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Days may be numbered for the world's oldest bank
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena is officially Europe's weakest lender
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world's oldest bank, in Siena, Italy. Last month the bank performed worse than any other in a test of its financial health by European regulators. Photograph: The New York Times
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Jack Ewing
Wed Aug 18 2021 - 10:26
Last month Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world's oldest bank, acquired another distinction: Europe's weakest lender. The bank performed worse than any other in a test of its financial health by European regulators, the latest gloomy chapter in a long-running saga of ill-fated deals, financial shenanigans, criminal wrongdoing and even a mysterious death. The stress test by regulators, which showed that a severe recession would wipe out the bank's capital, has forced the Italian government to face an unpleasant truth: Monte dei Paschi's 5½-century run is coming to an end. With prodding from Rome, UniCredit, one of Italy's largest banks, said last month that it was in talks to buy Monte dei Paschi on the condition that the government keep all the bad loans.
Monte dei Paschi, founded in 1472, will probably live on as a brand name on bank branches in central Italy, and customers probably will not notice much difference, at least at first. But the bank will cease to be a stand-alone entity and a living reminder that Italian merchants during the Renaissance basically invented modern banking. The bank's operations will be managed from UniCredit's headquarters in Milan rather than Monte dei Paschi's fortress-like home office in Siena's old quarter. The title of oldest bank will probably pass to Berenberg Bank, founded in Hamburg, Germany, in 1590.
The bank's problems are an unwelcome distraction for Mario Draghi, the Italian prime minister and former president of the European Central Bank, as he tries to push through reforms and end Italy's status as the euro zone's perpetual economic laggard.
Disposing of Monte dei Paschi, which was effectively nationalised after a government bailout, "would free resources, time and political capital for more important issues," said Lorenzo Codogno, a former chief economist at the Italian treasury who is now an independent consultant. "There is strong political pressure to find a solution as soon as possible."
Pscyhological blow
But for Siena and the surrounding area, the troubles of Monte dei Paschi are a psychological as well as an economic blow. Few banks are as enmeshed with the wealth and identity of their communities as Monte dei Paschi was in its heyday. It remains Siena's largest private employer, and the foundation that owned it bestowed bank profits on a wide variety of civic activities, including kindergartens, ambulance services and even costumes that rival clans wore in the processions preceding the Palio, the bareback horse race normally run twice each summer in Siena's central plaza.
"Monte dei Paschi is part of the city's flesh and blood," said Maurizio Bianchini, a local journalist, historian of the Palio and former head of communications at Monte dei Paschi. "From a human point of view, it's as if the bank was a branch of every Sienese family."
Maurizio Bianchini, a former head of communications for Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena: "Monte dei Paschi is part of the city's flesh and blood." Photograph:The New York Times
Monte dei Paschi's survival has been in doubt for years. Its troubles began in 2008 after it paid more than it could afford to acquire a rival and become Italy's third-largest bank, after Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit. In 2013, as police investigated allegations that bank executives hid mounting losses from regulators and shareholders, David Rossi, Monte dei Paschi's head of communications, was found dead in an alley below his office window in an apparent suicide. Members of Rossi's family were convinced he was killed for knowing too much, but police never found conclusive evidence of foul play.
In 2019, more than a dozen executives of Monte dei Paschi, Deutsche Bank and Nomura were convicted of illegally using complex derivatives to cover up the Italian bank's problems. They have appealed. Most banks with Monte dei Paschi's problems would have been sold long ago, but for the people of Siena the proposed deal with UniCredit would be like auctioning off part of their identity. The city will also suffer economic pain. The sale to UniCredit is likely to lead to as many as 5,000 job cuts, a third of the total jobs, according to Italian news reports. UniCredit declined to comment on what layoffs might be in store.
'Infuriated'
"The city is infuriated," an 80-year-old man, who declined to give his name, said as he chatted with friends on the steps of a Monte dei Paschi branch in central Siena. Giving up control to UniCredit in Milan, he said, "would be like losing a daughter."
Bank stress tests published in July by the European Central Bank exposed how vulnerable Monte dei Paschi remains despite multiple recapitalisations and turnaround plans. In the event of a severe recession lasting until 2023, the bank's capital would be reduced almost to zero, according to the stress test. The bank would need "well above" €2.5 billion in fresh capital, Daniele Franco, the Italian economics minister, told parliament this month.
UniCredit disclosed on July 29th that it was in exclusive talks to buy Monte dei Paschi, a day before regulators published the stress tests. Andrea Orcel, the chief executive of UniCredit, told reporters and analysts on July 30th that the bank needed to thoroughly review Monte dei Paschi's books before making a decision on whether to go through with the deal.
But he said Monte dei Paschi would strengthen UniCredit's business in central Italy. "The timing is right," Orcel said.
Still, many people in Siena refuse to accept that Monte dei Paschi's half a millennium of independence may soon be over. The potential sale to UniCredit has become an issue in city and parliamentary elections, which will be held in October, and may play into the hands of the League, a right-wing populist party that already supports the mayor of Siena, Luigi De Mossi.
The city of Siena in Italy Photograph: The New York Times
De Mossi told reporters recently that the bank was "not a supermarket," where UniCredit could pick only the assets it wants and leave the government to deal with the rest. The bank's future, he said, is a "social and political issue that concerns not only Siena, not only Italy, but Europe."
But other leaders say it is time for Siena to move on. "The ECB stress tests are a sort of final check of the fact that the bank is not able to stand alone any more," said Enrico Letta, a former prime minister of Italy who, after a stint in academia, has returned to politics as a candidate for Parliament representing the provinces of Siena and Arezzo.
Other strength
Letta argues that, while banking will still be a major employer, the city should invest in its other traditional strength, healthcare. The British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has a major research centre in Siena that develops vaccines for diseases prevalent in poorer countries, like typhoid.
"Siena wanted to be the capital of finance," Letta said. "Siena can be the capital of life sciences."
Enrico Letta, a candidate for parliament and a former prime minister of Italy. He argues the city should invest in its other traditional strength, healthcare. Photograph: The New York Times
Letta has called for the creation of a European district for life sciences in the city, and said part of Italy's share of the European Union pandemic recovery funds should be used to support research coordinated by Toscana Life Sciences, a nonprofit organisation in Siena that helps health care startups get on their feet. One of the organisation's research labs is developing an advanced monoclonal antibody treatment for the coronavirus that, if successful, would be less expensive than similar treatments and could be administered by doctors without hospitalizing a patient.
"We have to give Siena a new mission," Letta said. Some Siena residents agree. Like Italy itself, Monte dei Paschi has shown that an illustrious history is no guarantee of success in the modern world. "It was the prosperity of Siena," Marco Bruttini, 70, a retired graphic designer, said while sitting on a bench next to the bank's headquarters on a recent morning. "But even without this merger," Bruttini said, "that time is long gone." – New York Times Service
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India's Taj Mahal Is Turning Green
Cleaning it only seems to make matters worse.
By Katherine LaGrave
Almost all of us know that getting stains out of something white can be tricky. But instead of imagining scrubbing spaghetti out of your favorite white shirt, think bigger—a 240-foot tall monument of gleaming marble, to be specific. This isn't just a fun mental exercise: In recent weeks, officials in India have been faced with the task of removing green fuzz from the surface of the Taj Mahal. And cleaning only seems to make matters worse.
Chalk it up to nature: Explosive numbers of Goeldichironomus insects breeding around the nearby Yamuna River are excreting on the Taj Mahal's gleaming marble, and the tomb's ivory-white exterior is becoming stained by the green fuzz. While the green, chlorophyll-stained secretions are not harmful save for their discoloration damage to the marble, the swarms of insects are indicative of rising phosphorus and sediment levels in the Yamuna River, which is a concern: One of the largest and longest tributaries of the Ganges, the Yamuna is already one of the most polluted waterways in the country.
Given the number of visitors to the mausoleum (some three million annually), officials told the New York Times that day-to-day cleaning is "very challenging." Bhuvan Vikram, a conservator with the Archaeological Survey of India, which is responsible for maintaining the Taj Mahal, told the Associated Press that regular scrubbing can damage the surface of the monument, and that already, a series of marble panels on the monument are becoming disfigured. Officials are looking into the number of insects and how best to eliminate their breeding grounds, though no one has quite yet figured out how to do that.
Built by emperor Shah Jahan in the early 1600s as a tribute to his favorite wife, the Taj Mahal has faced its share of battles over the years: the white facade had previously taken on a yellow hue due to coal pollution in its home city of Agra, and its first recorded repairs were as early as 1652. Whatever the outcome of this latest development, here's hoping there's a green...er, silver lining.
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Read my new post over at Think Markets, on scientism.
Accepting the Idea of a General Glut: A Heresy?
I've been going through Roger Garrison's absolutely wonderful Powerpoint presentations on Keynes versus Hayek (how the heck does he do all that stuff, anyway?!), and the process has brought to the fore something that has been in the back of my mind for a while now: Bob Murphy has referred to himself and me as "heretics" for concluding that a general glut is possible, contra some interpretations of Say's Law. But if we are, we are in good company, as Garrison's models allowing an economy to be "temporarily beyond the PPF" are exactly what Malthus and Sismondi were talking about back in the early nineteenth century -- it is possible for a person, or even the people making up an economy in general, to produce at "too high" a rate, in that the production will only be sold at a loss, and people later will regret having worked so much for the meagre benefits received. In fact, Roger and I, in our 2003 paper on the dot-com boom-and-bust, gave sp…
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making our oven mitts? Because every time I try to buy a pair they either have no thumbs, or thumbs in the middle of the palm, so I'm thinking two alien species are exporting these here for us.
The Economics of... Anarchy?
I received this in the mail today:
2010 FEE Prize for best book in Austrian Economics
Peter Leeson, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics Pirates, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
Third, and perhaps most importantly given the goals of the SDAE, Leeson makes an important contribution to the growing literature on the 'economics of anarchy.' This area of research attempts to understand how order can emerge in the absence of a formal state. What mechanisms facilitate interaction and cooperation where formal rules and regulations are either non-existent or dysfunctional? The power of Leeson's analysis is to illuminate some of the mechanisms creating order where we would least expect it to emerge. Pirates, of course, were criminals—they stole from others and relied on violence where necessary. Given this, it is logical to assume that the anarchy in which pirates operated was disorderly and chaotic. In reality, however, pirate behavior was orderly and cooperative.
First of al…
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1 lb. ziti
1 lb. leftover turkey, shredded
3 large carrots, diced
1 chicken bullion cube
1 can cannellini
1 can stewed tomatoes
Italian gouda, Italian fontina, and asiago to taste (roughly 1/4 lb. each)
Pepper and Italian herbs to taste
Cook ziti per package instructions.
Saute carrots, onion, and garlic in olive oil. Sprinkle with Italian herbs and pepper. Once the carrots are softened and the onion translucent, stir in tomato paste, bullion cube, and half a cup of boiling water. Mix to make a thick sauce and then turn off heat and cover.
Rinse cannellini to remove mucus-like liquid that ships in the can.
Combine sauteed vegetables, pasta, turkey, tomatoes, and beans in casserole dish. Spread cheese out across top, then cover with foil.
Bake for 35 minutes, then remove foil and bake 10 minutes more.
Laughing at Laffer
I recenty ran across, for the umpteenth time, a comment thread where some left-leaning person was saying, "Conservatives actually believe you can INCREASE government revenues by LOWERING taxes."
Now, if there is some conservative who thinks you can always raise revenues by lowering taxes, they are obviously nuts. (If the tax is at, say, 1%, you cannot get more revenue by lowering it to 0%.) But if some liberal thinks you can never increase revenues by lowering taxes, they are every bit as nuts. Essentially, the latter position involves the belief that price has no effect on demand. An nice example of a case where raising a tax caused revenues to plunge is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.
Now, whether Arthur Laffer was right that, in 1980, taxes were high enough that lowering them would increase revenues is an empirical question. But the notion of the Laffer Curve, meaning that there is some level at which a decrease in taxes will raise revenues, is a simple matter of economic logic.
You Can Devise...
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Who Dat Monster?
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"Emma," I said, "is that the Karl Popper monster?"
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This task of home administration is not of uniform difficulty. Materfamilias will not mind who gets hold of the bread though she will exercise a general watchfulness against its being wasted, but when she has begun her first purchases of new potatoes for the year, she will be very careful to keep the dish under her own direct control and not let one of the children determine, at his own discretion, what is his proper share; for if she did there would be disproportionate gratification and disproportionate privation.
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From Michael Kinsley:
"Everybody will be talking in the next few days about the "message" of the elections. They mean, of course, the message from the voters. This is one of the treasured conventions of political journalism. Yesterday, the story was all about artifice and manipulation, the possible effect of the latest attack ad or absurd lie. Today, all that melts away. The election results are deemed to reflect grand historical trends. But my colleague Joe Scarborough got it right in these pages last week when he argued that the 2010 elections, for all their passion and vitriol, are basically irrelevant. Some people are voting Tuesday for calorie-free chocolate cake, and some are voting for fat-free ice cream. Neither option is actually available. Neither party's candidates seriously addressed the national debt, except with proposals to make it even worse. Scarborough might have added that neither party's candidates had much to say about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (except…
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7 Signs You're Sleeping Too Much
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Experts recommend adults get seven to nine hours of sleep per night, a difficult feat for working folks, particularly when there's so much good stuff to watch on Netflix and your radiator clangs intermittently in the night. But for the lucky few that are able to sneak in that much shuteye, there's a hidden menace: sleeping too much. While undersleeping can mess with your moods, memory, hand-eye coordination and heart, the dangers of oversleeping potentially include depression, diabetes, heart disease, an increased risk of stroke, more pain and inflammation, and impaired brain function.
"It is important to remember that most of human history before light bulbs, the average night sleep was eight to ten hours a night," Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, author of From Fatigued to Fantastic, tells Bustle. "So oversleeping is more than ten hours a night on average. Oversleeping is usually caused by either illnesses that require more sleep, or poor sleep quality so that sleep that doesn't recharge your batteries."
Like undersleeping, oversleeping disrupts our natural circadian rhythm, forcing our bodies to work harder to compensate for what feels like a time change. It can be a symptom of a more significant health problem, like sleep apnea, narcolepsy or hypersomnia. It's also a sign of anxiety and/or depression, and if you find yourself feeling particularly down and lethargic while regularly sleeping for upwards of eight hours, it could be a cause for concern.
So how do you know if you're sleeping too much, or just getting a few extra winks? Here are a few things to watch out for, according to experts.
1. You Wake Up Feeling Tired
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There is something super tempting about giving yourself ten hours to snooze — especially on the weekend. But take note if you are putting in many hours of shuteye, but still feel exhausted the following day. An adequate night's sleep should have you feeling refreshed in the morning, but if you're regularly waking up exhausted after eight-plus hours of sleep, you're probably overdoing it. WIRED likens oversleeping to a hangover or jet-lag, likely because when you sleep to much your has to work extra hard to readjust to its natural 24-hour clock. In the end, all that overworking ends up knocking you out.
If this is an ongoing issue for you, speak to your doctor and they can help you get to the bottom of why this may be an issue.
2. You Feel Sluggish All Day
If you're sleeping too much, you won't just feel tired in the morning. In fact, you'll likely find yourself walking around like a zombie on Nyquil all day, thanks, again, to that pesky circadian clock that's trying so hard to keep up with your opulent sleep schedule. If you're still craving naps after sleeping upwards of eight hours each night, you may want to cut down on the snooze button.
According to Dr. Teitlebaum, feeling sluggish the day after getting more than ten hours of sleep could point to an underlying illness, like restless leg syndrome, or sleep apnea. Restless leg syndrome can leave you tossing and turning throughout the night, while sleep apnea may wake you up intermittently, even if you don't realize it. Both are things you should check in with your doctor about, so you can start getting more quality sleep.
3. You're Getting Headaches
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Some experts say oversleeping can screw with your brain's neurotransmitters, which could reduce your serotonin levels and cause headaches (or, worse, migraines.).
But that's not the only reason. Have you ever woken up from a long night of rest with a stiff neck, or muscle pain? Dr. Teitlebaum also notes that headaches can result from the sheer fact that you are laying down so long. "If the neck muscles get tight from sleeping too long, it can cause headaches across the forehead and at the base of the skull," he says.
If you're regularly experiencing head pain and getting more than the recommended amount of sleep, you should try to limit the dozing, though in the meantime you can ease the ache with some lavender oil, ginger, or an ice pack. If the pain persists, though, definitely speak to your doctor about why you are having difficulties getting quality sleep.
4. Your Memory Is Starting To Go
A major sign that you're oversleeping is when you start to get the brain fuzzies. Researchers have found that sleeping too much can actually age your brain's cognitive abilities by as much as two years, and it gets worse the older you get.
Dr. Teitelbaum says that a poor night's rest, no matter how many hours you were in bed can leave you feeling "not especially sharp" the following day. Once again, this can be due to underlying health conditions that are preventing you from getting the restful sleep that you need to function at 100% the following day.
It's normal to experience some brain fog when you haven't had enough sleep — I can't begin to tell you how many times I've left my wallet in my apartment when I've left before I've had coffee — but if you're sleeping long hours and can't seem to recall where you've parked the car, that's a problem. Your doctor can definitely help you get to the bottom of it.
5. You're In Pain
Some studies have found a correlation between oversleep and pain and inflammation. As mentioned before, in some cases, sleeping too much can cause pain, especially in your back or neck, if just because spending all that time curled in a fetal position isn't so good for you in the long run.
And some researchers have found that people who sleep more than nine hours a night have elevated levels of cytokine, cells produced primarily by the immune system that help regulate your body's inflammatory response. Chronic inflammation can make you sick, and even cause some cancers, asthma, and arthritis.
Dr. Teitelbaum says that oversleeping could be a clue that you are having issues with chronic inflammation, and should be checked by a doctor. "Oversleeping can be [indicative] of numerous illnesses, including an autoimmune disorder or other types of inflammatory pain," he says. "The pain can also disrupt sleep quality requiring more sleep." And this can be a vicious cycle. The best way to break it is to explore options with your doctor.
6. You're Depressed
It's not totally clear whether oversleep is a symptom of depression, or depression is a symptom of oversleep. When depression becomes particularly disruptive to your everyday life, it can be hard to get up and face the day. But if you're sleeping extra long hours and feeling so lethargic you've lost interest in your hobbies, relationships, job, etc., it's possible you're mistaking a depressive episode for exhaustion.
According to Psychology Today, over 40% of adults under the age of 30 who have depression experience hypersomnia, or oversleeping. It also notes that it is more common for women to feel overly tired as a result of depression. If you find that you have additional symptoms, including feelings of sadness, anxiety, or brain fog, it may be time to speak with a mental health professional to get the help you need.
7. Your Immune System Is Fighting Something
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When you're not feeling well, it can seem like you could sleep all day and all night and still feel tired. That's because your body is trying to fight something off, so you need the extra rest to help your immune system attack the virus or infection. If you go to bed feeling fine, but notice you seem more tired, and have a slight tickle in your throat, it may be your body's way of telling you that you're getting sick, and it's time to relax.
"Sleep is a vital process to maintain human health," Kim Dupree Jones, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN, professor and dean at Linfield College, School of Nursing, tells Bustle. "During sleep, the mind and body undergo multiple repair functions."
That's why the body requires sleep — to repair itself. While this is something we do each night, if your body requires more sleep, it's often because it's trying to overcome an illness.
"When we are sick our bodies go into repair mode," Dr. Rebecca Robbins, PhD, of NYU Langone Health, tells Bustle. "We need more sleep than we do normally. Thus, sleeping longer than usual might be a sign that you're getting sick but also to recover from a cold or flu you will likely need more sleep."
If you also notice fever, chills, or congestion, talk to your doctor. Sleep can definitely help, but sometimes medical intervention for an infection is necessary.
Oversleeping may sound like a dream (pun intended), but it could also clue you in to certain health issues. If you are struggling to get a full, uninterrupted eight hours, it may be time to ask your doctor what's up.
This post was originally published on December 15, 2017. It was updated on June 6, 2019.


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I don't "review" alpha releases, but I'm very much looking forward to Fedora 12, it's alpha spin was released today. Currently scheduled for early November, even with some pushback I would expect it out by Christmas, probably thanksgiving. Fedora 12 has a large changelog and feature list, a few big ones based on upstream changes to Gnome, KDE, etc. Last night I downloaded the 64bit live CD and installed it on a virtual machine for some testing. Sometimes working with beta software I forget it's beta software; so many stable products and distros are beta. Alpha is a whole different ball game. I don't suggest installing any alpha release on your primary desktop. It's best left as a testing release for those of us who file bugs. If you want a preview, download the live CD and either boot it live on your computer (without installing) or install it on a virtual box. For my testing I'm using virtualbox on an AMD quad core with 8gb of ram and a nvidia video card. The Virtual machine is set to 2GB of ram, 2 processors, and 64mb video ram (3d acceleration turned on). My base settings for testing Linux distros.
KDE 4.3 as installed on my primary desktop (click image for full size). Widgets in use include microblog (twitter), weather forcast, Google Calendar Gadget, moon phase, color picker, and post-it note.
KDE 4.3 was recently released and should be hitting the Fedora Stable repos very soon as a system update. I installed if from the updates-testing repo to get a look at what was coming. You may have seen the release announcement and screenshots on the KDE website. When I first saw them I was quite impressed. But the story goes back a bit for me. When I first started in Linux (ages and ages ago) I played with the KDE desktop but always went to Gnome. KDE had too many things that could get screwed up and it was near impossible to achieve and maintain the eyecandy screen shots we all saw and even posted on the web. You could get everything set just right, reboot or change one font setting and everything was screwed up. That hasn't been keeping me out of KDE all this time, but it's what made me chose the Gnome Desktop in the first place. Since then and up until KDE 4.2 I have been a avid supporter of the Gnome Desktop. Actually, I still am. I've used KDE on testing platforms thought the years, but never on my primary desktop. When Fedora 11 launched I wanted to do a clean install and make everything ext4, among other changes. I sat at the 'KDE or Gnome?' prompt for what seemed like hours even though I knew I was going to pick KDE. I have a lot of time and energy in using Gnome, there's history there. But Gnome wasn't doing what I wanted on my desktop and I'd been seeing all the eye candy and functionality of recent KDE so I went with it. And I'm very, very pleased. I still love Gnome and it's installed on every other computer I own and it will stay my choice for any production systems. But KDE has won my heart on my main computer. KDE version 4.2 was the first version that I really liked. It still has some quirks and wasn't quite as stable as I would have liked, but over all, I loved it.
KDE 4.3 brings a new default theme, "Air," and I have say it's one of the best looking themes I've ever seen. Its simple, clean and very easy on the eyes. The screen shot I posted above is the default theme, though with a different background color. I tried the animated backgrounds and I like them, but animated backgrounds aren't for me. This was where I found the only bug I've found so far. I could switch to any animated background and they worked. Once I switched to "virus" however, I couldn't switch away from it. KDE would freeze and I had CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE to restart X. Even after restart, I couldn't switch to anything other than "virus" without freezing. I had to manually switch away from the virus wallpaper. To do this open ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc and find the line wallpaperplugin=virus and change "virus" to "color" save and reboot (or restart X). So far this has been the only bug I've found.
The Plasma Desktop Shell is a large part of KDE and this update.
There is a lot of information in the rest of the release announcement: I'd encourage you to visit KDE.org and learn about other new features of KDE. If you interested in trying KDE 4.3 on Fedora before it hits the stable repo. Temporarily enable the updates-testing yum repo and do a group update. At that point, you'll have KDE 4.3 running and will receive further KDE updates once it hits stable.
Run the following command as root to install it then you'll need to reboot the system.
If you don't see the pretty new look, you may need to right click on the desktop, chose "Desktop settings" and set the theme to Default "Air".
If you're not a power user, I'd suggest you wait till KDE 4.3 hits the stable repo. I've only had the one issue with it (others have documented the same issue) but there is a reason it sits in the testing repo before hitting stable. I would expect to see it as a system update in the next few days. Enjoy.
Last week my wife's laptop started dying; for the record, it still is. In the interest of full disclosure, I love Linux. I don't have a computer in this house running windows natively, though I do use windows on a virtual box to run Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Camera Raw. I also have countless virtual machines of windows (and other linux distros) for testing purposes–as a consultant I work a lot with windows, but it's not the OS for me. I'm not a apple fanboy either, I'm a red hat guy: servers run CentOS, desktops run Fedora.
My wife doesn't mind Fedora, but she's switched to Ubuntu for the last few years on her laptop. She's an English teacher at a state college and uses Linux and Open office, how great is that? How many College English teachers do you know that accept papers in Open Document format? Oh and the other day when I was watching the trailers for the new Halo 3 ODST, she may have been more excited then I was. I think we'll end up playing ALL of the other Halo games through again before ODST comes out. For those of you who were wondering, no, my wife playing Halo has nothing to do with any of this… My wife chooses to use Linux and Open Office, she LOVES Halo… Just wanted you to know how lucky I am. If you were in my shoes wouldn't you tell everyone?


Summary: Here it mainly shows you the way to import & edit Panasonic AG-HPX300 P2 MXF files in iMovie by transcoding HPX300 P2 MXF to iMovie Apple Intermediate Codec encoded mov format.
The Panasonic AG-HPX300 is a 1/3" CMOS camera featuring full resolution 1920x1080 chips. The HPX300 has a feature-set including timecode, genlock and HD-SDI, which is usually found only on more expensive cameras. It is able to shoot Full HD video clips in MXF format, but the HD experience also brings a problem to the users who want to edit AG-HPX170 MXF files in iMovie.
So how to import/transfer Panasonic AG-HPX300 MXF footages into iMovie for editing smoothly on Mac?
The best method to solve these problems is to convert Panasonic P2 MXF to iMovie native format, say, Apple Intermediate Codec encoded mov format. Along with some help from a 3rd-party Panasonic MXF Converter. If you looking for a solution for this problem likewise, check out Pavtube's MXF Converter for Mac(currently on sale) which is entitled as a top P2 MXF to iMovie Converter. It supports encoding Panasonic P2 and Canon C300/XF105/XF100/XF300 MXF files to iMovie native format so that you can easily import the Panasonic Camcorder recordings to iMovie for editing on Mac. This will help you import the file correctly and saving the rendering time.
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Step 1. Free download the Panasonic MXF to iMovie Converter for Mac, load your P2 MXF files into the program. As a top P2 MXF Converter, it also supports transcoding MXF to Apple ProRes Codec for editing with Final Cut Pro 6/7 and FCP X.
Step 3. Click convert button in the main interface to start transcoding Panasonic P2 MXF to iMovie AIC MOV on mac.
After the workflow, you can go to the output folder to find the converted video files. Now you are free to load/edit Panasonic AG-HPX300 P2 MXF files in iMovie under Mac without problems.
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About this Years Holiday Club - The Holiday Club at Central is an annual event, which this year took place from 13th to 17th & Sunday 19th August 2018.
Jesus showed us what God is like. He was interesting, relevant and fun (why else would thousands of people gather without a thought about their lunch?) and this club is a chance to look closer at the stories he told.
We think of 'stories' as tales that are Disney-fictitious and in a sense his stories were. But unlike Disney, his stories were cleverly giving instruction and loving guidance about how to live a full life. A life of love, honouring God and those around us. Bringing us and others health, joy and peace that passes all understanding.


Walt Page, The Tennessee Poet, is a romantic old rock drummer, musician, USAF veteran and an open heart surgery survivor. He has been published on Vita Brevis, Visual Verse and Slasher Monster Magazine. Walt lives in the Tennessee country with his wife Susan, 2 horses and 10 rescue dogs.
Don't miss Walt's great interview with Vita Brevis!
Lovely–I particularly like the last three lines.
Beautiful. I love the interplay between the first two lines and the last line.
The last TWO lines, I meant to say.
OMG!! This is one of Walt's very best poems!! Thanks so much for bringing this to us!!! Bravo, Walt, Bravo!!!! This needs to go on the "Best Of Walt" list!!!
I love this one, too! Vita Brevis is in need of a Best of Walt list!
Walt- Indeed you are. A beautiful write, my friend.
is my new favorite line of poetry now. Beautifully done, Walt. That first line is devastating too, in the best possible way.
Go shout it on the mountain!


First Steps - my first book!
I have created a resource that I hope will be helpful to you, the beginning drummer and you, the teacher.
As a young drummer, I was always told that my job was to "keep time" for the band. So let me begin by saying: this idea that the drummer's primary role as a musician is to maintain a steady rhythm, beat or time keeping presence is not entirely true.
Many of us grew up with the idea that artists were tortured souls and that if we were to pursue our art, we some how must become tortured souls as well.
I'm here to tell you that it doesn't have to be that way.
As a session drummer in Nashville, TN I learned that producers and songwriters are more interested in a drummers ability to keep time and make a drum pattern FEEL good, than in his/her technical prowess around the kit.
Our primary job as musicians is to develop our voice - meaning our personality, vision, our view of the world. Or in other terms: our vibe, "mojo," "grease," groove and feel.


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«My Heart Is Broken» (en español: "Mi corazón está roto") es una canción de la banda de americana de metal alternativo Evanescence. Fue lanzada el 31 de octubre de 2011, como segundo sencillo oficial del álbum homónimo de la banda. Fue escrita por Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo, Tim McCord and Zach Williams, y finalmente producida por Nick Raskulinecz. Musicalmente, My Heart is Broken es una balada que comienza con la voz de Amy Lee y desciende entre los sonidos de guitarra eléctrica y batería. Además Lee, ha declarado que esta canción fue inspirada en la explotación sexual.

Antedentes y composición
"My Heart is Broken" fue escrito por Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo, Tim McCord, Will Hunt y Zach Williams, mientras que Nick Raskulinecz se encargó de la producción. La canción fue grabada en Blackbird Studio en Nashville, Tennessee. Durante una entrevista, Amy Lee declaró que la banda escribió el sencillo junto con "What You Want", con la parte del piano y un arpa al comienzo de la canción, Lee consideró un instrumento más lento y fácil para ella. Sin embargo, durante la preproducción de Evanescence, la banda aceleró el ritmo de la canción, por lo que cuando el grupo intentó grabar la canción, tocar el arpa no era factible. Particularmente, Lee confesó que la canción sonaba mejor con el piano, ya que era un instrumento más fuerte y prominente que hizo de la canción "una de las canciones más apasionadas de todo el álbum". "My Heart Is Broken" retrata una balada que comienza con el piano y Lee cantando las líneas "I will never find a way to heal my soul/ And I will wander 'til the end of time/ Torn away from you/ My heart is broken". Chad Grischow del sitio web IGN notó que era similar a materiales antiguos de la banda.

Durante una entrevista con Kerrang!, Lee reveló la inspiración de "My Heart Is Broken"; "Un buen amigo mío dirige una organización en Nueva York que rescata a víctimas del tráfico sexual. Mi esposo y yo nos involucramos y realmente nos conmovimos y nos horrorizamos. Mientras escribía la canción me estaba poniendo en ese lugar, ¿qué sería? ser como estar atrapada, amenazada, sola, incapaz de decirle a nadie lo que esta sucediendote porque tienes miedo de lo que pueda pasarte".

Recepción
Tras su lanzamiento, el sencillo recibió críticas favorables de la prensa. Stephen Thomas Erlewine de AllMusic eligió a la canción como punto culminante del álbum.  Haciéndose eco de este pensamiento, Steve Beebee de la revista de rock Kerrang! agregó que "desarrolla en un coro de búsqueda y soul, que se destaca entre los mejores materiales que ha grabado esta banda". Lewis Corner de Digital Spy, escribió que "'My Heart Is Broken" suplicara fuertemente diferir, con un elegante riff de piano que se desliza sobre los rasgueos de guitarra que sirven de telón de fondo para su emotiva alto-soprano". Rick Florino de Artistdirect escribió: "En My Heart Is Broken, la magníficoa introducción del piano se eleva junto con la vibrante entrega vocal de Lee mientras la batería de Will Hunt impulsa la melodía a otro nivel". Tom Goodwyn de NME elogió "My Heart Is Broken", diciendo que " suena bastante a una balada de Disney, comenzando con Amy Lee gritando "Voy a vagar hasta el final de los tiempos" sobre una línea de piano directamente de Powers Ballad Vol.12. Sin embargo, al final se vuelve más pesado, no se preocupe ". Chris Willman de Reuters concluyó que la canción fue "sin título",  mientras que Sophie Schillaci de The Hollywood Reporter  lo llamó una balada "desgarradora". Al describir la canción como "ardiente", Chad Grischow de IGN notó que en "My Heart Is Broken", "la voz de Lee brilla como sirena, [y] la banda toma algunas oportunidades interesantes al final del álbum". Marc Hirsh de The Boston Globe, calificó el sencillo como "un aullido de rabia desafiante y autodestructiva". Christa Titus de la revista Billboard, escribió que la voz de Lee era "poderosa y flexible como siempre, como se escucha en sus agudos lamentos. Serene Dominic de The Arizona Republic confesó que, "Realmente, cuando tu corazón está roto, quieres una canción que tenga la misma idea que 'My Heart is Broken'. llevarte a través y eso es lo que ella [Lee] ofrece ". Además, Arwa Haider de Metro comentó:" Una fanfarronada romántica estándar de Evanescence".

Video musical
El video "My Heart is Broken" fue filmado el 1 de diciembre de 2011, Amy Lee dijo a  través de su cuenta de Twitter de que el video se estrenaría el 24 de enero de 2012 en la cuenta oficial de Evanescence en YouTube: "EvanescenceVEVO". Asimismo lo corroboró Emi Music, la discografía oficial de la banda. El vídeo se mostró como uno de los más abstractos y surrealistas de la banda; de hecho, Lee confirmó que a la hora de grabar el vídeo se había buscado conseguir una atmósfera similar a la película de fantasía oscura "Paperhouse".

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Durante el prelanzamiento del video, James Montgomery, de MTV News, señaló que el video era una "labor de amor, tanto para la banda como para su director". En un artículo publicado más tarde, calificó al vídeo como "algo oscuro que empuja las reflexiones claustrofóbicas de Amy Lee al siguiente nivel".
] Mientras Jason Lipshutz de Billboard vio el video musical como "místico", un escritor de Spin escribió: "[El video] presenta luces bonitas y un campo de trigo, además de la lider de Evanescence Amy Lee, un mundo de fantasía que involucra mucho situaciones desagradables". Melinda Newman de HitFix comparó las escenas de relámpagos del video con las pantallas de luces del Día de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos  y agregó que "todo está oscuro y dramático, y Lee, como siempre, se ve absolutamente impresionante y atormentado al mismo tiempo. Sus compañeros de banda obtienen el tiempo de pantalla suficiente para demostrar a sus padres que están en la banda".

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Sencillos de Evanescence
Canciones de metal alternativo
Canciones en inglés
Canciones de 2011

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Following receipt of funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering and Bombardier Aerospace, the University wishes to appoint to the founding Royal Academy of Engineering/Bombardier Research Chair in Composite Engineering within the School of Engineering.
The successful applicant will be an innovative and ambitious individual with integrity, energy and passion for their work. S/he will have an outstanding research track-record and a proven ability to provide leadership in the area of structural materials research as well as the ability to develop strong strategic stakeholder relationships which will support the development of the ERI and NIACE.
The appointee will be offered a permanent professorship and hold the title of Royal Academy of Engineering/Bombardier Research Chair in Composite Engineering for an initial period of five years. An attractive reward package, including a competitive starting salary, access to a pension scheme and financial assistance with relocation expenses is available. The post will be based on the Jordanstown campus and is available at an early date mutually convenient to the University and the successful applicant.


Seeking Arrangement Scams to Watch Out For, Is He a Prince Charming or Just a Fraud?
Help! How can I avoid Seeking Arrangement Scams? Your fear is legit, but there are things you can do to avoid getting trapped by a fake Sugar Daddy. Most Sugar Daddies are nice, rich gentlemen, and are happy to splurge on you. But there are some crooks that you should be wary of.
With experience, you will be able to identify the seeking arrangement fake profiles instantly. Here's what you should know.
1st type- The so-called Sugar Daddy sends you money instantly, so as to reserve you for himself. He says he is travelling and will take a few weeks before he actually meets you. Don't you smell something fishy there?
2nd type- The Sugar Daddy asks for your bank login details, PIN and password, so that he can send the money faster. Okay, just walk away – that's a very obvious scam. The creep just wants to hack into your bank account.
3rd type- The Sugar Daddy asks you to fill out forms for his company's HR so that he can deduct money from his paycheck and set up a direct deposit to be sent to your account. He wants to add you to his company's payroll. That is a very obvious tax scam. Trust us on this, you don't want to have anything to do with such an arrangement.
4th type- The Sugar Daddy knows that you are poor student or recent graduate and wants to send you money in advance so that you can get dolled up before meeting him. Right, clearly, the man expects sexual favors on the first date with you. It's not okay for Sugar Daddies to send money even before the first date.
5th type- He wants to have a long distance relationship with you on Skype. He wants to send money so that you can buy a laptop or iPad and he gives you money to buy outfits for the Skype call. He even tells you which outfit to buy. He wants to see you naked on camera. Run away while you can. The so-called Sugar Daddy is a control freak at best and a pervert at worst.
6th type- He says he wants to have a seeking arrangement relationship with you, but you have to help him first. He wants to deposit his customer checks into your account. Then you are supposed to pay some of his bills and keep the rest for yourself. Okay, this is a clear violation of the tax law. Stay away from this person as you don't want to be prosecuted by the authorities for being an accomplice in a tax scam.
It's not so easy to find the perfect Sugar Daddy. To find one, you will have to sift through hundreds of messages and separate the Seeking Arrangement Fake Profiles from those that are legit. Just stay away from Sugar Daddies that boast about their wealth, behave in a crass manner or ask for your sensitive bank information.


Technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Akka, Apache Cassandra, and Apache Kafka (a.k.a. the "SMACK" stack) are increasingly the tools of choice for architects and developers when building streaming Fast Data applications.
But once these applications are in production and running at scale, Ops and DevOps teams find it challenging to monitor these complex applications from an end-to-end perspective.
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In this webinar with Lightbend Principal Engineer, David Brinegar, we review how OpsClarity is purpose-built to intelligently monitor streaming applications and help Ops teams resolve issues quickly. Included in the video is a 20-minute demo showing out of the box operational metrics, end-to-end visibility into data pipelines and the ability to correlate problems and issues across various streaming components.


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This little place was my favourite for breakfast while in london, they do fab blueberry and sour cream buns, get there by 8 and they are still warm and the owners and staff were all really friendly and helpful.


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Faith school funding and pluralism
Kris Dmytrenko
Catholic Focus: "Faith Schools in Question" is now ONLINE. In my interview with Ontario Education Minister Kathleen Wynne, she admits that there have been no concerns about the integration of Catholic school graduates in greater society. This doesn't seem like much of a revelation. But then how does this square with her party leader's insinuations that private religious schools harbour discord?
If a judgment is not being made about non-Catholic religions, someone ought to reassure M.D. Khalid, the director of the ISNA Islamic schools. Khalid, who appears in this Focus, struggles to understand the government's opposition to funding his school. Do post-9/11 anxieties underlie the public outcry against the PC Party's funding proposal? Many are similarly uneasy with Evangelicals, judging by the recent uproar over creationism being taught in private school religion classes.
Meanwhile, as English Canada wagged a self-righteous finger, Quebec commissioned a traveling forum to address the conflicts between secularism, pluralism and religious rights. Would that we in Ontario were honest enough to address our own.


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Amine Boukhlouf (en ) est un footballeur algérien né le  à Batna. Il évoluait au poste d'avant centre.

Biographie

Amine Boukhlouf évolue en première division algérienne avec les clubs du NA Hussein Dey, de l'OMR El Anasser, du CA Batna et enfin de l'USM Annaba. Il dispute un total de 78 matchs dans ce championnat, inscrivant dix buts.

En 2010, Boukhlouf figure dans l'effectif du CA Batna qui atteint la finale de la Coupe d'Algérie. Boukhlouf est titulaire lors de la finale. Son équipe s'incline 3-0 contre l'ES Sétif.

En janvier 2005, Boukhlouf est convoqué dans l'équipe nationale algérienne des moins de 23 ans pour participer à un tournoi amical à Doha, au Qatar. En avril, il fait également partie de l'équipe pour les Jeux de la solidarité islamique de 2005 organisés Arabie saoudite. Au total, il fait réalise six apparitions en faveur de l'équipe des moins de 23 ans.

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Footballeur algérien
Joueur du MSP Batna
Joueur du NA Hussein Dey
Joueur de l'OMR El Anasser
Joueur du CA Batna
Joueur de l'USM Annaba
Joueur du MO Constantine
Joueur de l'AS Aïn M'lila
Naissance en janvier 1984
Naissance à Batna


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Нижче наведені хокейні події 1978 року у всьому світі.

Головні події
На чемпіонаті світу в Празі золоті нагороди здобула збірна СРСР.

У фіналі кубка Стенлі «Монреаль Канадієнс» переміг «Бостон Брюїнс».

У шостому сезоні Всесвітньої хокейної асоціації кубок АВКО здобув клуб «Вінніпег Джетс».

Національні чемпіони

 Австрія: АТСЕ (Грац)
 Болгарія: «Левскі-Спартак» (Софія)
 Данія: «Редовре»
 Італія: «Больцано»
 Нідерланди: «Фенстра Флаєрс» (Геренвен)
 НДР: «Динамо» (Берлін)
 Норвегія: «Манглеруд Стар» (Осло)
 Польща: «Подгале» (Новий Тарг)
 Румунія: «Стяуа» (Бухарест)
 СРСР: ЦСКА (Москва)
 Угорщина: «Ференцварош» (Будапешт)
 Фінляндія: «Ессят» (Порі)
 Франція: «Гап»
 ФРН: «Ріссерзеє» (Гарміш-Партенкірхен)
 Чехословаччина: СОНП (Кладно)
 Швейцарія: «Біль»
 Швеція: «Шеллефтео»
 Югославія: «Акроні» (Єсеніце)

Переможці міжнародних турнірів
 Кубок європейських чемпіонів: ЦСКА (Москва, СРСР)
 Турнір газети «Известия»: збірна СРСР
 Турнір газети «Руде Право»: збірна СРСР
 Турнір газети «Советский спорт»: «Динамо» (Москва)
 Кубок Шпенглера: «Дукла» (Їглава, Чехословаччина)
 Північний кубок: АІК (Стокгольм, Швеція)
 Кубок Татр: ВСЖ (Кошиці, Чехословаччина)

Народились
 1 березня — Маркус Нільсон, шведський хокеїст.

Джерела
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 Сайт HockeyDB.com
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Report finds it cheaper for most Arkansans to buy homes rather than rent
BusinessCentral ArkansasFort SmithLatest NewsNortheast ArkansasNorthwest Arkansas
by Kim Souza ([email protected]) December 23, 2015 9:14 am 95 views
Realtytrac
Arkansas remains one of the less expensive places to live in the country. Even in Northwest Arkansas where median home prices rose 8% year-over-year, Irvine-based RealtyTrac notes that it's still cheaper to purchase a home than rent.
A new RealtyTrac study found that purchasing a home was more affordable than renting in 291 U.S. counties – or 58% of all counties – including counties that are home to Chicago, Phoenix, Miami, Las Vegas and Detroit. Also included in those findings were the central Arkansas counties of Faulkner, Pulaski and Saline. The Fort Smith and Jonesboro metros were not included in the RealtyTrac report.
The RealtyTrac study also found that rent is rising across much of the country at levels that exceed wage growth. Home prices also are rising at roughly twice the rate of wages, but some Realtors say home affordability is still possible in markets like Little Rock, Springdale and Fort Smith.
"Renters in 2016 will be caught between a bit of a rock and a hard place, with rents becoming less affordable as they rise faster than wages, but home prices rising even faster than rents," said Daren Blomquist, RealtyTrac vice president. "In markets where home prices are still relatively affordable, 2016 may be a good time for some renters to take the plunge into homeownership before rising prices and possibly rising interest rates make it increasingly tougher to afford to buy a home."
Perhaps that's one reason Arkansas home sales are up more than 9% through the first 10 months of 2015, according to the Arkansas Home Sales Report managed by Talk Business & Politics. Michael Pakko, chief economist and state economic forecaster for the Institute of Economic Advancement for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, said through October there is a good indication of continuing strength in the housing market and more evidence that 2015 should close out as a great year for homes sales.
Kevin King, broker with Weichert King Real Estate in Fort Smith, said rental prices are rising in Fort Smith as investors continue to be active in that market. He also expects that as rental rates increase in 2016, more renters will become homeowners.
REGIONAL RENT LEVELS
In central Arkansas, rents for three-bedroom housing was reported at $1,100 monthly, which was is expected to be up just 0.1% over the next year, according to the RealtyTrac study. Rents range from 34% of average wages in Faulkner County, to 29% of wages in Pulaski County and 39% of wages in Saline County.
On a national level the average rental costs are 37% of wages, the study noted.
Northwest Arkansas rent is expected to fall 3% this next year because of the added units coming online in Benton and Washington counties. RealtyTrac reports 3-bedroom rentals at $1,126 in Northwest Arkansas, or roughly 32% of average wages in Washington County and 27% of wages in Benton County.
When comparing home affordability in the Arkansas counties to average wages, the report found homes to be most affordable for residents of Benton County, in part because of their higher wage growth. In Benton County, the average percent of wages spent on housing is 23.1%, well below the 38% national average noted in the RealtyTrac report. In Washington County the figure was 29.7% of wages. Again Saline County showed the largest percentage of wages used on housing at 30.8%, compared to 24.7% in Pulaski County and 25.4% in Faulkner County.
DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES
RealtyTrac also found home affordability is an important draw for the Millennial Generation. The study found that Pulaski County experienced an 18% growth in its Millennial population between 2008 and 2013. The county reports 22.3% of its residents are Millennials. Washington and Faulkner counties report the largest percentage of Millennial residents at 26% of their populations. Between 2008 to 2013 Washington County has seen a 6.6% increase in its Millennial population, while Faulkner County posted a 4.4% decline over that same period.
Blomquist said Millennials are drawn to markets where rents or home affability ratios are below 30%.
Baby Boomers comprise 23.3% of Saline County's population as of 2013, a decline of 7.3% from the five years prior, according to the RealtyTrac report. Pulaski County reports 22.7% of its population as Boomers, also declining 13.1% since 2005. Northwest Arkansas Baby Boomers have left the region since 2008. In Washington County the 18.3% of Boomers is down 16% and Benton County's Boomer demographic has decreased to 20%, which is 10% lower than it was in 2008.
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With the passing of every new year, each of us needs to understand the magnitude of social and economic change in the world. In the past, change in business and social life was incremental and a set of personal strategies for achieving excellence was not required. Today, in the knowledge-based world, where change is the rule, a set of personal strategies is essential for success, even survival. Never again will you be able to go to your place of business on autopilot, comfortable and secure that the organization, state or government will provide for and look after you. You must look in the mirror when you ask who is responsible for your success or failure. You must become a lifelong learner and leader, for to be a follower is to fall hopelessly behind the pace of progress.
The power brokers in the new global arena will be the knowledge facilitators. Ignorance will be even more the tyrant and enslaver than in the past. As you look in the mirror to see the 21st Century you, there will also be another image standing beside you. It is your competition. Your competition, from now on, will be a hungry immigrant with a wireless, hand-held, digital assistant. Hungry for food, hungry for a home, for a new car, for security, for a college education.
Hungry for knowledge. Smart, quick thinking, skilled and willing to do anything necessary to be competitive in the world marketplace. Working long hours and Saturdays, staying open later, serving customers better and more cheerfully. To be a player in the 21st Century you have to be willing to give more in service than you receive in payment. These are the new rules in the game of life. These are the actions you must take to be a leader and a winner in your personal and professional life. By mastering these profoundly simple action steps, you will be positioned to be a change master in the new century. Action Step Number One – Consider Yourself Self-Employed, But Be a Team Player.
The first idea is resolving not to suffer the fate of those who lost their jobs and found their skills were obsolete.
The second is to begin immediately the process of protecting yourself against that possibility by becoming proactive instead of reactive. Ask yourself these questions: How vulnerable am I? What trends must I watch? What information must I gain? What knowledge do I lack? Again, think of yourself as a company. Set up a training department in your mind and make certain your top employee is updating his or her skills.
Make sure you have your own private pension plan, knowing that you are responsible for your own financial security. Entrusting the government or an employer, other than yourself, with your retirement income is like hiring a compulsive gambler as your accountant.
You're the CEO of your daily life who must have the vision to set your goals and allocate your resources. The mindset of being responsible for your own future used to be crucial only to the self-employed, but it has become essential for us all. TodayÂ's typical employees are no longer one-career people. Most will have five separate careers in their lifetimes. Remember, your competition is a hungry immigrant with a laptop. Action Step Number One is to consider yourself to be self-employed, but be a team player. Action Step Number Two – Be Flexible in the Face of Daily Surprises.
We live in a time-starved, overstressed, violent society. Much of our over-reaction to what happens to us every day is a result of our self-indulgent value system, where we blame others for our problems, look to organizations or the government for our solutions, thirst for immediate sensual gratification and believe we should have privileges without responsibilities. This condition is manifested in the high crime rate and in the increase in violence in the work place where employees blame their managers for threatening their security. I have learned how to be flexible in the face of daily surprises, which is one of the most important action traits for a leader.
I really haven't been angry for about 17 years. During that time, no one has tried to physically harm me or someone close to me. I've learned to adapt to stress in life and reserve my fear or anger for imminently physically dangerous situations. I rarely, if ever, get upset with what people say, do or don't do, even if it inconveniences me. I do react emotionally when I see someone physically or emotionally abusing or victimizing another. But I've learned not to sweat the small stuff.
-Â is a valuable measuring tool we can apply to our lives. Simple yet profound words to live by.
Reproduced with permission from Denis Waitley's Weekly Ezine. To subscribe to Denis Waitley's Weekly Ezine, go to www.deniswaitley.com or send an email with Join in the subject to [email protected] Copyright © 2005 Denis Waitley International. All rights reserved worldwide.


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Lowe's new top communicator addresses tech, DE&I and the post-COVID era
This year wasn't exactly what Ben Boyd had in mind when at the beginning of the year he "put it out in the universe" that he wanted a challenge.
"I wanted to be stretched," he says with a rueful laugh over the phone . He's been announced as the new top communicator for Lowe's, leaving his role at BCW to take on a different kind of challenge, one that has him buzzing about the future. His first day at Lowe's is Oct. 26.
"I'm a guy who could not be more over the moon about change in my life and the challenge that I'm taking on," he says.
It's a reminder that challenges can be positive forces in our lives as well, even when facing an extraordinarily tough year of mind-bending disruption and change.
A time for communicators to shine
When asked about the top challenges communicators are facing in
3 Tech Stocks That Are Thriving Despite the Coronavirus
It's no secret we're in a highly uncertain economy created by the efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. unemployment rate, while showing some improvement recently, is still hovering around 8% and is significantly higher than the 3.5% it was in February just prior to the pandemic.
In this uncertain economic environment, it can be reassuring for investors to own stock in businesses that are not only surviving but are thriving in the midst of COVID-19.
Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ: PTON), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), and Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) are three tech companies that are thriving despite (or to some extent, because of) the coronavirus. Let's find out a little more about them and why these three stocks are currently doing so well.
Image source: Peloton.
1. Peloton: The home fitness revolution
Peloton's business is on fire due to its very popular exercise bikes coupled with
2 Stay-at-Home Tech Stocks to Buy Right Now
Some technology companies have had the unique opportunity to help businesses of all sizes weather the coronavirus pandemic. And some of these tech stocks have thrived as people around the world spend more time at home than ever before.
Investors who are looking for a couple of investments that are tapping into the stay-at-home trend should consider snatching up shares of Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ:ZM) and Limelight Networks (NASDAQ:LLNW). Here's why these two stay-at-home tech stocks are worth considering right now.
1. Zoom Video in on this investment opportunity
I was a bit skeptical about Zoom's stock when it started gaining attention months ago as the U.S. lockdowns began. My hesitation was that there are plenty of other video communication tools available from tech heavyweights, so how could Zoom's services beat them all?
Boy was I wrong. Zoom's stock is up an astounding 611% so
Columbus Day Sales 2020: 13 Tech, Furniture, and Kitchenware Deals To Shop This Weekend
Columbus Day sales, unlike Labor Day sales or even Fourth of July sales, aren't really a thing. If you consider it for a second—and remind yourself that Christopher Columbus was a monster who didn't discover anything—you realize Columbus Day shouldn't really even be a holiday. This year's "holiday," which we will now only refer to as Indigenous Peoples Day, is even stranger, thanks to its proximity to a delayed Amazon Prime Day. The mega-retailer will flex its muscle with an onslaught of discounts literally the day after the occasion. Based on our initial scans, it seems like most of the other tech and home goods retailers are holding their sale cards close to the chest, waiting to unleash their best deals until Prime Day begins in earnest. But for now, there's still some decent price drops available on a range of gear, especially home tech and furniture upgrades. Here's some
PTO and poll working: Here's what Election Day looks like for these tech employers
This election year has been unlike any other in American history.
With an ongoing pandemic, and while millions of people still work and attend school from home, options like mail-in voting, early voting and one-stop voting centers have popped up across the region. Election Day will likely be more like Election Week, New York Times' opinion writer-at-large covering technology Charlie Warzel told us during a keynote at Technical.ly's Developers Conference last week.
And similarly to how companies have had to figure out how to address these and other "big issues" this year, many have chosen to make voting and Election Day a part of their company's policy.
Power Home Remodeling, which previously offered two hours of flex time to go vote on Election Day, this year rolled out a companywide campaign called "Power the Vote" in an effort to educate employees and encourage them to vote. The campaign also
Tech Isn't The Answer To Your Work-From-Home Culture
Ashish Kachru is Co-Founder and CEO of Altruista Health, developer of the industry's leading care management and population health platform.
There's a lot of buzz about what the workplace will look like once the pandemic is over. I believe we are in a great sifting process in the economy in which weak companies will fail and good companies have a chance to become great. It may surprise you that, even as the CEO of a technology company, I don't think technology will drive the successes.
A recent McKinsey & Company study says we are headed for a future that mixes remote work arrangements with office-based work. However, the more I read and talk with employees at my company, the more convinced I am that employers are about to overlook one huge threat that comes with a heavily emerging work-from-home environment. Relying too much on technology in a work-from-home
Working from home means more trust from leaders, says tech exec
LONDON — When the coronavirus pandemic closed workplaces earlier this year, businesses effectively went from having one or more locations to having as many offices as they did employees, as staff worked from home.
For software company Splunk, this effectively meant going from 35 offices to more than 6,000 "overnight," according to the firm's Chief Technical Adviser James Hodge. Having so many people working at home has meant a more trusting style of leadership is necessary, Hodge told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Monday.
"The first few months (of the pandemic) were incredibly challenging, I think a lot of us ended up working incredibly long hours. If I just take Splunk as an example, we've spent a long time communicating with our employees, understanding what the impact's like," Hodge described.
"There's been some brilliant parts about it to give people flexibility, but … on the other side, we do need
Alexa improvements and innovative tech
Amazon finally unveiled its 2020 hardware lineup with several project refreshes and introductions. The tech industry and consumer already have an idea of what products to expect, but the online retail giant normally sneaks in a few surprises. Aside from its collection of Echo devices, there were several gadgets that supposedly stole the show. Alexa also gets a performance bump along with some upgrades that should allow it to function faster and better. Then there's the official launch of the brand's own game streaming service.
Similar to most major tech companies, Amazon follows an annual product showcase that serves as a launching point for new services or technology. Given the popularity of its smart speakers, these are usually what consumers are eager to learn about. This year, the company appears to be doing away with the cylindrical shape of its older models and ushering in a revamped look. The


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