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Daily Highlights: Monday; September 27, 2010
The Stupid Cancer Show's Matthew Zachary welcomes actress and dancer Lisa Niemi, who was married to Patrick Swayze from 1975 until his death last year from pancreatic cancer. Lisa will look back on her loving partnership with the Dirty Dancing superstar.
Tomorrow Will Be Televised's Simon Applebaum sits down with Lisa Sherman, executive V.P. of Logo, which is devoted exclusively to LGBT programming. Plus: Carmen DiRienzo, CEO of Hispanic PBS net V-me, and Fred Kaufman, senior executive producer of PBS' Nature.
Breakfree to Success' Doug Foresta gets down to business with funny lady Rachel Feinstein who scored her own Comedy Central special this year. The Onion writer will riff on her role opposite Mario Cantone in the upcoming big-screen flick Circus Maximus.
PSI-FI Para-Radio's Donna Stewart scares up an interview with filmmakers (and twin brothers) Philip and Christopher Booth, whose new documentary, The Haunted Boy, tells the story of the 13-year-old kid who inspired William Peter Blatty's novel and blockbuster film The Exorcist.
The Amani Show's Amani Harris gets busy with Aubrey O'Day, who shot to fame in 2004 as a member of Danity Kane on Diddy's MTV reality series Making the Band. The 2009 Playboy covergirl will tell us wassup with her career since leaving the girl group.
Ask Mom RN's Tamara Walker gives it up for Rico Rodriquez, who plays Manny Delgado on ABC's Modern Family. The 12-year-old tyke will fill us in on his new role as Kmart's Fun Ambassador, and offer up his picks for this holiday season's Fab 15 Toy List.
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Daily Highlights: Thursday, September 2, 2010
At 9 AM Robin Milling flashes back to 1992, when she got busy with with David Bowie, who was about to tie the knot with Iman. "I'm very pro on the idea," the flamboyant glam rocker said of marriage. "I don't think there are any disadvantages whatsoever. I think it is a glorious union."
At 11 AM AACONS host Marie Stroughter sits down with attorney Liz Cheney, who held key positions in the U.S. State Department under George W. Bush. The Mideast affairs specialist with discuss teaming up with her dad—former Vice President Dick Cheney —on his memoirs.
On Demand: Stuntwoman Bridgett Riley—who has doubled for such stars as Scarlett Johansson and Sienna Miller—dishes about working with Angelina Jolie on Salt: "I normally don't get star-struck," she tells host Marq with a Q, "but I'm a huge fan so it was like, Wow, I can't believe I'm training her!"
At 6 PM Wanda After Dark host Wanda Noel cozies up to Kevon Edmonds, younger brother of singer-songwriter Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds—and an R&B force in his own right, havng broken onto the scene in 1988 as a member of After 7, whose self-titled debut album went platinum.
At 6 PM Candice Sabatini, skin-care writer for iVillage.com, drops in on Paula Begoun and the Cosmetics Cop Team to share her secrets for picking the perfect scent, while reviewing trends for the upcoming season. Call with questions to receive free Paula's Choice products.
On Demand: Breakfree to Success's Doug Foresta gets down to business with singer-songwriter Cam Hodges from Season 5 of America's Got Talent, who (in a good way) has got a John Mayer thing going on. The budding Vienna, Austria-born pop star will sample 2 new tracks.
On Demand: Work It Girl's Janet Powers and Lisa Mandell chat with Lynae Remondino, who lost 118 lbs. via Weight Watchers—but is now at odds with the diet giant for not hiring her as a national trainer. Plus: Lisa's fellow AOL Jobs editor Barbara Safani, author of Happy About My Resume.
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Daily Highlights; August 16, 2010
At 330 PM Breakfree to Success host Doug Foresta goes the distance with Burt Young, who shot to fame in 1976 as Sylvester Stallone's brother-in-law Paulie in Rocky, before going on to star in such flicks as The Pope of Greenwich Village and Mickey Blue Eyes.
At 3 PM Lessons Learned host Rick Tocquigny rolls out the red carpet for birthday girl Rose Marie, who turned 87 yesterday. Joining the TV legend live will be fellow Dick Van Dyke Show star Carl Reiner, and Peter Marshall, host of the original Hollywood Squares.
At 1 PM Ask Mom RN's Tamara Walker sits down with NBC News correspondent Dr. Ian Smith—who was recently appointed to President Obama's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition—and Neil Mulholland, CEO of the National Park Foundation, to chat about outdoor family fitness.
At 7 PM OutTakes welcomes Nicolas Coster, who began his film career in the original 1953 Titanic before jumping to TV—where he's starred on 9 soaps while doing guest spots on more than 100 prime-time series. The British-born actor will chat about his upcoming turn on the web series The Bay.
At 8 PM Somewhere in Vegas host Marq with a Q gets up close and under the microscope with funny lady Angie Greenup, co-host (with Chad Zdenek) of the new G4 TV series It's Effin' Science, which explores the weird, wild and offbeat side of the geekiest of all disciplines.
At 7 PM Conversations of Spirited Actor's Tracey Moore hangs with Yvonna Kopacz-Wright, who began her soap career in 1996 on Days of Our Lives before landing the role of Mel Boudreau on The Guiding Light in 2001. The mom of 2 will chat about juggling family life and a high-profile job.
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The Resolver class provides a means for resolving versioned

  resolver = Version::Resolver.new

A new Resolver can take a list of dependent entries. These are supplied as
a list of three-element arrays containing name, version number and requiremnets.
Where requirements are themselves a list of names and version constraints.

  resolver = Version::Resolver.new(
    ['foo', '1.0.0', {'bar' => '> 1.0'}],
    ['bar', '2.0.0', {}]
  )

If the requirements list is left out of an entry, it should still initialize
without issue.

  resolver = Version::Resolver.new(
    ['foo', '1.0.0', {'bar' => '> 1.0'}],
    ['bar', '2.0.0']
  )

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HBJ is een Duits merk van zijspancombinaties, opgericht in 1985.

De naam is samengesteld uit de initialen van de voornamen van Hans-Gerd Reichler, Bernd Dawicki en Jesco Höckert.

HBJ gaat niet uit van het motor-met-zijspan idee, maar bouwt rond het motorblok een compleet nieuw frame, waarna de zijspancombinatie wordt opgebouwd. Men past in het algemeen vrij sterke motoren toe (Yamaha en Triumph 1200 cc blokken).

Duits motorfietsmerk

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Q: Binding time of free variables of quoted terms in Scheme I try to understand how works the quote phenomenon in Scheme. In particular, I would like to understand when are bound free variables of quoted terms.
For instance, when I write
(define q 'a)
(define a 42)
(eval q)

it returns 42. Thus I deduce that binding time is at runtime. But in this case, why does this code fail
(let ((q 'a))
  (let ((a 42))
    (eval q)
  )
)

and returns
unbound variable:  a

Can someone explain me what is the binding time model of quoted terms (is is comparable to MetaOCaml for instance? (I don't think so)) and the difference between define and let?

A: Scheme has lexical scope discipline, not a dynamic binding discipline.
Your top-level define definitions behave as though creating a binding in a top-level lexical environment.
The second code snippet actually creates two lexical environments, one nested inside the other. So where (not "when") q is bound, a is still unbound. But the real question is, which environment is used by eval?
Your implementation behaves as though it uses the definitional environment, or a top level environment, but certainly not the current lexical environment, for evaluating the symbol 'a, which is the value of the q variable. The variable q has a clear binding lexical environment, created by its let form -- but where does a symbol 'a's binding reside? How are we to know?
Details should be in the documentation.

A: First off a quoted symbol is just as much a variable as a string with the same sequences of chars as a variable in a C syntax language like Javascript. They have nothing in common since they live in different worlds.
eval does not know of lexical variables, only global ones. It knows of lexical variables that is in the structure to be evaluated. Eg.
(eval '(let ((tmp (list q q)))
          tmp))

q needs to be global, but tmp is a lexical variable.
Standard Scheme, aka R6RS, take a second argument where you can choose what libraries should be available. These are still considered global.
Variables are bound at runtime. Implementations are free to optimize and constant fold as long as this optimization does not break the report.
eval is a powerful procedure which should never be used unless it's the most sensible way to solve a problem. I've seen it twice in production code during my 17 year career and I think it's one time too much.

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The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped Delaware's election protocol.
But voters who plan on going to the polls for Tuesday's primary election can vote as they always have, as long as they prepare for more social distancing and hand sanitizer at the polls.
All registered Democrats and Republicans in the state were given the chance to vote from home, including by mail, because of the coronavirus pandemic.
But unlike in July's presidential primary, the state is still keeping all of its 286 polling locations open. Voters will have to report to their assigned polling place if they choose to vote in person.
LEARN ABOUT THE CANDIDATES BEFORE VOTING:Delaware Online Statewide Primary Voters Guide
Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday. You can find your polling place by visiting the Elections Department website https://ivote.de.gov.
Only registered Democrats and Republicans can vote in Delaware's primary. The deadlines to register and change parties for the state primary have passed.
I requested a mail-in ballot but haven't returned it yet. What do I do?
Delaware is a ballot-in-hand state, meaning the returned ballot has to be in the hands of elections officials by 8 p.m. on election day, which is when the polls close.
That means if you requested a mail-in ballot and haven't mailed it yet, it's too late to mail it. Instead, the Elections Department recommends you drop off your ballot at the elections office in the county where you live.
BRUSH UP ON TUESDAY'S ELECTION:Feuds, morphing parties and history-makers: What's at stake in Delaware's primary election
You have until 8 p.m. Tuesday to drop off your ballot at one of the following locations in order for your vote to count. Each office is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
Sussex County Department of Elections Office
119 N. Race St.
Georgetown DE 19947
Kent County Department of Elections Office
100 Enterprise Place
Dover DE 19904
New Castle County Department of Elections Office
Carvel State Office Building
820 North French Street
Wilmington DE 19801
*A drop box is also available in the lobby of the building, which is open starting at 7 a.m.
New Castle County Warehouse and Training Center
220 Lisa Drive
*The drop box is located at the south (far) end of the building.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE:How much money candidates are raising, spending in the Delaware primary election
Voters who have received mail-in ballots but find themselves second-guessing the mail-in process can still vote in person before returning their ballot. Those voters can go to their assigned polling place, and poll workers will contact the county's elections office and void the mail-in ballot so that the voter can vote in person. The voter can't vote in person if their mail-in ballot was already returned.
Reporting any issues
If you run into issues on Tuesday, the Elections Department recommends contacting one of its offices in the county where you live.
The numbers for those offices are below.
Need more info on how to vote?
Delawareans can visit ivote.de.gov or the Delaware Department of Elections website at elections.delaware.gov for more information.
If you don't have a computer, you can call the Department of Elections for more information on how to get ready for the primary election:
Office of the State Election Commissioner: (302) 739-4277
Kent County Office: (302) 739-4498
New Castle County Office: (302) 577-3464
Sussex County Office: (302) 856-5367
What's on the ballot?
Delaware Online/The News Journal has created an online voters' guide for statewide and local races, including Wilmington City Council, the General Assembly and county councils. The free voters guide includes information about the candidates and their platform.
While Delaware voters won't be voting for Joe Biden or Donald Trump until the Nov. 3 presidential election, several key races will be on Tuesday's ballot.
One of the biggest is Democratic Gov. John Carney's reelection bid, where he's being challenged by David Lamar Williams, an accountant from Camden-Wyoming.
GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY:What you need to know about the Delaware governor's race
Six Republicans are also squaring off in their own gubernatorial primary: Julianne Murray, an attorney in Georgetown who is endorsed by her party; Colin Bonini, a Dover senator who won the 2016 Republican primary for governor; Bryant Richardson, a Seaford senator; Dave Graham, a tax auditor from Smyrna; David Bosco, an airsoft sports complex owner in Greenwood; and Scott Walker, of Wilmington, who won the Republican primary for the U.S. House in 2018 through an underfunded, incendiary campaign.
U.S. Sen. Chris Coons, a moderate Democrat, is facing a primary challenge from Jessica Scarane, a progressive millennial and digital marketing strategist. Republican Jim DeMartino, who was endorsed by his party, and Trumpian newcomer Lauren Witzke will face off for the GOP nomination.
U.S. SENATE PRIMARY:Not all politicians are the same — just look at Delaware's U.S. Senate race
Actor Lee Murphy and furniture salesman Matthew Morris are fighting for the Republican nomination for Delaware's lone U.S. House seat. Whoever wins will face Democratic U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester in November.
Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro, after facing two harassment lawsuits during his first term, is seeking reelection and facing a primary challenge from Democrat Kayode Abegunde.
U.S. HOUSE PRIMARY:Endorsed Republican squares off against newcomer in contentious Delaware U.S. House primary
Eleven Statehouse seats, mostly in New Castle County, also have a primary race, including seven where incumbent lawmakers are facing a primary from a Democratic challenger this year.
Two lawmakers — budget committee co-chairs Rep. Quinton Johnson, D-Middletown, and Sen. Harris McDowell, D-Wilmington North — are retiring, guaranteeing two new faces in the 62-person General Assembly.
PRIMARY RACES TO WATCH:Six primary races to watch in the Delaware General Assembly
All three county governments will have primary races on the ballot, and Wilmington City Council seats are up for grabs as Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki seeks reelection against two Democratic challengers.
Sarah Gamard covers government and politics for Delaware Online/The News Journal. You can reach her at (302) 324-2281 or sgamard@delawareonline.com. You can also follow her on Twitter @SarahGamard


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Q: puppeteer hangs chromium on request.continue if header is modified on 302 response code Chromium is getting hanged if header is modified using puppeteer

*

*Puppeteer version:1.12.2

*Platform / OS version: MAC / UBUNTU

'use strict';

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
(async () => {
  try {
    let browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: false });
    let [page] = await browser.pages();

    await page.setRequestInterception(true);

    page.on('request', request => {
      const headers = Object.assign({}, request.headers(), {
         foo: 'bar'
      });
      request.continue({ headers });
    });

    await page.goto('http://google.com');
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err);
  }
})();

A: In my case, this was not relevant to setting headers.
When I enabled request interception with this line of code observing the same behavior:
await page.setRequestInterception(true);

If I comment out this line of code it is loading the page but the Chromium is complaining that the connection is insecure. In this case waitUntil option does not work within page.goto as option.
If I open a new tab in Chromium (the same window) and copy and paste the same url it is loading the page without any isues.


HACCP, or the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point system, is a process control system that identifies where hazards might occur in the food production process. American Thermal Instruments recently released a checklist that companies can use to ensure they have correctly put into place stringent actions to take to prevent certain consumer and internal hazards from occurring.
The checklist identifies 5 critical areas to evaluate to ensure your products aren't hazardous or causing dangerous situations. By strictly monitoring and controlling each step of the HACCP process, there is less chance for hazards to occur.
In addition to the 5 steps to ensuring you are HACCP compliant, we also detail the 7 general principles that the system mandates to better ensure your products are safe. These principles were developed by the FDA and help to breakdown the process control system effectively.
Get access to the checklist by clicking on the image below - ensuring compliance is critical to your consumer's and your business!
© 2018 American Thermal Instruments.


WalletHub.com puts together lists of the stop cities in the country for many different categories. In a new list, they rate the best state capitals and Boise in the top five.
In fact, we're the runner up, number two in the nation, with only city getting a higher ranking (that city being Austin Texas).
WalletHub took a look at all 50 state capitals and rated them based on 42 indicators including affordability, economic strength, quality of education, health, and overall living standards. They looked into ranges of "cost of living," the quality of the school system, and even attractions and activities for residents.
To dig in deeper to the criteria and how they arrived at their results, check out the full article at WalletHub.com.


Starting with the outer leg assembly, lay the legs on a work surface and apply glue to the rabbets. To attach each rail, place it in position on the legs and secure it with one screw at each end. Check that it is perfectly square, then add the second screw. Before assembling the inner legs and rails, double check that the rails will fit inside the outer assembly, otherwise the legs will not fold properly. If necessary, trim the rails and adjust their rabbets to compensate. Assemble the inner legs as above, then add the crossrail (left).


Many households with children use art as a great way to pass time – it's a creative outlet honing essential skills, and a way of giving a parents a break.
P'kolino, whose products we have featured many times before, has ventured into the art supplies market, collaborating with world renowned manufacturer Jovi to offer a beautifully-presented range for young children.
Included in the collection are: colourful markers, finger and poster paints, hexagon coloured pencils, triangular crayons and pencils, and an all-in-one art set. The shaped pencils and crayons are perfect for those little fingers to practice a good hold on writing implements.
Prices start at US$5.99 and go up to $19.99 for the art set, from P'kolino.


Central Prairie Field Trial Club Spring Trial | Sandy Run Hunt Co.
The Central Prairie Field Trial Club will hold its spring field trial at Sandy Run on Saturday, March 25th. The Jim McNutt Memorial Shooting Dog Trial will start at 8 am. Followed by lunch and then the amateur derby, gun dog and puppy trials. If you are interested in joining in the fun, call Butch Spelbring, 217 343 2871 for more information or to enter your dog. Drawing for braces will done Wedneday evening March 22. This is also a good time to come out and watch some nice dog work, bring your horse or ATV and join the gallery following the action.
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Beyond Compare allows you to quickly and easily compare your files and folders. By using simple, powerful commands you can focus on the differences you're interested in and ignore the rest. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records. You can compare entire drives and folders at high speed, checking just sizes and modified times, or thoroughly verify every file with byte-by-byte comparisons. Once you've found specific files you're interested in, Beyond Compare can intelligently pick the best way to compare and display them. Text files can be viewed and edited with syntax highlighting and comparison rules tweaked specifically for documents, source code, and HTML. The text contents of Microsoft Word .doc and Adobe .pdf files can also be compared but not edited. Data files, executables, binary data, and images all have dedicated viewers as well, so you always have a clear view of the changes.


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Camden County Educator Named New Jersey State Teacher of the Year
By kbm0423 on October 7, 2020 at 12:32 pm EDT
Gloucester Township
The New Jersey Department of Education today announced that Angel Santiago, a fifth-grade teacher in the Gloucester Township School District, Camden County, has been named the 2020-2021 New Jersey State Teacher of the Year.
"New Jersey is known for having the best public school system in the nation, which is due in large part to the strength of our teaching workforce," Governor Phil Murphy said. "Angel Santiago exemplifies the kind of commitment and professionalism that we see in classrooms throughout New Jersey. I want to congratulate Angel for all that he has done to prepare our children to succeed and thrive."
"Angel's story is one of dedication, character, and service to the community," Interim Education Commissioner Kevin Dehmer said. "I commend him for serving as a role model, not only for his students but for all of New Jersey."
Santiago grew up in Vineland, where his single mother worked long hours to support her children, instilling in him the importance of a strong work ethic. For Santiago, school became a place that opened new worlds, and it helped mold his commitment to community service.
One person who made a profound impact on Santiago's life was his sixth-grade teacher, Mark Melamed, who taught his students about the importance of service and how it impacts a community. Mr. Melamed had established a nonprofit called The Gabriel Project to provide critically ill children from Africa, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti the medical services they need to survive.
As a child, Santiago took part in a readathon to raise money for the charity. Today, The Gabriel Project lives on even after the passing of Mr. Melamed, and it has raised more than $1 million over the years with help from people like Santiago, who has volunteered as vice president of the organization (2014-2016).
After earning an associate degree from Rowan University – taking evening classes while working full time – Santiago then went on to earn his bachelor's degree and then a master's in education from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he was a member of both the Phi Theta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi honor societies.
Santiago began his teaching career in Lindenwold schools in 2012 before establishing his professional roots in the Gloucester Township School District the following year.
For the past two years, Santiago has facilitated a group of fourth and fifth-grade students called Young People of Character, or YPOC. YPOC brings together students from all walks of life to serve the communities in which they live.
The YPOC members have participated in activities such as writing letters to veterans for Veterans Day, cleaning the school grounds for Earth Day, and volunteering during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
Santiago believes that one key to closing equity gaps in New Jersey is through promoting a diverse teaching workforce – a challenge in a state where 58 percent of the state's students are children of color, but teachers of color represent only 16 percent of educators. Research has linked a diverse teaching workforce to greater academic achievement among students of color. A diverse workforce fosters positive perceptions among all children and helps prepare them for future success.
Santiago is often asked to provide professional development training for his colleagues on issues ranging from positive behavioral interventions for students to a curriculum institute for teachers of science and social studies.
"Congratulations to Angel Santiago for earning the designation of New Jersey State Teacher of the Year," Kathy Goldenberg, President of the State Board of Education, said. "His story serves as a true inspiration, and we're fortunate to have him among our teaching workforce."
"Considering the significant talent that exists within our state's teacher workforce, for Angel Santiago to be selected as the 2020-2021 New Jersey State Teacher of the Year is a well-deserved honor," John Bilodeau, Superintendent of the Gloucester Township School District, said. "His selfless demeanor and humility are offset by an insatiable professional drive to develop and advance all students both academically and socially. I could not be prouder of Angel for this most deserved recognition."
"Angel Santiago stands out because of his character," said Aaron J. Rose, Principal of Loring Flemming Elementary School in Blackwood, where Santiago teaches. "He treats all students with mutual respect, celebrates their differences, and inspires students of varying backgrounds and abilities to succeed academically and socially. The impact of Angel Santiago's work is so fulfilling and significant, as it is all focused on the most important person in the classroom, the student. He makes Gloucester Township schools proud and is truly deserving of the title, 2020-2021 New Jersey State Teacher of the Year."
"I teach because I get to participate in cultivating the most precious resource this world has to offer: our future, our children," said Santiago, who lives in Elmer with his wife Kourtney, a special education teacher in the Bridgeton Public School District, and their son.
"Teaching is my passion," he said. "It is the reason why I get up every day with a positive outlook on life and the reason why I can fall asleep each night feeling fulfilled with my worldly duties."
In his role as State Teacher of the Year, Santiago will work with the New Jersey State Department of Education, meet with fellow educators around the state, and take part in national conferences with other State Teachers of the Year.
The other four New Jersey State Teacher of the Year finalists will be recognized at a State Board of Education recognition ceremony in December. The finalists received the highest scores on their applications and their interviews with a distinguished panel of representatives from the state's education associations and other stakeholder groups.
The finalists are: Michael Dunlea, third-grade teacher at Tabernacle Elementary School, Tabernacle Township School District, Burlington County; Christina Gauss, Spanish teacher at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School District, Monmouth County; Megan Graziano, Science Teacher at Clifton High School, Clifton School District, Passaic County; and Rachel Krementz, 5th & 6th grade special education teacher at Ocean Academy, Cape May County Special Services District, Cape May.
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Scientists To Simulate A Volcanic Eruption In An Attempt To Cool The Earth In World's Biggest Geoengineering Experiment To Date - What Could Go Wrong?
- Harvard University Scientists Prove The 'Conspiracy Theorists' Were Right All Along!
While the govt, the mainstream media and tens of millions of Americans will still call 'chemtrails' or 'weather modification' a 'conspiracy theory' or claim that news about weather modification is 'fake news', we get more proof today from The Guardian that people such as Steve Quayle and Dane Wigington were WAY AHEAD of everybody else.
The Guardian story published Friday called "US Scientists Launch World's Biggest Solar Geoengineering Study" reports US scientists are set to send aerosol injections 20km up into the earth's stratosphere in the world's biggest solar geoengineering program to date to study the potential of a future tech-fix for global warming.
Scientists hope to complete two small-scale dispersals of first water and then calcium carbonate particles by 2022. Future tests could involve seeding the sky with aluminium oxide – or even diamonds..
As we reported previously on ANP back on March 14th, massive volcanic eruptions across the planet have been tied to an 'extremely vicious cycle of mass extinctions' that have played out upon our planet time and again. Simply put, scientists now understand that throughout history, one series after another of devastating volcanic eruptions have brought upon 'new ice ages'.
"Technology will make available, to the leaders of the major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of security forces need be appraised...Techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm."
Knowing that even scientists admit that there is the potential for 'unintended disasters' for attempting to 'block out the sun' in an attempt to stymie 'global warming', should $20 million really be spent upon something that could have severe, unintended consequences? Simply knowing that many scientists believe 'global warming' is 'junk science' and 'fake news' should prove to us much more information is needed before they accidentally trigger the next 'vicious cycle'.
Massive methane eruptions are pushing the planet toward Venus Syndrome. The climate engineering cabal is completely committed to chemically ice nucleating the polar regions in an unimaginably desperate and destructive attempt to cover up the unfolding methane catastrophe.
For well over 70 years global powers have been consistently ramping up covert climate engineering programs that have now all but completely derailed the planet's life support systems.
Without the knowledge or consent of their populations, governments around the world colluded and collaborated on the organization and deployment of incredibly destructive climate "intervention" programs that are further fueling the catastrophic consequences of anthropogenic activity on planet Earth.
Of all the forms of decimation the human race has inflicted on our formerly thriving biosphere, the ongoing geoengineering assault is mathematically the most ominous and destructive.
With 'conspiracy theories' such as 'chemtrails', 'geoengineering' and many more now proven true, should we also take the warnings of the globalists desire to 'depopulate' the world as true as well? Judging by what they have been willingly doing to our planet Earth for decades we'd surmise it safe to say that evil will never willingly give us the truth.
The 2nd video below is Wigington's latest geoengineering update.


Is your Business Continuity Plan as up to date as it needs to be? Is it meeting best practices? Do you have processes in place to make sure the information is always relevant? We've created a top-ten list of situations where you'll want to give your Business Continuity Plan another once-over.
In this article, you'll learn what types of situations warrent a change to your Business Continuity Plan.


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Fed Funds and How the Funds Market Works
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The Secret to How the Fed Controls Interest Rates
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By Kimberly Amadeo
Federal Reserve funds are overnight loans banks use to meet the reserve requirement at the end of each day. The Federal Reserve uses the fed funds to control the nation's interest rates. That is because banks borrow fed funds from each other. They pay an interest rate that they call the fed funds rate. The borrowing bank does not need to supply collateral for the loan. The fed funds market is the total amount borrowed by all banks.
The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee sets the rate's target at its regular meetings. A high fed funds rate means banks will lend less. That is because it costs more to borrow enough fed funds to meet the reserve requirement. Interest rates will be high as a result. A low fed funds rate means banks will lend more. That allows them to charge a lower interest rate.
Banks can also borrow from the Federal Reserve's discount window. That interest rate, known as the Federal discount rate, is usually 0.5 percent higher. That encourages banks to borrow fed funds from each other.
How the Fed Funds Market Works
At the end of each day, banks with reserves more than the requirement, lend them to banks that are short. The borrower can hold the funds in its vaults or at a Federal Reserve Bank. Either way, it counts to meet the bank's reserve requirement.
Even though it's a loan, the lending bank is engaged in a fed funds sale. Similarly, the borrowing bank is making a fed funds purchase.
The reserve requirement doesn't apply to small banks, those with net transactions of $14.5 million or less. They ordinarily have a relationship with a larger bank to lend it the amount it needs. That gives the smaller bank a bit of a competitive advantage because it can earn extra interest on its funds.
The fed funds market has been shrinking ever since the 2008 financial crisis. In 2007, banks lent $200 billion. In 2012, it was only $60 billion. What happened?
First, the Federal Reserve increased its balance sheet to $4 trillion through quantitative easing. The Fed bought U.S. Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities from banks. That left them with lots of reserves on their balance sheets.
Second, the Fed now pays banks interest on excess reserves. Banks have less incentive to lend excess fed funds.
How the Fed Funds Affects the Economy and You
The Federal Reserve sets the reserve requirement in order to control the amount of money available to lend. That's known as liquidity. The requirement keeps banks from lending out all their money. The Fed requires that a certain percentage of the bank's deposits need to be reserved each night.
The fed funds rate target is the interest charged for fed funds loans. Both the fed funds rate and the reserve requirement are methods of implementing monetary policy. That is how central banks, like the Fed, manage the money supply to achieve healthy economic growth. Their goal is to prevent high inflation at all costs. This is because inflation impacts the economy, negatively.
If inflation is under control, then the Fed has a secondary goal. It must reduce unemployment to its natural level. If unemployment is too high, then the country is probably in a recession.
How does the Fed do this? To reduce inflation, the Fed raises the fed funds rate. That reduces the amount of money that banks have to lend. That slows consumer borrowing and demand. It also reduces business expansion, investment, and hiring. That's called contractionary monetary policy. It is beneficial to know when the Fed will raise rates.
Expansionary monetary policy spurs economic growth by making it cheaper to borrow. Consumers can borrow more, so they will buy things that require loans, like housing, automobiles, and even furniture. Businesses respond to the demand by taking out loans of their own, expanding companies, buying equipment and hiring more people. Being aware of how the Fed raises or lowers interest rates will give you a better grasp of monetary policies.
Economic expansion and contraction are part of the business cycle. The Fed uses its monetary policy tools to keep the economy in the expansion phase.
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Local & National Issues
Monetary Union?
By observer,
April 26, 2013 in Question Time
Is monetary union between the UK and an independent Scotland (assuming it happens) a viable option; bearing in mind the current plight of the Euro Zone?
Davy51
LocationNewton-le-Willows
Considering we are Scotland's closest trading partner , it would make sense for Scotland to carry on with sterling especially since the EU has stated that an independent Scotland would not be guaranteed automatic entry to the EU but would have to go through an application process. I am pretty sure that trade would not end overnight if Scotland became independent & it would benefit pan UK distribution to have one currency with all the shopping & supermarket chains spread throughout the country as it is now.
But the problem is Dave, that fiscal union doesn't work without political union; as is being realised by the Euro-zone, where greater central control and fiscal discipline is the new mantra. The SNP believe in a borrow and spend philosophy - and we know where that led with the Greeks, Spanish etc.
Lt Kije
LocationNear
If they spit Obs, they will also have the North Sea money, Which England will need to maintain is balance of payments
But apart from a ploy to find a political premiership for Alex Salmond ,i can't see Scotland being able to stray very far in terms of independence , i should imagine most of its financial & benefit system will still be paid from government funds & the country will be independent in name only.
inky pete
Why would they have the North Sea money? The oilfields are well outside territorial waters and the rights to exploit them are owned and funded by private companies.
Those companies pay taxes to the country which granted them the right - namely the UK, with or without the irrelevant bit north of Hadrians Wall..
Be interesting as to how much of the UK's fiscal deficit will be taken on by the Scots?!
Scotland would get them inky
Found this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/mar/02/oil-revenues-if-scotland-became-independent
Bazj
LocationWestbrook.... middle of nowhere
you read all that???
Sorry Baz, it is a bit long winded
Here's the important bit
Who gets the oil in the event of Scottish independence? It depends who you speak to and any division of the spoils will be hotly fought over by politicians in Edinburgh and London. If you draw a median line out across the North Sea from the border then 90% of the oil tax revenues will accrue to Scotland. If the calculation is done on the basis of population then that figure will be reduced to 9%, according to the (London-based) National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr).
Angus Armstrong, the author of that Niesr report to sum up their findings, said:
The Geneva agreement on natural resources under the sea dictates that they are divided by the median lines. Most people accept that the Geneva approach is the standard approach. Which gives Scotland 91% of revenues. But this thing, the income, is declining now. It's also very volatile. If you look at budget deficits it makes a huge difference.
I think apart from the independently brainwashed student population ,a few loony lefties & the Braveheart Society ,that most Scottish people will see through Salmond's quest for political fame & vote for the status quo.
Hope your right Davy51
Think your right Davy.
LocationThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. H.L.Mencken
I agree with Davy.
What all 3 of us agreeing, I think one of us should dissent. Its just not normal
Its the end of the World!!!!!!!!
I think if there is a vote, the English should get to vote to get rid of Scotland! We bailed out their bank, we pay for their free health, dental, prescriptions and University (Places at Scottish Universitys are free for other EU citizens but not the English) EU law says EU students must be treated as locals, so - like Scottish students - they will not pay fees in Scotland... but why do the English? Are we not EU students too???
English students pay because Mr Salmond hates the English
They don't pay because they already have local discretion on such matters as Uni fees and prescription fees etc. The question is, where do they get the money from? Another question is, why didn't Prezzer go ahead with regionalisation/devolution for the rest of us, then we could have opted for free Uni places; instead we've got a dog's breakfast that's been converted into the notion of separate nationalism within the UK.


I'm not sure how I sliced off a chunk of skin from my left index finger while we were at the drug store the other day. But I couldn't get the thing to stop bleeding. While I was digging in my purse for tissues, my daughter, Lauren, was scouring the aisles when she came across a new product that speeds coagulation. It's called Wound-Be-Gone.
Though she sounded like an infomercial, I have to admit Lauren was right. My left hand looks like a "before" picture for burn cream, eczema medicine, and anti-bacterial ointment. The battle scars are from my curling iron, our oven, and several particularly menacing grocery store rotisserie chicken-heating units. So, to my daughter's credit, Wound-Be-Gone was a lucky find.
Lauren's slick salesmanship aside, the primary reason I made the jump from casual browser to paying customer was because the prospect of parting with $19.99 plus tax was less painful to me than the embarrassment and inconvenience of hemorrhaging all over the floor at Rite Aid. The manufacturers of Wound-Be-Gone made the sale because they met me at the point of my pain. And, in the end, every sale does the same.
The rub is how to articulate your ability to meet needs. You can do it with the name of your company, the name of your product, your slogan or your advertising campaign. Or, better yet, with all of the above.
Pain Point: My house is a disorganized, undecorated mess.
Pain Point: I'm so sick that I can't sleep.
Pain Point: I have to deliver this package right away or I could get fired.
To make sure you are addressing your prospective customers' points of pain, you need to define your Unique Sales Proposition. The reason I recommend creating a USP as a first step is because it will force you to look at your offering from the end user's point of view instead of from your own. The good news is that you can create and support a good USP no matter your budget.
Ask your friends and business associates for ideas. A jewelry store owner and former member of my networking group developed a slogan by asking us for ideas. He finally decided to go with Everything Fine at Kelly's on Vine. And while it isn't necessarily my first choice, because it doesn't clearly communicate his Unique Sales Proposition, it's catchy. So he should use it with abandon. Once you settle on your tag, splash it on your business cards, letterhead and website and in your email signature.
If your budget puts you in an either/or situation, spend it to hire someone to define your trademark instead of on the advertising to promote it. With social media marketing and directory listings, there's never been a better time to advance your brand for free. And when business improves and your budget increases, you'll be proud of what you're promoting.
Find an agency to help you come up with a strategy to compliment your USP. One of our clients, Sandra, is a doctor of optometry. Before coming up with a tagline for her practice, we reminded her she is selling more than eye exams, glasses or contact lenses. She is offering the promise of clear vision. To accentuate her goal of superior customer service, we came up with a slogan that showcases her USP, Eye Focus on You. And, I've got a great spokeswoman on deck if she ever wants to do an infomercial.


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'The 80s Song That Brought My Lost Memory Back After 10 Years'
A drumbeat comes in, then the keyboard. A sequence of notes marches towards the singer.
"I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan"
The music reached somewhere deep in Thomas's brain.
And as the lyrics of The Waterboys' 1980s hit, The Whole of the Moon, came through Thomas's earphones, he experienced six flashbacks – each triggered by the one before.
For the 30-year-old, this was an extraordinary moment. One he had craved for 10 long years – ever since his entire memory had been wiped when he was hit by a car. "It was the most magical thing ever," he says of the memory-chain.
"I was sitting on this weird blue floor and I could see this silver radio. Then, I was in another place and I was holding this man's giant hand… and then there was another memory."
He recalled a Christmas tree, towering over him. "There was a woman standing, and she was young and she was smiling and she didn't have grey hair. It was my mum and I was her little boy. And it was real."
Thomas immediately wrote the memories down.
He needed to be sure they were real, and it wasn't his brain playing tricks on him. Could it simply be another manifestation of his brain injury, like the personality change and face-blindness he had contended with?
But if the flashbacks were real, how had his brain, finally, managed to unlock his memory?
It was evening and still busy in central London when Thomas Leeds headed to Green Park station to pick up a lift from his father. The 19-year-old was on a gap year before starting university and had been to meet a friend.
At 21:00 GMT, he crossed the road and was hit by a car.
The officer who witnessed the accident was visibly traumatised when he later recounted what had happened.
Thomas had been thrown over the roof of the taxi and landed on his head. The front of the vehicle had been dented, the bonnet wrecked, the windscreen smashed and the roof concaved by the impact of his body.
Thomas's father, Dr Anthony Leeds, rushed to St Thomas' Hospital after the police called telling him there had been an accident.
But Thomas, it seemed, had been extraordinarily lucky and escaped with a minor head injury. "There was very little evidence of injury other than scratches and bruises," Anthony remembers. The next morning, Thomas was discharged from hospital.
Over the next couple of days Thomas complained of nausea, a terrible headache and back pain. When the police officer phoned for an update he was shocked to learn Thomas had been discharged. This unsettled Thomas's mother, Jacqueline. "The officer's feeling was no-one could walk away from that," she says.
After hearing this, she took Thomas to A&E and demanded a scan. It revealed the "utterly shocking" truth – a blood clot had formed in his brain.
"He was 24 hours away from death," Anthony says.
Thomas underwent surgery to remove the clot. And when he came around in the intensive care unit, he was said to be docile.
"I have vague memories of being very confused, but oddly enough I wasn't afraid. I didn't know to be afraid," he says. "I was like a baby."
He describes being in an "emotional bubble" – something brain injury charity Headway says is common after a head trauma because of the chemical imbalance caused. It can leave the patient feeling, surprisingly, content.
Thomas enjoyed seeing the people who came to visit him as he recovered. Though they seemed familiar, when they told him they were his parents and his five siblings, he couldn't recall them.
Everyone put this early confusion down to the effects of the morphine.
"He walked and talked and that to us was fine," Jacqueline says. "That's the most we could have hoped for, so we didn't go probing. We all assumed Thomas was okay."
But when he returned home, Thomas didn't remember the house – even though he'd lived there since childhood.
People tried to jog his memory about what he had been doing in the months before the crash by mentioning friends and the interests he had.
"I really tried to fit in with everybody when they told me these stories," he says, but he remembered nothing.
Realisation slowly dawned on the family – Thomas had lost all of his pre-crash memories.
Initially this didn't faze him. The first few years drifted past as he recovered from three back fractures also sustained in the accident. He says the "emotional bubble" continued to cocoon him.
"I suppose it's how most people remember their childhood summers. Everything was wonderful, so big and unlimited, and I sort of remember – it sounds so silly – just sitting in the park under trees."
Thomas was fortunate because, although he couldn't remember his school days, he had retained basic levels of reading, writing and maths. What had gone was his cultural knowledge and references – the things at the heart of conversations and relationships.
And while he was able to make new memories, his personality had changed, too. This is something a traumatic brain injury can do. Previously, he'd been cooler and more reserved, but now he was affectionate and excitable.
"My brother wasn't glad that I'd had this accident but he was like, 'You're much nicer'," Thomas jokes. His mum Jacqueline noticed it too. "He is very emotional. He's very open. There's something of the child that isn't in the others."
As Thomas recovered he began to wonder about his future.
He thought about the university place he'd been due to take up before the crash. He had planned to study design, but when he looked at his drawings they no longer interested him.
"That boy that I was, just feels no more real than an ancestor. You know they existed and maybe you've seen pictures but they don't feel real," he says. "The first few years it didn't bother me. We were all so young so everything was about 'tomorrow'. But as our 20s ticked by, everything became about 'yesterday'."
Thomas's future had stalled. Meanwhile, his siblings and friends were now in their mid-20s and had moved on with careers, houses and children.
"I still felt very lucky to have all that I did and just be alive, but having to face the hard facts of the future without a beginning started to feel really unfair."
And there was something else missing in his life too – love.
Internet dating was starting to get a better reputation by 2010, so Thomas signed up. He met a few girls but nothing came of it. Christmas was approaching when he arranged to meet Sophie. She was also a Londoner, and also had five siblings.
After telling her about his unique situation, they met for dinner and went for a wander through the West End. They hit it off and planned to meet the next day. As they parted, Thomas said: "I'm sorry, but I won't recognise you tomorrow."
There was another complication from the crash. Thomas had developed prosopagnosia – face blindness. It meant he couldn't recognise anyone out of context, not even his parents, let alone a girl he had just met.
With face blindness, the brain is unable to recognise the variations in faces – the arch of an eyebrow, the angle of a tooth, all of which help us identify people.
Many of the 1.5 million people in the UK who have it are born with it, but Thomas's accident had damaged a small area at the back of his brain responsible for vision, recognition and co-ordination.
He learned strategies to recognise people using location, context and dropping pins in mobile phone maps, and he can place someone on hearing their voice. But there was something different about Sophie. "The week before we met, she'd dyed her hair bright red, that sort of crazy red. She was like a beacon."
For the first time in years, Thomas was able to recognise someone in a crowd, and their love story began.
They dated and two years later they married. Soon after, one daughter came along, then another. Sophie never stopped dying her hair and is still the only person Thomas can recognise.
"She's amazing. She always makes me feel that she's lucky to have me. It made me feel a lot better about the future."
Ten years on from the accident, although Thomas had re-visited locations from his past and interrogated family and friends, none of his memories had returned.
And then came the remarkable breakthrough. Thomas had curated an '80s playlist for his 30th birthday – music he, apparently, grew up with. The night before his party, he went to bed and put his earphones in. He listened to the playlist track-by-track and knew all the songs by heart.
He pressed skip one more time. Somehow, the track The Whole of the Moon, which peaked at number 3 in the UK charts, located Thomas's past.
"It really changed everything for me," he says of the series of flashbacks.
"It was so short, nothing was said, but knowing that it was real and I've got it in my head and it's not just a story, and it's not just a grainy photograph … it was a little bit of my beginning."
To explain the science behind the flashbacks, neurologist Dr Colin Shieff says memories are made up of "packets of chemicals" involving various dimensions including smell, taste and touch.
"It just needs little memory chemicals floating around to trigger a slightly bigger picture," he says. "That causes a cascade that he translated into a vision." After years of miss-firing, the packets of chemicals in Thomas's brain had collided and unearthed memory.
So were they always there?
Dr Shieff says Thomas's long-term memory is probably still there but remains out of reach in an "absolutely terrible filing system".
"You can have a manuscript of a book, and when you read it it's wonderful. But if you drop those sheets and someone picks it up, then they're faced with pages with lots of content that doesn't follow. Some of the pages have got a bit screwed up and crumpled."
A second burst of memories happened years later when Thomas came across The Snowman on YouTube while he was trying to learn about the childhood references he had lost. The unique images and soundtrack triggered another memory – lunchtime in the school canteen.
"It was enough to make me feel like I have an education," he says.
Dr Shieff says "recovery can continue indefinitely", so there is scope for Thomas to unearth more memories but no certainty.
As a stay-at-home Dad to his two young daughters, Thomas says "some days are better than others", but little things like running around the park after his children can be difficult because face blindness makes it harder for him to recognise them.
He says the "empty years" sometimes get him down, but his daughters play in the same parks he once did, and he is creating new memories with them.
Another legacy of the crash is epilepsy, and on "bad head days" he can't leave the house.
"The scar tissue of my brain interferes with the signals and is what causes me to have seizures. And that seems to be affecting my memory more and more.
"Knowing I might lose control of my consciousness can be quite terrifying."
After a tonic-clonic seizure – where he loses consciousness – he temporarily loses about 10 years of memory. The last time it happened, he came round thinking it was 2008.
"I didn't know who my wife was, didn't know who the kids were. Sophie showed me the Amazon Echo smart speaker and it blew my mind." He sees the humour in it now, and the family writes down these funny episodes so they're there in black and white for Thomas to remember. Always.
He's also become passionate about creative writing, an interest he apparently shares with his childhood self, and has written a fantasy-adventure for 8-to-12-year-olds.
His protagonist, Jayben, has epilepsy and wakes up with no memory in a world of elves – he's a hero being hunted and must recover his memory before he is found.
He preferred writing a children's book rather than a memoir because this way he wouldn't be reliving his own story. He says it is therapeutic to turn the pain and difficulty into "something new and exciting".
The book is the first in a series and has been signed by The Good Literary Agency. Thomas says he's excited about the next chapter in his life. And while his writing moves forward, he is still trying to piece together his history.
"It's been 18 years now and I am this person. It's lovely knowing a little bit of who I was before, but I've had such a life now." And he still treasures that flashback of his Mum at Christmas.
"Just knowing that I've got something real from before, from the beginning of my story, really helps me face the future."
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Modern Monetary Theory: The Solution to Developing Countries' Problems?
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is increasingly gaining traction in today's public discourse. While there is huge literature available regarding MMT, it is often ridiculed by statements claiming to explain the theory, such as "money printer gone brrrr". It is important to know that MMT doesn't advocate for money printing. To borrow from L Randall Wray, a pioneer of the field, MMT argues that a sovereign government that issues its own "nonconvertible" currency cannot become insolvent (in terms of its own currency). It cannot be forced into involuntary default on its obligations denominated in its own currency. It can "afford" to buy anything for sale that is priced in its own currency. Here sovereignty is defined in monetary terms in that a state has monetary sovereignty when it issues its own currency, taxes its people in that currency, accepts that currency in payment of the imposed obligations, and issues debt in its own currency. Along with this, a fifth consideration, according to Wray, is to have a floating exchange rate regime (which is what "nonconvertible" currency means); so that it provides more fiscal space for the government.
MMTers argue that their descriptions and prescriptions equally hold for the developing nations as for the developed nations. While this is largely true, there are however some constraints with regard to the developing countries.
The first such constraint is the need for a developing country to accumulate foreign currency, especially the international reserve currency - the dollar. One major factor that leads to this accumulation is the necessity to import various types of goods (which could be for various reasons). So, with the accumulation of external debt, the demand for foreign currency also increases because it leads to higher debt service obligations and also because it increases risk perception as there is greater exposure to currency mismatch. The accumulation of foreign debt means that the balance of payments becomes a major limitation on the policy front for a developing country. In the current account of the balance of payments, a trade deficit (imports > exports) is compensated by positive capital inflows (which leads to a surplus in the capital account). That is, a current account deficit must be balanced by the sum of the capital account. Randal Wray once wrote that "MMT makes no claim that floating rates eliminate current account deficits, indeed, MMT does not argue that elimination of current account deficits is even desirable". But, the said balancing does not mean that a country can sustain any level of the current account deficit, over time. There is ample evidence available that the higher the current account deficit, the less likely that it can be sustained. What all this means is that the current account deficit chips away the monetary sovereignty of developing countries and thus the validity of MMT in such countries becomes uncertain.
A second issue, which is related here is that Wray suggests that in a floating exchange regime a government does not need to fear that it will run out of foreign currency reserves (or gold reserves) for the simple reason that it does not convert its domestic currency to foreign currency at a fixed exchange rate. Indeed, the government does not have to promise to make any conversions at all. But a developing country necessarily concerns itself with the capital flows not because of the issue of convertibility of currency, but because it needs to pay for its imports (or some sort of short-term obligation). All this is to say that a developing country may very well face the risk of foreign debt default.
Fadhel Kaboub, another MMT economist, identifies three broad areas from where a trade deficit arises. It arises because the developing country lacks food sovereignty, energy sovereignty and they essentially export low-value goods and import high-value goods. He says that this is a trap, in that a trade deficit leads a country to accumulate foreign currency. To do this, domestic resources are diverted from the areas of the government's priority to areas that earn foreign exchange for the country. For instance, a government may prioritise the needs of foreign tourists as they spend the foreign currency or the government may announce tax concessions with the hope to attract foreign investors and end up losing revenue which could otherwise be used to develop local government. So, his advice to developing countries is to invest in sustainable agriculture to reach a level of self-sufficiency, to invest in renewable energy production that allows the countries to set their priorities, to invest in education, and to prepare an industrial strategy to move up the value chain from producing low-value-added goods to high-value-added goods. All these will provide resilience for a country from external shocks that a country may face.
A third important constraint is inflation. MMT argues that while a sovereign can never default, there are limits as to how much it can spend; that is, there are certain limits on the fiscal deficit a sovereign runs. These limits are in the form of constraints on the part of real resources in an economy. If a government spends more than what these real resources could absorb, it risks the possibility of price hikes, i.e. inflation. MMT's prescription to this problem is that the government could increase tax rates so that the purchasing power of the economy as a whole falls and thus inflation could be arrested (note that MMT also says tax revenue does not pay for anything but gives several other reasons for justifying the taxes). Now, in developing countries, there are two main problems with this. First, the tax base is lower in developing countries. Therefore, even when taxes are increased there might not be the desired effect of reducing purchasing power and thus controlling inflation. The prevalence of the informal economy on a large scale is also a constraint in this context.
It is true that developing economies face certain constraints that the MMT approach has not fully gauged. For instance, a developed country might not have constraints of fiscal space due to the current account of the balance of payments (and due to implications thereof). However, it can also be argued that it is precisely the understanding and the implementation of MMT that is required for the developing countries to overcome these constraints. The primary focus of MMT on real resources can be an important takeaway for developing economies because the development of real resources (in part) entails huge investments in developing human capital, green resources, and health resources. Despite many constraints, MMT also opens many doors for the developing economies.
Kartik Balaji Kundeti
A low-key individual with keen interest in Economics and Policy making. Currently pursuing Economics from SRCC, University of Delhi.
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British influence and the exertions of two remarkable Indians were the causes of the next important war between the Americans and their western neighbors. The two Indians were Tecumseh, a Shawnese chief, and his brother, the Prophet, Oliwachica. These men commenced their intrigues in 1806.
After the termination of the Revolutionary War, the hardy settlers of the west had still a contest to maintain, which often threatened their extermination. The Indian tribes of the west refused to bury the hatchet when Great Britain withdrew her armies, and they continued their terrible devastation. The vicinity of the Ohio River, especially, was the scene of their operations.
The Eel river or Thorntown party of Miami Indians cede to the U.S. all claim to a reservation of land about 10 miles square at their village on Sugar Tree creek in Indiana, reserved to them by article 2, of the treaty of Oct. 6, 1818.


Hiding in the Haycocks, painted in 1881.
(1859 - 1886-11-20) was an American artist born in New York City who was just beginning to hit his stride as a landscape painter in the Realism movement when he died at his father's house at Hoosick Falls, New York at the age of 27 due to a back injury received while ice skating several months earlier Baker studied at the National Academy of Design for four years beginning in 1876,where he won first prize during his first exhibit in 1879. By 1881, Baker had set up a studio north of Albany, New York.


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Style in Bakemonogatari (Suruga Monkey)
June 16, 2017 February 7, 2018 scottlarouxwrites3 Comments
Suruga Monkey sets itself apart from the rest of Bakemonogatari by its execution. Where Hitagi Crab is slim and slick, and Mayoi Snail is careful and cryptic, Suruga Monkey is simply bombastic. The arc expands Monogatari's stylistic palette, while managing not to take any sharp tonal turns or compromise on the artistic cohesiveness of the series. This allows for Kanbaru's character and the events of the arc to flourish in their own unique way without seeming out of place. Suruga Monkey feels like a natural extension of the series, yet also different from anything we've experienced so far.
I would argue Mayoi Snail deviates in a similar manner, though not to such an obvious degree. Hitagi Crab is characterized by a darker, almost urban fantasy feel, full of religious artifacts and sobriety. Mayoi Snail jumps beyond that, presenting the viewer with a brighter and more satirical world (generally speaking). For this essay, I'll just focus on the specifics of Suruga Monkey, rather than make a mess out of talking about everything. However, Mayoi Snail does exemplify the first major factor in this stylistic shift: the arc-specific opening themes.Read More »
Lies in Bakemonogatari (Mayoi Mai Mai)
May 24, 2017 February 7, 2018 scottlarouxwritesLeave a comment
Just in time for Mother's Day, I started working on this Mayoi Mai Mai post. And now it's here. Late.
Mayoi Mai Mai is perhaps most interesting for its relation to the overarching story of Bakemonogatari, and thus what it reveals about Nisio Isin's storytelling (and storytelling as a whole). The first thing that comes to mind when I think of this arc is the twist that Araragi is in fact the character who encounters an apparition. We can say that the mystery of the arc relies almost entirely on one "lie": that Hachikuji is alive. Of course, this brings about a bunch of secondary lies like Senjougahara pretending she can see Hachikuji, but the story pivots on that one main lie.
Every arc in Bakemonogatari is set up this way. There is a "lie" in the timeline of Senjougahara's childhood, a lie in the conditions of Araragi's fight with Kanbaru, a lie in the number of snakes affecting Nadeko, and even a lie about Oshino's actions in the Tsubasa Cat arc. These lies make each mystery unsolvable until they're discovered—at least from Araragi's/the audience's perspective. And this is the arc where Araragi's perspective really starts to take over. He colors both our expectations and our moods. When he reflects that the park is empty and he feels like the only person on the planet, that gives us a great sense of his current headspace, as well as a subtle motivation for his attachment to Hachikuji. Or, actually, "evidence" may be a more accurate term than "motivation".Read More »
Thoughts on Bakemonogatari (Hitagi Crab)
May 14, 2017 February 7, 2018 scottlarouxwrites1 Comment
With the second season of Owarimonogatari on its way, I'll be rewatching the Monogatari series so far and giving my thoughts arc by arc. I've wanted to talk about the series (outside my posts on Owari) for a while now, but was never sure what I wanted to say. I didn't have a concrete idea for an essay. These posts will be a good opportunity to just let the thoughts flow freely and see where I wind up. That being said, let's take a look at the Hitagi Crab arc, and our introduction to the wonderful world of Monogatari.
Incidentally, our introduction is one somewhat lacking in orienting detail. I've always found it an interesting choice to start Bakemonogatari after the events of Kizu- and to not ever make those events clear to the audience. The anime staff must have thought so as well, for they included a montage of said events—something the novel lacks entirely. Although we do miss out on an easy focalization with Araragi as a result, I don't think the story suffers for it. We don't need to become acquainted with the aberrations of this world by experiencing them through the eyes of an equally ignorant character. The paranormal in this world tends to build off of traditional folklore or else flip it on its head in some way. As such, a big part of the series involves explaining why aberrations are the way they are.Read More »
Death Note: An Absence of Character
May 11, 2017 scottlarouxwrites1 Comment
It's a common sentiment among anime fans that the second half of Death Note is less engaging than the first. Yet, most fans manage to finish the show by riding out the waves of suspense and tragedy from the first half. So, what changed from the first half to the second? Why do so many people use the first half to justify enduring the second? The obvious and unfulfilling answer is that L dies and the careful cat-and-mouse game established between him and Light vanishes with him, but that isn't true in and of itself. L's death just causes the anime to fail harder at something it had already begun to struggle with—that is: to be thrilling. We should begin by examining Death Note's most successful moments of intrigue and suspense.
The FBI arc involving Raye Penber and Naomi Misora is the anime's most well-executed arc by far, and the pacing and scope of the arc play a major role in this. This all begins in the bus-hijacking scenes, where we are clued into a lot of important details about how Light interacts with enemies of his plot. We are never given all of the notes to Light's plan, but we can infer a lot based on the rules of the Death Note and Light's actions and thoughts. When the hijacker arrives, Light thinks, "He's here!" before the hijacker even pulls out a weapon. Light's subsequent calm demeanor confirms for the audience that he planned for this hijacking. But to what end? Raye Penber handing over his identification answers that question, completing a logical loop.Read More »
EM: First Thoughts on Your Name
April 13, 2017 April 14, 2017 scottlarouxwrites1 Comment
First Thoughts on Your Name
I recently saw Your Name for the third time, and plan on a fourth if I can scrounge up the money for another ticket. I've only ever seen two movies multiple times before this: La La Land and The Dark Knight, and for good reason. Movie theaters have become the Russian roulette of the entertainment industry. After emptying my wallet for a ticket, I have to smuggle in life-sustaining water like a convict bringing drugs into the pound. If I manage to avoid being scolded by an usher for not buying the meal-priced water they sell, then I'm still only looking at a 50-50 chance for a pleasant viewing experience. It's up to fate whether or not you sit next to a fatally rude movie-goer.
I kind of sound like a grumpy old man, but it's just to make my point: a movie has to be exceptional for me to make a second or third trip back. And Your Name was exceptional. I don't usually write these early reaction, emotional response kinds of posts, but I'll try give a sense of my pure reactions to the movie before I start talking about specific aspects that impressed me.
The setting, namely Itomori, is probably the most emotionally moving part of the film for me. Beyond the beautiful background work and lighting that fills every frame, Itomori's culture and history (and the way they're presented and developed) absolutely floored me. Maybe it's because I grew up in a rural town where you knew everyone you saw, and kids got singled out for being part of this or that family, and each season was filled with traditions that (while usually not religious in nature) no one could remember how each started in the first place. There were more bars than gas stations and you had to drive at least half an hour to get to any place of interest. There was even a large lake at the edge of town! Like Mitsuha, all my classmates wanted to escape to the city as soon as they graduated. It was a desire I shared for a while, too.Read More »
Nisekoi is Perfect
March 26, 2017 March 26, 2017 scottlarouxwritesLeave a comment
Nisekoi is Perfect (An Analysis)
This essay is based on the first four chapters of the Nisekoi manga, analyzed via the first two episodes of the anime, which is more or less an exact adaptation. May contain spoilers for later parts of the series.
Judging by the way Nisekoi is discussed online by its detractors (and even its fans), you could easily think the show/manga is just some trashy harem with a plot more convoluted than a Rube Goldberg machine. This is an unfair judgment. While I can't say Nisekoi isn't trashy and convoluted—that's part of the appeal, personally—it is also perfect. Nisekoi is the perfect incarnation and execution of the setup.
Let's get back to basics. I'm talking barebones narrative structure: characters have desires but encounter a problem that leads to conflict and an eventual resolution. Putting on our grade-schooler hats, the setup is the exposition where we meet the characters and first crash into the main problem. The reason Niseoki is such a popular series—the reason it can get away or even thrive off maintaining the status quo—is that its setup is perfect. Imagine the setup is a car and the second act/rising action is a long road. If you build that car well enough, you can take people on a drive through potholes, snow, T-bones, and popped tires and still reach your destination.Read More »
Mari Okada: Modes of Melodrama (Family Melodrama)
March 4, 2017 scottlarouxwrites2 Comments
Mari Okada: Modes of Melodrama (Family/Domestic Melodrama)
This is one of many essays on Mari Okada and melodrama. If you stumbled upon this post, I recommend you start at the Introduction or Table of Contents instead! Spoilers for Fractale. Additional note: it is difficult to pin down who is responsible for what in the making of Fractale. I'll detail that issue extensively later.
After a couple of quick looks at teen melodrama, I think it's best to develop a second grouping of modal elements to exemplify how such groupings can differ. As with the first teen melodrama essay, I'll mostly be talking about what elements give this grouping its identity and how we might recognize them in a specific anime. This time, I chose Fractale. It's far from a simple example, but it most clearly demonstrates the important elements of this grouping. Keep in mind that I'm just detailing core differences and there will still be a lot of similarities because these two groupings are still melodrama at the end of the day.
That being said, I haven't seen a true family melodrama (in terms of Elsaesser's classification based on 50's Hollywood films) in anime. Nor have I heard of any shows that seem to be classic family melodramas. I'm sure they exist somewhere—probably as a film rather than a TV show—but I imagine you can count them on one hand. Although the origin of my grouping of "family melodrama" is rather specific, the elements are absolutely influential in contemporary anime. The treatment of expression and oppression, the tropes, and the modal duality we discuss here originate from Thomas Elsaesser's analysis of a specific trend, but can be reapplied here.
But enough babbling, let's talk about family (aka domestic) melodrama.Read More »


Circadian rhythms are produced by a biological clock that is synchronized (or entrained) by cycles of light and temperature. In Drosophila, light triggers the interaction of the photoreceptor cryptochrome (CRY) with the circadian clock protein timeless (TIM). The absence of this interaction in cryb mutants eliminates this entrainment mechanism. The abundance of TIM and period (PER) oscillate throughout the day, and they form a complex that moves to the nucleus to rhythmically repress transcription of the per and tim genes. Because the CRY:TIM interaction triggers rapid degradation of TIM, the phase of these molecular oscillations is reset by light, which thereby entrains the circadian clock. A study now shows that heat pulses trigger an association between CRY and PER:TIM, which suggests that CRY:PER:TIM also contributes to entrainment by temperature. In wild-type flies, CRY:PER:TIM formation requires high temperatures and is only triggered by heat pulses in the early night, but in perL mutants, which exhibit a temperature-sensitive lengthening of circadian periods, CRY:PERL:TIM formation is triggered by lower temperatures and throughout the night. Because CRY:PER:TIM is formed under the same conditions that entrain circadian behavior, formation of the complex is likely to mediate entrainment by heat pulses. Whereas perL flies exhibit longer periods at higher temperatures, perL;cryb flies exhibit similar periods at different temperatures, which suggests that an altered interaction between CRY and PERL:TIM contributes to a lack of temperature compensation. Future work should determine how the interaction between CRY and PER:TIM entrains rhythms to temperature and affects temperature compensation.


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Precious Metals Sales Report: Week Ending December 11, 2016
December 13, 2016 By Coin Update Leave a Comment
Early last week, the Mint announced that several of its bullion categories were sold out: Theodore Roosevelt National Park 5-ounce silver bullion coins; American Eagle gold 1-ounce, 1/4-ounce, and 1/10-ounce coins; and American Eagle silver 1-ounce coins. The only gold Eagles available for sale last week were the 1/2-ounce size. The 1-ounce American Buffalo gold coins are still available, as are the 5-ounce America the Beautiful coins for Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument).
Thus, the report for the week ending December 11, 2016, is rather quiet. The U.S. Mint's authorized purchasers (APs) bought 100,000 American Eagle silver bullion coins before they were declared sold out. The Mint will begin accepting orders for 2017-dated ASEs on January 9 (see below). All told, one-ounce Silver Eagles sold 37,701,500 pieces this year, falling 9.3 million short of last year's total of 47 million ounces.
The figure for Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument) 5-ounce silver bullion coins is once again unchanged on this week's Mint report. The Harpers Ferry National Historical Park 5-ounce bullion-coin figure is also unchanged. Total figures for each type are as follows:
Shawnee National Forest—105,000
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park—75,000
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park—38,100
Theodore Roosevelt National Park—40,000
Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument)—27,800
Combined sales for 2016's five 5-ounce bullion coins total 285,900 units, for a grand total of 1,429,500 ounces of silver. 2016 has the second-largest annual mintage ever for 5-ounce America the Beautiful bullion coins (2011 ranks first, with the extremely high total of 465,100).
Net amount of all silver bullion (ASE and ATB) sold by the Mint—
last week: 100,000 ounces.
in 2016: 39,131,000 ounces.
The value of an ounce of silver is slightly up from this time last week, having risen by $0.22 an ounce to $17.01. Silver's average last week, Monday through Friday, was $16.85 per ounce, a bit up from the previous week's average of $16.51. (Charts of the six-week averages for all precious metals are located at the bottom of the page.)
American Eagle gold bullion coin sales have reached a total of 965,000 ounces across 1-ounce, 1/2-ounce, 1/4-ounce, and 1/10-ounce options. Last week saw 500 ounces of bullion Gold Eagles (1/2-ounce size only) sold. American Buffalo 1-ounce gold bullion coin sales have reached 214,000 pieces; 1,500 units were sold during this period, compared to 11,000 the previous week. In 2015, the Mint sold 801,500 ounces of Gold Eagles and 220,500 ounces of Gold Buffalo bullion coins, for a total of 1,022,000 ounces. The Mint has now exceeded last year's total by 157,000 ounces.
Net amount of all gold bullion (AGE and AGB) sold by the Mint—
last week: 2,000 ounces.
in 2016: 1,179,000 ounces.
Gold's value is down $13.95 an ounce from this time last week. Gold is now appraised at $1,158.55, according to the London Bullion Market Association. Gold's average last week, Monday through Friday, was $1,169.40, down from the previous week's average of $1,177.40.
The sales total for the 2016 American Eagle one-ounce platinum bullion coins is 20,000 units. Platinum is down $7.00 compared to this time last week, when it was priced at $930.00 per ounce; platinum is now appraised at $923.00 per ounce. Platinum's average last week, Monday through Friday, was $936.00, compared to the previous week's $914.40.
The Mint will continue to sell the remaining 1/2-ounce American Eagle gold bullion coins and 1-ounce American Buffalo gold bullion coins until the supply is sold out. APs may begin placing orders for 2017-dated American Buffalo gold coins and American Eagle silver and gold coins on Monday, January 9. The 2017-dated silver and gold bullion coins will be launched on an unallocated basis. Orders for 2017-dated American Eagle platinum bullion coins will be accepted starting in late January. More details will be provided at a later date.
Bullion issues are sold by the U.S. Mint to a network of authorized buyers, who then make the coins available to the public. This year marks the 30th anniversary of American Eagle bullion coins, which were introduced in 1986. ❑
Precious Metals Update: Bullion Sales Slower Precious Metals Update: Bullion Sales Up Precious Metals Sales Report (Revised): Gold Cools a Little, Silver Cools a Lot
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The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, will host a one-week intensive short course on Disability Rights in an African context.
This short course is part of a series of annual advanced human rights courses offered by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.
The course which comes in the wake of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) (2006) is part of the Centre's efforts in promoting awareness about disability rights in the African region.
Understand and apply theoretical approaches to equality and non-discrimination in a disability context.
The course is presented by lecturers who are drawn from a variety of countries and are experts in disability rights law.
The disability rights master curriculum has been developed by the Centre for Human Rights in collaboration with academics from other institutions. Collaborating institutions are Midlands State University Zimbabwe, Thabo Mbeki Institute, South Africa, Kenya Human Rights Commission, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, University of Zambia, The African Child Policy Forum, Syracuse University College of Law, USA and Cardiff Law School.
The Curriculum is primarily aimed for use in teaching disability law by partner institutions of the Disability Rights and Law Schools Project in Southern Africa. The universities participating in this project are Midlands State University, Zimbabwe, University of Zambia, University of Dodoma (Tanzania), and Chancellor College, University of Malawi, and Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique, University of Namibia and University of Botswana. The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria plays a coordinating role. The project is funded by Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa.
The curriculum comprises of the following modules:Introduction to disability rights, Protection of the rights of persons with disabilities: Global framework, Protection of disability rights under African regional and national law, Non-discrimination against persons with disabilities, Right to health, Participation in political and public life, Employment, Education, Vulnerabilities and inter-sectionalites, Legal capacity law and policy, Access to Justice and National monitoring and implementation of disability rights.
This is the first draft of the Curriculum which will be reviewed annually. As such, the Centre for Human Rights welcomes comments on the curriculum; any such comments should be addressed to Elizabeth Kamundia at elkamundia@gmail.com.
Module 12: National implementation and monitoring of disability rights.