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The Super Bowl Ad That Went Way Too Far
by Jennifer Benjamin
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I like watching the Super Bowl, I do, but admittedly, one of my favorite things about the big game are the commercials that air in between. This year, we saw an adorable lost puppy find his way home, a girl power campaign that proved the phrase "like a girl" is a good thing, and "dad ads" celebrating fatherhood. Among them though was a deeply disturbing ad from Nationwide that felt, not only manipulative and exploitative, but wrong.
If you haven't seen it yet, a little boy, with shaggy hair and a black Labrador Retriever, talks about all of the things he's bummed that he'll never be able to do. He'll never learn to ride a bike or fly, he'll never kiss a girl or get married, and he'll never get to go on adventures with his loyal canine sidekick. There is imaginative whimsy in what he's describing, with cooties that taunt him, animated robots, and a rocket pack attached to his back as he soars through the air. We think we're witnessing a little boy who can't fathom ever being old enough to experience these things, or how he could ever be interested in them.
And then, we get hit with a thud to the chest. As the adorable kid tells us, the reason why he'll never be able to do these things is because…he died in an accident. He's standing there, clearly a ghost, telling us that he died. Ugh, god, no, I thought, my whole body shuddering at how upsetting this was. We're then told that the number one cause of death in children is preventable accidents, and that Nationwide Insurance cares about protecting what matters most: our kids.
But after seeing that shock value ad, I think what Nationwide Insurance might really care about most is getting you to talk about Nationwide Insurance, not the safety of your children. The commercial ends with a link to Make Safe Happen, which actually includes a lot of really helpful, useful information on preventing accidents in the home. Unfortunately though, their ad missed the mark and, many of us just shut the whole thing out. Viewers know when they're being manipulated, and that's what it felt like — that they were using tragedy to get our attention. It was so intense, such a surprising punch to the gut, that I felt like I had been taken advantage of.
In fact, a lot of people took issue with the campaign, which by the way, is called "The Boy That Couldn't Grow Up," and voiced their upset on social media. Nationwide responded to their critics by saying in a statement, "The sole purpose of this message was to start a conversation, not sell insurance."
I'm sorry, but the sole reason that you spend millions of dollars on a 30-second TV spot is, ultimately, to sell insurance. I believe that they did have good intentions, that they really do want to start a conversation about making your home safer. But with such a controversial ad, it seems like they really want to start a conversation about Nationwide Insurance as well. Oh, look, I'm doing it right now.
All that being said, we as parents do care about protecting our kids. The company at least got that right. And the site is really worth checking out; it's full of risks you may have never even considered, and it provides information you need to keep your home safe. I'm happy this resource is out there, but I really wish the company had gone about it in a more tasteful way.
What do you think about the ad?
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Jennifer Benjaminiwillgettoit.blogspot
Jennifer Benjamin is an LA-based freelance writer and editor with over 15 years of experience writing for national magazines and websites like Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, SELF, Parents Magazine, The Stir, and Daily Glow. More important, she's a mommy to identical twin boys, as well as an avid cook, a terrible housewife, and a loungewear enthusiast. Find her on her blog I Will Get To It and on Twitter (@JennyBenjamin).
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What Is the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) and What is it Good For?
By Gerald M. Levine on April 23, 2018 in Abusive registration, Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, Cybersquatting, cybersquatting law, UDRP Commentaries, udrp law, udrp proceedings, Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) (2013) in anticipation of the marketing of new gTLDSs that became available from November 2013. It is one of four new rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) designed to combat cybersquatting. It is not intended for legacy gTLDs, and for new TLDs it is planned only for that class of dispute colloquially referred to as a "slam dunk." (See ICANN website: "[The URS] complements the existing [Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)] by offering a lower-cost, faster path to relief for rights holders experiencing the most clear-cut cases of infringement.") Relief is conditional on proving cybersquatting by clear and convincing evidence.
The three other URS siblings are the Trademark Clearinghouse (a registry-like service that verifies marks and their uses) (TMCH), a Sunrise Period (a 90-day period during which owners whose trademarks have been verified by the TMCH may preregister names that are the same or similar to their trademarks), and Trademark Claims Notices (a TMCH warning service to registrants of possible infringements intended to discourage them from completing purchases of domain names identical or confusingly similar to marks).
The URS is tailored to suspend infringing domain names rapidly (within as little as 20 days of complaint filing). URS Rule 14(a): "The sole remedy available to Complainant … shall be limited to suspension of the domain name for the balance of the registration period." Where alleged infringing domain names resolve to active websites, the remedy has the effect of silencing the websites for the duration of the registration, a feature that effectively grants complainants the equivalent of a preliminary injunction. URS Procedure 10.2 reads: "[If the determination is made in favor of Complainant] the Registry Operator shall suspend the domain name, which shall remain suspended for the balance of the registration period, and would not resolve to the original web site" (Emphasis added). Prevailing complainants (at their option) may register the suspended domain names for an additional year after the close of the suspension period (URS Procedure 10.3). This remedy confers significant benefits to prevailing Complainants, which I will return to in my closing note.
The URS is similar in some respects to the UDRP (1999) (but not as some would say, "very similar") in that both mechanisms are crafted to protect owners from infringing use of their marks incorporated in domain names. One similarity is that the URS is structured along the same lines as the UDRP (a three-part requirement) and employs identical language in itemizing the evidentiary demands complainants must satisfy to prevail and the defenses available to respondents to avoid loss. However (in my view), these similarities are superficial as opposed to the differences. (The UDRP demands complainant prove its case by the less demanding preponderance of the evidence or "more likely than not" standard).
Even though the URS has the appearance of a sibling and is sometimes referred to as a subset of the UDRP (officially only complementary to it), it is actually a separate, substantively different mechanism (not alone because of the evidentiary standards or dissimilarity in their remedies). The similarity of structure and language is a matter of convenience. The URS mirrors the UDRP for the specific purpose of receiving as a given the jurisprudence created by UDRP Panels.
It is clear from the overly prescriptive nature of the URS that Examiners have no authority to stray from the text since that which is in it that is identical to the UDRP has already been interpreted and construed by its Panels. (For the avoidance of doubt, Panel consensus of core principles and the factors assessed in reaching decisions are laid out in the WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions, now in its third edition). (WIPO chose not the participate as a provider for URS disputes. The principal provider is the Forum. Two other providers are ADNDRC and MFSD srl).
In a dozen or so instances initial determinations have been appealed as provided under URS Procedure Paragraph 12. Appeals have gone both ways: for Complainant, LVMH SWISS MANUFACTURES SA v. GiftSMS et al., FA1509001637103 (Forum November 24, 2015) (<tagheuer.digital>. Initially denied; reversed and suspended on appeal); for Respondent, Grey Global Group LLC v. i-content Ltd. et al., FA1606001681062 (Forum July 8, 2016 initial determination for Respondent and August 10, 2016 affirmed on appeal) (<grey.email>).
There is also a safety-valve built into the URS that allows respondents within stipulated periods to seek relief from their defaults by filing responses after receiving copies of suspension awards (URS Procedure Paragraph 6). An example is Boston Consulting Group, Inc. v. Identity Protect Limited, FA1608001687117 (Forum August 25, 2016) (<bcg.ltd>) (On default initially in favor of Complainant; on receiving response final award in favor of Respondent). Both appeal and safety-valve are exclusive to the URS.
Why do I think the similarities of the URS with the UDRP superficial when considered against the differences? First, there is the name of the decision-maker: Examiner (URS) rather than Panel (UDRP). Panels function as arbitrators which implies an in-depth and studied examination of the facts and the law, while Examiners examine the facts, and only if they are clear and convincing on their face deliver an "up" or "down" determination in keeping with the URS concept of "slam dunk" disputes. This favors well-known and famous marks but not marks lower on the classification scale capable of having associations unrelated to the Complainant's goods or services.
Under the first requirement or limb of both RPMs Complainants must have a mark, although for the URS it must be registered while Panels are not as constrained (unregistered marks for example, or trade names functioning as marks). In the most recent URS denial-of-complaint decision, FIBO Consulting, Ltd v. Whois Privacy Corp. et al., FA1802001772404 March 6, 2018), the Examiner explained that "none of the domain names contains the mark in whole or in material part. It therefore cannot be concluded that any of them is confusingly similar to the mark." In Sks365 Malta Ltd., MT v. Mansour Ben Khamsa, D5C230DE (MFSD December 28, 2016) Complainant "has not shown to be currently holding trademark rights on the sign 'planet win 365'").
Examiners must make a more careful assessment for domain names composed of common lexical parts (or reconsideration, Boston Consulting Group, supra.) such as "grey," "east bay," "rock solid," "360," and others. See Banco Popular Español, s.a. v. Perfect LLC et al., FA1710001755479 (Forum November 10, 2017) (PASTOR and <pastorb.online>. "The Examiner considers that a respondent has a right to register and use a domain name to attract Internet traffic based on the appeal of commonly used descriptive or dictionary terms, in the absence of circumstances indicating that the Respondent's aim in registering the disputed domain name was to profit from and exploit the complainant's trademark.")
Looking each of the three requirements separately, these are the principal differences:
First limb: URS Complainants must have registered rights, and those rights must be for "word" marks. See URS Procedure 1.2.6.1: "The registered domain name(s) is/are identical or confusingly similar to a word mark: (i) for which the Complainant holds a valid national or regional registration and that is in current use" (emphasis added). In contrast, Panels have construed the UDRP to include unregistered marks if there is persuasive evidence of use in commerce predating the registration of the domain name. Examiners do not inherit this construction and have no authority to consider extending the jurisdiction.
Second limb: If respondents are passively holding domain names that could conceivably be lawful—such as <whitecastle.space> but not <dior.clothing>— the complaint must be dismissed because it cannot be said that Respondent lacks legitimate rights or interest. Banco Popular Español, supra. In contrast, UDRP Complainants succeed on this limb by making a prima facie showing that Respondents lack rights or legitimate interests.
Third limb: If Complainant succeeds under the second limb it has to overcome the consensus (to surmount the higher bar of clear and convincing proof) that passive holding of domain names not particularly associated with it or its goods or services is NOT probative of bad faith registration. Madwire, LLC v. Digital Privacy Corporation et al., FA1607001684058 (Forum July 19, 2016) (<360.marketing>. A common expression in the advertising industry). Under UDRP's lower standard of proof, bad faith use can be probative of bad faith registration absent rebuttal based on the persuasive lack of knowledge (parties located in different national jurisdictions, for example), or good faith under the first-come, first-served doctrine.
These are substantive differences, not mere quibbles. There are good strategic reasons to invoke the URS over the UDRP, a and vice-versa. Speed of relief as well as the right remedy is an important feature of a legal regime. If the URS remedy is viewed as a form of a non-judicial injunction remedy effective without having to be confirmed by a court of competent jurisdiction it is surprising it is not used more than it is (the three providers administer approximately 200 complaints annually as against approximately 4,500 complaints for the UDRP).
The ability to shut down a website within 20 days without having to go to court is an extraordinary benefit, granted far quicker and less expensively than commencing an action in federal court under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) (or any other court of competent jurisdiction in other jurisdictions) for the same relief and should be seen as an alternative for shutting down websites harmful to both complainants and consumers: used for 1) phishing, spoofing [Virgin Enterprises Limited v. WhoisGuard, Inc., FA1709001748703 (Forum September 28, 2017) (<virginpulse.life>], and 2) selling counterfeit goods [W.L. Gore & Associates Inc v. WhoisGuard, Inc. et al., FA1711001758178 (Forum December 6, 2017) (<goretexgiyim.world>. "[T]he impression created by … Registrant's website is [that it is] an original online shop of the Complainant with even more convenient prices but offering counterfeit products"); Eli Lilly and Company v. Shaternik et al., FA170500 1731038D (Forum June 1,2017) (Offering counterfeit products on dozens of websites).
Mr. Levine is the author of a treatise on trademarks, domain names, and cybersquatting, Domain Name Arbitration, A Practical Guide to Asserting and Defending Claims of Cybersquatting under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. (Legal Corner Press, 2015). Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Supplement and Update through August 2016 published January 2017. A Second Edition of the treatise is scheduled for publication October/November 2018. If you purchased the First Edition, you can buy the Second Edition 50% off list price by contacting inquiries@legalcornerpress.com or gmlevine@researchtheworld.com. The discount will not be available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
About Gerald M. Levine
GERALD M. LEVINE is a member of the New York bar, admitted in 1976. Before earning a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School he received a Ph.D in English Literature from New York University (recipient of Founders Day Achievement Award) and taught for several years at Queens College, City University of New York. His practice is divided between counseling on publishing, copyright and trademark matters for authors and entrepreneurs, acting as a mediator and arbitrator and litigating commercial and real estate disputes, He is a neutral arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association; on the roster of neutrals for FINRA; a mediator in the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court, New York County, and a meditor for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is the author of numerous articles on a range of legal topics in various law reviews and journals, including the Dispute Resolution Journal of the American Arbitration Association, the New York Law Journal and law school law journals. He is the author of a critically acclaimed treatise on trademarks, domain names, & cybersquatting, Domain Name Arbitration, and the creator of a widely read Blog on domain name disputes and cybersquatting arbitrated under the UDRP and URS implemented by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers and analyzing the jurisprudence that has developed in that area of the law. Gerald was also co-founder of "Writers, Readers and Publishers," a monthly Special Interest Group at the Princeton Club of New York, inviting speakers from the publishing industry including literary agents, writers, editors and consultants. For Full listing of publications go to Resume.
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Hillary Clinton, Children and the Law
In this brief update, I want to add a quote from Hillary Clinton's speech of July 28, 2016 where she accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party:
"My mother, Dorothy, was abandoned by her parents as a young girl. She ended up on her own at 14 working as a housemaid. She was saved by the kindness of others. Her first-grade teacher saw she had nothing to eat at lunch, and brought extra food to share the entire year.
The lessons she passed on to me years later stuck with me. No one gets through life alone. We have to look out for each other and lift each other up. And she made sure I learned the words from our Methodist faith: Do all the good you can for all the people you can in all the ways you can as long as ever you can.
So I went to work for the Children's Defense Fund, going door-to-door in New Bedford, Massachusetts…
…on behalf of children with disabilities who were denied the chance to go to school. I remember meeting a young girl in a wheelchair on the small back porch of her house. She told me how badly she wanted to go to school. It just didn't seem possible in those days. And I couldn't stop thinking of my mother and what she'd gone through as a child.
It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action."
With that as background, now let's go on to see how Hillary Clinton really treated children and her "win at any cost" personality.
In this posting, you will see a very little-mentioned side of Hillary Clinton's long career as both a lawyer and politician. The story which took place in 1975 has received relatively little coverage by the mainstream media since it broke in June 2014 but is an interesting look into the real person behind the current Democratic presidential candidate. At the very least, it speaks to the moral fibre of the person who could be the leader of the free world.
Let's open this posting with quotes from Hillary Rodham's postgraduate scholarly article "Children Under the Law" which was published in the Harvard Education Review in the Winter 1973 edition:
"Child citizens, although their needs and interests may be greater than those of adults, have far fewer legal rights (and duties). Indeed, the special needs and interests which distinguish them from adults have served as the basis for not granting them rights and duties, and for entrusting enforcement of the few rights they have to institutional decision-makers....The needs and interests of a powerless individual must be asserted as rights if they are to be considered and eventually accepted as enforceable claims against other persons or institutions. The advocacy of rights for children, coming as it does on the heels of adult rights movements, highlights the political nature of questions about children's status. That children's issues are political may seem obvious. Political theorists from Plato onward have sought to specify proper child-rearing practices and have discussed the proper position of children within society, often coming to conclusions inconsistent with the prevailing American ones. In the United States, the problems of children have usually been explained without any consideration of children's proper political status. Accordingly, the obstructionist role of the unstated consensus and the law reflecting it has seldom been appreciated. The pretense that children's issues are somehow above or beyond politics endures and is reinforced by the belief that families are private, non-political units whose interests subsume those of children. There is also an abiding belief that any official's failure to do what is best by a child is the exception, not the rule, and is due solely to occasional errors of judgment. Moreover, nothing countervails against this pattern, since children are almost powerless to articulate their own interests or to organize themselves into a self-interested constituency and adults allied with them have seldom exerted an appreciable influence within the political system." (my bold)
Please keep these points in mind as you read the remainder of this posting.
In 1975, a young lawyer in Arkansas by the name of Hillary Rodham received a call from Washington County prosecutor Mahlon Gibson, requesting a lawyer for Thomas Alfred Taylor, a 41-year-old factory worker that had been accused of raping a 12-year-old girl, the daughter of a family friend. Mr. Taylor picked up the girl and she willingly went for a ride with him, a ride that ended up with Mr. Taylor raping the young girl in his pickup truck. According to the victim, she spent five days after the rape in a coma and spent months recovering from the beating. Additionally, she spent over ten years in therapy. At his court hearing, Mr. Taylor requested that a female lawyer represent him and the judge in the case, Maupin Cummings, appointed Ms. Rodham who was looking to establish a new legal aid clinic at the University of Arkansas Here is the original document from the case:
Here is the arraignment document signed by his court-appointed attorney, Hillary Rodham:
Here is the motion for discovery and inspection of any evidence that the prosecution has against Mr. Taylor:
Here is Ms. Rodham's Motion to Dismiss based on the grounds that probable cause is not sufficient to allow a neutral and detached judge to find probable cause that a crime was committed or that her client actually committed the crime that he was accused of committing:
Here is Ms. Rodham's Motion to Modify Bail, filed because Mr. Taylor's incarceration was causing him "severe economic hardship":
Here is Ms. Rodham's Motion to Suppress Purported Statements that were made by Mr. Taylor because they were "obtained in violation of the defendant's privilege against self-incrimination and his rights to counsel as guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution":
When all other legal avenues failed, as would be expected, Ms. Rodham went to the next level to defend her client. Keeping in mind that the victim in this crime was a 12-year-old girl and that Ms. Rodham claimed to be an expert on childhood legal matters, as you will see in this document, she went to extremes, including using the "blame the victim" strategy, famous in sexual assault cases:
In case you can't read the original affidavit, here is the text, keeping in mind that the complainant was a 12-year-old girl:
"I have made an investigation of the facts and circumstances in this case and verily believe that a psychiatric examination of the complainant (name redacted) is necessary and vital in this case.
I have been informed that the complainant is emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and to engage in fantasizing. I have also been informed that she has in the past made false accusations about persons, claiming that they had attacked her body. Also that she exhibits an unusual stubbornness and temper when she does not get her way.
I have also been told by an expert in child psychology that children in early adolescence tend to exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences and that adolescents in disorganized families, such as the complainant's, are even more prone to exaggerate behaviour."
And, after all of that, here's how the case ended:
Mr. Taylor pled guilty to Unlawful Fondling of a Child under the Age of Fourteen and received a sentence of five years; 4 years of which was suspended and 1 year of which was served in county jail (after getting credit for the two months he spent in custody after he was arrested). So much for the 12-year-old girl's complicity in the crime and so much for Ms. Clintons musings in her published "Children Under the Law" article from just two years earlier.
In June 2014, five plus hours of audio recordings which were made during a mid-1980s interview by Arkansas reporter/author Roy Reed were found in the Special Collections Department at the University of Arkansas Libraries. In one part of the interview, Ms. Clinton discusses the most significant criminal case of her relatively short legal career that took place in 1975, the same year that she married her current husband and reached her 28th birthday. Here is the key part of the interview:
Here's a quote:
"I had some really tough clients. I had one appear, a prosecutor called me years ago, said he had a guy who was accused of rape and the guy wanted a woman lawyer.... This guy was accused of raping a 12 year old who was the daughter of the family he was living with in Springdale, the other side of the tracks in Springdale.... And was one of those rootless folks who wasn't going to make a living on the land and he was kind of around....ended up in Springdale. Of course he claimed that he didn't. All this stuff. He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph which he passed which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs. (Ms. Clinton laughs)."
So much for attorney - client privilege! Apparently, Ms. Clinton must have missed that day in law school.
In a 2014 interview with the now 52-year-old victim, the victim told Josh Rogin of the Daily Beast that "Hillary Clinton took me through Hell. I would say, "You took at case of mine in 1975, you lied on me...I realize the truth now, the heart of what you've done to me. And you are supposed to be for women? You call that (being) for women, what you done to me. And I hear you on tape laughing." The victim also denied that she had ever accused anyone else of attacking her before her rape by Mr. Taylor. According to the victim, she spent five days after the rape in a coma and spent months recovering from the beating. Additionally, she spent over ten years in therapy.
While Ms. Clinton keeps reassuring the American public that she has "evolved", one has to wonder whether her "evolution" has been bred by political necessity to make her more palatable to her liberal base. Can we say "political opportunist"?
Let's close with an additional quote from the victim of the rapist that Hillary Rodham defended:
"I think she wants to be a role model being who she is, to look good, but I don't think she's a role model at all… If she had have been, she would have helped me at the time, being a 12-year-old girl who was raped by two guys. She did that to look good and she told lies on that. How many other lies has she told to get where she's at today? If she becomes president, is she gonna be telling the world the truth? No. She's going to be telling lies out there, what the world wants to hear."
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I hate the be in the position to even remotely help Hillary or make her out to be anything by the true psychopath that she is. I mean who laughs about someone being raped or the rapist getting off? But the court documents only mention one guy and 2 witnesses? Then the victim says she was raped by 2 guys many years later? Seems either she protected one of the witnesses way back when or is remembering incorrectly years after the fact. HMMM
"I hate the be in the position to even remotely help Hillar"..
Dear Anonymous - You needn't be concerned about helping Hillary.. no one on earth can.
CMSgt, USAF, Retired May 6, 2016 at 11:34 AM
The warden can help her as he closes the door to her cell.
"So much for attorney - client privilege! Apparently, Ms. Clinton must have missed that day in law school"
You're saying that the results of the polygraph exam were privileged? Even though the client passed?
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Q: Using the determinant to find all values of K when the matrix A is invertible $A= \begin{bmatrix}
1 &k  &1 \\
1 &k+1  &k+2 \\
 1& k+2 & 2k+4
\end{bmatrix}$
When trying to find the determinant I get:
$\det(A)= 1((2k^2 +6k +4)-(k^2 +4k+4))-k((2k+4)-(k+2))-1((k+2)-(k+1))$
$=(k^2 +2k)-(k^2 +2k)-1$
$=-1$
What do I do from here?
I am used to equalling my equation to $0$ and finding the values which $k$ can't be but in this situation I can not.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: \begin{align}\begin{vmatrix} 1 & k & 1 \\ 1 & k+1 & k+2 \\ 1 & k+2 & 2k+4\end{vmatrix} &= \begin{vmatrix} 1 & k & 1 \\ 0 & 1 & k+1 \\ 0 & 2 & 2k+3\end{vmatrix} \\
&= \begin{vmatrix} 1 & k & 1 \\ 0 & 1 & k+1 \\ 0 & 0 & 1\end{vmatrix} \\
&= 1
\end{align}
The determinant is $1$ regardless of the value of $k$. Hence it is always intertible.

A: Your idea was to set the equality $\det(A) = 0$ in order to decide which values of $k$ make the equation true, and hence cause $A$ to be non-invertible.  This is the correct idea.
According to your work (which seems correct), this yields the equation $-1 = 0$.  There are no values of $k$ for which $-1 = 0$.  Thus, there is no value of $k$ for which $A$ is non-invertible.  So, your conclusion should be that $A$ is invertible for every value of $k$.

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OCC Solicits Research on Emerging Risks in the Banking System
WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is soliciting academic research papers on emerging risks in the banking system or related policy and supervisory issues for submission by March 3, 2023.
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Why taking money from the 'wrong' pension pot could cost you dear
Why taking money from the 'wrong' pension pot could cost you dear – new warning from Steve Webb, Royal London
Little known tax rules mean that savers could see their ability to save into a pension slashed by up to 90% if they draw money from the 'wrong' pension pot, according to new analysis by mutual insurer Royal London.
Since the introduction of 'pension freedoms' in April 2015, savers aged 55 or above have been able to take money out of their pensions in 'chunks' rather than turn the whole pension pot into an income for life by buying an annuity. To prevent people from repeatedly taking money out, benefiting from tax free cash, and putting money back in again with the benefit of tax relief, HMRC introduced a limit on the amount people could put back in to pensions once they had started drawing taxable cash.
This limit is known as the Money Purchase Annual Allowance (MPAA) and was originally set at £10,000 per year, but has since been cut to £4,000 per year. This compares with the standard annual allowance of £40,000.
In general, someone taking money out of a 'pot of money' or 'Defined Contribution' pension is affected by the MPAA if they draw money out beyond the 25% tax-free lump sum.
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If an individual has two pensions and wants to withdraw less than £10,000, they should think seriously about cashing in a small pot in full rather than taking a partial withdrawal from a larger pot, as this avoids triggering the MPAA. As a result, they retain the ability to put up to £40,000 into a pension each year in future, rather than having this slashed to £4,000.
Consider, for example, someone with two pension pots, one worth £4,000 and one worth £20,000. Suppose that they want to withdraw £9,000 (before tax). If they cash in the £4,000 pot in full and take just the 25% tax free lump sum out of the larger pot, they will not trigger the MPAA. But if they take the full £9,000 from the larger pot they will trigger the MPAA which will reduce by 90% their annual allowance going forward.
Commenting, Steve Webb, Director of Policy at Royal London said:
"Last year, over half a million people aged 55 or over made flexible withdrawals from their pension, and many of these withdrawals will have been for amounts under £10,000. If they emptied out a small pot then this will have had no impact on their future ability to save into a pension. But if, by mistake, they took the same amount as a partial withdrawal from a bigger pot, they risk triggering stringent HMRC limits on future pension saving. Those with more than one pension pot should consider very carefully the order in which they access these funds, especially if they may want to contribute into a pension in future".
1. Statistics on flexible withdrawals from pensions can be found at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/821141/Pension_Flexibility_Stats_July_2019.xlsx
2. Rules on triggering the Money Purchase Annual Allowance (MPAA) can be found here: https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/money-purchase-annual-allowance. This confirms that "[T]he MPAA won't normally be triggered if… you cash in small pension pots valued at less than £10,000".
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About Royal London:
Royal London is the largest mutual life insurance, pensions and investment company in the UK, with assets under management of £139 billion, 8.6 million policies in force and 4,348 employees. Figures quoted are as at 30 June 2020.


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New Book Spotlights 20 Changemakers of Bollywood
Changemakers: Twenty Women Transforming Bollywood from Behind the Scenes, a new book by Gayatri Rangachari Shah and Mallika Kapur, releases at a unique turning point – against the backdrop of #MeToo and #TimesUp promising to correct the course of Bollywood.
The book spotlights women who entered the industry with no prior "connections"; women who chipped away behind the scenes and made it on their own. The lesser-known heroes; editors, studio heads, producers, directors, make-up artists, stylists, script writers…
Gayatri Rangachari Shah and Mallika Kapur
Here, Shah shares her experience of working on the book, and her big takeaways from the journey of piecing these stories together.
You and Mallika go a long way back. How did you meet?
"Mallika and I met exactly 20 years ago in New York City, when we were both graduate students at Columbia University's school of journalism. It's quite an incredible coincidence that our book came out almost two decades to the date we met. Mallika pursued broadcast journalism and I focused on magazine and print."
How did the two of you zero in on the subject for Changemakers?
"We've both reported on gender for a number of years. We had looked at ways of exploring the evolving gender dynamics, and the role of women in Indian society, in an approachable way. Over the course of our journalistic careers in India, we had both witnessed Bollywood and the cinema industry up close through interviews with movie stars. And we always noticed that there were quite a few women working on set. Who were they? How did they get there? It was a marked shift from the mid-1990s and we were intrigued by that. The genesis of the book sprang from that curiosity."
How did you go about identifying the women you were going to profile?
"We knew we wanted to explore one major discipline from each aspect of film-making. Some were more straight-forward, like Charu Khurana, who won the right for women to work as make-up artists in the movies by taking her case to the Supreme Court of India. Or Geeta Tandon, who left an abusive marriage and made a name for herself as a fearless stunt artist. Most had no prior connection to the world of cinema. [Film critic, writer] Rajeev Masand, [talent manager] Reshma Shetty, [director, choreographer] Farah Khan and many others helped with our initial focus. Ultimately, what all the women have in common is determination, grit, courage and talent. They are successful because they have the enormous ability to work hard."
What were some of the unexpected things you learned about them?
"These women were full of surprises! [Film critic, writer] Anupama Chopra worked so hard delivering her interviews she once fainted at Cannes, while reporting. She delivered her shot sitting in a wheelchair! Also, who would have thought that one of India's best editors is self-taught? But that's how Deepa Bhatia learned her craft. When an editor didn't show up on time, she turned to a technician and said, 'Bhaiya, yeh computer on karo'; she began tinkering with the footage, pressed a few buttons and she was on her way. In fact, many learned on the job. Anaita Shroff Adajania didn't go to fashion school, Hetal Dedhia didn't attend a technical lighting course. Shubha Ramachandran taught herself script supervision by memorising a whole book on the subject. Geeta Kapur taught herself choreography."
What were your big takeaways from the book?
"We really believe Bollywood will never be the same again. It's already different than it was ten years ago. The biggest difference is in the content. Who would have thought a film that revolves around constipation would become one of the most popular films in India? That's Juhi Chaturvedi's screenplay [for Piku]. Could you imagine a day when a film about a dabba of food becomes an international crossover hit? Guneet Monga produced The Lunchbox. Music that has a dog barking in the background – is that even music? Sneha Khanwalkar made it so. Gauri Shinde showed the late Sridevi in a brand new light and made us rethink so many things about how we treat the women in our life. These women are true changemakers – they are daring, they are bold and the content they are putting out is reflective of who they are. Because of them, Hindi cinema looks, feels and sounds different, and the audience is richer for it.
Did the book mostly confirm your preconceived notions about the industry, or did it bring you new perspective?
"In fact, the book put to bed a lot of preconceptions we had! We found that the Hindi movie business in India today is professional and much more sophisticated than we had anticipated. In what is essentially a highly creative field, many processes now exist to make it world class. The sleaze factor – which was the dominant view of many about the industry – has receded quite a bit. Frankly, it is as prevalent in the movies as it is in any other field."
No conversation about Bollywood this week is complete without a conversation about #TimesUp and #MeToo. Did it come up in the course of your conversations with these trailblazing women?
"Yes, absolutely. It was only a matter of time before #MeToo and #TimesUp hit our shores. We stand in solidarity with all the women who have come forward to share their experiences of being harassed, abused or assaulted. Of course it came up during the course of our interviews and conversations. Thankfully, none of the women featured in the book experienced sexual harassment but they did face gender discrimination – as in the case of cinematographer Priya Seth, who just couldn't get assignments because she was a woman or studio executive Amrita Pandey, who was not taken seriously because she was a woman and looked young.
As we have seen from the news, it's all pervasive. We operate in a patriarchy, where women have been subordinate for centuries. It will take a long time to dismantle the sense of male entitlement, but we also want to make it clear that male champions play an important in women's successes. Our book didn't want to pit one gender against another. In fact, many of the women thrived because they had men pushing them to get ahead. The fact is that we all need to help each other rise."
Changemakers (published by Penguin) is out now


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Kolkata: Indian cricket Mohammed Shami has found himself surrounded by a major controversy – his wife Hasin Jahan has claimed that the cricketer and his family have abused her physically as well as mentally and she is keen to drag them to court for the same.
The serious allegation forced the BCCI to exclude Shami's name from the central contracts that the Indian board released a few days ago. Adding to an extensive list of allegations, Hasin now claims that Shami had even attempted suicide before she had met him.
Since his return from the arduous tour of South Africa, Shami has been mired in controversies. The pace bowler was busy with Duleep Trophy duties when his wife went public with several WhatsApp and Facebook chats, alleging that the cricketer has cheated on her with several women. While Shami has refuted all such claims, denying any involvement in any these, the latest one from his wife, however, has left everyone shell-shocked.
"Much before the two of us even knew each other, Shami was in a relationship with his phuphi ki nanad ki beti ( paternal aunt's sister-in-law's daughter) for five years. He even attempted to commit suicide because he wanted to marry her. But his family got in the way and the marriage didn't happen," alleged Shami's wife Hasin.


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Agroperifèrics
Ignasi López
Premiá del Mar (Barcelona)
I grew up in an agricultural area on the city outskirts, which gradually became more impermeable and urban over time. Thirty years later I started poking around among the traces of people who, for different reasons, had decided to change sands by asphalt.
Most of these people had moved from rural areas to major urban centres in order to contribute to the construction and transformation of new territories. They actively participated in changing the landscape and the imaginary bound up in the identity of their children. Over time, some of these people began to return to leftover permeable lands near their new cities, creating new "agro-peripheral" areas. These places are simultaneously the memory, representation and transposition of a notion of landscape that they have been carrying with them for many years.
"Agroperifèrics" is the first book in a two-part project that begins with a journey through these constructed paradises.
"AGROPERIPHÈRICS" as seen by Joan Nogué:
As the years go by I am endlessly amazed and filled with wonder at our capacity as human beings to create places in the most unlikely spaces imaginable. To create a place means to inject soul into a portion of geographic space which previously had none: to fill an anonymous, amorphous corner of our world with meanings, emotions and memory. This huge, dense fabric of places that we human beings are able to generate is what transforms geographic space into existential – or rather geoexistential – space. Places are not just locations. They are, above all, experiential nodes that connect us to a piece of territory in a profound way. They are bastions, refuges, enclosures, pieces of land that we interiorise and appropriate in many ways and for many reasons.
These places, which we fill with meanings and emotions, do not necessarily have to possess any specific formal quality or a socially accepted aesthetic value. They may do so, as in the case of easily recognisable places that identify us as a community, that end up becoming landmarks and symbols for society as a whole. Nonetheless, as we go about absorbed in our daily lives, we also create places in banal, simple, even marginal spaces that often go unnoticed by our fellow citizens. They are important to us, but insubstantial to others.
The peripheral, periurban market gardens that take advantage of the scattered, empty, interstitial spaces generated by contemporary processes of metropolisation and urban sprawl are an excellent laboratory for understanding how place can be created out of nothing; and how it is possible to inject memory into a spatial repository that didn't yet have any. Although these places probably did have memory in the past, but it was destroyed, dismembered and pulverised by the massive infrastructures that are oblivious to the past. But in spite of everything, memory returns – reconfigured and reconstructed –, reinstated by new actors. This process is boosted by ephemeral objects that enjoy a second, third or fourth lease on life, and which the new market gardeners reappropriate and use. Old, worn out tools that would usually end up in the bin or, at best, in a recycling container provided by some municipal environmental department. What fortune, those objects that are saved and help shape the identity a few anodyne square metres! How many lives have they had? Who used them in the past? Where did they come from? We will never know.
These environments have a strong ephemeral feel that reinforces the sense of a camp or a temporary, makeshift facility. It is a kind of "sedentary nomadism" – contradiction intended. Somebody takes care of a remnant of space that becomes a place, even if it is for an indefinite period of time. Sometimes – or rather, often – the surrounding infrastructures are extended, driving these nomads a few hundred meters further out. But the settlements are quickly rebuilt. Occupants of leftover territories, spatial remnants and geographical wastelands, like the tattered shrubs and weeds that, by the work and grace of nature, put down roots alongside motorways and highways to the indifference of drivers.
Marginal, peripheral, spontaneous, ephemeral market gardens occupy territories that are hybrid, mixed, adjacent, in the cracks between the built and the unbuilt, the useful and the unusable, the planned and the unimagined… and ambiguous. They settle on boundaries, on faults, on the critical points of convergence of often incompatible uses and visions. They put down roots in the margins, the perimeters, frontier lands made up of membranes of variable geometry.
Although they are ever-present as we travel and circulate through these peripheries, they are, in reality, largely unexplored, unknown landscapes. We classify them as no mans lands, as territories without purpose or personality, even though this ultimately has nothing to do with their real existence. Their seemingly untidy appearance can look rundown to some, and can transmit a certain sense of slovenliness and neglect from a distance. But up close, things change, and a true microcosm comes to light – a functional, rational subdivision of the environment. But above all, what emerges is a recovered sense of the place. Joan Nogué
Professor of Human Geography, University of Girona Director of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia (www.catpaisatge.net)
Ignasi López is a photographer, designer and co-editor of Bside Books. He uses photography as a medium to explore the areas on the outskirts of cities and the human need to transform them. In 2003, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques de Paris (CNAP) commissioned him to create a contemporary postcard imaginary of the city of Toulouse. In 2005 he exhibited "Sport Places" at PHotoEspaña, and he was shortlisted for the festival's Discoveries award in 1999 and 2000.
In 2007 he began to work with Carlos Albalá; together, they founded Bside Books and went on to work on various photography and research projects. They were the recipients of a BCN Producció grant in 2008 and a CoNCA grant in 2010 and they have participated in several exhibitions in Spain and internationally, including the 2010 Fotografia Festival in Rome, Salon Light (Paris), and the 2010 and 2011 Emergent-Lleida Festival (Museum of Lleida).
www.ignasilopez.com


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Build-up and depositional dynamics of a proximal arc front volcaniclastic complex: The Miocene Tepoztlán Formation (Transmexican Volcanic Belt, Central Mexico)
Lenhardt, Nils and Hornung, Jens and Hinderer, Matthias and Böhnel, Harald and Torres-Alvarado, I. S. and Trauth, Nico (2010):
Build-up and depositional dynamics of a proximal arc front volcaniclastic complex: The Miocene Tepoztlán Formation (Transmexican Volcanic Belt, Central Mexico).
In: Sedimentology, 58 (3), pp. 785-823. [Article]
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Volcanic terrains such as magmatic arcs are thought to display the most complex surface environments on Earth. Ancient volcaniclastics are notoriously difficult to interpret as they describe the interplay between a single or several volcanoes and the environment. The Early Miocene Tepoztlán Formation at the southern edge of the Transmexican Volcanic Belt belongs to the few remnants of this ancestral magmatic arc, and therefore is thought to represent an example of the initial phase of evolution of the Transmexican Volcanic Belt. Based on geological mapping, detailed logging of lithostratigraphic sections, palaeocurrent data of sedimentary features and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, mapping of two-dimensional panels from outcrop to field scale, and geochronological data in an area of ca 1000 km2, three periods in the evolution of the Tepoztlán Formation were distinguished, which lasted around 4 Myr and are representative of a volcanic cycle (edifice growth phases followed by collapse) in a magmatic arc setting. The volcaniclastic sediments accumulated in proximal to medial distances on partly coalescing aprons, similar to volcanic ring plains, around at least three different stratovolcanoes. These volcanoes resulted from various eruptions separated by repose periods. During the first phase of the evolution of the Tepoztlán Formation (22·8 to 22·2 Ma), deposition was dominated by fluvial sediments in a braided river setting. Pyroclastic material from small, andesitic–dacitic composite volcanoes in the near vicinity was mostly eroded and reworked by fluvial processes, resulting in sediments ranging from cross-bedded sand to an aggradational series of river gravels. The second phase (22·2 to 21·3 Ma) was characterized by periods of strong volcanic activity, resulting in voluminous accumulations of lava and tuff, which temporarily overloaded and buried the original fluvial system with its detritus. Continuous build-up of at least three major volcanic centres further accentuated the topography and, in the third phase (21·3 to 18·8 Ma), mass flow processes, represented by an increase of debris flow deposits, became dominant, marking a period of edifice destruction and flank failures.
Lenhardt, Nils and Hornung, Jens and Hinderer, Matthias and Böhnel, Harald and Torres-Alvarado, I. S. and Trauth, Nico
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Jason Davis • January 10, 2015
Dragon Reaches Orbit, but Falcon Stage Crashes on Recovery Ship
SpaceX's ambitious attempt to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on an autonomous ocean platform was "close, but no cigar." CEO Elon Musk revealed the fate of the first stage on Twitter just 28 minutes after liftoff, saying the rocket made it back to the landing site but crashed, damaging equipment aboard the recovery ship. The ship itself, he said, was "fine." Meanwhile, the mission's primary goal of sending a Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station began without a hitch, as an early morning sunrise greeted the vehicle's solar arrays after they deployed in orbit.
Didn't get good landing/impact video. Pitch dark and foggy. Will piece it together from telemetry and ... actual pieces.
The flight began at 4:47 a.m. EST (9:47 UTC), as the Falcon 9 soared into the night sky at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Shortly after first stage separation, flight controllers reported the first stage completed the first of three burns designed to refine the rocket's trajectory in preparation for landing. Moments later, a second burn slowed the stage as it plummeted back to Earth.
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SpaceX CRS-5 liftoff
At that point, the Falcon 9 travelled over the horizon from Cape Canaveral, resulting in an expected loss of signal. But within minutes, onsite recovery ships relayed the bad news.
Rocket made it to drone spaceport ship, but landed hard. Close, but no cigar this time. Bodes well for the future tho.
Over the next two days, Dragon will catch up with the International Space Station, closing in on Monday. At about 6:00 a.m. EST, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore will snag the spacecraft with the station's robotic arm. Dragon will then be hauled to the Earth-facing port of the station's Harmony node for berthing. Dragon, which is packed with more than two tons of cargo, will be unloaded and remain berthed to the station for about a month.
Liftoff of Falcon 9 CRS-5 mission
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft begin the company's fifth paid cargo run to the International Space Station.
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Mark Zambelli: 2015/01/10 12:02 CST
It's a shame the landing experiment was 'only' about 90% successful (after all, it made it back to the spaceport!) and I'm sure it won't phaze them a bit, kudos. I must say, the internal camera inside the second stage fuel tank is a stroke of genius... it's mesmerising watching the fuel level decline and then, with main engine cutoff, the show starts... absolutely jawdropping. Good luck SpaceX with the Dragon hookup and the future in general.
Chris Z: 2015/01/10 01:13 CST
NASA did the same thing, putting a camera inside the fuel tank during launch. They probably suggested this to SpaceX as NASA has given them a lot of technical support. Saturn rocket fuel tank videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL-Oi9m2beA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJzT2bBGVfo
Thanks for those links Chris, and info... awesome.
Gregk: 2015/01/12 10:49 CST
Of course I was disappointed that the first stage didn't land successfully, but it's very impressive how close they got. In the previous "water landings," we had no idea whether the stage was anywhere near its intended destination. It's also great how routine getting Dragon to the ISS is becoming.
Congratulations in making it this far in this new technique as fast as you did! Maybe a shock absorbing clamping system may help. I don't know anything about the design. Maybe you have it ruled it out for some reason. Keep at it though! You have everything to gain. Anyone can land on a solid surface but water...! Wow!
andy: 2015/01/16 07:16 CST
This has been done before on other Planetary bodies and is therefore good practice. They must get this right before going to the moon, etc. Good first attempt but far from perfect.


Have the bottom side of the footpads double as solar panels so that you can charge the onewheel by turning it upside down.
That is a great idea although I do not think that there's enough surface area to produce the right amount of power.
@mpcref Doing a really rough and fast estimate.
Say that each pad is one square foot (my foot almost fit on it, so it can't be that wrong can it?) and a sq.foot och panel gives you about 10w. Then guesstimating 30 minutes to charge the board with 200 W (probably needs more), then that would be 5 hours to charge it at maximum sunlight.
5 hours is probably way optimistic, I need to do more research.
Ok, so did a quick measurement, and the maximum surface you could use under the board in total would be about 0,76 ft². Now we are looking at a charge at about 130mA, compared to the charger 3.5A, so over 13 hours for a charge.
If we then make room for the handle, and add some kind of border for protection, so that it doesn't cover the aluminium frame, we're closer to 20 hours.
This isn't very accurate, but I think that @ckosick15 has the right idea.
That being said, I really always liked the idea of putting solar panels pretty much everywhere.
But price and and size is kind of an issue.
Provided that the electronics would fit, and the OW gets changed into another version further down the road. There could possibly be a fold-able solar panel tucked away somewhere.
I mean this highly theoretically, because it would make the whole thing cost a lot more, and probably not be of that much use to most people. Compared to say a "swap-able battery solution".


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Q: How can I prevent panel.function from overriding my settings? I am trying to write a text on a barchart while using my own color settings. I could manage to update the settings and write a text on the panel separately but I could not find a way to combine the two. As far as I understand, panel.function overrides some of my previous colour settings. How can I prevent "panel.function" from overriding my preferences?
For example:
#This is to extract data and colour options

library(RColorBrewer)
library(lattice)
data(postdoc, package = "latticeExtra")

#This is how I set my preferences

myColours <- brewer.pal(6,"Greys")
my.settings13 <- list(
  superpose.polygon=list(col=myColours[2:5], border="transparent"),
  strip.border=list(col="black")
)

#The first plot has the right settings but no text.
#The second has the text but the legend goes back to its default settings.

print(plot1<-barchart(prop.table(postdoc,margin=1), horizontal=F, ylab = "Proportion", auto.key = list(adj = 1,column=4),par.settings=my.settings13,ltext=list(1, 0.8,"0.5" ) ))

print(plot2<-barchart(prop.table(postdoc,margin=1), horizontal=F, ylab = "Proportion", auto.key = list(adj = 1,column=4),par.settings=my.settings13,panel=function(x,y,...){
  panel.barchart(x,y,...)
  panel.text(1,0.80,labels=c("0.5"))
  panel.text(2,0.50,labels=c("0.75"))
}))

How can I write a text (as in plot2) but keep all my colour settings (as in plot 1)?

A: In order to fix this, you need to slightly customize the auto.key values. If the panel is the string "panel.barchart" this is done automatically, but if you change the panel at all, this automatic conversion is disabled. Specifically, set points=FALSE, and rectangles=TRUE. This should work.
print(plot2<-barchart(prop.table(postdoc,margin=1),
    horizontal=F, ylab = "Proportion",
    auto.key = list(adj = 1,column=4, points=FALSE, rectangles=TRUE),
    par.settings=my.settings13, panel=function(x,y,...){
  panel.barchart(x,y,...)
  panel.text(1,0.80,labels=c("0.5"))
  panel.text(2,0.50,labels=c("0.75"))
}))

If you want to see where this happens, it's actually in the lattice:::bwplot.formula function (which is the function that actually does all the work for bar plots) and is has to do with the is.standard.barchart variable.