October 26, 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the theatrical release of The Terminator. That was James Cameron's first real directing job, and he followed it up with the even better Aliens and The Abyss. In 1991, he returned to the franchise that made him famous and produced a film that is superior to the original in just about every way.
Not only is Terminator 2: Judgment Day one of the best sequels ever made, it is also another example of Cinematic Chiasmus. Is it overkill to do two examples of this ancient storytelling technique from the same director in one month? Probably, but I don't care because Aliens and Terminator 2 are both awesome films and they deserve the star treatment.
So let's explore the chiasmus found in Terminator 2. Come with me if you want to give this movie a whole new meaning!
Now we'll talk about each of these points in greater detail and show what it all means.
At the start of the film, Sarah Connor does a voiceover in which she describes the future as a bleak war between humanity and the machines. She knows the day the war starts and many other details about what's coming.
At the end of the film, Sarah does one final voiceover where she explains that she no longer knows what's going to happen, but she's hopeful because if one of the machines bent on humanity's destruction could learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
The Terminator is the first time–traveler we see come back to the past. He immediately begins his mission to find John Connor and save humanity from certain doom.
Once John is no longer in danger, the Terminator's mission is over, and he asks Sarah to destroy him in order to eradicate any other traces of Skynet and secure humanity's future.
The T-1000 arrives from the future after the Terminator.
The T-1000 is blown up by the Terminator and falls into a vat of molten steel, destroying him.
John's foster father tells John to listen to his "mother," but John angrily replies, "She's not my mother, Todd." He then hurries away on his motorcycle.
At the climax, the T-1000 impersonates John's real mother, Sarah, and asks John for help. At the last moment, John realizes it's not his mother and makes his escape.
The first time we see Sarah, she is imprisoned in a cell at a mental institution for her seemingly insane belief about the future. Despite her best efforts, she hasn't been able to free herself.
After his final fight with the T-1000, the Terminator finds himself pinned to the floor by a metal rod. He manages to free himself.
The two Terminators hunt around the city for John, who is completely oblivious to his perilous situation.
In the steel mill, John runs and hides from the T-1000, acutely aware of the danger he is in.
We learn that Sarah isn't crazy when a scientist named Miles Dyson examines the arm of the Terminator from the first film, which is being held at Cyberdyne.
The Terminator cuts off his own hand, which had been smashed in a giant gear, and then slashes the T-1000's shoulder, nearly separating his arm from his body.
After months of good behavior, Sarah begs her doctor at the institution to let her see her son, but he knows she's manipulating him and denies her request.
The T-1000 pins Sarah to a wall and commands her to call to her son and make him come to her. She refuses, knowing that the T-1000 would kill her anyway.
When the Terminator and the T-1000 come face to face for the first time they engage in a brutal fight. In the end, the T-1000 throws the Terminator through a window. While this is happening, John flees.
After telling John to run and save himself, the Terminator has a rematch with the T-1000. The T-1000 literally gets the upper hand by pushing the Terminator into a gear, which crushes his hand and holds him down.
The T-1000 pursues John first on foot and then in a big rig. The Terminator saves the day by shooting the truck's wheel out, making the T-1000 crash into an overpass and burn in a fiery explosion.
Later, the T-1000 pursues John, Sarah, and the Terminator first in a helicopter and then in a big rig hauling a huge tank of liquid nitrogen. The Terminator forces the truck to roll over and spill its liquid nitrogen all over the T-1000 freezing him.
The Terminator explains his mission to John. He's there to protect him after being reprogrammed and sent to the past by John's future self.
Later, the Terminator tells John and Sarah, "Wait here. I'll be back." He then singlehandedly takes down a SWAT team. This is a clever reversal of his "I'll be back" catchphrase in the first film. This time, he's not killing cops to get to Sarah, but he's non-fatally wounding cops to make an escape route for Sarah and John. He was reprogrammed well by the future John.
The T-1000 kills John's foster parents and attempts to lure John into a trap.
Miles Dyson waits just long enough for John, Sarah, and the Terminator to get to safety before killing himself and destroying Cyberdyne in a giant explosion.
Sarah is shown several security-camera photos of the Terminator from the first film at the police station in 1984. He showed no mercy that night and killed all of the cops he could find.
Faced with John's order not to kill anyone, the Terminator launches an attack on the L.A. police force in which he destroys almost all of their vehicles and keeps them at bay but doesn't cause any deaths.
After witnessing the Terminator about to gun down an innocent civilian, John forces the Terminator to swear he will not kill anyone.
Once the security guards discover Sarah has escaped from her cell, they set off a loud alarm that tells everyone in the mental institution to converge on her location – including the T-1000.
Once the security guards at Cyberdyne learn that Sarah has broken into their building, they trigger a silent alarm that brings every cop in the area to her location – including the T-1000.
The last time Sarah saw a Terminator he was trying to kill her. Ten years later, the same model (with a different mission) shows up and scares the living daylights out of her.
After a long screen absence, the T-1000 finally makes his return at Miles' home. Thankfully, the place is abandoned so he doesn't wind up killing anyone.
Sarah, John, and the Terminator make their escape from the mental institution in spectacular fashion.
Miles tries to sneak Sarah, John, and the Terminator into Cyberdyne, but when that plan fails, they barge right in.
After they get away from the institution, Sarah tells John he was stupid to come and save her because she can take care of herself. He starts to cry, and she just rolls her eyes and refuses to comfort him.
After Sarah's attempt on Miles' life, she starts sobbing. John comes to her rescue once again, and this time she's not angry with him. She tells him she loves him and they console each other.
The Terminator stitches Sarah's shoulder wound shut. She got that wound from a fight with the T-1000.
Sarah briefly takes on the role of a Terminator when she shows up at Miles' house and shoots him in the shoulder.
The Terminator tells John he will learn more about humans and become like them the longer he is around them. John imparts some of his childish and yet wise advice on interacting with people.
Sarah asks the Terminator to tell her everything about Skynet and its creator, Miles Dyson.
She puts that knowledge to use later when she decides to assassinate Miles before he can create Skynet.
Sarah takes John and the Terminator to an old friend's home in Mexico. There she finds plenty of guns and other equipment she needs to protect her son from any threat.
Shortly after that, she falls asleep and has a nightmare. She sees a group of kids playing, and she's unable to talk and warn them about the horrific fate that awaits them. She's helpless to stop Judgment Day from destroying humanity.
John and the Terminator talk about John's father, Kyle Reese, and the many other men who came and went from John's and his mother's life. The Terminator listens patiently and the two bond in a way that John has never experienced before with a father figure.
Sarah sees her son and the Terminator bonding, and suddenly we get her perspective on what's happening. She sees the Terminator as the best kind of father for John, comparing him to all of the others who had come before and had failed to measure up.
In the end, seeing John and the Terminator risk their lives to save her touches her deeply and makes her reconsider her life and the fate of humanity, in general. She has her own "Judgment Day" when a machine that was originally programmed to be a killer makes her see the value of human life in a way she had long since forgotten.
No matter how old the first two Terminator films get, they will remain timeless classics because of amazing details like these.
This is the Deja Reviewer bidding you farewell until we meet again. In other words, I'll be back.
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Be right back. Going to erect statues in your honor, Mr. Lockard.
If you're looking for recommendations for future "chiastic" analysis, I would say Rosemary's Baby. It seems like it would work quite well.
With regard to T, if you haven't seen Mad TV's The Greatest Action Story Ever Told (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFrufPxjwX0) you should check it out.


Has anyone else ever wondered why the 1st string/melody string is tuned to Ma and not Pa? Tuning it to Pa (or using a capo - I've been fiddling around with a makeshift one) allows much more open string playing.
It is very important to be able to play ornaments around Pa, and also to be able to connect Pa and Sa through meend. Since the second string is very susceptible to breakage, tuning the main string to Ma allows the player all these things. I am sure one can think of other reasons, but in my experience these are some of the top points.
You could always do a 'Ravi' & take it off altogether !!! Then you can mix up ALL sorts of music & not get 'clashes' !?!?!?
Nick - I think we are talking about the baj here - can't really do without that one, I think!!
MMMM Not that stoopid thanks. I meant Ravi's non-existent PA !!!
I usually leave the main string tuned to Pa when playing in C (learning from or playing with sarode), to keep the string tension the same as when playing in D... it works quite well, though takes a lot of getting used to. Definitely a lot of open P options, although not being able to pull from P can be annoying.
Not sure why or how it originated but sarod and vichitra veena and rudra veena also use Ma as the main string I think so maybe they wanted to keep it the same for sitar?


Marc Emery – the former publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine and Pot TV, founder of the B.C. Marijuana Party, and my former boss – spent his 54th birthday yesterday locked in a medium security prison in Yazoo, Mississippi.
Marc, a Vancouver-based businessman and political activist, was condemned to a five-year term behind U.S. bars, by the governments of both Canada and the United States, in return for his tireless devotion to political activism and large financial contributions to reforming drug laws in North America and around the world.
After being extradited to the U.S. by Stephen Harper and the Conservatives and pinballed around the country to various prisons, he now spends his days and nights at Federal Correctional Institution Yazoo City Medium in Yazoo City, Mississippi. He is eligible for early release in 876 days, on July 9, 2014.
Marc was my boss but also a good friend, so I was delighted to have the opportunity to travel to Yazoo at the end of January, 2012 to visit him.
Marc and I keep in touch via a direct electronic mail system provided by the prison, but it had been 17 months since I had seen him in person, and that was only to witness him sentenced in a Seattle courtroom. The last time we spoke in person was even earlier, and I missed my friend terribly. I felt like the image in my head of the Real Marc – the amazing person I had grown to love, the full-package-deal that only long, in-depth personal conversations with the man could illustrate – was beginning to get a little hazy. I needed some Marc time.
So, with my lovely girlfriend Carina along for the adventure, I caught a 7am flight out of YVR on Friday, January 27 – Mississippi-bound – not sure exactly what to expect upon arriving in this very Southern state. After eight hours of airplanes and airport layovers, we arrived at the airport in Jackson, Mississippi.
Considering Jackson is the state capital and the most populous city in Mississippi, I was expecting a somewhat bigger airport. I guess compared to the gigantic George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, where we'd spent a three-hour layover, everything seemed like small potatoes.
We acquired our rental car at about 5:30pm Central Standard Time and set out on a 40-mile drive to our hotel in Yazoo. At first we were lost and cursing the limited map provided by the rental car company and our pathetic lack of orienteering skills. This was why the clerk suggested paying an extra fee for a GPS locator. We drove past a steakhouse or three while attempting to navigate with the useless map. With no working 21st Century electronic gadget or Internet connection in sight, we decided to stop at a roadside hotel for directions.
The hotel shared a parking lot with a stripmall-style complex and Carina and I quickly noticed several backlit signs in a row reading "US Navy Recruiting Center," "US Army Recruiting Center," and "US Air Force Recruiting Center." American flags, some obscenely large, twisted in the wind on flagpoles above many of the buildings.
"We definitely aren't in Canada anymore," we both agreed.
With a better map and directions from the helpful hotel desk clerk, we hit the freeway for the hour-long drive to Yazoo. It was a beautiful drive that showcased a rainbow of Mississippi landscapes including green fields, brown rolling hills, haunting forests, and lots of swamps – as well a seemingly disproportionate number of steakhouses. Many, many steakhouses.
It was dark when we arrived at the Hampton Inn in Yazoo. The hotel wasn't on the main road, but several roads past a residential area and deeper into rural pastures. The building looked like the newest thing we had seen since arriving in Mississippi and the desk clerk said the establishment was only about a year old. It was obvious the hotel owners had noticed the demand for decent lodging for visitors of several local prisons and built the inn less than 10 minutes from Yazoo Medium security.
That night we ordered dinner from the local Pizza Hut and hit the pillows early to get enough sleep before our 6am wake-up call.
We stopped a small grocery store on the way to the prison in the morning to load-up on $40 worth of quarters. The workers at the store knew the drill, and told us people come in every weekend for quarters. The change is necessary to purchase items from several vending machines inside the prison; the only source of food during the seven-hour visits.
We arrived at the prison at 8am and didn't spend much time in the sterile waiting-room before being led through the metal-detectors and a set of large doors. The opening scene of the movie The Blues Brothers flashed through my mind as we made our way past large rolls of concertina wire and a tall fence with the clanking of the metal doors behind us.
Through an open courtyard and another set of doors and we were inside the visitors area, which was an open room about the size of two or three school classrooms, with rows of plastic seating, a few small tables, and a row of vending machines. There were bathrooms for men and women – separate doors for prisoners, guards, and visitors – and a raised desk platform where the guards kept watchful eyes over the room.
Our first day with Marc was fantastic. He had a big smile on his face and we laughed together for much of the visit. He looked better than in recent pictures I'd seen and even had a nice tan.
We filled him in on many of the good and not-so-good times we'd had since his extradition and imprisonment, and he regaled us with several amazing tales from inside The Big House.
We talked about the upcoming Citizen Marc movie, which is due out for release later in 2012. He told us more about his fight with the antibiotic-resistant superbug MRSA and described in detail the terrible conditions at his former Georgia prison, D. Ray James.
We talked about the fact that many of Marc's fellow inmates have also been locked-up for non-violent drug crimes, sometimes for shockingly long sentences, the vast majority of them black or latino.
We discussed Obama's refusal to respond to petitions asking him to pardon Marc, and talked about Ron Paul's chances in the Republican Primaries and the Texas Congressman's hopes of becoming the next President of the United States. Paul has promised, if elected, to pardon all non-violent prisoners of the Drug War.
Joining us in the large open visitors room were a few other groups of prisoners and their guests. They were men – some young, some old – sitting with their wives and kids, brothers and sisters, or moms and dads. Some of them were holding hands, some smiling and laughing, and some crying. I was sad when I realized this empty, off-white visitation room was the only place many of these families had to make memories with each other. A few weekend moments sitting on hard plastic chairs were the only ones some of these kids would spend with their daddies for a long time. Too many lives ruined for nothing.
Three o'clock in the afternoon came sooner than we expected and our time with Marc was over for the day. We were sad to leave, but would be back the next day for another seven hours. Once we'd left the prison, Carina said, on two separate trips to the bathroom, she noticed women visitors crying to themselves in the stalls. Again, I thought, too many lives ruined for nothing.
After our visit, Carina and I took Marc's advice and went for a beautiful drive through three small towns just south-east of Yazoo City called Ridgeland, Madison and Canton. We found the only Starbucks in the immediate area inside a Target department store and got jacked-up on caffeine for the drive back to Yazoo.
Heading back, we stopped at a Piggly Wiggly grocery store and picked up some fresh fruit and other foodstuffs for dinner. We found a killer radio station,WMPR 90.1, which was playing blues, funk, and rock from predominantly black artists. We estimated that 90% of the people we'd seen since arriving in Mississippi were African American.
One thing that stood out was how nice and friendly everyone seemed. Everyone went out of their way to acknowledge our presence and say hello. Coming from frigid Vancouver, where no one dares make eye contact with each other unless absolutely necessary, we couldn't help but notice the difference. Nods, big smiles, waves, and hellos from complete strangers were the norm. Activist Catharine Leach, who visited Marc in October of 2011, reported the same phenomenon. They don't call it Southern Hospitality for nothing, I thought.
Day two with Marc was just as great as the first. We reminisced with the Prince of Pot about stories from his past that neither Carina nor I had heard before, and we spilled several jars of beans about events in our own lives. We also discussed time-travel fiction, the comedy stylings of Bill Maher and Chris Rock, and Marc's bass guitar playing in a prison band.
At one point, Carina was scolded by a female prison guard for having too many buttons undone on her shirt and showing just the slightest bit of cleavage. That's a no-no she was told, and instructed to button-up.
We used our surplus of quarters to purchase "food" from the vending machines. Marc had some kind of frozen chicken nuggets and Carina and I had a frozen pizza. We bought another frozen pizza for Marc, but it was covered with fuzzy blue patches of mold. Everything was cooked in a small microwave on a table between the vending machines and tasted pretty good for vending machine food that is probably made of over 50% cardboard.
Our time on Sunday seemed to disappear even faster than on Saturday, and before we knew it, we had to say good-bye. Though we tried our best not to show it, we were all sad the weekend was over. Before we left, we discussed plans to visit again in the near future, which cheered me up a bit.
Marc is undoubtedly the most positive person I've ever met in my life. Despite being separated from his loving wife Jodie and having his business and freedom denied him in a most heinous fashion, he is optimistic about the future and actually trying to have fun. He sees the light at the end of the tunnel, and that's where his gaze is focused.
Before we returned home, we decided to explore the prison town that is Yazoo City, and were surprised to find almost no town left. According to the 2000 census, the population of Yazoo was 14,550, but on that Sunday we saw less than 30 people over the whole day.
Yazoo looked like a ghost town that had been hit by a tornado. Most of the city's Main Street was lined with old brick buildings, and in some spots, just the facades of old brick buildings. Most of the upper windows in nearly all the buildings were broken and the majority of the shops were completely abandoned.
Drivers of the few cars that passed made sure to wave, and we waved back. One man, named Billy, stopped his car for a few minutes and told us the town had been the same way since he was a kid in the 60s or 70s. Two young Southern boys named Taylor and Will said many of the old "New York" style apartments had been torn down, leaving only sets of cement stairs to nowhere. Another man who galloped through downtown on a horse named Strawberry said he'd lived in Yazoo his whole life and it had looked like that since he could remember.
As it turns out, Yazoo was hit by a tornado – in 2010, though it was mostly a ghost town for years before that. A read through the Yazoo City wikipedia page reveals a town history fraught with peril and sorrow; subjected over the years to floods, fires, repeated yellow fever epidemics, and the loss of a major town shipyard that provided the townspeople with jobs.
Good place to put a prison, I guess.
The town seemed to me to represent a microcosm of the foreboding future of the United States and Canada if something doesn't change very soon.
If we continue down the destructive path of neglecting our economies and the basic functions of our governments, doing nothing to reverse increasing levels of poverty and despair, allowing the destruction of the middle class, imprisoning mass amounts of our own citizens, and allowing the conversion of our economies into what is virtually a slavery-based system, many more cities in North America will likely resemble this ghost of Mississippi.
If we instead make substantial reforms to our current justice and political systems through the continued work of selfless activists like Marc Emery and many others, we can fill our towns with free people instead of filling our countries' prisons.
Find out more about Marc Emery at FreeMarc.ca. Find out how to make a difference as an activist – read Marc's "Advice for Aspiring Activists" on Cannabis Culture.


This statement was originally published on cjfe.org on 1 November 2016.
We, the undersigned organizations, condemn the targeted surveillance of an iPhone belonging to Patrick Lagacé, a journalist for Montreal newspaper La Presse. Montreal's police service (Service de police de la ville de Montréal, or SPVM) obtained warrants for GPS monitoring as well as text and call tracking, and later attempted to use that information to identify his journalistic sources. The warrants were requested as part of an internal investigation into misdoing by officers who investigate street gangs and drug trafficking. The expansion of the warrants to include surveillance of journalists is a grim indication of the state of press freedom and whistleblower protections in Canada.
This incident does not stand alone as an indictment of the status of press freedom in Canada. In September 2016, Sûreté du Québec (Quebec's provincial police) officers seized a computer from Le Journal de Montréal reporter Michael Nguyen to determine how he came into possession of material pertinent to an ongoing investigation. On October 27, 2016, CJFE and a coalition of media and civil liberties groups were granted leave to intervene in the ongoing court battle between the RCMP and VICE News. VICE News is asking the Ontario Court of Appeal to throw out a March ruling which ordered journalist Ben Makuch to hand over chat logs between him and an alleged ISIS fighter.
These cases coincide at a time when police and security services in Canada are petitioning the government for an increase in powers through the new Investigative Capabilities in a Digital World provisions of the ongoing national security consultations framework. CJFE does not believe that law enforcement in Canada is responsible enough to make use of these new proposed powers without overstepping the bounds of press freedom, privacy and Canadians' Charter rights.


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The miracle of the singing bushes | Twende pamoja!
If I had to draw an analogy I guess I'd say the Arboretum in Nairobi is a bit like St James' Park in London. It's not the main park, like Hyde Park, that honour goes to Uhuru Park (Freedom Park). But it's the definite runner up and it's right next to State House where the President resides. A bit like Buckingham Palace I guess. Except the tourists don't flock there and I think you'd have some serious bother with the security personnel if you tried to take a holiday snap of the grounds.
Despite it's lesser prominence, the Arboretum is WAY better than Uhuru Park. For a start it is actually genuinely green and glorious and isn't packed with grotesque looking Marabou Storks. Instead it has monkeys (with testicles the most remarkable shade of baby blue! Will try get a photo next time…) crawling all over the place. Even better, you can actually relax there.
Uhuru Park isn't full of quite the same pleasures. While at the weekends it comes alive with happiness, and parents taking their kids on boat rides and camel trots, during the week it couldn't be more different. Street children roam in ragged groups with bottles of lurid yellow glue fixed beneath noses and glassy eyes. Homeless people sleep everywhere, seeking safety I guess, in the relatively public place. Most tragically, one morning on my walk to work I came across a crowd. I should have known better. Crowds don't usually form for good things here. Hanging from the tree was the lifeless body of a man who had taken his own life. The police were nowhere yet to be seen.
So with so few green and wholesome spaces in the city, the Arboretum has been a bit of a sanctuary over the last year. Only ten minutes from my old office, I'd go running through the maze of pathways in the morning and past the walking commuters avoiding the fume-filled main roads.
Today however was the first time I'd gone during the week at midday and a totally different spectacle awaited. The park had turned into an open air church filled with people deeply engaged in their own private displays of devotion.
Now, it's not uncommon to see the odd lone man preaching at the top of his voice to absolutely no-one. Many times when I was running I would come across one particular gentleman who always stood in exactly the same spot, driving himself hoarse for an invisible congregation. But today there were lone believers everywhere, praying, preaching, chanting and even ranting in some cases. Far different to Sunday's when you have to weave through the huge circles of people holding hands, singing and dancing together.
But most remarkable of all were the singing bushes. Deep within the thickets of trees, so dense they could barely be seen, were groups of people singing the gospel. It was incredible to walk through the empty footpaths with their voices reaching a crescendo and drowning out the roar of traffic beyond. When I managed to get a peek, I was surprised to see that the singers were not even stood together in the customary circle. Each one stood alone, eyes closed and hands raised.
Alone and yet very much together.


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Q: SeekBarPreference showSeekBarValue value not shown properly I'm trying to use SeekBarPreference from android.support.v7.preference and also I want the current value to be shown. There is an attribute showSeekBarValue that makes this possible. The value is shown but it seems like the TextView that holds the value isn't styled properly and part of the value is unfortunately hidden.

This is my preferences xml:
<android.support.v7.preference.PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <SeekBarPreference
        android:key="size"
        android:title="Size"
        android:summary="size of progressBar in dp's"
        android:max="100"
        app:showSeekBarValue="true"
        android:defaultValue="25" />
</android.support.v7.preference.PreferenceScreen>

and this is my Preference fragment:
import android.support.v7.preference.PreferenceFragmentCompat

class SettingsFragment: PreferenceFragmentCompat() {

    override fun onCreatePreferences(savedInstanceState: Bundle?, rootKey: String?) {
        addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences)
    }
}

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

A: I looked into the library code and in the layout(preference_widget_seekbar.xml) the height set on the textView is match_parent while the height of the parent is wrap_content.
Setting the height of textView to wrap_content solves the issue.
This is onViewCreated of my SettingsFragment:
override fun onViewCreated(view: View, savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState)
    listView.viewTreeObserver.addOnDrawListener {
        val sizePref = findPreference(getString(R.string.size))

        val prefView: View? = listView.layoutManager.findViewByPosition(sizePref.order)
        prefView?.apply {
            //Here is the fix
            findViewById<TextView>(seekbar_value).apply {
                layoutParams = LinearLayout.LayoutParams(WRAP_CONTENT, WRAP_CONTENT)
            }
            //another visual improvement
            findViewById<AppCompatSeekBar>(seekbar).apply {
                (layoutParams as LinearLayout.LayoutParams).apply {
                    gravity = Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL
                }
            }

        }
    }
}

A: Hi check the below url for ur requirement.
https://v4all123.blogspot.com/2017/12/simple-example-of-seekbarpreference-in.html
i think the layout height is fixed i guess. if u use wrap_content hope it should work by doing change in height or the url may help you.

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Q: How to open kendo dropdown on space key press I'm using kendo dropdown in one of my project and I'm facing an issue. In normal html select when we press space key on focus it will shows the options.I need to implement the same in kendo dropdown list I have tried keypress but its not working the code I tried is given below
   $("#container").on("keypress", function (e) {
      if (e.keyCode === 0 || e.keyCode === 32) {
              alert("hi")
          }
    });

I know its rubbish but I don't have any other  idea for implementing the feature . Is it possible to implement this feature in kendo dropdown if it is how can I do that

A: After the kendo dropdown is rendered, it places the select into a container.

          Small

               select

      <select id="select" placeholder="Select size..." style="width: 100%; display: none;" accesskey="w" data-role="dropdownlist">
           <option value="X-Small">X-Small</option>
           <option value="Small" selected="selected">Small</option>
           <option value="Medium">Medium</option>
           <option value="Large">Large</option>
           <option value="X-Large">X-Large</option>
           <option value="2X-Large">2X-Large</option>
      </select>

The keydown will be fire on the container:-
$("#select").kendoDropDownList();
$("#select").parent().on("keydown", function(e){
    if (e.keyCode === 0 || e.keyCode === 32) {
          $('select', this).data("kendoDropDownList").open();
    }
});

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The City of Garfield Heights is pursuing an idea to potentially solve two community problems at once by moving the city's police department, jail and courts to a struggling shopping center.
Nearly a decade ago, Walmart left the City View Center and concerns about methane gas underground chased away customers and other stores. Garfield Heights Mayor Vic Collova says the location is safe and he has a plan to put his money where his mouth is.
"Everybody that's an expert says there's not a problem," said Collova, talking about the City View Center, built on top of a landfill. "Of course, the people that aren't experts tell us there are problems."
After a new developer bought the land, Mayor Collova started talking to them about how City View needs tenants and the city jail, courts and Police Department all need a new home.
"The way the building was put together, the pipes were inside blocked walls so every time something goes wrong, it's expensive to get it fixed," said Collova.
Buckets in the hallway of the jail catch falling water just around the corner from stained or missing ceiling tiles while the whole building has unreliable heating.
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I don't usually post my own art here on this blog, but I'm making an exception today because I'm really happy with how the first piece came out.
I was recently invited to participate in an Australian show titled "Post-cards from the Hudson Valley." That will be in March and then later this year, Australian artists will have a show at a gallery in Beacon. The images have to be six by eight inches — much, much smaller than I normally work. Because one poor artist is schlepping all the art over in her luggage, she asked that we work on paper rather than canvas, so I gessoed up two pieces of Arches watercolor paper and got to work (the third, she's printing for me since it's a photograph).
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Able Archer '83, or, how the Cold War almost ended in catastrophe
As the West descends into a period of chaos, internal divisions worsened from outside make the consensus about the supposed "triumph" of democracy over communism look like a shopworn story. Consequently, the focus of our collective nostalgia rolls backwards a few more years, from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to another story, carrying another hidden message from the past to inform our time today.
US troops in exercise in Europe in 1983
The memory of democracy's victory over Communism was always overblown. It wasn't a cymbal-crashing finale to a decades-long struggle as much as a pause, followed by dissolution, followed by an era of murky possibility and edgeless consensus. For people my age, the world of our youth ended and transformed in mere months. After all, the scaffolding of Western society was constructed to lean against the alternate vision of global society emanating from the East.
Then one day The Other, on the far side of the Iron Curtain, was gone. For those people, the former Soviets citizens, the sense of dislocation and dismay was total. We're still paying the price for the Soviet Union's failure today.
Now that the fable of the 'triumph of the US over the Soviet Union' no longer offers a credible understanding of history, there is a certain itch to relive the final, tense years before the end the Cold War. Increasingly, what had been a footnote of the time looms ever larger in historians' eyes.
This was the moment, in 1983, when NATO inadvertently gave the impression to the paranoid and geriatric leaders of the Soviet Union, that the West was about to launch a surprise nuclear attack.
With each passing year, this moment, nearly undetected at the time, appears to be a pivot point in history.
Able Archer '83 is the subject of Marc Ambinder's book, The Brink, an account of the exercise of 1983, when a telegraphed special weapons segment of a major NATO exercise was mistaken by Soviet leadership as the opening stages of a US initiated nuclear war.
Able Archer also forms the fictionalized plot in of the mini-series Deutschland 83, a spy drama that derives power in part from the nostalgia for a bygone world order. These works aren't the only rumination on the late Cold War. There are The Americans. For real eye-witness accounts, check out some of the interviews in the Cold War Conversations, (start with British rocker Mark Reeder's remarkable story), or, to get the big picture: the History of the Cold War Podcast – which details the prologue to today's geopolitical confrontation.
In Ambinder's book, he spends considerable time setting up the drama in discussing how the command and control of the US nuclear response had essentially been corroded by the passage of time, the development of new weapons technology, shifts in strategy and realism for what a confrontation might entail.
These sorts of adjustments in expectations helped shape the immediate training expectations for what had become a routine readiness exercises for US and NATO troops in Western Europe, known as Reforger. The annual exercise demonstrated how proceduralized the defense of the West from Soviet Russia had become.
However, as archives released have since revealed, these exercises had "multiple non-routine elements" compared to previous years. These included a 170-flight, radio-silent airlift of 19,000 soldiers to Europe, and the shifting of commands and "the practice of 'new nuclear weapons release procedures'."
Although Ambinder leans heavily on the detail of America's nuclear attack leadership succession issues, his book shines in the vignettes he paints of the both the leaders of the time, as well as the cast of others carrying out orders.
One of the most finely drawn characters is, of course, Ronald Reagan, reliant (perhaps overly) on the opinions of adviser/friends, yet fully conscious of his goal of reducing nuclear tensions. Ambinder's observation on Reagan's religious worldview are particularly insightful for understanding the zeitgeist of that time's nuclear geopolitics.
If the world faced a potential apocalypse, the leader of the free world's mission was by definition, messianic. Reagan's embrace of the Strategic Defense Initiative – known as Star Wars – fanned the flames of Soviet paranoia by altering the calculus of mutually assured destruction, the threat of mutual destruction which had helped keep the peace between the US and the USSR.
Reagan and SDI
Part of the story Ambinder tells, is how Reagan changes, from the fierce anti-communist with contempt for Soviet ideology to a leader who sees the need to put the world on safer nuclear footing.
His Russian counterpart for much of the book, Yuri Andropov is a paranoid, geriatric product of the Soviet spy world. The Soviet regime was methodically searching for signs of RYaN (Raketno-Yadernoye Napadenie), a surprise nuclear attack. The Soviet Union's intelligence apparatus ordered constant updates on the number of cars after hours at UK government facilities, or the relative levels of blood donation stocks.
Suspicious of Western plans for attack, Andropov demands ceaseless intelligence, while dismissing the expert analysis which could explain that the "signs" in the West for war preparations were only routine activity.
It's a good reminder of how, in those final years of the Cold War, the East-West competition both very real and routinized. (Not at all like the fluid situation today) All it took was for something to appear to be out of balance – the amount of blood donated in the UK, the number of office lights left on in the evening in Westminster – to contribute to one side expecting a surprise attack from the other.
In the case of Able Archer 83, NATO intentions were wildly misread, and NATO didn't learn until later how close it came to confrontation.
The inclusion of B-52s by the US Air Force in the exercise, signaled a strategic dimension to the West's war games. As an air tanker planner of the 8th Air Force observed, people assumed "that if the B-52s were there, they'd have a strategic nuclear purpose, and not a conventional purpose."
Ambinder writes: "[The air tanker planner] did not know at the time what the Soviets knew, but he made sure to note in an after-action report that the word 'strike' – associated with B-52s and nuclear operations – was used far too frequently over the radios and had to be quickly corrected."
There were other misunderstandings. In the lead up to the exercise, the Soviets accidentally shot down a Korean commercial airliner that had flown off course. Russian forces were on alert for American ship and plane movements where they had been active near its coast.
At some level, the backstory to Able Archer, the large, annual exercises, reads like the work of power projection in the age of an industrial military.
One wonders how the same event would unfold today, in the age of information military, and if, as US Senator Mark Warner has observed recently, "from a national security standpoint, we may be investing in the best 20th century military money can buy, and we ought to be thinking a lot of the conflict of the 21st century is going to be in cyber and misinformation and disinformation."
Unlike the pop-culture cliffhanger of Deutschland 83, The Brink is not really a nostalgic read, even if nostalgia may help generate interest in the story.
Able Archer also provides the backstory to Deutschland 83.
The Brink is a about the mechanics, personalities and judgments of a moment in Cold War history when events could have gone in a radically more dangerous direction. Its focus is wide-ranging: the specific advisers on Reagan's ear, the Soviet intelligence officer in the UK embassy who first gave word of how radically different Moscow was viewing the exercises, or the story of the 26-year-old commander of a nuclear missile base in West Germany…
The Soviets had managed to break the codes needed for communications around tactical missile launches, but couldn't validate them. The US missile commander faced the prospect of spoofed messages urging him to "prepare for nuclear release." More terrifying, it was clear to the American that because of the placement of the communications equipment relative to the base, the Soviet spies "trying to sabotage the American nukes were right there with him, within maybe a mile of his nuclear warheads, watching them, as he scanned the dark German night for them."
That's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a 26-year-old, and it highlights the seriousness about East-West politics for the public that has been absent until the 2016 US election and its aftermath.
Some of the vignettes have even more poignancy today, including the story of the little old lady on Red Square who tells a visiting American with a genuine smile. "Ah, you've seen our military parade, so now you see that we want peace?" She was serious. This is the Russian mentality toward force and peace.
Able Archer was the last in a series of NATO exercises that year: NSArchives.
Ambinder tells the story of World War Three averted in some well-chosen word-pictures, of people and places of the time. NATO military exercises, Russian response, the dance of East-West Cold War diplomacy, even the annual parades of US troops returning to Germany for exercise. All of it was like the workings of a clock. A coil turned just so. And if something was miscalibrated, (a jet flyby, an unannounced missile launch), it could set in motion another series of responses (naval ships patrol, a diplomatic démarche).
Sometimes Ambinder leaves the reader wishing for a little more narrative connection between the disparate parts, especially across the arc of the book from beginning to end. Yet, The Brink portrays with some fidelity the great machine that the Cold War had evolved into. Everything in the service to the logic of a geopolitical struggle turned ever slowly in the background.
So slowly that for us children of the period, it was itself the status quo and not one more period of change in a succession of them. This statis is how the Cold War is remembered. In reality, the Cold War wasn't so much like clockwork, but an ongoing effort to show force to make a point, but show enough restraint not to cause catastrophe.
Perhaps for that reason, the nostalgic eye turns back toward the good old days of 1983, when the world was divided, consensus is remembered as uniting each side [but didn't really], and as long as the big risk did not grow bigger – and a lot of effort was spend to prevent that outcome – an imperfect order prevailed.
The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 by Marc Ambinder, Simon & Schuster.
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Q: print even and odd numbers now my code looks like this
!/bin/bash

read INPUT
for number in $(seq 1 $INPUT); do
        if [ $((number%2)) -eq 0 ]
        else [ $((number%2)) -eq 1 ]; then
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        fi
done

but then I get the next error
./script.sh: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
./script.sh: line 6: `        else [ $((number%2)) -eq 1 ]; then'

A: You're missing a then statement after if.
You can set a variable to the parity of the input number. Then you can use that variable when testing each number in the range.
#!/bin/bash

read INPUT
parity=$((INPUT%2))
for number in $(seq 1 $INPUT); do
    if [ $((number%2)) -eq $parity ]; then
       echo $number
    fi
done

A: I think you are looking for something like this:
#!/bin/bash
read INPUT
str=""
for each in $(seq 1 $INPUT); do
    [[ $((each%2)) -eq 0 ]] && str="$str $each"
done
echo $str

What this is doing is performing the check in an if statement $(()) and the && means if true that do the follwowing which is to build a string as we go of the ones that meet our criteria.
Example:
14
2 4 6 8 10 12 14


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Governance tokens are digital assets that reflect voting power in a blockchain-based project. They serve as the primary utility token for DeFi systems since tokens are used to allocate abilities and rights to users.
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Different fees will be voted on.
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plus a lot more
Although the majority of DeFi tokens on the market are governance tokens, voting is not their only distinguishing characteristic. Their main and primary goal is to distribute power. What are Governance Tokens and
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In a DeFi environment, no one feels left out or without a voice. Developers don't have to make difficult decisions, and they may communicate with the community to learn what's wrong with the project, why a certain feature should be improved, and how the team should manage funding and partnerships.
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Rari Capital, a decentralized lending and borrowing platform, is powered by RGT, an Ethereum token. The Rari Governance Token is used for protocol governance and fee savings.
Rari is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that allows users to lend, borrow, and farm bitcoin assets. According to the project's blog, Rari Wealth aims to develop technologies that allow the masses to profit from their idle capital without requiring user participation. The DeFi application's key selling feature is its automatic non-custodial fund, which is built on the Ethereum blockchain. Users can entrust cryptocurrency to the platform by relying on underlying smart contracts. The computer then looks through DeFi applications to find the best yield-earning opportunities. Portfolios are rebalanced automatically using both cryptocurrencies and stablecoins.
The platform may be utilized by anybody, anywhere in the globe, thanks to its decentralized architecture. As a result, it allows the unbankable in the third world to receive a return on their money.
The Rari ecosystem's native cryptocurrency is RGT. Its primary purpose is to make a range of financial transactions easier. Holders of tokens may also vote on development choices.
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RGT is a highly volatile digital asset, just like every other cryptocurrency. Before purchasing, both the token and the accompanying platform should be thoroughly examined. Here are some things to think about:
The Rari protocol was created on the Ethereum blockchain and has a well-developed ecosystem. The project has recently developed "Market," which lets users to engage with the Layer-2 Polygon Network while preserving the Ethereum module. This lowers transaction costs and may assist to increase market share.
Crypto investors may earn large rates on their crypto holdings thanks to the platform's passive income prospects. Users can acquire access to a variety of open interest rate options via Rari's Fuse protocol, for example.
Because all of the transactions are regulated by automated smart contracts, there is always a high level of financial transparency. The RGT token may also be staked for further incentives within the system.
Rari Capital has been able to garner huge investor support across the worldwide crypto scene since its beginnings. This is best seen by the platform's large social media followings on sites like Twitter and Discord.
RGT has a total token supply of 10 million, according to statistics accessible on CoinGecko. This, however, is not set in stone and may alter in the future.
At a glance, the Rari Governance Token
The information was last updated at 05:12 UTC on December 25, 2021.
RGT is a cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of US$305,831,611.
RGT supply total: 12,500,000 RGT supply total: 11,255,496 RGT supply total: 12,500,000 RGT supply total: 12,500,000 RGT supply total: 12,500,000 R
The current price is US$27.15, while the all-time high is US$64.62.
Where can I get Rari Governance Tokens?
To make buying Rari Governance Token easier, look for an exchange that accepts both fiat and cryptocurrency.
Create an account on a cryptocurrency exchange that accepts RGT.
To compare popular possibilities, go to our table – but keep in mind that most exchanges ask you to register with an email address, phone number, and proof of identification.
Make a deposit into your account.
To acquire Rari Governance Token, fund your account with a bank transfer, pay with a credit or debit card, or deposit cryptocurrency from a crypto wallet.
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Advantages and disadvantages of buying governance tokens such as Rari
It is undeniable that governance tokens are beneficial. However, what are their drawbacks and how do they affect cryptographic protocols? Let's take a brief look at the good, terrible, and ugly.
Decentralization: Governance tokens are the only means for developers to put the 'De' in DeFi. Projects would be devoid of smart contracts if they didn't exist, and no one would be able to govern them. Because decentralization is the primary purpose of digital assets, why not make them tangible?
Opportunities for collaboration: Voting paves the way for debate, and debate opens the way for collaboration. Users are encouraged to engage with other community members and achieve a decision through the conversation when they can directly vote on the issue they are facing. This is why, after Crypto Twitter, governance forums are the second-best social medium.
Communities that are more involved: Users have both a motive and a mechanism to actively guide a project's route and direction, which leads to more engaged communities.
Development that is efficient: Although developers do not completely abandon their role in decision-making, governance frameworks make it simpler for them to come up with specific solutions and implement the modifications that their community deems important.
Selfishness: Just because someone has the ability to vote does not ensure they will vote for the greatest possible outcome. Simply said, greedy actors, will always vote on decisions that solely benefit themselves. Remember how, following the March flash crash liquidation, the Maker community refused to compensate their own community?
There is an absence of responsibility: Following the example above, it is evident that democracy-based governance regimes would never provide true accountability. If a choice is made incorrectly, the community will always point the finger at an undefined unseen group. Users will always point the finger at 'the majority,' and no one will admit to being 'the majority.'
Whales: Almost every governance protocol has a single whale that hoards the project's tokens. Investors frequently worry that the whale would one day, via sheer financial might, seize a majority of the tokens and submit proposals on his or her own, resulting in a selfish decision—a nightmare for blockchain democracy.
Is it the right moment to invest in Rari Governance Token?
The Rari Governance Token technical analysis gauge shows real-time ratings for the timeframes you choose. This is not an offer to buy, sell, or trade anything. It's a technical analysis of Rari Governance Token using the most widely used technical indicators, such as Moving Averages, Oscillators, and Pivots. Finder may or may not agree and assumes no responsibility.
Governance tokens are the cornerstone of anything decentralized. They're the heart of most DeFi initiatives these days, and without them, developers wouldn't be able to brag about how decentralized and superior their platform is versus CEXs.
However, governance tokens are not without flaws. By just accumulating tokens, malicious actors can still carry out operations similar to 51 percent of attacks. With enough financial clout, a whale may derail the entire enterprise and make and approve choices on its own.
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Dell, the famous computer manufacturer announced their plans to join the Smartphone race by officially unveiling Dell mini 3. We earlier covered the unofficial appearance of Dell mini 3 in China. The official press release today confirmed the upcoming release of Dell mini 3 to China and Brazil. Dell mini 3 is a Android phone. Specifications of the devices include 3.15 mega pixel cameras, 3.5 inch touch screen, 3G, Wi-Fi GPS etc. They have also mentioned that they have tie-up with few telecom companies in US, Europe and some other Asian countries that would be used to launch Dell mini 3 in those markets.
Dell mini 3 initially targets the customers of two of the world's largest mobile operators China mobile and Claro of Americas. We are not sure how Dell started naming its Smartphone with 3. It may be because of its 3G capabilities, or just a fancy numbering. Dell mini 3 packs everything found in an entry level Android Smartphone.
Dell mini 3 will include a 3.5 inch TFT capacitive touch screen with accelerometer sensor and virtual onscreen keypad. 3.15 mega pixel camera, Wi-Fi, Assisted GPS, Expandable memory, GPRS, Bluetooth, EDGE , USB , Full web browser ,Google mobile applications etc.
Dell mini 3.0 will be launched this November on China mobile and then on Claro by coming December. Dell didn't confirmed the price of device. But we expect the price of Dell mini 3 to be around 450 -500$.
whats about the news that dell will put this phone in only 2 countries at start (china and brazil)?
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Positive ESG ratings in the past led to 25% drop in philanthropic giving
by Brigham Young University
Everywhere you look, something or someone is being rated—that movie you're thinking of seeing, the restaurant you might try, the president's popularity this week. We don't seem to agree on much right now, but we can all agree that a positive rating is good, and a negative rating is bad. Or can we?
New research from two Brigham Young University professors suggests that when it comes to corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings, if what's being measured doesn't match society's values, the company may be unhappy to receive a positive rating. Using a sample of 379 firms from the 1990s, when CSR ratings were new and business philanthropy more controversial, they found that companies decreased charitable giving by about 25% immediately after receiving high marks for philanthropy from KLD Research & Analytics.
"Ratings are always situated within a larger social context," said Ben Lewis, who along with co-author Chad Carlos combed through years of printed financial reports from the 90s for the study. "We need to account for whether or not what's being ranked is valued by society at large, because if not, ratings may have unintended consequences."
Lewis and Carlos, professors at the BYU Marriott School, believe that the companies decreased their charitable giving because they were concerned that their primary audience—their investors—would be displeased to see the company giving away their money.
"At the time, the dominant belief was that the shareholders were the most important and that the company's only role was to provide higher financial returns to their investors," Carlos said. "The competing belief system, that companies have a broader obligation to society, was less accepted then."
In other words, in an environment where corporate social responsibility was novel, a rating intended to praise companies for philanthropy actually signaled that firms were underperforming for shareholders, prompting the companies to hastily pull back on giving.
The authors are gathering more recent data to determine how these social responsibility ratings affect companies now. Beliefs about businesses' responsibilities have shifted since the 1990s, and philanthropy may give a bigger boost to a company's reputation, enhancing its performance as a result. Given this shift in beliefs, Lewis and Carlos are not expecting to find the same dip in giving that they found in the early 1990s.
But the underlying principle the study reveals still holds, the researchers said, and they anticipate that for today's contested issues, positive ratings could have similarly unexpected results.
"Currently we see some companies trying to improve their reputation on polarizing social or political issues such as race, gender, immigration and the environment, but other companies with a different primary audience may be trying to avoid 'virtuous' rating labels on these issues," Lewis said.
Those who hope that ratings will incentivize improvement should carefully consider the design of their rating system, factoring in social perceptions around issues to see if they are aligned with values generally accepted by society at large.
However, Carlos pointed out, ratings' unintended consequences might not always be a bad thing. "It's worth considering the long game and exercising patience. Although initially ratings may not encourage the behavior we hope in the moment, a couple of decades later, we might find something different. Ratings can spark ongoing dialogue and social change over the long term."
The article, titled "Avoiding the Appearance of Virtue: Reactivity to Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings in an Era of Shareholder Primacy" published Oct. 11 in Administrative Science Quarterly.
More information: Ben W. Lewis et al, Avoiding the Appearance of Virtue: Reactivity to Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings in an Era of Shareholder Primacy, Administrative Science Quarterly (2022). DOI: 10.1177/00018392221124916
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In the United States sentenced a 29-year-old hacker from Kiev Vadim Yermolovich to 2,5 years of prison for criminal acts in the financial markets. About it reports Reuters with reference to the Prosecutor's office, reports "Correspondent".
It is reported that Ermolovich was a member of the scheme to trade in stolen, but not yet officially published financial data.
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2015 Top 40 Money Managers Report: Pension funds embrace risky insurance products
Yaldaz Sadakova | May 12, 2015
Dan Bergman doesn't spend his days praying to avoid a U.S. hurricane, although the pension fund he helps manage — the Third Swedish National Pension Fund, also called AP3 — holds insurance-linked securities. Such products help insurers offload various risks, so when disasters strike and claims pile up, investors help foot the bill.
Bergman, who heads investment research and ILS at AP3, doesn't see insurance-linked products as opportunistic, although that's how these high-yield instruments are often described. He considers them a great diversifier because their returns aren't tied to financial markets. During the 2008 meltdown, for example, insurance-linked products were largely unaffected.
Read: 2014 Top 40 Money Managers Report: Fear factor
"We want to replace part of our equity exposure with this insurance-related exposure [and] diversify our total portfolio. That's the opposite of opportunistic," Bergman says. "If you're going to replace equities with something else, you might want to have returns that are at least comparable to equities."
Other pension funds in Europe and the U.S. have also entered the growing ILS market. But these complex securities, typically treated as alternatives, are less popular among Canadian pension funds.
What do ILS cost?
ILS generally come with an annual management fee of about 1.5%, depending on the size and complexity of the mandate, says Martha Tredgett, a Toronto-based alternatives specialist. Some managers charge performance fees, too. But, she says, these fees make less sense with ILS. "The performance, or the return, comes at the beginning of the contract when you receive the premium. Once the contract is negotiated, it's up to the weather and different events."
Roll with the returns
AP3 started buying insurance-linked products in 2007, managing most of those investments internally. Since then, major natural catastrophes have occurred worldwide, and some investors have lost money. Bergman wouldn't reveal if AP3 has sustained any losses. "The sum of our ILS investments during this period, when you had these serious events, has been very satisfactory," he says.
As with any investment, some years are better than others. "Most of the time, you're going to make money, and once in a while — just like any insurance company — you'll have to pay up," explains Leo de Bever, senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.
Read: Top 40 Money Managers Report: In it to win it
The payments can amount to millions of dollars. "So you have to have a tolerance for that uneven pattern of gains and losses," adds de Bever, who recently retired from his position as CEO of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, which invests the assets of public pension plans in Alberta. "It only works for pension funds that are willing to take a truly long-term view of these vehicles."
Bergman can't say what percentage of AP3's assets is dedicated to ILS. But, says Martha Tredgett, an independent Toronto-based alternatives specialist, European pension funds investing in ILS generally allocate about 2% to 5%. AP3's diverse ILS investments include two common insurance types pension funds hold: catastrophe (cat) bonds and collateralized reinsurance contracts, both of which are property and casualty products.
How ILS work
With cat bonds, investors get a risk premium upfront, and if certain events (or triggers) happen, they help cover the claims. One popular trigger is the indemnity type, which is tied to the amount of claims the insurer gets when a specified event happens. Once claims exceed a certain threshold, the investor starts to lose money.
Say a U.S. insurer buys a hurricane "cover" that is triggered at a loss of $2 billion. If the insurer's losses exceed $2 billion, the investor starts losing money, notes Michael Stahel, a Switzerland-based partner at LGT Capital Partners. For example, he says, if the investor puts in $200 million, then at a loss of $2.1 billion, the investor loses half of the investment. At a loss of $2.2 billion or more, the investor loses the full amount.
Read: Top 40 Money Managers Report: The last five years
With cat bonds and all other types of insurance-linked products, investors don't assume the risk of the insurance company going bankrupt — just the risk of a trigger occurring. So even if the insurer goes bust, investors' money is safe as long as no trigger has occurred (see "What's a Special Purpose Vehicle?" below).
Cat bonds are liquid and tradeable, generally with maturities of about three years. The market's global value is estimated at around US$26 billion.
About 70% of the world's cat bonds are currently geared toward U.S. catastrophe risk, due to the country's susceptibility to extreme weather and its high levels of insurance penetration, industry experts say. As a result, U.S. risks have historically paid the best, adds Sandro Kriesch, a Switzerland-based partner at Twelve Capital, an asset manager.
Europe, in contrast, has high insurance penetration but less extreme weather, explains Jens Hagendorff, a professor of finance and investment at the University of Edinburgh. And, he adds, while many developing countries experience extreme weather, they have much lower insurance penetration, so insurers don't take as much of a hit when catastrophes occur there.
For example, Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines in 2013, causing billions of dollars in damage — but only 10% of the losses were insured, notes Kriesch. This will change, of course, as emerging economies develop further, and more people and businesses there buy insurance, Hagendorff explains.
Diversification options
To diversify away from cat bonds and access broader property and casualty reinsurance markets, pension funds also invest in collateralized reinsurance contracts. Globally, the size of that market is estimated at about US$38 billion.
While similar in structure to cat bonds, collateralized reinsurance contracts are illiquid, non-tradeable and usually for one year. Investors get their premium upfront and post a monetary collateral at the beginning of the contract. If the trigger event doesn't happen by the contract's end, that collateral goes back to the investor.
Both cat bonds and collateralized reinsurance have brought handsome returns. Data covering the period from March 2003 to January 2015 show property and casualty ILS delivered an annual average return of 8.4%, with 3% volatility. During the same period, equities (per the MSCI World Index) produced an annual average return of 9.7%, with about 15% volatility.
Life insurance also presents investment opportunities. But, says Kriesch, longevity products can be a bad idea for pension funds because they require investors to assume longevity risk for certain populations — and pension funds are already exposed to this risk on the liability side of their balance sheets because people are living longer.
Still, pension funds can buy longevity instruments with short durations (eight years or fewer), such as U.S. life settlements, says de Bever. That short-duration risk wouldn't correlate with the pension plan's longevity risk, which has a much longer duration.
Read: Managing longevity risk
"It's very different from taking on a new pension member in a DB plan and having a 40-year investment horizon," de Bever explains. "Most of the time, you are buying the policies of people who, for a variety of reasons, have a shorter life expectancy."
These people sell their life insurance policies rather than taking smaller cash surrender values from the insurer — or getting nothing, if they can't afford the premiums and let their policies lapse. For them, the one-time cash payment makes sense; the investor then takes over the premiums and eventually reaps the death benefits.
AIMCo holds life settlement policies, which make up nearly all of its ILS allocations, says de Bever. They're large U.S. policies, some of which were originally bought as part of tax planning strategies, he adds.
Insurance-linked products make up only about 1% of AIMCo's total portfolio because of their unusual nature, says de Bever. "You want to make sure you don't get out of the comfort zone of [AIMCo's] clients. That may not be a good reason in an abstract sense, but in practice, it's a fact of life." AIMCo declined to confirm this ILS information.
Don't want to look stupid
AIMCo is one of the few Canadian pension investors currently allocating to ILS. Others include the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and the Canada Pension Plan. Both declined to comment for this story.
"Most of the big funds have probably looked at them at one time or another," says de Bever, adding some may already be investing in these products indirectly through hedge funds or other vehicles.
And a few smaller pension funds in Canada have also expressed interest in ILS. One $3-billion plan initially invested $25 million in ILS and is considering investing another $25 million later this year, says Tredgett.
"It's at the nascent stages of growth in the Canadian market," she adds, explaining ILS allocations by the largest pension plans in Canada typically range from about 1% to 2%.
By contrast, in Europe, off-the-shelf ILS funds — a common way to invest in the asset class—are available even to retail investors, says Tredgett.
Complexity is a major barrier to adoption here. "It's much harder for people to understand, so I wouldn't expect there to be a stampede in Canada," says Janet Rabovksy, a director at Towers Watson. "But certainly among the more sophisticated clients, I can't see why they wouldn't look at them. I have one client in Canada that has actually made an investment, but it's not common."
Read: Investment column: The three main types of hedge funds
Another barrier for Canadian pension funds is what Kriesch calls "career risk." "If they stick their heads out to another asset class, and they take a hit and others don't, they may look stupid," he says. "As a manager, as a pension fund, you don't want to look stupid when everybody else is shining."
However, Tredgett adds, ILS allocations in Canada and elsewhere will likely increase as EU insurance companies adopt the Solvency II Directive, which encourages them to issue more ILS. This means Canadian investors would have more insurancelinked offerings to choose from.
Issued by the European Commission to address the amount of capital EU insurers must hold to ward off bankruptcy, the directive takes effect in 2016. "By buying a hedge against extreme events, insurers are allowed to reduce their on-balance-sheet capital, thereby improving their return on equity," says Stahel.
As for Bergman, he plans to remain Zen about AP3's insurance-linked investments, despite the losses they'll inevitably bring. "We expect the good years to more than compensate us for the bad years," he says. "And when a disaster happens, it's our obligation to pay for that. That's why we earn money during the other years."
This approach makes sense to de Bever. Insurance-linked investments make up a small percentage of pension fund allocations — so, in the grand scheme of things, the losses they cause aren't that big, he explains.
"It's really a rounding error for those large [pension] funds. But a rounding error of $200 billion is still, in terms of absolute dollars, a large number. It's all a matter of perception."
What's a special purpose vehicle?
To issue debt, insurers need to establish special purpose vehicles. These legal entities transform a reinsurance contract into a capital markets product investors can buy. It's the SPV that technically issues insurance-linked products, so the contract is always between the investor and the SPV.
SPVs are companies typically based in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey or Ireland because these offshore jurisdictions have lighter insurance regulations, such as limited regulatory reporting requirements, says Michael Stahel, a Switzerland-based partner at LGT Capital Partners.
It's because of SPVs that investors don't assume any credit risk when they buy ILS, the way they do with traditional bonds. The legal status of an SPV allows the investor's money to remain safe no matter what happens to the insurer, as long as no trigger has occurred.
Yaldaz Sadakova is associate editor of Benefits Canada.
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Are John Mayer and Kiernan Shipka Dating? 24-Year Age Gap Sparks Criticism of Possible Romance
Taylor Alexis Heady Published: November 9, 2022
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Are John Mayer and Kiernan Shipka dating?
Mayer, 45, and Shipka, 22, were recently spotted having a fancy Italian dinner together, reigniting dating rumors that first swirled back in February.
The pair were spotted at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, Calif., on Nov. 6, according to photos published in The Daily Mail. According to the publication, the duo stayed at the restaurant for four hours and Mayer even serenaded Shipka at one point.
They left separately, but onlookers apparently reported that Shipka got into Mayer's limo a few blocks from the restaurant.
According to PopSugar, the pair were also seen together in February at the Tower Bar at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles, sparking backlash at the time about their 24-year age gap.
Now, that backlash has been reignited on social media.
Shipka is a former child star known for her roles in Mad Men and Netflix's The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. She has previously been linked to Charlie Oldman, son of actor Gary Oldman, and filmmaker Christian Coppola.
Mayer has famously dated a string of celebrity women, including fellow artists Vanessa Carlton in the 2000s and Taylor Swift, who allegedly wrote the 2010 song "Dear John" about him.
Swift's new album, Midnights, also features a song called "Would've, Could've, Should've," which fans have speculated might be about the singer's relationship with Mayer, which occurred when she was 19 and he was 32.
One person even referenced the infamous relationship on Twitter, writing, "KIERNAN SHIPKA RUN FAR FROM JOHN MAYER HAVE U NOT LISTENED TO MISS SWIFT."
"If a man who is twice your age shows interest in you, don't let him fool you. his interest is purely in your purity. john mayer is old enough to be kiernan shipka's father. he is a predator, end of story," another person tweeted of the dating rumors.
Many fans pointed out that the pair's 24-year age difference means that Mayer could have at one point had children that would be Shipka's age by now.
"Need kiernan shipka to get some real friends to sit her down and help her out..... because why do i see her out and about with old creepers every other week genuinely so freaked out for her," another fan added.
Another fan claimed to have seen Shipka at one of Mayer's concerts.
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