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Fairfield elementary school goes remote due to COVID staffing issues
News // Local
Peter Yankowski
Timothy Dwight School on Redding Road was recently awarded a National Blue Ribbon by the federal Education Department, one of four in the state to receive the citation this year.
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FAIRFIELD — Teachers and students at Timothy Dwight Elementary School will go to remote-only learning through the end of the week, the district announced Tuesday evening.
The decision came as 11 staff members were in quarantine or isolation for exposure to the novel coronavirus, according to an email from Superintendent Mike Cummings and COVID-19 Health And Safety Compliance Liaison Angelus Papageorge.
"This significantly impacts the school's ability to function in a safe and effective manner," the email said.
The closure begins Wednesday and will run through this Friday, Dec. 2.
"Tomorrow's schedule will be adjusted slightly to give teachers time to prepare. The AM cohort will meet online from 9:30 am - 12:00 pm and the PM cohort will meet online from 1:10 pm -3:40 pm," the email said.
Thursday and Friday will follow an emergency closure schedule.
The decision was made based on staffing, not "concerns about in-school transmission or exposure to COVID-19," the email said.
The school reported fewer than six new cases last Wednesday in the state's weekly report on new cases at Connecticut schools. The report does not specify the number of cases under six to protect the identities of students.
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Peter Yankowski is a breaking news reporter for Hearst Connecticut Media. He previously reported for the Danbury News-Times and, before that, the Ridgefield Press.


Construction Management Partners, LLC (CMP) is a professional services firm established in 2012 for the purposes of representing clients during preconstruction, construction phase and post-construction phases of their projects. CMP is committed to delivering effective Owner Representative, Project Management Support, Construction Audit and Diversity Program Management services to a broad-based clientele seeking to improve the performance of their projects.
CMP employs Lean Project methodology and practices that identify inefficiencies in process, protect and certify cost, eliminate project waste, support and enhance project management plans and objectives that truly demonstrate substantial value for the design and construction industry. As consultants, advisors and auditors, we review, certify and segregate cost, development management and diversity strategies from pre-GMP development to post close out phases of the project in accordance with Owner guidelines and objectives The unique combination of project management, financial analysis and advisory level services add a greater level of accountability for the project team.
In an industry facing diversity challenges, increasing cost of labor/materials, scope-crepe, compressed schedules, longer lead times for major project components and change management challenges, Owners often seek partners with demonstrated experience in fast-paced environments and cultures that can predict project outcomes.
There are a finite number of activities that must be addressed with some level of detail to secure the success of a program. The size and complexity of the program will dictate the exact level of effort and cost for each required activity. Ignoring any part of the process leaves the project vulnerable to potential problems.
Our proven program, implementation of procedures, tracking and reporting systems consistently work to assist all project participants to fully develop the commitment, trust and partnering attitude necessary to ensure a successful project. Through effective management techniques, the Owner can be assured that proper steps are taken to solve problems and mitigate claims, which translate into cost and schedule overruns, disputes and/or costly litigation.
CMP is committed to responding creatively to complex building and program challenges. Through our unique experience with a variety of delivery methods, negotiation techniques, budget reviews and scope management, we have proven that a few basic and well-developed concepts are the foundation upon which all construction projects should be built.
Mr. Johnson has amassed 28 years of construction management experience in the local, regional and national design and construction markets. His Sr. Project Management expertise contributed to the placement of over $1 Billion of construction in the St. Louis metropolitan area and the surrounding Mid-West and South-East Regional markets. Mr. Johnson has been recognized for his outstanding project management performance in the delivery of complex building programs.
• Recognized industry performer – Skilled presenter and closer. Understanding of sales strategies and team development.
• Development of internal and external Diversity Initiatives and Partnering strategies.
• Team leader – Responsible for effective allocation and use of staff resources for client results-driven programs.
• Highly skilled writer and communicator – Proposals, project scope development and organizational documents.
• Proficient and demonstrated project management skills that include all phases of design management, preconstruction, construction phase services and post construction.
Jessica R. Johnson, a Project Coordinator for CMP. In this role she is responsible for all documentation and project administrative support to the WUMC Campus Renewal Project as directed by the CMP Executive In-Charge, as part of the overall administrative functions for the Capacity Building Warehouse. In addition, she manages all database information, financial reports, monthly B2G Now Meetings and close out reports for subcontractors.
Jessica has over 5 years of experience with management and executive level support for large, medium firms.
Projects Include Health Care, Corporate Business and major league sports facilities.
For the purposes of supporting projects, Chanel is also responsible for the documentation and project administrative support for the WUMC Campus Renewal Project as directed by the CMP Executive In-Charge, as well as specific administrative functions for the Capacity Building Warehouse.
Chanel has 2 years of experience with management and executive level support for large, medium project administrative support functions.
Michael Brown currently serves as the Project Manager for Compliance and Workforce and Field technical Support for Construction Management Partners (CMP). Michael's primary responsibilities consist of implementing stringent diversity, safety and loss control procedures or practices as related to owner requirements and the OCIP program for BJC's Campus Renewal Project.
Michael's subject matter expertise includes preparing and submitting reports and documenting various levels of effort to meet M/WBE and requirements, including compiling and reviewing B2G Now and certified payroll. In addition, Michael facilitates meetings with reporting agencies and trade contractors to ensure consistency and compliance with related project guidelines.
Tyrani Metcalfe is a Project Coordinator / Closeout Specialist for CMP. She is responsible for daily project coordination which includes working with software applications such as Projecto, PeopleSoft, B2G Now and Obiee. In addition to providing documentation and project administrative support to the WUMC Campus Renewal Project as directed by the CMP Executive In-Charge, as part of the overall administrative functions for the Capacity Building Warehouse.
She also provides support to PDC Construction Team with the close-out of specific PDC projects which includes review of PO's, Invoices, Contracts and verifying if cost are calculated in accordance with contracts.
Tyrani has over 3 years of experience with management and executive level support for large, medium firms.
Crystal Stoner, a Project Coordinator for CMP. In this role she is responsible for all documentation and project administrative support to the WUMC Campus Renewal Project as directed by the CMP Executive In-Charge, as part of the overall administrative functions for the Capacity Building Warehouse. In addition, she manages all database information, financial reports, monthly B2G Now Meetings and close out reports for subcontractors.
Crystal has over 5 years of experience with management and executive level support for large, medium firms.


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Q: Inserting data from fetch into a HTML div I'm having a problem getting data from my fetch response into a div. The data comes into the console just fine, but I can't get it to update the div.
<html lang="">
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="phand">
            <button id="deal" class="btn">Deal!</button>
        </div>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'blackjack/play.js' %}"></script>
    </body>
</html>

(function () {

    function deal() {
        fetch('/deal')
        .then(response => response.json())
        .then(data => {
            console.log(data)
            var card1Rank = data[0];
            var card1Suit = data[1];
            var card2Rank = data[2];
            var card2Suit = data[3];
            $("#phand").append('<acidjs-xdeck-card rank=' + card1Rank + 'suit=' + card1Suit + '></acidjs-xdeck-card>');

        });
    };

    $('#deal').on('click', function() {
        deal();
    });

}());

I want the javascript to insert the response from the fetch request into the "phand" element on the page, I can see the data coming through in the console, but it doesn't alter the contents of the page.

A: maybe you need to convert data to string with JSON.stringify() , try to append like
$("#phand").append('<acidjs-xdeck-card rank=' + JSON.stringify(card1Rank) + 'suit=' + JSON.stringify(card1Suit) + '></acidjs-xdeck-card>');

A: The problem was that I had the "phand" div inside another "wrapper" div.
I changed the js to:
$('#wrapper').find('#phand').append('<acidjs-xdeck-card rank=' + JSON.stringify(card1Rank) + 'suit=' + JSON.stringify(card1Suit) + '></acidjs-xdeck-card>');

and it worked as expected.

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The next country we visited after Germany was Italy. We took a night train from Munich to Rome which was a great adventure in itself. I had always dreamed about the romantic notion of traveling by train overnight through distant lands, so this was a literal dream come true for me. The only part I wish I could have changed was that we started when their was still daylight so I could see the towering Alps that were certainly surrounding us as we sped through Austria.
I thought I had booked a private compartment for us but the train company put a man in with us since there were 4 beds. We were not happy, it was such close quarters we just wanted to be able to relax and we just couldn't feel comfortable. I spoke with an attendant for a bit and 30 Euros later we were moving to a private compartment. Its not that the guy that was stuck with us wasn't interesting and likable, we just wanted privacy. The man was a biologist that was studying the effects of climate change on birds in Siberia and Patagonia. We heard some unsettling stories about the thawing of Siberian permafrost, and the releasing of mass amounts of methane gas.
After moving all of our luggage and stuff to the new cabin, we set in for the journey. We slept fairly well. There were numerous stops and such. Some of the glamour of train travel while sleeping was unfortunately tarnished a bit for me. The tunnels were incredible, and hitting them at 200 MPH changed the air pressure in the train, so you could always tell when we hit one. However it was really neat to sit and sip coffee while we sped through the early morning Tuscany Landscape destined for the great city of Rome. And looking back, I really did enjoy that train journey and would love to be back on it tonight.
We pulled into Rome Termini around 9:30 AM and were ready for our touristic assault on the ancient city. It took us a little bit to figure out lockers and then transportation to the Vatican which was our first destination. The Vatican was somewhat crowded, it took about 30 minutes to get into St.Peter's Cathedral, we opted not to spend the time or the money to tour the sistine chapel. Touring a city such as this in one day means making sacrifices.
We had good friends from Pensacola who now lived nearby in Naples, Italy and drove up to guide us through Rome. And thank god for them, as that place was huge and chaotic. The dad and the daughter made the trip to join us, Nora and her were best buddies when they lived in Pensacola so it was a fun reunion.
We saw the Spanish Steps, The Trevi Fountain, The Pantheon, The Forum Ruins, The Coliseum, The Arch of Constantine and more. We managed to get tiramisu, gelato, paninis, and coffee. Ohhh the coffee! I fell in love with Italian Macchiatos. Luckily I found a coffee shop in Pensacola that does a great one as well.
It was near the Forum ruins and the Coliseum that I found this Lost Sole. It was in a state of ruins itself. I was very happy with this discovery and will be my trophy show for this European trip. As you know, I never move Lost Soles, its like desecrating a gravesite to me. So this is where it sat, complete with the backdrop of the Roman Coliseum.
This is pretty much where our day in Rome ended. We had a short distance to drive to get to Naples and the Amalfi Coast. I did find some Lost Soles there as well so stay tuned for my next entry as it will be quite an adventure.
This was our breakfast on the train traveling through the Tuscan vineyards.
Most people dont know that it is permitted to enter the fountain.
You can see both the Arch of the Constantine and the coliseum.


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Jamie Oliver says he had just two hours to save his troubled restaurant chain
Jamie Oliver has told how he ploughed £12.7million of his own money into his struggling restaurant business last year after being given two hours to save the chain.
Earlier this year, the TV chef announced he was closing 12 of his 37 Jamie's Italian restaurants with 200 jobs affected.
He also came under fire for failing to pay suppliers after his upmarket steak restaurant Barbecoa crashed into administration.
Jamie Oliver has revealed he had to pump £12million of his own money into his struggling restaurant chain
Speaking about the crisis in an interview released today, Oliver told the Financial Times Magazine: 'I had two hours to put money in and save it or the whole thing would go to s*** that day or the next day… It was as bad as that and as dramatic as that.'
He revealed he initially plunged £7.5million from his own savings into his Italian restaurant chain, followed by a further £5.2million. The firm also took out £37million in loans from HSBC and other companies.
Oliver told the financial newspaper that his firm 'simply run out of cash' and raged at 'people supposed to manage that stuff'.
He said Brexit was among the number to factors which caused a 'perfect storm' for the company, as well as rental costs, local government rates and the increase in the minimum wage.
Barbecoa was said have owed £6.7million owed to creditors in the wake of the problems, although the group now insists everyone has been paid.
In today's interview, Oliver defended his brother-in-law Paul Hunt from the criticism he received in the wake of business's problems.
Oliver backed his under-fire brother in law Paul Hunt (pictured) in this week's interview
Mr Hunt, who is married to Oliver's sister Anna-Marie, was appointed to run Jamie Oliver Ltd in 2014.
He was described as an 'arrogant, incompetent failure' and 'a City boy from central casting' in the weeks after the financial issues.
But Oliver backed Mr Hunt, praising him as 'honest and fair' and insisting he had done a 'fantastic job' at the business.
He said Mr Hunt would go 'at the right time', but that he brought family members in because he trusted them not to steal from him.
Oliver seems to have won another of his battles today, after it emerged the government could ban the sale of energy drinks to children.
Earlier this year the group announced it was shutting 12 of its 37 Jamie's Italian restaurants
He has had led a high-profile campaign against junk food and its contribution to soaring childhood obesity in the UK.
The new restrictions will apply to drinks with more than 150mg of caffeine per litre, like popular brands Red Bull, Monster and Relentless.
Excessive consumption has been linked to a host of health and behaviour problems in children, from headaches to hyperactivity.

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Q: R Rcurl's result different from firefox I would like to access to a web page with R and rcurl package.
Here is my code :
library(RCurl)
library(XML)
URL <- "http://www.lfp.fr/ligue1/calendrier_resultat#sai=82&jour=1"
siteHTML <- getURL(url=URL)
xmltext <- htmlParse(siteHTML, asText=TRUE, encoding = 'UTF-8')
Date_Match <- sapply(xpathSApply(xmltext, '//*[@id="tableaux_rencontres"]//h4'), xmlValue)
Date_Match

The result is not good ... like if the jour=1 parameter doesn't not exist.
If I try to access to this page with Firefox, it's Ok.
I have also try this code without success :
x <- getForm("http://www.lfp.fr/ligue1/calendrier_resultat",
       jour="2",
       sai="82")
xmltext <- htmlParse(x, asText=TRUE, encoding = 'UTF-8')
Date_Match <- sapply(xpathSApply(xmltext, '//*[@id="tableaux_rencontres"]//h4'), xmlValue)
Date_Match

Do you know why ? What is the solution ? Can you help me ?
I'm beginner in R programming, so don't hesitate to give large explanation.

A: Use ? instead of # in the url:
library(RCurl)
library(XML)
URL <- "http://www.lfp.fr/ligue1/calendrier_resultat?sai=82&jour=1"
siteHTML <- getURL(url=URL)
xmltext <- htmlParse(siteHTML, asText=TRUE, encoding = 'UTF-8')
Date_Match <- sapply(xpathSApply(xmltext, '//*[@id="tableaux_rencontres"]//h4'), xmlValue)
Date_Match
# [1] "Vendredi 14 février 2014" "Samedi 15 février 2014"   "Dimanche 16 février 2014"


In Rwanda, a majority of pregnant women visit antenatal care (ANC) services, however not to the extent that is recommended. Association between socio-demographic or psychosocial factors and poor utilization of antenatal care services (≤2 visits during the course of pregnancy irrespective of the timing) among recently pregnant women in Rwanda were investigated.This population-based, cross sectional study included 921 women who gave birth within the past 13 months. Data was obtained using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. For the analyses, bi-and multivariable logistic regression was used and odds ratios were presented with their 95% confidence intervals.About 54% of pregnant women did not make the recommended four visits to ANC during pregnancy. The risk of poor utilization of ANC services was higher among women aged 31 years or older (AOR, 1.78; 95% CI: 1.14, 2.78), among single women (AOR, 2.99; 95% CI: 1.83, 4.75) and women with poor social support (AOR, 1.71; 95% CI: 1.09, 2.67). No significant associations were found for school attendance or household assets (proxy for socio-economic status) with poor utilization of ANC services.Older age, being single, divorced or widowed and poor social support were associated with poor utilization of ANC services. General awareness in communities should be raised on the importance of the number and timing of ANC visits. ANC clinics should further be easier to access, transport should be available, costs minimized and opening hours may be extended to facilitate visits for pregnant women.


Globally and locally, government support policies for green goods (like renewable energy) are much more popular internationally than raising the cost of bads (as through carbon taxes). These support policies may encourage downstream consumption (renewable energy deployment) or upstream development and manufacturing of those technologies. The use of subsidies—particularly upstream ones—is disciplined by World Trade Organization agreements, and its subsidies code lacks exceptions for transboundary externalities like human health or resource conservation, including those related to combating global climate change. The strategic trade literature has devoted little attention to the range of market failures related to green goods. This paper considers the market for a new environmental good that when consumed downstream may provide external benefits like reduced emissions. The technology is traded internationally but provided by a limited set of upstream suppliers that may operate in imperfect markets, such as with market power or external scale economies. We examine the national incentives and global rationales for offering production and consumption subsidies in producer countries, allowing that some of the downstream market may lie in nonregulating third-party countries. Although technology producer countries can benefit from restraints on upstream subsidies, global welfare is higher without them, and market failures imply that optimal subsidies are even higher. We supplement the analysis with numerical simulations of the case of renewable energy, exploring optimal subsidies for the major renewable energy producing and consuming regions and the cost of restrictions on upstream subsidies.


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Just been out for a ride, no cheesemongery to be seen in Brum today.
What exactly were you trying to Google?
Careful, DWF, the 'e' word is now taboo here.
i presume there'll be a re-sighting soon of the welsh perverts thread?
life won't be the same without it surfacing every few months.


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"Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square" Review!
2020 needed a savior of one kind or another, and we could do a lot worse than Dolly Parton singing Biblical messages of love and charity while dressed up in rhinestone-encrusted white cowboy boots and giant, glittery, golden angel wings, that's all I'm saying. The legendary country singer's new Netflix holiday movie Christmas On The Square might be just a bit too blindingly bright and sparkly for some, and perhaps it's a little too fervently energetic for others, and for a lot of people it might be much too bizarre…but maybe all you've got to do is open your heart to Dolly (she's very persuasive), and let the metaphorical Christmas lamplighter light up your holiday spirit and guide you out of the dark pit of despair. I don't know. It sounds a lot more convincing when Dolly Parton is whispering it in that sing-song voice of hers.
Dolly Parton as "Angel" | glamour.com
Christmas On The Square is an unabashedly weird movie, and the Christmas lamplighter is probably the least absurd of several dozen comically fantastical plot twists, characters, and story beats. Thankfully it won't take you long to decide if it's a new holiday classic for you and your family, or something better enjoyed over an alcoholic eggnog: within the first ten to fifteen minutes, you'll have already been introduced to Angel (Dolly Parton herself, disguised as a homeless woman begging for "change": I see what you did there, Dolly), you'll have already witnessed the first of the film's many frantic musical numbers, and you'll have met the film's villain/protagonist Regina (Christine Baranski, having the most fun out of anybody), a ruthless money-making machine whose current mission is to evict the inhabitants of her Midwestern hometown on Christmas Eve so a massive shopping mall can take its place. If that sounds suspiciously similar to the plot of A Christmas Carol, well…yes, it is essentially the same story. But perhaps not so much an adaptation of the original Charles Dickens novel as the more recent (and let's be honest, far more enjoyable) Muppets Christmas Carol, which is also a quirky musical – although I must confess that the Muppets film has better songs than this one, and is far and away the better movie in general.
Christine Baranski and Jeanine Mason | variety.com
It's not even that Parton's songs for Christmas On The Square are bad, or badly-written, though they're certainly nothing close to what she's capable of at her best. It's just that…she's so rarely the one actually getting to sing them. And this isn't some kind of "I Will Always Love You" situation, where she hands an already great song to a powerful vocalist who makes the song ten times better. Christmas On The Square has a surprisingly weak lineup of vocal talent beside Parton, Baranski, and Jenifer Lewis (who has just one song all to her own: "Queen Of Mean", the most lyrically playful of the film's musical numbers), and it gives most of its potentially awesome songs to Josh Segarra's character, Pastor Christian. Segarra is a halfway-decent singer with the slightly grating rustic charm you'd expect from his goody-goody character, but his voice isn't strong enough to carry songs like "Try", which in particular demands to be either more powerful and show-stopping, or more quiet and intimate, than the middle-of-the-road performance we're blessed with instead. And the film clearly had the means to go in either direction: one of the film's most interesting singers, a choir member and supporting character played by Matthew Johnson, threatens to overshadow Segarra's rendition of the song with his own soulful background vocals – while Dolly Parton herself gets to softly recite a single verse over the rushed end-credits. Segarra is better suited to songs like "You", an overly earnest romantic duet between him and Mary Lane Haskell.
Earnestness is not something that typically poses a problem in holiday movies, where one expects – and indeed hopes – for the messaging to be sweet and simple. And it's not even necessarily a problem here. But the strange thing about Christmas On The Square is how rapidly it pivots from "sweet and simple holiday musical" to "family-friendly soap-opera complete with emergency hospital visits, teen pregnancy, and complicated family-drama", and then back again. And that's not even factoring in the random, campy, semi-absurdist interludes focused on the Angels and their hijinks. The tonal inconsistencies feel unintentional and jarring rather than comedic, and it goes on like this until the end of the movie, which includes a truly bizarre third-act plot twist. Remember Last Christmas (which, incidentally, came out last Christmas), that George Michael-inspired musical about a woman falling in love with the ghost of the heart donor who saved her life the previous year? Yeah…think that kind of twist, but without the necessary comedic angle.
Dolly Parton | netflix.com
The movie's secret weapon, however, is Dolly Parton – and it employs her at every opportune moment, just as a scene begins to lag or a musical number starts meandering. Some would say the movie relies on her a little too heavily at points, and sure, it probably does. But Parton's aura is so strong and so all-encompassing (and most of the rest of the cast so boring and wooden), that it's impossible to dismiss that as a fault. Personally, I think she could have done this whole thing as a one-woman show, and it would have been even better – and probably no weirder than it already is.
Besides, Dolly Parton poured a significant chunk of change into funding the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine while many wealthy celebrities were still under the impression we wanted to hear them incoherently singing from their palatial estates: I think she deserves to steal the spotlight in this weird, clunky, passion project that, without her, would probably be a forgettable mess. At least Christmas On The Square's tonal inconsistencies produced something strangely enjoyable, unlike those of a certain early-pandemic celebrity sing-along I could mention.
Movie Rating: 5.5/10
"The Little Mermaid" May Have Found Its Vanessa!
In times of crisis, it can be comforting to know that not everything has been canceled or delayed indefinitely. The Little Mermaid live-action remake may not be sailing into port any time soon, but it is still coming to a theater near you, and today we've learned that a big name may have just joined the cast of the fishy fairytale. The brilliant folks over at The DisInsider broke the news that singer/songwriter Kacey Musgraves has been circling the role of Vanessa in The Little Mermaid, and that, while she's not locked in just yet, she has spoken with Disney executives via Zoom call to discuss the subject.
Musgraves as Vanessa is an unexpected casting choice that is sure to provoke renewed interest in the film – but then again, so was Halle Bailey as Ariel and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula: and for a moment there, so was Harry Styles as Eric until he passed on the coveted role. Like Halle Bailey, she is better known for her career in music than in movies: she is a nine-time Grammy nominee, and six-time winner, and one of the most well-known female country singers working today. But she's also a frequent collaborator with Disney – just last year, she performed All Is Found for the closing credits of Frozen II…the song is somewhat forgettable, and I don't understand why she wasn't chosen to sing something more powerful like Show Yourself, but don't get me started on the ways in which that song was robbed. Anyway, she's established a relationship with the studio, and that's clearly paid off.
For those who have been living under a seashell for the past thirty years, Vanessa is the human disguise of shapeshifting sorceress Ursula in The Little Mermaid, who shows up for a couple of scenes near the end of the movie to try and steal Eric away from Ariel and prevent the mermaid from scoring a true love's kiss. Vanessa uses Ariel's stolen singing voice to easily win over the prince (I've always disliked Eric, despite the fact that this technically isn't his fault), and the two hastily arrange a marriage on the prince's ship – a marriage which is interrupted by Ariel and her animal sidekicks when they overhear Vanessa singing about her evil plan (when will Disney villains ever learn?). Physically, the character of Vanessa matches Kacey Musgraves pretty perfectly. But there is one problem which I hope is resolved.
Prince Eric and Vanessa | littlemermaid.fandom.com
Vanessa barely ever sings. And while Kacey Musgraves is still a win either way, I can't help but wonder why Disney would be focused on her for the part if they don't plan to expand the role of Vanessa and give her more songs beyond the two she has in the original animated film (and when I say she has two, I really only mean she wails beautifully on the beach when seducing Eric and then has two or three lines where she's maybe singing, maybe just talking melodically about her evil plan). But Howard Menken, who is doing the music for The Little Mermaid, has only written four new songs that we know about – and according to The DisInsider, these consist of a solo number for Eric (he doesn't need one, but whatever), a duet for Eric and Ariel (have I mentioned I don't like Eric?), a song for Scuttle the seagull (who will be voiced by Awkwafina, so I'm letting this otherwise ridiculous decision slide), and a solo number for…King Triton, of all people. It's possible Menken will write additional songs as production gets underway, but for now this is what we know. No new solo numbers for Ariel or Ursula, nothing new for Sebastian, and nothing new for the character of Vanessa. So as of right now, unless Disney simply plans to fill out Vanessa's Song (the evil plan song: it doesn't even have a real title, it's that short) with more lyrics, then I don't see the reasoning behind Kacey Musgraves' casting, though I am still excited for her.
What do you think of this new casting for The Little Mermaid? Do you hope to see Vanessa's role expanded and/or new songs written for her? Share your own thoughts, theories and opinions in the comments below!


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Final Four return title-chasers: 'Motivation is huge'
May 28, 2021 by Euroleague.net Print
The 2021 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four features several past champions who could rewrite history with another title, such as AX Armani Exchange Milan's Kyle Hines and Sergio Rodriguez, as well as Cory Higgins of FC Barcelona and Will Clyburn of CSKA Moscow. But more so than any Final Four in recent years, Cologne features several players who return to the end-of-season event after having been oh-so-close to winning the EuroLeague crown in the past.
"I was here three times before in the Final Four and unfortunately, I didn't win any of those three," Barcelona's star forward Nikola Mirotic said. "For sure, I have a lot of experience from those three Final Fours. Each of them is different, but it's been a while, it's been seven years since the last one."
"The only reason I came back to Europe is to win the EuroLeague."
Mirotic, a two-time EuroLeague Rising Star award winner, was a EuroLeague runner-up with Real Madrid in 2013 and 2014 and does not hide that he returned to the EuroLeague last season with the intention to win the whole thing.
"Motivation is huge, it is difficult to express, especially because we've been having a really good year, and also a difficult year as basketball players, and having some issues in personal lives in my case," Mirotic said. "I do want to enjoy, I do feel very ready for this moment and I know that the team and I have a big chance to succeed."
Mirotic is not the only one feeling poised for success. One of his teammates last season was Malcolm Delaney, who is now playing for Milan and will face Barcelona in the semifinals. Delaney is also a Final Four returnee with his previous appearance coming in 2016 in a Lokomotiv Kuban Moscow uniform.
"The only reason I came back to Europe is to win the EuroLeague," Delaney explained. "Money and all that other stuff does not matter for me. I could have gone back to China and made more money, I could have still tried to go back to the NBA, but I think the fact that this would be the stamp on my resume would solidify everything for me."
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During his career Delaney had a great deal of success, including individual awards such as being selected to the All-EuroLeague and All-EuroCup teams, however winning a EuroLeague crown would tilt the needle.
"Even though I think I am fine without the EuroLeague title, but I think all the years I have put into Europe, starting from EuroChallenge, making my way up to the EuroLeague, I've done everything I could do besides winning the EuroLeague title. So, yeah, if we win it, nobody can say anything to me," Delaney said with a smile.
On the other hand is Anadolu Efes Istanbul point guard Vasilije Micic, the freshly-crowned EuroLeague MVP, who has a different mindset heading into the semis.
"Beautiful things happen when you don't expect them."
"I never chase anything in my life," he said. "Nothing is a must for me, and I am totally okay with everything that happens in my life, even if it means I will never achieve winning the EuroLeague crown because I think that is just one part of our life."
This is a third consecutive Final Four appearance for Micic after playing for Zalgiris Kaunas in 2018 and Efes in 2019. And even though there are no signs of growing impatience despite a pair of missed chances, Micic has a great desire to go all the way, but with a mindset that he feels has worked for him his entire career.
"I think that approach makes everything easier for me," Micic explained. "If it happens, I would be thrilled. If not, we move on. It is a long journey and some of the greatest and most beautiful things happen when you don't expect them. The same is the case in winning the EuroLeague title."


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The Ardbeg distillery has been producing the smoky cult-status whisky on the remote Scottish island of Islay for more than two centuries.
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Islay native Mickey Heads is the 20th distillery manager and the custodian of production at Ardbeg. He is supported by a passionate local and global committee that helped save the house from closure and which today protects Ardbeg's status as one of Scotland's best-loved whiskies.
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The wild and rugged island of Islay, with its soft water, fertile soil and acres of peat, is a place of pilgrimage for the single-malt connoisseur. The maritime position of the Ardbeg distillery infuses subtle salty notes into the taste of this collectable whisky.
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The 2018 Autosport International Show has come to an end. We look back at a successful 4 days, which saw our products appear in a wide variety of cars throughout the show.
We are now back in the Quaife offices, busy replying to new customer requests and queries, the majority of which have stemmed from conversations had with customers on the Autosport show floor.
The Quaife stand was often packed with customers, who were keen to learn about our extensive range of motorsport transmissions, performance differentials and associated driveline components. It was extremely interesting, not only explaining the benefits of Quaife precision engineered products, but also by listening to show visitors about products they are keen to see. You will be pleased to know we are already undertaking early feasibility studies…watch this space.
Our FWD gearboxes received plenty of attention, whether it be for Honda, VAG or Ford models. It has been particularly exciting hearing from show-goers keen on our two new Ford products due later this year; the Ford M66 and MMT6 sequentials. Our universal QBE60G and QBE69G universal 6-speed sequentials also attracted many a visitor, keen to see the inner workings of these race-winning transmissions, thanks to their cutaway designs.
Away from our stand, Quaife products were integral to a wide range of vehicles on show throughout the NEC based exhibition. Taking centre stage on the Onroak Automotive stand was the all-new Ligier JS P4 prototype. Using a Quaife transverse 6-speed paddle-shift transmission, the French model is currently undergoing testing prior to launch. Using a 3.7 litre supercharged Ford engine developing 420 bhp, the JS P4 will offer the best value in terms of performance, quality and safety, for a racing car with a closed cockpit and a carbon monocoque accessible to all kinds of drivers.
Swiftune Engineering had brought along a 1275GT Longman replica featuring the Quaife QDF36K ATB Differential and QBE18A 5-Speed Sequential transmission. Swiftune's Minis are a pleasure to behold; their vehicles are always finished to a very high standard, while at the same time being true to the vehicle's historic roots.
Elsewhere, a Mitsubishi Evo Time Attack was causing quite a stir, what with its spoilers, NOS equipped engine and headline grabbing statistics. It runs the Quaife QBE6U heavy duty 5-speed sequential gearbox, available through Momentum Motorsport, a transmission that's more than capable of handling the high power outputs these cars produce.
The Nissan GTR of Steve Baggsy Biagioni created demand amongst the drifting community for the Quaife QBE69G. Drifters from Malta, Ireland and further afield visited our stand, keen to enquire about this race-winning transmission. Radical and Ginetta, who both make use of Quaife transmissions, were also in attendance.
The show saw some very appealing race replica Mk2 Ford Escorts. The Team Zakspeed example, owned by Malcolm Harding, runs the Quaife QBE60G 6-Speed Sequential transmission, whilst a wonderful Rothmans rally example running a Quaife gearkit drew the crowds at the Ford Mania stand.
You can't mention Quaife without drawing attention to our renown ATB differential. Many show-goers approached us, enquiring about one for their vehicle. Whether an owner of a RenaultSport Clio, a Mercedes-AMG C63 or a Citroën 2CV, what was clear was the trust they put in the Quaife brand, and rightly so. Not only is the Quaife ATB trusted by the world's biggest motor manufacturers, it also benefits from a lifetime warranty! A 'fit and forget' replacement for a vehicle's standard open differential, the ATB even uses the manufacturer's recommended oil for complete ease of use. Smooth in operation and highly unlikely to wear, the difference in traction and road holding capabilities with an ATB fitted quickly becomes abundantly clear. Indeed, the complete package puts others to shame!


With the disappearance of the Iron Curtain – the Great Border – the whole system of coordinates in Europe has changed. The East no longer exists, writes Karl Schlögel, but what has emerged in its place is neither the old nor the new. It is a no-longer and a not-yet.
When I am away at a university in the south or west of Germany and tell people that it is only eighty kilometres, or just under an hour's train journey, from Berlin to the Polish border, my words are always greeted with a disbelieving silence. People have the strangest ideas about what is "behind" Berlin. You can judge the extent of the feeling of foreignness by the astonishment many people experience on their first contact with "the East". They are amazed when they visit Cracow for the first time, and they can hardly believe their eyes when confronted by the Warsaw skyline with its new skyscrapers. The fact that Cracow is one of the oldest university cities worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Padua, Oxford and Heidelberg only becomes comprehensible when one has been there. Hardly anyone knows that Riga, the capital of Latvia, was one of the leading centres of European Art Nouveau along with Brussels and Barcelona, and people are absolutely thrilled when they finally make it to Leningrad/St. Petersburg and find it hard to believe that this centre of European culture is situated so far away and so very much outside the Western European horizon. This applies not only to people with average perceptive powers but also to high-level European politicians. The image of Europe is still focused on the West. When we speak of the "new Europe", we think first of Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg or even Maastricht, but certainly not of Prague,Warsaw or Budapest, although it was from there that the whole of Europe began. And hardly anyone thinks of Kiev, although it was once known as the "mother of all Russian cities" and the centre of Slavonic Christianity. Our awareness of Europe is, generally speaking, asymmetrical. Eastern Europeans are far more interested in Western Europe than the other way round. During the past decade, millions of Poles, Czechs and Russians travelled to the "other Europe" and acquired first-hand information and impressions, but there was no comparable movement from Western to Eastern Europe. This is not only because the infrastructure is better or there is more to see in the West, but also because we in the West are comparatively uninformed and disinterested. Even though it is partly true that the East is more "backward" and not as modern, that is no reason for the absurdly fanciful ideas we have about Eastern Europe. When we read the reports, we sometimes gain the impression that the East consists of nothing but chaos, crime and collapse, and we are surprised, when we actually go there, to see that children go to school, do their work and lead, admittedly strenuous, but otherwise normal lives. In short, east of Berlin is also Europe, a different Europe that still has to be discovered and assimilated.
Eastern and Western Europe are moving closer together. There is a new network and a new system of coordinates. With the disappearance of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall, the whole system of coordinates in Europe has changed. In Berlin I see cars with number plates from Latvia, Russia, the Ukraine and, of course, Poland. The distances have shrunk. Cities that were once complete strangers have become neighbours. It is only just under five hours from Berlin to Prague or Warsaw, and two hours to Stettin or Posen. The airline network has changed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Nowadays you can fly to many cities in the Russian provinces. Europe is acquiring a new network. I observe it on the German-Polish border, where the caravan of stationary lorries is often sixty kilometres long. The whole of Europe is represented at these truck stops, with lorries from Barcelona and Helsinki, Naples and Vilnius, Rotterdam and Samara, Teheran and London. New main traffic routes and corridors are emerging, and new borders. Although the Great Border – the Iron Curtain – no longer exists, there are many new small ones. Anyone travelling from Berlin to St. Petersburg via the Baltic States now has to cross four borders where there used to be only two.
The inner centre, the inner axis of post-war Europe, was the Iron Curtain, the Wall that divided everything up and gave Europe a bipolar geography. The Wall was the principle of order in divided Europe. This is different now. The old historical regions of Europe are drifting apart, sometimes peaceably, as in Czechoslovakia or the Baltic States, sometimes more violently, as in later Yugoslavia or the ex-Soviet Union; and perhaps also in Western Europe, where, quite unexpectedly, a passionate desire for national independence has reappeared. In Europe, the historically different regions are re-emerging more strongly than ever: Northeast Europe around the Baltic Sea, for example, an area that bears the stamp of the Hanseatic League, which experienced an astonishing revival after the elimination of the split, is dreaming the dream of Hong Kong: in the double city of Copenhagen/Gothenburg, in Kaliningrad/Königsberg, and in the greatest urban agglomeration on the Baltic, the five-million city of St. Petersburg. And Southeast Europe, the catchment area of the region's most important capital, Istanbul, which – despite the religious differences – includes part of the Black Sea region, the Aegean Sea and the Balkans, extending as far as Bucharest and Sofia. Even in the south of Russia, on the Crimea and in the Ukraine, one feels something of the influence of the Ottoman-European metropolis, and I believe that it is not only Islamic fundamentalism but also the modernization potential and power of the metropolis with a population of twelve million that is important. Then there is Eastern Europe in the real sense, i.e. the Russian Federation, Belarus and the Ukraine; here, too, the order of things is changing. I do not think there is any doubt about the advancement of Moscow to a Global City of the Eurasian world, but Minsk and Kiev will also play an important role in the network. They will be the modernization centres of their region. Finally, there is Central Europe, i.e. the region which cannot be precisely defined. This was the area that was most badly damaged by the division, yet it is coming together again very fast – towns such as Milan and Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava, Warsaw and Vilnius, Lemberg and Cracow, Prague and Munich. Despite the twentieth-century disasters in which the essential and integral elements of Central Europe disappeared – above all the Jewish and German Diaspora – a strong consciousness of a communal history and tradition that is open to modernization still prevails. The real Western Europe with its centres of Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and – especially – London, Paris and Amsterdam, with the great "Blue Banana" axis from Manchester via the Rhine and Frankfurt am Main to Marseilles, Barcelona and Turin: this is the genuine, dynamic centre of the unification of post-war Europe, and it will probably remain so. It is in many ways the European coast of the American-transatlantic world, just as Hellas was once situated on the Roman-dominated Mediterranean. And Southern Europe, where the Eternal City and the heart of Old Europe beat and beats, the centre of the Occident. This overview is not complete. It is merely an indicator of the fact that this polarized Europe of old has dissolved into a multipolar Europe, and that we must learn to reckon with these differences, these centrifugal forces, and also with this strength.
Europe cannot be comprehended simply in terms of statistic data or details of distances in kilometres, for it is a phenomenon of the mind, of the collective memory, of national traumas and longings. This, of course, applies particularly to a difficult and strained relationship such as that between the Germans and the peoples of Eastern Europe. After centuries of inspiring and fascinating cooperation, a phase of unprecedented destruction followed in the twentieth century, in which the old network of German cultural relationships broke down. After the German war and German rule from 1939 to 1945, things could never be the same again. Even half a century of peace cannot simply erase traumas of this kind. War, persecution, occupation, philosophical war with the revocation of all the previously valid norms, genocide, and finally the reaction to all this in expulsion and ethnic cleansing – all this has left deep marks. On the other hand, each generation creates its own image of the world and of the past. With the new experiences that we make today, a new history is emerging. The rising generation of Europeans is re-mapping Europe. And it may be that on this map the present plays a greater role than the past that the young people know only from hearsay.
The disappearance of the East brought the end of the old West hot on its heels. Europe was what it was through the whole of the post-war period be cause of the division of the world. Post-war Europe consisted of the opposites of "democracy and dictatorship", of "capitalism and socialism", of "freedom and oppression". These were the ideological codes for the existence of two hemispheres, two different ways of life. The division determined the mental economy of the continent. It defined the alternatives and the lack of alternatives. We always had to decide. Post-war Europe's solution was the either-or, the unambiguity, the yes or no. Now the East no longer exists. What has emerged in its place is neither the old nor the new. It is a no-longer and a not-yet. It is no longer a dictatorship, nor is it a real democracy, perhaps a "dictocracy". The unambiguity has vanished. The West has lost its enemy in the East. The barbarians, without whom the West apparently cannot live, come from other parts of the world today. The mirror that the West gazed into has disappeared.
The new Europe did not spring from Zeus's brow but is growing up from below. There is a lot to be learned from the new East. In the past ten years the people of Eastern Europe have experienced and been involved in great changes which everyone feared would end in a political and social catastrophe. Despite the terrible wars in Yugoslavia and the Caucasus, the "transformation" was, by and large, peaceful and humane. Although the living conditions of an entire society changed drastically and sometimes brutally, there were no revolts or rebellions or militant conflicts. People showed a high level of social discipline, political wisdom and patience. Confronted with almost hopeless everyday situations and rapid changes of living conditions, they did not lose their nerve, they did not succumb to hysteria and panic, and they developed a remarkable capacity for creative improvisation. This growing Europe is not identical with the strategic plans for Europe drafted in Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg. The central planning activities are still bound up with the "expansion of Europe". There are several illusions in this formulation. Firstly, the expansion of the European Union is not the same as the expansion of Europe. Europe is also those parts that do not belong to the EU. Eastern Europe is also Europe. What the essential "core Europe" can learn from Eastern Europe is above all faith in the ability of institutions to renew themselves, in the strength of the basic activities of the civil society, and the improvisational power and ability of countless individuals. Societies like the Polish one, for example, have shown that far-reaching and enduring changes which are desired and understood by the people themselves can be realized in collaboration with them. It is this faith in the self-assured independence of the civil society that is the most important condition for the success of the new Europe.


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Global Tax 50 2016: Elise Bean
Head rapporteur, International Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation and co-director of training and conferences, Levin Centre at Wayne Law
Elise Bean was also in the Global Tax 50 2015
Elise Bean has been helping to tackle complex tax issues this year through a mix of oversight training and tax expertise. As the co-director of training and conferences at the Levin Centre at Wayne Law School in Detroit, she has been organising workshops to help legislatures dig into the complexities of abusive tax practices. Outside of her work at the Centre, she has dedicated a significant portion of her time to becoming familiar with the information released in connection with the Panama Papers and serving as a resource for public and private sector groups examining related issues. She has also written articles to raise public awareness around the revelations and the repercussions.
On October 19-20, at the invitation of the European Parliament's committee of inquiry into money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (PANA), the Levin Centre conducted two workshops in Brussels on how to conduct complex tax oversight. The events, which were attended by more than 55 members of the European Parliament and staffers from the PANA committee focused on how to investigate offshore tax issues.
"For me, helping to publicise, explain, and use the Panama Papers to advocate for increased corporate ownership transparency, stronger tax reforms, and new safeguards on lawyers forming offshore shell entities was a 2016 highlight," Bean told International Tax Review.
During the course of 2016, Bean also worked with a wider coalition on a series of letters advocating greater multinational corporate tax transparency in US law as the government plans its tax reform policy. Bean said the letters, which highlighted a variety of technical issues, included:
Filing country-by-country reports with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in line with Action 13 of the OECD BEPS Project;
Requiring publicly traded US resource extraction corporations to file reports with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to disclose payments and taxes paid to governments as required by Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; and
Encouraging the SEC and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to create new requirements for large US corporations to disclose tax-related information, including country-by-country BEPS-compatible data, in their financial reports.
The efforts of Bean and the coalition have been paying off, with the US finalising the rules around country-by-country reporting to the IRS and Section 1504 corporate reporting to the SEC. "Together, the letters helped build the case for increased corporate tax transparency to enable policymakers, tax authorities, investors, academics and the tax-paying public to gain a greater understanding of existing multinational corporate tax practices and to combat ongoing offshore tax abuses," Bean said.
Throughout the year, she has also spoken at several key events, including a May 23-24 conference sponsored by the World Bank and Tax COOP 2016, entitled "Winning the Tax Wars: Protecting Developing Countries from Global Tax Base Erosion", where she spoke about the tax avoidance strategies used by US multinationals.
Bean also spoke about how aggressive corporate tax dodging was producing increased tax investigations, enforcement actions, and multi-billion-dollar penalties at a May 25 conference sponsored by the US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, entitled "Investing for the Next Generation".
"At both conferences, I explained in part how Apple had set up three Irish subsidiaries that were tax resident nowhere and, over a four-year period, directed $74 billion in sales profits to those Irish subsidiaries while paying Ireland a tax rate of less than 1%," said Bean. "The audiences reacted strongly to Apple's offshore tax actions. Investors and taxpayers may have had similar reactions when, in August, the European Commission ruled that Ireland had negotiated an inappropriate tax deal with Apple that constituted 'illegal state aid' to the company and disadvantaged Apple's competitors."
In September 2016, Bean also presented issues related to "Congressional Oversight" at a Congressional Operations Seminar for Federal Agency Personnel, sponsored by the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University.
Bean has also continued her association with the Independent Commission for Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) as head rapporteur over the past year.
The ICRICT describes itself as a group of leaders from around the world that believes that there is an urgent need and an unprecedented opportunity to bring about significant reform of the international corporate tax system. The ICRICT was initiated by a coalition of civil society organisations including ActionAid, Christian Aid, the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, Oxfam and the Tax Justice Network. Since its inception, it has had a significant impact on global corporate tax issues.
Throughout 2016, it has played a prominent role in unravelling the complex web of the Panama Papers scandal. ICRICT member Joseph Stiglitz was part of Panama's inquiry into the scandal and how to improve the Central American nation's tax credibility, but after the Panamanian government refused to grant the inquiry independence and transparency, he resigned from his post and has since spoken in front of the European Parliament's PANA committee.
Before ICRICT, Bean was the staff director and chief counsel of the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), overseeing a number of tax avoidance investigations, including into the tax practices of Apple, Caterpillar and Microsoft. During her time on the investigations subcommittee, Bean was twice named one of Washington's 100 most powerful women – in 2011 and 2013 – by the Washingtonian magazine, as well as being recognised by the National Law Journal as one of Washington's most influential female lawyers.
Bean's background working with Levin on issues of corporate profit shifting and offshore tax abuse has proved invaluable in the formulation and presentation of ICRICT's ideas, and will help to ensure the group gains even more traction in the year ahead.
In 2017, Bean said she is most concerned about plans to revamp rules for taxing US corporate income under the new President, Donald Trump.
"The new administration is promising major changes in corporate tax rates and the rules for taxing non-US corporate income. President-elect Donald Trump promised to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, but Republicans in Congress expect him to reward profitable corporations that have stashed billions of dollars offshore by dramatically cutting their taxes. Among the many pending questions is whether the new administration will support or repeal measures related to Section 1504 and country-by-country reporting, which together require multinational corporations to disclose basic information about where they do business, declare profits, and pay tax. The same question applies to new US regulations to stop corporate inversions and curb earnings stripping."
In addition, she is concerned about whether the new administration will continue work on several high-profile court cases that could change the tax landscape in the US. Enforcement cases underway include IRS audits of Microsoft, Caterpillar and Renaissance Technology, all of which were investigated by the PSI during Bean's tenure there.
"2017 promises a number of important US tax developments due to court challenges to new US regulations involving Section 1504 disclosures, country-by-country reports, and restrictions on corporate inversions and earnings stripping. The big question is how the new President and his tax leadership team will handle those court cases as well as ongoing IRS audits of powerful corporations like Microsoft, Caterpillar, and Renaissance Technology."
"Next year is also likely to see new legal developments in the European Commission's $14.5 billion assessment against Apple, as well as new Commission decisions invalidating other sweetheart tax deals granted by some EU member states. Together, the Commission rulings could make it much harder for European tax havens to facilitate multinational corporate tax dodging, a development I would like to witness in 2017," Bean concluded.
The Global Tax 50 2016
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The top 10 • Ranked in order of influence
1. Margrethe Vestager 2. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
3. Brexit 4. Arun Jaitley
5. Jacob Lew 6. Antoine Deltour and Raphaël Halet
7. Operation Zealots 8. Guy Verhofstadt
9. Theresa May (and the 'three Brexiteers') 10. Donald Trump
The remaining 40 • In alphabetic order
Kemi Adeosun Piet Battiau
Elise Bean Monica Bhatia
Allison Christians Tim Cook
Rita de la Feria Caroline Flint
Judith Freedman Chrystia Freeland
Pravin Gordhan Orrin Hatch
Meg Hillier Mulyani Indrawati
Lou Jiwei Paul Johnson
Stephanie Johnston Chris Jordan
Pravind Jugnauth Wang Jun
Jean-Claude Juncker Kathleen Kerrigan
Christine Lagarde Werner Langen
Jolyon Maugham Angela Merkel
Narendra Modi Will Morris
Michael Noonan Grace Perez-Navarro
Platform for the Collaboration on Tax Donato Raponi
Pascal Saint-Amans Heather Self
Robert Stack Tax Justice Network
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Transparency International
US Committee on Ways and Means Rodrigo Valdés
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Phoebe Robinson is a multi-talented stand-up comedian, New York Times best-selling writer, and actress. She is best known as the co-creator and co-star of the hi
Phoebe Robinson is a multi-talented stand-up comedian, New York Times best-selling writer, and actress. She is best known as the co-creator and co-star of the hit podcast turned TV show 2 Dope Queens, which aired eight hour-long specials on HBO in February 2018 & 2019. On her second WNYC Studios podcast, the critically-acclaimed talk show Sooo Many White Guys, Phoebe interviews today's biggest stars and ground breakers such as Tom Hanks, Issa Rae, Abbi Jacobson, and many more. Phoebe is also making her presence known in publishing as she is the author of The New York Times best seller You Can't Touch My Hair & Other Things I Still Have To Explain, a collection of essays about race, gender and pop culture. Her second book, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay was released last fall. Phoebe made her feature film debut as one of the stars of the Netflix comedy Ibiza and followed that up by acting alongside Taraji P. Henson in the Paramount film What Men Want. She was also a staff writer on MTV's hit talking head show, Girl Code and IFC's Portlandia, as well as was a consultant on season three of Broad City.
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CAREERUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, IL, assistant professor of humanities, 1967-68; Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, associate professor of English, 1968-80; University of California, Berkeley, professor of English, 1980-88; Boston University, Boston, MA, professor of English and creative writing, 1988—. Visiting lecturer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1979-80; Hurst Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1981.
Sadness and Happiness, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1975.
An Explanation of America, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1979.
History of My Heart, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1984.
The Want Bone, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1990.
(Translator) The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, illustrations by Michael Mazur, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1994.
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1996.
Jersey Rain, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2000.
Landor's Poetry, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1968.
The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1976.
Robert Pinsky (recording), New Letters (Kansas City, MO), 1983.
(Translator, with Robert Hass) Czeslaw Milosz, The Separate Notebooks, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1984.
Amy Clampitt and Robert Pinsky Reading Their Poems (recording), Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Washington, DC), 1984.
Poetry and the World, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1988.
Dorothy Barresi and Robert Pinsky Reading Their Poems (recording), Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Washington, DC), 1992.
The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress: Robert Pinsky (recording), Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Washington, DC), 1995.
Digital Culture and the Individual Soul (recording), Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Washington, DC), 1997.
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1998.
(Collector) The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow, Rob Weisbach Books (New York, NY), 1998.
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Robert Pinsky Reading His Poems in the Montpelier Room, Library of Congress, May 7, 1998, Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Washington, DC), 1998.
Poetry and American Memory (recording), Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Washington, DC), 1998.
Sharing the Gifts: Readings by 1997-2000 Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Robert Pinsky, 1999-2000 Special Poetry Consultants Rita Dove, Louise Glück, W. S. Merwin, 1999 Witter Bynner Fellows David Gewanter, Campbell McGrath, Heather McHugh (recording), Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Washington, DC), 1999.
Robert Pinsky Reading Selections from the Anthology, "Americans' Favorite Poems, the Favorite Poem Project," and Discussing Them in the Mumford Room, Library of Congress, October 7, 1999 (recording), Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Washington, DC), 1999.
The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress—Favorite Poets (recording), Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Washington, DC), 1999.
(Author of introduction) David Noevich Goberman, Carved Memories: Heritage in Stone from the Russian Jewish Pale, Rizzoli (New York, NY), 2000.
(Editor, with Maggie Dietz) Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology, Norton (New York, NY), 2000.
(Selector) Cate Marvin, World's Tallest Disaster: Poems, Sarabande Books (Louisville, KY), 2001.
(Editor, with Maggie Dietz) Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 2002.
Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2002.
A Favorite Poem Reading with Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, and Robert Pinsky (recording), Recorded Sound Reference Center (Washington, DC), 2003.
(Editor) William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems, Library of America (New York, NY), 2004.
(Editor, with Maggie Dietz) An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology, Norton (New York, NY), 2004.
Contributor of articles and poems to American Review, American Poetry Review, Antaeus, Poetry, Shenandoah,and Yale Review. Poetry editor, New Republic, 1978-86, and Slate.com.
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 9, 1978, Volume 19, 1981, Volume 38, 1986.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1982, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1983.
Poetry for Students, Volume 18, Gale (Detroit, MI), 2003.
Spiegelman, Willard, The Didactic Muse, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1989.
American Poetry Review, July-August, 2003, Tony Hoaglund, "Three Tenors: Gluck, Hass, Pinsky, and the Deployment of Talent," pp. 37-42.
American Scholar, spring, 1999, Adam Kirsch, review of The Sounds of Poetry, p. 140.
Atlantic Monthly, March, 1999, David Barber, "What Makes Poetry 'Poetic?'," p. 114; October, 1999, p. 6.
Booklist, June 1, 2002, Donna Seaman, review of Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poems Project Anthology, p. 1670.
Christian Science Monitor, April 21, 1998, Marjorie Coeyman, "Poet Laureate's Request: Lend Me Your Voices," p. B8.
Hudson Review, spring, 1980, pp. 131-145.
Library Journal, May 1, 2000, Graham Christian, review of Jersey Rain, p. 118; July 1, 2002, Daniel L. Guillory, review of Poems to Read, p. 85; October 15, 2002, Scott Hightower, review of Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry, p. 73.
Life, October, 1998, Melissa Faye Greene and Jillian Edelstein, "Poetry U.S.A.," p. 114.
Nation, January 26, 1980, pp. 86-87; September 21, 1998, James Longenbach, review of The Sounds of Poetry,p. 34.
New Republic, September 24, 1990, pp. 46-48; October 28, 2002, David Bromwich, "The Roughs and Beards," p. 25.
New Yorker, January 23, 1995, pp. 87-90.
New York Times, January 31, 1995, pp. B1, B2.
New York Times Book Review, February 20, 1977, Denis Donoghue, review of The Situation of Poetry; July 23, 1989, Amy Edith Johnson, review of Poetry and the World, p. 19; September 25, 1994, "A Man Goes Into a Bar, See, and Recites: 'The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strained,'" pp. 15-16; January 1, 1995, Lynn Karpen, "A Fear of Metrical Engineering," and John Ahern, "Vulgar Eloquence," p. 3; August 18, 1996, Katha Pollitt, "World of Wonders"; April 9, 2000, Adam Kirsch, "Vox Populi."
Poetry, October, 1990, pp. 39-41; July, 1997, Paul Breslin, review of The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996, p. 226; August, 1999, Christian Wiman, review of The Sounds of Poetry, p. 286.
Progressive, May, 1999, Anne-Marie Cusac, "Robert Pinsky," p. 35.
Publishers Weekly, October 25, 1999, "Home Grown," p. 77; March 6, 2000, review of Jersey Rain, p. 105.
TriQuarterly, winter, 1994, "A Conversation with Robert Pinsky," pp. 21-37.
Utne Reader, September-October, 1999, Anne-Marie Cusac, "Robert Pinsky's Grand Slam," p. 98.
World Literature Today, autumn, 1989, pp. 751-752; autumn, 2000, Lee Oser, review of Jersey Rain, p. 820.
Writer, November, 1999, Susan Kelly, "An Interview with Robert Pinsky," p. 18.
Academy of American Poets Web site, http://www.poets.org/ (August 10, 2004), "Robert Pinsky."
Boston University Web site, http:// www.bu.edu/ (October 17, 2003).
Favorite Poem Project Web site, http://www.favoritepoem.org/ (November 22, 2000).


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October 11, 2005 (originally published by Booz & Company)
Six Types of Marketing Organizations: Where Do You Fit In?
Is your marketing approach in sync with your company's needs? Here's how to figure that out.
by Edward C. Landry, Andrew Tipping, and Brodie Dixon
When Eric Kim became Samsung's executive vice president of global marketing in 1999, he found a marketing organization unsuited to the task at hand and a company not ready for the proactive approach Samsung needed from its marketing team.
Earlier in the decade, Samsung had made the decision to transform itself from a low-cost producer of electronics, sold primarily under the brand names of its OEM customers, to a manufacturer of high-end digital products. Quickly enough, management realized these electronic goods would reap higher margins if they were sold under Samsung's own brand. Industry icon Sony had made much the same transition years earlier. Yet the marketing organization Mr. Kim inherited was not equipped for such a marketing-driven push.
Samsung's brand message was fragmented, and marketing budgets were generally driven by short-term programs such as price promotions, according to a case study prepared by John Quelch and Anna Harrington of Harvard Business School. Mr. Kim explained in the report: "Our managers believed that good products sell themselves, that marketing was nothing more than selling, and that selling was only needed when you had a me-too or weak product."
This type of resistance is nothing new. However, for a company that needed a more active marketing effort, it was a major problem. Mr. Kim eventually did solve it at Samsung. Indeed, we believe solutions to all such problems require a common approach. Marketers must work to understand (1) what type of marketing organization they have in place, and (2) what type of organization the company actually needs.
To help marketers meet those goals, Booz Allen Hamilton and the Association of National Advertisers have joined together to examine the types of marketing organizations that commonly exist today and their best paths of evolution to keep up with the companies and industries in which they live. Our examination identified six distinct types, or profiles, of marketing organizations. All have unique strengths, and each is appropriate to particular types of companies in certain competitive circumstances.
Growth Champion. This organization is highly valued within the company for its ability to drive revenue. It is considered as important as other major departments, such as finance and sales. It drives the company's priorities and leads product innovation and new business development.
Senior Counselor. Functioning as a high-level advisor on marketing strategy to the chief executive officer and the individual businesses, the Senior Counselor leads major advertising, promotion, and public relations campaigns. Unlike the Growth Champion, however, it does not typically drive company-wide strategy.
Brand Foreman. Above all, the Brand Foreman is an efficient provider of marketing services, ranging from communications strategy to creative output and campaign execution, in support of the company's key brands. It serves as the central manager of agency relationships, and is considered among the company's most important support organizations.
Growth Facilitator. The Growth Facilitator has the authority and skills to develop and lead large, company-wide marketing efforts and helps set the business's overall priorities. This marketing organization coordinates with other major functions, such as sales and product development.
Best Practices Advisor. The Best Practices Advisor works with the individual businesses to identify internal and external best practices and incorporate them into all marketing activities. This organization's goal is helping the businesses achieve maximum effectiveness and efficiency, and it has expertise across all elements of the marketing toolkit.
Service Provider. This organization supplies marketing services such as advertising, promotion, and public relations at the request of the company's brand and product teams. The Service Provider is effective at executing specific tasks and is responsive to time-sensitive requests.
Although many marketing organizations profess to fulfill most or all of these functions, they tend, in practice, to gravitate into only one of these roles. Knowing which type of marketing organization exists within a company is thus a critical first step. Then, the challenge is to understand where the company is heading and make sure the marketing team is configured properly.
Underlying these categories is a set of cultural and organizational "building blocks" that determine the type of marketing organization prevalent in each company. Our research found that the nature of the marketing organization derives from four key elements:
Scope. Scope is the range of responsibility — the playing field — in which a marketing organization operates across the company. The scope of a marketing organization can run the gamut from executive-level jurisdiction, working hand-in-hand with the CEO on a daily basis, to purely functional, with responsibilities solely for brand management and agency relationships.
Decision Rights. "Decision rights" refers to the authority, or autonomy, that the marketing organization has within the company. For example, can marketing approve large, growth-oriented investment decisions such as positioning, channel strategy, pricing, and communications?
Capabilities. Some marketing organizations may have high-level general management and leadership skills, whereas others will focus more on creative expertise or technical, analytical, and administrative skills.
Organizational Linkages. This element looks at significant relationships, such as whether central marketing is proactive in providing advice and services to the individual businesses or whether it serves more as an advisor on marketing strategy to the CEO.
To pull this all together, we have created the Booz Allen/ANA Marketing Profiler. Anyone who works with, or within, a marketing organization is invited to try it. Simply go to www.marketingprofiler.com and spend a few minutes taking a short test. Find out which profile your organization has today and what migration path, if any, is recommended for your organization. Readings and resources tailored to your profile and migration strategy will also be provided.
Samsung's Eric Kim made a similar analysis on his own and spent half a decade building his marketing organization into one that closely matched his company's aspirations. The result? Samsung has climbed to No. 21 in Business Week/Interbrand's 2004 ranking of the world's most valuable brands. Business Week wrote, "No longer known just for undercutting the prices of big Japanese brands, the Korean consumer-electronics dynamo is suddenly cool." Perhaps even more impressive for Mr. Kim, Samsung now ranks just one spot behind Sony (No. 20).
Edward Landry (landry_edward@bah.com) is a vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton in New York. He focuses on strategy and sales and marketing effectiveness for consumer packaged-goods and health-care companies.
Andrew Tipping (tipping_andrew@bah.com) is a vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton in Chicago. He specializes in the organization and change leadership aspects of customer-focused transformation for companies and public sector agencies.
Brodie Dixon (dixon_brodie@bah.com) is a senior associate in Booz Allen's New York office. He specializes in helping clients in the services sector redesign organizational structures and processes around customer segments and channels.
Also contributing to this article were Booz Allen Vice President Paul Hyde (hyde_paul@bah.com) and Principal Jay Kumar (kumar_jayant@bah.com).
Des Dearlove, editor, Results-Driven Marketing: A Guide to Growth and Profits (strategy+business Books, 2005), Click here.
Paul Hyde, Edward Landry, and Andrew Tipping, "Making the Perfect Marketer," s+b, Winter 2004, Click here.
Tim Laseter, Alex Kandybin, and Pat Houston, "Marketing and Operations: Can This Marriage Be Saved?" s+b, First Quarter 2002, Click here.
Leslie H. Moeller, Sharat K. Mathur, and Randall Rothenberg, "The Better Half: The Artful Science of ROI Marketing," s+b, Spring 2003, Click here.
John A. Quelch and Anna Harrington, "Samsung Electronics Co.: Global Marketing Operations," Harvard Business School Publishing, March 2, 2004, Click here.
Topics: execution, pricing, advertising, brand, finance


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Tamaki, Valero-O'Connell and more win 2019 Ignatz Awards
Annual awards presented at the Small Press Expo honor excellence in independent comics, graphic novels and minicomics.
The winners of the 2019 Ignatz Awards were announced this weekend at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland.
The big winners of the night were Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Rosemary Valero-O'Connell, who took home three awards between them, including "Outstanding Graphic Novel." The political cartoon site The Nib also continued its recent winning streak, taking home the award for "Outstanding Series."
The Ignatz, named after George Herriman's brick-wielding mouse from the classic comic strip Krazy Kat, recognizes exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an art form and as a means of personal expression. The awards have been presented annually since 1997.
The awards presentations were hosted by cartoonist Keith Knight:
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Author JK ParkinPosted on September 15, 2019 September 15, 2019 Categories AwardsTags Carolyn Nowak, Check Please!, Ebony Flowers, Emma Jayne, Full Court Crush, Girl Town, Hannah Blumenreich, Ignatz Awards, Jeanne Thornton, Keith Knight, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, Mariko Tamaki, Matt Bors, Ngozi Ukazu, Rosemary Valero-O'Connell, Small Press Expo, spx2019, Tara Avery, The Nib, Trans Girls Hit the Town, We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology1 Comment on Tamaki, Valero-O'Connell and more win 2019 Ignatz Awards
Smash Pages Q&A: Carolyn Nowak's 'Girl Town'
The Ignatz Award-winning creator discusses her latest project from Top Shelf.
Carolyn Nowak might be known to many comics readers for her work drawing Lumberjanes, but she's also the Ignatz Award-winning creator behind comics like Radishes and Diana's Electric Tongue. Those two stories, plus two more, along with a brand new story, have been collected in the new book Girl Town, which was just released from Top Shelf.
My feelings to the stories were similar to when I read Nowak's comic Girl Town years ago. It was a beautifully drawn and thoughtful tale of three women who "got kicked out of astronaut school for being too good-looking to be sent to space. Now we try to make a living raising beans and cabbages, cleaning houses and curating erotic zines about staying on Earth." It's a funny opening, but the story itself is strange in a different way. It's complicated and fraught, about trying to understand the emotions someone else causes in us. About getting older and trying make sense of whether this feeling is love or lust, hate or loneliness, and complexity of relationships and friendship. Nowak half-jokingly described the book as "my twenties" and for those of us who survived those years, that description will resonate in so many ways.
Besides the Lumberjanes collections that Nowak drew, she also wrote and drew the new book Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New School Nightmare, but Girl Town is the work of a masterful artist who has found her voice. Nowak was kind enough to answer a few questions about her work.
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At 41 years old, Alessandro Petacchi will keep sprinting into 2015 after signing a new deal with the Southeast team.
The Italian was the winner of the 2010 Tour de France green jersey and acted as lead-out man for Mark Cavendish at team Omega Pharma-QuickStep during 2014.
Southeast is a second division, Professional Continental team formerly known as Neri Sottoli. The team still carries the sponsors name on its jersey, which is grey instead of neon yellow for 2015.
The team suffered several doping cases, last year with Matteo Rabottini and in 2013, with Mauro Santambrogio and Danilo Di Luca. Head sports director, Luca Scinto left the team at the end of 2014 saying that he was "disappointed" with the team.
The Tuscany-based team is just around the corner from Petacchi, who lives over the border in Liguria. It will enable Petacchi to race into his 20th professional season and possibly the Giro d'Italia, where he scored so many wins.
Since turning professional in 1996, 'Ale-Jet' collected the 2010 green jersey, the 2005 Milan-San Remo and stages in all three grand tours: 22 in the Giro d'Italia, six in the Tour de France and 20 in the Vuelta a España.
His five stage victories from the 2007 Giro were stricken due to an anti-doping ban in 2008 for asthma inhaler drug, Salbutamol.
Team General Manager Angelo Citracca told Cycling Weekly in October that he wanted to sign Petacchi for his race knowledge and speed. He said that it could be useful for the team's young cyclists like upcoming sprinter and first year professional, Jakub Mareczko.
Second division teams must ask for one of the Giro d'Italia's four or five wildcard invitations to race alongside the 17 first division teams, like Sky, that are guaranteed starts. Southeast raced the last four editions under the names Neri Sottoli, Vini Fantini and Yellow Fluo. It will be up against teams Colombia, MTN and others for a 2015 spot.
Petacchi explained that he hopes to race the Giro another time as a good way to end his career. Afterwards, he said that he wants to begin studying to become a sports director.


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Q: FillRect doesn't paint the complete TStringGrid cell in Delphi XE2 FillRect doesn't paint the complete TStringGrid cell in Delphi XE2. There is a gap of 3 pixels on the left side in the default color (with BiDiMode set to bdLeftToRight). This problem doesn't exist in Delphi 6 which I used before.
procedure TShapeline.StringGrid1DrawCell(Sender: TObject; ACol, ARow: Integer;
  Rect: TRect; State: TGridDrawState);
begin
  Stringgrid1.Canvas.Brush.Color:=$00FF80FF;
  StringGrid1.Canvas.FillRect(Rect);
end;

I tried to change all properties (including the DrawingStyle) and different brush styles, the painted rectangle doesn't fill the complete cell.

A: You can use the StringGrid1.CellRect(ACol, ARow) that returns the actual TRect of the cell instead of using the parameter Rect.

A: This is expected behaviour in XE2 when DefaultDrawing = true and themes are enabled (I'm not going to argue about good or bad here - as you might have noticed, the behaviour is different for RigthToLeft mode...).
A workaround is to check for this condition and decrement Rect.Left by 4 pixel before calling FillRect.

A: Turn off the first 4 options in TStringGrid:

*

*goFixedVertLine

*goFixedHorizLine

*goVertLine

*goHorizLine

Then it won't paint the grid lines, and your grid cells will paint right to the edges. Just tried it with XE.

A: Since you're drawing the grid cell yourself then just turn off the grid property DefaultDrawing, set it to false.