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CBS News Reporter Confirms: News Media Has Leftwing Bias
Lara Logan may not be a household name in the world of journalism, but she has been a part of some well-known international news stories over the past decade.
Logan, who is from South Africa, began her news career there in Durban in 1990 and has worked for Reuters, ABC, NBC, and CBS as a freelance reporter internationally. In 2002 Logan was offered a correspondent position with CBS News where she spent most of her time on battlefields reporting in war zones around the world. Logan also made regular appearances on CBS 60 Minutes.
But Logan is perhaps best known for what happened to her off camera than on. In 2011 she was in Egypt covering the Egyptian revolution when she and her camera crew were arrested and detained by Egyptian police. They were later released but as they moved back into the streets a large group of Egyptian males encountered them and began to make lurid comments about Logan. Soon the crowd became aggressive and Logan was taken by the mob and sexually assaulted. She would later say she believed she was going to be killed. She spent several days in a US hospital upon her arrival from Egypt.
With nearly 30 years of journalistic experience at major news networks around the world, Logan is a prime candidate to speak on the subject of bias in the news industry. She sat down with retired Navy Seal Mike Ritland and was interviewed for Mike's podcast "Mike Drop." Logan had interviewed Ritland 6 years earlier for a segment on 60 Minutes. Now Logan was on the side being questioned.
Ritland has been a harsh critic of the American news media, calling it "absurdly left-leaning" and that "Democrat biases were a huge —-ing problem" and a disaster for the country. "I agree with that. That's true," Logan replied. She also implied it wasn't just an American problem. "The media everywhere is mostly liberal, not just the U.S.," she said. In the U.S., Logan says there are only a small number of news organizations that don't march to the Leftist drumbeat. She cited Fox News and Breitbart as two examples.
In the podcast with Ritland, Logan talks about her experience in newsrooms.
"Visually, anyone who's ever been to Israel and been to the Wailing Wall has seen that the women have this tiny little spot in front of the wall to pray, and the rest of the wall is for the men. To me, that's a great representation of the American media, is that in this tiny little corner where the women pray you've got Breitbart and Fox News and a few others, and from there on, you have CBS, ABC, NBC, Huffington Post, Politico, whatever, right? All of them. And that's a problem for me, because even if it was reversed, if it was vastly mostly on the right, that would also be a problem for me."
"My experience has been that the more opinions you have, the more ways that you look at everything in life — everything in life is complicated, everything is gray, right? Nothing is black and white."
"This is the problem that I have. There's one Fox, and there's many, many, many more organizations on the left. … The problem is the weight of all these organizations on one side of the political spectrum. When you turn on your computer, or you walk past the TV, or you see a newspaper headline in the grocery store If they're all saying the same thing, the weight of that convinces you that it's true. You don't question it, because everyone is saying it. Unless you seek out Breitbart on your computer, you're probably not even going to know what the other side is saying."
She wonders how people can know what's accurate and what's not when so many news outlets are saying the exact same thing, in many cases word for word.
"How do you know you're being lied to? How do you know you're being manipulated? How do you know there's something not right with the coverage?" she asked.
"When they simplify it all, there's no gray. It's all one way. Well, life isn't like that. If it doesn't match real life, it's probably not. Something's wrong. For example, all the coverage on Trump all the time is negative. … That's a distortion of the way things go in real life."
Logan continued, "Although the media has historically always been left-leaning, we've abandoned our pretense, or at least the effort, to be objective today. We've become political activists, and some could argue propagandists, and there's some merit to that."
Another major problem she sees is the use of anonymous sources, particularly in the government. "That's not journalism, it's horse shit," she said. "Responsibility for fake news begins with us."
At the end of the three hour and forty-nine minute interview, Logan said something that in itself is very revealing of the state of our free press in America. She said, "This interview is professional suicide for me." A sad, but likely all too true, sentiment in the era of Trump and the news media.
Here is the full video of the interview from the Mike Drop podcast.
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Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne's Biography
Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne is Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University.
She was trained as a Medical Geneticist in Strasbourg where her research focused on the identification of new genetic causes of neurological disorders. During her postdoctoral training at the University of California San Diego, she applied approaches in genomics to explore the molecular mechanisms that drive neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Her recent efforts have focused on understanding disease mechanisms and developing therapeutic strategies for ALS and FTD linked to C9ORF72 expansion. With her colleagues, she has provided evidence supporting the therapeutic potential of Antisense Oligonucleotides (ASOs) targeting C9ORF72 expansion. She received the Alphonse Laveran Prize, the Milton-Safenowitz Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association, the Muscular Dystrophy Association Career development Award, the Frick Foundation 2013 Award (conjointly with Dr. Luc Dupuis), and the 6th International Medicine Paulo Gontijo Award.
Using RNA Signatures For Therapeutic Development in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Fronto-Temporal Dementia
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Expanded GGGGCC repeats in a non-coding region of the C9ORF72 gene are the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Several pathogenic mechanisms have been proposed including loss of function from reduced expression of C9ORF72 and/or toxicity derived from the expansion-containing RNAs. Accumulation of nuclear RNA foci and cytoplasmic dipeptide repeat proteins (DPRs) translated from the repeat-containing RNAs are pathological hallmarks of disease in patient cells and mice expressing C9ORF72 RNAs with up to 450 repeats. Indeed, hexanucleotide expansions caused age-, repeat length- and expression level-dependent accumulation of RNA foci and DPRs, accompanied by loss of hippocampal neurons, increased anxiety, and impaired cognitive function in transgenic mice. The presence of pathological hallmarks of C9ORF72 disease and behavioral abnormalities establishes this mouse model as an essential tool to develop novel therapeutic approaches, including RNA-targeting antisense oligonucleotides and immunotherapies for patients with ALS/FTD. Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) were identified which reduce GGGGCC-containing nuclear foci without altering overall C9ORF72 RNA levels in patient cells. By contrast, siRNAs failed to reduce nuclear RNA foci despite marked reduction in overall C9ORF72 RNAs. In mice, single dose intracerebroventricular injection of ASOs that target repeat-containing RNAs produced sustained reductions in RNA foci and dipeptide-repeat proteins, and ameliorated behavioral deficits. These findings establish ASO-mediated degradation of repeat-containing RNAs as a significant therapeutic approach for ALS/FTD linked to C9ORF72 expansions.


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Well, dear readers, don't you sometimes wish that this first paragraph were wider? It's so squeezed into a little teeny-tiny area, and sometimes these here notes just want to be in Cinemascope (or Cinnamonscope, as my darling daughter used to call it), or even ToddAO, or Ultra Panavision, or better yet, three-panel Cinerama. But, noooo, we're in this little Academy ratio area. Yes, I think we need widescreen notes and yet we cannot have them without moving the sides out. What the HELL am I talking about? I was off on a widescreen notes tangent, wasn't I? Speaking of widescreen, yesterday was a very wide day. I got up way too early and did early things. I then did an early errand, came home, and did more early things. After that, I met friend Lauren Rubin at nearby Hugo's and we had a very nice late breakfast. I had Papa's Eggs (scrambled eggs with sausage, bacon, scallions and spices – it's a great dish. We caught up, laughed a lot, and then went our several ways – I, to do more errands and whatnot, she to do whatever she was doing. I came back home and just relaxed, knowing I had a long meeting ahead of me. And a long meeting it was. It was basically a post mortem meeting for the charity event – what succeeded, what needs work, that sort of thing. There was a very long agenda, and each part of the event was dissected ad nauseum. When we finally got to the program and entertainment, I took the bull by the horns and gave my thoughts, which everyone basically agreed with. The meeting lasted two-and-a-half hours and then I hurried home (well, I would have liked to hurry home but that was impossible since some stupid cretin driver rushed to get in front of me on Beverly Glen, then spent the entire ride up the canyon road going twelve miles an hour. I hadn't eaten in ten hours, so I made a pit stop at Jack In The Box to get something to nibble on. Then I came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I didn't really have time to watch a motion picture on DVD, so instead I watched Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the hour version they show on Chiller. The episode was entitled The Monkey's Paw: A Retelling. It wasn't a classic, but it was okay viewing for a tired Jew. It was based on the classic story by W.W. Jacobs (oft adapted for radio and television), but the retelling just wasn't very interesting. The cast was fun, though – Leif Ericson, Jane Wyatt, a very young Lee Majors, a very young Stuart Margolin, a young actress I recognized from a bit part in Marnie (she played the secretary in the film's opening scene with Martin Gabel), and best of all Collin Wilcox. We just love our Collin Wilcox – she, of course, played Mayella Ewell in To Kill A Mockingbird, and she also guest-starred in one of the two classic Hitchcock Presents hour shows – The Jar.
Well, why don't we all click on the Unseemly Button below because these here notes are just too narrow and need to stretch into a different aspect ratio.
Today, I will begin entering a few fixes into the Nudie Musical script, and I'll also take my final pass through The Brain script, which I have to turn in in the next week or so. Other than that, I get to relax until this evening, when I'm supposed to attend some memorial service at the Henry Fonda Theater. I haven't been inside that venue since it was called the Pix and showed movies, probably back in 1976 or so (you can see the Pix in all its glory in the final verse of The Lights And The Smiles in Nudie).
Tomorrow, it will be more of the same, and then tomorrow night I'm seeing our very own Miss Beth Malone in Pest Control, a new musical playing in a 99 seat theater in North Hollywood. There are many shocking things about this production, which I'll be talking about after I've seen it. Saturday night, I'm seeing A Very Brady Musical, so it's a two-show weekend for me.
I also have some material to go over for Kevin's show, and a whole slew of mp3s to listen to, and then I have to read through two other batches of material for other people.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do work on the computer, do errands, ship a few packages, and then perhaps attend a memorial. Today's topic of discussion: What are your all-time favorite comedy films made prior to 1950, including silent movies? Let's have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we all imagine what these notes would look like in widescreen.


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Empire of Debt, Empire of Lies
Correspondent Mike D., who has been working in China for the past five years, recently nailed an issue which is absolutely critical but which strangely receives virtually no attention: the Empire of Debt is entirely dependent on an Empire of Lies.
We all know this. Commentators from Mish to John Williams to Nouriel Roubini to David Rosenberg to Richard Russell and many others have noted (and dissected) the preponderance of outright lies, obfuscatory half-truths and prevarications in virtually every nook and cranny of the U.S. financial system, including:
1. unemployment/birth-death model
2. CPI/consumer and producer price indices
3. assets (and losses) held off balance sheet
4. assets marked to model rather than to market
5. earnings manipulated by accounting legerdemain
6. distressed/defaulted mortgages and loans masked or hidden away
7. so-called "leaders" stating again and again that no capital infusions will be needed, and then raising capital days or weeks later
8. government officials and others understating the losses
9. government officials declaring the "crisis" over even as it picks up momentum
10. government officials bailing out lenders and investors under the guise of "helping homeowners"
I could go on but I would tire of typing even a partial list of all the outright lies which have been foisted on us. It is truly remarkable how the sychophants in the MSM and financial media accept each lie as if there were no history of blatant, achingly obvious lies spewing from the same mouths just weeks ago.
The issues are: when do all the lies erode trust in the vaunted U.S. financial system? And, if this trust hasn't already been utterly destroyed, why not?
For such a supposedly religious nation, the lies have drawn remarkably little moral outrage or even comment in the U.S. Just "business as usual," eh? The reason is also obvious: many are complicit in the hope that the endless repetition of blatant lies will somehow "save" them.
* "Save" the U.S. homeowners and lenders from declining housing values
* "Save" the Asian and EU exporters from an imploding market for their goods
* "Save" the speculators and investors, overseas and U.S. alike, from the stupendous losses which an honest accounting would reveal in all U.S. mortgage, loan and derivative markets
* "Save" U.S. politicos and regulators, keepers of the public trust, from having to accept the blame for aiding and abetting the fraud, lax oversight and phony accounting that have gutted the U.S. financial system and left the taxpayers to clean up the mess
It's not politicially correct to issue any moral judgments on anything or anyone in today's U.S. of A. (you might hurt somebody's feelings, poor things), but again I am stating the obvious that if there was any justice on this planet then the U.S. financial system would be reduced to a smoking ruin, and the foundation of a truly trustworthy, transparent system built on its warm ashes.
Here are Mike's comments:
I'm sure you know about the Merrill Lynch sale of CDO's at 22c/$ which is really a sale at 5.5 cents on the dollar. Nouriel Roubini explains it very succinctly on his website. Charles, I am a Canadian Chartered Accountant, equivalent to a CPA in America. I honestly don't understand America's GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) anymore. This sale should clearly be valued at 5.5, not at 22. I am also somewhat quizzical of the reported off-balance sheet holdings of derivatives by the big dogs Citibank, Wamu, etc. If these holdings are in any way guaranteed by the parent, they represent a liability of the parent (Accounting 101).
I'd like to share a couple of quotes:
"The smart and very savvy Mohamed El-Erian (co-CEO of Pimco) put it in polite terms when he recently said while commenting on this financial crisis: "What has suffered most is the credibility of the most sophisticated financial systems in the world." Or as Bill King (a senior financial analyst) put it: "Eventually a critical mass of investors and traders will become cognizant of the obvious scheme and distrust of financial firms' results, guidance and motives will increase substantially. John Thain's (Chairman and CEO of Merrill) credibility is now an issue. It is both the credibility and viability of the most sophisticated financial system that is at stake now as most of this financial and banking system is on its way to substantial and formal insolvency and bankruptcy."
The reason New York is the center of the financial world is to a large degree a result of the purported "transparency" of the American system. (Emphasis added by CHS) The Asian markets (especially Shanghai) are opaque to a greater or lesser degree. But, with these latest machinations, I am wondering when and if, the investors of the world will get fed up and move New York somewhere else where there is some control and financial data can be trusted.
What effect do you think such a move would have on the US economy if the NYSE and NASDAQ were to become virtual backwaters in the global economic system and do you think this is possible?
I include Roubini's take on the Merrill con below.
Excellent question, Mike. I hope it's possible, but that would require investors who aren't dependent on fraud for their own profits. I am not an accountant, but I have read as widely as possible about Asian banks, especially Japanese and Chinese banks. Unfortunately, it seems that hiding impaired assets is rampant in Asian banks as well. The pan-Asian system seems designed to provide a "face" of compliance and rigor which is basically a facade hiding distressed/non-performing loans which must be masked for political reasons (the borrowers are state-owned, "too big to fail," etc.)
In other words, the same flaws seem to be present in Asian banking as well, though perhaps Singapore, famously rule-of-law, has the systemic courage and rigor to be truly transparent. Sadly, rule-of-law in the U.S. means "with these exceptions:" too big to fail, Fannie Mae gave me thousands on campaign contributions, I need to bail out my banking buddies, etc.
London certainly has taken the mantle of global banking center, but it remains to be seen if U.K. banking is any less impaired, obfuscatory and riddled with phony accounting than the U.S. Are U.K. banks just as insolvent as U.S. banks? As U.K. property values implode, they soon may be insolvent if they are not yet so.
We should also draw a distinction here between merchant banks, mortgage lenders and investment banks. Though everyone is getting into everyone else's business, investment banks and mortgage lenders generated much of the fraud which has now undermined the entire system. Banks which restricted themselves to lending to legitimate businesses (if any such lending institutions still exist) would have little to hide unless they'd foolishly loaded up their own balance sheets with credit swaps, CDOs, etc.
But as a financial entity, clearly the U.S. financial system deserves zero trust from anyone--most especially the dazed taxpayers who have been saddled with the rescue of the speculators and criminals who profited so immensely from the frauds, lies and phony accounting which has become "root" (a nod to Unix fans) to the entire system.
Put directly: could the U.S. financial system survive if strictly honest accounting and transparency were imposed tomorrow? We all know the answer is "no."
Some observers like John Mauldin has suggested that the obfuscations and phony accounting have to be tolerated for a few years so the system can "rebuild" itself.
This is akin to allowing the coach of a drug-riddled, scandal-torn team a free hand to keep hiring more steroid-pumped freaks-of-nature "athletes" while he "rebuilds" the team. So once you're caught lying, cheating, stealing, etc., then we have to allow you to keep lying, cheating and stealing until you've "rebuilt" your corrupt team? Exactly how can corruption and fraudulent accounting be "fixed" by enabling years more of the same chicanery?
Even worse, now that the U.S. financial sector has squandered trillions in outright gambling and fraud, now we the taxpayers are being tapped to bail out the perps and speculators.
What lesson is being taught here? Just this: if the con is monumental enough to threaten the "system", then you will not just go scott-free, you will be rewarded and recapitalized to enable you to go out and gamble another couple trillion for your own private gain--at taxpayer expense. Hey, pretty sweet. Sign me up!
Risk has been shifted to the taxpayers, while the perpetrators of this era of stupendous fraud, accounting legerdemain and betrayal are being rewarded with new capital to play with after the furor dies down.
The only possible brake on this madness is the bond market. But if non-U.S. players continue to buy up any and all U.S. debt to the tune of $60+ billion a month, without any demands for transparency or a rate of return that isn't less than inflation, then they are insuring a cataclysmic collapse when the losses finally outweigh their need to prop up the Empire of Debt and the Empire of Lies it depends on for its very existence.
In summary: an enormous opportunity awaits any nation with sufficient respect for strict accounting and rule-of-law (and some fiber-optics lines) to take away legitimate business from New York, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, et al. The players whose very existence depends on perpetrating lies and fraud will of course remain in New York to serve those with the same agenda, i.e. defrauding people via financial and accounting trickery.
For those who may have missed Roubini's dismantling of Merrill Stench's smelly pile of lies and purposefully misleading accounting, here it is:
Nouriel Roubini, July 29, 2008: Super-Senior Tranches of CDOs are Worth Much Less than 22 Cents on the Dollar: Another Ponzi Scheme of "Selling" Toxic Garbage with More Leverage
Merrill Lynch decision to "sell" a good chunk of its remaining CDOs at 22 cents to the dollar has been widely praised as the firm finally recognizing the full extent of its losses on these toxic instruments. This batch of $30.6 billion of CDOs was already marked down to $11.1 billion. Now with the "sale" of it to Lone Star at a price of 6.7 billion Merrill Lynch is taking another $4.4 billion writedown and "selling" it at 22% of the original face value.
But is this a market-based "sale"? No way as calling this transaction a "sale" is a joke.
Let me explain next why…
First, note that the secondary market for CDOs is now extremely illiquid and Merrill will provide financing for 75% of the purchase price, or a financing of $5.055 billion. That implies that these CDOs are worth much less than 22 cents of the dollar. These type of "sales" transactions – broker dealers "selling" their toxic waste at a discount and providing hedge funds and private equity funds with heavily subsidized financing for it – has going on for a while.
That discounted "sale" price often ends up being much higher than the true value of the assets (and the ensuing writedown of the assets is smaller than the correct one) because of three reasons:
the selling broker dealer is providing most of the financing for the transaction as this market is totally illiquid and no one could dump $11.1 billions of toxic and illiquid CDOs in such a market;
the interest rate at which the financing occurs is often significantly lower than the appropriate rate at which this risk financing will occur. Merrill has not announced what are the terms of its financing of this deal and this leaves the serious suspicion of a heavily subsidized transaction;
the collateral for this risky financing is the same toxic waste that was sold to a fund. In the case of the Merrill transaction if the market value of this $11.1 tranche (now priced at $6.7 billion) falls another 25% the collateral for the 75% financing (that is non-recourse as it is secured only by the collateral) will be worth less than the underlying assets and thus additional losses will be incurred by Merrill.
In other terms, as pointed out by Bloomberg since "the financing is secured only by the assets being sold, meaning Merrill would absorb any losses on the CDOs beyond $1.68 billion". Thus, in a extreme scenario in which the CDOs actually end up being worth zero Merrill will end up having sold them to Lone Star for 5.5 cents on the dollar rather than 22 cents. I.e. leaving aside the first loss of 25% taken by Lone Star all of the remaining credit loss is borne by Merrill.
So, based on the above consideration, is this toxic junk worth 22 cents on the dollar? No way and one would have to assume that the true market value of this garbage is closer to zero than 22 cents. So the street is now arguing that 22 cents on the dollar sets a market benchmark for writing down CDOs (Citi is still carrying them at a value of 53 cents rather than the 22) and many other firms will now have to use this benchmark; but the reality is that this toxic garbage is worth much less than 22 cents. So the charade of pretending to mark down to market the value of this junk will continue for a few quarters with continued bleeding of earnings.
At this point it would be more honest for the financial firms to write down to zero the value of these assets (with possible positive revaluation if they turn out being worth more than zero) and keep them on balance sheet rather than pretending to "sell" them via greater debt that massively adds to the credit risk that these firms are taking at the time when they should be deleveraging rather than releveraging further.
What is the sense of taking on another $5 billion of risky debt that has toxic garbage as collateral? Is this sound financial balance sheet restructuring or another Ponzi scheme of a house of debt-upon-debt cards? Selling worthless junk and providing financing for it is not a "sale"; it is another accounting scam whose purpose is hiding the full extent of the losses on garbage, not coming clean on them. So beware of the cheerleading chorus of banking "analysts" praising Merrill and this transaction.
The entire episode stinks with the Merrill CEO making a series of misleading statements on Q2 earnings and on no need for further capital and now coming out of the blue with this new surprise and a new large capital injection that will massively dilute current shareholders a few days after the dismal Q2 results were reported. Add to this charade the fact that what will be raised in this new round of recapitalization will be much less than the announced $8.5 billion once Temasek and other shareholders who participated in the previous recap will be compensated for the massive losses they incurred in that round of recapitalization of Merrill. "
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Now I don't claim to be an expert on relationships—but you typically see people who have plenty in common getting together. By this logic, I can conclude that if your boyfriend has a woeful sense of fashion, you probably do as well. So don't get on your high horse, pathetically backstabbing him by writing anonymously to Cherwell for help. I'm willing to bet that your style is just as horrific. In fact, I'd go so far as to say you're worse. I'd imagine that the contents of your wardrobe repulse him just as much, yet he has refrained from attempting to shame you publicly—probably due to the fact that he possesses at least a shred of moral integrity.
Why your other half wants to be committed to someone who treats them this way is none of my business, although I am deeply curious as to why they'd even consider dating such a snake. Never mind—it doesn't matter. I'm supposed to be giving you advice on how to dress your boyfriend, as if he were a Ken Barbie doll or a cheap accessory for you to parade around. In the highly likely event that you require fashion tips as well, I strongly recommend applying these to your own outfits.
You should start by taking him to Topman, and purchasing one of their tacky, overpriced jumpers. This way, if you're ever dissatisfied with the clothes on your lover—who is an individual with his own tastes, desires, and personality—you can force this top over his head. It may temporarily abate the sense of humiliation you feel around him, provided this emotion is caused by his dress sense, rather than being precipitated by some deep emptiness and self-loathing within you.
In the long term, I suggest subtly manipulating and coercing him into being more compliant with your fantasy of a 'fashionable' boyfriend. Burn all his disgusting clothes so they'll hurt when he tries to put them on: if Pavlovian conditioning kicks in, he'll soon stop wearing his (literally) smouldering shirts. Start making increasingly passive aggressive jokes about sleeping with edgier boys who don the brands and styles to which you're attracted: if he's any sort of partner, he'll take the hint without being stupid enough to start an argument about it. Finally, steal any wavey garms which your man doesn't own. Even though he won't be able to flaunt everything you poach at once, it will prevent everyone else from doing so. As a result, your boyfriend's dress sense will improve relative to the people who have had their nice clothes stolen.
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Q: DataFrame .head() doesn't work when calling it from a function When calling this function in Jupyter's Notebook, it prints nothing:
def printess(request):
        table_AltModels[request].head(10)

where in this code table_AltModels[request] is a valid dataframe.
I would like my function to show the dataframe in a table like here:
table
Thanks

A: Either use a return or a print
return table_AltModels[request].head(10)

or
print table_AltModels[request].head(10)

or
from IPython.display import display
display(table_AltModels[request].head(10))

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Can Donald Trump FAIL to UPHOLD Federal Trust Responsibility To the Same Magnitude as Barack Obama?
We KNOW that former President Barack Obama's administration FAILED to protect the individual Indian from harm by their tribal leaders. Can we expect Donald Trump to fail as miserably? Why do our leaders IGNORE THEIR MORAL RESPONSIBILITY?
We write about tribal disenrollment most often, but this goes deeper, including coverage of health care and all the benefits that should come to ALL Indian people.
Throughout Indian Country, Tribal officials have taken actions which have denied and/or stripped ten thousand individual Indians of their citizenship rights and privileges as Tribal members and denied them access to federal benefits and programs in the areas of housing, education, health, voting and public works assistance. In most cases, these rights have been stripped without due process.
If you recall, in President Obama's State of The Union, he said this: "But rarely we can agree that the right to vote is sacred; that it's being denied to many. Well it certainly is TRUE in Indian Country, where many of us, who have been disenrolled can no longer vote in tribal elections or on a matter that will affect us.
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The federal government operates under the policy that the government to government relationship is with the elected leaders of a tribe. Indians who are members of federally recognized tribes are eligible to participate in programs and services, however, the BIA does not recognize individual interests in tribal land, assets, and resources, and instead views these as held communally by the tribe.
This contradicts courts decisions that say that Indians have a protected interest in the land, assets, and resources of their reservations, and must share equitably in these interests.(Puzz v. United States, 1988; Short v. United States, 1978). Sharing is not done at the tribal level; it is done at the individual level, but only when the tribe approves it.
Is there any wonder why disenrollment is hotly disputed? It is a weapon used by tribal leaders to consolidate power, remove opposition, increase shares for those who remain enrolled, and to reduce membership. Tribes with reduced membership are inherently weaker, which is the best argument against disenrollment, but the warning goes unheeded.
The BIA presides over these disputes with full knowledge that civil rights and tribal law are being violated, but claims that it cannot interfere in internal tribal matters. In California Valley Miwoks v. Jewell the court ruled that the BIA must intervene when rogue leaders interfere with individual members' federal benefits, but the agency is clinging to the argument that this decision only applies to the unique conditions of the California Valley Miwoks. We are caught up in this Catch-22: The agency that is entrusted with the responsibility to fulfill the obligations of the federal government to Indians is committed to protecting the federal government against liability arising from the damage inflicted by the agency, and to promoting the agendas of tribal leaders.
The heinous and injurious incompetence of the BIA was exposed in the Cobell suit. The BIA badly managed the Individual Indian Money accounts of Indians throughout the United States and could not provide an accounting of over $4 billion dollars that belonged to Indians. The BIA said that it could not locate the account tracking for the money, and that it was simply lost (or was it misappropriated, misplaced, or stolen?).
The agency is guilty of institutionalized corruption; we have seen it over and over again. At this point we must question if the can BIA be trusted to administer federal programs and benefits. At the very least the employees' motives and intentions are clearly suspect. The BIA operates to benefit tribes and in their eyes tribal leaders are the tribes, while individual Indians are susceptible to paper genocide.
This means that Indians must not look to the BIA for help, for the agency has none to offer. The BIA is far too busy protecting the interests of the federal government and tribal leaders to be concerned about the fate of individual Indians, and so a battle is being waged in the Courts. The BIA is involved in constant litigation with tribes and Indians trying to extricate the agency from their affairs. The agency spends more time and money fighting legal battles than protecting the interests of Indians.
I wonder if the new administration will appoint an AS-IA that will work to promote the welfare of Indians as to opposed to that of tribal leaders. It it clear that the BIA has general authority to manage Indian affairs for the benefit of Indians, but has failed to exercise that authority. Instead the agency pretends that corrupt leaders represent the interests of tribes and help those leaders promote agendas that divide tribes, undermine tribal democracy, and destroy the community.
I think you have your answer in how he treated the Indians at the Standing Rock Reservation when he overturned an EO that President Obama created to protect the rights of this Nation. I am sure you are glad the President Obama is gone, but I have not seen any real effort to create change by trump other that take credit for the work of the past administration.
Trump has a LONG history of only wanting to work with tribes with there is personal benefit to him. Two tribes have fired him from projects for MIS-management. When he assumed native people would. Not take the time to check on what he was doing. He (falsely) assumed we were only interested in making money.
After those two experiences, suddenly we were all "not real Indians". And he began to trash us in the media... by buying billboards in Mohawk Indian territories with anti-tribal casino rhetoric. Later in 1993, at a hearing in Washington, trump was asked to testify about accusations of organized crime being rampant on Native American reservation where gaming enterprises existed.
Now he calls himself the president of the United States. He surrounds himself with an enteragè of white nationalists. The secretary of the BIA and the secretary of the EPA are both big oil people. Do you think they will be fair to the tribes that care about the environment? The United States Attourney general voted against the violence against women's act which was revised to include and strengthen efforts to solve missing and murdered indigenous women's cases.
Looking towards the trump administration for help to to have a better record on indigenous rights is a complete waste of time in my opinion. Tribes are willing to engage with this administration because they have to. Not because they feel things will get better for them. Because they won't.
Kickingbear, you ever see the "Indians" that own Foxwoods? When my tribe The MHA Nation, went to meet with them over photos from one of our pow wows being used without permission to promote their pow wow, our representatives thought they were meeting with "attorneys" due to the individuals being Black; turns out these were tribal members. And some large prominent Indian casinos are very corrupt, maybe not with organized crime, but tribaly corrupt, which is far worse when our own people allow this to occur.


New Uganda Cranes head coach Sebastien Desabre has released his final squad of players of the Uganda Cranes B squad, for this year's African Nations Championship (CHAN), which kicks off in Morocco on January 12.
After the final training on Wednesday at Africa Bible University in Lubowa, the Frenchman dropped two more players to make the final 23 man squad as per the tournament rules.
Proline Football Club's Daniel Isiagi and Sports Club Villa's Godfrey Lwesibawa did not make the cut as the team left Kampala to fly out at 1500EAT aboard Qatar Airways via Doha then connect to Morocco, according to Head of communications at FUFA Ahmed Hussein.
The CHAN team has a core of players who featured in last year's CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup like Timothy Awany, Nelson Senkatutuka and Derrick Nsimbambi.
Cranes will play friendlies against Congo Brazaville and Cameroon in the week ahead. Thereafter, Cranes, appearing at the Chan for a fifth time, will face Zambia, Ivory Coast and Namibia.
The travelling 25 man squad.
Defenders: Nicholas Wadada, Joseph Nsubuga, Timothy Awany, Bernard Muwanga, Mustapha Mujjuzi, Aggrey Madoi, Isaac Muleme, Mustapha Kizza.
Strikers: Shaban Muhammad, Derrick Nsibambi , Nelson Senkatuka.


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Why 'Goldfinger' at 50 remains the definitive James Bond movie
GoldfingerCourtesy Everett Collection
Sept. 17, 2014, 11:19 AM UTC
By Sean Axmaker
"Goldfinger" was the third Bond feature but the first Bond blockbuster, an instant smash hit that turned the series into a phenomenon. Fifty years after its Sept. 17, 1964 London premiere, which was overrun by fans fighting to get into the theater, it remains the definitive big-screen incarnation of the world's most famous secret agent.
Sean Connery and Shirley Eaton in 1964's "Goldfinger."Today
"Of all the Bonds, "Goldfinger" is the best, and can stand as a surrogate for the others," wrote Roger Ebert in 1999. "If it is not a great film, it is a great entertainment, and contains all the elements of the Bond formula that would work again and again."
The first two Bond films — "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love" — were both unabashedly sexy and brutishly sexist, cartoons of glib machismo with martini wit and international flair. Sean Connery brought his Bondness to life with a mix of charm, arrogance, elegance and rough-and-tumble toughness.
Today you can see them as time capsules of "Mad Men" fantasies of masculinity with comic-book action. "Goldfinger" not only ups the ante on every level, it adds a few new elements that made the series.
The first great larger-than-life Bond villain
Auric Goldfinger, a megalomaniac billionaire who smothers one victim in gold paint and crushes another in a scrap-metal cube. German actor Gert Fröbe couldn't speak a word of English, and his entire performance was dubbed by British actor Michael Collins
The first iconic henchman
Oddjob, a mute Korean bodyguard with a bowler hat that can decapitate an opponent with the flip of a wrist. While it teeters on the edge of demeaning stereotype, Hawaiian athlete-turned-actor Harold Sakata turned him into one of the most popular Bond bad guys by playing the part completely straight.
The first Bond woman who holds her own with 007
Pussy Galore, a tough private pilot with her own all-female Flying Circus. Sure, Bond seduces her to switch sides, but this is one Bond beauty who jumps right in and battles it out with the boys.
A self-aware wit
Bond and the villains drop quips in their banter and Bond seduces his conquests with double entendres. Not to mention the name Pussy Galore, the first of many suggestive names for the Bond women.
The theme song
A bold, brassy theme song belted out by Shirley Bassey that set the bar for future theme songs.
Bond had style as well as cool toys in "Goldfinger." The handsome Bentley of "From Russia With Love" was replaced with the sexy Aston Martin DB5, and Q outfitted that vehicle with the all the gadgets we expect of a Bond vehicle, from the machine guns in the grill to the rotating license plates to an ejector seat. The best gadget isn't in 007's arsenal, however. It's the industrial laser that Goldfinger uses on Bond (in one of the squirmiest traps that Bond ever faced) before applying it to Fort Knox. A standard tool in the spy kit since the 1970s, back in 1964 it was practically science fiction.


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"""Datastore object to keep track of a single Pipeline run."""

import collections

from google.appengine.ext import ndb

from lib.crud import crud_model

class RunStat(crud_model.CrudNdbModel):
  """A RunStat to keep track of Pipelines."""
  parent_model_name = 'Pipeline'

  started = ndb.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
  stopped = ndb.DateTimeProperty(auto_now=True)
  result_code = ndb.IntegerProperty()

  @staticmethod
  def GetHistory(this_pipeline):
    """Search for stats generated by this pipeline."""
    return RunStat.query(ancestor=this_pipeline)

class ResultCodes(object):
  """Types of pipeline run results. Currently with placeholders."""

  SUCCESS, FAILURE, TIME_OUT = range(3)

  messages = collections.OrderedDict(((SUCCESS, 'Pipeline run succeeded'),
                                      (FAILURE, 'Pipeline run failed'),
                                      (TIME_OUT, 'Pipeline run timed out')))

  @staticmethod
  def ToString(i):
    return ResultCodes.messages.get(i, 'Pipeline status unknown')

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London & Brexit
Bird & Bird LLP
European Union, United Kingdom March 11 2021
For those living and working in London, the last year has been one like no other. On the 31st of January 2020, the UK departed the European Union, the single market and the customs union. After a turbulent four years of negotiations, the UK/EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) was announced on the 24th of December, and the transition period came to an end on the 31st of December.
Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged city life, causing the loss of some 300,000 jobs. London now confronts the twin challenges of the economic fallout and disturbances caused by the pandemic and by Brexit.
Yet London's many strengths should ensure that it will thrive again. Throughout its history, London has weathered many setbacks, from fire and war to more recently, substantial financial crises. With a population of nearly 9 million, it is Europe's largest city, a renowned global centre of business and culture, whose attributes include its skilled labour, its time zone, common law and language. 'London is a multicultural city and has a host of people who are outward looking and enterprising. All this will be here beyond the pandemic and as it adapts to Brexit,' says Sally Shorthose, partner in the IP and Life Sciences & Healthcare group and head of Bird & Bird's Brexit group.
Even so, much work is needed to manage the uncertainties that lie ahead. An immediate concern is the restoration of London's economy following the pandemic. In a survey conducted by Opinium with Bird & Bird in January this year, almost half of London businesses anticipated that the pandemic would have a bigger impact on their performance over the next six to twelve months than Brexit. Although government support and remote working have sustained many businesses during the crisis, London's cultural, tourist and hospitality sectors especially have severely suffered. It is hoped that the government's roadmap out of lockdown and new fiscal support measures will aid London's recovery.
In both the short and long term, however, London must adapt to the UK's new relationship with the EU – its largest trading partner.
'This is fundamentally changed by the TCA,' says Jordan Cummins, Head of Policy for London, CBI. 'Our members were relieved a deal was achieved but realise that as it was agreed very late, not everyone's needs would be met. We also recognise that its effect isn't fully understood yet due to the conditions brought about by the pandemic.'
Those hoping for the continuation of frictionless trade with the EU, have been disappointed. Although the trade in goods between the UK and EU will be tariff and quota free, new non-tariff barriers now apply.
'Large clients were well prepared for Brexit while smaller organisations were seeking advice up to the very end of the transition period having focused on keeping their heads above water whilst dealing with the pandemic,' Shorthose explains. Access to EU markets will be less smooth and costlier than before for many businesses, Shorthose says.
We now effectively have three markets: GB, the EU and Northern Ireland, instead of just one. Consequently, rules on matters like packaging and regulations must be addressed for each market.' Many of Bird & Bird's clients have needed clarification on trade with Northern Ireland especially,'
The main challenges firms are now experiencing, the CBI says, are the increased costs and paperwork involved in trade, and grappling with the Rules of Origin and different customs authorities in the EU. 'For some businesses who haven't traded outside the EU, the new requirements are especially demanding,' says Cummins.
The services industries
Crucially for London, the TCA focused on the trade in goods, and while the free movement of services is generally addressed, the access of UK businesses to the EU will be subject to EU member states rules. Financial services however, are not covered by the TCA. With the services industries accounting for some 80% of London's economy, it is feared Brexit may cause a loss of £9.5bn to London's GDP per year. London's position as a global leader in financial services especially, has been buoyed by its trade with the EU. Although its free access to financial firms in the EU was to be replaced by the principle of equivalence, this is yet to occur. 'There's real disappointment that equivalence wasn't granted as it has been afforded to Canada and Switzerland,' Shorthose remarks. An agreed framework for regulations between the UK and the EU is expected to be reached by late March but could take longer. So far around 7500 jobs and £1.3 trillion in assets have been lost to London in anticipation of Brexit and, in its immediate aftermath, much trading in Euro stock and swaps has left London for Amsterdam and New York.
Yet despite the competition, European financial centres are small in comparison to London and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) remains the world's most international exchange. The city's wealth of financial services expertise is found in few other places and the industry is likely to respond to the current challenges with its customary zeal. The government too, is keen to support it, Sally Shorthose insists. 'Trading is a great source of tax so the government will want to preserve and boost the financial services industry to maintain the City's health.' This seems evident already. Trading in Swiss shares has resumed in London, reversing an EU imposed ban and changes to the LSE's listing rules are proposed to boost London's competitiveness. 'AIM has proved to be a very good market and London generally is a preferred place for IPOs,' Shorthose comments. This appears set to continue with anticipated IPOs including Deliveroo, BrewDog, and Trustpilot. Meanwhile, London is now a centre for sustainable finance.
The technology sector is increasingly contributing to London's economy
Many other businesses underpin London's economy, with some faring better than others in the wake of the pandemic and Brexit. The technology sector is increasingly contributing to London's economy with technology giants like Apple and Google siting their European headquarters in the city. A surge in tech start-ups in London bodes well for further job creation. The recently announced new 'elite' visa, is aimed at this sector as are some of the proposed LSE listing rules amendments. New industries too like fintech and Medtech, have emerged from the integration of technology and other established services.
An area of keen government attention now is the life sciences sector, says Sally Shorthose. 'In this sector, London is part of the Life Sciences Golden Triangle with Oxford and Cambridge and there are world-leading teaching hospitals in London which support the industry.' Although the headquarters of the European Medical Agency has been lost to London, a new public/private funding scheme may boost funding for the industry. The life sciences too, are closely aligned to the educational sector in London, which has the highest concentration of universities and higher education institutions in the world. These institutions, however, have suffered due to the pandemic and also fear the loss of EU students – a lucrative source of income – as a result of Brexit.
Others hard hit by the pandemic and Brexit include London's cultural and creative institutions and businesses. In recent years its media and entertainment industries have boomed and its theatres, galleries and museums and wider tourism sector, are great sources of income for the city. The end of lockdown and the government's new support package for culture and the arts will be welcome, but many in these sectors fear the loss of access to talent and funding after Brexit. All businesses, however, will have to adapt to the new market conditions, says Shorthose. 'The good thing is we now have more scope to bring products to market more quickly. We also have to work in the longer term to make the UK a more attractive place to do business and a good home for enterprising people.'
Regulatory co-operation
The UK is already seeking more regulatory cooperation with the EU, but delicate balances are involved in this politically charged area. 'The rapid delivery of the coronavirus vaccination programme in the UK has shown how the UK can benefit from its newfound autonomy (by choosing to source vaccines independently rather than joining with the rest of the EU in a collective purchase arrangement) and its freedom to react quickly to events,' Shorthose notes. Nevertheless, it is unlikely that there would be much support for a bonfire of EU regulations already forming part of UK law and especially those in areas like employee rights. 'A lot of EU imposed regulation has made our lives safer. If UK laws deviate much from those of the EU too, it could affect yet more of the UK's access to EU markets,' she says. The CBI's Cummins agrees: 'In the UK, regulations governing business have become enmeshed with the EU over decades. We should ensure that any changes the UK makes to them are as non-disruptive as possible. If the UK deviates markedly from EU regulation, it could add to the tensions already being experienced. In any event, firms want stable, regulatory regimes they can rely on in the longer term.
Still, some progress has already been made. The European Commission has recently given preliminary approval to the UK's data protection standards, paving the way for an agreement to help the flow of data between the UK and the EU.
For London's skilled, vigorous professional sector, the loss of the automatic recognition of qualifications following Brexit has been especially unsettling. The legal profession alone contributed nearly £60 billion to the UK economy in 2018. Under the TCA, the right of UK lawyers to work in the EU is now limited and subject to the national rules of EU member states. Like other international firms, Bird & Bird, with its network of EU offices manned by local lawyers, will be little affected, though the work of smaller and regional firms may be disrupted. London's position as the home of the common law and a favoured international centre of dispute resolution is unlikely to change.
London businesses traditionally have relied on immigration for higher and lower skilled employees. Many EU nationals have especially worked in sectors like hospitality, construction and health. After the announcement of new immigration rules on 22nd October, 2020 and Brexit, new regimes for immigration and business travel are now in force.
Before the end of the transition period, EU nationals were able to exercise their freedom of movement rights when coming to the UK to work. Others who wanted to live and work here were more strictly assessed under a points-based system'
Yuichi Sekine, head of Bird & Bird's Business Immigration team
Now the immigration rules apply equally to EU and non-EU nationals but although they closely resemble the previous rules, they are less stringent in some respects.
'The skills threshold and minimum salary requirements when applying for work visas have been reduced so employers have a wider selection of jobs to sponsor,' Sekine explains. Also, the annual cap on work visas for people applying from abroad has been suspended. 'Employers had to advertise roles in many cases. There was a monthly allocation system and employers needed an approved allocation which all delayed the procedure. Now it's a speedy process to sponsor someone, provided the employer has a sponsor license,' he says. Application fees though, are unchanged. 'The existing fees remain and are higher than those charged in other EU countries which is an indirect way to limit immigration instead of a strict annual quota. Smaller firms may have to pay less, so proportionality is built in, but the process is still costly,' Sekine remarks. Disappointingly, the new rules make no provision for lower skilled workers and some sectors, like the hospitality sector will be unduly affected. 'Many roles in this industry have been filled by EU nationals but this source of workers has now been cut off,' Sekine says.
EU Settlement Scheme
Some relief for London employers is provided by the EU Settlement Scheme which allows EU national employees already in the UK as of 31 December 2020 to apply up until the 30 June 2021 to remain. The Youth Mobility Scheme Visa and the new Graduate visa opening in July 2021 are also good avenues for sourcing labour without a sponsor licence. 'Once the coronavirus lockdown has ended, we'll see what happens. For lower skilled labour, employers will have to turn to the existing labour market and those who are eligible under these schemes, although this could result in an upward pressure on wages,' says Sekine. Now too, there is the fast-track 'elite points-based' visa, announced in the budget, which will help some firms when it is expected to roll out by March 2022. Many organisations employing foreign nationals will have to rethink their employment strategies, Sekine warns. 'Firms employing EU nationals will have more people to monitor if they require sponsorship under the new immigration rules. Robust systems will be needed to track and monitor visa expiry dates, retain appropriate documentation and check the right of work for all employees as they may be audited by the Home Office'. These will include identifying those EU nationals who will require a suitable work visa depending on their planned activities during their business visit, a new concern emerging from the TCA and Brexit.
London's business community have to consider the TCA as only a reference for the UK's future relationship with the EU. It is hoped that a deal on financial services can be reached and employers will be looking for further clarity from the government on the use of foreign labour. In the future, more trade deals with countries outside the EU may benefit London, although they may involve issues like the free movement of labour and differences in national standards. A priority for the CBI, says Cummins, is getting the government to provide more timely, simple guidance for businesses on the operation of new rules that are introduced, including rules on business travel. To navigate the challenges ahead, organisations must keep ahead of the curve. 'They need to be vigilant and well informed – forewarned is forearmed. Trade associations are excellent sources of advice and provide useful networks. Keeping close to trusted advisors will also be more important than ever,' says Sally Shorthose. She urges organisations to be proactive and to lobby for the regulatory changes they seek. Meanwhile, Bird & Bird will always be ready to support its clients with business-focused advice, she says.
For more information on the legal implications of Brexit, visit our Brexit In Focus page.
Bird & Bird LLP - Sally Shorthose and Yuichi Sekine
Belgium - Trade associations & the amended lobbying exemption *
Cybersecurity: Council adopts its position on the NIS2 Directive *
The EU's Digital Services Package a global benchmark - a closer look at the Digital Markets Act. *
GDPR Enforcement in Belgium: Trends & Risks *
Brexit Checklist for Technology & Communications Businesses *
How-to guide How-to guide: Drafting a sale and supply of goods agreement (USA)
How-to guide How-to guide: How to draft and negotiate limitation of liability clauses (USA)
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The greatest hidden asset in any company is the untapped potential of its sales force. The best investment opportunity available to any company, or salesperson, is to unlock that potential. How many other investments can show a documented ROI of more than 3:1 in 90 days and 14:1 in the first year?
Naturally, you don't get results like that from just any sales training course. Just as there are right ways and wrong ways to sell, there are right and wrong ways to teach people how to sell more effectively.
How can $1 of sales training return $14 worth of better sales performance?


Brunt, Carol Rifka, author. (Author).
Physical Description: 372 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition: 2013 Dial Press Trade Paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2013, ℗♭2012.
General Note: Originally published: 2012.
Includes a reader's guide with discussion questions (p. -372).
Summary, etc.: "1987. The only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus is her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into June's life ... June realizes she's not the only one who misses Finn, and that this unexpected friend just might be the one she needs the most"--Page 4 of cover.
Youth and death > Fiction.