Motherwell's U19s match away to Inverness has been postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
Heavy overnight rain all across Scotland has made conditions at the Highland Football Academy very difficult and the match was called off just after 9am this morning.
No date has, as yet, been scheduled for the rearranged fixture.
The U19s are back in action this coming Tuesday when they face another away trip, this time to Hibs' training camp. Kick-off is at 1pm.
An interactive website highlighting internet safety to children has been developed by Motherwell Football Club and North Lanarkshire Council.
The site features an animated boy who takes children through five golden rules to stay safe on-line, as well as advice and tips on other web activities including social networking, chat rooms and cyber bullying.
Motherwell FC developed the web site as part of their Community Programme in partnership with the council's child protection team.
Stevie Kirk, former MFC player and now Business Development Manager with the club's Community Trust, features on the web site.
"We'll be taking the internet safety message out to all primary schools in North Lanarkshire as part of our community programme," Stevie explained. "We hope that through kids' interest in football, we can help promote the importance of staying safe on-line.
Speaking at the launch of the web site, Gavin Whitefield, Chief Executive of North Lanarkshire Council, said internet safety was a key priority for the council's Child Protection Committee.
He said: "With mobiles, laptops and electronic games all giving children instant access to the internet, parents and professionals are concerned about their safety on-line. This has been reflected in the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2010 which identifies online safety as part of the safeguarding agenda for all child protection committees.
Take the MFC Internet Safety Course to learn more.
Gordon Young has told MFC TV he intends to take one of the youngest ever squads on the long journey north to Inverness tomorrow.
The Under 19s have been severely hampered by injury, illness and player promotion in recent weeks, making for inconsistent results and performances.
However Young, Motherwell's Head of Youth Development, choose to focus on the positives as many youngsters, still capable of turning out for the U17s, will have their chance to shine.
"I wish the stats were readily available to hand as I reckon this will probably be one of the youngest squads we will have fielded in the SPL U19s league," Yound said.
"That's a combination of a few things but it's a fantastic opportunity for others. I am really excited about the match. Off the top of my head, I think we've have five 16-year olds, six 17-year olds and the rest made up of second years.
Midfielder Nicky Law reckons putting further distance between 'Well and the chasing pack is vital as the SPL heads into the busy festive period.
The former Sheffield United and Rotherham midfielder has enjoyed a sensational start to his Motherwell career, and is one of one the early season success stories for the Steelmen.
However, the Englishman is under no illusions about the size of the task that face the Fir Park side.
Although McCall's men have managed to open up a nine-point gap on nearest challenges St Johnstone and St Mirren, Law admits that the priority at the minute is to extend that by as many points as possible, as quickly as possible.
"At the minute we're taking everything one game at a time and not looking too far ahead of ourselves or getting too carried away," the 23-year old said.
"Our aim is to try and create as much of a buffer as possible. We know, at some point, or at least you would assume, that we won't always be winning games and we might hit a sticky patch. If that does happen, then there's a nice gap to fall back on. It's about taking advantage of things when it is going right.
'Well skipper Stephen Craigan today admitted he expects a rejuvenated Dundee United to pose a significant threat at Fir Park this Saturday.
Peter Houston's men have only lost once in their last five matches, and that was at Ibrox, and picked up an excellent three points against Hearts last Saturday.
And 54-times capped Craigan, speaking as the Tesco Bank Football Challenge Festival in the Ravenscraig Sports Facility, knows 'Well are in for a tough encounter.
"If Peter can get his best eleven on the pitch, and he has just added Robbie Nielsen to the squad, then they are a threat to anyone," he said.
"They have improved, there is no about that, and there is no doubt they were in a false position. We have to guard against that and improve our own home form and that's what we are looking to do.
"Even when you look at the last game at Tannadice, we won 3-1 but got the goals at the right times in the game.


Want to say hello in Japanese? So, yes, this is the first word you can say when you meet someone to greet them. They just need someone to get it, that this is actually hello. Would if say hello if his friends are near him or if your friends are with you? Just press the play button on the player below to listen. To create this article, 22 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. Once you two keep that going you can start talking but do the best you can when you see him. Use it if you're a teenager or want to pretend that you are one : How's it going? Practice a sweet, pretty smile in the mirror, and as soon as you see him, look him in the eyes and give a nice, natural smile.
And you see a friend. Not much of a pronunciation difference. You can use it to say thanks. It sounds nice, though a little formal. Now this phrase is formal.
Also all of her friends are girls except one who is a guy. Saying hello to your crush for the first time can be nerve racking - but once it's done, it's done - and you won't have to worry about it any longer. Is it because you like him or you want to be his friend? Perhaps the easiest way to hook her attention is with a quick observation about her. There is still time, perhaps, for one more miracle. Formal As a quick review, here are the ways to say hello in Japanese upfront.
When the day you're planning on saying hello comes, make sure you are ready. Even though it looks like a question, it doesn't need to be answered. Well, you can do it in Japanese. But don't say it too loudly and brashly. Moshi Moshi in Japanese Yes, this is a way to say hello in Japanese. This is an extremely formal greeting.
Show her your funny side — tease her a bit, tell her jokes and funny little stories. She may never look at you in the hallways because she's nervous to look you in the eye or that you might think it's weid that she's looking at you or is afraid you won't say hey back. One reason is that English speakers like to avoid repeating words. Girls, would you ever say hello to a completely random guy and if you do, why? Do I know this person? I am pretty shy and like her. Make sure you look and smell! My crush likes me back.
Do you know of other unique ways to say Hello in Japanese? When you say this, you sound either tough and cool, or silly. You can use this when you see someone that you haven't seen in a long time. She is smart and kind but isn't spontaneous or loud she would never do anything to attart attention to herself. That's what goes through my mind when I see this guy I like. Make her understand that you are not intimidated by her beauty at all and that you can relax and have fun with her just as you would with any of your other friends. I myself have said hello to this guy I'm not that close with because I am interested in him and I hope to get to know him better.
If he was mean, it could be he fancies you, or was embarrassed or too shy - but don't forget there are loads of other ways to get to know a boy and things. I hardly know this girl and I'm pretty sure she doesn't know me so why would she try and talk with me? You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. You're saying that the person looks like a dead mouse or some piece of trash that a cat has found and carried inside. This girl is definately into you. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. .
But not everyone thinks this joke is funny. Back in high school, unattractive girls that knew my name I didn't know their names usually. While you listen, feel free to scroll down to learn the 24 ways! How to say Hello or Good Day in Japanese So after morning is over… which is when? This sounds casual and cool. Revel in these moments because before you know it, it will be completely gone and you will be able to talk to women as easily and freely as with any of your closest friends. They may take the mickey out of you because some people are like that , and they might tell everybody you fancy the boy - which could be a problem if you want it to be a secret. Keep doing this don't be disappointed if he doesn't smile back - you know how boys are! The chances are he was too shy and was most likely to be freaking out wondering whether you were talking to him or not.


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The Commercial Exploitation of Abuse
'The Commercial Exploitation of Abuse: A Study on Policy (Essays on Law, Policy and Psychiatry, Vol. 8),' by Peter Fritz Walter.
'The Commercial Exploitation of Abuse: A Study on Policy (Essays on Law, Policy and Psychiatry, Vol. 8)' is an essay about what the author calls the 'abuse-centered culture,' which is obviously a culture that puts people behind bars for love, when only focusing on certain ways how bodies are touched, fondled or otherwise erotically stimulated, when those bodies belong to a group of people legally defined as 'children.'
It borders mental derangement to build a whole society around the paranoid focus on abuse instead of defining what love is in the first place. By the same token, it is irrational to uphold sex laws, which were set in place, hundreds of years ago, by highly abusive worldly and religious authorities, and religious perversion. To sell this soup of moralistic trash and persecutions as lawful and democratic is about the greatest scandal of societal betrayal to be found in human history.
When the Church burnt people, it did it by justifying their power abuse with religion, the modern state does the same, only that it justifies its power abuses with so-called child protection. Both paradigms are similarly vague and subject to arbitrary judgment; that is why they cannot, from a perspective of responsible law making, be used for drafting rational and equitable laws.
Despite its critical tone regarding the status quo, the production may serve progressive legal, forensic and psychiatric researchers, social workers, doctors, psychologists, psychoanalysts, nurses, educators, law enforcement executives, or political policy makers who are open enough to search for viable alternative solutions to the present witch hunts.
The current situation in law enforcement becoming more and more complex, with drug and sex crimes on the rise, and a substantial part of the population behind bars for crimes that virtually decades ago were allowed and tolerated behavior, there must be a change, and this change will hardly ever be initiated from inside the box. With the United States having the highest incarceration rate in the world, what democratic example could American police force possibly give to the rest of the world?
The USA alone with only 5% of the world's population presently houses behind endless prison miles 25% of the world's eight million prisoners. As more and more countries adopt Draconian laws and law enforcement policies, following the USA example, it is important to offer solutions alternative to jailing people for years if not decades, thus depriving them of freedom, substantial opportunities for personal evolution, sensual pleasures and intelligent social life.
This situation is so much the more hopeless as mainstream forensic psychiatry, following age-old prejudice and approximate assumptions insists on abuse being non-curable, a fatalistic paradigm often put in the dictum that the abused from yesterday will be the abusers of today.
One of the reasons I wrote this guide was to prove that there are many different solutions present today that have been developed inside and outside of Western culture, that could help the concerned to change their destructive behavior patterns with relative ease, if only those solutions would be provided in the law enforcement setting.
The present production contains many different suggestions and ideas for providing help, or self-help, and support to those who, for rather complex reasons, reasons that in part are not in their responsibility, have failed to handle their vital energies, thus infringing the tightly restricted emotional and sexual behavior code in Western society.
Besides the intention to providing support directly to the concerned group of people, the present book also is destined to offering viable solutions, or at least starting points for solutions that could be integrated both in personal lives and in the law enforcement setting, when such behavior has been set in place by habit and conditioning.
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I recently featured on the beautiful blog Free Spirit Girl by Katie Pitsis talking all about finding your purpose (especially when you just finish school) and directing your career in a style that is right for you.
If you are anything like me, I could not wait to jump out of school and start a career… I didn't really care what career and changed my mind and Uni selections a million times. I went through various phases of what I wanted to do and how I planned to get there. I had one common theme to my direction, I wanted to be successful. Now over 10 years out of school, that is what I remember so vividly. This was my motivator to study and to apply 100% to my final year of school, and to do this the best I possibly could.
Growing up in a country town I was not exposed to ALL the possibilities and opportunities post high school. It was basic and it consisted of Uni or a trade. I chose Uni which meant I had to move to the 'big' smoke of Adelaide to pursue my study.
What I didn't know is that once I started my study, my direction would change. My degree would change and opportunities would arise. As it happens the areas that I was good at, understood and enjoyed where areas that I would not have expected. And I had no idea that those style of jobs / careers even existed – for example Marketing and Public Relations. This was a learning curve for me and the first scenario of 'things don't happen as you expect or plan out'.
Finding my purpose or where I fit in, in this big and wild world, was all part of the journey. Not just at Uni but for many years starting out in my career. But my problem (still) was, I was always in such a hurry to make it to the top and be what I thought was 'successful' I didn't have time to stop and think about what it was I really wanted to do.
With what I know now, I would have told my eager, energetic teenage self to SLOW DOWN. And it is ok to take your time and find out what it is you are passionate about. You have to find out what makes you happy, what motivates you and brings you back to earth, what can you talk about for hours and hours and never get bored. There's plenty of time to be 'successful'. So… make sure you stop to smell the roses on your way (otherwise, you might miss important lessons or directions).
I know exactly what my teenage self would have said – how?
Nobody knows what they want to do! This is maddness.
So… to give my teenage self some advice. And to help you find your purpose and to diving into your journey after school… here is what I recommend.
1. Look at all you have achieved.
In school, outside activities, sporting, craft – it can be as simple or in-depth as you like. Write it all down and put a * next to the activities you like and ** next to the activities you love. Do you have a pattern of similarities, is there something that keeps on popping up on your list? This quick and easy task is a simple way to look at what you enjoy, don't enjoy so much and what you LOVE doing. It is a good way to give you some motivation, direction and feeling of self-achievement.
2. You don't have to be everything to everyone.
It is ok if you don't have the skills in a certain area, you can expand and grow another. Be honest and open about this – to yourself and others, it will help you gain credibility and help you find your niche.
3. Be aware of your Personal Brand.
this may not seem important, or a little too corporate, but everyone has a Personal Brand. It is how others see and identify you. What you can do that most people don't release, is steer it in the direction you want. A strong Personal Brand enables you to make the most of what you have to offer. In the professional world, people generally don't get to know you in your true form, on a deep personal level. They know you on your achievements, work ethic, performance and personality – these encompass all parts of your personal brand.
Make sure you have time to hang out with friends, make new ones and experience life. Even take a year off (you have been studying for 12 or so years) travel, visit family or just take some downtime to reflect on your high school years.
5. Set yourself a goal.
Be realistic and honor yourself (don't put yourself under too much pressure). This will allow you to sway in various directions without losing sight of your main objective. Write it down and stick it up somewhere you will see every day. Please note: it is ok if this goal changes or evolves, just rewrite your new goal and replace the old. Dream big and reach for the stairs. It is YOUR goal.
wrong turns before you find something that fits. The key is to remember, that it's ok. If you are in a role that you do not like, take it as a learning experience and move on. The right one will come along and you will know exactly when it does.
To really dive into finding out what YOU want to do and how YOU can make it happen, I detail 7 helpful tips in my free e-book Colour Blank Pages, which guides you through activities on what you can do to help you find your purpose.
The magic about careers is that it is not a stagnant process. You will continue to learn and develop throughout your career and YOU have the ability to choose how you want your career to pan out. Go for it!


The emergence of China as a global economic superpower over the past few decades has sparked intense academic and popular debate about the long-term implications of its continued growth. The expansion of China into African countries in pursuit of natural resources has incited particular controversy – does it spell increased cooperation between developing countries for mutual benefit or are Chinese practices largely exploitative, signalling a new phase of neo-colonialism? This free course, built around the findings of a DFID-ESRC funded project led by The Open University, considers the impact of the rise of China on Africa's development through the lens of oil production.
Please note that this course is currently in beta testing phase.


The PlasmaPower2Gas (PP2G) project aims at the efficient conversion of renewable electrical energy into (gaseous) chemical fuels via synergy effects in plasma and catalytic technology. A multi-disciplinary approach is pursued to cover the entire process chain from CO2 and H2O to CH4 by advanced plasma source design.
Carbon dioxide capture using amine functionalized silica gel.
Indian Journal of Chemistry A, Vol. 51A, pages 1214-1222, 2012.
Fuel, Vol. 105, pages 664-671, 2013.
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 53, Issue 23, pages 9849-9859, 2014.
Enhanced carbon dioxide hydrate formation kinetics in a fixed bed reactor filled with metallic packing.
Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 122, pages 78-85, 2015.
Methane hydrate formation in a test sediment of sand and clay at various level of water saturation.
Canadian Journal of Chemistry, In Press, 2015.
Energy Technology, In Press, 2015.
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Why is the Minister for Defence out of step?
Dr. Liam Fox believes Trident must be updated lest, in 50 years time a state threatens the UK with nuclear weapons.
One of our members reminded me last week that our Government has set up a National Security Council embracing a range of Ministers and departments. The Strategic Defence and Security Review the Government published last October is much more revolutionary than anything the Government has published on the economy, education or the NHS. The Review recognises today's world, a world in which the UK faces no hostile states, in which, as the composition of the National Security Council implies, the security of the UK depends increasingly on diplomacy, negotiation and collaboration rather than on military action.
imagine us doing that will cause so much hate as to provoke a state to wish to nuke us? How lonely and frightened Dr. Fox must feel inside.
I am looking forward to the world in 50 years time when compliance with International Law is taken for granted – that's what we are working for and what the Government's mission of working for a safer world in which no country feels the need for nuclear weapons" means.
Anne Watts, Nurse, from the Author's Notes to "Always the Children".
PS: The Trident-bearing subs are not the only ones powered by nuclear reactors. We have 'hunter-killer' submarines carrying conventional missiles that are also powered by nuclear reactors. I understand that since 'Japan' there has been apprehension that these nuclear reactors need updating. I have yet to learn what we do about the nuclear waste from the reactors. Is it discharged continuously at sea? Do we dump it on land when the subs dock for maintenance? Do you know?


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What to expect when listening to "The Vanished"
March 13, 2018 3 min read pritzkerpress
By Adamaris Reyes '19
Listening to a podcast can sometimes get a little boring, and finding the right podcast to listen to can sometimes be a challenge. While there are informative and funny podcast out there, it's not always easy for someone to keep listening to the same podcast. However, upon my journey of finding the best podcast for Pritzker students, I came across a unique podcast that feels like your watching the crime show "48 Hours." As you keep reading you'll find that, "The Vanished" has a unique purpose, an effective way to tell the victim's story, and a skillful ability to keep its viewers listening and intrigued the whole time.
This podcast focuses on telling the story of people that have gone missing for years or even months. Recently though, the host, Marissa Jones, has decided to include stories of people that have gone missing within the last year. She states, "I think that if we get these stories out there sooner, instead of waiting until they've gone cold, maybe we can reach someone with a fresh memory." Someone going missing is a serious issue, and this podcast strives to find listeners who can help the families that are desperately searching for their loved ones.
What will I be listening to?
While you may be listening to a story of a person gone missing, this podcast doesn't bore you at all. The way the stories are told are through one of the family members of the missing person; as you listen you'll notice that the person speaking is very detailed when describing the events that took place before and after their loved one went missing. There's also a light eerie music playing when the victims story begins to build up, like I said before, you'll feel like you're watching a "48 Hours" episode in your cozy living room on a Saturday night. "
"The Vanished" has a long list of different cases, and the one that I decided to listen to was the Devin Bond case. This story focuses on how, "Sixteen-year-old Devin Bond left his home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in the early morning hours of March 31, 2017." Since then, his whereabouts have remained unknown, and as the podcast reveals there are few clues that pin point to where Devin might have gone and why he decided to leave his loving family behind. His mother explains the last time she saw Devin by stating, "the last night I saw him I said 'goodnight don't stay up too late, I love you.'"
Although you can't "watch" the podcast, "The Vanished" does an excellent job at keeping everything suspenseful and entertaining! The emotion and naturality that the stories are told in make the whole podcast more real and sincere. It never feels like the host or the person telling the story is robotically talking, it's nothing less than a real story that's trying to reach anyone who can help out.
It's somewhat difficult to explain how good this podcast is, but I'm confident that if you give it a listen you'll be interested throughout the whole story and get a chance to learn more about what friends and family members are doing in order to find their missing loved one, who they hope to find and see again.
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I admit I'm a little uncomfortable adding money managers to the sectoral balances equation. We usually think of it as representing national product and national income, which have to be equal by definition. I don't see how it's possible to have a nonzero balance for the financial sector.
For those uninitiated in the technicalities of NIPA and national accounting logic in general, this comment may seem strange. What's the issue with the Financial sector running a "nonzero" balance? As you'll see though, there are a number of ways where such an approach comes into conflict with the traditional treatment of the NIPA accounts and need readjustment if the approach I would like to take is to be seen as consistent.
"The approach of the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA) to privately funded pensions and insurance is essentially a neo-classical one.Apart from the costs of operation, private pension contributions and life insurance premiums are considered to be a form of household saving, part of the accumulation of wealth by households that should appear as a category of assets on the household balance sheet. But publicly funded schemes- social security arrangements-- are not treated in this way. Entitlements under public programs are not credited to households until such time as the benefits are actually received. "
As you can see from the above, by definition Institutional Investors are in financial balance at all times. Any shortfall or excess of cash flow is counteracted by an offsetting change in their obligation to households. Thus what we would otherwise consider to be the financial net worth of institutional investors is counted as part of household wealth.
So to finally get around to answering Mason's question in brief: transfer payments between private sectors change saving rates in such a way as to make Institutional Investor financial surpluses and financial deficits a consistent accounting concept.
Ruggles, Nancy D., and Richard Ruggles. National accounting and economic policy: the United States and UN systems. Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999.
One problem with this equation is the definition of (M-X), otherwise known as the external balance. In the world of MultiNational Corporations, is this balance really meaningful? For example the output that corporations transfer between subsidiaries is subject to what is called transfer pricing. It is quite famous that if someone wants to smuggle financial assets out of a company one way is to find a willing partner in another country and who overcharges you while you undercharge him. The output is then sold at market prices and something close to the difference between the "true balance" and the actual transaction values is set aside for the other party. This is of course enormously easier when both parties are in reality the same corporation. As if that wasn't complicated enough, corporations also transfer intellectual property and financial assets between subsidiaries.
Why would entities systematically charge inaccurate prices to transfer funds out of a country? The primary reasons are capital controls and, in our modern world the most important one, tax avoidance and evasion. It is precisely these sorts of strategies that have made domiciling in another country profitable. This causes some difficulties in doing sectoral balances analysis, particularly in regards to the behavior of the corporation. They also make us systematically misunderstand balance of payments dynamics. It makes an enormous difference whether we are truly running a trade deficit with the rest of the world or whether export and import prices (as well as transfer payments disguised within property, investment good or financial purchases) are being systematically manipulated to hide foreign investment. After all, definitionally a lower current account deficit means a smaller capital account surplus . In recent literature debating the United States Net International Investment Position (the culmination of current account deficits and the revaluation of foreign owned domestic assets and domestic owned foreign assets), this has been referred to as a "black hole". If the strong form of the "black hole thesis is true", that the U.S. is actually running something close to trade balance, foreign holdings of treasuries and other low return assets are essentially permitting the continuation of foreign investment. Thus our NIIP may be systematically underestimated. This would help to explain why despite the supposedly large negative NIIP, foreign return on U.S. assets is systematically and greatly lower than domestic return on foreign assets.
Here the DC subscript stands for domestic corporations, DOC subscript stands for domestically owned corporations, DOFC stands for Domestically owned Foreign Corporations and FO stands for Foreign Owned.
This is of course a simplification. There are a great many corporations with a variety of percentages are owned by foreign sectors and vice versa. Ownership of a company's debt can also involve influence over managerial decisions. Nonetheless there is no satisfactory "shades of gray" definition so here I will be treating plurality or greater ownership of equity shares as a "domestically owned" corporation. If we have to choose between not analyzing domestic ownership of foreign corporations and analyzing them with perhaps an overestimation of the U.S.'s NIIP so be it. Unfortunately, national statistics in a multinational world are always going to be not quite suited to the task at hand.
It is very difficult tell what these modifications to the sectoral balances approach would mean for measurements of balance of payments deficits, surpluses and Net International Investment Positions. This essentially "GNP" conception of balance of payments would certainly reduce the United States NIIP, but by how much is very debatable and is subject to how accurate data on MultiNational corporate activities. It may even be possible, with adequate data, that such a measure would mean a balanced balance of payments. I haven't yet dug into the data issues so I don't know how close to such a measure we could get. Michael Hudson's "Financial Payments Flow Analysis" is a masterful approach to producing a flow of funds balance of payments measure that shares a similarity to what I'm discussing. However, his work shows just how much careful effort needs to be put in such a project and my impression is it has only gotten more difficult since the late 1960s. At the very least, I hope readers keep the complications of MultiNational corporations involved when doing sectoral balances analysis.
Ali, Mona. "Dark matter, black holes and old-fashioned exploitation: transnational corporations and the US economy." Cambridge Journal of Economics (2015): bev062.
Ali, Mona. "Global imbalances and asymmetric returns to US foreign assets: fitting the missing pieces of the US balance of payments puzzle." International Review of Applied Economics 30.2 (2016): 167-187.
Chick, Victoria. Transnational Enterprises and the Evolution of the International Monetary System. No. 5. Faculty of Economics, University of Sydney, 1976.
Hudson, Michael. A financial payments-flow analysis of US international transactions, 1960-1968. No. 61-63. New York University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Institute of Finance, 1970.
Minsky, Hyman P. "" Financial Interrelations, the Balance of Payments and Our Crisis."
What I'm going to explore in this post is whether "money manager capitalism", as Minsky defined it, impacts the behavior of various sectors and in particular what it has to tell us about the private sector balance. This post will be running through a lot of sectoral balance concepts and accounting. For those familiar with MMT and the stock-flow consistent approach, these will be familiar. Nonetheless, I will be reviewing them below.
This is organized so that surpluses are positive and deficits are negative.
It may seem obvious that the private sector's financial balance would persistently be positive, thus necessitating persistent budget deficits , but it is not actually clear that this would generally be the case. Why is the private sector accumulating surpluses? The standard response in MMT social media is that the private sector "desires to net save". I do not think this gets us very far. First it is our job to explain these "desires". Second, the private sector of the U.S. (or any other economy) is huge with a myriad of differently structured organizations. In this context assigning such a "human passion" to explain such an important macroeconomic phenomenon seems problematic. Third, many people "desire" a great many things; they often aren't able to accomplish them. I personally desire to "net save" equal to 5% of next year's GDP. Unfortunately, I do not think my "desire" will become a reality. This silly example is meant to emphasize the point that we have to look at how sectors or particular sub sectors make decisions and understand how those decisions result in certain recorded financial surpluses or financial deficits at the end of a recording period. To be clear, I don't think people have been "wrong" to use such turns of phrase, just that to do a more in depth analysis requires putting them aside.
In this context the greatly underappreciated paper "Household and Enterprise Saving and Capital Formation in the United States: A Market Transactions View" by the great economist couple Nancy and Richard Ruggles is crucial. They argue that once you reorganize the NIPA accounts so that households invest in houses, cars and other "durable consumer goods", while removing insurance premiums and pension contributions from household savings, households on average over the post-war period invested roughly as much as they saved. They found the same to be true for non-financial businesses for the most part, with the notable exceptions of mining and publicly regulated utilities. Thus the big private sectors running persistent financial surpluses were Institutional Investors ie those sectors controlled by money managers. It is this phenomenon that I want to focus in on and its effect on the behavior of sectoral balances.
"1. Almost all business is organized through corporations.
2. Dominant proportions of the liabilities of corporations are held either by financial institutions, such as banks and insurance companies, or by mutual and pension funds.
3. This involves the intrusion of a new layer of intermediation, by pension and mutual funds, into the financial structure.
4. Pension and mutual funds are bound only by contract as to what assets they can own and what activities they can engage in.
5. The stated aim of fund managers is to maximize the value of the investments of the holders of its liabilities.
Thus the focus here is on institutional investors ie endowments, mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies etc. Specifically, how their size and behavior has changed the behavior of the economy and possibly generated financial instability. Before we get to that though, we need to think through how we'd expect the economy to behave in the absence of these institutions.
In the popularized version of Keynes's "argument", it is commonly said that he thought governments should run surpluses during booms and deficits during recessions. The purpose of this is to be in balance on average. Post-Keynesians and others rightly ridicule this simplified story, especially because it makes governments seem like they have more control over their deficit position than they do. Nonetheless, the Ruggles and Ruggles analysis suggests that something like that may be possible in a closed economy with households, non-financial corporations, and governments. Households and non-financial corporations would invest more leading to rising tax revenues, drops in government expenditures (especially on transfer payments) and ultimately saving below investment. Conversely they would cut their investment expenditures in recessions, leading to drops in incomes, drops in tax revenues and rises in government transfer payments. Intuitively, we can see that this process would lead to roughly balanced sectoral balances, sans the business cycle being overweighted to either boom or depression, over long periods of time if these were the only sectors of the economy.
This is easier to understand when we look at the structure of these sector's spending decisions. Both households and non-financial corporations invest to acquire capital goods required for their continuation. Households invest in houses to live in, cars to get around in and items like washing machines because they expect their lifetime cost to be much lower than a lifetime of renting. Non-financial corporations invest to create capacity to produce more, to replace depreciated assets and to increase specific infrastructures required to continue doing business. Recall that paying off debts are a form of saving in NIPA. Thus individual households and corporations either run up financial surpluses to make a large investment good purchase (ie run a gigantic financial deficit for one period) or they make a large investment good purchase on credit and save by paying off their debts.
Either way at the individual level this appears as financial surpluses interrupted by a discontinuous and discrete tremendous financial deficit. Since these decisions in the aggregate don't happen all at once and are spread unevenly over many different periods, the large dissavings to purchase investment goods are more or less counterbalanced by the fixed contractual payments many other households and corporations are making and/or the savings being built up to make an internally financed purchase. In other words at the aggregate sector level these sector's saving and investment should be near each other. Thus there are reasons to expect that over long periods of time these sectors average financial balances would be near balanced. This is because both households and corporations income and investment are sensitive to the business cycle. This leads us to a thesis- those sectors whose expenditures and income have large room to react to business cycles will see their financial balances be in rough equality over a long period of time.
Below is a simplified disaggregation of the private sector to focus on two things, Ruggles and Ruggles analysis of businesses and households and the anomalous role of Money Managers and the institutions they control in financial sectoral analysis. Representing all private sectors as they exist in the NIPA accounts would be a time consuming and unnecessary process for these purposes. The point I would like to make is capable using the accounting identity below.
Where subscripts HH represents households, C represents non-financial corporate and MM represents money managers ie pension funds, insurance companies, hedge funds etc.
The defining feature of the institutional investors money managers control is that their income and expenditures are tightly contractually defined. Households and non-financial corporations are more or less obligated to "make contributions" of a certain level during any given year and it is very difficult for the state of the economy to change these obligations (sans bankruptcy and the freezing of pension plans or the like). In addition, the assets that institutional investors hold are for the most part contractual obligations such that there is very little flexibility in adjusting payments to financial conditions sans mass bankruptcy. On the spending side, these organizations are both obligated to make certain levels of required payments and obligated to hold financial assets as "reserves" for future payments. This again would require mass institutional investor bankruptcy to change as a sector.
Thus in the absence of government deficits households and/or corporations would be pushed to run deficits to support the balance sheets of institutional investors which of course would eventually lead to mass bankruptcy. As Minsky showed so well in his other work, large automatic stabilizer spending and taxation programs are designed to avoid this outcome. In other words, the structure of the economy and institutional investors is tilted away from institutional investor capital losses being the adjustment mechanism and towards continued financial surpluses through government deficit spending.As a result, these sectors whose expenditures and income are strongly insensitive (but not completely insensitive) to the business cycle will have a tendency to accumulate financial surpluses over long periods of time.
Ruggles and Ruggles wrote their paper around the same time as Minsky started to develop his "money manager capitalism" analysis. As noted earlier, Minsky's thesis was not just that these large institutions were changing the behavior of the economy and financial assets, but also they were changing corporate behavior. In particular they generated stronger uncertainty at the firm and plant level. Thus we may expect that corporations are less likely to invest in the same business cycle situations as earlier and thus may be expected to run financial surpluses over many business cycles in the future. We won't know until a strong boom gets going. Either way, the central fact is that it is large sectors like institutional investors that has biased the private sector to running financial surpluses over the long run.
In my research into the antebellum financial system, this is a process I closely researched. It is very difficult to gather data but my strong sense from reading up on these periods is the process by which savings banks, insurance companies etc started being chartered tilted the economy more towards private sector financial surpluses as time went on. Large losses were likely taken in crisis periods in the "balance sheet simplification" process Minsky identified in his work. Nonetheless capital losses likely didn't come close to balancing out the surpluses and as government budgets became more important this process was intensified. The way business cycle insensitive sectors impact financial dynamics and financial net worths need closer examination in the future and need to be at the center of our stories for why governments as a whole can't balance their budgets over the business cycle.
Minsky, Hyman P. "Uncertainty and the institutional structure of capitalist economies: Remarks upon receiving the Veblen-Commons award." Journal of Economic issues 30.2 (1996): 357-368.
Ruggles, Nancy, and Richard Ruggles. "Household and Enterprise Saving and Capital Formation in the United States: A Market Transactions View." Review of Income and Wealth 38.2 (1992): 119-63.


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Episode 150 - THE LION KING
From the day we arrived on this podcast, we've done our best to honor the spirit of the pop culture we enjoyed as kids. Even after five years and 150 episodes of heroic overthinking and nostalgia-fueled biases, we're still realizing there is more to see than could ever be seen through our younger eyes, and The Lion King is certainly no exception. It is arguably the alpha of contemporary Disney animation: an artistic and technological landmark that audiences continue to find in its lofty place along the unwinding path of cinema history.
It's the perfect subject for this milestone episode, which includes a look back at some of the other topics that moved us through despair and hope, while you--our wonderful listeners--sustained us with your faith and love. We're psyched to keep digging into the past, often ending up back where we started in a journey that's often wistful and joyous and bittersweet, almost as if we were traversing some kind of life-giving sphere. Remember who you are, and soak in our anniversary celebration!
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Rashard Robinson's quest to make the New York Jets roster just became more difficult, as his suspension stems from a drug possession arrest.
A ball has yet to be snapped for the New York Jets this season, yet the absences are already starting to pile up.
Cornerback Rashard Robinson, set to enter his second season in green, has been suspended for the first four games by the NFL for a violation of the league's substance abuse policy. The team announced the suspension on Wednesday afternoon, one day before the team reports for its 2018 training camp activities.
The suspension for Robinson, 23, stems from a December arrest, where New Jersey police found marijuana-laced candy in his car when he was pulled over in Morris County. He was arrested and charged with drug possession and driving carelessly as a result.
Legal troubles likewise haunted Robinson in college at LSU. He was suspended midway through the 2014 season after he failed a drug test and was later charged with unauthorized entry into a teammate's apartment in June 2015. He later enrolled at Broward College in Florida and was selected in the fourth round by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2016 draft.
The Jets, seeking secondary depth after numerous injuries, obtained Robinson in a trade last October, sending over a fifth-round pick. He played 20 defensive snaps over six games, starting the Jets' December win over Kansas City. He was inactive for the final two games of the season in what head coach Todd Bowles called a "coaching decision".
Robinson is allowed to partake in all preseason practices and games. He is currently in a battle to make the roster, battling a crowded Jets cornerback depth chart headlined by Trumaine Johnson, Morris Claiborne, and Buster Skrine. Should he make the team, he'll be eligible to return in the Jets' Week 5 game against the Denver Broncos.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday it would reform how it certifies new airplanes in line with legislation passed by Congress after two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people.
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Lawmakers approved sweeping reforms in legislation signed into law Sunday by US President Donald Trump that boost FAA oversight of aircraft manufacturers, require disclosure of critical safety information and provide new whistleblower protections.
The FAA said in a statement it "will work to implement the changes as directed by Congress. The FAA is committed to continuous advancement of aviation safety and improving our organization, processes, and culture."
Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican who chairs the Commerce Committee, said in an opinion piece Monday the law "will take steps to protect against manufacturers placing undue pressure on employees during the certification process."
Wicker added the law "should help restore the safety culture in the FAA."
An FAA survey released in August found some safety employees reported facing "strong" external pressure from industry and raised alarms the agency does not always prioritize air safety.
The FAA lifted the 20-month grounding of the 737 MAX in November. The MAX is set to resume US commercial passenger flights Tuesday, when American Airlines begins flying the MAX on a Miami to New York flight.
The legislation requires an independent review of Boeing's safety culture.
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The FAA must report to Congress on implementation of recommendations issued after the 737 MAX crashes.
"You can't legislate cultural change, but we're darn sure going to try to increase the safety goals," Senator Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, said in an interview. The law repeals rules allowing FAA employees to receive bonuses or other financial incentives based on meeting manufacturer-driven certification schedules or quotas.
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On 17 June 1789, the Third Estate of the "Estates-General" of France declared themselves redefined as the "National Assembly" begining one of the greatest events in history...
Campaign Marengo
Like a lightning bolt falling from the heavens, Napoleon Bonaparte's Army of the Reserve descended out of the Alps upon the plains of Piedmont in late May of 1800 and into the annals of glory.
Boneparte's Peninsular War [BPW]
The Peninsular War was one of the longest and most drawn-out campaigns of the Napoleonic War; a piece of Imperial regime change designed to close off the last European ports open to British trade, which instead developed into the "Spanish Ulcer"...
Campaign Bautzen
Between December 1812 and January of 1813 Napoleon's La Grande Armée limped back into Germany and Poland from the debacle that was the Russian campaign...
Following the decisive Battle of Leipzig the French retreated to the Rhine and beyond into France. Napoleon positioned his forces on the Rhine, in Holland and in Belgium and then left for Paris to build new field commands...
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The dynamic battles of the Spring Campaign of 1813 had seen the French victorious at both Lutzen (May 2nd) and Bautzen (May 20-21). However, they lacked all of the essential elements of a great army to bring the war to a successful conclusion...
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Join Napoleon's legions as they march into Swabia to encircle the unfortunate General Mack. Continue on down the valley of the Danube as you pursue General Kutusov and his Russian hordes as they attempt to evade your mighty army. Capture Vienna and press on to meet up with destiny on the fields of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805...
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In 1806, Napoleon took to the field against the Kingdom of Prussia, a saber-rattling queen, and several proud generals still clinging to a past of glory under Frederick the Great. In less than two weeks of campaigning the French were masters of Prussia and eastern Germany...
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On 18 June 1815, south of the small Belgian hamlet Waterloo in what was then the Kingdom of the Netherlands, occurred one of the most decisive battles of history. Napoleon Bonaparte hoped to destroy the coalition armies arrayed against him by means of a quick, decisive campaign. The plan was to defeat in detail each of his main antagonists...
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Austria suffered a major defeat at the hands of Napoleon in 1805. This led to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1809 Austria sought revenge for this insult. Austrian armies marched on Bavaria in an attempt to defeat Napoleon's forces while they were separated...
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In 1812, Napoleon took the greatest risk of his military career. His conquest of continental Europe had resulted in every major power having been defeated by his military might. But one conquest remained, that of Russia and her armies...
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Charles Piutau continued his spectacular start at Wasps as the English side put Quade Cooper's Toulon to the sword at the Ricoh Arena.
Piutau played a starring role for the second straight European Champions Cup encounter, the All Blacks flyer combining with one-Test winger Frank Halai in a fine display of attacking rugby.
The Kiwi duo had their forwards to thank for a superb attacking platform with former Wallabies openside George Smith winding back the clock in a commanding 80-minute effort at the breakdown.
The bonus-point 32-6 victory has moved Wasps five points clear at the top of the tournament's "Pool of Death", with Cooper's Toulon bottom after just the one game.
Making his first start on European club rugby's biggest stage, Cooper was unable to fire the defending champions into any sort of rhythm. Toulon will be sweating on the returns of Cooper's fellow Wallabies Matt Giteau and Drew Mitchell who are still enjoying some time off following the Rugby World Cup.
Meanwhile in Llanelli, a couple of veteran Kiwis matched the efforts of their younger counterparts as Racing Metro secured a valuable win on the road ahead of the arrival of All Blacks great Dan Carter.
Former Test stars Joe Rokocoko and Chris Masoe were both among the try-scorers as the Parisians secured the bonus point in a 29-12 win over the Scarlets after leading 26-0 at half-time.
The 17-point victory gave Racing the perfect start to their European campaign with their opening encounter against Glasgow having been postponed due to the Paris terrorist attacks.
In Italy, Aussie winger Peter Betham and Tonga's World Cup star Telusa Veainu helped Leicester to a comfortable win over perennial strugglers Benetton Treviso.
Veainu finished with a double while Betham picked up his first try on the European stage having arrived in England after this year's Super Rugby season.
The bonus-point win on the road could well prove pivotal with heavyweights Munster and Stade Francais joining the Tigers in a tough Pool 4; the French and Irish clubs seeing their clash postponed due to the tragic events in Paris.
Former Wallabies captain Ben Mowen grabbed one of Montpellier's 10 tries as the French club celebrated the retention of coach Jake White with a 64-0 drubbing of Italian club Calvisano.
White was rumoured to be among the candidates to replace Stuart Lancaster before ruling himself out of contention; Eddie Jones has since been unveiled by the Rugby Football Union.
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Shake Your Belly And Rub One Out! Shantae: Risky's Revenge OST (Review)
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Jayson was going on about how long he's had to wait for the Granado Espada Original Soundtrack Volume 3 all last week, so it seemed appropriate to turn OSV's attention towards the sequel that we've only been waiting eight patient, bloody years for: Shantae: Risky's Revenge.
Jake "virt" Kaufman, the same man/myth behind the original Game Boy Color game's soundtrack, returns. As if this wasn't enough, you may recall last week that we posted that the soundtrack is now available digitally for free with the option of donating whatever you see fit. So, is the soundtrack worth your valuable bandwidth and money?
Make the jump to find out!
The 2D platformer is a genre that, like the USSR, died in the early nineties and has yet to have a ground-breaking, multi-platinum game to make companies want to bring it back en'masse. Since then, lesser companies have seen it fit to ruin good memories of proud games (Rocket Knight Adventures and Sonic 4) and also totally forget what the music is supposed to sound like in these things. Until Shantae: Risky's Revenge.
I never had the luxury of playing the original game (and this seems to be a common thing), so upon seeing the above video, I had my own preconceived idea of what the album sounded like, and it involved Disney and genies. As the "Main Title" begins I immediately think "Aladdin, Aladdin, Aladdin!" but by the time "File Select" has finished, it's obvious that there's a little more to it than that.
The album shifts its sound from "A Whole New World" to Super Mario World easily, sometimes mid-way through a song and it never feels forced. This is very much a good thing, as tracks like "She's Got Moves" are fit to burst with the appropriately fast beats, sandy overtones and the happiness that made early 90s platformers so much fun in the first place.
Obviously there are some songs which simply breathe more life into the sand/pyramid level genre, which you'll have likely heard at least once if you've played a game, ever. For example, "Sand in My Potion" and "Scary Things" use all the essential elements of this genre of err, platform (santurs, darbukas etc.), but you'd get neither song mixed up. The first is a slow, R&B flavored groove and the second goes for a slower, more minimal and atmospheric sound. Like different flavored chocolates in a Quality Street box, you know the songs are part of a whole but none of them are the same.
The rest of the songs in this cutesy platformer that do not accompany desert-themed stages (like the horribly named "ORLY YARLY") sit comfortably alongside the rest of the album, being upbeat and uptempo, forcing you to jump and down along with them. The best comparison I can make is to the Mario & Luigi series which also combines sand elements with cute elements, and also accomplished a lot with a comparatively less-efficient soundchip. Even when Kaufman loses it and turns "The Final Challenge" into an IDM love-fest (complete with techno beats!), it still feels like it belongs here.
Outside of the the images of the desert, cuteness, and jingles, there's also "End Credits," which could have easily been a stage theme, "Adventure" with it's curious string choices that recall Pandemonium! If had been composed by a non-European, and "The Final Challenge" which somehow manages to be both dramatic and techno at the same time. Also of worthy mention is the song featured in the video above, "Burning Town," which struts along effortlessly, synchronizing an Indian sound with funky breakdowns and deliberately retro noises. It's also a nice touch for people who bought the original game, as the DSi hardware blends together with the original Game Boy's sound. There's also a ravishing new remix of said song, "Burning Town Forever," which emphasizes the best parts of the original song and makes everything LOUDER which is how new songs are made.
Any negatives? Personally, I think the tinny soundchip is perfectly fine for the bouncy tracks, but shows all of its deficiencies and negatives when trying for full-blown ambiance. "Through the Trees" is not a bad song by any stretch of the imagination, being best compared to "Stickerbush Symphony" from Donkey Kong Country. It features pianos, electro beats and distant-sounding strings… but can't reach full immersion due to the sheer limitations of the hardware. It's not a poor song, it's just played on the wrong system. Your mileage may easily vary, however.
In closing, is Shantae: Risky's Revenge worth 60 minutes and 52 seconds of your valuable time? Given that you are free to donate as much as you want (or nothing) for the pleasure of listening, I'd say "yes" on principle alone. It's full of upbeat chiptune tracks that offer a lot of fun and recollections of memories of old. So in other words, for God's sake download it and prove that this type of thing still has fans! Get the soundtrack, then buy the game on DSiWare.
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Jayson Napolitano on October 22, 2010
Sounds good, but sadly I can't bring myself to listen to it yet. At least not without paying something for it. I need to get off my butt and pay up, I guess.
Sod White on November 18, 2010
I don't know for sure how feasible this idea is, but I would love like hell for Jake Kaufman and other artists like Simon Rahm and Richard Carabello to all come together for one huge collaborative work.
…To the tune of the 8BitPeoples but on a larger scale.
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Textron Aviation introduces additional STCs for IS&S ThrustSense Autothrottle for Beechcraft King Air operators
WICHITA, Kan. (Dec. 2, 2020) – Textron Aviation today announced supplemental type certification (STC) approval of the Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) ThrustSense Autothrottle on Pro Line Fusion-equipped Beechcraft King Air 200 series aircraft including new production Beechcraft King Air 260 turboprops. STC approval on Pro Line 21-equipped Beechcraft King Air 300 series aircraft is anticipated soon.
Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker customers receive factory-direct support by Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, through a global network of service and parts centers, mobile service units and 24/7 1CALL AOG support.
These STCs are in addition to the approvals of the autothrottle on the Beechcraft King Air 200 series equipped with Pro Line 21 avionics, the Beechcraft King Air 300 series equipped with Pro Line Fusion avionics and new production Beechcraft King Air 360 turboprops, announced in August 2020.
"We know King Air pilots are already exceptional in their commitment to maintaining the utmost of vigilance and we are delighted to offer the IS&S Autothrottle to select Pro-Line and Fusion-equipped King Air 200 and 300-series customers," said Brian Rohloff, senior vice president, Customer Support, Textron Aviation. "This enhancement further supports these pilots in their continuous observance to prevent over-speed or under-speed, over-temp and over-torque conditions."
The IS&S ThrustSense Autothrottle delivers precision control to optimize power output. The enhancement reduces pilot workload by automatically managing engine power from the takeoff roll through the climb, cruise and descent phases of flight.
The ThrustSense Autothrottle is robust but lightweight and can be installed with minimal downtime and no structural modifications to the existing throttle quadrant. Implementation is seamless and pilot control is intuitive.
Larry Lunda is the first customer to receive this upgrade at a Textron Aviation Service Center. Lunda owns and operates a Fusion-equipped Beechcraft King Air 250 and has been a long-time Beechcraft customer.
"I appreciate the enhanced features the new ThrustSense Autothrottles upgrade will provide to the 2016 King Air that I fly," said Lunda. "The system's ability to maintain a selectable airspeed allows a single pilot to focus more time on tasks such as aircraft separation or navigating and flying an instrument approach. I have enjoyed the performance and reliability of Beechcraft King Airs throughout the last 41 years and I am excited about this great enhancement."
STC approval of Garmin G1000 NXi-equipped Beechcraft King Air C90, 200 and 300 series turboprops is expected early next year.
Beechcraft King Air 260 cockpit
About Textron Aviation
We inspire the journey of flight. For more than 90 years, Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. company, has empowered our collective talent across the Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker brands to design and deliver the best aviation experience for our customers. With a range that includes everything from business jets, turboprops, and high-performance pistons, to special mission, military trainer and defense products, Textron Aviation has the most versatile and comprehensive aviation product portfolio in the world and a workforce that has produced more than half of all general aviation aircraft worldwide. Customers in more than 170 countries rely on our legendary performance, reliability and versatility, along with our trusted global customer service network, for affordable and flexible flight.
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George Henry Cox (18 October 1824 – 21 November 1901) was an Australian politician. He was a  member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1863 and 1901. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1859.

Early life
Cox was the eldest son of George Cox a pioneer Sydney pastoralist and a grandson of William Cox who constructed the first road across the Blue Mountains. He was the nephew of Edward Cox, a member of the first Legislative Council and a cousin of Edward King Cox and Archibald Bell who also served in the New South Wales Parliament. Cox was educated at The King's School, Parramatta and developed extensive pastoral interests in Dubbo, Mudgee, the Warrego River District and the Liverpool Plains.

He was prominent in the synod of the Anglican Church of Australia, active in local Government in the Mudgee district and a foundation member of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales.

Colonial Parliament
Cox was elected as the representative for the seat of Wellington (County) in the first Legislative Assembly convened after the granting of responsible self-government in 1856. He was subsequently re-elected unopposed at the 1858 colonial election, but did not contest the 1859 election election when the seat of Wellington (County) was abolished. He received a life appointment to the Legislative Council in 1863 and became an active supporter of the Free Trade Party.

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Q: Where can I find details for the feature selection page of SQL Server installer? I'm installing SQL Server Developer Edition (2019) on my desktop, and I'm trying to get everything right the first time on my installation.
On the feature selection page, I don't know what a few of these mean.
Specifically: "Client Tools Connectivity". The description is not incredibly helpful: "Includes components for communication between clients and servers." - what kind of components and what kind of communication? Is this needed or useful at all if I'm only using the instance locally? I'm not finding any help in the documentation or web searches.
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A: here is a good starting point.
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The appropriate features to install depend on your needs. There is no good or bad starting list. Assuming that you need to install the relational database engine, try starting with SQL Server Database Engine.
You can always add new features afterwards.

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Mary Elizabeth (Bumpus) Crider
March 10, 1925 ~ August 16, 2018 (age 93)
Mary Elizabeth Crider (née Bumpus) of Lake Mary, Florida, died at her Oakmonte Village home, on August 16, 2018, at the age of 93.
Mary, nicknamed Betty, is survived by her daughter Twanna Soifer and son-in-law Terry Soifer of Sanford, FL; her two grandsons, Matthew Soifer of Brooklyn, NY and Andrew Soifer of Sanford FL; and her two great-grand daughters, Hannah and Evelyn Soifer, also of Brooklyn, NY. She is preceded in death by her husband, Charles L. Crider of Mt. Vernon, IL; her parents Harry and Viola Bumpus of Mt. Vernon, IL, and her two brothers, Delbert and Dwight Bumpus of Mt. Vernon, IL.
Betty was born March 10, 1925, in Mt. Vernon, IL, and was a graduate of Mt. Vernon Township High School. She remained in Mt. Vernon, working in a clothing store and a bank until the end of WWII, when she married Charles (Chuck) Crider on August 18, 1945. Shortly thereafter, when Chuck left the Merchant Marines and was drafted into the Army, they moved to Aberdeen, Maryland where he was stationed at Aberdeen Proving Ground for the remainder of his enlistment. Twanna, their only child, was born in 1948.
After a short return to Mt. Vernon, they moved back to the Aberdeen area where they remained until their final move to River Ranch, FL in 2004. During her time in Maryland, Betty worked at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Civilian Personnel and eventually became the head administrative assistant for the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for the Department of the Army. She retired from CID and became an active volunteer at Havre-de-Grace Memorial Hospital. After moving to Florida, she was also a member of the River Ranch Chapel in River Ranch, FL. In addition to shopping, she enjoyed traveling in their motor home and loved spending the summers at their cabin on Broad Creek in Maryland.
She will be remembered for her sense of humor and practical jokes, her great cooking, her love of Christmas, and her good luck at the slot machines. She was dearly loved by her family and returned their love many times over. She was especially proud of her grandsons and was delighted to be a great-grandmother.
The family will be receiving friends on August 21st from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. at Mt. Vernon Memorial Gardens Chapel in Woodlawn, IL with the funeral immediately following. The Rev. Gary W. Arnold will be officiating. Everyone is welcome to attend and celebrate Betty's life. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to her hospice provider, Vitas Community Connections, 2201 Lucien Way, Suite 100, Maitland, FL 32751. For more information about Vitas or to donate online in memory of Betty, go to http://vitascommunityconnection.org/community-connection/donate.


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Four more days until the end of the school year, and I am more than ready for summer!! Summer has always been this time of endless opportunities and fresh starts. After studying all year, I can't wait to get my creative side up and running again. This means, hopefully, more blog posts, photography, piano playing, diys, and graphic designing. Have you gotten out of school already? What are you planning on doing this summer? Let me know below!
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31 Days of Horror Roundup
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There really must be something weird and unique about the way horror fans' minds work, because there's nothing like a full month of watching horror movies every day to reset my brain. This has probably been one of the most stressful years of my life (for lots of reasons, including the obvious), and it's been hard to enjoy, well, anything as much as usual. But there's something so cathartic about watching horror movies when the world as you know it is shifting and cracking, revealing real and deep-seated ugliness all around you. It's been a rough year, and Halloween came just in time.
Anyway, this is one of my favorite parts: recapping everything I watched and seeing how I felt about it all. Considering this has been an unbelievable year for horror, I'm not surprised that I watched a lot of new, great stuff this month. Let's dive in! Use the slideshow above to scroll through my tweets recounting the month's watches and read my quick takes.
Rewatches. I watched a lot of new stuff in October, but as the month wore on I found myself, as usual, slipping back into old favorites. Halloween II was a standout for me this year because I'm pretty sure I haven't watched that in at least a decade, but it still managed to scare me. I remember being a kid and seeing that hot tub murder, which I'm fairly certain turned me off hot tubs for life. Other oldies-but-goodies: Halloween H20, Hocus Pocus, It Follows, Mother's Day, Sorority Row, Don't Breathe, and The Faculty. I also rewatched Alice, Sweet Alice, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Amityville Horror, and Turistas, but don't particularly recommend any of those. Oh – and as usual, I finished the month off with an annual viewing of Trick 'r Treat, the greatest Halloween movie of all time (come at me).
The meh. As always, there were some duds and under-achievers. This was my second try watching Hell House LLC., and although I finished it this time around, I still couldn't get into it. As someone who usually likes a good found footage horror movie, it pains me to say that maybe I'm just getting tired of this format – not to mention desensitized to it. I also checked out Hostel II for the first time, and found it to be pretty much exactly what I've come to expect from Eli Roth: bad dialogue, mediocre acting, and a lot of gore. It's kind of funny to me now, though, that the Hostel movies caused such an uproar when they came out. This movie was gory and gross, for sure, but it's not even remotely shocking to me now.
Amityville the Awakening was about as bad as everyone said it would be (after waiting years for a release date, it's no surprise). The makeup on the possessed brother was so bad it made me laugh out loud and they committed the sin of making me dislike Jennifer Jason Leigh… but at least you can watch it for free on Google Play. Wish Upon was another PG-13 horror that I had low expectations for, but I actually think it would be a fun horror movie for a younger crowd. It has some goofy parts and is devoid of any real scares, but it held together all right and had a surprisingly ruthless ending that I liked.
I'm a little torn on The Survivalist, because I did find it unique and interesting, and I'm sure certain people would love it. Unfortunately, I also found it depressing and a little too empty… which may have been the point, but was just not quite my cup of coffee. Check it out, though, if you're into truly bleak post-apocalypse stuff. The Void also has me second-guessing myself, because so many people loved it, but I think I was expecting more of a suspenseful cult movie (a la The Invitation) and got a scifi monster movie instead. Again, that doesn't make the movie bad, it's just not my favorite thing.
Now, I have to admit right off the bat here that I'm not a huge Child's Play fan. I loved Bride of Chucky as a kid because I thought Jennifer Tilly was badass (still do), but it's never been a favorite horror franchise of mine. So basically, there's almost no way this movie could've been a home run for me. As it was, I enjoyed it. I thought Fiona Dourif did an incredible impression of Brad Dourif, though, so that was really fun to watch.
Finally, Stake Land II was certainly not a bad effort. I still love the world they've created here, and The Mother was a creepy and effective new villain. Unfortunately, the plot just wasn't tight enough and the final battle against The Mother was a big letdown. But maybe I just prefer to imagine Martin married and happy like he was at the beginning of the movie. The vampire apocalypse seems like a non-stop bummer, man.
The good. So much good this year! It's going to be difficult to recap succinctly, but here goes. Let's start with Hounds of Love, which kicked off my October in terrifying style. Australian horror is killing it these days, guys. This movie was incredibly hard to watch, even though it managed to keep the most horrifying stuff off-screen (which was a relief, but also, wow, the places your imagination goes when that camera pans to blackness aren't pretty). Harrowing, flat-out scary stuff here.
Equally difficult to watch was Gerald's Game – that ending hand scene will stick with me forever. I love a good, one-location survival horror, and this one pushed all the right buttons. Viewers are so split over the ending, but I think it's kind of inconsequential, to be honest.
The Babysitter and Little Evil were both flawed but genuinely fun and funny, and filled with hilarious characters. Samara Weaving's babysitter character was refreshingly different (seriously, she seemed like the most chill babysitter a kid could ask for… for the most part) and I really look forward to seeing her in Mayhem later. Little Evil was a little too repetitive at times, and honestly a bit of a disappointment after Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil, but I also realize that's a high bar. Overall, it was a heartwarming film with innumerable Easter eggs for horror fans, so how can I complain?
Creep 2 was a big surprise, considering the first Creep barely registered for me. I found this sequel much more compelling and unsettling, probably at least in part because the protagonist is a female this time around. It's not just that, though – Desiree Akhavan (Sara) simply makes for a much more intriguing character than Patrick Brice's broke videographer in the original. Sara's motivations are more layered and complex, and thus, so are her responses to what Mark Duplass's character (the titular creep) throws at her. I was into this.
Speaking of creepy men, M.F.A. was a heartbreaking film about the ubiquity of rape on college campuses. In many ways effective, this movie was a little too muddled to really get its point across. The rape scenes were appropriately distressing to sit through (and not cheap or exploitative, in my opinion), and Francesca Eastwood did a good job portraying the guilt and confusion a victim can feel following a rape. However, some parts of the movie were too pulpy and convoluted, and other aspects of Eastwood's character seemed beyond the limits of suspension of disbelief. Frankly, while it's something that could possibly be better explored in more depth, the idea that being raped will make you a better artist seems like a dangerous one to throw around to no real end.
And then there's Life. Ah, Life. I know everybody likes to make fun of you, and yes, you are a silly, silly movie. There are inconsistencies and plot holes and then there's that "Goodnight, Moon" scene! That was a really terrible speech, Jake Gyllenhaal. And yet... I liked it! So sue me.
New (to me) classics. Finally, we're down to the Elite Three – my favorite movies of October 2017! Let's start with a new classic that is actually very old: The Slumber Party Massacre. I can't believe I've never seen this before, because now I have to go buy it. It has all the trappings of a perfect 80s slasher: sex, drugs, bad perms, and a crazed killer with a power drill. The amount of boobs in this movie is staggering. Honestly, though, it couldn't be more perfect.
Apparently a lot of people hated my next favorite, Better Watch Out. I've heard some people say it's because the trailer was a "trick," and that it was advertised more as a Home Alone kind of horror comedy while actually being something completely different. I can't speak to that because I have to yet to even look at the trailer (my preferred method of watching movies), but personally, I loved it. I loved that the movie you think you're getting turns out to be something much darker and meaner, but it also maintains its sense of humor throughout. Right down to the final minute, I was both on the edge of my seat and laughing out loud. It was a great ride.
Last but definitely not least, and probably destined to be a forever favorite of mine, Super Dark Times. This movie, man – it got into me. Under my skin. Maybe it was the pervasive, oppressive sense of doom lingering over this story from the first scene until the last. Or maybe it was the depressing way that the dialogue nailed how teenaged boys talk, or the melancholy pall over the authentic 90s setting. Regardless, this movie was pitch perfect and penetrating.
So that's it! One more year down. What gems did you discover this Halloween season? Let me know in the comments or on Twitter!
Posted by Claire at 6:54 PM
Labels: #31horrorfilms31days, halloween, halloween movie roundup


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Q: Enable http binding in apache I want to try this AJAX jabber library - http://blog.jwchat.org/jsjac/ and it needs http binding enabled in my Apache. So i tried to uncomment lines with mod_proxy and mod_rewrite in apache conf. Nothing, I get err msg from jsjac
An error occured:
Code: 503
Type: cancel
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What do I need to do to enable this http binding? I have Apache on localhost and I am trying to connect to public jabber server jabbim.com. I think it would be something with <VirtualHost>, but dunno how to set it. I found this page - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/bind.html but it didnt helped me much :(
Thanks for help!

A: Problem solved, you really need just enable mod_proxy and then input correct address to bind server, which is in my case http://bind.jabbim.cz/http-bind/.