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Tanner Reviews The Interview
Boy did this movie cause a stir. Oh yes, today we look at the movie that spurred some pretty intense hatred from the hermit nation-state in the east, The Interview. Hard to believe that a James Franco/Seth Rogen production could generate so much heat. But I suppose when a dictator like Kim Jong Un gets a hold of it and threatens serious retaliation if the video were to be shown, then that is enough to stir some kind of debate. This movie was the talk of sensational news outlets for weeks as each one of them took shots at Sony's decision to pull the movie from theaters, which also lead to a cyber attack reportedly carried out by the North Korean government.
The Bald Eagle of America was waving that flag high and mighty in patriotism as the film was proudly shown to the world on YouTube, various other screenings these past couple of weeks, and I finally got to watch the movie. After giving it a watch, I have to say that North Korea raising such a stink about the film is most likely the best thing that could have ever happened to it. You can smell the irony as the film's bland comedy wafts through the air and was sure to be nothing more than another dime a dozen comedy if it wasn't for the dictators actions which lead to the movie being heralded as the patriotic film of the year. This is quite a feat considering American Sniper is still being shown in theaters.
Don't get me wrong, I'm up for some good old patriotism as much as the next guy, but after watching the film I was not satisfied from a movie that brought only a few laughs and enough of a plot to make me say… Eh it is on par with Balls of Fury and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.
In this interesting little comedy, our protagonists are David Skylark (James Franco) and Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen). David is the host of a smutty entertainment first style talk show called Skylark Tonight where he interviews various celebrities for juicy gossip with Aaron as his director. When it is learned that North Korea leader Kim Jong Un (Randall Park) is a big fan of Skylark Tonight, the duo are invited to North Korea to film a special edition of Skylark Tonight with Kim Jong Un as the guest host. However just as they are about to depart, they are visited by the secret service Agent Lacey (Lizzy Caplan) who asks them to help assassinate the dictator. The pair travel to North Korea to interview and kill the Kim Jong Un where, of course, hilarity ensues.
Good Chemistry Between the Cast
You can't deny when actors have good chemistry. You can fill it throughout the film. It is easy to see that the cast meshes very well on-screen as most of the scenes feel rather seamless. Franco and Rogen do not need to be tackled to any large extent. The duo are friends, they have worked great in the past, and they work great in this movie as well. Rogen's chemistry with Diana Bang's Sook Yung Park feels like an organic relationship that could have been written off as 'insert generic romance here' in lesser hands.
But the true winner has to go to James Franco and Randall Park who knock it out of the park as David Skylark and Kim Jong Un. Some of the best comedy in the film comes from the scenes of Franco and Park interacting together and feeding off of each others energy. Not to mention props to Park who is able to bring more to the Kim Jong Un character besides the generic stereotype comedy that I was expecting. Props all around to the entire cast.
Has the Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg Charm
Seth Rogen and his writing partner Evan Goldberg have been able to create some pretty solid stuff. 50/50, Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, and This is the End are just a few examples of the talent in writing and directing from these guys. Each of the films has a unique tone and feel to it that lets you as the viewer know that you are watching a Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg movie. Typically speaking it is a strong blend of situational comedy mixed in with a serious subject matter such as unplanned pregnancy, cancer, or the rapture.
This film like the others has an identity to it, the Rogen/Goldberg stamp that has brought them great success. The film leans heavily towards the comedic side of things but is able to bring to light some of the problems in North Korea such as famine, death, and the real human problems that face a leader like Kim Jong Un. It is a sign of great writing and thoroughly enjoyable in that regard.
Jokes Fall Flat
The Sad fact is unlike some of Rogen and Goldberg's other movies like This is the End where I was laughing from start to finish, this film left me with very few laughs in a movie that was supposed to be dominated by comedy. The concept of honey-potting and the alternative of honey-dicking was not funny when it was first introduced and the joke is beaten into your skull throughout the entire movie. Apparently by the standards of this film, there is no such thing as an organic relationship only who can exploit the others with cutsie terms like honeypotting/dicking to justify it.
The David Skylard character instead of his intended hysterics, can become unbearably annoying at times. I can get behind an eccentric and dimwitted Hollywood celebrity being forced into a situation like this as comedic, but the man's stupidity and mannerisms become so unbearable that I just want to fast forward through most of his scenes.
There is some more low brow humor inter dispersed through the film that only rendered a chuckle out of me at best which lead to the film being a major disappointment from two guys who I have found to be some of the funniest actors in the film industry today.
North Korea's Objection to the Movie is the Only Thing that Saved it from Obscurity
As I said in the opening, the only reason The Interview became such a big talking point is the reaction of the actual North Korean government who launched cyber attacks on Sony and threatened action if the film was shown. Without this unwarranted political response, The Interview would have quickly fallen into relative obscurity.
When it comes to the Seth Rogen oeuvre, The Interview is definitely in the negative category somewhere just above The Green Hornet and The Guilt Trip. I laugh at the fact that if Kim Jong Un and the North Korean government had just been patient they would not have stirred the Bald Eagle Patriotism of the American people and turned the film into a much more well received hit.
The Interview is okay. It isn't great, but it is okay. The film benefits from a cast that is comfortable together and decent writing from Rogen and Goldberg. However most of the jokes do fall flat on their face and was not the laugh out loud comedy I was expecting going into the movie. Franco's character is borderline unwatchable when he is at his worst and overall, beyond the political stir, I can't find this movie having any sort of longevity beyond that.
Final Score 2.5/5
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Q: I need help thinking about how to split a data frame to perform operations I'm new to R and having a difficult time thinking about the right way to approach a problem. I'm used to doing most of my data analysis in excel, so I think I'm stuck in spreadsheetland. Now I'm getting into data that's too large to do comfortably in excel, so I wanted to step into the light and use R. Thanks in advance for any help you have.
So lets use ChickWeight as an example:
> head(ChickWeight)
  weight Time Chick Diet
1     42    0     1    1
2     51    2     1    1
3     59    4     1    1
4     64    6     1    1
5     76    8     1    1
6     93   10     1    1

Say I want to be able to split the data frame by both diet and time point such that it would be easy to generate a table of average weights with Time for columns and Diet for rows. Something like:
  0   2   4   6 (time)
1
2    <average weights
3         go in here>
4
(diet)

In my head, the easiest way to do this would be to generate a 2d array containing these values so that I can access them like average_weight[<Time>][<Diet>].
I would like to to be easy to also access all of the average weights for a given time or a given diet using something like average_weight[<Time>][]
I've gotten the sense that I'm not thinking about this problem right, because none of the tools I've found seem to point me in the right direction. The closest I've gotten is using split()
chicks_by_time_and_diet <- split(ChickWeight, list(ChickWeight$Time, ChickWeight$Diet))

But this returns a list of length 55, not a two-dimensional array. I've also tried looking into plyr. This sounded like it was exactly what I wanted, but it's unclear to me exactly how to use it towards this end.
Any help is appreciated, thank you!
Bonus:
In reality my data frame has many more factors than ChickWeight, and if it were possible to access all of the factors for a given 'Time' and 'Diet', that would be ideal.
E.g. pretend that ChickWeight has another factor, height. Would it be possible to store both the average height and weight for a given diet at a particular location in the array such that average_weight_and_height[<Time>][<Diet>] returns a list of (weight, height)?

A: Using dplyr/tidyr
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
ChickWeight %>%
       group_by(Time, Diet) %>%
       summarise(weight=mean(weight)) %>%
       spread(Time, weight)

A: tapply is made just for this:
> with(ChickWeight, tapply(weight, list(Time, Diet), mean))
           1     2     3        4
0   41.40000  40.7  40.8  41.0000
2   47.25000  49.4  50.4  51.8000
4   56.47368  59.8  62.2  64.5000
6   66.78947  75.4  77.9  83.9000
8   79.68421  91.7  98.4 105.6000
10  93.05263 108.5 117.1 126.0000
12 108.52632 131.3 144.4 151.4000
14 123.38889 141.9 164.5 161.8000
16 144.64706 164.7 197.4 182.0000
18 158.94118 187.7 233.1 202.9000
20 170.41176 205.6 258.9 233.8889
21 177.75000 214.7 270.3 238.5556

You can also use data.table or dplyr, though you will need to reshape the results of those to get to the 2D (or 3D) formats:
library(data.table)
DT <- data.table(ChickWeight)[, mean(weight), by=.(Time, Diet)]
dcast.data.table(DT, Time ~ Diet)

Or, as Arun points out (here we just use a normal data frame):
reshape2::dcast(ChickWeight, Time ~ Diet, value.var="weight", fun.aggregate=mean)

A lot of R analysis involves getting comfortable with data in "long format" (see DT before we dcast it), where dimensions are represented by columns.

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The American Society for Testing and Materials (1992) Standard test method for determination of the composition ofunprocessedmunicipal solid waste (ASTM D 5231) states that any random method of vehicle selection that does not introduce a bias into the selection process is acceptable.
Collecting a sample from every nth truck is relatively simple but causes the waste in small trucks and partially full trucks to be overrepresented in the samples. Collecting a sample from the truck containing every nth ton of waste is ideal but is difficult in practice because the weight of each truck is not apparent from observation. Collecting a sample from the truck containing every nth cubic yard of waste is more feasible because the volumetric capacity of most trucks can be determined by observation. However, basing the sampling interval on volumetric capacity tends to cause uncompacted waste and waste in partially full trucks to be overrepresented in the samples.
Basing the sampling interval on either a set number of trucks or a set quantity of waste causes the pace of the sampling operation to fluctuate during each day of field work. This fluctuation can result in inefficient use of personnel and deviations from the protocol when targeted trucks are missed at times of peak activity.
Collecting a sample from a truck every n minutes is convenient for sampling personnel but causes the waste in small trucks and partially full trucks to be overrepresented and the waste in trucks that arrive at busy times to be un-derrepresented in the samples. This approach also causes overrepresentation of waste arriving late in the day because the time interval between trucks tends to lengthen toward the end of the day and because trucks arriving late tend to be partially full, especially if the facility charges by the ton rather than by the cubic yard.
Obtaining samples as they are needed for sorting is similar to collecting a sample every n minutes and has the same disadvantages. Regardless of the sampling protocol used, however, the sorters should be kept supplied with waste to sort even if the available loads do not fit the protocol. Having more data is better.
ASTM D 5231 specifically identifies the use of a random number generator as an acceptable method for random selection of vehicles to sample. A random number generator can provide random intervals corresponding to each of the predetermined intervals just discussed. For example, if a facility receives 120 trucks per day and 12 are to be sampled, one can either sample every 10th truck or use the random number generator to generate 12 random numbers from 1 to 120. Similarly, random intervals of waste tonnage, waste volume, or elapsed time can be generated.
Random sampling intervals increase the probability that the field crew is idle from time to time. Random sampling intervals increase the probability that the field crew has to work overtime. Random sampling intervals increase the probability that targeted trucks are missed when too many randomly selected trucks arrive within too short a time period.
In many cases, sampling by waste source minimizes the problems associated with these types of interval sampling. Sources of waste from which samples can be selected include individual municipalities, individual waste haulers, specific collection routes, waste generation sectors such as the residential sector and the commercial sector, and specific sources such as restaurants or apartment buildings. In general, sampling by source makes sense if adequate information is available on the quantity of waste from each source to be sampled. Samples can be collected from each source in proportion to the quantity of waste from each source, or the composition results for the various sources can be weighted based on the quantity from each source.
In the best case, the solid waste facility has a scale and maintains a computer database containing the following information for each load of waste: net weight, type of waste, type of vehicle, municipality of origin, hauler, and a number identifying the individual truck that delivered the waste. This information, combined with information on the hauling contracts in effect in each municipality, is usually sufficient to estimate the quantity of household and commercial MSW from each municipality.
The municipality is often the hauler for household waste, and, in those municipalities, private haulers usually handle commercial waste. In other cases, the municipality has a contract with a private hauler to collect household waste and discourages the hauler from using the same vehicles to service private accounts. Household and commercial waste can also be distinguished by the types of vehicles in which they are delivered. Dominant vehicle types vary from one region to another.
If the solid waste facility has no scale, environmental engineers can use records of waste volumes in designing a sampling plan but must differentiate between compacted and uncompacted waste. Many facilities receive little un-compacted MSW, while others receive substantial quantities.
Because per capita generation of household waste is relatively consistent, environmental engineers can use population data to allocate samples of household waste among municipalities if the necessary quantity records are not available.
Field personnel must interview private haulers arriving at the solid waste facility to learn the origins of the load of waste. Information provided by the haulers is often incomplete. In some cases this information can be supplemented or corrected during sorting of the sample. McCamic (1985) provides additional information.


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Ormond Beach Observer
Port Orange Observer
Palm Coast Monday, Apr. 18, 2016 3 years ago
Man wrongly arrested in mistaken identity case to sue Sheriff's Office for $200,000
Dakota Ward, 19, was arrested in error after a deputy misspelled a suspect's name on an arrest affidavit — writing Dakota Ward instead of De'Coda Ward. The deputy faces a three-day unpaid suspension.
by: Jonathan Simmons News Editor
The police work was sloppy: Deputy James Gore should have confirmed the spelling of the suspect's name with the victim, who knew the suspect. But he didn't. He should have confirmed the suspect's appearance and address, too, but didn't do that either.
The result? Brown-haired, brown-eyed Dakota Ward of North Orange Street was handcuffed and booked at the county jail when the man deputies should have been after was strawberry-blond-haired, light-eyed De'Coda Ward of Moody Boulevard. Dakota Ward, who'd never been arrested before, plans to sue the Flagler County Sheriff's Office for $200,000 — the maximum amount allowed under the law.
The Sheriff's Office didn't begin clearing the error — and Dakota's name — until a newspaper reporter alerted the agency's administration to the problem by asking questions. An internal investigation led the Sheriff's Office to recommend a three-day unpaid suspension for Gore, a 26-year-old who was hired in 2011.
Here's what happened, according to the Sheriff's Office's internal investigation: On Dec. 15, Gore responded to a report of a battery. The suspect had left the scene by the time the deputy arrived, and after talking with victim Chad Cox, Gore wrote up a charging affidavit listing "Dakota Ward" as a suspect. That was wrong: The victim, who knew the suspect, was talking about a man named De'Coda Ward — and Cox wrote the name that way in his own written statement. Gore didn't notice the discrepancy.
And although Cox told him that De'Coda Ward lived at the Capri trailer park on Moody Boulevard, Gore didn't go there, he later told investigators during the internal affairs investigation, "because he was in Zone 2 in Palm Coast and wasn't going all the way down to Bunnell for a misdemeanor to make contact with all the parties."
That was a major error, Sheriff's Office spokesman James Troiano said. "It's sloppy, and it's uncalled for," he said. "It doesn't take but a minute to reach out to your zone partner and say, 'Can you go out to this location for me, and make suspect contact?' Or he could have even done it himself the next day."
In an interview during the internal affairs investigation, the detective "said that Dakota is such a good kid that if law enforcement said he did something he would believe that he did," according to the internal affairs report.
Cox looked up "Dakota Ward" in a driver's license database and filled out the suspect information on the charging affidavit with Dakota's identifying information. But for the address, rather than using the North Orange Street one listed in the database, he used the one Cox had given him, at the Capri trailer park on Moody Boulevard, because Cox was sure that's where the man who'd hit him lived.
So a summons to appear in court was issued for "Dakota Ward," and sent to De'Coda Ward's home with Dakota's name on it.
De'Coda didn't appear in court. Neither did Dakota, who had no idea he was a wanted man. A warrant for arrest on a charge of failure to appear in court was then issued March 22 — again with Dakota's name on it.
Deputies arrested Dakota Ward at his home in Bunnell March 26 after the young man returned from a fishing trip with his father. Dakota Ward told the arresting deputy, Rich Petkovsek, that the warrant wasn't for him.
Attorney Joshua Davis, speaking with Dakota Ward's mother and father by phone during the arrest, heard them screaming to the deputies that they were arresting the wrong man. But it wasn't unusual for suspects to tell deputies they had the wrong guy, Petkovsek said during the internal affairs investigation: It was a "typical response" from people with a warrant.
Meanwhile, a Flagler Beach Police detective and friend of Dakota Ward's family — Liz Williams — heard of Dakota Ward's arrest. In an interview during the internal affairs investigation, the detective "said that Dakota is such a good kid that if law enforcement said he did something he would believe that he did."
She also knew there was a De'Coda Ward in Flagler County. She asked Dakota Ward if he knew who Chad Cox was. He said no. She realized deputies had arrested the wrong man, and contacted the State Attorney's Office March 28. Since the arrest had already been made, she said during the internal affairs investigation, she believed the case was now their responsibility.
Davis, Dakota Ward's attorney, met with Cox and showed him a printout of Dakota Ward's mugshot, and asked him if the man in the picture was the man who'd hit him. Cox said no, then wrote across the printout, "I Chad Cox am 100% sure this is the wrong guy it's NOT De'Coda Ward," and signed it. Davis later emailed a photo of the signed printout to the Palm Coast Observer.
"His whole world's been flipped upside down. This is a Bunnell kid who works a fulltime job at the graveyard shift, and then goes to school and spends weekends fishing with his dad. ... It's been a complete and total nightmare for him. He's trying to get back to some semblance of being who he used to be." — Joshua Davis, attorney
On March 29, the State Attorney's Office emailed Gore asking for clarification about the name of the person in the Ward case. Gore didn't view the email until March 31, and did not answer because he was off-duty, according to the news release. He'd been pulled from a Field Traning Officer program and from SWAT for "attendance and performance" issues March 30, according to the investigation report.
The State Attorney's Office emailed again March 31, a Thursday, and Gore replied that he was out sick and would respond Monday.
The same day, a Palm Coast Observer reporter who'd been contacted by Davis spoke to a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman by phone and asked about the case. The Sheriff's Office launched an internal affairs investigation and a new criminal investigation about two hours later, Troiano said.
The next day, April 1, the Palm Coast Observer, FlaglerLive.com and the Daytona Beach News-Journal all published articles online about the case, and the Sheriff's Office issued an official apology to Dakota Ward and began removing his name from its website. The State Attorney's Office dropped all charges.
Records associated with the case with Dakota Ward's name on them — including the erroneous charging affidavit — still appeared on the Clerk of Courts website as of April 18. Davis said he was working with Clerk of Courts Gail Wadsworth to have them removed. But even if they were, he said, records associated with the case would remain online, aggregated on private websites. "You go in and Google my kid's name 50 years from now, this arrest is going to pop up," he said.
Davis called the manner in which the Sheriff's Office reported its internal affairs investigation's findings "irresponsible." Multiple lines in a Sheriff's Office news release noted instances when Dakota Ward had not told Sheriff's Office staff about the possibility of a mistaken identity situation — seemingly implying, Davis said, that Ward was responsible for his own false arrest. Davis cited the following example, a line from the Sheriff's Office news release: "At no time did Dakota Ward tell Petkovsek that there might be confusion with De'Coda Ward," the release stated.
"We can't say that we're sorry enough to Dakota Ward. He should never have been arrested. ... We have safeguards in place, and they were not followed. This is not indicative of our agency." — James Troiano, Sheriff's Office spokesman
"The tone of the whole thing taken as a whole kind of read as if we should have done something to have prevented this," Davis said. "On a very basic level, it's unfair — that somebody that has the power to come and arrest you at any place and any time can try to flip the script, and say it's something you failed to do to prevent your own wrongful arrest."
That wasn't the intent of those portions of the news release or the internal affairs investigation report, Troiano said.
"We are in no way pointing blame at this young man — none," he said. In the case of that particular line in the news release, Troiano said, it was included because if Ward had told Petkovsek about the possibility of a mistaken identity case, and Petkovsek failed to take action, Petkovsek would have been in violation of policy.
"Had (Dakota Ward) said that and we still didn't take action, we would have beeen wrong again," Troiano said. "That's part of turning over these stones and looking underneath them, because we want to be diligent in our investigation."
The news release also said Davis "refused to participate in this investigation after being asked on several occasions to provide testimony."
For good reason, Davis said: "My ethical obligations are very clear as far as the Bar goes, and that is to represent my client as zealously as I can," he said. "To go and then be interviewed by a detective does nothing to represent my client, period, and could potentially harm our future case."
Troiano said the Sheriff's Office had wanted clarification on who exactly Davis had contacted about the case within the Sheriff's Office, and when.
From its own investigation, the Sheriff's Office had records that Davis had called Paula Rose, with the Sheriff's Office's civil division; and that he'd spoken to Howard Underwood, a deputy. Rose told investigators during the internal affairs investigation that Davis didn't mention a false arrest to her; Underwood remembered that Davis had mentioned a false arrest to him. Underwood told Davis that he had nothing to do with it, and told Davis to speak to the State Attorney's Office.
But as to the possibility that Dakota Ward had been mixed up with De'Coda Ward, Troiano said, "(Davis) came to (the Palm Coast Observer) with the information, he never came to us with the information. ... He never told Paula Rose, he never told Deputy Underwood, he never told anyone at the Sheriff's Office."
Davis said he'd made it very clear that this was a case of false arrest. "I left a scathing message that not only had they arrested the wrong kid, but now they had come by his house and were harassing him," he said.
The way the Sheriff's Office is presenting the case, Davis said, "It's mad spin. They're going to put it however they like it."
Davis has served the Sheriff's Office official notice that his client intends to file suit. It will be for the $200,000 maximum allowed by law, for false arrest and confinement, Davis said. The false arrest will have long-term effects on Dakota Ward's future, Davis said, and the experience was traumatic for Dakota Ward and his family.
"His whole world's been flipped upside down," Davis said. "This is a Bunnell kid who works a fulltime job at the graveyard shift, and then goes to school and spends weekends fishing with his dad. ... It's been a complete and total nightmare for him. He's trying to get back to some semblance of being who he used to be."
The case could be filed in either the local court system or in federal court, Davis said.
Costs associated with the suit will be carried by the Sheriff's Office's insurance company, Troiano said.
"We can't say that we're sorry enough to Dakota Ward," he said. "He should never have been arrested. ... We have safeguards in place, and they were not followed. This is not indicative of our agency. We're all human, we all make mistakes, and certainly this is a mistake that Deputy Gore made, and we hope he will learn from it."
The Sheriff's Office has now formalized what had been an unwritten policy, Troiano said: "We have now mandated that our deputies place in their reports — to include all arrest reports — how they positively identified the suspect."
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Q: Is writing data in shared memory blocked in android platform? In Android native I have created Shared Memory using API ashmem_create_region like
fd = ashmem_create_region("SharedRegionName", 1024);
char* base_address = mmap(NULL, 1024, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);

This creates native int fd which I have passed to application.
Inside application I am trying to write 128 bytes to this shared memory which failed to  write and return write len = 0.
    ParcelFileDescriptor pfd = ParcelFileDescriptor.adoptFd(native.getFD());
    Log.d(TAG, "pfd : "+pfd );
    FileDescriptor fd = pfd.getFileDescriptor();
    FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fd);
    FileChannel fc = fos.getChannel();
    ByteBuffer bytebuf = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(128);
        for (int i=0; i<128; i++) {
           bytebuf.put((byte)(i));
    }

    try {
      int len = fc.write(bytebuf);
      Log.d( TAG, "fc.len "+len);
    } catch (IOException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }

Logs are :-
pfd : {ParcelFileDescriptor: FileDescriptor[51]}
fc.len 0
I am not sure but looks like platform is not permitting or blocking to write on shared Memory, If anybody has tried can you please confirm or please let me know if something is wrong in this process.


By Jessica Wohl . Published on October 08, 2015.
Campbell Soup is out with a new way to entice people to cook with its food, having Alexa suggest recipes to Amazon Echo users based on preferences, the weather and what's trending.
Umang Shah, director of digital marketing and marketing innovation at Campbell's, said the company is always trying to create ways to connect with its audience. He has his own Amazon Echo, the tubular device that can read the weather, check sports scores, play music and handle other functions. The device has users speak to Alexa, Amazon's name for a voice service, to ask for what they want.
So when Rain, Campbell's digital agency, suggested an idea to build something for the Echo, Mr. Shah was game. His Echo rests on a counter between his living room and his kitchen, and he has used it while cooking.
"I like to listen to music when I cook," said Mr. Shah, who said he plays music through it and knows it's there if he needs to calculate the proper measurements for recipes.
Now, roughly five weeks later, the Campbell's Kitchen app, or skill, as Echo functions are known, is ready for launch. Campbell is one of the first consumer or food brands on Echo.
Amazon also said it was the fastest skill ever to be certified, said Mr. Shah, speaking with Ad Age from Las Vegas, where he showed off the Campbell's Kitchen work at Amazon Web Services' annual user conference, AWS re:Invent. Mr. Shah said he also discussed the process during a closed-door meeting with the Amazon developer advisory committee on Tuesday.
According to an Amazon spokeswoman, a number of brands are working to build skills for Alexa. StubHub, for example, has already debuted a skill that allows customers to search for events in their area.
Developers walking the show floor can see a giant Echo erected by Amazon, which Campbell took over for the day on Wednesday, while demonstrating its own Echo device painted white with the Campbell's Kitchen logo.
The Campbell's Kitchen skill offers five recipes based on a user's profile and other data. It will factor in the weather and details such as food trends as well as what's trending on its website. Then, the user tells Alexa which recipe it wants, and it is sent directly to the user via email or whatever preference the person has selected.
It is too early to say how many Campbell's Kitchen users might access the function on an Echo, or even know how many people have an Echo as well as a user profile on the site. But for Mr. Shah, the opportunity stretches beyond the device, especially as kitchen devices are expected to become more and more connected to the web and to owners' mobile devices.
"Regardless of the technology in this physical device, the approach and the interaction we think will live on," Mr. Shah said, as Amazon will continue to evolve what it does with voice.
As he told a crowd at Advertising Week last month, Mr. Shah saw such potential in the idea that he took funding away from some other marketing innovation work to get this moving quickly. "We just thought there was good enough potential here," he told Ad Age.
The skill, which is in developer preview now, is going through certification and should be available at the end of October, Mr. Shah said. For now, Campbell has no plans to sell its branded Echo, which comes in white, red and grey and was made to celebrate. "Because we were the first to market with the skill and no other CPG has done it we wanted to actually create a custom version," said Mr. Shah.


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WEST READING, Pa. (AP) _ Customers Bancorp Inc. (CUBI) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $28.7 million.
The bank, based in West Reading, Pennsylvania, said it had earnings of 77 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.19 per share.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.66 per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $277 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $142.5 million, which also fell short of Street forecasts.
For the year, the company reported profit of $228 million, or $6.51 per share. Revenue was reported as $656 million.
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Remember the old Flinstones cartoons where Fred and Barney could make their cars go faster by peddling their feet on the ground under the car? One North Carolina-based company is putting its own spin on that concept. All for the sake of the environment, of course.
Organic Transit is selling what it calls the ELF, which stands for Electric, Light Fun and is a three-wheeled 150-pound vehicle (technically classified as a bike) that can be powered by electric power, solar power or pedal power. The vehicle, which can carry as much as 350 pounds, has a 14-mile single-charge range and a top speed of 20 miles per hour, though tack on another 10 mph with the pedal-power option. The trike also has disc brakes, fiber-carbon body panels and a 60-watt photovoltaic solar panel that allows the vehicle to by fully recharged under seven hours of sunlight. For those who can't wait that long, three hours plugged into an electrical socket will also do the trick.
Word got out about the Elf late last year but Organic Transit has disclosed more details about the vehicle since then and is pricing it at a base price of $5,495. Of course, you could buy it through Hammacher Schlemmer and pay $9,900. Check out Organic Transit's website here and the video below, courtesy of the Raleigh News & Observer.
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USC Upstate Dedicates Two New Gardens in Susan Jacobs Arboretum
Thanks to generous donors, the University of South Carolina Upstate is planting for the future.
"Putting things back in to the earth is an act of greater good and one that has great depth," said David Culp, horticulturalist as he attended a tree-dedication service during USC Upstate's 13th annual Arbor Day celebration. "A garden has the ability to take you away. This is what we give to the world. You are planting for the future."
His words rang true for donors Andrea and Greg Shurburtt and P. Kathryn "Katie" Hicks and her husband Dr. Larry Roël who cut the ribbons during Arbor Day for two newly named gardens in the Susan Jacobs Arboretum at USC Upstate.
The Shurburtt Landscaping Group, Inc., Garden and the Hicks-Roël Garden reflect the longstanding relationship both couples have to USC Upstate. Initial plantings for the establishment of the Arboretum were made possible through the Shurburtt Landscaping Group, Inc., and Andrea Shurburtt has been an adjunct faculty member in the School of Education. In addition, Cyrill Softball Stadium, which has consistently received national recognition for its turf management and field maintenance, was under the guidance of Shurburtt Landscaping Group.
"I hope this space will be a place that students can relax and enjoy being outdoors," Andrea Shurburtt said. "A quiet place to study or a serene place to just be alone with their thoughts."
For Greg Shurburtt, it's a project that has sort of come full circle for him. "Fourteen years ago, I was a young landscape architect who USC Upstate took a chance on to put the infrastructure in place to build this beautiful space."
As he finds interesting plants while working on projects, he still finds himself ordering an extras to donate to the arboretum.
"I've watched this garden evolve and I'm proud to be a part of it."
Hicks, professor emerita of art at USC Upstate, and Roël, a board certified ophthalmologist in Spartanburg, have, again, embraced an opportunity to contribute to the growth and beauty of the University by planting and naming a garden for the faculty at USC Upstate.
"The faculty are the heart of this University," Hicks said. "I spent most of my adult life here at the University. I want to create a little beauty for those who are still here and those who will come after us."
The gardens located behind the Health Education Complex are entry gardens to the 12-acre arboretum. With that in mind, Deno White of Capitol Construction of the Carolinas donated the labor to incorporate three wings that are compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, so that the gardens can be enjoyed by everyone. The new sidewalks provide a route connecting the Sansbury Campus Life Center to the Health Education Complex, instead of having to use the road for access.
"We are excited to see this new portion of the Arboretum completed," said Bea Walters Smith, director of development and foundation scholarships at the USC Upstate Foundation. "The Arboretum has been built solely through the generous support of the community through private donations with no state funding appropriated for its growth."
In addition to the opening of the new gardens, the University also planted trees to honor the lives of two University employees who died earlier this year. Trees were planted in memory of Dr. Ron Romine, History professor emeritus having taught for 32 years, and Becky Taylor, a financial aid coordinator at the University for 39 years. A tree also was planted in memory Dr. Norbert A. Stirzaker, who served as the first director of the Spartanburg Regional Campus, by his widow, Mildred, and daughter, Ellen Cohen.
For more information about how to support these efforts and this distinctive green space, contact Smith at (864) 503-5235 or bwsmith@uscupstate.edu.


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ADP Plans to Spin Off Dealer Services Business
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ROSELAND, N.J. — ADP, a global provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions, announced today that the company's board of directors has approved a plan to separate its Dealer Services business into an independent, publicly traded company through a tax-free spinoff of 100% of the business to the firm's shareholders.
"Consistent with our strategy to grow our position as a global provider of HCM solutions, we have concluded that the separation of Dealer Services will allow both companies to focus on their respective industries," said Carlos Rodriguez, president and CEO of ADP. "The Dealer Services business remains attractive in terms of long-term growth opportunities; however, we believe this transaction will benefit ADP's shareholders by allowing each management team to better focus on its own business and strategic opportunities."
ADP's Dealer Services business unit is a global provider of retail and digital marketing solutions to automotive retailers and manufacturers. Officials said the continued recovery of the U.S. economy, combined with Dealer Services' global reach and depth of service offerings, made it an appropriate time to establish the business as its own standalone company.
With revenues approaching $2 billion annually, along with strong profitability and cash flows, officials expect the standalone business unit to deliver solid long-term growth prospects. Steve Anenen and Al Nietzel, the business unit's current president and CFO, respectively, were named CEO and CFO of the new standalone company.
In conjunction with the spinoff of the Dealer Services business, ADP expects to receive in a tax-free manner at least $700 million, proceeds ADP plans to return to its shareholders through share repurchases after the spinoff is complete. And once completed, according to officials, ADP expects to maintain its current $0.48 quarterly cash dividend per share. Over the medium to long term, ADP intends to return to its pre-separation target dividend payout ratio of 55% to 60%, while keeping intact the company's 39-year track record of annual increases in its quarterly cash dividend, subject to approval by ADP's board of directors.
ADP officials said they expect to complete the separation of the two companies in the early part of the fourth quarter.
"ADP's ongoing efforts and commitment will be focused on executing against our global HCM strategy," Rodriguez added. "As we deliver against this commitment, our goal of driving consistent and sustainable profitable revenue growth and return of capital to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases remains."
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A new version number for an old friend, amidst news of nano iPods and iTunes capable phones: iTunes 5.0 is out. UI changes, major: you can now have playlists in folders (what a relief). UI changes, minor: the volume slider no longer sits under the forward/back/play/pause buttons. (For the latter: why? Perhaps people were hitting the big buttons by mistake when adjusting the volume, or vice versa.) UI changes, gratuitous: on Windows, the window now blends seamlessly into the title bar, which is good, but actually looks a lot less cool. Probably it will just take some getting used to.
Scary installer moment: this ad, which I first saw at an Apple store. I don't really think the young woman looks happy to be sharing her tunes with her friend:
More scary installer moment: the installer crapped out during the QuickTime install when it told me I needed to close Firefox—somehow it got trapped in an endless loop. I had to force quit the installer and reboot, and rerun the installation, at which point everything was fine.
Other impressions: parental controls ok, shuffle calibrator should put conspiracy theories of "is it really random" to rest, or at least confuse them, search bar looks useful, lyrics in tags looks good. Look forward to playing with the search bar on my home library.
Author Tim JarrettPosted on September 7, 2005 December 2, 2013 Categories Mac
Lush Life, John Coltrane and me
The CD Project proceeds apace; yesterday I finished ripping all my John Coltrane CDs to Apple Lossless format. As I looked at each disc in turn, annotating the files with session notes and musician info, I found myself drawn into memories of my self-education in jazz.
Growing up I listened to nothing but classical music until I was maybe 12 years old, when I discovered the Police—angry yet mannered, literate rock. At the time I wasn't totally comfortable with the angry part, but I latched onto the mannered part. Listening to Sting felt rebellious but safe. A big part of that, particularly in the subsequent solo records, was the jazz influence. I decided I needed to learn more about jazz, and so I started at the logical jumping off point of Branford Marsalis, who at that time was playing with Sting.
Exploring jazz through Branford—a young player who was trying to establish his own identity but who provided few direct links back to the old tradition, simply because he generally only played his own compositions or a few standards—was difficult. But I liked what I was hearing, the interplay of the horns with the drums, and decided I needed to go deeper. By this time it was 1988 or 1989 and Bono was name-checking John Coltrane and A Love Supreme on U2's grandiosely overblown Rattle and Hum—which naturally I also loved. (I was 16. Whaddaya want?) So I went out and got a copy of the pivotal Trane album.
I wish I could say that I was immediately blown away, but the truth is it took some time. There were things about the record that I thought were cool—the chants and the blazing solos on "Resolution," made my hair stand on end. But I didn't really get the modal melodies and couldn't appreciate the extended drum solos at the heart of the piece. But I kept listening.
In another year or so, I was a first year at UVA, and shoring up my insecurity and loneliness with CD shopping at Plan 9. I desperately wanted to be cool and to be listening to things that no one around me was, and so I spent a lot of time spelunking throught the jazz racks, anchored to the few artists I knew anything about, which at that point consisted of Trane and Branford (and, somehow, Thelonious Monk—but that's another story). I had no education, didn't have the sense to start listening to jazz radio, so I used the copy on the back of the CDs to decide which ones to take home. This brought me to the Prestige and Fantasy releases (the so called "Original Jazz Classics"), which inevitably contained review capsules on the back cover of the CD with raves or claims of "instant classic."
And that was how I came to pick up Lush Life: it was the Coltrane Prestige recording that had the highest ratings and the most stars on the back.
I took the disc back to the dorm and started listening. My then-roommate Greg was in the room and we soon were both listening: to the tremendous blown run that begins the album and "Like Someone in Love," to the percussive experimentation of "I Love You" and the walking bass of "Trane's Slo Blues." And then the title cut, introduced by Red Garland's piano followed by perfect choruses by both Trane and Donald Byrd. Partway through Byrd's second chorus, Greg turned to me and asked, "How do you find this stuff?"
I wish I could have told him the truth, but I think I just mumbled something about being lucky.
I went on over the next few years to discover the rest of Trane's work and to branch out into Miles, avant garde jazz, and the great blowing sessions of the 50s. I'll be digitizing all of it in the weeks to come, but I think that none of the tracks will be as often as the five tracks from this set. I can't even guess how many other versions of "Lush Life" I've found over the years (at least not without sitting in front of my home computer, though I can think of versions by Roland Hanna, Bobby Timmons, Joe Henderson, Duke Ellington (of course), and Johnny Hartman in a subsequent date with Coltrane), but this one remains the gold standard.
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Prix de la Danse de Montréal honours Indigenous dancer, choreographer
Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo was recognized for her far-reaching work as a practitioner and educator of Indigenous forms of dance and culture.
Jim Burke • Special to Montreal Gazette
Indigenous dancer Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo in Montreal on Dec. 2, 2021. She has just won the Montreal Danse Interpreter Prize in the 2021 Prix de la Danse Montréal. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
Last September, during the Festival Quartiers Danses at Place des Arts, dancer and choreographer Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo performed Sky Dancers , a deeply personal response to the 1907 collapse of the Quebec Bridge under construction over the St. Lawrence River. The disaster resulted in the deaths of 76 iron workers, 33 of them members of the Mohawk community of Kahnawake. Among those killed was Diabo's great-grandfather.
The tragedy still haunts Kahnawake, where Diabo is from. It's one reason she has, for the last 25 years, been engaged in building bridges herself through the medium of dance.
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Diabo's achievements were recognized last Thursday at a ceremony of the Prix de la Danse de Montréal, held at the studios of Compagnie Marie Chouinard.
The Grand Prix went to Mélanie Demers for her outstanding work as "a fierce and socially committed artivist." (Blazing examples of Demers's recent work include her FTA show La Goddam Voie Lactée, and Confession Publique, which just finished a run at La Chapelle).
But Diabo, one of an all-women list of recipients, netted the prestigious Prix interprète de la danse . This was largely for Sky Dancers, but also for her far-reaching work as a practitioner and educator of Indigenous forms of dance and culture.
"It's always really nice to be recognized by your peers, so that was very touching for me," Diabo told the Montreal Gazette after receiving the award. "In my speech, I was saying it reminded me of when I was a little girl. I grew up in a very small community on a farm and had very little access to dance or opportunities. And then when I moved to the big city, it was a bit overwhelming. But I kept dancing because it brought me so much joy. So I remember that little girl in me. I'm still in awe that she got this award."
Born in Kahnawake, Diabo was taken to live on a farm in Nova Scotia at the age of six. When she entered her teenage years, she began to feel the pull of the big city — Montreal to be exact.
"Part of me wanted to reconnect with Kahnawake," Diabo explained. "I studied theatre at Concordia and took a lot of dance classes on the side. I don't remember a time in my life that I wasn't dancing, but that's when I really started to be exposed to so many other forms of dance. I started with classical ballet because that's all they had. Afterwards, I took contemporary dance, ballroom, hip hop. I took so many different styles because it was all so amazing."
Besides taking advantage of the city's thriving dance scene, Diabo moved to Montreal to be near her people. "I also reconnected with my community and our cultural dances at that time," she said.
Through her own company, A'nó:wara Dance Theatre, Diabo has raised awareness of such forms as powwow, hoop dancing and Haudenosaunee dance. On the theatre side, she has worked with Infinithéâtre and is currently part of the Talking Treaties Tiotià:ke project, Centaur Theatre's Indigenous residency.
"We're exploring the Mohawk history of the area around Centaur and around the island of Montreal," Diabo said. "Just walking around Old Montreal, you see so many statues of the settlers and generals and conquerors. You'll find a statue, maybe, of one Native person. They'll have the names of all the generals, and then under that statue of the Native person it will say just 'Iroquois.' So we're trying to kind of reclaim that space through this residency."
Diabo has also recently moved into film, with the short Smudge, which she performed with her own offspring, Emily. It's a meditation, through dance and ceremony, on pain, healing and the importance of tradition, made all the more moving by that intergenerational family connection.
Diabo is particularly gratified that the Prix de la Danse jury elected to honour a practitioner of Indigenous dance.
"Our dances were discouraged for hundreds of years and were considered unprofessional and even illegal in many parts of the country," Diabo said. "We were made to feel invisible. So this recognition really made me happy that they're making at least one Indigenous artist feel a little bit more visible today. I'm grateful for my community and for my ancestors, not just for me."
Other winners include 100Lux (Envol, the award for cultural diversity and inclusive practices in dance), Béatriz Mediavilla (Prix Découverte de la danse de Montréal) and Louise Lapierre (Prix Ethel Bruneau). For the full list of award recipients at the Prix de la Danse de Montréal, visit prixdeladanse.com .
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Над Буйдб (; V век) — король Лейнстера (около 500 года) из рода Уи Дего.

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Согласно ирландским генеалогическим трактатам, Над Буйдб был сыном Эрка Буадаха и праправнуком по мужской линии первого короля Лейнстера Брессала Белаха. Он не упоминается ни в , ни в средневековых списках королей Лейнстера. Однако о нём как о правителе этого королевства сообщается в других исторических источниках, вероятно, использовавших современные событиям записи. Один из этих источников — поэма «De Regibus Lagenorum», написанная в VII веке и сохранившаяся в составе «Лейнстерской книги». В ней рассказывается о ранней истории Лейнстера и упоминаются некоторые его правители, неуказанные в королевских списках. Среди них и Над Буйдб, названный лейнстерским королём вслед за погибшим в 446 году Мак Каиртинном мак Коэлботом. Датировать правление Над Буйдба позволяет другой источник — сохранившийся до наших дней отрывок из посвящённой ему поэмы, написанной на рубеже V и VI веков, автор которой писал о Над Буйдбе как о своём современнике. На основании анализа источников о Лейнстере V века историками было сделано предположение, что под влиянием родов ,  и Уи Нейллы, в зависимость от которых к X веку попали монастырские центры летописания Ирландии, сведения средневековых анналов были искажены и в них были внесены данные, благоприятные для представителей этих родов, но частью не соответствовавшие исторической действительности. Таким образом, возможно, что свидетельства поэм, созданных ещё до усиления этих родов, могли более точно отражать порядок престолонаследия в раннем Лейнстере.

По сведениям этих источников, Над Буйдб правил Лейнстером около 500 года. В отрывке поэмы он описывается как деятельный монарх, достойный славы своих знаменитых и воинственных предков, совершавших дальние заморские походы и обладавших властью над всей Ирландией. Предполагается, что и Над Буйдб мог не только править землями Лейнстера, но и владеть престолом Тары, сакральной резиденции верховных королей Ирландии. Возможно, он был последним из лейнстерских правителей, претендовавшим на верховную власть над всем островом. В то же время, ирландские анналы называют королём Лейнстера в 495—527 годах другого правителя, Илланна из рода Уи Дунлайнге. Так как ни в одном из исторических источников не упоминается о взаимоотношениях этих двух монархов, точно неизвестно, обладал ли каждый из них властью над всем Лейнстером, или правил только частью этого королевства. Каких-либо подробностей правления Над Буйдба не сохранилось. В дальнейшем власть в Лейнстере оспаривали представители только двух родов — Уи Дунлайнге и Уи Хеннселайг.

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On behalf of San Diego Employment Law Group posted in Workplace Discrimination on Thursday, July 18, 2013.
The Supreme Court's recent decision in support of same-sex marriage has inspired lesbians and gays to increase their rights at work. In over half the states in the United States, it is possible to terminate an employee based on his or her sexual preference. However, sexual orientation discrimination persists even in states like California, which have laws prohibiting such behavior at the workplace.
One activist, who leads the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, cites an irony stemming from the recent Supreme Court decision. He says that many homosexual couples will have a better chance of getting married, but this could lead to problems at work. For example, he mentions that putting photos from their marriage on display in their office at work could cause them to lose their jobs in many states.
Lawmakers in the senate are currently debating a bill that could provide more protections to prevent sexual orientation discrimination at the workplace on a federal level. This could benefit homosexuals across the nation by ensuring that they are not the victims of discrimination, so that they do not have to live in constant fear of losing their jobs. The leader of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said that a lot of the problems surrounding sexual orientation discrimination are generational. Namely, younger workers are entering the workforce expecting certain civil rights that simply do not exist in many states.
Fortunately, California residents are protected by the law and workplace sexual orientation discrimination is an actionable offense. Californians who lose their job because they are gay, lesbian or bisexual can file a lawsuit. In the best of cases, victims of sexual orientation discrimination can receive compensation for lost income and other damages stemming from the discrimination or have their employment reinstated.
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Nancy Pelosi gambles on 'not worth it' impeachment call
First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks in Washington on March 8. Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP
March 12, 2019, 12:53 PM UTC
By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking impeachment off the table for Democrats — at least unless something dramatically changes.
"Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there's something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don't think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he's just not worth it," she told the Washington Post.
This might be the best political decision for Democrats heading into 2020.
It changes the conversation away from impeachment, gives at-risk Dems a shield when asked the I-word question, and places the burden on Republicans (if Trump's getting impeached, it will take GOP votes to do it).
But is it the right decision for history, especially if you believe the president of the United States has committed crimes before we even get to the Mueller report?
Nancy Pelosi says Trump is 'not worth' impeaching
And are Democrats convinced they have the upper hand against Trump in 2020? Or is the race more like a 50-50 contest?
Maybe Pelosi's answer on impeachment was just to buy her party additional time before the Mueller report.
But if so, she oversold that. "I don't think we should go down that path, because it divides the country" sounds pretty definitive.
And don't be surprised if Trump tries to use those words to his advantage when the going gets tough for him on the Mueller/legal front.
Beto makes his move
Yep, it sure looks like Beto O'Rourke's running for president.
The former Texas congressman is heading to Iowa this weekend to campaign for a Democratic state Senate candidate, per NBC's Garrett Haake, Kailani Koenig and Vaughn Hillyard.
And the Hawkeye State is abuzz that he's signed up a top Iowa political consultant.
Also, Haake, Koenig and Hillyard report that O'Rourke's team has had conversations about potential campaign staff positions in New Hampshire, according to multiple Democrats connected to the state.
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Trump's entitlement problem
One of the secrets to Donald Trump's success in 2016 — especially in the Midwest — was that he took entitlements like Medicare and Social Security off the table for Democrats.
"Hillary Clinton is going to destroy your Social Security and Medicare. She even wants to give your benefits to illegal immigrants," he said on the campaign trail on Nov. 6, 2016. "I am going to protect and save your Social Security and your Medicare."
But is that now back on the table with the Trump administration's budget from yesterday?
"Trump's 10-year budget unveiled Monday calls for more than $845 billion in reductions for Medicare, aiming to cut 'waste, fraud and abuse' in the federal program that gives insurance to older Americans," the Washington Post writes. "It's part of a broader proposed belt-tightening effort after deficits soared during the president's first two years in office in part due to massive tax cuts for the wealthy."
The Trump administration insists these are not CUTS to Medicare. "Medicare spending will go up every single year by healthy margins, and there are no structural changes for Medicare beneficiaries," acting OMB Director Russell Vought said.
But as the Post points out, Trump's proposed Medicare savings "are more than three times as large as those in his previous budget, and industry lobbying groups said the reductions would hurt hospitals and seniors."
2020 Vision: Guess who's coming to breakfast in New Hampshire?
None other than Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who will speak at the "Politics & Eggs" speaker series on April 23, the Baltimore Sun writes.
"For months, some so-called 'Never Trump' Republicans have been urging Hogan to run in a 2020 primary challenge against President Donald Trump," the paper adds. "The governor has largely demurred, without closing the door completely to the possibility."
On the trail today
Joe Biden addresses the International Association of Firefighters, who will be encouraging the former vice president to run in 2020.
"You're going to see, 'Run Joe Run,' the gold and black 'Firefighters for Biden,'" IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger told NBC's Mike Memoli. "We'll be doing everything to show where we stand. And then, it's up to him to make his final decision."
Data Download: The number of the day is … 46 percent
Forty-six percent — that's the percentage of Democrats who backed Bernie Sanders in 2016 who say that they'll support him in 2020, according to a new Monmouth University poll.
And that's compared with just 14 percent of Democrats who backed Hillary Clinton in the last election who say they're getting behind Sanders for the upcoming nomination fight.
With about half of his previous coalition scattering between other candidates like Joe Biden (15 percent), Kamala Harris (8 percent) and Elizabeth Warren (6 percent), it's not clear that Sanders will enjoy the same level of support from Democrats four years after his insurgent bid. But, the pollsters note, that assessment assumes that Biden is in the mix — and maintains his expected high levels of backing from Dems after he gets in.
The Lid: If you poll it, they will come
Don't miss the pod from yesterday, when we did a deep dive into what the Des Moines Register poll did (and did not) tell us about the Democratic field.
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn't miss
Paul Ryan is warning that Trump could lose in 2020 if he doesn't focus on policy.
It's official: The Democratic convention will be in Milwaukee.
At a private retreat, former VP Dick Cheney challenged Mike Pence on the Trump administration's foreign policy moves.
Yep, there's more Tucker Carlson audio. (And Fox News isn't backing down.)
Stay tuned for an important Brexit vote in Parliament today.
Other news stories you should check out…
Trump agenda: Adios
The U.S. is pulling remaining diplomatic staff from the embassy in Venezuela.
The Trump administration wants to pull $8.5 billion out of the education budget.
Trump's proposed cuts to Medicare are inserting health care squarely into the 2020 contest.
Concern about the NRA's rhetoric on its TV apparatus is coming from inside the house.
Steve Bannon is heading to Cincinnati to rally for the border wall.
The White House isn't commenting on the president's reported comments that Democrats "hate" Jews.
Right to Rise super PAC is facing a big fine for accepting illegal donations from Chinese nationals.
Republicans are looking for a way out of a conflict with the White House over the emergency declaration.
2020: Is Stacey Abrams now eyeing the White House?
Pollsters are struggling to measure the huge 2020 field — with high stakes looming for the Democratic debates.
A state Senate race in Iowa is attracting presidential hopefuls (including Beto!)
Kirsten Gillibrand is standing by her office's handling of a sexual harassment claim.
POLITICO asks if we're about to get a Biden v. Warren rematch.
Stacey Abrams says 2020 is "definitely on the table."
Chuck Todd is moderator of "Meet The Press" and NBC News' political director.
Mark Murray
Mark Murray is a senior political editor at NBC News.
Carrie Dann
Carrie Dann is a political editor for NBC News.


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Research reveals new drug target urgently needed for tuberculosis therapy
One third of the world is infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), a disease that is increasingly difficult to treat because of wide spread resistance to available drugs. Researchers from the Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology (CNRS, Université de Toulouse) in Toulouse (France) have identified a fresh target to develop new drugs for TB. The study, published in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens, shows why the target will be important in developing new TB treatments.
The deadliest form of human tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb). The burden of infection continues to increase and every year the world sees 8 million new cases and nearly 2 million deaths. TB, which occurs mostly in developing countries (including China, India and Brazil), drastically hinders economic growth. Current tuberculosis treatments are nearly 50 years old, take more than six months to complete and have many side effects, which makes it difficult for people to take the full course of drugs. The treatments have also become less effective because new bacterial strains are resistant to multiple drugs. There is an urgent need to find drugs with new modes of action that will shorten the duration of treatment, improve ways to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis and treat dormant infections to prevent them from later developing into full blown disease.
The cell envelope of M.tb has an unusually high content of substances called lipids which have unusual composition and are known to play an important role in the causing disease. The production of these disease causing lipids was known to be controlled by the action of a protein which is the enzyme PptT in M.tb.
In this study, the researchers found that production of PptT is needed for growth of M.tb in a culture dish. It is also needed for growth and survival of M.tb in a mouse, which serves as a model for human disease. These findings are the reasons why PptT should be a very good drug target and allow the development of new drugs against TB. The study has also developed a way to quickly test hundreds of thousands of chemical agents (aka drugs) that block the action of Ppt and growth of M.tb. This approach is important and has been used by drug companies to develop drugs to many human diseases.
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: C.L. is recipient of a fellowship from the French Minister of Teaching and Scientific Research. This work was supported by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale ("Equipe FRM" DEQ20090515399) and by European Structural Funds (FEDER) and the Région Midi-Pyrénées (CPER 2007-2013) for the scientific project and for the ASB3 animal facilities. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
COMPETING INTERESTS: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
CITATION: Leblanc C, Prudhomme T, Tabouret G, Ray A, Burbaud S, et al. (2012) 4'-Phosphopantetheinyl Transferase PptT, a New Drug Target Required for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Growth and Persistence In Vivo. PLoS Pathog 8(12): e1003097. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003097
Author contact:
Christian Chalut, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale
E-mail: christian.chalut@ipbs.fr
PLOS Pathogens Contact:
Gina Alvino
plospathogens@plos.org
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Tuberculosis: New insights into the pathogen
Researchers at the University of Würzburg and the Spanish Cancer Research Centre have gained new insights into the pathogen that causes tuberculosis.
Unmasking the hidden burden of tuberculosis in Mozambique
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Reducing the burden of tuberculosis treatment
A research team led by MIT has developed a device that can lodge in the stomach and deliver antibiotics to treat tuberculosis, which they hope will make it easier to cure more patients and reduce health care costs.
Tuberculosis: Commandeering a bacterial 'suicide' mechanism
The bacteria responsible for tuberculosis can be killed by a toxin they produce unless it is neutralized by an antidote protein.
A copper bullet for tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a sneaky disease, and the number one cause of death from infectious disease worldwide.
How damaging immune cells develop during tuberculosis
Insights into how harmful white blood cells form during tuberculosis infection point to novel targets for pharmacological interventions, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Valentina Guerrini and Maria Laura Gennaro of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and colleagues.
How many people die from tuberculosis every year?
The estimates for global tuberculosis deaths by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) differ considerably for a dozen countries, according to a study led by ISGlobal.
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 * Base validator type for the a graph structure.
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Dolce & Gabbana just created the most extravagant watches in the world
By GQ Staff 12 April 2017
Inspired by the operas of Verdi and the traditional goldsmiths of Milan, Dolce & Gabbana's one-off watch collection takes extravagance to a whole new level
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana aren't exactly known for doing things by halves so when they turned their hand to haute horlogerie (or alta orlogeria as they call it in Milan) you can bet your life that they were determined to come up with some spectacular timepieces. And they have.
The collection of Dolce & Gabbana's four one-of-a-kind pieces are inspired by Guiseppe Verdi's operas - Otello, Nabucco, Macbeth and Don Carlo - using precious metals and gemstones in the style of the great Italian goldsmiths.
Each extraordinarily opulent model has its own Swiss-made calibre and, with the exception of Otello, are all tourbillons, with a unique bridge engraved with the DG initials, while the Don Carlo is also a minute repeater. Otello has a mechanical movement with manual winding from the early 20th century that was engraved for the occasion by Italian artisans and restored by expert Swiss watchmakers. And - what else? - they all come in restored antique boxes. And at this level, well prices are strictly on application.
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