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Emergent Ventures India, new winners, third Indian cohort
by Tyler Cowen September 19, 2021 at 12:41 am in
Angad Daryani / Praan
Angad Daryani is 22-year-old social entrepreneur and inventor from Mumbai, and his goal is to find solutions for clean air at a low cost, accessible to all. He received his EV grant to build ultra-low cost, filter-less outdoor air purification systems for deployment in open areas through his startup Praan. Angad's work was recently covered by the BBC here.
Swasthik Padma
Swasthik Padma is a 19-year-old inventor and researcher. He received his EV grant to develop PLASCRETE, a high-strength composite material made from non-recyclable plastic (post-consumer plastic waste which consists of Multilayer, Film Grade Plastics and Sand) in a device called PLASCREATOR, also developed by Swasthik. The final product serves as a stronger, cost-effective, non-corrosive, and sustainable alternative to concrete and wood as a building material. He is also working on agritech solutions, desalination devices, and low cost solutions to combat climate change.
Ajay Shah is an economist, the founder of the LEAP blog, and the coauthor (with Vijay Kelkar) of In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy, an excellent book, covered by Alex here. He received his EV grant for creating a community of scholars and policymakers to work on vaccine production, distribution, and pricing, and the role of the government and private sector given India's state capacity.
Meghraj Suthar
Meghraj Suthar, is an entrepreneur, software engineer, and author from Jodhpur. He founded Localites, a global community (6,000 members from more than 130 countries) of travelers and those who like to show around their cities to travelers for free or on an hourly charge. He also writes inspirational fiction. He has published two books: The Dreamers and The Believers and is working on his next book. He received his EV grant to develop his new project Growcify– helping small & medium-sized businesses in smaller Indian cities to go online with their own end-to-end integrated e-commerce app at very affordable pricing.
Jamie Martin/ The Queen's English
Jamie Martin and Sandeep Mallareddy founded The Queen's English to develop a tool to help speak English. Indians who speak English earn 5x more than those who don't. The Queen's English provides 300 hours of totally scripted lesson plans on a simple Android app for high quality teaching by allowing anyone who can speak English to teach high quality spoken English lessons using just a mobile phone.
Rubén Poblete-Cazenave
Rubén Poblete-Cazenave is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His work has focused on studying topics on political economy, development economics and economics of crime, with a particular interest in India. Rubén received his EV grant to study the dynamic effects of lockdowns on criminal activity and police performance in Bihar, and on violence against women in India.
Chandra Bhan Prasad
Chandra Bhan Prasad is an Indian scholar, political commentator, and author of the Bhopal Document, Dalit Phobia: Why Do They Hate Us?, What is Ambedkarism?, Dalit Diary, 1999-2003: Reflections on Apartheid in India, and co-author author (with D Shyam Babu and Devesh Kapur) of Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs. He is also the founder of the ByDalits.com e-commerce platform and the editor of Dalit Enterprise magazine. He received his EV grant to pursue his research on Dalit capitalism as a movement for self-respect.
Praveen Tiwari
Praveen Tiwari is a rural education entrepreneur in India. At 17, he started Power of Youth to increase education and awareness among rural students in his district. To cope with the Covid lockdown he started the Study Garh with a YouTube channel to provide better quality educational content to rural students in their regional language (Hindi).
Preetham R and Vinayak Vineeth
Preetham R. and Vinayak Vineeth are 17-year-old high-schoolers from Bangalore. Preetham is interested in computing, futurism and space; and Vinayak is thinking about projects ranging from automation to web development. They received their EV grant for a semantic text analysis system based on graph similarity scores. The system (currently called the Knowledge Engine) will be used for perfectly private contextual advertising and will soon be expanded for other uses like better search engines, research tools and improved video streaming experiences. They hope to launch it commercially by the end of 2022.
Shriya Shankar:
Shriya Shankar is a 20-year-old social entrepreneur and computer science engineer from Bangalore and the founder of Project Sitara Foundation, which provides accessible STEM education to children from underserved communities. She received her EV grant to develop an accessible ed-tech series focused on contextualizing mathematics in Kannada to make learning more relatable and inclusive for children.
Baishali Bomjan and Bhuvana Anand
Baishali and Bhuvana are the co-founders of Trayas Foundation, an independent research and policy advisory organization that champions constitutional, social, and market liberalism in India through data-informed public discourse. Their particular focus is on dismantling regulatory bottlenecks to individual opportunity, dignity and freedom. The EV grant will support Trayas's work for reforms in state labor regulations that ease doing business and further prosperity, and help end legal restrictions placed on women's employment under India's labor protection framework to engender economic agency for millions of Indians.
Akash Bhatia and Puru Botla / Infinite Analytics
Infinite Analytics received their first grant for developing the Sherlock platform to help Indian state governments with mobility analysis to combat Covid spread. Their second EV grant is to scale their platform and analyze patterns to understand the spread of the Delta variant in the 2021 Covid wave in India. They will analyze religious congregations, election rallies, crematoria footfalls and regular daily/weekly bazaars, and create capabilities to understand the spread of the virus in every city/town in India.
PS Vishnuprasad
Vishnuprasad is a 21-year-old BS-MS student at IISER Tirupati. He is interested in the intersection of political polarization and network science and focused on the emergence and spread of disinformation and fake news. He is working on the spread of disinformation and propaganda in spaces Indians use to access information on the internet. He received his EV grant to build a tool that tracks cross-platform spread of disinformation and propaganda on social media. He is also interested in the science of cooking and is a stand-up comedian and writer.
Prem Panicker:
Prem Panicker is a journalist, cricket writer, and founding editor of peepli.org, a site dedicated to multimedia long form journalism focused on the environment, man/animal conflict, and development. He received an EV grant to explore India's 7,400 km coastline, with an emphasis on coastal erosion, environmental degradation, and the consequent loss of lives and livelihoods.
Vaidehi Tandel
Vaidehi Tandel is an urban economist and Lecturer at the Henley Business School in University of Reading. She is interested in understanding the challenges and potential of India's urban transformation and her EV grant will support her ongoing research on the political economy of urbanization in India. She was part of the team led by Malani that won the EV Covid India prize.
Abhinav Singh
Abhinav recently completed his Masters in the Behavioral and Computational Economics program at Chapman University's Economic Science Institute. His goal is to make political economy ideas accessible to young Indians, and support those interested in advancing critical thinking over policy questions. He received his EV grant to start Polekon, a platform that will host educational content and organize seminars on key political economy issues and build a community of young thinkers interested in political economy in India.
Bevin A./Contact
CONTACT was founded by two engineers Ann Joys and Bevin A. as a low-cost, voluntary, contact tracing solution. They used RFID tags and readers for consenting individuals to log their locations at various points like shops, hotels, educational institutions, etc. These data are anonymized and analyzed to track mobility and develop better Covid policies, while maintaining user anonymity.
Onkar Singh Batra
Onkar Singh is a 16-year-old developer/researcher and high school student in Jammu. He received his first EV grant for his Covid Care Jammu project. His goal is to develop India's First Open-Source Satellite, and he is founder of Paradox Sonic Space Research Agency, a non-profit aerospace research organization developing inexpensive and open-source technologies. Onkar received his second EV grant to develop a high efficiency, low cost, nano satellite. Along with EV his project is also supported by an Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) grant. Onkar has a working engineering model and is developing the final flight model for launch in 2022.
StorySurf
Storysurf, founded by Omkar Sane and Chirag Anand, is based on the idea that stories are the simplest form of wisdom and that developing an ocean of stories is the antidote to social media polarization. They are developing both a network of writers, and a range of stories between 6-300 words in a user-friendly app to encourage people to read narratives. Through their stories, they hope to help more readers consume information and ideas through stories.
Naman Pushp/ Airbound
Airbound is cofounded by its CEO Naman Pushp, a 16 year old high-schooler from Mumbai passionate about engineering and robotics, and COO Faraaz Baig, a 20 year old self-taught programmer and robotics engineers from Bangalore. Airbound aims to make delivery accessible by developing a VTOL drone design that can use small businesses as takeoff/landing locations. They have also created the first blended wing body tail sitter (along with a whole host of other optimizations) to make this kind of drone delivery possible, safe and accessible.
Anup Malani / CMIE / Prabhat Jha
An joint grant to (1) Anup Malani, Professor at the University of Chicago, (2) The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), and (3) Prabhat Jha, Professor at University of Toronto and the Centre for Global Health Research, to determine the extent to which reported excess deaths in India are due to Covid. Recent studies show that that the pandemic in India may be associated with between 3 million to 4.9 million excess deaths, roughly 8-12 times officially reported number of COVID deaths. To determine how many of these deaths are statistically attributable to Covid, they will conduct verbal autopsies on roughly 20,000 deaths, with the results to be made publicly available.
And finally:
Aditya Dar/The Violence Archive
A joint grant to Aaditya Dar, an economist at Indian School of Business, Kiran Garimella, a computer scientist at Rutgers University and Vasundhara Sirnate, a political scientist and journalist for creating the India Violence Archive. They will use machine learning and natural language processing to develop an open-source historical record of collective public violence in India over 100 years. The goal is to create accessible and high-quality public data so civil society can pursue justice and governments can make better policy.
Those unfamiliar with Emergent Ventures can learn more here and here. EV India announcement here. More about the winners of EV India second cohort here. To apply for EV India, use the EV application click the "Apply Now" button and select India from the "My Project Will Affect" drop-down menu.
Note that EV India is led and run by Shruti Rajagopalan, I thank her for all of her excellent work on this!
Here is Shruti on Twitter, and here is her excellent Ideas of India podcast. Shruti is herself an earlier Emergent Ventures winner, and while she is very highly rated remains grossly underrated.
Gödel Prize Winners Don't Cosplay
by Alex Tabarrok September 17, 2021 at 7:23 am in
Tim Roughgarden, a top-notch computer scientist (co-winner of a Gödel Prize), is teaching a class on blockchains. He's only just begun to put up material but I liked this bit of "hype" from Lecture One.
It's worth recognizing that we're currently in a particular moment in time, witnessing a new area of computer science blossom before our eyes in real time. It draws on well-established parts of computer science (e.g., cryptography and distributed systems) and other fields (e.g., game theory and finance), but is developing into a fundamental and interdisciplinary area of science and engineering its own right. Future generations of computer scientists will be jealous of your opportunity to get in on the ground floor of this new area–analogous to getting into the Internet and the Web in the early 1990s. I cannot overstate the opportunities available to someone who masters the material covered in this course–current demand is much, much bigger than supply.
And perhaps this course will also serve as a partial corrective to the misguided coverage and discussion of blockchains in a typical mainstream media article or water cooler conversation, which seems bizarrely stuck in 2013 (focused almost entirely on Bitcoin, its environmental impact, the use case of payments, Silk Road, etc.). An enormous number of people, including a majority of computer science researchers and academics, have yet to grok the modern vision of blockchains: a new computing paradigm that will enable the next incarnation of the Internet and the Web, along with an entirely new generation of applications.
I share Tim's excitement at the possibilities. Indeed, I had the pleasure of working with Tim advising a blockchain project (sadly killed by the SEC). By the way, Silvio Micali, another winner of the Godel prize, is a prime mover behind the Algorand blockchain.
Addendum: Here's a perfect example of a mainsteam media article stuck in 2013.
My January 2020 Bloomberg column on Covid
I thought this one worthy of a redux, here are a few segments:
First, most emergency rooms are not equipped to handle a very high volume of cases, especially infectious diseases…The general economic problem is that emergency rooms typically are not equipped with full surge capacity, nor are there enough emergency room add-ons or substitutes available on very short notice.
Very often, when a pandemic breaks out, talk turns to macro remedies such as air travel bans and quarantines, as China is instituting. Yet often the more important factor is the strength, resilience and flexibility of local public health institutions, and those qualities cannot be created overnight. Just as the Chinese health-care system is undergoing a major test right now, there is a good chance that the U.S. will too.
An additional test could concern child-care and telecommuting. Will U.S. schools need to be shut? At the very least it is something officials should have been planning for. Even if schools are not closed, some number of parents will keep their children at home, whether out of rational fear or not. Anti-vaccine sentiment is fairly high and rising, after all, and even the wisest parents will prefer to be safe than sorry.
Keeping one's children at home means that fewer people will go to work. Even those with external child-care options, such as day care, may be reluctant to leave their children outside the home for the same reasons they fear the schools. The new question then becomes how robust are work plans, and U.S. supply chains, to a higher than usual rate of workplace absenteeism. There also may be an especially high level in China, which could strain U.S. and other supply chains relying on Chinese producers. Many businesses may need to amend their plans on the fly.
Once again, pandemic preparation is about the flexibility of decentralized institutions. These are not problems that can be solved by top-down planning. Instead, they rely on longstanding institutional capacities, high levels of social trust and improvisational skill.
If and when a good vaccine becomes available for the virus, that will again be about the improvisation and flexibility that will allow for scalability and eventual production and distribution. It is usually difficult to solve such problems quickly, but still there is better and worse performance — and that can make a big difference.
The very first problem the U.S. is likely to face is one of risk communication. Of course the correct message will depend on how the data evolve, but in general there is tension between warnings that get people to take notice, and those that scare them underground or into counterproductive forms of panic.
If you tell people how terrible things are, they feel a loss of control. Many will retreat into conspiracy theories, spread mistrust of health-care institutions, or withdraw altogether from social or professional activity. Those who are sick may be afraid to seek medical attention, for fear of having their movements constrained, driving the disease further underground and distorting the data. Again, trust is of paramount importance.
Covid and intertemporal substitution
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit:
Before the vaccines came along, it made great sense to enforce masking norms. If infections could be shifted into the future, an eventually vaccinated citizenry would be much better protected.
There is a less obvious corollary: Those same mask norms make less sense when large numbers of people are vaccinated. Masking still will push infections further into the future, but if the vaccines become marginally less effective over time, as some data suggest, people may be slightly worse off later on (they'll also be a bit older). The upshot is that the case for masking is less strong, even if you still think it is a good idea overall.
Still, many people prefer to abide by fixed rules and principles. Once they learn them and lecture others about them, they are unlikely to change their minds. "Masking is good!" is a simple precept. "Exactly how good masking is depends on how much safer the near future will be!" is not. Yet the latter statement is how the economist is trained to think.
Some of the consequences of intertemporal substitution are a bit ghastly, and you won't find many people willing to even talk about them.
For example: Say you are immunocompromised, and you either can't or won't get vaccinated. You might be justly mad about all the unvaccinated knuckleheads running around, getting Covid, and possibly infecting you. At the same time, you wish to minimize your required degree of intertemporal substitution.
So if you are (perhaps correctly) afraid to go out very much, you are better off if those same knuckleheads acquire natural immunity more quickly. Yes, it would be better if they got vaccinated. But barring that, a quick pandemic may be easier for you to manage than a long, drawn-out pandemic, which would require heroic amounts of intertemporal substitution.
Recommended. And yes there is a "don't overload your health system" qualifier (most of the U.S. is OK on this front right now), which I've written about multiple times including as early as January 2020.
Operation Warp Speed: A Story Yet to be Told
Operation Warp Speed was by far the most successful government program against COVID. But as of yet there is very little discussion or history of the program. As just an indication I looked for references in a bunch of pandemic books to General Perna who co-led OWS with Moncef Slaoui. Michael Lewis in The Premonition never mentions Perna. Neither does Slavitt in Preventable. Nor does Wright in The Plague Year. Nor does Gottlieb in Uncontrolled Spread. Abutaleb and Paletta in Nightmare Scenario have just two index entries for Perna basically just stating his appointment and meeting with Trump.
Yet there are many questions to be asked about OWS. Who wrote the contracts? Who chose the vaccines? Who found the money? Who ran the day to day operation? Why was the state and local rollout so slow and uneven? How was the DPA used? Who lifted the regulations? How was the FDA convinced to go fast?
I don't know the answer to these questions. I suspect when it is all written down, Richard Danzig will be seen as an important behind the scenes player in the early stages (I was involved with some meetings with him as part of the Kremer team). Grogan at the DPC seems under-recognized. Peter Marks at the FDA was likely extremely important in getting the FDA to run with the program. Marks brought people like Janet Woodcock from the FDA to OWS so you had a nominally independent group but one completely familiar with FDA policy and staff and that was probably critical. And of course Slaoui and Perna were important leaders and communicators with the private sector and the logistics group but they have yet to be seriously debriefed.
It's also time for a revisionist account of President Trump's Council of Economic Advisors. Michael Kremer and I spoke to the DPC and the CEA early on in the pandemic and argued for a program similar to what would later be called OWS. The CEA, however, was way ahead of the game. In Sept of 2019 (yes, 2019!) the CEA produced a report titled Mitigating the Impact of Pandemic Influenza through Vaccine Innovation. The report calculates the immense potential cost of a pandemic and how a private-public partnership could mitigate these costs–all of this before anyone had heard the term COVID. Nor did that happen by accident. Thomas Philipson, the CEA chair, had made his reputation in the field of economic epidemiology, incorporating incentives and behavioral analysis in epidemiological models to understand HIV and the spread of other infectious diseases. Eric Sun, another CEA economist, had also written with Philipson about the FDA and its problems. Casey Mulligan was another CEA chief economist who understand the danger of pandemics and was influenced by Sam Peltzman on the costs of FDA delay. So the CEA was well prepared for the pandemic and I suspect they gave Trump very good advice on starting Operation Warp Speed.
In short, someone deserves credit for a multi-trillion-dollar saving government program! More importantly, we know a lot about CDC and FDA failure but in order to know what we should build upon we also need to know what worked. OWS worked. We need a history of how and why.
My appearance on the Ezra Klein Show
by Tyler Cowen September 11, 2021 at 2:16 am in
Talking with Ezra is always both fun and enlightening for me, here is his partial summary of the episode:
So we begin this conversation by discussing the case for and against economic growth, but we also get into lots of other things: why Cowen thinks the great stagnation in technology is coming to an end; the future of technologies like A.I., crypto, fourth-generation nuclear and the Chinese system of government; the problems in how we fund scientific research; what the right has done to make government both ineffective and larger; why Cowen is skeptical of universal pre-K (and why I'm not); whether I overestimate the dangers of polarization; the ways in which we're getting weirder; the long-term future of human civilization; why reading is overrated and travel is underrated; how to appreciate classical music and much more.
Here is the link, full transcript here, definitely recommended!
Emergent Ventures winners, sixteenth cohort
Phoebe Yao, founder and CEO of Pareto, "a human API delivering the business functions startups desperately need." Here is the Pareto website. She was born in China, formerly of Stanford, and a former classical violist. (By my mistake I left her off of a previous cohort list, apologies!)
BeyondAging, a new group to support longevity research.
Sam Enright, for writing, blogging, and general career development, resume here. From Ireland, currently studying in Scotland.
Zena Hitz, St. John's College, to build The Catherine Project, to revitalize the study of the classics.
Gavin Leech, lives in Bristol, he is from Scotland, getting a Ph.D in AI. General career support, he is interested in: "Personal experimentation to ameliorate any chronic illness; reinforcement learning as microscope on Goodhart's law; weaponised philosophy for donors; noncollege routes to impact."
Valmik Rao, 17 years old, Ontario, he is building a program to better manage defecation in Nigeria.
Rabbi Zohar Atkins, New York City, to pursue a career as a public intellectual. Here is one substack, here is another.
Basil Halperin, graduate student in economics at MIT, for his writing and for general career development.
Gytis Daujotas, lives in Dublin, studying computer science at DCU, for a project to make the Great Books on the web easy to read, and for general career development. Here is his web site.
Geoff Anders, Leverage Research, to support his work to find relevant bottlenecks in science and help overcome them. A Progress Studies fellow.
Samantha Jordan, NYU Stern School of Business, with Nathaniel Bechhofer, for a new company, "Our platform will accelerate the speed and quality of science by enabling scientists to easily manage their data and research pipelines, using best practices from software engineering." Also a Progress Studies grant.
Nina Khera, "I'm a teenage human longevity researcher who's interested in preventing aging-related diseases, especially those related to brain aging. In the past, I've worked with companies like Alio on computation and web-dev-based projects. I've also worked with labs like the Gladyshev lab and the Adams lab on data analysis and machine learning-based projects." Her current project is Biotein, about developing markers for aging, based in Ontario.
Lipton Matthews, from Jamaica, here is his YouTube channel, for general career development.
Mexico won't pay for this one
by Tyler Cowen September 9, 2021 at 3:07 pm in
Analysts said that the fact that Pakistan had nearly completed construction of a metal fence running along its once unregulated 2,600km border with Afghanistan reflected tensions in Islamabad's relationship with the Taliban.
Here is more from the FT, about growing tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
My Conversation with Ed Glaeser
by Tyler Cowen September 9, 2021 at 2:44 am in
I did David Cutler and Ed sequentially, based on their new co-authored book, here is the joint episode but there is also a separate link concerning Cutler. Here is one excerpt from the general summary:
They joined Tyler for a special joint episode to discuss why healthcare outcomes are so correlated with education, whether the health value of Google is positive or negative, why hospital price transparency is so difficult to achieve, how insurance coding systems reimburse sickness over health improvement, why the U.S. quit smoking before Europe, the best place in America to get sick, the risks that come from over-treatment, the possible upsides of more businesses moving out of cities, whether productivity gains from remote work will remain high, why the older parts of cities always seem to be more beautiful, whether urban schools will ever improve, why we shouldn't view Rio de Janeiro's favelas as a failure, how 19th century fights to deal with contagious diseases became a turning point for governance, Miami's prospects as the next tech hub, what David and Ed disagree on, and more.
And from my exchange with Ed:
COWEN: Let's start with a simple question. All this enthusiasm about cities and agglomeration benefits — the pandemic comes along. A lot of people transition to work from a distance, and then we see big measured productivity gains. What has gone on there?
GLAESER: It reminds us that for many jobs, in a static sense, you can do this long-distance. You can make things work. I think many of us found this. We wrote this book in eight months over the pandemic year, distinctly away from each other, partially because there were no distractions, and all that was good.
However, you also need to recognize the limits of long-distance living. The most important of those limits is just it's much less fun. It's much less joyful, but while it seems as if it's fine for static productivity, it seems distinctly more problematic for people learning and for onboarding new talent.
Let me just give you two types of studies, one of which is we have the call center studies. The father of that was the Nick Bloom paper, which was a randomized control trial in China. A more modern version is done by our students, Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington, which looks into American call centers.
Both of them find the same thing in terms of static productivity. If anything, it goes up, but the workers who go remote are much less likely to be promoted in both studies. One interpretation of this is that promotion in the call center work means that you actually are given the job of handling more difficult calls.
How would your boss know that you are good at handling difficult calls if they weren't in the same room with you? How would you learn how to do those difficult calls if you weren't around other people? So while the static productivity remains, you lose the dynamic benefits of being around other people.
Second piece of evidence it comes from Burning Glass Technologies and new hires. Even though Microsoft tells us that its programmers were just as productive, overall, new hires for programmers were down 42 percent between November 2019 and November 2020. Firms were clearly unwilling to take the same kind of risks of hiring new workers that they couldn't inculcate in their corporate culture or screen them properly, or do any of those other things.
Even though measured productivity did well during the pandemic, there were still lots of disruptions. In particular, many younger workers who came of age really lost out as a result of this.
COWEN: If work from a distance goes fine in the short run, what's the cross-sectional prediction about where it will persist in the future? Is it firms facing bankruptcy, firms with immediate projects now, possibly start-ups who will then later transition to all being together in one big happy family, but they're afraid they're going to fail before then? What should we expect?
GLAESER: I think we should expect young workers to be more likely to be brought together. Young firms, as well, because you're very much at this learning, creative phase. I think the optimal work-from-home strategy is a couple of partners who are in an accounting practice and have decided they know each other perfectly well and are delighted to Zoom it in from wherever they are.
I think, unquestionably, working from home will remain a part of the economy. It may well be many workers end up spending 20 percent of their time working from home, even if they're part of a generally full-time job. But for younger workers, for firms that are just getting started, I think being live is likely to continue being a major part of the work environment.
It also depends a lot on what your home environment is like. If you're like us — if you are a middle-aged professor who's likely to have a comfortable home office, and maybe even not having kids at home anymore, certainly not kids who are crying all the time at home anymore — working at home is a lot more pleasant than if you're a 23-year-old and live in a studio apartment in Somerville or New York or London.
My Conversation with David Cutler
by Tyler Cowen September 9, 2021 at 12:41 am in
I did Cutler and Ed Glaeser sequentially, based on their new co-authored book, here is the joint episode but I will create another link concerning Glazer. Here is one excerpt from the general summary:
And from David:
COWEN: But even if we adjust for that, education seems to matter a lot. It's also puzzling to me — in your own work, it matters more at younger ages. You would think the returns are cumulative: it would really pay off when you're 67 because you've invested in a stock portfolio for decades, but it matters most when you're young. What's your best micro account of that?
CUTLER: One of the things that's super interesting is that, for example, people who live in cities — where there are more better-educated people — smoke less, even conditional on your own education. The same thing is true about age and so on.
I think it's partly that cities and areas are run by upper-middle-class folks often. For example, the environment is set up in a way that's more conducive to health when you have more upper-middle-income people. It's much more difficult to smoke. There are healthier behaviors in general. There are parks and things like that. I think part of it is just that society is shaped by higher-income, higher-SES people, and that can be good for everyone who lives around those areas.
COWEN: To the extent education makes you healthier by lowering your stress and raising your relative status — which is a possible hypothesis — what are the policy implications of that? What should we do?
CUTLER: Part of what we're learning over time is that social insurance programs are actually having a bigger and more sustained effect on health than we had thought they did. For example, we've always thought of Medicare and Medicaid as being the primary social insurance programs that affect health, but then there's research that the WIC program — Women, Infants, and Children — affects health, that food stamp programs affect health, that TANF benefits affect health, that housing policies can affect health.
COWEN: And you think that's through lowering stress as one mechanism?
Britney freed?
Britney Spears's father, James P. Spears, who agreed earlier this summer to eventually step down from his own role in the conservatorship that has overseen her finances and controlled much of her life since 2008, filed a petition on Tuesday asking the court to "now seriously consider whether this conservatorship is no longer required."
The filing marked a turnaround for Mr. Spears, who long insisted that the guardianship — which was imposed 13 years ago amid concerns over the singer's mental health and possible drug use — was in his daughter's best interest. Last month, he said he would eventually step aside from his role overseeing the singer's finances once there could be "an orderly transition to a new conservator," but argued that he should not be immediately removed. Until now, he has not said that the conservatorship should end, something that Ms. Spears announced she wanted publicly for the first time in a June court hearing, when she called the arrangement "abusive."
Here is more from the NYT.
Gaming is coming to get us
That is the theme of my latest Bloomberg column, the first part concerns culture, but here is the section on government regulation:
The self-contained nature of games also means they will be breaking down government regulation. Plenty of trading already takes place in games — involving currencies, markets, prices and contracts. Game creators and players set and enforce the rules, and it is harder for government regulators to play a central role.
The lesson is clear: If you wish to create a new economic institution, put it inside a game. Or how about an app that gamifies share trading? Do you wish to experiment with a new kind of stock exchange or security outside the purview of traditional government regulation? Try the world of gaming, perhaps combined with crypto, and eventually your "game" just might influence events in the real world.
To date the regulators have tried to be strict. It is currently difficult to build fully realized new worlds without creating something that is legally defined as an unregistered security. Those regulations don't receive a lot of attention from the mainstream media, but they are rapidly becoming some of the most significant and restrictive rules on the books.
At the same time, regulators are already falling behind. Just as gaming has outraced the world of culture, so will gaming outrace U.S. regulatory capabilities, for a variety of reasons: encryption, the use of cryptocurrency, the difficulties of policing virtual realities, varying rules in foreign jurisdictions and, not incidentally, a lack of expertise among U.S. regulators. (At least the Chinese government's attempt to restrict youth gaming to three hours a week, while foolhardy, reflects a perceptive cultural conservatism.)
Both the culture-weakening and the regulation-weakening features of games follow from their one basic characteristic: They are self-contained worlds. Until now, human institutions and structures have depended on relatively open and overlapping networks of ideas. Gaming is carving up and privatizing those spaces. This shift is the big trend that hardly anyone — outside of gaming and crypto — is noticing.
If the much-heralded "metaverse" ever arrives, gaming will swallow many more institutions, or create countervailing versions of them. Whether or not you belong to the world of gaming, it is coming for your worlds. I hope you are ready.
And the piece has a good footnote on how gaming relates to postmodernism.
Those new service sector jobs China markets in everything
At 40 years old, Zheng says she's tired of searching for the perfect man. So she's decided to hire one instead.
Whenever she feels like some male company, the divorcée heads to a café in central Shanghai named The Promised Land. There, she spends hours being pampered by a handsome young server, who fetches her drinks, watches movies with her, and listens attentively to her anecdotes.
The sessions cost over 400 yuan ($60) each time, but Zheng says they're worth every cent.
"The butlers respect me and care about my feelings," she tells Sixth Tone. "Even if you have a boyfriend, he might not be this sweet, right?"
…The outlets have found success by tapping into the frustrations of Chinese women, many of whom feel society remains far too patriarchal…
Wang Qian, a 24-year-old student, is a regular visitor to the café. She tells Sixth Tone she enjoys the feeling of empowerment she gets from spending time there.
According to Wang, many of the men she meets in normal life are pu xin nan — a term popularized by the female comedian Yang Li that roughly translates as "men who are so average, yet so confident." The butlers, however, are considerate and never mansplain anything to her, she says…
The butler feels he has to be flawless to progress at The Promised Land. The café imposes a rigid hierarchy. Butlers are divided into three levels: entry, advanced, and celebrity — with each priced differently. To spur competition, the managers hang a board on the wall displaying the number of tips each server has received.
Here is the full story, interesting throughout.
Authoritarian Australia
by Alex Tabarrok September 3, 2021 at 7:20 am in
Australia is now one of the most authoritarian states in the world. Conor Friedersdorf writes:
Australia is undoubtedly a democracy, with multiple political parties, regular elections, and the peaceful transfer of power. But if a country indefinitely forbids its own citizens from leaving its borders, strands tens of thousands of its citizens abroad, puts strict rules on intrastate travel, prohibits citizens from leaving home without an excuse from an official government list, mandates masks even when people are outdoors and socially distanced, deploys the military to enforce those rules, bans protest, and arrests and fines dissenters, is that country still a liberal democracy?
As I noted earlier, Australia is in clear contravention of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Article 13 of which states:
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Friedersdorf continues:
To give Australia's approach its due, temporary restrictions on liberty were far more defensible early in the pandemic…Had it behaved rationally and adequately valued liberty, a rich nation like Australia would have spent lavishly—before knowing which vaccines would turn out to be most effective—to secure an adequate supply of many options for its people. It could afford to eat the cost of any extra doses and donate them to poorer countries. Australia then could have marshaled its military and civil society to vaccinate the nation as quickly as possible, lifted restrictions more fully than Europe and the United States did, and argued that the combination of fewer deaths and the more rapid return to normalcy made their approach a net win.
Instead, Australia invested inadequately in vaccines and, once it acquired doses, was too slow to get them into arms. "Of the 16 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that have been released to the government by manufacturer CSL, only about 8 million have gone into the arms of Australians," The Age reported on August 21, citing concern about blood clots and a widespread preference for the Pfizer vaccine.
…Because of its geography, Australia is a neighbor and an observer of authoritarian countries as varied as China and Singapore. But its own fate, too, may turn on whether its people crave the feeling of safety and security that orders from the top confer, or whether they want to be free.
Australians largely support the restrictions but to me that makes them all the more disturbing.
Temporary restrictions on liberty can be justified in an emergency if the restrictions produce something else of great value but respecting the great value of liberty and individual rights means doing everything in one's power to limit the scope of and lift such restrictions as quickly and completely as possible.
China campaign of the day
The Chinese government has ordered a boycott of "sissy pants" celebrities as it escalates a fight against what it sees as a cultural import that threatens China's national strength.
In a directive issued on Thursday, China's TV watchdog said entertainment programs should firmly reject the "deformed aesthetics" of niangpao, a derogatory term that refers to effeminate men.
The order came as Beijing tightens control over the country's entertainment industry, taking aim at an explosion of TV and streaming shows that hold increasing sway over pop culture and the youth.
Young, delicate-looking men who display gentle personalities and act in boys' love dramas have amassed large fan bases mostly comprising women. Many of them, like Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, are China's top-earning celebrities.
They came in sharp contrast with the older generation of male stars, who were expected to sing revolutionary songs and play intrepid, aggressive soldiers defending the country from foreign enemies.
But the more gender-neutral aesthetics have come under criticism from conservative voices in society. Some officials and parents fear the less macho men on TV would cause young men to lose their masculinity and therefore threaten the country's development.
Here is the full story, and I thank B. for the pointer. As I said yesterday, I do get the point but such campaigns are not for me…


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George Dickel Bottled in Bond Whisky (2019 Release)
Company: George A. Dickel & Co.
Distillery: Cascade Hollow Distilling Co.
Proof: 100
Mashbill: 84% Corn, 8% Rye, 8% Malted Barley
Color: Deep Amber
George Dickel Bottled in Bond Tennessee Whisky is a limited release whiskey that joins the company's other standard whiskeys, George Dickel Classic No. 8 and George Dickel Superior No. 12. The company also has a large single barrel program for retailers, and also sells their whiskey to numerous companies and non-distiller producers. Like the other large Tennessee distiller Jack Daniel's, Dickel uses charcoal filtering, which they claim mellows their whiskey and creates a smooth mouthfeel.
To be labelled Bottled-in-Bond, the whiskey must be the product of one distillation season and one distiller at a single distillery, aged in a federally bonded warehouse under U.S. government supervision for at least four years, and it must be bottled at exactly 100 proof. Additionally, the Bottled-in-Bond label must clearly identify the distillery where it was distilled and where it was bottled, if different.
A deliciously sweet aroma of cherry, apple, vanilla, and oak with a hint of custard. It's warming with the perfect amount of intensity that immediately makes a wonderful impression. An extra swirl of the glass further opens up the scents and builds to an impressive apex.
A tasty sweet mix of fruit punch, baking spice, toasted oak, pound cake, and faint roasted peanuts. It's quite enjoyable and gets even better as you chew on it. To my surprise, doing this allows the flavors to further open up a great deal and become more expressive. The palate nails that perfect Dickel flavor profile you can find with certain single barrels from the company. It can come across as a bit hot for its proof - especially at first sip - but this isn't that uncommon for Dickel whiskeys in my experience.
A hefty amount of spice and dry oak develops during its finish, grounding the whiskey. It's uncomplicated as it hits hard and quickly fades. It's a finish that's not all that exciting, but more than adequate in its conciseness.
George Dickel Distillery must be one of the most prolific distilleries making whiskey. Where so many distilleries talk about their product shortages and resulting allocation, Dickel-made whiskey can be found practically everywhere. Their single barrel private selections are plentiful, and it seems like every Tom, Dick, and Harry craft distillery is now sourcing whiskey from them. It's great that they are able to afford this practice as so many large distilleries cannot, but it also seems to have hurt their own core brand. The biggest splash the distillery has made recently is with their infamous "Hot Dickel" release in 2018.
Anyone that has had a great single barrel Dickel can attest to the fact that there is something special and distinctly Dickel tasting about them. Yet, outside of their single barrel program, the company very rarely has a product - limited or otherwise - available to showcase their distilling prowess. In many ways, they are to whiskey what MGP is to rye. They are more apt to allow someone else to showcase their whiskey than they are themselves. George Dickel Bottled in Bond finally goes to great measure to fix this, as it not only showcases the classic Dickel flavor profile proudly, it also shockingly comes in at an impressive 13 year age statement and amazing budget-friendly price point, which is rare in today's whiskey marketplace.
It says something about a company that can produce excellent whiskey, yet they very rarely put out a noteworthy product with their name on it that showcases it. They finally fixed this in 2019, but it wasn't an uber-expensive special release, rather an inexpensive one following their already budget-friendly Dickel No. 8 and Dickel No. 12 whiskeys. George Dickel Bottled in Bond released at only $36, but it was the inclusion of its 13 year age statement that was most shocking. Then you factor in its overall quality and very likeable flavor profile and you end up with a product that not only showcases what Dickel can produce, but also their willingness to shake up the industry.
Any 13 year old whiskey catches attention nowadays, but it generally comes with the expectation that it will likely be a $100 or more product. When it was revealed George Dickel Bottled in Bond would cost $36, it didn't jive with current pricing standards. People were left scratching their heads, then curiosity set in, and inevitably, an impulse purchase was made. It's a clever angle backed up with an excellent product that will likely prove to be quite profitable for Dickel, and a great value for drinkers.
George Dickel Bottled in Bond is an impressive tasting whiskey with an equally impressive age statement and price.
When Dickel announced they were going to release a bottled in bond whiskey it didn't immediately instill much excitement in people. With Dickel-made whiskey being offered from so many other companies over the last few years, the immediate reaction could fairly be described as "been there, done that." While learning of its price point and age was impressive, did anyone really have high expectations for a new $36 whiskey?
To be fair George Dickel Bottled in Bond does come across as a bit hot and oak forward the first couple of sips, but as it opens up, an impressive array of classic sweet Dickel flavors comes out. It joins a slew of budget-friendly and impressive tasting whiskeys from the last few years. 1792 Single Barrel, Old Ezra 7 Year Barrel Strength, Larceny Barrel Proof Batch A120, Four Roses Small Batch Select Bourbon, Stagg Jr Batch 12, and now George Dickel Bottled in Bond, are all leading the way of a new renaissance of excellent whiskeys at consumer-friendly prices.
George Dickel Bottled in Bond is a great whiskey and Dickel deserves a lot of credit for all they accomplished with this product. Dickel No. 12 was already a decent tasting product at a great value, but Bottle in Bond upstages it in every category. If the company can maintain the age statement and quality of Bottled in Bond, they have the opportunity of a runaway success on their hands.

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All of Ronse's tourist attractions are highlighted. You'll visit St Hermes' Crypt and Must - Museum of Textiles. You'll take a short walk via the Mouroitplein and Grote Markt and visit De Passage, the unique repurposing of the old St Martin's Church.


We were invited by Freedom Cycles of Lichfield in 2011 to design and build an ecommerce website, encompassing a re-branding exercise as well. We had pretty much a blank canvas with this brief but there were certain restrictions.
As a cycle life franchisee Freedom Cycles are very much a part of the Raleigh brand, and with this have the same company ethos. When we looked at producing the new branding we wanted to show traditional and modern in a very simplistic way. This we achieved with the typography and the colours used. Orange and blue are generally seen as traditional colours, but the movement we illustrated with the contemporary cyclist ticked the box for the modern era of cycling.


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I hate the word healthy.
You've probably heard me talk a lot about how I hate the word healthy and much prefer the term "nourishing". The difference between the two concepts really is huge. I mean, life-altering, you will never diet again or do exercise you hate kinda huge.
A nourished life isn't found in an extreme diet, pill or a shake. It is found in a lifestyle.
A nourished life is a combination of nourishing choices made on a regular basis that lead to a state of harmony in how you look, feel and behave. A person can live a "healthy" life but not be nourished, but it is impossible for a person to live a nourished life and not be "healthy". For example, think of a person you know who is trying to be healthy– odds are they are on some crazy crash diet, drinking shakes or taking pills, having a cheat day when they eat large amounts of junk and generally feel bad about themselves because they just can't seem to get the results they want–or if they do get results they need to do even crazier things to maintain them.
The alarm goes off at 6am. She is groggy, grumpy and hungry. She heads to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee and to drink the first of two meal replacement shakes that day. Still somewhat hungry, she gets dressed and head to a job she hates, but heck, it pays the bills. She drops the kids off at school and then heads to the office. Lunchtime comes and she has a microwave meal in a box, a diet coke and some low fat cookies. After work she heads to the gym to go to a workout class they hate, but hey it burns a lot of calories, after all they gotta do what it takes right? After leaving the gym she picks up the kids, heads home, turns on the TV, kicks back and enjoy her meal replacement shake while the kids eat hot dogs and mac and cheese because mom is just too tired to make anything else. Everyone is zoned out on TV and the family only somewhat talks to each other during commercials. After about 3 hours it's time for bed, only to get up tomorrow and do it all again.
I'd like to say that example is extreme, but it's not. It's what I see time and time again, and it really saddens me. She may be doing some things that fall into the zip code of healthy (working on losing excess weight and getting exercise), but her other choices are by no stretch leading to a nourishing life.
Get off the roller coaster. Life shouldn't be this way, and a nourished life isn't this way.
Imagine instead, that same mom wakes up and eats a breakfast that she feels nourishes her (perhaps an omelette loaded with fresh veggies and eggs she got at the farmer's market over the weekend or maybe it's even a tofu scramble). She gets ready for her day and looks forward to going to work at a place that nourishes her, where she likes what she does. She drop her kids off at school and listens to some of her favorite music on the way to work. Lunchtime comes and she has a meal that she feels will really nourish her (perhaps it is some sushi and a bowl of fruit for dessert). She takes time to not only eat but maybe to relax a little and work on that book she's been writing. She heads back to work, enjoys time with her coworkers and gets her tasks done. She leaves for the day, heading to the gym to climb the rock wall and take a yoga class with friends. She has a great time and then heads home where she prepares a meal that she feels will nourish her family (perhaps grilled chicken, broccoli and a side salad that the kids helped prepare.) They all sit down at the table to eat dinner and discuss their how their day went. Bedtime rolls around mom has the energy to read to the kids a bit before she heads off to bed to read for herself.
There is no trying to live a nourished life–you just live it. When people "try to get healthy" they associate that with doing something they don't enjoy and therefore it's unfulfilling and unenjoyable (and more often than not unlasting.) I want to make one quick point about living a nourishing life that is very, very important. There is no one size fits all for a nourished life. You and only you can determine what that looks like. There are a lot of variations on what it means to live a nourished life. To find yours, you will need to sit down and really think about what is important to you. Some variations on a nourished life might be: eating meat, not eating red meat, only eating farm raised/hormone free meat, not eating any meat, eating vegan (to name a few). It could mean that you completely cut out refined sugar or perhaps it means that you just cut back on it. You could also go gluten free, organic, wheat free, dairy free, or take up fasting one day a month. You could spend hours at the gym each day or never set foot inside a gym again. The point is that there are thousands of different types of combinations of ways to live a nourished life–you job in this lifetime is to figure out what nourishes you. Designing and living a nourished life is so much more than low fat eating and spending time doing exercise you hate.
Sounds so basic doesn't it? But yet thousands if not tens of thousands of people will start diets January 1st, only to be disappointed, frustrated and depressed at their lack of (lasting) results. Don't get sucked into the hype of "healthy"! Take 20 minutes and make a list of what you like. Get clear on what jazzes you, and then steer into those things. The funny thing is that once you start living a nourished life, you will find yourself making more and more nourished choices on a more regular basis. There is an undeniable snowball effect, and once you get going you will be at a very different (and nourished) place in the very near future. So what does a nourished life look like to you? What kinds of hobbies would you like to have? Or friends? Or a job? Really think about this, and remember that life is not about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself. Carpe Diem.


Can Breath Test Evidence be Contested?
Put simply, yes, you may contest the evidence of a breathalyzer test. Breath tests may be disputed by carefully examining a situation and finding faults in the procedure. There are a number of factors at play in a breathalyzer test, and an incorrect administration of the test or violation of rights may be grounds to have the test evidence thrown out of court.
Did the police officer unlawfully stop you?
Were you observed for 20 minutes before taking the test?
Was the breath test machine calibrated properly?
Did the police officer unlawfully arrest you?
Discuss your situation with a DUI attorney in Tampa. Contact Parks & Braxton, PA today!
Any error in the testing process or wrongful action performed by the officer may be grounds to fight the test evidence. At Parks & Braxton, PA, our team of legal professionals include former prosecutors and more than 48 years of combined legal experience. Our attorneys possess working knowledge of the law on all sides of the courtroom. If you are planning to fight your DUI charge in court, consider working with a Tampa DUI lawyer from our firm.
If you have been charged with DUI, then you may not only be facing criminal charges, but also be facing a potential driver's license suspension. Your license suspension hearing is conducted by the DHSMV. Contesting the evidence of a breathalyzer test may be an essential part of defending your driving privileges. If you are able to show that the breath test evidence is faulty during this hearing, you may prevent your driver's license from being suspended by the DHSMV.
Similarly, contesting the evidence of a breath test may be a key part of your defense against a DUI charge. If you believe the breath test was faulty or performed unlawfully, then you should make sure your defense is solid for both the criminal trial and your license suspension hearing. Our DUI attorneys in Tampa have handled thousands of DUI cases and may provide individuals with the legal guidance and representation they need for a successful outcome.
Protect your rights and driving privileges. Schedule a free case consultation with our firm today!


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The agency has teamed up with Hammerhead and Say It Now.
Oi says its collaboration with Hammerhead will see it help to provide the latest in virtual and augmented reality production services, and digital human creation at their London studio, Dimension.
Through its partnership with Say It Now, Oi will be able to offer clients the latest data and voice marketing services, particularly in the financial, travel and energy sectors.
Peter Grange, Chief Executive Officer of Oi, commented: "Technology is constantly evolving and we see these specific areas growing exponentially in the near future. The teams at both Hammerhead and Say It Now are some of the world's leading experts in their respective fields. We're excited and looking forward to working closely with them."


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American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine at CIIS
About Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine
ACTCM is one of four schools at CIIS. It has been leading holistic healing education for almost half a century, integrating new research and methodologies with 3,000 years of Chinese medicine.
ACTCM Degree Programs
Master of Science of Traditional Chinese Medicine (MSTCM)
Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM)
Transitional Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (tDACM)
Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM)
ACTCM at CIIS
Joining CIIS in 2015, the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM) is one of four schools at CIIS, offering the first professional and postgraduate degrees in acupuncture and Chinese medicine. ACTCM has been at the forefront of acupuncture and Chinese medical education since its inception in 1980, one of the oldest acupuncture and Chinese medicine colleges in the United States. The graduate programs provide a truly exceptional professional education in the acupuncture and Chinese medicine field. The acupuncture and Chinese medicine clinics provide exceptional clinical training for student clinicians, while also providing affordable healthcare services to the San Francisco Bay Area. ACTCM has also been honored for its leadership role in wildlife conservation and partnerships with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Save the Tiger Fund. Currently, many of our faculty and administrative staff members are involved in national leadership roles, supporting and promoting the growth of acupuncture and Chinese medicine as a profession.
Chinese medicine, including acupuncture, is an ancient and profound medical paradigm that originated more than 3,000 years ago. It comprises a number of therapeutic practices, among them Chinese herbology, acupuncture, Chinese medical nutrition, t'ai chi ch'uan, and qigong, that have long been used to promote health as well as treat a wide range of disease conditions. At the core of acupuncture and Chinese medicine is an understanding that the body, mind, and human spirit are integrally connected, and that restoring and maintaining balance is essential to health and well-being. What the Chinese people discovered through practical experience over millennia is increasingly being validated by modern research. Today, acupuncture and Chinese medicine are practiced side-by-side with Western medicine in hospitals and clinics in China and, increasingly, in the United States. Acupuncture and Chinese medicine are part of a broad movement toward integrative medicine and patient-centered care.
ACTCM enrolled its first class of students in 1981. In this same year, ACTCM opened its Community Clinic, which provides affordable care using acupuncture and Chinese medicine to the residents of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. At the Community Clinic, students, under the supervision of licensed clinical faculty, gain practical experience in the application of acupuncture, tuina, shiatsu, and Chinese herbs for the treatment of a wide range of conditions and to promote wellness and health.
Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Master's Degree (MSTCM)
Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine First Professional Doctorate (DACM)
Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Transitional Doctorate (transitional DACM)
Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Post-Graduate Doctorate (DAOM)


We can't stop writing about Facebook today, because after months of anticipation, tomorrow is the day when it will announce new sharing features for music and other media that could form a "connective tissue" between the various services used by music fans.
Today, Facebook remade itself (again), much to the consternation of users (again), who took to the social network to complain in droves. Apparently, the irony of finding it necessary to use a platform to deride the uselessness of that same platform is lost on many.
Memegenerator.net has an interesting take on Facebook's new real-time feed.
As part of that redesign, Facebook launched a real-time activity feed along the right side of the screen (see screenshot), which tells users what their friends have been up to — commenting on stuff you haven't seen yet, friending each other, and so on, as opposed to the main activity feed, which shows you stuff asynchronously that's more likely to be of interest.
We know Facebook is going to let people see what their friends are listening to, and in some cases, join them in real time. We're pretty sure that the real-time feed pictured above is where that listening activity will surface.
Stay tuned… people are complaining about the new Facebook today, but tomorrow, they could be more than happy to use it as a way to find out what their friends are listening to, join them, and chat about what they hear.
hey please help me.. my real time activity feed is gone… how i get it again ..???


Cyrus Aaron Parvizi, a sixteen-year-old from Van Nuys, disappeared on January 29 after attending a wrestling event near LAX. The teenager, who has been missing now for over two weeks, was last seen in front of the Hilton Los Angeles Airport in the 5700 block of West Century Boulevard.
Parvizi does not have a history of running away, reports KTLA, and there is no evidence of foul play according to a statement from the LAPD. On Sunday his family released a photo in an effort to locate the missing teen.
He's described at 5 feet 8 inches tall, 160 pounds with a medium build and medium complexion. Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at (818) 374-0001.


Our Church's 125 Anniversary occurs this December! Because it is such a special event, we've decided to celebrate over the next year.
We have many great things planned. One of the ideas is to display pictures of past events. We would love to have any pictures you have of construction of the church, VBS, Sunday School classes, choir presentations, dinners, special programs, etc. In order to display them by December 21, though, we need them turned in no later than November 20. We will have a box in the Fellowship Hall for you to leave them. Please only turn in copies of a picture you don't need back and write on the back of it who is in it and the approximate date. This will help a lot! We are looking forward to displaying some of the great times we've had!
We would also like for you to share favorite memories. There will be a box in the fellowship hall for this, too. Pastor Randy will try to read a couple of short ones during services throughout the year.
And…we would like to honor those who have passed on to meet our wonderful Maker! If you know someone from our church family who has passed away in the last 25 years, please give us their names so we can acknowledge them.


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The dreamers A novel
by Walker, Karen Thompson.
Format: Kindle Book 2019 2019
Availability: Available from OverDrive 3 of 10 copies
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One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep{u2014}and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams{u2014}but of what? Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life{u2014}in our waking days and, perhaps even more, in our dreams.
Booklist Review: "Walker's highly anticipated follow-up to The Age of Miracles (2012) is a similar modern fantasy in which strange things that change the course of the world start to happen to everyday people. In this novel, a sleeping sickness slowly overcomes students at a small Southern California college. By the time anyone recognizes a pattern, it's too late to quarantine the campus (though they try), and the odd malady spreads to the surrounding town. Those stricken suddenly fall asleep and cannot be roused. Tests show that while they are not under any physical duress, they are having vivid dreams. The novel follows an assortment of specific victims, including a college freshman with a secret even she doesn't know, a doomsday-prepper-type and single father of two wild girls, and a mother who leaves a newborn baby and a perplexed husband behind. Readers will be drawn in by the telling as Walker manages to create spare prose that nonetheless conveys great detail, an approach that works well to add a bit of tension to this simultaneously languid and lush tale.--Rebecca Vnuk Copyright 2018 Booklist"
Publisher's Weekly Review: "Walker's richly imaginative and quietly devastating second novel (after The Age of Miracles) begins in a college dorm in an isolated town in the hills of Southern California, where a freshman thinks she is coming down with the flu. In fact, she has a mysterious disease that causes its victims to fall into a deep, dream-laden sleep from which they cannot be woken, and which sometimes leads to death. The disease spreads slowly at first, then more rapidly, and soon the whole town is under a quarantine. The perspective moves smoothly in and out of the minds of several of the college students and town residents, drawing back to look at the entire situation from a detached but compassionate point of view and then plunging back into the minds of those attempting to deal with the escalating problems. Among the characters are Mei, a lonely college freshman; 12-year-old Sara, who copes with an unhinged survivalist father; Sara's neighbors, a faculty couple with a newborn baby; and aging biology professor Nathaniel. As the majority of the people of the town fall victim to the disease, neuropsychiatrist Catherine Cohen, separated from her family by the quarantine, tries desperately to find its cause, until arson at a library that's being used as a makeshift hospital has unintended results on the state of some of the dreamers. The relatively large number of central characters makes it likely that some will succumb to the disease, upping the suspense of the story. Walker jolts the narrative with surprising twists, ensuring it keeps its energy until the end. This is a skillful, complex, and thoroughly satisfying novel about a community in peril. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."
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Subjects Literature
Fantasy fiction.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] :Random House Publishing Group2019
Contributors OverDrive, Inc.
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ViewRanger at the Apple Keynote
Last week was a very exciting week for us. ViewRanger's Lead Designer, Hannah Catmur, was invited on stage by Apple chief operating officer, Jeff Williams, to launch the new Apple Watch Series 2 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Hannah demonstrated how the new ViewRanger app helps hikers find trails, navigate, and explore the outdoors using Apple Watch Series 2.
The audience, plus a live online audience of millions of people around the world, were taken on a virtual hiking tour of Four Mile Trail in the Yosemite National Park, with ViewRanger providing turn-by-turn directions and highlighting key route features such as viewpoints and waterfalls.
The Apple Watch Series 2 has many improved features and ViewRanger has redesigned its watch app to take advantage of these. It uses the GPS within the watch to pinpoint the wearer's exact location, allowing them to navigate with the watch independently of the iPhone. Users get a discreet tap on the wrist when it's time to make a turn, or when they reach interesting points. The ViewRanger app for Apple Watch Series 2 works with Apple Health, so personal activity rings fill up as users hike and walk.
"With a quick glance at the watch, ViewRanger users can see their GPS location on detailed maps, access route descriptions, and learn interesting facts about the landscape around them," said Craig Wareham, ViewRanger co-founder and CEO.
With the new Apple Watch Series 2, you can enjoy hands-free route navigation without constantly pulling out your iPhone. Plus, the new watch will instantly link into ViewRanger's time-tested mapping technology and active outdoor community. ViewRanger works offline without mobile or data signals, making it the ideal app for anyone exploring the outdoors using Apple's new devices.
"This new watch app is the latest in a line of innovations that ViewRanger has brought to the outdoors market – and we're not finished yet," Craig added. "Our team is currently completing our breakthrough augmented reality technology that will allow people to explore the world like never before."
ViewRanger is the first hiking app to use the new built-in GPS feature on Apple Watch Series 2. An exciting time for all outdoor enthusiasts, wouldn't you agree?
Download the free ViewRanger app from the Apple App Store. The new ViewRanger app for Apple Watch Series 2 will be available as an upcoming update. Learn more at www.viewranger.com


Ever since Nike debuted the Nike M2K Tekno last year, most if not all of the releases have been fairly tonal, versatile, subtle and/or "safe". Not this one. Opting for a wild and loud motif, this iteration of the Nike M2K Tekno features an upper with a mix of animal prints consisting of tiger, leopard, and giraffe placed on the overlays, toe box, toe cap, tongues, mudguard, and heels. Adding even more pop to the shoe are the Volt hits found on the eyelets, heel cup, pull tab and Swoosh branding. There even appears to be translucent overlays found on parts of the toe and side panels.
No word on whether these will release or are a one-off, but as soon as more info is provided we will be sure to let you know. Thoughts on the Nike M2K Tekno Animal Print?
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ShorthandCase Study:The Telegraph
From data stories and in-depth features on current affairs, to sport and fashion — Shorthand is part of the toolset for journalists across the Telegraph when a more immersive and visually-compelling treatment is desired.
Before the days of Shorthand, similar projects would require design and development teams to invest much time working with the editorial staff to create the end product. But according to Méabh Ritchie, special projects producer at the Telegraph, the introduction of Shorthand has helped free up their time.
As well as saving time and resources, it has provided a greater showcase of the fantastic photography and graphics created by the Telegraph's staff.
"Shorthand gave us a way to make the most of these images"
Méabh Ritchie
Originally, the focus was on longform, in-depth stories, with large volumes of images and text. "Shorthand gave us a way to make the most of these images and put them at the forefront and really enrich the writer's account of their story", Méabh said, but they've since experimented with more data-driven and photo-focused stories, with great results.
For example, a recent data-dive exploring what Africa will look like in 100 years contained animated visualizations made possible by Shorthand's Reveal effect. In another story, specially commissioned illustrations of two unaccompanied child migrants were centre stage in a narrative, visual exploration of their journeys. The story was highly commended at the British Press Awards in 2016 for digital innovation.
More recently, following the death of David Bowie, the Telegraph used the Reveal effect in Shorthand to guide the reader through his iconic styles over the years, with back-to-back images of his face, one swiping into the next.
This gave the team a "unique" way to tell the story, and the speed at which they were able to do so meant that it was published in time to attract a big social audience.
A selection of sections from The Telegraph's stories
"[This] meant we were able to tap into something that was ongoing, but do it in a new and innovative way."
Word has spread — and the introduction of Shorthand has made it easy to encourage a wider range of journalists to engage in online specials, Méabh said, driven by the appealing look of the stories.
"They want to make a big impact, and that's what Shorthand allows people to do," she added.
"They want to make a big impact, and that's what Shorthand allows people to do"
With their time freed up, designers can focus on helping with particular creative elements, such as animation — although the ease of creating such effects in Shorthand is something that is being enjoyed across skillsets.
"As a designer, the scrolling and 'Scrollmation' animation lets you come up with visual effects you wouldn't necessarily do with a standard web page, or a standard article," David Stevenson, graphics journalist at The Telegraph, said.
"It's good the way it puts a certain amount of animation power into your hands without having to go into video editing or anything like that. It's democratised it."
And the numbers tell an equally positive story, with engagement time — editorial's main measure of success with Shorthand stories — said to be consistently higher than standard stories online.
"The premium look of the Shorthand stories... means it's been more attractive to advertisers"
It's not just a powerful tool for editorial teams, Méabh said, highlighting the enhanced commercial opportunities for news organisations.
"The premium look of the Shorthand stories that we have — which is reserved for special content and does raise the bar in terms of the design and the feel of everything — means it's been more attractive to advertisers, which has been another really positive benefit."
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In this companion volume to the author's highly-regarded The Nimzo Indian Defence, the starting point is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6. The main focus is on 3.Nf3 b6 while Roiz also covers 3.g3 (Catalan) and miscellaneous options.
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"I DIDN'T COME I WAS SENT" Album Release Party 10.29.15
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Date: Oct 29th 2015
Time: Doors: 8:00pm, Showtime: 10:00 pm
Location: The Promontory, 5311 S. Lake Park Ave, Hyde Park Chicago, IL 60615
Veteran Chicago Emcee/Poet/Youth Mentor and recent Red Eye ROCK nVOTE Finalist PHENOM is proud to announce that on Thursday October 29th he will release his New Album "I DIDN'T COME I WAS SENT". Accompanying the release will be a release party/concert at The Promontory in the Hyde Park area of Chicago.
Opening acts will be K Love the Poet, Hunid Proof, Ace Da Vinci, 42 Keez,
Tone Jones and the winner of the PHENOM & friends 9 contest which will be held at The Refuge Lounge in downtown Chicago on October 3rd. There will also be a couple of special guest(s) in attendance on October 29th. PHENOM will be backed by The Mose Wanted live Band along with Awthentik Poetry and the LalaFa Me's. Music will be provided by DJ Manti of L.Y.R.I.C. Mentoring and DJ Chosen of the Blok club DJs. Ang13 and Binkey will host this celebration.
The doors open at 8pm and Showtime is scheduled for 10pm. Tickets are $10 for advance general admission, $15 at the door and $25 for a VIP ticket. Tickets can be purchased from TEAM PHENOM by contacting TeamPhenom18@gmail.com and artist management at number(s) listed below or can be purchased online at PromontoryChicago.com or at the Promontory Box Office.
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Is it "Schlocky" to Compare Life Expectancies Between Countries?
June 21, 2009 Andrew Gelman
Greg Mankiw writes:
The next time you hear someone cavalierly point to international comparisons in life expectancy as evidence against the U.S. healthcare system, you should be ready to explain how schlocky that argument really is.
He points to the following claim by Gary Becker:
National differences in life expectancies are a highly imperfect indicator of the effectiveness of health delivery systems.for example, life styles are important contributors to health, and the US fares poorly on many life style indicators, such as incidence of overweight and obese men, women, and teenagers. To get around such problems, some analysts compare not life expectancies but survival rates from different diseases. The US health system tends to look pretty good on these comparisons.
Becker cites a study that finds that the U.S. does better than Europe in cancer survival rates and in the availability of hip and knee replacements and cataract surgery.
It makes a lot of sense to think of health as multidimensional, so that some countries can do better in life expectancy while others do better in hip replacements and cancer survival.
But I disagree with Mankiw's claim that it's "schlocky" to compare life expectancy. If the U.S. really is spending lots more per person on health care and really getting less in life expectancy compared to other countries . . . that seems like relevant information.
To put it in statistical terms: much of our quantitative analyses are essentially comparisons. And, once you're comparing, it makes sense to consider other factors (for example, Americans are less likely than Europeans to smoke, and more likely to be obese). But the overall outcome is important in its own right. Becker mentions cancer survival rates, and, cancer survival is definitely important–more important than all the research I've ever done, that's for sure–but a large change in cancer survival rate does not necessarily correspond to a big increase in life expectancy. And the same can be said for joint replacements and cataract surgery. What's missing in Mankiw's discussion is the connection between the huge cost differences between the U.S. and other countries, and the very specific cases where our system works better.
The funny thing is, I think my former co-blogger Robin Hanson would probably agree that government-funded healthcare is a bad thing–but for an opposite reason from Mankiw's! Hanson would oppose government health care, I think, because he would fear that it would lead to political pressure to spend even more on healthcare that, as he sees it, doesn't actually do much of anything to improve net health outcomes. In contrast, I think Mankiw is opposing a government system because he fears it would lead to cost-cutting and a move to a European-style system with lower cancer survival rates, fewer hip replacements, etc.
In summary, I am sympathetic to Mankiw's frustration with people who draw sweeping conclusions from raw comparisons. If policymakers are interested in moving the U.S. to a medical system more like France's, or Taiwan's, or whatever, they ultimately should be looking not at static comparisons but at how health and cost outcomes might change here under different proposed policies.
That said, life expectancy is important. If you're going to make a raw comparison, I'd rather compare countries on life expectancy than on cancer survival rates or the availability of hip replacements and cataract surgery.
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Affiliation: Columbia University
Andrew Gelman is a professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. He has received the Outstanding Statistical Application award from the American Statistical Association, the award for best article published in the American Political Science Review, and the Council of Presidents of Statistical Societies award for outstanding contributions by a person under the age of 40.
His books include Bayesian Data Analysis (with John Carlin, Hal Stern, and Don Rubin), Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks (with Deb Nolan), Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models (with Jennifer Hill), and, most recently, Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do (with David Park, Boris Shor, Joe Bafumi, and Jeronimo Cortina).
Andrew has done research on a wide range of topics, including: why it is rational to vote; why campaign polls are so variable when elections are so predictable; why redistricting is good for democracy; reversals of death sentences; police stops in New York City, the statistical challenges of estimating small effects; the probability that your vote will be decisive; seats and votes in Congress; social network structure; arsenic in Bangladesh; radon in your basement; toxicology; medical imaging; and methods in surveys, experimental design, statistical inference, computation, and graphics.
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