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The Belgian Conundrum
Por Francine Mestrum | 09 Nov 10 | Posted under: Belgica
Federal elections took place in Belgium on June 13, 2010, three and a half months before these lines were written. There is as yet no government, and not one of the problems that gave rise to the elections has been solved. It is not an easy task to try and explain the situation to people from abroad.
Let us, however, give it a try. Belgium is a federal state, as a result of various reforms of the past decades. The institutional make-up of Belgium is rather complicated. Belgium has three (cultural) communities that are language based: the Northern Dutch-speaking (Flemish) community, the Southern French-speaking (Walloon community) and a small German-speaking community. Next to these communities, there are three "regions", based on territory: a Flemish region, a Walloon region (including the German speaking community) and a bilingual Brussels region. The Constitution also speaks of four linguistic regions: Flemish, French, German and a bilingual region Brussels Capital.
Why did the federal government fall?
The territories of these three communities, three regions and four linguistic regions do not coincide. Each community and each region has its own government and parliament, alongside the federal government and bi-cameral parliament. However, in Flanders, where the territory of the region and the community coincide, the governments and parliaments have merged. This gives Belgium a total of six governments and six parliaments. Regional elections do not coincide with federal elections.
There had been federal elections in June 2007. They were won in the North by a coalition of Christian-Democrats and nationalists, in the South by the liberals. The Christian-Democratic leader had promised "five minutes of political courage" to solve the remaining "communitary" problems of the country (the splitting up of one electoral constituency around Brussels). Nevertheless, it took almost one year to constitute a government of Christian democrats, nationalists, French-speaking socialists and liberals. However, it did not succeed in splitting up of the constituency of Brussels-Halle Vilvoorde (BHV). After many failed negotiations, the liberals finally quit the government.
The new elections did not make things easier. In Flanders, the vote was clearly won by the Nationalist Party, with 28 %. These votes come from their former Christian-Democratic partner (which fell to an historic low of 17.3 %) and from the extreme right nationalist party (Vlaams Belang), which fell back to 12.5 %. The Flemish social democrats reached their historic low of 14.7 %, the liberals got 13.6 % (a loss of more than 5 %), whereas the Greens, with 6.8 %, maintained their previous level.
In the southern part of the country, the situation was even clearer: 37.1 % for the social-democrats, a 10 % loss for the liberals (22.5 %), 14.8 % for the Christian Democrats and 12.5 % for the Greens.
The two political winners, Bart De Wever for the Flemish National Alliance (NVA) and Elio Di Rupo for the French-speaking social democrats, are ideological opposites. Nevertheless, there is no other constitutionally acceptable solution than an agreement between them, since another constitutional reform will require a two-thirds majority.
The problems that need to be solved
There are three important "knots" to be untied.
First, the economic and social issues: Belgium has and always had a huge public deficit which rose again with the financial crisis. Far-reaching austerity was promised by all political parties, and the trade unions are ready for tough negotiations on the welfare state, which has remained relatively intact in the past years. However, these problems have not been discussed yet. They await a solution because of the communitary problems.
The second and major problem before the elections was indeed the carving up of the electoral constituency of BHV (Brussels Halle Vilvoorde). This is a consequence of an electoral reform of some years ago, with the purpose of making the provinces coincide with the electoral districts. The central province of Brabant (with Brussels) was split into two: a French-speaking part and a Dutch-speaking part. However, the old constituency of Brussels Halle Vilvoorde remained, a situation considered to be inequitable by the Constitutional Court. The problem is that some formally Flemish municipalities around Brussels have "facilities" for its French speaking inhabitants. They can vote for French-speaking candidates on lists in Brussels. If the constituency is split, this right would disappear, and that is why the French-speaking parties justifiably want compensation. The point is that many of these municipalities have a French speaking majority of up to 80%. The major problem is the opposition between the principle of "territory" (the municipalities are indeed formally in Flanders) and the principle of personal/individual issues (the sociological reality of the French-speaking population), the principles on which the regions and communities are based. Many solutions have been proposed, but none has been accepted by both parts.
The third and other very important problem came up during the negotiations for this new government. If both parts of the country now agree on the need for another reform of the state, the question remains what competences will be transferred to the regions. From the point of view of the south of the country, the two main elements of federal solidarity – taxes and social security – cannot be split up. However, this is precisely what the Flemish nationalists want. They now also asked for a reform of the legislation on the funding of the different regions: it is the federal government which is funding the different regions, according to a complicated formula. Flemish nationalists think the financial transfers from north to south have to be stopped. They also refuse to help the clearly underfunded Brussels region without its assuming more "responsibility".
What about Brussels?
Brussels, the cosmopolitan capital of Belgium, with the European Union and NATO, with its many multinational corporations and with its very important immigrant population, is the third richest region of Europe, but it has one third of its population living below the poverty line, with massive youth unemployment. Every day, around 350,000 people come to Brussels to work, but they leave again in the evening for their villages in Flanders and Wallonia. Formally, Brussels is bilingual; in reality it is a multilingual city, with a small minority of Flemish inhabitants (less than 10%), and with almost half of all households being multilingual. Neither Flanders nor Wallonia love Brussels. The Flemish dream of homogeneous linguistic communities, and with Brussels – the capital on its territory – this is totally impossible. It is also impossible to ask the Brussels population to choose one of two communities: there are too many "mixed" and multilingual households. In brief, it is Brussels that makes the splitting up of the Kingdom impossible, unless there is an agreement to make Brussels a kind of European D.C. But this is not on the agenda (yet), although, according to a recent poll, it is what the majority of Brussels' population would like.
What about nationalism?
Finally, who are these Flemish nationalists? The Flemish nationalist movement is more than one century old but gained momentum after the First World War, in which young rural Flemish boys did not understand the orders of their French-speaking officers ("Et pour les Flamands la même chose"). In its inception, the Flemish movement was a social and peace movement. This changed in the run-up to the Second World War, when the Germans promised the Flemish autonomy and later when many young Catholics listened to the church leaders' urgings to go and fight the communists on the Eastern Front.
Flanders had always been the poorer and more rural part of the country. Wallonia had its coalmines and its steel factories. It was rich and industrialised. Flanders only had its textile industry. This situation started to change after the Second World War when Flanders attracted major investments and slowly started to industrialise, while the industries of the South declined. The old Belgian capitalism had to make room for an emerging Flemish capitalism. The financial crisis of two years ago killed one of the last bastions of Belgian capitalism: Fortis or the former Société Générale.
The NVA is a part of the old Flemish nationalist party Volksunie. Vlaams Blok is the result of a first group that left the party and became the successful extreme-right and anti-immigrant party. Some years ago, the Volksunie finally was dissolved, some of its members going to the social democrats, others creating a new social-liberal party (that has meanwhile also been dissolved), some going to the Greens, while another minor part created the NVA. It is this party that now has a very intelligent and charismatic leader, Bart De Wever, with very conservative rightwing roots. It has an explicit separatist agenda, while only about 10% of the Flemish population, according to a recent opinion poll, wants to see the end of Belgium.
What this nationalist party stands for is a mix of neoliberalism and conservatism. Since the party is very young it has no staff to fall back on, but it has excellent relations with Flemish employers. "Voka (the Flemish employer's organisation) is my boss", as De Wever said. It strongly focuses on cultural identity, as the all-encompassing element of social cohesion, a "popular democracy" for their own community, which, according to some, is a kind of modern apartheid.
The discourse they developed is difficult to contest: those who do not agree are the "bad Flemish", they do not belong to "our community". Those who want to live in "our" community have to speak "our" language and adopt "our values". They created the image of a hard-working Flanders against a lazy and irresponsible Wallonia, a "rightwing Flanders" against a "leftwing Wallonia", forgetting the diversity of each region (though it is true that three explicitly rightwing parties in Flanders got 45 % of the votes).
On the social and economic front, one wonders if voters know what is in store for them: dismantling the welfare state, reducing unemployment allowances, lower wages and taxes, pension reform, etc.
It is difficult to see how a reasonable solution for all these problems can be found. But there is hardly any other solution than the current coalition of negotiating parties: Christian Democrats, Social-Democrats and Greens from the north and the south, with a dominant role for the Flemish nationalists.
Francine Mestrum
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Объект Ханни () — астрономический объект неизвестного типа в созвездии Малого Льва. Был обнаружен в 2007 году нидерландской школьной учительницей Ханни ван Аркел в ходе участия в интернет-проекте Galaxy Zoo. На фотоснимке он похож на яркую кляксу вблизи спиральной галактики IC 2497.

Описание
Первый нечёткий снимок был сделан 2,5-метровым телескопом «Исаак Ньютон» (Isaac Newton Telescope) на Канарских островах. Более чёткое изображение получено путём объединения данных с телескопа Хаббл и данных с телескопа WIYN в Китт-Пик (штат Аризона, США). Экспозиции на ACS сделаны 12 апреля 2010, а WFC3 — 4 апреля 2010 года.
На иллюстрации объект окрашен в зелёный — ложный цвет, который обычно используется для отображения линий спектра излучения кислорода.

Объект находится на том же расстоянии от Земли, что и соседняя галактика — около 650 млн световых лет.
По размеру он сравним с нашей Галактикой и имеет в центре огромное отверстие — более  в поперечнике.

Радионаблюдения показали, что из центра галактики IC 2497 происходит отток газа, который взаимодействует с ближайшей к ней частью объекта Ханни, в результате чего образуются новые звёзды. Самым молодым из них несколько миллионов лет.

Гипотезы
Точная природа объекта на данный момент неизвестна. Не исключено, что данный объект является остатком небольшой галактики. Также возможно, что объект является потоком вещества, вырванного из IC 2497 пролетавшей мимо галактикой.

Отдельные области объекта ионизированы мощным излучением, источник которого не установлен. Возможно, что это была вспышка квазара в ядре IC 2497, которая произошла некоторое время назад, но вызванное ей свечение ещё наблюдается, поскольку свету необходимо несколько десятков тысяч лет, чтобы дойти от IC 2497 до объекта Ханни (эффект светового эха).

По другой версии, свечение вызвано взаимодействием релятивистских джетов, испускаемых чёрной дырой, находящейся в центре IC 2497, с газом, окружающим галактику.

Дальнейшее изучение
Voorwerp и соседние галактики являются объектами активных астрофизических исследований. Организованы наблюдения за IC 2497 с космических рентгеновских телескопов XMM-Newton и Suzaku.

См. также
 Pea galaxy — другой тип объектов, обнаруженный участниками Galaxy Zoo
 VIRGOHI21

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 SIMBAD
 Galaxy Zoo's blue mystery (part I) — Janet Raloff, «Science News»
 Galaxy Zoo's blue mystery (part 2) — Janet Raloff
 Hanny's Voorwerp (SDSS J094103.80+344334.2)  Hanny's Voorwerp at Bill Keel's pages University of Alabama.
 Hanny's Voorwerp — Still Alive and Kicking  — Tammy Plotner, «Universe Today»
 www.hannysvoorwerp.com  персональный сайт Ханни ван Аркел
 Astronomers Solve The Mystery of Hanny's Voorwerp , журнал «Technology Review»

Малый Лев (созвездие)
Астрономические объекты

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A sculptor whose work extends into photography, film and painting, Jason Shulman's work is frequently occupied with themes of analgesia, loss and the delusiveness of perception. Utilising optics and other simple scientific methods, he brings an atmosphere of experimentation to his absorbing photographic prints, pen-and-ink and mixed-media works, exposing the falsehoods that underpin our everyday experience of the physical world. Shulman's 'Photographs of Films' — a series of photographs which record the entire duration of a film in a single exposure — were debuted by Cob Gallery in 2016, and he has exhibited at institutions including White Cube and at the Moscow Biennale.
Jason Shulman lives and works in London. Cob Gallery debuted 'Photographs of Films' in 2016, and presented Jason's solo exhibition 'Some Work' in 2017. Group exhibitions include 'Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick', Somerset House, London (2014); 'Out of Our Heads', Shoreditch Town Hall, London (2014); La Maison Rouge, Paris (2013); The Wand, Berlin (2013); MONA, Tasmania, Australia (2012); The Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, USA (2011) and White Cube Gallery (Hoxton), London (2008). His work was also presented at Photo London, Somerset House, London (2017) and the Third Moscow Biennale, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2009). Shulman's work is included in public institutions and foundations including MONA and David Roberts Art Foundation.
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ANDREW: Let's get back to Becky and Warren Buffett now in Omaha. But before you guys kick it off, I have a quick question for Warren, which is this: A couple of weeks ago Rajat Gupta the Goldman's—former Goldman Sachs board member was charged criminally with tipping off Raj Rajaratnam on what was your investment in Goldman Sachs. And I was curious A, if you knew anything about it either directly or indirectly; and B, your sort of larger view on the fact that a board member at a firm like Goldman Sachs, which you do believe in, potentially might've been tipping off and giving information to others.
BUFFETT: Well, I think that unfortunately people do that and when they do, I hope they get caught and when they get caught, I hope they get prosecuted. It—you know, the system has a lot of temptations in it and people succumb to temptations and the only way that you reduce that kind of activity is you look very hard to find it and then you do something about it when you do find it.
ANDREW: I was also curious, real quick, if I could, an update on the David Sokol situation. Has there been any movement, have you heard back? I know at the time, last time we talked about this back in May, you had not heard from the government. Has the government moved on this or talked to you about it all?
BUFFETT: The only time, in June, the SEC, it wasn't—it wasn't formal or informal and it was not a deposition, no court reporter, anything like that. But they asked me to—well, they asked me a lot of questions and—which I gave them the answer to and so I know nothing about what's—what they're doing beyond the fact that they wanted to ascertain certain facts from Berkshire and from me as to what had taken place.
BUFFETT: And we cooperated—we cooperated 100 percent. Like I say, it was—it was not a—it was not a—there was no court reporter, nothing like that.
JOE: Seeing NetJets—sorry, Beck, seeing NetJets again, just reminds me of the—you—are you on the record saying that you think it's a bad idea to—for—to get rid of any type of tax breaks for corporate jets, Warren? I mean, you do have a horse in that game, too.
BUFFETT: Yeah. Well, I can say this, we have a—I have a couple of personal NetJets contracts. I get no tax breaks whatsoever. I don't get depreciation, I don't get deduction of the expenses, I don't get anything.
BUFFETT: And if I have a loss when I sell my interest in the plane, I don't get a—I don't get to deduct the loss or anything of the sort. It's just a personal expenditure. You know, there's 100 percent bonus depreciation that exists this year on really all sorts of assets. I mean, what we're—what we're spending money for on our utility, what we're spending money for on our railroad. And that—I assume that applies to—well, I know it applies to corporate aircraft or any kind of—any kind of aircraft used for business purposes. But I don't—I don't think—I really—in terms of Berkshire, we have a whatever depreciation schedule was allowed and we bought ours when there was normal depreciation, our interest in NetJet and like I say I get no deductions whatsoever on my own personal.
BECKY: Now Warren, you've talked about—oh.
BECKY: You talked about how you—you OK, Joe?
BUFFETT: The last time I flew commercial?
BECKY: Flew a commercial jet.
BUFFETT: It was a long, long time ago. It won't happen again.
JOE: What was the—what was the in-flight—that's what I said, the in-flight movie? The in-flight movie was Charlie Chaplin. It had just come out. It was still in theaters.
BUFFETT: Joe, I tell you, if—once you—once you've flown NetJets, going back to commercial is like going back to holding hands.
JOE: Don't rub—don't rub it in.
BUFFETT: I don't have the faintest idea what the stock market's going to do and I would say this, in the last 75 years, Macy's has probably been disappointed with their sales at least 25 or 50 times and General Motors has seen a slowdown 20 times. It really doesn't make sense in my view to pay attention to that. I mean, the luckiest person in the world, in the history of the world, is the baby that's being born in the United States today.
BECKY: It wasn't even a bad quarter, though. I was just saying that the numbers could be a little below what the Street was expecting.
BECKY: So I guess the question is, are the expectations getting ahead of where we really are?
BUFFETT: Well, I—my—I don't think mine are. I mean, what I see is I see an economy where most of the economy has been recovering quite steadily, although the public opinion hasn't been as steady, but quite steadily for a couple of years now. We should thank Bernanke and Paulson and President Bush and President Obama and Tim Geithner for doing a lot of things that helped us get out of what could've been a terrible, terrible mess. It was a mess.
BUFFETT: But we really were right at the abyss and we had—we had a government that did the right things. Maybe they did some wrong things earlier, maybe they didn't do it perfectly.
BUFFETT: But I give them great credit and this country's best days lie ahead, believe me.
BECKY: I know that this is not something you pay attention to on a daily basis or even a weekly or a monthly basis, but the market volatility has increased and you talked a little earlier about how there's always uncertainty out there. But that uncertainty seems to be something that is resonating with the public and with investors right now. Do you see an end to that uncertainty or is this a slightly different period where we're very worried about the headline risk coming out of Europe?
BUFFETT: I wouldn't worry about the headline risk unless I was on leverage.
BUFFETT: I mean, if I own a good business privately, am I worried about what the headlines are tomorrow if I've got the best—if I've got the best restaurant in town? If I've got the best dry-cleaning establishment in town? The best auto repair shop in town? I'm not worried about the headlines tomorrow, I'm worried about taking care of my customer.
BUFFETT: And it's the same with big companies. So I don't know what the stock market's going to do and nobody else does, either. I mean, but forget about it. I don't know what farm prices are going to do tomorrow, either, but I know a good farm run by an honest tenant farmer and that there'll be improvements in agriculture, so just own good assets run by decent and honest people and if you can own all of them, you can own all of your own business is wonderful, you own a little piece of it, it's wonderful, but don't pay any—volatility is good for you.
BUFFETT: I mean, if farm prices would vary from X to 3X in a given year, I'd make a lot of money in farming. I just buy when people were depressed. They don't move that much. Stocks overreact all the time and that's why a guy can keep his senses about him can get very rich.
BECKY: Yeah, I did notice. Whitney Tilson came out with a report, I don't know, maybe it was a month or two ago, and said that he thinks there's an 80 percent chance that you'll still be the chairman and CEO of Berkshire in five years and a 50 percent chance that you'll still be doing this 10 years from now.
BUFFETT: I think he's right about the 80 percent chance. I'll have to go look at the figures, but I'm in, you know, I'm in very good health, I love what I do and I'll go gaga someday and they'll yank me out of here.
BECKY: But you feel good and you think that that's a reasonable 80 percent chance that you'll be doing this five years from now?
BUFFETT: Yeah, if I'm lucky, sure.
BECKY: Joe Paterno is somebody else who's been doing his job a very long time.
BUFFETT: Don't bring him up.
BECKY: Well, there was some newspaper reports, I think the AP wrote a story about how, you know, you're one of the few people who's been doing things almost as long as he did. He had a longer tenure than you did and Nebraska beat Penn State over this weekend.
BECKY: Did you watch the game?
BUFFETT: Sure. I enjoyed the game.
BECKY: But it does say something about long tenure.
BUFFETT: Age gets to you at some point.
BUFFETT: It gets to different people at different points. I mean, we've had managers that we've had to terminate, you know, in their low 70s.
BUFFETT: And others were better in their 70s than they were in their 40s or 50s. It varies enormously and—but obviously, age takes its toll.
BUFFETT: And the question is when it—when it becomes noticeable and as I've told people, I said, you know, my three kids are supposed to come in as a group and say, you know, you're going gaga, dad. I tell them if only one comes in, they're out of the will, so they have to come in as a group.
BECKY: You brought in new managers to manage some money and that has raised some questions about things, too. You brought in Ted Seides and Todd who was there before, but we haven't talked to you since you brought in Ted.
BUFFETT: Ted Weschler, yeah. Right.
BECKY: And that has people wondering are you looking at people to be running these management or is this just part of building up your bench?
BUFFETT: Well, three or four years ago we said that we were going to build up a management team that would—in investments, that would succeed me and hopefully even be helpful to the CEO in acquisitions and on that sort of thing. And it wasn't any hurry to do it. On the other hand, we had to get about it.
BUFFETT: And fortunately, I—we found two guys that are—that are home runs. And I feel terrific about that. That job is done. That doesn't mean we won't add a third, but that job is done. And they will handle—in fact, you'll see some of their purchase—you'll see some of Todd's purchases in the third quarter. Any time there's a $200 million purchase or something like that, that's very likely to be Todd or Ted, that's not me because I look at bigger things. But those fellows have the capability of running the whole portfolio.
BUFFETT: And they're getting a piece of it to run now.
BECKY: I feel bad for Rick Perry. Ted Weschler. I'm coming up with things.
Guys, we only have a couple of minutes left, so if you have any one-offs that you want to get back to Warren.
ANDREW: Great. Warren, I had a question and Becky touched on it earlier, this idea of the volatility in the market. We have Larry Fink coming on the broadcast tomorrow, he owns iShares and is a big supporter of the ETF business.
ANDREW: Do you think that ETFs are ultimately creating some of this volatility? Are they good or bad for the market?
BUFFETT: Well, I don't know about them specifically, but I would think anything that causes people to think they can trade actively in stocks and do better than if they sat on their rear is a terrible mistake. American business has done wonderful, wonderfully for investors over the years, yet many investors have managed to turn in bad performances. You can say to yourself if the Dow started the 20th century at 66 and is now at 12,000, how could anybody lose money? But people do lose money. But they lose money by trying to jump in and out of this and that and think that, you know, they should buy this stock because the earnings are going to surprise on the upside or some crazy thing like that. If they just buy good businesses, they'll do fine. Just like if they bought good farms 30 years ago they do fine or good apartment houses 30 years ago, they do fine. So volatility is your friend, not your enemy. It—as long as it creates cheap prices from time to time and it does.
BUFFETT: So it—the investing game is simpler than it looks, you know, and if people would read "The Intelligent Investor" in chapter 8, they'd do fine.
ANDREW: Right. One of the other issues that may be creating volatility, people talk about it, is credit default swaps and what role they've played, for example, in Europe with some of the bonds there. And I'm curious, do you believe that credit default swaps should exist? They should be outlawed? What should happen to them?
BUFFETT: Well, they can be a very destructive instrument. I mean, if you think about it, you can't go out and insure my house against fire because you do not have an insurable interest, as they call it in the trade. Because once you insure my house against fire and you may decide that, you know, that maybe dropping a few matches around my lawn might be a good idea. And credit default swaps, if you don't own underlying debt and you buy a credit default swap, you have an interest in that place getting into trouble.
BUFFETT: And when a lot of people have an interest in a place getting in trouble, they may start putting out misleading statements about it. I mean, if you had a bank—if you were short the stock of a bank, you might hire—and there wasn't any FDIC, you might go out and hire 100 movie extras to stand in front of that bank.
BUFFETT: And in effect, you would create your own reality. Now buying credit default swaps and talking about them and causing the price of credit default swaps to go up creates its own reality to some degree. So I think that they are potentially a very anti-social instrument.
BECKY: Hm. You know we are down to just the last minute or two of time and I know that you have the SEC filings for Berkshire that will come out tonight. You've already told us that IBM is the big purchase that will be revealed in those. Are there other big surprises we might see in those filings?
JOE: One last chance, Warren, come on. Give us something, one.
BUFFETT: There won't be surprises. I've mentioned that we increased our Wells some and you'll probably see a few purchases that Todd—Ted has not gone to work for us yet, but he will be coming in January.
BUFFETT: You'll see a few purchases that Todd has made. And incidentally, he doesn't—he doesn't check with me before making those purchases. He has a block of money and he can do—he can be doing things while we sit here and it's entirely his book.
BECKY: All right. Will you find out what they are when you get back to the office?
BECKY: Or do you find out when the SEC filings come in?
BUFFETT: I might find out a month later. That's the way it was with Lou Simpson, too, when he worked for us.
BECKY: Well, Warren, we want to thank you very much for being with us for this program. It's been great talking to you.
BUFFETT: Thanks for having me.
JOE: Thanks for the brick.
JOE: Thanks for the brick, too.
ANDREW: A big special thanks to Mr. Buffett.


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WHY CHINA A BIGGER SUSPECT THAN IMF-WB
Bangladesh has made it clear that it won't take any further loan from Beijing while Nepal has also taken same stand
Asad Mirza
The recent economic upheaval followed by the political disruption in Sri Lanka, has once again made China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) the focus of debate whether it is beneficial or insensitive to the participating countries besides being a success or a failure.
Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the BRI with much fanfare and high promises and grandiose plans for the participating countries in 2013. It was considered to be a centrepiece of the Chinese foreign and trade policy.
As claimed by China, the BRI, earlier known as One Belt One Road (OBOR), is basically a global infrastructure development strategy to invest in nearly 150 countries and international organisations, around the globe.
The BRI formed a central component of Xi's "Major Country Diplomacy" strategy, which calls for China to assume a greater leadership role for global affairs in accordance with its rising power and status. As of August, 149 countries were listed as having signed up to the BRI.
Xi originally announced the strategy as the "Silk Road Economic Belt" during an official visit to Kazakhstan in September 2013, referring to the proposed overland routes for road and rail transportation through landlocked Central Asia along the famed historical trade routes of the Western Regions; in addition to the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", referring to the Indo-Pacific sea routes through Southeast Asia to South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
In fact, the BRI was also considered a grandiose plan to challenge the American hegemony over the global trade and diplomacy.
However, the recent events in Sri Lanka, with similar echoes being heard from Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan has led some China watchers to conclude that this is an indicator of the hit that the Chinese economy has taken during the Covid pandemic and the BRI appears to be under revaluation with recipient countries wary of the debt trap and its economic feasibility.
Let's take a closer look at the original intent of the BRI, its expansion and its long and short-term impacts on the aid recipient countries and whether it has been a success or a failure and how the US could have countered it in a much better manner.
In his report in 2020, Rafiq Dossani, Director, RAND Centre for Asia Pacific Policy, opined that China's strongest motive behind the BRI was its long-term economic security. The maritime routes of the BRI would have helped the relatively underdeveloped, landlocked areas of China such as Yunnan and Xinjiang provinces by linking them with ports in the more rapidly growing areas of Asia.
At the same time, the emerging land routes of the BRI were marked as an alternative to the South China Sea, through which most of China's trade currently passes and which is becoming a zone of contestation between the US and China.
Dossani further explaining the reasons for the initial welcome of BRI opined that traditionally, many countries prefer to work with the World Bank and other multilateral lenders, which provide borrowers with good practices, while making significant funding available on a meritocratic rather than political basis.
But, he says further that from a developing country's viewpoint, accessing the world's spare capital has been difficult because of the risk entailed in many such investments. The Asian Development Bank estimates that Asian countries face an infrastructure investment gap of $459 billion a year.
This logic also explains the sentiments, which in the initial stages of the launch of the BRI seemed to be the main attractive reason for the BRI projects and Chinese funding. But nine years after its launch BRI seems to have lost its sheen, due to the economic meltdown in several countries, which borrowed heavily from China under the garb of infrastructure development, progress and prosperity.
Bangladesh Finance Minister A.H.M. Mustafa Kamal has publicly blamed economically unviable Chinese BRI projects for exacerbating economic crisis in Sri Lanka. He says that developing countries must think twice about taking more loans through BRI as global inflation and slowing growth add to the strains on indebted emerging markets.
In fact, Bangladesh has made it clear that it will not accept any further loans but only grants from Beijing. Nepal has also taken the same stand. Pakistan with some $53 billion being spent by Beijing under the aegis of BRI also faces the same fate.
China has also invested some $44 billion in Indonesia, $41 billion in Singapore, $39 billion in Russia, $33 billion in Saudi Arabia and $30 billion in Malaysia.
The cry against Chinese BRI is not limited only to Indian sub-continent alone as its reverberations can be heard in the stalled $4.7 billion railway project in Kenya, also. Five years since its launch, the project ends abruptly in an empty field, 200 miles from its destination in Uganda.
As conflicts between the US and China appear to mount, some experts have questioned the intentions of China's BRI. It has been viewed as a debt trap for impoverished states and a means for China to expand its territorial control, but is it a reality? Is the US missing an opportunity to participate-in or initiate parallel activities?
BRI has been repeatedly labelled a debt trap and a power grab, and perhaps this seemed like a possible scenario. However, this concept has been denied by Deborah Brautigam, director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. She has claimed to have found no evidence that Chinese banks over-lend or invest in loss-making projects to obtain a foothold in those countries, in one of her studies on Chinese lending to Africa.
Brautigam has also claimed that China is not engaging in debt-trap diplomacy. She has noted that in some countries the IMF has been labelled as being vulnerable. Also, Chinese loans were not responsible for pushing indebted countries above IMF debt sustainability limits, she adds.
On the other hand, it should be noted that not just impoverished nations, but East Asian and Europe countries have also been smitten by the BRI. Over 18 European Union member countries have joined the BRI and most of them have not been quite happy about it.
In fact, rather than decrying China, the US should engage in infrastructure lending to poor countries, and/or make it easier for multilateral banks to lend for such projects, reducing bureaucratic requirements. It should also initiate similar activities in under-developed or developing countries.
To better its image, China should improve transparency around BRI deals. The World Bank and other bodies have also called for increased transparency. This would go a long way in improving US and other countries' understanding of Chinese intentions about the BRI. • IANS
(The author is a political commentator based in New Delhi.)
An aerial view of the Lower Sesan II hydroelectric power station at Sesan district of Stung Treng province in Cambodia. With a length of 6,500 metres, the 400-MW dam is the largest and the seventh one built by China in Cambodia.
ONCE NERVE CENTRE OF TERRORISM, EIDGAH IS NOW A SYMBOL OF CHANGE
6.3 mn people in Sri Lanka facing food insecurity


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9 Can't Miss Concerts in Chicago This October: A$AP Mob, Katy Perry & More
October 1, 2017 TER Staff	Leave a comment
Don't think just that summer is over that great live music also has to end. As the festivals wrap up and the leaves fall in the Windy City, the concerts move indoors to some of the best venues and arenas in Chicago. And October especially is a great month to catch a concert or two in Chicago, with stars and legends like Katy Perry and Janet Jackson set to visit and artists like Hoodie Allen, Jon Bellion and the A$AP Mob scheduled to tear up the stage with headlining shows of their own.
Check out our list of the 9 can't miss concerts in Chicago this month!
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Summerfest Day 3 In Photos: Jon Bellion, House of Pain, Barns Courtney & More
July 1, 2017 TER Staff	Leave a comment
Kicking off the first weekend of Summerfest 2017, for its big 50th anniversary, Day 3 of the Milwaukee festival saw performances from a diverse selection of music. From emerging names in music like Barns Courtney and Jon Bellion, to legends like House of Pain, Summerfest had something for everyone last night, and fans did not leave disappointed.
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Lollapalooza Announces 2017 Aftershows: Royal Blood, Jon Bellion, Banks & More
May 30, 2017 TER Staff	Leave a comment
If you missed out on buying wristbands for Lollapalooza this year, or you just want to extend your festival experience, don't worry because the premiere Chicago festival has announced its full lineup of 2017 aftershows. The aftershows will run from August 1st until the 6th and will feature performances across some of the city's best clubs and concert halls.
Performing Lolla aftershows this year will be Royal Blood, Jon Bellion, Banks, Spood, Foster The People, Towkio, Mac DeMarco and many more. Tickets for the aftershows will go on sale this Friday at 10AM.
Check out some of our favorite aftershows below and see the full lineup of shows at Do312.com.
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Our 25 Most Anticipated Headliners of Summerfest's 50th Anniversary
April 12, 2017 TER Staff	Leave a comment
Summerfest went all out for its huge 50th Anniversary! After the Milwaukee festival announced the release of its lineup last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, fans were instantly relieved to see that Summerfest nailed it! Joining its previously announced American Family Insurance Amphitheater headliners, the ground stage headliners which were shared last night also show why Summerfest is a can't miss festival this year.
This year Summerfest will take place from June 28 – July 2 and July 4 – July 9 at the Summerfest Grounds in Milwaukee, WI, and fans can check here for ticket information. Ticket prices start at just $13 and $90 right now for an 11-day pass, with various promotions that run all festival long. Summerfest is one of the most unique music festivals that the country has to offer, so don't miss out!
It wasn't easy to decide who we are most excited to see at Summerfest this year, but definitely hit the jump to check out our 25 most anticipated acts of Summerfest 2017. And be sure to check out Summerfest.com for more information!
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Photos: Jon Bellion Brings The Human Condition Tour to Milwaukee
July 23, 2016 TER Staff	Leave a comment
Last night one of rap's most talented brought his headlining tour to The Rave in Milwaukee, WI. And while everyone in attendance came into the night knowing that artist Jon Bellion is equally talented at rapping, singing, producing and songwriting, those who saw him live for the first time on Friday night now know that the emerging artist can perform his ass off as well. Throughout the night, as the sold out crowd weathered the summer heat in the packed venue with Rave staff passing out water bottles and spraying fans with water guns, Bellion showcased everything that makes him one of the most diverse emerging acts in rap music today. Whether he was remaking his beats live for the crowd, singing at his mic stand, or rapping as he jumped from stage left to stage right, Bellion gave his all last night.
Bellion didn't travel alone either, as he brought Alec Benjamin, Blaque Keyz and an entertaining opening performance from Son Real to get the night off on a great note. Of course though it was Bellion who stole the show. Performing some of his fan favorites, like 'All Time Low', 'Jim Morrison' and a number of records from his most recent LP, even with a memorable encore and a nearly 90-minute set, the crowd was still left wanting more.
The highlight of the night though had nothing to do with his records however, as early into his set, Jon Bellion stopped the music for a moment of silence and to have his crowd send positive energy to fans who were unable to attend the night's performance because they were involved in a car accident. This moment, combined with the fact that Bellion sold out the venue despite not yet having a catalog of huge hits and still being an emerging artist, shows that Bellion has a special relationship with his fans that most artists just can't match. Even if you weren't his biggest fan, you could certainly feel that energy in the crowd last night, as Bellion put on a memorable show for Milwaukee.
Check out our photos from Jon Bellion's Milwaukee performance below and check out the remaining dates of The Human Condition Tour at his official website.
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Photos: Jon Bellion Performs at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago
BY JESUS MONTERO
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Last week we interviewed Jon Bellion and DJ White Shadow, as part of their new partnership with W Hotels (check out the full conversation here). After sitting down with the two talented artists, we were invited to Jon's show later that night at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago. Bellion killed it and we got some great shots while he rocked the Chitown crowd!
Check out our photos below, as we sent our photographer Jesus Montero to capture some of the night's best moments.
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Interview: Jon Bellion Partners with W Hotels and DJ White Shadow Amidst Debut Studio Album Release
July 6, 2015 TER Staff	4 Comments
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Jon Bellion has been on a steady rise thanks to his creative unique sound, that has molded him into an artist that has many paying attention. The Long Island producer, singer and songwriter for years has been working his way up to this critical point in his career.
Bellion's has seen success most notably from his first three free mixtape/albums: Translations Through Speakers, The Separation, and The Definition. He is also known for his work on Eminem's hit record 'Monster', featuring Rihanna. Bellion this year though, has caught the mainstream spotlight once again by this time signing the vocals for Zedd's hit summer song 'Beautiful Now'. And now, Bellion partnered up with longtime Lady Gaga producer and friend DJ White Shadow for his "Destination Tour", partnering up with the luxurious W Hotels nationwide.
The 'Beautiful Now' singer is also set to release his first full length studio album, Beautiful Mind, later this year, which has the bar set high from his first three projects. "It was definitely a labor of love for the last three years." said Bellion. "I think the next step is just naturally growing, I think I've given the fans enough to trust me for them to spend their hard earned money on something that I've worked on." Bellion's thoughts were focused on his fans, as this will be his first project that is going for sale. "I'll always cater to the fans and I'm never going to over-charge for tickets, that's always going to be a constant thing in mind. But I think now the next step is going to iTunes and the radio, or having it in stores. It's a sense of legitimacy that comes from that."
Paul Blair better known as "DJ White Shadow" was recently named Music Director for North America as part of W's new Global Music Collective. His roles include handpicking music talent. "As a human being you want to keep developing things that you enjoy and things that you do." White Shadow on his role of picking music talent, told us "I started out when I was 19 years old. I used to make techno, I used to travel to Europe to put records out, then it was about making music for somebody else and reaching a larger audience and I feel like I've done that. Now what I really enjoy is helping out people be the best they can possibly be. Right now at this specific junction in my life I am really excited to help other people out."
The relationship between White Shadow and Bellion is both professional and personal. The big brother always looking out for what's best for his younger sibling was present during the interview. "For Jon, where he's at the point of his career maybe he doesn't have the ability to walk into a situation that I just have sitting." White Shadow explained "The first day I met Jon I said, 'I have to fucking sign this kid.' The day that I met him I literally knew he was going to be giant one day."
DJ White Shadow is best known for his work as a producer for Lady Gaga's albums Born This Way and Artpop. White Shadow added , "Everybody wants to be a superstar," when talking about the work needed to make it in the music industry. "Everyone wants to be famous. This is hard work. Hard work to the point where you stress your body, brain, and your relationships out. You can tell if you've been around long enough if a person is going to be able to make it or not. Being an artist is not going up on stage and putting a microphone in your hand. It's about creating so much more."
The business partnership between DJ White Shadow and Bellion on behalf of the W Hotels includes touring and exclusive experiences to fans. "I knew if I send him here, he wasn't going to get drunk in the lobby and pour champagne everywhere." DJ White Shadow's trust in Bellion's character extends beyond his musical talent. "I know he has the ability to become a stronger business person and a better performer, and whatever I can contribute to helping him do that."
A testimony to the traditional way of creating music, DJ White Shadow sites technology as constantly evolving. "That's what exciting to me, finding people that want to work hard." said DJ White Shadow. "You're able to have enough equipment to record a full blown record in your bedroom. When I was first making records I had a Roland 808 Juno that I took out every credit card out that I could to buy it. There's a lot of things that are exciting. Finding people that work hard, finding music that sounds great and people that really know what it takes to be an artist and helping support those people."
In a few short years, Bellion has set himself up in a big way to breakout when his first studio album drops. Chicago was his second to last stop on his North American tour. Bellion sees the process he's made and the journey his currently on as a "blessing". "Last tour it was 13 guys in an 11 passenger van playing anywhere from 800 people sold out in New York to a bar in the middle of North Carolina with 200-250 kids. This year, every venue quadrupled and completely sold out with oversells and bumped up rooms. To see the progression that fast, it's incredible." Bellion also explained the resources DJ White Shadow offered that made this tour more memorable. "Then out of no where, we were all prepared to tough it out, being in the band. I get a call from one of my best friends in the industry (points to DJ White Shadow), and it's like 'I'm music directing for the W hotels, we can get you a tour bus.' To see the growth and to able to carter to thousand of more fans and being healthy (is amazing). Last year it was grueling with my health, touring in a small van. To see my career grow getting to work with companies like the W Hotels… It's been amazing. This tour has been so much fun, last year was grueling, this year I've been having a lot of fun."
Bellion performs with his band, that is made up of his friends from college. Bellion also uses his close friends for social media content and when creating videos. "We made a promise to each other when we were jamming in college six to seven years ago that we would stick together if one person were to make it, we would all keep jamming. Their my best friends and it feels like I'm at summer camp with them right now." He also cites the people he surrounds himself with as a major influence to his success. Traveling and performing across the country has made many surreal moments for Bellion and his band of musically talented friends. "These are God fearing cats that love their craft and decided to actually make music in the craft of making music." Bellion added. "It's an incredible thing to see my best friends that I met in college and (who I were) jamming with when we didn't know what the hell was going on for us. Just recently a show in New York (it) sold out 60 days in advance. That's three thousands people. We all look at each other and it keeps us in check because we tell each other, 'Remember when I couldn't afford lunch at school and you had to swipe your dinner card for me?' These are the same guys. It's a blessing!"
White Shadow also shared how his first studio session with Bellion went. "If you're light minded and you have success in your blinders, that's what you're moving towards. It's a beautiful thing to see light minded people like you and racing with you and help support you. It's incredible, that's what I saw at my first session."
Bellion delivers a unique hybrid of smoothing electronic sounds with his singing and rap productions. His multitalented approach has Bellion's input into his songwriting and live performances, to directing his music videos. He also posts videos on YouTube showing fans the "Behind The Scenes" of his music "The soup of what the internet is today created an avalanche of content because technology made it so accessible." Bellion explains his involvement with all aspect of his music. "What kids want is to gravitate toward something that's real, I'm just a person who is putting their heart and soul into everything. I think the second my touch comes off everything is the second nobody is going to give a shit about me. My touch will always still on my music."
White Shadow also weighed in on the topic of the importance artists must have with their content. "There's a lot of artist out there that do none of there music. None of their content, nothing. Those people can't sell out a "House of Blues" because people who do listen to music have no connection with that artist whatsoever. Who wants to pay to see that?" White Shadow was not shy for words about the music direction that seems to be very present in today's music. "That's some Milli Vanili shit." White Shadow explained. "There's a lot of really good DJ's that have never made a song in their life and have seven albums out. It's a weird time in music, but to see someone like Jon doing what he's doing, it's refreshing and awesome to me but also it should be refreshing and awesome for everybody who actually is an artist and musician." White Shadow also added what he believes is one of the things that works in the music industry. "If you're not honest and open and legitimate about what you're doing, you're going to get called out, that's the best thing that has happened recently. If somebody unplugs your shit when you're signing a record and your record keeps going, the whole world is going to know about it. Everything has to be open and honest, carefully crafted in order to be great."
Bellion is continuing to rise up the ranks of emerging new artists, due to his contributions to other artists. That will soon be in the past according to Bellion, "My commercial success has been a blessing." With his well deserved success, Bellion is someone who will definitely make a name for himself in the future for his unique and captivating music. "Starving artist do die hungry and my artistry, I put everything into that."
To finish our interview Bellion shared an update of his forthcoming album, Beautiful Mind. Bellion stated "I'm like ninety percent done with it." A goal for Bellion is to constantly change and grow as an artist. "I've improved my craft from that last (project). That's always been my goal. Every (project) that I dropped, I want to be greater, lyrically more precise to get my point across. I think this next album is just the next step in my growth. Anybody can take it how ever they want to take it but I know for myself I've checked boxes from my last (project) that makes this album much better."
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Songs of the Week ft. The National, Jon Bellion and More!
April 5, 2015 TER Staff	Leave a comment
These are the highlights of this past week in music! Hopefully you can bump these tracks on your way to work to brighten up your Monday mornings, and to stay up-to-date on today's music. This week we have new music from indie rock's The National, rapper Jon Bellion (along with a new headlining tour), and even Soulja Boy Tell Em. Get started at the jump below to check out our favorite records of the past week.
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Jon Bellion Announces 2015 Headlining Tour; Releases New Song, "Woodstock"
March 31, 2015 TER Staff	1 Comment
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Fans of singer-songwriter/rapper Jon Bellion will be happy to learn that the Logic-affiliated rapper has just announced his new 2015 headlining tour, and he even dropped a new song to go with it. "The Definition Tour" (named after his 2014 project) will kick off on May 26th at The Rave in Milwaukee and will run through July, where it returns to the Midwest for stops in Detroit and Chicago.
If a new tour wasn't enough, Bellion also released his new music festival inspired track 'Woodstock', featuring additional vocals from Travis Mendes. Bellion describes the track as a "psychedelic musical fiction", and fans can definitely expect to hear it live this summer.
Check out the tour dates and listen to 'Woodstock (Psychedelic Fiction)' below!
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Famous Writers: Edgar Allen Poe
August 13, 2021 April 5, 2022 Katie Marie
Today I am writing to you to tell you about Edgar Allan Poe.
To say Poe's works have influenced literature is like saying water is wet. He and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. He has influenced many other great writers, such as H.P Lovecraft and Stephen King to name drop just two. His impact on the horror genre (as well as Sci-Fi and Detective) cannot be overstated.
I could probably write an entire blog series on this man, and if you would like me to do so then by all means speak up. However, today all I am going to do is a very brief summary of his life, and works.
Edgar Allan Poe was born Edgar Poe on 19 January 1809 and was the first well-known American writers to earn a living through writing alone. He was a writer, poet, editor, and a literary critic.
Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth Poe. Sadly, his father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Poe was raised by John and Frances Allan, though his relationship with them was not without its problems.
Poe attended university, though due to financial reasons he left after one year and joined the army. However, he was not content in the military life and shortly after the death of his brother he left to be a full-time writer.
However, due to shitty copyright laws Poe struggled as a writer, this was because American publishers often reproduced unauthorized copies of British works rather than paying for new work by Americans.
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That is not to say he had no success at all, he spent several years working for literary journals and periodicals
He received a prize in October 1833 from the Baltimore Saturday Visiter for his short story "MS. Found in a Bottle". This brought Poe to the attention of other writers and editors and landed him a job as assistant editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835.
He married his 13-year-old cousin in 1836 (he was 26 at the time and they lied about her age in order to marry), sadly, she died of tuberculosis in 1847. It is said that her passing influenced some of his writing.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was published in 1838 and Poe became the assistant editor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine the following year. He later took a position as a as writer and co-editor at Graham's Magazine
In January 1845, he published his poem "The Raven" which made him a household name. He planned for years to produce his own journal The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), but before it could be produced, he died. The cause of his death has never been unearthed.
On the day before his death he was found in great distress and delouse on the streets, he was taken to hospital and passed away. All medical records have been lost, including his death certificate.
Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.
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I had to write a whole poem in the style of "The Raven" when I was in college. It got published in a horror anthology last year!
That's awesome, well done!!


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An English Degree Can Translate Across All Fields: a profile on Caroline Morton Huffman (C'86)
November 16, 2021 thesewaneepurple Features One comment
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Caroline Morton Huffman (C'86) came back to Sewanee on a chilly Wednesday night. While drinking tea, she spoke on her liberal arts education and how it affected her jobs later on.
She talked to me before she attended an event hosted by the Babson Center. The event was hosted for her to explain what she had done with her English major outside of an English career. She currently is the Clinical Research Specialist Site Manager in Oncology with Janssen Research and Development of Johnson & Johnson. Her job includes working alongside hospitals to effectively perform clinical trials on cancer patients. Before then, she worked for a large international pharmaceutical company based out of Switzerland called Novartis. But it took Huffman a while to settle into Big Pharma.
After Huffman graduated from Sewanee with an English Degree, her original plan after college was to go to become an English Professor. She got accepted to three different graduate programs: UVA, Duke, and UNC. However, at the last minute, she deferred and moved to DC to work for a large law firm.
"I was kind of miserable with my job," said Huffman. She ended up going to grad school for two years but did not care for that either. "I really did not like being a grad student and the process of it was just depressing."
She then moved to Montgomery, Alabama which she describes as being "basically" her hometown. She worked as a paralegal there. But she moved back to Chapel Hill after the workplace became too toxic.
"I had zero support from my family. I was just sort of, you know, throwing my fate to the gods," said Huffman. "I had no job, a little money but not a lot."
Once she moved back to Chapel Hill, she slowly landed in the medical community. She got a part-time job tutoring international MPH students who needed help writing their master's thesis. Despite it being a part-time job, she was able to put on her resume: medical writer. Because of this change, her temp agency sent her over to Duke Medical Center.
"They figured out that I could write, and I started writing stuff for them," said Huffman.
She got hired by Robert Califf, who later became FDA commissioner under President Obama. She then spoke of how somebody who managed the study Huffman was working on had to leave because they were overworked. Somebody just had to step in and do that job, and Huffman did it. She ended up becoming a coordinator for the clinical trial. She eventually got published in the [medical journal].
"That's been really my ticket to everything I have done ever since," said Huffman.
Despite her slowly rising in the rankings, Huffman says that a lot of her success came from her attending Sewanee and learning necessary skills here. Sewanee's liberal arts education allowed her "the confidence to think critically and to write authoritatively." However, thinking critically can be dated to the first time she walked into an English class with Professor Stirling, after which Stirling's Coffee House is named.
"He was the best professor of all time, but he was also terrifying," said Huffman. She was assigned a poem for his class and did not properly prepare for the next class period. "I did not look up every single word in the Oxford English Dictionary. So, I did not know all the nuances. So, yeah, I was underprepared."
She said that she always prepares because of that moment.
"I didn't just accept what was there in the writing. I look everything up," said Huffman. "That really translates to my job now. I have to look things up and make sure that, you know, our study's drugs aren't making people even sicker."
"The point is that so many students have really valuable skills to offer at the workplace," said Huffman. "You have to convince people that you're worth taking a chance on. Like, I had no medical background, very little science. I really could just write, communicate, and learn quickly."
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My experience has been that thorough preparation translates into confidence in one's work which translates into a successful endeavor regardless of the field of work. Thank you for sharing your experience Ms. Huffman.


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Gone Baby Gone – Flickfeast And Chill Film Review
by Žad Novak
We invite you to Flickfeast and Chill and get to grips with the best new shows on streaming services. This edition, Zad Novak settles down with Netflix and Gone Baby Gone. Five minutes in and he'll give you that look…
Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck's directing debut from 2007 tells a dark and gripping story about a P.I. searching for a missing young girl in a world full of drugs and paedophilia. The Netflix release is perfectly timed, ensuring that all of us who love to fill our summers with thrillers and crime shows have some good quality content available.
In 2007, Ben Affleck directed and co-wrote the script of his first feature film Gone Baby Gone. The film has an amazing cast for a first-time director: his brother Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman and Amy Ryan, only to name a few. The film tells a story of Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck), a private detective who is hired to help the police find a missing four-year-old girl named Amanda. However, the situation gets more complicated when it is revealed that the single mother of the child (Amy Ryan) is, in fact, a drug addict and an occasional mule, thus the case of missing child becomes connected to the ugly Boston underground world. Kenzie works with his partner/girlfriend Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), the Police Captain Jack Doyle (Morgan Freeman) and the Detective Sergeant Remy Bressant (Ed Harris) to return the girl alive and well. – But throughout the film, an important question arises, if the girl is found, should she be reunited with the mother?
The acting in the film is strong, especially Casey Affleck's portrayal of Patrick. With the story written so that no character is perfect and only a few are truly evil, the majority of the cast was met with a task of creating really complex, multi-dimensional roles. This could be one of Affleck's greatest strengths. Already with Gone Baby Gone, he demonstrates a talent for getting very good performances out of his actors and this is possibly helped by the experience of being an actor himself. Affleck went on to confirm his this talent with The Town (2010) and the 2012 Best-Picture winner Argo.
In terms of the visual language, there wasn't anything that specifically catches the eye when watching for the first time. The film visuals mostly support the script and the cast as well as help create a tense atmosphere. However, for the genre and the story told, that is enough. It doesn't leave you expecting or wanting more from the film than it gave.
Gone Baby Gone is not a perfect film, but it is a damn good debut with an excellent storyline that moves away from the simple good guys vs bad guys plotline. It is so often impossible to say who is doing the right thing in the messy situation that develops throughout the two hours. This mixture of being truly thought-provoking and genuinely entertaining with an engaging storyline that is not too hard to follow is a winning combination for your summer chill.
Director: Ben Affleck
Stars: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Amy Ryan
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[assembly: AssemblyTitle("Stepon.FaceRecognization")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("C# wrapper of arcsoft's face recognize")]
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCompany("Stepon Technology")]
[assembly: AssemblyProduct("Stepon.FaceRecognization")]
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When talking of his new film, Peppermint, French-born Hollywood action director Pierre Morel says, "In a way it is a continuation of [my film] Taken but with a female protagonist. I think it's about time," and he's right on the money. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, we've seen a swag of films featuring killer women in lead roles but they've mainly dealt with trained hit-women, like Red Sparrow and Atomic Blonde. OK, we've had the Lisbeth Salander movies, but she's in a class of her own, not professionally trained but not exactly an amateur either. In Peppermint, the protagonist is a suburban wife and mother who transforms herself into an avenging angel when the justice system lets her down. Just like Liam Neeson's character in 2008's Taken, except that he was a husband and father.
In a clever opening scene, David Lanzenberg's camera slowly swoops down on a large American sedan on a roof-top car park. It's rocking on its chassis, setting us up to think there's a bit of hanky-panky going on, but by the time the camera enters the cab we realise that it's quite the reverse. There's a man and a woman alright, but they're not f**king, they're fighting, and it's not the first time that Morel and his scriptwriter Chad St. John will subvert our expectations. Meet Riley North, a woman who was once happily enjoying married life with a husband, Chris (Jeff Hephner), and a 10-year-old daughter, Carly (Cailey Fleming). Via flashback, we learn that Chris was having some cash-flow problems in his business and a friend was enticing him with a tempting drug deal, but Chris had come to his senses and turned his mate down. Word had got back to the dealers, however, and they worked for a Colombian cartel whose boss was going to send a message, whether he'd been ripped off or not. Riley survives to identify the shooters but the courts let her down and they go free, at which point she too drops off the radar until, five years later, the scene in the carpark marks her return.
While we've seen this kind of thing before, Riley's an interesting character and St. John, who wrote the Gerard Butler-starrer London Has Fallen a couple of years ago, has contrived a very clever screenplay. It plays to your prejudices and sets up some racial stereotyping that doesn't go where you expect it to - there's a great twist in the plot. Add to this Morel's stylish direction and an ominous score from Simon Franglen and you've got an above average revenge flick. Garner is very good as the hunter-killer vigilante. She says, "I loved that it was an original story and an action film with a woman as the lead character, the significance of which I do not take lightly. I hadn't filmed a fight sequence for over 11 years, which is a long time to hang up your action chops and try to pull it back together, but I knew I could do it. It was the connection to the physical that helped me channel Riley's desperation and the emotional motivation behind her need for revenge." Supporting her are John Gallagher Jr. and John Ortiz as two LAPD detectives who are not exactly devoted to catching her character, given that's she's carving up the drug cartel. They're both highly credible in their roles.
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Q: How to get Terraform providers on GitLab CI runners in an air-gapped environment I am running a Gitlab CI runner on an Azure Red Hat Linux 7.9 VM which is air-gapped and cannot communicate with the outside world due to our network restrictions. In the .gitlab-ci.yml file of my GitLab pipeline, I run some Terraform commands including Terraform init which subsequently attempts to pull down the Terraform provider plugins from the default Hashicorp location.
Obviously, with the prevailing network restrictions, the aforementioned Terraform command fails and subsequently the entire pipeline job fails. From what I've now established and bearing in mind our particular network setup and circumstances, I probably have two options:
A) Configure my GitLab pipeline with a Proxy to allow access to sites like registry.terraform.io. I have been provided a proxy address by the way, but I'm not entirely sure how to get this configured in GitLab. Will therefore appreciate some assistance with this.
B) It also appears I will be able to force my Terraform configuration to reference the required provider plugins locally or on an internal share. Again, any advice on how to set this up would be greatly appreciated, having spent hours poring over endless online material on both options without any success.
[[ Case Update after recommendations by @sytech ]]
I discarded the proxy option entirely, due mainly to some resource challenges within my organisation and not at all to do with the proposed solution itself. I therefore went with the option to set up a provider mirror residing on my file system and this is how I went about it.....but still with no success.
My Implementation Summary
1. I uploaded the two required Terraform providers into our Artifactory repo, with each provider content displayed in the image below.

2. In my .gitlab-ci.yml file, I create the following directories:
*/root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azuread
/root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm*

I then updated my terraform providers.tf configuration file by amending both provider source locations accordingly (see below screenshot).
3. Next, I download each provider (excluding the *.json files) from the Artifactory repo to the GitLab runner local file system and unzip them to their respective directories, created in Step #2 above. Finally, I perform a clean-up by removing the respective provider zip files that were downloaded from Artifactory.
4. I then switch to the /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp directory and run a Linux recursive command to verify both providers are present in the expected directories.
5. Finally, I switch to the defined terraform root directory, run the ls -a command to verify that my terraform configuration files are all present. I then run the terraform init and terraform validate commands which result in the subsequent error displayed in the last of the images displayed below.
[[ Required Providers Block in providers.tf file ]]
terraform {
  required_providers {
    azurerm = {
      source = "registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm/terraform-provider-azurerm_v3.19.1_x5"
      version = "3.19.1"
    }

    azuread = {
      source = "registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azuread/terraform-provider-azuread_v2.27.0_x5"
      version = "2.27.0"
    }
  }
}

[[ Snippet from my .gitlab-ci.yml file ]]
default:
  image:
    name: xxx-local.artifactory.ourdomain:x.x.x
    entrypoint: [""]

variables:
  TF_ROOT: ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}

stages:
  - validate
  - plan
  - destroy

download-plugins:
  stage: validate
  script:
    - git config --global url."https://gitlab-ci-token:${CI_JOB_TOKEN}@gitlab.ourdomain".insteadOf https://gitlab.ourdomain

    # Download and copy azuread provider to the gitlab runner filesystem from our Artifactory store
    - mkdir -p /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azuread
    - curl -o /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azuread/azuread.zip https://artifactory.ourdomain/artifactory/local/terraform/providers/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azuread/terraform-provider-azuread_2.27.0_linux_amd64.zip
    - unzip /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azuread/azuread.zip -d /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azuread
    - rm /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azuread/azuread.zip

    # Download and copy azurerm provider to the gitlab runner filesystem from our Artifactory store
    - mkdir -p /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm
    - curl -o /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm/azurerm.zip https://artifactory.ourdomain/artifactory/local/terraform/providers/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm/terraform-provider-azurerm_3.19.1_linux_amd64.zip
    - unzip /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm/azurerm.zip -d /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm
    - rm /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm/azurerm.zip

    - cd /root/.terraform.d/plugins/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp
    - echo "Display contents of the present working directory:" `pwd`
    - ls -a -R

    - echo "Switch to the $TF_ROOT directory to verify file content and then run terraform commands"
    - cd $TF_ROOT
    - ls -a
    - terraform init
    - terraform validate

  tags:
    - "AzureVMRunner"

A:
Configure my GitLab pipeline with a Proxy

If you have a forward proxy available in your environment and want to have your CI jobs use that proxy, it's usually simply a matter of setting your HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY variables. You can do this in your runner environment configuration or CI configuration. For example in a .gitlab-ci.yml you could add:
variables:
  HTTP_PROXY: "http://proxy.mydomain.corp"
  HTTPS_PROXY: "http://proxy.mydomain.corp"

Refer to the official docs Running GitLab Runner Behind a Proxy for more information.

It also appears I will be able to force my Terraform configuration to reference the required provider plugins locally or on an internal share

You can use the filesystem mirror option to configure a terraform providers mirror that lives on your filesystem (requires terraform v0.13+).
By default, the directory .terraform.d/plugins can be used without any additional configuration (see implied mirrors). When you have the provider files in your filesystem mirror, you won't need to download them from the internet.
Let's say for example you're using the graylog provider like this:
provider "graylog" {
  version          = "1.0.4"
  web_endpoint_uri = "https://graylog.example.com/api"
  api_version      = "v3"
  auth_name        = "admin"
  auth_password    = "password"
}

All you need are the requisite files -- namely, the zip files of the providers you need (e.g., terraform-provider-graylog_1.0.4_linux_amd64.zip), then in your job copy them into your .terraform.d plugins directory (e.g., .terraform.d/plugins/...) in an expected layout (packed or unpacked).
You can make these files available by placing them on your runner and (for docker runners) mounting the files into the job using the volumes configuration.
For example, say you have the providers on your runner host, you can mount them into your jobs with this configuration in the config.toml file (only needed for docker-based runners!)
[runners.docker]
  # ...
  volumes = ["/path/to/plugins/from/host:/plugins/path/in/container:rw"]

Then in your jobs, you can copy the provider files into the .terraform directory.
my_job:
  image:
    name: hashicorp/terraform
    entrypoint: [""]
  before_script:
    - cp /plugins/path/in/container/ .terraform.d/plugins/
    - terraform init  # will get plugins from your local mirror


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Earlier this year, I dressed a couple of young dapper gents for Pitti Uomo in Florence, which happened to be in the middle of a cold spell. The coats I made for them have inspired me for this winter and have lead me to source a great deal of new cloth with these new styles in mind. The images below are of menswear blogger and actor Callum Rowe sporting a couple of key new looks.
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The second coat Callum is wearing is a stunning made-to-measure grey wool and cashmere blend. Also in a double-breasted but more reflective of a military style, with a wide Napoleonesque collar, patch pockets and working button holes on the sleeve. Designed to be worn as a layering piece over the top of your winter suit, but looks amazing with more causal attire and chunky knitwear.
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Plus Model has recently released the World War II U.S. Army portable M5 power unit. This generator is the type built by Hobart Brothers with a Hercules 4 cylinder 4 cycle engine that produced 11 horsepower. This particular unit was, as far as I can tell, primarily used to power the gun laying system of the 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun.
The kit is well packaged by Plus Model in a bubble wrap bag with separate bags for parts, wire, photo-etch, and decals. The box is the common small end opening style used for small accessories, figure sets, etc. The kit comes with a small set of instructions that are hand drawn, glue part here guide arrow type instructions. There are 22 resin pieces and another 16 photo-etch pieces so the instructions may provide a bit of a challenge if you have not had any prior experience with this type of kit.
The resin parts are all cast in a medium dark gray resin. I didn't find any air bubbles or pin holes that would need to be filled but there is a bit of flash that will need to be cleaned up before construction. The casting of the parts is superb, easily up to par with the standard that Plus Model has set in the past. The kit consists of a couple of main castings that look really nice. The 4 cylinder inline engine consists of one main casting and some smaller pieces to add such as cooling fan, carburettor, and exhaust.
The other main casting is the cabinet for the entire piece; it is a superb casting that really looks the part. Plus Model has achieved a very thin casting that gives a real sense of the real things sheet metal cover. To really bring that idea home the photo-etch sheet provided is truly top notch. It looks like it is an Eduard piece, it is not identified as such but it sure has all the earmarks of an Eduard product. It provides sheet metal hatch covers and doors as well as a pre-colored instrument panel for the unit that is clearly the highlight of the entire kit. The panel is one pre-colored piece, the gauges are another that fits behind to provide depth to the whole assembly, you are told to add a piece of clear film. Unfortunately, the sample that I have did not provide the clear film, I don't know if that was an oversight or if that is how all of the kits will be packaged. Either way finding a piece of clear film shouldn't be too daunting of a task but it would have been a nice touch to include it in the box. Plus Model does include two nicely cast US style 5 gallon fuel cans.
The kit also provides a length of heavy copper wire that is supposed to be straightened out to us as poles to manhandle the unit; it does mean you have to roll them out until they are extremely straight. My advice would be to throw the copper wire in the spares bin and use a couple of pieces of styrene rod in its place. Two small decals are provided, a small star and the ID plate for the end of the unit.
Highly recommended. This is a really nice little kit; if you have a Bofors in the stash you owe it to yourself to add this piece too. The resin castings are extremely well done and the photo-etch makes this a little gem that is well worth the price.
Highs: Pre-colored photoetched sheet is exquisite and the castings are all first rate. I believe this is the first time this particular piece of equipment has been made available in resin or plastic.
Lows: I would like to have seen the clear film for the instrument panel included. The carrying poles made of copper would have been better as styrene rod.