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Cancer research, Football, groundhopping, Larkings Legends, Lynn Simpson, Non League, Sherborne Harriers, Sherborne Park, Witney and District League
Wednesday 27th July 2022 ko 19:00
Lynn Simpson Memorial Game/ Cancer Research Game
SHERBORNE HARRIERS 2
LARKING'S LEGENDS 2
Att c30 at Sherborne Harriers
Metaphorically speaking if you scratch the surface of Sherborne Harriers you find Lynn Simpson. She founded the club out of the ashes of Northleach's youth team, set them up in the grounds of Sherborne House and ran the club for 23 years. It was Lynn I spoke to when I first saw the Harriers 7 years ago and it was Lynn that added the flying pigs to the clubhouse wall when they finally got a long lease on Sherborne Park from the National Trust.
When I started working with the club with their hop game I knew Lynn was no longer in charge, a terminal cancer diagnosis had led her to hand over the reigns, but she still maintained a benevolent presence at the club when she could, and I was both pleased and honoured that she felt well enough to be there on what was a wonderful Sunday last September.
Knowing Lynn's situation once Robyn and I knew that the Harriers were going hold a fundraising game for Cancer Research we cleared our diaries, knowing what Lynn and the Harriers mean to us. The only problem was that I managed to get the date wrong and turned up a week early. We arrived to find Chairman Josh Betteridge about to tell the players Lynn had died a day or two earlier.
We left the club to grieve in private, but a week later we found a club with the resolve to make the game as successful as they could and to continue to build the club as Lynn would have wanted. We watched a Sherborne side play a side put together from players who have played alongside Harriers' stalwart Toby Larking. The result didn't matter, but the cause does, and Robyn and I will continue to watch Harriers' progress. From our perspective and I'm sure those involved at Sherborne, Lynn will never be forgotten and the Sherborne Harriers are a fitting legacy to her and everything she stood for.
If you'd like to donate to Lynn's fundraising page just click here.
Photo by Robyn Reade
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Omaha City Council president calls to shift money from the Omaha Police Department
By: Kent Luetzen
OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Omaha City Council President Chris Jerram is making amendments to the 2021 city budget, and Mayor Jean Stothert says those changes are dead if it hits her desk.
Jerram is proposing to shift over 1%, or about $2 million, of the Omaha Police Departments budget to other resources.
Mayor Stothert responded to this, reiterating that she will not cut any money from OPD's $161.3 million budget. She went even further, adding she would veto this if the city council passes Jerram's amendment
"If you are trying to maintain public safety as your number one responsibility, then saying 62% or 63% of the entire general fund that goes to public safety is money worth spent," Stothert said.
The Omaha Police Department makes up about 37% of the overall budget, with an additional 25% going to the Omaha Fire Department, according to Stothert.
Jerram is proposing to pull about $2 million from OPD and place it into job and health services. But Stothert said his amendment was too vague, adding it would be irresponsible to spend taxpayer money without a set plan.
"He had $500,000 going towards Heartland Workforce Solution, but another $1.5 million going to additional city, community investments," Stothert said. "It was really unspecified where that $1.5 million would go."
Jerram's amendment states most of the money would go into mental health services.
Police Chief Todd Schmaderer says this amendment would be a reduction of about 20 personnel, possibly even forcing the city to close the fifth precinct.
"Cities across the country... when they take money from the police department, the first thing that happens is crime goes up." Schmaderer said. "That would be the case pretty much anywhere because that's the formula."
Stothert and Schmaderer added that crime in Omaha has mainly gone down in the last 8 years, something they say has allowed them to shift focus onto crime prevention.
"There is a progression here and to interrupt that progression and to take money away that addresses intervention, prevention and immediate needs of a community and put it towards long term solution... you are going to see increases in crime," Schmaderer said.
Stothert says Jerram's amendment is backwards, stating it goes against past comments that he has made about wanting more police officers.
"To cut the police department, right now at this time, would really effect all the citizens of Omaha and public safety at the same time," Stothert said.
Stothert mentioned some protester calls to defund the police and add that money to public schools. She says these are two separate funds, adding 22% of property taxes goes to the city and 63% goes towards public schools.
KMTV did reach out to Councilman Jerram, and are waiting to hear back.


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Patients have died as a result of the recent strike in North West. Doctors and nurses were also chased out of operating theatres and wards by strikers. How can patients and healthworkers be protected from becoming victims of a fight that is aimed an employer?
Sixty-four patients may have died in one district of North West alone during the recent strike – some because they were prevented by strikers from going inside various hospitals to get treatment.
Thousands of others may have suffered permanent damage after not being able to get their medicines from public health pharmacies – including antiretroviral medication and medicine for mental illnesses.
"We have had a number of admissions of epileptics with uncontrolled seizures and diabetics who developed ketoacidosis as a result of not getting their medication," said Professor Ebrahim Veriava, head of internal medicine at the Klerksdorp-Tsepong Hospital Complex.
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have asked the SA Human Rights Commission to investigate the violations of patients' and health workers' rights during the strike as well as to offer guidance on how patients can be protected during future strike action.
Patients' families may be able to pursue criminal cases against individual strikers, if they are able to prove that their actions prevented their relatives from getting life-saving care.
Veriava confirmed that strikers had entered an operating theatre at Tshepong Hospital and "took the doctors and nurses out".
"They had just finished with the one case and two others were waiting. They also went to various wards and told doctors and nurses to leave. They were able to go back to do what they needed to later," said Veriava.
Last week, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi lashed out at striking healthworkers, saying strikes in the health sector were potentially lethal:
"You do not abandon patients and leave them to die because an employer has angered you. That patient you are leaving to die was not part of the contract you have with the employer," said Motsaoledi.
The Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP), which is investigating the deaths in Kenneth Kaunda district, is trying to find a "pragmatic solution" to ensure that future health sector strikes do not threaten the lives of patients.
At present, by law all healthworkers are defined as delivering "essential services" and are not allowed to strike – but this has never stopped members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) from shutting down hospitals during various strikes, most notably in 2007, 2010 – and now 2018.
"The reality is that healthworkers do strike," says RHAP's Executive Director, Marije Versteeg-Mojananga.
"We are trying to find a middle way to ensure that patients are protected. It is not ideal but we are trying to find pragmatic solutions to prevent death."
Human rights group SECTION27 believes that such a solution lies in "determining essential services from non-essential services, or reaching agreement on the maintenance of some level of services during a legal dispute".
A SECTION27 opinion on strikes in the essential services states:
"Addressing the essential services issue would have a two-fold effect. Firstly, those in the public health care system classified as non-essential services personnel would be able to exercise their right to strike. Secondly, patients' rights would also be protected as they would be ensured of continued access to healthcare services as those staff properly designated as essential staff would not be striking."
Nehawu mainly represents cleaners and porters at hospitals. It is possible that they could strike while allowing skeleton staff to offer services to nurses and doctors during strikes.
But this is an option that government seems unwilling to entertain. After Nehawu's 2010 strike, the Public Service Bargaining Council (PSBC), representing the state and trade unions, asked the Essential Service Committee to provide recommendations for a draft "minimum service level agreement" which would review the definition of "essential services".
But no such agreement was ever signed with trade unions, and government seems unwilling to exempt anyone working in the health sector from being part of an "essential service".
The Democratic Nurses Organisation of SA (Denosa) blamed government for the chaos in North West, saying its failure to sign the Minimum Service Level Agreement – defining minimum levels of staff in essential services during a strike – meant that communities were not protected during strikes.
"This failure to sign the agreement simply means every worker can easily embark on a total shutdown. That is how patients' lives are exposed," claimed Denosa.
On Friday, Nehawu spokesperson Khaya Xaba said the union was calling off the strike and preparing to "demobilise" its members because it was "happy with the progress made by the inter-ministerial task team".
But the union has made it clear that the mess in the health sector should be laid at the door of the North West government.
Nehawu has been on strike since 19 February and some of its demands relate to non-payment of overtime, poor working conditions and very low stipends for community healthworkers and counsellors.
"Once again we want to clarify that the strike action did not disrupt the dispensation of drugs as the stores were already short of drugs before we undertook the strike action," according to Nehawu.
"The paralysis of the department should be blamed for the shortage of drugs and our members have been at the forefront of raising alarm about the stores facing shortages. The HIV/AIDS grant was not used for its purpose, which is against the Public Finance Management Act [PFMA] and this had led to the shortages of drugs, thus putting the lives of many in jeopardy."
Meanwhile, Denosa said patients were sharing beds in some hospitals, some health facilities had no running water, mortuaries were overrun and didn't have enough fridges for the dead, and chronic medication supplies were erratic.
Veriava also confirmed that conditions in the province were dire, with huge staff and equipment shortages.
Despite the poor conditions, the behaviour of some of the Nehawu strikers was unacceptable and it is also clear that the union makes little effort to discipline unruly members.
However, government leadership is sorely needed as this is not the first time patients have died during a strike. It is unlikely to be the last. DM
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Thinking About Tuesday
Sun, 04/27/2014 - 11:40 -- charles.brumwell
There when I wake, There for me to take. Tuesday will be here long after I go away.
It's a measurement of time, Fifty-two pass us per year, but only happens once a week.
"Can I truly change direction in my life?" When each day is so bleak.
Wal*mart's such a store, i hope for it soon to retire.
My hopes are that it'll be gone before I'm put through the fire.
That man had a dream, he promoted the american way.
Now he is gone, the merchandise changed, transformed by our modern day.
"America".... people used to say it proudly.
We used to have a voice, accepted if spoken loudly.
College campuses roared with a want to rebel.
Say something now to prove your point, get told to "go to hell"
I find it hard to believe, thirty years later we're "more advanced"
The only thing that happened were some colorful, nickel inflated stamps.
Ask yourself with serious thinking and feeling, "Do I truly feel like a human"
Because twenty years have passed for me but still i feel so stupid.
I wanted to blame everything for the problem, when in truth there really isn't one.
I spoke out in anger to get them to listen, they assumed it was my idea of fun.
I never wanted their love, just for them to understand there's more in life to find.
Tuesday will be here next week, you can change the opinion, all it takes is time.
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Archive for the 'Lanchester, John' Category
Capital, by John Lanchester
Purchased from the Book Depository
John Lanchester has been an author who has had my attention since his oustanding 1996 debut, The Debt To Pleasure, a novel that seemed to be about cuisine for its first half (and that was fine) and then became increasingly dark as its main character came into full focus. I've read both his next two novels — Mr Phillips and Fragrant Harbor — and while they weren't up to his first one, they were entertaining enough.
I also know Lanchester through his journalism, most recently his regular contributions to the London Review of Books on the financial crisis, also collected as a book, Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay (the "Whoops!" in that title is replaced with "I.O.U." in editions published outside the U.K). His financial analysis is general not academic — but it was refreshing to see an author whom I knew as a novelist pay serious attention to the business world and the articles that I read were more than worthwhile.
So the premise of his latest novel, Capital, was attractive from the start. Set in London, opening in late 2007 and continuing through the height of the crisis, with a City of London banker at its centre, I had hopes that this was going to be one of those "inside corrupt finance" fiction works that strike a very responsive chord with this reader.
For the first 200 pages, Capital delivered on that premise in spades. It is a "widescreen" novel, featuring a number of different story lines, each with its own central character, that continue throughout the book. Lanchester introduces these characters and their stories with a satirical overtone (both for the people and their circumstances) that had me constantly chuckling and nodding in agreement with his pungent observations.
One aspect of Capital is definitely not "widescreen". All of the stories and characters in some way are connected with dwellings on a single block of Pepys Road in South London, three-storey homes constructed in the late nineteenth century. They were "built for a specific market: the idea was that they would appeal to lower-middle-class families willing to live in an unfashionable part of town in return for the chance to own a terraced house — a house large enough to have room for servants."
The ensuing century has been more than economically kind to Pepys Road (and central London in general). While there have been some stumbles along the way, the block has become steadily more fashionable, the homes upgraded. First the attics and more recently the basements at about £100,000 a pop: "…that also added at least that much to the value of the house, so looked at from a certain point of view — and because many of the new residents worked in the City of London, this was a popular point of view — the basement conversions were free." That's a pretty accurate summary of the Western Hemisphere housing market, not just Pepys Road, in the heady days prior to 2007 and the kind of trenchant aside that can be found on almost every one of those first 200 pages.
Before leaving Pepys Road, though, let's quote Lanchester's description of its current status:
Now, however, history had sprung an astonishing plot twist on the residents of Pepys Road. For the first time in history, the people who lived in the street were by global and maybe even by local standards, rich. The thing which made them rich was the very fact that they lived on Pepys Road. They were rich simply because of that, because all of the houses in Pepys Road, as if by magic, were now worth millions of pounds.
Let's take a look at the banker I mentioned earlier, who actually is not the central character of the novel but certainly one of the ensemble that populates the book:
The proprietor of 51 Pepys Road, the house across the road from Petunia Howe's [we'll get to her in a moment], was at his office desk at his bank, Pinker Lloyd, doing sums. He was trying to work out if his bonus that year would come to a million pounds.
At forty, Roger was a man to whom everything in life had come easily. He was six foot three, just short enough to feel no need to conceal his height by stooping — so that even his tallness appeared a form of ease, as if gravity had, when he was growing up, exerted less effect on him than on more ordinary people…. He had been to a good school (Harrow) and a good university (Durham) and got a good job (in the City of London) and been perfect in his timing (just after the Big Bang, just before the City became infatuated by the mathematically gifted and/or barrow boys). He would have fitted seamlessly in the old City of London, where people came in late and left early and had a good lunch in between, and where everything depended on who you were and whom you knew and how well you blended in, and the greatest honour was to be one of us and to "play well with others" but he fit in very well in the new City too, where everything was supposedly meritocratic, where the ideology was to work hard, play hard, and take no prisoners; to be in the office from seven to seven, minimum, and where nobody cared what your accent was or where you came from as long as you showed you were up for it and made money for your employer."
Roger's problem with his bonus calculation is not just that he is hoping for £1,000,000, he needs to get it. His wife, Arabella, refers to his £150,000 salary as "frock money" — it doesn't even cover the mortgage payments on the Pepys Road house and the Yount's country "cottage" — so they live off the annual bonus. When you add up the regular costs — continuous redocoration at both properties, regular new furniture acquisitions, a nanny, Arabella's constant spending, expensive vacations, etc. — a million would just about get Roger to even for the year. It's no spoiler to say he doesn't get that much — you'll have to read the book to find out how bad the shortfall is.
Petunia Howe, mentioned in the quote earlier, lives across the street at Number 42 — the last person to have been born in the street and still resident there. In fact, her grandfather had bought Number 42 "off the plan" before it was even built back in the late 1800s. Petunia's grandfather, father and husband were all barrister's clerks in Lincoln's Inn, the job passed on one to the other when nepotism still ruled at all levels. Her husband died five years ago and Petunia herself is approaching the end of her days — still, both her memories and current experience on Pepys Road are important to the continuity of the various story lines.
Modern London is a diverse city and that too has come to Pepys Road. The shop at the end of the road, number 68, is owned by Ahmed Kamal and the upper floor is home to his wife and two children. It's one of those family corner store operations that can be found in any modern city — Ahmed's brothers Usman (a fervent Muslim who hides the alcohol and men's magazines on sale in the store when he is working there) and Shahid (who has questionable political connections from a trip to Chechnya in his teens) both take regular shifts at the shop.
Grant me leave to introduce one more character, "the most unpopular woman in Pepys Road". Her name is "Quentina Mkfesi BSc, MSc, University of Zimbabwe, thesis subjet: Post-Conflict Resolution in Non-Post-Colonial Societies, with special reference to Northern Ireland, Spain and Chile". Her application for refugee status in the UK has been rejected, she's currently living in a charity-sponsored holding house awaiting her appeal and has obtained illegal employment under another name out of boredom. The reason she is the most unpopular woman on the street is that she is a parking warden…
…on the lookout for non-residents parked in the residents' parking area, for business permit-holders parked in residents' areas and vice versa, for expired permits of both types, for people who had overstayed their paid parking or — and this was a particularly fruitful issue in Pepys Road — for people who had misinterpreted the parking signs and paid for parking but were not parked in the dual-use, residents' or paid-parking area, but were instead parked in the residents-only parking area.
Quentina is conscientious and always meets her quota ("of course, there was a quota") of 20 tickets a day — she also has the lowest level of upheld appeals of her tickets by any of the current employees of the private company that has the parking control contract. Quentina and four other African employees of the firm have a daily contest to maintain their interest: whoever tickets the most expensive car each day earns a free beer from the others. In the chapter where she is introduced, she is confident of a win: She tickets an Aston Martin DB7, "a James Bond car with an on-the-road price of £150,000, parked in the residents-only area, not the residents-and-visitors area. He had made the classic Pepys Road mistake."
It is not just the houses and people of Pepys Road who populate this novel, however. In its opening pages, all of the residents start receiving photos dropped through their letter box with the label (warning?): We Want What You Have. The prank, escapade, threat, whatever it is, grows (DVDs, graffiti, vandalism) and will become one of the threads that unifies the stories of the block.
This is a long review already and I haven't even introduced all the story lines — trust me, there are a number more (a 17-year-old Sengalese football player newly-signed to a Premiership contract and a graffiti/installation artist, just to name two). And that's just in the first 200 pages of Capital.
Which is a fair way of introducing the problems I had with the novel, because my copy of Capital is 577 pages long. As entertaining as those pages were, they do tend to be somewhat slight (which is a big part of the charm) and Lanchester tries to make his novel more "weighty" in each of the story threads as it moves along. Alas, he is much less successful at that — the middle third of the novel involves a fair bit of wheel-spinning with some not very interesting, obvious plot developments (you can predict a number of them off my thumbnail descriptions, I am sure — you certainly will if you read the book).
To his credit, the author recovers in the final third. It becomes a bit tidy, I admit (a frequent problem with "widescreen" novels and one that I can overlook), but the fractured humanity of the characters and their circumstances reasserts itself. Just to illustrate how that issue played out with me, I read the first 200 pages in one sitting, took four days of somewhat grumpy reading for the next 200 and finished off the last 180 in another single reading session.
The final result? Capital won't be the best book that I will read this year, but some of the set pieces in it (Roger and his bonus, Quentina and her "route") will be among the best. A tad long at 577 pages, but an entertaining read nonetheless — if you get frustrated in the middle, make sure you press on. I have the feeling that a few months down the road I'll still be remembering the beginning and ending and conveniently forgetting the middle.
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Prediction of resting energy expenditure from fat-free mass and fat mass.
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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Nelson K.M., Weinsier R.L., Long C.L., Schutz Y.
Publication Status: ppublish
On the basis of literature values, the relationship between fat-free mass (FFM), fat mass (FM), and resting energy expenditure [REE (kJ/24 h)] was determined for 213 adults (86 males, 127 females). The objectives were to develop a mathematical model to predict REE based on body composition and to evaluate the contribution of FFM and FM to REE. The following regression equations were derived: 1) REE = 1265 + (93.3 x FFM) (r2 = 0.727, P < 0.001); 2) REE = 1114 + (90.4 x FFM) + (13.2 x FM) (R2 = 0.743, P < 0.001); and 3) REE = (108 x FFM) + (16.9 x FM) (R2 = 0.986, P < 0.001). FM explained only a small part of the variation remaining after FFM was accounted for. The models that include both FFM and FM are useful in examination of the changes in REE that occur with a change in both the FFM and FM. To account for more of the variability in REE, FFM will have to be divided into organ mass and skeletal muscle mass in future analyses.
Adipose Tissue, Adult, Basal Metabolism, Body Composition, Energy Metabolism, Female, Humans, Male, Mathematics, Models, Biological, Obesity/metabolism, Regression Analysis
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Finaly we can start testing. The following link contains our detailed descriptions of our planned procedure and analyses.
After our first blog has been deleted, here the second one.
Since the major critique on Bem was that he used exploratory research and sold it as confirmatory research, we are going to make a point by publicly announcing our methods before we start testing and therefore ruling out the possibility of changing our opinion according to the data.


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Editorial: Foundry just in time
Thanks to a group of caring individuals, our prayers have been answered.
Finally, a one-stop shop youth outreach centre is available in the Okanagan, right in Penticton at 501 Main Street.
Many families have been waiting a long time for such a facility, especially parents at their wits end worrying about their vulnerable children.
Foundry Penticton's focus is reaching young people before their small problems become big ones. And we've all seen how quickly that can happen.
Reading the news lately is one big downer after the other, discovering how more youth are falling through the cracks. For example, the sad story of 16-year-old "Eli" Beauregard from Kelowna who died of stab wounds after an altercation on the street.
His father can only hope that the incident serves as a warning to other kids about the dangers of street life. His dad said a lot of teens today are looking for freedom, and the street certainly offers that, but it also offers danger.
He told Global News that the street might be a fun place to go, but that could change in a few seconds if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Eli frequently stayed in a youth shelter and told his dad that everything was good; he was happy. But his world ended when someone stabbed him during a conflict.
Sadly, Eli's story is not uncommon, which is why opening another outreach facility is so important.
Foundry Penticton initially offers walk-in primary care and counselling, peer support, mental health services, housing and employment support, legal advocacy and substance-use counselling. This fall more services will be added, including a sexual health clinic, income assistance and access to opioid therapy.
Taxpayers often complain about the cost of government programs, but Foundry Penticton is worth every penny — $1.2 million. If it gets at least one kid off the street or prevents an overdose, it will make all the difference.
Youth advisor Husain Sattar says nobody is immune to these problems because everyone knows someone who is struggling. He's right when he says there's no greater investment a community can make than to give youth a home, noting that Foundry will be life changing from some of the youth who walk through that door.
Parent advisor Terry McKinlay said families need quick access to care to avoid wait lists. The truth is families don't have a lot of time to navigate services to secure help for vulnerable kids.
It was recently unsettling to hear local Judge Greg Koturbash admit that Canada's mental health system is in crisis. He referred to the de-institutionalization of men and women who were freed from mental hospitals, only to end up on the street or warehoused in correctional centres. In turn, these jails have become mental health facilities that are not equipped to deal with these people.
Unfortunately, our mental health services are overburdened and stretched to the limits, widening the cracks that people fall through. Hence, all of the horrid acts we see brazenly being committed on our streets.
But Foundry is a step in the right direction; a lifeline that so many youth need today.
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San Gabriel Complex Fire
2016 wildfire in the Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, California
Smoke rising from the Fish Fire approximately two hours after it started
Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, California
34°10′05″N 117°54′00″W / 34.168°N 117.9°W / 34.168; -117.9Coordinates: 34°10′05″N 117°54′00″W / 34.168°N 117.9°W / 34.168; -117.9
Statistics[1]
June 20, 2016 (2016-06-20) - July 23, 2016 (2016-07-23)
Burned area
5,399 acres (21.85 km2; 2,185 ha)
Vehicle Crash (Reservoir Fire)
Under Investigation (Fish Fire)
3 civilians
Location in Los Angeles
The San Gabriel Complex Fire was a wildfire that burned in 2016 in the Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, California, United States.[1] It was the combination of two separate wildfires: the Reservoir Fire and the Fish Fire, both of which ignited on June 20.[1]
3 Cause
4 Long Term Consequences
Events[edit]
A DC-10 tanker drops fire retardant on the San Gabriel Complex Fire
Around 11:00 a.m. PST on June 20, the first wildfire, known as the Reservoir Fire, was reported in the San Gabriel Mountains along Highway 39 near the Morris Reservoir.[2] As the flames quickly spread to over 1,500 acres (6.1 km2), the Azusa Police Department issued mandatory evacuations for the neighborhoods of Rainbow Ranch and Mountain Cove.[2] Over an hour later, a second wildfire erupted in Fish Canyon.[2] Dubbed the Fish Fire, the blaze exploded up and across the canyons above Duarte, burning 1,000 acres within just two hours of burning. By 9:00 p.m. PST, the Fish Fire had spread to over 3,000 acres (12 km2).[3]
By June 21, authorities declared that the two fires would be run as a combined incident known as the San Gabriel Complex Fire.[4] Additionally, FEMA issued a statement that the fire posed enough of a threat to cause major destruction that it constituted a major disaster, thus qualifying the incident for federal assistance.[4]
Effects[edit]
The fire caused widespread power outages in Azusa Canyon which resulted in smaller water systems being placed under a precautionary "boil water" order by the Los Angeles County Public Health Department to prevent possible bacterial contamination.[5]
The communities of Mountain Cove in Azusa, Rainbow Ranch and portions of Duarte were put under a mandatory evacuation order that lasted several days as the fires burned.[6]
Weeks after the fires broke out, two charred bodies were found in the burn area of the San Gabriel Complex incident. 31-year-old Carlos Perez and 16-year-old Jonathan Pardo are believed to have burned to death while hiking the foothills on the day the fires broke out.[7]
Cause[edit]
On June 20, the deputy chief of the Los Angeles County Fire Department stated that the Reservoir Fire had been caused by a fatal vehicle accident near the Morris Reservoir.[2] The fire had been ignited when a vehicle veered off Highway 39 and then colliding with the descending mountainside alongside the highway.[8] The driver, Michael Spengler, died at the scene as a result of multiple blunt force and thermal injures relating to the crash and subsequent fire, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner website.[8]
The cause of the Fish Fire remains under investigation.[2]
Long Term Consequences[edit]
The Fish Canyon Trail and Fish Canyon Falls were involved in the Fish Fire, with 95% of the trail falling within the burn area. A small percentage of the trail is on private corporate property (Vulcan Mining / Materials) and a small percentage of the trail is administered by the United States Forest Service; however, most of the property falls under the administration of the City of Duarte.
A survey of the damage by the City of Duarte, the U. S. Forest Service, and the San Gabriel Mountains Trailbuilders along with other representatives from various agencies was conducted, and the assessment was that the damage was heavy enough to warrant the closure of the hiking trail with no recommendation for efforts to repair the historic trail. Ultimately, the City of Duarte holds the primary decision on whether to repair the damaged trail resulting from the Complex Fire, but as of September 2018, the assessment is that the trail is defunct and will not be repaired.
^ a b c "San Gabriel Complex Fire". InciWeb. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
^ a b c d e Rocha, Veronica; Agrawal, Nina; Hamilton, Matt (20 June 2016). "Twin fires burn more than 4,500 acres and trigger evacuations in San Gabriel Valley". latimes.com. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
^ Nguyen, Alexander (21 June 2016). "Fish Fire Explodes to 3,000 Acres; One Firefighter Injured". Patch.
^ a b Sugarman, Maya (21 June 2016). "San Gabriel Complex: Firefighters brace to protect homes; Residents prep to evacuate". Southern California Public Radio. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
^ Times, Los Angeles (25 June 2016). "San Gabriel Complex fire is nearly half-contained; Chantry Flats recreation area reopens". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
^ "San Gabriel Complex: These are the Reservoir, Fish fire evacuations for Duarte, Azusa communities". San Gabriel Valley Tribune. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
^ . Los Angeles Times. 8 July 2016 https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bodies-found-angeles-national-forest-burn-area-20160707-snap-story.html. Retrieved 8 July 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ a b Castrejon, Aaron (1 July 2016). "Officials ID Man Killed In Crash That Sparked Reservoir Fire". Glendora City News.
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SHOW REPORT : a trip to Daventry in the sun... July... summer, how wrong could we be!
Arriving & straight into rehearsal, fixing and cleaning, then the heavens opened! This was 'BIG' rain, and we got absolutely soaked to the skin.
The 1st band on for the day could of worn scuba equipment, however checking BBC weather it had it brightening up for the day, fingers crossed!
Back field the Crops was ready, and the sun was out! The performance was more controlled, new visuals worked well, we did have a couple of collisions - I blame the long coach ride.
Onto the results & Beeches took all captions apart from Visual Effect & turnout, we got those. A small 4 point margin we were happy with the result & clearly understand where the improvements need to come from.
The average age of the Corps this year (excluding 5 overage members) is 13.5 years. As Corps director I am immensely proud of the young talented members we have & how they are a credit to the Corps, Scout Group & Queensbury.
Onto DCUK Leicester for the 4th Show of the 1st half, lets have a blast!


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EP: TC&I – Great Aspirations
As the conveyor belt of life moves inexorably closer to the edge, it is only natural for one to reflect on one's impact on the world and whether one has bequeathed anything lasting and meaningful to world. These heavy and sobering thoughts seem to imbue the new EP, "Great Aspirations" from TC&I, the collaboration between Collin Moulding and Terry Chambers from the legendary XTC. Moulding, of course, shared song writing and vocalist duties with Andy Partridge from the inception of XTC and Chambers was the drummer during their eighties peak period.
And, indeed, these are pertinent questions given the significant role of XTC had in shaping the post-punk musical landscape: a role that is more recognised posthumously after the demise of the band for its influence and importance than was ever reflected by its commercial success.
The other half of the creative force behind XTC, Partridge, recently over saw the release of deluxe editions of XTC's extensive back catalogue, and a documentary on XTC, "This is Pop" (mostly centred on Partridge) has further added to renewed interest in the band. Partridge spoke about how it was Moulding's songs that were considered to be the most accessible – with pop sensibilities and commercial potential -which coupled with his rock star good looks lead to some internal tensions. Moulding wrote and sang on songs such as "Generals and Majors", "Making Plans for Nigel" and "Life Begins at the Hop".
"Great Aspirations" therefore seems a natural addition to the revival in interest in XTC and it is a welcome return.
Opening track, 'Scatter Me' contemplates the scattering of the protagonist's ashes into the cosmos where they may sometime return underfoot from the elements. Clearly a musing on the nature of existence and persistence after death, with a sly reference to T-Rex:
Then live on
Bang a gong
For the land of the living
For it is through the music, perhaps, that one might live on after death. This is almost a jaunty song in tone, pared back from the psychedelic layers of XTC but retaining that pop sensibility and intelligent lyrics:
"Greatness (The Aspiration Song)" appears to flow on thematically, reflecting on a desire to achieve a lasting impact on the world in the company of people like Churchill, Spielberg and McCartney – Greatness, That's where I wanna be. This is the great aspiration that gives the EP its title, and you can't help sensing – given the twisted cynicism rife in XTC songs – whether this is a tongue in cheek comment on the world's desire for instant fame in general.
XTC were never afraid to stray into politics, social commentary and religion with their quintessential British sense of humour – witness "Making Plans for Nigel", "Generals and Majors" and "Dear God". Third track "Kenny" comments on the disappearance of green space remembered as a child in the interests of development. It is almost a yearning for a Britain of the past (but not, I hasten to add, in the vein of Morrissey):
Let's go where he made his name
Monkey Bars – Swing and slide
Let's go down where the dream is made
Goalpost Jerseys – Picking up sides
All over England
Going, going, going
It is a peon to lost innocence.
Moulding has denied that the final song, "Comrades in Pop" is a swipe at his former band mate but you can't help wondering:
You start out high school buddies
And swear allegiance for all time
But when the checks come rolling in
It's cash or I resign
On another level, it is merely a cautionary tale for those aspiring greatness in the music industry: the harsh cold realities of the commercial imperatives in the world of pop music. Interestingly enough, Partridge did complain in his recent book "Complicated Games: Inside the Songs of XTC" about the lack of commercial success for the band and the lack of recognition for the song writers of XTC in contrast to others like Elvis Costello.
This could be described almost as a concept album about the transience of life and the desire to be remembered. It has all the hallmarks of a finale, a requiem for pop music, a contemplative conclusion and sign-off. Hopefully it represents a rejuvenation for Moulding's creative juices and the continuation of a career that has already achieved a legendary status. This is a poignant almost sorrowful EP that feels deeply personal but, in true form with Moulding's past record, is clever, poised and cynical yet imbued with a bright sense of optimism.
'Great Aspirations' is available exclusively through Pledge Music and Burning Shed.
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Refinery fire sounds alarm on industry chemicals
Thursday May. 3rd, 2018
by Felicity Bosk
Photo credits: Richard Thomas
Dennis Houle prays by Hwy. 53 in Superior as smoke billows from the refinery plant. Photo by Richard Thomas
What started as a small fire and explosion became a major threat to those living in the Twin Ports and surrounding areas.
An explosion occurred at Husky Energy in Superior at 10 a.m. The first explosion was under control when more occurred starting around noon. After the other explosions the city began evacuating everyone living within a two-mile radius of the refinery and 10 miles south of it. This was increased to a three-mile radius around 2:45 p.m.
Multiple people were sent to the hospital as a result of the explosions but no one died. At 6:42 p.m. Superior Mayor Jim Paine took to Facebook to announce the fire was out, but the evacuation was still in place. The evacuation was officially lifted at 6 a.m. the next morning.
Seventeen people were injured, one seriously, though he is currently reported in good condition.
The cause of the explosion is unknown, and the investigation make take over a year.
Many people showed up to speak at the Superior City Council meeting May 1. Pat Farrell, a professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, read a letter written by Dr. Steven Sternberg, a UMD professor of chemical engineering.
"Substances on or in the soil sediments may be taken in by plants or they could potentially enter the food chain for people, animals or fish," according to Dr. Sternberg's letter. Farrell said they want to inform the public of the health risks that remain after the fire and that it will take a year for the soil to be clean of the pollutants caused by the fire.
Meg Krausch, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, compiled a list of questions she has heard people ask regarding the fire. These included, "What medical symptoms should people be on the lookout for?" "What is the instruction for people who grow food locally including commercial growers?" "What about the deer who are at the site and what about the people who eat the deer?" She said the questions were not rhetorical.
The tone of the public comments were that there were unanswered questions and anxiety. A lot of that anxiety stems from the refinery's use of hydrogen fluoride. The fire came within 200 feet of the hydrogen fluoride tank, but there are multiple layers of protection for it.
Hydrogen fluoride is a chemical used in a wide variety of products. Husky Energy said the refinery uses it as a "catalyzing agent in the alkylation process."
"Hydrogen fluoride gas, even at low levels, can irritate the eyes, nose, and respiratory tract," the Center for Disease Control wrote on their website. "Breathing in hydrogen fluoride at high levels or in combination with skin contact can cause death from an irregular heartbeat or from fluid buildup in the lungs."
According to a Wisconsin Watch/Center for Public Integrity article from 2011, when the refinery was owned by Murphy Oil, "In its own risk management plan, mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Murphy Oil calculated the worst-case scenario: A low-hanging cloud of HF could travel 25 miles — which could envelop Superior and Duluth, Minn. — and put 180,000 people in the Twin Ports area at risk of injury or death."
Mayor Paine wrote on Facebook that he had spoken to leaders at Husky Energy about the use of hydrogen fluoride. "I asked them to discontinue its use of and convert to a safer chemical process and to report back to me any and all cost and infrastructure challenges that might prevent them from doing so," he wrote.
Duluth mayor Emily Larson also has asked Husky Energy to stop using hydrogen fluoride. "It is horrifying to consider what could have happened. Let's commit ourselves to doing better."
In 2015, another Husky Energy crude oil refinery in Lima, Ohio experienced an explosion and fire that burned for nearly 24 hours.
The Superior oil refinery explosion may have happened a week ago but it still lingers in residents memories. The school districts had not initially had students evacuate though many parents began taking out their children anyway, such as the parents of E.W. (her parents requested her name withheld), age 10, who attends Northern Lights Elementary School, about two miles from the refinery. E.W. said she did not hear the first explosion at 10 a.m., but the teacher told the children about it and school would continue anyway.
"My mom picked me up because she was too worried and she didn't trust them," she said. "So she picks me up and we're driving on the road, and right when we were driving away out of the parking lot, another big boom and it was all black after that."
"I was at home when I became aware of the explosion," said her mother. "An automated call from the school district came through stating that there had been an explosion at the refinery, but that school was not being cancelled. I called the elementary school and let them know I would be there shortly to pick up my child due to the explosion. I was told by the secretary that school had not been called off. I said I understood, but that I would still be there in five minutes and that I expected it would be an excused absence."
"I felt the attendance office was trying to dissuade me by stating that school was continuing per the district," she said.
E.W. has a sister at Superior High School. Her mother said she was unable to reach my child at the high school due to ACT testing. "I called and left two messages," she said. "Attendance staff was not answering. I texted my older child and let her know I had left a message with the school and to leave. I finally heard back via text and she left. Shortly after, the district started evacuating kids to Amsoil warehouse."
The family spent the night in Duluth. E.W. said that after the evacuation was lifted, she was able to return home. "You could still kind of smell it but everything was okay," she said. "It smelled like, kind of like a bonfire but then like spray paint, kind of. It was weird."
Richard Thomas contributed to this story.
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Pidgin can send and receive basic xhtml-im (on jabber), but it doesn't allow to either send nor recieve images.
It could be used to mimic custom emoticons. Has this feature simply not been implemented, or are there technical limitations in libpurple or gtk?
While I could see that it would take some work to create a gui for posting images, wouldn't it be very trivial to at least allow incoming images to display?
That is the status of Gajim, it can display incoming images while sending is not yet implemented.


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Q: Should the infrastructure code be stored in the same repository as the application code? I am setting up an infrastructure to support a WebApp. One of my repositories have all the Network Infrastructure (VPC, Subnets, NAT, Bastion and so on).
The WebApp has a Route 53 + ALB + AutoScalling Group + EC2 Instances. All of them were coded in Cloudformation templates. My question is if the WebApp Cloudformation templates should be store in the same repository as the application? Is there any best practice on how to separate infrastructure and app code?

A: As a general rule you should keep your infrastructure next to the application code. So, yes you should have it in the same repository.
Of course you might be in the case in which some resources are shared between different projects. In this case I suggest you to have a separate repository containing only the shared piece of infrastructure. What I would do here would be the following:

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*one repository for shared infrastructure: VPC, public and private subnets, dns root zones.

*one repository with your webapp and its relative infrastructure.

This gives you the benefit to implement pipelines that build artifacts and apply new infrastructure at the same time.

A: This is really a matter of opinion, but I think the trend is to keep everything needed for your application/service with the code. With that said, you will often have things that are shared (e.g. a VPC), you often end up having those in a separate repo (depending on how you organize your code; there seems to be a push for mono repos these days).
CloudFormation Best Practices has some good information on organizing your stacks, though it doesn't address your question.

A: I will propose the following food for thought:
It seems like a natural progression would be to have IaC code included, and as the project grows you split it out when you run into barriers like:

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*The deployed project now has multiple source projects/repos involved

*Protect/prevent accidental changes to IaC code depending on who has access to the repo

*A clean commit history is desirable for observing changes to infrastructure and deployments

I personally like to follow the path of least resistance when working on something -- when it's a single developer and you are rapidly prototyping a proof-of-concept there is certainly advantages having your TF files and ci-cd pipelines all in one place. Once you are sharing your code base and more rigorous standards come into place then it's time to mature your standards.
Depending on your experience and if you know the project will eventually need it, it might make sense to include many best practices from the get-go (aggregated logging, SAST/DAST, code linting and published contribution guidelines). But if you are still navigating all of these concepts for the first time, it probably makes sense to wait until it becomes a pain-point. Kind of Technical Debt vs YAGNI.

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Michael Nadig, Trust Formation in Financial Advisory Services with Conversational Agents, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2022. (Master's Thesis)
More and more large technology companies have developed their conversational agents and made them more popular as they advanced. The advancements are far from over and there are many improvements to be made. The Information Management Research Group of the University of Zurich has developed its own conversational agent with multiple external partners. The project is called Heinzelmännli and the prototype in this thesis is called Mo. Mo is used specifically in financial consultations. Trust is a large proponent of financial services which is why it is important to explore the impact of Mo on the trust in those services. This thesis explores the trust relations and the impact on trust Mo has in those financial consultations, but also the optimal autonomy of Mo regarding trust. Experiments were conducted in two Swiss banks where insights were gathered. Through those insights, results are observed and discussed in this thesis to answer questions regarding the impact on trust, as well as the autonomy of Mo.
Simon Hediger, New Methods for Testing, Prediction, and Estimation with Applications to Finance, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2022. (Dissertation)
Filip Golubovic, Do price changes in the real estate market affect banks' stock performance? Compqarison between banks in the U.S., the euro area, and Switzerland, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2022. (Master's Thesis)
By analyzing the changes in the residential real estate market, including the U.S., the euro area, and Switzerland, analyses are performed to establish a link between two important industries. A contribution to the literature is a comparison between the three regions of primary interest. Including the exogenous shock from the Covid-19 pandemic enriches the study from an additional perspective. Using various quantitative models for panel data regressions on a combined and individual region level, the Fixed Effects model suggests a positive relation between the price changes in residential real estate and changes in the stock prices of individual banks in the U.S. and the euro area. No evidence of a relationship in the Swiss market is found. Including the Covid-19 pandemic as a unique situation, further insights are observable. The Covid-19 period suggests a statistically significant higher effect on the relationship than before the pandemic for the U.S. and the euro area market. In contrast, for the Swiss market, the opposite effect is observed. Nevertheless, controlling for macroeconomic changes, market variations, and bank-specific variables, only correlations can be justified by the results. Due to endogeneity concerns, no causal relationship can be derived from the underlying data and methodology applied to the study. In section 1, an introduction introduces the hypotheses tested and the main idea. Section 2 represents the literature review, where the most critical findings of other published papers are presented and majorly impact the work. Further, an overview of essential variables for the analyses is displayed in section 3, followed by an explanation of the data used for the analyses and the methodology applied to all the analyses in section 4. Section 5 presents the main results and the findings, whereas section 6 rounds up the thesis with a meaningful conclusion. In the end, in section 7, there is an insight into the limitations of the work and an outlook for future potential research in this direction. Keywords:
Sharon Vögeli, Digital Mergers & Acquisitions: Characteristics and Performance, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2022. (Master's Thesis)
Enhancing technological capabilities has become integral to a company's international competitiveness, leading to mergers and acquisitions to access external knowledge of digital technologies. Using the event study method, the post-acquisition performance of acquirers involved in digital mergers and acquisitions in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria compared to the UK is analyzed. The findings suggest that short-term average abnormal returns are significantly positive, while long-term average abnormal returns are significantly negative. Additionally, various performance determinants are considered to evaluate investor reactions to deal announcements. The thesis contributes to the academic knowledge of European digital mergers and acquisitions performance.
Stefan Lamberg, The influence of ECB and SNB announcements on the Euro-Swiss Franc exchange rate , University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2022. (Bachelor's Thesis)
This paper analyzes high-frequency exchange rate movements of the euro Swiss franc exchange rate in response to monetary policy announcements by the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank. Thereby, the general e↵ect, the comparison between banks and di↵erent types of monetary policy (conventional/unconventional), and market efficiency are examined. The data show that announcements by the two central banks significantly impact the EUR/CHF exchange rate from 15 minutes before to 1 hour after the announcement, with the first minute after the announcement triggering the most significant reactions, which illustrates the high efficiency of the foreign exchange market. No significant di↵erences were found between the ECB and SNB announcements. Reactions to unconventional announcements have a higher standard deviation than conventional announcements and therefore have significant e↵ects more often. However, these are not detectable in a mean value observation.
Michele Pelli, Essays on Unconventional Central Bank Policies, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2022. (Dissertation)
Charles Barbizet, Deep Learning in Corporate Bonds Pricing, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2022. (Master's Thesis)
The model and the approach developed by Chen et al. (2019) are replicated and adapted to the framework of corporate bond expected returns. It relies on machine learning methods and estimates the stochastic discount factor for a set of U.S. corporate bonds using macroeconomic, firm-specific and debt-specific data. The thesis finds that accessing corporate bond data over a long period of time can prove challenging but when the negative effect of limited data is ignored, the model seems to perform even better on corporate bond data than on equity data. Furthermore, the thesis studies the predictive power of each type of input. It confirms that the handling of the macroeconomic data suggested by Chen et al. improve the performances. In addition, it shows that debt-specific data have strong predictive power while firm-specific data have predictive power, it does not bring incremental predictive power to the debt-specific data.
Neshat Alili, The Impact of the Ukraine-Russian conflict of 2022 to the US and EU banking sector, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2022. (Master's Thesis)
The Russia-Ukraine war started on February 24, 2022. Its prelude and the actual war had differing effects on the US and European Bank Holding Companies. In this analysis we use the event study methodology to assess the effect of five different war related events on the investor's behavior with regards to US and European based BHCs. For our analysis we use financial indicators to give information about the investor's behavior. The outcome shows mixed results with a more significant impact in the European than in the US based BHCs. Overall, the statistical analysis shows that the conflict remains a potential source for affecting investors. While the US based BHCs seem to be insulated from the war and the imposed sanctions, the European based BHCs are more affected. The surprising part of the results is that the investors do not seem to demonstrate concern in their expectations, a factor which seems to be similar for the BHCs of both regions.
Charlotte Clara Becker, Eldad Davidov, Jan Cieciuch, René Algesheimer, Martin Kindschi, Values and Attitudes Toward Immigrants Among School Children in Switzerland and Poland, Race and Social Problems, Vol. 14 (4), 2022. (Journal Article)
Research on key determinants of negative attitudes toward immigration has often suggested that values held by individuals systematically explain such sentiments. Universalists appear to have more positive and conservatives more negative attitudes. So far, however, these insights are based on studies using adult samples. In our study, we analyze these relations among children and adolescents. For the analysis, we utilized a Swiss-Polish panel dataset (2015–2017, N = 5,332) with three time points collected among school children aged 8–19 years. We employed autoregressive cross-lagged models. The results indicated that while universalism decreased negative attitudes toward immigrants, the expected effect for conformity-tradition was not found.
Miriam Koomen, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Occupational tasks and wage inequality in West Germany: A decomposition analysis, Labour Economics, Vol. 79, 2022. (Journal Article)
We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data with longitudinal task data, which allow us to account for within-occupation changes in task content over time. We run RIF regression-based decompositions to quantify the contribution of changes in the returns to tasks to overall changes in the wage distribution from 1978 to 2006. We find that changes in the returns to tasks explain up to half of the increase in wage inequality since the 1990s, both at the top and the bottom of the wage distribution. Specifically, abstract tasks drive the upper wage gap, while interactive and routine tasks drive the lower wage gap. Importantly, we find low-wage occupations to have the highest routine task intensity. The association between occupational tasks and West German wage inequality is thus both stronger and different than prior research has found.
Simone Giansante, Mahmoud Fatouh, Steven Ongena, The asset reallocation channel of quantitative easing. The case of the UK, Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 77, 2022. (Journal Article)
We investigate the impact of the Bank of England's asset purchase program (APP) on the composition of assets of UK banks with unique data on the received reserves injections. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) didn't expect there to be strong transmission of the APP's impact through the bank lending channel. We find that compared to the control group, treated banks reallocated their assets towards lower risk-weighted investments, such as government securities, but did not provide more credit to the real economy. Overall, our findings suggest that when banks are not adequately capitalised, risk-based capital constraints can limit the effectiveness of expansionary unconventional monetary policies and provide incentives for carry trade activities.
Deborah Kalte, Political Consumer Gap between Foreign Residents and Swiss Citizens: The Explanatory Relationship of Political Resources and Citizenship Status, Swiss Political Science Review = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Vol. 28 (4), 2022. (Journal Article)
In most Western democracies, non-institutionalized political activities such as political consumerism often represent the only accessible means of political expression for foreign residents. However, the few studies available to date show that foreign residents consume significantly less politically than national citizens. This study examines how the key political resources education, political interest, and organization membership may account for this gap. By means of original survey data from Switzerland, I find that (i) organization membership is the strongest predictor for political consumerism but does not explain the participation gap; (ii) political interest is the most important resource to explain why foreign residents consume less politically than Swiss citizens; and (iii) the three resources work similarly for both groups, whereas political interest and education act as partial mediators. The results of this study suggest that political resources mediate rather than moderate political consumer differences based on citizenship status.
Aleksandra Urman, Mykola Makhortykh, Roberto Ulloa, Auditing the representation of migrants in image web search results, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Vol. 9 (1), 2022. (Journal Article)
Search engines serve as information gatekeepers on a multitude of topics that are prone to gender, ethnicity, and race misrepresentations. In this paper, we specifically look at the image search representation of migrant population groups that are often subjected to discrimination and biased representation in mainstream media, increasingly so with the rise of right-wing populist actors in the Western countries. Using multiple (n = 200) virtual agents to simulate human browsing behavior in a controlled environment, we collect image search results related to various terms referring to migrants (e.g., expats, immigrants, and refugees, seven queries in English and German used in total) from the six most popular search engines. Then, with the aid of manual coding, we investigate which features are used to represent these groups and whether the representations are subjected to bias. Our findings indicate that search engines reproduce ethnic and gender biases common for mainstream media representations of different subgroups of migrant population. For instance, migrant representations tend to be highly racialized, and female migrants as well as migrants at work tend to be underrepresented in the results. Our findings highlight the need for further algorithmic impact auditing studies in the context of representation of potentially vulnerable groups in web search results.
Marek Pycia, M Utku Ünver, Outside options in neutral allocation of discrete resources, Review of Economic Design, Vol. 26 (4), 2022. (Journal Article)
Serial dictatorships have emerged as the canonical simple mechanisms in the literature on the allocation of indivisible goods without transfers. They are the only neutral and group-strategy-proof mechanisms in environments in which agents have no outside options and hence no individual rationality constraints (Svensson in Soc Choice Welfare 16:557–567, 1999). Accounting for outside options and individual rationality constraints, our main result constructs the class of group-strategy-proof, neutral, and non-wasteful mechanisms. These mechanisms are also Pareto efficient and we call them binary serial dictatorships. The abundance of the outside option - anybody who wants can opt out to get it - is crucial for our result.
Anja Schulze, Stefano Brusoni, How dynamic capabilities change ordinary capabilities: Reconnecting attention control and problem‐solving, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 43 (12), 2022. (Journal Article)
Research Summary Building on the attention-based view of the firm, we elaborate the concept of dynamic capabilities and identify two constitutive elements: attention control and problem-solving. We show empirically that the control element of dynamic capabilities regulates how organizations (dis-)engage attention on operational versus change-oriented tasks. On this basis, we develop a process model of how control and problem-solving interact to reconfigure resources and thus modify ordinary capabilities. We study the adoption of lean management in the R&D unit of a large U.S. corporation. Our longitudinal case study identifies obstacles that organizations have to overcome to establish effective dynamic capabilities that enable their adaptation to changing environmental circumstances. Managerial Summary "The vast majority of all change initiatives fail": We hear this statement a lot in our interactions with practitioners. In this article, we suggest an explanation of why achieving persistent, behavioral change is hard: attention to change processes is difficult to maintain over an extended period of time. Initiatives start, then fade away. By studying the interplay of control mechanisms (that keep organizational attention on the long-term goals) and problem-solving tools (that identify what and how to change in the short term), we provide a framework that can generate actionable implications for executives. In particular, we focus on the decisive and yet underestimated role played by key performance indicators in sustaining attention on change initiatives.
Chayakrit Krittanawong, Neil Sagar Maitra, Hafeez Ul Hassan Virk, Sonya Fogg, Zhen Wang, David Gritsch, Eric A Storch, Philippe Tobler, Dennis S Charney, Glenn N Levine, The reply, American Journal of Medicine, Vol. 135 (12), 2022. (Journal Article)
Christian Ewerhart, Mathias Hoffmann, Hans-Joachim Voth, Nobelpreis 2022: von Banken und Krisen, Die Volkswirtschaft, Vol. 96, 2022. (Journal Article)
Wann die nächste Finanzkrise kommt, lässt sich kaum vorhersagen. Wie man in einer solchen richtig reagiert, hingegen schon. Der diesjährige Nobelpreis ehrt drei Ökonomen für ihre Forschung zu Banken und ihrer Rolle bei der Entstehung von Finanzkrisen.
Jennifer Sparr, Ella Miron-Spektor, Marianne W Lewis, Wendy K Smith, From a label to a meta-theory of paradox: If we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change, Academy of Management Collections, Vol. 1 (2), 2022. (Journal Article)
Over the last 30 years, mounting insights into paradox have enabled a paradigm shift in organizational theory from linear, static, and rational toward more holistic, dynamic, and dualistic thinking. To gain insight into the nature and development of this scholarship, we curated articles from Academy of Management journals. We identified four approaches to paradox—as a label, a lens, a theory, and a metatheory. Pioneering and prototypical articles have illustrated how each approach expands our understanding of paradox, elucidating unresolved issues in and between established literatures. The collection displays both the progression of abstraction and complexity in paradox scholarship over time, and the recursive process accentuating the value of each approach and their interplay, thus offering three contributions. First, our delineation of these approaches demonstrates the development of paradox scholarship, helping scholars situate their own work in this expanding canon, while inviting new scholars to find their entry point to engage with paradox. Second, by tracking the journey from label to metatheory, we offer a model that may inform similar paths for other literatures. Third, the collection suggests that insights into paradox are fostering a paradigm shift from linear and binary toward dynamic and holistic ontologies in the organizational sciences.
Yue Li, Jie Hu, Christian Ruff, Xiaolin Zhou, Neurocomputational evidence that conflicting prosocial motives guide distributive justice, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119 (49), 2022. (Journal Article)
In the history of humanity, most conflicts within and between societies have originated from perceived inequality in resource distribution. How humans achieve and maintain distributive justice has therefore been an intensely studied issue. However, most research on the corresponding psychological processes has focused on inequality aversion and has been largely agnostic of other motives that may either align or oppose this behavioral tendency. Here we provide behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging evidence that distribution decisions are guided by three distinct motives—inequality aversion, harm aversion, and rank reversal aversion—that interact with each other and can also deter individuals from pursuing equality. At the neural level, we show that these three motives are encoded by separate neural systems, compete for representation in various brain areas processing equality and harm signals, and are integrated in the striatum, which functions as a crucial hub for translating the motives to behavior. Our findings provide a comprehensive framework for understanding the cognitive and biological processes by which multiple prosocial motives are coordinated in the brain to guide redistribution behaviors. This framework enhances our understanding of the brain mechanisms underlying equality-related behavior, suggests possible neural origins of individual differences in social preferences, and provides a new pathway to understand the cognitive and neural basis of clinical disorders with impaired social functions.
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