Kasper Schmeichel could be looking to leave Leicester City due to not being happy with manager Claude Puel.
Speaking to BeIN Sports, Kasper's father, legendary Manchester United and Denmark goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel indicated he didn't believe Puel is the right man for the job. He believes Leicester are a good club with good players, but with a manager who doesn't know how to get the best out of them.
Schmeichel junior arrived at the King Power Stadium in 2011 from Leeds United, and he has now over 320 appearances for the Foxes under his belt. He was instrumental in their historic run to the Premier League title in 2015/16 which stunned the football world. He has also taken his father's path in terms of international football, with 43 appearances in the Denmark goal for now.
His father believes Leicester's rightful place in the league is somewhere from fifth to eighth place, but he doesn't see Puel being the man to help them get there. Peter said Kasper likes to "challenge himself", but he doesn't want to leave England.


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Zhao , C , van Heeswijk , M & Karhunen , J 2016 , Air Quality Forecasting Using Neural Networks . in Proc. of the 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2016), Athens, Greece, December 6-9, 2016. . IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence , Athens , Greece , 6-9 December .
In this paper, a neural network approach is proposed for air quality forecasting based on the air quality time series itself as well as external meteorological records. A regularized version of the Extreme Learning Machine is used as the main model for the forecasts and feature selection is performed to select the most relevant model inputs. The proposed method is evaluated under different approaches for performing spatial data fusion. Experiments show that accuracy is increased by considering meteorological data; that it matters greatly for the model how the spatial aspect of the problem is taken into account; and finally, that the model is generally able to select relevant inputs and provide accurate air quality forecasts.


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HBS Guy wrote: They came here seeking asylum which is legal, even with unauthorised arrival. We ARE a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention!
In the meantime—Nauru and Manus Is.
HBS Guy wrote: In the meantime—Nauru and Manus Is.
They sound like Tropical holiday islands to me.
The UN is stuffed, a basket case of parochialism, nepotism and corruption. Less than 15% of UN aid money gets to anyone, the majority goes to multinationals who provide their second rate and contaminated food goods to the UN at exorbitant prices and it's pure junk. At least Aus provides decent food and accommodation, which the cretins continue to wreck, destroy and riot. In most other refugee camps, when that happens, they come in with guns and battens and flatten everyone.
Dax wrote: The UN is stuffed, a basket case of parochialism, nepotism and corruption. Less than 15% of UN aid money gets to anyone, the majority goes to multinationals who provide their second rate and contaminated food goods to the UN at exorbitant prices and it's pure junk. At least Aus provides decent food and accommodation, which the cretins continue to wreck, destroy and riot. In most other refugee camps, when that happens, they come in with guns and battens and flatten everyone.
The UN absorbs enormous resources and provides very little.
HBS Guy wrote: Sprint parades his Christianity, even mods a religion board on OzPol. It was a fair question.
OTOH—where have I said I am a rabid nationalist?
I didn't say rabid nationalist. I said nationalist. All of us at least acknowledge the idea of a nation state and that citizenship is based on certain criteria. I believe in the nation state as other people believe in theirs. I also believe that citizenship confers rights and advantages not necessarily available to other people. It doesn't justify dehumanising other people. It is also true that as soon as we acknowledge the existence of a nation state and borders, then already there are competing priorities in resources implicit in this.
Maybe nationalism is wrong. Maybe it's fascist. I don't know. I can only say what I believe.
I believe in the nation state.
True, I am a citizen of Australia. I have said I have been tempted to retire in NZ but that Australia is my country. But I don't PARADE it like Sprint parades his faith.
We can take 20–30,000 refugees (including family reunions.) Yes, the first generation, like all first generation immigrants will move to where other Muslims already are. Doesn't mean their kids will.
Dax wrote: , states to be classed as a refugee, you have to go directly to the country you are applying to enter.
I believe that what the charter says?? Perhaps you could read it and find out?
The first country that is a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees. Malaysia and Indonesia are not.
If a refugee flees his country, perhaps because we are bombing it back to the stone age, goes to the next country and hops on a plane to Indo—if that country is not a signatory then when he arrives in Australia he is a legit asylum seeker, NOT an "illegal." Very nazi like, slapping a false tag on a group of people BTW. He may be classed as a legitimate refugee and if so he should be allowed to settle here. Why waste VAST sums of money imprisoning refugees? $5Bn a year? They could be generating that in tax revenue if allowed to settle here. Most leave their country with some capital. Let them spend and invest it here!
HBS Guy wrote: The first country that is a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees. Malaysia and Indonesia are not.
Dax? HBS makes a good point: th first country is usually not a signatory, so technically if they come to Australia, we are the 'first' country. Right??
Btw Monk. The point is to deter maritime arrivals. Plane arrivals are already controlled but maritime arrivals can't be controlled to the same extent.
Boat turnbacks will keep maritime unauthorised arrivals away.
To understand the two charters which represent refugees, you have to read them and the other associated documents. Today most middle eastern economic insurgents, come through Turkey and Egypt, which are signatories of both charters. They also try to go through Israel, which is also a signatory, but shoot on sight those fleeing conflict.
The reason most middle eastern and other muslim countries didn't sign the charters, is because within the Koran there are numerous rules and state obligations for those fleeing, that's why they can fly to Indonesia and enter freely. As muslims they have almost free access to any other muslims country.
There are also provisions and requirements for refugees to adhere to the laws of the countries they enter, or according to the convention, if they don't they can be forcibly sent back to where they come from immediately.
The we have the Dublin system used by most western countries, which allows countries who have the UN charter, to refuse or return those seeking asylum to safe countries they have transited through, even if they are not signatories, as according to the system, they have not come directly to the country they want to enter.
This is now being applied throughout Europe, they are sending back thousands on planes to Nth Africa, Turkey, Egypt, irrelevant to their safety as they transited through those countries to get to Europe. Europe is also adopting the Aus way of boat turn backs and forced returns, unlike the brain dead insane ideologues,who can only see their fantasy land day dreams and not the socially destructive threat posed by allowing these ideological misfits into their countries.
Fools always jump on the PC band wagon and never look at the real facts of what they are deludingly demanding, hence the chaos around the planet. The lowlife like the cloned ideological slaves they are, stick dramatically to the fantasy and then insult and abuse those who bring truth to a discussion.
On one hand they claim they are against racism, then when they are revealed as idiots, they instantly reveal their true mentality, racist, bigoted and deep in denial, as they slither deeper into their deranged sewer mindset.
They don't generate tax revenue, they bleed the welfare system, increase crime rates and disrupt our society.
There is nothing in either charters, which states they have to go to a UN charter country to be accepted. It states they must go directly to a safe country, no stipulation of a charter country. So they are not eligible to enter Aus in any way.
It is easy to do and there is a lot of social pressure to do that.
Not being on the PC bandwagon gives anyone unlimited encouraged abuse.
There is no point keeping the people on Manus & Nauru in life imprisonment without charge. This goes all the way back to Magna Carta.
Nothing brave about it, as can be seen from the way they want to hide their shameful actions from scrutiny.
HBS Guy wrote: There is no point keeping the people on Manus & Nauru in life imprisonment without charge. This goes all the way back to Magna Carta.
Auggie wrote: I believe that what the charter says??
Auggie wrote: HBS makes a good point: th first country is usually not a signatory, so technically if they come to Australia, we are the 'first' country. Right??
and despite what dax says, they don't go through egypt or turkey. If thats what he thinks then I doubt he's ever seen a map of the world.
Are you talking about what the Charter actually says, or how it's 'generally' interpreted by the majority of signatories?
johnsmith wrote: and despite what dax says, they don't go through egypt or turkey. If thats what he thinks then I doubt he's ever seen a map of the world.
Auggie wrote: How do you know?
common sense. A lot of our refugees came from Afghanistan and Iraq, why would they travel thousands of miles to go to turkey or Egypt only to turn around and head back the other way? I don't doubt that some certainly came through those countries, but to claim most, Dax is dreaming again.
Auggie wrote: Are you talking about what the Charter actually says, or how it's 'generally' interpreted by the majority of signatories?
it's always about interpretation. 'Safe' doesn't mean crossing a border.
Nauru is now in financial problems as there are so few illegal there.
The prohibition of board games in detention centers is a violation of human rights.
This piece from Tony Wright on the children in Nauru is worth reading.
what is the govt. hiding?


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Adrienne Cowan (ur. 28 stycznia 1995 w Houston) – amerykańska wokalistka metalowa, a także pianistka, poetka, dyrygentka i kompozytorka. Znana z charakterystycznego głosu i technik śpiewu takich jak screamo i growl.

Występowała z: Avantasia, Seven Spires, Winds of Plague, Sascha Paeth's Masters of Ceremony, Milan, i FirstBourne, Kyle Morrison, Light & Shade, Mike Kerr.

Przypisy

Amerykańskie wokalistki metalowe
Ludzie urodzeni w Houston
Urodzeni w 1995

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The 38th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday, May 31, 1954. The event was part of the 1954 AAA National Championship Trail, and was also race 2 of 9 in the 1954 World Championship of Drivers.

Time trials
Time trials was scheduled for four days.

Saturday May 15 – Pole Day time trials
Sunday May 16 – Second day time trials
Saturday May 22 – Third day time trials
Sunday May 23 – Fourth day time trials

Starting grid
 = Indianapolis 500 rookie;  = Former Indianapolis 500 winner

Alternates
First alternate: Eddie Johnson (#26) — Johnson drove relief during the race

Failed to qualify

Henry Banks (#26) - Retired
Joe Barzda (#54)
Bill Boyd  (#47)
Wally Campbell  (#66, #81) - Failed rookie test
Bob Christie  (#66)
George Connor (#27, #32) - Retired
Ray Crawford  (#32) - Entry declined
Jimmy Davies (#53)
Billy Devore (#93)
Duke Dinsmore (#62, #67)
Walt Faulkner (#44, #97)
Pat Flaherty (#39, #76, #89)
Johnny Fedricks  (#89)
George Fonder (#33, #36)
Potsy Goacher  (#67)
Cliff Griffith (#22)
Al Herman  (#36)
Bill Holland (#38)
Frank Mundy  (#41)
Duke Nalon (#8)
Danny Oakes  (#47, #49)
Eddie Russo  (#37)
Eddie Sachs  (#54)
Bob Scott (#18, #21)
Joe Sostilio  (#45)
Marshall Teague (#3)
George Tichenor  (#22)
Johnnie Tolan  (#69)
Lee Wallard (#99) - Retired
Leroy Warriner (#67) - Withdrew, injured
Chuck Weyant  (#52)

Race summary
Bill Vukovich had to work much harder in this race due to his car was now 2 years old and the team had trouble getting it up to speed leading to a 19th place starting spot inside of row 7 for the race. Vukovich did not see the lead until lap 61 when he led 1 lap. He then after losing positions during pitstops worked his way forward, seeing the lead again on lap 92 leading for the next 38 laps until falling back due to another round of pitstops. Then Vukovich took the lead for good on 150 to win his second consecutive 500, setting a record (at the time) 130.840 mph average race speed. The record would stand until the 1957 Indianapolis 500. Sadly Vukovich died the following year attempting to win his third consecutive Indy 500. The race reportedly went 110 laps before the first yellow light.

Box score

Notes
 – Includes 1 point for fastest lead lap

Additional stats
 Pole position: Jack McGrath – 4:15.26 (4 laps)
 Pole Speed: 141.033 mph (average for 4 laps)
 Fastest Lead Lap: Jack McGrath – 1:04.04 (140.540 mph)
 Relief drivers:
 Troy Ruttman (130 laps) & Duane Carter (70) shared car no 34. Shared points for 4th position.
 Paul Russo (150) & Jerry Hoyt (50) shared car no 5.
 Art Cross (120), Jimmie Davies (30), Johnnie Parsons (22), Andy Linden (17) & Sam Hanks (11) shared car no 45.
 Chuck Stevenson (82), Walt Faulkner (117) shared car no 98.
 Duane Carter (76), Jimmy Jackson (57), Tony Bettenhausen (34) & Marshall Teague (29) shared car no 16.
 Ed Elisian (148) & Bob Scott (45) shared car no 27.
 Frank Armi (179) & George Fonder (14) shared car no 71.
 Sam Hanks (112), Jimmie Davies (36) & Jim Rathmann (43) shared car no 1.
 Rodger Ward (105) & Eddie Johnson (67) shared car no 12.
 Gene Hartley (151) & Marshall Teague (17) shared car no 31.
 Andy Linden (113) & Bob Scott (52) shared car no 74.
 Johnny Thomson (113), Andy Linden (27) & Jimmy Daywalt (25) shared car no 43.
 Jim Rathmann (95) & Pat Flaherty (15) shared car no 38.
 Spider Webb (54) & Danny Kladis (50) shared car no 65.
 Len Duncan (43) & George Fonder (58) shared car no 33.

Broadcasting

Radio
The race was carried live flag-to-flag on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network. It was the second time the race was carried in its entirety. The broadcast was anchored by Sid Collins, his third as chief announcer, and seventh year overall with the crew. Charlie Brockman served as booth analyst and statistician, and also reported from victory lane.

Of note, the network expanded its coverage to include four qualifying wrap-up shows during time trials weekends.

The network expanded to include four qualifying wrap-up shows, and the number of affiliate stations increased to 210. All five major radio stations in Indianapolis carried the broadcast. The 1954 broadcast is notable in that it featured for the first time the famous phrase "Stay tuned for the Greatest Spectacle in Racing." Due to the increased number of affiliates at the time, the network needed a scripted "out-cue" to alert producers when to manually insert local commercials. A young WIBC marketing staff member named Alice Greene (née Bunger) is credited with inventing the phrase, and chief announcer Sid Collins coined it on-air. It has been used ever since, with all of the chief announcers proudly reciting it during their respective tenures.

Championship standings after the race
World Drivers' Championship standings

Note: Only the top five positions are included.

Gallery

References

External links
Indianapolis 500 History: Race & All-Time Stats – Official Site
1954 Indianapolis 500 at RacingReference.info (Relief driver statistics)

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Exploring a bioproduct mill
The Äänekoski bioproduct mill in central Finland is the biggest plant of its kind in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Finnish forest industry's largest-ever investment. DW visited it during the frigid Finnish winter.
Historic investment
The Äänekoski bioproduct mill was inaugurated in October 2017, replacing an old pulp mill that had been running at the site since 1985. It's the biggest wood processing plant in the Northern Hemisphere and the largest investment in the history of the Finnish forest industry. It can produce up to 1.3 million tons of pulp per year as well as bioproducts like tall oil, bioelectricity and wood fuel.
Renewable energy at the forefront
The mill produces more than double the amount of energy it needs to run. So once it reaches full capacity at the end of 2018, it's expected to generate 1.8 terawatts of power each year — or about 2.5 percent of Finland's electricity production. And all of this without using fossil fuels.
Wood in all its forms
Ninety percent of the wood used at the mill is certified and most of it is grown in sustainably managed Finnish forests. The mill's operator, Metsä Group, says 100 percent of the raw materials and side streams that reach the plant are also used in a resource-efficient way for products and bioenergy.
Processes such as pulp bleaching have damaging consequences for the environment, but the mill operator says it has taken steps to reduce these impacts and limit the amount of landfill waste. Nevertheless, local traffic and noise pollution near the site are set to rise significantly: A total of 240 raw wood lorries and 70 flat wagons will soon be arriving at the mill each day.
Water and air quality
Pulp production requires huge amounts of water, but the mill's goal is to implement closed water cycles and an effective wastewater treatment process. Some environmental concerns have been raised, however, including questions about how the mill's thermal load could impact temperatures at nearby Lake Kuhnamo. In terms of air quality, the company says emissions will meet limit values set by the EU.
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Several nations are investing in a bio-based economy to slash carbon footprints. At a recent summit, experts point out how more work is needed to realize bioeconomy's potential as a climate solution.
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Is it possible to fulfill all our global energy needs with renewables only? And which technologies work best to help us transition to a world without fossil fuels? Scientists give answers at COP23.
Burning wood under fire: Are forests going up our chimneys? 01.12.2017
To meet the EU's renewable energy target, countries have rediscovered wood as a fuel. But conservationists fear this new hunger for wood might have disastrous consequences — for the forests, the people and the climate.
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Author Irene Banos Ruiz
Related Subjects Environment
Keywords environment, bioproducts, mill, Finland, bioeconomy, forest, renewable energy, fossil fuels, electricity, bioenergy, Äänekoski
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Charter school operators and advocates unhappy with new performance framework
Tue,11/02/21-2:36PM, 539 Reads 8,733 Statewide
Despite unified opposition to new regulations that govern accountability, the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board is set to approve them at its next board meeting on November 8.
The new regulations will assess the accountability of a charter operator and whether the board will authorize their contract for a new four- or five-year period. It measures accountability in three areas: Academic, financial and organizational.
Charter schools are public schools that are operated by an outside firm that must receive permission from the authorizer board before opening a school. The school operator receives a five-year contract and the framework will decide whether an operator gets a new contract.
The biggest problem with the regulations that charter school operators and advocates have criticized is the tying of the academic performance benchmark with that of the local school district where the charter is located.
Since some charter schools take students from multiple districts, the framework doesn't address which would be the district of comparison for this vital part of the performance framework.
According to Jon Rybka, the CEO of charter operator RePublic Schools, it would be an apples to oranges comparison that is not part of the state law that created charter schools and leaves operators with a "lack of clarity" when it comes to benchmarks.
Considering the number of public comments on the regulations and proposed revisions, board members only asked two questions of the five speakers at the hearing on October 27 for the new regulations.
Mississippi First executive director Rachel Canter blasted the board's framework and said her organization along with others has provided several comments and analyses that have largely been ignored in the final iteration of the regulations.
"There is no credible case that stakeholders have agreed to any of the documents that are the subject of today's hearing," Canter said. "To continue to insist that stakeholders were engaged or even that there is consensus or agreement in principle on the design or format of the framework when nearly every significant stakeholder in this space has said clearly and consistently that that is not the case is disingenuous at best."
Mississippi First offered critiques of two of the three areas, financial and organization. It said in its comments that the new financial analysis in the framework could potentially allow poorly performing schools to receive a passing grade while penalizing schools with good financial performance. The reason is that the authorizer board, instead of developing its own charter-specific framework, adopted the Mississippi Department of Education's accounting manual.
According to their comments, this has the effect of not only compromising the independence of the authorizer board, but also gives the MDE the ability to regulate charters.
Elyse Marcellino, the director of the New School Project at Empower Mississippi, told the board that the framework's "robust" nature can have the effect of squelching educational innovation that is the whole purpose of charter schools. She also said that the framework would make Mississippi, with the greatest need, an unattractive place for charter operators to open new schools.
Trey Vernaci, the director of operations of RePublic, told the board that they recommended the framework not be adopted because problems with both the substance and process with renewals would lead to limiting the number of charter schools.
At the end of the comment period during the hearing, Charter School Authorizer Board executive director Lisa Karmacharya read a comment from Michigan-based Basis Policy Research (the consultants who rewrote the new framework) on the new regulations that acted as a reply to the criticism of both advocates and school operators. Basis said in its comments that the new framework will provide a "rigorous and transparent process to evaluate the quality of charter schools in Mississippi.
In December 2020, the board gave Basis a $30,000 contract to help rewrite the performance framework.
There are only seven charter schools in Mississippi, most in the Jackson area, and two more will open next year.
In 2013, the Mississippi Legislature passed a bill that authorized charter schools in Mississippi. The compromises required to get it across the finish line to then-Gov. Phil Bryant's desk were guaranteed to depress the number of schools statewide. First among those compromises was allowing only one charter authorizer board, an independent body with volunteer members.
The second was allowing charters in only failing school districts according to the Mississippi Department of Education's annual accountability grades. Any other charter that wants to open elsewhere requires the approval of the local school board in addition to that of the authorizer board.
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Detroit Regional Chamber > News & Media > News & Media: News Coverage > COVID-19 Upended Michigan's Labor Market: Here's Where the Workers Went
COVID-19 Upended Michigan's Labor Market: Here's Where the Workers Went
Posted on October 25, 2021 by Ryan Mazzola
Adrienne Roberts
Throughout the pandemic, Amanda Scully has been taking classes while working at Build-A-Bear Workshop at the Somerset Collection in Troy. The store closed when COVID-19 hit, but she received unemployment benefits and then went back to work when the store reopened in July of last year.
When Scully, 24, was called back, she worked a similar number of hours compared with before the pandemic, but the job was noticeably different.
"A lot of people are angry with us because we don't have certain things in the store because of supply chain" issues, she said.
One day, she opened a newsletter from Oakland County that advertised a free certified logistics technician training program. The eight-week program, a partnership between Oakland County Michigan Works!, Oakland Community College and PepsiCo, promised jobs coming out of the program starting at $15-$21 per hour, with opportunities for advancement.
Scully jumped at the opportunity.
"I wanted more stability and some jobs are more in demand than others," she said. Her current job also doesn't offer benefits, and that's something she'd like in her next job.
Finding something better
When she graduates from the program and starts working in a new industry, Scully will join more than a third of Michigan residents ages 18 to 29 who were employed prior to the pandemic and changed jobs over the last year and a half, a recent poll by the Detroit Regional Chamber found.
The poll, conduced by Glengariff Group Inc., illustrates just one of the many ways Michigan's labor market has changed during the pandemic.
"The pandemic has caused people to rethink the choices that they're making," said Susan Corbin, director of the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity.
"A lot of older Americans are choosing to maybe retire earlier," she said. "And because of the labor shortage, people, particularly who were in low wage jobs previously, have a lot more options."
The same Detroit Regional Chamber poll found there was a 5.9% drop in the labor force participation rate — a measure of people working or actively looking for work — for Michigan residents ages 50-64 throughout the course of the pandemic, and a 5.4% drop for those 65 and older. That's the sharpest decline compared with other ages.
Overall, Michigan's labor force participation rate is 59.3%, according to September data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which ranks Michigan at 41st out of 50 in the nation. Before the pandemic, in February 2020, the state's labor force participation rate was 61.6%.
4 trends behind the lack of workers
Jennifer Llewellyn, the director of Oakland County Michigan Works!, said even after working in workforce development for 23 years, she has never seen a labor market like this.
"It's a perfect storm," Llewellyn said. She attributes it to four trends:
1. Women leaving the workforce. Primarily due to K-12 schools going online last year and continuing child care issues, 200,000 women have left the workforce in Michigan, she said, citing a report from the Michigan Bureau of Labor Market Information. "Quite frankly, we just we can't afford to lose that many women in the workforce," Llewellyn said.
2. Lack of engagement on the part of employers. Women are just one of several groups that need to be reengaged, she said. Veterans, people with disabilities, retirees and individuals doing contract work or working in the gig economy are just a few in this group. "Are employers posting jobs in a way that says these are all the benefits and opportunities that we have available?" she asked. "Are they outlining career pathways and opportunities for advancement even when they're recruiting new employees?"
3. Fear of getting sick. COVID-19 also is a reason Michigan residents may be out of the labor force, especially if they have preexisting health conditions or are caring for a child that can't be vaccinated or a parent at home. Llewellyn said this could especially affect people at retirement age, who may have realized with the threat of themore easily transmissible delta variant that it's not worth risking their own or their family's health to continue working.
4. Working conditions. Finally, Llewellyn is seeing that workers want better jobs and more flexibility. "They want to work in a better environment, they're looking for higher wages, they're looking for more work flexibility, the opportunity to work from home or work in a hybrid model," she said.
Changing personal priorities
That idea of looking for better work is affecting both younger adults, like Scully, and executives and older workers.
Peter Bridges, senior managing director at the Townsend Search Group in Birmingham, an executive search firm, said the pandemic has been an opportunity for people to self-reflect.
"Executives are no exception," Bridges said. He said in 2020, the firm saw a "surprising" number of people choose to retire.
"We also saw people take roles that maybe were a bit more modest relative to their prior career trajectory," Bridges said.
Gina McKague, owner and founder of McKague Financial in Livonia, is also seeing clients who are choosing to retire for personal reasons, such as not wanting to be stuck on Zoom calls all day working remotely, and have enough money to retire.
One of her clients, a 65-year-old woman in metro Detroit who said she wanted to remain anonymous because she didn't want to disparage her former employer, retired from being a nurse manager in August after she was left with few resources in the pandemic.
"I liked my job but it became harder to do because I didn't have nurses," she said, citing examples of nurses quitting, nursing schools not graduating as many students compared with prior years and struggling to compete with staffing agencies who hire travel nurses and can pay as much as $100 per hour.
"I thought, 'You know, you have worked for 43 years and it is time to hand over the baton,' " she said.
She said she probably would have worked for longer if conditions were different, but she said her house and other debts are paid off, and she and her husband have saved for retirement.
Corbin said that's a missed opportunity to keep a qualifiedperson who isn'tquite ready for retirement yet, but who may be ready for a transition, in the labor force.
Forced to leave the job
But McKague said in many cases in the pandemic, she has had clients say they were forced into retirement because their role was eliminated, the company was going out of business, they feared getting COVID-19 at work, or they were unwilling to get a company-mandated vaccine.
"They are having a hard time getting another job because (employers) don't want to put money into training them and don't want to pay wages that they were earning," McKague said.
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When you or someone you love has a hard time getting around, a stair lift can make all the difference. Being able to go where you want isn't just a convenience, it's a human right. It's about dignity and freedom.
When you or someone you love has a hard time getting around, a stair lift can make all the difference. Being able to go where you want isn't just a convenience, it's a human right. It's about dignity and freedom. It should be your right to go where you need, and we can help you accomplish that. With our stair lifts in San Francisco, we can give you mobility. Here at Gamburd Inc, we can help you get on the move.
Getting around at home shouldn't be so difficult, but sometimes it can be an issue. Unfortunately, many people with disabilities face as many challenges at home as they do in public. One of those obstacles may be stairs. Why should you be confined to only one level of your home? Some people don't realize that there is a way to get access to other levels of their home. It's as simple as installing a stair lift, and we can help you with that right here in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay area.
A stair lift can grant you access to any place with stairs. And people use stairs more than you might think. The average person uses stairs well over 200,000 times over a lifetime. All those stairs add up. And as you age, they probably seem a little intimidating. Unfortunately, there's no way to avoid them. People in multi-story homes have no other option. They need to deal with their stairs on a daily basis. This can make life harder than it has to be.
You might find yourself sleeping on the couch in the living room because you're too tired to tackle the stairs. Or, you might skip breakfast because you can't be bothered going down the stairs. In any case, you shouldn't have to miss out on things because of your mobility limitations. Stair lifts give you a safe and easy way to use the stairs every day. The stairs don't seem so intimidating when you don't have to do the work.
What are the types of stair lifts?
You may not think that there is a stair lift available for your type of staircase, but there are different types of stair lifts to choose from. Most homes with stairs can be equipped with stair lifts, and it's easier than you think.
For people with more traditional stairs, there is the typical straight stair lift. You sit in the chair and it takes you up the straight staircase. A straight stair lift is simple and affordable.
Of course, you might have curved stairs or outdoor stairs. If you do, there's a way to make your life easier. Stair lifts can be custom-made to fit your curved stairs. And for stairs that are outside, you can get a waterproof lift that can handle the elements.
Chairlifts in San Francisco can be customized to fit your home. No matter how challenging you might think it could be, we may be able to help you. Our staff can handle complicated projects. The first step is to contact us for an assessment. We can analyze your home and help you determine the best way to meet your needs.
Gamburd, Inc. caters to people who are limited in mobility, but want freedom to thrive and remain in their own home. We're a company dedicated to giving you the equipment you need for independence. Whether you need stair lifts, ramps, grab bars, or overhead lifts in San Francisco, we can help. We provide you everything you need to make your home easy to navigate.
Our staff doesn't only provide you a way of getting around. They also care about you and your situation. When you work with us, you get compassion and dedication. We'll listen to you and find out what you want and need. Then, we'll walk you through the process. To make sure everything is up to your standards, we'll show you examples. We offer pictures and videos to let you know that we're on track. We promise to listen to your feedback every step of the way.
To give you the best service, our staff asks you questions about your needs. They may ask you if you're able to get around on your own or need assistance from a walker or wheelchair. They may ask if you can work the controls for the stair lift. They want to make sure that you get the perfect stair lift for your needs. With extensive experience, they know what information matters.
Our services don't end at installation. Our technicians thoroughly explain how to use the equipment and maintenance of your lift once it is fully installed. They want to ensure that you are comfortable and confident with your stair lift. At Gamburd, we want to see you thrive with your new equipment.
It's not only about getting chairlifts in San Francisco. It's about improving your life. No one should be confined to one room because they don't have the proper equipment. Your home is your home, and it shouldn't feel like a prison.
At Gamburd Inc, we understand that. We love that we have the opportunity to make your life better. Every job matters to us, and we'll treat your home as if it were our own. Throughout the process, we do our best to make sure that you're comfortable. Our technicians are highly-trained and focus on customer service. They'll treat you and your family with the utmost compassion.
That's not to say that they're not skilled at what they do. We don't want to inconvenience you, so our technicians work quickly. After you've decided on the placement of your stair lifts in San Francisco, they get to work. They don't waste any time, and work hard to get your home ready quickly. Once we're done, you can start living a barrier-free life..
If you're ready to experience life with less restrictions, contact us. Here at Gamburd Inc, we can help you. Our services can make your home more comfortable than ever. Contact us for a home assessment and learn what we can do for you.


UPC Show: Episode 81 – Nerds and Wonks – Unite!
For this episode, Curtis is joined by UPC researcher, Dave McGee and UPC Videographer, Michael Orton.
We have survived the comic convention, but can we survive Governor Herbert's not-Medicaid plan? Michael breaks down the details of Herberts press conference earlier this week. In the second half, Dave talks pay day lenders while Curtis looks on in disgust. We end the show with a refresher on how UTA just does not seem to understand the outrage surrounding news that their big-wigs brought in several hundred thousand dollars in salary and benefits last year.


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In 2013, 71 Million People Watched Online Computer Gameplay
Last year, more than 71 million people worldwide watched other people play computer games, according to a report from games research company SuperData. More than half of those people were in the United States and one in five American gamers either watch or participate in eSports, or organized video game competitions. At the League of Legends Season 3 World Championship last year, 32 million people watched the professional gamers battle it out. Continue reading In 2013, 71 Million People Watched Online Computer Gameplay
Pinterest CEO Unveils Revenue Growth Plan for the New Year
By Lisette Leonard
Since its launch in 2010, Pinterest has quickly transformed from a quirky website into a social media base used by one-fifth of American adults. To continue nurturing this growth, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann has announced a new business model that will finally start to generate revenue. Pinterest plans to charge advertisers for promoting their products on the site. An analyst at Wedbush Securities believes this has the potential to earn Pinterest more than $500 million in 2016. Continue reading Pinterest CEO Unveils Revenue Growth Plan for the New Year
CEO Says Aereo Will Be Profitable Before One Million Subs
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Aereo's CEO and founder Chet Kanojia claims that the company will be profitable before achieving one million subscribers. Aereo is not disclosing its subscriber numbers, but the company could earn a profit with only hundreds of thousands of subscribers, according to Kanojia. Television broadcasters have been unsuccessful so far in preventing Aereo from operating. The service is expanding into new regions this year to cover a total of 22 cities. Continue reading CEO Says Aereo Will Be Profitable Before One Million Subs


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Play the Android 6.0 Marshmallow Hidden Flappy Bird Game
By Brian Burgess
If you have a Google Nexus device this year that comes with Android 6 Marshmallow there's a hidden Android-themed Flappy Bird game that you can pull up.
If you have a Google Nexus device that comes with Android 6 Marshmallow or your current device has received the update, there's a hidden Android-themed Flappy Bird game that you can pull up. Google did this with Android 5.0 Lollipop, too and accessing it is virtually the same. But this version has been revamped and polished and worth checking out.
For this article, I'm using Google's Huawei Nexus 6P, and I've been able to get it to work on the LG Nexus 5X as well.
Launch Hidden Flappy Bird Game Android Marshmallow
To get to it, go to Settings > About Phone and repeatedly tap the Android version number quickly about four to six times or so. It's not an exact science, so your mileage will vary.
Then you'll get the screenshots shown below, one is a graphic of the letter "M", and if you tap it again, the image will change to a marshmallow with the familiar Android antenna.
Long press the Marshmallow graphic to start the Flappy Bird clone and have some fun navigating a droid through obstacles of marshmallows and other obstructions.
The Marshmallow update finally arrived on my HTC One (M8) a couple of weeks ago, and I'm not able to get this to work. However, I've talked to other people with different devices, like the Samsung Note 4, and it works on it. If you own an Android device that's running Marshmallow, leave a comment and let us know.
The game is rather difficult, but not as hard as the Lollipop Flappy Bird clone. But if you want to make it extremely hard, this revamped version allows you to add up to 6 players by pressing the plus and minus buttons at the top.
Try having six people pushing the same screen at the same time. Or, you can use multiple fingers for each droid by yourself…the multiple player stuff makes no sense. But, it's still a fun Easter Egg to try out and show your friends.
I have a Motorola G 3rd Generation phone and received Marshmallow update sometime in Mid January. Thanks for your guide. The Easter Egg is working fine, but yes is pretty tough.
Worked for me! Lol awesome!
I currently use the Galaxy Note 3.
Rooted and removed the Factory ROM and installed Alliance ROM 5.0 lollipop from XDA Developers, simply because AT&T had the Good Ole Carrier IQ Baked into the Kit-Kat 4.4.4 Software.(Which was a shame because that ROM was Smoooooth!
Anyway I found the Easter Egg in the Alliance ROM and have yet to get past the Third set of Obstacles.
Thanks Again Steve for Groovy Post!!!!!!!
Pawan
My game is not ending and the Android toon is not ataching to marshmallows and score is not counting.
Ruthvik
I am using HTC One A9 and the Android marshmallow game simply doesn't get triggered by tapping. Please fix this out.
Garoc
Huawei P9 Lite- doesn't work.
All my friends can do it on devices with either 6.0.1 or below 6.0
Samridhi
I am not able to play the game on my oppo a57 why is it so?
I'm using Moto g4 and it's showing an 'N' and the game isn't working
I don't think Nougat Supports the Hidden Easter Egg unless it is Unlocked and or Rooted.
I could be wrong as I will not have a Device with 7.1 until 09/25/2017.
I think it will have the New Oreo Update on it.
I'll Post after 09/25/2017
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namespace Sonata\AdminBundle\Tests\Form\Extension;

use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Form\Extension\ChoiceTypeExtension;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\ChoiceType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Forms;

class ChoiceTypeExtensionTest extends TestCase
{
    private $factory;

    protected function setup(): void
    {
        $this->factory = Forms::createFormFactoryBuilder()
            ->addTypeExtensions([new ChoiceTypeExtension()])
            ->getFormFactory();
    }

    public function testExtendedType(): void
    {
        $this->assertSame(
            [ChoiceType::class],
            ChoiceTypeExtension::getExtendedTypes()
        );
    }

    public function testDefaultOptionsWithSortable(): void
    {
        $view = $this->factory
            ->create(ChoiceType::class, null, [
                'sortable' => true,
            ])
            ->createView();

        $this->assertTrue(isset($view->vars['sortable']));
        $this->assertTrue($view->vars['sortable']);
    }

    public function testDefaultOptionsWithoutSortable(): void
    {
        $view = $this->factory
            ->create(ChoiceType::class, null, [])
            ->createView();

        $this->assertTrue(isset($view->vars['sortable']));
        $this->assertFalse($view->vars['sortable']);
    }
}

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Seclusion Discs – Mark Eden
We have asked our tutors, while they are marooned in isolation, which 8 tracks mean the most to them, so we can share some new listening ideas with you and find out a bit more about them. This week, guitarist Mark Eden, introduces his picks.
Mark is a tutor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, one half of the Eden Stell Guitar Duo, and one quarter of the Vida Quartet. Mark studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he won the Julian Bream Prize and graduated with the highest performing achievements and the Principal's Prize. He was awarded grants from the Worshipful Company of Musicians to continue studies in Brussels with Sergio and Odair Assad. Both of his ensembles have achieved international acclaim and continue to perform at some of the most prestigious venues, International guitar and music festivals all over the world. Mark has recorded eight CDs receiving many press reviews, including 'Editors' Choice' in Gramophone and recording of the week in The Observer, and has appeared on ITV, BBC and many European networks.
"It really is too tricky to select just 8 tracks; I love too many pieces of music. To add to the complexity, my choices are just as much about the artists as they are about the composer. Rather like Saffron, I have gone for pieces which have made an impact on me when I was young. I could make a top 50 easily, but here's my 8 – but before we get underway, I must make a special mention to Vaughan Williams' 'Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis' and 'The Lark Ascending'; Nigel North (lute) playing Bach and Dowland; Schubert's 'Unfinished Symphony'; Steven Isserlis playing Bach cello suites; The Jam; Beethoven; Martha Argerich playing anything; Sir András Schiff playing anything; The Police; Debussy; Scarlatti; Chopin; Britten; Prince; Stephen Dodgson; and guitarists Sergio & Odair Assad, Segovia & John Williams to name just a few. Sorry… had to get those out also."
Track 1: Simon & Garfunkel – For Emily (LIVE)
I should really just say that any of the songs from the Simon & Garfunkel Greatest Hits album (or tape in our case) is my first choice. My first truly memorable musical experience driving down to Cornwall in the mid 70's with my parents and sisters in an old car and a tape player sitting in the foot well. We just kept playing it over and over… well Cornwall felt further away back then! We all loved the songs and I can still remember all the words and tunes. 'For Emily' sums up this hazy hot summer in Mawgan Porth, where our hotel was like something out of "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday". Art Garfunkel's voice is like an angel's, and Simon's guitar playing must have made something click inside me. I love the triplets strummed in the guitar part at the highest point of the song.
Track 2: The Smiths – This Charming Man
I was defiantly a closet Smiths fan. I never saw them live but I did have most of their albums and this song sums up my teenage 80's angst. I love the way the words tell a story which your own imagination can elaborate on.
Track 3: Federico Mompou – Suburbs
This is one of Mompou's early piano pieces which put him on the map. It also sums up his personality as someone who was a loner, who walked the streets of his beloved Barcelona taking in the atmospheres and life going on around him. "The Street, the guitar and the old horse" is particularly poignant. I guess I'm a sucker for music with a degree of melancholy and nostalgia.
Track 4: Enrique Granados – 'Dedicatoria' from Album for the Young (Played by Julian Bream)
This choice has more to do with Bream rather than perhaps the beautifully simple piece by Granados. Before I heard this, I was playing the guitar in a rock band and even though I was doing classical guitar grades, I had no idea what a classical guitarist was. A geography teacher at my high school gave me a tape of Bream playing Granados and Albéniz… my head went BOOM! when I first heard Bream's tone. Almost every other guitarist I meet today admits that Bream was the reason they wanted to learn to play the guitar, and I guess it is the same for me. To sound this simple and musical is very hard but Bream makes it look easy.
Track 5: Manuel de Falla – Harpsichord Concerto (Played by Kipnis and Boulez)
This piece might be one of the most amazing and quirky piece composed in my opinion. I can't quite put my finger on why it fascinates me. Neo-classical in style with moments of high Spanish baroque and Stravinsky-like originality. One might not associate Falla with this piece if you didn't know it was by him; you would usually think of his 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain', or 'El Amor Brujo', but Falla never felt he needed to repeat himself like other composers. He was notorious for his meticulous approach to composing, which is probably why he didn't write a huge number of pieces. Falla's one and only original guitar piece, 'Homenaje, pour le Tombeau de Claude Debussy', is only 3 minutes long but Benjamin Britten described it as having 15 mins worth of music. This recording is stunning as the tempos are just right (not too fast) and Boulez brings clarity to the musical detail.
Track 6: John Dowland – Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard (Played by Julian Bream)
Another Bream choice but this time on the lute, and we owe him a huge debt of gratitude for single handedly bringing this ancient instrument back from the annals of history. Bream is a natural contrapuntal player – you can hear the clear polyphony – but he also makes everything sing. He's a true master and one which Dowland would have greatly admired. Dowland is also a great love of mine. He had a complicated life in troubled times, being a Catholic in England in the 1590s, and probably a spy. He was really the first musical superstar of Europe with his most famous work 'Lachrimae' being bootlegged as far afield as Italy. I played this piece for my final recital at the RAM.
Track 7: Maurice Ravel – String Quartet in F major (Played by Quartetto Italiano)
When I first heard this piece I couldn't believe that someone could compose something so beautiful. I bought this actual recording by Quartetto Italiano as a Birthday present for my father, but I think he never got much of a chance to listen to it as I played it over and over again marvelling at its originality and genius. It sparked a life long passion for Ravel's music, especially his piano works and his genius orchestration. The pizzicato Scherzo second movement is so funky. Another great moment is the haunting second subject melody from the first movement which Ravel brings back in the recapitulation, but in the major just by changing the cello part… genius!
Track 8: Leoš Janáček – Sinfonietta
This piece was introduced to me by an English teacher at high school and is a great musical description of the current crisis, with musical feelings of struggle and victory over adversity. Janáček's composition and orchestration is highly original. He didn't become a serious composer until much later in his life, finding inspiration in a platonic love affair with a younger lady called Kamila Stösslová. Janáček makes me think that nothing is too late to try your hand at. Jackdaws is a great champion of inspiring amateur musicians to try and learn new instruments and music so this choice feels apt. Janáček's swirling motives, haunting melodies, soaring brass and beating timpani really feels like you have climbed the Mount Everest of music.
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Malaysia's political turmoil has an economic cost
Alyssa Leng Roland Rajah
With parliament suspended and a pandemic-induced shock, necessary and serious reform seems a long way off.
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Political dysfunction is rarely a good thing. It is especially unhelpful during a pandemic and recession. Unfortunately, all three are currently playing out in Malaysia.
Historically, Malaysia has always seen economic progress prevail over political disarray. But the present crisis threatens to be different. Malaysian governance is taking major steps backwards exactly when what the economy and country need more than ever is to transform to something better. Layered on top of the economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19, backsliding governance threatens to stall Malaysia's economic progress just as the country is on the cusp of finally transitioning to high income status.
Malaysia has grappled with twin shocks of political and economic tumult before. During the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, then–prime minister Mahathir Mohamed ousted his deputy Anwar Ibrahim just hours before capital controls were controversially imposed. In the end, Malaysia managed that crisis much better than many others that accepted the straitjacket programs of prevailing economic orthodoxy imposed by the International Monetary Fund. But while economic progress reasserted itself after that downturn, Malaysia never regained the pace of growth it had before.
Incentives to invest, both from home and abroad, are undermined when goods and assets can be arbitrarily seized by government.
Today's crisis is transpiring in familiar ways. Crisis management has to date avoided major blunders despite the concurrent political instability. Though there have been several waves of Covid-19 infections, new cases have declined from their peak, and the gradual rollout of vaccines has begun. Economically, Malaysia's fiscal response to Covid-19 in support of the economy has been forceful compared to most other emerging economies, so far worth about 8% of GDP.
Nonetheless, the scale and nature of the pandemic shock suggests that Malaysia will again see a step down in growth in the aftermath. With unemployment elevated, household consumption will not be able to serve as the key driver that it was earlier. Nor will investment be able to take up the slack, given the damage to corporate balance sheets due to the pandemic. Similarly, bank lending will be constrained by a legacy of non-performing loans. Foreign direct investment is also expected to be slow to recover. Export demand should be a source of strength in the near term. However, relying on this alone will not be enough to deliver sustained economic progress into the decade ahead.
Meanwhile, the government's ability to use the budget to drive future growth will likely be limited by elevated debt after the pandemic, amid low and slow-growing tax receipts and long-running budget deficits. In the longer term, the scarring effects of the pandemic on human capital will also impose considerable costs on the productivity of future workers – with school closures disrupting months of education and digital solutions a highly imperfect substitute.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin during a phone call with Singapore's Lee Hsien Loong to discuss border reopening (Muhyiddin Yassin/Twitter)
Another step down in economic advancement therefore seems likely, barring a serious offsetting step up in growth-enhancing reform. Unfortunately, most signs currently point in the opposite direction. Last year saw Malaysian politics descend rapidly into dysfunction, with the king unexpectedly favouring now–Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's Perikatan Nasional coalition over Pakatan Harapan.
Symptomatic of this, the country's first state of emergency in decades was declared in January this year, under which the parliament has been suspended until August. Muhyiddin's government now wields blunt power to expropriate private property. And a new emergency ordinance, notionally to combat "fake news", reasserts the federal government's broad ability to quash dissenting voices in ways unbefitting of an open liberal democracy.
These developments go beyond existing flaws in Malaysia's governance model, threatening to compound the economic damage from the pandemic. Incentives to invest, both from home and abroad, are undermined when goods and assets can be arbitrarily seized by government. Heightened policy uncertainty around how and when such powers will be exercised, as well as whether similar measures could return in future, will also deter investment. The effects will be particularly damaging for more innovative and technologically advanced sectors critical in sustaining economic progress going forward.
More fundamentally, ongoing political turmoil greatly reduces the likelihood of serious economic reform any time soon. The government's struggle to pass its 2021 budget last year highlighted just how difficult it is to get even the basics done in the present political climate. Reforms to government-linked companies seem particularly unlikely. Even during more benign political circumstances, past attempts to reduce the role of government in business actually saw the reverse occur.
There are no easy fixes for deep-rooted political problems. But at a minimum, the August deadline for the state of emergency and suspension of parliament to end should be honoured. Yassin should also stick to his commitment to hold elections once the pandemic is over. And unnecessary illiberal government powers over private property and the media should be unwound.
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Audiobook Review: Zom-B City by Darren Shan
Zom-B City by Darren Shan (Zom-B, Bk. 3)
Read by Emma Galvin
Genre: Young Adult Zombie Apocalypse
Quick Thoughts: In Zom-B City Shan does what he sets out to do. He gives us a dark tour of Zombie infested London while putting B in place for the next part of this tale. While not as impactful as the first two novels, it's a logical next step in the series.
One of the things that has really attracted me to apocalyptic fiction is the idea of being alone in a city. I think cities are beautiful things, full of classic architecture, distinctive small businesses and a strange blending of history and modernity. Sadly, it's also full of people. Nice people, mean people, cold people and warm people, they populate the streets and buildings like some parasitic pest seeking to get in your way, buy the last newspaper and, on rare encounters, force you to engage in sociable activities. I always remember that opening scene in 28 Days later where hero wakes up the hospital then walks out into London nearly bare assed to witness an empty city. As a kid I used to have all sorts of last man on Earth fantasies, where I could do anything, steal anything and drive crazily down the street in any car I could find. It was an introverted poor kid's fantasy. Of course, I could worry about things like a lack of electricity, hygiene issues, clogged roads and wild dog packs, this was my fantasy and dammit, I was going to play Atari, watch PG13 and R movies and gorge myself on pizza and cheesesteaks that would magically appear to me. It was a great fantasy, and honestly, it didn't always end at my childhood. Occasionally, I still think it would be cool to roam empty streets, sneak into restricted areas, walk the Art museum in my underwear, try on the Philly Phanatic costume, attempt field goals at Lincoln Financial Field, and, maybe in a slight variation of the term Last man, get cheered on wildly by the Eagle's Cheerleading squad. Hell, it's my fantasy.
In Zom-B City, B has now escaped the Underground government facility and gets her first glimpse of the changed world. Stuck in apocalyptic London with little information, she travels to her home, encountering other Zombies, strange survivors and empty streets along the way. While the story really doesn't progress much in Zom-B City, Darren Shan gives us a dark tour through his changed world as he gets B acclimated to the new environment. Zom-B City seems like a bit of a set up novel, a chapter in an ongoing story instead of some complete narrative. Shan offers us a lot of cool things, giving us more information on how the Zombie outbreak has changed the world, and begins to offer us new factions who may or not come into play down the road. There are even some strange darkly humorous moments, including a painter chronicling the apocalyptic visions he encounters for some mysterious purpose, a religious alien conspiracy group who believes they have survived because of their faith in our celestial saviors, and a group of Zombie game hunters. Shan does a good job showing just how much the landscape can change in a brief amount of time. It's frustrating that few of our questions are answered, and the one sequence that does seem on point is a bit of a rehash of past scenarios, but Shan does give us some clues and a few small reveals about B and her role in the apocalypse. While I enjoyed Zom-B City, the continual piece meal style of storytelling is making me want to wait until there are a few more editions completed before further exploring this world. I like the directions Shan is going, but not sure I have the patience for the episodic storytelling style, even with the relatively short time between entries. Shan does what he sets out to do. He gives us a dark tour of Zombie infested London while putting B in place for the next part of this tale. While not as impactful as the first two novels, it's a logical next step in the series.
Emma Galvin continues her excellent work in the Zom-B series here with Zom-B City. She gives B the perfect edgy sarcastic British tone, full of urban grit and young adult insecurities. Being that much of this story involved B touring the city alone, this is a less dialogue intensive book, but she does a great job developing B's distinctive inner voice. The few other characters that do appear are well done. I enjoyed her soft take on the young Apocalyptic painter, and her righteous craziness of the Zombie cultist hit all the right note. Again, Shan ends the tale with an almost dreamlike finale of horrors, and Galvin captures the hypnotic pacing perfectly. There are still quite a few more chapters to go in this tale, and I'm quite interested in seeing what's next.
Note: Thanks to Hachette Audio for providing me with a copy of this title for review.
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Dr. Stephanie Alvarez, NACCS Member, Receives Professor of the Year
December 7, 2015 4:08 PM , editor@naccs.org
By Jennifer L. Berghom
Courtesy of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – NOV. 19, 2015 – Dr. Stephanie Alvarez, an associate professor of Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, has been named a U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Alvarez is the first faculty member in The University of Texas System to receive the national award, and is one of just four national recipients this year.
"It's something that is an honor not just for myself, but for all my students, for the entire university community and my entire family – mostly because all of my teaching is grounded in my students," Alvarez said. "It's grounded in the community, and I draw from them. They're my inspiration for everything that I do."
Alvarez joined UTRGV's legacy institution, UT Pan American, in 2006. Among her accomplishments are helping redesign the Mexican American studies program, and developing the Cosecha Voices project with the late Latino poet Tato Laviera. The project provided training to migrant students in the K-12 public school systems on creative writing assignments about their experiences working as migrant farmers with their families.
Dr. Ala Qubbaj, UTRGV vice provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, said the recognition is well-deserved.
"We are very proud that one of our UTRGV faculty members, Dr. Stephanie Alvarez, has been named as one of the most outstanding college professors in undergraduate education nationwide," Qubbaj said. "This significant recognition clearly reflects on the high caliber of our UTRGV faculty and the exceptional educational experiences they are providing to our students. Through her excellence in teaching, student engagement and mentoring, Dr. Alvarez has positively impacted the lives of so many students and their ability to succeed in college and beyond, which is central to UTRGV's mission and focus."
Alvarez might draw inspiration from her students, but those students say she is their inspiration.
Arnulfo Daniel Segovia, a graduate student in the Mexican American Interdisciplinary Studies program at UTRGV, said Alvarez is highly commitment to her students. "As an educator, she's able to challenge us to grow as students and human beings, and to give us this intellectually nurturing experience in the classroom," he said. "She is more than a mentor. She's more like a mentor and a good friend who is always there for you, to give you direction and guidance."
Claudia Razo, another UTRGV graduate student in Mexican American Interdisciplinary Studies, said Alvarez has guided her throughout her undergraduate and graduate experience, from advising her on which courses to take, to encouraging her to continue her studies into the master's program. "She was the one who inspired me to do it. I wanted to finish with my bachelor's degree and that was it," Razo said. "She said I could do it. She kept telling me to move forward and apply." Razo took the advice to heart. "She's become a huge part of my life, because she's been such an inspiration to me," she said.
Conducted by CASE and sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the national awards recognize professors for their influence on teaching and commitment to undergraduate students, according to a CASE news release. In addition to the four national winners, 35 faculty members were named state Professors of the Year. CASE began the awards program in 1981. National and state winners of the 2015 U.S. Professors of the Year awards were honored today, Nov. 19, 2015, at a luncheon and awards ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.


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The loneliness of the independent Wall Street bank
Finance & economicsSep 20th 2008 edition
IN THE early years of this decade, when banks did quaint things like making money, the mantra on Wall Street was: "Be more like Goldman Sachs". Bank bosses peered enviously at the profits and risk-taking prowess of the venerable investment bank. No longer. "Be less like Goldman Sachs" is the imperative today.
Of the five independent investment banks open for business at the start of the year, only Goldman and Morgan Stanley remain. Doubts about the sustainability of the model are rife. In earnings conference calls on September 16th, the chief financial officers of both firms had to bat away analysts' questions about their ability to survive on their own. Spreads on their credit-default swaps, which protect against the risk of default, soared as investors digested the implications of Lehman Brothers' demise (see chart).
Universal banks, which marry investment banking and deposit-taking, are in the ascendant. Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch found shelter in the arms of two big universal banks, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Barclays, a British universal bank, is picking at the carrion of Lehman Brothers. The mood at Citigroup, seen until now as one of the biggest losers from the crisis, is suddenly bullish: insiders talk up the stability of its earnings and the advantages of deposit funding.
Regulatory antipathy to universal banks has also eased. Although the 1933 Glass-Steagall act, which separated investment banks and commercial banks, was repealed in 1999, the universal model is still viewed with suspicion in America. Among measures announced on September 14th, the Federal Reserve temporarily suspended rules restricting the amount of money that banks can lend to their investment-banking affiliates. Many are sceptical that this rule makes much practical difference. Even if the investment-banking arms of universal banks nominally have to raise money separately, their parents' ratings still make their funding cheaper. By the same token, if they get into trouble, the effects ripple through the entire balance-sheet. Even so the suspension, and the dramatic reshaping of Wall Street, represents the final repeal of Glass-Steagall.
Can Goldman and Morgan Stanley survive as independents? In normal times, the question would seem ludicrous. Both banks had profitable third quarters, with Morgan Stanley beating expectations comfortably. Rivals' disappearance should allow them to grab new business and has already helped to increase pricing power: Morgan Stanley hauled in record revenues in its prime-brokerage business. Both have reduced their most troubling exposures; both can call on decent amounts of capital and strong pools of liquidity. And both can marshal strong arguments that they are better managed than their erstwhile peers.
The problem, of course, is that these are not normal times. Although the firms condemn the rumour-mongering, stories that Morgan Stanley was looking for a partner continued to swirl. As The Economist went to press, Wachovia, an American bank, and Citic of China were among the names in the frame.
Three doubts hang over the independent model. The first concerns the risk of insolvency. Investment banks have higher leverage than other banks (in America at least), which worsens the impact of falling asset values. They do not have the safety-valve of banking books, where souring assets can escape the rigours of mark-to-market accounting. And they lack the stable earnings streams of commercial and retail banking. In other words, they have less room for error. Goldman's reputation for risk management is excellent, Morgan Stanley's a bit patchier. But asking investors to take valuations and hedging processes on trust is getting harder by the day.
The second, related doubt concerns their funding profile. As a group, the pure-play investment banks have relied heavily on short-term funding, particularly repo transactions in which counterparties take collateral as security against the cash they lend. Both survivors say they are nowhere near as exposed to the risk of a sudden dearth of liquidity as Bear Stearns was. They could also argue that retail deposits can be as flighty as the wholesale markets: just ask Northern Rock and IndyMac, both of which suffered rapid withdrawals. Even so, a further shift towards longer-term unsecured financing will be the price of survival for Morgan Stanley in particular.
That would increase costs, which in turn raises the third doubt, profitability. As well as dearer funding and lower leverage, the investment banks face the prospect of weakened demand for their services. As and when the market for structured finance revives, it will be smaller and less rewarding than before. Demand for many services will not go away, but in a world of scarcer credit, universal banks will be tempted to use their lending capacity to win juicier investment-banking business from companies. "Don't give me the bone," says one European bank boss. "Leave some meat on it."
By these lights, universal banks appear to offer clear advantages to both shareholders and regulators. Yet some of those advantages are illusory. For regulators, larger, diversified institutions may be more stable than investment banks but they pose an even greater systemic risk. "The universal bank is the regulatory equivalent of the super-senior mortgage-backed bond," says one analyst. "The risks may look lower but they do not go away." And deposit funding is cheaper than wholesale funding in part because those deposits are insured. Measures to protect customers may end up allowing banks to take on risks that endanger customers.
For shareholders, too, the universal bank may offer false comfort. A model that looks appealing in part because assets are not valued at market prices ought to ring alarm bells. Sprawling conglomerates are just as hard to manage as turbo-charged investment banks. And shareholders at UBS and Citi will derive little comfort from the notion that the model has been proven because their institutions are still standing. If the independent investment banks survive, they will clearly need to change. But they are not the only ones.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline "Is there a future?"
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Banks are under pressure to do something abut security, so now that everyone has a smartphone it's probably time to rethink the hodge-podge of measures we have now and standardise around the handset.
I just had to quickly log in to my online banking service to transfer some money to someone who doesn't have PingIt, yawn. So I had to enter my sort code, account number and name and then use my bank's 2FA dongle with my chip and PIN card to get a security code to enter in to the web site to log in to create a new payee and then send the money. I have to say that it all worked OK, but in an age of touchID it's beginning to feel a little tired. While I was doing it, I started to think about the way that I could log in to my USAA account just by looking at my phone.
Biometric log-on is the latest effort by USAA to offer novel solutions to its members. The app is designed to heighten security as well as to improve the overall member experience.
Logging in by looking at your phone is, just as touchID is, about convenience before it is about security but it certainly does enhance the latter. The way in which different biometrics are combining with the smartphone to create a new security landscape is starting to shape the mass market and it is really interesting to be working with our clients on bringing the technology to market and exploiting it effectively in different sectors.
Voice biometrics, fingerprints, iris scans, and other authentication options are beginning to replace passwords as a means to verify a user's identity and simplify the login process when banking online or via a mobile device. The key is to provide enhanced security against hackers while improving the overall user experience.
Rick Swenson, the USAA Executive responsible for Fraud Operational Excellence and Strategic Initiative who will share USAA's experiences with biometrics and explain why their approach has been so successful.
Keith Gold, formerly with IBM Banking and Financial Services Europe, who has been helping the CSFI to understand the requirements of an ageing population, will talk about the importance of biometrics in the useability toolkit needed to this key segment of bank customers (or, why looking at a mobile phone is easier than remember a PIN for most of us!).
The usual well-informed and wide-ranging discussion will ensue, with wine and sandwiches for all. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from Rick while he is visiting the UK. There may be a few places left at this free event, so if you're interested in seeing how the biometric state of the art is advancing in banking, contact anna@csfi.org for further details and to reserve your place.


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Tupolev TU-22/TU-22M
Tupolev
TU-22/TU-22M
Authors: Yefim Gordon and Dmitriy Komissarov
This is not just one book on one aircraft, rather its one book on two completely different aircraft. For the Tupolev Tu 22M (M for Misinformation, or so it seems) or Backfire to use its NATO code name, was an entirely different aircraft from the earlier Tu 22 (Blinder)! I used to think Willy Messerschmitt could sell refrigerators to Eskimos, considering his wartime dealings with the RLM, but I think he could have learnt a thing or two from Andrey N. Tupolev.
As with all good titles Soviet/Russian, it's from the Yefim Gordon 'stable' and co-authored by Dmitriy Komissarov. This latest title from Midland Counties is a beauty! Now, I'd expected plenty of technical data supported by a detailed history, which it does indeed provide, but it's in a very easily readable format. Even to making some sense of the somewhat deliberately secretive construction numbers and production batches which are explained fully, plus there's plenty of handy translations from Russian as and when needed. It's very well and extensively researched and written somewhat with a dry sense of humour on occasions. Anecdotal additions also make for entertaining and informative reading. And as for the proposal for three differing supersonic VIP transports (the Tu-344 project), that was highly entertaining!! There are some typographical and calculation errors (kilometres to miles sort of thing) not picked up during proof reading, but these are not of any great concern.
The book is almost A4 sized, hardback with dust jacket and 432 pages profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photos and colour profiles. It's a good one also for modellers, with extensive detail on all the nooks and crannies on both aircraft and excellent cockpit detail for both types. Colour schemes are somewhat limited, with exports mainly to Iraq and Libya providing a little variation, but the Tu-22M is such an aesthetically pleasing aircraft that the standard Soviet scheme suits it very well.
The appendices cover attrition and production lists for both types – the former alone makes for very interesting reading! Impressive, certainly! But, it's probably not everyone's cup of tea. I actually enjoyed reading this one, as opposed to reading to be informed or merely to review.
Without any doubt, this is a very good book for any Soviet/Russian aviation enthusiast at a very competitive price. It is available from Hyland's Bookshop in Melbourne www.hylandsbookshop.com.au or 03 9654 7448 for about $99.
Many thanks to Ms Orietta Colussi of DLS Australia for the review copy.
Review by John Baxter
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A decade of keeping the dream alive: IWC and the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation
by Rashunda Tramble
IWC and the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation celebrate a decade of preserving the legacy of the author-pilot who wrote the classic story "The Little Prince" and supporting child literacy around the world. Saint-Exupéry's grandnephew Olivier d'Agay shares with the Journal the importance of the relationship between the Foundation and IWC and why the message of the Little Prince has stood the test of time.
— From left: François d'Agay, Fondation Antoine de Saint Exupéry pour la Jeunesse chairman; Dr. Claude Garrandès, teacher, artist and publisher; Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO IWC Schaffhausen; and Olivier d'Agay, Fondation Antoine de Saint Exupéry pour la Jeunesse secretary general
How has the partnership between the Foundation and IWC evolved over the years?
The partnership has evolved in three different directions: more resources affected to the Foundation, focus on selected projects to be supported by IWC, more communication about the auctions.
How do you select organizations to support?
Projects are provided by the huge Saint Exupéry community of fans around the world. The selection is made following three main criteria: it should stick to our subject (education and illiteracy), we do not finance 100%, somebody in the organization takes the responsibility of the use of the money given and is liable to us.
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— A special edition of "The Little Prince" at the IWC Paris boutique
Why do you think the story of The Little Prince is still seen as inspirational in today's world?
Because it contains values that match with the new generation's expectations: protection of the planet, harmony, friendship, peace. Each period reveals new messages related to its human environment. This is the magic of this book.
What is Antoine de Saint Exupery's legacy and how does the Foundation keep it alive?
Our uncle's main legacy is of course his book "The Little Prince", the most translated book in the history of literature (400 languages) and discovered by every new generation since 75 years. But Saint Exupéry has also left his trace in many fields: education, aeronautics, and politics. The Estate contributes to keep alive his messages and his memory through numerous activities such as exhibitions, meetings, museums and of course the Foundation.
IWC is auctioning a unique Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Chronograph Edition "Le Petit Prince" 8th and 17th July through Sotheby's. IWC will donate its proceeds from the sale to the Foundation, continuing to support the charitable organisation's educational programmes for young people.
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