In human history, there have been three great technological revolutions and many smaller ones. The three great ones are the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and the one we are now in the middle of—the software revolution.
The great technological revolutions have affected what most people do every day and how society is structured. The previous one, the industrial revolution, created lots of jobs because the new technology required huge numbers of humans to run it. But this is not the normal course of technology; it was an anomaly in that sense. And it makes people think, perhaps subconsciously, that technological revolutions are always good for most people's personal economic status.
It appears that the software revolution will do what technology usually does—create wealth but destroy jobs. Of course, we will probably find new things to do to satisfy limitless human demand. But we should stop pretending that the software revolution, by itself, is going to be good for median wages.
Technology provides leverage on ability and luck, and in the process concentrates wealth and drives inequality. I think that drastic wealth inequality is likely to be one of the biggest social problems of the next 20 years. We can—and we will—redistribute wealth, but it still doesn't solve the real problem of people needing something fulfilling to do.
Trying to hold on to worthless jobs is a terrible but popular idea. Trying to find new jobs for billions of people is a good idea but obviously very hard because whatever the new jobs are, they will probably be so fundamentally different from anything that exists today that meaningful planning is almost impossible. But the current strategy—"let's just pretend that Travis is kidding when he talks about self-driving cars and that Uber really is going to create millions of jobs forever"—is not the right answer.
The second major challenge of the software revolution is the concentration of power in small groups. This also happens with most technological revolutions, but the last truly terrifying technology (the atomic bomb) taught us bad lessons in a similar way to the industrial revolution and job growth.
It is hard to make an atomic bomb not because the knowledge is restricted (though it is—if I, hypothetically, knew how to make an atomic bomb, it would be tremendously illegal for me to say anything about it) but because it takes huge amounts of energy to enrich Uranium. One effectively needs the resources of nations to do it.
Again, this is not the normal course for technology—it was an idiosyncrasy of nuclear development. The software revolution is likely to do what technology usually does, and make more power available to small groups.
Two of the biggest risks I see emerging from the software revolution—AI and synthetic biology—may put tremendous capability to cause harm in the hands of small groups, or even individuals. It is probably already possible to design and produce a terrible disease in a small lab; development of an AI that could end human life may only require a few hundred people in an office building anywhere in the world, with no equipment other than laptops.
The new existential threats won't require the resources of nations to produce. A number of things that used to take the resources of nations—building a rocket, for example—are now doable by companies, at least partially enabled by software. But a rocket can destroy anything on earth.
What can we do? We can't make the knowledge of these things illegal and hope it will work. We can't try to stop technological progress.
I think the best strategy is to try to legislate sensible safeguards but work very hard to make sure the edge we get from technology on the good side is stronger than the edge that bad actors get. If we can synthesize new diseases, maybe we can synthesize vaccines. If we can make a bad AI, maybe we can make a good AI that stops the bad one.
The current strategy is badly misguided. It's not going to be like the atomic bomb this time around, and the sooner we stop pretending otherwise, the better off we'll be. The fact that we don't have serious efforts underway to combat threats from synthetic biology and AI development is astonishing.
To be clear, I'm a fan of the software revolution and I feel fortunate I was born when I was. But I worry we learned the wrong lessons from recent examples, and these two issues—huge-scale destruction of jobs, and concentration of huge power—are getting lost.


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Now this is big, like really big. There were a lot of rumors floating in about Nawazuddin Siddiqui replacing Farhan Akhtar in the forthcoming film, 'Raees' with none other than Shah Rukh Khan.
While everyone was looking forward to updates from this project, producer Ritesh Sidhwani has finally spoken up and cleared all doubts. It is true that Nawaz would be playing lead opposite Shah Rukh in Rahul Dholakia's next and his character would be of a sharp cop.
While the film had to start its schedule this month, but due to some technicalities it has been pushed to February which has made, Farhan Akhtar step back as the dates were clashing with his schedule for 'Rock On 2'. Well, this casting looks wonderful and damn, we are excited to see Nawaz and Khan on opposite sides.
The lead actress of the film would be revealed later and as for the set, the team is very excited to construct a set in Film City. While the release of the film depends on Shah Rukh Khan's upcoming film 'Fan', we are just keeping our fingers crossed…what do we say but let the chase begin!
Looks like we will be seeing more of the Kick star with King Khan himself! From working with Salman Khan to Shah Rukh Khan looks like Nawaz is banking the Khan films! Stay tuned for his upcoming films out in 2015!
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A 40 per cent pay cut: why some swap the boardroom for the classroom
By Mary Ward
May 13, 2019 — 12.00am
After five years, Ying Qin concluded banking was "not the most meaningful career".
The 31-year-old was never quite sure if the corporate world was right for her (she studied commerce because it seemed "broad"), but after coming through ANZ's graduate program and settling in business banking, she increasingly felt there must have been a better option.
Ying Qin changed careers to become a maths teacher. Credit:Eddie Jim
After a chance viewing of The Ron Clark Story, a 2006 Matthew Perry film which tells the story of a teacher in a troubled New York City public school, Ms Qin had teaching in the back of her mind.
"I thought I would try the corporate world, and if I still wanted to pursue teaching down the track I would do it," she said.
She now teaches maths and business management at Fairhills High School in outer Melbourne.
Ms Qin came to teaching through Teach for Australia, a national program which allows high-achieving "future leaders" to complete a postgraduate teaching qualification from ACU while simultaneously undertaking a placement in a disadvantaged high school.
In its 10th year, 827 prospective teachers have been trained through the initiative, which receives federal, state and private funding.
A representative for Teach for Australia said roughly half of their participants previously had an unrelated career (others join after undergraduate study). However, that figure is rising: in their 2019 cohort, 70 per cent were changing careers to pursue teaching.
Associate Professor Jacqueline Manuel, program director of the University of Sydney's masters of teaching program, said roughly 40 per cent of her students came to study secondary teaching at a postgraduate level after at least one previous career.
Although she has witnessed some interesting career transitions – one student used to work as a superhero at a theme park – most come from corporate backgrounds.
"Most often the reason they give is an intrinsic and altruistic motivation, they want to undertake a career that's going to give them some kind of higher personal satisfaction and fulfilment," she said.
It is unsurprising that better working conditions or salary are not usually what motivates people to become a teacher. Starting salaries for qualified state secondary teachers vary: Victorians ($68,572) slightly out-earn those in NSW ($65,608), while Queenslanders make $70,081.
Ms Qin said she took a 40 per cent pay cut when she switched from banking to teaching.
"The main shock was actually going back to something that you're a beginner at," she said.
In Professor Manuel's experience, teachers who came to the profession from high-flying corporate careers were more likely to take jobs "that others might see as more challenging or confronting", such as those in regional areas.
Thomas Zagami, a legal studies teacher at St Columba Anglican School in Port Macquarie on NSW's mid-north coast, fits this brief.
Raised in Sydney, the 30-year-old was a high achiever in his HSC, graduated from law at the University of Sydney and took up a grad position at a top-tier firm. In hindsight, Mr Zagami said he was really "going along with the crowd".
"The novelty wore off and the reality of what it was going to look like 10 or 20 years down the track settled in," he said.
"I remember thinking at one point when a client dumped some work on us at 6pm and we all knew it was an eight-hour task. It was sort of like, 'well, that was it for your evening', and I just thought: if I'm taking clothes to the dry cleaner and I'm not there by five o'clock, that's that."
It is unsurprising that better working conditions or salary are usually not motivations for people to become a teacher later in life.
Like Ms Qin, Mr Zagami enrolled in Teach for Australia, working in Warrnambool, Victoria, and then Palmerston, south of Darwin.
He said one of the biggest learning curves was putting aside his perfectionism ("at any time you're managing 20 or 30 sets of feelings and emotions, and histories and personalities"), although the skills he learnt in a big firm have been of benefit.
"A lot of the feedback I get from students is, 'You're so organised'," Mr Zagami said.
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John Harris Walter (* 14. Dezember 1927 in Los Angeles) ist ein US-amerikanischer Mathematiker.

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Walter studierte am California Institute of Technology mit dem Bachelor-Abschluss 1951 und an der University of Michigan mit dem Master-Abschluss 1953 und der Promotion 1954 bei Leonard Tornheim (Automorphisms of the Projective Unitary Groups). Danach war er Instructor und Assistant Professor an der University of Washington und ab 1961 Associate Professor an der University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an der er 1966 eine volle Professur erhielt. 1960/61 und 1965/66 war er Gastprofessor an der University of Chicago, 1967/68 in Harvard und 1972/73 in Cambridge.

Er befasst sich mit der Theorie endlicher Gruppen und ist bekannt für den Satz von Walter über endliche Gruppen mit abelschen Sylow-2-Untergruppen von 1969 und den Satz von Daniel Gorenstein und Walter über endliche Gruppen mit Diedergruppen als Sylow-2-Untergruppen. Die Sylow-Sätze sind mathematische Sätze der Gruppentheorie, einem Teilgebiet der Algebra, und erlauben Aussagen über Untergruppen von endlichen Gruppen sowie Gruppen endlicher Ordnung zu klassifizieren.

2012 wurde Walter ein Fellow der American Mathematical Society.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Finite groups with abelian Sylow 2-subgroups of order 8, Inventiones Mathematicae, Band 2, 1967, S. 332–376
 The characterization of finite groups with abelian Sylow 2-subgroups, Annals of Mathematics, Band 89, 1969, S. 405–514
 mit Gorenstein: The characterization of finite groups with dihedral Sylow-2-subgroups, 3 Teile, J. Algebra, Band 2, 1964, S. 85–151, 217–270, 354–393

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Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)
If there is anything to be learned about "based on a true story" Hollywood adaptations of real life through Lee Daniels' "The Butler", it is this: they are hardly ever true stories.
I've mentioned this in previous reviews I've written (i.e. "Jobs", "A Beautiful Mind") but reality is seldom as pretty as fiction, or perhaps not as glamorous. I took the liberty of looking into the factual account of Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker), or should I say Eugene Allen, who was the real man who served on White House staff for many years. This paragraph is a bit of a spoiler, but Eugene was a man who's father wasn't actually shot as a boy. His mother wasn't brutally raped and left insane. His son was not a political activist, nor his wife a raging adulterous alcoholic, or Oprah Winfrey for that matter.
There are many other things portrayed in "The Butler" that just simply are not true in the real world. "But, Chris," you might cry out "if it's all fake, then this movie is probably a waste of my time!"
Upon my first mental review of "The Butler" I could not help but wonder what the purpose of it all was. Daniels has successfully blown an already powerful story way out of proportion. Well, that's Hollywood for you, folks! Why fix something that isn't broken?
I'm sure there were some kind of legal liabilities in using the name Eugene Allen as our main character in a film based of off the real-life Eugene Allen. It isn't to my knowledge, but I don't believe that's why Daniels, or screenwriter Danny Strong chose the optional name Cecil Gaines. Daniels is after something bigger here.
"The Butler" exists at some extent to bring to life the story of White House butler for eight presidents, Cecil Gaines, however, at a different level, "The Butler" remains to shed light on the history of African American injustice in the United States over the last hundred years or so. It is by no means a black propaganda or blaxpoitation film, yet the last ten minutes of "The Butler" may give you the former of those impressions.
Cecil Gaines grew up working on a cotton field and from a young age grew to have an appreciation for service to others. Cecil carries this pre-civil rights understanding of humility with him, even through and past the 1960s. He eventually runs far from the cotton fields and lands a few jobs until he is selected as staff at none other than the White House. The nation's capital seems a beacon of light and hope for the future of the civil rights movement. Cecil, while a servant, receives the chance to spend many meaningful conversations with America's past presidential leaders, all appropriately cast in my opinion, ranging from Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, to John Cusack as the all-is-lost Richard Nixon.
Daniels cast includes many prominent African Americans, from rapper David Banner as Cecil's father, to Cuba Gooding Jr. as a fellow White House employee and head butler, Carter Wilson. Lenny Kravitz plays close friend and butler James Holloway, and Terrence Howard is a scummy neighbor with an inappropriately crooked smile.
It's an ensemble cast of sorts, but Whitaker truly shines here. He is a man who has seen the deep dark hate of racism, and believes in his heart that the times truly cannot change, despite everything happening around him. Even in the 1970s, his mental state was still living with a mindset of slavery and servitude.
Oprah Winfrey plays Gloria, Cecil's wife. She is a bit trampy, but due only to Cecil's long, arduous work hours. She is a broken woman in some regards, but does what she can to be a house mom. Her house always has a bit of a washed out, yet warm color palette to it. It's something you don't see anywhere else in the film. It feels homely, but it never changes until within the last fifteen minutes of "The Butler" and by that point, we know racial prejudice has changed in North America. We can only wonder if that old color palette reflects how Cecil's household has changed too.
Daniels spends time showing us the depravity of whites hellbent on pursuing racist arrogance. We see its direct physical and mental effect on the innocent African Americans who are plagued by it, and at the same time, Daniels cuts back to Cecil and fellow butlers, serving those in the White House, who are also, indeed white. It's a fascinating juxtaposition, and it works extremely well, albeit sometimes painful to watch. It's a throwback to Tony Kaye's "American History X".
In the end, "The Butler" is some kind of triumph, not necessarily in filmmaking as a whole, but perhaps more of a congratulatory note on how far the United States has come with racial prejudice. However, "The Butler" reminds us that not so long ago, our grandparents and beyond were in full recognition that this people group was the dirt and scum of the earth. All because of the color of their skin. Is this not sobering to you at all?
Even as an old man, Cecil walks through the all-too-familiar halls of the White House. The building looks identical as it was many years ago when he first arrived, yet now he has changed, and now the times have changed as well.
Side Note: The high school I attended when I was younger was filled with plenty of kids who ran their mouths off with plenty of filthy language, mostly against blacks. Such a pity they were blinded and would feign ignorance, and most likely they still are that way to this day. Upon closer examination, I discovered the reason for their murky logic was buried in the way they were raised. Yes, indeed, it was their parents who instilled racist superiority in their children. I'm not sure why I felt the need to mention this aside from the afterthought that even though we have achieved black equality through the law, that does not mean by any stretch of the imagination that we have achieved mental equality for our nation. Despite pre-2008 campaign promises, there were thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people who refused to vote for Barack Obama, not for his political stance, not for his senatorial history, but for the color of his skin. We have come so far, but please don't take my review as the byproduct of an unintentional political message itself.
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CMrok93 says:
Good review Chris. It's basically two movies placed into one, but they're both still enjoyable to watch. It's just that one's more interesting than the other.
That is a very good observation, Dan. Before going into the theater, I was expecting more of a biopic on Cecil Gaines, but was left feeling as if I had just finished some sort Spike Lee movie or something. Of course, The Butler was not terrible, and I really enjoyed it, but you get the picture.
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HealthDay News — Current or ex-smokers who experience a stroke are at greater risk for recurrent vascular events or death in the 10 year period after the event compared with stroke patients who never smoked, study results suggest.
The hazard ratio for death, MI, or recurrent stroke among patients who were current smokers when they had a stroke was 1.30 (95% CI 1.06 to 1.60) compared with individuals who never smoked, Amanda Thrift, PhD, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues, reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Stroke Association.
Ex-smokers are also at risk, albeit the risk is slightly smaller, according to the researchers. After excluding patients that died within 28 days after the stroke, risk for death, MI or recurrent stroke was elevated in patients who were both current (HR 1.42, 95% CI 1.13 to 1.78) and ex-smokers (HR 1.18, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.39) at the time of their stroke. Overall, current smokers and ex-smokers were younger than those who had never smoked, the researcher added.
Although previous studies have shown that smokers have poorer prognosis after MI than nonsmokers, research is limited on how smoking status affects long-term outcomes after stroke is limited. So Thrift and colleagues examined the association between smoking and the risk for death, recurrent stroke and MI in 1,589 patients who participated in the North East Melbourne Stroke Incidence Study (NEMESIS), who had had a first-ever or recurrent stroke from 1997 to 1999.
The researchers recorded all deaths, recurrent strokes and acute MIs, as verified by medical records or death certificates, during the 10 year follow-up period. Overall, 23% died within 28 days of the initial stroke.
Compared with those who had never smoked, current and past smokers were younger, more likely to be male and more likely to be socially disadvantaged, the researchers found. When they looked at stroke subtype, the association between smoking status was found fir ischemic stroke, but not intracerebral hemorrhage; however, this may be due to the small number of study participants that experienced hemorrhage.
"People with stroke who are younger, or male, or living in more disadvantaged areas are likely to be smokers and these groups should be targeted for smoking cessation for primary prevention of stroke," the researchers concluded.
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«Ecology» and «Economy» are derivatives of the word Eco, that in ancient Greek means Home. "The same strong relation they have in Nature", Dr. Petros Lymberakis from the Natural History Museum of Heraklion, mentioned yesterday while addressing the pupils of the Senior High School of Gouves working on the project «Sustainable Energy Actions: Reduction of Energy Consumption & Use of Renewable Energy Resources». Dr Lymberakis addressed the relationship between Biodiversity and Climate Change during his speech and discussed related issues with the pupils.
Nature is always opting for the most efficient and economical way (in terms of energy) for its operations. Nature is not revenging humans for their actions but is issuing an invoice and lately is demanding its payout in full. Are eventually Humans acting in terms of saving up natural resources?
Within this framework, pupils of the 1st Grade in Gouves Senior High school (ages 15-16) are playing the role of "Junior Energy Inspectors…..". They monitor the electric energy consumption of their school, the Town Hall and their library building, and in the meantime suggest ways of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Since ECO-logy and ECO-nomy and strongly interrelated, pupils took an interview of the Finance Deputy Mayor of Hersonissos, Mr. Mastorakis Ioannis. The questions focused on electric energy spending in the Municipality of Hersonissos and on the political initiatives that the Municipal Authority is undertaking in order to reduce its carbon footprint.


Here is a short article about the KU/KSU Show that is currently at SeedCo. Studios in Lawrence, Kansas. The opening was last Friday and I will say that the work came together quite well. Like I have said before, I think this relationship and dialog needs to continue.
I really enjoyed working with graduate students from other schools and hope that I can do something like this again.


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(21104) Sveshnikov est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale aréocroiseur.

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2. The film must not exceed 15 minutes but should not be shorter than 1 minute including credits.
1. Submission of films has NO entry fee.
2. Entrant must submit a duly-accomplished entry form attached with a private online screener.
3. Films can be in various local language provided that the film is subtitled in English.
4. Films must be in digital format.
6. Directors may submit multiple entries. However, only one film would be selected to become part of the official selection.
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Probably one of the best of the 'cinema du look', Jean-Jaques Beineix's Diva set the tone for French cinema in the 1980s. Without Diva there would mavbe have been no 'Betty Blue' and countless other inferior erotic rip-offs right into the 90s and beyond.
The critic Ginette Vincendeau defined the films made by Beineix and others as 'youth-oriented films with high production values… The look of the cinéma du look refers to the films' high investment in non-naturalistic, self-conscious aesthetics, notably intense colours and lighting effects. Their spectacular (studio based) and technically brilliant mise-en-scène is usually put to the service of romantic plots.'
In Diva, style is everything and Diva has a lot of style. It's got a hot black opera singer Wilhelmenia Fernandez who sings the haunting 'Ebben? Ne andrò lontana' from Catalani's opera La Wally and appears herself as the object of postman Jules' sexual and musical obsession. And yes Diva is one of the few movies where the lead is a cool opera loving postman.
It's got Richard Bohringer (Romane Bohringer from L'Appartement's real life dad) as the ultra cool Gorodish who lives in a minimal pad decorated in hip Gitane blue. Jules himself lives in an abandoned garage that's more like a loft adorned with all types of stylish kitch and then of course there is the highly distinctive motorbike on the Métro chase sequence which was one of the very first of its kind.
Being the 80's it has outlandish gangsters (the weirdest of which went on to appear in as the obsessive in the café in Amélie), drugged prostitutes and bent police detectives. And did I mention the suggestion of interracial sex?
It's fast, it's fun but it's always perfectly composed and really quite a voluptuous feast for both eyes and ears.
Mulholland Drive and the lesson for startup brands
David Lynch's 2001 neo-noir film Mulholland Drive left many viewers baffled and perplexed. But many were impressed by the audacity of the invention and creative vision…


HONG KONG, China – Dissident Chinese author Ma Jian arrived in Hong Kong Friday, November 9, vowing to speak at the city's literary festival as a major arts center that had pulled out of hosting him changed its mind.
Calnin said Friday said the center had reconsidered and would host Ma as an alternative venue had not been found.
Festival organizers said they were "delighted" with the decision.
"The talk must go on. Even if only one Hong Konger wants to attend. Even if only one reader wants to talk to me," he said ahead of the new decision by Tai Kwun.
Ma blamed "some organization" above the Hong Kong Jockey Club, which runs Tai Kwun, for the original decision.
The city's publishing sector has taken a hit since 5 booksellers known for printing gossipy titles about China's leaders disappeared in 2015 and resurfaced in custody on the mainland.
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A sign is seen through a tram window outside a Credit Suisse Group AG bank branch in Geneva, Switzerland.
(Bloomberg) -- Credit Suisse Group AG agreed to pay a $47 million penalty to the U.S. Department of Justice to end a probe into whether it hired employees in Asia in exchange for government contracts and other favors.
Credit Suisse's Hong Kong unit reached a non-prosecution agreement with the DOJ regarding its recruitment practices in Asia between 2007 and 2013, according to an emailed statement from the Zurich-based bank on Wednesday. The payment will have no material impact on second-quarter results since the bank has already provisioned for the payment, it said.
The settlement resolves another legal issue for Credit Suisse, which has paid roughly $13 billion in fines since 2008. The bank said earlier this year that entities including the DOJ and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission were investigating whether the bank hired referrals from government and other state-owned entities in exchange for investment banking business and regulatory approvals, in potential violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The Swiss giant said it has made numerous enhancements to its compliance and control functions since 2013. It added that no criminal charges were brought in the case.
Its Asia-Pacific unit is now a standalone unit under the leadership of Helman Sitohang, one of the results of a three-year strategic overhaul by Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam that has pivoted the bank toward wealth management.
Credit Suisse shares rose 0.4 percent to 15.22 francs as of 1:02 p.m. in Zurich and have declined about 11 percent this year.
Credit Suisse is one of several global banks to have been investigated by U.S. authorities over their hiring practices in Asia. Others including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and HSBC Holdings Plc also allegedly hired children of Chinese decision-makers to win business, in violation of anti-bribery laws.
JPMorgan agreed in 2016 to pay about $264 million to settle the allegations. Investigators at the time described a systematic effort to curry favor with government officials and business executives.
Deutsche Bank AG said in its annual report in March that U.S. regulators were among those investigating its employment history for possible bribery violations, without identifying a country. Nizar Al-Bassam, a former head of corporate finance for Central and Eastern Europe, the Mideast and Africa who left the lender to start his own fund in 2016, is suing the bank for unpaid bonuses he argues were unfairly withheld in respect of hires he made.


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CINCINNATI -- In the course of three years, Five One Three Bagels founder Kim Hoover overcame alcoholism to reinvent herself as a self-titled "queen bagel maker."
Hoover, who had worked as a relationship manager at Fidelity Investments before becoming a stay-at-home mom, entered a three-month rehab program in Nashville in 2014. However, when she returned to Cincinnati, she didn't know what to do with her life.
While attending Bowling Green State University in the '90s, she worked at Barry Bagels and years later would occasionally make bagels at home. Last summer, her husband encouraged her to turn her hobby into a feasible business.
"Bagels are very intriguing to me, and they seem to make so many people feel giddy and happy," Hoover said. "There's just something about biting into a well-made bagel. It's like a little slice of heaven."
During a meeting with Findlay Kitchen manager Anthony Berin, she asked if anyone at the Over-the-Rhine incubator kitchen made bagels. The encounter "changed the course of my life," she said.
"He's like, 'Why? Do you want to buy some?' I'm like, 'No, I want to bake them,' " she said. "He said, 'We've been looking for somebody who wants to do bagels.' I said, 'Well, here I am!' "
Kim Hoover sells her bagels at farmers' markets and other events around town.
She joined Findlay Kitchen and started making her fruit-forward bagels a couple of months ago; May's O.F.F. Market in Oakley was the first time she sold bagels to the public. She gave out samples and sold bagels at Taste of Cincinnati's new Taste of Findlay section.
"Everything that I've done in my life has brought me to this point," she said. "When I look at these bagels, I feel like I've been given a second chance to do something with my life."
'Wow. This is different'
Currently, her menu features classic bagels such as the everything (poppy seeds, sesame seeds, salt, onion flakes, garlic) and specialty bagels such as a doughnutlike blueberry-lemon topped with a light glaze (a best-seller that has been "flying out of the baskets," she said); apricot-pistachio with a raw-sugar topping; and an aged cheddar baked into the dough and on the crust. A pepperoni mozzarella bagel, with the pepperoni blended into the dough and mozzarella melted on top, will soon join the rotation.
Kim Hoover's doughnutlike blueberry-lemon bagels. (Photo provided by Amy Smethurst.)
She serves the bagels with homemade cream cheese spreads -- a cucumber dill version and a raspberry puree -- but said she would like to find someone who could make cream cheese from scratch.
"What I had to do was see if these things were even going to be something that people would want," Hoover said. "It seems like it's working. People say, 'Wow, this is different.' "
While researching bagel recipes from acclaimed bread-makers such as Jeffrey Hamelman (bakery director at King Arthur Flour) and Peter Reinhart (writer of "The Bread Baker's Apprentice"), Hoover perfected her bagel. However, she admitted, she hasn't visited New York nor tried a New York-style bagel.
"Over the course of my events, I've had a lot of New York people give me feedback," she said. "It seems I'm on the right track."
She's not the only game in town, and that's OK
Making the bagels is a two-day process, she said.
First, she begins with the pre-ferment step, or sponge, a combination of yeast, flour and water. She lets the mixture ferment for a couple of hours and then creates the final dough, which also includes barley malt syrup and salt. She mixes add-ons like blueberries, cheddar cheese and apricots directly into the dough. The dough sets in a cooler overnight to ferment more, and the next day she boils the hand-rolled and -shaped bagels in a kettle before oven-baking them.
Kim Hoover's everything bagels are a crowd-pleaser. (Photo provided by Amy Smethurst.)
Five One Three isn't the only bagel maker in town. Last year, Lil's Bagels became one of Cincinnati's first pop-up bagel artisans, and this year OTR Bagelry and OTR Bagel Bar have joined the ranks. However, Hoover doesn't see them as competition.
"I think it's a good thing. We are in need of bagels in Cincinnati," she said. "If they're successful, I think I'll be successful. We're all bagel-makers, so go for it. I was thinking about calling them and being like, 'Hey, do you guys want to start a Cincinnati bagel baker association?' I think it would be awesome to share best practices and tips and collaborate."
For the summer, she has a recurring pop-up every Tuesday at Liberty Center farmers market in West Chester, and she'll set up a bagel bar at Washington Park on July 16 and Aug. 5. Her goal, though, is a brick-and-mortar location -- and to help others with addictions through the power of bagels.
She's currently in talks to sell bagels at the I Love You More Than You Know Project softball tournament. Like Hoover, the local nonprofit is committed to fighting addiction.
"Bagels are the gifts that I can give back to the community as a result of my recovery," Hoover said. "This wouldn't be happening if I didn't get sober. I'm in awe that I'm even sitting here."
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using namespace llbuild;
using namespace llbuild::buildsystem;
using namespace llvm;

namespace {

/// We should support decoding an empty value without crashing.
TEST(BuildValueTest, emptyDecode) {
  auto result = BuildValue::fromData(core::ValueType());
  EXPECT_EQ(result.toData(), BuildValue::makeInvalid().toData());
}

TEST(BuildValueTest, virtualValueSerialization) {
  // Check that two identical values are equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue a = BuildValue::makeVirtualInput();
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(), BuildValue::makeVirtualInput().toData());
  }

  // Check that a moved complex value is equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue tmp = BuildValue::makeVirtualInput();
    BuildValue a = std::move(tmp);
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(), BuildValue::makeVirtualInput().toData());
  }

  // Check that an rvalue initialized complex value is equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue tmp = BuildValue::makeVirtualInput();
    BuildValue a{ std::move(tmp) };
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(), BuildValue::makeVirtualInput().toData());
  }

  // Check that a round-tripped value is equivalent.
  EXPECT_EQ(BuildValue::makeVirtualInput().toData(),
            BuildValue::fromData(
                BuildValue::makeVirtualInput().toData()).toData());
}

TEST(BuildValueTest, commandValueSingleOutputSerialization) {
  basic::FileInfo infos[1] = {};
  infos[0].size = 1;

  // Check that two identical values are equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue a = BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos);
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(), BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos).toData());
  }

  // Check that a moved complex value is equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue tmp = BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos);
    BuildValue a = std::move(tmp);
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(), BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos).toData());
  }

  // Check that an rvalue initialized complex value is equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue tmp = BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos);
    BuildValue a{ std::move(tmp) };
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(), BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos).toData());
  }

  // Check that a round-tripped value is equivalent.
  EXPECT_EQ(BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos).toData(),
            BuildValue::fromData(
                BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos).toData()).toData());
}

TEST(BuildValueTest, commandValueMultipleOutputsSerialization) {
  basic::FileInfo infos[2] = {};
  infos[0].size = 1;
  infos[1].size = 2;

  // Check that two identical values are equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue a = BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos);
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(),
              BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos).toData());
  }

  // Check that a moved complex value is equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue tmp = BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos);
    BuildValue a = std::move(tmp);
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(),
              BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos).toData());
  }

  // Check that an rvalue initialized complex value is equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue tmp = BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos);
    BuildValue a{ std::move(tmp) };
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(), BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos).toData());
  }

  // Check that a round-tripped value is equivalent.
  EXPECT_EQ(BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos).toData(),
            BuildValue::fromData(
                BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommand(infos).toData()).toData());
}

TEST(BuildValueTest, commandValueWithSignatureSingleOutputSerialization) {
  auto signature = llbuild::basic::CommandSignature(0xDEADBEEF);
  basic::FileInfo infos[1] = {};
  infos[0].size = 1;

  // Check that two identical values are equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue a = BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommandWithOutputSignature(infos, signature);
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(),
              BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommandWithOutputSignature(infos, signature).toData());
  }

  // Check that a moved complex value is equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue tmp = BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommandWithOutputSignature(infos, signature);
    BuildValue a = std::move(tmp);
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(),
              BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommandWithOutputSignature(infos, signature).toData());
  }

  // Check that an rvalue initialized complex value is equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue tmp = BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommandWithOutputSignature(infos, signature);
    BuildValue a{ std::move(tmp) };
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(),
              BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommandWithOutputSignature(infos, signature).toData());
  }

  // Check that a round-tripped value is equivalent.
  EXPECT_EQ(BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommandWithOutputSignature(infos, signature).toData(),
            BuildValue::fromData(
                BuildValue::makeSuccessfulCommandWithOutputSignature(
                    infos, signature).toData()).toData());
}

TEST(BuildValueTest, directoryListValues) {
  basic::FileInfo mockInfo{};
  std::vector<std::string> strings{ "hello", "world" };

  // Check that two identical values are equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue a = BuildValue::makeDirectoryContents(mockInfo, strings);
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(),
              BuildValue::makeDirectoryContents(mockInfo, strings).toData());
  }

  // Check that a moved complex value is equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue tmp = BuildValue::makeDirectoryContents(mockInfo, strings);
    BuildValue a = std::move(tmp);
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(),
              BuildValue::makeDirectoryContents(mockInfo, strings).toData());
  }

  // Check that an rvalue initialized complex value is equivalent.
  {
    BuildValue tmp = BuildValue::makeDirectoryContents(mockInfo, strings);
    BuildValue a{ std::move(tmp) };
    EXPECT_EQ(a.toData(),
              BuildValue::makeDirectoryContents(mockInfo, strings).toData());
  }

  // Check the contents are correct.
  {
    BuildValue tmp = BuildValue::makeDirectoryContents(mockInfo, strings);
    auto result = tmp.getDirectoryContents();
    EXPECT_EQ(result.size(), 2U);
    EXPECT_EQ(result[0], "hello");
    EXPECT_EQ(result[1], "world");
  }
}

TEST(BuildValueTest, staleFileRemovalValues) {
  std::vector<std::string> files { "a.out", "Info.plist" };

  {
    BuildValue a = BuildValue::makeStaleFileRemoval(ArrayRef<std::string>(files));
    auto nodes = a.getStaleFileList();
    EXPECT_EQ(2UL, nodes.size());
    EXPECT_EQ(nodes[0], "a.out");
    EXPECT_EQ(nodes[1], "Info.plist");
  }

  {
    BuildValue a = BuildValue::makeStaleFileRemoval(ArrayRef<std::string>(files));
    BuildValue b = BuildValue::fromData(a.toData());
    auto nodes = b.getStaleFileList();
    EXPECT_EQ(2UL, nodes.size());
    EXPECT_EQ(nodes[0], "a.out");
    EXPECT_EQ(nodes[1], "Info.plist");
  }
}

}

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If you're stuck in Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!!, ask your fellow GameFAQs members for help.
Enter Deja Vu, one of Mindscape's interactive graphic adventures. They're games which draw you into the action. There are no cumbersome commands to type, no guessing what the computer wants. You are totally free to explore and manipulate the deeply textured world created by close to a megabyte of detailed graphic imagery. Deja Vu is like no other adventure you've ever experienced.


Nurses at Stoke Mandeville describe the celebrations that took place on the hospital ward.
In the early years at Stoke Mandeville the moment that a patient was first able to sit up in a wheelchair was recognised as a key milestone. It was an event to be celebrated with a bit of a party. It is a ceremony that has now completely disappeared from hospital life. Improvements in treatment of spinal injuries mean that what was once a remarkable event is now routine and not worth marking on.
It was a big thing back in the 1940s. Because nobody had expected them to ever sit up. Those men who had been wounded during the War had maybe been lying in a hospital bed for three or four years without moving.
Ward sisters at Stoke Mandeville had a great deal of automomy. Sister Mary Brennan who was born in Ireland not only made a point of chosing her ward's name – St Patrick – but also celebrated the saint's day each March 17th with her patients.
Christmas is always a difficult time for patients on a hospital ward and this was particularly the case for the spinal injury patients at Stoke Mandeville who were unable to leave their beds. Perhaps because of this a tradition of lavish Christmas celebrations quickly developed on the wards. Guttmann, who was Jewish, made a point of never missing Christmas Day on the wards where he would carve the turkey and visit patients, often accompanied by his wife and children.
New Year's Eve was a particular high point. The nurses weren't able to leave their duties, so it fell to the physiotherapists to lay on a fancy dress party. Each year there would be a theme like 'the Pasha and his harem' or belly dancing.
Physiotherapist Ida Bromley recalls on those celebrations at New Years.
"It became a tradition that the physiotherapists did a routine dance to music in each ward between 8.00 and midnight each New Year's Eve. I am not sure when it began but it was certainly happening between 1962 and 1977. Once started it happening every year."
Patients who were back in hospital for some reason looked forward to it and told the others what to expect, but they never knew what routine was to be performed because we all kept it secret!We practised after work in the big gym and had a look out to see that no one took a peep at us.
"It would be impossible to do these things now because of Health and Safety. We may be safer but we all of us kids and adults are not permitted to have fun any more. I am afraid alcohol, unless prescribed for medical reasons, is not allowed on wards now and as for taking in to the wards all that foreign stuff like tinsel, straw and odd materials that we all wore – no way!
It was great fun. The physios would do a routine with music and dressing up and we would process around the hospital. There were eight wards and on each one the ward sister would give us a drink, so by the end of the performances we were certainly a lot freer in our dance routine, maybe even a bit tipsy.
I remember one year we were all dressed up as a Pasha and his harem in veils and all the patients were trying to work out which one of the girls was their physio behind the fancy dress and the veils.


Sought after Gonyea Itasca model underway in Serenity on the Greenway! Open main floor with great room features built-ins, fireplace and walls of glass! Sport court, porch with fireplace, and meticulous attention to detail, design and finishes! Neighborhood pool and park! In demand Wayzata schools.


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На 19 декември 2016 г. в около 20 часа местно време камион се врязва в коледен базар на Брайтшайдплац в германската столица Берлин, убивайки най-малко 12 и ранявайки над 50 души. Според германската полиция става дума за терористичен акт. Ислямска държава поема отговорност за атентата.

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Zachary Paul Levine
Yeshiva University Museum
Zachary Paul Levine is a curator at Yeshiva University Museum where he develops exhibitions on the intersection of modern Jewish history and contemporary art. He conducted his historical research while a doctoral student at New York University in the departments of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and History. Mr. Levine presented many of the findings in this paper at the Center for Jewish History in March 2010. He received an MA in History from Central European University, and BAs in Government and Politics and Jewish Studies from the University of Maryland.
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Concealed in the Open: Recipients of International Clandestine Jewish Aid in Early 1950s Hungary
This article discusses the emergence of the semi-clandestine efforts of a network of international Jewish philanthropies and the Israeli government to send material and financial aid to Jews in early-communist Hungary. Post Second World War Hungary was a special focus for Jewish aid organizations in the west and the Israeli government. They poured resources into Hungary, both to feed, cloth and provide medical care to hundreds of thousands of Jews, and to assist thousands of Jews migrating west through Hungary. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the dominant Jewish aid organization in the world at the time, ran its largest and most expensive program in Hungary. Working with Israeli and Hungarian authorities, it financed a network of welfare services, often through the importation of scarce consumer goods and raw materials. As the Communist Party reshaped the economy, and pushed out "undesirable elements" from Hungarian life, this aid program served a growing population of impoverished, sick, and religious Jews, some exiled in Hungary's countryside. This program increasingly took advantage of black market networks to distribute aid. Yet, after conditions deteriorated so much that this program ceased officially, Jewish aid providers in the US and Israel adapted their earlier practices and networks to take advantage of the impoverished consumer economy in program to distribute aid clandestinely to Hungarian Jews, with the cooperation of Hungary's communist authorities.
Jews, black market, humanitarian aid, Israel, Joint Distribution Committee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2012.67


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Parents & Teachers: Be Proactive. Be Prepared.
The teacher portal provides teachers and educators with evidence-based sexual health information, lesson plans, tools and resources.
As a parent, it's never too early or too late to talk to your child, or learn more yourself. The parent portal is here to help.
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Initial contact with this attorney by email does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Corporate Governance and Business Planning
Fiduciary Litigation
Successions and Trusts
Gregory S. LaCour
Attorney Brief
Mr. LaCour is a partner in the Metairie office. He is certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization as an Estate Planning and Administration Specialist. His practice consists of estate planning (wills, successions, and trusts), corporate governance, business succession planning, contractual drafting and negotiations, mergers & acquisitions, private offerings, fiduciary litigation (succession litigation, trust litigation, shareholder/officer/director litigation), and commercial litigation. He has extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts.
Mr. LaCour received his Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Rhetoric and in Classics, with a concentration in Latin, from the University of Virginia in 1992. He was awarded the degree of Juris Doctor from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in 1995.
Mr. LaCour focuses on estate planning (wills, successions, and trusts), private offerings, corporate governance, business transactions, fiduciary litigation, and commercial litigation. He draws from twenty-five (25) years of litigation experience as he provides advice both to fiduciaries and to business owners. He acts as general counsel to many companies, providing various services which include the drafting of entity formation documents, operating agreements, bylaws, buy-sell agreements, non-competition agreements, leases, stock and asset purchase agreements, employment contracts, minutes of meetings, resolutions, and various contracts. Mr. LaCour also provides dispute resolution and litigation services in contested succession matters, trust matters and shareholder/member matters. Mr. LaCour was born and raised in New Orleans. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Catholic Community Foundation for the Archdiocese of New Orleans since 2013. He has served as an officer for the Catholic Community Foundation since 2018, having held the positions of Treasurer, Secretary, and Vice-President. He also served on Jesuit High School's Athletic Board from 2013-2020 and held the office of President of the Athletic Board from 2018-2020. He served as a Campaign Cabinet Member for the Priestly Formation Campaign for Notre Dame Seminary of New Orleans in 2011-2012. He also served as Chairman of the Stewardship Committee for St. Clement of Rome Parish from 2011-2015.
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Mr. LaCour is admitted to practice in all state courts in Louisiana and in the Eastern, Middle and Western Federal District Courts, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the New Orleans Estate Planning Council, the New Orleans Bar Association and the Jefferson Bar Association.


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International pbi, an Italian supplier of microbiological, physical and chemical laboratory equipment and products, celebrates its 55th Anniversary in 2011 and will present the "Top Scientist 2011 Award" to a scientist who has been a major contributor to the dissemination of science and research in the food, dairy and biotechnology industries.
The Award will be presented during the Grand Gala of Food Science to be held in Milan on 2 December.
Additional awards will be given to scientists and technologists for their dedicated activity in these fields and a special scientific recognition award will be presented to a technical magazine in the same fields.
International pbi says the ceremony will be a technical and social event for experts in the food, dairy and biotechnology industries.
Further details will shortly be available on the website below.


Netmarble Games Turkey and Dokuz Eylül University, has agreed to establish İzmir's first digital games and design incubator in Dokuz Eylül Technology Development Zone (DEPARK).
Within the scope of the agreement, the aim is to promote the relationship between the experts, lecturers, assistants, researchers, students and ecosystems of both institutions within the framework of education and training. It is also aimed to share and publish researches which have become public records, to convey the experiences of the parties' perceptions of education and training, and share the experiences after attending scientific and social events.
The activities to be carried out include mobile gaming development, software development, publishing, development of related research projects, elimination of mutual training needs and designing and implementing of joint activities.


Thanks to several exciting clients wins and our existing portfolio of clients, we're looking to add another member to our family to help with account management of both new and existing clients.
Yoghurt Digital is a leading digital marketing agency based in Surry Hills. We're a bunch of highly motivated digital marketers looking to show the industry the power of data and understanding consumer behaviour. We balance smart data insights and inspired strategy to help produce powerful results for our clients.
As an Account Manager, you'll play an integral role as the liaison between clients and internal teams in order to support our client's digital marketing objectives.
This is an opportunity for someone to take charge of their career progression by developing and growing with us. Your main focus will be understanding the requirements of our clients, and contributing to the business' growth by cultivating and maintaining client relationships.
You must have a passion for learning and understanding each of your client's industry, customers and business objectives. You have a high attention to detail, can prioritise your workload, have phenomenal communication skills and are confident in speaking with both clients and new prospects.
You can manage the day-to-day running of projects and coordinating with internal teams to streamline processes. Your priority is ensuring a high level of client satisfaction and surpassing client expectations.
The ability to think, problem-solve, ask the right questions and be willing to offer well thought-through strategies should all be part of your DNA. This is a fantastic opening to become part of a close-knit agency with energetic people who genuinely love what they do.


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Meesta. Princess. Rosie. Mayra
"Some of the most beautiful love stories I've ever heard all start with someone walking into an animal shelter."
Meesta and Princess are Kimberly's adopted three-legged cats who serve as the main inspiration behind the Purr-fectly series.
Meesta, a 14-year-old orange tabby, was adopted from the Pennsylvania SPCA in 2011 after being passed up for almost a year because of his limb difference. Veterinary experts told Kimberly that Meesta was born with all four legs; he lost the limb to some sort of trauma in his early life. Meesta also has no teeth from feline stomatitis, and he is perfect in every way! Kimberly credits Meesta with sparking her lifelong mission of helping homeless pets; he showed her how able and indomitable shelter pets can be, and his journey in the shelter and beyond inspires her every day.
Princess is a six-year-old gray tabby and the inspiration behind the third book in the Purr-fectly series. Kimberly never anticipated writing a third book (or adopting another three-legged cat for that matter) but when she came across a photo of Princess on social media, it felt like fate. Princess was born with a limb difference; before she was even one-year-old, she had a litter of four kittens and found herself in an overcrowded shelter down south. She and her kittens were all slated to be euthanized to create space in the shelter, but Monkey's Pack, a Connecticut-based rescue, stepped in and saved Princess, her kittens, and several other cats before that could happen. Kimberly adopted Princess soon after and was inspired to write the sequel to the original book when Meesta and Princess formed an immediate and beautiful friendship.
Rosie and Mayra are Kimberly's adopted four-year-old twin cats who serve as the main inspiration behind The Wormwood Mysteries.
Mayra and Rosie are two bonded sisters who were found abandoned together under a car as kittens. Although they look very similar, Rosie is a polydactyl cat, which means she has six toes on each front paw. She also has several white patches on her chest and belly. After meeting the sisters at an adoption event and hearing their story, Kimberly decided to foster them when they were only eight-weeks old. And the day after Kimberly brought them home, assuring her husband they would only be temporary fosters, the decision was made to adopt Mayra and Rosie. The bond was just too strong, and Kimberly knew deep down from the moment she first held Rosie that it was a fur-ever kind of love.


Maya Sandalow is a master of public health candidate studying health policy and food systems at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with former experience as a food program lead at a primary care clinic and research associate at Georgetown University.
Is that carton of milk you forgot to finish before your spring vacation still safe to drink? The answer may not be as simple as the expiration date you are so used to checking. A new study found that date labels are often not telling you what you think and the consequences are much bigger than a dry bowl of cereal.
About 40% of all food available in the United States, and 30% globally, is never eaten. If all wasted food represented an individual country, it would follow China and the U.S. as the third greatest emitter of greenhouse gases.
While 38.4 million Americans suffer from low or very low food security each year, more than 52 million tons of food ends up in our landfills. It costs the United States $218 billion each year to produce, ship and dispose of this food that will never be eaten. That is the equivalent of 1.3% of our GDP. But a cost-effective food waste reduction strategy stares us in the face every time we inspect that milk carton — standardized date labels.
Individual attempts to reduce food waste are hampered by a nonsensical date labeling system. Date labels refer to those phrases on the back of your food products that range from "sell by" to "use by" to "best by" to "expires on." Despite what most consumers think, the federal government does not regulate date labels on food products, with the exception of infant formula.
Date label regulations are instead left up to the states, and few states have the same policy. Some require all foods to have date labels, some require them only for certain foods, and some require nothing at all, leaving it up to individual manufacturers. Walmart once found 47 different types of labels on just its private food products.
The majority of foods are perfectly fine to eat past the dates indicated on the label, and consumers would likely not detect the change in quality for some time. Yet most people interpret these dates as safety warnings. The recently published study on consumer attitudes towards date labels, conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, found that 84% of American consumers at least occasionally throw away food that is nearing or past the label date.
In 2017, the two largest grocery industry trade associations, the Food Marketing Institute and the Grocery Manufacturers Association, initiated voluntary regulations to standardize date labels through the use of two phrases: "use by" to indicate safety and "best if used by" to indicate quality. While an important first step, these regulations are only voluntary and insufficient in conveying to customers what date labels truly mean.
The United States needs a standardized label system and associated consumer education campaign that clearly differentiate between when food quality starts to lessen and when food is truly not safe to eat anymore. In 2016, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, introduced the Food Date Labeling Act to enforce nationally standardized date labels and laws that govern food donations. The bill calls on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to differentiate between quality and safety dates and to allow stores to sell or donate a product after its quality date. It also requires USDA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to educate consumers on the new labels and the difference between quality and safety.
There may be an open policy window to reintroduce and pass food date labeling legislation. The 2018 Farm Bill will, for the first time, take steps to address food waste, indicating an increasing interest in addressing this problem. A bipartisan House Food Waste Caucus was launched last May by Pingree and Rep. David Young, R-Iowa.
During a time filled with partisan debate and tribal rivalries, here is something that both sides of the aisle already agree upon: perfectly good food should not be thrown out while millions of Americans go hungry. We should not be wasting billions of dollars and natural resources on food that will never be eaten. Standardized date label legislation is a crucial step in addressing the 40% of food that is wasted in the United States each year.


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OSHA Issues COVID-19 Guidance for the Construction Industry
May 28, 2020 Nick Scala Leave a comment
Federal OSHA just issued new COVID-19 guidance focused on the construction industry. It does not tread a lot of new ground, but here is a summary of it.
Most construction projects and tasks will be in the Lower or Medium risk exposure category in OSHA's COVID-19 risk matrix (those categories require much less in the way of engineering and administrative controls than healthcare and manufacturing facilities. Social distancing and physical barriers continue to be the principal method to control infection recommended by OSHA. With respect to separating employees at construction sites, OSHA recommends:
Using closed doors and walls, whenever feasible, as physical barriers to separate workers from any individuals experiencing signs and/or symptoms consistent with COVID-19; and/or
Erecting plastic sheeting barriers when workers need to occupy specific areas of an indoor work site where they are in close contact (less than 6 feet) with someone suspected of having or known to have COVID-19.
OSHA also recommends gathering certain information (and provides sample questions) about projects before sending workers to perform construction activities in an indoor environment that may be occupied by a homeowner, customer, worker, or another occupant.
The new guidance includes a large section on "Face Coverings in Construction," consistent with OSHA's general movement towards a consistent expectation that employers will provide and require face coverings in workplaces whenever and wherever social distancing cannot be assured. The Face Covering section in this construction guidance explains that:
CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings as a protective measure in addition to social distancing (i.e., staying at least 6' away from others).
Cloth face coverings are especially important when social distancing is not feasible based on working conditions.
A cloth face covering may reduce the amount of large respiratory droplets that a person spreads when talking, sneezing, or coughing. Cloth face coverings may prevent people who do not know they have the virus that causes COVID-19 from spreading it to others. Cloth face coverings are intended to protect other people—not the wearer.
Cloth face coverings are not PPE. They are not appropriate substitutes for PPE such as respirators (like N95 respirators) or robust medical facemasks (like surgical masks) in workplaces where respirators are recommended or required to protect the wearer.
While wearing cloth face coverings is a public health measure intended to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in communities, it may not be practical for workers to wear a single cloth face covering for the full duration of a work shift (e.g., eight or more hours) on a construction site if they become wet, soiled, or otherwise visibly contaminated during the work shift.
Employers who determine that cloth face coverings should be worn at a construction site, including to comply with state or local requirements for their use, should ensure the cloth face coverings:
Fit over the nose and mouth and fit snugly but comfortably against the side of the face;
Are secured with ties or ear loops;
Include multiple layers of fabric;
Allow for breathing without restriction;
Can be laundered using the warmest appropriate water setting and machine dried daily after the shift, without damage or change to shape;
Are not used if they become wet or contaminated;
Are replaced with clean replacements, provided by employer, as needed; and
Are handled as little as possible to prevent transferring infectious materials to the cloth.
OSHA's guidance goes on to discuss a series of Safe Work Practices that construction employers should consider. The list is pretty typical for recommendations we have seen in other industry-specific guidance issued by OSHA, including, for example:
Screening visitors to the site for signs and symptoms of COVID-19.
Adopting staggered work schedules (e.g., provide alternating workdays or extra shifts), to reduce the total number of employees on a job site at any given time to facilitate physical distancing.
Identifying bottlenecks and choke points where workers are forced to stand together, such as hallways, hoists and elevators, ingress and egress points, break areas, and buses, and implement policies to maintain social distancing.
Coordinating site deliveries in line with the employer's minimal contact and cleaning protocols (delivery personnel should remain in their vehicles if at all possible).
Keeping in-person meetings (including toolbox talks and safety meetings) as short as possible, limiting the number of workers in attendance, and using social distancing practices.
Ensuring clean toilet and handwashing facilities.
Regularly filling hand sanitizer dispensers and disinfecting frequently touched items and surfaces
Finally, the guidance document includes a heavy dose of training, on such topics as:
Signs and symptoms of COVID-19 and how the virus is spread
The company's policies and procedures that are applicable to the employee's duties as they relate to potential exposures
Information about social distancing and hygiene practices
Use, limitations, location, handling, decontamination, removal, and disposal of any required PPE
The importance of wearing face coverings masks and staying home if sick
This fed OSHA guidance comes a couple of weeks after Cal/OSHA issued similar construction-specific COVID-19 guidance.
For additional resources on issues related to COVID-19, please visit Conn Maciel Carey's COVID-19 FAQ Page for an extensive index of frequently asked questions with our answers about HR, employment law, and OSHA regulatory related developments and guidance. Likewise, subscribe to our Employer Defense Report blog and OSHA Defense Report blog for regular updates about the Labor and Employment Law
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WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG and Capital One Financial Corp will not have to immediately hand over the financial records of U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his children and the Trump Organization, according to a court filing on Saturday.
The filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York followed an appeal submitted on Friday by Trump and his affiliates against an existing order from a federal judge allowing the banks to hand over financial records to Democratic lawmakers.
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Deutsche Bank has long been a principal lender for Trump's real estate business and a 2017 disclosure form showed that Trump had at least $130 million of liabilities to the bank.
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U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos, however, found that they were allowed under the broad authority of Congress to conduct investigations to further legislation. (Reporting by Katanga Johnson; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
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