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Working In an Era of Covid-19
By Diana Parks
As the coronavirus continues its debilitating impact on the health of individuals, economies, and world markets, it's only a matter of time before Covid-19 directly affects U.S. construction projects.
There are some things those in the U.S. construction industry can do to prepare for its effects and mitigate the potential harm to people and projects.
Diana Parks is a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney. She has extensive experience advising both private and public clients in all aspects of complex infrastructure projects, and has led projects for large design-build teams and worked as the lead construction representative on agreements, subcontracts, and other documents. She says there's some simple, initial steps, that construction contractors and owners should take to improve their ability to deal with the potential impact of an outbreak.
Start at the Beginning: Contract Force Majeure and Suspension Rights
Parks says, "First, dust off that prime construction contract. Find the force majeure clause and determine if an epidemic or pandemic is expressly included in its definition."
Force majeure is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties—such as a war, strike, riot, or an event described by the legal term "act of God"—prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their obligations under the contract. Most force majeure clauses do not excuse a party's non-performance entirely, but only suspend it for the duration of the force majeure."
She continues, "Even if those precise words are not included, common boilerplate language in such clauses, like 'an act, event, or occurrence caused by acts of God, explosion, public enemy, civil disturbance, unusual and adverse weather, or other similar act, event or occurrence that is beyond the reasonable expectation or control of the parties,' arguably encompass large-scale outbreak of a novel disease."
Some federal contracts will use the express term "epidemics" and "quarantine" if not in the contract itself, in the Federal Acquisition Regulations which govern the contract, and thus provide a basis for excused non-performance. "No matter the contractual or code provision you look to, remember that notice and preservation of rights must be part of your communication and action plan," Parks says.
"As coronavirus continues to spread, some may suggest its impact will no longer be 'unforeseeable' or 'beyond the reasonable expectation' of the parties. That is especially true if a contract was made in recent months, after concerns over the virus were made public. Nevertheless, there may be good arguments that coronavirus should still give rise to excusable delay under many force majeure clauses because, even if it is foreseeable that it may spread to your project (i.e., not beyond 'expectation'), such a spread of infection is still beyond a party's 'reasonable control,' " Parks says.
What if, in your contract, there is no force majeure clause or the one written excludes outbreak or spread of disease as giving rise to an excusable delay? While it may be true that, by default, all or most of the risk of project delay rests with the contractor, project owners should give careful consideration to the consequences of forcing or attempting to force continued construction activities amid an outbreak of a disease in their project's locale. State and federal government, through (among other things) health and safety regulations, likely have the power to stop a project through a stop work order or injunction.
"A more prudent course of action might be to negotiate favorable terms of a suspension of work with the contractor and maintain good relations among the project team and the authorities having jurisdiction over the project," Parks says.
She continues, "Owners should also look to their suspension rights in the contract. Often, these rights allow an owner to suspend for a period of time without increase to the contract price." Other provisions may permit a contractor to request a change order, but only for site-related overhead and other standby charges. Even if a suspension right is limited to 30 days, that is valuable time to watch how infection spreads in your project locale and develop a corresponding plan for how to proceed with the work. If your project is suspended, use that time wisely. Work among your project team to implement a daily jobsite health screening plan, better sanitary amenities and infection control procedures.
Contractors rarely have a suspension right written into their contracts but may wish to advocate for such a right in upcoming projects to account for specific issues that may arise during construction, like an outbreak of coronavirus in or around the project locale.
What if the applicable contract is silent as to unavoidable delay protections and a no-cost suspension right? Parks says, "There are common law doctrines such as frustration of purpose, commercial impracticability, and impossibility, that a court may use to grant relief if a party to a construction agreement is struggling to meet its demands due to disease. However, seeking this relief takes time and courts are often reluctant to use these common law tools to interfere in projects. Instead, perhaps it's time for the parties to call a meeting among decision-makers to come up with a plan. That plan should be evidenced by an amendment to the prime construction contract and a revision to the construction schedule. Proactive management and planning is key to keeping people and projects healthy."
Call Your Broker
Construction executives should know if their insurance coverage includes epidemic-related damages. If not, they should call their broker and ask, "Do I have insurance coverage for an interruption to my business and projects due to coronavirus?"
Coverage may come from more than one source. Business interruption coverage is a common endorsement to a commercial property policy. This may or may not offer coverage, depending on the terms of the policy and whether the impact of the virus constitutes an "occurrence." There are other possible avenues for coverage, as well. Consider trade disruption insurance, especially if you have a supply chain originating outside of the United States.
Travel insurance might be another option to cover expenses. If project managers, project executives, owner's representatives or others frequently fly to, and use temporary lodging while at a project site, these costs might be covered if a trip is canceled due to outbreak.
Parks says, "Consider additional voluntary workers compensation coverage that includes outbreak of sickness or disease. Lastly, consider looking to your builders risk coverage in the event a shutdown causes physical loss to covered property. Now is the time to seek assistance from a professional insurance counselor to discuss coverage already in place and additional policies and coverage that might be available."
Talk to the Lender
No one likes to approach their banker with a current or expected payment problem – especially on construction projects. But lenders prefer working through issues as they arise to find solutions that will protect their loans and prevent their borrowers from defaulting.
"Rather than letting things go until it is too late, be proactive," Parks says. "Work with your lender to determine the best course of action, which has the added benefits of providing notice and protecting the lender's rights in the contracts and the projects. This adds up to further protection for you from committing an inadvertent default."
Apply an Ounce of Prevention
"Problem solvers attack the problem, not the people, so focus efforts on the virus. We all know how hard folks in the construction industry work. Ten- or twelve-hour workdays at a jobsite are normal. But for infection control purposes, that means a good deal of opportunity for transmission of illness. To make matters more challenging, construction-site sanitation is frequently less stringent than that in a corporate office environment. It doesn't have to be, however, and for a little extra cost, this can be changed," Parks says.
"Owners and contractors can and should work together to implement sanitation and infection control improvements on the jobsite. It could mean the difference between continuing operations and shut-down. Hand washing stations are an idea some contractors are already deploying. It may not be extreme to adopt other more protective measures, too, like screening workers entering the site for fever or illness. Safety has always been a critical part of a job well done in the construction business. But today, a new threat of danger – not from physical injury at the jobsite but from contagious disease – should be included in the jobsite safety plan," Parks says.
Diana Parks is one of the foremost experts in the country on infrastructure projects, and a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP, a Minneapolis-based law firm with more than 500 lawyers in 20 offices in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. They can be contacted through the company website www.dorsey.com.
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Perales to be named head football coach at Naaman Forest, leaves Del Valle after 17 years
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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) - It is the end of an era at Del Valle High School. KTSM 9 Sports has confirmed longtime head football coach and athletic coordinator, Jesse Perales, is expected to be named head football coach at Garland Naaman Forest High School, pending board approval on Tuesday. The move was first reported by Prep1USA.
Perales, a graduate from Bel Air High School, began coaching at Del Valle in 2001 as the team's defensive coordinator. He took over as head coach in 2003. Perales compiled a record of 125-50 with seven district titles, 10 bi-district championships, and one area championship.
"Ever since I got into coaching, I have always dreamed about coaching in the metroplex area," said Perales. "A couple weeks ago, this job opened up and I know some people out there. I have friends and family out there and just felt like it was the right time."
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Stefano Zunarelli
Academic discipline: IUS/06 Navigation and Air Law
1995 - Former Professor of Maritime Law at the University of Bologna, Faculty of Law.
Since 2001: Full Tenured Professor of Transport Law at the University of Bologna, Faculty of Law (Ravenna Branch).
2014: Coordinator of the Curriculum in Navigation and Transport Law, University of Bologna, Faculty of Law.
2011 - 2013: Coordinator of the Curriculum in Transport Law for the Doctorate in "Stato, persona e servizi nell'Ordinamento Europeo e Internazionale", University of Bologna, Faculty of Law.
2012: Auditor for the Evaluation of the Research Products (VQR 2004-2010) for ANVUR, with reference to the disciplinary area IUS/06 (Navigation Law).
Since 2012: he is member of the Committee of the Directorate-General for maritime and inland transport of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport entrusted with task to amend the maritime code.
2001-2012: Coordinator of the Doctorate in European Transport Law, University of Bologna, Faculty of Law, associated with the University of Barcelona, Nantes, Southampton, Oslo and Sassari.
2007 - 2011: Chairman of Polo Scientifico - Didattico di Ravenna, University of Bologna.
2003 - 2010: President of the Regional Institute for Transport and Logistics of Emilia Romagna Region.
2005: Coordinator of the Working Group set up by the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport with task to amend the discipline of road transport.
1998 - 2004: Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Bologna.
1985 - 1996: Representative of the Italian Government in the Juridical Committee of International Maritime Organization (IMO), London, as well as in Diplomatic Conferences at which several International Conventions were adopted on Nationality of Vessels (1986), Salvage (1989), Liability for Carriage of Passengers by Sea (1990), Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea (1996) and Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims (1996).
He is member of the Committee of the Ministry of Justice entrusted with task to amend the maritime code; he is member of the Working Group set up by the European Commission to establish a Community legal framework on liability for multimodal transport of goods; he is member of the Working Group set up by UNCITRAL to draft a new International Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea; and he is member of the Committee set up by the Ministry of Transport to draft the National Plan for the Development of Logistics.
He is the advisor for matters connected with transport activities and liberalisations/privatisations of the Italian Government (Ministry of Transport), as well as of some Italian regional and local governments.
He is on the directive board of the reviews "Rivista del Diritto della Navigazione", "Il Diritto marittimo" and "Diritto dei trasporti".
He is director of the reviews "Rivista Italiana di Diritto del turismo" and of the review series "Seminari del Master in Diritto ed Economia dei Trasporti e della Logistica e del Dottorato di Ricerca in Diritto dei Trasporti Europeo", and co-director of the review series "Diritto e pratica dei trasporti".
He is member of the editorial board of "Journal of International Maritime Law", "Revista de Derecho del Transporte" and "European Journal of Commercial Contract Law".
Since 2011: he is member of the Scientific Committee of Caracciolo Foundacion (ACI-Automobil Club d'Italia).
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And now for something entirely unrelated.
So what's weird about this little tube, which by all accounts looks very normal? Well, it seems to be infinite. Yes, this finite tube seems to contain an infinite amount of Vaseline. A bold statement I know. However I've had this tube since I think 2008. I can remember having it when SB and I lived in our first apartment and we moved in together in 2008. I have no definitive proof that it has existed since 2008, as sadly there is no "Creation Date" – at least not one my mind can decipher. The closest I can get to its manufacturing date lies somewhere in this code "08208HU17" which is printed on the sealed lip of the tube. So, it came into existence sometime in the 2008 – 2010 range, so at the very least its six years old.
Now, in fairness, I have not consistently used it for six plus years. In fact a lot of the earlier years (which sounds odd in the context of a tube of Vaseline) it just set next to my bed and was only utilized a couple times a month. However, I started using it a bit more extensively once we moved to Boston and I had to start walking outside in those harsh winters. So, I started using it a lot more, pretty much nightly. It was around this time that I started to realize that 1: the tube didn't seem to be depleting, and 2: this tube was old (but still worked well). But, being a tube of Vaseline, life went on. And, I probably would haven't thought about it again if not for my time in Denver.
As my first real foray into the Rocky West I quickly learned that the air was quite dry out there. Thankfully being the over-planner that I am I had brought along my Vaseline Lip Therapy. However, about 1 week into my stay I noticed that the tube seemed low, so I sent an emergency pigeon out to SB who was kind enough to send me two Carmex tubes (and also my swimming goggles – yay pool!). Well, if it wasn't obvious the Vaseline tube didn't run out. Not that week, or for the rest of the summer. Not only that, it kept going for the rest of the year. Then, it came with me to Santa Fe where the air was even drier than Denver, and despite heavy use, it lasted all through my New Mexico trip as well. But, not content to be a two-internship kind of tube, the Vaseline lasted throughout the rest of 2L and has now followed me to Bozeman. Unsurprisingly, Montana is also dry (though not as dry as New Mexico) so my Vaseline tube is getting near-nightly use, which, as you might expect, doesn't seem to be depleting the tube.
Still, there have been a few nights where I thought "Yep, it's finally running out." But then it doesn't, and those were the same thoughts I had over a year ago in Denver. So maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but for now the "infinite" hypothesis stands.
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Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in north Spencer Gulf, South Australia are under threat from many human activities.
Australia's largest and most comprehensive whale and dolphin (cetacean) collection is held at the South Australian Museum and has become a vital part of dolphin conservation efforts in Australia. The collection of over 1200 cetacean specimens includes approximately 350 specimens of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) and 400 short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis). These specimens of South Australia's most numerous dolphin species have primarily been amassed over the last 25 years under the direction of Dr Catherine Kemper, Senior Research Scientist, Mammals.
The dolphin collection is much more than just skulls and skeletons. It includes reproductive organs, stomach contents, tissues for toxic contaminant and genetic studies as well as parasites. The impacts of human activity on animals can be slow and insidious and often it is almost too late when serious problems are detected. One of the aims of the collection and associated research is to record extensive life history information that will help researchers assess the impacts of human activity on the common dolphin species and conserve populations.
As with any animal population, ongoing monitoring is critical to tracking changes and this relies in part, on predictions that include comprehensive life history information. The Museum's marine mammalogy group provides essential data on growth, sexual maturity and mortality of dolphins in South Australia by studying the carcasses of dead animals. It is the only group doing this type of research in Australia. Determining the age of dolphins is essential to this research and more accurate age estimates have been possible since the Museum's Marine Mammal Ageing Facility was established in 2007.
The age of a dolphin is estimated using tooth structure. Thin longitudinal sections of teeth are stained with haematoxylin and highly trained personnel count groups of 'lines' within the dentine. Each group is equivalent to one year. A neonatal line is laid down in a tooth around the time of birth and forms the baseline from which counts are taken. To make sure the estimates are accurate, at least two teeth are taken from each animal and each tooth section is examined independently by three people.
The stained thin-section from a tooth of a 19-year-old Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin from South Australia. Each yellow dot marks a year of age.
Estimating the age of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins has been a particular focus at the Museum, as this species is more likely to be affected by human activity. The dolphin life history research program has also uncovered some reproductive abnormalities that may be associated with heavy metal exposure. Research on heavy metal toxicity has been a focus of the Mammal team's investigations. One of its students, Trish Lavery, discovered kidney and bone disease in South Australian dolphins with high concentrations of heavy metals. As dolphins are benthic feeders and long-lived, they are particularly vulnerable to contaminants, including heavy metals, deposited in ocean sediments.
The comprehensive collection of South Australia's dolphins helps researchers to determine what is 'normal' within a population. This means that the Museum's pathologists, taxonomists and zoologists are well-equipped to detect any problems at an early stage — a vital aspect of any conservation program.


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With our latest product release, Bidalgo is empowering customers to use AI-driven automation to do industry-leading data analyses and improve results.
April 23, 2019, BY Team Bidalgo
While Google App Campaigns (Google AC) is perhaps the simplest way to create app ad campaigns, it's not necessarily the most in-depth. At Bidalgo, a leading provider of ad automation solutions with a global presence, we know how important it is to use all the tools available to increase ROAS (return on ad spend), so we've come up with our own solution, currently available in beta form: heuristic data. Also known as Asset HD, heuristic data more accurately analyzes and optimizes Google AC, which is also used by our artificial intelligence-driven automation.
Sometimes Google's Data isn't Enough
When Google rolled out its Universal App Campaigns a few years ago, its goal was clear: to provide a simple, automated process that allows advertisers to run app ads across all of Google's platforms. Since then, Google dropped the "universal" and made its App Campaigns process mandatory for all app advertisers. Using Google AC, marketers simply provide text and visual assets, and Google does the rest, combining the available resources and posting ads across its networks, including Google Play, YouTube, and naturally Search, among others.
For smaller companies or those just starting out, this is a huge help. Instead of spending time and resources designing a campaign down to every little detail, app marketers simply need to agree on a few useful phrases, images, and/or videos–no need for third parties or specialized tools. On the other hand, for higher-end advertisers, Google App Campaigns are lacking in both transparency and control. That's why our new service was created: it digs deeper into the available data to better optimize your campaigns.
Heuristic Data: Let There Be Light!
Google's dashboard does offer some data for its App Campaigns, but it's never a complete picture. For one thing, while it offers results for specific assets, it's not completely aligned with how creative assets are measured in the industry, as Google AC bundles assets together automatically. Text might be combined with a video, two pieces of text might be used together, and so on; when those assets are listed individually in Google's report, the sum will be different than the campaign level sum. On top of that, Google will often use additional assets that weren't uploaded to the campaign which are pulled from metadata and not included in the results.
Google also doesn't share its data with attribution partners, so there's no complete picture of data going down to the nitty-gritty details. Adding to the confusion is the fact that there's no universal conversion standardization; a "conversion" might be an install or a purchase, depending on the campaign type.
At Bidalgo, we love nitty-gritty details, and we understand that this information is necessary for advertisers to properly optimize their efforts. That's where Asset Heuristic Data (Asset HD) comes in. We developed an algorithm that distributes the campaign level data from the mobile measurement platforms or attribution partners down to the assets. While Google only provides pre-attribution, campaign-level data for metrics such as impressions, clicks, and installs, Asset HD uses a data science-driven technique to calculate asset-level performance, including Payers and ROAS in different cohorts. This allows for a previously unavailable breakdown of performance for individual assets like text, video, display images, and HTML5 playable units.
For the first time ever, Bidalgo customers can now see more accurate numbers, which are necessary to properly optimize their creative assets. With our reporting, advertisers can track the performance of individual assets and add or remove them as needed, based on real data more than "guesstimation." Heuristic data is available to all of our customers regardless of whether or not they also implement artificial intelligence automation.
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It's no secret that AI is changing the marketing game, and Bidalgo's artificial intelligence is leading the pack when it comes to App Campaigns. We've previously created AI-powered automation solutions for Facebook and Snapchat advertising services, making this is one of our areas of expertise. Google App Campaigns offers a new layer of automation on the auction side, of course, but it requires a lot of manual resources to achieve excellence. These manual processes are mainly focused on optimizing the performance of the assets, which are the building blocks of the campaign.
Our Google AC AI Automation, using our own proprietary algorithms on top of accurate asset-level data, makes your campaigns more effective by automating those data-driven analyses and operations we discussed above. How do we do it? With smart asset selection, creative testing, science-driven best practices, and intelligent bidding, budgeting, and status decisions. In other words, our AI campaign automation creates campaigns based on data-driven facts and continuously optimizes the assets within. Our AI aligns the results that best suit your campaign with Google's own best practices.
With Bidalgo's intelligent, science data-driven services, we're able to help you understand how your app ads are performing down to the asset level. By looking at a campaign's historical data, our AI can analyze the performance of individual assets, determining which ones work best, creating the highest potential campaigns, and continuously adding or removing the assets as needed to sustain best performance. With rigorous testing and analysis, we'll be able to optimize app campaigns in ways Google alone cannot. The results speak for themselves: an average of 31% lift in ROAS, better CPAs, more control, more transparency, and ads that perform.
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How blockchain makes the online content economy fair and transparent
by Ben Dickson — in Contributors
Online publishing and advertising is a very profitable market. Yet not everyone is profiting equally from it. Content hosting services, social media giants and advertising intermediaries are raking in huge sums of the revenue. Meanwhile the users who create, curate and share the content take away little or nothing from the value they help create, effectively becoming cogs in the wheel of tech giants.
Hopefully, blockchain, the technology that powers digital currencies, provides an alternative to the centralized ad and content delivery model. Blockchain, which rose to fame with the advent of Bitcoin, is a distributed ledger controlled by no single gatekeeper. It provides a platform to perform secure transactions without the need for brokers and middlemen. In recent years, blockchain has expanded its reach from monetary exchange to other fields where parties want to trade assets of value.
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In the online content and digital advertising industry, blockchain can help level the playing field and create platforms where everyone gets compensated fairly for their contribution to the economy.
Blockchain-based digital advertising
Over the years, digital advertising has transformed into an inefficient marketplace that's causing a lot of harm. Advertisers pay huge sums to intermediaries to reach their audience while publishers get meager portions of the ad revenue. And users' share of the economy is annoying ads, slower page loads and tons of privacy-invading tracking code.
Blockchain creates an entirely new way to serve ads and reward publishers without the need for opaque intermediaries. One of the most notable projects in this regard is Brave, a browser developed by the namesake company cofounded by Brendan Eich, the inventor of JavaScript and cofounder the Mozilla project.
Brave natively blocks ads and trackers when you browse the web. In exchange users can opt-in to turn on ads, in which case both viewer and publisher get awarded Basic Attention Tokens (BATs), the company's proprietary digital currency which exists on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Users can also choose to send BATs to the creators of their favorite content. Brave comes integrated with a BAT wallet. The browser uses local algorithms to assess user attention and optimize ads while preventing fraud and avoiding privacy invasions.
The system uses anonymization methods to protect user identities while providing advertisers with a verifiable audit trail on the blockchain. The main hurdle for Brave's method of advertising and monetizing content is to get publishers and advertisers to adopt the model.
Rewarding content creators and curators
Everyday, the internet generates millions of dollars worth of curated, shared and consumed content. However, centralized content hosting and distribution platforms reap most of the rewards. The people who are distributing the content have no say over how the dividends are distributed.
This is something that blockchain and a decentralized attention economy can change. Blockchain startup Synereo is aiming to remedy this situation with WildSpark, a new application it launched on August 10, which empowers consumers and curators directly to support content creators and be rewarded for their efforts as well.
WildSpark, which installs as a browser plugin, lets you send AMPs, Synereo's cryptocurrency, to directly reward content creators when consuming their content—say a YouTube video. Afterwards, WildSpark generates a unique link that you can use to share the supported content with your followers on social media or embed it in your own blog or website, or send it through email
If other users view the content through your shared link and they too decide to send AMPs to the content creator, you will receive a percentage of the reward as the curator of the content. Every transaction is stored on the blockchain, which provides full transparency into the revenue that is channeled to each creator and curator.
The concept can enable users who have put hard efforts into creating large social media and and web followings to reward the creators of their favorite content and monetize their own platforms.
Supported by the blockchain, the decentralized attention economy makes sure everyone gets rewarded for their efforts in providing quality content.
Monetizing content and communities fairly
Popular social media platforms enable users to create groups and communities that focus on a single subject or domain. These groups provide a lot of value and rich information, which hosting companies use to serve ads and monetize their platform. But the people who run the operations and create the content in those groups and communities have no share or control over the rewards.
Blockchain can help create communities and focus groups where the creators of content set the rules, not the service gatekeepers. An example is Matchpool, a decentralized matchmaking protocol which can create paid-membership communities and premium content delivery on the blockchain
In Matchpool, users create "pools" (think of them as the blockchain version of Facebook groups) to bring together like-minded people. Pool creators can choose from different monetization models such as entrance or subscription fees, or per-content transactions. The platform runs on Guppy (GUP) tokens, which users can directly buy from Matchpool or trade on the platform.
As the protocol runs on blockchain, it performs all transactions in a transparent, peer-to-peer fashion. It involves no intermediary intervention or additional service fees. Pool creators and content owners get directly paid for their services and efforts. An added benefit is that the platform doesn't collect user information, which is a plus for privacy.
Blockchain-based technologies can help democratize the web. The technology is still in its infancy when compared to other infrastructural technologies that support the web. But it is already showing promise to make the web more fair and profitable to everyone.
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AT WITS University in Johannesburg last week they were punting insects – grasshoppers, termites and mopane worms, among others – to become part of our diet.
At an exhibition titled Yebo Gogga, visitors were invited to tuck into things like chocolate containing termites. At the weekend they made pizza with mopane worms.
It's odd that flying ants weren't on the menu. Maybe they're out of season.
Exhibition director Donald McCallum says the creepy-crawlies are stacked with proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals. Plus they are either cheap or free.
But to say yebo to the gogga surely requires something of a mental somersault from the way we've been conditioned. What a bat might consider lovely grub usually just does not appeal to homo sapiens.
Or have we been living an illusion of distance from the insect world? Consider this passage from Bill Bryson's wonderful book, At Home: "Down at the realm of the very tiny, your house teems with life: it is a veritable rainforest for crawling, clambering things. Armies of tiny creatures patrol the boundless jungles of your carpet fibres, paraglide amid floating motes of dust, crawl across the bedsheets at night to graze upon the vast, delicious, gently heaving mountain of slumbering flesh that is you.
Yikes – so they're eating us as well!
Bryson continues: "If you had the right equipment and a peculiar measure of motivation, you could find numberless millions of other dinky creatures living with you – vast tribes of isopods, pleopods, endopodites, myriapods, chilopods, pauropods and other all-but-invisible specks. Some of these little creatures are practically ineradicable. An insect named Niptus hololeucus has been found living in cayenne pepper and in the cork stoppers of cyanide bottles. Some, like flour mites and cheese mites, dine with you pretty regularly."
Hmmm. So the food chain is pretty much a circle. We're part of it, in close proximity. So why not chomp a grasshopper?
But who has made that mental somersault? Somehow, one doubts there'll be a stampede for the roast cockroach and bedbug stalls.
ALL is not lost for the Sharks. Strangely, there is comfort to be found in near-recovery from a silly buggers start, to ending up with a bonus point.
But boy, it's so tight you can hear the pips squeak. Roll on Saturday and the Chiefs.
READER Don Hamilton sends in a quote from Cicero, the Roman scholar and statesman, in 55BC that he finds pretty appropriate to our times.
Yes, it could have been today. And the ancient Romans didn't have an over-manned state airline that needed continual bailing out.
WHAT happened to the White House tree? An oak sapling from the site of a World War I battle in north-east France, in which 2 000 American servicemen died, was planted on the White House lawn by Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump during the recent state visit, a reminder of "these ties that bind us."
But now it's disappeared, according to Sky News. . There's just a patch of yellow grass where it stood. Was it gobbled by giant White House moles?
It turns out it's been put into quarantine against tree diseases. It was planted purely ceremoniously, its roots still wrapped in plastic. It will be back when it gets the all clear.
This time a gardener will do the planting, not the prez.
A RABBIT manages to break out from a research laboratory and links up with a group of wild rabbits. He spends the day eating grass, steaking carrots and lettuce from a farmer's field and mating like crazy with the female rabbits.
Then, as night approaches, he heads back to the laboratory.
"What's the matter?" says one of the wild rabbits. "Don't you like it here?"
"I love it. But I'm dying for a cigarette."


Landlords considering remortgaging their properties may be interested in claims that interest rates will not rise until 2011.
Strategy, risk and economics director at Hometrack Gary Styles said that house purchase volumes have steadily grown recently, but mortgage activity has fallen.
Businesses have decided to focus on house purchase lending for existing customers due to government targets, rather than trying to recruit new clients, he added.
When interest rates start to rise "clearly the competitiveness of individual mortgage deals will come to the fore and that's when lenders will start to potentially offer more competitive remortgage products", Mr Styles said.
The comments follow figures published by the Council of Mortgage Lenders, which reported that there was a seasonal dip in lending volumes in November 2009.
However, this was an increase of 66 per cent from the previous year, it was noted.
A drop was also recorded in the number of loans for remortgage, which fell to 31,000 in November last year.


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It's so nice with the Dailey's camping out back.Always good times!Will see them again here at the Jimco Jam event.
can i get the address again we still may come all depends on how late i have to work or if i got to work this weekend.
They are setting up on the square. All looks good. Hoping the sun stays out the whole time. Looking forward to seeing good friends and having some maple syrup.
Hi Tim,that's good news.We'll be here waiting for you.Lydia even took some vacation time from work.
The Maple Festival starts in 3 weeks.Tim Dailey and his Dad are getting their rig ready.If you are not ready to camp out yet this year please feel free to stop by and visit us.


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Lloyd's reported an aggregated market loss of £1 billion for 2018, after the second consecutive year when its underwriters suffered significant catastrophe losses.
Lloyd's paid a huge £19.7 billion in claims during 2018, gross of reinsurance, thanks to the major natural catastrophes that have left the market to report this loss.
Gross written premiums underwritten grew to £35.5 billion, up from £33.6 billion in 2017 and incurred claims dropped to £16.4 billion from £18.3 billion.
The investment portfolio's performance was likely a disappointment though, as it fell to just £500 million return for 2018, less than one-third of 2017's £1.8 billion. Hence, a similar investment return to the prior year could actually have moved the Lloyd's insurance and reinsurance market into profit in 2018.
Finally, the combined ratio came out at a much better 104.5% for 2018, compared to 114% in 2017 when the hurricanes hit.
Lloyd's said that large disasters cost the market £2.9 billion in 2018, which was significantly higher than the long-term average of £1.9 billion, leading to the elevated combined ratio.
Lloyd's did strengthen its financial position during the year though, as assets grew by 9% to £118 billion, and net resources increased by 2% to £28.2 billion, helping Lloyd's central assets grow by 8% to £3.2 billion.
Green shoots of performance are being seen though and the wider global insurance and reinsurance market pricing environment is having an effect at Lloyd's, after the years of losses and also given the underperformance of segments of its marketplace.
Lloyd's noted that the pricing environment improved, with rates strengthening by 3.2% on renewal business, while on the other side the attritional loss ratio reduced 1.3% on the previous year.
This hints at improved profitability already at Lloyd's, which will be pleasing to the leadership as this now precisely what needs to be demonstrated, over the longer term.
In addition to what looks like the beginnings of higher profitability for each unit of risk underwritten, which has got to be the ultimate goal at Lloyd's, the market said it has also slashed some £3 billion of non-performing business, while remediation plans were implemented across all review classes of business.
The market notes that four new syndicates began trading in 2018 demonstrating the continued appeal of Lloyd's. But it has to also be noted that some pulled back, citing a lack of profits in the marketplace.
So, yes, performance was better than in 2017 when the major hurricanes hit the market and a loss of £2 billion was reported, but new CEO of Lloyd's John Neal is not really impressed and wants better.
"The market's aggregated 2018 results report a combined ratio of 104.5%, and a £1.0bn loss. This performance is not of the standard that we would expect of a market that has both the heritage and quality of Lloyd's," Neal said.
The market hopes for a more robust results profile in years to come, having now initiated and implemented significant performance improvement measures across the market through its decile ten program, which are hoped to steadily result in more robust market earnings.
Lloyd's of London has found itself at the mercy of growing efficiencies across the global insurance, reinsurance and risk transfer landscape, with its expense heavy operation a difficult vehicle to turn around.
With reinsurance market capital trends having driven a wave of efficiency through risk transfer, Lloyd's has had no choice but to try to respond to that.
However, thus far, the response has not really been swift enough or driving the reductions in cost and higher per-unit of risk earnings that are required to make the business model as sustainably profitable (and attractive to investors) as it once was.
The question of whether it ever can be as profitable in future as it once was in the past remains unanswered so far.
We'll need to see whether a radical course of action is taken, or whether the market seeks to appease those more resistant to change, by only going half as far as it really needs to (when it comes to modernisation, capital agnosticism, expense reduction and slashing of acquisition costs).
Lloyd's has not been able to move as quickly with the times as some, which is unsurprising given its size and multiple stakeholders.
But efforts are set to be made to drag the market kicking and screaming into the modern age, with the coming publication of a prospectus, that had originally been slated for this month but now looks set to be delivered in May, according to the Lloyd's annual results.
As we wrote yesterday, there is an expectation that the prospectus, that is expected to provide a blue print for Lloyd's future strategy, will deliver a friendlier message to third-party capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS), as Lloyd's works out how best to engage. Read on to see that this message has become even clearer this morning.
The desire for change and modernisation at Lloyd's is clear and the new leadership, clearly disappointed in the market's performance so far, is driving this forwards.
"Over the last six months we have asked hundreds of stakeholders to tell us how we should evolve Lloyd's to build a collective vision for the future. We have today released a preview of this vision in advance of a full prospectus to be published on 1 May that discusses the future of insurance at Lloyd's," Chief Executive Neal said.
The annual report lays out areas for potential strategic change, highlighting modernisation, technology, performance improvement, as well as a renewed focus on core markets and perhaps even less focus on emerging markets, as Lloyd's looks to double down in the U.S.
Of course, the U.S. market brings Lloyd's firmly up against the rest of global reinsurance and into the areas that additional capital often has the strongest softening effect on rates.
Hence Lloyd's increased prioritisation of the U.S. as a main market has the potential to be another catalyst for rate softening, particularly so as this is where the large, globally diverse insurance and reinsurance firms are also currently seeking the most growth.
This is why, for Lloyd's, the ability to extract sufficient profit from premiums underwritten is absolutely key. Meaning whatever can be done to lower cost-of-capital and raise efficiency, while slashing expenses and acquisition costs, has to become the priority for this market.
If that means embracing modern ways to place risk around the market, letting capital truly compete based on its appetite for risk, cost-of-capital, and ability to diversify risk away, then that is a step that will have to be taken.
Signing onto a slip based on one lead player's costing just doesn't always mean the ceding client is getting the most efficient placement of its risks. An area Lloyd's really has to address in 2019 and beyond, both for itself and those using the market to transfer risk.
Electronic risk placement initiatives embraced by Lloyd's do not really deliver on efficiency of the placement itself, matching the risk with the most effective and appropriate capital.
Thankfully, the teaser for this blueprint does seek to address some key issues, but as you'd expect details are limited right now.
Of interest to ILS players is the fact that Lloyd's aims to offer a capital platform that can enable accredited investors to access a diverse set of risks from the market.
What this means isn't clear, could it be a Lloyd's sidecar, a layer of protection for the Central Fund, or something more meaningful such as a transformer to allow capital to participate in Lloyd's underwriting with much lower frictional and set-up costs. Your guess is as good as ours.
But the overall message is that more choice for capital providers and a greater range of options to access risk at Lloyd's will be key.
In addition, Lloyd's wants to create a risk exchange for standardised risks to be placed much more efficiently into the market.
Again, a great sentiment, but whether Lloyd's should control a risk exchange is moot, as independent exchanges tend to be more successful and Lloyd's players can access risks through them anyway.
Also, a Lloyd's backed exchange may only allow the ceding company to access Lloyd's capital, thus closing off the rest of the market to that placement, which is certainly not optimal for anyone but Lloyd's itself.
Still, an interesting piece of the prospectus teaser and one that has significant ramifications for how Lloyd's players do their business.
Other initiatives promise to make it easier to participate at Lloyd's, automate the claims process, cultural changes, service ecosystems, and ultimately to make Lloyd's more efficient and easier to do business with.
So the full upcoming Lloyd's prospectus, or blue print for the future, will be eagerly awaited, to see what radical steps are taken to bring the market into the modern age at a time when otherwise its relevance could find itself questioned.
Bringing the results up to standard, so that your own Chief Executive is happy with them at least, has to be the initial priority.
But the future resilience of the Lloyd's market platform and driving significant change now so as to ready it for a sustainable role in the reinsurance and risk transfer market of ten or twenty years time is vital now.
Lloyd's has tried to position itself as a risk market for the future numerous times in the last decade or two.
Given the pace of change witnessed elsewhere in insurance and reinsurance, could this be Lloyd's last chance to get it right?
Also read: Lloyd's "prospectus" set to deliver third-party capital & ILS friendly message.


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Jewish Studies January 28, 2023
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Damar Hamlin Asks Nurse Who Won Bengals Game After Waking Up In ICU, Doctors Say
Damar Hamlin had a very important question on his mind after a scary healthy incident on Monday evening, his doctor Timothy Pritts revealed.
James Crowley, Sabrina Picou
UPDATED 1/5/23 11:46 PM: The NFL announced on Thursday that the Week 17 game between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals would "not be resumed" following Damar Hamlin's collapse on Monday. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was the one to make the call on Jan. 5. He reassured the clubs that not resuming Monday's game would have "no effect on which clubs qualify for the postseason" and that "no club would qualify for the postseason and no club will be eliminated based on the outcome of this game."
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If the game was resumed, it would mean having to postpone the start of the playoffs by one week, affecting all "14 clubs that qualify for postseason play." As a result of Thursday's decision, there will be a "Special League Meeting" on Jan. 6 to consider a possible resolution. Fans can see all possible playoff scenarios HERE.
Roger also noted the vicissitudes that this week presented. "This has been a very difficult week," he said. "We continue to focus on the recovery of Damar Hamlin and are encouraged by the improvements in his condition as well as the tremendous outpouring of support and care for Damar and his family from across the country. We are also incredibly appreciative of the amazing work of the medical personnel and commend each and every one of them."
ORIGINAL STORY: Damar Hamlin is "making steady progress" in recovery from his terrifying collapse on the field during a game earlier in the week, his doctor Dr. Timothy Pritts, MD shared via the Buffalo Bills on Instagram on Thursday, January 5. His doctor confirmed that Hamlin can communicate in writing, and that the doctors told him he'd "won at the game of life" after Damar asked who had won the game on Monday evening that he was playing in.
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The doctor also commended the staff who rushed to Damar's aid at the game. "We can't say enough about the quick actions of the Bills training staff and the physicians who were on the field," he said. "It's not only that the lights are on. We know that Damar is home," he also said. Dr. William Knight IV, MD said that Damar has been "moving his hands and feet," and that it's the "best outcome for him to return to who he was before this happened.
ESPN reporter Coley Harvey shared updates from doctors regarding Damar's progress in a series of tweets on Thursday afternoon. He said that doctors told him that last night the safety woke up and responded to questions with a pen and paper and asked who won the game, where he collapsed. "Yes, you won. You won at the game of life," he said they responded.
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Doctors are clarifying that he did not speak, but was communicating with a pen in writing. And they answered Damar: "Yes, you won. You won at the game of life"
— Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) January 5, 2023
Coley also tweeted that the player held hands with many people in the room, and he wrote that his future in the NFL was still unclear. "Doctors say it's truly too early to have the conversation about Damar Hamlin's future in football. They do say the next big milestone they're pushing for is getting Damar to breathe on his own," he wrote.
Earlier on Thursday, the Buffalo Bills gave an update on the safety's condition, saying that his doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center said that he's made many improvements in a statement on Twitter on January 5.
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— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) January 5, 2023
The team revealed that physicians said that the player, 24, has shown positive signs of recovery during his stay at the hospital. "Damar has shown remarkable improvement over the past 24 hours. While still critically ill, he has demonstrated that he appears to be neurologically intact. His lungs continue to heal and he is making steady progress," they said.
The NFL organization concluded with a word of thanks for fans keeping the player in their thoughts and prayers. "We are grateful for the love and support we have received," they wrote.
Damar has reportedly shown signs of 'remarkable improvement.' (Duane Burleson/AP/Shutterstock
Damar was hospitalized minutes into the Bills' game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday, January 2. He collapsed on the field after he was tackled. Paramedics performed CPR on him for 10 minutes, and he was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. After the game, the team revealed that he'd gone into cardiac arrest and was in critical condition and sedated following the hospitalization.
The day after the game, Damar's uncle gave another update on his health and said that his nephew had been "resuscitated twice" and was "trending upward" in an interview with CNN. Damar's friend and family's representative Jordon Rooney also spoke about his condition during an interview with Good Morning America. "What I can say is he's fighting. He's a fighter," he said. "He was awake [earlier], and now he's sedated. So, the family's in good spirits. We're honestly just taking it minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour."
After Damar collapsed on the field, he received an outpouring of support from his teammates and other players from throughout the world of sports. Bills QB Josh Allen asked for fans to support the player in a tweet. "Please pray for our brother," he wrote. Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Tom Brady also shared his well-wishes for Damar on Twitter. "We're praying for Damar and his family this morning in Tampa. Moments like this put into perspective what it means to play this game we love," he wrote.
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Tag: Ground Zero
A Lower Manhattanite's Take on the Cordoba House
As a three-year resident of Lower Manhattan whose apartment is situated no farther from Ground Zero than the future Cordoba House—that is, a couple of blocks away—I might be expected to entertain no very tepid feelings toward this Islamic complex and the controversy it has provoked. As it happens, my take on the whole enterprise has undergone quite a bit of reassessment since I first heard of plans by Muslim developers of suspect financing to build a mega-mosque on Ground Zero. The phrasing of the last sentence alone should give some inkling as to the first corrections in order.
If built at all, the Cordoba House, or Park51, as it's now being called, will be an Islamic cultural center hosting a library, auditorium, gym, swimming pool, day-care center, and culinary school—out of which some space for an indoor mosque shall be carved, true. But what a far cry from a mega-mosque of towering minarets, blaring out the calls of muezzins five times a day, summoning the faithful to prayer! And it wouldn't stand on Ground Zero or even overlook it. As to the sources of the funds, the developers have so far raised only enough money to buy the old building on Park Place, which they intend to demolish. The rest, an estimated $100 million needed to actually build, furnish, and staff the 13-story Islamic complex, remains to be vouched for. No terror-tainted sources have been tied to the developers' financing, nor any irregularities found with their assets. At this point, none are likely to surface either, at least not before more funds can be raised and their sources scrutinized.
And yet, even after the smoke cloud of misleading rhetoric is dispersed, a sour taste still lingers about this Cordoba initiative, which no profusion of goodwill can clear away. For one thing, there is the questionable symbolism of Cordoba, where Muslims, Catholics, and Jews admittedly lived in relative peace for a few centuries, but only as far as the former subjugated the latter two, at least nominally. However enlightened this Caliphate of the Middle Ages was, and whatever the merits of the arrangements that prevailed between its religious communities, none of them could be held up as a model for emulation in the 21st century.
Then there's Imam Feisal Abdul-Rauf, the public face of the project. Though professing himself a moderate dedicated to improving relations between the West and the Muslim World—and taken as such at his word by the State Department, in whose employ he is currently journeying to the Middle East on a mission of "interfaith outreach"—he can supposedly reconcile said religious tolerance and liberality with the implications of the following statements (emphases mine):
I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened [September 11, 2001]. But the United States' policies were an accessory to the crime that happened. … Because we have been accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world. In fact, in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the U.S.A.
Asked whether Hamas meets the definition of terrorist group:
I'm not a politician. I try to avoid the issues. The issue of terrorism is a very complex question. … I am a peace builder. I will not allow anybody to put me in a position where I am seen by any party in the world as an adversary or as an enemy.
Is Feisal Abdul-Rauf a woolly cleric, well meaning but naïve, and perhaps somewhat scornful of consistency—moral and intellectual—that alleged hobgoblin of small minds? Or is he rather a subversive, astute fanatic, well versed in those formulaic platitudes that make a leftist's heart melt but wholly unmoved by the charms of such things as Coexist bumper stickers? Of course, he might even be a mere career fundraiser, secretly indifferent to questions of theology or conscience, jealous of his professional reputation as bridge-builder extraordinaire, and too mindful of wealthy donors and patrons in the Middle East to risk stepping on their toes by damning their pet terrorist groups. In any case, Mr. Abdul-Rauf does not seem the kind of man anyone in his right mind would want to welcome into his neighborhood, especially as the head of his local Islamic community center.
Last and most important, although the most incensed critics of Park51 have shamelessly overstated the actual proximity of the complex to Ground Zero, I cannot but judge it in very poor taste to insist that this Islamic cultural center should be built nearly two blocks away from where the World Trade Center once stood. Even if the most honorable intentions could be imputed to the developers, demolishing a building damaged on September 11, 2001, by fragments of the hijacked planes, in order to erect in its place an Islamic center, is so obviously crass that they shouldn't wonder why the majority of Americans—68 percent, by the latest count—oppose the undertaking.
That's as far as I can sympathize with the opponents of the Cordoba House. And the American Center for Law and Justice could have obtained both my signature and my support had it organized a private petition for New Yorkers to civilly register their disapproval of Park51 instead of trying to block its construction through the courts. But, I should hope, the distinction between finding something distasteful and justifying coercive action against it cannot be so subtle as to elude most Americans. It is a hallmark of civilization—conspicuously wanting, by the way, in those Islamic societies whose young men seethed with rage and destroyed everything they could get their hands on because the portrayal of their prophet in certain Danish cartoons had mortally offended them.
It might have been possible to shame the developers of Park51 into reconsidering where to build their Islamic center, had their right to build it wherever they pleased not been called into question. But because most opponents started to conflate that matter with whether the mosque and Islamic center in Lower Manhattan were generally desirable or publicly acceptable, so, in turn, did some champions of the other side of the debate. In the process, the shady imam and his fellow developers have acquired the aura of noble "martyrs" to the cause of the First Amendment, bold visionaries molested by a growing mob of bigots—which is unfortunate and counterproductive. Of course, they must build near Ground Zero now, to prove that they can, their plight carrying such a high symbolic weight and what have you.
So we must contend with a thorny First Amendment case—and no, zoning laws cannot treat a mosque near Ground Zero as they might treat liquor stores near schools or strip malls in places where they offend local sensibilities, because neither liquor stores nor strip malls are expressly protected by the Constitution, whereas the free exercise of religion is. Therefore, no government interference with the developers' property rights could be warranted. And this marks the first topic of public interest on which I fully agree with President Obama, who said:
Now, we must all recognize and respect the sensitivities surrounding the development of lower Manhattan. The 9/11 attacks were a deeply traumatic event for our country. The pain and suffering experienced by those who lost loved ones is unimaginable. So I understand the emotions that this issue engenders. Ground Zero is, indeed, hallowed ground.
But let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable.
Neither did I find his subsequent clarification the least bit disingenuous; quite the contrary:
I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That's what our country is about.
So there is no arguing on whose side the law is. As for decency, well, I wish I could say that decency, at least, were squarely on the side of Cordoba's opponents, but their cause has been hijacked by the likes of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, bottom-feeding activists who, collectively, allege that Barack Obama is the love child of Malcolm X and extol Serbian war criminals indicted by the Hague Tribunal as valiant paladins of our civilization (for having slaughtered thousands of Muslims in the Balkans). Another leader of the opposition to Cordoba, John Joseph Jay, considers every single Muslim a legitimate target for murder. These three have founded the American Freedom Defense Initiative, which sponsors the anti-Cordoba ads now plastered over New York buses, and work closely with the aforementioned American Center for Law and Justice. Suffice it to say, such people do not represent me and should not represent anyone who understands what they are up to.
But leaving these anti-Muslim fanatics aside, the sane opponents of Cordoba—most of them staunch conservatives and champions of individual liberties—must still account for the unprincipled ease with which they propose to infringe the property rights of private developers. Hypocrisy, however, is a plague on both houses, conservative and liberal. For it is the latter, the usual proponents of Eminent Domain, most of whom have never heard of a Walmart or casino in their remotest vicinity whose construction they didn't want to stop, but whose lips are now curling up in self-righteous indignation at the gross encroachment upon these Muslim developers' property rights. Of the many counterfactual scenarios and thought experiments so popular with those pundits fond of reasoning by analogy, my favorite is by Cathy Young, from her excellent piece in RealClearPolitics:
Let us consider a hypothetical, leaving aside for a moment the usual examples involving Germans and Auschwitz or the Japanese and Pearl Harbor. Suppose a group of Christian anti-abortion fanatics bombed the offices of Planned Parenthood in New York, killing hundreds. Suppose that, 10 years later, a conservative Christian group, strongly pro-life though repudiating violence, wanted to build a 13-story community center and church next to the site of this tragedy.
Most likely, the roles in this debate would be reversed. Quite a few liberals would denounce the planned construction of the center as a slap in the face to the victims and their families; the likes of Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin would decry anti-Christian bias and voice outrage that the actions of a handful of extremists would be used to denigrate all Christians or all abortion opponents.
Indeed. Apparently, no ground is as hallowed as to deter some from exploiting the sentiments it commonly excites. But of the 68 percent of Americans opposed to the Cordoba House, I wonder what percentage concede that the developers have every right to build their mosque and Islamic complex near Ground Zero. And whatever our numbers be, I also wonder, who represents us in this debate?
Author KejdaPosted on August 17, 2010 September 7, 2010 Categories Politics, Racism, The Left, The RightTags controversy, Ground Zero, hate, Manhattan, mosque, Muslim, New York, Pamela Geller, robert spencer13 Comments on A Lower Manhattanite's Take on the Cordoba House


Week 23 – Burj al Arab!
Finally – after 9.5 years living in Dubai, I have made it inside Burj al Arab!!!
While it is pretty much the height of 'kitsch' with everything either covered in gold, or with gold flakes or even crystals, it IS The Burj al Arab, and you can't help but respect the greatness of it all.
We had ventured to this 7-Star hotel on a Saturday night for dinner, as part of Nat's farewell. Yum!
We were seated at the window, which unfortunately did not offer great views because the night itself was not fantastic, but I took a walk outside to look at the pool & terrace. Also WOW!
Dinner was an international buffet – we dined at Bab al Yam – and the food was exceptional. Normally buffet dinners are difficult to get excellent-tasting food as the whole idea of buffets does not make it easy (nothing is freshly prepared), but these guys know how to do it properly!
There is a stir-fry station where they freshly make chicken, beef and prawns. They have roast beef, your usual salads, potatoes, rice, other 'main' dish types of food, mini pizzas, a pasta station, cheese & bread sections, and dessert. And then, they have the CAKES! Freshly made cakes of various flavours, and just absolutely delicious! I felt a bit out of place taking a photo of any of the food so you'll have to just imagine it… sorry. But take my word that it's amazing!!!
After dinner we asked if we could head up to the Sky View bar to have a look. Unfortunately we weren't allowed to have a look out the window as the bar was full, but the ride up & down in the elevator was enough fun. It's a glass lift that allows you views of Dubai as you shoot up (and then back down). Good fun!
Most people's knowledge of this building is via Tom Cruise in a Mission Impossible film so it's nice to read a real insight. An Irishman managed the hotel for many years but I don't know if he's still there.
You seem to have your buildings mixed up though – Tom Cruise (Mission Impossible) was filmed on the Burj Khalifa – the tallest building in the world. I can understand the confusion though – with both buildings being called Burj, it does make things confusing. Burj actually means "tower" in Arabic.


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Snow will taper off and end this morning, but it will remain cloudy this afternoon with a few rain showers. High 38F. Winds SW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow 70%. Snow accumulations less than one inch. Higher wind gusts possible..
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Local students named to Marquette University's fall 2022 Dean's List
The following students have been named to the Dean's List for the fall 2022 semester at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
To make the Dean's List, students must have earned at least 12 credits for the fall 2022 semester and have no disqualifying grades. The GPA threshold varies by college. For the College of Education and the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, undergraduate students must have at least a 3.7 to be named to the Dean's List.
The undergraduate GPA requirement is 3.5 for the following colleges: the Diederich College of Communication, the College of Business Administration, the College of Health Sciences, the Opus College of Engineering, and the College of Nursing. All other programs have a 3.75 GPA minimum.
Marquette University is a Catholic, Jesuit university that draws over 7,500 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate and professional students from nearly all states and more than 60 countries. In addition to its nationally recognized academic programs, Marquette is known for its service learning programs and internships as students are challenged to use what they learn to make a difference in the world. Find out more about Marquette at marquette.edu.
Area students include:
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Sarah Mathes is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences.
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Scott Bates is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences.
Danielle Dominy is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
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Emmy Newman is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication.
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To say that we're still living in the age of the Internet is to state the obvious to the point of banality. Yet the benefits and detriments of the Internet are subtle and ever changing. Yes, the Internet is an awesomely convenient way to watch viral cat and/or toddler videos. Shocking as it may sound, the Internet has more practical benefits. It is the marketing lifeblood of any for-profit and nonprofit corporate entity. Having a proper website is imperative. Unfortunately, developing a polished, professional presence on the Internet can be a time-consuming, technically demanding, frustrating undertaking. This is where Atlanta-based 48in48 comes into play.
48in48.org reveals the essence of what it does by posing the following question: "Nonprofits spend their time doing good, not looking good. Imagine how much good they could do if they looked good as well?" Gina Gentilozzi, Chief Impact Officer, explains that 48in48's concept originated from a conversation between Founders Jeff Hilimire and Adam Walker, two Information Technology professionals; Hilimire specializes in gaming and app technology, Walker in web development. "They had a conversation [along the lines] of, 'If we gathered our friends together, could we help a nonprofit in a weekend?'" As it turns out, they could help more than just one nonprofit. One quickly became five, then twenty, then 48. The first event was held in 2015.
48in48 does not have a monopoly on the website-building industry. There is a plethora of web building platforms – Wix, Weebly, GoDaddy, Ukit and Duda are just some of the top contenders as noted by PC Magazine in its Winter 2018 edition. Gentilozzi explains that one key to 48in48's continued success in this crowded space rests upon the platform they use: WordPress. "It's easy to use," enabling even the smallest philanthropy to construct a first website in a compressed timeframe. WordPress is also expandable, through its plug-in architecture; so even the more sophisticated needs of big enterprises, like Habitat for Humanity, can be met. Of course, the real benefit is the professional expertise that 48in48 brings to bear.
#48 in 48 MSP sponsored by Delta Airlines at Evolve Workplace in St. Paul, Minnesota on Friday, September 15, 2017.
It is easy to overlook the value that a bonafide IT professional brings to the website development table because the underlying complexities are numerous and lurking. A perfect example concerns what it takes to ensure that a website functions properly on both a desktop computer and a smartphone. Too many websites fail to meet this obvious objective. Most work fine on a desktop because this is where the website building tools are put to use, but fail on smartphones. Ironically, it is currently estimated that over 52% of all website visitors come from smartphones or iPads; that is to say, websites that aren't mobile-friendly are defective for a majority of visitors! HTML tables are the most common cause. Table usage is waning because tables don't display well on smartphones – content is always scrolled vertically, never horizontally. There is also a very nuanced distinction between mobile-friendly and responsive websites, which is too complicated to discuss. For those repressed geeks out there, you can read all about it here. Having a website that is functional on both mobile and desktop is essential. 48in48 places equal priority on both mediums, for any nonprofit wanting an effective online presence. "Every website that leaves us is mobily responsive, so it looks as nice on mobile as it does on the desktop … It is definitely something that is a factor in every site we build," explains Gentilozzi.
In the meantime, the debate rages on as to the Internet's true value – a debate that will not be resolved here. To all of those philanthropies out there looking to create an internet presence, or improve upon an existing presence, submitting your application to 48in48.org is definitely worthwhile. To the rest of us who view the Internet as merely an abundant source of heart-warming videos, I can provide more than you require, no formal application is necessary.
Matthew Harvey is a 2017 graduate of Davidson College, and a budding philanthropist.


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MyCrypto Ethereum (ETH) Wallet Solution Raises $4 Million In Funding Round
MyCrypto Raises $4 Million In Series A Funding Round
Although the retail crypto market may be in a slump, venture investors seem to be as interested as ever, with VC firms pouring millions of dollars of funds into promising crypto-centric projects, products, and services on a near-daily basis. Most recently, an amassment of prominent investors and venture capital firms have stood behind MyCrypto, a popular Ethereum-focused wallet solution.
As per a Medium post released by the team behind the product, the startup has just raised $4 million in a Series A funding round.
We've just raised $4M in our Series A funding round from @polychaincap, @BoostVC, @ShapeShift_io, @AusumVentures, and an incredible handful of individuals. ❤
Learn more about the round, our investors, and what our future holds: https://t.co/TyaT15rSX0
— MyCrypto.com (@MyCrypto) August 30, 2018
Leading the funding round was San Francisco-based Polychain Capital, which has become well-known after fund founder Olaf Carlson-Wee led Polychain and its investors to new heights. Other well-known investors that participated in the startup's funding round include Boost VC, Shapeshift, Ausum Blockchain Fund, Mainframe's Mick Hagen, Chance Du Of Coefficient Ventures, Albert Ni, Lily Liu, and Adam Draper, as per MyCrypto's announcement.
What's Next For MyCrypto?
For those who are unaware, MyCrypto's ethos is to build what the crypto community needs, along with creating easy-to-use methods for accessing the blockchain and utilizing crypto assets. And so far, this ideology has stuck, with a talented team of over 15 individuals recently rebuilding the wallet product from the ground up, while also adding "a ton of new features" and introducing support for a native desktop app in the process.
Not only has the startup focused on a wallet, but, the firm also launched an open-source Monero (XMR) block explorer called Monero Vision. While this sounds like a monumental task on its own, as MyCrypto puts it "that's not enough," adding that a strong foundation has been laid, but preparing for the "next wave" of cryptocurrency adoption will be an absolute necessity. The press release noted:
These steps have laid a strong foundation for the MyCrypto platform. We need to prepare for the next wave of cryptocurrency users entering the space and help ensure they can interact with the blockchain, play with dapps, trade their coins and tokens, and do it safely, securely, and with confidence.
So what's next for MyCrypto? You may ask.
Well, although the startup didn't highlight any specific products, the firm intends to "make crypto easier to get into." Elaborating more on what this meant, the release noted that interfaces should be "less confusing, abstract away information that doesn't need to be upfront" and most importantly, making the crypto experience as frictionless and seamless as any other modern technology.
Expressing excitement for her brainchild, Taylor Monahan, the Founder and CEO of MyCrypto stated:
The cryptocurrency market is always changing and evolving, which can make navigating and understanding it difficult and overwhelming for both new and seasoned users. We're dedicated to designing an experience that can further simplify how people can access and store cryptocurrency and are thrilled to see the overwhelming support we've received from our partners, investors, and community.
So keep your eye out for MyCrypto, as the firm's collaborative moves with its new partners will be sure to produce some world-changing crypto-centric products in the near future.
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