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Fleet owners interested in electric vehicles have had to compromise with first-generation products. Putting the most affordable EVs in service means dealing with ranges that do not top 100 miles in most cases.
Unfortunately, at a starting price of $70,000, the costs have proven too high for most fleets, even when purchase incentives and fast-charging options are considered. Besides, a Model S is simply too powerful and luxurious to be practical.
Battery costs. The cost of battery packs is dropping fast, allowing manufacturers to offer much more range for the money.
Production scale. Economies of scale have kept plug-in costs high in the first generation of vehicles. As record sales are recorded around the world, the costs are coming down.
Competition. Tesla competed mostly against Mercedes-Benz and BMW; Nissan competed mostly with plug-in hybrids at lower price points. Now that GM and Tesla have set a new standard – 200 miles at $37,500 or less – the industry is following suit.
Between now and 2020, most major automakers will present electric vehicles that break the 200-mile barrier while purchase incentives remain available, creating a mass-market plug-in segment for the first time. Here is a preview of the models making up the next generation of EVs.
P.S. We recently held a webinar on maximizing the ROI of fleet electrification. It covered how to integrate EVs into your fleet with confidence, how to maximize an EV's workload, and how to optimize charging. You can download the slides or watch the recording here.
At least 200 miles of range.
This car starts the clock on the next generation of plug-ins, and GM can take credit for getting there first, even before Tesla. Bolt EV will come standard with front-wheel drive.
Few auto industry events have ever gotten as much attention as the unveiling of the Tesla Model 3, which ended up with 400,000 reservations within a few weeks. While the look of the Chevy Bolt did not wow the general public, Tesla's third major vehicle offered the brand's signature styling along with the performance specs consumers expect from the leading EV maker. In fact, it caused a worldwide sensation.
After planning a production start for late 2017, Tesla CEO Elon Musk moved up the date and said it would come the summer before, with plans to deliver tens of thousands of vehicles by the start of 2018.
Concept image. The next generation Leaf is expected to be introduced sometime in late 2016.
In terms of cumulative world sales, the Nissan Leaf is best-selling pure electric car in history, and the automaker intends to compete with the major industry players in the second generation of EVs. Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has spoken at length about his company's ability and intention to produce an electric model breaking 200 miles of range in the coming years.
While many industry observers believed Nissan could parlay its technology and production capabilities to beat Tesla and GM to market, it appears that will not happen. Nonetheless, expect Nissan Renault to bring its longer-range model to market by 2018, if not sooner. Leaf's combination of solid range and affordable cost were its secret to past sales success.
The Volkswagen Group, through its core brand and luxury Audi marque, has taken an aggressive approach to plug-in vehicles since the Dieselgate scandal did so much damage. According to the automaker, the next-generation Golf family will include an all-electric model that more than doubles the range of the current e-Golf on the market.
At 300 km (186 miles) of real-world range, which includes climate control and stereo use, the next e-Golf will cover 200 miles in city driving and keep its competitive price point. If everything goes as Volkswagen intends, this model will reach world markets late in 2018.
Ford Motor Company has shown a commitment to plug-in vehicles with its Fusion Energi and C-Max Energi plug-in hybrids as well as the Focus Electric. Not to be outdone by its chief Detroit rival, Ford pledged it would stay relevant in the segment by delivering a 200-mile EV before the end of the decade, and observers expect to be called the Model E.
Since production delays and spec changes are common when future vehicles are discussed, fleet owners cannot rest their hopes on the arrival of cars in the coming years. To get operational costs down today, the current market's electric vehicle offerings can reduce emissions and lower fueling needs.
There are many businesses that can benefit from electric vehicles featuring 100 miles of range or less, and the list will become a long one by 2017. The trick is knowing the formula to compare a conventional combustion-engine model to the EV you believe can replace it. FleetCarma has the data to help make these business decisions.
The next generation of electric vehicles is arriving sooner than anyone expected, and the new products mean more options for running your fleet economically. A revolution in fleet operation has already begun.
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Chinese Moves Complicate India-Bangladesh Dispute Over Teesta
The Pulse | Diplomacy | South Asia
Dhaka is in a dilemma; while a deal with India on the Teesta River remains elusive, Beijing wants it to make up its mind on a Chinese project on the river.
By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya for The Diplomat
The River Teesta flowing through the eastern state of West Bengal in India, October 26, 2018.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Tarunsamanta
In the second week of October, a month after Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned from New Delhi without a word of assurance on the sharing of the waters of the River Teesta, the Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, Li Jiming, visited the Teesta barrage site in the country's Lalmonirhat district.
Li told journalists that he was hopeful that the Teesta mega project can be started "within a very short time." Later, at another event, while stating that the project "is under serious assessment by the government agencies in Beijing," he also said that there was some reluctance on the part of China to go ahead with the project considering the possibility of Bangladesh backing out.
"There are some sensitivities that we sensed and observed," he said, adding, "if someone comes out and says – well this is again another case of Chinese debt trap – there (also) are some particular geopolitical sensitivities."
Li's statement indicates that China is putting pressure on Bangladesh to come to a decision on whether to depend on India for solving the Teesta water crisis or go with China's proposal.
Hasina's visit to the Indian capital was preceded by the 38th meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) in New Delhi in August. This was the first meeting of the JRC after 12 years, the 37th edition having been held in 2010. But there was no word on sharing of Teesta River's water, not least in the official media statement, even though it was one of the most significant issues discussed during the 37th meeting, where "an expeditious conclusion" was hoped for.
The two countries nearly reached an agreement on sharing the waters of the Teesta in 2011 but the final signing did not happen due to objections from the Chief Minister of India's West Bengal state, Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) party.
The 414-kilometer-long river originates in the Himalayas in the northern part of India's Sikkim state and passes through Sikkim and West Bengal before entering Bangladesh, where it meets the Brahmaputra.
In September, before Hasina left Dhaka for New Delhi, the one question that the Bangladeshi media was most keen to ask her was whether her visit would result in any positive outcome toward solving the Teesta water issue.
"It depends on India," she said before leaving. In Delhi, she only expressed her hope that the Teesta issue would be resolved soon.
Since her return, leading Bengali and English language media houses in Bangladesh have published innumerable reports on the Teesta water-sharing problem, mostly criticizing India for its role. Some have described it as a diplomatic failure by Hasina.
Irrespective of the public sentiment in Bangladesh over the issue – and any possible impact that it may have in the 2023 parliamentary election there – the ground reality in Teesta's catchment area in the northern part of West Bengal, an eastern Indian state sharing the longest border with Bangladesh, does not offer hope for any agreement between India and Bangladesh anytime soon.
Given India's federal structure, the government of India cannot take any decision over sharing water of transboundary rivers without taking the state concerned, West Bengal in this case, into its confidence. But the state's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been refusing to share Teesta water since her ascent to power in 2011, is set to be in power in West Bengal until 2026 at the least.
On the other hand, since the 2010 JRC meeting, the Teesta has further dried up and new dams have been erected on it in Sikkim. Among the biggest are the 1,200-megawatt Teesta Stage III in north Sikkim, operational since 2017, and the 500-megawatt Teesta Stage VI in lower Sikkim, which i s presently under construction. These have further restricted the water flow.
Even though Sikkim's hydropower policy, based mostly on the Teesta, has remained a reason West Bengal gets less water, Sikkim has hardly ever featured in the Teesta discussion. Rather, Sikkim has plans for more dams in the pipeline.
People in the northern parts of West Bengal and Bangladesh are heavily dependent on the Teesta's waters for fishing and farming. But people in Bangladesh allege that the Gajaldoba barrage in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal has almost totally deprived the northern Bangladesh districts of Rangpur, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Gaibandha, Dinajpur, and Bogra of the river's water, except in the monsoon season.
The West Bengal chief minister has on several occasions clarified her objection; she does not want to deprive the northern districts of Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, Uttar Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur, and Malda at a time when the water in Teesta has already reduced in recent years. There is not enough water in Teesta to share, she had said, offering to share water from other rivers, which Bangladesh has refused.
However, the matter has become more complicated and diplomatically sensitive since China entered the scene in 2020, offering to pull Bangladesh out of the crisis. China proposed a major dredging work to revive the river and build strong embankments and reservoirs, without India having to play any role.
The two countries have conducted joint studies but Bangladesh has been keeping the project on hold, possibly considering that India, its closest bilateral friend, would be offended and might object to China's involvement.
However, as India is failing to promise a timeline, pressure is mounting on Hasina at home. Soon after Li's visit, the Teesta Bachao, Nodi Bachao Sangram Samiti, a civil society group pressing for the Teesta's revival, staged a demonstration in Rangpur, demanded that the Bangladesh government expedite the Teesta project with Chinese collaboration, and threatened to launch an agitation in November.
These developments have put the governments of both India and Bangladesh in a delicate situation, as India's relations with Bangladesh have been most friendly when Hasina has been in power. Neither wants to offend the other. India certainly does not want Hasina out of power.
However, the Modi government in India is in no position at present to pressure Banerjee on this sensitive issue.
In the 2021 West Bengal assembly election, northern West Bengal emerged as the last bastion of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the eastern state, while Mamata Banerjee's TMC held sway over most parts of the rest of the state. Pressuring Banerjee to give away Teesta water – an issue most sensitive in northern West Bengal – could cost the BJP its popularity in this region. The region accounts for eight of India's 543 Lok Sabha constituencies and in the 2019 parliamentary election, the BJP won seven of them. It would not want to lose any of them in 2024.
India neither wants to see Hasina in trouble at home from the anti-India forces in Bangladesh nor does it want to see Chinese presence just across West Bengal's border. Sikkim is highly unlikely to agree to let Teesta flow freely and Banerjee would not accept any measure that would deprive her people in the northern districts.
The Modi government seems to have few options and will most likely have to think up "out of the box" solutions.
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, the author of two non-fiction books on India's ultra-Left and the Hindu right, writes and comments on India's politics, environment, human rights and culture.
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Bangladesh's Hilsa Fish Diplomacy
By Prarthana Sen
Every year, India's Durga Puja festivities see a surge in demand for the fish from Bangladesh.
A Teesta River Water-Sharing Deal Is Critical for Bangladesh-India Ties
By P.K. Balachandran
Brushing the issue under the carpet would be unwise for the long-term health of the relationship.
Sheikh Hasina's Visit to Delhi Disappoints Bangladesh
By Shafi Md Mostofa
Seven MoUs were signed during the Bangladeshi prime minister's visit but no progress was made on clinching a deal on the Teesta.
India, Bangladesh Sign Pact on Sharing Waters of Kushiyara River
However, the visiting Bangladeshi PM could not clinch a deal on the sharing of the more important Teesta River.

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Abstract: 本文探討在歐債風暴期間,外匯市場中個別匯率的流動性與市場之流動性共變(liquidity commonality)的關聯程度。由於投資人僅能透過投資組合分散流動性風險,若市場存有流動性共變,也就是系統性的流動性風險時,投資人會要求流動性溢酬作為補償。本文首先分析在歐債風暴期間,流動性共變對個別匯率之影響程度,並且利用流動性風險因子來解釋利差交易報酬。研究結果發現外匯市場存有流動性共變現象,且流動性共變程度與該匯率之流動性有關。再者,本文實證結果流動性風險在利差交易中扮演重要的角色,投資者在操作利差交易時會要求流動性風險溢酬。;This thesis studies liquidity commonality in the foreign exchange market during Eurozone crisis. Liquidity commonality can be regarded as systemic risk. Investors cannot avoid this risk with portfolio allocation. If investors need to bear more systemic risk, they would require more risk premium for compensation. This thesis not only investigates liquidity commonality but also analyzes the impact of liquidity risk on carry trades during Eurozone crisis. The empirical results shows that liquidity commonality varies from currencies. Moreover, I present evidence that liquidity risk factor plays an important role in carry trade return.


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Erdkartein mittabstandstreuer Azimutalprojektion...
Augustus Herman Petermann
Erdkartein mittabstandstreuer Azimutalprojektion mit dem Mittelpunkt Strassburg (and) Erdkartein mittabstandstreuer Azimutalprojektion mit demAntipodenpunk von Strassburg als Mittelpunkt
Gotha / 1914
18 x 19.3 inches (Each Sheet)
Early Seismology Maps
Interesting pair of world maps on an Azimuthal projection, showing Strassburg as the center point and Antipode center point of the projection.
The map includes the work of two important seismologists. Emil Julius Friedrich Rudolph (1853 - 1915) was a Prussian professor of geophysics, seismologist and volcanologist. His work focuses on submarine earthquakes. He is also known for his work in compiling earthquake newsletters and catalogs worldwide. Rudolph and Siegmund Szirtes published Zur erklärung der geographischen verteilung von grossbeben (Explanation of the Geographic Distribution of Large Earthquakes) in 1914.
The key locates:
Volcanos active and extinct
Tectonic Lines
Epicenters of Major Earthquakes
Area of Major Earthquakes
The maps were described as follows in 1914 by the American Geographical Society Bulletin:
Two hemispheres on the equidistant azimuthal (Postel's) projection to facilitate the location of earthquakes registered at the seismological station in Strassburg. Circles of distance are drawn for every 1,000 kilometers, and azimuth lines for every 10 °. As the reviewer has pointed out (Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geogrs. , Vol. II, 1912, pp. 49-54 ), the use of Postel's projection for this purpose is entirely correct in principle and has the advantage over the stereographic, whose use was there suggested because it can be more easily drawn, in that the interval between the circles of distance remain the same, while on the stereographic projection it becomes twice as much on the margin as at the center. At all events, it is very gratifying to see that the inappropriate use of Mercator's projection for such maps—which was commented on in " New Maps " under " World " in the Bull., Vol. 43, 1911 , p. 879 — is gradually being discarded.
On the present map, in addition, are shown: volcanoes, active and inactive, tectonic lines, and the epicenters and areas of influence of major earthquakes. Proper editing would have eliminated the obsolete representation of northeast Greenland and the coast of Victoria Island as well as the ultra-conservative treatment of the Antarctic Continent.]
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society; Vol. 46, No. 7 (1914), pp. 554-560
Augustus Herman Petermann Biography
August Heinrich Petermann (1822-1878) is a renowned German cartographer of the nineteenth century. Petermann studied cartography at the Geographical Art-School in Potsdam before traveling to Edinburgh to work with Dr. A. Keith Johnston on an English edition of Berghaus' Physical Atlas. Two years later he moved to London, where he made maps and advised exploratory expeditions as they set off to explore the interior of Africa and the Arctic.
In 1854, Petermann returned to Germany to be Director of the Geographical Institute of Justus Perthes in Gotha. There, he was the editor of the Geographische Mittheilungen and Stieler's Handatlas. The Royal Geographical Society of London awarded him their Gold Medal in 1860. He continued his interest in exploration in Germany, fundraising for the German Exploring Expeditions of 1868 and 1869-70, which sought an open Arctic sea. Tragically, he committed suicide in 1878.
Antique Maps / World / World
[World] Air France
Rare Reduce Sized Variant
Orbis Terrarum Typus De Integro In Plurimis Emendatus Auctus et Icunculis Illustratus
Rare double hemisphere map of the World by Johann Detleffsen, published in Minden.
A Map of the World from the best Authorities
Decorative double hemisphere map of the World, which appeared in Carey's General Atlas.
World Red Cross Map published for the Centenary of the Birth of the Red Cross Idea, 1859-1959
Interesting Midcentury pictorial map of the world, issued by the Red Cross to commemorate the centennial of the birth of the idea for the organization by Henri Dunant in 1859.
Mappe-Monde ou Carte Universelle . . . 1705 [California Shown as an Island]
Nice example of De Fer's map of the World on Mercator's projection, which first appeared in his Atlas Curieux.
Stereographic Projection [and] Orthographic Projection on the Plane of the Equator
Interesting pair of hemispheric projections, illustrating two different styles for depicting the earth.


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Sexual Chronicles of a French Family 2012
Three generations of a French family open up about their sexual experiences and desires after young Romain is caught masturbating in his biology class.
Family Guy 1999
Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids. Stewie (a brilliant but sadistic baby bent on killing his mother and taking over the world), Meg (the oldest, and is the most unpopular girl in town) and Chris (the middle kid, he's not very bright but has a passion for movies). The final member of the family is Brian - a talking dog and much more than a pet, he keeps Stewie in check whilst sipping Martinis and sorting through his own life issues.
Modern Family 2009
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Family is an American television drama series that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1980. Creative control of the show was split among executive producers Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling and Mike Nichols. A total of 86 episodes were produced.
Family Matters 1989
A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.
Family Ties 1982
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
Family Affairs 1997
Family Affairs is a British soap opera that was aired on Channel 5. First broadcast on 30 March 1997, there were five, thirty-minute episodes shown per week. It did not gain high ratings. Subsequently producers rejuvenated the cast, the style and changed the fictional location. On 2 August 2005, Channel 5 announced they would not renew Family Affairs. Production ceased on 4 November, and the final episode was broadcast on 30 December 2005. The series was shot on video to give a film look. In 1999 and 2004, single episodes switches to standard video presentation were carried out. Producer Sean O'Connor implemented the format from September 2005 until the final episode.
Drama | Soap
Mama's Family 1983
Thelma Harper and her spinster sister Fran open their home to Thelma's recently divorced son Vinton and his teenage son and daughter. It's quite an adjustment for everyone, especially the cranky, argumentative Thelma.
Family Affair 1966
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All in the Family 1971
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
Celebrity Family Feud 2015
Celebrity Family Feud pits celebrities and their families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to survey-type questions posed to 100 people.
Bonus Family 2017
A new couple, their exes and their children navigate the emotional challenges and tricky logistics of blended family life in this Swedish dramedy.
The Addams Family 1964
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Family Law is a television drama starring Kathleen Quinlan as divorced lawyer Lynn Holt, who attempted to start her own law firm after her husband left both her and their law practice, taking all of their clients with him. The series aired on CBS from 1999 to 2002 and was created by Paul Haggis. The show also starred Christopher McDonald as opportunistic, ambulance-chasing attorney Rex Weller, Julie Warner as Lynn's friend Danni, and Dixie Carter as "pit bull" divorce attorney Randi King. Later cast additions included Tony Danza, Cristián de la Fuente, Salli Richardson and little person actress Meredith Eaton as Emily Resnick, an ambitious attorney hoping to make partner. Edwin Starr's 1970 hit song, "War" was used as the series' opening title theme.
F is for Family 2015
Follow the Murphy family back to the 1970s, when kids roamed wild, beer flowed freely and nothing came between a man and his TV.
Family Reunion 2019
A free-spirited mom moves her family from the west coast to the Midwest and gets to know her extended family.
My Family 2000
Ben Harper is a moderately successful family man and dentist. He is also undergoing a mid-life crisis and trying to cope with the bizarre reality of raising teenage children. His wife Susan seems quite happy, enjoys her job as a London tour guide, however at home her ability to find her way around a cookbook or pantry is less successful. Their three children Nick, Janey, and Michael are as different as chalk and cheese. Nick (19) is on his gap year, but doesn't get much further than the sofa or job centre, Janey is as sharp as a tack and 16 going on 25, while Michael is a very bright, computer-nerdish 12 year old who is just discovering girls.
Braxton Family Values 2011
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"The Proud Family" follows the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of teen-dom. Penny's every encounter inevitably spirals into bigger than life situations filled with hi-jinks, hilarity and heart. Her quest to balance her home, school and social lives are further complicated by friends like the sassy Dijonay, Penny's nemesis LaCienega Boulevardez, her loving, if not over-protective parents and her hip-to-the-groove-granny, Suga Mama.
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Java RMI allowed programmer to execute remote function class using the same semantics as local functions calls.
To transfer data from one host to another.
RMI is a specification that enables one JVM to invoke methods in an object located in another JVM.
The client lookup the server name in the registry to establish remote references.
The Stub serializing the parameters to skeleton, the skeleton invoking the remote method and serializing the result back to the stub.
A client invokes a remote method; the call is first forwarded to stub.
The stub opening a socket to the remote server, marshaling the object parameters and forwarding the data stream to the skeleton.
A skeleton contains a method that receives the remote calls, unmarshals the parameters, and invokes the actual remote object implementation.
The process of gathering data and transforming it into a standard format before it is transmitted over a network so that the data can transcend network boundaries.
All remote objects must extend UnicastRemoteObject, which provides functionality that is needed to make objects available for remote machines.
Default RMI port is 1099.
Develop the remote object by implementing the remote interface.
Generate the client stubs and server skeletons.
Start the remote server objects.


Here we are nine months since the inauguration of Donald Trump.
It is as if a baby was conceived, and now, after nine months. the baby is born.
And who is this baby?
A literal MONSTER, dangerous to the civil liberties of the American people, and a menace to world peace and order.
We have a person in the Oval Office today who sees no reason not to use nuclear weapons and destroy a nation of 25 million people, because its leader is unstable and reckless, exactly what Donald Trump has demonstrated is his behavior.
and is clearly delusional and mentally deranged.
Clearly, he is a psychopath and sociopath, who is a danger to the nation and the world, who must be removed promptly from office.
He has lost all moral and ethical authority.
He has become more like a Mafia leader, such as John Gotti or Al Capone, rather than a President, and is much more dangerous than any Mafia leader could ever be.
He and his family have already become the most corrupt Presidential family in American history.
It seems that Robert Mueller, Special Counsel, is rapidly gathering a strong case against Donald Trump, not soon enough for his critics, but a case that should be solid on why Trump must be forced out of office over the next few months, hopefully before he takes actions that totally destroy the world order, and gets America immersed in multiple wars and crises, and the total destruction of the accomplishments of Democratic and Republican Presidents since Theodore Roosevelt onward.
This is a bigger constitutional crisis than Richard Nixon presented, something hard to accept, but the truth!
Donald Trump, in nine months in office, plus his 19 month campaign leading to his election and inauguration, has demonstrated terrible lack of character and decency, and has made a disgraceful role model for children, the nation at large, and the world.
He has diminished the image of the Presidency dramatically, and it will take many decades to recover from this nightmare, which may end soon, but also, might, miraculously survive longer than most observers think.
Trump is not the only President with terrible character and role model image.
We could include Andrew Jackson in this category, along with Andrew Johnson, and Richard Nixon.
All three undermined the office of the Presidency by their maniacal behavior on many issues, but none, not even Nixon, was as reprehensible as Donald Trump has been.
The man has no empathy, sympathy, compassion, decency, or dignity.
Similar to Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon, he came into office with a chip on his shoulder, despite the fact that he was born to wealth, unlike Jackson, Johnson, and Nixon, all who were born in poor circumstances, particularly the latter two.
There are other Presidents who were narcissists, including Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton, but all three had many virtues which lessened the effect of their narcissism.
We will spend many lifetimes and generations trying to figure out what makes Donald Trump tick, but it is clear he is a mentally ill man, very insecure and unhappy, despite his wealth, his beautiful wives and family, and his having made it to the Presidency.
One can expect that ultimately, under attack that makes being President lacking in true enjoyment, that Donald Trump will resign under fire in the Spring of 2018, as the Mueller Special Counsel investigation closes in, and as clear revelations of the corruption of the Presidential Election of 2016, becomes more conclusive.


TARA LYNELL KRUEGER-BERNDT, age 27 years, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, August 25, 2004. She will be sadly missed and lovingly remembered by husband David Berndt and daughter Bailey of Enderby; mother Donna (Jim) McCullough of Edmonton; brothers Aaron (Tanya) Krueger and Rob and family, all of Queen Charlotte City; grandmother Eva Krueger of Kamloops; grandfather Kenneth Dale of Enderby; mother-in-law Elfreda Berndt of Enderby; sister-in-law Rose (Tom) Dack of Dawson Creek; brothers-in-law Roland (Mitzi) Berndt, Rudy Berndt and Edgar Berndt all of Enderby; nieces, nephews, extended family and many friends. Predeceased by brother Devon, father Eric and grandfather Frank. Tara was born at Revelstoke on December 22, 1976. She lived in the Revelstoke / Kamloops / Enderby areas all her life. Tara enjoyed art, photography, sports, music, travel, family and friends. A Memorial Service will be held 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, August 31, 2004, at St. Johns Lutheran Church, 5151 Alain, Vernon. Pastor Roy White officiating. Inurnment in family plot of Pleasant Valley Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a Trust Fund for Bailey Berndt at Enderby & District Credit Union. Messages of condolences may be emailed to the family at pafsarmstrong@canada.com. Arrangements entrusted to Personal Alternative Funeral Services, Armstrong, 546-7237.


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Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like tendency to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing.

Since 2005 Calle has taught as a professor of film and photography at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. She has lectured at the University of California, San Diego in the Visual Arts Department. She has also taught at Mills College in Oakland, California.

Exhibitions of Calle's work took place at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Videobrasil, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil; Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands. She represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007.

In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her publication My All (Actes Sud, 2016). In 2019 she was the recipient of the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship.

Works

1979–1981
In Suite Venitienne (1979), Calle followed a man she met at a party in Paris to Venice, where she disguised herself and followed him around the city, photographing him. Calle's surveillance of the man, who she identifies only as Henri B., includes black and white photographs accompanied by text.

Calle's first artistic work was The Sleepers (Les Dormeurs), a project in which she invited passers-by to occupy her bed. Some were friends, or friends of friends, and some were strangers to her. She served them food and photographed them every hour.

In order to execute her project The Hotel (1981), she was hired as a chambermaid at a hotel in Venice where she was able to explore the writings and objects of the hotel guests. Insight into her process and its resulting aesthetic can be gained through her account of  this project: "I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs, and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame...it's the last thought in the process."

Mid- and late 1980s
One of Calle's first projects to generate public controversy was Address Book (1983). The French daily newspaper Libération invited her to publish a series of 28 articles. Having recently found an address book on the street (which she photocopied and returned to its owner), she decided to call some of the telephone numbers in the book and speak with the people about its owner. To the transcripts of these conversations, Calle added photographs of the man's favorite activities, creating a portrait of a man she never met, by way of his acquaintances. The articles were published, but upon discovering them, the owner of the address book, a documentary filmmaker named Pierre Baudry, threatened to sue the artist for invasion of privacy. As Calle reports, the owner discovered a nude photograph of her, and demanded the newspaper publish it, in retaliation for what he perceived to be an unwelcome intrusion into his private life.

Another of Calle's noteworthy projects is titled The Blind (1986), for which she interviewed blind people, and asked them to define beauty. Their responses were accompanied by her photographic interpretation of their ideas of beauty, and portraits of the interviewees.

Calle has created elaborate display cases of birthday presents given to her throughout her life; this process was detailed by Grégoire Bouillier in his memoir The Mystery Guest: An Account (2006). According to Bouillier, the premise of his story was that "A woman who has left a man without saying why calls him years later and asks him to be the 'mystery guest' at a birthday party thrown by the artist Sophie Calle. And by the end of this fashionable—and utterly humiliating—party, the narrator figures out the secret of their breakup."

1990s
In 1996, Calle asked Israelis and Palestinians from Jerusalem to take her to public places that became part of their private sphere, exploring how one's personal story can create an intimacy with a place. Inspired by the eruv, the Jewish law that permits to turn a public space into a private area by surrounding it with wires, making it possible to carry objects during the Sabbath, the  is exposed at Paris's Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme.

The same year, Calle released a film titled No Sex Last Night which she created in collaboration with American photographer Gregory Shephard. The film documents their road trip across America, which ends in a wedding chapel in Las Vegas. Rather than following the genre conventions of a road trip or a romance, the film is designed to document the result of a man and woman who barely knew each other, embarking on an intimate journey together.

Calle asked writer and filmmaker Paul Auster to "invent a fictive character which I would attempt to resemble" and served as the model for the character Maria in Auster's 1992 novel Leviathan. This mingling of fact and fiction so intrigued Calle that she created the works of art created by the fictional character, which included a series of color-coordinated meals. These works are documented in her publication Double Game (1999).

Auster later challenged Calle to create and maintain a public amenity in New York City. The artist's response was to augment a telephone booth on the corner of Greenwich and Harrison Streets in Manhattan with a note pad, a bottle of water, a pack of cigarettes, flowers, cash, and sundry other items. Every day, Calle cleaned the booth and restocked the items, until the telephone company removed and discarded them. This project is documented in  The Gotham Handbook (1998).

In 1999 Calle exhibited the installation "Appointment" especially conceived for the Freud Museum in London, working with the ideas of her private desires. In Room with a View (2002), Calle spent the night in a bed installed at the top of the Eiffel Tower. She invited people to come to her and read her bedtime stories in order to keep her awake through the night. The same year, Calle had her first one-woman show, a retrospective, at the Musée National d'Art Moderne at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

2000s
"Douleur Exquise" (exquisite pain) was commissioned in 2003. She reluctantly chose to spend three months in Japan, deciding to make the journey take a month by taking the train through Moscow and through Siberia, then through Beijing, then to Hong Kong. She was supposed to meet her lover in New Delhi, but he didn't turn up, instead sending her a telegram which said he was in an accident and couldn't come. She found out that he only had an infected finger, a felon, and that he had actually found another woman. She took a photograph every day until the day they were supposed to meet in New Delhi, and wrote about how much she looked forward to meeting him. The second half of the book was all about the pain of the heartbreak. She would write about the horrible memory of the conversation where she realized he was breaking up with her on one page, and ask people to tell her their worst memory, which was placed on the right. Over the days, her story became shorter and shorter as her pain dissipated over the time. The juxtaposition of everyone's terrible memories also played down the pain of a simple breakup.

Calle's text Exquisite Pain was adapted into a performance in 2004 by Forced Entertainment, a theatrical company based in Sheffield, England.

At the 2007 Venice Biennale, Calle showed her piece Take Care of Yourself, named after the last line of the email her ex sent her. Calle asked friends, acquaintances, and recommended women of all ages—including a parrot and a hand puppet—to interpret the break-up e-mail and presented the results in the French pavilion. Calle explains the piece as follows: "I received an email telling me it was over.  I didn't know how to respond.  It was almost as if it hadn't been meant for me.  It ended with the words, 'take care of yourself.' And so I did.  I asked 107 women, chosen for their profession or skills, to interpret this letter.  To analyze it, comment on it, dance it, sing it.  Exhaust it.  Understand it for me.  Answer for me.  It was a way of taking the time to break up.  A way of taking care of myself." Jessica Lott, winner of the Frieze Writer's Prize for her review of the piece, described it thus: "Take Care of Yourself is a break-up letter (Calle's) then-boyfriend (Grégoire Bouillier, dubbed 'X') sent her via e-mail. Calle took the e-mail, and the paralyzing confusion that accompanies the mind's failure to comprehend heartbreak, and distributed it to 107 women of various professions, skills and talents to help her understand it – to interpret, analyze, examine and perform it to gain perspective on her perplexing situation. Calle insists that she did not need the other women's sentiments for herself, but to ensure that the piece was well-rounded. The result of this seemingly obsessive, schoolyard exercise is paradoxically one of the most expansive and telling pieces of art on women and contemporary feminism to pass through (the major art centres) in recent years". At her gallery shows, Calle frequently supplies suggestion forms on which visitors are encouraged to furnish ideas for her art, while she sits beside them with an uninterested expression.

In 2009/2010, a major retrospective exhibition of her work, including Take Care of Yourself, The Sleepers, Address Book and others, was held opened at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. In 2010 another major exhibition opened in Denmark at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

2010s
In 2011 her work True Stories was installed at the historic 1850 House at the Pontalba Building at Jackson Square in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana as part of the Prospect 2 Contemporary Art Festival. The house, an historic museum that is managed as part of the Louisiana State Museum, is furnished with historic furniture  as it was in the mid-19th century. The artist inserted her own, personal historical objects and ephemera, with short, narrative explanatory text, into the scenes, affecting the notion that she had occupied the house shortly before the viewers' arrival.

In 2012, Calle's The Address Book was published for the first time in its entirety. In 2015, Suite Vénitienne was redesigned and republished.

Critical analysis
Christine Macel described Calle's work as a rejection of the Poststructuralist notion of the "death of the author" by working as a "first-person artist" who incorporates her life into her works and, in a way, redefines the idea of the author.

Angelique Chrisafis, writing in The Guardian, called her "the Marcel Duchamp of emotional dirty laundry". She was among the names in Blake Gopnik's 2011 list "The 10 Most Important Artists of Today", with Gopnik arguing, "It is the unartiness of Calle's work—its refusal to fit any of the standard pigeonholes, or over anyone's sofa—that makes it deserve space in museums."

Publications

Books
Significant contributions by other authors are noted.
 Suite Vénitienne. Paris: Editions de l'Etoile, 1983. .
 Suite Vénitienne [English translation]. Seattle: Bay Press, 1988. .
 Suite Vénitienne [English translation]. Los Angeles: Siglio, 2015 .
 L'Hôtel. Paris: Editions de l'Etoile, 1984. .
 La Fille du Docteur. New York: Thea Westreich, 1991. .
 Des Histoires Vraies. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 1994. .
 True Stories [English translation and revision, 1st edition]. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2013. .
 Die Entfernung. Dresden: Verl. der Kunst, 1996. .
 The Detachment [English translation]. G+B Arts International and Arndt & Partner Gallery, 1996. .
 L'Erouv de Jérusalem. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 1996. .
 Doubles-Jeux. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 1998. Seven volumes:
 I. De l'Obéissance. .
 II. Le Rituel d'Anniversaire. .
 III. Les Panoplies: La Garde-Robe; Le Strip-Tease. .
 IV. À Suivre: Préambule; Suite Vénitienne; La Filature. .
 V. L'Hôtel. .
 VI. Le Carnet d'Adresses. .
 VII. Gotham Handbook: New York Mode d'Emploi (with Paul Auster). .
 Double Game [English translation and revision of Doubles-Jeux]. With Paul Auster. London: Violette, 1999. .
 Double Game, second edition. London: Violette, 2007. .
 Souvenirs de Berlin-Est. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 1999. .
 Disparitions. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2000. .
 Detachment [English translation]. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2013. .
 Les Dormeurs. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2000. .
 Fantômes. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2000. .
 Ghosts [English translation]. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2013. .
 L'Absence [set with Souvenirs de Berlin-Est, Disparitions, and Fantômes]. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2000. .
 M'as-Tu Vue. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou and Xavier Barral, 2003. .
 Did You See Me? [English translation]. Munich and London: Prestel, 2004. .
 Douleur Exquise. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2003. .
 Exquisite Pain [English translation]. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. .
 Appointment with Sigmund Freud. London: Thames & Hudson; London: Violette, 2005. .
 En Finir. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2005. With Fabio Balducci. .
 Take Care of Yourself = Prenez Soin de Vous. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2007. .
 True Stories: Hasselblad Award 2010. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2010. .
 Blind. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2011. .
 The Address Book. Los Angeles: Siglio, 2012. .
 Rachel, Monique... Paris: Xavier Barral, 2012. .
 Voir la Mer. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2013. .
 My All. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2016. .
 Ainsi de Suite.  Paris: Xavier Barral, 2016. .
 And So Forth [English translation]. Munich: Prestel, 2016. .
 Parce Que. Paris: Xavier Barral, 2018. .
 Que Faites-Vous de Vos Morts? Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2019. .
 The Hotel Catskill, NY: Siglio, 2021. .

Audio releases
 Samba de Monalisa. Tetine vs Sophie Calle. (CD, Sulfur Records, 2002)
 Souris Calle (Triple LP, 2018). Produced for an exhibition at Galerie Perrotin. 38 tracks by different artist about Calle's cat of 18 years. Artists include Laurie Anderson, Bono, Michael Stipe, Jean-Michel Jarre, Pharrell Williams, Jarvis Cocker.

Awards
 2010: Hasselblad Award
 2017: Shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for My All (Actes Sud, 2016).
 2019: Centenary Medal, Royal Photographic Society

Gallery

References

Sources

 Dallow, Jessica, "CALLE, Sophie: French photographer and installation artist," Contemporary Women Artists. St. James Press, 1999.
 Fabian Stech, J'ai parlé avec Lavier, Annette Messager, Sylvie Fleury, Hirschhorn, Pierre Huyghe, Delvoye, D.F.-G. Hou Hanru, Sophie Calle, Yan Pei-Ming, Sans et Bourriaud. Presses du réel Dijon, 2007.
 Gabrielle Moser, 'Working-through' public and private labour: Sophie Calle's Prenez soin de vous' n.paradoxa:international feminist art journal vol.27 January 2011 pp. 5–13.

External links

 Sophie Calle at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Museum
 Profile of Sophie Calle at Arndt Berlin
 Tate: Venice Biennale: Sophie Calle The artist talks about her contributions to the 2007 Venice Biennale. 29 June 2007

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The Al-Hadji and His Wives is a 50-minute film portrait of a Mbororo Fulani patriarch, Al-Hadji Isa, his savvy wives, and their rebellious daughters. The documentary provides a glimpse into their everyday lives, religious and moral practices, as well as the political opinions the Al-Hadji has to offer from his corner of the world. With a critical but sympathetic gaze, it also chronicles and investigates the process and rationale by which Amina, a 16-year-old daughter of the family, is forced into an unwanted marriage.
Jie Li grew up in Shanghai and New York City and is currently finishing her Ph.D. in Chinese literature and film studies at Harvard University. She has also published fiction and non-fiction in Chinese and English.


The Francis O'Neill Club is made up of Céilí and Set Dancing enthusiasts who dance, teach and hand down the traditional folk dances of Ireland. A Céilí Mor (Big Céilí) is held the first Fridays of each month. Free lessons begin at 7:30pm, followed by live music with The Ceoltoiri Chicago Céilí Band from 8:30-11:30pm. in the Fifth Province. The cost is $20. A Regular Céilí is held the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th Fridays of each month, with taped music from 8pm-11pm. The cost is $5 for Francis O'Neill Club members and $7 for non-members.


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What were you guys doing on April 1, 1997? No need to ponder, it's a rhetorical question. I can't remember what I was doing yesterday, let alone a single day more than 20 years ago. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure that's technically a 'rhetorical question'. I don't even know why I asked it, the Nintendo 64 was released on March 1, 1997. This whole thing has been a waste of time. Anyway, enjoy the episode I guess. We've finished Night in the Woods, played Sundered and the Lawbreakers BETA.
This week we're also discussing Doomfist in Overwatch, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Overcooked on the Switch, the great potato cake/potato scallops war, hints that we're getting a Nintendo 64 Classic, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy DLC, PS Plus and XBOX Games with Gold for August 17 and PS Plus prices going up.
And finally, we list our Top 3 Nintendo 64 games, and play RESET Mini-game: Preorder Quiz (another mini-game submission from friend o' the podcast Sammy Deedge).


Giddy Ants: Heidi and Finn Pintuck Blouse.
As soon as this pattern cropped up on my Facebook News feed I was hanging out for it to be available. It is a nice simple top or dress which can have either short or long sleeves with a row of pintucks on the front.
There's something about the simplicity of this top and yet it looks so effective. I'd recently been to a quilt shop in Geelong where I'd bought a metre of "I love to Read" by Alexander Fabrics Collection.
It was one of those purchases with no particular pattern in mind but I knew I wanted it. Dogs and cats reading, how could I resist?
My original idea was to make my own binding to match but while I was sewing it up and came to think a nice contrast might just finish it off nicely. After viewing the finished product I think it was the right choice.
It's a bit big but since I am trying to preempt the next growth spurt and be a bit prepared for winter I really don't mind.
The pattern went together quite quickly and easily. There aren't any actual lines on the pattern pieces for the pintucks like I might have expected but the clear instructions make them so easy to do.
I really like this pattern and can see many more versions in my future sewing plans. A great pattern for winter and summer.


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SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon says it is hiring more than 2,500 full-time workers at its order fulfillment centers around the U.S.
Amazon.com Inc. plans to announce Wednesday that the jobs are available in Chester, Va., and Petersburg, Va.; Coffeyville, Kan.; Columbia, S.C.; Dupont, Wash.; Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The world's largest online retailer says last year it hired more than 20,000 people at its fulfillment centers, with more than half starting out as seasonal workers. Amazon says the median income for people working at its order-fulfillment facilities is higher than at traditional retailers.
The Seattle-based company had 117,300 full-time and part-time employees at the end of 2013, according to a regulatory filing.


Participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos have had a glimpse at what could become the future of coffee serving - a robotic barista!
Named YuMi, the robot has been serving coffee throughout the week, using a Nespresso machine to provide coffees in around 90 seconds.
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When it comes to the calculating the likelihood of catastrophic weather, one group has an obvious and immediate financial stake in the game: the insurance industry. And in recent years, the industry researchers who attempt to determine the annual odds of catastrophic weather-related disasters—including floods and wind storms—say they're seeing something new.
This pronounced shift can be seen in extreme rainfall events, heat waves and wind storms. The underlying reason, he says, is climate change, driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions. Muir-Wood's company is responsible for figuring out just how much more risk the world's insurance companies face as a result of climate change when homeowners buy policies to protect their property.
First, a brief primer on the concept of insurance: Essentially, it's a tool for spreading risk—say, the chance your house will be washed away by a hurricane—among a larger group of people, so that the cost of rebuilding the destroyed house is shared by everyone who pays insurance. To accomplish this, insurance companies sell flood policies to thousands of homeowners and collect enough in payments from all of them so that they have enough to pay for the inevitable disaster, plus keep some extra revenue as profit afterward. To protect themselves, these insurance companies even buy their own policies from reinsurance companies, who make the same sorts of calculations, just on another level upward.
With natural disasters like floods, he notes, you can have many years in a row with no damage in one particular area, then have tens of thousands of houses destroyed at once. The fact that the frequency of some catastrophic weather events may be changing due to climate change makes the problem even more complex.
The best strategy for solving it is the use of computer models, which simulate thousands of the most extreme weather disasters—say, a record-setting hurricane slamming into the East Coast just when the power grid is overloaded due to a heat wave—to tell insurance companies the worst-case scenario, so they know just how much risk they're taking on, and how likely it is they'll have to pay out.
These models are not unlike those used by scientists to estimate the long-term changes our climate will undergo as it warms over the next century, but there's one important difference: Insurance companies care mainly about the next year, not the next 100 years, because they mostly sell policies one year at a time.
Moving forward, Muir-Wood's group will attempt to keep gauging the shifting likelihood of a range of extreme weather events, so that insurers can figure out how much to charge so that they can compete with others, but not be wiped out when disaster strikes. In particular, they'll be closely looking at changing the model for flooding rates in higher latitudes, such as Canada and Russia—where climate is shifting more quickly—as well as wildfires around the planet.
On the whole, it seems likely that insurance premiums for houses and buildings in flood-prone coastal regions will go up to account for the shifts Muir-Wood is seeing. On the other hand, because of the complex impacts of climate change, we might see risks—and premiums—go down in other areas. There's evidence, for example, that snowmelt-driven springtime floods in Britain will become less frequent in the future.


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It's now official: Tesla has started accepting Dogecoin as payment for some of the company's merchandise following weeks of rumors, pushing Dogecoin's price higher and further solidifying Tesla CEO Elon Musk's reputation as a champion of the cryptocurrency. The move marks one of many interesting economic news stories as 2022 kicks off in earnest.
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Musk sent out a tweet early on Jan. 14 confirming that Tesla will accept Dogecoin as payment for a small selection of the electric vehicle company's merchandise. The tweet was short and to the point:
"Telsa merch buyable with Dogecoin."
So, what can you buy with Dogecoin? Well, you can get a whistle shaped like Tesla's Cybertruck for 300 DOGE, CNBC reported — the equivalent of about $59 as of the morning of Jan. 14. If you want to fork over a little more, a commemorative belt buckle celebrating Tesla's Gigafactory in Texas was reportedly listed at 835 DOGE, or roughly $164.
It was all good news for Dogecoin: its price rose as much as 15% on the news — topping $0.20 a coin at one point — before slipping back to $0.18 later on Jan. 14. As has been widely reported, Dogecoin started out as a meme coin, but gained considerable traction last month when Musk tweeted that Tesla will make some of its merchandise purchasable with Doge and "see how it goes."
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If you want to buy Tesla merch with Dogecoin, you'll have to follow the rules laid out on the EV maker's website. These include setting up a "Dogecoin wallet" that accepts the crypto's transfers. It's your responsibility to ensure that Dogecoin is transferred to Tesla's Dogecoin wallet accurately. If an order is overpaid in Dogecoin, the overpayment amount will not be refunded to the original form of payment, Tesla's website said.
You can also expect to pay Dogecoin network fees each time a payment is made in the crypto. Tesla advises consulting your Dogecoin wallet provider for information regarding additional fees. Buyers are responsible for any fees associated with a Dogecoin transaction.
Tesla also said it can take up to six hours for the Dogecoin network to confirm your payment.
The company is no stranger to cryptocurrency. Last year it bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin and said it would start accepting purchases with the world's biggest crypto. But Musk later stopped accepting Bitcoin because of the large amounts of energy needed to mine it. Dogecoin uses much less energy, according to industry analyses.
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Meanwhile, these latest Dogecoin headlines took the spotlight away from something Tesla might not be so happy to share with the public — reports that a teenage hacker in Germany found flaws in third-party software that allowed him to remotely control certain functions of some of the company's EVs. The alleged hacker claimed the ability to unlock doors and windows, start cars without keys, and disable security systems on a number of Tesla vehicles.
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By Ira Kantor |
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2012 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: November 17, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
Copiun, a Marlboro-based company that specializes in helping the financial, retail and health-care sectors increase mobile productivity, said it has closed $5 million in Series A funding led by venture capital firm Novak Biddle Venture Partners.
Copiun met all performance milestones required to trigger the latest investment, having established new partnerships, expanded its customer base and revenue and increased its product portfolio over the past several months, the company said.
Copiun attributed much of its growth to "two related phenomena now confronting corporate executives" — the consumerization of information technology and bringing your own device to work.
Additional investors in this round include RRE Ventures and local angel investors
Founded in late 2008, the venture-backed startup is known for Copiun TrustedShare, which lets mobile workers access and share corporate documents, while ensuring IT complete document life-cycle control.
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In another busy week in Parliament, Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his Spring Statement. We've provided a summary below of the key headlines relating to young people.
Hammond says the government will make technology companies "pay their fair share" and protect consumers from online harm.
The chancellor says he can announce £3bn in funding to help deliver 30,000 affordable homes.
The chancellor says he will make free sanitary products available in secondary schools in England from the next school year to eradicate period poverty.
Forecast of 1.2% growth for 2019.
Then 1.4% in 2020, 1.6% in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Forecast for borrowing to be £3bn lower in 2018-19 than forecast at the autumn budget.
Borrowing forecast to be £29.3bn in 2019-20, then £21.2bn in 2020-21, £17.6bn in 2021-22, £14.4bn in 2022-23 and £13.5bn in 2023-24.
Debt is forecast to be 82.2% as a share of GDP in 2019-20.
Hammond says the Treasury will conduct a full spending review before the summer recess, to be concluded before the autumn budget.
The chancellor says this is "assuming the Brexit deal is agreed over the next few weeks and the uncertainty hanging over our economy is lifted".
Hammond says the £15.4bn headroom in the public finances that could be used in a no-deal Brexit has increased to £26.6bn.
The chancellor warns that a no-deal Brexit would cause the economy to be smaller and weaker in future. There would be higher prices for consumers.
The chancellor says that from June the government will begin to abolish the need for paper landing cards at UK points of entry, including airports and Eurostar terminals, for countries including the US, Australia, Canada, South Korea and Japan.


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Studio Art Schools in Virginia
Written by Michelle Burton. Last updated August 07, 2017.
A typical studio art program combines disciplines such as ceramics, drawing, fiber, glass, painting, photography, printmaking and more. After becoming familiar with these areas, students may narrow their focus by specializing in one area. In addition to the traditional focus areas listed above, newer concentrations include digital art, design/video & digital imaging, visual communication design, digital media, new media, and designed objects, to name a few. Although studio art programs are similar to other art programs, studio art students spend more time in the studio creating art. The goal of a studio art program is to allow students to learn by doing or through "immersion."
A good studio art program can prepare students for more than 100 different careers in the art and design industry. It can also prepare students to work in a few other industries that might surprise you. Just a few are aerospace, architecture, automotive, law, medicine, and science. Some common career options include cartoonist, ceramic artist, art director, printing designer, animator, airbrush artist, glass blower, mural artists, textile designer, art critic, display artist, art buyer, and graphic arts technician.
Because studio art programs are popular, you can find them at hundreds of art and design schools across the country. A number of prestigious traditional colleges offer programs as well. According to U.S. News & World Report, Yale University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, California Institute of Arts, Carnegie Mellon, California College of Arts, the School of Visual Arts in New York and Virginia Commonwealth University offer some of the best art and design programs in the country. Other Virginia schools worth noting include Virginia Tech, Marymount University, and Emory & Henry College.
Continue reading to find out which Virginia schools offer the best programs for aspiring studio artists and where to find them.
Virginia Studio Art Schools
Virginia is home to 129 Title IV degree-granting institutions. More than half a million students are enrolled, with thousands attending the state's top art schools alone. Some of Virginia's top schools for aspiring artists are:
Marymount University - Degrees Offered: BA Art with a Minor in Studio Art
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) - Degrees Offered: BFA Studio Art with a Concentration in Digital Art
Bridgewater College - Degrees Offered: BA/BS Studio Art with a Specialization in Digital Media, Drawing, Photography or Visual Design
University of Virginia - Degrees Offered: BA Studio Art with a Concentration in New Media
Emory & Henry College – Degrees Offered: BA Studio Art
Liberty University - Degrees Offered: BS Studio Art, BS Studio and Digital Arts: Graphic Design, BS Visual Communication Arts with a Studio Art Concentration, Minor in Studio Art
Lynchburg College - Degrees Offered: BA Art with Studio Art (includes Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Photography), Minor in Studio Art
Virginia State University - Degrees Offered: BFA Visual Arts with a Concentration in Studio Arts
Radford University - Degrees Offered: BS/BFA Studio Art with a Photography Emphasis
Mary Baldwin College - Degrees Offered: BA Studio Art with an Emphasis in Drawing, Extended Media, Graphic Design, Photography or Printmaking
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Employment and Salary Trends for Virginia Studio Artists
As of March 25, 2015, Virginia was home to 47,510 professionals working in Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media (ADESM) occupations. They average $56,240 per year, down from $57,120 in 2013 when the state was home to 50,770 ADESM workers. Included in ADESM occupations are fine artists (illustrators, painters, and sculptors), art directors, photographers, craft artists, animators, graphic designers, actors, dancers, set designers, producers and directors, and more. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics lists salary and employment information for these areas and many others, we do not have enough space to list them all here. However, the following information will give you an idea of what to expect for several common careers for studio artists.
Art Directors: Virginia is home to 740 salaried art directors averaging $99,940 per year. In 2013, the state was home to 650 art directors averaging $89,510 per year.
Fine Artists (Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators): Virginia is home to 410 salaried fine artists averaging $28,920 per year. In 2013, the state was home to 360 fine artists. Salary figures were not available for 2013, but in 2009, the state's 340 fine artists averaged $47,900 per year.
Graphic Designers: Virginia is home to 5,820 salaried graphic designers averaging $54,770 per year. In 2013, the state was home to 5,210 graphic designers averaging $54,650 per year.
Multimedia Artists and Animators: Virginia is home to 410 salaried multimedia artists and animators averaging $62,260 per year. In 2013, the state was home to 500 multimedia artists and animators averaging $58,980 per year.
Photographers: Virginia is home to 970 salaried photographers averaging $38,760 per year. In 2013, the state was home to 1,180 photographers averaging $39,320 per year.
Because they work in so many different industries, studio artists can find employment just about anywhere in the State of Virginia. However, a larger number of opportunities can be found in major cities such as Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Arlington, Richmond, Newport News, Alexandria, and Hampton. Although smaller, Roanoke and Portsmouth are worth looking into, as well as Petersburg and Suffolk.
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Effects of different concentrations and volumes of formalin on pain response in rats
Il Ok Lee, Myung Hoon Kong, Nan Sook Kim, Young Suk Choi, Sang Ho Lim, Mi Kyung Lee
Background: Formalin test is commonly used in animal model to assess injury-produced pain response. If the total amount of formaldehyde is fixed, its concentration and volume can be easily adjusted. We evaluated the effect of two sets of three solutions of formalin (one set of same dose of formaldehyde at different concentration and volume, i.e. 2.5%-100 μL, 5%-50 μL, 10%-25 μL, and another set of same volume but at different concentrations, i.e. 2.5%-100 μL, 5%-100 μL, and 10%-100 μL) on the injury-produced pain response in rat. Methods: Male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 250-300 g were used. Following injection of formalin (n = 8 in each group) or saline (n = 6, control), the flinching frequencies and time spent in licking or biting the injected hindpaw in the early phase 1 (0-5 min after injection) and the late phase 2 (20-60 min after injection) were recorded. Sham-injection rats (n = 5) underwent subcutaneous insertion of the needle, but no substance was injected. Results: Flinching in phase 1 and 2 was more frequent in the 2.5%-100 μL and 5%-50 μL groups than in the control group (P<0.05). Licking (or biting) time in phase 2 in all these three groups was longer than the control group (P<0.05). In the groups of another set of three different solutions (2.5%-100 μL, 5%-100 μL, and 10%-100 μL), flinching in phase 1 and phase 2 was also more frequent than the control group (P<0.05). Regarding lick behavior of another set, it occurred more frequently in 2.5%-100 μL group in phase 1 and in 2.5%-100 μL group as well as 5%-100 μL group in phase 2 than the control group (P<0.05). Conclusions: The 10%-25 μL formalin produces fewer flinching responses than other concentrations. Flinching was a biphasic behavior which was more spontaneous and active than was licking. The volume of formalin was a more important factor than the concentration of formalin in the generation of the active biphasic flinching response in the rat model.
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Lee, I. O., Kong, M. H., Kim, N. S., Choi, Y. S., Lim, S. H., & Lee, M. K. (2000). Effects of different concentrations and volumes of formalin on pain response in rats. Acta Anaesthesiologica Sinica, 38(2), 59-64.
Effects of different concentrations and volumes of formalin on pain response in rats. / Lee, Il Ok; Kong, Myung Hoon; Kim, Nan Sook et al.
In: Acta Anaesthesiologica Sinica, Vol. 38, No. 2, 06.2000, p. 59-64.
Lee, IO, Kong, MH, Kim, NS, Choi, YS, Lim, SH & Lee, MK 2000, 'Effects of different concentrations and volumes of formalin on pain response in rats', Acta Anaesthesiologica Sinica, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 59-64.
Lee IO, Kong MH, Kim NS, Choi YS, Lim SH, Lee MK. Effects of different concentrations and volumes of formalin on pain response in rats. Acta Anaesthesiologica Sinica. 2000 Jun;38(2):59-64.
Lee, Il Ok ; Kong, Myung Hoon ; Kim, Nan Sook et al. / Effects of different concentrations and volumes of formalin on pain response in rats. In: Acta Anaesthesiologica Sinica. 2000 ; Vol. 38, No. 2. pp. 59-64.
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