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Bulandshahr Violence Updates: Killed Cop's Family Meets Yogi Adityanath
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Bulandshar Violence: The police officer's wife, two sons and sister travelled from Etah to the Chief Minister's home in Lucknow for the meeting with the chief minister.
All IndiaEdited by Aditi GhoshUpdated: December 07, 2018 00:06 IST
Yogi Adityanath met the family of police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh in Lucknow.
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Three days after police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh was killed by a mob protesting cow slaughter in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met with his family.
The police officer's wife, two sons and sister travelled from Etah to the Chief Minister's home in Lucknow for the meeting, which took place only after massive criticism after Yogi Adityanath did not mention the murder but focused more on cow slaughter at a security review meet.
Here are the Updates of the meeting of cop's family with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister:
Dec 06, 2018 15:42 (IST)
Inspector General Ram Kumar said police requires evidence to act. "We can only act on evidence. We need to forensically tests. It is not clear who shot the police officer, who shot Sumit (the second man killed in mob violence)," the police officer told NDTV.
Three days after an UP inspector was murdered in mob frenzy over cow slaughter allegations, the main accused, Yogesh Raj, remains missing.
Yogesh Raj, a Bajrang Dal activist, has sent out a WhatsApp video proclaiming his innocence.
Three have been arrested. Four others arrested since the Monday incident are accused in a separate case of cow slaughter, which was filed by Yogesh.
Asked what message he would convey to the chief minister on Hindu-Muslim politics, the teen said: "Not just the chief minister, I would appeal to the entire country, please stop Hindu-Muslim violence. People get violent at the slightest provocation. People should understand and think, that they are bound by the law."
Subodh Kumar Singh's son put out a strong appeal against "mob culture" and "Hindu-Muslim" violence.
"Today my father has died. Tomorrow a mob could kill a top police officer. Then someday it will be a minister. Should mob-killing culture be allowed to go on like this? Absolutely not," said Abhishek Singh, speaking to NDTV's Ravish Kumar.
"I hope a day doesn't come when we are killing each other within India. Then Pakistan, China or whoever...they would not have to do anything at all."
Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh's elder son Shrey Singh said, "The chief minister has assured us that he will remain with us in this difficult time and will ensure justice for us. He said strict action will be taken against those involved."
Uttar Pradesh State Minister Atul Garg who met the family of Subodh Kumar Singh said, "The chief minister has decided that the government will pay off Rs 25-30 lakh loans taken by him for education and house."
"A college will also be named after Singh to recognise and remember his courage," he added.
DGP OP Singh, who shared details of the meeting, at a media briefing informed about various relief measures that have been announced for the family of the slain official.
Mr Singh said, "It has already been said that family of the dead is being provided with a financial aid of 50 lakh rupees. Some bank loan was also taken by the family for the education of the children and the government will also take care of the same. In an informal way, we will be providing assistance to both the children of the dead for coaching. The wife of the deceased will also be provided with an extraordinary pension."
UP Government to name road, college after dead cop
The Uttar Pradesh Government today also announced that Jaithari-Kuraoli road leading to the village of dead police Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh in Etah, who was killed in Bulandshahr violence has been renamed to 'Shri Subodh Kumar Singh Shahid Marg.
An educational institute will also be named after the police inspector.
The inspector's son Abhishek told NDTV: "I plead with the society, people of my generation, please don't get into cow and communal politics. My father used to say above all, be a good citizen."
Shrey Pratap Singh, son of Police inspector Subodh Singh said, "We met the Chief Minister and he has assured us that we will get justice."
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered immediate arrests for cow slaughter, but reportedly said nothing on the murder of the police officer.
On Monday, Subodh Kumar Singh and his team were trying to control protests after cow carcasses were found in a forest when a mob went out of control, attacked the policemen with stones and shot the officer dead.
The family of the inspector says the administration has been soft on those involved in the killing.
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Q: Adding a list of multiple new rows to python dataframe without looping through I have a corpus as follows
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A       B      C         D
D       G      H         F
I       K      P         Q
L       M      N         P

The intent is to create bigrams on each column and create single column python dataframe as follows
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I am looping through each of the columns and created a bigram list for each column. How do I add them to the dataframe. I want to avoid looping through this list for performance
txn_corpus_pair=pd.DataFrame(columns=['bigram'])

for i in range(0, txn_count):
    bigram_firstitem=txn_corpus.iloc[0:,i]
    bigram_seconditem=txn_corpus.iloc[1:,i]
    bigram_list=list(zip(bigram_firstitem,bigram_seconditem))

Now the bigram list is ready for each column. When I try to append all these rows in a single shot
txn_corpus_pair=txn_corpus_pair.append(bigram_list,ignore_index=True)
It reads the bigram_list as 2 separate columns- and reports an error. I can loop through the list and append rowwise, but that would be very inefficient. Need help on appending the fulllist

A: I think in this case you just need to nest your pairs within another list so that the dataframe doesn't try to move them to separate columns.
ls = [(1, 2) for _ in range(100)]
print(pd.DataFrame(ls))
# This produces two columns

ls = [[(1, 2)] for _ in range(100)]
print(pd.DataFrame(ls))
# This produces one column

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The term, Figure, in Scottish Country Dancing covers all those choreographed movements from which the complete Repeat of a dance is made up. This section defines the simpler movements, many of which are also the building blocks from which the more Complex figures are constructed. Allocation to these basic Figures or to Complex figures is somewhat arbitrary. The objective here has been to include in this section all those Figures which the Beginner needs to master because they will appear in most Class or Ball programmes; Complex figures cover those forms which appear more rarely and which require a greater degree of experience and application.
Traditional RSCDS publications used the terms Progressions for those Figures, such as 1st couple Cast While 2nd couple Step up or Allemande, which interchange the Places of two Couples in a Longwise set, and Formations for those, such as Reels of three on the sides or Promenade round, which do not. In more recent times, the RSCDS has chosen to use Formations to cover both but Figures is shorter and more widely used.
The individual Figures in this section are organized alphabetically under the following main headings, for which links are provided at the foot of this page.
Figures in which one or more Dancers Dance under an Arch made by the joined hands of two others.
Figures which involve Dancing Out of the Side of The set.
Figures in which half the Dancers proceed clockwise around The set and the others anticlockwise, each Taking hands alternately By the right and By the left with the approaching Dancers. Rights and lefts is included here since it is logically a Chain. Linear Figures which have a Turn at the Ends of the Chain movement, such as Ladies' chain, are included under this heading.
Figures in which the Dancers Dance Across The set or on intersecting paths or Exchange positions.
Figures in which a single Dancer follows a path which from above looks like an "8" and is often Danced around two other stationary Dancers.
Figures in which two or four Dancers each perform an individual Figure of eight with some form of symmetry.
Figures in which three or more Dancers Take hands By the right in the centre, Face clockwise and Dance round or Take hands By the left, Face anticlockwise and Dance round.
Figures in which three or more Dancers, Facing Inwards, Take hands (Nearer hands) and Dance round in a circle.
Figures in which four Dancers follow the same path, which from above looks like an "8" with an extra loop in the Middle, alternately Passing the approaching Dancer By the right and By the left.
Figures in which three Dancers follow the same path which from above looks like an "8", alternately Passing the approaching Dancer By the right and By the left.
Figures in which a Setting step, rather than a Travelling step is used. This includes those Figures which use a Setting step for a limited amount of Travelling. Because they are essential to the Beginner, Crown triangles, Double triangles, Hello goodbye setting and Petronella movements are included here, even though they might be considered as Complex figures where, for example, Poussette movements are listed.
These important but neglected Figures are sideways movements Down or Up the Side lines of a Longwise set.
These are the basic Figures not covered under more specific headings in which Dancers move within and around The set using a Travelling step, usually two or three side by side and usually Taking hands though occasionally as individuals. Although traditional, Allemande is not included here; the various forms can be found under Complex Figures.
Figures in which two Dancers Take hands and Dance round each other.
Links are also provided to some terms such as Polite turn, Pull left shoulder back, Tandem and so on which are not Figures as such but are important in modifying many basic Figures.
The overall appearance of the dance is covered in Types of sets; terms identifying the Dancers, their Positions and the Directions in which they Face or Travel within and around The set are covered in Set structure.
Most commonly, these Figures start from one of the Places defined in Set structure and Finish in either the same or a different Place though many, such as Crown triangles or Poussette (in a Quick tempo dance), require some of the Dancers to be on or near the Centre line of The set to start. In a complete dance, the movements should flow smoothly from each Figure to the next; this may require a slight modification to the normal ending of the preceding or the beginning of the succeeding Figure or both.
The diagrams in this and the pages linked below show the Dancers in plan view, each Man represented by a circle and each Lady by a square, with a small line representing the nose to indicate the Facing Direction at the beginning of the movement and with an enclosed number to indicate the Dancer's Original Place in the Active set. Movement is indicated by a line showing the path followed in the Figure, with the Man's or Lady's symbol at the Starting Position and an arrow head indicating the Finishing point; where differentiation is desirable, Ladies' paths are shown as a broken line and the Dancing couple's emboldened. Intermediate Positions are indicated by shaded arrow heads, especially for rotation On the spot at the beginning or the end of a movement.
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Unless otherwise indicated, all these examples assume that the Dancer starts the movement from her/his Starting Position in a Longwise set and that the Top of The set is toward the top of the page.
For clarity, some Figures are shown in the half form and some, such as Ladies Chain, are broken into smaller parts.
In order to avoid confusion in those Figures where many Dancers are moving (for example, Grand chain in a 4-Couple Square set) as shown in the diagram below, the path is shown explicitly for one or two Dancers; each of the others will follow whichever path leads from her/his Starting Position but there will be no ending arrow head and a broken line or emboldening will not carry any significance for him/her.
Unless otherwise indicated, these Figures apply in both Strathspeys and Quick tempo dances (Reels, Jigs and Hornpipes), using the Travelling or Setting step appropriate to that tempo.


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Oct 22, 2018 · 04:56 pm Updated Oct 22, 2018 · 08:07 pm
Delhi hotel brawl: Court extends judicial custody of former BSP MP's son by 14 days
Ashish Pandey was seen threatening a couple with a gun outside a hotel in the national Capital earlier this month.
Former BSP MP Rakesh Pandey's son Ashish Pandey (centre) | IANS
The Patiala House Court in New Delhi on Monday extended the judicial custody of Ashish Pandey, who was seen threatening a couple with a gun outside a hotel earlier this month, News18 reported on Monday. The court said he would remain in custody for 14 more days. Pandey is the son of former Bahujan Samaj Party MP Rakesh Pandey.
Pandey had surrendered in the court on Thursday, four days after the alleged incident. The court sent him to custody for a day, and then extended his custody till Monday.
After Pandey surrendered, he claimed that he was being projected like a "wanted terrorist" and said he carried a gun for his safety. The police have seized the gun as well as his vehicle. Three women who were with Pandey during the incident have been identified.
Pandey surrendered a day after the court issued a non-bailable warrant against him. The Delhi Police have registered a case under various sections of the Arms Act against him. The police have also issued a showcause notice to Hyatt Regency, giving the hotel 15 days to explain why it did not inform authorities about the incident on October 14, the day it took place.
A video of the incident that went viral on social media showed Pandey hurling abuses at a couple and brandishing a gun at them over a parking dispute at Hyatt Regency Delhi. The man was joined by a woman while another woman filmed the incident from inside a car.
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United States twenty-dollar bill
Current denomination of United States currency
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Material used
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The United States twenty-dollar bill ($20) is a denomination of U.S. currency. A portrait of Andrew Jackson, the seventh U.S. president (1829–1837), has been featured on the obverse of the bill since 1928; the White House is featured on the reverse.
Large-sized notes
Series dates
Proposal for a woman's portrait
As of December 2013, the average circulation life of a $20 bill is 7.9 years before it is replaced due to wear. [2] About 11% of all notes printed in 2009 were $20 bills. [3] Twenty-dollar bills are delivered by Federal Reserve Banks in violet straps.
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1863 $20 Legal Tender note
1880 $20 Legal Tender depicting Alexander Hamilton
Series 1905 $20 gold certificate
1914 $20 Federal Reserve Note
1861: A demand note with the Goddess of Liberty holding a sword and shield on the front, and an abstract design on the back. The back is printed green.
1862: A note that is very similar, the first $20 United States note. The back is different, with several small variations extant.
1863: A gold certificate $20 note with an Eagle vignette on the face. The reverse has a $20 gold coin and various abstract elements. The back is orange.
1865: A national bank note with "The Battle of Lexington" and Pocahontas's marriage to John Rolfe in black, and a green border.
1869: A new United States note design, with Alexander Hamilton on the left side of the front and Victory holding a shield and sword. The back design is green.
1875: As above, except with a different reverse.
1878: A silver certificate $20 note with a portrait of Stephen Decatur on the right side of the face. The back design is black.
1882: A new gold certificate, with a portrait of James Garfield on the right of the face. The back is orange and features an eagle.
1882: A new national bank note. The front is similar, but the back is different and printed in brown.
1886: A new silver certificate $20 note, with Daniel Manning on the center of the face.
1890: A treasury (coin) note with John Marshall on the left of the face. Two different backs exist both with abstract designs.
1902: A new national bank note. The front features Hugh McCulloch, and the back has a vignette of an allegorical America.
1905: A new gold certificate $20 note, with George Washington on the center of the face. The back design is orange.
1914: A Federal Reserve Note
Series 1928 $20 small-size Federal Reserve Note.
Series 1929 $20 National Currency note issued by the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank.
Series 1995 $20 Federal Reserve Note; basically unchanged since Series 1950
Series 1996 $20 Federal Reserve Note.
The security strip in a twenty-dollar bill glows green under a blacklight.
Andrew Jackson first appeared on the $20 bill in 1928. Although 1928 coincides with the 100th anniversary of Jackson's election as president, it is not clear why the portrait on the bill was switched from Grover Cleveland to Jackson. (Cleveland's portrait was moved to the new $1000 bill the same year). According to the U.S. Treasury, "Treasury Department records do not reveal the reason that portraits of these particular statesmen were chosen in preference to those of other persons of equal importance and prominence." [4]
The placement of Jackson on the $20 bill may be a historical irony; as president, he vehemently opposed both the National Bank and paper money and made the goal of his administration the destruction of the National Bank. [5] [6] In his farewell address to the nation, he cautioned the public about paper money. [7]
1914: Began as a large-sized note, a portrait of Grover Cleveland on the face, and, on the back, a steam locomotive and an automobile approaching from the left, and a steamship approaching from the right.
1918: A federal reserve banknote with Grover Cleveland on the front, and a back design similar to the 1914 Federal Reserve Note.
1928: Switched to a small-sized note with a portrait of Andrew Jackson on the face and the south view of the White House on the reverse. The banknote is redeemable in gold or silver (at the bearer's discretion) at any Federal Reserve Bank.
1933: With the U.S. having abandoned the gold standard, the bill is no longer redeemable in gold, but rather in "lawful money", meaning silver.
1942: A special emergency series, with brown serial numbers and "HAWAII" overprinted on both the front and the back, is issued. These notes are designed to circulate on the islands and be deemed invalid in the event of a Japanese invasion.
1948: The White House picture was updated to reflect renovations to the building itself, including the addition of the Truman Balcony, as well as the passage of time. Most notably, the trees are larger. The change occurred during production of Series 1934C.
1950: Design elements like the serial numbers are reduced in size and moved around subtly, presumably for aesthetic reasons.
1963: "Will Pay To The Bearer On Demand" is removed from the front of the bill below the portrait, and the legal tender designation is shortened to "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" (eliminating "and is redeemable in lawful money at the United States Treasury, or at any Federal Reserve Bank.") Also, "In God We Trust" is added above the White House on the reverse. These two acts (one taking U.S. currency off the silver backing, and the other authorizing the national motto) are coincidental, even if their combined result is implemented in one redesign. Also, several design elements are rearranged, less perceptibly than the change in 1950, mostly to make room for the slightly rearranged obligations.
1969: The new treasury seal appears on all denominations, including the $20.
1977: A new type of serial-number press results in a slightly different font. The old presses are gradually retired, and old-style serial numbers appear as late as 1981 for this denomination.
1992: Anti-counterfeiting features are added: microprinting around the portrait, and a plastic strip embedded in the paper. Even though the bills read Series 1990, the first bills were printed in April 1992. [8]
1994: The first notes at the Western Currency Facility are printed in January late during production of Series 1990.
September 24, 1998: The Series 1996 $20 note was completely redesigned for the first time since 1929 to further deter counterfeiting; the picture of the White House was changed from the south side to the north side view. A larger, off-center portrait of Jackson was used on the front, and several anti-counterfeiting features were added, including color-shifting ink, microprinting, and a watermark. The plastic strip now reads "USA 20" and glows green under a black light. [9] The bills were first printed in June 1998. [10]
October 9, 2003: [11] The current series of 20 dollar bills is released with light background shading in green and yellow, and no oval around Andrew Jackson's portrait (background images of eagles, etc. were also added to the front); the back is the same view of the White House, but without the oval around it. Ninety faint "20"s are scattered on the back in yellow as a "EURion constellation" to prevent photocopying. The first issue's series date is 2004 with Marin-Snow signatures. The bills were first printed in April 2003. [12]
National Bank Note Types 1 & 2 1929 Jones Woods Brown
Federal Reserve Bank Note 1928A Jones Woods Brown
Gold Certificate 1928 Woods Mellon Gold
Federal Reserve Note 1928 Tate Mellon Green
Federal Reserve Note 1928A Woods Mellon Green
Federal Reserve Note 1928B Woods Mellon Green
Federal Reserve Note 1928C Woods Mills Green
Federal Reserve Note 1934 Julian Morgenthau Green
Federal Reserve Note 1934 Hawaii Julian Morgenthau Brown
Federal Reserve Note 1934A Julian Morgenthau Green
Federal Reserve Note 1934A Hawaii Julian Morgenthau Brown
Federal Reserve Note 1934B Julian Vinson Green
Federal Reserve Note 1934C Julian Snyder Green
Federal Reserve Note 1934D Clark Snyder Green
Federal Reserve Note 1950 Clark Snyder Green
Federal Reserve Note 1950A Priest Humphrey Green
Federal Reserve Note 1950B Priest Anderson Green
Federal Reserve Note 1950C Smith Dillon Green
Federal Reserve Note 1950D Granahan Dillon Green
Federal Reserve Note 1950E Granahan Fowler Green
Federal Reserve Note 1963 Granahan Dillon Green
Federal Reserve Note 1963A Granahan Fowler Green
Federal Reserve Note 1969 Elston Kennedy Green
Federal Reserve Note 1969A Kabis Connally Green
Federal Reserve Note 1969B Bañuelos Connally Green
Federal Reserve Note 1969C Bañuelos Shultz Green
Federal Reserve Note 1974 Neff Simon Green
Federal Reserve Note 1977 Morton Blumenthal Green
Federal Reserve Note 1981 Buchanan Regan Green
Federal Reserve Note 1981A Ortega Regan Green
Federal Reserve Note 1985 Ortega Baker Green
Federal Reserve Note 1988A Villalpando Brady Green
Federal Reserve Note 1990 Villalpando Brady Green
Federal Reserve Note 1993 Withrow Bentsen Green
Federal Reserve Note 1995 Withrow Rubin Green
Federal Reserve Note 1999 Withrow Summers Green
Federal Reserve Note 2001 Marin O'Neill Green
Federal Reserve Note 2004 Marin Snow Green
Federal Reserve Note 2004A Cabral Snow Green
Federal Reserve Note 2006 Cabral Paulson Green
Federal Reserve Note 2009 Rios Geithner Green
Federal Reserve Note 2013 Rios Lew Green
Federal Reserve Note 2017 Carranza Mnuchin Green
Federal Reserve Note 2017A Carranza Mnuchin Green
In a campaign called "Women on 20s", selected voters were asked to choose three of 15 female candidates to have a portrait on the $20 bill. The goal was to have a woman on the $20 bill by 2020, the centennial of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote. [13] Among the candidates on the petition were Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, and Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation. [14]
On May 12, 2015, Tubman was announced as the winning candidate of that "grassroots" poll with more than 600,000 people surveyed and more than 118,000 choosing Tubman, followed by Roosevelt, Parks and Mankiller. [15]
Official $20 bill prototype prepared by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in 2016
On June 17, 2015, then-Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced that a woman's portrait would be featured on a redesigned $10 bill by 2020, replacing Alexander Hamilton. [17] However, that decision was reversed, at least in part due to Hamilton's surging popularity following the hit Broadway musical Hamilton . [18]
On April 20, 2016, Lew officially announced that Alexander Hamilton would remain on the $10 bill, while Andrew Jackson would be replaced by Tubman on the front of the $20 bill, with Jackson appearing on the reverse. [19] [20] Lew simultaneously announced that the five- and ten-dollar bills would also be redesigned in the coming years and put into production in the next decade. [19] [20]
While campaigning for president, Donald Trump reacted to the announcement that Tubman would replace Jackson on the twenty-dollar bill. The day following the announcement Trump called Tubman "fantastic", but stated that he would oppose replacing Jackson with Tubman, calling the replacement "pure political correctness", and suggested that Tubman could perhaps be put on another denomination instead. [21]
On August 31, 2017, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he would not commit to putting Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, explaining "People have been on the bills for a long period of time. This is something we'll consider; right now we have a lot more important issues to focus on." [22] According to a Bureau of Engraving and Printing spokesperson, the next redesigned bill will be the ten-dollar bill, not set to be released into circulation until at least 2026. Because of this, it appears that a redesigned twenty-dollar bill featuring Tubman might not be released until years after the original 2020 release date, if at all. [23] [24]
In May 2019, Mnuchin stated that no new imagery will be unveiled until 2026, and that a new bill will not go into circulation until 2028. [25] In making the announcement, Mnuchin blamed the delay on technical reasons. However, an employee within the Bureau of Engraving and Printing told the New York Times that at the time of the announcement "the design appeared to be far along in the process." Democratic members of the House of Representatives asked Mnuchin to provide more specific reasons for the delay. [26]
In June 2019, the Treasury Department's acting inspector general, Rich Delmar, announced his office would conduct an investigation into what caused the delay in production of the new bill featuring Tubman. [27]
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Twenty Bucks , a 1993 movie that follows the travels of a $20 bill
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury of the federal government of the United States where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the U.S. Mint; these two agencies are responsible for printing all paper currency and coins, while the treasury executes its circulation in the domestic fiscal system. The USDT collects all federal taxes through the Internal Revenue Service; manages U.S. government debt instruments; licenses and supervises banks and thrift institutions; and advises the legislative and executive branches on matters of fiscal policy. The Department is administered by the secretary of the treasury, who is a member of the Cabinet. The treasurer of the United States has limited statutory duties, but advises the Secretary on various matters such as coinage and currency production. Signatures of both officials appear on all Federal Reserve notes.
Federal Reserve Notes, also United States banknotes, are the banknotes currently used in the United States of America. Denominated in United States dollars, Federal Reserve Notes are printed by the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing on paper made by Crane & Co. of Dalton, Massachusetts. Federal Reserve Notes are the only type of U.S. banknote currently produced. Federal Reserve Notes are authorized by Section 16 of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and are issued to the Federal Reserve Banks at the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The notes are then put into circulation by the Federal Reserve Banks, at which point they become liabilities of the Federal Reserve Banks and obligations of the United States.
The Singapore dollar is the official currency of Singapore. It is divided into 100 cents. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or S$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. The Monetary Authority of Singapore issues the banknotes and coins of the Singapore dollar.
The United States five-dollar bill ($5) is a denomination of United States currency. The current $5 bill features the 16th U.S. President (1861-65), Abraham Lincoln's portrait on the front and the Lincoln Memorial on the back. All $5 bills issued today are Federal Reserve Notes.
The United States ten-dollar bill ($10) is a denomination of U.S. currency. The obverse of the bill features the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, who served as the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. The reverse features the U.S. Treasury Building. All $10 bills issued today are Federal Reserve Notes.
The United States fifty-dollar bill ($50) is a denomination of United States currency. The 18th U.S. President (1869-77), Ulysses S. Grant, is featured on the obverse, while the U.S. Capitol is featured on the reverse. All current-issue $50 bills are Federal Reserve Notes.
The United States one-hundred-dollar bill ($100) is a denomination of United States currency. The first United States Note with this value was issued in 1862 and the Federal Reserve Note version was launched in 1914, alongside other denominations. Statesman, inventor, diplomat, and American founding father Benjamin Franklin has been featured on the obverse of the bill since 1914. On the reverse of the banknote is an image of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, which has been used since 1928. The $100 bill is the largest denomination that has been printed and circulated since July 13, 1969, when the denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 were retired. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing says the average life of a $100 bill in circulation is 90 months before it is replaced due to wear and tear.
Large denominations of United States currency greater than $100 were circulated by the United States Treasury until 1969. Since then, U.S. dollar banknotes have only been issued in seven denominations: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100.
The Bangladeshi taka is the currency of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. In Unicode, it is encoded at U+09F3৳ (HTML ৳).
The United States one-dollar bill ($1) since 1876 has been the lowest value denomination of United States paper currency. An image of the first U.S. President (1789–1797), George Washington, based on the Athenaeum Portrait, a 1796 painting by Gilbert Stuart, is currently featured on the obverse, and the Great Seal of the United States is featured on the reverse. The one-dollar bill has the oldest overall design of all U.S. currency currently being produced. The obverse design of the dollar bill seen today debuted in 1963 when it was first issued as a Federal Reserve Note.
Silver certificates are a type of representative money issued between 1878 and 1964 in the United States as part of its circulation of paper currency. They were produced in response to silver agitation by citizens who were angered by the Fourth Coinage Act, which had effectively placed the United States on a gold standard. The certificates were initially redeemable for their face value of silver dollar coins and later in raw silver bullion. Since 1968 they have been redeemable only in Federal Reserve Notes and are thus obsolete, but still valid legal tender at their face value and thus are still an accepted form of currency.
A gold certificate in general is a certificate of ownership that gold owners hold instead of storing the actual gold. It has both a historic meaning as a U.S. paper currency (1863–1933) and a current meaning as a way to invest in gold.
The history of the United States dollar refers to more than 240 years since the Continental Congress of the United States authorized the issuance of Continental Currency in 1775. On April 2, 1792, the United States Congress created the United States dollar as the country's standard unit of money. The term dollar had already been in common usage since the colonial period when it referred to eight-real coin used by the Spanish throughout New Spain.
A Demand Note is a type of United States paper money that was issued between August 1861 and April 1862 during the American Civil War in denominations of 5, 10, and 20 US$. Demand Notes were the first issue of paper money by the United States that achieved wide circulation and they are still in circulation today, though they are now extremely rare. The U.S. government placed the Demand Notes into circulation by using them to pay expenses incurred during the Civil War including the salaries of its workers and military personnel.
The Series of 1928 was the first issue of small-size currency printed and released by the U.S. government. These notes, first released to the public on July 10, 1929, were the first standardized notes in terms of design and characteristics, featuring similar portraits and other facets. These notes were also the first to measure 6.14" by 2.61", quite a bit smaller than the large-sized predecessors of Series 1923 and earlier that measured 7.421 8" by 3.125"
Scenes of Canada is the fourth series of banknotes of the Canadian dollar issued by the Bank of Canada. It was first circulated in 1970 to succeed the 1954 Canadian Landscape series and was followed by the 1986 Birds of Canada banknote series. This was the last series to feature a $1 bill, which was replaced by a $1 coin known as the loonie in 1987, although both the $1 bill and the loonie were produced concurrently for 21 months, from June 1987 to April 1989.
The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States and its territories per the Coinage Act of 1792. One dollar is divided into 100 cents, or into 1000 mills for accounting and taxation purposes. The Coinage Act of 1792 created a decimal currency by creating the dime, nickel, and penny coins, as well as the dollar, half dollar, and quarter dollar coins, all of which are still minted in 2020.
New Zealand dollar banknotes are the banknotes in circulation in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tokelau, Niue and the Pitcairn Islands, denominated in the New Zealand dollar. They are issued by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and since 1999 have been made of polymer.
The United States two-dollar bill ($2) is a current denomination of United States currency. A portrait of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (1801–09), is featured on the obverse of the note. The reverse features an engraving of the painting Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull.
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Which country has the least sexist banknotes? BBC. April 13, 2015. Retrieved on April 14, 2015.
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1 2 "Treasury Secretary Lew Announces Front of New $20 to Feature Harriet Tubman, Lays Out Plans for New $20, $10 and $5" (Press release). United States Department of the Treasury. April 20, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
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1 2 Korte, Gregory (April 21, 2016). "Anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman to replace Jackson on the front of the $20 bill". USA Today . Retrieved August 28, 2017.
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↑ What Happened to the Plan to Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill?
↑ The Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Plan Has Been Put on the Back Burner
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--> What my senses percieve is reality, and it would continue to exist without me. Reality is objective, despite my education on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
--> Even though there are many perspectives on a single matter, it is possible to attain certain, objective knowledge, despite my education on José Ortega y Gasset.
--> My actions are my responsability alone, not my parent's or the society's, despite my education on Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.
And I have recently added to this list the discovery that altruism is destructive. See, my parents have been life-long altruists (and socialists, by the way). They were the ones who taught me that man is valued not by his ability, but by his need. Not by his wealth, but by his scarcity. That businessmen are the incarnation of greed, and that the poor are the moral righteousness. That is the code they taught me. And worse: it is the code they lived by. Therefore, I was taught that I owe my existence to them. That the fact that I have an education is only because of them. Hell, I even felt guilty about the food I ate. They told me I was selfish for craving excellence and despising mediocrity. The country I lived in didn't help either. A country which has only made the transition from a dictatorship to a democracy recently, and even then a socialist, looting democracy. So at school teachers told me it is evil to want to be rich. Hell, if the state can give you a menial job and a retirement, why do you want to strive for greatness?
I was taught I lived for others.
I was taught enjoyment was unfair if others can't have it.
I was taught I shouldn't live for myself.
I heard the words of Midas Mulligan in my mind. The most evil of men is not he who does not have pity for others, but he who uses the pity of others to attain his ends, and disguises it in the name of justice.
I will only live for myself for now on. I will not sacrifice myself for others, nor will I ask others to sacrifice themselves for me.
I had an argument with my parents. They disaprove. They said I was selfish. However that won't reach me anymore, because the final veredict on who I am is only up to me.
DeltaAccel, it seems you've arrived at your conclusions at a critical moment in your personal development with the independence of mind necessary to make your life a satisfactory one. You have discovered Ayn Rand, and the philosophy she represents. My hope is that you have the strength of your convictions to act upon these revelations, disregard popular ideas when you've reasoned that they are wrong, live for your own sake, and have damned good time for the rest of your many years.


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The Stuff of Stars
Illustrated by Ekua Holmes, Written by Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher's Summary:
Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us.
Primary Source Pairing:
The universe is still being explored and scientists continue to make new discoveries. In the book The Stuff of Stars, we learn of the beginning of the universe and now from organizations like NASA we are learning of the universe's expanse. For this primary source pairing, invite students to learn more about the Kepler Space Telescope that discovered 2,600 planets on its planet-hunting space mission. Use an artist's rendition of the telescope as the primary source. Learn more in the NASA article: "NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope" available here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7272
"Not only did it [Kepler Space Telescope] show us how many planets could be out there, it sparked an entirely new and robust field of research that has taken the science community by storm. Its discoveries have shed a new light on our place in the universe, and illuminated the tantalizing mysteries and possibilities among the stars," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington at NASA.gov.
Describe what you see.
What do you notice first?
What people and objects are shown?
How are they arranged?
What is the physical setting?
What's happening in the image?
What tools were used to create this?
Make a connection with the book and what you see in this illustration.
What questions do you have about space?
Book Cover and Summary: Follett
"NASA's Kepler space telescope, shown in this artist's concept, revealed that there are more planets than stars in the Milky Way galaxy." Image credit: NASA


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Workers Are Getting Basically Nothing From The Corporate Tax Windfall
Instead, shareholders are getting the bulk of the money.
[Photo: Caiaimage/Chris Ryan/Getty Images]
By Ben Schiller 2 minute Read
Following last December's corporate tax cuts, dozens of companies from AT&T to Walmart have announced bonuses and pay rises for their employees. But how much of the windfall is actually ending up in the hands of workers?
The answer is less than you might think, according to an analysis of the first 105 announcements. Just Capital, which tracks corporate performance on a range of corporate responsibility-type metrics, finds that just 6% of capital allotted so far is going to staff, while 58% is going to shareholders in the form of dividends, share buy-backs, or retained earnings.
And, of that 6% for workers, more than half is in the form of bonuses, meaning the transfers are set to be short-lived. If workers are getting at least some money from the tax cuts, it's not necessarily in form of ongoing remuneration.
Home Depot is one company that's promised bonuses but which is actually giving most of its savings to shareholders. The retailer announced in January that it was awarding bonuses on a sliding scale based on its associates' length of service. Those with less than two years will get $200. Those with 15 to 19 years service will get $750.
That doesn't sound bad. But, according to Just Capital, it's not much in the grand scheme of things. When it calculates annual savings from corporate tax rates falling from 35% to 21%, and from offshore earnings repatriated at a one-time rate of 15.5% over five years, it expects Home Depot to save $1.4 billion a year. Its bonuses for front-line workers represent just 1% of that, even as shareholders stand to gain 99% of the pile.
Many other companies, including health insurer Humana, retailer Lowe's, and Bank of America, are all paying 98% or 99% of their tax savings to their investors, according to the analysis. But not all companies are alike. Boeing and FedEx currently have no plans to reward to their stockholders. The aircraft maker is giving two-thirds of its savings to its workers in the form of workforce and workplace development.
Just Capital informs its research by asking Americans what they care most about when it comes to corporate behavior. Overwhelmingly, people say they most want companies to treat workers fairly, by paying reasonable wages and offering decent benefits. Its analyses have shown that retailers, in particular, fail to pay living wages allowing workers to meet their everyday needs. In that context, a one-time $250 bonus may not amount to much.
Martin Whittaker, Just Capital's CEO, describes the tax cuts as a window into how corporations treat their stakeholders–how they prioritize shareholders versus customers, research and development teams, communities, and workers. Though preliminary, the analysis shows that many companies are trying to please Wall Street before other constituencies.
"It would seem the allocation is below the guidance that was given [before the tax cuts were passed]," Whittaker says, referring to rhetoric that the tax cuts were a boon to the American middle class.
Of course, if the tax cuts were really aimed at workers, as President Trump and other Republicans said, there were simpler ways of getting money to workers than passing it through the books of corporations. Congress could have simply sent checks to people's homes, as it did in 2001. That way, there could be no argument over who was really benefitting.
Ben Schiller is a New York staff writer for Fast Company. Previously, he edited a European management magazine and was a reporter in San Francisco, Prague, and Brussels.


Home Tipp City News Tipp Business Will 3D Printing Be the Demise of Plastic Injection Molding?
3D printing has become increasing popular over the last several years. It also has become more affordable. Now, in-home 3D printers are available, and while these devices typically produce basic designs, technology is there to improve print capabilities. Due to this, many are wondering whether or not 3D printing will serve as the demise of plastic injection molding. To dissect this question, it is necessary to look at both at the present and the future of 3D printing technology.
3D printers have come a long way. While it is not yet as staple of households everywhere, designers and simply those who are interested in the products and capabilities have started to purchase the technology. Entry level 3D printers now cost just a few hundred dollars, and while extremely elementary, it offers a foothold into the design option. Many products are now being built by home printers, allowing consumers to construct their very own products. The medical community has also started to take advantage of 3D printing. Dentist offices produce 3D renderings of teeth for implants and medical facilities can produce a variety of items in house. This cuts down on production time and the cost of outsourcing, although the means is still a bit limited. In the immediate future, plastic injection molding is safe.
The technology is improving at a rapid rate, which means more and more businesses and consumers will be able to produce their own products. Currently, 3D printers are not able to replicate the short production time as injection molding, which is really what is what offers the largest benefit. Should 3D printing time improve to rival injection, the industry could see a production drop-off.
The post Will 3D Printing Be the Demise of Plastic Injection Molding? appeared first on Proto Plastics.


Having worked with wood in one form or another all my working life I now jump at the chance to try some different materials and skills. I got such a chance at our chapters first meeting of the year when one of our members, Tom Murphy, gave us a brilliant display of his skill and knowledge working with acrylics. This, a very versatile material which Tom showed us, can be used in so many ways. making jewellery, pens, decorating boxes and as much as our imagination will allow. The acrylic comes in a two-part kit in liquid form, (Tom very helpfully gave us all a fact sheet, with the use and mixing of the materials, names and contact details of suppliers) which when mixed in the prescribed proportions hardens to a very tough solid clear form. To this mix is added colour in the form of dyes, using two colours or more together and moving them around in the mix gives a marbled effect, then when hardened, which takes thirty hours, can now be worked in different ways, for us of course this means on the lathe. Tom had prepared some pen blanks which he had cast in moulds and made up of a mixture of acrylic and wood, small pieces of waste which he had cut up and mixed in with the acrylic to great effect. I'm sure we have all made pens so I am not going into details about the turning other than to say Tom used a carbide tipped tool as the acrylic tends to blunt HSS chisels. Here I must also mention, the importance of safety equipment, namely a face mask and eye protection as acrylic, if not fully cured can be toxic, Tom himself used a full face shield and here's a good tip, Tom had fixed a bicycle lamp to the shield which focused on the workpiece, very useful. Back to the pens, when finished, the mixture of wood and acrylic combined well in texture and colour.
The next item Tom tackled was a piece jewellery, a bangle, and starting with a metal base which he had bought in, (refer to fact sheet) the outer face was infilled, again with a mixture of wood and acrylic. This was done by first casting in a mould, which Tom had made, the outer ring of acrylic and wood, this has to be to a very precise measurement as the inner metal lining which comes in two pieces has to fit inside it. The metal can be of copper, stainless steel or I think Tom mentioned titanium, the two then glued together with epoxy resin, which has a longer working time then super glue. This is then mounted on the lathe on a jam chuck and the outer face shaped and finished as if it were wood, coated with super glue or any suitable finish and polished to a high gloss.
The last item for the afternoon was a demonstration of airbrushing and the use of the equipment, stencils, inks, paints and so forth. I found it a very interesting demonstration, well prepared and all our questions very well answered, thank you Tom.
The competition results are up on the website and the final word will be to urge all members to engage and get those entries in.


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Re: Rare Louis Armstrong recording released
I only learned recently that Smithsonian/Fplkways were starting to do vinyl.They don't seem to put much thought into most of the titles they reissued.Totally off topic,but here's my #1 wish for a Folkways reissue on Lp
http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=1922
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Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Rare Louis Armstrong recording released
THIS would have been a very sensible issue for Record Store Day, moreso
than almost all of the ones that were done. Especially if they decided
to reproduce the 1972 vinyl issue.
http://www.amazon.com/Satchmo-National-Press-Club-Beans/dp/B007QCZANW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335638064&sr=8-1
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Very rare recording indeed!
$ 12.97 to libraries & universities.
Artist: Armstrong/Glenn/Gwaltney
Title: Satchmo At The National Press Club: Red Beans & Ri
Attributes: Cd-R ~ Discs:1 ~ Country:Usa
Label: Folkways Records ( FKWQ )
Product Type: Compact Disc
Configuration: D: CD
Jazz icon Louis Armstrong, always the consummate entertainer, turned a
1971 award ceremony at the National Press Club into an impromptu
performance that was one of his last concerts before passing away 5
months later. Joined by longtime band-mates Tyree Glenn and Tommy
Gwaltney, Armstrong shows no signs of frailty on classics including
"Mack the Knife." The recording, originally a limited vinyl release
by the National Press Club now available widely for the first time in
both physical and digital formats, also includes highlights from Glenn's
tribute concert to his late friend and teacher one year later. Armstrong
often signed letters "Red Beans and Rice-ly Yours," which makes for
an apt title since his favorite recipes are included in the liner notes.
11 tracks, 58 minutes.
Track listing: http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3370
From:Chris J Brady
A rare recording of one of the last live performances by jazz trumpeter
Louis Armstrong has been made public. The move was prompted by the
press club discovering a rare LP of the event.


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I have an 2010 R-Pod that has rot around the back and sides of the floor. I would like to know if anybody has had any experience replacing and or repairing the floor. I would appreciate any and all advice short of burning the trailer. Thanks in advance.
Try the advance search and go back some time. There was at least one member who bought a used Pod with a bad floor. Pretty good details on his repair effort. I don't recall all the details. I will do some checking too.
Thanks and is there anyone out there that has attempted this on their own?
Any idea what cause the water damage ?
The edge trim that ties in the bottom with the wall panels did not have any gasket sealing it. When I removed some screws from the bottom of the unit there was no evidence of any sealant used when it was built. Thus water could seep in and over time the floor would eventually rot. When I fix the trailer in the spring I will remove the trim and seal it properly as it should have been at the factory.


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Q: Unfinished system call reported by strace I've checked the system calls being requested by this process and what I got from strace is an unfinished output:
command: strace -s 99 -ffp [PID]
output: read(0,
I've got the following questions:

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*Does this mean that my process is stuck in a system call (such as reported here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27504841/simulating-a-process-stuck-in-a-blocking-system-call)?

*Why does this happen?

*Is it a bug in the program or in the kernel?

*Is there any fix other than killing the program?

A: This means that the program is waiting for input on its standard input (file descriptor 0). It's not a bug, and you can "fix" it by providing some input.


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{September 3, 2014} Sport and Sex
Partners and cheating ,well ladies if this has happened to you and you think what a terrible thing well think again because it's a fact of life this goes on in our everyday lives like it or not ,prostitution is one of the oldest professions in the book and never let it be said ow my husband would never go there he has no need to because at some stage most probably have.
Motor Sport,Driving School Teaching and everything I stood for was surrounded by my world of the Motoring Industry,above anything else I'd ever done a race-track was always where you would find me rain hail or shine that's where I wanted to be I was given an opportunity for a possible place in both the Miss Australia and Miss Sports girl quest but no instead of raising money for the course I was at the race track—- in 1990 whilst researching different methods to obtain information for my book to be called (Stop Abuse To Women) I sold lingerie and custom made clothing to the sex industry for a very short time to obtain different stories for my book and if not for the jealous and incompetentcy of 2 X-boyfriends in Michael Harper and Justin Fletcher and their aquaintances distributing nude photos of myself right throughout VICTORIA and afar tagging me a prostitute and telling a Nation so many false stories I would have been well established today and in stead my fight just to survive has lasted over a period of 24 years with total lack of respect towards my private life from the ongoing Mental Abuse,Sexual Harassment and Bullying that has been dished out by the Victorian public.
This aggravation has terrorised me through more than 2 decades and kept going into a new generation who were not born when these pictures were taken(thus being groomed by adults) the verbal and mental abuse has been nothing short of both cruel and sadistic coming from strangers at the helm and in trying to control my life,whilst Harper relinquished in fine restaurant food with the likes of Mick and John Gatto and acquaintances his friends of many years ——– this explains why many people are afraid to come forward with their stories of how they were told to Abuse me believe me you don't need to be.
The staggering figures of married men and couples in general who contributed to this awful abuse will astound you,Harper himself having been married twice with 3 children ,on the other hand his wife and many other wives will be totally unaware of their husbands involvement in such horrific circumstances.Bob Gill X-motor racing(Plumber) used to ring the daily planet massage parlour regularly just to see if I was there I have never even been in one of those rooms they work from,and this explains why when I needed a Plumber for renovations to my home that nobody wanted to call one he had bag mouthed me to the point where other tradies were actually afraid to call a plumber and yet Gill was so infatuated with the glamourous Cheryl again this is annoying jealousy of myself a girl with a lot of genuine qualities.
These are some of my private photo collections along with some cherished moments of my used to be favorite sport I presented Ambrose with a cake to signify the appreciation and efforts he put into V8 Supercars I loved his career and wanted to share some of those moments I know he will always do his best.V8 Supercars have produced some of the finest and most talented Drivers in the world and although I was shunted in this industry also because of false Litigation and rumours I could never look up to these fellows because I have the talent to build the very engines that they drive.
The very damaging bit about being a celebrity's wife is that a lot of the time you have no idea where your husband is in the early eighties when I first entered Motor Sport I have always been a single person and rarely took a male partner with me because it annoyed me I wanted to walk where I wanted to go without hassle but I can tell you that so many drivers had other female company especially when going to interstate meetings even my eyes opened to some of it some drivers even competed with each other on how many girls they could service in one weekend I can never forget sitting between 2 wives in the grand stand at Sandown and listening to their conversation about family and thought if you only knew.
The same went on in World Series Cricket I can never forget my cricket book that I took to be signed by the then top contenders only to be met with not 1 but 2 girls hanging off the arms of 3 very familiar faces song wine and women were rife in cricket it is all part of their show and it still exists today ——– I have no idea why anyone gets punished for having sex with another person given that it appears to be a fact of life,whilst I do agree that you should stay single until your ready to settle down the principals are relationships grow old and tired or for other reasons incur one problem or another and even though I condone this latest story of the journalist turned escort girl there is no way I agree with her morals of also the fact that she is a mother as far as I am concerned the children should be taken off her because what she does while they sleep is immoral I myself put a roof over the head of a girl who was an escort many years ago thinking I was helping her then she told me that her family were trying to take her 2 children off her I can completely understand why,anyway I should never have been punished to the extent that I have been and will proceed with court proceedings as soon as possible.
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On The Corrosion of Moral Leadership
LIBOR Illegality
News that Barclays Bank has been fined for LIBOR manipulation in both the UK and in the US, and that there are likely to be many more similar cases from other banks to come, just adds to the increasing evidence of a lack of moral leadership in our primary institutions. It's not just that illegality occurs, but that it appears to occur in a moral vacuum where the participants are happily and openly engaged in behavior which is corrosive to good society.
This isn't just a problem in the financial industry, we've seen plenty of examples in other areas – in the media, in our legislators – where rank and file staffers mindlessly operate in a morally ambivalent bubble, without even attempting to hide their actions. This doesn't happen by accident, it comes from the top, and the buck needs to stop with those who permit these festering cultures to survive.
There's a famous experiment with an honesty box that demonstrates the importance of moral oversight to us. Conducted by Melissa Bateson, Daniel Nettle and Gilbert Roberts, in Cues of Being Watched Enhance Cooperation in a Real-World Setting:
"We examined the effect of an image of a pair of eyes on contributions to an honesty box used to collect money for drinks in a university coffee room. People paid nearly three times as much for their drinks when eyes were displayed rather than a control image."
In fact, as Dan Airely has shown, we're nowhere near as honest as we'd like to think we are. In the research we looked at in Gaming the System, he showed that people will systematically cheat if we think we can get away with it.
Moreover, more powerful people are less honest than others, because they seem to think the rules don't apply to them (see: Game On: Basel III). Similar effects seem to apply to wealthier people (see: Born Rich, Born Greedy). Of course, it's not pleasant, and we engage in all sorts of convoluted reasoning to justify our immorality, but the facts are the facts: we lie and we cheat when we think we think we can get away with it.
Honest Immorality
The immediate issue for Barclays, and all of the other banks under investigation in both the US and the UK, is that LIBOR is used to set other rates – so artificially manipulating it is tantamount to defrauding customers. One senses a very nasty class action case on the horizon. However, perhaps the more worrying aspect of this is that the deliberate practice of reporting less borrowing at lower rates masks signals to the market about levels of bank stress. Back in 2007 and 2008 Barclays senior executives were adamant that the bank was financially sound: had the true extent of its borrowing strains been known that might not have been true, such was the fever of the time.
What's truly extraordinary about these revelations is that the people involved in this gross and illegal manipulation were completely open about it. There was no attempt to hide what was going on, which implies that the culture of the organisations involved had lost sight of the difference between right and wrong in the quest to maximize shareholder value (see: Greed's Not Good For Shareholders). No doubt incentivisation-led bias was implicated, but such problems only become endemic when the culture permits it; otherwise it's just one-off fraud.
Poisonous Cultures
This isn't the first time we've seen this type of problem. In the US legislators apparently couldn't see anything wrong in trading on inside information about the rules they were intending to set. Hedge fund managers couldn't see what was wrong in making a quick billion bucks or so on insider dealing, done in the most blatant way.
In the UK we've had two further, extraordinary, examples of how corporate cultures can poison morality. Firstly we had the remarkable revelations that the UK's legislators were routinely fabricating expenses claims – an action that had seen people in other walks of life regularly sent to prison. The initial reaction of many parliamentarians to be held to the standards of the laws that they had themselves set was outrage. Even now there's simmering resentment at the treatment they received. Some went to prison, others had their careers terminated, others were held up to ridicule – yet many of them couldn't see that they were doing anything wrong.
Phoney
Then there's the phone hacking scandal, in which UK journalists regularly hacked into the voice mail accounts of various celebrities, despite this being a clear breach of the UK's privacy laws. This went on for years, with only a few token prosecutions until the news broke that the phone of a young girl who'd been abducted and murdered had also been hacked by journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News International.
The resultant fallout has seen Murdoch hauled in front of parliament, his bid for control of the UK's satellite broadcaster blocked, his son resign his UK directorships and the closure of the salacious News of the World newspaper responsible for the hack. The police investigation is ongoing, with the list of people allegedly involved in either hacking or covering up the hacking growing by the day. There's now even an investigation into the original police investigation which appears to have been conducted along the lines of someone asking News International if they'd done anything wrong, and News International saying they hadn't. Another triumph of investigative policing.
In all of these cases we have clear examples of illegal behavior being conducted openly by people who clearly didn't feel they were doing anything wrong. This process is part of what Albert Bandura calls moral disengagement, where people manage to distance themselves morally from their own actions. This behavior is morally corrosive but can only occur on a wide scale if organizational leadership closes its eyes to it (see: Euphemisms for Morally Disengaged Managers). The morality of organizations is set from the top so the evidence we've seen that powerful, rich and socially privileged people tend to be more morally ambivalent isn't a good starting point.
In recent times we've seen a variety of problems with our banks with what appear to be one-off failures of risk control. These aren't an issue of morality, but the outcome of a series of mistakes of judgement: such mistakes if admitted and fixed should yield a better and safer corporation. We tend to fire people who admit mistakes but we shouldn't, we should put them on probation to make sure they don't repeat them.
On the other hand, events like LIBOR fixing appear to have been culturally accepted and mediated. It doesn't matter that there won't be a smoking gun showing that senior executives approved these practices, that's not the point. The point is that the ethics of corporate cultures are set from the top and that's where the buck stops.
End the La-La-La Defence
You cannot legislate for moral behavior, but you can make sure that everyone knows what's right, and what's not, and set an example. If, as a leader, instead of posting a pair of open eyes above every employee's station you ensure that you avert your gaze, stick your fingers in your ears and sing "la, la, la" very loudly you shouldn't be able to escape your responsibility.
Moral leadership should be a fundamental requirement of our leaders, whether they be politicans or businessmen. The alternative is corrosive of trust, and when trust fails so does the basis of capitalist society. Leaders who fail this test should resign or be forced from office. They have forfeited their right to lead.
Game On: Basel III
Born Rich, Born Greedy
Greed's Not Good For Shareholders
Euphemisms for Morally Disengaged Managers
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cig 29 June 2012 at 13:34
I doubt the "quest for shareholder value" is at all relevant to this. It would be quite altruistic of an investment banker to care about some societal abstraction ("shareholders") rather than their own individual value which is only tangentially if at all related to shareholder value -- even if part of their "compensation" is paid in shares or derivatives, maximising that is not as such particularly aligned with broad shareholder interests, because they just need to manage their own entry/exit price.
"Shareholder value" is like the "customer is king" thing, a marketing ritual. Very few people who articulate it actually care or believe in it, other than instrumentally when they think it helps reach other aims (and perhaps rightly so, on its own it's a rather pointless endeavour).
As for capitalism being built on trust, that's debatable: intrinsic societal trust may have survived despite an economic system whose natural forces tend to erode it. It could be that ultimately you can have a trust-based society, or a capitalist economy, but not both at the same time.
Redrut 4 July 2012 at 12:06
Great Article guys, have thoroughly enjoyed the behavioural analysis of world events - a good read.
I had a look at the LIBOR scandal from the behavioural point of view http://1percentblog.com/who-do-we-blame/
I believe that the theory of deindividuation plays a role here as when everyone you know is doing the same thing and especially for such a long period of time (10+ years!) it is easy to legitimize your action as legal


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Randy enjoys solving architectural challenges, which motivate him to work even harder. More than a decade of professional experience in Science and Technology projects have refined his understanding of technical design in all phases from programming to construction documents.
He attributes part of his success to his lack of shyness. "Asking questions enables me to effectively communicate with clients and my project team." Randy's appreciation for the arts, architecture, and engineering continue to drive his enjoyment of his career.


The expression, "S/he's a born leader," has had a lot of traction. We tend to think that leadership abilities are inborn, sort of like eye color - people either have the traits or not. While scientists tell us that certain personality traits are of "nature," they also tell us that personalities are significantly influenced by "nature." I happen to be of the opinion that leadership is within each one of us, if we are willing to "nurture" those traits that we see in effective and admired leaders. Leaders motivate, inspire, steer, and coach others, and there are 5 ways to do this.
Most of us forget that there are two parts to communication, but leaders don't.
You have to be an effective speaker and a bit of a salesman. Otherwise, it will be difficult to motivate others. If you know this is an area of challenge, consider taking a public speaking course and/or a salesmanship class.
Practice listening. How? By ceasing to talk and asking questions of those you lead. Once others get the idea that you will really listen, they will be far more open with you, and you will probably gain insight and information you would not have gotten otherwise. People who know that their leaders listen are happier too! And happiness is a great motivator.
Moods, especially in groups, organization and in the workplace, are contagious. If you are in a leadership role, and you become negative, everyone else will be as well. Negativity spawns less productivity, less happiness, and less motivation. Even when failures occur, you have to remain positive. Re-assure everyone that failures and setbacks are normal and are true learning experiences – you will all move on. (You may be disappointed or upset inwardly, but you don't show it).
"When the players are on the field, the coach has to be there too." Every person in a leadership role should repeat this daily. A real leader is willing to get his "hands dirty" with everyone else, to dig in when deadlines must be met and tasks are piling up. The obvious benefits from this activity will be that your subordinates will admire you, will emulate your work ethic, and will want to work harder because of their admiration for you.
Change is difficult for everyone. But you have to be the one who is willing to embrace it, even when it is not of your making. All others will take their cues about reacting to a change from you. So, spend some time coming up with the benefits of the change and make sure you speak of them to your people. If you are accepting and positive, they will be as well. The net effect is that people maintain their productivity and their willingness to work through the change.
You have a set of values and principles which should be uncompromising. Make certain that your colleagues and subordinates understand what they are. Then, when you have to make a decision with which some may not agree, if it is based upon your principles, they will admire you for not compromising. One such principle might be that no one ever discusses confidential information except with those that have the right to it. If an individual violates that principle, then you will have to discipline him/her in some way. Now, that individual may be quite popular with co-workers and a punitive action could be cause for others to be angry with you. If, however, all are aware that this is an uncompromising principle of yours, they will understand and probably secretly admire you for not compromising. Honesty goes without saying. Once you have developed a reputation for honesty, it sticks. Those you lead will always trust what you have to say.
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A. Government is budgeted to live beyond its means to the tune of about £172million this year.
B. Nearly half of that is caused by the deficit, and increase in future liabilities, on public sector pensions.
C. A further quarter is accounted for by the amount by which public sector pay exceeds that in the private sector.
D. The remainder could be resolved with efficiency savings and making better use of resources.
Page 4 of the Pink Book refers to a strategy of managing the growing liability by 'implementing a revised pension scheme' and of reviewing 'aspects of the Government unified scheme'.
Cross referring to the Government Actuary's Report identifies generous contribution arrangements for public servants.
The average employer share of pension cost as a percentage of pensionable pay is 26.2% (in the case of of Tynwald Members and firemen it's 47%, and for police and Deemsters about 41%).
Compare that to the standard 5% in private sector schemes when provided - a difference of some 21%!
In the 2013 Earnings Survey average weekly earnings in the private sector were £608 and in the public sector £676.
Average weekly hours were 39 and 37 respectively. Both these factors equate to a 17% public sector advantage.
The estimated pay (17%) and pension premium (21%) equates to about 42% overall - how fair is that to the rest of the Manx working population?
We will return to this later, in Part 2 of this article.
Add to that the overburden of regulation, Regulators Salaries and the fact that statutory body members do not pay Tax on their earnings (called Honorarium) and you can see why expenditure exceeds revenue.


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Meet the academic: Dr Constantin Ciachir
Dr Constantin Ciachir is Programme Director of Surrey Business School's MSc in Human Resources Management and Senior Teaching Fellow in HRM and Organisational Behaviour.
Dr Constantin Ciachir
Prior to joining academia in 2013, I worked in various industries and countries. My first ever job was as radio broadcaster. After three years of airing shows, I dipped my toes into the fashion industry and worked as designer assistant for a year, before moving into telecommunications where I spent most of my 20s, but for one year which I spent resolving online fraud cases for a financial institution. In 2013, I turned most of my attention towards work in psychology and human resources management and worked as a consultant and as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of York, where I completed my PhD.
Describe your time at Surrey
Challenging, developmental, and rewarding.
What inspires you about Surrey?
In one word: collegiality. The environment at Surrey is open, friendly, and supportive. I have been, and still am, working with amazing people, who I now consider very good friends.
Collegiality at Surrey is not just among members of staff, but also between staff and students - constantly seeking to make sense of, negotiate, and create knowledge.
Why should a student study your subject at Surrey?
To be challenged, developed, and be rewarded for hard work and meaningful contributions. At Surrey we do, reflect, think, and experiment – there is value in every second.
What are your interests outside of academia?
I would like to say something interesting like bungee jumping, snowboarding, or playing the piano. The reality is more boring than that, and I spend whatever free time I have socialising and learning about cultures and languages.
Is there a memory from Surrey that particularly stands out?
The one particular memory at Surrey that stands out for me was the day of my job interview. Hence, I am still around four years later!
Discover more about postgraduate study at Surrey Business School and the Human Resources Management MSc.


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Q: Why do my changes not save in static css files in django? They used to save before, but all of a sudden they do not. I even have DEBUG = True and I have django.contrib.staticfiles in my installed apps. I'm not really what code I should provide, so if anyone needs any, please ask, and I'll send you the code. Thank You!
Edit: So I've somewhat realized that the two times this has happened, was when I turned debug to false and back to true again.

A: So I reached out to someone else, and realized that all I had to do was hard refresh the page. Cmd+Shift+R on a mac and Ctrl+F5 on a windows machine.