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You're watching the chase scene in an action film that's…
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You're watching the chase scene in an action film that's supposed to take place in Seattle and, whoops, there it is—that NYC or L.A. landmark in the distance. Or you're watching Superman or Spiderman winging their way over the streets of New York, and go right over a Chicago street where you once had great deepdish pizza. It's just a reality that many of the big-screen and TV adventures we love were not actually filmed in the locations they're "supposed to be." Vancouver, Canada plays the part of Seattle in Harrison Ford's Firewall. Sydney, Australia doubles for Superman Returns' NYC stand-in "Metropolis." Dallas, TX reports for duty as Iraq in Saving Jessica Lynch. Shreveport, LA is a fogbound Castle Rock, ME in Stephen King's The Mist.
Bring Your Money… But Leave Your Guns
It's municipal tax incentives and budget concerns that keep these films from filming in their actual locations, but when these big action films show up on location, they have bigger concerns than what hotels to house the crew in—namely, how do the local gun laws affect their plans for rip-snorting shootout scenes? With assault weapon bans having sprung up around the country, sometimes the crew finds themselves in a "gun unfriendly" locale with the need to bring in cinematic firepower.
Movie savvy cities like L.A. and New York have permitting offices that are friendlier to film companies when it comes to the use of weapons, while their laws put more severe restrictions of their own citizens! John Parmerton, a self-professed "Pariah" among movie weapons suppliers, explains the process, "[The] First step in using gun props in film/television production is to acquire all necessary production permits for the jurisdiction you wish to film in. The Director of the Motion Picture / TV Bureau of the county can help with acquiring and processing all necessary paperwork. This entails informing the film bureau that firearm props will be used during production. You will then be provided with a list of local qualified suppliers of gun props for the jurisdiction. In New York, these suppliers will be licensed as Theatrical Gun Dealers by the NY State Police, as well as being licensed federally for such work. A regular retail gun store owner is not allowed to 'rent' his inventory for film use, nor can a private citizen use their personally owned firearms in a film production."
Being a film director in production is like being the world's most spoiled child: Anything you want, just ask for it and someone will get it. Like the director of the upcoming Blackwater Transit who demanded a shiny chrome Barrett .50 for his film. Against their better judgment, the prop supplier chrome plated the giant Barrett. So you can imagine my surprise, on traveling to Winnipeg, Canada, which would double as Alaska for the TV action movie A Family Lost, to find that the only guns available for rent there were the five pistols personally owned by the city's only licensed on-set armoror: a 6-inch S&W 686, a Glock, a Beretta 92, a Colt 1911, and a .38 snubbie. A call to a Vancouver gun rental house secured the Walther P-99 and silencer required by the script, at an additional cost.
Gun Hassles in the Big Apple
Amazingly, in NYC, where a privately owned pistol is as rare as a Republican, and even blank-firing replica guns are forbidden to civilians, licensed movie prop houses can apply for permits to field anything from Law & Order's TV Glocks to the heavy machine guns combating the giant monster invading the city in this year's Cloverfield, as long as they are willing to do some radical surgery on their weapons.
Rick Washburn, whose NYC-based Weapons Specialists has been supplying arms for more than 20 years on hit films such as Godzilla, Die Hard, With A Vengeance, and I Am Legend, explained some of the pitfalls he's faced navigating the shoals of the city's treacherous permitting process. "New York is a city where no one is allowed to possess a pistol without a license. But when you're filming an action movie, you have to hand a pistol to an actor, and the minute you hand it to them you have a problem because they are not licensed to possess a firearm in the city."
How does Rick handle that? "In New York we are required to modify all our firearms so that they can be loaded and fire a blank, but can not fire live rounds anymore. They are considered 'prop guns,' disabled from firing live ammunition, and so they are legal to be in the possession of an actor."
In other states, like California, movie armorers can temporarily modify their guns to shoot blanks, but in New York it has to be a permanent modification. That's why out-of-state prop houses don't ship guns to NYC. Because his guns meet the strict requirements of NYC, Rick can ship his guns to other states and even other countries where tight gun laws make it difficult to rent the right weapons.
What's happened is that laws have been made on a piecemeal basis, a patchwork quilt of gun laws. Chicago is the worst city for gun prohibition laws for film use, with NYC close behind. California, the home of Hollywood studios, is quickly trying to catch up. Dealing with the L.A.'s gun laws is made even more complicated by the, uh, how do I say this? "Colorful" social lives of many of today's A-list actors, who now include criminal mugshots with their headshots. The problem is when actors have debilitating felonies and misdemeanors, which preclude them from ever touching a "live" firearm—but here is the film's armorer, asked to hand a blank-loaded Glock or MP-5 submachine gun to an actor with a criminal record.
No Beretta for Baretta
One weapons supplier who asked to remain anonymous admitted, "We're not supposed to do it, by law. We can't hand a gun to a 'prohibited person.' But sometimes he or she's the star, and we have to, and let the film company deal with the local law. It is rare that the production company performs a criminal background check on their actors, so now it falls to the gun wrangler to make sure who he is working with prior to arriving on-set with converted firearms. It is also not unheard of for other members of the crew to have a criminal past. These people can make or break a production by committing one single act of handling a prop gun."
Ironically, it was the Department of Justice in California that started with this prohibition of actor gun use—the DOJ started calling prop houses and saying they would be prosecuted if guns were supplied to certain felon actors. While many productions chose to ignore this warning and beg ignorance of any actor's legal history, the threat of DOJ sweeping onto the set of a Wesley Snipes action film, for one example, has kept a gun out of the legally challenged actor's hands in his last few roles.
When Good Actors Go Bad
Okay, even if you do satisfy all the federal, local gun laws, filming on location can bring big problems on the day of the shoot. The film company's permit must say exactly where they are filming, so that the local precincts can be informed. Still, armed actors moving to and from the set are often seen by civilians who call the police. In one incident a half dozen actors staging a bank robbery found themselves facing a hopped-up tactical team who were responding to a "shots fired" call. Luckily the actors immediately ate dirt, saving them from more than an embarrassing incident.
Sometimes the location's gun laws actually prevent any firearms from being used. For film industry armorers like Bill Davis of Hollywood's Tactical Edge Group, that's the most frustrating situation, "We were filming the horror movie Chubacabra Terror in the Turks and Caicos Islands on location in the Caribbean. The beautiful locale, a British Overseas Territory in the West Indies where a lot of film companies shoot—but they don't allow any firearms there. None. Even for film shoots." Davis laments, "So we had to make the film entirely with fake guns, and then computer generate muzzle flash in afterwards!"
Ironically, Turks and Caicos law did allow the use of real explosives by the film crew.
Weapon Specialist's Rick Washburn has also supplied guns to films shooting in foreign locales as far away as Finland, and even to the rigidly gun-regulated country of Japan for the Michael Douglas star in Black Rain. He recalls, "It was horrendous! We were bringing in machine guns, pistols, and sawed off shotguns. They refused to accept the sawed off shotguns and the pistols, because of their laws—but they allowed the machine guns! Their laws are written so tightly for prohibiting pistols they couldn't allow them, but since the books had no specific rules about machine guns, they had to let them in." Like all the films shot in Japan, non-firing replica models equipped with "sparking" muzzles had to be used.
In other cases, leaving the country to avoid U.S. gun laws can be downright dangerous. When TV's Incredible Hulk Lou Ferrigno was in the Philippines shooting the post apocalyptic action movie Desert Warrior, the prop master handed Lou an M16 loaded with live 5.56 ammo and instructed him, "Shoot over the actors' heads—we don't have the money for blanks." Needless to say, Lou changed the rules before shooting continued.
In Hollywood, many big-budget productions choose to avoid the morass of rules and regulations for location shooting by fleeing to the studio back lot, but that doesn't always ensure things will run without a hitch. When Walter (Deadwood, Another 48 HRS) Hill was filming his rock n' roll western Streets of Fire at Universal Studios, they had to film at night to avoid the studio tour, so they put a gigantic tent over the entire back lot street and lit it like daylight. Unfortunately, during the big shoot-out scene, the studio city neighbors reported the sound of gunfire and explosions to the Sheriff's department anyway.
So the next time you're watching cable in the middle of the night and see an action film like Scott Glenn's The Challenge shot in Japan, and the muzzle flash looks like firecrackers have been shoved into the end of a replica model, it probably is. But that's not the fault of the film's weapons supplier, it's to satisfy the local gun laws of the location.
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Good Hollywood: My personal choice for the new James Bond of the movies was English actor Clive Owen. Recently his work in City of Men and other genre films has established him as a real action hero. The films themselves, however, stretch the spectrum from Good to Worst Hollywood.
Derailed with Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston culminated with an incredible gun battle that showed great attention to detail and execution. Clive Owen interrupts blackmailers in the act, and the standoff quickly becomes a shootout involving Owen, the blackmailer, a bodyguard, an innocent bystander, and Jennifer Aniston—complete with realistic wound ballistics and tactical reloads—all in a 10-foot-square hotel room.
BAD Hollywood: Sin City. Okay, I love this movie as sheer popcorn. On one level it's a two-hour commercial for Springfield Armory's excellent 1911s. On the other, it is a brutal comic book with bad gun handling. But when good-hearted hit man Clive Owen sets up a final battle against the pimps, and says the way to win is to have a lot of friends "bring a lot of guns." I'm there.
Baddest Hollywood: Shoot 'Em Up. The title and the trailer for this action film starring Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti looked like a rip snortin' gun fest—little did I know that I was dropping a 10-spot on a virulent anti-gun screed. Filled with gun control stereotypes and myths, this mish-mash is actually trying to be a perverse, live action Bugs Bunny film—with Clive Owen as Bugs (carrot and all) and Paul Giamatti as Yosemite Sam. When Owen's Olympic marksman/black operator kills something like 50 assassins in one scene, Giamatti asks, "Is he that good or do we suck that bad?" This movie sucks that bad.
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State Brings 1st-of-Its-Kind Suit Against Share-Trading App Robinhood
December 16, 2020 December 16, 2020 THOMAS F. HARRISON
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BOSTON (CN) — Robinhood Financial, the high-flying stock-trading app that's hugely popular among millennials, was hit with a consumer-protection suit Wednesday by the state of Massachusetts.
Accusing the company of building its customer base even though it knew its infrastructure couldn't keep up with it, the complaint notes that Robinhood suffered at least 70 system outages this year — including one that lasted all day on March 2 when the Dow Jones Industrial Average had its largest point gain in history.
The complaint notes that Robinhood offers commission-free trades and uses inappropriate gimmicks to encourage its customers to trade constantly without any regard for whether the trades are suitable for them.
In one case, "Robinhood allowed a customer with no investment experience to make more than 12,700 trades in just over six months," the complaint says.
The suit by the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office is legally significant meanwhile because it's based in part on a new state law that requires stockbrokers to act as fiduciaries.
Indeed the fiduciary-based enforcement action is "the first that we're aware of in the country," said Deb O'Malley, a spokeswoman for the secretary's office.
Compared with fiduciary duty, current rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission require brokers to act in customers' "best interest," explained Charles Whitehead, a professor of securities law at Cornell Law School.
Whitehead believes the Massachusetts enforcement action means that national and regional brokers might have to start changing the way they do business or else pull out of the Massachusetts market.
"It's very hard for a broker to be a fiduciary," Whitehead said in an interview. "A broker is a salesman. A fiduciary is like a doctor. Before doctors make a recommendation, they'll give you a full check-up and find out everything that's going on with you. So if I'm trying to sell you a stock and I'm a fiduciary, I'd need to know what's in your bank account, what stocks you have with other brokers, and so on. It's a much more difficult standard.
"Any broker — online or not — who's doing business in Massachusetts has to be aware that the new standard is being enforced," he added, and "of course they'll be worried. Some might make a decision not to do business there."
At one point the Obama administration attempted to impose a fiduciary standard on certain brokers, but that rule was struck down in 2018 by the Fifth Circuit.
Robinhood was founded in 2014 by two former Stanford roommates, Baiju Bhatt and Vlad Tenev, and grew to 13 million customers by 2020. Unlike many brokerages that seek an older and more affluent clientele, the median age of Robinhood's customers is 31.
The app-based company makes money through interest on accounts, margin lending, premium products and the controversial practice of payments for order flow. It was valued at $5.6 billion in a 2018 funding round.
"Tech companies often believe that because they are innovative they operate outside existing rules, but just like Uber has to grapple with taxi and labor laws from a different era, Robinhood has to navigate the rules that apply to brokers," said Quinn Curtis, who teaches securities and venture capital at the University of Virginia School of Law.
The Massachusetts complaint depicts Robinhood as using "gamification" to hook its young consumers into trading constantly, showing colorful confetti raining down on the screen after every trade and rewarding customers for endlessly tapping on a fake debit card. The company frequently approved people for complex options trading even though they had little or no investment experience, it said.
Robinhood also "relentlessly bombards" customers with gimmicks such as lists of most popular or most traded stocks with no effort to determine whether the stocks are suitable for them, the complaint stated.
"This is no different from a broker-dealer agent handing a list of securities to a customer, pretending to be surprised when the customer purchases securities from that list, and then proclaiming that he made no recommendations to the customer," the complaint claims.
Robinhood also allegedly promotes free stock to new customers that it says could include shares of Microsoft or Apple, despite the low probability of a customer actually receiving such shares.
"Robinhood is over the line and an outlier by anyone's standards," according to Whitehead.
O'Malley refused to say if her office would go after any more traditional brokers under the new standard, citing a policy of not commenting on pending investigations.
Curtis thinks a possible defense in the case is that the Massachusetts fiduciary rule is preempted by federal securities laws, a topic that has been discussed in academia and legal seminars.
"This case will be an important test of state fiduciary rules, and Robinhood has the resources and incentives to dig in," Curtis said. "If they argue that the Massachusetts rules are preempted by federal law, they will have the backing of the brokerage industry. I don't expect this to be settled anytime soon."
On the other hand, if Massachusetts wins, it could be another example of "states taking the lead in reforming Wall Street," said Whitehead.
He notes that some years ago a handful of states took on the practice of brokers' research analysts publicly pumping stocks of business clients while privately disparaging them to their internal traders, and this led to reforms at the national level.
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Honestly, any amount of time in the Release Preview ring will be an improvement over the October 2018 Update, which spent exactly 0 days there; as you may recall, Microsoft jump-started the release weeks early and then had to pull it and spend an additional 6 weeks fixing the problems it created.
But this time will be different: As Microsoft revealed a week ago, it plans to let feature updates sit in Release Preview for at least a month now in order to prevent the problems that dogged the October 2018 Update.
This change also impacts any Insiders who wish to take advantage of the "magic window" and un-enroll PCs from the Windows Insider Fast ring and move them onto the shipping support train. It looks like you'll have a few weeks before it's too late, but if you want to do this, I recommend doing so now. Otherwise, you'll be pushed into 20H1 development.
Windows Insiders in the Release Preview ring—I assume there are at least 3 or 4 of you—can get the May 2019 Update now by navigating to Settings (WINKEY + I) > Update & Security and selecting the "Check for updates" button. Microsoft promises to release future cumulative updates that service the resulting version of Windows 10, called 1903, and I expect that to include some updates that arrive before the public release in May.


If you are trying to get honeymoon cruises cheap, you can search for short, inexpensive cruises. But what if you want all of the amenities that come with a more elaborate cruise without paying those elaborate prices? There are some ways that you can get the honeymoon cruise of your dreams for much less than the prices seen on the cruise ship websites, but you'll have to remain flexible as to where you visit, when you travel, and what excursions and amenities you enjoy along the way.
If you're willing to book your airline tickets along with your cruise and aren't against requirements to stay at a specific hotel when on land, then you could take advantage of bundled or packaged honeymoon cruise deals. This takes a lot of the stress out of planning a honeymoon vacation because your accommodations are made all at once, but you give up the luxury of determining which hotels you want to stay and which cruise ships you want to board. The advantage is a discount over what you would pay when booking all of those arrangements separately.
The later you book your cabin, the less choices you will have because the best cabins often sell out months in advance of a cruise date. Some cruise lines also offer discounts for passengers paying for their trip far in advance of their trip. Take advantage of those discounts by snagging your cabin as soon as you find an affordable deal that meets your needs.
We just told you to book in advance, but you should keep your eye on websites that report last-minute deals as well. When a cruise ship needs additional passengers for an upcoming trip, they often slash prices just to get people like you on board. You'll still have access to many of the amenities and services offered to passengers who paid much more for their trip. The downside is that you may have to jump to your honeymoon without much planning if you go this route.
If this advice seems confusing, keep this tip in mind: never rule out any opportunity. Look as far into the future as you can while keeping an eye on the last-minute deals. You'll either snag a great discount by booking in advance or you'll find a great deal on short notice and jet off to your vacation spontaneously. Either way, your flexibility will reward you with a great price and a memorable honeymoon cruise.
You can also increase your chances of finding an affordable cruise if you watch all cruise lines and all destinations available. Are you willing to travel on land a bit more in order to open your flexibility as far as the city of departure? If so, you may find that the same cruise is cheaper if you leave from one port rather than another. Sometimes the smallest things make a big difference in the price.
Determine where you want to cruise, and then figure out the peak months of travel to those destinations. If you can select a cruise date that falls just outside of that peak season, you're likely to see lower prices per person boarding the ship. The weather doesn't change instantly when peak season arrives or closes, so you still have a great chance of enjoying beautiful weather when you get off board for excursions.
If you've been searching for discounts on honeymoon cruises for some time, you may be close to throwing in the town and planning a staycation instead. Before you do that, spend a little time following these tips for securing a lower price on a great honeymoon cruise. You never know what you will find if you're simply willing to remain flexible with your travel arrangements. All cruise lines have lags where they would love get more people on board, and you can take advantage of that need now that you know how to find the opportunities.


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McAuliffe students perform 'Emperor's New Clothes'
The emperor got new clothes last weekend at McAuliffe Elementary School, when 49 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders performed in a musical as part of the nonprofit Studio East ArtReach Program. The play was sponsored by the McAuliffe PTA, and attended by nearly 800 people over two days.
Friday, May 16, 2008 12:00am
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Fifth-grader Lauren Jennerjohn, 10, played the part of Laslo, a trickster in this production, and has been acting since age 6.
She said she loves acting because "You get to be a different person each play, and you can get really involved with your character and really express a lot without showing too much personal stuff."
Elise Jaffe, a 12-year-old sixth-grader, played the part of Bella, another trickster.
"It's fun to do the actual show after so much hard work," Elise said. "It's a lot of hard work, but it's worth it."
Megan O'Brien, a 10-year-old fifth-grader, played the part of "Princess Dorothy," and said she loved performing in the scene where all the princesses were on stage together.
"It's just a lot of fun, but it's also hard work learning all of your lines and dancing and choreography and knowing when your cues are," Megan said. "It's really exciting having the audience clap for you and knowing that you did a good job."
The students started the six-week program in March, rehearsing after school Mondays through Thursdays., said Melissa O'Brien, Megan's mother and the parent coordinator for the play.
Studio East provides the director, musical director, sets, costumes and more, and teams of parents worked on fitting the costumes, creating the program, selling tickets and other aspects of the production, O'Brien said.
"I think it's such a great life lesson for all of the kids," she said. "It's unbridled enthusiasm for theatre."
Marty Eagleson, director of ArtReach, said the program has been so successful that they have a waiting list of five schools that would like to participate.
"Drama really helps children become well-rounded people," Eagleson said. "It's not that we're trying to make stars, it just adds to their self-confidence."
Wendy Giroux can be reached at wgiroux@reporternewspapers.com or 391-0363, ext. 5050.
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They Missed the Money
By Frederick Sheehan	 On Feb 2, 2011
Frederick J. Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009) and "The Coming Collapse of the Municipal Bond Market"(Aucontrarian.com, 2009)
The Federal Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) had as much chance of satisfying the public as the Warren Commission did of closing the debate on the Kennedy assassination. The FCIC published its report on January 27, 2011. This was the "Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States." The FCIC itself could not come to a conclusion. The Democrats wrote for the majority, the Republicans for the minority, and a think-tank fellow motored off on a tangent of his own.
By the way, these conclusions, cleaved by the politics of the season, demonstrate the immaturity of Washington. It does not represent. The members could not forsake their hobbyhorses to address the time bomb that, unaddressed, will explode. A half-century's accumulation of bad debt tumbled over in 2008 and a much larger mountain of waste and ruin lies ahead.
My gripe: the FCIC found the greatest fault with the effects rather than the cause. This is true of all three conclusions. The cause of the crisis was too much money and credit. An economy needs enough credit to operate but not so much that speculation runs the country. (This, of course, is so obvious that it might seem a waste to write, but the so-called policymakers rev the cyclotron faster and faster.)
Among the "Conclusions" of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report, the majority averred: "[I]t is the Commission's conclusion that excess liquidity did not need to cause the crisis. It was the failures outlined above – including the failures to rein in the excesses in the mortgage and financial markets – that were the principal cause of the crisis."
Readers may remember Advice to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission: How to Question Alan Greenspan. This was a letter I wrote before the FCIC's hearing on subprime lending, addressed to FCIC Chairman Phil Angelides, in anticipation of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony. Paragraph number three follows:
The Federal Reserve is Cause, Not Effect, for Abuses in Subprime Lending
There would have been no lending of any sort without the Federal Reserve. The Fed prints the money that enters the economy. It has a monopoly. Counterfeiters know that.
Credit springs from money. The commercial banking system produces credit, by and large. The Federal Reserve sets reserve requirements on commercial bank credit growth. If the Fed sets the bank reserve ratio at 10:1, a bank cannot lend more than $10 for every $1 on deposit. That effectively limits the growth of credit.
The Federal Reserve has the authority to increase or decrease bank reserve requirements at any time. During Alan Greenspan's chairmanship, the Fed reduced bank reserve requirements several ways; it never increased them. The result of the Greenspan Fed's money and credit expansion: commercial banks, having run out of proper projects to fund, lent to investment banks, hedge funds, private-equity funds, subprime mortgage lenders, and commercial property speculators. (An investment bank may have lent to a non-bank mortgage company, but it first had to borrow from the commercial banking system.)
The Federal Reserve, under Alan Greenspan, both printed every dollar that entered the economy and had sole authority to set bank reserve requirements. If the Fed had reduced reserve requirements, this would have restricted the lending that proved so destructive.
There is, of course, much more than I have written above for a full understanding of money and credit, but Alan Greenspan will not attempt to enlighten the commission….
Greenspan's testimony was indeed reprehensible, but let him rust.
In 2011, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is the cause of various asset-price inflations. He is increasing money at a rate far beyond Alan Greenspan's worst excesses. The overinvestment (also called "liquidity" or "speculation") has destroyed potential returns of promising enterprises. To distill the current investment environment: "I have a better chance of a triple buying Chinese dot.coms than investing in a profitable solution to world hunger, and the Fed's rigged the markets, so I'm making money fast before everyone realizes Vegas is a squarer deal."
Frederick Sheehan writes a blog at www.aucontrarian.com
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Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession. He is the co-author of Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve. Mr. Sheehan was Director of Asset Allocation Services at John Hancock Financial Services in Boston. For more than a decade, Mr. Sheehan wrote the monthly "Market Outlook" and quarterly "Market Review" for clients. He is a frequent contributor to Marc Faber's "Gloom, Boom & Doom Report." He also has written articles for "Whiskey & Gunpowder" and the Prudent Bear website, among others. He currently serves as an advisor to an investment firm and a non-profit foundation. A Chartered Financial Analyst, Mr. Sheehan is a graduate of Columbia Business School.
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Ralph Musgrave says 8 years ago
I suggest Frederick Sheehan overestimates the importance of central banks. For example, he claims that "There would have been no lending of any sort without the Federal Reserve."
So how come there was plenty of lending taking place in the good old days before central banks existed?
And even given the existence of a central bank, there is always a private sector or shadow money and credit creation system working alongside, as this Credit Suisse paper explains.
https://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/market-focus-long-shadows.pdf
Plus I think Steve Keen has argued that in the lead up to the credit crunch this unofficial credit tail was wagging the dog: central banks.
DavidLazarusUK says 8 years ago
Central banks were generally set up to fund governments deficits. Though it was the banks and shadow banks that created the mess. Central banks just enabled it with too low a level of interest.
Anonymous says 8 years ago
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With Malaysia's vision to hit a target of 35% skilled workforce, the learning and development of staff is key to ensure sustainability of the business. In this exclusive, we speak to Mohd Irfan Zainal Abidin, head of learning and development, Touch 'n Go (TNG) on how to engage staff in lifelong learning.
Q. It's not always smooth sailing when it comes to the development of staff. What do you think is the number one challenge though?
People – some staff might be reluctant to change and enhance their knowledge. They would prefer to stay in their comfort zone and continue as usual without adding value to the business.
Q. With this being a tough issue to tackle, what can HR do to resolve this?
HR needs to act as a strategic business partner in setting a clear goal; while engaging both leaders and employees. HR needs to create awareness and desire (buy in) on the importance of upskilling, creating value in delivery outcomes, and technology as a key differentiator to be the best in the world (Industrial Revolution 4.0). At TNG, HR continues to encourage staff to learn and embrace innovation as this is part of our culture.
Q. How can HR improve when it comes to engaging staff in training and development?
Consistency in engagement, connection and celebrating milestones related to training and development are key. Take it like a journey for all employees. This should begin even on the first day when the new hires join the organisation.
Additionally, HR can practice frequent conversations via multiple communication channels (i.e. social media, email newsletter) or mobile apps to provide updates on latest T&D trends and available upskilling programmes.
Consistency in engagement, connection and celebrating milestones related to training and development are key.
Q. What is Touch 'n Go doing to ensure lifelong learning in its DNA?
We have established the TNG Learning Academy as part of our initiative to ensure a lifelong-learning culture in the organisation. The academy aims to train the mind to not only learn but also apply the lessons, alongside positive character-building. In the academy, staff can expect real learning through real time experience sharing, as well as as problem-solving through best practices.
It provides a platform for networking and mentoring from subject matter experts. Special incentives i.e. (AirAsia flight ticket, awards and many more) will be rewarded to employees that enrol, support and complete the training with passion. Through the establishment of the academy, I believe it will make staff feel engaged, appreciated and motivated as TNG employees.
Q. When it comes to the future workforce, how can one future-proof their career development?
Keeping abreast with the current trends and understanding the disruptive technologies of the future is crucial. It's all about innovation and forward-thinking skills in order to be competitive in the market. Physiological safety needs to be in the picture as well.
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Disagreeing Agreeably in Contract Disputes
June 18, 2019 / Gary Peacock
"If you come to the negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing."
— Harri Holkeri
Disagreeing in Disputes
More than 20 years ago, I got involved in a long-running contract dispute. The work had been completed in the tiny country of Brunei, population of about 400,000 living in an area equivalent to 75km by 75km. With any contract its not unusual to have disputes, commonly about the scope of the contract. For example, what was included or what was excluded and what information was provided when the proposal was made.
Often these disputes are argued out and resolved in a few months. In this case, the dispute had lasted two years. Both sides had dug trenches and were throwing grenades at each other. It was now a dispute filled with emotions. Communications from both sides included words like lies and liar. Just to make things more complex, the law of the contract was Brunei. According to World Bank rankings, for enforcing contracts, Australia is 5th, and Brunei is 67th. So, for the Australian company, resolving the dispute in the Brunei legal system was not an attractive option.
There are many examples of uncertainty for organisations around the world. Whether its Brexit or America, refugees or trade wars, whether groups feel wealth is being concentrated in other groups, or groups want independence, there is one cause: people are not listening to them.
In the Brunei dispute, both sides had stopped listening. All negotiations go through stages, for example: Prepare – Argue – Propose – Package – Agree. It's normal to argue, then propose something, find a package that works for both parties and then agree. But many people get stuck in the argue stage.
Arguing in Circles
Many people get stuck because they argue in circles. They always find faults and errors in the other side's arguments. Usually, they find fault before the other side has finished what they want to say. Then the argument escalates because the other side starts to interrupt too. So, both sides keep going round in circles going over the same points, repeating their arguments.
In the Brunei contract dispute, both parties had been arguing in circles for two years. They were never going to get out of the argue phase alone.
Getting out of Arguing in Circles
The first step for getting out of arguing in circles is to listen. Listen without interrupting. Just doing this will reduce emotions a little. Without listening, you will make no progress. To speed up the process, summarise their argument. You can say, I am not agreeing with your argument but what I think you are saying is… have I got that right? Only when they say "Yes" can you move on.
"The sweetest two words in any negotiation are actually, 'that's right'. Before you convince them to see what you're trying to accomplish, you have to say the things to them that will get them to say, 'that's right'."
— Christopher Voss
For the Brunei contract, after hearing and understanding the Brunei arguments, I heard the Australian arguments. Then I said, "Clearly from these arguments, we disagree, and since both sides have been arguing for two years, I suggest we need to agree to disagree."
At this point, I emphasised to both parties, that we had the option of resolving the issue in court. However, this would take a great deal of money and time for both parties. So, I proposed we tried to find a commercial settlement which assigned no blame to either side. Both parties agreed in principle.
"He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat."
— Robert Estabrook
Getting to this step meant both parties had temporarily moved out of arguing in circles. Both sides felt they had been heard, so both sides were no longer thinking about arguments from the past. Both sides were focused on the future.
Sometimes both parties fell back into arguing; all it took was a reminder that we understood their arguments and that we all understood we were never going to agree. Now we needed to focus on finding a commercial solution both sides could live with.
Using normal negotiating techniques and paying special attention to using decreasing increments of offers, the dispute was resolved in a few hours. See earlier blog about sending signals when negotiating.
Disagreeing Agreeably
Warren Buffet once said, "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." I suggest when you find yourself in a contract dispute, start listening. Once the other side is convinced you understand their arguments, even when you don't agree with their arguments: make a proposal.
June 18, 2019 / Gary Peacock/ Comment
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Green appointed to LA County's Tenant Protections Working Group
USC Price Professor Richard Green (Photo by Tom Queally)
By Cristy Lytal
When the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors asked Professor Richard K. Green to join its Tenant Protections Working Group, he was ready to be of service.
"My parents raised me to care about doing public service… and it's better to be part of the [solution] than rage against it," said Green, who directs the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, and serves as chair of the Department of Policy Analysis and Real Estate at the USC Price School of Public Policy.
The working group will make recommendations for tenant protections in unincorporated L.A. County, which has become increasingly unaffordable for its approximately one million residents. While college graduates continue to flock to Los Angeles, people without college degrees have begun leaving in favor of more affordable areas.
"People are finally figuring out that housing is a real problem here, and they're looking for answers," Green said. "And unfortunately, there are answers that can make things worse instead of better. And my contribution to all of this might be to prevent mistakes."
As the sole academic appointed to the working group, Green hopes that he will be able to lend his knowledge of the data and research on the impact of rent control and housing policy. He is the co-author, with Stephen Malpezzi, of A Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy, a widely read book that explains the economics of housing policy for a general audience.
"I think my experience on those things is why they asked me to participate in this group," said Green, who was appointed by L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger.
Fellow members of the group include professionals working in legal aid and services, nonprofit and for-profit real estate development, finance, among other related areas.
Together, the group will consider ways to mitigate the affordability crisis in unincorporated Los Angeles County. The most obvious strategy is rent control legislation. Another approach is value capture, which involves developers receiving zoning rights in exchange for contributing to a fund that subsidizes rents.
Green acknowledges that these types of tenant protections are key parts to the solution. However, he also explained: "Ultimately, we don't solve this if we don't build a lot more housing."


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package com.testclient.service;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
import org.quartz.CronExpression;
import org.quartz.JobDetail;
import org.quartz.Scheduler;
import org.quartz.SchedulerException;
import org.quartz.Trigger;
import org.quartz.TriggerKey;
import org.quartz.impl.JobDetailImpl;
import org.quartz.impl.triggers.CronTriggerImpl;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

import com.testclient.enums.JobStatus;
import com.testclient.enums.LabFolderName;
import com.testclient.enums.TimeFormatDefiniation;
import com.testclient.factory.JsonObjectMapperFactory;
import com.testclient.httpmodel.DataGridJson;
import com.testclient.httpmodel.Json;
import com.testclient.httpmodel.ScheduledJobItem;
import com.testclient.httpmodel.ScheduledRunningSet;
import com.testclient.model.ScheduledRunningSetContainer;
import com.testclient.quartz.QuartzScheduleMgrService;
import com.testclient.quartz.ScheduledRunFolderJob;
import com.testclient.utils.FileNameUtils;

@Service("scheduleRunningSetService")
public class ScheduleRunningSetService {
	private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(ScheduleRunningSetService.class);
	@Autowired
	QuartzScheduleMgrService quartzScheduleMgrService;
	@Autowired
	BatchTestService batchTestService;
	@Autowired
	ScheduleJobService scheduleJobService;

//	private File getScheduledRunningSetFile(String rootName,String rsPath){
//		if(!rsPath.startsWith(rootName+"/"+LabFolderName.folder+"/"))
//			rsPath=rootName+"/"+LabFolderName.folder+"/"+rsPath;
//		return new File(rsPath,FileNameUtils.getScheduledJobFile());
//	}

	public DataGridJson getAllScheduledRunningSet(String folderName){
		DataGridJson dgj=new DataGridJson();
		List<ScheduledRunningSet> row=new ArrayList<ScheduledRunningSet>();
		File f=new File(folderName);
		if(f.exists()){
			try {
				ObjectMapper mapper = JsonObjectMapperFactory.getObjectMapper();
				ScheduledRunningSetContainer jobs = new ScheduledRunningSetContainer();
				jobs = mapper.readValue(f, ScheduledRunningSetContainer.class);
				for(Entry<String,ScheduledRunningSet> entry:jobs.getJob().entrySet()){
					ScheduledRunningSet srs=entry.getValue();
					if(isCronExpressionExpired(srs.getCronExpression())){
						srs.setStatus(srs.getStatus()+JobStatus.expired);
					}
					row.add(srs);
				}
			} catch (IOException e) {
				logger.error(e.getMessage());
			}
		}
		dgj.setRows(row);
		dgj.setTotal(row.size());
		return dgj;
	}

	public Json addScheduledRunningSet(String rsPath,ScheduledRunningSet item){
		Json j = new Json();
		try {
			ObjectMapper mapper = JsonObjectMapperFactory.getObjectMapper();
			item.setStatus(JobStatus.active);
			ScheduledRunningSetContainer jobs=new ScheduledRunningSetContainer();
			File file=new File(rsPath);
			if(file.exists()){
				jobs= mapper.readValue(file, ScheduledRunningSetContainer.class);
			}else{
				file.createNewFile();
			}
			jobs.getJob().put(item.getJobName(), item);
			mapper.writeValue(file, jobs);
			j.setSuccess(true);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			j.setSuccess(false);
			j.setMsg(e.getClass().toString()+": "+e.getMessage());
		}
		return j;
	}

	private boolean isCronExpressionExpired(String expression){
		try {
			if(CronExpression.isValidExpression(expression)){
				CronExpression cronEx;
				cronEx = new CronExpression(expression);
				Date current = new Date();
				Date nextDate = cronEx.getNextValidTimeAfter(current);
				if(nextDate!=null){
					if(current.before(nextDate)){
						return false;
					}
				}
			}
		} catch (ParseException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return true;
	}

	public Json addScheduledJob(String runningSetName,ScheduledRunningSet item){
		Json j = new Json();
		try{
			String expression=item.getCronExpression();
			if(!isCronExpressionExpired(expression)){
				Date current = new Date();
				SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(TimeFormatDefiniation.format);
				String jobName=format.format(current);
				Trigger trigger=new CronTriggerImpl(jobName, Scheduler.DEFAULT_GROUP, expression);
				JobDetail jobdetail=new JobDetailImpl(jobName, Scheduler.DEFAULT_GROUP, ScheduledRunFolderJob.class);
				jobdetail.getJobDataMap().put("dirPath", runningSetName);
				jobdetail.getJobDataMap().put("batchTestService", batchTestService);
				quartzScheduleMgrService.scheduleJob(jobdetail, trigger);
				item.setJobName(jobName);
				j.setObj(item);
				j.setSuccess(true);
			}else{
				j.setSuccess(false);
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On the planet Nebulus, trouble is brewing. Someone has been building giant towers in the sea without planning permission, and Destructo Inc has been given the job of demolishing them. Your phone is ringing like crazy to wake you up with your boss from Destructo on the other side. Playing this demolition expert in the shapes of a fat little green biped Nebulese, you arrive at the bottom of each tower by your brand new MK-7 mini-submarine. The mission is simple, raze all towers quickly. Have Fun!
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NDC Will Appeal Assin North Election Ruling – Minority
A Member of Parliament (MP) with the Minority in Parliament says he is disappointed in the ruling of the Cape Coast High Court that cancelled the 2020 parliamentary elections at Assin North.
The MP for South Dayi, Rockson Dafiamekpor, said they will appeal the decision and seek a stay of execution from the court.
READ ALSO: High Court Nullifies 2020 Parliamentary Election At Assin North
He is urging party members to remain calm as processes unfold to challenge the ruling.
A Cape Coast High Court has ordered for fresh parliamentary election in the Assin North constituency.
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The court was presided over by Justice Kwasi Boakye who declared the 2020 parliamentary election held in the Assin North Constituency as null and void.
This ruling was given on Wednesday, July 28, 2021.
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In his judgement, Justice Boakye upheld that the National Democratic Congress' parliamentary candidate for the constituency, Joe Gyaakye Quayson, breached the provisions of the constitution with regard to dual citizenship.
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Koku Anyidoho Reacts After Exoplsion By The NDC
High Court Nullifies 2020 Parliamentary Election At Assin North
Looks like Government will borrow ¢3.78 billion in the first quarter of this year to finance part of the budget, its Issuance Calendar has revealed.
For the first three months of 2022, government plans to issue a gross amount of ¢24.5 billion, of which ¢20.7 billion is to rollover maturities.
This indicates that the government's debt level is not going to reduce anytime soon.
As usual, most of the funds to be mobilised will come from the 91-day Treasury bills, a move that has helped reduce foreign debt but rather crowded out the private sector from access to financing on the domestic market.
According to the data, the government will borrow as much as ¢11.3 billion of the 91-day T-bills during the period, higher than the previous quarter.
It will be followed by the 182-day T-Bills in which a total of ¢3 billion will be mobilised. Then, finally, the biggest of ¢1.6 billion will be issued in March 2022.
¢2.15 billion will, however, be mobilised from the 364-day bills. The majority of the funds are expected to be raised this month.
¢2 billion is also expected to be raised from a 6-year bond. This is expected to be done in January 2022.
Again, the government is expected to issue a 7-year and 10-year bond in February and March 2022, respectively. ¢1.2 billion and ¢800 million are expected to be borrowed from both resident and non-resident investors.
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Government said the calendar is developed based on the Net Domestic Financing provided in the 2022 Budget, the 2022 domestic maturities for the period, the 2022 Borrowing Plan and the Medium Term Debt Strategy.
Public debt stock hits ¢341.8bn as of September 2021
Ghana's public debt stock hit ¢341.8 billion in September 2021, the November 2021 Bank of Ghana Summary of Economic and Financial Data revealed.
This was equivalent to 77.8% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Between July and September 2021, ¢5.9 billion fresh loans were added to the total debt. The surge in debt came largely from the domestic debt and due to the slight depreciation of the cedi to the dollar.
However, the government had indicated in its Issuance Calendar for the final quarter of 2021 that it will borrow just about a billion cedis.
According to the data from the Bank of Ghana, the domestic debt went up to ¢178.1 billion in September 2021, up from ¢173.9 billion recorded in July 2021. This was equivalent to 40.5% of GDP.
Ato, the son of the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mavis Hawa Koomson and his fiancee, Jasmine have completed their marriagewith a white wedding.
The event which was full of glitz and glamour took place during the weekend.
The peach-white-themed event took place at the Teshie Methodist Church, Accra and swiftly followed with a grand reception.
The Vice President, Dr Bawumia and his wife, Samira together with other high-profiled personalities and well-wishers graced the occasion.
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This comes on the back of a colourful traditional wedding ceremony that took place on New Year's eve at a private venue in Accra.
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The Northern Regional Communications Directorate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has suspended a member of its communication team indefinitely for allegedly campaigning for Alan Kyerematen.
Alhaji Ibrahim Kaleem has been accused of publicly projecting the Trade and Industry Minister as a suitable candidate to lead the governing party into the 2024 presidential elections.
A statement signed by the Regional Director of Communications, Mohammed Sheriff Ibrahim said Kaleem's conduct violates the party's constitution.
"As already noted in Chairman's statement dated December 30, 2021, the unfortunate situation of peaking before time has the tendency to disrupt H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's governance and the peace within the New Patriotic Party in the region," the statement said.
The statement warned that Kaleem ceases to represent the NPP as a communicator with immediate effect and the party will not be liable for any activity of his.
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Meanwhile, reacting to the suspension, Kaleem said on Joy FM's Top Story that the accusation levelled against him was false, and accused the regional executives of bias.
According to him, he attended an event organised every Tuesday by 'Friends of Alan' to espouse the trade minister's achievement but he did not engage in any campaign activity.
"It's an absolute lie. It's not true. The programme was organised by 'Friends of Alan' and I happen to go there every Tuesday and it's not about campaigning.
"It's talking about Alan's Ministry, what he has done, the factories and other things that he has done so it's an absolute lie," Alhaji Ibrahim Kaleem said.
Below is the suspension letter:


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Le Trojan skin (ou Trojan skinheads) est une sous-culture populaire, née en Grande Bretagne au milieu des années 1960. Elle rassemble les premiers skinheads anglais, qui ne sont alors pas encore politisés.

Histoire
À partir du milieu des années 1960, de jeunes rebelles, qui revendiquent leur appartenance à la working class (classe ouvrière), commencent à se retrouver pour écouter une autre musique que les groupes alors en vogue. Ils se montrent très hostiles aux courants hippie et beatnick.  Les courants musicaux vers lesquels ils se tournent sont le ska, le rocksteady, le reggae et la soul. La plupart des disques qu'ils écoutent sont à ce moment produits par un label spécialisé dans l'importation de musique jamaïcaine, Trojan Records. Le nom du label va inspirer le nom de Trojan skinheads ou Trojan skin à ces jeunes.

Les musiciens de ces groupes, presque tous Jamaïcains, sont alors tous noirs. Prudents envers leur public, qu'ils savent essentiellement blancs, ils n'apparaissent jamais sur les pochettes de leur disques, préférant faire figurer sur les albums une paire de Doc Martens ou des canettes de bière.

Le tout premier groupe de musiciens blancs de cette première vague skin est la formation de glam rock Slade, né en 1968. Toutefois, on est encore loin d'une musique politisée.

Parallèlement à son influence musicale, le Trojan skin lance aussi la  mode vestimentaire qui va influencer tous les différents courants skinheads postérieurs : les chemises Ben Sherman, les polos Fred Perry, les bretelles, les chaussures montantes Dr. Martens, les vestes Harrington, les manteaux noirs.

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#Awk! Lani Blair's Apology to Khloé Kardashian Didn't Go as Planned (EXCLUSIVE)
Updated: May 17, 2018 5:10 pm·
It's been more than a month since Khloé Kardashian gave birth to her daughter, True, and although she's reportedly taken her cheating man Tristan Thompson back, his alleged mistress has reached out to apologize. A source told In Touch exclusively that Lani Blair called to make things right, but Koko wasn't having it.
"Lani reached out and apologized to Khloé," our source dished. "She got her number from Tristan. Before she could finish, Khloé hung up. Lani called back, left a message, and told Khloé she feels awful, won't do it again, and basically left an honest, genuine. and heartfelt apology." They added, "She really feels bad for what she's caused both Khloé and Tristan."
💕Happy One Month True 💕
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ICYMI, after Tristan's cheating went public and Lani, 28, was identified, it was reported that she stopped showing up to work. A co-worker told Radar Online, "After everything she's dealt with today, she's not coming in tonight." A bartender at the strip club she's employed at also revealed that the NBA baller star would show up "from time to time."
Recently, rumors were swirling that the Kardashian-esque model would be extending her 15 minutes of fame with a reality show, but the claim was quickly denied. "La La Anthony has been working on a show called Goal Diggers that is supposed to feature Bernice Burgos and Grace," a source told Us Weekly in April. "They've all stripped at Starlets." However, although Lani is besties to both, she will not appear in the show, the source added.
Fortunately for her, we're pretty sure money isn't an issue. After all, she now boasts more than 407,000 followers on Instagram — which means she could sell a lot of those weight loss lollipops.
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Why does the media continue to insist Al-Sadr "won" in Basra?
1. As of March 30th, when the cease-fire was declared, Iraqi forces had killed 571 Mahdi Army fighters, wounded 881, captured 490, and accepted the surrender of 30 throughout Iraq.
3. Al-Sadr "brokered" the cease-fire with the help of Iran, because that is where he is at. He is not in Iraq (nor has he been seen there in over a year), because he fears to return.
4. The Iraqi army has entered Basra in Brigade strength to restablish order. Curfews still exist for Sadr City and Basra. Not exactly conditions for the Medhi Army to be dancing in the streets.
5. In six days of fighting, the Mehdi Army suffered major setbacks in Hillah, Najaf, Karbala, Diwaniyah, Amarah, Kut, and Nasiriyah.
6. When the cease-fire was granted by the Iraqi Army, Al-Sadr's Medhi army was critically low on food, water and ammunition in Basra due to the border with Iran being sealed.
Explain to me please how people can say he "won?" I just don't get it.
Hey, it's an election year. Shrillary and Obamalamadingdong need all the help they can get.


The site was created to present the different projects I'm working on as a portfolio. I will keep posting ideas and explorations here. But I feel that a site with a proper home page and unique design (compared to this blog, at least) will present the projects and my skillset in a better light. And for the technical part. This is a static, pelican based site. The theme was adapted from the Hugo Creative theme, with several modifications. Feel free to fork and change for your own needs. As usual, comments are more than welcome!


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Extraordinary Luxury Textiles
Textiles used in embroidery during the Tudor period covered a wide range of weaves and fibres. Elizabeth, Countess of Hardwick famously re-used a vast number of former garments and furnishings to create the hangings used to decorate her house at Chatsworth and at Hardwick Hall. The most comprehensive illustration of the variety of textiles she worked with can be found in Santina Levey's catalogue "The Embroideries at Hardwick Hall". The photographs are clear and her explanations are beautifully written but the weaving process is extremely complicated so they are very difficult to understand and recognize. What is a tissue, what is a cloth of gold, and what is a brocade, brocatelle, lampas or tinsel? And what about velvet? Solid colour, flat velvets were very often used to provide a rich, deep ground fabric on which to embroider, and patterned velvets were applied to other grounds such as silk damask and wool. A velvet pile is easily identified, but there can be so many combinations of thread woven into a myriad of plains and patterns: is there a simple way to categorize them?
Zenobia, detail illustrating a variety of luxury textiles, Hardwick Hall
Earlier this year, I was fortunate to be invited to attend a lecture at the University of Manchester. "Serial Production and individualization in Late Medieval Silk Weaving," was presented by Dr Michael Peter, an expert in medieval textiles from the Abegg-Stiftung Museum in Bern. Dr Peter's lecture clearly identified the role of the consumer in the aesthetic development of luxury textiles and how unique and expensive special commissions were adapted to create economically viable ones. He described how the fabric was woven and even drew a diagram of a simple velvet with a two step structure but it was still far too complex for me to grasp. The videos showing the weaving of velvet on 17th century looms are intriguing but just think of how much more complicated it was a century before. The addition of two different heights of pile, cut and un cut, as many as three types of metal thread and a pattern of little loops makes it absolutely incredible.
Fragments of luxury textiles from the collection of the Whitworth Gallery. Image copyright Challe Hudson.
Happily, there was a practical component to the lecture that would help to visually identify some of the technical aspects Dr Peter had addressed in the lecture. The following day, the attendees were invited to the Whitworth Gallery to examine fragments of 16th century textiles from the collection.
Fragment of ciselé velvet, Whitworth Gallery T.12324
The image above is of a fragment of velvet from the collection of the Whitworth Gallery (T.12324). On the website it is identified as ciselé velvet with metal thread, woven in Italy and dated 1575 to 1599. It consists of silk thread and flattened silver wire. The cloth has plain tabby weave areas (voided) and cut pile filling an uncut velvet pile (loops that look like little dots) outline.
Fragment of cloth of gold velvet, Whitworth Gallery T.12261
This example is also in the Whitworth and it has cut velvet pile, loops of fine venice gold thread and the voided areas are woven with pairs of gold wire added to the silk weft. It is identified as a strip of velvet cloth of gold (T.12261). This type of velvet is beautifully illustrated in the portrait of Mary painted by Master John c 1544. Here is a link to the image on the NPG website: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw04264/Queen-Mary-I?LinkID=mp02995&role=sit&rNo=1 If you scroll in tightly, you can see the little loops on her sleeves and bodice.
Fragment of embroidered velvet, Whitworth Gallery. Images copyright Challe Hudson
This fragment of patterned purple velvet has been embellished with stitches of venice gold. Couched venice twist or cord in gold and silver outlines each motif. The reverse shows the colour of the couching thread alternates for gold and silver and the single stitches go through the ground making smaller stitches on the back. I was unable to locate the accession number of this fragment on the Whitworth Collection website but it may be T.10678.
I am extremely grateful to Dr Gale Owen Crocker, Dr Michael Peters and the staff at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester for the opportunity to tip a toe into the exciting world of luxury Renaissance textiles.
A visit to Hardwick Hall
The search for silk camlet and a visit to Meg Andrews
One thought on "Extraordinary Luxury Textiles"
Be still my heart! What a tragedy that we have lost the knowledge and skills to make these today.


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We have loved our first 25 years bringing faith-driven theater to the Fort Wayne community, and we're looking forward to many more. We can't do it without your help, though. We hope that you'll celebrate our anniversary with us and commit to giving on a regular basis.
You might not know that our ticket income does not cover all of our expenses. We want to keep our ticket prices low, so your donations are very important to us and to our mission of impacting our culture for God through the arts.
We are asking for a gift of $250 in honor of the 25th anniversary. You can give it as a one-time gift, a $25 monthly gift over 10 months, or a $10 gift over 25 months. If you feel led to give a different amount, select the 'Other' option and give as you determine.
Thank you so much for your generosity and support. We love serving you and bringing you seasons of quality, uplifting theater. Here's to the next 25 years and more!
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NL: Recyclet het merk minstens 90% van zijn afval, in plaats van het te verbranden of dumpen op een afvalstort?
DE: Recycled der Markenhersteller mindestens 90% des selbsterzeugten Abfalls - statt Müllverbrennung oder Deponierung?
Following up on the previous environmental question about waste, and in line with transitioning to a fully circular economy, companies are encouraged to recycle, donate or reuse as much waste as possible, rather than incinerating it, or sending it to a landfill. As such, this question similarly corresponds to Disclosure 306-2 of the Global Reporting Initiative, and rewards best practices such as those by Telefonica (page 163). Note that reuse and donation are counted here as valid alternatives to recycling.
The brand reports that at least 90% of its waste (measured in weight or volume) is recycled. Reusing and donating also count toward this percentage.
Brand specifically reports that it recycles less than 90% of its total waste. Waste can be measured in volume or weight.
Brand reports no percentage, or the percentage refers to only part of a company's waste.
[Brand] reports that in [year] at least 90% of its total waste [volume/(measured in weight)*] was recycled, reused or donated (see link, page...).
[Brand] reports that in [year] less than 90% of its total waste [volume/(measured in weight)*] was recycled, reused or donated (see link, page...).
[Brand] does not report what percentage of its total waste [volume/(measured in weight)*] was recycled, reused or donated (see link, page...).
[Brand] report a percentage of recycled, reused, or donated waste, but it is not clear whether this refers to [brand]'s total waste [volume/(measured in weight)*] (see link, page...).
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One doesn't have to look far to find art in Winnipeg's downtown. This year, the city became the Creative City Network's first winner of the Award of Excellence in Public Art.
Emerging Winnipeg band Darling Twig shows bands don't need to be formed by musicians with equal experience or any experience at all.
Brandon University sociology professor Dr. Christopher Schneider will be at the University of Winnipeg (U of W) on Oct. 26 to discuss his book Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of New Media.
Erin Cornelius loves the house she bought five years ago, but she didn't buy it just for her own enjoyment.
Fluent English-speaking volunteers help international students at the University of Winnipeg integrate into their new environments simply by becoming their friends.