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Citigroup to fund $100bn in green projects
Over the next decade Citigroup has committed to lending, investing and facilitating a total of $100 billion (£65bn) to finance activities that will reduce the impacts of climate change and create environmental solutions.
The latest pledge follows Citi's previous $50 billion (£32bn) goal that was announced in 2007, the group met this target three years early in 2013. The new initiative will build on Citi's work in renewable energy and energy efficiency to identify opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and resource efficiency across various sectors.
Additionally, Citi has said as part of a commitment to help cities thrive during this period of "unprecedented urban transformation" it will seek to finance and support activities that enable communities to adapt to climate change and directly finance infrastructure improvements, such as increasing access to clean water and improving waste management.
Michael Corbat, chief executive officer of Citi, explained that the organisation's mission of enabling progress by facilitating economic growth and financing transformative projects has remained the same. However, he added that by incorporating the principles of sustainability the firm's own operations would improve, as well as enhancing their clients' work and contributing to a better world.
The group has also committed to focussing on environmental and social risk management and sustainability goals within its own business and operations. By 2020, Citi aims to have reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 35%, cut its water and energy use by 30%, and slash the amount of waste created by 60%. In the long-term, the company has a target of cutting emissions by 80% by mid-century.
Mindy Lubber, president of sustainability group Ceres, which gave input into the commitments, commented, "Climate change is expected to impact virtually every sector of the economy.
"The financial services industry has a big role to play in scaling up global clean energy investments, and we applaud Citi's leadership the company continues to innovate and expand its efforts."
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Johann Hermann Bauer est un joueur d'échecs autrichien né le  à Prague et mort de la tuberculose le  à Goritz. Il remporta les tournois de Francfort 1887 (tournoi B) et de Vienne 1890, finit quatrième du tournoi international de la fédération allemande à Breslau en 1889 et termina deuxième du tournoi de Graz en 1890.

Biographie et Carrière
Né à Prague, Bauer s'installa à Vienne dans sa jeunesse. En juillet-, il obtint son premier succès en remportant le Hauptturnier (tournoi des non-maîtres) du cinquième congrès d'échecs de la fédération allemande à Francfort devant Jacques Mieses. Deux ans plus tard, en , il participa au tournoi de maîtres (Meisterturnier) du sixième congrès allemand à Breslau et finit quatrième, ex æquo avec Curt von Bardeleben, Isidor Gunsberg et Louis Paulsen, derrière Siegbert Tarrasch, Amos Burn et Jacques Mieses. En , il finit cinquième du tournoi de maîtres d'Amsterdam remporté par Amos Burn devant Emanuel Lasker.

En , Bauer finit deuxième du premier mémorial Kolisch de Vienne, avec 10 points sur 15, devant Berthold Englisch  Georg Marco et Adolf Albin, tournoi remporté par Miksa Weiss. Il battit Bernhard Fleissig 2 à 0 lors du match de départage pour la deuxième place. En août-, il finit deuxième du tournoi de Graz, avec 4,5 points sur 6 (+3 =3), un demi-point derrière Gyula Makovetz et devant Emanuel Lasker, Johann Berger, Georg Marco et Adolf Albin. Pendant l'hiver 1890-1891, il remporta un tournoi à quatre tours à Vienne, battant Marco 3 à 1 (+2 =2) et Albin 4 à 0. En 1891, alors qu'il partageait la tête du championnat de Vienne, un tournoi à deux tours, avec 4 points sur 6, il eut une attaque et dut se retirer du tournoi. Il mourut de la tuberculose peu après, avant d'avoir eu trente ans.

Lors du tournoi d'Amsterdam 1889, Bauer perdit une partie célèbre contre Emanuel Lasker : Lasker - Bauer (Amsterdam, 1889).

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Joueur autrichien d'échecs
Naissance en juin 1861
Naissance à Prague
Naissance dans le royaume de Bohême
Décès en avril 1891
Décès à Goritz
Décès dans le comté princier de Goritz et Gradisca
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JOHN LENNON – "Imagine"
Tom • FT + Popular • Pop • 131 comments • 8,246 views
#473, 10th January 1981
"John Lennon's life was no longer a debate" – in a song which has a good claim to be the stupidest lyric ever recorded, this is a glimpse of insight. Lennon's murder didn't turn him into an icon – he was one anyway – but it froze his iconicity into a certain pattern: troubled genius, artist, lover and man of peace. The perfect demonstration of this was the release of Albert Goldman's Lennon biography, which aroused raving outrage simply by detailing the numerous ways in which Lennon was a perfectly typical 60s and 70s rock star. There was more to him than that, but there's more to him than "Imagine" too.
Not that you'd know it sometimes. In yesterday's Guardian Yoko Ono delighted us with some 'celebrity wrapping paper' – a sheet of newspaper on which she'd had printed the words "IMAGINE PEACE", translated into the languages of many nations. What it instantly reminded me of were the ads produced by big global companies – like BA and McDonalds – in which their taglines appear in a similar polyglot style. It helped make concrete what Lennon has become, if not the walking foaming debate he'd sometimes been when alive: a brand. Ono's directive Fluxus pieces still seem sharp and ahead of their time because they've come to look like a prior response to the aphoristic emptiness of the business advice and self-help industries: most of the stuff in Grapefruit would fit nicely on Twitter. But as the wrap demonstrates, she's since met those trends more than halfway. And what are the Lennon Brand's values, its products, its mission statement? "Imagine Peace". "Imagine". Peace. (The former has generally been a bigger seller than the latter).
Lennon hasn't had it all his own way critically: I am hardly the first writer to dislike "Imagine". In fact the laurels on the comment thread are likely to go to anyone who can make a really good case for its beauty, wisdom or excellence. But in general – to Sir Macca's increasingly public dudgeon – he's been ensconced as the Beatle Who Mattered; the artist, the poet, the rocker, the experimenter. And the public popularity of this song at least is truly unshakable – in any poll of the top number ones, or the top songs ever, there it is.
"Imagine" is a Fluxus piece for primary schools – "it's easy if you try" says Teacher John, as if he's telling us how to make a potato print. Presumably its profundity and simplicity are a big reason for its popularity, but there's a My First Koan feel to the lyrics and performance which turns these qualities into dodges: if you think too hard about the words you're not doing it right. And in a way it does feel cheap to pick "Imagine" apart, as despite all appearances I'm not sure it's meant as a philosophical statement – though again, since December 1980, that's what it's become.
So what is good about it? It's instantly memorable and sincerely performed, and if you're charitable you can see slyness in a song that begins "Imagine there's no heaven" but is so obviously trying for hymnal qualities. But that doesn't get past how grimly tedious it is to listen to, or excuse the infuriating sanctimony in Lennon's voice when he sings "I wonder if you can". That line's a tell if ever I heard one: Lennon can't quite shake off his competitive streak, his acerbic edge. The song isn't a program, it's a fantasy of all Lennon's personal sources of conflict – religion, money, national borders – being magically removed. It is – and sounds – a really supine, passive song: peace is a function of obstacles being waved away, making the singer a better person.
In 1971 it shared album space with the vastly more entertaining intra-Beatle bitchfest "How Do You Sleep?", a sign that Lennon was either a colossal hypocrite or that he was well aware that "Imagine" was one dream-version of his cantankerous self. On that record it's still not good, but it is what it is – another facet or mood of its writer. Taken to represent the whole of him, it's a fraud. Taken to represent the whole of Pop – well, you might as well list the Top 100 Jokes Of All Time and put "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" at the summit.
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swanstep † on 5 Dec 2012 #
@116. Definitely not the Clapton sense. Judging by youtube comments, lots of people read the immig. remark as specifically and only referring to Lennon's exact visa problems. I read it as the wider point that immigrants as such are artifacts of nations that police their borders. Beyond that, I think of Lennon here as being a good craftsman: I imagine he was never entirely happy with the mention of religion again in the countries verse, and I wouldn't mind betting that somebody had tweaked him about that as a lyrical blemish. I'm not sure that 'immigration' is the right modification – it's a slightly ugly, latinate mouthful after all – but I appreciate the direction in which Lennon was headed.
'Never switch simplicities in mid-stream.'
Lots of broadly political singers tailor their lyrics in live settings or as their ideas evolve (or in response to snarky objectors). And Lennon is obviously right up for that at this point (departing slightly from the more serene vibe of the original song). I don't see the problem with that.
old man sukrat grrr † on 6 Dec 2012 #
oh I didn't mean changing the words for a performance — i have no problem with that at all, in fact I like it — I just meant Lennon can't really do Ono-esque simplicity, he has own mode of simplicity and they're surprisingly distinct (which is no doubt what he fell for in her)
Paulito on 9 Dec 2012 #
@ 114: If it's any consolation, I had laboured under the same misapprehension – and interpreted the misheard lyric in the same way – for my entire life until reading this thread. And the difference of one tiny word transforms what I had thought was the song's most interesting lyric into its most trite. Oh well.
Ed † on 16 Dec 2012 #
@123 Thanks! I am glad to know I am not the only one, anyway.
I am inclined to be charitable, personally, and think that Lennon half meant our version, or at least at some level wanted the lyric to be open to that interpretation. He has form with that kind of ambiguity, as in "You can count me out / in" in 'Revolution'. Allowing myself to think that preserves some threadbare scraps of interest in 'Imagine', anyway.
@116 "Never switch simplicities in mid-stream." You can actually hear it happening in the song, can't you? The verses start off quite Ono-ish, with the deadpan delivery and the transcendental Satie-esque piano figure. Then as he gets towards the chorus, he can't hold himself back any longer and you get a gush of quintessentially Lennon melody and emotion, with the leap into his falsetto.
And you're right: the juxtaposition is horrible.
Mind you, now I've started thinking of it as a mash-up in that way, perhaps it is a bit more interesting than I thought….
richard thompson on 5 Jan 2013 #
Bob Wooler loathed this song, the man who Lennon famously beat up
pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on 15 May 2013 #
This is a bit startling:
(of course secretly i hope that every solo lennon and solo mccartney song pair off this way, if only you know the code)
Pete Baran on 15 May 2013 #
It plays very fast (ahem) and loose around the second chorus, but yes, well done!
Philip Arlington † on 24 Aug 2014 #
Intellectually, Imagine is one of the most balefully, poisonously wrong-headed artefacts in modern Western culture. Its disdain for rigorous engagement with the unwelcome complexity of reality has made the world a worse place and continues to do so.
Enough has already been said about the peace nonsense, which was my main gripe for twenty five years. What annoys me more nowadays is the connection I draw between a man in a mansion (and a tax exile to boot) singing about no possessions and our current era in which new (but rapidly ossifying) elites feel entitled to exploit everyone else "because they earned it themselves" and/or they claim to have good intentions.
Musically Imagine is a 10/10, which is what makes it dangerous. I just wish it was in Estonian.
Kinitawowi † on 24 Aug 2014 #
"John Lennon did sing 'imagine no possessions', but he sang it playing a white Steinway in the drawing room of his 72-acre estate in Berkshire." – Mitch Benn
hectorthebat on 1 Sep 2014 #
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Adam on 22 Mar 2015 #
Though Tom is the best Pop Music Theorist I've come across, I think this smash-the-idols piece just repeats what's been considered countless times before… that it's sanctimonious, glib, and hypocritical. A good topic is why — apart from his most diehard fans and those who don't care to look past the surface — this piece remains at the pinnacle of "the canon" (the Rolling Stone editors are surely aware of the criticism, for example). If rock — as xgau theorizes — is about the personal relationship between star and fan, as opposed to musician and listener, this might be the archetypical example of fans overlooking obvious shortcomings and accepting a decades-long distant friend's drunken rant about "why things didn't work out" and being touched by it, even if it's misguided. And by "fans" I mean most of us… though only a minority would name the Beatles as The Greatest(tm), they've been widely settled upon in the same manner as Citizen Kane… hard to think of another act that everyone could acknowledge as "good enough" for that position. I give it a 7. I think John's being sincere when he speaks to me, and though his personality causes the message's poignancy to fall flat, the honesty behind his intention strikes a nerve.
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24 hours, 2 atmospheres of pressure, over 100 scuba divers and a whole lot of fun - that just about sums up Diver24, the massive undertaking of the University of Cape Town's Underwater Club to raise funds for turtle conservation.
The first team of scuba divers get ready to begin the 24-hour marathon! Photo by Ingrid Sinclair/Two Oceans Aquarium.
Diver24 is an annual awareness and fundraising event run by the UCT Underwater Club, and once again the Two Oceans Aquarium invited the Club to use our venue. The Club rotated their divers on an hourly roster, keeping the rays, turtles, musselcrackers and giant guitarfish company throughout the night.
Photo by Ingrid Sinclair/Two Oceans Aquarium.
The Club selected the Aquarium's turtle rescue, rehabilitation and release programme as the beneficiary of this year's Diver24 event. It goes without saying that we are incredibly grateful for their generosity, and are more than pleased to have had the opportunity to further nurture a love of the ocean in these intrepid marine explorers.
Working with the UCT Underwater Club was fantastic (thanks for making our jobs so easy). Once again we called on Aquarist Simon Leigh (who you might recognise as our talking diver) to pull an all-nighter, briefing the Club's divemasters and keeping everyone's cylinders refilled (no small task when you're dealing with over 100 divers)!
Late into Saturday night, long after the Aquarium was closed to the public, the divers and guests who were sleeping over, in front of the I&J Ocean Exhibit, had a visit from Conservation Coordinator Talitha Noble, who taught them what to if they ever found a stranded turtle, and how the rehab centre turtles actually end up at the Aquarium - quite a relevant lesson, as these divers were sharing the water with two of these turtles, Bob and Sandy.
This is Sandy, a green turtle rescued and brought to the Aquarium after struck by a boat's propeller. Photo by @mermaid_danii/Instagram.
In fact, their spirits were high throughout the night, even as the clock passed midnight!
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Whatever their secret weapon, these students truly pulled off the ultimate all-nighter!
But soon, the end drew near. Diver24 was reaching its final hour.
It's almost over... Photo by Devon Bowen/Two Oceans Aquarium.
Finally, the clock struck 11AM on Sunday - their task was complete! Diver24 had pulled off their mammoth task - again! Well done to all involved!
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At the heart of feudalism is a basic idea common to any society with a warrior caste. Such men need to be provided for. In a simple economy this means that the produce of an appropriate number of peasants or serfs must underwrite the expenses of the fighting man. In ancient Sparta, where all free men are warriors, the support comes from the defeated and enslaved peasants of Messenia, known as the helots.
In medieval Europe the system is more complex. The central economic feature is the manorial system. Transcending that, and dependent upon it, is the interconnecting network of loyalties and obligations which make up feudalism.
Lord and vassal: 8th - 12th century
The feudal system comes into focus during the 8th century, when the Carolingian dynasty is expanding its territory. Charles Martel grants his nobles rights over tracts of land, to yield the income with which they can provide fighting men for his army. This act of generosity, ultimately for his own benefit, requires an oath of loyalty in return.
Thus there develops the relationship between lord and vassal which is at the heart of feudalism. The lord gives the vassal an income-yielding fief (fehu-od in Frankish, the basis of the word 'feudal'). The vassal does homage to the lord, formalizing the relationship.
The largest fiefs are those given directly by monarchs to noblemen or barons, who then subcontract parts of these fiefs to vassals of their own. Only in this way, sharing out both the benefit and the obligation, can the king's vassals be sure of bringing their promised contingent of armed men into the field.
A pyramid of loyalty is thus created, in which each man - except at the very top and bottom - is a vassal to one lord and a lord to several vassals. At the very peak of European feudal society is the pope. By the end of the 12th century the papacy has more feudal vassals than any temporal ruler.
Feudal Europe: 10th - 15th century
Although feudalism develops as early as the 8th century, under the Carolingian dynasty, it does not prevail widely in Europe until the 10th century - by which time virtually the entire continent is Christian.
For the next 500 years, great accumulations of power and landed wealth pass between a few favoured players as if in a vast board game. The rules are complex, and to an outside eye deeply mysterious. But certain actions and qualifications bring a distinct advantage.
The top players in feudal Europe come from a small group of people - an aristocracy, based on skill in battle, with a shared commitment to a form of Christianity (at once power-hungry and idealistic) in which the pope in Rome has special powers as God's representative on earth. As a great feudal lord with moral pretensions, holding the ring between secular sovereigns, the pope can be seen as Europe's headmaster.
Bishops and abbots are part of the small feudal aristocracy, for they are mostly recruited from the noble families holding the great fiefs. Indeed bishops can often be found on the battlefield, fighting it out with with the best.
As in any other context, the strongest argument in feudalism - transcending the niceties of loyalty - is naked force. The Normans in England or in Sicily rule by right of conquest, and feudal disputes are regularly resolved in battle.
But feudalism also provides many varieties of justification for force. And the possession of a good justification is almost as reassuring to a knight as a good suit of armour.
One excellent excuse for warfare is the approval of the church. In 1059 the pope virtually commands the Normans to attack Sicily, by giving them feudal rights over territory not as yet theirs. Similarly Rome lets it be known that the Holy See is on the side of William when he invades England in 1066.
Another important form of justification is a dynastic claim to a territory. Generations of marriages, carefully arranged for material gain, result in an immensely complex web of relationships - reflected often in kingdoms of very surprising shape on the map of Europe.
A simple example is the vast swathe of land ruled over in the 12th century by Henry II. Stretching from Northumberland to the south of France, it has been brought together by a process of inheritance and dynastic marriage.
More complex, but equally typical of Christian feudalism, is the case of Sicily. In the 11th century the Normans seize it by invitation of the pope. In the 12th century the island is joined to distant Germany because the German king marries a Sicilian princess. And in the 13th century it is linked with France because the pope, intervening again, is now opposed to the Germans.
Complexity and decline: 12th - 15th century
With the passage of time the feudal system becomes more complex, more rigid, more open to abuse. Fiefs tend to become hereditary, reducing the personal link between vassal and lord. Payments of money begin to replace the original simple obligation of armed service. Religious institutions - monasteries, abbeys, bishoprics - take their place in the hierarchy, providing administrative and sometimes even military support for their feudal lords, while growing prosperous through the efficient administration of their manors.
The original feudalism, a structure of personal relationships, tends in one direction towards centralized monarchy - and in another towards anarchy.
In some regions kings successfully use the feudal hierarchy to reinforce their own position at the top of the pyramid. This happens in England (where William I starts with a clean slate, distributing conquered territory on his own terms to his followers) and in France (where the Capetian house has the accidental benefit of a long unbroken succession of direct male inheritance).
By contrast in Germany, where the elected German king proves unable to assert strong authority over his elective peers, the feudal pyramid declines into a discordant group of independent fiefs - some held by noble families, some by religious institutions, and a few by the burghers of the developing towns.
The weaknesses in European feudalism are evident by the 13th century, but the system of interconnecting feudal obligations remains a central theme in Europe until at least the 15th century.
Thereafter the strong authority of kings, taxing and ruling from a central base, becomes for a while the norm in European government. But feudal customs and rights remain enshrined in the law of many regions (including France, Germany, Austria and Italy) until abolished either by the French Revolution or by the reforms of Napoleon.
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by U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Sean Berry
The Marine Corps is constantly improving its warfighting capabilities through advancement in science and technology to stay ahead of its adversaries.
The United States Marine Corps finds new ways to innovate using science and technology to remain one step ahead of any adversary. The Commandant of the Marine Corps is asking Marines to come forward with their ideas that might help push the Corps along the path of technological advancement. Marines can submit their ideas to the Commandant of the Marine Corps' Quarterly Innovation Challenge to pave the way for the future in 21st century warfighting technology. (U.S. Marine Corps illustration by Cpl. Taylor W. Cooper)
To ensure this operational strategy continues to evolve in a 21st century battlespace, several military officials conducted a Science and Technology Experimentation Office Advisory Group at Camp Lejeune, NC in February 2019.
"We're challenging Marines to think outside the box and to be innovative in dangerous environments," said Navy Capt. Robert Higgins, assistant chief of staff of the G-9 (future capabilities, science technology and experimentation) with II Marine Expeditionary Force. "We live in a very technology-heavy world and the military intends on operating in a very technology-heavy environment."
The advisory group's focus on experimentation in science and technology looks to enhance the way Marines operate as they face new challenges continues the attack on future battlefields.
"There are a lot of lines of effort in terms of science and technology across all the warfighting capabilities that the Marine Corps has," said Higgins. "Even in the civilian sector, technology moves very fast and you always have to think about where your adversaries are with their advancements as well."
The Marine Corps, along with the Office of Naval Research and various other Department of Defense agencies, are looking at ways to limit their critical vulnerabilities through trial and experimentation.
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Marines can submit their recommendations to the Commandant of the Marine Corps' Quarterly Innovation Challenge. The challenge, recently referenced in Marine Administrative Message 065/19, allows anyone with an idea to improve or enhance overall mission readiness.
"The Department of the Navy wanted to look within the service for innovative ideas from its Marines and Sailors," said Higgins. "The Commandant of the Marine Corps posts a quarterly innovation challenge to the service, challenging service members to come up with innovative ideas within their respective fields."
"Experimentation is a way for the operators, the lance corporals and corporals of the Marine Corps who are dealing with the day-to-day challenges, to contribute to the modernization effort of the service," said Gary Sokoloski, liaison officer to the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab. "It's helping to reengineer the Marine Corps so we can be better organized, trained and equipped for tomorrow's fight."
Service members can register for the innovation challenge.
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But on to the happy things; after a second 12 flight in a too small seat, I arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport and was surprised by the level of security at customs. That is, there was none. Just a man telling us that on the other side of the door was France. Wonderful.
Because of my delayed arrival I had to squeeze my five days of sightseeing into two, which was fine apart from having to cut out Disneyland (which was planned to be the highlight of my trip). Like the CDG airport, Paris is kinda massive. Comfortable footwear for sightseeing is highly recommended even if you do plan on taking the metro everywhere. My jam-packed days have left me exhausted, or maybe it's the jetlag… Well for some reason I have found it almost impossible to stay awake after 8pm since I got here, which means I am yet to experience a proper French dinner.
Drivers here are terrible. I don't think I have seen more than three cars ever use their indicator and I am shocked that, in a city where it appears that traffic lights and pedestrian crossings are both optional to cars and people, that I have yet to see anyone crash or even a nearly collide. However, be very weary when crossing a street. You might think a car will slow down to avoid hitting you, but I wouldn't bet on it.
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A final observation is that everything is so old. And I know that sounds so stupid, but coming from such a young country means that I have never seen a building more than 100 years old. We don't have fancy cool architecture that people here just take for granted, the Paris town hall is older than my country is, there are buildings that were built before we had even been colonized. I went to the Notre Dame yesterday, and I was amazed. Not only was it a surreal, emotional, and spiritual experience, I was also blown away by the fact that it is 850 years old this year. It's something that I can't stop thinking about and it will probably still keep amazing me for the rest of my time here.
I have enjoyed my short, sweet stay in this amazing city and cannot wait to head back and continue to tick things off my to-do list!


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How a denialist's fan club got its start in the United States • Missouri Independent
WASHINGTON – The suddenly famous denier behind the broadcast of a PowerPoint filled with plans to overthrow the 2020 election has a long history of attempted electoral subversion in several states.
Retired Army Col. Phil Waldron also has close ties to former President Donald Trump's legal team and was one of his key witnesses in the efforts to overturn the election results. presidential.
This week, Waldron became known as the person responsible for distributing the document titled "Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN" to Trump allies and Republican lawmakers on the eve of the Jan.6 attack on Capitol Hill. the United States.
Waldron also said he met Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in the White House "maybe eight to ten times" after the election, the Washington Post reported. Meadows is a former congressman from North Carolina who on Tuesday was found in contempt by the United States House for failing to answer questions about his Jan.6 inquiry.
But before all this work, Waldron worked to overturn the election by casting doubt on electronic voting, pushing for election "audits" in states, including Arizona, and testifying as a witness to Election. Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani at hearings in Georgia and Michigan.
Giuliani repeatedly cited Waldron as a source of information in the legal files of the former New York mayor seeking to overturn the 2020 election. Waldron's testimony was filled with misinformation about the election administration and false allegations by fraud.
Before the election, Waldron began working with the Texas-based Allied Security Operations Group, a company run by cybersecurity analyst Russell James Ramsland Jr., Waldron told the Washington Post. Ramsland, a Republican businessman and defeated congressional candidate, is considered one of the top election deniers to spread false election information, the Post said.
Despite the lack of evidence behind Allied Security Operations Group's allegations of inaccuracies in e-voting audit logs, Republican officials urged it to advise them after the election. In February, Arizona Republican Senate Speaker Karen Fann brought in Waldron and the Allied Security Operations Group to conduct an election audit in Maricopa County under the direction of another company. Arizona Senate Republicans then hired Cyber Ninjas to lead the audit.
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Q: inject inline gulp-svgstore into pug (formerly jade) I'm using gulp-store to inject into pug. I got it to inject into a pug file in the tags/comments but it's on html. How can i make the output in pug syntax?
var gulp = require('gulp');
var svgstore = require('gulp-svgstore');
var inject = require('gulp-inject');
var pug = require('gulp-pug');

gulp.task('default', function () {
    var svgs = gulp
        .src('src/*.svg')
        .pipe(svgstore({ inlineSvg: true }));

    function fileContents (filePath, file) {
        return file.contents.toString();
    }

    return gulp
        .src('src/svg.pug')
        .pipe(inject(svgs, { transform: fileContents }))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('src'));
});

A: I know this is a couple months old, but I actually came across your question when I was searching for an answer similar to this, and I figured out a solution I hope could work for your project.
So it seems like you grabbed that code from gulp-svgstore's documentation. First things first, you'll notice that the inject tags they are using are for injecting into HTML:
<div class="visuallyhidden">
  <!-- inject:svg --><!-- endinject -->
</div>

In order for this to work with Pug, you need to change the tags to:
.visuallyhidden
  //- inject:svg
  //- endinject

This could be all you needed, but I'd like to share some gulp tasks that I used to combine multiple SVGs into one SVG using <symbol> elements that I then injected into a .pug template.
Steps
First I created a svgstore task combines multiple SVG files into a single SVG using <symbol> tags.
gulp.task('svgstore', () => {
  var target = gulp.src('app/includes/svg-defs.pug');
  var source = gulp.src('app/svg/*.svg')
    .pipe($.svgmin())
    .pipe($.svgstore({inlineSvg: true}));

  function fileContents(filePath, file) {
    return file.contents.toString();
  }

  return target
    .pipe($.inject(source, {transform: fileContents}))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('app/includes'));
});

The structure of my app looked like:
app
  |
  +--includes
  |  |
  |  +--svg-defs.pug
  |  +--header.pug
  +--svg
  |  |
  |  +--svg-1.svg
  |  +--svg-2.svg
  +--images
  +--styles
  +--scripts

So any SVG file in the svg directory would get combined into a single SVG.
In svg-defs.pug I included the inject tags:
.svg-defs-container.visuallyhidden
  //- inject:svg
  //- endinject

Then in my gulp serve task, I had to include a watch for any .svg changes in my svg directory.
gulp.task('serve', ['views', 'styles', 'scripts', 'fonts'], () => {

  ...

  gulp.watch('app/svg/*.svg', ['svgstore']);
  gulp.watch('app/data.json', ['views']);
  gulp.watch('app/**/*.pug', ['views']);
  gulp.watch('app/styles/**/*.scss', ['styles']);
  gulp.watch('app/scripts/**/*.js', ['scripts']);
  gulp.watch('app/fonts/**/*', ['fonts']);
  gulp.watch('bower.json', ['wiredep', 'fonts']);
});

I also had to modify the views task to run svgstore before any of it's logic could run. This is because we want to inject the single SVG into our template before gulp complies our pug into HTML.
gulp.task('views', ['svgstore'], () => {
  return gulp.src('app/*.pug')
    .pipe($.plumber())
    .pipe($.pug({pretty: true}))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('.tmp'))
    .pipe(reload({stream: true}));
});

Finally, I just added a simple include to my index.pug file:
include ./includes/mixin-interior.pug
doctype html
html.no-js(lang='')
  include ./includes/head.pug

  body
    include ./includes/browser-support.pug
    include ./includes/analytics.pug
    include ./includes/svg-defs.pug

    ...

I used Yeoman's generator-webapp to generate my project and gulpfile.js. I had to do some customizing to get it to work with Pug, but check out the full gulpfile if things don't make sense.

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Hadfield is a town in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England, with a population at the 2021 Census of 6,763. It lies on the south side of the River Etherow, near to the border with Greater Manchester, at the western edge of the Peak District close to Glossop.

Geography
Hadfield is in the northwest of England, between Bottoms Reservoir and the Glossop Brook, on the southern side of the River Etherow valley, which is known as Longdendale. The town lies between  above sea level. Hadfield is  from Manchester.

History
Hadfield was part of the Manor of Glossop and, at the time of the Domesday survey,  belonged to William the Conqueror. King Henry I granted the land to William Peveril. In 1157, King Henry II gave it to the Abbey of Basingwerk. In 1537, King Henry VIII gave it to the Earl of Shrewsbury, from whom it came to the Howard family (Dukes of Norfolk). While the Howards were responsible in the 1810s for the development of Glossop, it was the Sidebottom family who developed Hadfield. They bought the Waterside and Bridge Mill complex from John Turner and John Thornley in 1820.

For three generations, they developed these mills as a large spinning and weaving combine. They built their own branch railway to the mill and, in 1880, ran 293,000 spindles and 4,800 looms. In 1896, the Sidebottoms went into liquidation. Bridge Mill was destroyed by fire in 1899, but Waterside Mill was bought by John Gartside and Co of Ashton-under-Lyne. Gartside's re-equipped the mills with automatic looms from the United States and installed new engines and electric lighting.

During the First World War (1914–18), the mill was taken over by the Greenfield Mill Company but parts of the mill were used to produce munitions. After the war, the company declined. In 1940, the mill was occupied by Maconochie's Foodstuffs Ltd, which had been bombed out of its previous premises in London. By 1954, about half of the original building had been demolished and more was to go. In 1976, the site was redeveloped and renamed as the Hadfield Trading Estate.

Station Mill was built in 1834 by Thomas and Edward Platt, members of a family who had farmed Longdendale for generations. The family owned this cotton mill for 68 years, before selling it in 1923 to E. Wilman & Sons, which converted it to silk noil spinning. The mill closed in 1989.

Hadfield Mills were corn mills from before 1819. In 1874, Thomas Rhodes and Sons converted the mills to the manufacture of cotton. A thousand workers were employed there in 1873, but it closed in 1932. In 1940, it was reopened by Hadfield Worsted Mills Ltd for cloth manufacture.

Hadfield and its mills were linked to Glossop via an electric tramway which operated between 1903 and 1927.

Governance
Hadfield is administered by High Peak Borough Council at the Town/District/Borough level of Government and by Derbyshire County Council at County level.

Representation on Derbyshire County Council is split between the divisions of Glossop and Charlesworth, and Etherow – with the majority of the town being in the Etherow division. The Etherow division contains Hadfield North, Hadfield South, Gamesley and the large and sparsely populated Tintwistle ward. The Glossop and Charlesworth division contains, amongst others, the Padfield ward (which takes the northern side of Station Road, the main shopping street). These boundaries were set in 2013.

Representation on High Peak Borough Council

Hadfield does not have a parish council.

The Member of Parliament for the High Peak constituency, since 2019, has been Robert Largan MP who represents the Conservative Party. His majority in the 2019 general election was 590 over the Labour candidate Ruth George.

Transport
Hadfield lies within close proximity of the county boundary with Greater Manchester and some services are provided with this in mind. Though lying within Derbyshire and the East Midlands, some of Hadfield's transport facilities are managed by Transport for Greater Manchester.

Railway

The town is served by Hadfield and Dinting railway stations, on the Glossop line. Hadfield is the terminus, with most trains running first to Glossop and then reversing back through Dinting towards Manchester Piccadilly. The railway, formerly known as the Woodhead Line, used to run through to Penistone and Sheffield, via the Woodhead Tunnel, but passenger services were withdrawn in 1970. Goods trains ran until 1981, when Hadfield became the terminus. The track to the east was lifted subsequently and has now been adopted as part of the Longdendale Trail footpath.

Roads
The A57, which links Manchester to Sheffield via the Snake Pass, passes to the south of Hadfield, from Woolley Bridge to Dinting Vale. The A628 road, from Manchester to Barnsley and Sheffield over the Woodhead Pass, runs on the other side of the River Etherow through Hollingworth and Tintwistle. These two roads are major freight routes and are often congested, which has created traffic problems both for Hadfield and the neighbouring towns and villages. The proposed Mottram to Tintwistle by-pass is intended to relieve the congestion.

Buses
Bus services in the area are operated by Stagecoach Manchester and High Peak Buses. The town is served by three main bus routes:
 237, which runs twice per hour in each direction towards Glossop and Ashton-under-Lyne
 341, which runs hourly to both Glossop and Hyde
 393, which is an hourly circular route linking the town to Padfield, Glossop and Shirebrook Park.

Media

The popular BBC television comedy series The League of Gentlemen was filmed in Hadfield, which doubled as the fictional town of Royston Vasey.  In the film spin-off from the original series, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, Hadfield appears as itself when the characters from the TV series enter into the real world through a supposed portal below a church.  The statue featured in the series and film's opening credits is the war memorial, commemorating lives lost in the First and Second World Wars.

See also
Listed buildings in Hadfield, Derbyshire

References

Towns in Derbyshire
Towns and villages of the Peak District
Glossop


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The globally popular car-hailing app Uber has been concentrating on developing its self-driving cars department in an efficient manner. In order to achieve this motive, the company has announced the launch of the Uber AI Labs. To run self-driving cars without any mishap, it is essential to have expertise in the field of artificial intelligence. Keeping this in mind, Uber has decided to take the big step of launching its own technological lab. This lab will mainly focus on the proper development of self-driving cars to make autonomous driving a success.
As Uber provides its services through a smartphone app, it is necessary for the company to be well-acquainted with the latest technology. Hence it is no surprise that the car-hailing app is focusing its attention on developing self-driving cars. For this, Uber has recently acquired an artificial intelligence startup called the Geometric Intelligence. This investment is to work on the loopholes of the self-driving car technology and launch it on the roads soon. The value of this deal is kept under wraps by both the parties involved.
Uber AI Labs for Self-Driving Cars
As a part of this acquisition, 15 specialist researchers of the field of artificial intelligence will form a new division in the company which will be known as Uber AI Labs. Market experts believe that this is Uber's biggest step in the field of artificial intelligence. Through this step, the company will give tough competition to other such technological firms in the field of artificial intelligence. The technology developed through these efforts will improve the efficiency of self-driving cars as well as the delivery routes. Apart from focusing on autonomous driving, Uber will also work for the betterment of its day-to-day services.
The Uber AI Labs will focus on the development of self-driving cars.
How will Uber AI Labs be beneficial
The Uber AI Labs will be formed with the staff of the tech startup Geometric Intelligence. The lab will be led by Gary Marcus, who is the co-founder of the startup and also a cognitive scientist in the New York University. Marcus states that the team will work on all areas of the company, right from improving the traffic predictions of the app to the next-gen technology of flying cars. But currently, its sole focus is autonomous driving.
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July 25, 2018 February 10, 2015 by IDSCA Staff
Seahawks GM John Schneider said that talks started with QB Russell Wilson regarding his contact with the team, and live betting services would really like to see what will come out of these discussions.
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The arrangement should be known as the Wal-Mart Protection Act, as only bicycle-shaped objects sold by mass merchandisers would be exempt from the fee as they don't sell bikes costing more than $500 in the first place.
Local bike stores will be the ones harmed by imposing the fee as it cuts into their sales margins or could convince potential customers to go online to buy their next bike.
The total revenue from the bicycle sales fee is infinitesemal when compared to the total amount that House Democrats want to raise to pay for more and wider expressways, as well as other transportation projects, according to a fact sheet that explains the proposal.
Also on the table is a gasoline sales tax increase (2 cents more a year for 5 years), a motor vehicle excise tax (0.7%), commercial gross weight fee (15% increase) and $3 billion in bonds.
Altogether, these revenue sources would raise nearly $9.8 billion. Of that, the bicycle sales fee of $25 per bicycle would raise an estimated $1 million over 10 years.
That's not even one-tenth of a percent of the total. It's $1 compared to $9,800.
The plan was put forward by Rep. Judy Clibborn of Mercer Island. She's the chairperson of the House Transportation Committee.
Cascade and the Bicycle Alliance of Washington last week sent a letter to Clibborn that contained proposals on addressing the state's transportation woes. Here's a copy of that letter.
More details on the plan are explained at the Seattle Times.
I suggest that if this does become law, that bike shops start selling Frame and Rims separately, thus avoiding the combined cost of $500, and if the bike is really pricy then they might have to separate the bike a little more….my last bike build was over $1000 total, but not one piece was over $500.
Tax bikes inversely to their price. The cheaper the bike, the higher the tax.
In some ways this does make sense. There's already an 11% excise tax on firearms and ammunition to support conservation.


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Home Economy Governor suggests damaging prices in the toolbox but no strategies to use
Governor suggests damaging prices in the toolbox but no strategies to use
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Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, poses for a photograph on his very first day in the submit at the central financial institution in the City of London, U.K., on Monday, March 16, 2020.
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Financial institution of England Governor Andrew Bailey informed CNBC Thursday that there are no strategies to deploy adverse interest charges in the coming months, in spite of the U.K. central bank's "constrained situation."
His feedback arrived shortly immediately after the BOE's Financial Plan Committee voted unanimously to maintain benchmark interest rates at an all-time minimal of .1%.
Policymakers also resolved to depart the measurement of the central bank's bond-buying plan unchanged at £745 billion ($981 billion).
Sterling climbed .4% to notch a new five-thirty day period large of $1.3184 shortly after the announcement. The U.K. currency has considering that pared gains.
When questioned in the course of an job interview with CNBC's Geoff Cutmore no matter whether the lender would take into consideration adverse curiosity premiums following calendar year, Bailey replied: "No, I can not give you that mainly because I would hardly ever give you a judgement on what monetary plan is heading to be a calendar year ahead before we get there."
"What I can explain to you is that other analysts are basically right, in the sense of stating it is in the toolbox. But, there is no prepare at the minute to bring it out of the toolbox and place it to work," Bailey stated.
A lady donning a protective encounter mask crosses the street in front of the Bank of England in what would ordinarily be the morning hurry hour in the Metropolis of London on March 17th, 2020. The money district of the United kingdom is unusually peaceful just after the govt asked for men and women to refrain from all but necessary vacation and functions yesterday.
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"We have appeared at the working experience of other central financial institutions," he included, highlighting that quite a few central banking companies throughout continental Europe are possibly currently working with unfavorable fascination premiums or have done so formerly.
"I imagine there is a close relationship amongst the efficiency of destructive fascination fees and the structure of the banking technique, significantly the amount of money of retail funding. And also, the position in the economic cycle at which they have been utilised in distinctive nations," Bailey ongoing.
"Wanting at that and seeking at our scenario, it tends to make perception to say: Appear, we require as quite a few equipment in the box as we can get at the minute since obviously, we are in a constrained placement with desire rates as lower as they are," Bailey stated.
"I would also caution any one who thinks that that indicates we are about to pull them out of the box and set them to work. That is not what we are discussing at the moment."
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The BOE stated on Thursday that the U.K.'s gross domestic item (GDP) was expected to have fallen 20% in the next quarter when when compared to the remaining 3 months of final 12 months. The Financial Policy Committee's current central projection was for U.K. GDP to continue on to get well past the in the vicinity of term, but it warned that the economy was not likely to exceed its pre-pandemic stage right up until the stop of 2021.
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"It nonetheless appears to be much too optimistic to me," Simon French, chief economist at Panmure Gordon, instructed CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Thursday.
If the BOE's revised economic forecast performs out, he argued, it would mark "the quickest recovery to pre-economic downturn ranges for 50 years."
"An conclude of 2021 return to Q4 2019 output is about a calendar year-and-a-half before than we have in our forecasts," French explained. "I feel the scarring to the U.K. labour market place will more major, there will be a significant rotation of funds and labour to the new patterns of financial demand and that all will take time."
The BOE stated employment premiums in the U.K. appeared to have fallen in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, even though this experienced been "quite drastically mitigated" by the amazing short term guidance schemes imposed by the govt.
Nonetheless, it warned of "appreciable uncertainty" for employment as Downing Avenue prepares to convey an end to these similar assistance steps.
"In the near expression, the unemployment rate is projected to rise materially," the Bank reported, predicting the fee to climb to around 7.5% by the close of the yr, "consistent with a content degree of spare potential."
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(Newser) – The drowning deaths of six people thrown from a whale-watching vessel that capsized off Canada's West Coast in 2015 have been ruled accidental, but that's not stopping a coroner from proposing a big change to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. In a report out Tuesday, Courtney Cote of the British Columbia Coroners Service says life jackets were "the only variable" that could've prevented the deaths of five Britons and an Australian shortly after a wave flipped the Leviathan II, carrying 27 people, as "witness statements indicate five of the six were unresponsive within two to three minutes," per the Canadian Press. Though Transport Canada requires small commercial vessels to have life jackets accessible to all passengers, Cote now recommends they be worn by all on outer decks of boats larger than 15 gross tons and carrying more than 12 people.
Whales have overturned boats so life , jackets should be mandatory , it's obvious .
There wasn't a report of the water temperature. Thermal Shock, commonly called hypothermia, causes a human body to rapidly become comatose when immersed in water of 40* or less. It takes only 5 minutes to lower the bodies core temp into dangerous range. Survival is limited to being immersed for 15 minutes at that temp. When the body's core temp reaches 85* it is fatal. On the other hand if life jackets had been worn, and the water temp was survivable, wouldn't this tragedy have been prevented? How did 22 of the 27 survive?
Or maybe instead of regulations up the wazoo, we humans, being non-aquatic, agree to stay off the top of water. And if we choose to do so, we accept the risk. Why is this so difficult?


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Potete dare le indicazione di aggiornamento in italiano nel dettaglio perchè dalla traduzione dall'inglese del file readme.txt ci sono incomprensioni.
(sorry, this thread is in English). Can you please tell us where we should improve the instructions, so that we can make them better?
Anyway, we're only pubishing the readme.txt file in English, as we've always done.
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Stephanie Peachey Joins Fetzer Vineyards as Fine Wine Division Leader
Posted by Submitted Content | Mar 7, 2019 | People, Wine, Personnel News, Press Releases | 0 |
Hopland, Calif. — March 7, 2019 — Fetzer Vineyards, a leader in sustainable and organic winegrowing committed to restoring, revitalizing and regenerating ecosystems and communities while producing premium wines, has hired Stephanie Peachey to develop and lead the company's Fine Wine Division. Peachey will report directly to Fetzer Vineyards CEO Giancarlo Bianchetti and hold the title of Vice President.
In addition to its own fine wine brands, including Sanctuary, The Elysian Collection by Bonterra Organic Vineyards, Fringe Collective, and the estate Biodynamic® vineyard line from Bonterra, Fetzer Vineyards also oversees U.S. marketing and distribution for the fine wine portfolio of its parent company, Viña Concha y Toro, headquartered in Chile. The nation's largest importer of South American wines, Fetzer Vineyards markets acclaimed selections such as Chile's iconic Cabernet Sauvignon from Puente Alto, Don Melchor, and the Cono Sur, Marques de Casa Concha, and Terrunyo lines from Chile, as well as the Trivento Golden Reserve collection from Argentina. Under Peachey's leadership, the Fine Wine Division will give these exceptional wines from California and South America focus and strategic direction to further develop in the U.S.
"We saw the need for a Fine Wine Division following our expansion in South American imports in 2018, and also to address the growing interest among U.S. trade and consumers in the premium and luxury segments of the market," said Bianchetti. "It was important to find the right executive to steward this portfolio, and in Stephanie Peachey we have a leader with the experience, insight and vision to successfully build Fetzer Vineyards' presence in the growing fine wine space."
Peachey comes to Fetzer Vineyards from Kosta Browne winery, a California Pinot Noir purveyor recognized for its remarkable growth and widespread critical acclaim. As Vice President for brand strategy and direct-to-consumer marketing for Kosta Browne, Peachey created and executed marketing and sales strategies, including media and trade relations, brand development, and consumer engagement. Prior to her time at Kosta Browne, Peachey was Vice President of direct-to-consumer at Vintage Wine Estates, overseeing the strategic operations and sales for nearly a dozen tasting rooms and DTC brands including Clos Pegase, Cosentino and Swanson Vineyards in Napa Valley, and B.R. Cohn and Viansa in Sonoma Valley.
"It is an honor to join the talented international team from Fetzer Vineyards and Viña Concha y Toro that brings to life the Fine Wine Division portfolio," said Peachey. "Both organizations have a history of commitment to sustainable practices and developing quality wines for a range of consumer interests, including an impressive portfolio of fine wines."
Peachey holds an MBA in Wine Business Management from Sonoma State University and a BA in business administration from Stephen F. Austin State University. She is based in the Healdsburg, California offices of Fetzer Vineyards.
About Fetzer Vineyards
Celebrating over 50 years of acclaimed winegrowing, Fetzer Vineyards was founded in 1968 by Barney Fetzer in Mendocino County, California. An award-winning purveyor of wines and spirits spanning multiple origins and available in more than 50 countries worldwide, Fetzer Vineyards is a leader in sustainable business practices, organic winegrowing, and craftsmanship in the cellar.
In addition to offerings under the winery's flagship Fetzer label, the winery also crafts the leading wine from organic grapes, Bonterra Organic Vineyards, named American Winery of the Year by Wine Enthusiast magazine in 2016. Other California offerings include Adorada, Anthony's Hill, Jekel Vineyards, Sanctuary Wines and 1000 Stories, a global leader in crafting Bourbon barrel-aged wines. Part of global winery Viña Concha y Toro, Fetzer Vineyards imports iconic South American wines such as Chile's most-acclaimed wine, Don Melchor, as well as the Cono Sur, Viña Maipo, Marques de Casa Concha, Casillero del Diablo and Frontera labels from Chile, in addition to Argentina's Trivento Reserve. Recently, Fetzer Vineyards entered the ultra-luxury wine and spirits category by forging a partnership with Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. to sell its historic craft rye whiskey and Bourbon.
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