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Let's Read The Overton Window pt. 4: Protagonists in Taxis With Stereotypes
July 16, 2018 by Ronan Wills in Overton Window, Let's Read
Last chapter, Noah sat by quietly while his dad went on a maniacal (and very long) rant about how he's going to help a cabal of government officials seize power and reshape the country to their liking.
You would expect his reaction to this to be something like "Holy shit my dad has lost his god damn mind, Jesus Christ what the fuck I've got to tell someone about this", followed by a bout of hyper-ventilating and hysterical crying. Instead, he just seems vaguely confused and ill at ease.
Noah stopped in the middle of the main hallway and stood there for a while, his head full of unfinished thoughts and that troubling fogginess you feel only when you've forgotten where you're going, and why.
TFW your dad is planning to turn the country into a totalitarian nightmare
This is literally all the reaction we get from Noah for the next two chapters. His dad sends him off to make some mysterious phone calls, and he just does it, without thinking about anything he just witnessed.
The phone calls are all to strange, unlisted numbers and the people who answer won't divulge any information about who they represent, but Noah is just like "WHATEVER MAN, GOTTA DO WHAT MY PA SAYS DOOTLE DOOTLE DOOT DOOT" and keeps going. The book is severely over-playing its hand on the whole "Noah is a sheeple" thing. No one could be this apathetic.
Noah had caught a last name spoken in the background during this final call. It was a Manhattan number, a 212 area code, and the name he'd heard was an uncommon one. He'd also seen it in the newspaper earlier in the day. That call had been to the private line of the most likely nominee for the next U.S. Treasury secretary, assuming the election went as forecast.
Is this supposed to be a mystery? Arthur's dad already said that his proposal for the evil plot was relayed up the governmental chain of command, which I assume means all the way to the higher branches of government, if not the actual president himself.
I mean, it would be mysterious, if the previous chapter hadn't spelled out exactly what was going on in exhaustive detail.
Noah flipped on the blower over the range, lit the cooktop in back, and followed the final instruction on his list of things to do.
Destroy this paper; be certain to watch it burn.
Is this normal? Has his dad asked him to do shit like this before? I don't know, because the book has suddenly become disinterested in Noah's inner thoughts, assuming he actually has any.
For some reason there's a chapter break here even though it's been like two pages and the next chapter picks up immediately where the next one left off. Noah resumes wandering aimlessly through the office.
It was hard to say how much time had passed since he'd been ordered out of the remainder of that meeting. No clocks were allowed on the walls or the wrists at Doyle & Merchant.
Sure, that's normal. Prospective hires probably don't find it incredibly weird and off-putting when they come in for an interview.
(Yet again, there's zero indication that mobile phones exist, even though this book has to be taking place in 2009 at the very earliest, since it's referenced real events that happened that year).
In 1978 an account executive had checked her watch during Arthur Gardner's heartwarming remarks at the company Christmas party. She'd looked up when the room got quiet and had seen in Noah's father's eyes what time it really was: time for her to find another job, in another city, in another industry.
There's no way people would come to work at this company. And the executive would almost certainly have sued him for unfair dismissal.
It was only by His grace that windows were still tolerated, though access to any view of the outside world was strictly confined to the executive offices.
"Welcome to Doyle & Merchant. My name's Steve, if you follow me I'll take you up to where we're conducting the interviews. Oh, and you'll need to leave your watch here. Just...don't ask. Arthur Gardner? No, we keep him away from prospective hires after the Blender Incident back in '88. Yes, there are no windows on this floor. No, the next floor doesn't have any either. Or the next one. Only executives get windows. Hello? Ma'am? Where are you going?"
Noah resumed his stroll and took a meandering right turn, still without a clear destination. There wasn't a soul in the place, though some would say that in the PR business that phrase always applies.
What exactly does Glenn Beck have against public relations? I can think of much worse professions.
Noah passes a hallway full of the company's past work, which gives Beck and his hovering ghost-writers a chance to take wild swings at all sorts of modern ills. Did you know that boy bands are fake and manufactured?
On a dare, Noah's father had once boasted that he could transform some of the century's most brutal killers into fashion statements among the peace-loving American counterculture. And he'd done it; here were pictures of clueless college students, rock stars, and Hollywood icons proudly wearing T-shirts featuring the romanticized images of Chairman Mao and Che Guevara.
This book is bipartisan though.
Noah continues his walk, passing by icons of Big Pharma, Big Tobacco and the Lottery, all of which are bad and wrong. If Noah thinks PR is full of soulless husks and his company spends all day making money for predatory businesses and shallow vanity industries, why is he still working there? Are these even his observations, or has the narration started getting opinionated again?
Last in this section were a few recently developed pharmaceuticals that had required some imaginative new diseases to match them. Drugs weren't so very different from other products; it was all just a matter of creating the need.
The pharmaceutical industry is guilty of a lot of things, but they do, in fact, make real treatments for real illnesses. Unless Beck is suggesting here that diseases are all fake.
Each of these PR triumphs represented a defeat for someone else, of course. That was simply the nature of the business, of all business really. The whole concept of winning requires that others lose, and sometimes they lose everything. That's just the way it had to be.
Again: this is (I think?) being framed as a bad thing, but this is how American conservatives actually want the world to work.
Noah had a friend in college, not a close friend, but a self-described bleeding-heart lefty tree-hugging do-gooder friend who'd gone to work for an African aid organization after graduation.
THIS BOOK IS BIPARTISAN THOUGH
Noah's friend ended up disillusioned and heart-broken when the aid she was supposed to be providing got hijacked by warring factions. Noah's take away from this is that the world is too messed up to bother fixing, so he shelved all of his ideals and decided to just look out for himself and not think about anything too hard (our hero, ladies and gentlemen).
By now he'd arrived at an alcove that showcased the truly world-class events and power players, political and otherwise, that the company had helped to invent.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ, get on with the story already. It feels like Noah has been wandering down hallways for a solid month.
Eventually, he arrives at a video (which is playing on a loop on a screen for some reason) of a fifteen year old Kuwaiti girl testifying before Congress about the barbaric actions of Iraqi soldiers in the early 90s. This helped justify...
Wait. That sounds familiar. Haven't I heard the name Nayirah al-Sabah before? But it couldn't...be...
The Nayirah testimony was a false testimony given before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990 by a 15-year-old girl who provided only her first name, Nayirah. The testimony was widely publicized, and was cited numerous times by United States senators and President George H. W. Bushin their rationale to back Kuwait in the Gulf War.
Are you fucking kidding me? Not only did Arthur Gardner invent the fucking Che t-shirt, he helped start the Gulf War? What the hell is this bullshit? What is Beck doing here?
A dull headache had begun to pound at his temple, and Noah abruptly remembered where he'd been meaning to go: the bulletin board in the break room. He had to grab the address of that meeting of flag-waving wackos, and then finish his conversation with an attractive but naïve young woman who might need to be straightened out on a thing or two.
YOUR DAD JUST LAUNCHED A SECRET COUP OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, MAYBE YOU SHOULD REACT TO THAT AT SOME POINT.
How is his next conversation with Molly going to go? Will she be like "There's a shadowy cabal out to destroy our freedom!" and he'll go "Oh yeah, I was just in the room with them while they were working out how to do that, my Dad is their leader. But here's why you're wrong!"
The next chapter opens with Noah on Park Avenue, his taxi stuck in bad traffic.
Then he'd become immersed in his BlackBerry just after the ride got under way.
So there are phones in Beckland. Blackberries were still popular in 2010, although if Noah was really on the cutting edge he'd have one of those sweet, sweet third generation iPhones.
As the windshield wipers slapped in and out of sync with the beat of some atonal Middle Eastern music blaring from the radio, the man at the wheel launched into an animated flurry of colorful epithets in his native tongue.
13% through this thing and already getting started on the racism.
"West." He pointed that way, assuming a serious language barrier, and spoke with exaggerated clarity. "Get us off Park Avenue, shoot crosstown to the West Side Highway, then just take it south all the way down to Chambers Street."
"Shoot crosstown" is not how I'd speak to someone I assumed didn't understand English very well. If your grasp of the language was shaky, you'd have no idea what the fuck that meant.
Noah says "step on it" and the taxi driver flings the car into reverse and starts careening full-tilt down the road, making Noah's head smash cartoonishly into the divider between the front and back seat (seriously). The book continuously emphasizes how poorly-trained and ignorant and wacky the middle eastern driver is.
Noah braced himself against the roof and the door as the cab mounted the curb and surged forward at a twenty-degree tilt, half on and half off the street, threading the needle between a hot-dog cart and a candied-nut wagon on the sidewalk and the line of incredulous fellow drivers to the left.
THEN TWO GUYS CARRYING A BIG PANE OF GLASS WALKED OUT OF AN ALLEYWAY AND RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD.
The taxi's hi-larious rampage is finally stopped when they encounter a checkpoint manned by heavily-armed soldiers.
It immediately became obvious that this cabdriver had seen a military checkpoint or two in his former homeland. With no hesitation the ignition was killed and both his hands were raised where the armed men outside could see them. Noah had no such prior experience to guide him.
I haven't even seen an armed police officer in more than a decade, but if I was suddenly surrounded by dudes with assault rifles I think I'd know to raise my hands.
The soldiers shake Noah down for his ID, and the cab driver gets hauled out and roughly frisked (nice try, Glenn, you're not fooling anyone after all the crap we just read). Some limos drive past, and Noah realizes the soldiers are security for the two candidates in the upcoming election.
Times had certainly changed, seemingly overnight, though Noah hadn't yet seen anything quite as intense as this. Fourth Amendment or not, with all the fears of terrorism in recent years, the definition of probable cause could become pretty blurred around the edges.
"And the cops have been shooting unarmed black people and getting away with it for years, but whatever."
People were getting used to it by now; a law-abiding citizen could easily get stopped and frisked for taking a cell-phone video of the Brooklyn Bridge or the Empire State Building, never mind riding in a high-speed taxicab that had just jumped the curb to avoid a roadblock.
You know, I'm gonna say the taxi driver's actions were legitimately suspicious, if only because he very easily could have killed someone.
Actually, let's unpack that. Notice that we see a middle eastern guy getting manhandled and treated with hostility by American law enforcement (which the soldiers are in this context, for all intents and purposes), but only after he was driving erratically and endangering people's lives. If you wanted to be unkind to Beck (which I do) you could interpret this as him saying that Muslim Americans are sometimes unfairly singled out for suspicion, but only because their wacky foreign ways and child-like ignorance makes them do stupid things. If they'd just Assimilate, everything would be fine and only real-deal terrorists would ever have to worry about the police.
One of the soldiers brings Noah into a trailer parked by the side of the road, where he's greeted by a mysterious woman. Let's see if we can figure out if she's evil or not.
"Have a seat, Mr. Gardner." She was fortyish, stocky, severe, and clearly wrapped too tight, with prematurely gray hair trimmed like a motel lampshade.
Definitely evil.
Noah recognizes the logo on the side of the truck as belonging to Talion, a private military company his firm considered doing business with several months back. I'm tempted to say that "Talion" is too obviously an evil name, but every real-life PMC seems to deliberately be trying to make themselves look like a mega-corporation from a cyberpunk story, so sure.
Evil Lampshade Lady asks Noah some invasive questions about where he's going and--displaying a rare spark of intelligence--he asks her if he's being detained. When she says no, he gets up to leave, which is when she pulls out one of Molly Ross's freedom flyers.
"What do you know about this group, Mr. Gardner?"
"Absolutely nothing at all. Like I told you—"
"They have ties to the Aryan Brotherhood," she said, having begun to thumb through a file folder on her desk, "and the Lone Star Militia, the National Labor Committee, the Common Law Coalition, the Earth Liberation Front—"
Noah questions why the national labour committee is sinister, since "The National Labor Committee is a little shoestring nonprofit that busts sweatshops and child-labor operations." Noah, they're mixing innocuous organizations in with terrorist groups so they can use the latter as a pretext for targeting the former. Which is the inverse of what this book was doing back when we read the conspiracy document, in a neat little meta-twist that the authors were probably hoping no one would notice.
Noah sashays out of the truck and sees the cab driver being manhandled into an unmarked van. The guy is clearly calling for help, but Noah is like "NAH CAN'T GET INVOLVED IN EVERY LITTLE THING AND HE COULD BE A TERRORIST SO WHATEVS".
And besides, he was late for an appointment with a certain young woman who was in dire need of a dose of reality.
You mean like the reality that you know for certain that all of her suspicions are correct?
The way this is written, and the way Noah has previously thought about his upcoming meeting with Molly, are super infantalizing and insulting. He keeps calling her "young woman", which given that she's around the same age as him feels only a step removed from "young lady." It's like he's expecting to walk in, hear her out, and then say "Well slow down there a second! Why don't you sit yourself down and Mr. Noah Gardner the grown-up will set you straight on a few points."
I hope she kicks him in the nads with her tattooed freedom-foot.
Glenn Beck, Books, Snark
Overton Window, Let's Read


This is a color that I have been eyeing for months. It's only a dollar, but I couldn't seem to pull the trigger. Then two things happened: Amanda swatched it a while back, and CVS had a buy one/get one 50% off sale on NYC. Fine, Universe. I will buy it. I can't ignore 45 cents. I also finally got ahold of NYC Grand Central Station, and I reallyreallyreally like it. I can see a topcoat post on the horizon.
I didn't need to thin this one, like Amanda did. I did find it a bit streaky, and I needed three coats to cover. But I love the color. It's more green than most "Tiffany" blues. It reminds me of this robin's egg crayon I had as a kid...it was my favorite color. What is amazing about this color is that it looks good on both of us, which is very rare for lighter colors. I think this would be great on just about anyone.
NYC is a very underrated brand for polish. I wish that they would a) send me their whole line (it is impossible to find a fully stocked rack here) and b) add more colors to the fast dry line. (Amanda reviewed a couple of new permanent shades in the fast dry line here. I still want more though.) I really love their fast dry polishes for myself and the wee folk.
really?! I have had nothing but good luck with their polishes!
I love grand central station too... My topcoat of choice!
I cant believe I lived this long without it.
My most purchased brands of nail polish to buy are Sally Hansen, Sinful Colors, Wet N Wild, and NYC. I have Bowery Black and Mint'ed on Broadway on my nails right now. Love the colors. The top coats from NYC, I am not too big a fan of.
I like the fast-dry Nyc topcoat. it is actually great for smoothing out glitters and textures. Bowery Black is actually one of my favorites too!


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Find Out About These Awesome Japanese Traditional Homes That are Now for Sale!
You must have seen some of the many old, brilliant castles or modern buildings in Japan, and thought about how much you'd like to own one. Well, if you browse the websites of some Japanese real estate firms, you may now see a selection of old, wooden, rusty dwellings located in beautiful locations.
These once belonged to small agricultural workers, craftsmen, and people who used to do small, manual jobs. These houses in Japan are called 'minka', and there are now many of them (211,437 as of 2015), ready to be sold for thousands, or even millions of dollars in Japan.
People from abroad and young people from Japan with a taste for minimalist and retro living are relocating to different areas, buying these minka houses and renovating them. These people are the minority as most Japanese people aren't keen on these unique but aged properties. Let's find out why these traditional wooden houses are becoming increasingly popular internationally, but not yet in Japan.
You may have seen or heard of beautiful and dreamy snow capped villages such as Shirakawa-go and traditional neighborhoods such as Gokayama in Nanto City, Japan. Both of them are now UNESCO heritage sites and are known to thousands of people around the globe for their traditional housing.
Many of us may have pondered the thought of staying for a while in one of these cozy little houses called 'Gassho-zukuri', a stylized minka designed to look like two hands clutched together.
Different people belonging to the working class of Japan's pre-urbanization era used to own these farmhouses, which are now mostly empty or occupied by their descendants. They look awesome with minimalist design, wooden interiors, plastered tiles, and thatched roofs, and have a really welcoming feel to them.
There are actually not many of these Gassho-zukuri minka houses left, as Japan has completely transformed itself since the Meiji Restoration. Some would even say modern Japan has become an offshoot of the western world. Indeed, the Meiji government used to send architects to Europe and America to learn about and borrow ideas from them to recreate in Japan.
Since the Second World War, a passion for modern, urban dwelling has totally changed both Japan's rural and its urban area. This has left behind only a few thousand traditional homes, which are mostly abandoned.
A famous minka architect from Germany, Karl Bengs, spent a lot of time trying to figure out why the Japanese love to travel and appreciate different historical places in Europe but are not equally as interested in minka farmhouses which have slowly been forgotten.
There are places such as Alberobello in Italy, which is famous for its traditional 'trulli' farm houses and is a sister city of the famous minka area of Ainokura in Gokayama, which has a similar history to the minka homes. There is also Halsingland in Sweden, the Lake District and Surrey County in the UK that are equally as awesome as Shirakawa or Kyoto.
In fact, there is actually a growing demand among foreign buyers who would like to live in an existing traditional home such as a minka. Many estate agencies have started popping up all around Kyoto and other culturally rich areas, and are redesigning and renovating minka homes to sell to foreigners.
Even the government, together with the Development Bank is now heavily investing in minka housing, which seems to now be emerging as a lucrative market in Japanese real estate.
There is a famous real estate firm called Kanazawa Architectural Design Office, which helps you with everything you need to know about finding and buying a minka. They also assist with refurbishing, moving, decorating, selling and so on.
There is also an another firm called Atelier Tekuto, who emphasize that Japan's post-war development has cost Japan a lot of its heritage, pointing to the neglect of the minka houses as one example of this problem.
Organisations such as the Japan Minka Revival Association, established in 1997, whose sole purpose is to popularize minka in Japan and around the world, are working with the help of banks such as the Minka Bank, and through events, international dialogue and publications.
There is a magazine that you can buy called 'MINKA' which is published by the association once every two months. You can approach them if you are considering buying a minka, and they can give you expert advice for a minimal cost as it is a non-profit organization.
If you are a foreigner or a Japanese person, what do you think of minka homes and their revival? Would you like to buy a previously owned one or design your new house like one? Whatever the reasons may be, minka has a lot of history and has the potential to give a real boost to the Japanese real estate business.
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Historic Dutch Colonial, accessed by long driveway. The first brick home in Somerset Cnty., built by Cornelius Ten Broeck. The four-over-four structure features wood beams, wide board floors,. Living room, dining room, plus his and her studies, with 6 bedrooms upstairs. Front and back Dutch doors connect the entrance hall with circular driveway and brick patio. Grounds include pool, carriage house garage, pole barns, outbuildings and paddocks. Solar panels are under contract with NJSREC, with electrical service by PSE&G, with a quarterly credit. Photos were taken prior to tenant occupancy. Property included is Lot 11, Block 19001, with104.62 acres.


Sometimes list of things are handy when you know you really must get everything on them done.
What if you had a list for everyday... that was the same list. Getting successful in business is about consistency everyday getting the things done that need to get done.
Here is a great To-Do list from Jeffery J. Fox from his book "How to Make Big Money in Your Own Small Business"
If you make it through this list every single day then you are doing something that will have longterm positive results for you, your business and your employees!


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Utah football report card: Disastrous third quarter earns Utes low Holiday Bowl marks
By Trent Wood
Published: January 1, 2019 8:00 am
Ravell Call
Utah Utes head coach Kyle Whittingham walks the field during a time out while playing Northwestern in NCAA football at the Holiday Bowl in San Diego on Monday, Dec. 31, 2018.
Four turnovers in 3rd quarter lead to Utah Utes' collapse in Holiday Bowl loss to Northwestern Wildcats
Brad Rock: Were Ute kids just too young to know?
The Utes fell to the Northwestern Wildcats 31-20 Monday night at the Holiday Bowl in San Diego.
It was a game best described as one of two drastically different halves.
In the first half Utah could do no wrong and ran out to a commanding 20-3 edge over the Wildcats.
Quarterback Jason Shelley looked the best he had in any start this season and wide receiver Jaylen Dixon not far behind.
The Utah defense was in Pac-12 championship game form, and that despite the absence of senior linebacker Chase Hansen.
Everything changed in the second half, however, particularly in the third quarter.
Quite simply, everything went wrong for the Utes.
Northwestern scored 28 unanswered points, buoyed by four Utah turnovers — the Utes finished the contest with six giveaways — en route to a 31-20 victory.
The quick start and subsequent second-half collapse make for odd Holiday Bowl grades, the final of the 2018-19 season.
At the outset of Monday night's contest, Shelley looked the part of elite college football quarterback.
The redshirt freshman had performed admirably in his previous starts, after taking over for the injured Tyler Huntley, but his prior performances paled in comparison to his first-half performance against Northwestern.
Shelley was accurate with the football, decisive in his reads, and dangerous on the ground.
He connected with his former high school teammate Dixon for the game's opening score and later found tight end Jake Jackson for another.
SHELLEY ➡ DIXON ➡ END ZONE.
The former high school teammates put @Utah_Football on the board first at the #HolidayBowl. pic.twitter.com/PEAOcJNe9U
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) January 1, 2019
OK THEN SHELLEY.
The freshman QB's acting like he's been here before as @utah_football jumps out to a 14-0 lead. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/xGNWuVpMAa
Shelley wasn't alone with a strong first half performance for Utah either.
Dixon was a standout, as was freshman Solomon Enis, and a third wideout, Siaosi Mariner.
The offensive line was particularly impressive as well and managed to keep Shelley nearly untouched through the opening 28 minutes of the game.
Everything fell apart in the second half, however, through a combination of factors.
Turnovers played a significant part in the Utes collapse, as Utah turned the ball over six times. Shelley was responsible for at least two of said giveaways — he finished with two interceptions and a fumble — including an egregious interception to start the third quarter.
The four additional turnovers were fumbles, including Shelley's which was returned by Northwestern's Jared McGee 86 yards for a touchdown.
SCOOP N' SCORE.
Jared McGee takes it 86 yards to the house and @NUFBFamily is right back in this thing. pic.twitter.com/tKDF4qm9Qn
In addition to the turnovers, Utah's offense was plagued by drops in the second half, as well as an inability to run the ball. Starting running back Armand Shyne finished with only 33 yards rushing, backup Devin Brumfield with 19.
For as good as the offensive line was in the first half, it was equally poor in the second half, both at run blocking and in pass protection.
All told, the first and second halves were nearly mirror images of one another, only one excellent and one abysmal.
Grade: D
Throughout the first half, even its entirety, Utah's defense was as stout as it had been all season long. The Utes completely dominated Northwestern, led by the defensive front.
Powered by the likes of Leki Fotu and John Penisini, the Utes' front four controlled the line of scrimmage and allowed linebackers Cody Barton and Francis Bernard to run wild against the Wildcats.
What little success Northwestern's offense mustered in the first half came in the passing game, and only when they were able to get smaller, speedier receivers matched up against the aforementioned linebackers.
When they didn't, Utah took advantage, as was the case when safety Marquise Blair recorded his second-quarter interception.
Marquise Blair with the pick!@Utah_Football intercepts Clayton Thorson and we're going back the other way. pic.twitter.com/ehv3vZgJTL
Much like the offense, the Utah defense made a complete about-face in the second half, however.
Almost from the get-go, the Wildcats found success against Utah in the third quarter, both on the ground and through the air.
The Utes front four, so strong in the first half, were pushed around in the second, which negated the effectiveness of Barton and Bernard.
Utah's defensive backs saw their effectiveness take a dip as well, namely Julian Blackmon, Javelin Guidry and Jaylon Johnson, each of whom was beaten badly in the third.
The highlights, or rather lowlights, of a quarter that saw Northwestern scored 28 unanswered points, 21 of which came against Utah's defense, were a receiving touchdown by an offensive lineman and a rushing touchdown out of the Wildcat formation.
Big man TD? BIG MAN TD.
And just like that @NUFBFamily is in the lead. pic.twitter.com/nB7uxsnyJe
28 straight points... IN 👏 THE 👏 THIRD 👏 QUARTER 👏
Try to keep up with @NUFBFamily. You can't. pic.twitter.com/oFSBCB3ACf
Utah's defense rebounded in the fourth, holding the Wildcats scoreless, but the deluge of points in the third quarter proved too much, despite Northwestern finishing with only 322 yards of total offense and just 81 rushing yards.
While offense and defense were hit and miss throughout the contest, Utah's special teams were solid and steady from start to finish.
Kicker Matt Gay led the way with two field goals, including a long of 32 yards. Gay finished with eight total points, capping off a record-breaking two-year tenure up on the hill.
Senior punter and three-time Ray Guy award finalist — one-time winner — Mitch Wishnowsky was also strong, and tallied five punts for 231 yards, an average of 46.2 yards per punt.
Wishnowsky had a long of 63 yards, 16 yards longer than the best by Northwestern punter Jake Collins.
Neither the Utes nor the Wildcats did much in the return game, at the very least not in any game-altering way and special teams, on the whole, weren't incredibly impactful on the final tally.
Even still, as is so often the case, Utah earned high marks in the third phase of the game.
The Utes had hoped to use the Holiday Bowl as a memory wipe of sorts, to excise the memory of a hard-fought and disappointing Pac-12 Championship game loss to Washington.
For the first half of the New Year's Eve showcase, it seemed as though the Utes would do just that, in dramatic fashion no less.
Instead, thanks to a horrific, turnover-plagued third quarter, the Utes end the season on a two-game losing streak, undone by mistakes in each loss.
Trent Wood
twood@deseretnews.com
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Solange, Questlove, Kimbra, TVotR, Sheila E & more part of Prince/Bowie symposium at Yale
Solange, Questlove, Kimbra, Sheila E, filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker and more are appearing this week at Yale University's Schwarzman Center as part of a four-day symposium called "Blackstar Rising & The Purple Reign: Celebrating the Legacies of David Bowie and Prince" ...
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Spotify released the listening data for students at universities throughout America, and as the college section of USA Today points out, NYU ranked #1 in what Spotify considers "hipster" music:We don't need Spotify data to tell us NYU is cool...
College touring North America (dates)
French electronic musician College (aka David Grellier), who, among other things, contributed the song "A Real Hero" with Electric Youth to the Drive soundtrack, will be returning to North America for a tour here this f...
HIgh Highs covered College's "A Real Hero" from the 'Drive' soundtrack, opening for Stars …
Australian ethereal folky duo High Highs (who play as a full band live these days) will be on tour starting later this month, grabbing the support slot for Stars' upcoming tour which hits the NYC area at Asbury Park, NJ's Stone Pony on October 4 and Huntington, NY's The Paramount on O…
VIDEO: watch the Ohio State Marching Band pay tribute to classic video games at Halftime (…
You don't need to be a sports fan, or even a video game fan, to agree that what this marching band can do is pretty amazing. Watch the clip from Saturday's Ohio/Nebraska halftime show, below...
College, Anoraak and Electric Youth teaming up for NYC show
Anoraak at M for Montreal 2011 (more by Bill Pearis)
When we recently profiled Electric Youth, we mentioned that they were the duo who teamed up with French producer College (aka David Grellier) for the excellent track, "A Real Hero," on the Drive Soundtrack...
MS MR playing shows, opening for VHS or Beta tonight; Electric Youth DJ the afterparty, pl…
NYC duo MS MR recently dropped the pop-leaning track, "Hurricane," which you can watch the video for below and download the MP3 in exchange for your email at their website...
Thomas Function, Golden Triangle, Valerie Collective, The Week That Was & more in This Wee…
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The Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame is a sports hall of fame and museum in the U.S. state of Hawaii. According to the hall's official website, it servers as the "state museum for sports history in the islands," and "is best described as an educational repository created to enshrine athletes, pioneers and contributors of Hawai'i's rich sports history." The organization was founded in 1997 and a selection committee meets once a year in December. The flagship exhibition for the hall is located in the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.

The 2016 class, inducted in May 2016, included water polo player Brandon Brooks, decathlete Bryan Clay, soccer player Brian Ching, and brothers Ma'ake Kemoeatu and Chris Kemoeatu for American football.

Inductees

Auto racing
 Danny Ongais

Baseball
 J. Ashman Beaven
 Alexander Cartwright
 Sid Fernandez
 Hank Hughes
 Mike Lum
 Les Murakami
 Steere Noda
 Lenn Sakata
 Derek Tatsuno
 Shane Victorino
 Tadashi Wakabayashi
 Wally Yonamine

Basketball
 Red Rocha

Boat racing
 Thomas Gentry

Bowling
 Hiroto Hirashima
 Kotaro Miyasato

Boxing
 Takeshi Fuji
 Andrew Ganigan
 Stan Harrington
 Sam Ichinose
 Robert M. Lee
 Dado Marino
 Bobo Olson
 Jesus Salud
 Albert Silva
 Ben Villaflor

Broadcasting
 Les Keiter
 Chuck Leahey

Canoe racing
 A. E. Minvielle
 Joseph Napoleon

Coaching
 Kenneth A. Bray

Decathlon
 Bryan Clay

Diving
 Rachel Kealaonapua O'Sullivan

American football
 Junior Ah You
 Charley Ane
 Herman Clark
 Russ Francis
 Rocky Freitas
 Kurt Gouveia
 Hank Hughes
 Ma'ake Kemoeatu
 Chris Kemoeatu
 Otto Klum
 Olin Kreutz
 Edison Miyawaki
 Jesse Sapolu
 Maa Tanuvasa
 Mosi Tatupu
 Mark Tuinei
 Herman Wedemeyer
 Jeris White
 Wally Yonamine

Golf
 Francis Hyde I`i Brown
 David Ishii
 Tom Kaulukukui
 Ted Makalena
 Jackie Pung
 Lenore Muraoka
 Dean Wilson

Martial arts
 Kevin Asano
 Dae Sung Lee
 Ed Parker

Motorcycle racing
 John DeSoto Jr.

Skeet shooting
 James Austin

Soccer
 Brian Ching
 Natasha Kai
 Jack Sullivan

Sport fishing
 Peter Fithian

Sports promotion
 Donnis Thompson
 Mackay Yanagisawa

Steer roping
 Ikua Purdy

Sumo
 Konishiki Yasokichi
 Takamiyama Daigorō
 Musashimaru Kōyō
 Akebono Tarō

Surfing
 Lynne Boyer
 George Downing
 Sunny Garcia
 Fred Hemmings
 Derek Ho
 Andy Irons
 Duke Kahanamoku
 Richard Keaulana
 Gerry Lopez
 Margo Oberg
 Randy Rarick
 Rell Sunn

Swimming
 Thelma Kalama
 Dad Center
 Dick Cleveland
 Buster Crabbe
 E. Fullard-Leo
 Mariechen Wehselau
 Duke Kahanamoku
 Samuel Kahanamoku
 Maiola Kalili
 Manuella Kalili
 Evelyn Kawamoto
 Pua Kealoha
 Warren Kealoha
 Ford Konno
 Keo Nakama
 Yoshi Oyakawa
 Soichi Sakamoto
 Bill Smith
 Aileen Riggin
 Allen Stack
 Bill Woolsey

Tennis
 Jim Schwitters

Track and field
 Jim Barahal
 Duncan MacDonald
 Jack Scaff
 Norman Tamanaha

Volleyball
 Robyn Ah Mow-Santos
 Lindsey Berg
 Linda Fernandez
 Tom Haine
 Fanny Hopeau
 Sharon Peterson
 Dave Shoji
 Clay Stanley
 Jon Stanley
 Pedro Velasco

Water polo
 Brandon Brooks
 Christopher Duplanty

Weightlifting
 Pete George
 Emerick Ishikawa
 Tommy Kono
 Harold Sakata
 Richard Tom

Wind surfing
 Robby Naish

Women's sports
 Patsy Mink

Wrestling
 Clarissa Chun

Yacht racing
 Clarence W. MacFarlane

References

External links
 Official site
 List of inductees

Halls of fame in Hawaii
State sports halls of fame in the United States
All-sports halls of fame
Museums in Honolulu

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Held against the impressive and strangely appropriate backdrop of The RAF Museum' at RAF Cosford (England), an introduction to the program was given by the company's charismatic Chairman, Bryan Jackson. I had already had a brief chat with him, and what shines through clearly is that this is a long term program (four years) that is determined to deliver tangible, practical results (after our own hearts).
Although the beneficiaries are already relatively successful companies, most would be categorised as 'SMEs' (Small to Medium Sized Enterprises). Sharing in Growth offers them access to business analysis, training and business reviews in a vast package that would normally only be accessible – resource wise – to big, blue chip companies.
But, as Andy Page, CEO, went on to reinforce, this programme isn't just a freebie. Companies have to commit themselves to this level of development as well, and match what they're being given. And to keep a 17% of global aerospace market share, the UK needs to perform increasingly better.
Steve Smith, President UK & EMEA, AGC Composites and Aerostructures Group, has already started the programme. He speaks of it glowingly, saying that although some of it was hard to hear, the first part of the program alone, where the company's performance, leadership, finances and market was reviewed, was invaluable, offering a roadmap for the coming years. He's realistically, expecting a 20-40% cost reduction in his business. He described the program as like a train you can't get off – you can't slack. When you're a busy company director, the structured approach is good thing.
Overall the programme is looking to achieve 25% improvement efficiencies, with the success of the programme measured by the order book (sales).
Global Integration is one of the three key training partners, shoulder to shoulder with other programme delivery partners including Deloitte, Rolls Royce and Unipart.
I've been a part of many incubator programmes in the past. Most help early stage companies, and most are for a relatively short period of time. Sharing in Growth stands out for me personally for its ambition and depth of course, but even more so for 'journey': it's not parachuting in, fixing a problem, then out. It's a longer journey than that, addressing real needs faced by many smaller companies at that awkward 'growth' phase — rewarding and encouraging people who have already grown their companies with some valuable, long lasting tools for even greater success.
Personally, I loved being part of it, if only for a day. It's clear others do too: there are only five spaces left on the programme, so if you're part of an aerospace related company and want to be part of the programme, you'll have to be quick!


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UK Conservatives' Hindi Election Song Is Catchy AND Awkward [VIDEO]
Ivan Plis Reporter, Daily Caller News Foundation
April 24, 2015 1:20 PM ET
In its latest push for maintaining power in the upcoming general election, the United Kingdom's Conservative Party has released what it says is the country's first-ever Hindi-language campaign music video.
The song "Neela Hai Aasma" ("The Sky Is Blue") is targeted to "1.6 million British Indians," according to the Conservative Friends of India group that produced the video. There are somewhere around 45 million registered voters in the U.K., so the video is a pinpoint effort to win over South Asian voters in closely contested electoral districts.
BuzzFeed News compared its simple lyrics — "The sky is blue and glorious / This is the color of Britain's pride" — and cheerful melody to "a soothing nursery rhyme." (Blue is also the color associated with Conservative Party campaigns.) And an Indian Twitter user told The Daily Caller News Foundation that it has a "very retro, cringing feeling like a kid's song"
The video showcases Prime Minister David Cameron's visits to India, including a handshake with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and some awkward shots with his head covered at Amritsar's Golden Temple, the holiest site in the Sikh religion.
He is also seen interacting with British South Asians: unveiling a statue of Mohandas Gandhi in London as Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan looks on, and appearing with his sari-clad wife Samantha at a celebration of the Hindu holiday Diwali.
Meanwhile, selected headlines and animated text in the video showcase Cameron's accomplishments as Prime Minister since 2010: "Income tax cut for over 26 million people" and "deficit cut by half."
Indian-British voters are traditionally associated with the Labour Party, but their degree of party loyalty has been declining in recent decades. In response, the Conservatives are fielding an increasing number of parliamentary candidates of South Asian descent. As the Wall Street Journal noted Friday, Cameron also said last year, "One day I want to hear that title 'prime minister' followed by a British Asian name."
Besides U.K. citizens of Indian descent, the Conservatives may also be targeting the 266,000 or so Indian citizens living in the country, who as members of the British Commonwealth have the legal right to vote in elections in the U.K.
Cameron's Conservative Party is currently forecasted to lose its grip on Parliament in May 7's general election. Continuing a trend from previous elections, small parties besides the dominant Conservative and Labour factions are likely to be crucial as members of a final parliamentary coalition.
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package net.kuujo.vertigo.cluster.impl;

import io.vertx.core.Vertx;
import net.kuujo.vertigo.deployment.DeploymentManager;
import net.kuujo.vertigo.VertigoOptions;
import net.kuujo.vertigo.spi.DeploymentManagerFactory;

/**
 * Cluster context manager factory implementation.
 *
 * @author Jordan Halterman
 */
public class ClusterContextManagerFactory implements DeploymentManagerFactory {

  @Override
  public DeploymentManager createContextManager(Vertx vertx, VertigoOptions options) {
    return new ClusterDeploymentManager(vertx, options.getClusterAddress());
  }

}

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A set of fundamental rules of circulation for the Nimses economy.
A description and definition of all the basic concepts and laws of Nimses and how they interact.
A description of how the Nimses economy interacts with the existing crypto and fiat economies of the world.
An outline of a planetary economy that combines all forms of socio-economic activity in offline and online spaces united by a single Element of Value: the Nim.
An exposition of society's newest anthropological reality, where the time a human has lived is the only absolute capital.
A description of human reality and activity in the form of the integration of the monetary information space of Nimses and the existing Anthroposphere.
Nimses is a global platform created to address the challenges that modern civilisations and economies are facing on a massive, meta-technological level.
As a technological and intellectual revolution evolves before our eyes, Nimses is emerging as a means of comprehending and integrating the chaotic previous generations of the Anthroposphere into a tightly connected network: a global society interlinked like neurons in the brain.
The current socioeconomic situation could be seen like a world expecting a Great Flood, in search of a new Ark. The cumulative genetic heritage of the previous evolutionary states of being was determined by the life codes of "survivors": the defining features of these codes were often selfishness and a tendency towards mutual exploitation.
Society's current consciousness and the state of its economy enables a significant leap towards a new, completely global state, in which the fundamental connecting element is the Value of Life.
Within human collective consciousness, Nimses establishes a fundamental economic unit based on the intrinsic Value of Human Life's Time. The Nim.
A nim is a digital asset guaranteed by the measurable time of a human lifetime, destined to become an absolute standard of value.
Nimonomy defines the life cycle of Nimses as a socio-economic space with determined rules and self-regulating laws.
(1) The goal of Nimses is to provide society with an absolute capital and to lead it to its future global state: a future unified, benevolent human economy. Help to create an evolutionary leap towards mutual universal acceptance and unprecedented form of unity.
The basic anthropological theory is presented in <Singular Determination>.
Nimses introduces the new higher abstract concepts of the nim, dominim, infinim, Temple and Treasury. Utilizing these fundamental concepts, Nimses has implemented a flow of basic economic 'peer-to-peer' transactions based on the principles of transparency, honesty, simplicity and convenience.
This space of mutual exchange operates on a deep mathematical level, addressing the tasks people have faced in the newest version of the online "reality".
The Nimses economic space exists to bring the existing economies to a common denominator, not to replace them. It enables the conflict-free satisfaction of all parties' interests on both an individual and global scale, an act technologically impossible prior to this moment.
Nimses brings together all the existing offline economies, and newer online economic structures, thus creating a new hybrid dimension for finding new, more efficient economic solutions.
Nimses is a supply environment for living people, equally accessible for all. Nimses turns the capital of people's lives into benefits for its users whilst at the same time obliging them to follow a set of strict, compulsory, yet clear rules.
These rules are set out below and guarantee Equal Access of all Nimses citizens to the fundamental values of the Anthroposphere: life, freedom of choice, the right to self-identity, justice, prosperity and happiness.
Nimses takes into account and respects the interests and ambitions of the systems and administrative structures that existed before it, which allowed society to survive and evolve to its current state.
(2) The objective of Nimses is to provide states, organizations, businesses and individuals with a single, global, deterministic system of mutual exchange based on absolute capital.
Nimses constructs an environment where humans can organize themselves into social entities of any complexity. This environment includes the fundamental protection of the rights to a decent life, freedom and sovereignty in accordance with a single set of rules for all participants.
(3) Nimses is designed to synchronize the diverse economic phenomena of both the offline and online spaces of the Anthroposphere and to do so with the interests of people at heart.
This approach also predetermines Nimses' anti-anarchic nature. A nature which prefers a cooperative relationship with all the existing economic systems of the former world, so long as they are constructively orientated.
A public currency exchange for the conversion of monetary units — Nimses Exchange, NimEx (will be available once the full legal compliance with regulatory policies is achieved).
Nimses can be thought of as a planetary framework upholding the creation and existence of nims. A nim is a digital unit that is equivalent to one lived minute of a person's life.
Every human has the right to nims. Every human has the right to one <Nimses ID>, generating one nim every minute they live.
It must be highlighted that this document only aims to outline the current proportions and rules of the Nimses economy, which, like Nimses itself, are subject to continuous collective improvement.
A Nimses ID is a unique addressable object in the Nimses space.
A Nimses ID is always attached to a specific living person. Nimses ID provides <Emission> in the interests of its owner/procreator.
Each person can have only one Nimses ID.
The only producers of nims are Nimses IDs that belong to real, unique people with verified <Human> identity, or those in the process of <Verification>.
Each Nimses ID has a private crypto key, which is used to sign each outgoing <Transaction>.
A nim is a digitized version of a unique lived minute in the life of a specific human. At any given moment in time, every nim in the system belongs to a single identifiable owner, to one <Nimses ID>.
A nim can change an owner only if its current owner initiates the transaction or in cases outlined in a uniform codex of basic laws, equally applicable to each and every Nimses user.
Nim expresses the universal absolute form of value. It is the form of the existence of a viable capital/asset.
The quantity of nims is strictly dependent on the population of the planet, that is, with the number of owners of Nimses IDs. They are absolutely deterministic and finite throughout their existence.
The history of changes in any nim balance is available for external monitoring and permanent audit. The authenticity of the history of all transactions is mathematically proven and is set forth in <Nimses White Paper>.
All the nims of one person, as well as the nims of the entire Anthroposphere, make up a universal natural resource produced by human life on Earth.
Nimses is an infrastructural formation that sustains mankind's creation, storage and use of nims. Nimses guarantees a single, definitive record of all nim <Transactions>. Nimses is a space where digital value evolves to its absolute form, expressed mathematically through a nim.
Each person's nims are emitted to their own individual balance/wallet, strictly matched to their unique Nimses ID obtained at <Registration>.
The global economic space of Nimses is based on the fundamental theory of nim <Emission>. The emission principle in Nimses protects Human Life as the foundation upon which an unconditional value can emerge.
The nim emission in its mechanics combines properties of the internal logic of both centralized fiat and decentralized cryptocurrency economies.
In order to sustain and govern its technical, social and logical subsystems, Nimses has established a set of system accounts called the Nimses Treasury.
The Nimses Treasury is designed to implement a regulatory policy throughout Nimses and to ensure the sustainability of the system as a whole.
The existence of the Nimses Treasury makes it possible to develop and maintain, at a stable fundamental level, an integral, planetary economic space that allows for the merging of traditional state-centred economies with virtual economies of digital space into a single supply environment for a global society.
The Nimses Treasury accounts do not emit nims. The Nimses Treasury is the central nucleus of Nimses, only accepting transactions from participants of the system who keep in line with the rules. At the time of its creation, an account of the Nimses Treasury is empty. As time passes it begins to operate exclusively with nims obtained from the participants of the Anthroposphere.
1) Nimses keeps 20% of all nims at its disposal in order to implement any regulatory policies and maintain the global reliability of the system and its continuous development.
2) 80% of all nims are automatically converted into dominims / infinims which represent "ingots" made up of 525,960 and 63,115,200 nims respectively.
Dominim is a higher unit of value in Nimses, equal to one year of human life.
Infinim is a supreme unit of value in Nimses symbolizing the theoretical duration of one human life — 120 years.
Both dominim and infinim are the supreme units of value. Both entail different unique benefits and possibilities for someone who owns them.
The entire legacy of mankind in the Nimses space-time is passed on to future generations in the form of infinims. The Infinims of mankind will always exist.
The possession of a dominim or an infinim is a clear sign/mark/social symbol of 'Wealth', 'Privilege' and 'Prestige'.
Nimses Treasury creates dominims and infinims automatically. As soon as the number of nims in the incoming stream exceeds 63,115,200, the Nimses Treasury assembles a new dominim or an infinim.
The Nimses Foundation guarantees that Nimses continues functioning and developing as a stable, global environment. One of the most important aspects of Nimonomy is <Recirculation>, which will be explained once <Infinims> begin their circulation.
The Temple is a single, delineated section of the Earth's surface. The Temple is a basic element of a unified info-administrative division of the planet.
The Temple is designed to structure and organize the global human media/information sphere, absorbing and recording all traces of human activity.
The Temple contains a unique picture of reality, formed exclusively by the people active within it.
The entire surface of the planet is divided into Temples: fixed sections of Earth with clearly defined, unchangeable geographical coordinates. The total number of Temples on the planet is 538,560.
Functionally, the Temple is a repository of information about people in a given area. It contains the event stream in the form of an aggregated media history of the Temple community. This entails a range of data addressing the virtual communication landscape including geo-located markers on the Temple map, that have been created or commented on by participants.
Each <Temple> has its own system account: the <Temple Bank>. This account is an essential element of the global circulation of nims. It accumulates a part of the daily <Contribution> and media creation fees from each <Citizen> and visitor of the current Temple.
The totality of all Temple Banks makes up the second largest accounts pool after the Nimses Treasury. Each individual Temple Bank can be taken by a person of <Human> status according to the established rules of the Stake mechanism. The person in temporary possession of the Temple Bank acquires the most highly-regarded status in Nimses: <Master>.
Each Temple has its own non-emitting system account, which receives contributions of 100 nims per day from each of its Citizens, according to the established rules of regular replenishment. Contributions from Citizens are accumulated in the Temple Bank until the Temple gets an owner. The owner of a Temple Bank is called a Master. Only the owners of at least one <Dominim> or <Infinim> are entitled to become the Temple Master and the owner of its Bank.
The possibility of temporary possession of the Temple Bank is the feature of both dominim and infinim, called the Stake. From the moment mastership of the Temple Bank is acquired, the Master automatically has all the nims accumulated in the Temple Bank sent to their <Nimses ID> and collects all daily contributions from that point forward.
Gaining control over a Temple Bank is one of the most sought-after and important elements of Nimses. The Temple Banks of all the Temples constitute the largest constituent part of the Nimonomy. The temporary, personal acquisition of a Temple Bank makes the Master the owner of the entire incoming stream of nims, which will in turn depend on the population size, prestige and popularity of that particular Temple.
Nimses generates dominims and infinims and introduces the Temple system to promote open access and equal distribution of The Common Good amongst active <Humans>.
Any Temple Bank that does not currently have a Master can be acquired by placing a Stake. A Temple Bank that already has a Master can change hands at any moment if another <Human> places a Stake that is at least one unit larger than the previous one.
Creation of one nim on a Nimses ID account for every subsequent minute lived.
<Verification> of a Nimses ID up to the level of <Human>.
There are three types of accounts in Nimses: emitting, non-emitting and system accounts.
The creation of nims occurs only in emitting accounts that are attached to a Nimses ID, each of which is uniquely associated with a specific person, a rightful member of the Anthroposphere.
One person can ever have only one Nimses ID: one basic, unconditional source of nims.
All other entities and their Nimses accounts can receive, store and transfer nims, but they can never produce them.
Transactions between different <Nimses IDs>, that is, the transfer of nims between accounts, are not subject to any commissions or fees. Any owner of a Nimses ID can initiate a transaction and transfer any or all of the nims that they possess to any other Nimses ID at any given time.
Nimses guarantees fast and reliable transactions of any sum between all parties providing their accounts are in good standing.
The transaction space between Nimses IDs is conventionally called the "social space". Within the social space, transactions are unrestricted and instantaneous when made in compliance with certain rules and access rights, that correspond to different <Identity levels>.
A <User> is entitled to transmit no more than 100 nims a day.
A <Human> can initially transmit no more than 500 nims a day.
The more additional evidence the Human provides of their life and uniqueness, the more their daily transaction limit increases, which can range from 500 nims a day to an unlimited number.
Registering a new <Nimses ID> in Nimses requires a step-by-step identity verification of each unique person, each living member of the Anthroposphere. The general policy of Nimses encourages extensive mutual cross-identification by peers in order to exclude any duplication.
The goal of this thorough, multi-level registration process is to keep the social space a place of mutual trust, responsibility and security.
Registration requires a mobile phone number and access to a geo-location. Also the system may ask for a passport name, an up-to-date portrait photo, an email address and access to phone contacts. For using <Nimex>, a further step might be required whereby the user takes a selfie with their bank card.
Any <Human> has the option to hide their geo-position from other users by activating "invisible" mode.
The next key step in obtaining a complete <Nimses ID> after <Registration> is Verification, which is an extended procedure with a multi-level confirmation process to verify that the user is a single, unique member of society. This verification ensures there is only one <Nimses ID> per living person.
Each newly created Nimses ID is required to obtain the <Human> level of identity. In order to do this, the Nimses ID must receive at least 6 verifications from already verified users (Humans).
Each verification is a guarantee that the owner of the verified <Nimses ID> is indeed a unique, real, living person who is aware of their own responsibility.
If a counterfeit account is falsely verified, sanctions, including <Fines> and access restriction, inevitably follow. Nimses records the entire history of changes in user's identity levels in the permanent storage of the <Nimses Blockchain>. This history trail is subject to permanent analysis in order to detect fraudulent activity.
Nimses performs a global regulatory function. The Daily Contribution is one of its fundamental elements.
The Contribution involves a mandatory global daily contribution from each holder of <Nimses ID>. This is essential for ensuring the sustainable operation of the entire system as well as for guaranteeing the environment's security.
<User>: 288 nims per day.
<Human>: 111 nims a day.
<User>: 188 nims per day.
<User>: 100 nims per day.
<Human>: 100 nims a day.
A Contribution rate which grows exponentially is credited to the <Nimses Treasury>. The Temple Bank continues to receive the flat rate of 100 nims a day from each "dormant" Nimses ID.
2) promote compliance with the overall balance of the Nimses system, whereby each person must demonstrate equal respect for the common space of all participants, and where no misuse, including apathy or exploitation, can violate this fair balance.
Nimses describes and presents these internal rules which must be abided by for the coexistence of all participants. Making sure that users of the Nimses universe follow these rules guarantees fair and equitable access to the benefits of Nimses for all users.
Any violation of the rules leads to penalization. This is an immediate consequence of an attempt to harm the system and/or its participants. This strict link between cause and effect is key to achieving integrity and order in society.
In such cases, an indisputable, penalty withdrawal from a <User> or <Human> account can range from 30% to 100% of the current balance. The full sum of the fine goes straight to the <Nimses Treasury>.
The most important law for the development of Nimses is the strict adherence to the basic rule assuring one person only ever has one <Nimses ID>. Nimses constantly performs a thorough and uncompromising search and elimination of all fallout resulting from the violation of this principle. If the presence of duplicate or fake Nimses ID is proven through <Nimses Court> or other mechanics, it leads to their blocking, as well as a complete stoppage of the <Emission> on the detected fraudulent <Nimses ID>.
Persons who intentionally violate the basic principle of "one human = one Nimses ID", inevitably become the objects of the strictest sanctions and restrictions regarding access to Nimses, up to a lifetime Elimination of their account.
To receive convenient media updates, each member of Nimses can subscribe to any <Temple>, as well as to any other owner of a <Nimses ID>.
Upon subscription to a temple or person, an automatic daily outgoing <Transaction> to their account is established.
The subscription price is 1 nim per day. The number of possible subscriptions is limited by the individual's forecasted income per day.
In each <Temple> there is a cost for creating a media post. This sum is stored in the Temple forever as an element of the social memory.
2) The publication of content from the memory of a smartphone: 100 nims.
In the future, costs may vary, depending on newly-adopted Nimses policies or the decisions of a particular Temple.
10% — to the Temple Bank.
Each <Dominim> has strictly 1 Stake; as follows, each <Infinim> has strictly 120 Stakes. Staking a dominim to become a Temple Master does not equate to wasting or losing the dominim forever, but only temporarily attaches this dominim to the chosen <Temple> and rids the user of the possibility of making <Transactions> with that dominim for a period of time.
When a Stake has been made on a <Temple Bank> with a specific dominim, the Stake cannot be revoked, nor the dominim can leave its owner's <Master> <Nimses ID>. The minimum binding period is 3 months.
If the Master changes, all the dominims that were part of their Stake on this Temple again go to the full disposal of their owner and can be transferred with no limitations.
'User' is the identity level of a <Nimses ID> which has not yet passed <Verification> after <Registration>.
1. Daily <Transactional> limit: 100 nims.
2. There is no access to the <Nimses platforms>.
'Human' is the identity level of a <Nimses ID> with six or more <Verifications> from Nimses IDs, who have already reached the level of Human.
1. Full access to Nimses and all <Nimses platforms>.
2. The ability to achieve the <Noble> or <Master> status in the Temple.
3. The right to own dominims and infinims.
The Human level of identity suggests a possible increase of the daily <Transaction> limit from 500 nims a day to an unlimited number.
A Human bears full, personal responsibility for the Verifications awarded on their behalf. Also, a Human is responsible for any content they create or distribute and all of their <Offers> and <Advertisements>. In the case of fraudulent Verification (providing verification to a counterfeit account, thus violating the basic rule for creating unique Nimses IDs), as well as any violations of the rights of other participants by any means, system penalties in the form of <Fines> and restrictions to access of Nimses are likely to be imposed.
The <Temple> includes a citizenship feature. Five days after <Registration>, each user in Nimses automatically obtains citizenship in one of the Temples.
The procedure of assigning a Temple to each user is based on determining his/her geolocation and calculating the time spent in this or that Temple for the period established by the system. The holder of a <Nimses ID> gets the status of Citizen in the Temple where he or she spends the most time.
Any <Human> can <Subscribe> to any <Temple> and become its Resident after a certain period of time.
The Resident is entitled to participate in the life of the Temple, to contribute content to the internal channels of the Temple, and to participate in certain Temple polls/referenda.
Each Human can only be a <Citizen> of one Temple at a time but can be a Resident of many Temples simultaneously.
Citizenship cannot be chosen, it is determined automatically by geo-statistics. Residency can be chosen independently.
A Human, with a balance of nims below a certain threshold, cannot become a Resident. Anyone who does not have this specific amount on their balance, cannot claim the status of a Resident.
In each <Temple> the most affluent <Citizen> is automatically identified and assigned the status of Noble.
1. Have a level of identity <Human>.
2. Be a Temple Citizen.
3. Have the greatest number of nims in your account out of all the other Citizens of this Temple.
Being a Noble is a high privilege. The holder of this status has a special halo and is identified by prestige badges in their personal profile.
There cannot be more than 538,560 people in the world with the status of a Noble, according to the number of Temples on the planet.
The Master status is the highest of the self-procured Nimses statuses.
Master status means owning a <Temple Bank> as a direct source of their own income, which makes the Master the recipient of part of the <Contribution> from all <Citizens> of the selected <Temple>, even though the Master is not required to be its Citizen.
Any <Human> who has at least one <Dominim> which has not yet been used to place a <Stake>, that is, not assigned to another <Temple>, can become a Master of an available Temple.
Any <Human> can become a Master of any Temple, if there are enough unused Dominims at their disposal in order to exceed the current number of dominims invested as the Stake in the selected Temple, by at least one.
Angel is the paramount assigned status in Nimses.
Angel is a personal status in Nimses, the analog of an "influencer". This is a select <Human>, who received a specific amount of nominations needed to become an Angel. The required number of nominations grows daily by 1.
Any Human can be nominated to receive the status of an Angel by other participants of Nimses.
The Angel has a special halo/nimbus. Everyone nimmed by an Angel gets a specific halo/nimbus for the next 24 hours from the moment the <Transaction> is commenced by the Angel.
The status of an Angel does not depend on the number of nims he or she has on his/her balance. The status of the Angel implies that the individual is respected and recognised by a diverse and extensive audience. The status of the Angel cannot be bought.
The status of the Angel is immediately rescinded in the case of disrespectful, questionable or compromising behavior of the <Human> in spaces related or unrelated to Nimses.
The Human, as the bearer of the Angel status, can be <Fined> for abusing this high status or for discrediting it.
Nimses is designed to be a space free from fraud and exploitation. The essence of nims as a form of absolute sovereignty of value defines Nimses as a space for equal rights and protection against manipulation.
d) The intentional or unintentional participation in fraudulent transactions.
Nimses implements the <Nimses Court> platform, which automatically matches Humans, associated with a conflict in the Nimses event space, with algorithmically selected Judges who have passed multi-level verification and rating filtering.
Every <Human> who authorizes themselves as a participant of <Nimses Goods> and who has created at least one Offer, automatically becomes a Merchant.
Being granted the status of Merchant presumes a high level of accountability for the quality of the goods/services provided to other Nimses users.
In the case of <Proven> fraud or dishonesty on the Merchant's side, their account may be <Fined> up to 100% of their balance.
A Merchant has a right to offer goods/services of offline and online origins, and, in exchange for those, to receive nims. The nims can be received according to the imposed limits or the lack of such.
Any <Human> that authorizes themselves as a participant of the <Nimex> platform automatically becomes a Trader in Nimses and can buy and sell with nims, <Dominims> or <Infinims> on the platform.
Being a Trader demands full compliance with the Nimses system rules and Nimex's internal rules, as well as the laws of the country where the owner of the <Nimses ID> resides. Whenever a fiat profit is made, it is legally taxable according to the laws of that country.
A Trader has the right to freely trade nims, dominims or infinims with all of the other members of Nimex.
A Trader is forbidden from manipulating trades in Nimses, selling/buying nims, dominims and infinims to the detriment of equitable, existing balances in the economy. Any such attempts will be prevented or halted by sanctions and fines.
The Advertiser role is given to each <Human> that uses the <Nimses Ads> platform to advertise content to other users.
An Advertiser is fully responsible for the information they provide and pays nims to each Human who receives an advert from them.
Advertiser has the right to deliver their messages to all those who consent to the consumption of this advertising content within the Nimses audience.
The Nimses Court is a system designed to solve complex disputes through both algorithmic and human means. An algorithm chooses appropriate <Humans> to be <Judges> (an analog of a jury) each carrying a quality an algorithm does not possess: common sense.
A "panel" of <Judges> are specifically selected by the system for each case. They then investigate the context and details of the case to establish who was right or wrong, after which either the defendant or the plaintiff pays a specific penalty. The proceeds of the fine is shared between the winner of the case (be it the plaintiff or the defendant), the Judges and the <Nimses Treasury>.
Each case reviewed leaves a score in the Judges profile affecting their rating.
In the case of an appeal, cases may be re-examined by an expanded list of Judges with a higher rating. However, the penalty amount increases. Thus, issues of any complexity can be resolved in a fair and reasonable manner and regulated by the community itself using their own intellect and empathy.
More detailed rules of the Nimses Court concept can be found in the relevant Codex.
Nimses Exchange (later referred to as Nimex) is a trading platform for transfering fiat money and crypto assets into and out of the Nimonomy.
Nimex is designed to provide an open market exchange mechanism of <Nims> / <Dominims> / <Infinims> to major fiat- and cryptocurrencies.
Nimex is a unified, fully-fledged platform for integrating Nimses with market currencies and crypto assets currently circulating in the economies of various countries and online spaces.
Nimex sets forth a specific set of rules and regulations that applies to all Traders.
Nimex establishes the financial quote for the minimum value of the nim, dominim, and infinim.
Nimex determines the size of the fees for the withdrawal of nims from the "social space" of <Nimses ID> personal balance accounts to the trading account space of Nimex. The full sum of these fees is credited to the <Nimses Treasury>.
Any <Traders> who make a fiat profit from trading within the Nimex space are fully responsible for paying any taxes on this profit in accordance with the legislation of their local authorities.
Nimex may charge a specific, pre-agreed fiat commission to cover the cost of transferring fiat money in and out of the system using the market's existing methods .
Detailed rules of the Nimex concept and its practices are presented in the relevant set of Regulations.
Nimses Goods is a global marketplace for exchanging real and virtual goods and services for nims.
Nimses Goods allows Merchants to place and supply any goods and services to owners of Nimses IDs through a localized inner marketplace.
Nimses Goods is where buyers and sellers meet. They operate with nims as a means of universal exchange for goods/services.
Merchants on Nimses Goods have the right to accumulate as many nims as they can or want to. Then they can act as <Traders> and display their nim earnings in the <Nimex> space ready for them to be exchanged into <Dominims>, <Infinims>, fiat money or crypto-assets.
Sellers are required to comply with the rules of Nimses Goods and take full responsibility for providing the proper level of service to their customers. In the case of <Proven> misconduct or deception on the part of a Merchant, their balance can be <Fined> up to 100% of their total.
A detailed description of the concept and function of Nimses Goods can be found in the relevant set of Principles.
Nimses is a space free from unauthorized violations of one's personal media space.
To make sure that any promotional activities are unintrusive and effective from the Human's point of view, Nimses provides a tailor-made platform for distributing targeted paid advertising: Nimses Ads.
Each <Nimses ID>, found in a specific <Advertiser's> targeted group receives a notification/badge indicating the amount of nims they will receive for consenting to view the advertisement.
A Human sees an advertising message only if they explicitly express that they wish to do so, that is, they open the message and receive a specified amount of nims from the Advertiser for this action.
Every second of attention of a Human in Nimses is rated in nims, and the Advertiser is obliged to pay the relevant amount of nims to each owner of a Nimses ID, who has given their attention to the Advertiser's message.
Detailed rules of the Nimses Ads are presented in the relevant Description.
Each person only has the right to one <Nimses ID>. One for life.
Every Nimses ID is entitled to an account which emits nims, such account is associated with a specific Human and it is their right to manage this account after they have been Verified.
Verification is a process through which a Nimses ID gains the status of a Human thus receiving a full access to Nimses. Verification is complete upon the receipt of a set of six confirmations from people who already have the status of Human.
Verifying a Nimses ID is a personal responsibility. The verifier is confirming the person's actual existence and they are complying with clause 1. In the case of an intentional or unintentional violation of this law, the person who provided the false Verification is subject to sanctions and fines.
Nobody in Nimses has the right to create fake Nimses IDs or simulate a human life. For the creation of or involvement in the creation of fake Nimses IDs, there are strict consequences, including penalties and restricted access to Nimses.
A Human has the absolute, inalienable right to nims.
A Human has the right to The Common Good and the possession of any number of honestly acquired nims, dominims, and infinims.
A Human has the complete freedom to use their own initiative and express their own identity in Nimses. However, a Human is also responsible for their actions and must comply with the environment's cultural code which has been established for the benefit of all parties.
A Human takes full personal responsibility for the decency, honesty and efficiency of any commercial services or information that they provide in the Nimses space.
A Judge has the right to pass judgements assessing whether a Human's actions in Nimses were acceptable or not.
A Human has the right to reasonably defend their content and opinion before the Judges.
A Human must abide by the Nimses rules and comply with all the Basic Laws without exception. Violation of the Laws will result in sanctions, fines and having access to Nimses withdrawn.


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Paragon's Voltabox eyes IPO volume of up to 152 mln eur
FRANKFURT, Sept 25 (Reuters) - German battery systems maker Voltabox said its shares would be priced between 20 and 24 euros in its planned initial public offering for a placement volume of up to 151.8 million euros ($181 million).
Parent company Paragon said two weeks ago it plans to float about 40 percent of its Voltabox unit on the Frankfurt stock exchange as early as this autumn to raise funds to develop the business.
The IPO volume is expected to raise between 126.5 million and 151.8 million euros, with Voltabox likely to receive gross proceeds of 116.5-139.8 million euros, the IPO candidate said in a statement on Monday.
The subscription period will run from Sept. 27 to likely Oct. 10 with the first day of trading in the Frankfurt stock exchange's Prime Standard segment expected for Oct. 13, it added.
Voltabox, whose customers include carmaker BMW, brake systems business Knorr-Bremse and industrial robots maker Kuka, makes lithium-ion-based battery systems used in electric forklifts, mining vehicles and trolley buses.
It has said it sees opportunities in agricultural markets, construction vehicles and municipal utility vehicles. It also plans to expand into performance electronics and electric engines. ($1 = 0.8389 euros) (Reporting by Ludwig Burger; Editing by Christoph Steitz)


Because the link in the previous solution is broken it seemed me usefull to post a new link for people that need it. Found it on Google but have re-uploaded it to postimage so it hopefully stays on there.
Link for Imageshack wasn't working anymore, re-uploaded the image to postimage, just leave a message if the link is down.
Link went down again, found it again through Google and used the direct link for that image.


LLOPS » A Silk Purse out of a Practice Digest?
A Silk Purse out of a Practice Digest?
Feeling virtuous that you are recycling the books you discard? Meet a firm librarian who has re-defined book recycling. Kathy Kelly once agonized about tossing the many books we all must pull off the shelves. Now she transforms outdated and unwanted law books into bags that sell for $125 to $350. Read how Kathy used a simple tool, not a lot of experience, but plenty of imagination to create a new product and go much further in recycling than most of us thought possible.
Love it! I think Washington Reports or Marindale would look smart as bags.


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GM Financial Pilots Prime Product
FORT WORTH, Texas — GM Financial's Dan Berce noted during the captive's quarterly investor call last week that while competition remains intense, there were signs during the opening quarter of 2014 that competitive conditions are beginning to stabilize after intensifying for most of 2012 and 2013.
The company's president and CEO also revealed that the finance source began piloting a prime lending program in the first quarter, as well as expansion of the captive's near-prime subvention program in anticipation of a full prime launch this summer. Berce also noted that the company's credit metrics remain at historic lows in all of the company's major markets.
"We at GM Financial … have maintained credit and pricing discipline," Berce said. "We haven't made any changes to our credit policy of any meaningful way in the subprime area."
The captive reported earnings of $145 million for the quarter ending March 31, 2014. On a pretax basis, earnings were up $50 million from a year ago to $222 million.
Consumer loan and lease originations totaled $4.2 billion, while annualized net credit losses accounted for 1.85% of average consumer finance receivables. The company also reported earning assets of $35 million.
Consumer loan originations in North America totaled $1.365 billion during the quarter, marginally higher than the year-ago period. Outstanding balance of consumer finance receivables totaled $24.1 billion. Credit losses for the quarter were 1.8% of average consumer receivables for the quarter, compared to 2.6% one year ago.
Annualized credit losses for North America as a percent of average consumer finance receivables were 3.1%. Consumer receivables 31-to-61 days delinquent accounted for 3.1% of the captive's portfolio during the quarter, compared to 4.3% one year ago. Accounts more than 60 days delinquent were 1.4% of the portfolio (down from 1.5%), while accounts 31-to-60 and more than 60 days delinquent for North America were 5% and 1.8%, respectively.
Berce reported that the captive's share of GM subprime in the U.S. market was 31.8%, slightly down from a year ago. "In today's low rate interest environment, we do see bank rates at the upper end of subprime being competitive with our subprime rates, so that did account for some of our erosion in market share," he explained, noting that GM's sales penetration in that segment was 7.9% for the quarter. "Nevertheless, because GM's subprime share is still at industry-leading levels, we feel we've accomplished our mandate by creating a competitive product in subprime."
GM Financial's share of U.S. leasing was 17%, which Berce said was nearing the firm's goal of 20% share of the U.S. leasing market. "This is a bright spot for us," he said. "Our lease portfolio has now reached $3.7 billion in North America.
"We particularly had a good quarter in Canada this quarter, originating a little more than $250 million of new leases," he added, noting that lease penetration in that market exceeded the industry average of 22.9%. "That was primarily because of outstanding lease support from GM in Canada and our introduction of a biweekly pay option, which has been received by the market quite well."
Lease volumes in the U.S. market were flat year over year at $519 million, compared to $535 million a year ago. "Credit performance in this portfolio remains exceptional, primarily due to the prime nature of this portfolio."
Berce said the captive's commercial lending segment in North America continues to see steady progress. It currently counts 336 dealers in the U.S. and Canadian markets, with outstanding totaling slightly less than $2.2 billion. "We do believe, with the rollout of our prime product this summer, that will help our progress here," Berce noted. "Dealers continually tell us that they would like to have a single source for all of their needs … And with prime, we will, for the first time, have a complete product suite, and, therefore, we think we will get more adoption of all our products toward the end of 2014 and 2015."
Total available liquidity during the quarter was $3.8 billion, consisting of $1.2 billion of unrestricted cash, $1.4 billion of borrowing capacity on unpledged assets, $583 million of borrowing capacity on unsecured lines of credit, and $600 million of borrowing capacity on a line of credit from GM.
Berce said the company does intend to access the unsecured markets in 2014, possibly in the summer to early fall months in the United States. He added that the captive does plan to develop a securitization platform for the company's floorplan assets and said the firm will access the ABS market later this year with an inaugural issuance.
"We're off to a good start in 2014 with solid earnings in the March quarter, led by volume growth and favorable credit quality," Berce said. "Our business has lots of momentum in all of our key markets. In north America, we will be expanding our share of leasing and commercial lending over the course of 2014, and we are in the process of rounding out our product line with the launch of prime lending in the U.S. [market]."
Read more about General Motors prime financing Quarterly Earnings
Cox Automotive Shares 2020 Industry Insights
Cox Auto hosted their seventh annual Industry Insights Breakfast and have shared the materials online.
Servicecontract.com Announces Launch to Increase F&I Sales
New company launches online Vehicle Service Contract provider.
Police: Fla. Dealer Couple Faked 35 Sales Contracts
A Florida Highway Patrol investigation led to the arrests of husband and wife dealers accused of submitting at least 35 phantom RISCs for purchase by an auto finance company.
Democrats Signal Defeat on EV Tax Credit
The federal spending bill being negotiated by House and Senate leaders is not likely to include an extension of the $7,500 tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles.
Sense of Urgency Pervades Q3 Dealership Acquisitions
Kerrigan Advisors' latest Blue Sky Report finds the pace of U.S. dealership buy/sell activity quickened in the third quarter and could accelerate further in Q4.
Used Car Price Gap Grows to $15K in Q3 Report
Edmunds' latest Used Car Report finds high off-lease volumes have suppressed prices and widened the gap between new and 3-year-old models to an average of $14,951.
Q3 Auto Finance: Used Accounts for 55% of Loans
Experian analysts say buyers of pre-owned vehicles accounted for 55.15% of all U.S. auto loan originations in the third quarter, a 2.4% year-over-year increase.
November Auto Loan Interest Rates Hit 21-Month Low
Edmunds analysts say Black Friday promotions helped suppress new auto loan interest rates last month, registering a year-to-date low of 5.5% and an 8.3% year-over-year decline.
Regulators Appear to Endorse Alternative Credit Scoring
A joint statement from the nation's biggest banking regulators expressed cautious optimism toward emerging decisioning models that could generate more auto loans.
Discounts, Incentives Stabilize New Vehicle Prices in November
Kelley Blue Book reports the average cost to buy a new vehicle was $38,393 last month, a 1% year-over-year increase restrained by frantic efforts to move 2019-MY inventory.


Ozlati, Shabnam. (2015). The Moderating Effect of Trust on the Relationship between Automomy and Knowledge Sharing: A National Multi-industry Survey of Knowledge Workers. Knowledge and Process Management. Vol. 22, No. 3. p. 191-205.
Annotation: Knowledge sharing is arguably the most important phase of knowledge management. Research into knowledge management is still maturing as a research field, with less known about individual behavior than organizational trends. Research studies on knowledge sharing conflict: some support the theory that individuals share knowledge with hopes or expectations for some personal outcome; and others substantiate claims actors are motivated to contribute to the group. The contradictory findings suggest other factors influence motivations or researchers need to qualify motivations more precisely. Autonomy and motivation can be rated on a scale rather than coded in a binary. There is a correlation between actors' autonomy and their tendency to be extrinsically or intrinsically motivated. Trust is another dimension of motivation.
Knowledge user(s) to whom the piece of literature may be relevant: Brokers, Clinicians, Policy makers, manufacturers, researchers.
Mutual trust for trusts sake cannot be established without effort and time. The conditions necessary for information sharing must be built incrementally. The phases of trust between agencies are economy-based, information-based (behaviors are reasonably predictable), and lastly identification based trust.
Sharing knowledge among researchers and practitioners offers many benefits: producing knew knowledge, facilitating skills development, increasing collaboration, improving problem solving and sustaining competitive advantage.
Increasing worker autonomy increases knowledge sharing.
Knowledge sharing is correlated with better employee performance and retention.
Employees in controlled work environments generally expect external rewards for participating in KT, i.e. to receive a cash bonus or to comply with a superior's demands. Autonomous workers are more likely to share knowledge to serve individual goals, to appear knowledgeable, or for the personal satisfaction of sharing.
Trust between agencies can be economically-based or institution-based trust, or belief that the agency has the means to fulfil obligations. Individuals earn partners' trust by displaying abilities (competence-based) or trustworthiness (benevolence-based trust).