Toffee Crunch Caramel Chocolate Cupcakes - What the Forks for Dinner?
Birthday celebrations are always special, but a Golden Birthday needs something extra special. Toffee Crunch Caramel Chocolate Cupcakes were the perfect birthday celebration dessert for my nephew Brad's Golden Birthday. Hard to believe he is 23 already……damn I'm old.
We planned a surprise get together with a group of Brad's friends….thank you Quincy and gang for keeping the secret. A local restaurant was our secret location. Brad thought it was just a family thing, his Dad and girlfriend, and Tim and I. Brad was surprised and slightly relieved to have a his group of friends join in!
My mission was to make a cake for the Golden Birthday. After a big meal most folks are not really interested in cake per se, so I decided to make cupcakes. They can be easily taken home to enjoy later.
Knowing that my nephew likes chocolate cake….chocolate cupcakes…of course! Using a bit of brewed coffee and intensifying it with a bit of instant coffee brings out the chocolate flavor in the cupcakes.
I played off a recipe I found from Bakers Royale. The recipe caught my eye since the frosting had a golden hue and it was for a Golden Birthday.
Since I am the original fake n' bake girl the recipe was a little more than I wanted to tackle. So, I gave it my best fake n' bake revamp!
The chocolate dip was basically a gauche which I changed up to melting wafers. Not only were the wafers super easy to melt, the topping turn to a candy like top. Adding the toffee bits….double crunch!
For the frosting the directions were pretty intense, and it was an egg based frosting….which requires you to not scramble the eggs….pass. Cooked frostings are out of my wheel house.
Instead I made a caramel buttercream, using cream cheese and Dulche de leche. I bought the canned kind. It gave the frosting a hint of caramel without over whelming it.
Since this was a Golden Birthday I found golden numbers , stars ,and really neat cupcake holders … all went with the theme. Click on any of the links they are all from Amazon.
As I said earlier in the post, most folks after a meal don't really want dessert…..wrong!! A group of 23ish young men will and did wolf them down.
I did get a lesson in eating a cupcake…….apparently I have been doing it wrong all these years. According to Brads friend Quaide you need to take the top off the cupcake, flip the top so the frosting is in the middle….a cupcake sandwich…..who knew? Fabulous idea….thanks Quaide!!! I demonstrated in the picture below.
The party was a success including the Toffee Crunch Caramel Chocolate Cupcakes! Happy Golden Birthday Brad!!!!
In a large bowl, combine and sift together flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder baking soda and salt.
Add in butter, eggs, and vanilla and beat for one minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add instant coffee to 1/2 cup hot coffee, stir to dissolve. Add the coffee mixture and beat until batter is smooth, about 20-30 seconds.
Divide batter evenly among the lined cups.
Bake 18-22 minutes until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Place cupcake pan on a rack to cool completely.
Frost the cupcakes as directed below. Cupcakes can be store and serve at room temperature.
Melt the chocolate wafers in a microwave proof bowl according to the package directions. Allow to cool slightly before dipping the cupcakes.
In a large bowl cream butter, cream cheese, dulce de leche, and vanilla with a hand mixer or stand mixer until light and fluffy.
Add powdered sugar and mix on low until incorporated. Increase mixer speed to medium high and continue to beat until smooth and creamy.
Set up a dipping station for the chocolate (I left the chocolate in the bowl I melted it in) and toffee bits (I used a paper plate). Have a cookie sheet ready to place dipped cupcakes on.
Dip each cooled cupcake into the melted chocolate and allow any excess to drip off over the chocolate bowl. Dip each chocolate covered cupcake into the toffee bits. Place dipped, toffee coated cupcakes on the cookie sheet to set up.
Place caramel frosting in a piping bag fitted with the tip of your choice. I used a large star tip. Making sure the chocolate is set ( I placed mine in the frig for a few minutes) pipe a large swirl on top of each cup cake. Drizzle with left over chocolate and extra toffee bits if desired.
The gold balls on my cupcakes is a SweetWorks Sixlets Celebration 1.75oz Shim Gold that I purchased at Wal Mart.
Oh boy I must try these. Yours just looked to pretty to eat. I'm sure I won't have that problem.


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Export dreams: Will Zohr gas production allow Egypt to light Europe and its own cities?
Waad Ahmed
Production at the Zohr gas field was officially inaugurated by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the last day of January, a little over a month after production began.
The Port Said ceremony that Sisi presided over was the highlight of celebrations marking the field's discovery, which the government has hailed as the start of Egypt's path to self sufficiency in electricity generation and manufacturing, both of which are pivotal to political and economic stability.
However, the production goals associated with this massive gas find have expanded into lofty hopes that Egypt will reclaim its role as a net exporter of gas, a highly beneficial scenario for European importers, who have long sought to decrease their dependence on Russia as their primary source of natural gas.
Since production began at the end of last year, European media analysts have revisited this decades old dream in a way that strongly resembles the beginning of the millennium, when consecutive gas findings were met with headlines claiming that Egypt's gas would light all of Europe, opening the door for actual export deals with Israel and Jordan. However, by 2009, an acute energy crisis had beset Egypt, intensifying in the aftermath of the January 2011 revolution and leading to widespread power outages and a halt in production at factories.
The Zohr gas field is the largest ever natural gas find in the Mediterranean Sea. However, there may be a reprisal of events that played out in the 2000s, as new export hopes ignore Egypt's growing and present needs for gas, needs that are expected to exceed current consumption levels, as well as the total quantity of Egypt's gas reserves.
How much of Zohr's gas does Egypt get?
Although Egyptian media outlets have reported the Zohr gas field's reserves at 30 trillion cubic feet, this figure has not been confirmed, Sherif Wadood, an oil and gas expert who co-founded and managed several companies in the energy field in Egypt and abroad, tells Mada Masr.
Zohr potentially has 30 trillion cubic feet of original gas in place (OGIP), according to a statement published by the Italian petroleum company Eni, which discovered the gas field in the Mediterranean Sea north of Port Said in August 2015. OGIP is an estimation that designates the total volume of gas stored in a reservoir prior to production, but according to Wadood, reserves are usually calculated as a percentage of OGIP, depending on the technical and economic characteristics of a given reservoir.
Wadood notes that looking at similar gas reservoirs can be instructive in determining how much gas can be extracted from Zohr. In the primary production stage for similar reserves, he says that 35 percent of OGIP can be extracted, and, in the secondary stage, the extraction figure can reach up to 65 percent or more.
If Wadood's estimation is taken as a guiding point, the potential quantity of gas that may be extracted from Zohr is around 20 trillion cubic feet, not the reported 30 trillion cubic feet.
"However, even in this case, 20 trillion cubic feet is still a large amount of gas, equivalent to more than a third of Egypt's reserves prior to the [Zohr] finding," says Wadood.
Distributing gas shares in the Zohr deal
Egypt's government aims to use the full production yield from the Zohr gas field, at least for the first five years of production, to cover its domestic needs. This production yield includes the government's share, which, according to the terms of the agreement, the government will not pay for. Also included within this yield is the share enjoined to international oil companies, for which the government will pay a price determined by a flexible formula that ranges from US$4 – $5.88 per MMBTU, depending on the quantity of gas produced.
The Zohr agreement, published as Law 2/2014, stipulates that 40 percent of production not used in petroleum operations will be allocated to Eni's subsidiary the Italian Egyptian Oil Company (IEOC) for cost recovery. This allocation would remain in place until Eni has recouped the full extent of its investment, including exploration costs and field development costs. In addition, Eni would also recoup their operational costs from the beginning of commercial production and throughout the lifetime of the project.
The exploration and field development costs came in at $12 billion, excluding an additional $4 billion to ensure that maximum gas output would last throughout the lifetime of the project, Petroleum Minister Tarek al-Molla stated in a televised interview with Sky News Arabia in October 2017.
Production began at the end of December 2017, with 350 million cubic feet being pumped out of Zohr per day. This initial output level fell short of the original estimate of 500 million cubic feet per day that Prime Minister Sherif Ismail announced in September. The government currently estimates that production will increase to 1 billion cubic feet per day by mid-2018, before reaching its peak a year later in 2019 at 2.7 billion cubic feet per day.
Based on these figures, Mada Masr estimates that Eni would be entitled to the cost recovery share of 40 percent for almost 11 years, which constitutes half of the project's estimated lifetime.
As for the remaining 60 percent of gas output, the Zohr agreement indicates that it will be distributed between Eni's IEOC and the state-owned Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS), according to production levels.
This means that during the first decade of Zohr's production, a period that spans half the lifetime of the project, the contract grants Eni 58.6 percent of the production yield, including both cost recovery and profit gas. This is the amount of gas that the Egyptian government would be buying at a rate of $4 to $5.88 per MMBTU. On the other hand, during this period, the Egyptian government would have access to 41.4 percent of the production yield through EGAS without payment.
During the second half of the project's lifetime, the cost recovery ratio falls from 40 percent to 20 percent in order to compensate for the ongoing field development costs. The remaining 80 percent is then distributed between EGAS and IEOC in accordance with output levels. As such, Mada Masr estimates that in the second half of the project's lifetime, Eni would keep a total of almost 45 percent of output, and EGAS would get the remaining 55 percent.
"The actual role of the foreign partner after the exploration phase becomes financing the investments needed for production, until all costs are recovered, in addition to a profit margin," says Wadood.
Although the agreement stipulates that a 10 percent royalty fee is due to the government, whether in the form of cash or gas output, the contract also obligated EGAS to pay that fee rather than Eni.
What are Egypt's gas needs?
To achieve self sufficiency, Egypt would need to be able to produce enough natural gas to cover domestic demand. While experts expect a large increase in production due to the Zohr field, some note that production is not likely to be sufficient to cover the real demand in the economy, which is estimated to be much higher than the current consumption levels.
Total gas output
Egypt's gas production has already taken an upward turn in the recent period, not only due to the Zohr gas field but also to the new gas output coming from recent discoveries, including the North Alexandria field, Atoll and Noroos.
The Atoll gas field, found in the Mediterranean north of Damietta Governorate, began production at a rate of 300 million cubic feet per day at the end of 2017, a few months after output from the Noroos gas field, north of the Nile Delta, reached 1 billion cubic feet per day. Meanwhile, output from the North Alexandria field reached 700 million cubic feet per day in May, and is expected to increase further.
Collectively, the yields of the three gas fields contributed to raising Egypt's total gas output to 5.1 billion cubic feet per day in 2017, compared to 4.4 billion cubic feet per day in 2016, according to Prime Minister Sherif Ismail.
"We have to realize that the petroleum sector is a dynamic industry where new discoveries lead to higher production, while, at the same time, production from other gas fields naturally diminish," said Mohamed Shoeib, the former head of EGAS, in a televised interview on the privately owned television network CBC in December 2017.
For Wadood, however, when evaluating the recent increase in production, not only is it important to take into account the dynamic aspect of gas production, but also the technical risks and sustainability of producing at peak levels. Overproducing could damage a natural gas reservoir, he says, as happened with the Rashid gas field in the Nile Delta.
Gas demand and consumption
According to official figures, total domestic consumption of gas stands at around 6.2 billion cubic feet per day in the summer and 5.8 billion cubic feet per day in the winter. With this in mind, the government estimates that an increase in output would cover consumption and help Egypt reach self sufficiency. However, experts have noted that these statements confuse the current levels of consumption with the real demand in the economy, which is neither known nor published.
"We expect to see a notable ramp up in gas demand from new-build gas power plants in the country, as well as from residential connections to the domestic power grid," Richard Taylor, an oil and gas analyst at Fitch Group-affiliate BMI Research told Mada Masr in December.
Generating electricity accounts for more than 60 percent of natural gas consumption in Egypt, while the manufacturing sector consumes 23 percent, according to the most recent report by EGAS for the fiscal year 2014/2015.
"While domestic gas output ramping up from next year will reduce the need for imported liquid natural gas [LNG] substantially, it is our view that seasonal demand dynamics will still necessitate the import of several LNG cargoes in the short term," said Taylor.
Despite this, the petroleum minister announced on January 28 that Egypt intends to halt LNG imports by the end of June, six months earlier than originally expected, according to a Reuters report.
Wadeed emphasized that while consumption is limited by the amount of gas available, demand refers to all the gas needs in the economy, including demand which is unmet due to limited resources.
"I do not know the size of the real demand in Egypt, but what is certain is that it is higher than consumption levels one year ago, because currently there are factories that have halted operations and others that are not operating at their full capacity. There are also power generation stations that are fueling up on mazut. These factors indicate that Egypt's consumption levels do not necessarily reflect that its natural gas needs are being met. This is due to the reduction in natural gas consumption throughout the past few years," he says.
The use of mazut, a heavy, low-quality fuel oil used to generate electricity in power stations, has been criticized by Abdel Khalek Ayyad, the former head of the state-owned Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, on his facebook page. According to Ayyad, mazut is simultaneously more costly and less efficient than natural gas. However, he pointed out that the use of mazut to generate electricity is a recent phenomenon directly linked to the acute energy shortage of the past few years.
Shoeib aired similar criticisms in his CBC interview, stating that diesel costs the government $12 to $13 per MMBTU, while mazut costs $10 per MMBTU, both of which come in at a higher cost than LNG imports which are estimated at around $9 per MMBTU. "Hence, in order to achieve savings, it is in Egypt's interest to keep on importing LNG as a substitute for mazut and diesel, for both electricity generation and industry," Shoeib said.
Achieving self sufficiency therefore is not only a question of cutting out LNG imports, but it also a question of cutting off mazut and diesel imports for the purpose of power generation, noted Ayyad. He added that the estimated amount of gas needed to achieve self sufficiency should take into account projections for population and economic growth.
A step toward exporting gas?
A few days following the start of experimental production at Zohr at the end of 2017, Molla announced that Egypt's foreign partners would be allowed to export their shares of gas in five years. "The government added a clause to the new exploration agreements allowing companies to export part of their share of extracted gas if Egypt does not need it," the petroleum minister is cited as saying in Reuters.
Ayyad and Wadood are skeptical, however, about whether estimated production levels will be able to turn Egypt into a gas exporter. According to Wadood, Molla's statements ignore the timespan of production, because, unlike oil, extracted gas has to be immediately consumed through pipelines or liquefied and stored, which is a very costly process.
This indicates that a long term export agreement would be highly impractical, he says, as a gas surplus now does not necessarily mean that there will be a surplus in several years.
While Wadood believes that becoming a net exporter within five years would require more massive finds, Taylor told Mada Masr that BMI Research expects that "the majority of additional medium term gas output growth will come from subsequent development phases of the existing fields, with companies seeking to leverage existing infrastructure."
The ways in which the gains of the Zohr gas field are being exaggerated recalls the early 2000s, when the Mubarak government overstated Egypt's reserves in order to justify decisions further down the track, including commitments to long-term export deals, which culminated in blackouts that lasted for years and billions of dollars in fines for breaking the contracts.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that during the first decade of Zohr's production the Egyptian government would have access to 40.6 percent of the field's production yield through EGAS without payment. It has been amended to reflect the correct figure.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited a controversial shrine to World War Two dead, exactly one year after he took office.
Mr Abe said his visit to Yasukuni was "to pledge and determine that never again will people suffer in war".
He said it was "not intended to hurt the Chinese or South Koreans".
But a Chinese foreign ministry official was quick to denounce the visit as "absolutely unacceptable to the Chinese people".
Yasukuni honours several convicted Japanese war criminals. Beijing and Seoul see it as a symbol of Tokyo's war-time aggression.
This is the first visit to Yasukuni by a serving prime minister since 2006.


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Kaspersky Lab Says It Spotted APT Code, Quickly Deleted It
Firm Confirms Its AV Software Detected Equation Group Source Code on Home PC Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • October 25, 2017
Kaspersky Lab's headquarters in Moscow
Security vendor Kaspersky Lab says that an internal probe has found that that a consumer version of its software running on a U.S-based PC spotted variants of Equation Group advanced persistent threat malware source code.
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But after its anti-virus software sent a copy of the malware to Kaspersky Lab's Moscow-based security researchers for analysis and an analyst realized what it was and reported it to CEO Eugene Kaspersky, he ordered that all copies of the source code be immediately deleted, the company says.
Kaspersky's Lab's internal probe was sparked by reports in U.S. media outlets this month that cited unnamed U.S. government sources claiming that Kaspersky Lab's network had been infiltrated by Russian intelligence agencies. Such revelations were reportedly communicated to U.S. officials by Israeli intelligence agents who had hacked into Kaspersky Lab's network and found signs of Russian intelligence infiltration, including Kaspersky Lab's anti-virus software being used to run searches on endpoints for U.S. intelligence secrets.
Kaspersky Lab continues to deny that it's aided any government in any improper way, and it claims that it's a pawn in a geopolitical fight between the U.S. and Russian governments (see Will Kaspersky Lab Survive the Russia Hacking Scandal?).
In terms of the allegation that Israel may have hacked into the company's networks, Kaspersky Lab had already confirmed that its systems were infiltrated in 2015 by Duqu 2.0 malware, which has been tied to the Equation Group.
Preliminary Probe Findings
On Wednesday, the firm issued preliminary results of its investigation into the recent media reports, noting that a review of its telemetry logs confirmed that it had spotted infections involving Equation Group malware in more than 40 countries, including the United States. The firm says it has been informing "relevant U.S. government institutions" - implying the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team - "about active APT infections in the USA."
Telemetry refers to anti-virus software sending hashes of known malware samples back to the vendor so it can geographically track outbreaks. Many anti-virus vendors also have the ability to obtain copies of suspicious files, or to have end users directly submit such files for further analysis. Many security experts say this remains an essential part of the anti-virus process, so that firms can spot and block emerging attacks as quickly as possible (see Surveying 17 Anti-Virus Firms on Their Security Practices).
Kaspersky Lab says its latest probe has confirmed that "no other third-party [intrusions], besides Duqu 2.0, were detected in Kaspersky Lab's networks."
Equation Group Identity: Unconfirmed
Kaspersky Lab and many other security firms and researchers have not stated who they believe the Equation Group to be, other than noting that it appears to be well-resourced and also tied to a variety of other malware, including Stuxnet. But other observers have stated that they believe the Equation Group is associated with or is part of the U.S. National Security Agency's Tailored Access Operations offensive hacking group. Speaking on background, U.S. government officials have also said that Stuxnet was created by a U.S.-Israeli cyber weapons factory.
To date, however, there has been no public evidence that the Equation Group is the NSA; all such suggestions remain circumstantial.
Probe: Trojanized Keygen Infected Endpoint
This month, reports by the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal have suggested that an NSA analyst took home Equation Group software and installed it on his home PC, which was running Kaspersky anti-virus software. Security experts say this would have represented a massive operational security violation by any intelligence analyst (see 10 Reactions: Allegations Against Kaspersky Lab).
But in an even more embarrassing turn of events for the U.S. intelligence establishment, Kaspersky Lab says in its report that the home PC on which the Equation Group malware source code was spotted in 2014 was running a pirated version of Microsoft Office 2013 for which a working serial number had been generated using "an illegal Microsoft Office activation key generator (aka 'keygen')" that was also installed on the system.
Unfortunately for the user, the keygen appears to have been trojanized with backdoor malware that remained undetected for at least some time.
"To install and run this keygen, the user appears to have disabled the Kaspersky products on his machine," the AV firm says. "Our telemetry does not allow us to say when the anti-virus was disabled. However, the fact that the keygen malware was later detected as running in the system suggests the anti-virus had been disabled or was not running when the keygen was run. Executing the keygen would not have been possible with the anti-virus enabled."
Kaspersky Lab says the keygen malware was running on the user's PC for an unknown period of time. "The malware dropped from the trojanized keygen was a full-blown backdoor which may have allowed third parties access to the user's machine," it says. At some later point, it says the user reactivated the anti-virus software, which detected the backdoor malware.
VirusTotal analysis of the Backdoor.Win32.Mokes.hvl backdoor malware.
"After being infected with the Backdoor.Win32.Mokes.hvl malware, the user scanned the computer multiple times, which resulted in detections of new and unknown variants of Equation APT malware," Kaspersky Lab says. "One of the files detected by the product as new variants of Equation APT malware was a 7zip archive. The archive itself was detected as malicious and submitted to Kaspersky Lab for analysis, where it was processed by one of the analysts. Upon processing, the archive was found to contain multiple malware samples and source code for what appeared to be Equation malware."
Business Response: Transparency
The results of Kaspersky Lab's probe continue to complicate an already complicated narrative, which so far has been largely built on unsourced allegations. Indeed, no evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of the security firm has been presented by U.S. authorities.
To combat the allegations being lobbed against it by unnamed U.S. government officials speaking to U.S. media outlets, Kaspersky Lab this week announced a Global Transparency Initiative. Starting early next year, the company promises that its software will undergo a full review, "undertaken with an internationally recognized authority," and that by 2020 it will have opened three "transparency centers" in Asia, Europe and the United States where "clients, government bodies and concerned organizations [can] review source code, update code and threat detection rules" (see Kaspersky Opens Up Code to Refute Spying Allegations).
Kaspersky Lab says it internal investigation is ongoing, and it has promised to share the full results of its probe, including technical details, "with a trusted third party as part of our Global Transparency Initiative for cross-verification."
Transparency Efforts Lauded
Security experts have lauded these moves, especially in the face of very serious allegations. "The trouble with all of these 'revelations' is that you have to be very careful to calibrate the source," Alan Woodward, a computer science professor at the University of Surrey, tells Information Security Media Group. "I think Kaspersky's approach with transparency is the best way to rebuild trust, along with independent audit. ... Even if Kaspersky is lying, they have shone a light on the rather cloak-and-dagger way that some of the stories are being released to the media. The only way that anyone can help such tittle-tattle is to present corroborated facts and ask the public to judge for themselves. And that's what Kaspersky is doing."
Kaspersky Lab's move echoes a similar effort undertaken by Chinese networking vendor Huawei after Australia and the United States accused it of having been co-opted by Chinese intelligence agencies.
The moves by the Russian and Chinese firms, however, reveal transparency efforts that surpass anything being offered by U.S. vendors, especially following former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's revelations. As one unnamed security researcher tells Britain's Sky News, unanswered questions remain about how a sophisticated backdoor was added to software used by California-based networking vendor Juniper Networks (see Juniper Backdoor: How Are Vendors Responding?).
Will security vendors in the United States and other countries pursue a similar course of transparency? "I'm just fascinated to see how others now respond, and if they do likewise," Woodward says. "Kaspersky is setting a new standard for transparency which I suspect others will have to follow suit if they are to maintain trust."
'PR Nightmare' for NSA
Some security experts have responded to Kaspersky's denials and recent report by arguing that if it was working with Russian intelligence, of course it would be saying these things.
Many security experts, however, have slammed such insinuations. "Adding xenophobia to the pot is aggravating an already difficult problem," says cybersecurity expert William Hugh Murray.
Some note that while unanswered questions remain, Kaspersky Lab's version of events sounds plausible, including the firm wanting to avoid being in possession of any potentially classified documents, especially as it was trying to make business inroads in the United States. "It makes sense that they pulled those up and looked at the classification marking and then deleted them," Jake Williams, a former NSA analyst and the founder of Augusta, Georgia-based Rendition InfoSec, tells the Associated Press. "I can see where it's so toxic you may not want it on your systems."
Williams also characterized the tale of an NSA analyst not only installing advanced attack code on his home PC but also using a pirated version of Office as being "absolutely wild," noting to AP that "it's hard to imagine a worse PR nightmare for the NSA."
The only way this gets any more surreal is if we find out he was using pirated Visual Studio to build the NSA malware https://t.co/4zvH2z4D8m
— Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) October 25, 2017
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Do you Work More than 39 Hours a Week? Think it over!
by Andrés O. Sotillo | Jan 16, 2018 | Blog, English | 0 comments
The Guardian tells that "long hours, stress and physical inactivity are bad for our wellbeing – yet we're working harder than ever. Isn't it time we fought back?
When a new group of interns recently arrived at Barclays in New York, they discovered a memo in their inboxes. It was from their supervisor at the bank, and headed: "Welcome to the jungle." The message continued: "I recommend bringing a pillow to the office. It makes sleeping under your desk a lot more comfortable … The internship really is a nine-week commitment at the desk … An intern asked our staffer for a weekend off for a family reunion – he was told he could go. He was also asked to hand in his BlackBerry and pack up his desk."
Although the (unauthorised) memo was meant as a joke, no one laughed when it was leaked to the media. Memories were still fresh of Moritz Erhardt, the 21-year-old London intern who died after working 72 hours in a row at Bank of America. It looked as if Barclays was also taking the "work ethic" to morbid extremes.
Following 30 years of neoliberal deregulation, the nine-to-five feels like a relic of a bygone era. Jobs are endlessly stressed and increasingly precarious. Overwork has become the norm in many companies – something expected and even admired. Everything we do outside the office – no matter how rewarding – is quietly denigrated. Relaxation, hobbies, raising children or reading a book are dismissed as laziness. That's how powerful the mythology of work is.
Technology was supposed to liberate us from much of the daily slog, but has often made things worse: in 2002, fewer than 10% of employees checked their work email outside of office hours. Today, with the help of tablets and smartphones, it is 50%, often before we get out of bed.
Read complete article in The Guardian
Americans and Chinese Divided Over Broken Institutions
Datos Sueltos sobre Internet
Trump on Twitter (Stats)
Cinco Nuevas Profesiones que tendrán Alta Demanda en los Próximos Años
Understanding the Banking System
https://youtu.be/fTTGALaRZoc
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As I sit here today thinking about everything going on, I look out the window and see the streets busy and people out and about everywhere. I think about the Chamber's Annual Banquet that I am working on and hope to get finished up in the next day or two. Then I get a great video about Parker Hannifin hose plant here in McCook, Sehnert's won the James Beard Award and the High School crowned their Color Day Royalty last weekend. WOW, there is a lot going on in McCook! What a great place that we have to Live, Work and Play.
There are times I think that we get into so much of a routine that we forget what is happening around us. We get up, go to work and then home again. We might run after our children's activities and run to the grocery store. When was the last time you did something different? When was the last time that you went to an event just to relax and enjoy the company of others? In McCook we have so many opportunities throught the year to do this that I think we forget about. So may we all support the better things in life.... in McCook... and enjoy our time in this great community.


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Q: How to pass file name to two commands in single line I want to combine two commands in a single line as follows.
I want to execute these two commands.
1. dos2unix dir/file_name
2. git add dir/file_name
I want:
dos_add = dos2unix | git add file_name
so dos_add is my  alias.
in git-bash it should like:
c:\dir(dfsds4343) $ dos_add dir/file.txt
Which executes dos2unix and git add both on a file.

A: Thanks @WilliamPursell
It can be done by
1. hit this command into gitbash
gitbash:$ code ~/.gitconfig

add following code
[alias]
    ad = "!ad() { dos2unix.exe "$1" && git add "$1"; }; ad"

just use:
gitbash:$ git ad filename.text

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La Toya Jackson said it is "excruciating" to sit through the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, listening to the details of her brother Michael Jackson's death.
In a series of tweets from the courthouse on Tuesday and Wednesday, La Toya Jackson provided a glimpse of the family's experience.
"Just arrived at court. Another day of sadness," La Toya Jackson tweeted Wednesday morning.
Then, during a lunch break -– Chinese food in a private room -– she said, "It's so excruciating to relive the moments when Mike [passed]. It's even hard to pretend to be strong for my brother."
Wednesday's testimony included Michael Jackson's personal assistant Michael Amir Williams, who recounted a panicked phone call from Murray after finding an unresponsive Jackson.
"I can't help but to wonder how one can be so … careless," La Toya Jackson tweeted.
On Tuesday, the first day of trial, prosecutors played a recording of what sounded like a heavily drugged Michael Jackson. That recording showed that Murray was aware of "Michael's state" as he continued to offer him drugs, Deputy Dist. Atty. David Walgren said.
As the recording played, Katherine Jackson bit her lip and wiped away tears as her daughter, La Toya Jackson, held her hand.


The WHO reports that in 2015, cancer was the second highest cause of death globally – responsible for 8.8 million fatalities, yet we are at a point in time where the speed of advancement in understanding and potentially treating or even preventing the disease has never been greater.
There are currently over 600 molecules in late stage development and from 2011 to 2016 a total of 68 novel therapies were launched. What is becoming clear though is that there is unlikely to be a one-size fits all approach, it is very much about understanding a specific patient, an individual tumour and having the ability to tailor and target a therapy to match.
This has brought about unique challenges for the industry, complexities for physicians and payers in defining and understanding treatment algorithms, a reimagining of the clinical trial pathway for pharma when working with personalised solutions and tiny patient populations and tellingly a redefinition of cancer itself. Moving from broad terms such as melanoma, CRC and lung to a far more granular, segmented vision, with each type having its own treatments and potential outcomes, influenced by an array of factors including histology and biomarker status.
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Centre for Management of Health Services
Virtual Healthcare Research Seminar Series 2020-21
A virtual research seminar series from IIM Ahmedabad's Centre for Management of Health Services
Abstracts for upcoming talks are now live! Click here
Richard Thakor on Merchants of Death: The Effect of Credit Supply Shocks on Hospital Outcomes
Friday, January 22, 8 AM CST, 7:30 PM IST
Richard T. Thakor is an Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management. He is also a Research Affiliate at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering (LFE). He joined the finance department at University of Minnesota in June 2016 after earning his PhD in Financial Economics from MIT. He also holds an M.S. in Management Research from MIT, an MSc in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE), and a B.A. (summa cum laude) in Economics and Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to earning his PhD, he worked in investment management as a Derivatives Trading Analyst. His research interests are in empirical and theoretical corporate finance, in the areas of managerial decision-making, R&D investments, healthcare finance, and the effects of financial frictions on investment.
Join us for this live virtual research seminar with Q&A on January 22, 7:30 PM IST. Pre-registration is required.
Please note: Virtual Research Seminars are open to the public, but capacity is limited and pre-registration is required. Duration 60 minutes with speaker findings presented in the first 45 minutes and Q&A for the last 15 minutes. Registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Those who register will receive a Zoom link 1-2 hours before the seminar begins.
Sriram Sankaranarayanan on Fairness over Time in Dynamic Resource Allocation with an Application in Healthcare
Monday, February 1, 4 PM IST
Sriram Sankaranarayanan is an Assistant Professor at IIM Ahmedabad in the area of Production and Quantitative Methods.
Previously, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-Time Decision-Making at Polytechnique Montréal advised by Prof. Andrea Lodi. Before that, he finished his PhD at Johns Hopkins University. He was advised on his PhD by Prof. Sauleh Siddiqui and Prof. Amitabh Basu.
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Amanda Starc on Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans
Friday, May 8, 8 AM ET, 5:30 PM IST
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Achyuta Adhvaryu on Diagnosing Quality: Learning, Amenities and the Demand for Health Care
Friday, May 15, 8 AM ET, 5:30 PM IST
Achyuta Adhvaryu is an Assistant Professor in Business Economics and Public Policy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Tarun Khanna on Guarantee Food Security to Inter-State Migrants in India During Covid19 Lockdown
Tuesday, May 26, 9 AM ET, 6:30 PM IST
Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Leman Professor at Harvard Business School and Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University.
Saravana Jaikumar on Effects of Pharmaceutical Price Regulation: Evidence from India
Friday, June 5, 3 PM IST
Saravana Jaikumar is an Assistant Professor in Marketing at IIM Calcutta.
Daniel Bennett on The Economic Impact of Mental Health Care in India
Daniell Bennett is an Assistant Professor (Research) of Economics at Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) and Department of Economics, University of Southern California.
Manoj Mohanan on Information and Facilitation Interventions for Accountability in Health and Nutrition: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in India
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Manuel Hermosilla on Expected Profits and the Scientific Novelty of Pharmaceutical Innovation
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Xiaojing Dong on Comparative Messaging, Learning and Forgetting: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Drug Detailing
Friday, July 31, 8 AM PT, 8:30 PM IST
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Yesim Orhun on Heterogeneous Actions, Beliefs, Constraints and Risk Tolerance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Monday, August 3, 8 AM ET, 5:30 PM IST
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Ravi Anupindi on Giving Away to Increase Profits? Price-Discrimination and the Effect of Free Goods
Friday, August 7, 6:30 PM IST
Ravi Anupindi is the Colonel William G. and Ann C. Svetlich Professor of Operations Research and Management, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Radhika Jain on Private Hospital Behavior Under Government Health Insurance: Evidence from India
Friday, August 14, 6:30 AM PT, 7 PM IST
Radhika Jain is 2019-2021 Asia Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellow, at Shorenstein APARC Center, Stanford University
Abby Alpert on Origins of the Opioid Crisis and Its Enduring Impacts
Friday, August 21, 8 AM ET, 5:30 PM IST
Abby Alpert is an Assistant Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Valentin Bolotnyy on Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments
Friday, August 28, 8 AM PDT, 8:30 PM IST
Valentin Bolotnyy is a Kleinheinz Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Ginger Zhe Jin on Top-Up Design and Health Care Expenditure: Evidence from Cardiac Stents in Taiwan
Friday, September 4, 10 AM ET, 7:30 PM IST
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Ritwik Banerjee on Exponential Growth Bias in the Prediction of COVID-19 Spread and Economic Expectation
Monday, September 28, 4 PM IST
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Justin Cook on Heterogeneity in Disease Resistance and the Impact of Antibiotics in the US
Friday, October 2, 6 AM PT, 6:30 PM IST
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Karen Eggleston on Robots and Labor in the Service Sector: Firm-level Evidence from Nursing Homes
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Rema Padman on YouTube Video Analytics for Health Literacy and Chronic Care Management: An Augmented Intelligence Approach to Assess Content and Understandability
Friday, October 16, 8 AM ET, 5:30 PM IST
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Mark Duggan on Heterogeneity in The Impact of Privatizing Social Health Insurance
Friday, October 23, 8 AM PT, 8:30 PM IST
Mark Duggan is The Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at Stanford.
Sarang Deo on Multichannel Delivery in Healthcare: The Impact of Telemedicine Centers in Southern India
Friday, October 30, 4 PM IST
Sarang Deo is a Professor of Operations Management at the Indian School of Business. He is also the Executive Director at Max Institute of Healthcare Management
Andrew Ching on Revisiting the Zero-price Effect Hypotheses: Evidence from Consumer Drug Choices in Sweden
Friday, November 13, 9 AM ET, 7:30 PM IST
Andrew Ching is a Professor in Business, Economics and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Baltimore.
Mattia Nardotto on Mums Go Online: Is the Internet Changing the Demand for Healthcare?
Friday, December 4, 10 AM CET, 2:30 PM IST
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Somdeep Chatterjee on Women's Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Multidimensional Policy in India
Tuesday, December 15, 4 PM IST
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Namrata Chindarkar on Inequality of Opportunity in Health Among Urban, Rural, and Migrant Children: Evidence from China
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Q: git pull --rebase --autostash losing files on conflict I tried:
>git pull --rebase --autostash

which resulted in:
Created autostash: 019054d
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
        FILENAME
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting
fatal: Could not detach HEAD
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...

I then handled the issue with FILENAME, and at this point I want to either revert to the state before trying the pull or continuing but:
C:\Projekte\FLOS>git pull --rebase --autostash
fatal: It seems that there is already a rebase-apply directory, and
I wonder if you are in the middle of another rebase.  If that is the
case, please try
        git rebase (--continue | --abort | --skip)
If that is not the case, please
        rm -fr ".git/rebase-apply"
and run me again.  I am stopping in case you still have something
valuable there.

>git rebase --abort
error: could not read '.git/rebase-apply/head-name': No such file or directory

(indeed the file does not exist, but a autostash file exists in that folder)
but the git stash list command does not show the stash created.
How do I recover all the changes which where supposed to be stashed?

A: Okay, I've got it solved. But this can't be the intended workflow.
As suggested in:
How do I apply autostash after an aborted rebase?
i git stash apply 019054d (with the hash of the autostash) -> it worked even though I could not see the stash with git stash list
then I rm -fr ".git/rebase-apply" to get out of the rebase process.


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On Thursday, October 13, 2022, two women entered Giant, 1605 Lititz Pk, and stole multiple items. The women entered at 10:52 a.m. and quickly passed through the store, grabbing items from the health and beauty aisles of the store. The items were placed in reusable bags in a shopping cart. The...
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On Tuesday, September 27, 2022, Giant Food, 1360 Columbia Ave, reported several retail thefts that had occurred. It was reported that between 8/29/22 - 9/22/22 the suspect in the attached photograph had shoplifted on seven different occasions. It was reported that the total loss for the seven...
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On Friday August 19, 2022 around 1330 hours Manheim Township Police responded to a vehicle theft that was believed to have occurred during the previous evening in the 100 Block of Dickens Drive in Lancaster Township. The attached photograph is of a person of interest in the theft of the 1998 GMC...
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On Sunday, August 14, 2022, around 1617 hrs, Manheim Township Police responded to a shooting that occurred in the roadway in front of 1631 Judie Lane (Villages of Lancaster Green). This area is in very close proximity to the complex's pool which contained many children at the time of the shooting...
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ROSE MCGOWAN'S MEMOIR 'BRAVE' CONFRONTS ABUSE OF POWER IN HOLLYWOOD
Released this morning, Rose McGowan's memoir "Brave" is a deeply personal, no-holds-barred look at the rampant abuse of power by men in Hollywood. The book delves into McGowan's allegations against Harvey Weinstein, including an incident in 1997 that McGowan had not previously gone into detail about. The actress writes that at Sundance Film Festival that…
Alexandra Pauly January 30, 2018
WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD CALL 'TIME'S UP' ON WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Following the nationwide deluge of conversation surrounding sexual misconduct in the workplace and beyond, sparked by Ronan Farrow's exposé of of Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual harassment and assault, a group of powerful women in Hollywood have joined to unveil Time's Up, an initiative against systemic harassment in the workplace. Celebrities including actresses…
Alexandra Pauly January 3, 2018
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I spoke with Monocle 24's The Briefing on Monday about this week's trip by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel — the first leader not named Castro since the 1959 Revolution — to the UN General Assembly in New York.
The discussion looks at Díaz-Canel's goals as the Trump Administration pushes back Barack Obama's process for better relations with Havana, including the maintenance of almost 60-year embargo on the island.
Díaz-Canel knows that he is not going to get any easing of the US line, certainly under Donald Trump — he thinks the Trump Administration is not reliable.
Instead, we are looking at his message back home, to maintain support as the new leader in a country with a quickly-changing economy. And he will be talking to others: to Europeans, to other Latin American states, to anyone who can offer economic and political links.


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Q: Any positive semidefinite matrix can be written as $AA^{\ast}$ I know that for any matrix $A$, $AA^{\ast}$ is positive semidefinite (where $A^\ast$ is $\overline{A}^T$). Please help me show the following statement

Any positive semidefinite can be written as $AA^{\ast}$.

A: If $A \ge 0$ and $A = A^*$, then $A$ is unitarily diagonalizable and all eigenvalues are real and non-negative. That is, for some unitary $U$, we have $U^*AU = \Lambda$, where $\Lambda = \operatorname{diag}(\lambda_1,...,\lambda_n)$, and $\lambda_k \ge 0$.
If we let $\Lambda^{\frac{1}{2}} = \operatorname{diag}(\sqrt{\lambda_1},...,\sqrt{\lambda_n})$, then we note that $(\Lambda^{\frac{1}{2}})^* = \Lambda^{\frac{1}{2}}$ and see that
$A = U \Lambda U^* = U \Lambda^{\frac{1}{2}} \Lambda^{\frac{1}{2}} U^*= U \Lambda^{\frac{1}{2}} (\Lambda^{\frac{1}{2}})^* U^* = U \Lambda^{\frac{1}{2}} ( U \Lambda^{\frac{1}{2}})^*$, as desired.
Aside:
The Hermitian assumption is necessary. The matrix $A= \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 1 \\ 0 & 1 \end{bmatrix}$ satisfies $\langle x, Ax \rangle \ge 0$ for all $x$, but cannot be written as $B B^*$ for any matrix $B$. (This follows since $B B^*$ is self-adjoint, but $A$ is not.)

A: You cannot prove that any positive semidefinite matrix may be written $AA^*$ because it is not true.  A complete explication for the real case is found in my answer to this question; the argument in the complex case involves only the usual modifications:  transpose is replaced by Hermitian adjoint, orthogonal by unitary, and so forth.
Hope this helps!  Cheerio,
and as always,
Fiat Lux!!!


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Q: I can't download pdf from some sites I can't download the file from some sites. Tried different methods - now I'm doing it through request. This my code and problematic link
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r = requests.get(url, verify=False)
print('что в реквесте-',r.content)
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Career Readiness: A Path Forward to Position Our Kids for Success
Last week, I shared my thoughts on the state of Career and Technical Education (CTE) and the broader efforts in K-12 education to ensure our kids are "career ready" whether they plan to enter the workplace directly after high school or pursue either a two-year degree, specialized certification, or a four-year college degree. While there are important strides being made and a number of encouraging efforts in pockets across the country, we still have a long way to go to ensure all kids are prepared for success.
Rethinking career readiness requires smart assessment of current conditions and meaningful collaboration among a broad group of stakeholders and leaders. To chart a path forward, there needs to be a shared understanding of the world our kids are entering. Equally important is understanding that there is neither one simple solution that fits every child and community nor are these solutions that leaders from any single field — be it education, policy, or the private sector — can solve alone.
With so much talk about the "skills gap," it's important to understand the different layers of this challenge and for all involved to develop both a shared understanding and some shared definitions. From my time in education policy, the private sector and working with government officials, I've found it simplest to think of skills gaps in two categories: "hard" and "soft" skills.
Technical or Hard Skills & Knowledge include everything from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) to the arts, skilled trades, mechanics of operating a small business, journalism, and entry-level health care among many others. It's important to note that within all of these, addressing the opportunities in broad fields is a smart first step but not itself sufficient to prepare students for the actual needs and opportunities. The Brookings Institution's Jonathan Rothwell found that a high number of STEM jobs remained vacant because of a mismatch in the specific skills. In a field like computer science for example, a base level knowledge of website and application coding or database management may be an appropriate foundation. But, to position students for success, local leaders will need to know more about the specific local needs and hard-to-find skills. Rothwell for example found companies struggling to find candidates with skills coding Ruby, Python, PERL, and other highly specific needs. Similar specificity of skills likely exists in most communities for jobs in health care, agriculture, business, or other skilled trades and the best — if not only — way for educators to know is through close collaboration with leaders in their community.
Personal & Professional or Soft Skills are all of the non-technical skills young adults will need to enter and succeed in the workplace ranging from professional networking to teamwork and leadership skills. Google recently shared surprising results from an analysis of 15 years of data about employee hiring, promotion, and success. Google's Project Oxygen found that of the eight critical qualities of their top employees, the top seven were soft skills like communication and critical thinking. Hard skills and STEM expertise were last on the list of eight. In a follow-up, Project Aristotle looked at data on team success at Google. In another surprise, the analysis found that the strongest new ideas and work came from the so-called "B Teams," comprised of those who excel at a variety of soft skills like curiosity, generosity, and other aspects of emotional intelligence.
In addition to the hard and soft skills students will need to succeed in most fields, the simple but critical recognition of the pace of change is critical to preparing kids for success. America Succeeds, a network of nonpartisan, business-led policy and advocacy organizations, recently released The Age of Agility. The report, which examined workforce trends, pressures from automation and global competition, sounded the call to business, education, and government leaders that, "Students exiting the pre-K-12 education system will need to be prepared for radical societal and workplace changes if they are to have any shot at thriving personally or professionally." The report's conclusions included: "Because we can't predict the exact skills needed to succeed in tomorrow's jobs, our charge is equip students with the tools of agility and inspire a mindset of lifelong learning." Education leaders and policymakers would be well-served to have that guidance in mind as they tackle the career readiness challenge.
There are simple steps we think local education, municipal, and business leaders can take. The following high-level steps are part of the roadmap at the core of work Keystone is doing with district and city leaders:
Inventory & Assess Current Offerings in K-12 education, through businesses, nonprofits, or government agencies to provide students work-based learning and career skills or knowledge.
Identify & Understand Workforce Needs including hard, soft, and specific skills needed for entry-level positions in the local workforce and for career advancement success.
Align Offerings to Opportunity by revising existing and creating new courses, partnerships, and programs of study.
Commit to Continued Collaboration to continuously assess success and outcomes of programs, respond to evolving needs and incorporate feedback from all involved.
As education system leaders, elected officials, and policymakers undertake this work, they would be well served to design a process that answers five key questions specific to their local context:
What fields offer good to high paying jobs for candidates with specialized knowledge or skills?
What courses, programs of study, or work-based learning opportunities are offered that prepare students for those opportunities?
Do all students have access to the program (enrollment capacity, transportation, etc.)?
What are the soft skills necessary for students to be successful in the workplace regardless of their post-secondary plans?
How are we (or can we) integrate instruction that addresses all of these needs at the earliest point in our students' education as part of a developmental continuum?
In charting a course to answer these questions and act on the findings, there are several key facts that should be kept in mind: Neither education system leaders, the business community or economic development offices can answer these questions alone. It requires close collaboration between all of these. Career readiness education program development cannot be approached as a one-and-done proposition. Partnerships must be created that are responsive to the evolving needs and opportunities.
Most of this work is best done by leaders and organizations at the city, county, and district level. It may make sense based on local context for districts and cities to form regional collaborative efforts. There's also an important role for state leaders. State Education Agency (SEA) leaders can leverage and support these efforts by convening district leaders to share best practices or workshop challenges, provide support, resources, and technical assistance to district leaders and can serve a critical role advocating for district efforts with policymakers and other state officials. SEA chiefs can also help coordinate with the governor's office, state economic development, and workforce agencies. These chiefs are also likely to find value collaborating with other state chiefs through existing efforts like the Council of Chief State School Officers' (CCSSO) Career Readiness Initiative and other efforts to workshop areas of practice and to consider multi-state, regional, and neighboring state factors.
It's possible — if not likely — that adapting K-12 education to the world that exists today and will unfold tomorrow will call for even broader rethinking of the fundamental structure of our public schools. As education leaders begin to answer the question of how to truly prepare kids for this fast-changing world, they will likely also have to explore questions like who should be delivering instruction, how should that instruction be delivered, what does a classroom or school need to look like, and how should students advance through their education. None of those are easy questions with simple answers. Fortunately, there are a lot of smart people and organizations digging into those like the Donnell-Kay Foundation's Reschool initiative (among many others). To truly prepare for the future though, we'll need even more people at the table — parents and entrepreneurs, students and business leaders, artists and tradespeople, teachers and scientists and government leaders from every level and agency.
All of this may sound daunting but, when broken down into actionable steps, is manageable for those who prioritize it. With how much is at stake, getting it right is also, I believe, this generation of leaders' "Moonshot Moment" and imperative. I have every confidence that, working together, across fields and ideologies, communities across the country will rise to the occasion.
On last week's "Ed Policy Chalk Talk," I offered two questions for readers and colleagues:
Employers: What are the skills (hard or soft) that are the hardest for you to find in new employees or that you expect to be most in-demand in the coming years?
Families: What has been your experience with the quality of and access to CTE or career preparation programs?
This week, I'll add a third question for everybody:
What skills or knowledge do you wish you'd had more opportunity to develop in high school to prepare you for a career?
Berrick Abramson is Senior Policy Director at Keystone Policy Center where he leads our education practice and the CFEP. He has more than 20 years of experience in education and public policy. Berrick began his career in Silicon Valley where he worked in corporate finance and was a principal in a number of start-up and growth stage companies.


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'Baby Gang' Migrants Attack Elderly Italian Priest
News: Commentary
by Jules Gomes • ChurchMilitant.com • July 23, 2019
Fr. Trevisol praises Matteo Salvini as he reports vandalism in newsletter
A 70-year-old Italian priest attacked and beaten by Eastern European "baby gang" migrants has called on his parishioners to stand with determination "even if it means being threatened, offended and eventually beaten."
Fr. Roberto Trevisol
Don Roberto Trevisol, parish priest of San Giorgio Martire di Chirignago in the archdiocese of Venice, narrates how he was attacked and punched in the face when he confronted "baby gangs" — Italian slang for teenage gangs — from Albania and Serbia who have been terrorizing his parish.
In his parish newsletter, Proposta, dated July 14, Fr. Trevisol writes that he is tempted to title his dispatch "Viva Salvini" (after populist Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who has been calling for a curb on migrants), but thinks it might be too political and offend the sensitivities of many of his parishioners, so he calls his report "Poor Us."
High altar in Fr. Trevisol's church
The priest describes the gang of migrants who repeatedly break into his church as "dirty, try to enter the structure, build a tower with tables to climb the roof and damage the tiles."
He calls the police on 113, but despite a police patrol arriving on the scene, the same vandals return and begin to wreak devastation on church property.
Father Trevisol describes how he goes out to confront the hoodlums, reprimands them and runs after the gang leader, who sneers at him and says: "But you know that I am Serbian!"
A second raid follows after the priest visits Marghera Commissioners to register a complaint. He again confronts the boys. This time, the leader punches him in the face. Again, the courageous priest calls 113 and chases the hooligan from the parish square until Via Marovich.
The gangster shouts at the priest, calling him "pedophile priest, piece of sh**," and as he comes near warns him, "But do you know that I come from Albania?" and hits the priest with "two powerful slaps that break my glasses and make me lose a lens," recounts Fr. Trevisol.
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The police arrive and save the priest from further assault.
Father Trevisol asks how the "child" migrants who "offend with a language that they did not know until recently" go unpunished "BY LAW" even though they beat up a 70-year-old priest.
Pro-immigration Pope Francis has compared Salvini to the biblical character of Cain who murdered his brother Abel.
He challenges his parishioners: "Faced with these facts, we can: 1. Be positive and say: poor boys ... 2. Be cowardly and look the other way ... 3. Be determined to demand respect for oneself and for all, even at the cost of being threatened, offended and eventually beaten."
"I stand for the third option," he writes.
"Baby gangs" have become a major
problem in Italy and other parts of Europe
"Baby gangs" have become a major problem in Italy. In April, a gang of six youths and two adults calling themselves "the Orphanage Group" tortured and beat a mentally disabled man in his sixties for months before finally killing him in Manduria, in the province of Taranto.
More recently, the Albanian mafia has been smuggling migrants into Britain and other parts of Western Europe, often charging up to £2,500 ($3,100) per person.
The Italian media frequently associate Albanians with human trafficking, drugs, prostitution, burglaries and violent behavior.
Serbian gangs reportedly organize the procurement, transportation and storage of drugs from Latin America to Italy.
Albanian and Serbian gangs are said to co-operate when it comes to organized crime.
Pro-immigration Pope Francis has compared Salvini to the biblical character of Cain who murdered his brother Abel. Salvini is the only political leader to have closed the nation's ports in an effort to curb illegal migration.
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During the West African Farmer Innovation Fair on 15–16 May 2015 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Jean-Marie Diop on behalf of Prolinnova interviewed farmer exhibitors to gain insight into their perspectives of what enhances and constraints local innovation.
After regular elections by Prolinnova Country Platforms (CPs) in May 2015, two new members have joined the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG).
The PROFEIS (Promoting Farmer Experimentation and Innovation in the Sahel) group in Mali has published a training guide on Participatory Innovation Development (PID) compiled by Jean-Marie Diop, senior advisor to PROFEIS-Mali.
Prolinnova International Secretariat moves to KIT !
Since 1 July 2015, the Prolinnova International Secretariat is hosted by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam. See below the announcement in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. We thank ETC Foundation for hosting the Secretariat since the launch of Prolinnova until now!
Prolinnova-Ethiopia, coordinated by PANE (Poverty Action Network Ethiopia), hosted the International Partners Workshop (IPW) on 27-30 April 2015 in Axum, Ethiopia. This was a return visit to Ethiopia, where the first IPW took place in March 2004 in Yirgalem.
In April 2015, Prolinnova–Ethiopia (PE) held a national workshop in Addis Ababa to share the results of the CLIC–SR project with relevant organisations that could have the capacity and interest to take some of the ideas forward. Presentations by farmer innovators from the two CLIC-SR project areas played a great role in influencing other participants who were not used to seeing farmers speaking in such a high-level meeting.


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Golden Age Homes Renovations 'In The Pipeline'
The Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation's principal welfare officer senior citizens unit, Dilitiana Baleinabuli, said renovation works for the buildings were in the pipeline.
by shalveen chand
Golden Age Home residents Ajodhya Prasad and Jagdish Chand celebrated Fiji Day at the home on October 9, 2019. Photo: Ronald Kumar
It was made just before World War II in 1939 to act as a camp for British and Australian soldiers, now it is known as the Samabula Golden Age Home.
The buildings, which are 80 years old, are home to 55 residents who are either senior citizens or adults neglected by their families.
The Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation's principal welfare officer senior citizens unit, said renovation works for the buildings were in the pipeline.
"The buildings have a historic significance, but are quite old. We inherited the buildings from the Ministry of Health when our ministry took over the Golden Age Home three years ago," she said.
"We have talked about the renovations and have made relevant submissions. We are hoping to do this and at the same time do it in a manner that makes the home better and improved.
"Renovations will happen, perhaps not in a year, but it is definitely in the pipeline for the Golden Age Home in Samabula."
The Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation manages three Golden Age Homes – one in Lautoka, one in Labasa and the other in Samabula.
Of the three, the home in Samabula has the oldest buildings and the highest number of residents.
Edited by Naisa Koroi
Feedback: shalveen.chand@fijisun.com.fj
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Call for Proposals: IIE Overseas Flagship Chinese Capstone Program
Monday, September 24, 2018 to Monday, December 17, 2018
The Institute of International Education (IIE) is pleased to provide you with application materials for the development of an Overseas Flagship Chinese Capstone Program in Taiwan. The Language Flagship is a major initiative of the National Security Education Program (NSEP). IIE considers it a distinct pleasure to serve as the administrative agent for this important effort.
NSEP was created by Congress in 1991 to address the need to increase the ability of Americans to communicate and compete globally by knowing languages and cultures of other countries. NSEP recognizes that the scope of national security has expanded to include not only the traditional concerns of protecting and promoting American well-being, but also the new challenges of a global society, including sustainable development, environmental degradation, global disease and hunger, population growth and migration, and economic competitiveness.
The Language Flagship has successfully launched new and innovative programs of advanced instruction in Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish. Through this solicitation we hope to identify and invest in the immediate development of an Overseas Flagship Chinese Capstone Program in Taiwan.
Attached please find the guidelines for this solicitation. (The guidelines are also available here.) We ask that you share this information with colleagues and other entities that may be interested in this opportunity.
Please note that the deadline for the receipt of proposals is 4:30 pm (EST), Monday, December 17, 2018.
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