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World Bank lauds Bangladesh growth story, calls for diversification of export, deepening of financial Sector
Bangladesh is one of the world's greatest development stories as it has moved from being one of the poorest at its inception to one of the fastest growing countries of the world, says World Bank (WB) Managing Director Axel van Trotsenburg.
Speaking at an event to mark 50 years of partnership between the WB and Bangladesh in Dhaka on Sunday, WB Managing Director said that the country's 6 percent average economic growth per annum since 2000 has lifted millions of people out of poverty. From a status of poverty in 1972, it became a lower-middle income country in 2015 and it is now on the way to becoming an upper-middle income country.
Axel van Trotsenburg commended Bangladesh's achievement in the fields of women's empowerment, investment in people and moving decisively on climate adaptation and resilience. He pointed out that from the status of being at the bottom of educational attainment level for girls in 1991,Bangladesh has achieved gender parity in school enrollment through its innovative steps like the female stipends program. It reduced fertility rates from 6.1 births per woman in 1971, to 2.1 births in 2018. Bangladesh's achieved an improvement in life expectancy from 46.5 years in 1972 to over 70 years now due to its policy of investing in people, said the WB Managing Director. He also lauded Bangladesh as a 'frontrunner in Climate Adaptation' as reflected in its 'home grown approach of early warning systems, cyclone shelters, embankments and afforestation' which has led to 100 fold reduction in deaths from cyclone since its independence in 1971.
Outlining the ways in which Bangladesh can achieve its intended goal of doubling the per capita income, Trotsenburg suggested that the country needs to strengthen reforms in the areas of macro-fiscal management, export diversification, financial sector, energy, and climate resilience. He said that rationalising its tariff system to reduce the nominal protection rate, removing non-trade barriers and liberalising trade in services will be critical in achieving its goal. He further said that Bangladesh will need to deepen and diversify its financial sector to mobilise additional resources. The World Bank MD urged for maintaining stable macroeconomic conditions with sound fiscal management to safeguard the country's successful development outcomes.
He assured that Bangladesh and the World Bank will work together to help the country continue to be a model of green, resilient and inclusive development.
Bangladesh currently has the largest ongoing IDA program of more than USD15 billion. Since 1972, the World Bank has committed about USD 39 billion in 362 loans to address the country's development challenges in areas such as infrastructure, human capital development, social protection, rural and urban development, as well as the country's digital agenda.
Rajesh Jha/Dhaka/23.1.2023
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A bit of Rhône on the bench over the last week!
2013 Guigal Côtes du Rhône – Viognier, Roussane, Marsanne blend. Fun every day drinker with plenty of personality. Bargain for under $20 a tube.
2013 La Font du Vent Côtes du Rhône Viognier. Some succulent acid & spice with an edge of that oily texture typical of Viognier and resting beautifully in this wine. Lots of intrigue. Again great value at less than $20 a tube.
Overall lots of yumminess and plenty of bang for your buck!
Next up 3 x sub $20 Côte du Rhône Reds!
2011 Guigal Blend of 60% Syrah, 35% Grenache & 5% Mouvèrdre. Year in year out this is a great value wine, particularly given the volume they make. Insane that they manage to age it for 18 months in foundres (massive old oak barrels) and have an average vine age of 35years!
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Last up 2 x 2012 Châteauneuf du Papes!
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Keep on the Rhône theme with a Rhône inspired red.
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YY Beautiful core of juicy fruit. A rawness that comes from not getting enough air time during oak ageing. May have been a result of the first time the winery has bottled under screw cap.
Benevelli Dolcetto an animal, well developed, a bit of animal. Serious structure that just asks for a bit of cow on your plate! Bargain at $25.
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The French use this term with reference to both wine and children! It translates to "A good upbringing" or "Being well raised".
For kids this covers life before adult hood begins. For wine the period of time following the initial alcoholic fermentation right up until the point of bottling.
Every week I taste the Filthy Good Vino Bathtub Cabernet, just like every day I read my daughter, Genevieve, stories. I listen to the wine to see if it needs something from me. Sure I'll look to see if there are problems, has it contracted Wine Flu AKA Brettanomyces or did the Flu Shot I gave it early in life help. Is it reduced, smelling of rotten egg gas? Is it oxidised, needing a sulphur addition?
It needs to get out! It needed a little oxygen!
Why? To help the aromas and flavours develop, shift them away from primary fruity characters to more intriguing complex characters and allow the tannins to see a little air soften and lengthen.
Doing QC before racking the #FilthyGoodVino Bathtub Cabernet!
You can see a layer of pink lease at the bottom of the glass container at front.
Racking will take the clear wine from the top and we'll get rid of tge sediment. It will introduce oxygen to help the wine develop & blend the new oak, old oak & glass stored components together.
If you're interested in being a part of the Filthy Good Vino Bathtub Winemaking Project let me know. We'll be locking in fruit for next year shortly.
Here's the lees from racking a glass storage vessel.
It's mostly dead yeast & bacteria coloured by the wine. Depending on what wine you're making you can choose to keep the lees with the wine to get flavour and texture fromthe autolysis, break down of the cells. Lees is "reductive" it chews up oxygen too and can help keep the wine fresh. One the best examples of the potential impact of lees is in the production of Champagne. After the second fermentation in bottle the wine is left in contact with the yeast lees. Over time as they break down the impart patisserie characteristics & a creamy mouthfeel. Same principles apply to white wines in barrel.
The #FilthyGoodVino Bathtub Cabernet is looking good and I perceive that it won't benefit from further lees contact. Admittedly the wine has already been racked so most of the lees have already been removed.
Interestingly Gaia Gaja mentioned that they keep their lees and use them to top their barrels.
Syphoning off lees from our Demijon – Clear hose makes it easy to see if you're sucking up the lees!


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Merkley, Wyden Announce Expanded Collaborative Forest Investment Included in 2018 Farm Bill
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EU Commission publishes non-confidential version of decision to fine Google €2.42 billion for abusing dominance as search engine by giving illegal advantage to own comparison shopping service
By IEU Monitoring - December 18, 2017
Antitrust: Commission publishes non-confidential version of decision to fine Google €2.42 billion for abusing dominance as search engine by giving illegal advantage to own comparison shopping service Today, the European Commission has published the non-confidential version of the decision adopted on 27 June 2017 to fine Google €2.42 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. The decision found that Google abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service. The decision is available under the case number AT.39740 on the competition website. Link
Netflix, Spotify & Co: EU Parliament ready to start talks with EU Council on new rules for online TV and radio
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More cross-border access to online news and current affairs TV and radio programmesCopyright clearance to be made easier for broadcasters and operators who offer packages of channelsTalks with EU governments on new rules that aim to give consumers a wider choice in online TV and radio news can start after the full House gave them the green light.
MEPs endorsed on Tuesday the mandate for negotiations drawn up by the Legal Affairs Committee in November with 344 votes in favour, 265 against, and 36 abstentions. Parliament is ready to start talks with the Council on the new rules as soon as EU governments have agreed their own negotiating position.
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How should we manage media in the age of artificial intelligence? Discussion report by the Scientific Foresight (STOA) of the EU Parliament
Source: EU Parliament - How should we manage media in the age of artificial intelligence?
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Q: Linear quantization in quantum electrodynamics? This is a continuation of this question.
What would be an example of linear quantization used on quantum electrodynamics? I ask this because QED is a nonlinear theory.

A: I guess this was prompted by one of my comments on this question.  The point I was making is that quantization, even of a system which is defined by a Lagrangian encapsulating a nonlinear set of equations of motion (such as in interacting QED) proceeds by defining a Hilbert space of states and operators on this space which evolve unitarily $$ |\Psi(t)\rangle = e^{-iHt}|\Psi(0)\rangle $$ As soon as you have this behaviour, you have a Schroedinger equation (just differentiate it to see).
So the linearity and presence of the Schroedinger equation is an integral part of the quantum picture.  That's all I was meaning in the comment in the linked question.

A: Quantization is done for the free theory, without interactions, and this free theory is linear. For a scalar boson, for instance, each composant like $\phi(\vec k,t)$ is an harmonic oscillator (so the equation for $\phi(\vec k,t)$ is a linear equation), and you know how to quantize an harmonic oscillator.
When you  calculate the transition amplitudes, you are going to use the interaction term (S-Matrix), but the propagators you are using (in Feynmann diagrams) are calculated from the free theory quantization.
So there is no "quantization of interacting theory".

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Manu Tuilagi could miss England's RBS Six Nations campaign after the Leicester centre revealed his recovery from a groin injury was progressing slowly.
The former John Cleveland College student missed the autumn Tests while he recovered from the problem that has sidelined him for much of this season.
England head coach Stuart Lancaster said at the end of November that Tuilagi was the player who could make a key difference to his team.
But Lancaster faces the prospect of being without the powerful Leicester man for at least a large part of the championship ahead, which for England begins against Wales on February 6.
Discussing his recovery, Tuilagi told several national newspapers: "It's slow. I had three prolotherapy injections - sugar - to try to bring the pubis back together.
That period has already elapsed and now 23-year-old Tuilagi is prepared to wait until the right moment to make his return.
"I'm not sure. With this you have to just take it day by day and make sure it's better before you try to come back," he said.
"There are good days and bad days. Some days it feels brilliant and you wake up the next day and it doesn't feel so good.
England are World Cup hosts this year and would want a fully fit Tuilagi in prime shape for the autumn tournament.
The news comes just over 24 hours after confirmation that Northampton lock Courtney Lawes would miss "the first few weeks" of the tournament, and with Lawes' second-row colleague Joe Launchbury absent altogether.


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Nobel Prize Explainer: Gravitational Waves and the LIGO Detector
By Steve Mirsky on October 3, 2017
Credit: LIGO/T. Pyle
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for their contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. Following the announcement and press conference, physicst Olga Botner explained the Nobel-winning research.
Steve Mirsky: Welcome to Scientific American's Science Talk, posted on October 3rd, 2017. I'm Steve Mirsky.
Goran Hansson: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with one half to Rainer Weiss and the other half, jointly, to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne, all of them members of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration. And the Academy citation runs: "For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector, and the observation of gravitational waves."
Mirsky: Goran Hansson, secretary general of the Academy, at 5:52 this morning, Eastern time. What follows is an edited version of the announcement and press conference.
Hansson: Rainer Weiss was born in 1932, in Berlin, in Germany. He received his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, and he is still affiliated with the MIT, as professor of physics. Dr. Weiss is, since many years, a US citizen. Barry Barish was born in 1936, in Nebraska, in the United States. He is a professor of physics at Cal Tech, the California Institute of Technology. And finally, Kip Thorne was born in 1940, in Utah, in the US, and he's currently professor of theoretical physics at Cal Tech. And as I mentioned, all three Nobel Laureates are members of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, a large team of more than 1,000 scientists who built and ran the detector that was used to discover gravitational waves. And with that, I'll give the word to the chairman of the Nobel Committee, Nils Mårtensson, who will give us a brief summary of the research field and the discovery that has been awarded today.
Mårtensson: On the 14th of September, 2015, the laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory, LIGO, succeeded, for the first time, to directly observe gravitational waves. These waves were predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, but until now, they have escaped direct detection. This is a truly remarkable achievement, which crowns almost 50 years of experimental efforts by hundreds of scientists and engineers. And today, the LIGO collaboration includes 1,000 members from 90 institutions in 5 continents, who have directly or indirectly contributed to this breakthrough. This year's Nobel Laureates represent, in an excellent way, the diverse competences needed for LIGO success. Rainer Weiss led the foundation for the detector design; he analyzed what performances had to be reached for the critical parts of the instrument, and what sources of background noise had to be mastered.
And Kip Thorne, also cofounder of LIGO, made predictions about what signals were expected from different astrophysical events of critical importance for the design. Barry Barish is a scientific leader who scaled the project up in a stepwise fashion, up to the advanced LIGO, thereby reaching the sensitivity which in the end allowed the successful detection. Without them, the discovery would not have happened. We now witness the dawn of a new field: gravitational wave astronomy. This will teach us about the most violent processes in the universe, and it will lead to new insights into the nature of extreme gravity.
Hansson: And now, Olga Botner will give us some more insights into the discovery, the scientists, and the collaboration.
Mirsky: Olga Botner is a physicist at Uppsala University, and a member of the Nobel Physics Committee.
Olga Botner: Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, two massive blackholes engaged in a deadly dance, revolving around each other, spiraling faster and faster, whirling. Finally, at half the velocity of light, they collided and merged, forming an even more massive blackhole. This momentous event reverberated through space and time, as gravitational waves sped outwards, carrying information on what had just happened. These events took place about 1.3 billion years ago, at a time when the first multicellular life emerged on earth. Ever since then have the gravitational waves sped through the universe, reaching our cosmic neighborhood, the Magellanic Clouds, about 200,000 years ago, when early homo sapiens walked in Africa. And finally swept through the earth on September 14, 2015, when the waves were recorded by perhaps the most sensitive instrument ever devised by man: the LIGO Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.
This event caused a sensation worldwide. We knew that gravitational waves existed, indirectly, but this was the first time, ever, they had been directly observed, and this of course made the headlines of major newspapers like the New York Times. So what are the gravitational waves? Well, they were predicted by Einstein, within his general theory of relativity. Gravitational waves arise when heavy bodies accelerate, that is, when the velocity is changing with time. They are disturbances of space time, traveling through the universe at the speed of light, causing space to alternately stretch and shrink at right angles to the direction of motion. The effect, the gravitational strain, is tiny, even from a ponderous event like the collision and merger of two blackholes. If we imagine a ruler, the length of the earth diameter like 13,000 kilometers, a passing gravitational wave would make this ruler vibrate by 1 trillionth of a millimeter, which is about the size of an atomic nucleus.
Nevertheless, the team of scientists, led by this year's Nobel Laureates, succeeded in measuring this tiny vibrance. The key to their success is laser interferometry. The light from a laser is led towards a beam splitter, where the light is split along two detector arms at right angle to each other. In the case of LIGO, these detector arms are four kilometers long. Mirrors at the end of the arms reflect the light back towards the beam splitter, where the two waves are overlaid and channeled towards the light detector, where a fringe pattern is registered. Now, a passing gravitational wave will make one of the arms shrink when the other arm expands, and this makes the patterns shift very, very slightly, and this is what the scientists detect. Now, the effect is incredibly small, and the detector is amazingly sensitive: a passing truck or ocean waves beating against a far shore cause a disturbance, which must be monitored and offset.
Also, to exclude local disturbances, each LIGO detector cannot operate on its own, and this is why the LIGO observatory comprises two detectors, one in Hanford, in Washington State, and the other in Livingston, Louisiana, on opposite coasts of the American continent, separated by about 3,000 kilometers. The discovery, the first-ever observation of a gravitational wave, was a milestone, opening a new window to the universe. The prospects of observing blackholes hands-on are tremendously exciting, as are the prospects of being able to see the dark parts of the universe, the parts of the universe from which electromagnetic radiation light does not reach us. Since the first observation, three more discoveries of gravitational waves passing the earth have been made. The last one, announced less than a week ago, where the twin LIGO detectors operated in concert with the assistor detector, Virgo, in Italy. This is truly the dawn of gravitational waves astronomy. And I couldn't help but add with Einstein, who obviously was right again, even though back when, for a while, he didn't believe that gravitational waves existed.
Hansson: And we may now have one of our Nobel Laureates with us on a phone line from the US. Dr. Weiss, are you there?
Rainer Weiss: Oh, I'm here, yes.
Hansson: So, I'm now sitting in the beautiful session hall of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. We are in the midst of the press conference; here are journalists from Swedish and international media, and I'm sure they would like to ask you some questions.
Journalist: My question is: Did you expect this or did you know that you have been nominated? And what was your reaction when you heard the news?
Weiss: [Laughs] Yes, it's really wonderful. I mean, but I view this more as a thing that is recognized as the work of about 1,000 people [audio cuts out] and it's the work of, really, a dedicated effort [audio cuts out] been going on for – I hate to tell you, it's as long as 40 years of people thinking about this, trying to make a detection of [audio cuts out] sometimes failing in the early days. And then slowly but surely, getting the technology together to be able to do it.
Hansson: There is slight problem with the phoneline, but I think you could hear.
Weiss: And it's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end, that we are actually detecting [audio cuts out] and actually adding to the knowledge, through gravitational waves, _____ what goes on [audio cuts out] a wonderful experience, sort of begun [audio cuts out] and many of us who are in [audio cuts out] fully expect that we're gonna learn things that we didn't know about. I mean, at this moment, we do know about – we knew about blackholes other ways, and we knew about neutron stars. We've known about – well, those are the two things that ultimately are seen. But the thing is that, we hope that there are all sorts of phenomena that you can see mostly because of the gravitational waves they emit. That will open a new science and will add to the science that is already such a deep thing in terms of understanding the universe [audio cuts out]. So, I can't ask you any better than [audio cuts out].
Mirsky: Following the announcement and press conference, Swedish journalist, Joanna Rose, spoke with Olga Botner about the Nobel-winning research.
Joanna Rose: So, what was the main achievement of this year's laureates?
Botner: Their competencies are quite complementary. Rainer Weiss is the founder of the whole project; he developed the concept starting in the beginning, or the middle, of the 1960s; he built the first prototype detectors, in 1967; and then, he demonstrated the principle. He charted the various noise sources which would influence the performance of the detector. And as I've been trying to mention, the detector is incredibly sensitive: a truck passing by will make the detector vibrate, ocean waves some distance away make also the detector vibrate, seismologic, other things. So, you have to know very, very well what kind of sources can give you signals which simulate gravitational wave, to be able to distinguish the true from the false. So, his main influence on the project is developing a prototype, chartering all the sources of disturbances, and finding means to offset these sources.
Thorne is this inspiring theorist, who figured out what kind of signals you can expect from astrophysical sources of these waves. So what to look for, how sensitive does the instrument have to be to be able to observe what the universe behaves like in terms of gravitational waves. And then we have Barry Barish, who is the person who joined the experiment late. He only arrived on the scene in 1994, however, he is the visionary behind upgrading the sensitivity of the instrument to the level where this detection was possible. The original LIGO could not have made the detection, which was possible thanks to the development initiated by Barry Barish.
Rose: So, the other two worked, like, for 50 years with this project – what did they say when they got the call from Stockholm, this morning?
Botner: They were still humble and very, very gratified that they were awarded the prize. But also, all three of them mentioned, one, that they were happy that they were not alone, and, two, that we should make sure to stress the role of the collaboration, at the press conference and even at the award ceremony.
Rose: So, how was this collaboration, the LIGO collaboration [crosstalk]?
Botner: Yes, the LIGO collaboration has grown over the last 40 years. In the beginning, it was small, it was just groups at MIT and at Cal Tech, at the universities in the United States. But then, as the detector grew in size and people started talking of kilometer-long arms, the collaboration also grew, and groups joined all across the United States, but also in Europe and in Australia. So today, the LIGO collaboration consists of scientists at 90 universities, all across the world.
Rose: So, now, when the gravitational waves are here, in some sense, what will they tell us about the universe?
Botner: So, what we hope to learn from the gravitational waves is, one, about blackholes, and about gravity in its strong regime. You have to imagine gravity as the weakest force we know of – it's much weaker than electromagnetism. Just think of a kitchen magnet, a small magnet you put on the door of your fridge: it stays up; it doesn't fall to the ground. Which just shows you that the electromagnetism is much stronger than gravity. So, the gravity forces we know of from the earth are weak; gravitational forces close to blackholes are extremely strong. So, the discovery of gravitational waves carrying information from the surroundings of blackholes will teach us something about the strong regime of gravity, which is very, very exciting. We'll learn something about violent explosions like supernovae or gamma ray bursts. We might learn something about the Big Bang, because the Big Bang left imprint on the universe in terms of gravitational waves, which we've never seen before. They are even weaker than those which have been observe previously. But even more exciting, there are parts of the universe which are dark, which we've never seen before, because electromagnetic radiation doesn't reach us from there. Gravitational waves are unstoppable, so they will. So we hope to learn about this dark universe.
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Q: I Have 2 Different Ratios, How Do I Determine Which Has Better Odds? I'm playing a game, and in the game you have the ability to trade your in game currency for opportunities at better players. I have 2 options:

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*5 Draws, each with a 2.5% chance of getting a really good player.

*1 Draw with a 7% chance of getting a really good player.

Which is the better deal, and what formula can I use to figure this out in the future?

A: Let's compare the options by computing the probability that you get at least one really good player.
Option 1: For a given draw (out of the $5$ draws), the probability that you don't get a really good player is $1 - 0.025 = 0.975$ or $97.5\%$.  Assuming the $5$ draws are independent, the probability that you don't get a good player on any of the $5$ draws is $0.975^5 \approx 0.881 = 88.1\%$.  Thus the probability that you do get at least one good player during the $5$ draws is approximately
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1 - 0.881 = 0.119 = 11.9\%.
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Option 2: You have just one chance to get a really good player at $7\%$.
However, this analysis is overly simplistic: getting a really good player on your first draw is (I assume) more beneficial than getting one on your fifth draw.  Perhaps you could take this into account by using some sort of weight to give greater value to good players obtained earlier.


Neha, disgraced former Cosmosdex Editor Wrote: The universe is a weird place. Extremely weird. One might even call it unusual. The cosmosdex is a great way to navigate your way around this strange place we call our home but it's only the surface. Take a little time to dig deeper. Visit the wrong online forums, talk to the shady looking guy behind that run down store, tune into that radio show on a station that doesn't exist and you might learn things. Things you'll never see on a fancy site like the cosmosdex.
"Okay," you say "that's great and all Yaveker, we're all very impressed with your stupid opening what's the point of this thread?"
Well, hypothetical reader, I'm so very, very glad you asked in such a passive aggressive way! Inspired by "The Leak" thread on the SCP wiki, this is a general place for authors of cosmosdex articles to post things that wouldn't have made sense to include in its cosmosdex entry. Thing's that most people in universe don't know about, the D E E P L O R E. Or just things you couldn't figure out how to include or weren't important enough to be mentioned. I wouldn't take anything in this thread as hard cannon, since gime has final say on what is and what isn't canonical, so take these more as author headcannons than cold, hard, metal canons.
A: While I can't physically stop you from doing this in anyway, I will kindly ask you not to. If you'd like to do something like this, feel free to make your own thread!
Q: Any sort of format or anything for us to follow when posting these?
Stuff about the article goes here.
But hey, it's a free country. Got something you like better? Go for it dude.
Q: If I'm not an author can I still participate in this?
A: Here's where I'm not so sure. I think it'd be fine to ask authors further questions based on what they've revealed but I understand not everyone will want to reveal everything about their works or be constantly questioned on things they've made. Basically please don't pressure people to answer your questions and don't be disappointed if you don't get answers. To aid in reading I'd suggest quoting the post you're replying to so that the thread as a whole can stay more cohesive. Please snip any excessively long quotes as well, please.
Q: None of these questions have been asked before, thus there is no way this could qualify as frequently asked questions and should instead be title along the lines of "possible questions and answer" or just "questions and answers", furthermore the final question of a Q&A section being some sort of joke is unoriginal and overused.
A: You've got a good point.
I'll start off with my space nanite capitalists, the fhelzo.
Implied in the article but only if you read a bit between the lines, the fhelzo never actually left their home world and instead consumed it, turning it into Ferrum while killing off any of the original sentient life that created them. Weather this was accidental or intentional is unclear.
Anther things I didn't get to mention in the article. Fhelzo typically take a long time to respond to questions or commands given to them. This is because each fhelzo acts as its own minuter hive mind that has to be 100% sure of its next action before it acts. While this does take a very short time since they are robots, the fhelzo then waits to see if any new information will present itself and only acts once it is sure of the situation it is in. This can lead to a Fhelzo staring at someone who's just asked it something for up to a full minute before responding.
Finally, when a fhelzo is first created from the recycled remains of the previous cycles fhelzo they start off very small, a bit under a foot in size. They then grow quickly to their normal high of 7 feet by consuming the environment around them.
Don Wilmack owner of Don Wilmack's Wacky House of Wares!
When you become an employee, you become a member of the family. That's why your name changes while you're working under his roof. For example, if Rodney Ootkins decided to buy an antidote in exchange for working a few years, he would become Rodney Wilmack, Employee of Don Wilmacks Wacky House of Wares!
Jark is still alive. His plan to extend his lifespan at the cost of the majority of his original body worked surprisingly well, and he continues to manipulate various pyronian conflicts from behind the scenes. Many of the very first tribes were in fact created by followers of Jark in order to stir up conflict. Jark's brother, Jay, mentioned in one of his bits of trivia, actually started his own peaceful tribe to stop Jark's warmongering, and is seen as a prophet of the god Our Scribe. I plan to make a list of various bits of trivia about the other tribes like this one day.
W0lrids' v1's D0 in fact kn0w the secret 0f the universe, but n0 0ne believes them because they arnt made by big name c0mpanies. several pe0ple in fact warn t0 0thers that w0lrid v1 ai's are insane.
Poppets using hides for skin isn't their only option, just the one with the most publicity. Any type of woven plant fiber or fabric will do, which is a large part of why the surface is so barren.
Given that the standard poppet skin is either over-recycled biomass printed into sheets or worn hand-me-downs and has been so for a very long time; this being uncommon knowledge even among poppets themselves isn't terribly surprising.


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Q: Unable to make a call from Service The app needs to make the phone dial outbound, attaching some DTMF tones to it. This phone call will happen periodically, and needs to start the background service on reboot, or main activity start (the latter is mostly debugging). I have every permission under the sun attached, but I still can't make this happen.
Background: the phone is being used as a remote monitor for a cabin (+ADK board), sending me data I correlate to the attached tones, then hanging up.

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*The particular version of Android is 2.3.6, on a pre-paid ATT Fusion 2.

*I have seen a few tickets which say it's possible to send DTMF tones initially - but not during - the call. This is fine. I'm not exactly sure what the difference would be.

*It's been a long time since I programmed for Android, so take it easy on me.
The error I receive is:
06-05 14:42:41.019: W/ActivityManager(195): Unable to start service Intent { act=android.intent.action.CALL dat=tel:xxx-xxx-xxxx flg=0x10000004 }: not found

CallServiceReceiever:
public class CallServiceReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        Intent service = new Intent(context, CallService.class);
        context.startService(service);
    }
}

CallService:
public class CallService extends Service {
    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {

        Intent call = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL);

        String number = "XXX-XXX-XXXX"; // US phone number
        String tones = "1234*5678*9*1234#";

        Log.i("wtf", "Dialing: " + mumber);
        Log.i("wtf", "Append tones: " + tones);

        call.setData(Uri.parse("tel://" + number + "," + tones));
        call.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
        call.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_FROM_BACKGROUND);

        this.getBaseContext().startService(call);

        return Service.START_NOT_STICKY;
    }

    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
        return null;
    }

    public class MyBinder extends Binder {
        CallService getService() {
            return CallService.this;
        }
    }
}

First, I tried invoking the call from the Activity 20 seconds after it started (it will be repeating, but I set the flag to "0" for now).
StartFromActivity:
public class StartFromActivity extends Activity {
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        AlarmManager service = (AlarmManager) this.getBaseContext()
                .getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);

        Intent callServiceIntent = new Intent(this.getBaseContext(), CallServiceReceiver.class);

        PendingIntent pendingCallServiceIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this.getBaseContext(), 0, callServiceIntent,
                PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);

        Calendar callServiceStart = Calendar.getInstance();
        callServiceStart.add(Calendar.SECOND, 20);

        service.setInexactRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,
                callServiceStart.getTimeInMillis(), 0, pendingCallServiceIntent);

    }
}

Then, I tried invoking the call from a Service  20 seconds after start (it will be repeating, but I set the flag to "0" for now).
OnRestartReceiver:
public class OnRestartReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

        AlarmManager service = (AlarmManager) this.getBaseContext()
                .getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);

        Intent callServiceIntent = new Intent(this.getBaseContext(), CallServiceReceiver.class);

        PendingIntent pendingCallServiceIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this.getBaseContext(), 0, callServiceIntent,
                PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);

        Calendar callServiceStart = Calendar.getInstance();
        callServiceStart.add(Calendar.SECOND, 20);

        service.setInexactRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,
                callServiceStart.getTimeInMillis(), 0, pendingCallServiceIntent);

    }
}

The manifest looks like:
<application
            android:allowBackup="true"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

        <activity android:name=".StartFromActivity">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

        <receiver
                android:name=".OnRestartReceiver"
                android:exported="false">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED"/>
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>

        <receiver android:name=".CallServiceReceiver"/>

        <service android:name=".CallService"/>

    </application>

Does anybody have insight into this?

A:
The app needs to make the phone dial outbound, attaching some DTMF tones to it.

AFAIK, that's not possible.

The error I receive is

The error indicates that you have no Service that matches the Intent. That is because you are trying to use ACTION_CALL with startService(), which is not possible. You are welcome to use startActivity() with an ACTION_CALL Intent, assuming that you hold the CALL_PHONE permission.


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Hyatt House Waltham is centrally located west of Boston along the route 128/Interstate 95 highway. Easy access to Cape Cod, New Hampshire, Maine and New York. Only 5 minute car ride to historic Lexington and Concord. Site of many revolutionary war battles.
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Araneibatrus is een geslacht van kevers uit de familie van de kortschildkevers (Staphylinidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van het geslacht werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 2010 door Yin en Li.

Soorten
 Araneibatrus callissimus (Nomura & Wang, 1991)
 = Batrisodellus callissimus Nomura & Wang, 1991
 = Tribasodellus callissimus (Nomura & Wang, 1991)
 Araneibatrus cellulanus Yin, Jiang & Steiner, 2016
 Araneibatrus curvitibialis Yin & Zhou, 2018
 Araneibatrus gracilipes Yin & Li, 2010
 Araneibatrus grossepunctatus Yin, Jiang & Steiner, 2016
 Araneibatrus phuphaphet Yin & Jantarit, 2019
 Araneibatrus pubescens Yin, Jiang & Steiner, 2016
 Araneibatrus spinosus Yin, Jiang & Steiner, 2016

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We are extremely happy to welcome our newly appointed IAB Australia Research Director Natalie Stanbury who will drive our research and measurement projects. Natalie joins Jennifer Thomas, our new Head of Membership, as we round out the new IAB team and get stuck into the serious work ahead of us in 2019.
One of our first priorities is today's launch of The Future of Measurement project, delivering a plan encompassing measurement solutions, standards for ad measurement, delivery and verification, as well as guidelines and best practices and industry consultation, which will culminate in an industry Town Hall on March 25. You can read more about The Future of Measurement project and Natalie in today's announcement.
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With events, Council meetings, calendar year 2018 IAB/PwC revenue results, podcasts, blog and our Future of Measurement project all kicking off in February please keep across our news via LinkedIn and our website. Organisation membership covers all people in your company and team members can set up a login to access our research and resources here.
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Join us as we launch the 3rd wave of IAB's Audio Advertising: State of the Nation Report in Melbourne (26 Feb) and Sydney (4 Mar). State of the Nation provides a snapshot of Australia's audio landscape across broadcast radio, podcasting and digital streaming. This year, along with buying methods and experience in buying and planning campaigns, particular attention is being paid to dynamic creative.
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Women aren't better multitaskers than men – we're just doing more work
And don't we know it!
BY Leah Ruppanner, 8 min READ
Multitasking has traditionally been perceived as a woman's domain. A woman, particularly one with children, will routinely be juggling a job and running a household – in itself a frantic mix of kids' lunch boxes, housework, and organising appointments and social arrangements.
But a new study, published today in PLOS One, shows women are actually no better at multitasking than men.
The study tested whether women were better at switching between tasks and juggling multiple tasks at the same time. The results showed women's brains are no more efficient at either of these activities than men's.
Using robust data to challenge these sorts of myths is important, especially given women continue to be bombarded with work, family and household tasks.
No one is good at multitasking
Multitasking is the act of performing several independent tasks within a short time. It requires rapidly and frequently switching attention from one task to another, increasing the cognitive demand, compared to completing single tasks in sequence.
This study builds on an existing body of research showing human brains cannot manage multiple activities at once. Particularly when two tasks are similar, they compete to use the same part of the brain, which makes multitasking very difficult.
But human brains are good at switching between activities quickly, which makes people feel like they're multitasking. The brain, however, is working on one project at a time.
In this new study, German researchers compared the abilities of 48 men and 48 women in how well they identified letters and numbers. In some experiments, participants were required to pay attention to two tasks at once (called concurrent multitasking), while in others they needed to switch attention between tasks (called sequential multitasking).
The researchers measured reaction time and accuracy for the multitasking experiments against a control condition (performing one task only). They found multitasking substantially affected the speed and accuracy of completing the tasks for both men and women. There was no difference between the groups.
Domestic duties
My colleagues and I recently busted another relevant myth – that women are better at seeing mess than men. We found men and women equally rated a space as messy. The reason men do less cleaning than women may lie in the fact that women are held to higher standards of cleanliness than men, rather than men's "dirt blindness".
Recent data shows Australian men are spending more time doing domestic work than they used to, but women still do the vast majority of housework.
Working Australian women have seen their total time across work and family activities increase over time, with bread-winning mothers spending four hours more across these activities per week than bread-winning fathers.
HILDA/The Conversation, CC BY-ND
This means working mums are balancing planning birthday parties, childcare drop offs and ballet lessons all on top of their regular jobs, commutes and careers.
Consequences of the myth
If women's brains are equally strained by multitasking, why do we keep asking women to do this work? And, more importantly, what are the consequences?
Our recent study shows mothers are more time pressed and report poorer mental health than fathers. We found the birth of a child increases parents' reports of feeling rushed or pressed for time, but the effect is twice the size for mothers than it is for fathers. Second children double mothers' time pressure again and, as a consequence, lead to a deterioration in their mental health.
Women are also more likely to drop out of paid work when children are born or family demands intensify. They carry a larger mental load tied to organising the needs of the family – who has clean socks, who needs to be picked up from school, whether there is enough Vegemite for lunch. All of this labour is at the expense of time planning for the next day's work, the next promotion, and so on.
Women are also asked to multitask family demands at night. Children are more likely to interrupt their mother's than their father's sleep.
Although gender roles are changing and men are assuming a larger share of the housework and childcare than in the past, gender gaps remain in many important domains of work and family life. These include the allocation of childcare, the division of housework, the wage gap, and the concentration of women in top positions.
So, the multitasking myth means mothers are expected to "do it all". But this obligation can affect women's mental health, as well as their capacity to excel at work.
Challenging misconceptions
Public opinion persists that women have a biological edge as super-efficient multitaskers. But, as this study shows, this myth is not supported by evidence.
This means the extra family work women perform is just that – extra work. And we need to see it as such.
Within the family, this work needs to be catalogued, discussed and then equally divided. More men today are invested in gender equality, equal sharing and co-parenting than ever before.
As well as in the home, we need to dismantle these myths in the workplace. The assumption women are better multitaskers can influence the allocation of administrative tasks. Tasks like taking minutes and organising meetings should not be allocated based on gender.
Finally, governments need to dismantle these myths within their policies. Children add work that cannot be easily multitasked. Women need affordable, high-quality, and widely available childcare.
Men also need access to flexible work, parental leave and childcare to share in this labour, and protections to ensure they aren't penalised for taking time to share in the care.
Debunking these myths that expect women to be superheroes is a good thing, but we need to go further and create policy environments where gender equality can thrive.
Leah Ruppanner, Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of The Policy Lab, University of Melbourne. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
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Snaggletooth Takes the Cure Cooking Without Heat
October 17, 2016 at 12:46 pm by Rosemary Lane
by Rosemary Lane
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Montagne and Kim, Snaggletooth/Photo: Rosemary Lane
In a tiny kitchen in Lakeview, two fine-dining seafood alums are revamping one of the oldest cooking techniques in the world.
Jennifer Kim and Bill Montagne, former chefs at River North's C Chicago, have taken the ancient method of fish curing—which dates back to 3000 BC—and slowed down the process. At their six-month-old deli-style restaurant Snaggletooth (2819 North Southport), the duo cures fish up to nine days, instead of the traditional one to three days, infusing it along the way with smoky teas and spirits.
"The whole key is cooking it as slowly as possible," Montagne says. "It's more akin to braising. Rather than heat, salt and acid and alcohol cook it."
Here's how they do it.
On a Monday in August, Snaggletooth is closed. Behind the counter, the team of two scale, clean and filet more than two-hundred pounds of fish. They source from all over the world: wild sockeye salmon from Alaska (when it's in season), Hamachi from Japan, sturgeon from California, ocean trout from Scotland. They're very choosy about what they'll accept. Montagne and Kim, who met at C Chicago, have spent most of their careers working in seafood. For Kim, thirty-three, it started with a childhood trip to Korea to visit her grandmother. She remembers traveling to an island where she sat on a milk crate and watched women catch sea cucumbers and clams. Seeing such great seafood stuck with her, even in the meat-and-potatoes world of Chicago.
"Now with globalization," Kim explains, "we should be able to source really great things. People in Chicago want to eat really great quality seafood. We deserve it."
For Montagne, thirty-one, who spent five years at New York's premier Le Bernardin, cooking seafood requires more finesse. You can overcook steak a bit and still salvage it, but fish is less forgiving. "Curing fish is all about experience," he says, "and using precise measurements."
On his iPhone, Montagne shows me tables and tables of recipes, ingredients measured out in exact percentages. He flicks through: Breakfast gin and Earl Grey. Lapsang suchong tea, which adds a smoky flavor to sturgeon. Mezcal. Grapefruit and fennel fronds. Not your typical curing mixture.
Fish wrapped in cheesecloth, covered in cure/Photo: Rosemary Lane
"Just like aging whiskey in a barrel for six months or two years or ten years is going to change it, taking a process that traditionally takes two days and slowing it down and drawing it out allows us to develop much more complex flavors," Montagne adds.
Montagne, a Chicago native, learned the technique from his days at Café Gray in New York; he's kept it in his back pocket ever since. Over the next forty-eight hours, the cilantro, coriander, lime juice, lime zest, mezcal, sugar and salt cure slowly seeps down, infusing the fish with flavor and driving out all the water. Instead of using heat, the acid, alcohol and salt cook the fish to completion. When the fish is done, it'll have a certain bounciness, like the web between your thumb and pointer finger, Kim says. Two days later, she wipes off the cure and unwraps the Hamachi—careful not to let any cure touch the skin—revealing a shiny, supple filet.
"At the end of the day the fish is the star," Kim says. "We don't want to overcomplicate the flavor profiles; we just enhance the fish."
From there, slivers of gravlax or smoky sturgeon are plopped onto bagels or served on a tasting platter, some rubbed with lemon oil or coupled with a kimchi schmear.
"No one's really doing this," Kim says. "There's no baseline. Even for us it's a learning process of how do we communicate what we're doing in a way that doesn't sound intimidating. But at the end of the day, it's just food. It's just cured fish."
Luckily for us, they shared a recipe for the home cook on exactly how to cure fish. Have at it.
Following is Snaggletooth's recipe for cured fish.
Snaggletooth's Basic Home Cure
1 Eighteen-inch long piece of cheesecloth
2 Small sheet trays (or baking trays)
1 Medium sheet tray
1 Mixing bowl
Five pounds salmon filet, skin on
3 cups Kosher salt
3 cups Sugar, granulated
1 cup Scallions, chopped
1 cup Parsley, chopped
½ cup Dill, chopped
1 Tbsp. Black Peppercorns, toasted
Three oranges, zested
One lemon, zested
½-1 cup vodka, white rum or Aquavit
Remove any pin bones running down the filet (ask your butcher to do that); turn the filet over and lightly score the skin without cutting into the flesh.
Spread out the cheesecloth on a level surface and place the filet in the middle; wrap the cheesecloth around the fish, making sure no part of it is exposed.
Combine all dry ingredients into a mixing bowl; start by adding one-half cup of liquor into the cure—the consistency should be that of wet sand. If the cure is still too dry, add in a little more of the alcohol until the proper texture is achieved.
On a medium sheet tray, overturn one of the smaller sheet trays so that the bottom is facing toward you. Spread a light layer of the cure mixture on the sheet tray, roughly the same size as the filet.
Place the fish on top of the cure. Spread the remaining cure over the fish in an even layer.
Place the other small sheet tray over the fish so that the filet is now sandwiched between the two trays.
Weigh down the upper tray with something slightly heavy (e.g., a few cans of beans); place in refrigerator.
By day five, check for doneness by removing a small piece of the cure and pressing lightly on the flesh of the fish; there should be slight firmness/resistance similar to that of a medium-well-done steak. If there is still a bit of softness, let it cure for another day or two.
Once the fish is cured, remove the cure mixture and unwrap the fish from the cheesecloth. Do not rinse the filet.
Gently pat the fish dry; wrap tightly in plastic wrap. The filet will hold in the fridge for two-three weeks.
Bill Montagne
Snaggletooth
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Recommendations of the Royal Commission on superior services in India, 1924, referred to in short, as the Lee Commission, and now they find place in the Constitution of India in Articles 315 to 323. The Odisha Public Service Commission was constituted on 1st April, 1949 after it's bifurcation from the former Bihar and Odisha Joint Public Service Commission. At the time of creation of the Odisha Public Service Commission the strength of the Commission was three including Chairman . The strength increased to five in the year 1979 and further increased to six in the year 1996.
The Commission has acquired varied experiences and expertise in the matter of selection of personnel to various services of the Government of Odisha during its functioning for more than five decades. It has also gone a long way in achieving the purpose of drawing the best personnel for the public services of Odisha
Function of OPSC: The functions of the Commission are broadly divided into the following four categories :
(i) Advice on the framing of recruitment rules and its amendments with regard to the recruitment and conditions of service of Group 'B' posts/services carrying scale of pay of Rs. 6500-200-10,500/- and above and Group 'A' posts/services.
(ii) Advice on punishment proposed by the disciplinary authority in finalisation of departmental proceedindgs under the Odisha Civil Services (Classification, Control & Appeal) Rules, 1962 read with Rule 7 of the Odisha Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1992.
(iii) Advice on matters relating to promotion of officers and fixation of inter seniority etc., with regard to officers of Group 'B' carrying pay scale of Rs. 6500-200-10,500/- and above and all Group 'A' officers.
(iv) Recruitment of candidates to different posts/services belonging to Group 'B' and above under the State Government.
(a) Through competitive examination and viva voce test as prescribed in the concerned recruitment rules; and
(b) Through viva voce test only.
The Commission are not required to be consulted in the following matter :-
(1) It shall not be necessary to consult the Commission on any of the matter specified in sub-clause(a), (b) & (c) of clause (3) of Article 320 of the Constitution in respect of -
(a) The posts and services to which appointment is made by an authority other than the State Government;
(b) The Chairman and Members of the Commission;
(c) The Advocate General;
(d) Government Advocates, Assistant Government Advocates, Additional Government Advocates, Standing Counsels and Additional Standing Counsels;
(e) Public Prosecutors, Government Pleaders, Assistant Public Prosecutors and Additional Government Pleaders;
(f) The Personal and the Secretariat staff of the Governor;
(g) The Secreariat staff of the Legislative Assembly;
(h) The post of Private Secretary to the Chief Minister whose tenure is co-terminous with the office of the sitting Chief Minister;
(i) Civil services and civil posts other than those in Group 'B' carrying scale of pay of Rs.6500-200-10,500/- and above and Group 'A'.
(j) Part-time Medical Officers of hospitals in the State;
(k) All posts under the State Administrative Tribunal;
(l) Contract appointments made for a period not exceeding three years; and
(m) Appointment of Deputy Chief Aircraft Maintenance Engineer on regular basis in Group 'A' post under the Commerce & Transport ( Transport) Department and regularisation of services of the Deputy Chief Aircraft Maintenance Engineer appointed on ad hoc basis in Group 'A' post under the said Department since on the 19th June, 1991 and continuing as such on ad hoc basis on the date of commencement (Limitations of Functions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1994.
(2) It shall not be necessary to consult the Commission on any of the matters specified in the said sub-clauses of the said Article of the Constitution as hereinbefore specified in respect of -
(i) Temporary appointments, promotions or transfers from one service to another made for a period not exceeding one year which it is necessary to make urgently;
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Wall Street Wins, Again
The urge to offer corporations and banks mega-welfare not available to ordinary citizens remains a distinctly all-American phenomenon.
By Nomi Prins and cross-posted from Counterpunch.org
To say that these are unprecedented times would be the understatement of the century. Even as the United States became the latest target of Hurricane COVID-19, in "hot spots" around the globe a continuing frenzy of health concerns represented yet another drop down the economic rabbit hole.
Stay-at-home orders have engulfed the planet, encompassing a majority of Americans, all of India, the United Kingdom, and much of Europe. A second round of cases may be starting to surface in China. Meanwhile, small- and medium-sized businesses, not to speak of giant corporate entities, are already facing severe financial pain.
I was in New York City on 9/11 and for the weeks that followed. At first, there was a sense of overriding panic about the possibility of more attacks, while the air was still thick with smoke. A startling number of lives were lost and we all did feel that we had indeed been changed forever.
Nonetheless, the shock was momentary. Small businesses, even in the neighborhood of the Twin Towers, reopened quickly enough while, in the midst of psychic chaos, President George W. Bush urged Americans to continue to fly, shop, and even go to Disney World.
Think of the coronavirus, then, as a different kind of 9/11. After all, the airlines are all but grounded, restaurants and so many other shops closed, Disney World shut tight, and the death toll is already well past that of 9/11 and multiplying fast. The concept of "social distancing" has become omnipresent, while hospitals are overwhelmed and medical professionals stretched thin. Pandemic containment efforts have put the global economy on hold. This time, we will be changed forever.
Figures on job cuts and business closures could soon eclipse those from the aftermath of the financial collapse of 2008. The U.S. jobless rate could hit 30% in the second quarter of 2020, according to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard, which would mean that we're talking levelsof unemployment not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Many small companies will be unable to reopen. Others could default on their debts and enter bankruptcy.
After all, about half of all small businesses in this country had less than a month's worth of cash set aside as the coronavirus hit and they employ almost half of the private workforce. In truth, mom-and-pop stores, not the giant corporate entities, are the engine of the economy. The restaurant industry alone could lose 7.4 million jobs, while tourism and retail sectors will experience significant turmoil for months, if not years, to come.
In the first week of coronavirus economic shock, a record 3.3 millionAmericans filed claims for unemployment. That figure was nearly three times the peak of the 2008 recession and it doubled to 6.6 million a week later, with future numbers expected to rise staggeringly higher.
As sobering as those numbers were, Treasury Secretary Steve "Foreclosure King" Mnuchin branded them "not relevant." Tone-deafness aside, the reality is that it will take months, once the impact of the coronavirus subsides, for many people to return to work. There will be jobs and possibly even sub-sectors of the economy that won't rematerialize.
This cataclysm prompted Congress to pass the largest fiscal relief package in its history. As necessary as it was, that massive spending bill was also a reminder that the urge to offer corporations mega-welfare not available to ordinary citizens remains a distinctly all-American phenomenon…
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