Your financial advisor might not be giving you the services that you deserve.
Here are some warning signs that you have a bad advisor handling your money.
If your advisor is investing in actively managed mutual funds, they're probably wasting your money. Mutual funds have high management fees: you must pay a team of financial professionals to manage and service your account and make investment decisions on your behalf. On top of these management fees, you'll also be paying operational costs, trading costs, taxes, and other hidden fees, such as compliance fees, account servicing charges, and marketing expenses. The extra one or two percent that you're paying for active funds can end up costing you hundreds of thousands over the long term, which can prevent you from retiring early or retiring comfortably.
Plus, active funds are known to underperform the S&P market 50 to 90 percent of the time. So you're ultimately paying for underperformance.
Financial advisors have to make money too, but they get paid in a variety of ways. Most, however, get paid by charging you a percentage of your managed assets. Unfortunately, the percentages charged can vary drastically from advisor to advisor, and yours could be charging far too much for few services rendered or few assets managed.
If your financial advisor is charging more than one percent of your assets or is being shifty about how they get paid, it might be time to break off the relationship.
The practice of financial planning covers a broad range of topics, not just investments. One of the most important services that your financial advisor should be offering you is retirement planning, because it's so closely tied to your investments. Your retirement depends heavily on your investment income, and your investments are based largely on your retirement goals. For an advisor to prepare you properly for retirement, they need to have some retirement income planning experience and take your retirement goals into account so that they can show you how you are going to replace your paycheck in retirement.
Is your financial advisor a fiduciary? This is the only way to ensure that they will put your interests ahead of their own. Some financial advisors, the ones who are paid commissions on investment products, likely won't have your best interests at heart. They'll try to sell you financial products to earn a commission.
A fiduciary, on the other hand, is legally bound to avoid conflicts of interest when advising you and to put your interests first, so you can trust their advice and recommendations.
You know that there's no one-size-fits-all method to investing. Your investment strategies will be based on your unique personal circumstances, needs, and goals. A good advisor will take your savings targets, your retirement objectives, your risk tolerance, and your financial circumstances into account when working with you to create a long-term investment strategy.
Though investment strategies should be dynamic and change over time as your life and risk tolerance change, this is a decision that you need to make in consultation with your advisor. Your financial advisor should never change your agreed-upon investment strategies if your goals haven't changed.
If your financial advisor is doing any of these five things, it might be time to fire them and shop around for a new one.


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2017 NFL draft provides cautionary tale for top-5 picks
by Bryan Perez
Dec 15, 2019; Oakland, CA, USA; Jacksonville Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette (27) stands on the field before the game against the Oakland Raiders at Oakland Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports
The NFL draft is the league's most popular offseason event for one obvious reason: it provides every fan base, especially for teams that are struggling, with hope for a brighter future. And that hope (or maybe expectations) are highest in the top-five picks. After all, they are the blue-chip prospects.
Unfortunately, and regardless of how many hours are poured into watching film and gathering background information, the reality is at least half of the first-round picks will become busts. The worst first rounds are the ones that have early first-round busts, kind of like what's happening with 2017's class.
The top of 2017's first round has been so bad that four of the players selected in the top five picks had their team decline the fifth-year option in their rookie contract. Those players include Mitchell Trubsiky (Bears, No. 2 overall), Solomon Thomas (49ers, No. 3 overall), Leonard Fournette (Jaguars, No. 4 overall), and Corey Davis (Titans, No. 5 overall).
Trubisky is the most glaring name from the bunch. He was selected before Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson yet is the only one of the three who may not have a starting job in 2020. Meanwhile, Mahomes has a Super Bowl victory and league MVP on his resume and Watson doesn't seem far behind.
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Fournette is noteworthy, too. He hasn't necessarily been a failure on the field. Instead, it's been more about his off-field antics that will likely lead to an untimely separation.
Fournette had a productive 2019 season when he carried the ball 265 times for 1,152 yards and caught 76 passes for 522 yards. He managed just three touchdowns with those touches, but he was a quality player for an offense that ended up relying on a sixth-round rookie quarterback for most of the season.
But when Fournette suggests the Jaguars should sign Cam Newton to be their starting quarterback? Yeah, not a great look.
"It's no disrespect to [Gardner Minshew]," Fournette said on ESPN's First Take. "I'm just trying to get in the best position as a team as we can [to] win."
Fournette has clashed with Jaguars coaches and fans for several seasons now. Remember, former coach Tom Coughlin once described Fournette's in-game actions as "disrespectful, selfish and their behavior was unbecoming that of a professional football player" when he sat alone on the bench during the 2018 season finale.
It's no shock Fournette is entering a lame-duck season in Jacksonville.
As for the other two? Thomas has been as big of a bust as Trubisky. He started just three games in 2019 and finished the year with two sacks. He has just six sacks through three seasons in the league. Davis has managed just one fully healthy season and has been limited to 36 starts in 48 games. In what was expected to be a breakout 2019 season, Davis finished the year with just 601 yards and two touchdowns.
So when you're reviewing the 2020 NFL Draft's top-five picks — Joe Burrow (Bengals), Chase Young (Redskins), Jeff Okudah (Lions), Andrew Thomas (Giants), Tua Tagovailoa (Dolphins) — think back to the 2017 class and how much excitement surrounded those picks. Don't assume this year's group is a sure-thing. NFL draft picks never are.
What a buzzkill.
Bryan is the founder of Pro Football Draft. His work has been featured on The Draft Network, NBC Sports and USA Today. Former CFL scout.
Follow him on Twitter: @BryanPerezNFL

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CHEAP SEATS: Mahomes nearly gives game away, but then takes it back
Don Brennan
Feb 03, 2020 • February 3, 2020 • 7 minute read
Kansas City Chiefs receiver Sammy Watkins misses the throw during the Super Bowl in Miami last night. The Chiefs won 31-20. USA TODAY
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — As you know, Patrick Mahomes is exceptional at most things he does with a football. That includes protecting it.
But in the second half of Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday night, maintaining possession of the pigskin proved to be a shortcoming of the 24-year old Kansas City Chiefs quarterback. In fact, at the most inappropriate time,
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Mahomes became a turnover machine.
And then, as if he had been toying with the San Francisco 49ers all along, he showed that just as he can giveth the game away, he can also taketh back.
The result was a 31-20 Chiefs win that ended their half-century long championship drought but also elevated Mahomes' star-status even higher.
Just when it looked like he was going to be the goat, he took another step towards being the GOAT.
Mahomes dug the Chiefs out of a hole he uncharacteristically created. In four post-season games heading into Sunday's Super Bowl, the Chiefs exciting young QB had an 11-0 touchdown-to-interception ratio. During the regular season, only five of his 484 throws fell into enemy hands. He was picked off 12 times as a rookie in 2018, his MVP year, but he also three 50 TD passes. And three of those interceptions were against the Rams in a game that saw him also toss six scoring strikes.
Yeah, he was hitting everybody that day.
So that happened in the second half of SB LIV at Hard Rock Stadium against the San Francisco 49ers? Was somebody else wearing the red No. 15 Chiefs jersey?
Because it sure didn't look like Mahomes.
The fourth quarter, drive-killing interception by Tarvarious Moore was not Mahomes fault. Maybe the pass to Tyreek Hill wasn't exactly on the money, but it did hit his hands. It should have been squeezed, not deflected.
Inexcusable was the pick Mahomes threw with just over five minutes left in the third quarter of a game the Chiefs trailed by three. Against he was trying to find Hill, but this time the ball was under thrown. It hit 49ers linebacker Fred Warner right in the numbers.
The San Francisco defence ran a long way to celebrate that one with a group picture in the Chiefs end zone. After the fun and games, the ball was brought back to where the incident occurred, on the 49ers' 45-yard line.
From there, the 49ers proceeded to show us we had just witnessed the key moment in the game. From there, the offence followed the route the defence had taken to toast Warner.
It didn't happen immediately. After a couple of plays the 49ers were in a third and eight situation, and suddenly you thought you were at Arrowhead Stadium.
But despite the loud encouragement from their faithful, the Chiefs 'D' couldn't rise to the occasion.
Jimmy Garoppolo hit Kendrick Bourne for a 26-yard gain that not only gave San Francisco a first down but led the 49ers to a touchdown.
A game that in the first half of the first half looked like it belonged to the Chiefs was now being controlled by the NFC champs.
The Chiefs came back, because in this postseason that's what the Chiefs do.
Mahomes started to resemble himself again, leading a drive that was spearheaded by a big gainer to Hill, a play that reminded you just what speed can do.
Mahomes would then go on to hit Travis Kelce in the end zone, and on cue, the music man at Hard Rock played the Beastie Boys party tune the Chiefs tight end belted out after the AFC championship win.
Momentum was back in K.C.'s favour.
The defence buckled down. Mahomes led another drive, this time finishing it off with a short TD pass to Damien Williams, the emotional running back who predicted he would have tears running down his cheeks if he could win a Super Bowl in the city where he started his career as a Dolphin.
When the defence stopped the 49ers one more time, the celebration began. But because it wasn't time for the Chiefs to take a victory stance, Williams was given the ball again.
The waterworks must have been flowing under his helmet has he ran 38 yards down the left sideline for another score, the exclamation point.
And standing back with his arms raised was Mahomes, who not only proved to be the best second-year quarterback in history, but also that he can win the big game even when he's not at his best.
DOWN THE SIDELINES
At first it looked like 49ers DB Jimmie Ward knocked Patrick Mahomes helmet off, if not his head, rather than the ball loose with that tremendous hit near the goal line late in the first quarter. Mahomes' toughness was on display a couple of times in the opening half, but for him to bounce back from that belt and then, a couple of plays later, choose to keep the ball and risk another crushing blow instead of pitching it to Damien Williams, well, let's just say years Mahomes should be proud when he remembers his first Super Bowl touchdown … Some of us thought the Chiefs had things well under control when Chris Jones and Mike Pennel (who was interviewed zero times this week) forced Garoppolo to throw the ball to K.C. DB Bashaud Breeland for an interception on the second play of the second quarter … Starting on their own 20 with 9:26 left in the first half, the 49ers finally got their running game going. Three runs for 20 yards by Raheem Mostert and one by Tevin Coleman for 17 were the engine of a seven play drive that resulted in a 15-yard scoring toss to fullback Kyle Juszczyk. And just like that, there was 5:05 to go before the break and the score was 10-10 … Juszczyk, a Harvard grad, became the first Ivy Leaguer to score a Super Bowl touchdown.
THIRD AND HOWIE LONG
OK, so reporters beside me were actually dancing in their seats during the J.Lo-Shakira halftime show. You're not allowed to cheer in a press box, and you sure as hell should not be allowed to dance … That said, the performance put on by the Latino superstars was very, very good. The light display was phenomenal … After just one 49ers series, I was mad at myself for not giving more consideration to Deebo Samuel as my Super Bowl MVP pick for the newspaper. Had the window stayed open a crack for another second, he would have gone all the way instead of being stopped after a 32-yard gain on that third play reverse. If Samuel wasn't the most exciting offensive rookie in the league this season, he was right up there … If I were given an actual vote for the MVP, it probably would have gone to Jennifer Lopez. Did you see those moves? The woman is 50 years old, for gawd sakes … That's probably one of the reasons I don't get an MVP vote.
Closest brush with death I had all week came on the second last night, en route to Wynwood, which used to be one of the most crime-ridden, scariest "hoods" in the U.S. but is now full of colourful murals and is known as one of South Florida's truly "happenin" districts. My Uber driver was weaving his Volvo along a busy street and in the middle of a story about his husband, when suddenly he slammed on the brakes just before ramming into the backend of the vehicle in front of us. I nearly went through the seat. "Sorry," he said. "I was watching that girl over on the sidewalk take a selfie." Really? … In a very well done pre-game tribute to the greatest players and coaches in NFL history, the only thing that brought a few boos was Bill Belichick (rather uncharacteristically, it seemed) holding up both hands to show off his eight Super Bowl rings.
Walking casually around the field 75 minutes before kickoff with Jay Glazer was Jerry Rice, wearing his bright white No. 80 jersey and looking very much like he could still be playing. Now 57, the former 49ers wide receiver remains at the top of most greatest player of all time list. The fact that, at last count (2017) he still owned over 100 NFL records probably has something to do with it … The Super Fan Fest in the Wynwood Marketplace was billed as "80,000 feet of action, activities and — best of all — people watching. There was certainly plenty to look at. Not mentioned was the rows of street food (that looked, smelled and tasted terrific) trucks, the live (mostly Spanish rappers) music and that the bars were open (from what I was told) until 5 a.m.
THE POINTS AFTER
The two most productive players in the first half were Samuel, who had two runs for 39 yards and four catches for 23, and Williams, who carried the ball 10 times for 47 yards and had two catches for 11. As far as passing the ball goes, the quarterbacks were nothing to write home about. Mahomes completed 12-of-18 for 104 yards, who Garoppolo connected on 9-of-11 for 89 … Unless there was something we didn't see, the offensive pass interference penalty that wiped out a big Garoppolo-to-George Kittle pass on the last play of the first half deserved all the boos it received …. Sometimes when Mahomes is waiting for a question to be finished, he has an expression on his face that looks like he couldn't be less interested. Or is that just me? … An estimated 100 million watched the game on TV. Combined with the approximately 65,000 at Hard Rock Stadium, that equals … a lot … Conservatively speaking, 76 percent of those in attendance were screaming for the Chiefs … True to the whispers that started Saturday, LeSean McCoy was among the seven "inactive" players for the Chiefs.


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I spoke to the lovely Melina Duterte, aka Jay Som, about her glorious new album Everybody Works. Read the whole thing over at The 405.


The Man began his day with a cup of coffee and started a kettle of water for the Lady's tea. He walked out into the yard in front of the shack to greet the sun as it woke the earth. He finished his coffee and walked over to the Lady, who was already in the garden preparing the day's food, pecked her on the cheek, and walked down the road that he always walked down into the woods in search of the day's meat. He passed the sled, which was already rusting from disuse, a gun, which he had damned months ago and tossed away, and a pile of various other belongings that neither he nor the Lady had any need for. The Man took only a rather large stick to bring back any carcasses, if it was necessary and plodded away down the trail.
Before he realized it, the afternoon was turning into evening and he had two squirrel carcasses and a half of a mouse tied to the stick, which he held with his right hand propped up on his shoulder, like a Norman Rockwell picturesque hobos. He reckoned that he must have eaten some of the mouse for lunch, but he couldn't remember it. He also realized that he was almost home, and that made him quite relieved, and he looked forward to sitting in the little kitchen with the Lady, enjoying the night air and the sound of the crickets. As he bounded the last few yards towards the house he congratulated himself on such a productive day. As he set the stick on the porch, leaned up against the wall of the house, he noticed there, on the drying rack, another mouse, one that he had not himself caught. He set the food on the rack to dry and went into the house.
"The mouse on the rack. Where did it come from?" he asked, as he slid off his cumbersome shoes that were now clearly much too large for his feet.
With a look of delight and surprise, the Lady responded, "I killed it!" and chuckled at herself.
"You killed it yourself?" he asked.
"Look at us!" she said. She stretched out her arm. Her eyes were wide and she wore a faint, quizzical smile.
"Look at what?" he said, bewildered. And suddenly, so suddenly that he wondered how he ever could have failed to remember, he remembered. He remembered the row house downtown. He remembered the car that he had once loved so much. He remembered the dark navy suits that he wore to work in the office overlooking the bay. "Dear God, what happened?" but no words came out of his mouth; only pictures of things that he now recognized.
Darkness inside the shack blanketed the pair like a quilt. Crickets drone as loud as bombs falling, screeching at white moon filling the entire horizon now. Not bombs. The moon is falling, getting closer to the earth by the second, rushing forward to smash headfirst… He runs outside and looks up at the moon now. She follows, too, four feet hurrying silently behind, brushing against droplets of water fastened to the blades of grass and soft skin prickled by the cool night air. He looks up—it's so bright now, it's like a new, beautiful white sun—a new sun for new life. There are no words now. No pictures. There is nothing left to say.
The Lady sprints into the wood quick as a bullet. The Man only watches. Dear God, he thinks to himself, as he lies on the cold ground, watching her dart away from him, and tears won't come.


If you have to hand in your notice to a company just to get a raise and a promotion, then is that the type of company you really want to work for? The promotion and raise your employer is giving you is not based upon your merit. If that was the case, then you would have already received it. Instead, because of the timing of this advancement, the reason is to keep you. Once the crisis has quelled and the status quo is back in place, then the odds are very high that this raise and increased remuneration could be revoked. Why should a company keep someone who didn't deserve a promotion and instead received it in reaction to a fear of departure? When the crisis is over, so will be the incentive to keep you.
80% of all employees who accept a counter-offer are no longer with that employer after 1 year.
When you accept a counter-offer, your boss is already likely to be looking for your replacement and just needs to buy some time.
Other than the increased salary, the same circumstances that caused you to be dissatisfied are still there.
You've already displayed your disloyalty to your current company and your boss will always keep this in mind when it comes to future promotions, raises, interesting projects, etc. To top it all off, guess who will no longer be considered a team player?
Accepting another job offer and then changing your mind is flat out unethical and bad business practice, which spells out as BAD REPUTATION. Today more than ever, careers are heavily affected by personal branding and reputation. It's actually a small world and you never know how accepting this counter-offer will affect your future job prospects.
If the company hits a rough patch and layoffs are necessary, you will probably be one of the first to go. After all, you had already threatened to leave once before.
Why is my boss offering me this counter-offer?
How will accepting this counter-offer affect my long-term career goals?
Comparing the current and new job, which one offers real potential for growth?
Your first decision is often the right one, so follow through with it and don't look back. Keep a positive relationship with your current company and leave on good terms without burning bridges. Politely tell them that while you appreciate their offer, you've made the decision to move forward.
Most of all, stay in control of your career and your decisions.


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Entertainment industry anxious about massive losses this Eid season
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The entertainment industry in Bangladesh is taking a beating from the coronavirus pandemic as all production activities have come to a halt amid the ongoing shutdown.
The entire industry is in dire straits and it does not see the light at the end of the tunnel either, industry insiders claim.
The dreaded pandemic is feared to worsen further in the next one month or so – meaning the plague will take a heavy toll on the industry's business centring this Eid-ul-Fitr at the end of this month.
This will affect the coming Eid-ul-Azha season as well if the country cannot contain the disease over the next couple of months.
Under normal circumstances, the entire entertainment sector, including the film, television, and music industries, remains abuzz with activities targeting the Eid season as they make the bulk of their yearly turnover during this period. But this time around, the coronavirus pandemic has brought the sector almost to a standstill.
Left without any work, around 10,000 people involved in the television and film industries stare at a bleak future. No official estimate of the number of people working in the music industry and in theatres could be known, however.
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The television industry is going to face a financial loss of Tk500 crore this Eid-Ul-Fitr as all shoots are shelved since March 22 due to the shutdown, according to an unofficial estimate of the Directors' Guild, Television Programme Producers Association of Bangladesh and The Actors' Equity – a platform of TV drama actors.
Different television channels are also worried as they do not have programmes to air during the Eid holidays.
Most of the television channels are now focusing on different programmes rather than dramas.
However, the people concerned think nothing can regain the losses caused by the shutdown. At the end of the day, everybody of the industry, including channel owners, actors, producers, and production houses, will be affected. They do not feel confident about the future.
Kamruzzzaman Babu, head of programme of Nagorik TV, told The Business Standard, "During the two Eid festivals last year, each TV channel had a turnover of Tk4 crore to Tk5 crore, which seems a distant dream this year."
The TV channels usually earn revenue from commercials for their programmes, which are aired during the Eid holiday season.
The production of television dramas has been interrupted by Covid-19.
Salauddin Lavlu, president of the Directors' Guild, said, "Usually, almost 1,000 dramas are produced ahead of Eid-Ul-Fitr and those special dramas have higher budgets."
"The production costs, alone, of those dramas were Tk30 crore," he said.
"New content is made for YouTube and various online streaming sites as well. The production costs of these contents are around Tk50 crore. The promotion of these programmes also requires a big budget. To summarize, I would say we are in for a severe financial loss," said Lavlu.
Iresh Zaker, president of Television Programme Producers Association of Bangladesh, said, "Annually, around Tk1,000 crore to Tk1,200 crore is spent to make TV dramas and a significant portion of the amount is invested for the dramas to be aired during the two Eid festivals. We do not know if we will be able to recover from this loss."
However, Iresh also had something positive to say. "Everybody needs to understand the situation. So, all of us, including sponsor companies, need to work collectively to overcome this difficult time, he said. We can make-up the losses after Eid if we work together."
Tariq Akhand, programme head of Bangla Vision, said, "TV channels of our country make money during the Eid holidays. Aside from commercials, we get endorsements from sponsor multinational companies for new dramas. This time, TV channels will be missing that revenue."
However, Arifur Rahman, programme in-charge of Maasranga TV, has not given up. He said, "We still cannot say anything about the business because we have not finalised the programme plans as yet. We will try to balance our programmes with new and old dramas. Then we shall talk to companies about branding and sponsorships."
"There is no doubt that there will be financial losses, but we cannot say anything about the amount at the moment," he added.
Filmmakers in the country also eagerly wait for the Eid season to release their movies.
Every year, the film industry of the country has a turnover of Tk20 to Tk25 crore with three to four films released during each Eid festival that usually makes up for the dull businesses during the rest of the year.
This year, "Mission Extreme," "Mon Debo Mon Nebo," "Shaan," "Deen - The Day" and "Commando," were slated for release during Eid-Ul-Fitr.
Prior to the shutdown, Shakib Khan's movie "Shahenshah" was the only significant release that came out on March 6. It was screened at over a hundred cinema halls. The cinema halls all over the country were shut down on March 18 and the closure will continue until further notice from the government.
An official, on behalf of the authorities of Blockbuster Cinemas, told the Business Standard, "We will remain closed until further notice from the government and keep posting the updates on our official Facebook page."
The official declined to put a number on the loss figure they will face because of the shutdown. "It is a huge financial loss for us as well as for the entire industry. We hope to recover from it and be back in the business soon, he said."
Meanwhile, all activities of the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (FDC) have also come to a halt, leaving the local production crew members jobless.
Khorshed Alam Khosru, president of Bangladesh Film Producers-Distributors Association, said, "Other businesses might get back on their feet, but it will be really difficult for our film industry to recover from this loss."
China Jasim, an independent light crew member of the industry, told The Business Standard, "We are in a terrible situation. We have been without work for over a month and have not received any aid from anybody or any association. We just received Tk1 lakh from the Directors Guild-Bd."
"Independent lighting crews are in trouble. We have an association and it has 175 members. We were asked to provide our national ID cards to the government for ration cards. However, in such a short time, only around 20 to 25 people were able to submit their ID cards. I urge the media and the government to help crew members like us so that we can support our families and survive until we return to work," he said.
The Covid-19 shutdown has hurt the music industry as well. Live concerts and shows are the main sources of income for most of the musicians, especially seasonal musicians and artists who rely on live shows. The suspension of all live shows and concerts will affect them the most.
Speaking about the current situation, Sheikh Monirul Islam Tipu, general secretary of Bangladesh Musical Bands Association (Bamba), and drummer and band leader of Warfaze, said, "Usually, no live events are held during Ramadan. Normally, we perform at various shows and there are many activities, which help us financially to celebrate Eid."
"Generally, the period from November to April is the perfect season for concerts and shows. So, all musicians are going through a financial crisis now. We cannot think of live events in this situation. It is alarming for musicians."
"A number of concerts scheduled for Warfaze were cancelled or postponed. I am sure other artistes are going through a similar situation," he said.
He added he was not sure whether there will be live concerts, phone-in live concerts on TV, or any other events after Eid.
He did not disclose the amount of revenue the music industry earned in the last one or two years from live concerts.
Popular musician Raef Al Hasan Rafa said, "I seriously do not know what is going to happen. The problem with the musicians is that we cannot ask for help.
The cultural affairs ministry or any organisation should take care of the artistes, especially, of session musicians who live on a day-to-day basis."
"Even when the shutdown is over, I am not confident enough to perform at concerts which are my or any musician's main source of income. The government should take this matter into consideration. At least, they can make a list of session musicians and provide them with aid," he added.
Rafa further urged for instrumentalists, who perform on a daily basis at various events and occasions, to be included in aid efforts.
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'No Religion' is World's Third-Largest "religion".
REUTERS - People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world's faiths, placing after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus.
The study, based on extensive data for the year 2010, also showed Islam and Hinduism are the faiths mostly likely to expand in the future while Jews have the weakest growth prospects.
It showed Christianity is the most evenly spread religion, present in all regions of the world, while Hinduism is the least global with 94 percent of its population in one country, India.
Overall, 84 percent of the world's inhabitants, which it estimated at 6.9 billion, identify with a religion, according to the study entitled "The Global Religious Landscape" issued by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life on Tuesday.
The "unaffiliated" category covers all those who profess no religion, from atheists and agnostics to people with spiritual beliefs but no link to any established faith.
"Many of the religiously unaffiliated do hold religious or spiritual beliefs," the study stressed.
"Belief in God or a higher power is shared by 7 percent of unaffiliated Chinese adults, 30 percent of unaffiliated French adults and 68 percent of unaffiliated U.S. adults," it said.
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Atheists Advocate Separation of Church and State at DNC
Cranford, NJ-- American Atheists will participate in a protest today organized by the Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics (CAA), an American Atheists affiliate, during the Democratic National Convention. The protest will be held September 4, 2012, from 6:00 - 6:30 p.m. at the Speakers Platform on the corner of Stonewall and Caldwell street, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The protest will include speakers from the CAA discussing the necessity of the separation of religion and government in the United States.
Mary Snow, Vice President of the Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics said, "The DNC's presence in Charlotte has provided CAA with a great opportunity to remind our local and national elected officials of their duty to serve all citizens regardless of their religious beliefs or lack thereof."
David Silverman, President of American Atheists said, "I'm proud to stand with the CAA as we lift our voices in opposition to the position religion has in our governmental system. Our nation was founded upon a system that guarantees equal rights to all people. By allowing religion to have a prominent place in the leadership of our country, we violate these freedoms."
For more information about the protest, please contact the Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics at: http://charlotteatheists.com
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Ізраель Меїр Кірцнер (також Ісроель Меєр Кірзнер , 13 лютого 1930) — британський і американський економіст Австрійської школи. На даний момент він є найбільш видатним австрійським економістом.

Раннє життя
 Син відомого рабина і талмудиста, Кірцнер народився у Лондоні і дістався до США через Південну Африку.

Освіта
Після навчання в Університеті Кейптауна, Південна Африка в 1947–1948 роках і за програмою зовнішньої програми Лондонського університету в 1950–51, Кірцнер отримав ступінь бакалавра з відзнакою в Бруклінському коледжі в 1954 році, ступінь МВА в 1955 році і доктора філософії. у 1957 році з Нью-Йоркського університету, де навчався у Людвіга фон Мізеса. Ізраїль Кірцнер — висвячений рабин.

Економіка

Кірцнер є почесним професором економіки Нью-Йоркського університету та провідним авторитетом у галузі мислення та методології Людвіга фон Мізеса в економіці. Дослідження Кірцнера з економіки підприємництва також мають широке визнання. Його книга « Конкуренція і підприємництво» критикує неокласичну теорію за її заклопотаність моделлю досконалої конкуренції, яка нехтує важливою роллю підприємця в економічному житті. Робота Кірцнера, що інтегрує підприємницькі дії в неокласичну економіку, була визнана більш широкою, ніж майже будь-яка інша австрійська ідея кінця двадцятого століття.

У 2006 році Кірцнер отримав Глобальну премію за дослідження підприємництва «за розвиток економічної теорії, яка підкреслює важливість підприємця для економічного зростання та функціонування капіталістичного процесу». Хоча ідеї Кірцнера дуже вплинули на сферу вивчення підприємництва, його в основному пов'язували з поглядом на відкриття можливостей. Проте, уважне читання робіт Кірцнера дозволило б припустити, що його роботу щодо підприємництва можна розділити на два табори, один з яких зосереджується на відкритті, а інший — на створенні.

Як і Йозеф Шумпетер, роботи Кірцнера можна, можливо, розділити на Кірцнер Марк I і Кірцнер Марк II. Основна робота Кірцнера присвячена економіці знань і підприємництва та етиці ринків. Кірцнер сказав, що він згоден із твердженням Роджера Гаррісона про те, що робота Кірцнера займає золоту середину, на відміну від нещодавньої, більш крайньої позиції деяких економістів австрійської школи, які заперечують релевантність ринкової рівноваги.

Університет Франциско Маррокіна присудив йому ступінь почесного доктора за його внесок в економічну теорію. Почесні докторські ступені Університету Франциско Маррокіна UFM також назвали свій Центр підприємництва Кірцнера на його честь.

Публікації
Фонд свободи зараз публікує Зібрання творів Ізраїля Кізнера в десяти томах під керівництвом Пітера Боеттке та Фредеріка Соте . Перший том «Економічна точка зору» вийшов у грудні 2009 року, другий том « Теорія ринку та система цін» — у травні 2011 року, а третій — « Есе про капітал» — у червні 2012 року. Вихід четвертого тому « Конкурс і підприємництво» запланований на 2013 рік, що також буде роком 40-річчя видання книги.

Деякі з його праць з економіки включають:

Книги

 Теорія ринку та система цін . Ван Ностранд, 1963.
 Нарис про капітал . А. М. Келлі, 1966.
 Конкуренція та підприємництво . Чикаго, 1973 рік. .
 Сприйняття, можливості та прибуток: дослідження з теорії підприємництва . Чикаго, 1973 рік.
 Економічна точка зору: нарис історії економічної думки  . Канзас-Сіті: Шід і Уорд, 1976.
 Відкриття та капіталістичний процес . Видавництво Чиказького університету, 1985.ISBN 0226437779 .
 Відкриття, капіталізм і розподільна справедливість . Безіл Блеквелл, 1989.
 Значення ринкового процесу . Рутледж, 1992.ISBN 0415137381 / .
 Рушійна сила ринку . Рутледж, 2000.ISBN 0415228239 .

Статті

 «П'ятдесят років FEE—50 років прогресу в австрійській економіці». Фрімен, Vol. 46, No 5, травень 1996 року. Заархівованоз оригіналу. Доступний повний випуск.
 «Роздуми про спадщину Мізесіану в економіці». Огляд австрійської економіки, вип. 9, No 2, 1996, с. 143–154.    .ISSN 0889-3047  . S2CID 144925158 .
 «Відкриття підприємництва та процес конкурентного ринку: австрійський підхід». Журнал економічної літератури, вип. 35, No 1, березень 1997 р., с. 60–85. JSTOR 2729693 .
 «Дія людини, 1949: драматичний епізод інтелектуальної історії». Фрімен, Vol. 59, No 7, вересень 2009 р., с. 8–11. Заархівованоз оригіналу. Доступний повний випуск.

Іудейський вчений
Кірцнер також є висвяченим рабином і талмудистом, а також служить рабином конгрегації, яку колись очолював його батько в Брукліні, штат Нью-Йорк . Він є одним із найвідоміших учнів рабіна Ісаака Хутнера, покійного декана єшиви рабина Хаїма Берліна, де він навчався багато років у ті ж роки, коли здобув академічну підготовку. Кірцнер є авторитетом у справах Хатнера і є одним із небагатьох офіційних редакторів усіх джерел, які цитує Хатнер.

Примітки

Посилання

 Ебелінг, Річард М., «З 90-річчям, професор Ізраїль Кірцнер»,  Американський інститут економічних досліджень, 18 лютого 2020 р.

Посилання

 Сторінка факультету Ізраїля Кірцнера
 Перший том Зібраних творів Ізраїля М. Кірцнера за редакцією Пітера Боеттке та Фредеріка Соте, опублікований у 2009 році Liberty Fund
 Посилання на есе до збірки Кірцнера від Causa Liberal
 Інтерв'ю з Ізраїлем М. Кірцнером: Між Мізесом і Кейнсом

 Стаття «Azione e funzione imprenditoriale: Kirzner ei suoi critici», Адріано Джантурко Гулісано , Nuova civilità delle macchine. Liberalismo e anarcocapitalismo, № 1–2, 2011, с. 371–96. (італійською)

Випускники Кейптаунського університету
Викладачі Нью-Йоркського університету
Випускники Нью-Йоркського університету
Американські письменники єврейського походження
Англійські євреї
Англійські емігранти до США
Випускники Бруклінського коледжу
Лібертаріанці США
Випускники Лондонського університету
Народились 1930
Австрійська школа

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WOOD DALE, Illinois, October 17, 2018 – AAR (NYSE: AIR), a global provider of aviation services, will partner with Zodiac Aerospace to distribute their water and waste product portfolio to the global airline, MRO and supporting markets effective November 1, 2018. Under this agreement, AAR will use analytics to proactively develop opportunities enhancing the success of Zodiac Aerospace's commercial aerospace customer base. AAR will stock material throughout the Company's worldwide warehouse network with locations in Chicago, Germany, Dubai, Singapore and Shanghai. AAR's expertise in inventory management, customer service and AOG support will provide the airline market decreased lead times on Zodiac's flight critical components.
Pictured standing top left to right: Martin Adnoff, VP Business Development - AAR OEM Solutions and Roman Calvo, Zodiac Product & Marketing Manager.
Seated right to left: Eric Young, SVP of AAR OEM Solutions and Bruno Delile, CEO of Zodiac Aerospace Services.
"Zodiac Aerospace Services and AAR have worked closely for a long time. We are very excited about the potential of the new combined organization and look forward to benefiting from AAR's global footprint as well as its service to airlines and customers on Zodiac Water & Waste parts," said Guillaume Bunoz, EVP Product Management, Business Development & Marketing for Zodiac Aerospace Services.
"AAR is excited to partner with Zodiac Aerospace. We expect this agreement to further enhance the customer service offered to customers worldwide, while maximizing sales opportunities for Zodiac Aerospace Services," said Eric Young, Senior Vice President, OEM Solutions, AAR.
Zodiac Aerospace is a world leader in aerospace equipment and systems for commercial, regional and business aircraft, helicopters and spacecraft. It develops and manufactures state-of-the-art solutions to improve comfort and well-being on board aircraft, and high-technology systems to increase aircraft performance and flight safety. Since February 2018, Zodiac Aerospace is a Safran company.
Zodiac Aerospace Services is the dedicated aftermarket and services organization of the Zodiac Aerospace Group. Committed to deliver the best performance and services, Zodiac Aerospace Services offers a global distribution network of spare parts and components, maintenance of equipment manufactured by the Zodiac Aerospace Group, customized support services for airline operators and dedicated technical support. Based in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, Zodiac Aerospace Services provides 24/7 AOG spare services to airlines and operators around the world.


I suffered with CFS for 15 years and wanted to die. I finally found how to heal myself naturally. It was a combination of physically healing myself with getting off of wheat, sugar, junk food etc. and taking colloidal silver to clear excess yeast, which is at the root of so many illnesses. But almost more important was dealing with why the illness showed up, releasing emotional issues, traumas etc. and stop identifying with being sick and being able to let it go. Even being ill can be a crutch because it is a comfort zone and familiar. Sounds strange but I also found out that a part of me didn't want to let it go because, it felt safe to be sick and unsafe to be well. (Taking responsibility for my life and stepping out to live my purpose). I did face this and my body started to naturally heal itself. Now I help others do the same. I help people heal CFS, fibro etc. My life is very different now, I feel great and I'm a mentor for others. It was a long road but I did finally figure out how to do it.


Iran says Total could lose all of its investment if it pulls out of a deal it made with Tehran regarding the development of the South Pars gas field.
"If Total, without the enforcement of (U.N.) Security Council sanctions, announces that it has the intention to leave the contract, no capital will be returned to this company and no sum will be transferred to the company," oil minister Bijan Zanganeh said to SHANA, the oil industry's press service.
Back in July, Total inked a deal to develop phase 11 of the South Pars field, with an initial payment of $1 billion to get the ball rolling. The agreement was the first made by a Western energy company in Iran since the United Nations lifted sanctions against Iran that were levied due to distrust regarding a rogue nuclear program.
Total has the "willingness to move forward" with its previous deal, the company said in a statement.
"Total is currently working on the South Pars 11 project and is committed to pursuing it. Tenders have already been launched and contacts should be awarded by January," a Total spokesman said, according to Reuters.
Iran's ambitions in the LNG area are not new. There were plans to develop LNG production projects in the early 2000s. Western sanctions interrupted these plans, but now they are back on the table, unless the U.S. imposes new sanctions on the country, which is always a possibility under the current administration. Until that happens—if it ever does—Iran has access to Western oil and gas extraction technology, and has a relationship with Total, among others. The French company has also previously expressed interest in acquiring other natural gas projects around Iran as the country reenters the international arena.


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from docutils.core import publish_string
from docutils import nodes
from docutils.nodes import Text
from docutils.writers.html4css1 import HTMLTranslator
from epydoc.markup import DocstringLinker
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With a raw, and yet clean vocal and a mixture of heavy dissonant riffs and big melodies, Annominus distinguishes itself in many ways from the rest.
There is no focus on playing as quickly as possible. The absolute focus is to make the individual songs as good as possible.
With their new album "The Architect" released on Mighty Music 1st of June, Annominus has made an ambitious conceptual album about how we, as humans, can become discouraged by the world we live in, as well as how we can get up from the ashes again – or let ourselves be destroyed by ourselves.
It brings a critical view of the institutionalization of us as humans and a more poetic approach to the "us against the world" concept.
The records was written under intimate conditions, with only the band involved. It was recorded in collaboration with Anders Vohs (When Water Runs Deep) – a close friend of the band. This was done to maintain the intimate atmosphere on the record.
Annominus brings a great amount of experience from the stage. They have supported major bands like Amorphis and the American giants Black Label Society as well as a headliner tour through Russia in 2015.
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In the Classroom with Ashok Goel
Professor Ashok Goel never had any doubt that he would enter the family business: education.
"I always wanted to teach," said Goel. "Growing up in (Kurukshetra) India, my grandfather was a primary school teacher, and my father was a professor of physics. Teaching runs in my blood, I suppose. In my family, teaching and research were considered the things to do."
He came to the U.S. to attend The Ohio State University and pursue a Ph.D. in physics, but he instead earned a degree in computer science after working for a few years.
"Some people are like arrows. They know exactly what they want to do in life and they shoot like this," Goel said, demonstrating a straight shot.
"I'm afraid I was more like a spiral," he joked, referring to the fact that he went from physics to computing.
Now a professor of computer science and cognitive science in the College of Computing's School of Interactive Computing, Goel also is the director of the School's Ph.D. program in Human-Centered Computing.
He serves as director of Interactive Computing's Design & Intelligence Laboratory, co-director of Tech's Center for Biologically Inspired Design, and a fellow of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems.
He has been at Georgia Tech for 26 years.
"Sometimes people ask me, 'Why haven't you moved?' My answer is Georgia Tech changes into a new place every five years," he said. "The changes here are so rapid."
Online education is one area where Goel has seen many changes in the past five years. Another is interdisciplinary research.
"Interdisciplinary research has always been a major focus of Georgia Tech. It's challenging," he said. "The big difficulty is that we all speak different languages."
"I do a lot of work with biologists, engineers, and designers, and we all talk different languages. Sometimes, it takes a special effort to understand and appreciate each other. Going in you respect them, but that's different from being able to understand them."
Ashok Goel, who has been at Tech for 26 years, encourages frequent feedback in order to "have an idea of what the students are thinking." Photo: Fitrah Hamid


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Many cookbooks use exotic ingredients & recipes that look great but aren't easy to source. Med in 28 uses everyday ingredients you'll find in your local supermarket.
By using common ingredients and reducing waste, you can follow the plan for about £25-£30 per person, per week in your middle of the road supermarket like Tesco.
Americanised cookbooks can be a pain to use, especially if you don't have the conversions on-hand. You won't find any Americanised measurements like cups.
Although the Mediterranean diet emphasises healthy eating choices, tracking calories is important. Meal plans contain approximately 1500 calories and can be easily adjusted.
Knowing the nutritional composition in each recipe gives you confidence in what you're eating and help you make informed eating choices long into the future.
Most diet plans are time-consuming and unrealistic for cooking midweek. Med in 28 is easy to fit into everyday life, regardless of how much time you have to cook.
Our 28 day Mediterranean diet plan will help you adopt lifelong Mediterranean eating habits, with the least amount of effort.
All the recipes take less than 60 minutes. Most of the dinner recipes take less than 30 minutes, including the preparation (most cookbooks underestimate the prep time needed). There are also many no-cook breakfasts and lunches you can pack and take to work., as well as plenty of vegetarians and gluten-free recipes too.
All nutritional information is provided, including calories and macronutrients.
I was very interested in this diet as over the years we have tried many diets to no real effect and as my husband, Paul, has heart failure, suffers from arrhythmia, is diabetic and very overweight. The time had come to lose a few pounds and ensure we didn't fail long-term.
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Put your meal planning on autopilot and make the important decisions ahead of time, reducing waste & lowering costs. We've make the plan as efficient as possible so you use up perishable ingredients, so you don't throw out ingredients. Meal plans contain 1500-1800 calories including snacks, but are easily adjustable.
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You'll get round-the-clock, personal support and advice from the team at Medmunch. We'll answer any questions you have & keep your spirits high throughout. We can also help make adjustments to the recipes & meal plans if certain recipes don't work for you because of intolerances and other factors.
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Doing it yourself is tough when you're not sure about all the information. And then trying to figure out all the recipes and shopping lists is just extra time that you could better spend with your friends, family...and actually cooking those recipes yourself, not just researching them!
The problem? These books are mostly targeted for American audiences. That means all lots of the measurements are in cups and it takes 15+ minutes just to convert all those in British measurements.
Many Amazon publishers greatly reduce their book size and show recipes photographs because printing in colour is so expensive (trust me, I've looked into it). How can you get excited eating those recipes if you don't even know what they look like?
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Size of deposit banks traded on BIST increases by TL 246B
ISTANBUL Finance
Aug 28, 2018 12:00 am GMT+3
A total of 10 deposit banks traded on the Borsa Istanbul Stock Exchange (BIST) saw their total size increasing TL 246 billion ($39.75 billion) to reach TL 2.44 trillion in the first six months of this year.
According to data compiled by Anadolu Agency (AA), the non-consolidated total size of 10 deposit banks, including Akbank, DenizBank, Garanti Bank, Halkbank, ICBC Turkey Bank, İş Bank, QNB Finansbank, Şekerbank, VakıfBank and Yapı Kredi, has increased by TL 246.3 billion in the said period.
The total asset size of the banks stood at TL 2.19 billion at the end of last year. The figure increased by 11.2 percent to TL 2.44 billion as of the end of June this year.
Moreover, the net profit of deposit banks traded on BIST was up 13.3 percent to around TL 19.58 in the January-June period compared to the same period last year. The same figure stood at around TL 17.29 billion.
The banks' equity rose by 9.4 percent in the said period to TL 232.43 billion. The average return on equity of the banks was 14.2 percent at the end of June.
Garanti Bank achieved the highest net profit among deposit banks with TL 3.9 billion, followed by İş Bank with TL 3.33 billion and Akbank with TL 3.28 billion.
QNB Finansbank increased its net profit the most compared to the same period last year with 39.9 percent, followed by Şekerbank with 38.3 percent and ICBC Turkey with 37.3 percent.
Ziraat Bank, which is not traded on the stock exchange, maintained its title as the bank with the largest asset size in Turkey with around TL 497.57 billion. In the first half of this year, the bank's net profit declined by 8.8 percent to some TL 3.95 billion from TL 4.34 billion in the same period last year.
Ziraat Bank's first half profit corresponds to one fifth of the total profit of the 10 deposit banks traded on the stock exchange. The bank's average return on equity was 15.6 percent at the end of June.
Meanwhile, according to data from the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK), the net profit of the Turkish banking sector increased by 14 percent in the first half of this year to TL 28.92 billion compared to the same period of the previous year.
The same figure stood at around TL 25.36 billion in the first six months of last year.


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Q: Change category title in OpenCart I am running an online store based on OpenCart and I want to add something more to the category titles. For example, right now I have a category called Electronics. The title is simple: Electronics. I want to add, for example, the text "Buy" in the title, in front of the category name.
Anyone has an idea about how I can achieve that ?

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Is William Channing Webb really Margarette Amundson Reynolds?
And other odd coincidences.
If Call of Cthulhu was written Summer of 1926, then the Spokane discovery is truly a remarkable coincidence - was it included on purpose? In addition, a 50 year old article has spectacular coincidences with Lovecraft's extract. See below.
"… there was one man in that gathering who suspected a touch of bizarre familiarity in the monstrous shape and writing, and who presently told with some diffidence of the odd trifle he knew. This person was the late William Channing Webb, Professor of Anthropology in Princeton University, and an explorer of no slight note. Professor Webb had been engaged, forty-eight years before, in a tour of Greenland and Iceland in search of some Runic inscriptions which he failed to unearth; and whilst high up on the West Greenland coast had encountered a singular tribe or cult of degenerate Esquimaux whose religion, a curious form of devil-worship, chilled him with its deliberate bloodthirstiness and repulsiveness. It was a faith of which other Esquimaux knew little, and which they mentioned only with shudders, saying that it had come down from horribly ancient aeons before ever the world was made. Besides nameless rites and human sacrifices there were certain queer hereditary rituals addressed to a supreme elder devil or tornasuk; and of this Professor Webb had taken a careful phonetic copy from an aged angekok or wizard-priest, expressing the sounds in Roman letters as best he knew how. But just now of prime significance was the fetish which this cult had cherished, and around which they danced when the aurora leaped high over the ice cliffs. It was, the professor stated, a very crude bas-relief of stone, comprising a hideous picture and some cryptic writing. And so far as he could tell, it was a rough parallel in all essential features of the bestial thing now lying before the meeting." Call of Cthulhu, periscope, HP Lovecraft
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Eclectic Magazine of FOREIGN LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ART, JANUARY 1877, THE ARCTIC REGIONS AND THE ESKIMO, page 1 ff. Originally from: Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo with Sketch of their Habits, Religion, Language, other Peculiarities; By Dr Henry Rink, Director of the Royal Greenland Board of Trade, Translated from the Danish by the Author, and Edited by Dr. Robert Brown , London 1875 [Note this is roughly 48 years before 1926]
"As is well known this is a sceptical fault finding age and so our readers must not be surprised if they find old forms and names overthrown in the very heading of our article. Our grandfathers talked of the Esquimaux and were content just as our grandmothers when they sucked eggs extracted the yolk by an old and time honored process So far as regards these venerable women a new generation has sprung up which will not allow them to pursue such a hand to mouth means of alimentation but insists on a more scientific treatment of barn door deposits In the same way we are not suffered to write Esquimaux after the good old spelling but are quite behind the age unless we adopt the form Eskimo. (p.1) … It is probable as in other mythologies that the Eskimo were at first content with the pantheistic arrangement of supernatural owners who ruled each particular object in the universe but such a creed is only transitory and ends in the belief of one Supreme Power This being was called by the Eskimo Tornasuk the supreme helper who only it seems revealed himself to the angakoks or wise men that is to the priests. (p.11)
"... Professor Webb had been engaged, forty-eight years before, in a tour of Greenland and Iceland in search of some Runic inscriptions which he failed to unearth …", Call of Cthulhu written summer 1926, fragment.
NORSE VOYAGES TO AMERICA ARE RETRACED; Story of These Hardy Adventurers Is Woven From the Sagas, Records of the Vatican, and the Ruins Found in Greenland, New York Times; By VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON, July 18, 1926
RECENT reports of the discovery of a Viking burial mound near Spokane, Wash., and runic inscriptions telling of a Norse expedition that crossed the continent from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific in 1010 A.D. renew interest in the story of the adventurous Norsemen who found their way to America as early as 1000 A.D. and made many voyages in the following three centuries.
Indians Capture 7 viking Women in A.D. 1010
Norse Mysteries Washington
Fight Between Vikings and Indians 1010 AD
"Found Viking Grave Near City!" headlined the July 5, 1926 issue of the Spokane Daily Chronicle. It showed a Whale shaped boulder 50 feet long and 15 feet high.
On it was a Norse Runic Inscription. Professor Opsjohn translated it and dated it 1010 AD. It told of a fight between a band of Vikings (24 men and 7 women) and Indians. Half of the men and one women were killed and buried at the smaller end of the boulder.
The other Vikings who escaped the battle carved the runes before swimming the Columbia River to get out of the territory.
There are also carved pictures of the Norse Goddess Freya with gold horns on her helm. The same as those found in Gotland Denmark and are now in the Northern Royal Museum of Denmark.
Margarette Amundson Reynolds, a runic scholar, said the Viking Grave was the most remarkable discovery ever uncovered on the North American continent. She said the inscription was filled with a thrilling description of action.
The Record tells how the men put the seven women and baby on top of the boulder. The men then stood about the base fighting the Indians. They were greatly outnumbered.
Twelve of the Norsemen were killed. The Indians captured the women and left. The survivors dug a grave near the rock and buried the dead.
Pictured rocks with runes are scattered across the American continent. They prove beyond a doubt, that the Norse established colonies 500 years before Columbus.
Philip Howell, sage of the Clallam tribe states that his grandmother told him of big blond men who came many generations ago. They wandered inland and that the rock near Spokane was regarded by the Indians as the burial place of the Invaders who were killed in their battle with the Indians.
Howell said that blonds among the Clallams were proof of the six Norse women were captured by the Indians, and integrated into the tribe.
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Q: Adjust the width of the div to the width of the site I need the center div div#b to fill out the gab between div#a and div#c.

    Div1

    Div2

    Div3

I tried to do this by placing width: 100% on div#b but without luck.
div
{
    border:1px solid red;
}
div#a
{
    float:left;
    width:50px;
}
div#b
{
    float:left;
    width:100%; ??
}
div#c
{
    float:right;
    width:50px;
}

How can I get div#b to expand from div#a to div#c?
There can be no line breaks.

A: I've hit similar problems myself. The problem here is "width: 100%" will basically inherit the width of the parent container.
The other problem is the float. When you ask div#b to float to the left alongside div#a, you can't use the fancy margin trick to force div#b to stay out of the way of div#a. (In other words, margin can be used to keep div#b from entering and interfering with a certain amount of space on any of its sides.) However, with float, the margin is now not pushing div#b away from the edge of the page, but away from the edge of div#a.
OK, so the solution looks like this. Remove the float on div#b, and then apply left and right margins so div#b doesn't interfere with either side columns. Let div#b determine its own size (i.e. don't give it a "width"), so it will fit between the two floats. Lastly, shift div#b so that the floats occur before div#b is put in place, so that div#b is put between the floats.
Here's the new code:

    Div1

    Div3

    Div2

Determining margins is tricky. Borders aren't counted in the width calculation of an element, so a 50px-wide div with a 1px border is actually 52px-wide.

A: CSS3
You can implement this dynamic behavior using the CSS3 Flexible Box Layout Module:

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A new version of FireFox, a new version of Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 10 and a new version of Safari supports CSS3 flexible box layout. Internet Explorer 9 and Opera is lacking support at the moment.
I also want to mention this new way to do it in FireFox:

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FireFox is the only browser that support the calc function at the moment.

CSS2
Here is the old way to do it:

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A width of 100% inside the container div is the width of the container minus the 100px left padding. Then there is room for the left and right 50px div elements. Then you have to position them using some negative margin and floating.

Feature detection
Use feature detection with Modernizr. Then you can use CSS2 for browsers that lack support for CSS3 flexbox.
If you do .NET development you can download Modernizr with NuGet.

A: I have a feeling you won't like this answer, but the easiest way to do it is to remove float: left and any width from div#b, and then switch up the order of your divs, so both the sidebars are before your main content area. Here's the code:
HTML:

    Div1

    Div3

    Div2

CSS:
div
{
    border:1px solid red;
}
div#a
{
    float:left;
    width:50px;
}
div#b
{
    overflow: hidden;
    /*margin: 0 60px;*/
}
div#c
{
    float:right;
    width:50px;
}

Note that I've applied overflow: hidden to the middle div - this will force it into columns (in most browsers). You could use the given margins instead, if you're not comfortable with a "magic" solution (there is a reasonable explanation for it, but I can never remember it off the top of my head).


Much of the nation fears erosion of rights for women, immigrants, and LGBTQ people. But all is not lost. There is work we can do, starting at the voting booth.
Can Journalists Really Be Apolitical?
Credible journalism warrants that reporters present "both sides." But is it reasonable to demand the artifice of reporters not having an opinion in these highly politicized times?
As the writer considers whether to become a mother, she reveals this nation's long history of depriving the right of parenthood to the disabled—which continues to this day.
Another day, another media pundit telling us to stop talking about "identity politics" if Democrats want to win. But they're wrong.


Hadron jets produced in e+e− annihilation between 13 GeV and 31.6 GeV in c.m. at PETRA are analyzed. The transverse momentum of the jets is found to increase strongly with c.m. energy. The broadening of the jets is not uniform in azimuthal angle around the quark direction but tends to yield planar events with large and growing transverse momenta in the plane and smaller transverse momenta normal to the plane. The simple collinear jet picture is ruled out. The observation of planar events shows that there are three basic particles in the final state. Indeed, several events with three well-separated jets of hadrons are observed at the highest energies. This occurs naturally when the outgoing quark radiates a hard noncollinear gluon, i.e., with the quarks and the gluons fragmenting into hadrons with limited transverse momenta.


Rana is humanizing technology with AI. As co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, she invented artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI, cutting-edge software that analyzes complex and nuanced emotion and cognitive states from the human face and voice. Rana, and her work, has received considerable recognition — such as being named one of 25 geniuses creating the future of business by WIRED, one of the seven most powerful women to watch from Entrepreneur, and was recently inducted into the Women in Engineering Hall of Fame. She grew up in the Middle East and received her doctorate in computer science from Cambridge University and post doctorate from MIT.


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What happens when you mix the Balkans and Scandinavia? Great design happens! Cool Scandinavian design aesthetics mix with ethnic patterns and century old handicraft from the Balkans and result in beautiful wooden design pieces for the contemporary home. One example of this unusual design concoction are the Nera wooden bowls by Bosnian design label Zanat made in collaboration with Swedish designer Monica Förster. And I am so in love!
The Nera wooden bowls are made by hand with improvised patterns by the carvers. The bowls highlight the traditional craftsmanship of wood carving typical for Bosnia. These beauties are great as fruit bowls, bowls for nuts and small snacks or as amazing center pieces on a dining table.
Do I have to mention that I got myself one bowl? A little pre-Xmas present if you want so. In Germany you can find the Nera wooden bowls at the Hotel Ultra Concept Store.
Nice bowls, really nice. Handcrafted, they look amazing. I'd love to meet and know the people able to create such beauties. They must be some special persons, they love wood and care about it, it's easy to see this.
Same here, Gabrielle. I know that woodworking and wood carving is very traditional throughout the Balkans. Maybe I will have to go and see that for myself during my next trip to the region!


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AIG Faces Growing Wrath Over Payouts
By Liam Pleven, Serena Ng and Sudeep Reddy
March 16, 2009 12:01 am ET
Troubled insurer American International Group Inc., now 80% owned by U.S. taxpayers, spent the weekend deflecting mounting criticism of how government funds have been funneled to various banks and used to pay employee bonuses at the business unit that almost sank the company.
After calls for more transparency, AIG disclosed Sunday that roughly two-thirds of the $173.3 billion in federal aid it received has been paid out to trading partners such as banks and municipalities in the U.S. and abroad.
The disclosures came as AIG was lambasted for about $450 million in bonus payments planned for employees at a business unit that lost $40.5 billion last year. The unit's woes pushed the company to near-collapse, forcing the government bailout.
The disclosures highlighted the increasingly close but uncomfortable relationship between AIG and the U.S. government, which six months ago was a restless creditor and now has little choice but to be a patient ally.
"Something is terribly wrong with this picture, and the reckless behavior at AIG must stop immediately," said Rep. Elijah Cummings (D., Md.), in a statement Sunday. He called on AIG's government-appointed chief executive, Edward Liddy, to resign over the bonus-payments issue.
Obama Lambasts AIG, Reveals Plan to Help Small Business
President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announce big plans to help small businesses succeed, as well as announcing that action will be taken against AIG's disbursement of bonuses. Video courtesy of Fox News.
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Philo, Greg, Miller, David, Berry, Mike, Schlosberg, Justin and Lerman, Antony 2019. Bad news for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and public belief. Pluto Press.
Berry, Mike 2019. The media and Neoliberalism. In: Curran, James and Hesmondhalgh, David eds. Media and Society, London: Bloomsbury Academic,
Berry, Mike 2019. The media, the public and the great financial crisis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bennett, Lucy, Berry, Michael and Allan, Stuart 2018. Introduction. Journalism Studies 19 (13) , pp. 1849-1853. 10.1080/1461670X.2018.1502922
Berry, Mike 2018. Austerity, the media and the UK public. In: Basu, Laura, Schifferes, Steve and Knowles, Sophie eds. The Media and Austerity: Comparative Perpectives, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 15-29.
Moore, Kerry, Berry, Michael and Garcia-Blanco, Inaki 2018. Saving refugees or policing the seas? how the national press of five EU member states framed news coverage of the migration crisis. Justice, Power and Resistance 2 (1) , pp. 66-95.
Berry, Mike 2016. No alternative to austerity: how BBC broadcast news reported the deficit debate. Media, Culture & Society 38 (6) , pp. 844-863. 10.1177/0163443715620931
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Berry, Mike 2016. The UK press and the deficit debate. Sociology 50 (3) , pp. 542-559. 10.1177/0038038515582158
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Berry, Mike 2013. The Today programme and the banking crisis. Journalism 14 (2) , pp. 253-270. 10.1177/1464884912458654
Berry, Mike 2013. The 'Today' programme and the banking crisis. Journalism 14 (2) , pp. 253-270. 10.1177/1464884912458654
Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin, Sambrook, Richard Jeremy, Berry, Mike, Moore, Kerry, Bennett, Lucy, Cable, Jonathan, Garcia-Blanco, Inaki, Kidd, Jenny, Dencik, Lina and Hintz, Arne 2013. Breadth of opinion in BBC output. [Project Report]. BBC Trust. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/editorial_s...
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Philo, Greg and Berry, Mike 2011. More bad news from Israel. London: Pluto Press.
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Philo, G. and Berry, Mike 2004. Bad news from Israel. London: Pluto Press.


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Golden Working Artists have been presenting this fun, informative Lecture Demonstration for more than two decades. Jam packed with science and art, Kathryn will be providing fundamental information about Golden Acrylics, Williamsburg Oil and QoR Watercolor. Learn about the products and a variety of application possibilities. We'll discuss color theory, pigment reality and get inspired by Iridescent and Interference colors. And you'll get a guided tour of your local art supply store shelves. Just what are all those gels for and how are they different? With some hands-on samples and finished technique examples, you'll be sure to discover something new for your painting. Great handouts and generous product samples are a fun freebie for attending!
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Researchers at Austria's University of Graz have demonstrated the largest collection of swarming autonomous underwater vehicles with their Collective Cognitive Robots (CoCoRo) project. A total of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were assembled for recent swarm testing at the University's Artificial Life Lab. Though funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7) with the intention of developing civilian innovations for environmental monitoring and research, CoCoRo has implications for future military unmanned underwater vehicle swarm activity.
Under development since 2011, CoCoRo's swarm demonstration consists of three types of robots: Jeff is an agile fish-like robot with various pressure and magnetic sensors for obstacle detection, avoidance, and navigation. The swarm also featured 20 saucer-shaped Lily robots that randomly search for objects while communicating with each other using blue-LED lights. The final robot is a semi-submersible catamaran base station which serves as a platform for the vehicles to autonomously dock allowing the swarm to communicate its location (via GPS) and activities with humans as well as to other base stations. Eventually, using this method, swarms in multiple geographic areas could coordinate search areas with one another. A dock could also provide a future means to recharge the AUVs and transport them from one location to another.
Bio-inspired algorithms enable the swarm to work together to locate magnetic targets and aggregate around them. On a larger scale, this behavior has viability for naval unmanned underwater vehicles that could be used in underwater surveys, search and recovery, or mine counter-measures operations.
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I am new to this forum and not entirely sure how it works, but I'm going to give it a shot. Every year after SXSW I make mix for my friends focusing on newer music. The regular audience for this cd is not as musically informed as this group. The track list is below. Be kind.


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