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Concepts and Doctrine Opinion Short Read
Waving a Small Stick at China
by David Stubbs June 25, 2021 June 16, 2021
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Whenever defence reviews are published commentators tend to focus on the number of military personnel the government thinks are necessary to defend British interests. Reductions in personnel are viewed as an indicator of Britain's decline.1 As ever, government willingness to properly fund the activities it wishes the military to undertake remains a key topic.2 What is different about the 2021 Integrated Review is the way it seeks to balance personnel reductions with scientific and technological advantages it believes the UK will enjoy, to compensate for workforce reductions. The review recognises that the European theatre will continue to be the main effort, but despite this it has articulated a desire to 'tilt' UK forces to the Indo-Pacific. Essentially, the Integrated Review has indicated Britain's desire to play a part in mitigating China's regional belligerence. In this respect clear parallels can be drawn with the spending judgements made in the 1920s and 1930s, when British leaders were struggling to come to terms with the rising power of Japan.
Then, as a counterweight to the emerging regional power of Japan, British leaders decided to construct a large naval fortress in Singapore to make clear their determination to protect imperial regional interests. Yet, by the mid-1930s the British and French leaders were acutely aware that their electorate wanted to avoid becoming embroiled in another European war. In response, British and French politicians made a series of concessions to Adolf Hitler in the hope that his demands would cease when his clearly articulated aspirations were satisfied.3 Appeasement failed to keep the peace in Europe. In Asia the paucity of resources provided to the region, together with inter-service wrangling about the best way to defend Malaya and the Singapore isthmus, resulted in the humiliating loss of Singapore to the Japanese in February 1942.4
The progress of the war made clear that the Japanese military had been greatly underestimated, in part due to racist attitudes.5 Outmatched RAF fighter and bomber aircraft in Singapore were destroyed on the ground or shot out of the sky. The shock caused by the resultant defeat was compounded by the loss of two Royal Navy (RN) capital ships, the battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse, both of which were detected and sunk by Japanese aircraft. Admiral Sir Tom Phillips, a man renown for questioning the ability of aircraft to sink capital ships, was lost with his flagship.6
HMS Prince of Wales
Although it was clear that Britain's imperial possessions in the region were lost forever, a mere eight years passed before Britain's military leaders persuaded themselves that in spite of the significant threat posed by Soviet military forces to the democracies of western Europe the UK ought to provide a 'stabilising influence' against the wider 'Communist threat' by positioning a significant forces in the Far East and Middle East.7 Fast-forward to 2021 and although Russia 'remains the most acute threat' to Britain's security, the rise of China has had a similar influence on UK strategists.8 China features eighteen times in the recent Defence Command Paper; Russia only sixteen times.9 Hard power is mentioned nine times, soft power just once. The concept of Smart Power has disappeared altogether. The change in the mood music surrounding the rise of China is palpable.
Why should we be bothered? Financial pressures have always constrained the size of the defence budget but the decision to play a leading role in dissuading China from achieving its regional ambitions in the South China Sea marks a dramatic shift in defence thinking. In 2011 the American rebalancing to Asia, portrayed as a 'pivot', led the authors of British doctrine to assume that the UK's vital interests would be concentrated in Europe, though it was thought that the UK would have to fill the void left by the Americans, by acting as a framework nation for operations in and around Europe. Cooperation rather than confrontation with China was expected.10
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Realpolitik, it seems, has intervened. China's desire to recover Taiwan, its main foreign policy objective since 1978, underpins the heightened tensions in Asia and its recent brutal subjugation of Hong Kong appears to have raised concerns that the Chinese are likely to act sooner rather than later to 'return Taiwan to the motherland'. In retrospect, President Barak Obama's willingness to permit China's expansionist activities in the South China Sea, framed by the idea that China would evolve into something akin to western democracy, now seems ill-judged. Allowing unfettered Chinese expansion in the region has only encouraged the Chinese to explore the boundaries of western tolerance.
Implicit in the Integrated Review, therefore, is a desire to demonstrate that the elasticity of western tolerance has ended. The RN's deployment of HMQ Queen Elizabeth to the region signals an end to passivity. However, the military mistakes and misjudgements in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, together with the decision not to intercede in Syria have made British voters suspicious of expeditionary ventures. Instead, the populations' of western democracies have become increasingly fixated by the machinations of internal culture wars while, at the same time, appearing surprisingly indifferent to the plight of ethnic and political dissidents in China.11 The resultant apathy is likely to have an effect similar to that generated by the peace movements of the 1930s, which muted politicians' responses to a procession of Hitler's excesses.12
Protests in Hong Kong against Chinese control. By Silvermetals – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16838120
Against this backdrop it is clear that the Integrated Review's aims to 'sustain our commitment to collective security beyond the Euro-Atlantic', through the Five Power Defence Arrangement (FPDA) mechanism, is inherently risky.13 The indicators and warnings are clear. In January a force of thirteen Chinese aircraft conducted a simulated strike against an American aircraft carrier. In this context, a task group making a foray through the Strait of Taiwan will need added protection, which is likely to require American air support to bolster the task group's organic surface to air missiles capabilities. Of course, as Phillips discovered to his cost, such capabilities may not always be readily available.
Significantly, the UK's F-35s, procured in an age of overt western hegemony, were expected to operate in an offensive role, circumventing ground surface-to-air missile defences. The F-35 is not an air superiority aircraft, so its effectiveness in a highly contested anti-access and area denial environment is open to question; particularly if it is obliged to operate outside the protective envelope of the ships' missile engagement zones and face a technologically adventurous adversary.
Ultimately, the British government knows that it has little in the way of hard power leverage in Asia. It is only tilting, not pivoting its focus. The rationale in sending an RN aircraft carrier to the South China Sea is designed to demonstrate international support for American forces in Asia: to extol a wider resolve to defend Taiwan's ambiguous sovereignty. It marks a watershed in British attitudes to China. Yet, while RN cruises in Asia are unlikely to play a major role in influencing the Chinese, they are replete with risk. The British political establishment is particularly fragile to strategic shocks and the loss of an aircraft carrier would count as a catastrophe. A repeat of Phillips's arrogance in 1942 is best avoided, so political judgments about the utility of waving a small stick at China must have been finely balanced. It seems that posturing in the Far East has again been deemed worth the risk.14
David Stubbs
In his RAF career David Stubbs served as rear crew on maritime patrol and airborne early warning aircraft. During his exchange tour with the United States Air Force (USAF) he deployed to Turkey to fly in operations over northern Iraq. After returning to the UK, he deployed again to oversee operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia. After completing another tour, as a flt cdr on the E-3D, he deployed to Afghanistan before teaching at the RAF's Air Warfare Centre, on the Higher Air Warfare and Air Battle Staff courses. After completing a Master of Arts in Air Power: History, Theory and Practice at the University of Birmingham, a version of his thesis was published in the Journal of Military History. Articles and a chapter have followed in the RAF's Air Power Review, Canadian Military History, Journal of Military History and in the book 'The Culture of Military Organizations'.
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Paul Cornish and Andrew M. Dorman, Breaking the mould: the United Kingdom Strategic Defence Review 2010, International Affairs, 86 (2), 2010, 396. Sir Richard Johns,Bolts from the Blue: From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staff (London: Grub Street, 2018), 267-269.
David Jordan,The Defence Review Dilemma: The British Experience, Freeman Air & Space Institute, King's College London, March 2021.https://www.kcl.ac.uk/the-defence-review-dilemma-the-british-experience-a-response
Michael Howard, The Invention of Peace (London: Profile, 2000), 70. John Robert Ferris, "Indulged in all too little"? Vansittart, intelligence and appeasement in Intelligence and Strategy: selected essays (London: Routledge, 2005), 58,75,85, 92-93.
Brian P. Farrell, The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942 (Stroud: Tempus, 2005), 69-71. Vincent Orange, Tedder: Quietly in Command (London: Frank Cass, 2004), 100-101. Peter Dye, The Man Who Took the Rap: Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the Fall of Singapore (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2018), 153,165-167. Henry Probert, The Forgotten Air Force: The Royal Air Force in the War Against Japan 1941-1945 (London: Brassey's, 1995), 8, 14, 20-21.
Greg Kennedy, Anglo-American Strategic Relations and Intelligence Assessments of Japanese Air Power 1934-1941,Journal of Military History, 74 (3), July 2010, 737-741. Wesley K. Wark, In Search of a suitable Japan: British naval intelligence in the pacific before the Second World War, Intelligence and National Security, Nbr 1 Issue 2, 1986, 192.
Henry Probert, Bomber Harris: His Life and Times (London: Greenhill Books, 2001), 75. Sir John Kennedy, The Business of War (London: Hutchinson, 1957), 184. Probert, The Forgotten Air Force, 45-48. Dye, The Man Who Took the Rap,251.
Correlli Barnett, The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities 1945-1950 (London: Macmillan, 1985), 83-96.
CP 403 Global Britain in a competitive age, H M Government, 2021, The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, 18. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/969402/The_Integrated_Review_of_Security__Defence__Development_and_Foreign_Policy.pdf. The UK's framework conceptual documents: Global Strategic Trends (GST), Future Character of Conflict and Future Operating Environment had been characterised by an exponential rise in references to China. GST-4 mentioned China 124 times in 2011, by 2018 GST-6 mentioned China 217 times. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/771309/Global_Strategic_Trends_-_The_Future_Starts_Today.pdf
CP 411, Secretary of State for Defence, Defence in a competitive age, March 2021. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/971859/_CP_411__-_Defence_in_a_competitive_age.pdf
Ministry of Defence, Joint Concept Note 3/12, Future Air and Space Operating Concept, September 2012, para 127-8.
Lionel Shriver, Why fear a society that's tearing itself apart? The Spectator, 10 April 2021, 27. This article appeared seventeen days after KCL received the initial version but makes the point very well.
David Reynolds, The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century (London: Simon & Shuster, 2013), 243. J.T. MacCurdy, The Structure of Morale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943), 8-9.
CP 403 The Integrated Review, 22, 62, 66, 73.
The RN force provisioned to operate from Singapore in 1942 had one aircraft carrier, the Japanese had five. Today the RN has two aircraft carriers, but the Chinese Navy is expected to have five aircraft carriers by 2030 (Defence Command Paper, Defence in a competitive age, March 2021, 8)
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With the playoffs starting in just over a week, the NHL season is on its way to a close. While these last few games will highlight teams vying for postseason berth and jockeying for a higher seed, now is the time to turn the focus to regular season player awards before the playoff bracket is set.
A list of the biggest awards in hockey consists of the Art Ross Trophy (most points by a single player), Calder Memorial Trophy (rookie of the year), Maurice Richard Trophy (leading goal scorer), James Norris Memorial Trophy (best defenseman) and Vezina Trophy (best goaltender).
This year, Pittsburgh's center Sidney Crosby has distanced himself as a leader for the Art Ross Trophy. He has eclipsed 100 points, creating a nearly 20 point buffer between himself and second place, Anaheim's Ryan Getzlaf. While Crosby is a lock to win, Tyler Seguin's performance for the Dallas Stars also deserves some recognition. After being traded from Boston this summer, the young superstar has shown the speed and scoring capabilities that made him the second overall draft-pick three years ago.
The Calder Memorial Trophy, meanwhile, is designated for "the player selected as most proficient in his first year of NHL competition." As with the Art Ross, the choice for the Calder Memorial Trophy is obvious: Colorado's center Nathan MacKinnon. The rookie has played every single game of the season this far, amassing 60 points and validating the Avalanche for selecting him first overall. Additionally, he has been a major contributing factor in the Avalanche's rise to becomeingone of the best teams in the Western Conference. Look for him to be a driving force behind their continued success in future seasons.
As for the Maurice Richard Trophy, the Washington Capitals' very own Alex Ovechkin is once again favored to win, closing in on 50 goals for the fifth time in his prolific career. With four games left and the Capitals in the thick of a playoff push, look for Ovechkin to raise his play and add a few more tallies before the season closes. The Russian winger has once again excelled on the power play, where we've seen him continue to score goals from his signature one-timer position at the top of the left circle.
The James Norris Memorial Trophy could be the most hotly contested award this season and will likely come down to the individual preferences of the voters. Unlike the Art Ross and the Maurice Richard Trophies, the Norris Trophy is not directly correlated with scoring but with defensive play. For that reason, players like Boston's Zdeno Chara and New York's Ryan McDonough have seen their names mentioned in the conversation, despite having far fewer points than favorites Duncan Keith of the Blackhawks or Alex Pietrangelo of the Blues.
While Keith is the current favorite for the award, it would not be surprising to see Chara continue his late-season push and win, especially if the Bruins are able to secure the President's Trophy for the best record in the league behind his leadership. Advanced statistics have shown that Chara plays a majority of his time against opponent's toughest competition, and he has enjoyed sustained success even while defending the league's best. Only Ryan McDonough has shown comparable ability, but a combination of the Rangers' overall struggles and his youth will likely exclude him from the Norris this year.
Finally, perhaps the biggest beneficiary of Chara's aforementioned defensive contributions is Boston goaltender Tuukka Rask, who currently leads the field of hopefuls for the Vezina Trophy. Rask has posted an impressive 2.04 goals against average throughout the course of the season with a save percentage of .930. His seven shutouts lead the league, and his lights-out play has been a major factor in Boston's success.
Another possible recipient is Tampa Bay's Ben Bishop, whose slightly higher goals against average of 2.23 and slightly lower save percentage of .924 can be largely attributed to six additional games played behind a far inferior defensive. Unlike the Norris, however, the Vezina typically coincides more closely with statistical performance, so Rask continues to be the favorite. Last year, for example, many experts believed that the Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist outplayed Vezina-winner Sergei Bobrovsky, but the Bluejackets' netminder ultimately won because of a better statistical profile.
It will be interesting to see how the awards race shapes up over the coming games, especially considering this season's highly contested playoff chases. Some players will surely be glad to win their individual trophies, but competition will rise across the board next week because most players only care about one: Stanley Cup.
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A family finds peace, beauty, and rare sea glass at their coastal Maine retreat.
By Julie Suratt·	 5/24/2016, 6:00 a.m.
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The family likes to watch the sun rise from the porch, which offers some of the home's best views. / Photograph by Trent Bell
After a few years of watching the Maine real estate market hoping to find a vacation home for his young family, a New York City–based tech entrepreneur came across a stunning, 36-acre coastal plot in Scarborough overlooking Cape Elizabeth. Although he was pretty sure he'd found the one, he flew his wife north to get her opinion.
"I didn't know what her vision was—if she imagined a tight little community with lobster boats and calm waters," he says. This property was quite the opposite: open ocean, big waves crashing on the rocks, no neighbors in sight. "It feels much more raw and closer to nature," he adds.
Located just 20 minutes south of downtown Portland, the former saltwater farm was ideal for the entrepreneur, his wife, and their two young children; they wanted proximity to both the airport (for easy weekend getaways from New York) and extended family who live nearby. With his wife's blessing, he purchased the magnificent piece of land, along with the unremarkable house on it, intending to knock it down and rebuild.
The Portland firm of Whitten Architects conducted an exhaustive analysis of the property—much of which is set aside for conservation, with its rocky shoreline, pocket beaches, tidal pools, dense woods, wetlands, and former agricultural fields—to determine how to best situate a home. "A lot of thought went into the wide-open, expansive view and how to vary the experience of it," explains lead architect Russ Tyson. "The westerly view is the ocean, basically a 'one-liner'—which is not to say it isn't nice, but the northeasterly view is more interesting." He compares it to a landscape painting, with a background, middle ground, and foreground: "You've got the distant headland, an island off the coast, and waves breaking at the shore."
The expansive great room encompasses the kitchen, dining area, and living room. Giant lift-and-slide glass doors on either side provide "an enhanced connection to the outdoors," architect Russ Tyson says. / Photograph by Trent Bell
With these varied views in mind, the Whitten team came up with four design options. One, says the homeowner, was "an immediate click": a single-story, 4,575-square-foot, boomerang-shaped house that would provide 180-degree views of the ocean, plus protection from afternoon winds. Composed of separate yet connected buildings, it would feel like a rambling seaside camp—a welcome change from the conventional 1970s home that it would replace.
It was a go. But before the first nail was even hammered, Tyson and his team researched the wind patterns and calculated the angle of the sun. They decided to face the main living space north and south, with adjacent exterior spaces located to the east and west, to maximize solar exposure and natural light.
Guests enter the home through a generous glass entry, outfitted with built-in cubbies and a storage bench. The living and dining area boasts vaulted Douglas fir ceilings and giant lift-and-slide glass doors on opposing sides. "They get a bit of 'wow,'" Tyson says, referring to the view outside. Through one set of sliding doors is a small courtyard with a granite patio surrounded by native pitch pine trees and blueberry bushes. A glassed-in walkway leads to four bedrooms, each with a door to an oceanside porch, one of the design's main selling points for the owners.
The raised hearth features native Maine stone and custom metal and glass doors. / Photograph by Trent Bell
At the intersection of the public and private spaces is the homeowner's favorite retreat: a screened porch with vistas up and down the coast. Here, the family can read books, enjoy leisurely meals, or converge around the big stone fireplace on buggy days. On clear nights, they head to the oceanfront patio to roast s'mores over the fire pit and gaze at the stars.
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The family retreats to the sunny, intimate courtyard on windy afternoons. / Photograph by Trent Bell
Set on 36 acres—the majority of which is conservation land—the home serves as an escape from the hustle and bustle of city life. / Photograph by Trent Bell
In the master bedroom, a staircase situated behind a slatted wall that serves to soften the light reflecting off the water leads to a cozy space where the owners can read or work with a view of the ocean. / Photograph by Trent Bell
The master bath boasts North Jay White granite counters that are indigenous to Maine. / Photograph by Trent Bell
The guest quarters include a bedroom, bathroom, and sitting room with a gas stove and three built-in bunks. / Photograph by Trent Bell
The kids climb a ladder to a treehouse-like loft in each bedroom. / Photograph by Trent Bell
A stone path guides visitors from the parking area to the main entrance of the home. / Photograph by Trent Bell
The Douglas fir ceiling visually connects the interior space to the exterior. / Photograph by Trent Bell
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You should not let yourself break down. There are some measures that will help you to bring back the sparkle if your husband no longer loves you.
Every wife would like to enjoy a blissful marriage. Hence if your husband no longer loves you, you are bound to be greatly disappointed. You may begin to wonder what could have gone wrong. Where did you mess things up? You may ask yourself.
An unfortunately high number of wives have to face the sad issue of husbands who fall out of love. While some of the wives end up being greatly devastated, others recover from the condition fairly fast. There are a number of simple steps that create this difference.
You may still be deeply in love with your husband while he seems to be pulling away. You may notice some changes in his actions or he may have actually told you what he thinks about the relationship. This is something that will give you quite a heartache. However, you should not let yourself break down. There are some measures that will help you to bring back the sparkle if your husband no longer loves you.
You will need to take a hard and honest look at your marriage if your husband no longer loves you. This will help you to determine the possible problem areas.
One of the common causes for the drying out of love is lack of intimacy. Intimacy can be easily pushed back due to other necessary responsibilities. For example, you may be so involved in looking after your children that you neglect your husband.
Lack of intimacy can greatly influence how your husband will feel towards you. Men really enjoy getting physically close to their wives.
Another thing you should consider if your husband no longer loves you is how interested you are in other pursuits. If you do not seem to have interest in anything, your husband is likely to lose interest in you as well. Spark his interest by enjoying other pursuits in life.
You certainly have something you are interested in. Start pursuing that passion so that you can become more interesting to your husband. It does not necessarily have to be something serious. A simple hobby can make you more interesting.
You will become more enjoyable if you enjoy your own life in the first place.
Remember that particular things you say or do will have a great bearing on how much your husband loves you. You can easily drive him further away from you if you act in some inappropriate manner. There are definite steps you should take if your husband no longer loves you.


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I guess I started wondering about this because I'm thinking about putting a beam combiner in my Chinese cheapie laser. I hate the head-mounted laser pointer.
My Triumph either didn't come with a red pointer or it's never worked, so awhile back I bought 3 pen-pointers, a red, green and blue. The green's the brightest of the bunch, and is just about too bright to focus to a nice dot. The red's almost as bright. The blue laser is useless because the yellow lens absorbs the blue light!
To make my own pointer, I laser cut a plex o-ring that fits snug around the tip of the red pointer, and almost as snug in the mirror-hole over the lens. I test-fire the laser onto a piece of scrap plastic, then press the pointer into the hole, then align the red dot to the test fire dot. Doing this takes a couple of seconds, but it works great! At first it was too bright (especially the green) so taking a cue from the laser pointer on my Gravograph IS400,, I cut a small 3/8" or so circle out of some .010" brass shim stock, and drilled a really tiny hole in it, then taped it over the end of the pointer. The light coming thru the tiny hole focuses to much smaller, easier to use dot on my table.
Anyway, I don't see why green wouldn't work?
Red = danger? Perhaps that's the thought process.


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Q: golang struct from other package Situation:
I've the following project structure:
root
    parser
       parser.go
    builtin
        exit.go
        hi.go
    structs
        base_structs.go
    main.go

.. and the base_structs.go file looks like this:
package structs

type Built_in_func func([] string)

type Built_in struct {
    s string
    f Built_in_func
}

I've imported the package in my main.go and I'm referencing the struct with structs.Built_in.
This is what I'm trying to do:
var builtin_list [] structs.Built_in

builtin_list = append(builtin_list, structs.Built_in{s:"exit", f:builtin.Exit})
builtin_list = append(builtin_list, structs.Built_in{s:"hi", f:builtin.Hi})

But I'm getting this error:

unknown structs.Built_in field 's' in struct literal

Question:
What am I doing wrong?

A: In Go, the visibility of a name outside a package is determined by whether its first character is upper case.
So the field s is actually not visible from outside the package structs and you get that error.
If you define your struct like (note the upper case):
type Built_in struct {
    S string
    F Built_in_func
}

Then this will work (again the upper case):
structs.Built_in{S:"exit", F:builtin.Exit}

You can read more here:
https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#names

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By Tim Mak • Jun 13, 2019
Originally published on June 13, 2019 8:10 pm
With every passing day, deep fake technologies are becoming more sophisticated. These technologies involve using artificial intelligence to modify familiar faces and voices in order to create convincing - and false - video and audio. The emergence of this technology has serious implications for how we view truth and reality in our society.
NPR's Tim Mak has more on how Congress is raising questions about how this all could affect the 2020 campaign, businesses and our national security.
TIM MAK, BYLINE: What you will hear next was never actually said. It looks like a Facebook office. It looks like Mark Zuckerberg giving an interview. It looks like his mouth is moving along with the words.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Imagine this for a second. One man with total control of billions of people's stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures.
MAK: But that wasn't the founder of Facebook. It was instead a deep fake created by an artist in the U.K. and posted on Instagram. This technology is quickly becoming a national security concern. The House Intelligence Committee held a hearing Thursday warning of the threat.
ADAM SCHIFF: With sufficient training data, these powerful deep-fake-generating algorithms can portray a real person doing something they never did or saying words they never uttered.
MAK: That's committee Chairman Adam Schiff. The disaster scenarios are obvious - a deep fake showing a 2020 candidate inciting violence against an ethnic group or false audio of a military official giving orders to mass troops at a border. There is no easy solution. Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland, explained the challenge of prosecuting those who might create deep fakes.
DANIELLE CITRON: I would imagine that authenticating and figuring out who the person is who created the deep fake would be hard. And even if you could figure out who that person is, the question is, do they live in the United States? Can we get jurisdiction over them?
MAK: Another route would be to hold social media organizations responsible for the spread of deep fix, but many Republicans believe tech groups harbor an anti-conservative bias and can't be trusted as the gatekeeper. Here's how the top Republican on the committee, Devin Nunes, described them, calling them...
DEVIN NUNES: These tech oligarch companies - there's only a few of them. You know who they are.
MAK: Up until now, social media companies have a general legal immunity to content posted on their platform, but that may be changing. Listen to this question from Schiff.
SCHIFF: Is it time to do away with that immunity so that the platforms are required to maintain a certain standard of care?
MAK: Any effort addressing the threat of deep fakes involves increasing public awareness, but even this poses a problem. It's called the liar's dividend. Here's Citron explaining what that is.
CITRON: Once you get everyone all educated, then, you know, you have wrongdoers point to real video - genuine audio and video that show them doing something illegal or wrong, right? - and they get to say, oh, it's a deep fake. Pay no attention.
MAK: These technologies are evolving rapidly, to the point that almost anyone can use it. Here's Lindsay Gorman, the fellow for Emerging Technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy.
LINDSAY GORMAN: What used to be something that was available only to sophisticated machine learning experts is now becoming available to the general public.
MAK: So, as the witnesses to Thursday's committee hearing attest, it may only be a matter of time until deep fakes affect our politics and our national security. Tim Mak, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Relevance to Cox's Road: This lookout is 1.5km south of the original Cox's Road and provides a perspective on the steepness of the road climb, ascending from the Emu Plains below (20m) to the top of the monocline (190m), a climb of around 170m over 1.5km of road, a mean gradient of 11.5%.


First, it was twee organic coffee bean purveyor investments. Then it was better-for-you candy bar funding and soy-based meal replacement.
In the ongoing interest in perfecting food by techies, a company called New Frontier Food has raised $1.7 million in a seed round from a range of investors. That includes Mike Buckley, a top comms exec at Facebook, and Mike Shim, who has been a well-known mobile exec for both Yahoo and Groupon, as well as investments from various people at ConAgra, Starbucks, Pinterest and Google.
The money raised is for Ocean's Halo The Seaweed Chip, which the company describes as "the first totally delicious, crispy, crunchy chip made from sustainably harvested seaweed." It is now available at Whole Foods and on Amazon, but New Frontier is working on some even larger chain retailer deals.
As a Lay's person myself, I am perhaps not the demo target, but it is interesting to note how many techies have an increasing interest in investing in the food sector, including such startups as Good Eggs and Hampton Creek Foods.
Or, as they say at Facebook, move fast and break things — though, in this case, not the chips.


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Author: Matthew N. Lyons, Its Going Down, K. Kersplebedeb, Bromma
Publisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing, 2017
Know thy enemy. For any prepared comrade, we understand that this maxim is a key element in planning political action. Ctrl-Alt-Delete: An Antifascist Report on the Alternative Right is a must read to arm ourselves in this growing political climate, where white supremacy is openly claiming legitimacy and the left is scrambling to fight against the rising tide of fascism. The book gives shape to the pool of people that flow from the internet to the White House: the Alternative Right, a movement loosely tethered together through the ideological forces of fascism and white supremacy. The book is comprised of four essays that deftly tackle the alt-right, where it came from, how it intervenes and shapes our current political climate, and what it means for the state of the world as we know it.
The first and titular essay, by Matthew N. Lyons, charts the rise of the alt-right, its major ideological currents, and their relationship to Donald Trump. As definitions of the alt-right are often vaporous and difficult to pin down, Lyons' essay does an excellent job of concretizing what is often relegated to Internet subculture. Exploring the alt-right's roots in the Paleoconservative and the European New Right (ENR) movements, Lyons illustrates a tangible history of the alt-right, the fascist movement that often eludes clear identification. Lyons, and other essays throughout the book, note the nebulous identity of the alt-right, a "big-tent culture" where various ideological currents flow in and out. While the alt-right does not hold the organizational capacity to enact mass violence, they can enact what Lyons identifies as a "metapolitical" shift in mass culture, that is, the tolerance and even approval of individualized violence in the name of white supremacy and the growing acceptance of fascism.
The second essay, "The Rich Kids of Fascism: Why the Alt-Right Didn't Start With Trump, and Won't End With Him Either" by comrades from the website It's Going Down, picks up where Lyons leaves off––the question of cultural shift amidst a rising tide of fascism. This essay explores the elitism of the alt-right movement, how they lead a movement of fascist respectability. As the It's Going Down comrades note, "the media loves the alt-right because it plays by the rules." As they perceptively note, the alt-right has no political organization in the streets, they don't have the capacity nor the ideological unity, but the alt-right, and in particular its elitist leaders, are excellent at drawing the media's attention. As the comrades of It's Going Down conclude, this media attention is also what we can use as a tool to fight them: drag the elitist scum into the mud and keep them there.
The final two essays serve as capstones and contextualizations on the alt-right. Extending the conversation on the alt-right and its ideological currents of white supremacy in the first two essays, the third essay, "Black Genocide and the Alt-Right" by K. Kersplebedeb, reminds us that "there is no such thing as 'white racial purity' or 'white nationalism' without anti-black racism and genocide." The fourth essay, "Notes on Trump" by Bromma, extends a view that, as we witness the clamour for ethno-states desired by the alt-right, we also see a reflection that the cosmopolitan dream of liberals, and of globalization itself, is in decline. Engaging with the discourse of how we shouldn't "normalize" Trump, Bromma brilliantly articulates that white supremacy has been the norm in the United States since its settler-colonial beginnings, and that such language serves to normalize Obama, a president who served monopoly capitalism to his fullest.
While a relatively short book at 108 pages, Ctrl-Alt-Delete serves as an important articulation of what the alt-right is and offers some recommendations on how to organize moving forward. As the alt-right hides in the veil of the internet and memes, Ctrl-Alt-Delete lifts the veil and exposes the movement for ideology, organizational capacity, and current impact on our political climate. With the rise of fascism in North America, it's a must read to arm ourselves for the fights to come.
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Government's new daily testing rules for key workers 'completely ineffective'
TUC argues that new scheme will only cover 1% of those it should
A person taking a Covid 19 lateral flow test
by our Industrial reporter @TrinderMatt
THE Tory government's new Covid-19 daily testing rules for key workers in England will be "completely ineffective" and cover just a tiny fraction of Britain's workforce, trade unions have warned.
GMB slammed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's pledge to regularly test 100,000 "critical workers" from today as "gesture politics of the worst kind."
The TUC argues that, by the government's own reckoning, more than 10 million people — about a third of the total workforce — are essential workers, meaning the new scheme will only cover 1 per cent of those it should.
From tomorrow testing rules are also to be eased for infected people without symptoms, as public services struggle to cope with massive staff absences due to the rapid spread of the omicron variant.
Asymptomatic people will no longer need to confirm a positive rapid lateral flow (LFT) result with a PCR test, but any worker forced to self-isolate and applying for a £500 test-and-trace support payment will still need to take a lab-checked test.
GMB director of health Dan Shears said the change was a "recipe for disaster."
He added: "Scrapping the need for a PCR test following a positive LFT will massively skew the infection figures [as] a positive LFT is only added to official figures if someone inputs results into the NHS system themselves — most won't do this.
"With statutory sick pay at poverty levels of £96 a week, it creates a perverse incentive for workers to ignore a positive LFT and keep working — potentially infecting lots more people.
"It's placing responsibility back on the individual, and many people can't afford it."
The warning comes after Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi claimed yesterday that cutting the self-isolation period for those with coronavirus still further would "certainly help" ease the burden on staffing pressures.
Last month, the total was reduced from 10 days to seven, and the US has recently slashed it to just five.
The former vaccines minister told BBC1's Sunday Morning show that the UK Health Security Agency had said that infections might spike still further if Britain followed suit, but the government would keep the measure "under review."
Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said SNP ministers were "not contemplating" the move at the moment, adding it would be "sensible to see the impact" of December's change first.
Mr Zahawi also accepted that more school staff would be forced to self-isolate as case rates rise following the start of the spring term last week.
The Stratford-upon-Avon MP said staff absenteeism was at about 8.5 per cent but "will increase because now schools are back, we're going to see an increase in infection rates."
He said "contingency planning" would allow schools to stay open and prepare young people for GCSE and A-level exams, which will go ahead.
However, the National Education Union's joint general secretary Kevin Courtney blasted ministers' response to the omicron threat as "tardy and inadequate."
He has joined other education unions to criticise the government's confirmation that only 7,000 air filters would be rolled out in schools and colleges, saying the move would "barely scratch the surface" as it would just cover about a quarter of educational settings nationally.
Mr Courtney told the Morning Star: "The government should seek to work closely with school leaders and the wider profession to ensure contingency plans are effective in ensuring that the spread of the virus and the disruption to pupils' education are minimised."
On Saturday, Britain became the first country in Europe to record more than 150,000 Covid deaths within 28 days of a positive test.


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QUESTION #90
When you throw an object into the air, is the initial velocity the same as the velocity just before it hits the ground? If so, why?
Asked by: Robin Pleshek
First, let's assume you are not taking air resistance into consideration. This is a reasonable assumption because it's obvious that a parachute's velocity just before it hits depends on factors other than just gravity or drop height. Adjusting its size can influence its speed at impact.
Without air friction, an object WILL regain its original upward velocity just before it hits the ground on the way down. The initial velocity on the ground represents KINETIC ENERGY, and the initial height of 0 represents NO POTENTIAL ENERGY. As the object rises, its kinetic energy is gradually converted into potential energy until at its highest point all the original kinetic energy (now zero) has been converted into potential energy. At any point in its travel, TOTAL kinetic and potential energy remains constant.
The process is reversed when the object falls. Starting at maximum potential energy (determined by its maximum height) and zero kinetic energy (not moving), the potential energy gradually gets converted back into kinetic energy until just before it hits the ground. Then, potential energy is zero and it has all the kinetic energy it had at the start.
So the CONSERVATION OF ENERGY is why the two velocities are the same.
Answered by: Paul Walorski, B.A. Physics, Part-time Physics Instructor
'One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have.'


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Volkanovski: I've earned shot at lightweight title
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Alexander Volkanovski: I've earned a shot at lightweight title
Welcome to The Volkanovski Hotel (1:32)
Alexander Volkanovski takes you inside the hometown pub that renamed itself after Illawarra's very own UFC featherweight champion. (1:32)
Sam BruceDeputy Editor, espn.com.au
Sam was brought up on long drives and the dusty fields of north-west New South Wales, where he developed his love of rugby from an early age. He joined ESPN after a five-year stint heading up Fox Sports Australia's digital rugby coverage.
Alexander Volkanovski has welcomed Henry Cejudo's return to the USADA testing pool, but the Australian says he is instead focused on a shift to lightweight and an immediate crack at becoming a two-division UFC champion.
Fresh off his domination of Chan Sung Jung at UFC 273, Volkanovski is already mapping out his plans for the remainder of 2022 -- something Cejudo is unlikely to be a part of, given athletes must typically be subjected to six months of testing before they are eligible to compete.
Is it time for Volkanovski to go up to 155? Who can challenge for the featherweight throne?
Still, Volkanovski says he is happy Cejudo is finally walking the walk, and not just the talking the talk, as has been the case on the Australian's impressive rise to becoming one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the UFC.
"Well at least he's [Cejudo] one step closer to committing to backing up what he's saying because he's chirping every single time [after I fight]," Volkanovski told ESPN. "How many times have you heard him say things?
"At least now I expect you [the media] to talk to me about it because at least he's showing some sort of commitment [to making a return]. But that doesn't mean he has shown a commitment in my division either. Anyone would just come back if they could get a title shot in whatever division they wanted."
Cejudo directly called out Volkanovski on Twitter on Monday, after manager Ali Abdelaziz had earlier confirmed to ESPN that his client was set to reenter the USADA testing pool.
Alexander Volkanovski celebrates his win over Chan Sung Jung at UFC 273 in Jackonsville, Florida, April 9, 2022 Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC
While he is open to a fight with Cejudo in the future, Volkanovski says the former two-division UFC champion had no right just to come in and expect a shot at the featherweight title when he hadn't been competing for two years.
"Go out there and still earn that No. 1 spot," Volkanovski said. "I think he's in a lot better position than anyone else that's out of the division to come in and get a title shot. If you go out there and fight one guy, I think you definitely get that title shot, which is still very fair; I feel like it's still a great opportunity for him.
"But if he's expecting to just walk into a title shot straight away, that's pretty ridiculous. Whether he's in the testing pool to fight bantamweight or featherweight, I don't know. But if he's going to go into featherweight, then fight a somebody and I reckon that gives you the No. 1 contender spot just like that."
While Max Holloway -- the American who was Volkanovski's original opponent at UFC 273 -- appears likely to be the Australian's next opponent, the champion is seemingly more motivated by another challenge.
That comes at lightweight, where he sees himself as immediately deserving of a title shot.
No cringe. Just straight talk. I've entered the USADA pool.
I know I could beat @alexvolkanovski. I want to become the 1st 3-division champion in UFC history. Or, he could shut up the cringe. It would be a treat for fans.
Either way, the 👑is back! https://t.co/s0CfnTvFOo pic.twitter.com/lsDpJMnSC8
— Henry Cejudo (@HenryCejudo) April 11, 2022
"I want that this year. That's something I'm looking at next, even," he told ESPN. "As I said, while this division [featherweight] is sorting itself out; I'm doing my part, I don't want to hold up any divisions. But if this division is getting held up it's because the contenders aren't taking that No. 1 spot. It's got nothing to do with me.
"So if [they're] going to do that, I want to be active, I'll move up, I'll work my options because I'm not holding anyone up and I'm doing my part. So if people don't want to do their part, let's have fun, let's have these money fights, let's have these double-champ status [fights], let's do all that type of stuff while that's happening. And I think I'm in a good position and a fair position to call for a double-champ status."
When asked whether he was wrong to say Cejudo should work his way up to a title shot and then expect one immediately at lightweight himself, Volkanovski pointed to the fact he had been fighting nonstop since first entering the UFC in 2016.
"I think I deserve a shot at being that [lightweight] champ," he said. "I was talking about someone who's retired, when we're talking about Henry getting straight into a featherweight division, I'm talking about someone who's been retired for a few years; I don't even know how long?
"He's never fought in the division for one, and he's retired ... so that's why I'm saying that I feel like he needs to do something [first]. If he was still bantamweight champ and had a couple of defences, then all right, now he's got some pull. Now he's got something behind that, there's a lot of weight behind that.
"Whereas I'm in a position that I've taken out the GOATs [Jose Aldo and Holloway], I'm going out there and absolutely dominating these guys, four title fights, three defences, I'm not holding the division up.
Alexander Volkanovski completely dominated Chan Sung Jung at UFC 273, earning a stoppage early in the fourth round Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC
"Now I haven't called for this until now; you didn't see me demand it [after the win over Jung] and I'm not demanding it now, but you haven't really seen me call for it until now, that just shows you the type of guy I am. And there's truth to what I'm saying about Henry Cejudo; he's got to earn it.
"But I feel like I'm in the position where I've earned a shot at that lightweight [title], so right now I'm going to call for it. That's where we're at right now."
Asked if he'd be willing to fight the winner of Charles Oliveira vs. Justin Gaethje, the lightweight title showdown that is set for UFC 274 next month, later this year, Volkanovski said he'd be ready to go.
"August sounds great, and in Australia sounds great, too," he told ESPN. "I know Dana [White] isn't too sure about it [fighting in Australia] but we'll have these conversations and see what we can do. Because I feel like there wouldn't be [many] hurdles to having it in Australia.
"They still want to know what the country's about [COVID restrictions] so we'll have those conversations and see what we can do, because I need to defend my felt in Australia ASAP.
"I want my next fight in Australia and I think that we deserve it."


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Improvement in modern medicine and an increased case of immune-compromised patients, opportunistic yeast infections have become an immerging cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. Recently, some unusual opportunistic yeast species have increased, and other known rare yeasts have appeared more often in the last decade ( afwgonline, 2017). Candida auris is a healthcare-associated yeast that causes invasive infections along with poor treatment outcome. Candida auris is difficult to treat as it is resistant to the first-line antifungal, fluconazole (FLC) and exhibits variable susceptibility to other azoles, amphotericin B (AMB), and echinocandins(A.
Chowdhary, Voss, & Meis, 2016).The first case of Candida auris was isolated by Japanese scientists in 2009 from the external ear canal (auris means 'ear' in Latin) of an inpatient in a Japanese hospital, now Candida auris has identified in more than a dozen countries on five continents(Stephen G. Baum, 2017). Typically, scientists diagnose fungal infections by growing the fungus from a person's blood or other body fluids in a laboratory setting.
However, Candida auris are difficult to identify and can be mistaken for other types of fungus. Special tests are sometimes needed to make a proper diagnosis (Maryland Department of Health,2017). Several studies published recently indicate that Candida auris in routine microbiology laboratories remain an unnoticed pathogen, approximately 90% of the isolates characterized by commercial biochemical identification systems are misidentified primarily because of a lack of the yeast in their databases.
Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is considered a more rapid and robust diagnostic technique for Candida auris identification(Anuradha Chowdhary, Sharma, & Meis, 2017). Several medications used by the physician to treat fungal infections are ineffective in treating Candida auris infections. In some cases, multiple antifungal medications at high doses might be needed to treat the infection (Maryland Department of Health,2017). At present, there are no Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) or European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) defined breakpoints for Candida auris susceptibility. CDC recommends that all Candida auris detected should undergo susceptibility testing and provides guidance for minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) breakpoints based on related Candida species and expert opinion. Fluconazole (tentative MIC breakpoint 32) is associated with high minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and is likely almost always resistant. Echinocandins are the empiric drugs of choice for Candida auris infections in adults and children over the age of 2 months.
Amphotericin B is less reliable, therefore should be considered for patients not responding to echinocandin therapy, depending on MIC results(Sears & Schwartz, 2017). The overall crude mortality rate in-hospital of Candida auris candidemia ranges from 30% to 60%, and infections typically occur several weeks (10?50 days) after admission. Candida auris invasive infections represent a therapeutic challenge, and no consensus exists for optimal treatment. Some studies report breakthrough fungemia while on FLU, and this correlates with commonly reported high MICs (>32 ?g/ml), suggesting intrinsic resistance against this drug.(Anuradha Chowdhary et al., 2017) Still further clinical studies in humans are needed.
It is important to note that resistance may develop on therapy and close clinical follow-up and potentially repeat MIC testing may be indicated for patients who are responding poorly to antifungal therapy(Sears & Schwartz, 2017). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2017) is alerting healthcare providers because patients in various countries have been infected with Candida auris, a yeast that can lead to invasive infections. Candida auris is concerning public health officials for the following three reasons:1. Candida auris strain is multidrug-resistant, meaning that it is resistant to commonly used drugs to treat Candida infections.2. It causes high death rate in hospitalized patients and spreads quickly. 3.
It is hard to diagnose in the standard hospital laboratory; this means that cases could be misdiagnosed and inappropriately managed. Candida auris cases continue to be found throughout the world, there is an urgent need for improved diagnostics, antifungal therapies, and infection control measures. PCR and real-time PCR assays to rapidly identify Candida auris have shown excellent accuracy in development and could be performed in laboratories that do not have the ability to perform MALDI-TOF or molecular sequencing techniques.
The development of new antifungal medications with activity against Candida auris will be vital to controlling Candida auris as therapeutic options are already limited. SCY- 078, a novel triterpene glucan synthase inhibitor, is currently in phase III trials for invasive and mucocutaneous candidiasis and has recently shown promising activity in vitro against Candida auris. Finally, aggressive infection control measures are critical to reducing the spread of Candida auris. Antimicrobial stewardship, hand hygiene, and contact precautions will continue to be of paramount importance.
More information is needed, however, about effective measures to reduce patient colonization and environmental contamination in healthcare facilities which have served as sites of ongoing transmission of this emerging pathogen(Sears & Schwartz, 2017).
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Kwara Gov approves N892 million for schools
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has approved the release of N892, 482, 648.38 to the state-owned tertiary institutions to to clear the backlog of salary arrears owed their staff.
This follows the release of N1billion by the State government to the sixteen local government councils in the State to augment their allocation for the payment of November 2016 salaries and pensions.
The State Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu, who disclosed this in a statement in Ilorin on Wednesday, noted that the approved fund is part of the N5billion received by the State government from the Federal Government as its share of the London and Paris Club loan refunds.
Alhaji Banu added that the funds will be disbursed to the institutions in monthly installments, stressing that the money is in addition to the current monthly subvention received by the colleges.
The beneficiary institutions include the Kwara State Colleges of Education in Oro, Ilorin and Lafiagi; College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS), Ilorin and the Kwara State School of Nursing, Oke-Ode.
Alhaji Banu expressed optimism that with the release of the funds, the affected institutions will be able to clear all the backlog of arrears owed their workers, adding that the colleges will also be able to ensure regular payment of their current salaries.
The Finance Commissioner stated that the State government is working hard with the management of the colleges to find a lasting solution to the salary crisis affecting the schools, while also stressing that the government is committed to ensuring that the salary crisis at the local government level is resolved soon.
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Doing Consulting During Your MBA—Here's How It Can Change Your Career
Shilpa, Kelly, and Olga took up consulting projects both for nonprofit and for-profit organizations during their MBA. Each one impacted their career in a different way
By Jasmine Lee-Zogbessou
Mon Jul 29 2019
We discuss how consulting during an MBA can enhance your career
The benefits of entering the consultancy industry are vast.
With rarely a dull moment, professionals will constantly be introduced to a huge variety of projects throughout their career.
Not to mention the impressive skillset acquired, from critical analysis to problem-solving, and the social impact one can make when dealing with important business challenges.
The Full-time MBA at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) gives professionals the chance to experience life as a consultant and hone these skills through three client consultancy projects—the Not-for-Profit Consultancy Project, the Commercial Business Consultancy Project, and the International Business Consultancy Project.
A key part of the MBA program, these projects see students work with organizations to solve real business problems.
For Shilpa Rasal, Kelly Higgins, and Olga Ramirez Pilares, the first two projects were particularly instrumental in shaping their careers.
Shilpa Rasal (MBA '20)—Switching careers
Shilpa (pictured) spent nearly three years working as a forensic professional for KPMG India before she decided to an MBA. A career in mainstream consulting seemed set in stone.
That is until she started her MBA and undertook the first two consulting projects.
For her first project, Shilpa worked with the nonprofit Environment Agency, a public body that protects and enhances the environment in England. With a team of her peers, she explored how green spaces can increase the value of property.
Through the project, she learned how infrastructure and community development can take place at a public level, and how to maximize what can be achieved with limited funds. Most of all, she saw the need for MBA graduates in nonprofits.
"Nonprofits need an eye for detail, a professional business approach to the problems they're facing, and smart and quick decision making, which can optimize the use of their resources," Shilpa says.
"People who come from commercial backgrounds, such as myself, have no idea what context nonprofits are working in. This project gave us the insight that there is a desperate need for the nonprofits to adopt a more business-like setup."
For the Commercial Business Consultancy Project, Shilpa explains that students are given a brief of their client's expectations and must then bid for the project. The client then decides whose project pitch is the best and the chosen students are tasked with delivering it.
"It's a really intense, competitive, real-life client pitching environment here," Shilpa says. "I didn't have any idea about how the actual client pitching exercises happen at an organization and this gave me insight into it."
Although Shilpa enjoyed both projects, the nonprofit task had the biggest effect on her. Determined to pursue a career with impact, she's already landed an internship at the United Nations and is looking to switch from forensics to work in international development after her MBA.
"I'm a step closer to my transition and a dream job," she says.
Kelly Higgins (MBA '14)—Building teams
When it came to her career path, Manchester alumna, Kelly (pictured) knew that she wanted to make an impact on her community and improve the lives of underprivileged people.
When looking for an MBA program to support her goals, the AMBS MBA stood out as a perfect match due to the Not-for-Profit Consultancy Project.
During the program, she figured out a costing model for After Adoption, a national charity and adoption agency, and while her pre-MBA expertise in social work was a great advantage, her team members gave her additional insight.
"There were people on my team that came from finance, or general consultancy, or engineering," she says. "To see the way they dissected the problem and to be able to learn from their skillset and then lend my perspective was really useful."
Kelly has now returned to the US and is the director of Centerstone's adult and family centers for mental health. "Working with people from different cultures and getting really good feedback about myself in those various contexts was invaluable," she says.
"That really helped me learn to be more thoughtful in my communication, to be clearer and to take into account more about understanding my audience as I am speaking to them."
Olga Ramirez Pilares (MBA '17)—Going outside your comfort zone
Olga (pictured) decided to pursue an MBA to give herself a competitive edge.
She originally worked as a computer engineer for various companies, from banking to software institutions. But she soon realized she wanted to pursue a career in project management instead.
Both the Commercial Business and Not-for-Profit consultancy projects stood out to Olga. She enjoyed working in teams. However, she wasn't always familiar with the topic areas, which involved bank processes between countries and supporting families with serious childhood illnesses.
"That pushed me outside of my comfort zone," she says. "Not being an expert in a topic forced me to investigate it further."
Originally from Peru, South America, Olga wasn't used to working with vastly international teams. Now as a project manager for Adidas Germany, she is using the insight she gained from both consultancy projects.
"I learned that there are other points of view when working in a team, as well as different behaviors. That gave me the confidence to work with international people, and as my current job is very international too, I feel comfortable here.
"That confidence is driving my career now."
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BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Sinopec Corp said its trading unit Unipec lost 4.65 billion yuan (525.64 million pounds) on crude oil hedging in the fourth quarter, one of China's largest derivatives trading losses in nearly a decade.
Asia's top refiner, which said the loss had pulled down its fourth quarter profits, suspended Unipec President Chen Bo last month, citing unspecified trading losses.
State-owned Sinopec still managed to report its best annual results since 2013 on Friday.
"Investigations have shown Unipec has applied some inappropriate trading strategies in hedging crude oil business," the company said in a filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange after the markets closed on Friday.
"Because of wrong calls on the oil price moves, (the company) incurred losses on the futures side of the hedging when oil prices fell," Sinopec said in the statement, without specifying what futures products it traded.
Chen is an industry veteran who helped the company become one of the world's largest oil traders. A senior Communist Party representative of the company was also suspended.
John Driscoll, managing director of consultancy JTD Energy said as the world's largest crude importer, China is naturally exposed to any upside shifts in the market.
"Being net short crude, they are a natural buyer of futures, swaps or call options. When the market tanks, unfortunately, long-side forward hedges are hit with losses," Driscoll said.
Benchmark Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil prices were down by more than 30 percent at end-2018 after hitting their highest in four years in October. Prices were hit by oversupply concerns as major producers ramped up output while the United States unexpectedly issued waivers that allowed countries to continue importing Iranian oil despite sanctions.
"Immediately after noticing abnormalities in the financial indicators. ..Sinopec terminated the transactions and carried out several measures to prevent further losses." the company said, adding it has stepped up internal compliances.
Fourth quarter net income, however, was only 2.41 billion yuan, Reuters calculations based on the filing showed, down 86 percent from the fourth quarter of 2017 and Sinopec's worst quarterly performance since the third quarter of 2015.
Revenue in the last quarter of 2018 rose to 808.6 billion yuan from 615.2 billion yuan in the same period a year earlier.
Sinopec also said on Friday that its refinery throughput last year rose 2.3 percent over 2017 to 244 million tonnes, or 4.88 million barrels per day.
Its crude oil output fell 1.75 percent to 288.5 million barrels but natural gas rose 7.1 percent to 977 billion cubic feet.
In 2009, three Chinese state-run airlines reported book losses totalling 13.17 billion yuan on aviation fuel hedging contracts.


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By:David Madden
Published: Jul 14, 2020, 05:44 UTC•5min read
Yesterday there was a sense of optimism running through the markets as the FDA fast-tracked a couple of drugs that have the potential to be Covid-19 vaccines.
Pfizer and BioNTech are working on four drugs that they are hoping will go on to be coronavirus vaccines, and the FDA put two of the four on a fast track for approval. At the back end of last week, BioNTech said they could receive approval as early as Christmas, but in light of yesterday's news, it might even be sooner.
European equities closed higher and US stocks got off to a good start on the back of the news. The FDA update carried on nicely from Friday's news that Remdesivir, the antiviral drug produced by Gilead Sciences, can reduce the fatality rate in coronavirus sufferers by 62%. In the past couple of trading sessions there was a feeling that big pharma stands a chance of taking on the virus.
That being said, many countries are still battling against Covid-19. There were in excess of 60,000 new cases yesterday in the US, while there were 312 deaths. The infection rate remains high, but at least the fatality rate is relatively low. The situation in Florida is getting worse as the growth in the number of new cases was 4.7%, while the seven day average was 4.4%.
Robert Kaplan, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, issued a mixed statement yesterday. The central banker expressed concerns in relation to the infection rate, and he said the Fed might be required to do more should assistance be needed. Mr Kaplan also said the Fed might row back on its stimulus packages should the economy improve.
The NASDAQ 100 set a fresh record high yesterday, a few hours into the trading session. The bullish run didn't last long as the tech focused index finished down more than 2%, and the S&P 500 closed down nearly 1%. The usual suspects – Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook and Google's parent, Alphabet – all set all-time highs, but finished lower.
US earnings season will kick-off today as the latest quarterly numbers from JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and Citigroup will be posted. In April, the major banks collectively put aside more than $25 billion for provision for bad debts, the view is that the rate of loan defaults will surge on account of the pandemic.
Last month, the Fed carried out a stress test, and in one extreme scenario, the central bank cautioned that total bad debts provisions could be $700 billion. Dividends will be in focus as the Fed said that pay-outs must be capped at current rates, and there has been speculation that dividends could be cut in an effort to conserve cash.
It was a mixed day for commodities yesterday. The slide in the US dollar helped gold. Silver, copper and palladium were also helped by the move in the greenback, and the overall feel-good factor helped the industrial metals too. Oil on the other hand lost ground as there was talk that OPEC+ are looking to taper off the steep production cuts that were introduced in May. Last month WTI and Brent crude hit three month highs, but they failed to retest those levels since, because of the pausing of the reopening of economies.
Overnight, China posted its trade data for June. Imports were 2.7%, and economists were expecting -10%, keep in mind the May reading was -16.7%. Exports came in at 0.5%, and the consensus estimate was -1.5%, while the May reading was -3.3%. The rebound in imports and exports points to a turnaround in the global economy. It is possible the positive exports reading was largely because of Western government's demand for personal protective equipment.
Rising tensions between the US and China in relation to Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea has weighed on sentiment. Hong Kong is reintroducing tougher restrictions and a rise in coronavirus cases in Victoria, Australia, has impacted the mood too. Stocks in Asia are in the red, and European markets are called lower.
At 7am (UK time) the UK will release a number of economic reports. The GDP reading for May on an annual basis is tipped to be -20.4% and that would be an improvement on the -24.5% posted in April. The monthly reading is expected to be 5.5%, and keep in mind the April reading was -20.4%. UK industrial output, manufacturing output and construction output are expected to be 6%, 8% and 14.5% respectively.
At the same time, the final reading of German CPI for June will be posted and the consensus estimate is 0.8%.
The German ZEW economic sentiment report for July is tipped to be 60, and that would be a dip from the 63.4 recorded in June. It will be released at 10am (UK time).
Eurozone industrial production will be announced at 10am (UK time) and the May reading on a monthly basis is tipped to be 15%, and that would be a huge rebound from the -17.1% posted in April.
US headline CPI is expected to rebound to 0.6% from 0.1% in May. The core reading is tipped to be 1.1% and that would be a fall from the 1.2% that was posted in May.
EUR/USD – since late June it has been in an uptrend, and a break above the 1.1400 zone might put 1.1495 on the radar. A break below the 1.1168 area might pave the way for 1.1049, the 200-day moving average, to be targeted.
GBP/USD – has been in an uptrend recently, and should the positive move continue, it might target 1.2690, the 200-day moving average. A move through that level should put 1.2813 on the radar. Thursday's candle has the potential to be a gravestone doji, and a move lower could see it target 1.2432, the 100 day moving average. A drop below 1.2251, might bring 1.2076 into play.
EUR/GBP – yesterday's daily candle has the potential to be a bullish reversal, and if it moves higher it could see it target 0.9067 or 0.9239. A break below the 50-day moving average at 0.8949, could put the 0.8800 zone on the radar.
USD/JPY – has been drifting lower for the last month and support could come into play at 106.00. A rebound might run into resistance at 108.37, the 200-day moving average.
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DAX 30 is expected to open 239 points lower at 12,560
CAC 40 is expected to open 91 points lower at 4,965
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Telecom regulator Trai will hold a consultation on spectrum allocation with state-owned firms BSNL and MTNL soon, a top official said Tuesday.
"We have received a reference from the DoT couple of days back on the allocation of spectrum for 4G services to BSNL and MTNL. We will issue a consultation paper and hold open house discussion on it," Trai Chairman R S Sharma told reporters on sidelines of an ICEA event.
Both the telecom firms have asked the government to allot them spectrum for 4G services in lieu of equity. BSNL, which has the lowest debt of Rs 14,000 crore among all telecom operators, has sought 4G spectrum across India through equity infusion of Rs 7,000 crore to help it compete in the market.
The Digital Communication Commission, apex decision making body at the Department of Telecom, has sought view of Trai on demand of spectrum from both the PSUs.


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