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/*
  FILE:           I2CIO.h
  DEVELOPED BY:   Kang'alia Isaac Nyamu
                  The University of Nairobi
                  School of Computng and Informatics
                  P15/1325/2011
  PURPOSE:        This file implements a basic IO library using the PCF8574 I2C IO Expander chip.
  LICENCE:        GPL v3 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
  PROJECT:        IV YR PROJECT: The Automated Greenhouse (Temperature and Humidity Control)
*/

#ifndef _I2CIO_H_
#define _I2CIO_H_

#include <inttypes.h>

#define _I2CIO_VERSION "1.0.0"

/*!
 @class
 @abstract    I2CIO
 @discussion  Library driver to control PCF8574 based ASICs. Implementing
 library calls to set/get port through I2C bus.
 */

class I2CIO
{
public:
   /*!
    @method
    @abstract   Constructor method
    @discussion Class constructor constructor.
    */
   I2CIO ( );

   /*!
    @method
    @abstract   Initializes the device.
    @discussion This method initializes the device allocating an I2C address.
    This method is the first method that should be call prior to calling any
    other method form this class. On initialization all pins are configured
    as INPUT on the device.

    @param      i2cAddr: I2C Address where the device is located.
    @result     1 if the device was initialized correctly, 0 otherwise
    */
   int begin ( uint8_t i2cAddr );

   /*!
    @method
    @abstract   Sets the mode of a particular pin.
    @discussion Sets the mode of a particular pin to INPUT, OUTPUT. digitalWrite
    has no effect on pins which are not declared as output.

    @param      pin[in] Pin from the I2C IO expander to be configured. Range 0..7
    @param      dir[in] Pin direction (INPUT, OUTPUT).
    */
   void pinMode ( uint8_t pin, uint8_t dir );

   /*!
    @method
    @abstract   Sets all the pins of the device in a particular direction.
    @discussion This method sets all the pins of the device in a particular
    direction. This method is useful to set all the pins of the device to be
    either inputs or outputs.
    @param      dir[in] Direction of all the pins of the device (INPUT, OUTPUT).
    */
   void portMode ( uint8_t dir );

   /*!
    @method
    @abstract   Reads all the pins of the device that are configured as INPUT.
    @discussion Reads from the device the status of the pins that are configured
    as INPUT. During initialization all pins are configured as INPUTs by default.
    Please refer to pinMode or portMode.

    @param      none
    */
   uint8_t read ( void );

   /*!
    @method
    @abstract   Read a pin from the device.
    @discussion Reads a particular pin from the device. To read a particular
    pin it has to be configured as INPUT. During initialization all pins are
    configured as INPUTs by default. Please refer to pinMode or portMode.

    @param      pin[in] Pin from the port to read its status. Range (0..7)
    @result     Returns the pin status (HIGH, LOW) if the pin is configured
    as an output, reading its value will always return LOW regardless of its
    real state.
    */
   uint8_t digitalRead ( uint8_t pin );

   /*!
    @method
    @abstract   Write a value to the device.
    @discussion Writes to a set of pins in the device. The value is the binary
    representation of all the pins in device. The value written is masked with
    the configuration of the direction of the pins; to change the state of
    a particular pin with this method, such pin has to be configured as OUTPUT
    using the portMode or pinMode methods. If no pins have been configured as
    OUTPUTs this method will have no effect.

    @param      value[in] value to be written to the device.
    @result     1 on success, 0 otherwise
    */
   int write ( uint8_t value );

   /*!
    @method
    @abstract   Writes a digital level to a particular pin.
    @discussion Write a level to the indicated pin of the device. For this
    method to have effect, the pin has to be configured as OUTPUT using the
    pinMode or portMode methods.

    @param      pin[in] device pin to change level. Range (0..7).
    @para       level[in] logic level to set the pin at (HIGH, LOW).
    @result     1 on success, 0 otherwise.
    */
   int digitalWrite ( uint8_t pin, uint8_t level );

private:
   uint8_t _shadow;      // Shadow output
   uint8_t _dirMask;     // Direction mask
   uint8_t _i2cAddr;     // I2C address
   bool    _initialised; // Initialised object

};

#endif

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The revelation that Tom Hardy might be even more of a badass in real life than his Mad Max and Taboo onscreen personas is making Twitter incredibly thirsty.
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Illinois' Gerrymandered Congressional Map Is a Window Into America's Political Dysfunction – Opinion
October 19, 2021 capitolhilltim
The proposed plan for redrawing Illinois' congressional districts is a total mess.
State lawmakers were tasked with the once-per-decade redistricting, and the Democrats who control the state government produced a map that is both wildly partisan and wildly gerrymandered. One proposed district is a sweeping crescent from the middle of the state west to the Mississippi River and then north to the Wisconsin border. Another is a jagged gash running from the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis nearly to the Indiana border, capturing a handful of the small, blue-leaning cities dotting the more rural part of the state. Parts of 10 different districts slice through Chicago and its suburbs
Overall, the map has been given a grade of "F" by the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, which grades congressional maps on partisan fairness, geographical compactness, and other factors.
Illinois update: this Dem 14D-3R gerrymander is both uglier *and* less effective than I'd have expected. #IL03 Newman: Biden +6#IL14 Underwood: Biden +8#IL17 OPEN (Bustos): Biden +6
All of these seats are potentially flippable in a good midterm for Rs. pic.twitter.com/toEaok7day
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 15, 2021
Democrats in Illinois are concentrated in Chicago, its suburbs, and a handful of other places around the state. Drawing lots of thin tentacles—or "baconmanders" as they have been called—through Chicagoland maximizes Democrats' chances of winning 50 percent-plus-one in as many districts as possible. The Princeton Gerrymandering Project says the new map would give Democrats a statistical edge in 14 of the 17 proposed districts. Elections aren't won and lost on paper, of course, but that's a pretty nice edge considering the state's current congressional delegation is 13 Democrats and five Republicans (Illinois is losing one seat because people are fleeing the state).
The Illinois map should also put an end to the ridiculous claim that only Republicans engage in gerrymandering—a claim that's even been advanced by The New York Times recently. Republicans engaged in some of the most egregious gerrymandering during the 2011 redistricting process, but that was mostly a function of their outsized control of state capitals at the time. It's also true that Democratic gerrymanders are a bit harder to pull off since the party's current political coalition tends to be concentrated in cities and thus easy targets for "packing" into deep blue vote sinks. But, as Democrats demonstrated in Maryland in 2011 and Illinois this year, gerrymandering is definitely a bipartisan enterprise.
The flip side of gerrymandering as many winnable districts as possible for Democratic candidates, however, is that you have to pack as many Republican voters as possible into those three other districts. By cutting places like Bloomington, Champagne, Decatur, and Peoria out of their surrounding, redder areas, Democrats have created some serious vote sinks where Republicans make up more than 65 percent of the population.
Instead of a reddish-purple downstate, you've got that ragged blue scar and a bunch of districts where the Republican primary election will effectively decide who goes to Congress. And when primary elections have more significance than general elections, it gives more power to a party's base.
Obviously, Illinois Democrats have no obligation to draw districts that will help more moderate Republicans get elected. But that doesn't change the fact that these proposed districts will continue to push our federal politics towards the fringe. Gerrymandering not only reduces voters' connection to their elected officials and gives everyone another reason to roll their eyes at democracy. It also contributes to—and, circularly, is driven by—the hyperpartisanship that defines American politics right now. Efforts to "fix" redistricting are imperfect at best, but attempts to make the process even marginally more legitimate in the eyes of the public should be taken seriously.
These are not merely theoretical exercises. One of the big losers in the Illinois redistricting plan is Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R–Ill.), a moderate Republican who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump over his role in the January 6 riot. Kinzinger is already facing a pro-Trump primary challenger, and the former president has promised to support efforts to replace Republicans who voted for impeachment.
But the Democrats did Trump's work for him. Kinzinger's district, which currently covers a wide swath of the Chicago exurbs, would be demolished on the proposed new map. Now, Kinzinger will be forced into the new 3rd Congressional District along with incumbent Rep. Marie Newman (D–Ill.). To give you an idea of how extreme the proposed redrawing of Illinois' district lines is, consider this: Kinzinger's and Newman's districts didn't even share a border for the past 10 years. Now the two members of Congress share the same borders.
Newman isn't thrilled about the outcome. The new district, which stretches from the edge of Chicago and reaches halfway to the Iowa border, is "not only retrogressive but substantially diminishes the diverse and progressive voices of Chicago's Southwest Side and suburbs," she told Politico.
The proposed new district is 54 percent Democratic, according to the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, so it's not out of the question that a Republican could win it in a strong year. But Kinzinger is now facing political headwinds from every direction. In a statement, he said he's considering "all the options, including those outside the House," suggesting that he could retire or perhaps run for a different office.
Kinzinger is the type of Republican that's in short supply these days. But that's hardly enough to save him from the brutal reality of redistricting. In Illinois, at least, the redrawing of district lines is looking like a victory for Democrats, and an unexpected gift for the Trumpified Republican base.


National Sheriffs' Association (NSA) members Henry Reyes and Jennifer Byrd have been selected as the recipients for two scholarships donated by Columbia Southern University (CSU). An NSA partner since 2007, this is the second consecutive year CSU has awarded scholarships to members of this organization. The university also provides NSA members with tuition discounts, application fee waivers, and other special benefits.
Reyes and Byrd were two of 51 candidates to apply for these scholarships. Reyes was awarded a two-year bachelor's degree scholarship and Byrd received a two-year associate's degree scholarship. These awards include tuition and textbooks costs.
"CSU is committed to providing our nation's law enforcement with the education they need to keep our communities safe," says Robert Mayes, CSU President. "We are proud to offer these scholarships to the NSA, an organization dedicated to raising the level of professionalism in the field of criminal justice."
Applicants were required to submit an application along with a 300- to 500-word essay describing how earning a degree would enhance their career opportunities and benefit their agency.
"I am confident that this scholarship will give me the opportunity to grow as a professional, citizen, and catalyst of change in my department," wrote Reyes. "Like the ever growing definition of a police officer, the school of thought and manner in which we tackle problems has to continue to develop." Sergeant for the Bexar County Sheriff's Office, Reyes has served as a sheriff's deputy for nearly 10 years.
Byrd holds the title of Deputy Communication Clerk with the Lapeer County Sheriff's Department. She described the significance of education in a time when department budgets are shrinking in her essay stating, "As budgets tighten and resources are being stretched, the opportunity to secure this scholarship would allow me to be a more productive employee who could take on additional assignments with the knowledge to complete them."
"We would like to extend a special thanks to each of the NSA members who submitted scholarship entries," said CSU Vice President of Partnership Development and Admissions Chantell Cooley. "Reading your compelling stories truly deepened our dedication to law enforcement education."
One of the nation's first completely online universities, CSU offers degree and certificate programs in a variety of fields including criminal justice, business administration, human resource management, and more. For more information about CSU or future scholarship opportunities, visit www.sheriffs.org or http://www.columbiasouthern.edu.


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Sonic The Hedgehog is one of the most recognisable and most loved gaming characters of all time. With 25 years plus of exposure, it comes as no surprise that interest is being generated with this latest instalment to the Sonic Mania game with its "Plus" edition, hitting stores on July 17th, 2018.
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Performer: Alan Jackson
Title: When Somebody Loves You
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Answers to Any Economy Arguments
Global economic downturn now, pushing 60 million people into poverty and risking a world war due to rising nationalism
Reinhart, September/October 2020, CARMEN REINHART is Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at the Harvard Kennedy School. Subsequent to the completion of this article, she was named Chief Economist at the World Bank.VINCENT REINHART is Chief Economist and Macro Strategist at Mellon, The Pandemic Depression, Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-08-06/coronavirus-depression-global-economy
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a once-in-a-generation threat to the world's population. Although this is not the first disease outbreak to spread around the globe, it is the first one that governments have so fiercely combated. Mitigation efforts—including lockdowns and travel bans—have attempted to slow the rate of infections to conserve available medical resources. To fund these and other public health measures, governments around the world have deployed economic firepower on a scale rarely seen before. Although dubbed a "global financial crisis," the downturn that began in 2008 was largely a banking crisis in 11 advanced economies. Supported by double-digit growth in China, high commodity prices, and lean balance sheets, emerging markets proved quite resilient to the turmoil of the last global crisis. The current economic slowdown is different. The shared nature of this shock—the novel coronavirus does not respect national borders—has put a larger proportion of the global community in recession than at any other time since the Great Depression. As a result, the recovery will not be as robust or rapid as the downturn. And ultimately, the fiscal and monetary policies used to combat the contraction will mitigate, rather than eliminate, the economic losses, leaving an extended stretch of time before the global economy claws back to where it was at the start of 2020. The pandemic has created a massive economic contraction that will be followed by a financial crisis in many parts of the globe, as nonperforming corporate loans accumulate alongside bankruptcies. Sovereign defaults in the developing world are also poised to spike. This crisis will follow a path similar to the one the last crisis took, except worse, commensurate with the scale and scope of the collapse in global economic activity. And the crisis will hit lower-income households and countries harder than their wealthier counterparts. Indeed, the World Bank estimates that as many as 60 million people globally will be pushed into extreme poverty as a result of the pandemic. The global economy can be expected to run differently as a result, as balance sheets in many countries slip deeper into the red and the once inexorable march of globalization grinds to a halt. ALL ENGINES DOW In its most recent analysis, the World Bank predicted that the global economy will shrink by 5.2 percent in 2020. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently posted the worst monthly unemployment figures in the 72 years for which the agency has data on record. Most analyses project that the U.S. unemployment rate will remain near the double-digit mark through the middle of next year. And the Bank of England has warned that this year the United Kingdom will face its steepest decline in output since 1706. This situation is so dire that it deserves to be called a "depression"—a pandemic depression. Epidemiologists consider the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 to be novel; it follows, then, that its spread has elicited new reactions from public and private actors alike. The consensus approach to slowing its spread involves keeping workers away from their livelihoods and shoppers away from marketplaces. Assuming that there are no second or third waves of the kind that characterized the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918–19, this pandemic will follow an inverted V-shaped curve of rising and then falling infections and deaths. But even if this scenario comes to pass, COVID-19 will likely linger in some places around the world. So far, the incidence of the disease has not been synchronous. The number of new cases decreased first in China and other parts of Asia, then in Europe, and then much more gradually in parts of the United States (before beginning to rise again in others). At the same time, COVID-19 hot spots have cropped up in places as distinct as Brazil, India, and Russia. In this crisis, economic turmoil follows closely on the disease. This two-pronged assault has left a deep scar on global economic activity. Some important economies are now reopening, a fact reflected in the improving business conditions across Asia and Europe and in a turnaround in the U.S. labor market. That said, this rebound should not be confused with a recovery. In all of the worst financial crises since the mid-nineteenth century, it took an average of eight years for per capita GDP to return to the pre-crisis level. (The median was seven years.) With historic levels of fiscal and monetary stimulus, one might expect that the United States will fare better. But most countries do not have the capacity to offset the economic damage of COVID-19. The ongoing rebound is the beginning of a long journey out of a deep hole. Although any kind of prediction in this environment will be shot through with uncertainty, there are three indicators that together suggest that the road to recovery will be a long one. The first is exports. Because of border closures and lockdowns, global demand for goods has contracted, hitting export-dependent economies hard. Even before the pandemic, many exporters were facing pressures. Between 2008 and 2018, global trade growth had decreased by half, compared with the previous decade. More recently, exports were harmed by the U.S.-Chinese trade war that U.S. President Donald Trump launched in the middle of 2018. For economies where tourism is an important source of growth, the collapse in international travel has been catastrophic. The International Monetary Fund has predicted that in the Caribbean, where tourism accounts for between 50 and 90 percent of income and employment in some countries, tourism revenues will "return to pre-crisis levels only gradually over the next three years." Not only is the volume of trade down; the prices of many exports have also fallen. Nowhere has the drama of falling commodity prices been more visible than in the oil market. The slowdown has caused a huge drop in the demand for energy and splintered the fragile coalition known as OPEC+, made up of the members of OPEC, Russia, and other allied producers, which had been steering oil prices into the $45 to $70 per barrel range for much of the past three years. OPEC+ had been able to cooperate when demand was strong and only token supply cuts were necessary. But the sort of supply cuts that this pandemic required would have caused the cartel's two major players, Russia and Saudi Arabia, to withstand real pain, which they were unwilling to bear. The resulting overproduction and free fall in oil prices is testing the business models of all producers, particularly those in emerging markets, including the one that exists in the United States—the shale oil and gas sector. The attendant financial strains have piled grief on already weak entities in the United States and elsewhere. Oil-dependent Ecuador, for example, went into default status in April 2020, and other developing oil producers are at high risk of following suit. In other prominent episodes of distress, the blows to the global economy were only partial. During the decadelong Latin American debt crisis of the early 1980s and the 1997 Asian financial crisis, most advanced economies continued to grow. Emerging markets, notably China, were a key source of growth during the 2008 global financial crisis. Not this time. The last time all engines failed was in the Great Depression; the collapse this time will be similarly abrupt and steep. The World Trade Organization estimates that global trade is poised to fall by between 13 and 32 percent in 2020. If the outcome is somewhere in the midpoint of that wide range, it will be the worst year for globalization since the early 1930s. This depression arrived at a time when the economic fundamentals in many countries were already weakening The second indicator pointing to a long and slow recovery is unemployment. Pandemic mitigation efforts are dismantling the most complicated piece of machinery in history, the modern market economy, and the parts will not be put back tog
ether either quickly or seamlessly. Some shuttered businesses will not reopen. Their owners will have depleted their savings and may opt for a more cautious stance regarding future business ventures. Winnowing the entrepreneurial class will not benefit innovation. What is more, some furloughed or fired workers will exit the labor force permanently. Others will lose skills and miss out on professional development opportunities during the long spell of unemployment, making them less attractive to potential employers. The most vulnerable are those who may never get a job in the first place—graduates entering an impaired economy. After all, the relative wage performance of those in their 40s and 50s can be explained by their job status during their teens and 20s. Those who stumble at the starting gate of the employment race trail permanently. Meanwhile, those still in school are receiving a substandard education in their socially distanced, online classrooms; in countries where Internet connectivity is lacking or slow, poorer students are leaving the educational system in droves. This will be another cohort left behind. National policies matter, of course. European economies by and large subsidize the salaries of employees who are unable to work or who are working reduced hours, thus preventing unemployment, whereas the United States does not. In emerging economies, people mostly operate without much of a safety net. But regardless of their relative wealth, governments are spending more and taking in less. Many local and provincial governments are obliged by law to keep a balanced budget, meaning that the debt they build up now will lead to austerity later. Meanwhile, central governments are incurring losses even as their tax bases shrink. Those countries that rely on commodity exports, tourism, and remittances from citizens working abroad face the strongest economic headwinds. What is perhaps more troubling, this depression arrived at a time when the economic fundamentals in many countries—including many of the world's poorest—were already weakening. In part as a result of this prior instability, more sovereign borrowers have been downgraded by rating agencies this year than in any year since 1980. Corporate downgrades are on a similar trajectory, which bodes ill for governments, since private-sector mistakes often become public-sector obligations. As a result, even those states that prudently manage their resources might find themselves underwater. The third salient feature of this crisis is that it is highly regressive within countries and across countries. The ongoing economic dislocations are falling far more heavily on those with lower incomes. Such people generally do not have the ability to work remotely or the resources to tide themselves over when not working. In the United States, for instance, almost half of all workers are employed by small businesses, largely in the service industry, where wages are low. These small enterprises may be the most vulnerable to bankruptcy, especially as the pandemic's effects on consumer behavior may last much longer than the mandatory lockdowns In developing countries, where safety nets are underdeveloped or nonexistent, the decline in living standards will take place mostly in the poorest segments of society. The regressive nature of the pandemic may also be amplified by a worldwide spike in the price of food, as disease and lockdowns disrupt supply chains and agricultural labor migration patterns. The United Nations has recently warned that the world is facing the worst food crisis in 50 years. In the poorest countries, food accounts for anywhere from 40 to 60 percent of consumption-related expenditures; as a share of their incomes, people in low-income countries spend five to six times as much on food as their counterparts in advanced economies do. THE ROAD TO RECOVER In the second half of 2020, as the public health crisis slowly comes under control, there will likely be impressive-looking gains in economic activity and employment, fueling financial-market optimism. However, this rebound effect is unlikely to deliver a full recovery. Even an enlightened and coordinated macroeconomic policy response cannot sell products that haven't been made or services that were never offered. Thus far, the fiscal response around the world has been relatively narrowly targeted and planned as temporary. A normally sclerotic U.S. Congress passed four rounds of stimulus legislation in about as many weeks. But many of these measures either are one-offs or have predetermined expiration dates. The speed of the response no doubt was driven by the magnitude and suddenness of the problem, which also did not provide politicians with an opportunity to add pork to the legislation. The United States' actions represent a relatively large share of the estimated $11 trillion in fiscal support that the countries of the G-20 have injected into their economies. Once again, greater size offers greater room to maneuver. Countries with larger economies have developed more ambitious stimulus plans. By contrast, the aggregate stimulus of the ten emerging markets in the G-20 is five percentage points below that of their advanced-economy counterparts. Unfortunately, this means that the countercyclical response is going to be smaller in those places hit harder by the shock. Even so, the fiscal stimulus in the advanced economies is less impressive than the large numbers seem to indicate. In the G-20, only Australia and the United States have spent more money than they have provided to companies and individuals in the form of loans, equity, and guarantees. The stimulus in the European economies, in particular, is more about the balance sheets of large businesses than about spending, raising questions about its efficacy in offsetting a demand shock. Central banks have also attempted to stimulate the failing global economy. Those banks that did not already have their hands tied by prior decisions to keep interest rates pinned at historic lows—as the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank did—relaxed their grip on the flow of money. Among that group were central banks in emerging economies, including Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa, and Turkey. At prior times of stress, officials in such places often went in the other direction, raising policy rates to prevent exchange-rate depreciation and to contain inflation and, by extension, capital flight. Presumably, the shared shock leveled the playing field, lessening concerns about the capital flight that usually accompanies currency depreciation and falling interest rates Just as important, central banks have fought desperately to keep the financial plumbing flowing by pumping currency reserves into the banking system and lowering private banks' reserve requirements so that debtors could make payments more easily. The U.S. Federal Reserve, for instance, did both, doubling the amount it injected into the economy in under two months and putting the required reserve ratio at zero. The United States' status as the issuer of the global reserve currency gave the Federal Reserve a unique responsibility to provide dollar liquidity globally. It did so by arranging currency swap agreements with nine other central banks. Within a few weeks of this decision, those official institutions borrowed almost half a trillion dollars to lend to their domestic banks. The fiscal stimulus in the advanced economies is less impressive than the large numbers seem to indicate What is perhaps most consequential, central banks have been able to prevent temporarily illiquid firms from falling into insolvency. A central bank can look past market volatility and purchase assets that are currently illiquid but appear to be solvent. Central bankers have used virtually all the pages from this part of the playbook, taking on a broad range of collateral, including private and municipal debt. The long list of banks that have enacted such measures includes the usual suspects in the developed world—such as the Bank of Ja
pan, the European Central Bank, and the Federal Reserve—as well as central banks in such emerging economies as Colombia, Chile, Hungary, India, Laos, Mexico, Poland, and Thailand. Essentially, these countries are attempting to build a bridge over the current illiquidity to the recovered economy of the future. Central banks acted forcefully and in a hurry. But why did they have to? Weren't the legislative and regulatory efforts that followed the last financial crisis about tempering the crisis next time? Central banks' foray into territory far outside the norm is a direct result of design flaws in earlier attempts at remediation. After the crisis in 2008, governments did nothing to change the risk and return preferences of investors. Instead, they made it more expensive for the regulated community—that is, commercial banks, especially big ones—to accommodate the demand for lower-quality loans by introducing leverage and quality-of-asset restrictions, stress tests, and so-called living wills. The result of this trend was the rise of shadow banks, a cohort of largely unregulated financial institutions. Central banks are now dealing with new assets and new counterparties because public policy intentionally pushed out the commercial banks that had previously supported illiquid firms and governments. To be sure, central bank action has apparently stopped a cumulating deterioration in market functioning with rate cuts, massive injections of liquidity, and asset purchases. Acting that way has been woven into central banks' DNA since the Fed failed to do so in the 1930s, to tragic effect. However, the net result of these policies is probably far from sufficient to offset a shock as large as the one the world is living through right now. Long-term interest rates were already quite low before the pandemic took hold. And in spite of all the U.S. dollars that the Federal Reserve channeled abroad, the exchange value of the dollar rose rather than fell. By themselves, these monetary stimulus measures are not sufficient to lead households and firms to spend more, given the current economic distress and uncertainty. As a result, the world's most important central bankers—Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan; Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank; and Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve—have been urging governments to implement additional fiscal stimulus measures. Their pleas have been met, but incompletely, so there has been a massive decline in global economic activity. THE ECONOMY AND ITS DISCONTENTS The shadow of this crisis will be long and dark—more so than those of many of the prior ones. The International Monetary Fund predicts that the deficit-to-GDP ratio in advanced economies will swell from 3.3 percent in 2019 to 16.6 percent this year, and in emerging markets, it will go from 4.9 percent to 10.6 percent over the same period. Many developing countries are following the lead of their developed counterparts in opening up the fiscal tap. But among both advanced and developing economies, many governments lack the fiscal space to do so. The result is multiple overextended government balance sheets. Dealing with this debt will hinder rebuilding. The G-20 has already postponed debt-service payments for 76 of the poorest countries. Wealthier governments and lending institutions will have to do more in the coming months, incorporating other economies into their debt-relief schemes and involving the private sector. But the political will to undertake these measures may well be lacking if countries decide to turn inward rather than prop up the global economy. Globalization was first thrown into reverse with the arrival of the Trump administration in 2016. The speed of the unwinding will only pick up as blame is assigned for the current mess. Ope borders seem to facilitate the spread of infection. A reliance on export markets appears to drag a domestic economy down when the volume of global trade dwindles. Many emerging markets have seen the prices of their major commodities collapse and remittances from their citizens abroad plummet. Public sentiment matters to the economy, and it is hard to imagine that attitudes toward foreign travel or education abroad will rally quickly. More generally, trust—a key lubricant for market transactions—is in short supply internationally. Many borders will be difficult to cross, and doubts about the reliability of some foreign partners will fester. Yet another reason why global cooperation may falter is that policymakers may confuse the short-term rebound with a lasting recovery. Stopping the slide in incomes and output is a critical accomplishment, but so, too, will be hastening the recovery. The longer it takes to climb out of the hole this pandemic punched in the global economy, the longer some people will be unnecessarily out of work and the more likely medium- and longer-term growth prospects will be permanently impaired. The shadow of this crisis will be long and dark—more so than those of many of the prior ones The economic consequences are straightforward. As future income decreases, debt burdens become more onerous. The social consequences are harder to predict. A market economy involves a bargain among its citizens: resources will be put to their most efficient use to make the economic pie as large as possible and to increase the chance that it grows over time. When circumstances change as a result of technological advances or the opening of international trade routes, resources shift, creating winners and losers. As long as the pie is expanding rapidly, the losers can take comfort in the fact that the absolute size of their slice is still growing. For example, real GDP growth of four percent per year, the norm among advanced economies late last century, implies a doubling of output in 18 years. If growth is one percent, the level that prevailed in the shadow of the 2008–9 recession, the time it takes to double output stretches to 72 years. With the current costs evident and the benefits receding into a more distant horizon, people may begin to rethink the market bargain. The historian Henry Adams once noted that politics is about the systematic organization of hatreds. Voters who have lost their jobs, have seen their businesses close, and have depleted their savings are angry. There is no guarantee that this anger will be channeled in a productive direction by the current political class—or by the ones to follow if the politicians in power are voted out. A tide of populist nationalism often rises when the economy ebbs, so mistrust among the global community is almost sure to increase. This will speed the decline of multilateralism and may create a vicious cycle by further lowering future economic prospects. That is precisely what happened in between the two world wars, when nationalism and beggar-thy-neighbor policies flourished There is no one-size-fits-all solution to these political and social problems. But one prudent course of action is to prevent the economic conditions that produced these pressures from worsening. Officials need to press on with fiscal and monetary stimulus. And above all, they must refrain from confusing a rebound for a recovery.
Turn: health insurance critical to slowing COVIVD and creating a recovery
National Center for Coverage Innovation @ Families USA, January 31, 2020, https://familiesusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/COV-184_Job-Loss-Report_07-31-20-1.pdf, Without Federal Support for Health Insurance, Many More Jobs Will Be Lost
This new report focuses on a fourth result of major declines in health coverage: Health coverage losses prolong and deepen the economic downturn. Reopening the U.S. economy depends on reducing COVID-19's incidence and stopping the virus's spread. Health insurance is crucial to that effort since it lets people seek diagnosis and care as soon as they begin feeling sick. Health coverage is vital to economic recovery for another reason as well: Comprehensive health insurance directly supports employment. It is the foundation of America's health care sector, which makes up almost one-fifth of the entire U.S. economy. If fewer patients have health insurance, hospitals and other health care providers, many of which are important local employers, receive less reimbursement. Revenue reductions can force providers to lay off staff, creating ripple effects that hurt the surrounding economy as well. To project the magnitude of total job losses resulting from health insurance reductions, we begin this paper by describing the health care industry's role during the COVID-19 recession thus far. We then estimate the number of workers in each state who could become newly unemployed because of revenue reductions triggered by health coverage losses, assuming a baseline unemployment rate of 15%, only slightly improved over levels in May 2020. The nominal unemployment rate was 13.3% for that month, but the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics explained that, correcting for errors, the true unemployment rate was approximately 16.4%.4Appendix 1 (page 11) describes our methodology and explains the limitations of our analysis. Two uncertainties are particularly important, however, so we highlight them here as well. First, we base our analysis on economic conditions in May. The economy could improve or worsen in the coming months, which means that job losses could be lower or higher than those we estimate here. Economic forecasters describe our country's near- and medium-term future as unusually uncertain, hinging in large part on progress combatting COVID-19.5 The recent renewed spread of COVID-19 in many states suggests that this report's assumption of continued overall economic conditions much like those in May is not unreasonably pessimistic. Second, our analysis relies on health insurance projections based on past relationships between labor market conditions and health coverage. With today's pandemic-driven downturn, the coverage effects of increased unemployment may turn out to differ from those in the past. If so, our job loss estimates could ultimately prove too high or too low. Despite these inherent uncertainties, our core finding seems hard to dispute. Major health insurance reductions will cut revenue and trigger significant job losses in the health care industry and other businesses. Protecting comprehensive health insurance should be a priority for policymakers, even if their primary focus is now on economic recovery With one in seven American workers employed in health care, numerous jobs remain at risk if Congress does not protect the comprehensive health coverage needed for doctors, hospitals, and clinics to remain open and fully staffed. As of June 2020, 16.5 million people, or 14% of all private sector workers, were still employed in health care — more than the number who worked in all of the country's retail stores or all of its manufacturing plants.9 Note: Other third-party payments include work site health care, other private revenues, the Indian Health Service, workers' compensation, general assistance, maternal and child health, vocational rehabilitation, other federal programs, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, other state and local programs, and school health. Health insurance provides 79 cents of every dollar in revenue received by hospitals, doctors, clinics, and other health care providers (Figure 2). If fewer patients have health insurance, the health care industry loses revenue, forcing additional job cuts. Employment outside health care will suffer as well if medical offices lay off more staff or close their doors, buying fewer goods and services in local economies. In the next section, we show the potential magnitude of those effects


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Ancient Nursery of Bizarre Spoon-Billed Sharks Discovered
Jan. 9, 2014, 5:19 PM UTC / Source: LiveScience
By Tia Ghose, Staff Writer
Stunningly preserved baby sharks with bizarre, long snouts — as well as egg cases from the same species — may be the oldest convincing evidence of an ancient shark nursery.
The fossils date to about 310 million years ago.
In unpublished work on egg casings found in Germany, paleontologists have inferred the presence of another ancient shark nursery that is 330 million years old, but "this is the first time we have eggs and fossilized hatchlings in the same place, proving it's a shark nursery," said study co-author Lauren Sallan, a paleontologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
The new research, detailed Tuesday (Jan. 7) in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, also revealed that even back then, the sharks, known as Bandringas, migrated to spawn. [ 8 Weird Facts About Sharks ]
The study also revealed new details about the oddball creature's anatomy, including a long snout studded with electrical receptors and spines on its head and cheeks.
Known entity
The Bandringa fossils were discovered in a coal mine in Mazon Creek, Ill., in 1969. The primitive sharks — which had long, spoon-shaped snouts — started out as babies measuring just 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 centimeters) long and eventually grew to be about 10 feet (3 meters) long.
Over time, researchers discovered many other fossils that looked somewhat different from the Mazon Creek specimens, and concluded they were two separate species of Bandringa.
But Sallan and co-author Michael Coates, a biologist at the University of Chicago, went back to museum collections to take a second look at 24 of these fossils. They found that all of the shark fossils were the same species, but the marine samples had preserved the bone, whereas the freshwater samples had preserved soft tissue and cartilage, making them look somewhat different.
Migratory behavior
The eggs and hatchlings were found only in the Mazon Creek site, whereas fossils of teenage sharks were found upstream in a river in Ohio, and full-grown sharks were found in Pennsylvania.
The new information suggests the sharks spent different phases of their lives in distinct locations, Sallan said.
About 300 million years ago, much of the area that makes up the present-day midwestern United States was covered by a vast inland sea. The sharks probably laid their eggs along the shoreline of that sea, in present-day Illinois, and when the hatchlings matured, they made their way through a network of rivers to a giant freshwater basin farther east, she said.
New anatomy
Some of the specimens' scaly skin was preserved, as was pigment from the iris of the eye, Sallan said.
By combining the detail found in both the soft tissue and the bone, the team was also able to learn new details about the strange creature's anatomy.
"It has these giant, needlelike spines on the top of its head and cheeks," probably to defend against other predators living above it, Sallan told LiveScience.
The new study also revealed that the Bandringas' snouts were studded with tiny receptors. The bottom-feeders used these receptors to sense the electrical activity of prey in the murky shoreline waters, and then used their vacuumlike mouths to suction up those prey, the studied showed.
Not proven yet
Except for examples such as mating insects frozen in time, it's very difficult to infer the behavior of long-dead species.
But the careful work provides "convincing evidence to support the hypothesis that these rocks preserve a shark nursery from 300 million years ago," Mark Purnell, a paleobiologist at the University of Leicester in England, who was not involved in the study, wrote in an email.
But not everyone is fully convinced that the findings are evidence of nurseries and shark migration.
"The arguments are cogently presented, but they should be treated cautiously," said John Maisey, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York who was not involved in the study.
For instance, sharks of all ages may have lived in all of these environments, but certain environments may simply have preserved the soft tissue of baby animals better, whereas others could have made whole-body preservation of adults more likely, Maisey said.
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Extracting City Traffic Events from Social Streams
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Traffic Event Extraction From Tweets

This project has two major components: (1) Annotator and (2) Extractor

Annotator

Sequence labeling model trained with declarative knowledge from location and event knowledge base is utilized for annotation of raw tweets. Open Street Maps [1] is used as a location based knowledge specific to a city and 511.org [2] schema of events is used as a knowledge of traffic related events. Each word in a tweet is assigned a tag (one of: B-LOCATION, I-LOCATION, B-EVENT, I-EVENT, OTHER).

Download all the data files from [3] and place it in a directory called "data". Download all the models (from files tab) and place it in a directory called "models". You can invoke the annotator using the command:

java -cp eventannotation.jar org.ccsr.tagging.CreateAnnotatedData models/model-twitter

This code will take a while to run and the output is a file containing all the event terms and locations (this file is named final-training-data.txt). This file is the input for the extraction phase that follows.

Extractor

Extraction algorithms use space, time and theme characteristic of city events to aggregate all the tags for emitting events.

Download extractevents.py and place the output of the annotation phase (final-training-data.txt) in a directory called "data". Invoke the python script for aggregating annotations to emit events using the command:

/usr/bin/python extractevents.py

Visualization We have created a prototype to visualize all the city events both from city department (511.org) and the events we have extracted from tweets -- http://bit.ly/1gcSvLz

References

[1] Open Street Maps: http://www.openstreetmap.org/

[2] 511.org knowledge of traffic events: http://511.org/docs/TOMSSchema.zip

[3] Dataset used for experiments: https://app.box.com/s/uvws6ztf5jzbc8cxmb9b4r6a1zuei0pt

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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rocky's bru: PM "terkilan" with Rais' MCMC?
Second meeting with MCMC, 2.15 pm, today. The story about PM Najib being "terkilan" with Rais Yatim's action against bloggers via the Minister's Communication and Multimedia Commission, or MCMC, is making its round on blogosphere. I was not invited to the lunch yesterday, it was closed to about 60 UMNO bloggers. I read about it here, here and here.
The MCMC, however, has proceeded to call me for another round of investigation, venue to be determined later. I doubt they're meeting me to return my laptop, though.
well rocky ... you can always alliance one more time. its nothing new to you anyway!
Higher viewing cost for Astro subscribers due to NAJIB's six per cent TAX-- The STAR.
Rocky, koa pikir, kami pedulika, PM terkilan dgn tindakan Rais? Kami memang terkilan dgn najib kerana membebankan rakyat dgn cukai TV yg baru.
PM Najib takde taring. Sama mcm Tun Dol. Cakap aje pandai, buat tak. Jelas Rais adalah bos dikabinet dan Najib cuma pari pari die je.
What else should i say Dato?
Anyway, nice meeting you Dato at the Low Yatt plaza last Sunday. After a few years being a silent reader, ive finally met my blog idol and as i said that day, we are will you Dato.
Anon 10.31. What the F are you talking about?
Anon 10.31 this is what you wrote : well rocky ... you can always alliance one more time (What the F do u mean by that?). its nothing new to you anyway!
Anon 10.31, lu belajar kat sekolah mana? Sekolah atas bukit ke?
Anon 10.31, kalu lu tak erti bahasa inggeris jgn tunjok pandai dan tulis dalam bahasa tu. Gunalah BAHASA KEBANGSAAN.
Najib pari pari Rais. Betolkah !!!! kah kah kah kah weeeii wooo heheheh kekekwkeke.
Pari pari Jho Low. Pari pari Desmond Lim. Pari Pari Vel Pari.
Pari pari Azman Mokthar. Pari pari Zarinah SC. Pari pari hahhaha hahahah gelak gelak gelak aku. Tak tahan kakakakhahahawewewekekekk.
Memang guru bahasa inggeris pun terkilan dgn Najib. Bawak Mat Salleh ajar Bahasa Inggeris, byr gaji mencelah RM15,000. Org kita, dibayar RM5,000. Memang kami terkilan.
Takat terkilan sajalah. Berani potong jari pm tak kan buat apa kat rais. Panggil pun tidak.
Mcm2 dah rais buat kat kementerian. Guna RM1000 juta utk supply computer pun pm tak buat apa pun.
Lagipun bro, bini rais karib dengan bini pm. Bagaikan isi dgn kuku.
So bro. Jgn terkilan bro kalau tak ada apa2 jadi kat rais.
Dato', jangan ditangisi Ferrari tu. Look forward to better performance laptops. If the donation collection for laptop for you is still on, saya sedia donate. Tell me where to go. Kita sayang you because in our times of need, you bersedia mendengar luahan hati kami....we are the 2 from the hospital.
May Allah bless you, SS-IT.
Never mind that you are the ceo of malay mail. It is the intend that matters. If I was not mistaken it was rumoured that brendan pereira, kalimullah hassan were singaporean agents. It this is true then you deserve my/true malay support. Maybe aab is still working behind the scenes to `kill' you.
Rais memang ade Pari Pari didalam dan luar kabinet!!!!
Sayapun terkilan PM Najib sangggop naikan cukai perkhidmatan sebanyak 20 peratos ke 6 peratos. Kilan, tak kilan, apo nake buaaat, terpakse bayau jugaaak.
Sayapun terkilan, gaji take naik!!!
Di Tanah Melayu, ade je yg terkilan, rasa pasrah, marah dan berhasad dengki!!!!. Ape tindakan yg akan diambek oleh PM terhadap menteri yg menjadikan dirinya terkilan? sekadar chakap kosong je ke @ bermain guli dan gasing sambil makan goreng pisang, tunggu jelma hari natal!!!!!
adakah ini petanda N9 akan kalah dgn Johor FC?
I am very DISSAPOINTED that an allocation of RM65 million been set aside in the BUDGET to renovate the Prime Minister's residence.
The question is why? It's still a new house, made of concrete and steel. Why renovate a new house? And why cost so much?
Saya turut terkilan dgn rencana berikut: The Najib administration revealed today that it had allocated a whopping RM18.14 billion for the Prime Minister's Department for the year 2011, almost double the RM10.2 billion this year.
The allocation amounts to 8.55 percent out of the RM212 billion Budget 2011.
Mesti ada pari pari disini!!!!
Kampung saya macam tu jugak. It is run by exGomen pensioners and wife diggers (mereka yang lepak sembang politiks kat kedai kopi while wives slog at work).
Jangan sesiapa TRY nak tunjuk pandai sikit.. or bring in ideas not initiated by them, they will cold storage you.
Sampai mati pun jenazah you depa tak ziarah..
Budaya ampu dah meresap sampai kecucu cicit..
Rais Yatim needs attention to get Najib select him for 13th GE.
This is a good for nothing show off big mouth Minister....full of nonsense...no results.
I bet you.13th GE...he is out!!
If he is in..then Najib have no better choices as expected.
Meanwhil....political bloggers can actually tell Rais to shaft his complaints into his rear.
Rais Yatim is in politics for himself only.
When in opposition...he fought for freedom of speech and a full democratic Malaysia.
Back in UMNO B..he wants to shut mouths.
Yes...frogs are plenty in politics.
PM Najib will now have to appease the blogger community now, among the list of group or community that he is appeasing in the run up to the next GE, he,he.
Well Rocky, usually I wouldnt agree with you, but this time I guess we could give you a break. Hope your Ferrari will be fine. Good luck mate.
Total population : 27 million.
Waah, 1.3 million people get RM56.98 billion and 27 million people scramble for RM49.2 billion.
Where got fair one'ah. No wonder we cannot maju. This is information technology age and we got 1.3 million civil servants, opps sorry based on what they getting compared to what we the rakyat getting, they should be called the civil boss, and we the rakyat - SERVANTS.
Who the F cares if Najib is DISSAPOINTED? Man, I am dissapointed too. I am DISSAPOINTED because The world economy is growing at an average rate of 11% but Malaysia is doing so at a rate of 6%. Why are we below average?
I am dissapointed that for the 2011 budget, we are incurring a another deficit for the 13th year. That's 13 consecutive years.
our country which is relatively free from social turbulence save perhaps from Rais Yatim's war against bloggers in general and ONE blogger in particular can only grow at around 6-7% for 2011. Even that , is out from an economy with negative growth. -SAKMONGKOL.
Rocky, betol kah, your war with RAIS is taking its toll on the economy? And you ONE person is SOLELY responsible for Malaysia's economic fall from GRACE?
I am dissapointed that PM's Department budget rocketed by 80 per cent from $10 billion to $18 billion, when the country is facing a budget defisit for the 13th straight year.
The future generation will pay through their noses in taxes and bet you we will end up like Argentina. It's a shame that there 1Malaysia concept is for business cronies - the rest of is is LAN Malaysia.
Najib's new RM221 billion budget, is the biggest for Malaysia since 31 August 1957.
Lion's share of the budgeted development goes to the Klang Valley region. The government must be thinking Malaysia is only Selangor and only Selangor is Malaysia, congesting the majority of its budgeted projects in Selangor (including KL).
SO WHO THE F CARES IF NAJIB IS TERKILAN!!!!shove it up the asslah.
Time for Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin to step forward and run the country. This man should be the Prime Minister.
If u take out the R, u dapat AIS. If u then takeout A, u dapat IS. Ape punye namaaa gitu rupaaa!!!!
Rais melatah atau ada orang bodoh yang nasihatkan dia buat repot polis. Aku dengar si Zainal Epi yang "nasihatkan" rais buat laporan polis.
Zainal bengang dengan Rocky sebab tak sambungkan contract dia sebagai writer di Malay Mail.
Everybody knows that Najib can't do anything to Rais..what else do we expect from him? Even Tun M also doubt about him but to cushion that as usual Tun will find somebody to be a scape goat. Rais also do the same. You're his new scape goat to his declining stage of career. However..no retreat no surrender.
Dimana je, ade yg terkilan. Perkara biasa. Dulu Tuah tke main kata dgn jebat, luahkan rasa terkilan. Kalou betol betol terkilan, hapuskanlah anasir yg membawa pada persaan sebegini.
LAWATLAH laman anti-menara mega Malaysia, sebuah halaman yang ditubuhkan oleh rakyat Malaysia yang membantah cadangan kerajaan bagi membina sebuah menara 100 tingkat di ibu negara, Kuala Lumpur.
Dalam tempoh, empat hari, laman itu berjaya menarik 30,000 peminat ataupun satu daripada 300 pengguna Facebook di Malaysia. Sasaran mereka adalah untuk mengumpulkan sejuta peminat.
The current political sphere is no longer entirely about the struggle for power but a competition of minds a battle of ideas" security guards at the Putra World Trade Centre PWTC threw out all un-accredited journalists That included Malaysiakini and The Malaysian Insider from the media room.
next use PGP to encrypt your whole disk.
give them misery in order to open your file.
Apa sangat nak rasa TERKILAN... gaji, elaun bulan2 masuk..
Duit, buat kerja baguih ke tak baguih.. itu lain hal.. guarantee masuk jugak..
Siap bini pun dapat elaun nak beli baju cantik2, nak butler, tukang kebun, driver, maintain rumah, elaun baju, elaun jalan2 cari makan, elaun kereta, elaun minyak elaun segala BAPA elaun..
Saya macam ni hari2 TERKILAN pun kira OKla.. BERRES!
Berjaya Corp granted vehicle manufacturing plant licence. HIDOP Najib Razak, pewira Melayu, yu utamakan org Melayu. Vincent Tan, Jho Low, kan Melayu. Woi kamu yg kat PWTC, malu la sikit. NAJIB dah jual tanah melayu kat cina dan pak arab.
Actually..bukan 60 UMNO "bloggers"...sebenarnya lebih kurang 45 pax dari MyKMU.net portal & 5-10 bloggers yg dijemput MyKMU.net utk bersama...hehehehee..
p/s: mana u dapat info tu? heheheh...well..we'll back you up bro...thanks!
Thank you, Duke. And thank you to myKMU for making it happen. Usually, my friends at myKMU would invite me to their functions, tapi I'm quite glad they didn't this one time. Kalau tak janggal jugak PM nak luahkan rasa terkilannya tu.
Kawan2 dari Penerangan have been feeding me info too, ada yang tepat, ada yang meleset. But I'm lucky, they are generally supportive of me even when they have to do their boss Rais's bidding!


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One Woman
Ego Actus presented One Woman by Cecilia Copeland, directed by Joan Kane. The show opened November 5, 2018 at Theatre Row in the United Solo Festival. Description One Woman is an unapologetic look at one woman's relationships with shoes, lipstick, other women and her journey toward self-confidence. Cast The cast featured Pooya Mohseni*. Crew The crew […]
Moonage Daydream 2
Ego Actus presented a second production of Moonage Daydream written and performed by Mary Monahan, directed & developed by Joan Kane. The show opened September 19, 2017 at the Philadelphia Arts Alliance in the Philadelphia FringeArts Festival. Description A woman looks back on how rock god David Bowie was her imaginary spiritual guide, helping her […]
Finishing the Suit
Ego Actus presented an Equity Showcase Code production of Finishing the Suit by Lawrence Aronovitch, directed by Joan Kane. The show opened September 5, 2017 at Theater for the New City in the Dream Up Festival. Description Finishing the Suit is about a gay man who does not die of AIDS and is not persecuted for […]
Buried in Time
Ego Actus and the AND company co-produced in an Equity Showcase Code production of Buried in Time by Kristine Niven, with our cast directed by Joan Kane. The show opened May 5, 2017 at Theater 54 at Shetler Studios as part of Artistic New Direction's Without a Net. Description The twist: The script has been […]
Identity Paper
Ego Actus presented an Equity Showcase Code production of Identity Paper adapted by Bruce A! Kraemer from a short story by his grandmother, Bessie Tigay, directed by Joan Kane. The show opened November 1, 2016 at Theatre Row in the United Solo Festival. Description Identity Paper is humorous view of a new immigrant who finds things […]
Ego Actus presented Moonage Daydream written and performed by Mary Monahan, directed & developed by Joan Kane. The show opened October 10, 2016 at Theatre Row in the United Solo Festival. Description A woman looks back on how rock god David Bowie was her imaginary spiritual guide, helping her make it through the 1980's to become […]
Ego Actus and White Rabbit Productions presented an Equity Showcase Code production of Debriefing by Maximillian Singh Gill, directed by Joan Kane. The show opened October 10, 2016 Teatro SEA in the New York International Fringe Festival Description A young Pakistani-American activist has been recruited to infiltrate a militant group in the Middle East. When […]
Ego Actus presented an Equity Showcase Code production of Gideon by Judith Leora, directed by Joan Kane. The show opened July 1, 2016 at The Paradise Factory in the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. Description In Gideon, the existential questions of John Paul Sartre meet the absurdity of Samuel Beckett in the LA apartment of two young […]
The Telegram 2
Ego Actus presented a second production of The Telegram by Aldo Nicolaj, directed by Joan Kane. The show opened May 27, 2016 at Divadlo Inspirace in the Prague Fringe Festival. Description An unemployed actor meets a friend who will be directing a major movie. The director tells him to go home and wait for a telegram […]
Louise in Charlestown
Ego Actus presented Louise in Charlestown by Penny Jackson, directed by Joan Kane. The show opened October 19, 2015 at Theatre Row in the United Solo Festival. Description Louise in Charlestown is a drama about racism and forgiveness in Boston during the turbulent era of forced integration. Twelve-year-old Patty, an Irish-American girl, has a new […]
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[ARCHIVED] Supervisors Pass Ordinance to Extend Eviction Protection and Rent Freeze
At a Board meeting on February 2, 2021, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed Urgency Ordinance No. 2021-04 that continues a temporary eviction moratorium for certain residential tenants and a moratorium on certain residential rent increases through June 30, 2021. The Urgency Ordinance also continues a temporary eviction moratorium for certain commercial tenants through March 31, 2021. Ordinance No. 2021-04 supersedes Ordinance No. 2020-29.
See Press Release (PDF). See Urgency Ordinance No. 2021-04 (PDF).
Resources for Tenants:
For affordable housing information, visit https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/4807/Affordable- Housing.
Emergency rental assistance may be available at: https://shelterinc.org/get-help/rental-deposite-assistance.html.
Legal assistance may be available to tenants from Bay Area Legal Aid at: https://baylegal.org/.
Tenants in the City of Richmond may be able to obtain legal assistance from Eviction Defense Center at: https://www.evictiondefensecenteroakland.org/.
Businesses may obtain assistance at: https://www.wdbccc.com/. And a hotline has been established for small businesses, available Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm at 833- 320-1919.
Other resources are available at: http://www.contracostaarc.com/assets/CARE/Financial_Assistance_15.pdf.
https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/faqs.htm.
Resources for Landlords:
Resources for residential landlords may be available from the California Apartment Association, Contra Costa branch located in Pleasant Hill at: https://caanet.org/local/contra-costa/..
Resources on New State Law AB 3088:
The Judicial Council launched a new webpage this week to provide information on recent eviction legislation, AB 3088 (Chiu) – the Tenant, Homeowner, and Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020. In addition to being a direct resource to tenants and landlords alike, the webpage also will supplement the work of self-help centers located in or near courthouses across the state.
These centers provide assistance to litigants without representation in navigating the court process.
In related news, the Judicial Council recently approved forms to reflect changes to court procedures and practices needed to carry out AB 3088.
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News - Arlen Specter makes his bargain
But did he give away his independence in the process?
By Bob Barr Thursday December 9, 2004 12:04 AM EST
A few weeks ago, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter tucked in for a nice dinner with a mysterious friend at a posh Washington eatery. The usual Georgetown dessert was on the menu: dealmaking. The quid pro quo that evening? Not much. Just a senator's soul in exchange for a committee chairmanship.
OK, so the next chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee may not actually have met with Mr. Scratch. More likely, the senior senator from Pennsylvania engaged in his typical ritual: a game of squash chased with a couple of martinis, followed by a good meal.
But judging from the manner in which he now is poised to ascend to a position he long has coveted, Specter almost certainly concluded some kind of transaction with the powerful Republican Party insiders who run most aspects of our federal government these days.
Arlen Specter is a moderate, pro-choice Republican with a not-undesirable history of coloring outside partisan lines. That recurrent independence upsets hardcore partisans and especially administration operatives for whom absolute fealty to the "official" agenda trumps everything. Many conservatives dislike Specter for blocking Judge Robert Bork's 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court and for digging up an obscure Scottish legal concept to avoid voting to remove Bill Clinton from office. For their part, many liberals can't stand Specter because he chopped Anita Hill apart during the "is that a pubic hair on your soda" hearings for Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination. And even many on Specter's own staff dislike him because he's one of the most difficult members of Congress in either chamber and in either party to work for. Fortunately for him, Specter's biggest fans are swing-state Pennsylvanians who love his position in the center of the political spectrum. They send him back into office again and again, albeit without huge margins of victory.
Needless to say, when the Nov. 2 electoral results confirmed that Specter would be in line to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee in the next Congress — a Congress in which one or more Supreme Court nominees almost certainly will head to the Hill for inquisition — the you-know-what hit the fan. Every conservative group with a fax machine went berserk, blasting Specter in an avalanche of news releases, news conferences, radio and TV interviews, and e-mails and phone calls to any reporter with a pulse. In typical fashion, Specter added fuel to the fire by pointing out the obvious, if controversial, fact that extremely ideological Supreme Court nominees would have a hard time getting confirmed.
The upshot of all this drama is that Specter saw the prize he had long coveted, the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, slipping from his grasp. For a guy in his 70s who's survived some pretty major health problems, it was now or never. So, to mollify conservatives, the great "independent" senator marched up to the Senate press gallery and delivered a statement pledging fealty to the conservative catechism. The question is: Was America witnessing a true epiphany, or a simple cave-in?
Early indications are that Specter caved. He got the chairmanship, but the price he may have paid was to nix his vexing but, in my view, critically important independence. That kind of independence is rarely evident in the Senate these days. Its disappearance would have consequences not only for judicial nominees, but also for reauthorization (and expansion) of the PATRIOT Act and other vitally important legislation. Instead of serving as a check on the excesses of the Bush administration, our new Judiciary Committee chairman will likely become an enabler, which in turn will send an unmistakable signal to other Republican chairmen and chairmen wannabes.
Now, I'll be the first to admit that being an independent voice in an increasingly polarized and divided Congress is no fun. I did it for eight years. Every time I moved to the right or left of the established party orthodoxy, I got everything from nasty looks to insults and pompous lectures from fellow Republicans. There is little, if any, tolerance for open debate or substantive disagreement in today's Washington. And the trend is getting worse with each passing year.
To be sure, Arlen Specter is no Jimmy Stewart. But the simple fact is that he represents the views of his state quite accurately. And, he's one in a shrinking handful of lawmakers who have a history of thinking for themselves rather than blindly doing whatever party leaders order.
I'd much rather hear Specter debate an independent Democrat — Zell Miller, for example — than listen to two Stepford lawmakers bloviate on the Senate floor or blindly mouth party talking points on the White House lawn. (It's interesting, by the way, that the same Republicans who gush over Miller's "independence" blast those in their own party who exhibit such a trait.) If Specter becomes another rubber-stamp senator, our civic arena will be the worse for it.
As a Republican congressman from Cobb County, Bob Barr introduced the resolution to impeach President Clinton and was one of the House managers of the impeachment case when it reached the Senate.
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Pavel Šrámek (* 25. března 1965) je český podnikatel, manažer, farmář a politik, v letech 2013 až 2017 poslanec Poslanecké sněmovny PČR, v letech 2014 až 2018 zastupitel města Plzeň a městského obvodu Plzeň 3, je zakladatelem a členem Agrární demokratické strany, od října 2019 je jejím předsedou.

Život
V letech 1983 až 1988 vystudoval strojírenství na Vysoké škole strojní a elektrotechnické v Plzni (získal titul Ing.). Vzdělání si doplnil na University of Pittsburgh v USA, kde v letech 2008 až 2009 absolvoval obor ekonomika a řízení firem a korporací (získal titul "Executive MBA").

V roce 1988 absolvoval základní vojenskou službu, kterou ukončil v hodnosti Poručíka. Po roce 1989 se zaměřoval na mezinárodní obchod, marketing a management firem a mezinárodních korporací. Mezi roky 1989 až 1990 pracoval jako marketingový asistent v exportním oddělení Škody Plzeň. V roce 1991 absolvoval pracovní stáž v USA.

Po návratu z USA působil na vysokých manažerských postech převážně v amerických mezinárodních korporacích.

V letech 1991 až 1996 jako obchodní manažer ve firmě Procter & Gamble Czechoslovakia a v letech 1997 až 2001 jako obchodně-marketingový ředitel pro střední Evropu ve společnosti Gillette Czech & Slovak Republics.

V období let 2001 až 2005 byl výkonným ředitelem pro střední Evropu u firmy CPW (joint venture Nestlé & General Mills) a mezi lety 2005 až 2011 Generálním ředitelem pro Východní Evropu ve společnosti General Mills International, kde měl na starosti trhy ve 13 zemích střední a východní Evropy.

V roce 2010 po téměř 20 letech ukončil své působení v mezinárodních korporacích. Zainvestoval do rodinné firmy a začal podnikat v České republice v oblasti zemědělství a potravinářství. V roce 2015 se pustil do projektu na zpracování bioodpadu.

Je spoluvlastníkem rodinné farmy Zemědělská výroba Milknatur a.s. kde je místopředsedou představenstva (2010), je spolumajitelem společnosti Plzeňská Bio Odpadová a.s., kde je předsedou predstavenstva, je i majitelem a jednatelem obchodní společnosti Farmářský.cz s.r.o. a investorem v dalších menších projektech.

Působí současně jako člen rady poradců (Advisory Board) na University of Pittsburgh Europe.

Je členem Česko-Izraelské Smíšené Obchodní Komory a Předsedou Českého Spolku Přátel Izraele pro Plzeňský kraj.

V letech 1981 až 1982 byl členem juniorské reprezentace Československa ve volejbale.

Pavel Šrámek je rozvedený a má tři syny (Pavel, Petr a Martin). Žije v Plzeňském kraji.

Je aktivním sportovcem, zajímá se o historii, mezinárodní obchod a geopolitiku.

V roce 2015 založil Agrární demokratickou stranu (ADS).

Od roku 2015 do roku 2021 byl VIP členem a podporovatelem zapsaného spolku Společnost Antonína Švehly, která propaguje osobnost prvorepublikového ministerského předsedy agrárníka Antonína Švehly.

Politické působení
Ve volbách do Poslanecké sněmovny PČR v roce 2013 kandidoval za hnutí ANO v Plzeňském kraji a byl zvolen poslancem. V parlamentu byl místopředsedou Zahraničního výboru, členem Hospodářského výboru a byl rovněž členem stálé delegace do Parlamentního shromáždění NATO.

V komunálních volbách v roce 2014 do Zastupitelstva města Plzně byl zvolen zastupitelem města. Zároveň se stal zastupitelem Městského obvodu Plzeň 3. Na začátku roku 2019 ukončil své členství v hnutí ANO 2011.

Ve volbách do Evropského parlamentu v květnu 2019 kandidoval jako lídr ADS, kde je od října 2019 předsedou strany. Zvolen europoslancem však nebyl.

Ve volbách do Senátu PČR v roce 2022 kandidoval z pozice člena ADS za hnutí PRO PLZEŇ v obvodu č. 7 – Plzeň-město. Se ziskem 10,61 % hlasů se umístil na 5. místě a do druhého kola voleb nepostoupil.

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Čeští podnikatelé
Poslanci Parlamentu České republiky (2013–2017)
Čeští místní politici
Předsedové českých politických stran
Členové ANO 2011
Absolventi Fakulty strojní Západočeské univerzity v Plzni
Narození v roce 1965
Narození 25. března
Narození v Klatovech
Žijící lidé
Muži

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…and it threw a CryptograhicException with the most unhelpful of error messages "An internal error occurred".
I am running this code within a web-service and thus within IIS – As such the 'user' that this code is running under (the app pool user / IIS user) does not have the appropriate permissions to handle the above statement. This is because the certificate will be temporarily stored in a certificate store, which by default is the user store, but the app pool / IIS user does not have rights to that certificate store.
Could not find file 'c:\Program Files (x86)\ Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\ Common7\ IDE\ ItemTemplatesCache\ CSharp\ Web\ 1033\ WebService.zip\ WebService.asmx'.
I tried adding the web-service a couple of times but every time I pressed the 'Add' button it would present the above error.
What I found interesting was that the path contained the word 'cache', which to me implied the master/install location containing the missing file would be somewhere else on the computer.
So, I had a quick search and found a WebService.Zip in the folder shown below.
I opened up the zip file – it contained the illusive WebService.asmx – so I copied it into the folder mentioned in the error message and hey-presto, it solved the problem!
So, if you ever get this error message then try copying the file from the master/install zip file and see if it fixes your problem. If it does then let me know!
So, we are a couple of months into 2012 so I thought it was time to post an update on developing with MonoDevelop and specifically using the open source MonoGame project to develop for the iPad.
Before I start writing 'the next Angry Birds' I decided to start with something much easier – a simple paint application – and so that is what this blog post is about!
For full details of MonoGame head over to CodePlex, however basically the idea is that you should be able to develop something that can run on multiple platforms without having to make too many changes to the code.
I am developing on the Mac, using MonoDevelop and targeting the iPad. To get started you need a copy of the MonoGame library, which can be forked/cloned from GitHub.
Fire up MonoDevelop, start a new MonoTouch project and add references to the MonoGame project.
Add a new class which derives from the MonoGame Game class.
Ensure a GraphicsDeviceManager is created.
Override the Draw method and insert your rendering code.
…and bish bash bosh, there you go – you have something appearing on screen in no time at all.
Ok, so if you don't put any code in your Draw method then you just get a 'nice' magenta screen but what do you expect for approximately 10 lines of code!
To implement something like the iPaint app you will need to do a bit more however I've found using MonoGame relatively simple and pain free. The only 'unknown' at the moment is I don't know what the licensing situation is – i.e. If (in the highly unlikely event) I develop 'the next Angry Birds' and became a billionaire would I owe some 'MonoGame people' lots of money?
So, are you going to see iPaint in the app store – errr, no – well, not released by me you won't. I don't intend to pay $99 a year for my Apple developers license until I've written something more worthwhile – and of course on top of that is the $400 MonoDevelop license which is required in order to run the software on a real iPad and not a simulator. Plus, considering you can buy the most excellent InspirePro for less than a dollar I don't think that my iPaint app is really going to compete!
So, what next, I hear you say. Well, the intention is still to develop a game for the iPad and publish it to the App Store – Development will be starting on that shortly. The question is do I want to use MonoGame or just use standard MonoTouch. This is something that I will need to look into further. Certainly the advantage of MonoGame is that it works very well and has been very easy to use – Also, in theory, porting any game I write to another platform (e.g. WP7) should be easy(ish) – If I want to do that. Are there any disadvantages? The fact it is open source might concern some people – however my experience so far is that it has been very stable – and certainly it has an active community updating it all the time. So, assuming licensing is to my liking I like the idea of using MonoGame – and if I can support the MonoGame community with updates then even better.
So, that just about rounds things up for this post. Details of where you can get the MonoGame source and indeed the iPaint source are detailed below.
Also here is a video (one hour condensed into one minute) showing the iPaint app running on the iOS simulator – and my attempt at reproducing Claude Monet's 'The Manneporte near Étretat'. Enjoy.
Details of MonoGame are on CodePlex.
The MonoGame source code is available on GitHub.
A copy of the iPaint source code is also on GitHub.


My first class at Dougherty Arts Center is a pottery class called Between Form and Function taught by John Vela. I attended my first of six classes last week. There had apparently been some administrative issues because John had tried to reach me by email to inform me of materials I would need for class, but he had my email address wrong so I showed up empty-handed. John was superb and made me feel right at home, quickly finding tools and clay that I could use for class without making it feel like an imposition. He was wonderful.
Apparently you cxan focus on what you want in this class whether it be throwing on the wheel, slab/coil building or pinch pots. Everyone wanted instruction on throwing on the wheel so we quickly moved into setup of our work area and centering clay. Since I'm a lefty but often do things right-handed, I wasn't sure which way to go. I told John what a horrid time I had trying to learn this skill thirty years ago back in high school (my pottery teacher actually completed my final project for me so as not to ruin my GPA, well, except for the lid, I did that myself). He told me he wanted me on a reversible wheel and he started me off left-handed.
I had such an enjoyable time I can't help but think that my problems all those years ago were due to a right-handed wheel. Although I do currently have considerably more upper body strength now too. In any event, I was able to make two cylinders as instructed and then played around making imperfect (intentionally) pieces just to have fun and push boundaries of the art form for familiarity's sake. I made four pieces in total.
John seemed to think I was doing well for a new student. I was able to make a cylinders as he'd instructed me to make, so I definitely felt like it was successful too.
He mentioned that there was the possibility of doing Raku firing if the burn ban continues to stay lifted, so I'm crossing my fingers. I'm a HUGE raku lover and would love to have my own pieces to add to my home gallery. Next on my list is to go pick up the clay John told met get and we'll see what else I learn in the next 5 weeks!