When we talk about Internet of Things, it can de defined as the connection between things (quotidian or not) with some other things or human beings, thanks to interaction between sensors and the Internet. Let's think in, for example, our home plants, which by buried sensors near to roots, detect lack of dampness or nutrients and, by WI-FI, they activate an automatic irrigation dispositive and a liquid dung diffuser, while send us an alert. Or then, our bycycle have some detectors which determine a low chain's lubrication level or air pressure in wheels, and by our home wireless network alerts us by whatsap or facebook about the issue to our mobile phone.
Presence of microsensors in mandatory day-to-day PPEs (safety footwear, glasses, safety vest), that by the employee's movement (like some existing wrist electronic bands that count steps) will confirm us by WI-FI their usage by workers, at the same time they record the times, and will be able to alert its non-use in a computer screen monitored by the Safety Responsible.
Installing muscle detectors in workers welding screens, which will switch off the blowlamp by workshop's WI-FI network, in case of exceeding exposure to radiation levels, or by detecting worker is not using it in a right vertical position.
Setting in our safety helmets some cells linked to smoke detectors. They will alert us in case of fire or alarm activation, by a clearly perceptible vibration in our PPE.
Having sensitive devices in machine's moving parts that, linked to a worker's wristband, will detect how close are this parts from employee's extremities, and will stop the machine, avoiding possible negligences or absent-mindedness that may result in serious entrapments.
Attaching noise level sensors to our acoustic protection. They will alert us when protection is not enough by being in a noise overexposure situation, recording data constantly in a database in our computer.
Microdetectors integrated in safety vests, helmets or safety footwear that will react theirselves when the worker is under raised loads of a bridge derrick or close to forklift trucks or transpallets, stopping automatically these equipments in a safety way, or limiting the load raising by acoustic alarms activation.
Minialtimeters installed in our safety footwear that will alert us by smartphone APP about necessity of using personal or collective protection equipments for works at height.
Presence of miniluxmeters in offices that will react when lightning decreases below 500 lux, activating leds or opening automatically office's blinds by WI-FI network during the day.
Across Europe, there exist already some active projects to create a social network of things, where we can connect our smart-things, and these will be sending us data, messages and results about how is being your work.
Maybe some of the suggested ideas may seem science fiction to you, but soon they can become a reality in many advanced companies or startups. The true is that this is a fields with huge innovation possibilities and, why not, a business chance. It has been estimated that internet things business will move around EUR 10.900 billions in five years.
The company "Cisco" made a survey to 7500 business leaders along 12 countries concluding that the activity sectors will be more benefit are health service, transport service, banks and services.
¿Do you have other ideas to apply Internet of Things to improve workers health and safety in Risk Prevention environment?
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Two Minute Weekend Music Quiz - 04 July 2014
This short, fun music quiz features Tom Jones, Elton John and Annie Lennox. Can you get a top score?
1. 1. What was Tom Jones' first UK number one single?
Click 'next' to see if you have the right answer!
2. It's Not Unusual
Before being recorded by Tom Jones, this song was first offered to Sandie Shaw. Jones recorded what was intended to be a demo for Shaw, but when she heard it she was so impressed with the version that she declined the song and recommended that Jones release it himself!
3. (2) Who sang the theme tune to the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies?
Click 'next' to carry on with the quiz
4. Sheryl Crow
The song became Crow's fifth UK Top 20 hit, peaking at No. 12 in 1997. Interestingly, KD Lang was originally intended to sing the official theme for Tomorrow Never Dies but her version was relegated to the end credits and renamed 'Surrender'.
5. (3) Who duetted with Elton John on 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart'?
Can you get 3 out of 3?
6. Kiki Dee
Elton dusted off his disco ball for this duet with Kiki Dee. When released in 1976, it became his biggest hit up to that point. It also gave him his first UK number one.
7. (4) George Michael asked us to do what without Prejudice in 1990?
Click 'next' for the answer!
8. Listen (Without Prejudice)
The album received mixed reviews when it was released, but it peaked at number two on the U.S. Billboard Top 200 albums chart.
9. (5) Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin joined forces on which hit song?
Click 'next' for the final answer - will you get full marks?
10. Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves
Eurythmics' Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart wrote it and they had originally intended to duet with Tina Turner, but she was unavailable at the time and so the duo approached Aretha Franklin instead. Did you get full marks? The song was highly successful, reaching #9 on the UK Singles Chart and #18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

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Mike Walker Takes the Future by Storm in His Return to the Pages of A&G
January 13, 2021 Holt Hackney Blog, Strategy & Planning 0
The future of business is rapidly changing, and digital ecosystems are a major force driving it. From now to 2025 digital ecosystems will represent approximately $60 trillion in global revenue from all industries around the globe. Organizations have a tremendous opportunity to take a concept that has 2% global market share to approximately 30% by 2025.
This is why Mike Walker, an entrepreneur, futurist, and an author with more than 25 years of experience in emerging technologies, innovation management, and business strategy, wrote his most recent book — "Rewire! Using the Digital Ecosystem Playbook to Reinvent Your Business".
Currently at Microsoft, Walker leads the cross-industry digital ecosystems innovation team. Previously, he worked at Gartner as a Vice President of Technology Innovation research where his thought leadership is reflected in more than 150 published research notes and more than 5,000 client engagements.
And before that Dell, which is where we last caught up with him – https://www.architectureandgovernance.com/strategy-planning/mike-walker-talks-business-architecture-best-practices-using/
We visited with Walker again recently, securing his promise to bring some of his insights back to the pages of A&G in the coming months.
In the meantime, we are excited to share the availability of the aforementioned book, which Walker told us will "demystify digital ecosystem frameworks and introduce their capacity to enable high-value business partner exchanges, what that means for the future of doing business, and how to understand markets through a digital ecosystem lens."
A grand ambition, indeed. But we would expect nothing less from one of the industry's brightest lights.
Walker goes on to note that the book will help readers "better understand digital ecosystems and how to create strategies for them."
Packed with detailed illustrations and best practices from his digital ecosystem experiences both at Gartner and Microsoft over the past five years, this book provides approachable and actionable tools that will help organizations understand and embrace digital ecosystems in a rapid and digestible way.
Two early reviews affirm the book's promise:
"Rewire! Using the Digital Ecosystem Strategy Playbook to Transform Your Business is an insightful guide that simplifies and demystifies digital ecosystems. This book will ground you in how to make the right decisions for your business, starting with purpose."
Judson Althoff – Corporate VP of Microsoft Commercial Business
"In a time of digital transformation and disruption, Mike has written a great book that can help everyone better understand how to design and build the right digital ecosystem and governance model for their organization."
Dr. Jonathan Reichental – CEO of Human Future, Professor, and Author
How to Buy the Book
"Rewire! Using the Digital Ecosystem Playbook to Reinvent Your Business" will be available to the general public on January 26th, 2021 on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Walmart, Target, Google Books, Apple Books, and many others.
Sign up for Mike J. Walker's newsletter to stay up to date on the latest book developments.
And keep following A&G for insights from Walker in the near future.
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Q: Do I need my own VID/PID USB identifiers when using virtual COM port through usbser.sys driver on Windows? Do I need to buy VID/PID USB identifiers when using virtual COM port through usbser.sys driver on Windows or is the device being tied to a unique COM port sufficient?

A: The only real advantage to having your own VID and PID is that your device is more identifiable as your product, rather than something generic. Also, you can never guarantee you will be on a certain COM port, as something else may have taken that port number, no matter how obscure.
I would say that unless you are really bothered about your device coming up as something generic in device manager (and you have installed the drivers in a set-up program, so you don't get generic device installed messages on first plug-in) it's not worth bothering. The best bet to find your device is send a quick ID string down each port you can open (starting with your 'unique' one) to identify your COM port by the response.
There may even be some driver-signing woes to get involved with if you have your own PID and VID too (dependent on the USB-chipset vendor).

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A GOOD WAY to describe John Wilcock is to say that he is a talented bohemian counter-culture journalist who once played a major role in the emergence of America's underground press. Born 1927 in Sheffield, England, he left school aged 16 to work on various newspapers in England, and on Toronto periodicals before moving to New York City. There, in 1955, he became one of the five founders of the Village Voice in which he and co-founder Norman Mailer wrote weekly columns. Wilcock called his column "The Village Square", an intended pun.
After ten years with the Voice, Wilcock broke with the paper to edit a rival publication, the East Village Other, and then to publish his own tabloid, Other Scenes. They were the city's first underground papers, covering all the topics The New York Times would consider unfit to print. Later he worked with similar papers popping up in London, Los Angeles, and Tokyo.
For three years Wilcock was a travel editor at the New York Times and his subsequent journeys here and there produced a raft of popular travel guides. His association with Andy Warhol resulted in The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol.
—excerpts from the preface of Manhattan Memories by Martin Gardner
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Larijani: Afghan Development Hinges on Progress towards Democracy
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Tehran will do its best to help improve the security situation in Afghanistan which he argued needs to promote democracy to find itself on the path to development.
Larijani reaffirmed Tehran's commitment to help restore security and peace to Afghanistan in a meeting with his Afghan counterpart Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi on Wednesday on the sidelines of the 129th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Geneva.
"We always make efforts to bolster security in Afghanistan... and will do our utmost for the establishment of stability there," said larijani.
He also called on Afghans to promote democracy and the rule of law as the country is just some months away from electing a new president.
The race to succeed Afghan President Hamid Karzai in April 5, 2014, election has started and the registration process for potential candidates closed on Sunday night, after twenty-two people had been nominated.
The Afghan Parliament speaker for his part praised Iran's support for Afghanistan, adding that the two neighboring countries will stand by each other for good as they share numerous commonalities.
Ibrahimi expressed hope that Iran would further contribute to the establishment of lasting peace in Afghanistan.
In a separate meeting with Ecuadorian Parliament Speaker Gabriela Rivadeneira, Larijani stressed the expansion of economic relations between Iran and the Latin American country, saying that the Iranian Parliament was also keen to bolster its parliamentarian relations with Ecuador.
He also thanked Ecuador for supporting Iran in the international arena, particularly for backing Tehran's peaceful nuclear energy program.


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Tonsillitis can spread from person to person through hand contact (then touching your mouth with contaminated hands), breathing in the airborne droplets after someone with tonsillitis has sneezed or sharing the utensils or toothbrush of an infected person. Children and adolescents aged 5-15 years old are most likely to get tonsillitis, but it can affect anyone.
Based on his vast experience in the field of Disease Management, Dr Abraham has observed that Chronic Tonsillitis affecting people with low immunity may later be developed as Asthma. Children with recurrent sneezing, sore-throat, throat pain or tonsillitis may soon develop asthma especially if there is a family history.
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The United Mexican States, the official name of the country commonly referred to as Mexico, is located toward the bottom of North America. They are bordered on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. This country covers almost two million square kilometers. Mexico is considered a regional and middle power, economically, due to having one of the largest economies in the world. Tourism plays a huge part, as they are the 10th most visited country on Earth.
After they achieved total independence from Spain in 1917, Mexico's political system can be described as a federal presidential constitutional republic. Their country employs a President, Senate, and a Supreme Court. Mexico is home to approximately 118,395,100 people as of 2013. That makes them the 11th most populated country in the entire world. The official language is Spanish, and it is one of the least densely populated areas too, with about 52 people per square kilometer. The religion that the majority of the people practice is Roman Catholicism.


In t he United States, individual states control how US House districts are apportioned: in some the legislature creates these maps, while in others this is done by independent redistricting commissions. Ahead of the redistricting process which will follow the 2020 census, Ryan D. Williamson looks at how the methods used by states to redraw district lines effects electoral competitiveness. He finds that states which use maps drawn by redistricting commissions and state courts are more likely to have more and better quality candidates, and fewer incumbents, running for the US House.
As the 2020 Census grows closer, reapportionment and the redistricting process becomes an increasingly important issue. States that gain or lose seats in the House of Representatives due to population changes must construct largely (or entirely) new maps. Even states that keep their current number of seats will need to ensure that district populations are comparable enough in number to maintain legality, which would likely require at least tweaking the existing lines.
However, not every state draws districts the same way. These different methods of redistricting can produce different effects on election outcomes within states. Many states allow the state legislature to produce their congressional maps. States where one party controls both chambers of the legislature and the governorship can pass redistricting maps that favor their party without much opposition. States where control is not concentrated within one party still see maps infused with partisanship, but there are generally advantages to both parties.
Sometimes states cannot enact a plan that passes legal scrutiny because it dilutes the voting power of a particular group. In those cases, courts overturn the legislature's map and construct new district lines themselves. The last method is a seldom used one—empowering a redistricting commission. These are bodies that (at least ostensibly) are not motivated by partisan concerns, and instead construct maps with other goals in mind like fostering competition and drawing more compact districts.
Some research shows that when states use redistricting commissions, we see greater electoral competitiveness in US House elections. Conversely, other research suggests that commissions are actually not much better at fostering competition.
In order to further examine the effects of varying redistricting methods, I look at how these different methods influence who decides to run in US House elections. Specifically, I look at the effects on quality candidate emergence, uncontested elections, and open seat races.
First, I examine the number of elections in which a quality candidate decided to run for a US House seat. Quality candidates are those who have previously held some form of elective office, which means they possess the knowledge and skills necessary to win an election. More importantly, they generally have the political savvy to know when their chances of winning are the highest and capitalize on those chances. This background and skillset typically translate in greater levels of success for these kinds of candidates.
From Figure 1, we see that different means of constructing maps can have an effect on the decision of quality candidates to run for a US House seat. Specifically, plans passed under unified control of government witness only 27.2 percent of races featuring a quality candidate. This is the lowest figure and likely a product of mapmakers being motivated by their partisanship in a state where the opposition party is powerless to intervene. Whenever the minority party does have a say, as we see with plans drawn under divided control of government, there is a slight uptick to 30.2 percent.
This number substantially increases whenever state legislatures are removed from the redistricting process. Court-drawn plans witness quality candidates emerge in almost one-third of races (32.7 percent). Furthermore, commissions produce maps that feature 37.4 percent of races fielding a quality candidate. This represents a more than 10 percentage-point increase from the most partisan redistricting plans.
A similar relationship is seen in Figure 2, which shows the proportion of elections which featured only one candidate across each redistricting method. Legislative-based plans produce the highest numbers of uncontested races. Specifically, partisan maps and bipartisan maps see 14.1 percent and 13.3 percent of races go uncontested, respectively. However, this number decreases to 10.8 under court-drawn maps and further still to a mere 3.8 percent when commissions are responsible for redistricting.
Finally, I examine the proportion of open seat races across redistricting methods. This is depicted in Figure 3. If incumbents feel safe, they are less likely to retire, and partisan mapmakers are more likely to feel safe when districts were constructed in their party's favor, which is often the motivating factor behind legislative-based redistricting plans.
This is especially true under divided control of government where both parties create a map which benefits their respective incumbents. Indeed, only about 1 in 10 races do not feature an incumbent in these cases. On the other hand, this number nearly doubles when commissions are responsible for drawing district lines.
Taken together, these numbers provide evidence in support of the argument that taking the redistricting process out of the hands of the state legislature can increase the competitiveness of US House elections.
Redistricting plans drawn at the beginning of the decade can impact elections many years after. Therefore, it becomes important to understand the effects each different method has on election outcomes. My research shows that allowing state legislatures to construct district maps reduces the overall level of competitiveness by deterring stronger, quality challengers and allowing incumbents to more easily win reelection.
This article is based on the paper "Examining the Effects of Partisan Redistricting on Candidate Entry Decisions" in Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy.
Ryan Williamson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University. He received his PhD from the University of Georgia, and previously worked on Capitol Hill as a member of the American Political Science Association's Congressional Fellowship Program. His interests include Congress and Legislative Procedure, Congressional Elections, Institutional Development, the US Presidency, and Research Design and Methods.


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Miller Children's & Women's Hospital…
Miller Children's & Women's Hospital named 'high performing' in maternity care
For the first time, U.S. News & World Report published a list of the best hospitals for maternity care.
By Christina Merino | cmerino@scng.com |
MemorialCare Miller Children's & Women's Hospital has been recognized as "high performing" in maternity care by U.S. News & World Report, the highest classification the news magazine offers, the hospital announced this week.
U.S. News evaluated nearly 650 hospitals that provide high-quality labor and delivery services for uncomplicated pregnancies. Fewer than half of all hospitals that participated in the survey received a high-performing designation during the magazine's first year of publishing a list of best hospitals for maternity care, according to a press release from MemorialCare.
"From common and routine pregnancies to critical and high-risk pregnancies, the BirthCare Center physicians and staff provide quality, leading care to every patient that comes to us," Graham Tse, chief medical officer at Miller Children's & Women's, said in a statement. "We are uniquely situated to provide the highest level of care (level IV for maternity and NICU) to both mom and baby."
To be recognized among the best hospitals for maternity care, hospitals had to excel on multiple quality metrics, such as complication rates, C-section rates, whether births were scheduled too early in pregnancy, and how successfully each hospital supported breastfeeding, among other measures.
"When expectant parents are considering their options for welcoming a baby to the world, the Best Hospitals for Maternity Care are designed to help them identify hospitals that excel in delivering babies for uncomplicated pregnancies," Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, said in MemoricalCare's Tuesday, Dec. 6, press release.
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The evaluation looked at hospital data relating to only uncomplicated pregnancies, not high-risk pregnancies. Participating hospitals responded to a survey from the U.S. News health analysis team in spring 2021, which reflected data from 2019, according to MemorialCare. Participation was voluntary.
MemorialCare's other two hospitals that provide maternity services to the Southern California region also received the "high performing" designation: Saddleback Medical Center and Orange Coast Medical Center.
The Cherese Mari Laulhere BirthCare Center in Long Beach cares for all pregnancies, routine or high-risk. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unity adjacent to the birth center at Miller Children's & Women's and cares for any newborns who need advanced care.
The BirthCare Center offers a Perinatal Special Care Unit, a specialized transport team, private labor and delivery suites, prenatal education classes and comprehensive lactation support.
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Facebook Launches $10 Million Fund For Partners
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At TechCrunch 40 today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the creation of FB Fund, a $10 million fund from Founders Fund and Accel Partners that will help fund startups creating applications that work with Facebook. The advisory board for the fund will include, among others, Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel of Founders Fund, Jim Bryer of Accel, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, Stanford Professor Rajeev Motwanti and First Round Capital's Josh Koppelman. Grants will be between $25,000 and $250,000 - and they will be grants, not equity investments. Facebook itself is not putting cash in the fund.
Both Breyer and Thiel were early investors in Facebook.
At TechCrunch 40 today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the creation of FB Fund, a $10 million fund from Founders Fund and Accel Partners that will help fund startups creating applications that work with Facebook.


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Kondratieff waves. Juglar – Kuznets – Kondratieff
Volgograd: 2014.
Under the general editorship: L. E. Grinin, T. C. Devezas, A. Korotayev.
In the period from the 1920s to 1930s the theory of economic cycles underwent dramatic changes. Due to the research of such famous economists as Nikolay Kondratieff, Joseph Kitchin, Wesley Mitchell, Simon Kuznets, and Joseph Schumpeter the idea of a whole system of economic cycles (with characteristic periods between two and sixty years) was developed. The idea of a system of intertwined economic cycles is nowadays paramount to the school of evolutionary economics and its development promises rather interesting future outcomes. That is why this issue of our 'Kondratieff Waves' Yearbook is devoted to the interconnections between various economic cycles.
As to the subtitle of this volume, one should note that many of the contributors refer to the system of cycles and the fact that real economic cycles make up a system, whereas among different types of cycles, the Juglar, Kuznets, and Kondratieff cycles are the most important ones for the present-day economic dynamics.
Although Kondratieff himself considered long waves as above all an economic phenomenon, the theory of the long waves became, however, very actively developed in connection with their political and geopolitical aspects. In this Yearbook, the political aspect of Kondratieff waves is the subject of several articles in the second section.
The last section of this Yearbook is devoted to the heritage of Kondratieff and other prominent economists. The year 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the outstanding Russian economist, one of the most prominent researchers of medium-term economic cycles, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, and the volume is concluded with Kondratieff's article about him. Concerning 2015, we should mention another anniversary, namely, 30 years since the death of Simon Kuznets (1901–1985).
This edition will be useful for economists, social scientists, as well as for a wide range of those interested in the problems of the past, present, and future of global economy and globalization.
Cyclical Dynamics in Economics and Politics in the Past and in the Future
Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., Devezas T. C. In bk.: Kondratieff waves. Juglar – Kuznets – Kondratieff. Volgograd: 2014. P. 5-24.
Nikolay Kondratieff is known primarily for his theory of long cycles. However, it is worth recalling that he was among the first who started to investigate the nature of different economic cycles and their systematic interaction. Actually the primary classification of cycles into short, medium and long belongs to Kondratieff.
The Sixth Kondratieff Wave and the Cybernetic Revolution
Grinin L. E., Grinin A. L. In bk.: Kondratieff waves. Juglar – Kuznets – Kondratieff. Volgograd: 2014. P. 354-377.
In the present paper, on the basis of the theory of production principles and production revolutions, we reveal the interrelation between K-waves and major technological breakthroughs in history and make forecasts about features of the sixth Kondratieff wave in the light of the Cybernetic Revolution that, from our point of view, started in the 1950s. We assume that the sixth K-wave in the 2030s and 2040s will merge with the final phase of the Cybernetic Revolution (which we call a phase of self-regulating systems). This period will be characterized by the breakthrough in medical technologies which will be capable to combine many other technologies into a single complex of MBNRIC-technologies (med-bio-nano-robo-info-cognitive technologies). The article offers some forecasts concerning the development of these technologies.
Research target: Economics and Management (including Public Administration)Political Science (including International Relations)
Priority areas: economics
Keywords: global economyglobalizationeconomic cyclesKondratieff waveseconomic development
Экономика и управление: проблемы и перспективы развития. Сборник научных статей по итогам международной научно-практической конференции г.Волгоград 15-16 ноября 2010 г.
Ч. 1. Волгоград: Волгоградское научное издательство, 2010.
Russian Firms: Business Environment, Internal Organization and Behavior // In «Russia e Europa dell'Est: Progetti e prospettive di crescite»
Dolgopyatova T. G. Serie di Studi Scentifici. University of Verona: Polo Scientifico Diddattico «Studi sull' impresa» and Center for International Studies, 2012. No. 1.
The paper studies recent development in organization and behavior of Russian firms against the background of economic growth, the world crisis and post-crisis recovery. The main focus of the paper is a problem of investment, including foreign direct investment as a key determinant of Russian enterprises restructuring and modernization. In the context special attention was paid to description of external economic and institutional conditions for development of Russian firms, and their internal characteristics as stock ownership, corporate governance and behavior. The paper concludes with discussions of post-crisis prospects and economic policy matters.
Russian Economy: Institutional conditions for survival and development
Kuzminov Y. I., Jakobson L. I., Shkaratan O. I. M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 1999.
This paper puts forth a comprehensive set of measures to address the current economic crisis, prevent its further aggravation and ensure sustained and ongoing development of the Russian economy. In this study we seek to adopt the viewpoint of common sense and keep free from political and ideological bias. This is why we believe the proposed solutions should be implemented by any reasonable government irrespective of its political coloration. This text presents our vision of the Russian economy and its problems.
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The Cyclic Dynamics of the Venture Capital
Dagaev A. A. In bk.: Waves, Warfare and World Security. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006. P. 72-79.
Venture capital (VC) provides financial and managerial support for new innovative ideas at the initial stages of commercialization. It has helped to find the market for many radical innovations of 20th century, including personal computer, Internet and genetic engineering.
As a part of market economy venture business was not stable from the very beginning. The periods of rapid growth alternated with deep recessions. However each time VC revived anew as the Phoenix due to its very important function in modern knowledge-based economy.
This report presents an analysis of statistical data that prove the existence of several cycles in VC dynamics in the USA and the Great Britain. The main factors of these cycles formation are discussed. The author proposes two possible scenarios of development of VC market for the first 30 years of the new 21st century. A hypothesis is put forward about the relation between VC cycle's amplitude and a phase of Kondratieff's cycle.
Обновляемый образовательный ресурс "Экономическая школа НИУ ВШЭ"
Влияние выбора целей и инструментов политики денежных властей на уязвимость экономик
Трунин П. В., Дробышевский С. М., Евдокимова Т. В. М.: Издательский дом «Дело» РАНХиГС, 2012.
Россия: резервы институционального развития как предпосылка выхода из кризиса
Nureev R. M. In bk.: Сборник исследований экономического развития. Китай и Россия: развитие и трансформации.. Wuhan: Wuhan University, 2011. P. 163-179.
In the article we study the reasons and character of economic growth in Russia in the beginning of the XXI-st century. The analysis of the features of economic development is a key to understanding of depth of modern crisis in Russia. This article exhibits institutional preconditions for an overcoming the crisis and acceleration of economic growth.
Глобализационные процессы и сфера культурных услуг
Копацкая С. А. В кн.: Международный рынок услуг. СПб.: Издательство Нестор-История, 2011. С. 204-211.
Интеллектуальная собственность и экономическое развитие регионов: проблемы права и правовой политики в первом десятилетии нового века
Панченко П. Н. Право и государство: теория и практика. 2008. № 9(45). С. 148-149.
Интернет и культурная глобализация: глокальное сообщество каучсерферов Санкт-Петербурга
Кустов А. Н. Этнографическое обозрение. 2012. № 3. С. 105-117.
The article discusses the phenomenon of interconnected glocal hospitality communities which have recently spread over the world in the context of the internet development and cultural globalization processes. It focuses on a typical community of users of CouchSurfi ng.org, a major social hospitality network in St. Petersburg. The author argues that, in the framework of this web service, there occurs a transformation of virtual groups of users localized in various spots of the globe into actual interconnected glocal communities which shape shared identities, norms, values, and practices among its members.
Динамика промышленного производства и экономический цикл в СССР и России, 1861–2012
Смирнов С. В. Количественный анализ в экономике. WP2. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. № WP2/2012/04.
The trajectory of the industrial output of the Russian empire – the USSR – the Russian Federation for more than 150 years has been carefully investigated through official statistics as well as dozens of alternative estimates made by Russian and foreign experts. Calculation of the aggregated "consensus" industrial production index has made it possible to date the cyclical turning points and to measure the depth and length of the main industrial recessions for the last century and a half. The most important causes of all these recessions are described. The cyclical volatility of Russian industry is compared with the cyclical volatility of American industry.
Ethically Responsible Global Sociology: Conceptual Framing of a New Vision
Sorokin P. S. Filosofija, Sociologija. 2016. Vol. 27. No. 4. P. 323-330.
This paper begins by outlining the two-sided 'ethical challenge' that international sociology faces in the 21st century. First, formulating the ethical stance of a sociologist towards the subject of disciplinary inquiry and the potentially involved social groups. Second, elaborating the adequate research tools for studying the ethical dimension of globalizing social reality. We conduct a critical analysis of the current literature on these issues from the Global Sociology perspective. We show that the 'value-involved' Global Sociology is the only possible mode of successful and appealing international disciplinary practice. However, existing 'value-involved' approaches are Eurocentric by nature and lack sensitivity to the ethically diverse global social reality. We propose the conceptual framing of 'Ethically Responsible Global Sociology' as a new vision of our discipline in the global world.
Catalogue of the editions published by the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Edited by: A. A. Paramonov, A. Rossius, A. Smirnov. M.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2012.
The present catalogue contains abstracts for some 150 volumes, among which books, periodicals, miscellanies, published by the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the principal institute in Russia for academic research in all kinds of philosophical knowledge. These works, written by eminent Russian scholars, cover such fi elds as the history of Russian, Western and Oriental philosophy, ethics and aesthetics, synergetics and epistemology, social and political philosophy and concentrate on problems that have attained particular importance in the age of globalization and growth of national self-consciousness.
Global Legal Pluralism: A New Way of Legal Thinking
Antonov M. Law. LAW. Высшая школа экономики, 2013. No. 10.
The subject matter of this article is the terminology which is used in contemporary law and sociological jurisprudence to denote changes in legal regulation. Among the most fashionable terms are those of globalization and pluralism. In the author's opinion, these two terms indicate diverse phenomena and have different tasks. Pluralism is a concept allowing the description and explication of various legal facts, institutions, relations which are not generally recognized in state-centered theory of law. Globalization is a common name for the distinctive characteristics which distinguish the present-day Western civilization from other civilizations. The amalgamation of these two different aspects into one set of methods and ideas inspired by the need to explain modernity does not lead to the formation of a new methodology or of a scientific conception. Rather globalization talks about plurality in contemporary law having another function – to describe the changing mentality, new ways of legal thinking which are growing in the Western world. These changes have repercussions in many fields of science, i.e. in a new understanding of such traditional concepts as sovereignty.
Институт минимальной заработной платы в странах ОЭСР
Вишневская Н. Т. Проблемы рынка труда. WP3. Высшая школа экономики, 2005. № 03.
The paper examines the institute of minimum wage in developed and transition economies and in a number of the developing countries. First of all the institutional mechanism of minimum wage fixing is considered. One of the sections explores the dynamics of absolute and relative levels of minimum wage. The special attention is paid to the impact of the institute of minimum wage on the labour market. The author considers the mechanism of transmission of the minimum wage increases on the employment and unemployment dynamics. The paper also contains the result of the empirical research. The experience of many countries witnesses that large increases in minimum wage levels lead to the stagnation of the employ-ment, especially of the disadvantaged groups. The negative effect is larger for the companies with higher share of labour costs and more active use of unqualified labour, that is small businesses and agricultural enterprises. One of the main conclusions is that the minimum wage is not an effective tool of the poverty reduction as the majority of the recipients live in households of average and upper average income.
Democracy versus Modernization: a dilemma for Russia and for the world
Edited by: V. L. Inozemtsev, P. Dutkiewicz. NY: Routledge, 2012.
This book seeks to "re-think democracy." Over the past years, there has been a tendency in the global policy community and, even more widely, in the world's media, to focus on democracy as the "gold standard" by which all things political are measured. This book re-examines democracy in Russia and in the world more generally, as idea, desired ideal, and practice. A major issue for Russia is whether the modernization of Russia might not prosper better by Russia focusing directly on modernization and not worrying too much about democracy. This book explores a wide range of aspects of this important question. It discusses how the debate is conducted in Russia; outlines how Russians contrast their own experiences, unfavourably, with the experience of China, where reform and modernization have been pursued with great success, with no concern for democracy; and concludes by assessing how the debate in Russia is likely to be resolved.
Влияние внешних условий на оценку эффективности государственного сектора в регионах России
Юрескул Е. А., Ахременко А. С. Вестник Московского университета. Серия 12: Политические науки. 2013. № 3. С. 42-60.
We address the external effects on public sector efficiency measures acquired using Data Envelopment Analysis. We use the health care system in Russian regions in 2011 to evaluate modern approaches to accounting for external effects. We propose a promising method of correcting DEA efficiency measures. Despite the multiple advantages DEA offers, the usage of this approach carries with it a number of methodological difficulties. Accounting for multiple factors of efficiency calls for more complex methods, among which the most promising are DMU clustering and calculating local production possibility frontiers. Using regression models for estimate correction requires further study due to possible systematic errors during estimation. A mixture of data correction and DMU clustering together with multi-stage DEA seems most promising at the moment. Analyzing several stages of transforming society's resources into social welfare will allow for picking out the weak points in a state agency's work.
Макроэкономическое обоснование антикризисного управления организациями
Березовский Д. С. Вестник Московского государственного университета печати. 2011. № 2.
На океанских волнах. Россия в мировом кризисе
Уринсон Я. М. Вестник Европы. 2014. № 38-39.
Применение различных вариантов правила передачи голосов
Карпов А. В., Вольский В. И. Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз. 2011. № 2. С. 162-174.


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Всеобщие выборы в Доминике прошли 8 декабря 2014 года. Убедительная победа была одержана Лейбористской партией под руководством действующего премьер-министра Рузвельта Скеррита, оставшегося на второй срок.

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Политика
По результатам выборов 2009 года Лейбористская партия увеличила своё парламентское большинство от 18 до 21 места, продлив премьерство своего кандидата на третий срок с 31 января 2000 года. В то же время, Объединённая рабочая партия получила только три места. 5 ноября 2014 года Премьер-министр Доминики Рузвельт Скеррит назначил дату выборов на 8 декабря.

Избирательная система
Палата собраний Доминики состоит из 31 члена: 21 избираемого в одномандатных избирательных округах и 9 назначаемых после созыва (5 по совету премьер-министра и 4 лидера оппозиции). Кандидату в депутаты необходимо быть гражданином Доминики в возрасте не меньше 21 года, проживающим в стране не меньше года до даты выдвижения своей кандидатуры на выборах.

Экономика
Основой экономики Доминики являются сельское хозяйство, туризм, строительство, легкая промышленность, финансовые услуги, водные и лесные ресурсы.

Голосование
250 избирательных участков в Доминике открылись в 7:00 утра по местному времени и закрылись через 10 часов, что дало 72,484 тысячам человек, имеющим право голоса, возможность отдать свой голос. От двух доминирующих политических сил — Лейбористской партии и Объединённой рабочей партии — было выдвинуто 44 кандидата, кроме 2 независимых. За ходом голосования следила миссия Организации американских государств под руководством  из шести наблюдателей из Антигуа и Барбуды, Канады, Чили, Колумбии, США и Венесуэлы.

Результат
Правящая Лейбористская партия выиграла 15 мест, а Объединённая рабочая партия — 6 мест. Лидер лейбористов Рузвельт Скеррит в своей победной речи заявил о «унижении подавляющем ответом электората» и, что праздника не будет, а лидер ОРП Леннокс Линтон отметил широкое попрание избирательного кодекса.

Последствия
10 декабря премьер-министр Рузвельт Скеррит был приведён к присяге на второй срок, отметив, что принимает победу на выборах «со смирением и самоанализом», а Лейбористская партия имеет «подавляющее большинство для продвижения и осуществления своей политики». Таким образом правящая Лейбористская партия осталась у власти на четвёртый срок.

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Выборы 2014 года
Выборы в Доминике
2014 год в Доминике
События 8 декабря
Декабрь 2014 года

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I've used iOS kill switch (or android trustkiller) to monitor SSL traffic that's pinned..... It's a bit fiddly but seems to work ok.
So Stevie's problem is that if all the banks expose a standard API, there is no reason for his app to exist. Sorry Stevie.
Oh, and I am in this business, and it is looking like the banks will not be dis-intermediated by this as described. It's worse. They'll lose the piles of cash they've made by controlling the channel. And if that happens, then someone else will need to pay. Probably us.
Then people will see that push payments are intrinsically safer, and therefore less risky, and therefore cheaper, than pull payments. Cue Visa and Mastercard's business exiting stage left, followed swiftly by all those payment providers and probably a bunch of banks. Part of me is pleased.
When did it ever happen that all implementers worked the same, and there was no need to handle any exceptions from the 'standard' ?
Well the EU are trying to put their foot down here, but you are right. Unless one of the utilities (like Vocalink/Faster Payments) gets broadly accepted, the banks will screw it up.
Traditionally, weak security has been met with jail time for the person who brought it into the light. The Americans are excellent at that. Let's not fix the flaw, let's just jail the person who revealed it.
OSS wisdom would suggest the monoculture approach is safer - the many eyes hypothesis. Then heartbleed happened.
Trouble is that comes up against the vulnerability and risks of a monoculture - crack 1 api you've cracked every customer who uses it. The rewards go from compelling for 1 banks customers to irresistible for every banks customers.
Which one is safer? Flip a coin.
API monoculture isn't what is described though, at least not in the openSSL sense.
Heartbleed was two flaws; a stupidly designed API call and a buggy implementation of it. The stupid design was to allow the caller to independently mention the size of the buffer and the amount of data to read when it should have derived one of those pieces from the other. But the stupid design only matters because of the implementation bug whereby the server failed to validate that an untrustworthy client could manipulate those numbers to read additional information from memory.
Unless I misread the article, all that is proposed is a common API that each bank would independently evaluate the best way of implementing. So if the design was flawed, some banks would be caught pants down and others would return an error.
Indeed, "I" is for "interface", not "implementation".
"if third parties can manage the accounts of their end users programmatically, it diminishes the customer relationship."
There is, of course, a means of cutting third parties out of the customer relationship: branches. It seems that banks don't really care very much about this.
Banks have just been given the green light to remove the human element from some aspects of the customer experience. If you need general advice you will be directed to a web site or deal with a multiple choice phone system. Its part of a cost cutting exercise apparently and shows that the banks don't value you they value your money (or debt).
> shows that the banks don't value you they value your money (or debt).
Has it *ever* been any different?
WTF is *any* third party doing with access to my bank account?
Here's how a transaction works. You, the party of the first part, asks me, the party of the second part, to pay you a sum of money in return for specified goods and services. I, the party of the second part, authorise my bank, the party of the third part, to transfer money to you, the party of the first part.
Sanity clause? Don't be silly, everybody knows there's no sanity clause.
This is exactly how it should work, and why your bank won't go away. Full disclosure: I design a product to do this (coming soon folks!) so I might be a teensy weensy bit biased.
TSR utilities and at least one mainframe scheduler.
Nice to know some of those classics are still around.
Now who on this site wrote "Banks are large IT businesses with a banking license" ?
I thought the banks had more-or-less completed that process over the last 50 years?


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- At first, savour your Jade PF 1901 with half a piece of sugar. Then, add more or less according to your taste.
Il miglior assenzio sinora mai provato! Non ne ho provati tantissimi (6 in tutto) ma questo è il top! Mezza zolletta di zucchero a mio gusto.
Wow, this is just it. I had a few different bottles to taste, me and all of my mates simply said 1901 was the best of them all. Thick and rich texture, super oily, provides a wonderful louche effect, taste is just what you would expect, full, round, pungent and refined. Lots of grassy absinthe notes and mild-thick aniseed. Vivid olive green hue with thick louche, intense aromatic experience, to be sipped slowly, intensely aromatic, super smooth, on the connoisseur side, extremely refined and rewaring. Delicious.
One of my favorite absinthes. Underlying sweetness, matched with a healthy bitterness but not biting in any way. The balance of flavors is amazing. High alcohol content, but doesn't taste that way. I prefer it on the rocks without sugar or water, and wait for minimal dilution before starting to enjoy.
This is my first purchase of Absinthe and will definitely not be my last. I thought I would hate the taste as I normally drink whiskeys, vodkas, and rum but I've found myself a new norm. Will definitely recommend it to my friends and family. Although I'm only a beginner, I know I'll be an Absinthe enthusiast before long.
I like absinthe straight, over ice. Given that, this is one of the best for my taste. Very balanced and smooth. Because I drink it straight, the lower alcohol content allows other flavors to come through. My current favorite that I will definitely reorder.
Jade 1901 my favorite because the feel and complex flavors are not harsh. I M new to enjoying absinthe but I really enjoy this one.
I have tried a number of absinthe's now and the Jade 1901 is, without doubt, the best one for my own personal taste. Everything comes together to give you a wonderful taste of what an Absinthe should be.
One of the best absinthes I've had. My only complaint is that the cork was rotten, broke in two, and could not be used to reseal the bottle. A more conventional stopper would have been nice.


Basic business and management skills are necessary to advance your career no matter what area of STEM discipline you plan to pursue. The purpose of this course is to provide the skills necessary to present a strong business case for any new biomedical or life science technology. Like any foreign language, "business eeze" has its own vocabulary, grammar principles and culture. The course will be presented in a similar fashion utilizing STEM case studies to emphasize and immerse the student in business and managerial principles.
Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate students enrolled in a STEM discipline.
Discuss the components and importance of a financial statement. Calculate the cost and benefit of new equipment.
Differentiate between marketing and advertising. Recognize his/her own personal strengths and weaknesses.
Converse confidently with those involved in the technology "business".
Determine the value of new biomedical technology from a business perspective.
Prepare a strong business case for any new biomedical device or technology.
Explain the difficulties in getting new technology into the healthcare marketplace.
Enrollment limited to: graduate students in a STEM discipline.


Science Food Academy - Faber S.p.A.
Faber Science Food Academy, the first scientific cooking school, is to open in Milan. Taking the form of a 5-lesson symposium, the course will kick off on November 3rd, addressing a number of classic cooking issues from a purely scientific standpoint.
What chemical reactions take place when we cream a risotto, what are the right techniques to use and why do we do it?
Which amino acids and sugars are involved in the Maillard reaction?
How much of what we hear about searing meat is true?
When do the gaseous molecules of wine help to cook the perfect risotto?
How do you fry food and what temperature should you aim for to avoid reaching the infamous smoke point?
yet light-hearted way with plenty of practical experience.
Two-Michelin-star chef Marco Sacco will describe a number of methods for cooking eggs, a seemingly simple yet extremely difficult ingredient to manage, especially due to the different types of proteins contained in the white and in the yolk. Renowned for his Carbonara Au Koque, Sacco will explain the best way to handle eggs, for example in one of the most classic and consumed Italian dishes, pasta carbonara.
A food and wine journalist but also a food scholar and historian, will dwell on the epistemology of pasta, explaining the evolution from ancient to modern cooking techniques, and describing the method for obtaining a simple yet perfect pasta dish.
A fully-fledged science studying the combination of ingredients and specific cooking processes and preparation procedures, some of which – such as those involving onions, fish and certain vegetables – can have a significant olfactory impact.
A member of the International Federation of Pastry, Orlando has recently helped to legitimise fried desserts, which have always been regarded with a hint of snobbery in the pastry world. During his lecture (Dumpling engineering), students will pick up a number of professional techniques, such as the best way to give body and elasticity to dough and, above all, the oils and temperatures to use case by case. The secret to frying lies in understanding the chemical processes involved and having the right technological equipment – and in this regard, a good extractor hood is, of course, essential.
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The recent Oscar nomination to the film Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales) reminded me of many other, worth watching Argentinean movies.
Argentina's cinema has been profoundly influenced by the country's history. Starting already at the end of the 19th century, it had its Golden age in the 1930s-50s. Under the military junta in the 1970s it suffered from censorship and repression. The effects of that period carried over into the next decade, with few exceptions (see below). It was not until the 1990s that young directors started what is now known as the New Argentine Cinema. This new cinema is mostly focused on criticising modern Argentine society and digging deep into the lives of individual characters with large doses of realism, depicting the complexity of human nature.
The plot: Benjamin Esposito is a recently retired legal counselor. Obsessed by a brutal murder occurred twenty five years earlier, in 1974, he decides to write a novel about it. By reliving the past, he also comes in contact with a woman who has loved in silence all those years.
The plot: Juan and Marcos are two con artists who get coincidentally involved in an affair that can make them millionaires: an old-time con man enlists them to sell a set of extremely valuable rare stamps, The Nine Queens. The tricky negotiations that ensue bring into the picture a cast of suspicious characters. As deceptions mount, it becomes more and more difficult to figure out who is conning whom.
Go see it because…The film is entertaining, fast-paced, with intelligent plot, great acting, totally engaging and unpredictable. A Hollywood remake, Criminal, has been done in 2004.
The plot: The film consists of six episodes which alternate intrigue, comedy and violence. All the characters are pushed to their limits, towards "the undeniable pleasure of losing control", crossing the fine line that separates civilization from barbarism.
The plot: Rafael is a restaurateur going through midlife crisis; he is divorced, sees very little his daughter, has no friends and avoids committing to his girlfriend. And for a long time he has not visited his mother, who is at a nursing home with Alzheimer's disease. A series of unexpected events will force him to rethink his life. Among them, the intention his father has to accomplish his mother's lifetime dream: to get married in the Church.
Go see it because…it was Argentina's official submission for 2001 Oscar Awards, Foreign Language film category. The movie has a perfect balance of comedy and drama, smiles and tears… Family, relationships, economical problems…It will remind you of some good old Italian films.
The plot: In 1952, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, being a medical student, tours South America with a motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado. Both young men leave behind the familiar "comfort" of Buenos Aires and embark on a discovery journey of the complex human and social situation of South America, imbued with a romantic adventurous spirit.
Go see it because…The movie is actually a coproduction between Argentina, USA, Chile, Peru, Brazil, UK, Germany and France; it has been nominated for 42 awards and won 37 of them, including an Oscar. It is a film about travel, adventure, discovery, but mainly self-discovery. I have already written about this wonderful movie here and here.
The plot: Roberto is a grumpy, anti-social man who owns a hardware shop in Buenos Aires and loves collecting bizarre stories he reads in the newspapers. By chance he meets Jun, a Chinese man who just arrived in Argentina looking for his only living relative. Roberto takes him in, and their unusual cohabitation helps Roberto bring an end to his loneliness. Destiny will have to do with their encounter, as well as explain the film's surreal opening sequence: a cow falling from the sky.
Go see it because…This is a heart-warming, feel-good comedy with some doses of black humor, exploring destiny, cultural differences, friendship and love.
The plot: Martin, an agoraphobic website designer and Mariana, an underemployed architect, live on the same street in Buenos Aires. They both feel depressed and lonely. They seem to be perfect for each other, but what are the odds of meeting each other? The film begins by showing Buenos Aires' skyline, and parallels the city's architecture with how their inhabitants' are – disorganised, contradictory, chaotic and disconnected.
Go see it because…The films describes perfectly the feeling of loneliness and isolation of big metropolises. It is touching and cinematically beautiful.
Go see it because…Esperando la Carroza has become a cult movie in Argentina, and was voted the best Argentinean comedy of all times. It has many tag lines which still nowadays are part of everyday talk. It portrays Argentina's middle class, satirises society and traditions, and deals with the subject of taking care of the elder. The character of Mama Cora (played by Antonio Gasalla) is just hilarious.
The plot: Dr. Julio Denis is a psychiatrist who works at a neuropsychiatric hospital. One day a young man, Rantes, mysteriously appears at the hospital, claiming to have come from another planet to study humans and their behaviour. The doctor treats him as a paranoid, but as he gets involved with the patient, he starts doubting whether he is really crazy or not, subtly forcing Dr. Denis to rethink his life and career.
Go see it because…Man Facing Southeast is an intelligent, provocative and inspirational film that examines human condition and its contradictions. Hollywood has plagiarised borrowed the idea in the 2001 movie K-Pax.
The plot: Buenos Aires, 1983. Alicia, a history teacher, is happily married to Roberto, a government agent, and they have an adopted daughter. Due to censorship, Alicia is not aware of how much killing had gone on. After having a conversation with her students and with a friend who had been in exile after being tortured by the government, Alicia starts doing some research on her own. The results reveal the identity of the little girl's parents and her husband's role in the government's repression.
Go see it because…Although fictional, this film is based on actual events that took place during Argentina's military dictatorship of the 1970s. It is a part of a Argentina's painful past and should be seen by anyone interested in learning more on the country's history. It is a powerful film, superbly acted and directed; among many other awards, it won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Have you seen any of these films? Which one if your favourite?
Entre las muy buenas pelìculas argentinas tambièn podemos ver "Elefante blanco" del actor Ricardo Darìn. Vèanla, merece tu tiempo.
Gracias Alicia! Voy a ver si la encuentro para verla… Un beso grande!


Just like last month, all planets are situated at the bottom of the Scorpio horoscope. The Night.
In this semi-annual cycle of the cosmic "hibernation" or in the inner world, you are engaged in dealing with feelings, your private life and the build-up for the coming cycle when the outside world and career become important again.
Jupiter travels through your own sign, Scorpio! In this new 12-year cycle of growth you get know yourself in a deeper level and to explore your limits. New experiences and people you meet are of great value and inner growth.
February 2018 is a blistering month for the Scorpio. A sensual month of exciting encounters and exciting moments. The steady relationship is passionate and romantic, but can be erratic as well. Attraction and repulsion, so there are challenges. But you do like a challenge, Scorpio.
The single Scorpio is looking for a good interlocutor. Someone with a fascinating vision of life. Rather an intelligent conversation than small talk. Do not look too far. You will find that special person at the beginning of February 2018 in your immediate environment, at your home or in your inner circle. Follow your heart. Someone has to keep up with you intellectually, but has to touch your soul as well.
The New Moon of January 17, 2018 fell into your House of Communication, transport, short trips, siblings, neighbors and neighborhood.. The New Moon presents a great development at home in February 2018.
The Solar Eclipse of February,15 2018 in Aquarius takes place in your House of Family and Home. This cosmic event shows significant developments in your private life, home and family in the coming six months. Come clean with old pain from the past and work on a stable home situation. In February 2018, there will be more time available to work on the mutual relationship and to undertake activities with your family or family.
Follow your heart in everything you do. If you have to make a decision, first listen to your heart and switch off your head. If you need some space for yourself, go outside and visit the gardens of Mother Nature. At the end of February 2018, your patience will be called upon. Count to ten, Scorpio.
The Lunar Eclipse of January 31, 2018 fell into your House of Career. This month you see possibilities of progress and success, but only if you give your heart and soul.
At the beginning of February 2018 you have to make a business decision. It is good to keep this decision for yourself. In the end you are responsible for your own life.
Nobody can do that for you. No one can feel what you feel. So follow your own feelings.
The Sun rules over your House of Career.
Your commitment is noticed from above and is rewarded with a promotion or a salary increase. This month you make time for your family to go on vacation. Your career can wait.
The red fighter Mars travels this month until March 17, 2018 through your House of Finance. February 2018 is a favorable period for pursuing financial goals, improving your finances and providing more financial stability and security.
The second half of February 2018 is financially favorable. You can count on the financial support of friends and family members. Investments in real estate are also profitable in February 2018.
Do not be too eager with impulse buying, because your expenses can be excessive and unnecessary. Ask yourself about all financial transactions: What is valuable to you? What do I really need? Do I need this?
In general, the health of the Scorpion is going well.
During the first three weeks of February 2018 you will need more rest and relaxation due to the Sun's influence in Aquarius. Have an early night, a warm bath .... Your health requires more attention. You should pay particular attention to improving your emotional well-being in order to stay physically healthy. Forget alcohol and coffee as much as possible. Drink plenty of water, let yourself be massaged regularly and take a nice walk along the beach.
From February 19, 2018 your health will improve when the Sun enters the water sign of Pisces. Working together with friends is fun and necessary!
Saturn in Capricorn sometimes makes things look pessimistic and gloomy. The journey of Jupiter through Scorpio is about (re) discovering your personality, so everything that happens in your life is a healing journey, whether you're willing to see that or not.
Jupiter travels through your own sign, Scorpio, until November 8, 2018! A rebirth of yourself!
In this new 12-year cycle of growth and expansion you will know yourself in a deeper sense and explore your limits. New experiences and people you will meet this month and this year are of great value and contribute to inner growth. Your future success is based on emotional strength.
Good career planning is always the best start. Also in February 2018. Take your time.
From the spring of 2018 things are beginning to move very fast.


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Q: Need help to understand how to resolve a promise that is nested within multiple mongoose queries and a mapped array router.get('/pictures', (req, res, next) => {
  Picture.find()
  .then(handle404)
  .then(pictures => {
    return pictures.map(picture => picture.toObject())
  })
  .then(pictures => {
    pictures.map(picture => {
      User.findById(picture.owner)
      .then(owner => {
        picture.ownerName = owner.username
        console.log(pictures, "my picture with owner")
        return pictures
      })
      .then(pictures => res.status(200).json({ pictures: pictures }))
    })
  })
  .catch(next)
})
})

In order of operations: I need to find all pictures, then loop over the pictures array and find the username of the owner, then add a key in the pictures array with the owner username, then send the response with the new array of pictures that includes the owner's username
I want to return the pictures array with the found owner names.. but I am having an issue with the response being sent before the owner name is being set and Im not sure how to get the response to wait. If there is just one owner name its fine, but more than one and I get an error -
UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error [ERR_HTTP_HEADERS_SENT]: Cannot set headers after they are sent to the client

I think this means my response is being sent before my query is completed.

A: When looping with an asynchronous operation in the loop, you have to either sequence the loop with await or, for parallel operation, collect all the promises from the loop into an array and use Promise.all() to track when they are all done.  Here's one way to do that:
router.get('/pictures', (req, res, next) => {
    Picture.find()
        .then(handle404)
        .then(pictures => {
            pictures = pictures.map(picture => picture.toObject());
            return Promise.all(pictures.map(picture => {
                return User.findById(picture.owner).then(owner => {
                    picture.ownerName = owner.username
                    return picture;
                });
            }));
        }).then(pictures => {
            res.status(200).json({ pictures });
        }).catch(next);
});

Also, when you have asynchronous operations inside .then() handlers, make sure to return those promises so they are linked into the chain.

The warning you are getting UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error [ERR_HTTP_HEADERS_SENT]: Cannot set headers after they are sent to the client is because you are trying to send more than one response to the same http request.  That is happening inside your loop where you're trying to do res.json(...) inside the loop (and thus multiple times).  The way to avoid that is to collect the results from the loop (using Promise.all() in this case) and then send one response at the end.


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Different countries hold vast rallies in support of Palestine
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA) – Concurrent with the continuation of Zionist regime's crimes against oppressed Palestinians, people in various countries held massive rallies in support of Palestinian people.
As crimes of the Zionist regime continue on the occupied lands and territories, various countries of the world, including the United States, are still the scene of large-scale rallies in support of Palestinian people.
Thousands of people across the United States and around the world took to the streets on Saturday in support of the Palestinian people and in condemnation of violence and brutality of the Zionist regime against Gaza residents.
Thousands of people flocked to the streets in New York, Texas, Washington, Massachusetts, and Chicago, waving Palestinian flags with slogans such as "Zionists must go."
Yesterday evening, for the second day of protest, German capital Berlin witnessed demonstration of thousands of German citizens in support of Palestinian people against Zionist regime's aggression on the occupied territories.
A similar demonstration was held in Danish city of Aarhus in support of Palestinian people against the Zionist regime's crimes.
Also, thousands of people in UK capital London demonstrated on Saturday in support of Palestinian people and in condemnation of the Israeli army's attacks against the occupied lands.
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Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem
VIDEO: Lebanese people hold rally on border of occupied lands
French police raid pro-Palestinian rally in Paris
Rallies in support of Palestine in Italy
20,000 Australians hold rally in support of Palestine
Yemeni people hold massive rally in support of Palestinians
VIDEO: Thousands gather at Free Palestine rally in Sydney CBD
Syria says ready to give 'any assistance' to Palestine
Czech envoy to Kuwait apologizes for posting Israeli flag
VIDEO: Moment when Palestinian runs car over Zionist soldiers
Zionist Regime
Public Protests
Protest Rally


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This article is about the writer. For the Canadian journalist, see Peter Cheney.
Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951), known as Peter Cheyney, was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is perhaps best known for his short stories and novels about agent/detective Lemmy Caution, which, starting in 1953, were adapted into a series of French movies, all starring Eddie Constantine (however, the best known of these – the 1965 science fiction film Alphaville – was not directly based on a Cheyney novel).
Although out of print for many years, Cheyney's novels have never been difficult to find second-hand. Several of them have recently been made available as e-books.
Peter Cheyney was born in 1896, the youngest of five children, and educated at the Mercers' School in the City of London. He began to write skits for the theatre as a teenager, but this ended when the First World War began. In 1915 he enlisted in the British Army as a volunteer, in 1916 was wounded on active service and published two volumes of poetry, Poems of Love and War and To Corona and Other Poems. The next year, 1917, his military service ended.
Starting in the late 1920s, Cheyney worked for the Metropolitan Police as a police reporter and crime investigator. Until he became successful as a crime novelist, he was often quite poor. It is said that he got his start through a bet; when Cheyney remarked that anyone could write a book in the idiom of the American thriller, he was wagered five pounds that he could not. Cheyney sold his first story as the result of this bet.
Cheyney wrote his first novel, the Lemmy Caution thriller This Man Is Dangerous in 1936 and followed it with the first Slim Callaghan novel, The Urgent Hangman in 1938. The immediate success of these two novels assured a flourishing new career, and Cheyney abandoned his work as a freelance investigator. Sales were brisk; in 1946 alone, 1,524,785 copies of Cheyney books were sold worldwide.
A meticulous researcher, Cheyney kept a massive set of files on criminal activity in London until they were destroyed during the Blitz in 1941; he soon began to replace his collection of clippings. Cheyney dictated his work. Typically Cheyney would "act out" his stories for his secretary, Miss Sprauge, who would copy them down in shorthand and type them up later.
The Caution books read very much like what they are: pulp stories written in ersatz American by a British writer. With private detective Slim Callaghan he invented a non-American who is based in Cheyney's home territory of London.
Callaghan starts out in Marlowe-mode in the first book in a shabby office (in Chancery Lane). Things are not going well for him and he has difficulty paying the bills. However, unlike Marlowe, Callaghan is upwardly mobile and after some detecting success helping a rich (female) client he is able to make the step up to having his own agency with a fancy office and pretty secretary in swanky Berkeley Square.
Subsequent novels in the series follow very much the tried and tested pattern. Callaghan's services are sought by rich and attractive female client. Lady in question is naturally involved in upsetting business (often blackmail) that precludes going to police. Callaghan meets lady, likes what he sees (Cheyney appears to have studied women's fashion for he never fails to describe in detail every lady's clothes and jewellery), is nonchalant and impudent, which simultaneously upsets and attracts lady. Lady of course is either afraid to tell all facts or is being deliberately misleading and Callaghan must work out truth for himself.
Callaghan begins his investigating, in Marlowe-style, by putting himself about and stirring up trouble, which attracts attention of people (including at least one shady nightclubowner) involved in puzzle who supply him with enough pieces to get whole picture and to plan strategy.
During case (usually a period of days) he will push himself to limit, getting no sleep, drinking continually ('three fingers of straight whisky') driving Jaguar down to Torquay or Weymouth to visit refined client and driving back to London same night if necessary to overall plan. A string of attractive women will throw themselves at him during narrative but he only has eyes for refined client. He will hand out and receive beatings, he will tamper with evidence and outsmart both criminals and police until case is solved and refined client extricated from trouble and danger. Only then (to chagrin of secretary who has long-standing crush) will he reap dual reward of favours of refined client accompanied by substantial check.
Cheyney's "Dark" series was widely praised during World War II for bringing more realism to espionage fiction. In their casual brutality and general "grubbiness," the "Dark" novels seem to have foreshadowed much of the Cold War fiction of the mid to late 1960s. Anthony Boucher placed these later works in the context of Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad.
The characterisation of Ernest Guelvada in the "Dark" series is one of the high points of Cheyney's career. A cheerfully sadistic war operative whose objective is to deplete the ranks of opposing forces in a leisurely but thorough fashion, the loquacious Guelvada still finds the time to dress immaculately, drink immoderate amounts of alcohol and remain a counter agent.
Cheyney published one volume of short stories, advice to critics and a few poems in No Ordinary Cheyney (London: Faber and Faber, 1948).
Cheyney died at age 55, after having fallen into a coma. He was buried at Putney Vale Cemetery in London.
From all accounts, Cheyney lived much like his characters, working too hard, living the fast and careless life with a breathtaking abandon that eventually caught up with him. In addition to his literary skills, "he was a fencer of repute, a golfer, a crack pistol-shot, and a jiu-jitsu expert."
Cheyney was married three times: in 1919 to the stage actress Dorma Leigh, in 1934 to Kathleen Nora Walter Taberer, and in 1948 to Lauretta Singer Groves. He had no children.
Cheyney published a semi-autobiographical volume, Making Crime Pay and after his death at least two biographical essays appeared in posthumous collections. An essay by Viola Garvin, "Peter Cheyney" appears in Velvet Johnnie a posthumous collection of Cheyney's short stories (London: Collins, 1952, pages 7–32). The other essay is anonymous. It appears in the Cheyney collection Calling Mr. Callaghan (London: Todd, 1953, pages 7–16).
^ "The Life & Times of Peter Cheyney, Chapter 1: East-End Boy". petercheyney.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 October 2006.
^ a b "The Life & Times of Peter Cheyney, Chapter 2: Wars, Wives & Work". petercheyney.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 October 2006.
^ a b c "Peter Cheyney, 55, novelist, Is Dead" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 June 1951.
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VoteCast: Florida Voters Divided on State of Nation
AP VoteCast found that 47 percent of Florida voters said the country is on the right track, compared with 51 percent who said the country is headed in the wrong direction. Here's a snapshot of who voted in Florida and why.
FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2018 file photo, people gather around the Ben & Jerry's "Yes on 4" truck as they learn about Amendment 4 and eat free ice cream at Charles Hadley Park in Miami. With a single vote Tuesday, Nov. 6, Florida added 1.4 million possible voters to the rolls when it passed Amendment 4, which said that most felons will automatically have their voting rights restored when they complete their sentences and probation. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
Voters casting midterm election ballots in Florida are divided over the state of the nation, according to a wide-ranging survey of the American electorate.
As voters cast ballots for governor, U.S. Senate and members of Congress in Tuesday's elections, AP VoteCast found that 47 percent of Florida voters said the country is on the right track, compared with 51 percent who said the country is headed in the wrong direction.
Here's a snapshot of who voted and why in Florida, based on preliminary results from AP VoteCast, an innovative nationwide survey of about 139,000 voters and nonvoters– including 3,744 voters and 679 nonvoters in the battleground state of Florida— conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago.
Race for senate
In the race for Senate, Republican Rick Scott was preferred over Democrat Bill Nelson among white voters. Whites with a college education leaned toward Scott, and whites without a college degree supported Scott as well.
Nelson had a sizable advantage among black voters and also had an apparent advantage among Hispanic voters.
Voters under 45 favored Nelson; those ages 45 and older appeared to prefer Scott.
Race for governor
Democrat Andrew Gillum led Republican Ron DeSantis among voters under 45 in the race for governor. Voters ages 45 and older appeared to prefer DeSantis.
Black voters and Hispanic voters preferred Gillum. White voters overall preferred DeSantis.
Whites without a college degree were more likely to support DeSantis. Similarly, white college graduates appeared to prefer DeSantis.
Voters considered several issues to be important to their vote in this midterm election, including immigration (27 percent), health care (24 percent), the economy (17 percent), gun policy (9 percent) and the environment (7 percent).
State of economy
Voters have a positive view of the nation's current economic outlook _ 69 percent said the nation's economy is good, compared with 31 percent who said it's not good.
Trump factor
For 33 percent of Florida voters, President Donald Trump was not a factor they considered while casting their votes. By comparison, 30 percent said a reason for their vote was to express support for Trump, and 37 percent said they voted to express opposition to Trump.
Voters in Florida had mixed views of Trump: 49 percent said they approve of how he is handling his job as president, while 51 percent said they disapprove of Trump.
Control of Congress
Tuesday's elections will determine control of Congress in the final two years of Trump's first term in office, and 74 percent of Florida voters said which party will hold control was very important as they considered their vote. Another 19 percent said it was somewhat important.
Staying at home
In Florida, 65 percent of registered voters who chose not to vote in the midterm election were younger than 45. A wide share of those who did not vote _ 82 percent _ did not have a college degree. About as many nonvoters were Democrats (32 percent) as Republicans (33 percent).
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