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Allan Haley looks at the life of Jacques Monod, and the question of purpose and meaning in life
Jacques Monod was a brilliant microbiologist, one who was present at the very beginning of the explorations that led to the discovery of the role that genes play in the development and evolution of life. Along with his coworkers, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1965 for physiology / medicine on account of their elaboration of the mechanisms by which genes are either expressed or repressed in the course of an organism's development.
As detailed in this biography, he was a fierce partisan during the years of the Vichy government's betrayal of France, and played a leading role in the forces of the Resistance movement — at considerable risk to his own life.
The same book chronicles his lifelong friendship with another Resistance supporter, the Algerian-born Albert Camus, who clandestinely inspired his countrymen through his uplifting editorials published, despite numerous Nazi attempts at suppression, in an underground journal of the French resistance during World War II, called Combat.
Camus and Monod shared in common a philosophy of resistance during a period of of unparalleled oppression. A great number of their colleagues suffered torture and death at the hands of the Nazis, who practiced extreme means of repression based largely upon arbitrary and anonymous sources of information. The Nazis would presume that anyone caught in a compromised situation was deserving of punishment — mostly summary execution. That stance in return produced a fatalism in the forces of the Resistance that led them to take extreme risks, despite the individual costs to their lives.
Having lived through these arbitrary horrors of invasion, resistance and retaliation at first hand, Monod and Camus came to espouse a philosophy which derived from the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, but which added an element of heroic resistance to the indifferent forces of evil which the latter's philosophy neither explained nor judged. Camus expressed it in this fashion in an editorial he wrote for the underground newspaper Combat on the eve of the day that the Germans surrendered Paris to the invading Allied forces:
Nothing is given to mankind, and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust deaths. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition. And if his condition is unjust, he has only one way to overcome it, which is to be just himself. Our truth tonight [August 24, 1944], the truth that hovers in the August sky, is in fact man's consolation. What gives our heart peace, as it gave peace to our dead comrades, is that we can say before the impending victory, without scolding and without pressing any claim of our own, 'We did what had to be done.'
Despite their agreed condemnation of the evils generated by Hitler's Nazism, neither Camus nor Monod had any recourse to Christianity in the responses they undertook. For both of them, life was the product of chance forces that happened to result in reproductive success, without any need for the intervention of a divine mover. As the random outcome of an indeterminate beginning, life had no inherent claim to happiness — still less any immunity against the forces of evil, which were just as random. Life came by chance alone into the universe in which it found itself, and it was likewise all alone in dealing with whatever it encountered.
Monod's signature work, called (in English) Chance and Necessity, summed up his philosophy: life began on earth by random assembly, over time, of its essential components. Once those were in place, life progressed by the preordained laws of physics, i.e., by necessity. In the face of such an inhuman origin, humans themselves had no claim to any special status. The best they could do was to live out their allotted times in vigorous affirmance of the good that they could manage to discover and enjoy, and in equally determined resistance to the evil that inevitably they would encounter along the way.
Life, in short, for both Camus and Monod, was a one-shot experience, which in the end amounted to nothing other than what the individual could manage to salvage from it through heroic acts of resistance to evil, and support and affirmation of anything that was good. If the situation called for self-sacrifice, so be it, but there was no hope of any reward beyond; to believe that was to subscribe to fairy tales.
There is thus an inherent self-contradiction in the existentialist philosophy as lived by both Camus and Sartre. Noble, self-sacrificing deeds are to be praised and admired, but only by one's fellow humans, who will soon pass out of existence — along with any human memory of those noble deeds. So why admire them, if in the end they will count for nothing? For Camus and (probably also, although not expressly) for Monod, this was the great paradox of existence: life counted for nothing, except what the individual made of it — and even then, no matter what the individual did, it still came to nothing.
As Camus said of a character in his novel The Stranger, Meursault laid his "heart open to the benign indifference of the universe." Likewise, the eternally tormented Sisyphus (in The Myth of Sisyphus) was one to whom "this universe without a master seems . . . neither sterile nor futile." And for Monod, despite our existence in a world enlightened by the discoveries of science, there is no outside source of meanings or values: "[man] alone creates, determines and shapes them."
All his professional life, Jacques Monod worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and his great achievements reflected back on that noble institution, founded by the great Louis Pasteur himself. Toward the end of his life, he assumed its directorship, and strove to advance the goals he believed that Pasteur embodied, as he laid them out in a speech celebrating Pasteur's 150th birthday in 1973:
Where does genius come from? Often we are contented with attributing it to a unique, exceptional, and mysterious resource of mind. On the contrary, in the case of Pasteur, we see clearly that the power of his genius comes from multiple sources . . . . He was ambitious and dominating and would be satisfied only with real and complete victories. He was rigorous and demanding toward himself. At the same time he would spare no efforts to be severe and disciplined.
Monod could have applied these same words to some of his colleagues in the French Resistance. They definitely defined his outlook on life, and led to his lifelong friendship with Camus.
What is missing in all this description of the lives of Monod and Camus is any element of the Catholic religion, which was omnipresent in France before the Second World War, but whose respect and prestige suffered greatly as a result of the tribulations to which the French were subjected during the Nazi occupation and collaboration, thanks to the betrayal of the country by its most respected leaders. Both Camus and Monod were staunchly agnostic, if not atheist, and their wartime experiences with Nazi brutality served only to strengthen their resistance to religion of any kind. For Monod, the scientist who believed that all life resulted from chance, God was an entirely unnecessary hypothesis.
The result was that both Camus and Monod developed their philosophies as limited to what man could accomplish alone. God was neither a help nor a comfort in all the afflictions they went through in the 1940s. Rather, He was a useless fabrication handed down by earlier generations — a fantasy in which no rational person of their age could put any trust. Indeed, the very brutality of the war itself was evidence against the existence of a benign Creator God, who could allow such bestiality to occur.
Albert Camus died in an unfortunate automobile accident on his way back to Paris in January 1960. No one witnessed his death, which was instantaneous. But Jacques Monod, following the death of his wife and lifelong love Odette from cancer in 1972, died himself in a hospital in Cannes in May 1976, with his brother and cardiologist in attendance. The author of Brave Genius interviewed those to whom Monod's brother related his last words, and reported:
Philo [Monod's brother] heard his brother say very faintly between breaths, "Odette . . . Pasteur . . ." Then, after a pause, Monod said "Je cherche à comprendre" ("I am trying to understand"), and never regained consciousness.
I have looked up a number of accounts of Monod's death on the Internet, of which this one is typical. Significantly, while all recount his statement "I am trying to understand", none of the online accounts mentions his addressing two of the most important individuals in his life just before he uttered those last words. Considered in context, they amount to a touching description of one who was taken by pleasant surprise to learn just what one encounters after death.
Odette and Jacques Monod married in 1938; she bore him two sons, and they were married for 34 years. She was Jewish, and he had to hide her from the Germans under a disguised identity; while away on Resistance business, he wrote to her almost every day.
Louis Pasteur, on the other hand, had died in 1895, fifteen years before Monod was born. Yet Monod's lifelong association with the Pasteur Institute, and his succession to its directorship, is a sufficient basis upon which to surmise that he closely identified with that archetypal figure of French science.
It is thus tellingly significant that as the proudly agnostic Monod drew his last breaths, he appeared to be comforted (indeed, welcomed?) by two of the figures most important to him, who had preceded him in death.
The book Brave Genius was a stimulating account of two intertwined lives that rose above the desultory circumstances into which they were born. I was thus pained to read how Monod and Camus each prided himself on his reliance on nothing more substantial than puny, solitary man, and did his level best to make do with that restricted philosophy. Notwithstanding their own imposed self-handicap, they led heroic lives, in which each was prepared to sacrifice all so that the Resistance to which they belonged could survive to fight the evil forces that occupied their country.
I am hopeful that the account of Monod's last moments evidences a greater reality than either of them ever suspected or imagined while alive, but to which instinctively they gave their unknowing best here on earth.
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The ultimate guide to the best things to do and see in Denmark
The smallest of the Scandinavian countries, Denmark has a rich and fascinating history, a long tradition of internationally recognised design and more recently, has become known for its hit crime thriller TV shows! Start here with my basic Denmark travel tips, or jump down below to read my latest Denmark travel blogs.
Among all the Scandinavian countries, Denmark has the least extreme weather. Though temperatures do not vary drastically throughout the year, whether you are close to the water or not will make a big difference to the climate you experience there. Undoubtedly, summer is the best time to visit Denmark in order to enjoy the outdoors, when the weather is warmest and the landscapes are the most colourful. Spring can also be nice, with frequent sunny days, and fall is beautiful with the changing of the colors. If you visit Denmark in the winter, you'll get the chance to experience Danish hygge (cosiness) at its peak!
Legoland – Right next to the original Lego factory in Billund in central Denmark, Legoland is a great place to visit with children, or just with adults who want to spend a day marvelling at the creations of everything from villages to landscapes made from Lego or just go on the rides.
ARoS – It's an art museum in Aarhus, Denmark's second city, displaying art from the 18th century to the modern period. The remarkable thing about it is the permanent exhibit called Your Rainbow Panorama gives you panoramic views of the city from atop the museum through colored glass, that ranges the entire range of the color spectrum – it's like walking through a rainbow!
Hans Christian Andersen museum – The best thing to see in Odense is the house where this famous Danish writer was born and grew up. With a fascinating range of exhibitions, from his early school reports to manuscripts and drawings from his trips around Denmark, it makes for a interesting look into his mind. The murals, depicting his life spread throughout the museum are also pretty captivating!
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Amigo Bar, Frederiksberg – Historically a mostly gay bar, this place has become more and more mixed, but retains many characteristics of a typical gay bar. It's a popular place to come for karaoke and it stays open later than many other places in Frederiksberg.
Copenhagen Pride – The pride weekend in Copenhagen is very approachable for tourists—locals are friendly and social (not just on those gay apps), and the whole city comes alive with pride!
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Kenneth Harding (12 February 1892 – 30 November 1977) was an English cricketer. Harding was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Greenwich, London, and was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford.

Harding fought in World War I, during which part of his right hand was blown off. However this did not greatly restrict his ability to play cricket, with him later making three first-class appearances for Sussex in 1928 County Championship, against Yorkshire, Hampshire and Essex. He scored 91 runs in his three matches, at an average of 18.20, with a high score of 55 not out, which he made against Essex.

Outside of cricket he played rugby union for Blackheath F.C., and was at one point considered for England selection. He died at Eastbourne, Sussex, on 30 November 1977.

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Kenneth Harding at CricketArchive

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Rugby union players from Greenwich
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California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and Lyft – The New York Times
Drivers for ride-hailing services demonstrating outside Uber headquarters in San Francisco last month. The protest was organized in support of a bill in the State Legislature that would extend employee status to many gig-economy workers.CreditCreditJustin Sullivan/Getty Images
SACRAMENTO — A pack of Teamsters fanned out through California's Capitol building last week, marching into legislators' offices and pressing them to pass a bill that would force Uber and Lyft to treat their drivers as employees. The measure, Assembly Bill 5, would entitle gig workers to protections like a minimum wage and unemployment benefits. "Yes on A.B. 5! Yes on A.B. 5!" they chorused.
The push was one of several door-knocking campaigns coordinated by labor groups that can now taste success after battling the ride-hailing companies for years.
The bill is intended to codify and extend a 2018 California Supreme Court ruling that put forth a new test for classifying workers. Under that test, workers are far more likely to be deemed employees if they perform a function central to a company's business.
Legislators are expected to pass the bill before their session ends this week, presenting the strongest challenge yet to Uber and Lyft's business model, which relies on a corps of drivers who can be enlisted and deployed essentially as freelancers.
The measure could affect millions of Californians beyond ride-hail drivers, including janitors, nail salon workers and cable-television installers. And it would give momentum to an emerging consensus on the center-left that workers are entitled to a basic level of economic security that many Americans now live without. Several candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have endorsed the bill, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg.
"It's hugely important because California is the birthplace and the center of app-based work, and because California has traditionally been a bellwether for the country around a lot of different progressive policies," said Rebecca Smith, an expert on worker misclassification at the National Employment Law Project, which is part of a coalition seeking to enact a similar law in New York.
Banners showing support for Assembly Bill 5, which would expand the ranks of workers considered company employees rather than contractors. In addition to drivers for ride-hailing services, the bill could affect janitors, nail salon workers, cable-television installers and others.CreditRich Pedroncelli/Associated Press
Industry officials have estimated that on-demand companies like Uber and the delivery service DoorDash see their costs rise 20 to 30 percent when they rely on employees rather than contractors, and Uber and Lyft have said in statements to prospective investors that being forced to make drivers employees could significantly affect their financial outlook. Since the prospect of a deal started to fade in late July, the stock prices of both Uber and Lyft have declined about 30 percent.
Analysts said the stock decline was due in part to concerns about A.B. 5, among other worries about the businesses. "Probably the No. 1 question we get from investors right now is about the risks here, qualitatively and quantitatively," said Lloyd Walmsley, an equity research analyst at Deutsche Bank. "There's obviously the risk that California is just the beginning, that other states could follow suit."
Ride-hailing companies contend that A.B. 5 would force them to set rigid schedules, depriving drivers of flexibility, and raise fares to cover the cost of employment benefits. The companies say that about 90 percent of their drivers nationwide do not work a full-time schedule.
But Tyler Sandness, a Lyft driver who is an organizer for a group called Rideshare Drivers United in Los Angeles, said the bill was needed because "things have gone from bad to worse" for drivers. As independent contractors, drivers must cover the costs of vehicle ownership and payroll taxes, and lack much of the safety net afforded to employees, including workers' compensation and paid sick leave.
That California has come to the brink of fundamentally threatening such marquee companies is the culmination of miscalculations by Uber and Lyft, a strong show of force from organized labor, and legislators' resistance to the intervention of the new governor, Gavin Newsom.
The ride-hailing companies sought an amendment to the bill that would create a special category for their drivers, between contractor and employee. Mr. Newsom's office would not comment for this article, but three people familiar with the discussions said the governor gave the companies clear advice: Get labor to bless such an arrangement, or face insurmountable opposition in Sacramento.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is reported to have offered tactical advice to Uber and Lyft as they sought an exemption from the bill's potential impact: Get organized labor's blessing for the maneuver or face insurmountable opposition in the Legislature.CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times
The companies turned their attention away from lobbying against the bill in the Legislature in favor of laying the groundwork for a deal. They conferred frequently with the governor's staff, according to legislative aides. And they met more than half a dozen times during the first half of the year with representatives from a few large unions, including the Service Employees International Union and the Teamsters, two people familiar with the discussions said. Some labor leaders felt that a deal could leave drivers for ride-hailing services with many of the employment protections under A.B. 5 while allowing them to join a labor organization, potentially expanding the unions' ranks by tens of thousands.
The negotiations appeared to make progress. Two weeks after the bill passed the state's lower house in late May, Uber's chief executive and Lyft's co-founders wrote a commentary for The San Francisco Chronicle laying out the terms of a possible agreement along these lines. Uber and Lyft executives believed that a deal was near and some discussed how to sell it to the Legislature, according to two industry officials.
But opposition that had been simmering for months within the labor movement soon began boiling over, prompting the service employees' union and the Teamsters to first delay and then pull out of a meeting planned for July.
Labor officials used a four-week recess beginning in mid-July to consolidate opposition to any agreement watering down A.B. 5 for gig workers. The state's building trades council, which represents construction workers, worried that exempting Uber and Lyft would pave the way for exemptions in other industries, including their own. The council sent a letter to the governor stating its opposition and urged other unions to join it. Within a few weeks, several other unions followed suit.
The governor's office persisted. Mr. Newsom's chief of staff, Ann O'Leary, a former top adviser to Hillary Clinton, had lunch with John Zimmer, the president of Lyft, and Tony West, Uber's chief legal officer, to keep the discussions alive, according to people associated with all the parties.
Aides to the governor also began calling legislators like Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, the A.B. 5 sponsor, to gauge her openness to a deal. "He absolutely wanted a compromise," Ms. Gonzalez said of the governor. "I was very clear at that moment that I wasn't looking to sell out workers."
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, the bill's sponsor, at a ride-hailing pickup location at San Diego International Airport. "I wasn't looking to sell out workers," she said of compromise efforts.CreditJohn Francis Peters for The New York Times
After the Legislature returned in mid-August, there appeared to be one last chance for a breakthrough — not by carving Uber and Lyft out of the legislation, but by enacting a separate bill that would override portions of A.B. 5. A top state labor official circulated to colleagues an updated "rough concept draft" that could leave drivers short of full employee status, but give them a union that would bargain industrywide with the companies over wages and benefits and even allow them to strike.
The last week in August, a proposal from Uber with many of the same features was relayed to the State Senate's bill writers. Lyft had put forth similar ideas.
To nudge forward unions that might be reluctant to endorse a deal they privately favored, Uber and Lyft announced that they would each kick in $30 million for a state ballot initiative next year to try to exempt their drivers from employment status if legislators didn't do it first.
The governor appeared to pressure labor as well. The head of the state building trades labor council, Robbie Hunter, said he was left off a high-profile commission to study the future of work after receiving an invitation from the governor's office. Mr. Hunter attributed the snub to his insistence on full employment status for gig workers.
"I was stunned," Mr. Hunter said. "I do believe they thought I was going to change."
He did not. On Labor Day, Mr. Newsom appeared to concede that the bill would pass without significant alterations for gig workers, and he endorsed A.B. 5 for the first time. But he urged the companies and labor officials to continue discussing ways "to build paths for workers in our state who want to join a union."
An Uber spokesman, Matt Kallman, said on Monday: "We've engaged in good faith with the Legislature, the Newsom administration and labor leaders for nearly a year on this issue, and we believe California is missing a real opportunity to lead the nation."
In some ways, the fight may have only begun, with Uber and Lyft likely to keep pushing for a separate measure scaling back some of A.B. 5's impact in exchange for granting drivers the right to bargain with the companies. Anthony Foxx, Lyft's chief policy officer, said, "We remain hopeful of reaching a solution that is good for drivers and builds a strong bridge with labor." Such a bill could emerge from the Legislature next year.
"A.B. 5 is going to pass," said State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco, Uber and Lyft's hometown, who supports the bill. "But I'm confident this issue will be active in the Legislature for years to come."
Kate Conger reported from Sacramento, and Noam Scheiber from Chicago.
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The Broad and filmmaker Ava DuVernay's nonprofit film collective ARRAY, brings together Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat and New Orleans-based filmmaker Garrett Bradley (whose films are featured in this year's Whitney Biennial) at the new ARRAY campus in Historic Filipinotown. The event will begin with screenings of excerpts from Neshat's new work, Land of Dreams, and Bradley's short film, America, followed by a conversation with the artists on the themes of movements and migration across time and land, which are explored in their work.
About ARRAY @ The Broad
ARRAY @ The Broad is an ongoing series featuring classic and contemporary films curated with an eye toward the intersection of art, history and cultural identity. With the cinematic image as the centerpiece, the series engages audiences through post-screening conversations with a spectrum of artists and scholars for an immersive exchange of ideas and insights beyond the screen that enliven many issues addressed by artists in the Broad collection. ARRAY, founded in 2010 by filmmaker Ava DuVernay, is an arts collective dedicated to the amplification of films by people of color and women filmmakers.
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and this is the total_income table
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     1             1      2022-05-22     2           29

However I want to count rows with the same date from table1 and store inside table 2 like above automatically whenever i add income. How can i achieve this?

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President-elect Joe Biden is assembling his Cabinet, and is expected to announce his full set of nominations on Tuesday. In the meantime, the former vice president has already revealed some of his choices to the public, and various news outlets have reported on other likely picks.
Biden faces pressure to please both progressive and moderates—and to get his choices through a potential GOP-controlled Senate. The Biden team, which made history with the election of Vice President Kamala Harris as the first female, first Black, and first Indian-American veep, is also keeping gender and racial diversity in mind.
Two of Biden's reported choices would see women run agencies that have never before had a female leader: Treasury and Defense.
These are the women who are so far expected to join Biden's Cabinet. This story will be updated with further announcements.
Michele Flournoy is President-elect Biden's reported choice to head the Pentagon.
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Michèle Flournoy, Secretary of Defense
Michèle Flournoy is Biden's likely pick as secretary of defense. The former under secretary of defense for policy under President Obama would be the first woman to head the Pentagon; she was said to be a likely candidate for Hillary Clinton's Cabinet if she had won the 2016 election.
Flournoy is a Pentagon veteran who first served in the body in the 1990s under President Clinton. She's known as a political moderate and has not served in the military.
Biden chose Avril Haines as his nominee for director of national intelligence.
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Biden's transition team announced on Monday that he would choose Avril Haines as his director of national intelligence. Haines had also reportedly been under consideration to lead the CIA—a position that reports in to this one.
Haines would be the first woman to hold this role and would be the highest-ranking woman in the intelligence community. She is a former deputy director of the CIA.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is Biden's pick to be the U.S. ambassador to the UN.
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the UN
Biden's pick to represent the United States at the United Nations is Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a 35-year diplomatic veteran. His team announced the choice on Monday. The President-elect is also expected to restore the position to Cabinet-level after President Trump downgraded it.
Thomas-Greenfield has served as U.S. ambassador to Liberia and assistant secretary of state for African affairs under the Obama administration.
I've had the privilege to build relationships with leaders around the world for the past thirty-five years. As U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, I'll work to restore America's standing in the world and renew relationships with our allies. Blessed for this opportunity.
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The President-elect has reportedly chosen former Fed chair Janet Yellen as his nominee for treasury secretary.
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Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary
The Wall Street Journal reports that Biden will name former Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen as his nominee for treasury secretary.
Yellen was the first woman to lead the Fed; she would be the first woman to head the Treasury and the first person to have run the Treasury, the central bank, and the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Yellen was chosen from a field that included Fed governor Lael Brainard and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. She is seen as a choice that appeals to both moderate and progressive Democrats.
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Members of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority marketing department went to the Routes Americas conference in Puerto Rico last week to meet with airlines — and potentially court new ones.
The annual conference is one that the JAA attends every year, saidBarbara Halverstadt, director of marketing. In addition to corporate visits, she said the JAA attends conferences to grow service from Jacksonville, maintain relationships and keep up conversations between airlines it's courting.
Halverstadt said she had meetings with domestic and international airlines, as well as with other airports, to talk about strategies and what might be a good opportunity.
Going to the conferences has paid off: When Jacksonville had a flight to Denver with Frontier Airlines, the conversations that brought that flight started at a conference in Dubai.
The nature of the conferences provide a platform where the Aviation Authority can meet with several parties all in one day and allows for several different types of meetings to take place.
"It gives us the opportunity to talk our current carriers and talk with carriers we have on our radar," Halverstadt said. "It also gives us the opportunity to see with some and help them become more familiar with our area and we sell the region."
Having those types of conversations can be invaluable, she said. At one of these conferences, she had a meeting with an airline that was so unfamiliar with Florida, it asked if Jacksonville had a beach.
"Sometimes they're not aware where we are and they're not aware we're a huge business market," she said. "They think of Florida as Disney or Miami."
But Jacksonville has significant benefits over the rest of Florida when it comes to travel: Its median age is 28, making it atypical of the usual retirement market and travel is less seasonal.
And of course, the airport has goals: With the conference having taken place in San Juan, she said it was of particular interest to perhaps gain that route back.
By attending this conference, Halverstadt said the airport is setting up the foundation for new flights in a more comfortable setting.
"We can enlighten them about the region with a different view than sitting in a corporate office," she said. "We can have meetings that last 20 to 40 minutes on different aspects. We can have introduction meetings or meetings with carriers we're courting. But these take time. It took four years to have Allegiant come to Jacksonville, and they're doing very well now."
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Legends never die. And I'm not sure if you know this, but this one's kind of a big deal. Will Ferrell is officially returning as Ron Burgundy. Not for a movie this time but instead, his company Funny or Die and iHeartRadio have teamed up to produce a brand new podcast that will feature Ferrell in character as his iconic character from Anchorman, appropriately titled The Ron Burgundy Podcast.
The series will air on the iHeartPodcast Network starting in early 2019. The Ron Burgundy Podcast has already been given a two-season, 12-episode order, meaning that there are plenty of news team hijinks on the way. No guests have been announced yet, but one would hope that perhaps Champ Kind, Brian Fantana or Brick Tamland could drop by. Conal Byrne, President of the iHeartPodcast Network, had this to say in a statement, which shows just how committed they are to the bit.
"To be honest, we don't want to do this podcast and we just want to get this announcement over with as soon as possible. Ron quite literally forced us into making this podcast with him, first calling us more than one hundred times in a single day and then proceeding to actually show up at our doorstep and physically force himself into our studios. We do hope the podcast is well-received, but in the meantime, we hope by agreeing to do the announcement he will stay away."
This is going to be the first time that Will Ferrell has ever hosted his own podcast. More importantly, it's the first time he'll be playing the role of Ron Burgundy in any form of media (even though he's revived the character for brief one-off appearances previously) since 2013's Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Ferrell also released a statement and, true to his usual self, released the statement in character as Ron Burgundy.
"Listen, I don't know what a podcast is, but I currently have a lot of time on my hands and a lot to talk about. I am also broke. Therefore, I am very excited to do this podcast. It is literally saving my life. By the way, if iHeartRadio says that I harassed them into making a podcast, it is a lie!! A boldface lie!! Did I call them one hundred times in one day? Yes! But that's called persistence! I have filed suit against iHeartRadio for these salacious claims. I will be representing myself legally, since I currently do not have enough money to hire an attorney."
An official Twitter account was also launched for the upcoming podcast and if the first exchange from the account is any indication of what we're in for, it's going to be a treat. Ron Burgundy began a lively exchange with CNN's Don Lemon, which is pretty amazing and is best read in its entirety, which you can check out for yourself below. There is no exact premiere date just yet, but The Ron Burgundy Podcast will debut on iHeartRadio sometime next year. We'll be sure to keep you posted as any further details are made available.
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Hard Numbers: Chinese data hack, July 4 massacre, US Navy wants Iran tips, Uzbek unrest, Mali sanctions lifted
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1 billion: An anonymous hacker claims to have stolen the police records of about one billion Chinese citizens, almost three-quarters of the population. If true, it could be one of the biggest data hacks of all time — and very embarrassing for Beijing.
6: Six people were shot dead on Sunday after a gunman opened fire on an Independence Day parade in a suburb of the US city of Chicago. It's the first high-profile mass shooting in America since President Joe Biden signed the latest federal gun-safety laws and the Supreme Court ruled that Americans have a constitutional right to carry firearms.
100,000: The US Navy is offering up to $100,000 in rewards for information to help intercept weapons, drugs, and other illicit shipments in the Persian Gulf. The Americans worry about Iran supplying weapons to the Houthi rebels in Yemen despite an arms embargo and the ongoing truce in the country's civil war.
18: At least 18 people have been killed in Karakalpakstan, an autonomous province in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, since the government last week revealed plans to limit secession rights in the constitution. If President Shavkat Mirziyoyev needs outside help to end the crisis, he may have to patch things up with regional cop Russia after being lukewarm on the war in Ukraine.
300 million: West African leaders agreed on Sunday to lift economic sanctions against Mali after its junta promised to return to civilian rule by 2024. The sanctions forced post-coup Mali to default on $300 million of sovereign debt so far this year.
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Podcast: Lessons of the SolarWinds attack
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Listen: Two years after the discovery of one of the largest cyber attacks in history, we're looking at the current state of security for both software and hardware supply chains.
In early 2020, a group of hackers broke into a software system built and managed by the Texas-based company SolarWinds. The malware they installed was eventually downloaded by thousands of SolarWinds customers, including both private companies and government agencies like the US State Department. SolarWinds has since said the number of clients actually hacked was far lower.
What lessons were learned, and how vulnerable are information and communication technology supply chains today?
In the third episode of Patching the System, a GZERO podcast produced as part of the Global Stage partnership with Microsoft, we're examining that question with two top experts in the field.
Our participants are:
Gaus Rajnovic, cybersecurity manager at Panasonic Europe
Charles Carmakal, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Mandiant
Ali Wyne, Eurasia Group Senior Analyst (moderator)
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Hard Numbers: Namibia's anti-LGBTQ ruling, Red Cross hacked, Biden to deliver N95 masks, North Korean compensation
2: Namibia's High Court ruled against two gay couples seeking legal recognition of their marriages. The judge said she agreed with the couples, who are seeking residency or work authorizations for foreign-born spouses, but is bound by a Supreme Court ruling that deems same-sex relationships illegitimate.
515,000: The International Red Cross says hackers infiltrated its database, compromising the personal information of 515,000 vulnerable people, including migrants and those displaced by conflicts. The Geneva-based organization believes the hackers were likely criminals hoping to profit from the data breach.
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Bamberg marching on, Bayern making more plans, Next German coach?
EuroBasket 2011, FIBA basketball, German BBL 1 comment
Photo by Daniel Löb
German basketball hasn't had one dominating team for many years now – but Brose Baskets Bamberg clearly look like they are a notch above anyone else in the league as they continue pulverizing their way through the German BBL.
Meanwhile about 230 kilometers further south, the Bayern Munich project is gathering steam as plans are intensifying for their all-but-certain promotion from the ProA second division to the BBL for next season. And the debate about the German national team coach Dirk Bauermann remains unsolved mystery number one.
With the German BBL basketball league taking a break this weekend for its All-Star Day, that's a perfect time to look back at the first half of the regular season and see where things stand.
And a quick glance at the BBL standings is enough to see that defending league and cup champions Brose Baskets Bamberg are mulling their way through the league.
So, here is the current table (as of Jan 20, 2011)
1. Bamberg 20 19 1 1626-1287
2. Frankfurt 19 14 5 1475-1327
3. Artland 19 13 6 1516-1351
4. Berlin 19 13 6 1517-1361
5. Braunschweig 19 12 7 1471-1424
6. Bremerhaven 19 11 8 1497-1483
7. Bonn 18 10 8 1367-1371
8. Göttingen 19 10 9 1348-1329
9. Oldenburg 19 10 9 1383-1423
10. Trier 19 10 9 1298-1296
11. Ludwigsburg 19 9 10 1425-1485
12. Ulm 19 8 11 1493-1508
13. Hagen 20 8 12 1699-1725
14. Tübingen 19 7 12 1477-1545
15. MBC 19 5 14 1293-1422
16. Gießen 19 5 14 1361-1527
17. Bayreuth 18 4 14 1326-1446
18. Düsseldorf 19 3 16 1245-1507
Bamberg, you will see, have suffered just one loss this season after ripping off 17 straight victories to start the season – getting plenty of people to start talking about the all-time BBL mark of Alba Berlin's 24-0 start to the 2000-01 season.
Chris Fleming's Bamberg team not only has the second-highest scoring offense in the league with 81.3 points – behind only the running style of Phoenix Hagen at 84.95. But Bamberg also has the top scoring defense in the BBL, allowing just 64.35 points a contest. The next best is Tübingen at 68.2 points.
One impressive aspect of Bamberg's dominance is that Fleming's men have been able to take care of business in the BBL over the weekend while battling the best of the best in the Euroleague during the week – and more than holding their own, beating Olympiacos at home; losing at Real Madrid in overtime at the buzzer; losing at home against Lottomatica Roma on an unreal buzzer-beating three in the corner by Charles Smith; beating Real Madrid at home; and finishing off their international season – already eliminated – with a victory at Unicaja.
Need some evidence about Bamberg's focus on the task at hand in Germany?
Four days after shocking Olympiacos, Bamberg won by one point at Gießen. Three days after the heart-breaker in Madrid, Bamberg beat Tübingen by 21 points on the road. Two days after the even bigger heart-breaker by Smith and Roma, Brose crushed MBC by 23 points away from home.
Having already been eliminated from the Top 16, Bamberg knocked off Madrid by seven points at home. Three days later – in a game broadcast live on German television – Brose Baskets Bamberg threw down the gauntlet to the BBL by absolutely humiliating perennial title contenders Alba Berlin with a 103-52 victory at home. Every Bamberg player scored including 20-year-olds Maurice Stuckey and Erik Land as well as 18-year-old Philipp Neumann.
Two days after Christmas, Bamberg backed up their Berlin bashing by walloping 2009 league champion Oldenburg 101-66 at home. And then Fleming's men went on the road to blast Ludwigsburg 101-63.
In victory 17 at Bayreuth, Bamberg playmaker John Goldsberry got into an altercation with Bayreuth's Jared Reiner and was fined and suspended for one game.
Without Goldsberry running the show at Düsseldorf, Bamberg lost 72-69, to snap their winning streak. But the team swore that such a slip-up would not happen again this season. Since then, Bamberg beat Ulm by 12 points on the road and then got revenge on Düsseldorf with a 37-point win at home.
If there is one thing that speaks out against Bamberg it's that Brose have a much tougher schedule in the second half, playing at Bremerhaven, Frankfurt, Artland and Berlin and even Göttingen.
Frankfurt currently leads the fight for second place a game ahead of both Artland and Berlin.
Alba's wheels coming off
Alba won eight of their first nine before dropping three in a row, the last being the Bamberg embarrassment. Berlin management eventually gave embattled coach Luka Pavicevic an ultimatum to get the wheels back on track.
Berlin swept a back-to-back against MBC but then lost at Hagen to drop their sixth game of the season. Pavicevic's men bounced back four days later with a 30-point home win over Hagen. But the coach is on the hot seat as Berlin do not want to slip down the standings any further.
Düsseldorf's win over Bamberg has not helped much as the former legendary side – 14-time champions during time in Leverkusen, including seven straight from 1990 to 1996 – is in serious danger of relegation with just three wins.
Other clubs fighting the drop are MBC, Gießen (both five wins) and Bayreuth (four wins).
Bayern Munich ready for BBL
Just waiting to take one of those teams' spots next season appears to be overwhelming ProA second division leaders Bayern Munich – the much-publicized project led by German national team coach Dirk Bauermann.
Bayern are atop the ProA with a 15-1 record – the sole blemish a 63-55 loss at second placed Würzburg. Bauermann's men are four losses clear of a non-promotion spot and it appears next to impossible that Bayern would not earn a spot in the BBL for next season.
The club – a giant in European football with four European club championships – has switched into high gear with preparations for Germany's top flight. Munich are close to resolving their arena issue for next season. They are currently playing in the Eisportszentrum in Olympiapark, but the 3,200-seat venue would not fit the club's expectations for the BBL – though it would fit the league's 3,000-seat minimum requirement.
Bayern's ideal constellation would be the renovation of the 7,000-seat Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle, where basketball was played at the 1972 Olympics. Revamping and modernizing the facility would reportedly cost around 2 million euro and Bayern are considering if they want to go through with it – should the city approve.
Munich, however, would also like to stage the big-ticket BBL home games – against Brose Baskets Bamberg and Alba Berlin – at the 11,200-seat Olympia Halle, which would be unavailable for all the BBL dates for the 2011-12 season.
Bayern will have a test run in the Olympia Halle on February 20 when they host Würzburg in a game expected to draw a sell-out crowd of 11,200.
And then Bayern would have until mid-March to decide before they have to submit their licensing paperwork to the BBL.
Bauermann issue still unresolved
One issue still unresolved is Bauermann's status for the 2011-12 season should Bayern make the BBL. League CEO Jan Pommer has remained very hard in his stance that a BBL club coach cannot moonlight as German national team coach.
The rule came into effect after the 2007-08 season with Bauermann being forced to decide between Bamberg or the German national team. He obviously decided to give up the Bamberg spot to remain German boss.
Now with the world wide brand Bayern Munich ready to storm the BBL with team president Uli Hoeness at the helm and Bauermann as his coach, a great wave of pressure is being thrust upon the BBL in general and Pommer in particular.
Keeping his line on a double-duty for Bauermann could risk losing the much-desired Bayern power and name recognition for the league.
"(If I had to give up my Bayern post) Uli Hoeness would get out of the project. That's my impression," Bauermann said in an interview on spox.com on January 8, 2011.
"His position and that of Bayern vice president Bernd Rauch is clear: Without Bauermann we would not have started the project. And we will not continue without him."
Pommer a few weeks earlier had named his arguments against one coach for both jobs:
"The team coached by the national team coach would receive more media attention. German players, especially young players, could come to Munich and not to other clubs because they want to present themselves on a daily basis to the national team coach," said Pommer in the November 18, 2010 interview.
"It's not easy being 'servant of two masters', especially when both jobs are so demanding and time intensive."
He finished the interview with this bombshell: "It would be exaggerated to say that Dirk Bauermann is the only one who could successfully lead the national team."
Successor to Bauermann? Pesic? Mike Koch?
That begs the question, who could take over the German national team – and already for EuroBasket 2011 in Lithuania?
Current Power Electronics Valencia caoch Svetislav Pesic, who guided Germany to their shocking 1993 European title, would be one.
Another could be former German international Mike Koch, who was a big part of the 1993 European crown winning team. Koch has been at the helm of Telekom Baskets Bonn for the past six seasons and his contract expires at season's end.
And in the December 2008 issue number 53 of the German basketball magazine Five, Koch said the following: "I was always very ambitious as a player and said then (at the B-coaching training for former players) that I would like to be German national team coach. I know how much work I put into a job and then it's maybe normal that one would at one point want to represent his own country. And that's why I trumpeted that back then. There were a lot of surprised faces. But I stand by that. That is something that I would like to do later."
Well, soon it may be later …
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in: Evidence, Definition
Business records exception
2 Scope of exception
3 Rationale
3.1 Reliability of the statements in the record
3.2 Limitation on admissibility of records prepared for litigation
4 Lack of record as evidence
5 Other types of business records
Definition[]
The business records exception to the hearsay rule is based on Rule 803(6) of the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE). It is sometimes referred to as the business entry rule.
Scope of exception[]
"Business records," for the purposes of the exception, are any writings or records of acts, events, conditions, opinions, or diagnosis, made at or near the time by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge. These records are admissible if kept in the regular course of business and if it was the regular course of business to make that record, unless the source of the information or circumstances of their preparation indicate a lack of trustworthiness.
"Business" is used in Rule 803(6) to mean any business, institution, association, profession, or occupation, regardless of whether or not it is conducted for profit. Therefore, such records could conceivably include those of religious and charitable organizations, hospitals, schools, and even criminal organizations.
Rationale[]
The basic rationale for the exception is that employees are under a duty to be accurate in observing, reporting, and recording business facts. The underlying belief is that special reliability is provided by the regularity with which the records are made and kept, as well as the incentive of employees to keep accurate records (under threat of termination or other sanctions). The exception functions to allow the record to substitute for the in-court testimony of the employees, but it can only substitute for what the employee could testify about. The availability of the declarant (the employee whose testimony is being replaced by the record) is immaterial for the purposes of this exception.
Reliability of the statements in the record[]
It must be apparent to the judge that the record was made in the regular course of business, i.e., that it was customary practice to make such an entry and that the entrant had a duty to record it (either by law or by the terms of his employment). The record must have been made at or near the time of the act, event, or transaction at issue. Furthermore, the record must consist of matters either within the personal knowledge of the entrant or within the personal knowledge of someone with a duty to transmit the information to the entrant.
This last point was contested in the case of Johnson v. Lutz,[1] which held that record is admissible only when it is made by an employee on information obtained by him from an informant who himself was under a business duty to impart that information. The Johnson case, which dealt specifically with the admissibility of police reports, set a limitation on the use of such reports in court. Even though the police officer was under a duty to properly record the statements of an informant, the informant himself was under no duty to report the events correctly, and therefore the informant's statement was still inadmissible hearsay. The Johnson case is noted prominently in the Advisory Committee Notes to the Federal Rules of Evidence, and is frequently studied in U.S. law school courses on evidence law.
Limitation on admissibility of records prepared for litigation[]
In the case of Palmer v. Hoffman,[2] the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an accident report created by a railroad company which was prepared in anticipation of a lawsuit by the victim was inadmissible, because it was not prepared in the regular course of business. Railroad travel, and not litigation, was the primary business of the railroad, and therefore the report was not considered sufficiently reliable to be admitted into evidence.
Lack of record as evidence[]
Federal Rules of Evidence 803(7) states the negative counterpart of the business records exception: the use of the lack of a record to prove that a transaction or occurrence had not taken place, if it was the regular practice of the business to record such events if they had actually occurred.
Other types of business records[]
Under the Federal Rules of Evidence 803(17), market reports and quotations, directories, and other published compilations are considered generally admissible if they are generally used and relied upon by the public or by persons in particular occupations. Such information is considered admissible separate and apart from privately-made business records described above.
↑ 253 N.Y. 124, 170 N.E. 517 (1930)
↑ 318 U.S. 109 (1043).
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