about living in more thoughtful and creative harmony with nature, even as we plan for nature's inevitable, and always unexpected, surprises. [emphasis added]
In other words, we will continue to be a risk from new infectious diseases long after the current pandemic is gone — due to our own behavior toward nature.
You can't say we haven't been warned.
Author intangibleeconomyPosted on September 6, 2020 September 5, 2020 Categories ArticlesLeave a comment on A warning from Dr. Fauci
Employment trend continues in August
It looks like the US labor market is continuing its slow recovery – ever so slowly. This morning the BLS reported that employment in August rose by 1.4 million, in line with expectations.
Employment in both tangible and intangible producing industries rose. Similar to the previous months, increases occurred in industries where there is physical presence with customers, specifically Accommodation & Food Services and Trade, Transportation & Utilities.
On the intangible-producing side of the economy, employment in Professional & Business Services and Educational & Health Services grew. Notably, employment the tangible-producing parts of Educational and Health Services declined – specifically in nursing and residential care facilities and child care centers.
Telecommunication also saw a decline in employment while all other industries saw modest gains. Manufacturing employment continued to grow but at a very weak level. And Government employment continued to grow, adding almost 600,000 over the past two months.
Once again, under normal circumstances this would be a very positive increase. However, in the age of COVID-19, this is only a modest rebound in employment. And keep in mind the worrisome trend of furloughed workers being permanently let go.
Much more needs to be done.
Author intangibleeconomyPosted on September 4, 2020 Categories ArticlesLeave a comment on Employment trend continues in August


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Will Young says he's been struck down with Covid-19 right before Christmas: 'Almost got away with it'
Get well soon, Will!
Words: Jamie Tabberer; pictures: Instagram/willyoungofficial/Cooking Vinyl
Will Young has revealed that he has been struck down with Covid-19.
What horrible timing!
The 'Leave Right Now' singer shared the news on his Instagram Stories yesterday - just two days before Christmas.
"Almost got away with it..."
"Covid strikes!" announced the 41-year-old. "Almost got away with it..."
A post shared by Will Young (@willyoungofficial)
Wishing you a speedy recovery, Will.
"I've had people threatening to stab me"
The news follows Will - who shot to fame on the 2001 series of Pop Idol, and is known for hits like 'Evergreen' and 'Jealousy' - revealing in an interview with The Times earlier this year that a homophobe once threatened to "stab" him for holding hands with a boyfriend.
The star who this year released his first book, To Be a Gay Man - said: "I was wandering through the East End about 14 years ago, holding hands with my then boyfriend, Julian, and we had people shouting at us. Someone actually threatened to stab us."
He continued: "I've had people threatening to stab me and I once had someone shouting 'queer' and 'f****t' at me from a Vauxhall Nova outside a pub in Hampstead.
"Although on that occasion, I just shouted 'f****t' back at them, so they got confused and drove off looking rather dejected."
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Connected Trailer - Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Mike Rianda, Eric Andre & Olivia Colman
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Sony Pictures Animation's Connected is an original animated comedy from director Mike Rianda (Gravity Falls) and producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Lego Movie), about an everyday family's struggle to relate while technology rises up around the world! When Katie Mitchell (voiced by Abbi Jacobson), a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans to meet "her people" at college are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick (voiced by Danny McBride) determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together and bond as a family one last time. Katie and Rick are joined by the rest of the family, including Katie's wildly positive mom Linda (voiced by Maya Rudolph), her quirky little brother Aaron (voiced by Mike Rianda), and the family's delightfully chubby pug Monchi for the ultimate family road trip. Suddenly, the Mitchells' plans are interrupted by a tech uprising: all around the world, the electronic devices people love – from phones, to appliances, to an innovative new line of personal robots – decide it's time to take over. With the help of two friendly malfunctioning robots, the Mitchells will have to get past their problems and work together to save each other and the world!
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Best free Acca Tips – Saturday, 5th March 2022
Saturday's best acca tips from the Premier League and Championship
5th March 2022 / Lee A Jackson
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Best free daily acca tips for Saturday come from the Premier League and Championship.
It is three selections from the top flight that are coming up as we focus on selections from some of the tighter-looking matches.
Then it is a trip to the second tier for further selections on Saturday as they push for promotion rumbles on there.
2 Free Acca Betting Tip: Newcastle v Brighton
3 Norwich v Brentford: Daily Free Acca Tips on Online Betting
4 Online Betting Football Tip: Middlesbrough v Luton
5 Online Betting Football Tip: QPR v Cardiff
Daily Football Acca starts with Aston Villa v Southampton in an interesting clash.
The Saints have returned some excellent form recently, winning three of their last five (D2).
That has put them up into the top ten.
In their last two away games, Southampton have claimed a win at Tottenham and a point at Manchester United.
They have only banked three-way wins all season, however.
Aston Villa beat Brighton from an underdog quote last time out, but that was just their second win in their last eight (D2 L4).
So they have been far from red-hot and it is a four-match winless streak at home that they are on (D2 L2).
Earlier this season they lost 1-0 against the Saints. It will probably be another close duel between the two.
Villa may be able to hold out on home turf.
Tip: Draw at 5/2
* (Betting Odds were taken from Bet365 on March 4th, 2022 at 10:40 p.m.)
Free Acca Betting Tip: Newcastle v Brighton
Daily Acca Tips go to Tyneside next and we are plumping for the home win.
Eddie Howe now has Newcastle firmly moving in the right direction with a seven-match unbeaten streak.
They have won four of their last five (D1) and relegation concerns are easing.
The Magpies have won their last two at home in the Premier League, claiming victories over Everton and Aston Villa.
It has been only three wins in total that they have taken at St James' Park, that's the size of their current revival.
Newcastle are undefeated at home against teams currently outside of the top eight this season.
Brighton have fallen on some hard times recently with a three-match losing streak.
The Seagulls conceded at least two goals in each of those losses as well.
Their away form isn't bad and they have lost only twice on their travels all season.
But things aren't happening for them right now, so the Newcastle victory takes preference.
Tip: Newcastle to win at 7/4
Norwich v Brentford: Daily Free Acca Tips on Online Betting
Daily Acca Tips today unless Norwich start to get a big run together, they are looking doomed to relegation.
It has been one point from their last four matches that Norwich have collected and they are back at the foot of the table.
The Canaries are five points from safety currently.
Their home record for the top-flight season is W2 D3 L8, but the only side that they have lost to in their last three at Carrow Road was Manchester City.
Still, the bigger picture is that they have lost four of their last six there (W1 D1).
As they are still averaging well under a goal per game this season, it's hard to see how Norwich do enough.
Brentford have run into some massive issues over the second half of the season.
They have gone winless in their last eight, taking one point in that sequence.
The Bees have fallen to five straight league defeats away from home and they have conceded at almost an average of two goals per road fixture.
Brentford surprisingly lost at home against Norwich earlier this season.
However, this has to be a huge opportunity for them to bag three points and ease some increasing relegation concerns.
Tip: Bretnford to win at 6/4
Online Betting Football Tip: Middlesbrough v Luton
Best free daily acca tips now go to the Championship for Boro v Luton.
This is a huge game in the context of the race to the playoff spots in the second tier.
Boro have lost two of their last three, but those were out on the road.
Middlesbrough do have some hot form at the Riverside, however, which puts them right in this.
They have taken a W11 D2 L4 overall home record in this campaign.
Boro are currently on a stunning seven-match winning streak on home turf and have conceded at under a goal per game on average.
Luton are surging at the moment with six victories in their last eight league matches (D1 L1).
The Hatters have won their last three in a row and start the weekend outside the play offs spots on goal difference only.
Luton though have not claimed an away win at any side who are currently above them.
Tip: Middlesbrough to win at 4/5
Online Betting Football Tip: QPR v Cardiff
Daily acca tips round off for the day with a look at QPR's home match against Cardiff.
This is a good chance for QPR to strengthen their spot in the playoffs.
Their form has not been great recently, however, with one win in their last six.
QPR's form has been in good shape at home, as they are undefeated in their last six at Loftus Road.
They have scored at least two goals in three of their last four on home turf.
Cardiff took a win over Derby in their last league matches, snapping a run of three without one.
They have lost their last two on the road, going down against Millwall and Huddersfield.
The Bluebirds have lost all four away games this season against teams in the current top five.
Tip: QPR to win at 11/10


Entitled Broken Blossoms: The Yellow Man and The Girl, the film is an impassioned tragedy and a masterpiece of the silent era. It stands in contrast to Griffith's other massive epics, such as The Birth of a Nation (1915) or Intolerance (1916). Broken Blossoms is a gentler and more sensitive film.
The story was adopted from Thomas Burke's short story entitled "The Chink and the Child" taken from his book, Limehouse Nights. It was filmed almost entirely on two small indoor sets to capture the delicate and intimate nature of the film, as instructed by Henrick Sartov, the cinematographer. In total, it was shot in less than three weeks, but despite its quick filming schedule the film was a box office success. It was distributed by United Artists.
The film stars Lillian Gish (as Lucy, or the Girl), Richard Barthelmess (The Yellow Man) who played the character in "yellow face," and Donald Crisp (Battling Burrows) who also played General Ulysses S. Grant in The Birth of a Nation and worked as an assistant to D.W. Griffith for many years before becoming a film director on his own.
"It is a tale of temple bells, sounding at sunset before the image of Buddha; it is a tale of love and lovers; it is a tale of tears.
It begins in a port town in China where a young Chinese man (The Yellow Man) is contemplating a journey while receiving advice from a Buddhist priest. He witnesses several Western sailors fighting outside and decides he will go to England to be a Buddhist missionary, to "take a glorious message of peace to the barbarous Anglo-Saxons, sons of turmoil and strife." There are two scenes of a Buddhist monk ringing a bell.
He boards a ship for the Limehouse district of London, a foggy slum of the city. He lives there for years working at the Cheng Huan shop selling Chinese trinkets. He spends his years smoking opium at the "scarlet house of sin" after becoming disillusioned with his idealistic cause. The next title reads: "In this scarlet house of sin, does he ever hear the temple bells? There are no more scenes of the bell ringing.
We meet the illegitimate daughter of Battling Burrows, Lucy, who is badly beaten after Battling Burrows's manager gets angry at him for drinking. She receives advice from a group of some 'women of the street' who tell her not to get married but to sell her body.
After her father beats her she pitifully moves her fingers over her mouth to force a smile, as he requests.
Later, the Yellow Man meets two men, Anglican clergymen, and one is preparing to travel to China to "Convert the heathen" and they hand the Yellow Man a book entitled "Hell." Lucy goes out shopping and the Yellow Man spots her and notes her beauty. She is also followed by a man called "Evil Eye". She tries to purchase a single flower in exchange for some tin foil from a shop keeper, but she is denied. She grows concerned as she is cornered by Evil Eye, but the Yellow Man rescues her.
Lucy returns home but her angry father beats her again until she passes out. When she awakens, she wanders down to the dock and collapses on the floor of the Yellow Man's shop. He carries her upstairs and lavishly takes care of her and allows her to sleep (this extended scene lasts for a bulk of the film). Meanwhile, Burrows is fighting in the ring.
One of his associates at the ring goes to the Yellow Man's shop and the Yellow Man must leave to pick up his request, but the associate overhears something break upstairs, a jar of flowers dropped by Lucy. So he quietly goes upstairs as the Spying One, and spots her. Laughing, he leaves to go tell Battling Burrows. Burrows comes to the shop and ruins the whole room in a fury while the Yellow Man is out picking up flowers for Lucy.
They return home and he begins to beat her but she escapes into the closet for the famous scene, which even stunned Griffith during the filming. The Yellow Man races to her house but he is too late as Burrows has axed his way into the closet and beats her to death. The Yellow Man finds her dead on the bed and Burrows emerges as they stare each other down until Burrows tries to grab his axe but The Yellow Man shoots him several times and takes the body of Lucy back to his room in his shop. In Burk's short story, Cheng Huan (The Yellow Man) puts a poisonous snake in Burrows bed to kill him.
The film closes as the Yellow Man lights a candle and says a Buddhist prayer before a small alter. He rings a small bell once, says goodbye to his White Blossom, and then dramatically stabs himself beside the dead Lucy just before the police show up to arrest him. Two scenes of the Buddhist bell ringing and the ship entering the harbor are shown, just as in the beginning.
Lillian Gish later claimed the theatres that premiered the film in New York were all decorated with ornate draperies, flowers, moon lanterns, and beautiful Chinese artwork. However, on a darker note, the scenes of child abuse in the film disgusted many critics, including Griffith, during the filming, and drew many away from the film. It was released during a period of great skepticism against Chinese immigrants, known as the "Yellow Peril" and has since been criticized for its portrayal of Asians.
Broken Blossoms is charming in its innocence and simplicity, and it is also meticulously well crafted in both its writing and acting. Broken Blossoms is by far my favorite D.W. Griffith film and comes highly recommended, though it is unfortunately often overlooked in favor of his much larger and more controversial films, The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance.


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Green River Dam Removal Reverses a Century of Infrastructure History in Kentucky
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Q: Material-UI with reactjs: How to use or implement breadcrumbs Is there anyway I can use breadcrumbs using material-ui (that is based on reactjs)? Or even implement one?

A: Breadcrumbs are coming to Material, keep an eye out for when https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui/pull/14084 lands.
Edit, they are now in core:
https://material-ui.com/components/breadcrumbs/

A: I don't think Material-UI has a breadcrumb component, so you will need tp implement a custom React component yourself and use simple Text, the IconButton or FlatButton.
Here are some design ideas from Materialize:
http://demo.geekslabs.com/materialize-v1.0/ui-breadcrumbs.html

A: I think the closest thing to breadcrumbs that you'll find is the Stepper Component. I'm sure after a good amount of time beating the proverbial head against it, one could figure out how to style the stepper to look like breadcrumbs.
http://www.material-ui.com/#/components/stepper

A: Use materialize.css framework. It has all type of components. check out there. and try it.

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This week the Victorian Parliament is considering a Bill that takes the first steps in establishing a Treaty with Traditional Owners. We urge all members of the Victorian Parliament to support the Treaty advancement process. Recognising the rights of the Traditional Owners of the land on which all we live and work and supporting self-determination are important steps towards achieving reconciliation.
We acknowledge the great suffering caused to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through the generations. As part of the Uniting Church, we are committed to walking together as First and Second Peoples.


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singing, guitar/bass playing, drumming and dancing all in one game.
(well, everything is relative) correct your pitch.
only lyrics are displayed and there are no notes or scoring.
Since 0.5.0 you can use dance pad to play dance songs in StepMania format.
are hit. Let the rhythm guide your feet!