As the St Helens Through The Lens project nears completion, we must highlight the invaluable assistance of the dedicated volunteers and the efforts they have put in on this project.
When the project started, we had over 3000 unsorted, undocumented digitised images and over 3000 unsorted fragile glass plate negatives. The first task was to go through each of the digitised images, describing, listing and sorting them as well as then researching images, identifying people and locations featured in the images.
Next, it was time to start the process of sorting through the physical negatives, ensuring each negative matched up to the corresponding digital image.
The volunteers were dedicated in the enormous task of rehousing each of the of the 3564 glass plate and film negatives into new archival standard enclosures.
All negatives from the Geoff Williams Photography Collection have now been transferred into new envelopes and boxes and kept in conditions best suited to preserve them for the future. They have been made accessible; digitised, described and sorted, now fully catalogued and searchable online.
Project volunteer Rita James and Project Archivist Victoria Brokenshire with the rehoused negatives of the Geoff Williams Photography Collection.
The project volunteers have successfully described and identified over 3000 locally important images; helping to make them accessible now and preserving them for the future. Thanks again Rita James, Val Wilson, Judith Service, Dianna Heywood, Sharon Lowe and Pam Grey.


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Daily Willis Review | 12th March 2018
Consortium completes acquisition of Canopius
Canopius has announced the completion of its acquisition by a private equity consortium. It is now a standalone business.
The consortium of buyers was led by Centerbridge Partners and includes private investment firm Gallatin Point Capital.
The company will be headed up by Chairman Michael Watson and Group Chief Underwriting officer Mike Duffy.
Canopius was founded in 2003 and is one of the top ten insurers at Lloyd's, writing premium income of more than $1.5 billion in 2017, the release said.
Mr. Watson said: "I am delighted to herald the dawn of an exciting new chapter in Canopius's journey. This has re-energized our exceptionally talented team who, with the financial strength and insights of our new owners, will continue to pursue our ambition of building a world-class specialty insurance and reinsurance franchise."
Ben Langworthy and Matthew Kabaker, Senior Managing Directors at Centerbridge said: "We're very happy to have completed the investment in Canopius."
Insurers and reinsurers in CIMA zone increase profitability: A.M. Best
According to A.M. Best, insurance and reinsurance companies that operate in the Conférence Interafricaine des Marchés d'Assurances (CIMA) zone in Africa continued to grow profitably in recent years.
CIMA is the regional body of the insurance industry for 14 countries in French-speaking African Countries.
The profitable growth is due to the legislative changes in the region, which aim to increase premium retention within the CIMA zone, said the report.
The reforms also bolster insurers' capital and surplus are expected to help create a stronger market prospectively.
A.M. Best believes that the credit fundamentals of insurance and reinsurance companies operating in CIMA countries will remain resilient in the medium term.
However, the ratings agency anticipates country risk to remain an offsetting credit factor.
Ghislain Le Cam, Director, Analytics said: "Local insurers and reinsurers are exposed to a challenging environment, which is subject to instability.
"In particular, political risks and social unrest have the potential to rapidly and adversely affect a company's financial strength."
Randall & Quilter launches adverse development cover for risk retention group
Randall & Quilter (R&Q) has issued a $70 million adverse development cover reinsurance policy to a U.S.-domiciled risk retention group (RRG).
The policy covers medical professional liability and general liability risks and is designed to protect the RRG from downside risk on their legacy insurance program.
The coverage was written by Accredited Surety and Casualty Company, R&Q's wholly owned carrier.
Ken Randall, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of R&Q, said: "This transaction adds to the continued development of exit solutions to risk retention groups within the U.S.
"We are excited to expand our capabilities using Accredited Surety & Casualty to assist in solving various issues that arise on legacy liabilities for RRG's, self-insurers, and corporates within the U.S."
Sompo strengthens loss control leadership
Sompo International has appointed Victor Sordillo as Loss Control Leader for all of Sompo International Insurance and Christine Sullivan as Senior Vice-President, Loss Control Leader, Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS).
Mr. Sordillo joined the company in 2017 and most recently served as Senior VP for Loss Control, GRS.
In his previous role, Mr. Sordillo broadened the scope of strategic risk management services offered to GRS clients and in his new role, he will further evolve these services to support the insurance platform globally.
In her new role, Ms. Sullivan will be working alongside GRS loss control, underwriting and claims staff, and will continue to enhance the company's loss control capabilities for GRS's target industries.
Jack Kuhn, Chief Executive Officer of Global Insurance, said: "Proactive and tailored risk management services are highly valued by our clients, as we not only offer our insureds financial protection but we also work closely with them to reduce loss experience and identify ways to improve and differentiate their business operations.
"Both Vic and Christine are recognized leaders in risk management best practices across a range of industries."
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Psalm 106:6 We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
We have sinned, even as our ancestors did; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
Like our ancestors, we have sinned. We have done wrong! We have acted wickedly!
We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.
We and our ancestors have sinned terribly.
We have sinned as our ancestors did; we have been wicked and evil.
We have sinned, along with our ancestors; we have committed iniquity and wickedness.
We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.
We have sinned with our fathers; we have gone astray and we have done wickedness.
We have sinned, and so did our ancestors. We have done wrong. We are guilty.
We have sinned with our fathers, We have done iniquitously, we have dealt wickedly.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedly.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have transgressed, we have done unrighteously.
When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.
We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.
Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."
Do not be like your forefathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.' But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
(6) We.--Regard must be paid to the fact that the confession includes the speaker and his generation, as well as the ancestors of the race. The psalm proceeds from the period of the Captivity, when the national conscience, or at all events that of the nobler part of the nation, was thoroughly alive to the sinfulness of idolatry.
Verses 6-46. - The psalmist now enters on his main subject - the transgressions of Israel in the past, and God's manifold mercies vouchsafed to them. These he traces from the time of the Exodus (ver. 7) to that of the Babylonish captivity (ver. 46). Verse 6. - We have sinned with our fathers (comp. Leviticus 26:40; 1 Kings 8:47; Ezra 9:6, 7; Nehemiah 1:6, 7; Nehemiah 9:16-18, 26; Daniel 9:5-8). We have committed iniquity; or, "dealt perversely" (Kay). We have done wickedly. The confession is as broad and general as possible, including all under sin - the "fathers" from Moses downwards, the whole nation from the time of its settlement in Canaan, and even the afflicted exiles in Babylon. Their guilt is emphaized by the use of three verbs, each more forcible than the last.


"Vogue" by Madonna is now twenty-five years old. And it is already recognized as one of the greatest music classics.
This is a great tribute. A house track with male vocals. A tribal rework that has "Vogue" as the main base.


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Miles Davis/Tadd Dameron Quintet In Paris Festival International De Jazz May 1949
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Pulp Diction 2: The last copy editor
(Previously: 15 items or trouble)
At the old Sun building on Calvert Street the front door yielded with a rusty creak. Dust lay thick on the guard's desk, and small birds flew through broken windows. Bundled stacks of the last print edition displayed the headline: SEE US ON THE WEB.
Windows were out on the second floor, too, and scurrying and skittering sounds preceded me as I rounded the corner into the main room. Row on row of cubicles stretched out, each with a computer terminal like a headstone, each with a sad little collection of photos, figurines, long-dead plants. It was like walking the deck of the Mary Celeste.
On a bulletin board near the old copy desk, dangling from a single push pin, a yellowed memo listed a set of banned holiday cliches. The office next to the bulletin board was empty except for a Webster's New World College Dictionary missing its cover.
A quavering voice asked, "Who's there?"
A stooped figure, brandishing a red stapler, rose from one of the copy desk work stations where he had been dozing on an improvised pallet of final-edition bundles. His hair was white, his beard untrimmed, his gaze wary. He wore a green eyeshade, and I recognized my quarry: the last copy editor.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"I used to be a copy editor myself. Tell me how it all ended," I said, with a sweeping gesture.
"Son, I started here when it was the A.S. Abell Company. Then Times Mirror. Then Tribune. When Tribune went belly-up and the Scavenger Group acquired the place, it was a new editor every six months. Each one came in, did a redesign, announced a new strategy to attract readers, and got bounced before his chair got warm.
"Last one was a fellow named White. Three-barreled name. Allen William White. Lasted a month and a half. They fired him for spending too much on farewell cakes for people leaving the staff."
"Then they sent in this manager — name of Volponi — who walked into the newsroom, announced that the paper didn't really need an editor, that editors were just vestiges of an outmoded nineteenth-century industrial model, and fired just about everybody."
"So why are you still here?"
"See this?" He held up a battered Associated Press Stylebook. "At the end, they could only afford one copy. Kept it locked in the editor's office. You had to file a form to look at it. When they were all gone, I snagged it. Now it's mine."
"See here?" He pointed to a table with a roll of leftover newsprint stretched across the surface. It was covered with writing in a small, crabbed hand. "Now that I've got it, I'm revising it, making it right. I'm fixing all the stuff those arrogant fools got wrong for years."
He was a loony, but I had to humor him. "May I see the book?"
"You have to give it back." But he handed it over, reluctantly.
It fell open to the VERBS entry. Someone had put a dot under certain letters with a red grease pencil:
"The abbreviation v. is used in this book to identify the spelling of the verb forms of words frequently misspelled.
"SPLIT FORMS: In general, avoid awkward constructions that split infinitive forms of a verb. ..."
Next: The wider web
Posted by John McIntyre at 8:04 AM
MelissaJane February 18, 2010 at 8:47 AM
So, when They say "write what you know"...They really know what They're talking about. Loving this.
Wayne Countryman February 18, 2010 at 12:35 PM
1. Don't go near anything resembling a pneumatic tube. They're invariably haunted and never die.
2. Don't step on Dick, the cop reporter, who might still be there, buried under unpublished notes.
3. Don't touch any pica poles -- they could harbor bacteria from going-away cakes.
4. You're not really going to approach "the wider web," are you? [shudder]
Mark Allen February 18, 2010 at 2:18 PM
A true out-loud laugh from Wayne Countryman No. 3. Thanks.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1014639/glass-worker-labelled-texas-plane-attack-hero
How about this headline? I was surprised the publication could get away with writing a story about a man labeling the plane attacker a "hero."
Jed Waverly February 19, 2010 at 4:16 AM
Well written. I could feel it.
PCB Rob February 22, 2010 at 1:28 PM
Looking forward to the next installment!


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О́льга Анато́льевна Слю́сарева (род. 28 апреля 1969 года, Червоный Донец, СССР) — российская шоссейная и трековая велогонщица, олимпийская чемпионка, шестикратная чемпионка мира, пятикратная чемпионка Европы, победительница Кубка мира, заслуженный мастер спорта России.Клуб-Динамо Тула.
Биография[ | код]
Ольга Слюсарева родилась 28 апреля 1969 года в пос. Червоный Донец Харьковской области. В 1993г. окончила Тульский государственный педагогический университет им. Л. Н. Толстого, а в 2010г. — Орловскую региональную академию государственной службы.
До назначения на должность помощника губернатора Тульской области Ольга Слюсарева проходила службу в Вооруженных Силах Российской Федерации. Выступления за сборные СССР/России: 1989 год — 2009 год.
В 2000 году на Олимпиаде в Сиднее завоевала бронзовую медаль в индивидуальной гонке по очкам на велотреке. Спустя 4 года в Афинах Ольга выиграла золото в индивидуальной гонке по очкам на велотреке и бронзу в групповой гонке на шоссе.
Владимир Петрович Петров - один из наставников спортсменки в велоспорте[1].
В ноябре 2009 года, по сообщениям прессы, приняла решение завершить спортивную карьеру, однако опровергла эту информацию[2].
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В июле 2012 года приказом первого заместителя губернатора Тульской области – руководителя аппарата правительства Тульской области – начальника главного управления государственной службы и кадров аппарата правительства Тульской области О. Н. Татарченковой
на должность государственной гражданской службы Тульской области председателя комитета Тульской области по спорту и молодёжной политике назначена Слюсарева Ольга Анатольевна.
В сентябре 2014 года Ольга Анатольевна была избрана депутатом Тульской областной думы.
Личная жизнь[ | код]
Проживает с семьёй в Туле.
В декабре 2009 года родила второго сына, Егора.
Первый сын: Сергей,
Третий сын: Богдан (род. 2012 год)
Четвёртый сын: Никита (род. 2017 год)
Почётная гражданка Тулы (решение Тульской городской Думы).
Почётный гражданин города Батайска (Ростовская область) (2004)
Медаль ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством» II степени — За заслуги в развитии физической культуры и спорта, большой вклад в укрепление дружбы и сотрудничества между народами[3]
Орден Дружбы — За большой вклад в развитие физической культуры и спорта, высокие спортивные достижения на Играх XXVIII Олимпиады 2004 года в Афинах[4]
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Третий сын: Богдан (род. 2012 год).
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О́льга Анато́льевна Слю́сарева (род. 28 апреля 1969 года, Червоный Донец, СССР) — российская шоссейная и трековая велогонщица, олимпийская чемпионка, шестикратная чемпионка мира, пятикратная чемпионка Европы, победительница Кубка мира, заслуженный мастер спорта России.
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1. Россия – Russia, also officially the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. The European western part of the country is more populated and urbanised than the eastern. Russias capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a range of environments. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, the East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, in 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of states, most of the Rus lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion. The Soviet Union played a role in the Allied victory in World War II. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the worlds first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the second largest economy, largest standing military in the world. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic, the Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russias extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the producers of oil. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. The name Russia is derived from Rus, a state populated mostly by the East Slavs. However, this name became more prominent in the later history, and the country typically was called by its inhabitants Русская Земля. In order to distinguish this state from other states derived from it, it is denoted as Kievan Rus by modern historiography, an old Latin version of the name Rus was Ruthenia, mostly applied to the western and southern regions of Rus that were adjacent to Catholic Europe. The current name of the country, Россия, comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Kievan Rus, the standard way to refer to citizens of Russia is Russians in English and rossiyane in Russian. There are two Russian words which are translated into English as Russians
2. Харьков – Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine. In the northeast of the country, it is the largest city of the Slobozhanshchyna historical region, the city has a population of about 1.5 million people. Kharkiv is the centre of Kharkiv Oblast and of the surrounding Kharkiv district. The city was founded in 1654 and after a humble beginning as a small fortress grew to be a centre of Ukrainian industry, trade. Kharkiv was the first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, from December 1919 to January 1934 and its industry specializes primarily in machinery and in electronics. There are hundreds of companies in the city, including the Morozov Design Bureau and the Malyshev Tank Factory, Khartron, the Turboatom. Some sources indicate that the city may have named after the Hunnic name for swan. Other sources offer that the city was named after its near-legendary founder, archeological evidence discovered in the area of present-day Kharkiv indicates that a population has existed in that area since the second millennium BC. Cultural artifacts date back to the Bronze Age, as well as those of later Scythian and Sarmatian settlers, there is also evidence that the Chernyakhov culture flourished in the area from the second to the sixth centuries. The city was founded by re-settlers who were running away from the war that engulfed Right-bank Ukraine in 1654, the years before the region was a sparsely populated part of the Cossack Hetmanate. The group of people came onto the banks of Lopan and Kharkiv rivers where a settlement stood. According to archive documents, the leader of the re-settlers was otaman Ivan Kryvoshlyk, at first the settlement was self-governed under the jurisdiction of a voivode from Chuhuiv that is 40 kilometres to the east. The first appointed voivode from Moscow was Voyin Selifontov in 1656 who started to build a local ostrog, at that time the population of Kharkiv was just over 1000, half of whom were local cossacks, while Selifontov brought along a Moscow garrison of another 70 servicemen. The first Kharkiv voivode was replaced in two years after constantly complaining that locals refused to cooperate in building the fort, Kharkiv also became the centre of the local Sloboda cossack regiment as the area surrounding the Belgorod fortress was being heavily militarized. By 1657 the Kharkiv settlement had a fortress with underground passageways, in 1658 Ivan Ofrosimov was appointed as the new voivode, who worked on forcing locals to kiss the cross to show loyalty to the Moscow tsar. The locals led by their otaman Ivan Kryvoshlyk refused, however, with the election of the new otaman Tymish Lavrynov the community sent a request to the tsar to establish a local Assumption market, signed by deans of Kharkiv churches. Relationships with the neighboring Chuhuiv sometimes were non-friendly and often their arguments were pacified by force, with the appointment of the third voivode Vasiliy Sukhotin was completely finished the construction of the city fort. Meanwhile, Kharkiv had become the centre of Sloboda Ukraine, the Kharkiv Fortress was erected around the Assumption Cathedral and its castle was at University Hill
3. Украинская Советская Социалистическая Республика – The Ukrainian SSR was a founding member of the United Nations, although it was legally represented by the All-Union state in its affairs with countries outside of the Soviet Union. From the start, the city of Kharkiv served as the republics capital. However, in 1934, the seat of government was moved to the city of Kyiv. Geographically, the Ukrainian SSR was situated in Eastern Europe to the north of the Black Sea, bordered by the Soviet republics of Moldavia, Byelorussia, the Ukrainian SSRs border with Czechoslovakia formed the Soviet Unions western-most border point. According to the Soviet Census of 1989 the republic had a population of 51,706,746 inhabitants, the name Ukraine, derived from the Slavic word kraj, meaning land or border. It was first used to part of the territory of Kievan Rus in the 12th century. The name has been used in a variety of ways since the twelfth century, after the abdication of the tsar and the start of the process of the destruction of the Russian Empire many people in Ukraine wished to establish a Ukrainian Republic. During a period of war from 1917-23 many factions claiming themselves governments of the newly born republic were formed, each with supporters. The two most prominent of them were the government in Kyiv and the government in Kharkiv, the former being the Ukrainian Peoples Republic and the latter the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. This government of the Soviet Ukrainian Republic was founded on 24–25 December 1917, in its publications it names itself either the Republic of Soviets of Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants Deputies or the Ukrainian Peoples Republic of Soviets. The last session of the government took place in the city of Taganrog, in July 1918 the former members of the government formed the Communist Party of Ukraine, the constituent assembly of which took place in Moscow. On 10 March 1919, according to the 3rd Congress of Soviets in Ukraine the name of the state was changed to the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic. After the ratification of the 1936 Soviet Constitution, the names of all Soviet republics were changed, transposing the second, during its existence, the Ukrainian SSR was commonly referred to as Ukraine or the Ukraine. On 24 August 1991, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic declared independence, since the adoption of the Constitution of Ukraine in June 1996, the country became known simply as Ukraine, which is the name used to this day. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, several factions sought to create an independent Ukrainian state, the most popular faction was initially the local Socialist Revolutionary Party that composed the local government together with Federalists and Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks boycotted any government initiatives most of the time, instigating several armed riots in order to establish the Soviet power without any intent for consensus, immediately after the October Revolution in Petrograd, Bolsheviks instigated the Kiev Bolshevik Uprising to support the Revolution and secure Kyiv. Due to a lack of support from the local population and anti-revolutionary Central Rada, however. Most moved to Kharkiv and received the support of the eastern Ukrainian cities, later, this move was regarded as a mistake by some of the Peoples Commissars
4. Союз Советских Социалистических Республик – The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. It was nominally a union of national republics, but its government. The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917 and this established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and started the Russian Civil War between the revolutionary Reds and the counter-revolutionary Whites. In 1922, the communists were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, following Lenins death in 1924, a collective leadership and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin suppressed all opposition to his rule, committed the state ideology to Marxism–Leninism. As a result, the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization which laid the foundation for its victory in World War II and postwar dominance of Eastern Europe. Shortly before World War II, Stalin signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact agreeing to non-aggression with Nazi Germany, in June 1941, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theater of war in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the effort of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at battles such as Stalingrad. Soviet forces eventually captured Berlin in 1945, the territory overtaken by the Red Army became satellite states of the Eastern Bloc. The Cold War emerged by 1947 as the Soviet bloc confronted the Western states that united in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949. Following Stalins death in 1953, a period of political and economic liberalization, known as de-Stalinization and Khrushchevs Thaw, the country developed rapidly, as millions of peasants were moved into industrialized cities. The USSR took a lead in the Space Race with Sputnik 1, the first ever satellite, and Vostok 1. In the 1970s, there was a brief détente of relations with the United States, the war drained economic resources and was matched by an escalation of American military aid to Mujahideen fighters. In the mid-1980s, the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought to reform and liberalize the economy through his policies of glasnost. The goal was to preserve the Communist Party while reversing the economic stagnation, the Cold War ended during his tenure, and in 1989 Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe overthrew their respective communist regimes. This led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements inside the USSR as well, in August 1991, a coup détat was attempted by Communist Party hardliners. It failed, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing a role in facing down the coup. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states
5. Велосипедный спорт – Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of racing including road bicycle racing, time trialling, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX. Non-racing cycling sports include cycling, cycle polo, freestyle BMX. The Union Cycliste Internationale is the governing body for cycling. The International Human Powered Vehicle Association is the body for human-powered vehicles that imposes far fewer restrictions on their design than does the UCI. The UltraMarathon Cycling Association is the body for many ultra-distance cycling races. Bicycle racing is recognised as an Olympic sport, bicycle races are popular all over the world, especially in Europe. The countries most devoted to bicycle racing include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, other countries with international standing include Australia, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom and the United States. The first bicycle race is held to have been a 1,200 meter race on the 31 May 1868 at the Parc de Saint-Cloud. It was won by expatriate Englishman James Moore who rode a bicycle with iron tires. The machine is now on display at the museum in Ely, Cambridgeshire, road bicycle racing involve both team and individual competition, and races are contested in various ways. They range from the road race, criterium, and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour de France. The races typically take place from spring through to autumn, many riders from the northern hemisphere spend the winter in countries such as Australia, to compete or train. The longest one-day road race sanctioned by USA Cycling is Lotoja which covers the 206 miles from Logan, Utah to Jackson, criteriums are races based on circuits typically less than a mile in length and sometimes run for a set time rather than a specific distance. Criteriums are the most popular form of racing in North America. In Belgium, kermesses are popular, single-day events of usually over 120 km, as well as road races in which all riders start simultaneously, individual time trial and team time trial events are also held on road-based courses. Track cycling encompasses races that take place on banked tracks or velodromes, events are quite diverse and can range from individual and team pursuits, two-man sprints, to various group and mass start races. Competitors use track bicycles which do not have brakes or freewheels, cyclo-cross originated as a sport for road racers during the off season, to vary their training during the cold months
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Carlos Mastronardi (1901 – June 5, 1976) was an Argentine journalist, poet, and translator.  His works included Luz de provincia, Tierra amanecida (1926), Conocimiento de la noche (1937), and Tratado de la pena. His non-fiction Valéry o la infinitud del método (Valéry, or the infinitude of method) won the Buenos Aires Municipal Prize for Literature (1955). Other important works of non-fiction included Formas de la realidad nacional (Forms of the National Reality, 1961) and  Memorias de un Provinciano (Memoirs of a Man from the Provinces, 1967). Some of his journalism was published posthumously as Cuadernos de vivir y pensar (Notebooks of Living and Thinking, 1984).

As a translator, Mastronardi was mainly known for translating the French Symbolist poets into Spanish. As a poet, although identified personally with the avant-garde of his time, he wrote largely in traditional forms rather than free verse, and rejected what he viewed as his contemporaries' excessive use of metaphor.

Born in Gualeguay, Entre Ríos Province, Mastronardi came to Buenos Aires at the age of 19. There he became a member of the Martín Fierro group (also known as the Florida group) and an intimate of Jorge Luis Borges, although they disagreed strongly about questions about aesthetics and poetry. Mastronardi figures as a minor character in Borges's short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.

Mastronardi led a notoriously nocturnal existence. Writing of Mastronardi in 1986 in the newspaper El País (Madrid), Borges said of Mastronardi that "Like Auguste Dupin ... [the detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe] ... at night he went about the streets of Buenos Aires looking for that intellectual stimulus that only can be given by nighttime in a great city."

After a long period in which his work fell into obscurity, Mastronardi's works are () being re-published by Argentina's Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

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"Lyric poetry, for many of its ... [Argentine] ... practitioners, lacks all plan and requires no sacrifice. It allows the writer to follow the path of least resistance: everything consists of letting things be. In contrast, narrative, criticism, and essays (almost uncultivated among us), demand preparatory work and organic development."

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 Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
 Martín Prieto, Memorias de un provinciano, Clarin.com, 15 February 2003, accessed 25 December 2005.
 Efemérides (official Argentine government site) page on Algunos amigos e influencias importantes ("Some important friends and influences [of Jorge Luis Borges]").

1901 births
1976 deaths
20th-century Argentine historians
Place of birth missing
20th-century Argentine male writers
Male non-fiction writers

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KFC Chicken Meals Contained Wrinkled Kidney "Brain"
KFC Chicken Meals disgusted James Lally as he got the surprise of his life when he bought a variety meal from KFC and found a wrinkled kidney and "almost a complete spine" hidden in the KFC original recipe piece.
He bought the KFC chicken meals for himself and his girlfriend at the London Road restaurant in Brighton. The 22-year-old's girlfriend made the gruesome discovery after she already had eaten most of the chicken.
Lally is not the first student to find foreign bodies in his KFC chicken meals. In January another student found what he thought was a "wrinkled brain" in his value meal. That 3 inch organ was later confirmed by KFC staff to have been a kidney.
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"Stranger Things 4" Producer Discusses COVID-19 Shutdown
Written by Marcus Panem on March 18, 2020
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Executive producer of Stranger Things Shawn Levy has spoken to Variety on the show's recent production shutdown, and how the crew received the news. Stranger Things is just one of many shows put on hiatus due to coronavirus, as production teams across the industry practice social distancing. Levy explained how he and Netflix made the safe decision in stopping production.
"I was having phone calls with Netflix while directing takes and blocking scenes. We shared the news with our cast and crew that we would be pausing production out of an abundance of caution. There were no sick crew members, no one was exhibiting symptoms, but it seemed like the right thing to do."
The producer went on to explain how "bittersweet" the announcement was, as the show, a month into filming, was on a roll, and that having to break the news was like bursting everyone's bubble. The show finished scheduled filming Friday, then dismantled the set, in an experience Levy described as intense. He further talked about how the coronavirus pandemic was unlike anything he's dealt with in his career.
"When you're shooting, you create this micro society, this community. You're aware of the world beyond, but in all of my years directing and producing, I'm hard pressed to come up with any comparisons for this truly global situation."
A crew member also asked Levy if everyone was going to be paid during this break. "He made the important point that it isn't always policy, it isn't always the norm in this industry," said Levi to Variety, confirming that Netflix will indeed pay the crew for two 40-hour work weeks. "I'm just happy that Netflix wants to do right by the health and well being of the people who make this show."
Stranger Things 4 does not have a release date. The show stars Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobbie Brown, David Harbour, and Winona Ryder.
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AI Programming: 5 Most Popular AI Programming Languages
ALEX MELNICHUK
AI or Artificial Intelligence is the study of computer science on developing software or machines that perform tasks at a human level or higher.
The AI, as we see it today, is called "narrow AI" or "weak AI." That is because it can only perform narrow tasks such as facial recognition, an internet search or driving a car. The long term goal is to create "general AI" or "strong AI," which would be able to outperform a human in any cognitive task.
Some examples of existing AI are:
voice to text features
Siri, Cortana
personalized ad targeting
automated customer support
There are many more examples. AI has brought technology to another level. Healthcare technology is looking for ways to treat patients virtually. And it's far from done. AI has huge potential to grow because we want it to reach human intelligence or develop even beyond it.
If you are interested in AI, working on your own AI projects, then you will need to know what the most popular AI programming languages are.
There are quite a few AI programming languages, and there is none of them that can be called "the best ai programming language." They all have their pros and cons, and today we will talk about five of them.
Top 5 AI programming languages:
LISP is the oldest AI programming language. It is the second oldest programming language after Fortran. The term Artificial intelligence was made up by John McCarthy who invented LISP. Another pioneer was Marvin Minsky, who founded the AI lab at MIT.
There would be no progress in AI at that time if it weren't for LISP. It had fresh ideas ( if-then-else, construct, recursion), which were very useful to express the ideas programmers had. Because of the huge adoption of LISP, it became a standard AI language. LISP is a very flexible AI programming language and is often called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer."
"Lisp's uniformity of structure and power of self-reference gave the programmer capabilities whose content was well worth the sacrifice of visual form." – Marvin Minsky
LISP is most efficient in solving specifics. It adapts to the solution that the programmer is writing for. That's what makes it different from other AI languages. Nowadays, it's mostly used for inductive logic problems and machine learning.
LISP has influenced creating many AI programming languages, and the most worthwhile mentioning are R and Julia.
So, why aren't people using LISP as the main AI programming language today? Because even though it's very flexible, it has many flaws. There is a lack of well-known libraries and a weird syntax that doesn't attract many people are the main ones. Back then, it was ahead of its time, and that's why it deserves mention on this AI programming list. But there are many better solutions nowadays than LISP.
Python is an AI programming language that has gained huge popularity. The main reasons are the simple syntax, less coding and a large number of available libraries ready for use. Simple syntax means you can focus on the core value of programming, thinking, or problem-solving.
The earlier mentioned libraries include NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, nltk, SimpleAI. Python is an open-source AI programming language. That's why it has a huge fan base among programmers. Because it can be used broadly, to make small scripts and up to enterprise applications, it's suitable for AI.
Where other AI programming languages use punctuation, Python uses English keywords. It's designed to be readable. It has only a few keywords and has a clearly defined syntax. If you are a student, you will pick up the language quickly.
The libraries are portable across platforms such as UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh.
It also provides interfaces for all major commercial databases. When it comes to scalability, it provides a better structure and support for large enterprise programs than it does for simple shell scripts.
Python supports Object-oriented programming (OOP), dynamic type checking, automatic garbage collection, and can be integrated with C++, C, Java, Cobra, and many other languages.
The bottom line is that Python is considered the best AI programming language because of its simplicity.
Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ in 1983, and it holds the title for the "fastest programming language." Time is important for AI projects and C++ is the usual choice when it comes to that.
Search engines use C++ to have less response time, and the development of computer games takes advantage of the fast execution.
Because C++ has a complex syntax, it might not be your first choice as an AI programming language, but if you are working in an embedded environment and can't afford Java Virtual Machine, this is the perfect option for you.
There are limitations to C++ because the standard library is small, and it doesn't support garbage collection. Although you have better efficiency of control, large C++ projects are hard to maintain and time-consuming to develop. That might be the main reason why most people avoid C++ in AI programming.
There is one very important use of C++ in AI programming, and that is Google Chrome. The AI is used for search engine optimization and ranking.
Java is the most widely used programming language in the world and is one of the best choices of AI programming. Because of its Virtual Machine Technology, it's easy to implement on different platforms. That means once it's written and compiled on one platform, you don't have to compile it again. It's called the WORA (Once Written Read/Run Anywhere) principle.
Most of the open-source big data stack is written in Java Virtual Machine.
Java has many advantages as an AI language, and the most important are it's easy to use, fast debugging, portable and automatic memory manager. Java has Swing and SWT incorporated, which make the graphics and interfaces look slick and modern.
The disadvantages include it being slower than C++, which means more response time.
It's worth noting that Java is an immature AI programming language. But there are more and more tutorials and uses of Java in AI. If you want to start learning Java right now and you search for "java tutorials" on Google, you will find 450 million results. Plenty to choose from.
Java is versatile and can be used to robot systems, sensors, and machine learning suites.
To start implementing AI with Java, you'll need to know the basics of algorithms and concepts. Plenty of free or paid courses are available, and there is a huge number of available libraries to make things even easier for you. The advantages overwhelm the disadvantages, and it's fair to say that Java is one of the best AI programming languages.
Prolog is another AI programming languages and is one of the oldest ones. It stands for "Programming in logic." The language is based on a few basic mechanisms like pattern matching and automatic backtracking. It was made in the 1970s by a French computer scientist named Alain Colmerauer.
In Prolog AI programming, the programmer has to specify the rules and the facts and the end goal. After the programmer has done that, Prolog will try to find the connection between those three. This is an unusual way of AI programming, and it has its advantages and disadvantages.
It's really easy to build databases, and pattern matching is easy. It also has list handling built-in.
If you want to learn more about Prolog, you will find many resources on Google. But if you come from a C++ background, it might seem like a bizarre language to learn.
Becoming a logical programmer isn't for everyone, but Prolog is a great AI programming language to study. You'll think about problems in a more logical way rather than a procedural.
Maybe you will never build anything great in Prolog, but it's worth giving a shot and seeing other ways of programming.
Artificial intelligence is bringing changes to the whole world, and it's here to stay. Nobody wants to be left behind, in person, or business terms. That's why you need to understand how AI programming works and what AI languages exist. The world won't be the same place in 20 years because of AI(you can read about The State of IT Offshoring). We already see self-driving cars, and while we think that is advanced, the people who develop it consider it to be "weak AI" or "narrow AI." Artificial intelligence is still in its juvenile form. Great things are yet to come.
It's important to understand AI and don't look at it as it was portrayed in the Terminator movie. Yes, something like that can indeed happen, but the probability of that happening is very low.
The bottom line is that we need to embrace AI and the opportunities it is bringing, like better healthcare, faster illness detection, communications, automatization, education and so on.
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The solitaire card game incorporates elements of Poker. A standard 52-card deck is shuffled and 25 cards are dealt in a 5x5 grid. Each row and each column of the grid represents a poker hand. The player has 5 minutes to slide rows and columns of cards (using the switches at the border of play area) so that the maximum score is achieved. When all the changes are done the button deal must be clicked: a point is added for each second left and the final score is saved. The scoring system is: Royal Flush 1000 pts Straight Flush 600 pts. Four of a Kind 350 pts. Full House 130 pts Flush 100 pts Straight 80 pts Three of a Kind 50 pts 2 Pair 30 pts Jack or Better 10 pts Game is completely controlled by mouse. Click on the switches at the border of the playarea to slide rows and columns of cards Press /- to enable/disable sound.


This attractive award has been designed and made in Spain by skilled craftsmen from quality products. The trophy is made of premium metal and features a curved, wavy piece of metal, finished with a sea green glaze. A gold scuba diving mask is positioned underneath this blue metal with a snorkel puncturing the surface. The Scuba Diving Handmade Metal Trophy is mounted on a black marble block and comes in 3 size options.
Supplied with a FREE engraved self adhesive plate, the Scuba Diving Handmade Metal Trophy comes in a range of 3 size options. Handmade by master craftsmen in Barcelona, the trophy features a scuba diving mask and snorkel set under a wavy blue water effect surface.


As the manager of IHT mitigating portfolios, you are limited to investing in UK equities only; what's your current view on the UK equity market?
Generally I am optimistic; in spite of the ongoing political uncertainty following the Brexit vote many companies are growing strongly and look attractive investments. As with the main market, certain stocks on AIM look very fully valued but the beauty of AIM is that it is under-researched and there are always good opportunities around.
How did you end up managing AIM portfolios?
I began managing retail smaller company funds in the late '80s and then when AIM launched in 1995 I started to concentrate on tax efficient private client portfolios, including for the purposes of reducing IHT.
Your core investable universe is the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) – how has AIM developed over your career and where do you see the pitfalls?
AIM used to have a somewhat poor reputation but over the last few years the regulatory controls have been significantly improved which, when combined with recent innovations such as ISA eligibility and the removal of Stamp Duty, have hugely improved the perception and credibility of the AIM. There will still be problem companies but the key, as always, is to use one's experience to pick the right stocks and limit the downside. Of course, the nature of the market means AIM stocks are high risk investments, which is why my clients look to me to manage such portfolios on their behalf.
What are you looking for in an AIM-listed stock?
Our criteria are pretty straightforward; we look for experienced management teams running established, pro table, cash-generative, financially strong and dividend paying businesses with good prospects for growth.
How do you determine when to sell a stock?
This is always the most difficult discipline but I am a great believer in backing the right businesses and sticking with them for the long-term. I try to sell if/when a company has exhausted its growth opportunities but in many cases this never happens. Of course, if they are too successful and get promoted to the main market, then we become forced sellers as the stock would no longer qualify for Business Property Relief (BPR) and therefore be liable to IHT.


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Leicester victory over 'tax avoiding' NHS hived-off company
Wednesday 1 August 2018
Unite, the country's largest union, has hailed victory at the NHS trust in Leicester which has now abandoned its plan to set up a wholly owned subsidiary to avoid paying tax.
Unite, with 100,000 members in the health service, said the decision by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is 'a victory in the long campaign against the creation of such subsidiaries which could lead to a Pandora's Box of Carillion-type meltdowns'.
It is understood that the Leicester trust abandoned its proposal when NHS Improvement said it was 'unlikely' that approval would be given by Matt Hancock, the new secretary of state for health and social care.
Unite has waged an extensive campaign against these wholly owned subsidiaries as they could lead to job losses and salami slicing of service provision.
Unite national officer for health Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe said: "This is very good news that the NHS trust in Leicester has backed down over its plan to set up a hived-off tax avoiding subsidiary.
"This is a significant victory in our campaign to stop these entities being formed which, we believe, could lead to a Pandora's Box of Carillion-type meltdowns – with the adverse knock-on effects on jobs and patient services."
The Department of Health and Social Care announced recently that it was consulting on this issue with a view to strengthen 'central oversight' of wholly owned subsidiaries by asking all NHS trusts to report to them via NHS Improvement of their intention to set one up
Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe added: "We want Matt Hancock to enforce a moratorium on the further creation of other wholly owned subsidiary companies while this consultation is taking place and for those that are in the process of being created to be paused while the consultation takes place."
Unite is concerned that the trusts are forming these wholly owned subsidiary companies in England so that they can register for VAT exemption and compete on a level playing field with commercial competitors who register for VAT exemption for their work in the NHS, when NHS trusts can't.
Recently, following protests, the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust backed down on its plan for a wholly owned subsidiary.
NHS Improvement is responsible for overseeing foundation trusts and NHS trusts, as well as independent providers that provide NHS-funded care.
For more information please contact Unite senior communications officer Shaun Noble on 020 3371 2060 or 07768 693940. Unite press office is on: 020 3371 2065. Wmail: shaun.noble@unitetheunion.org
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Okay, time to ask for some help / opinions / words of wisdom. About gauge. I hate trying to get gauge, and to tell the truth, I don't even bother for things like scarves and dishclothes and stuffed animals. I mean, what's the point?
So now what. I'll try on size 8 or 9 needles. But then again, the size small sweater is too small and the size medium is too big, so I need to knit between sizes anyway. So how the heck do I figure out what I need my gauge to be???
I am throwing myself at your mercy and asking for any words of wisdom you might have. Help me, please!!
what does your gauge swatch look like? i read that you should make swatches with garter stitches along the edges to keep it from rolling as you measure. perhaps you can pin the swatch out flat to make sure your measurements are accurate?
maybe adjust your tension? i believe if you're using the corresponding needles with the right yarn, it may just be your tension. going up in needle sizes usually makes the stitches taller, not wider, (for me, anyway) so when i pull them to even them out on the needles, the width doesn't really come out.
you should also wash and dry the gauge swatches to see how they behave. i know sometimes you'll get gauge before washing, and then lose it after washing. or who knows, it might not be at gauge before, but be spot on after washing?
good luck! i rarely swatch, but gauge hasn't been all that critical in most of the projects i've knitted...so i'll be lookin' for pointers along with you on this one!
Make a BIIIIG swatch - at least six inches, more if you can. Do knit a garter edging, and take your measurement as close to the middle as possible, without pinning or stretching the swatch at all. And try changing needle material too - that is, if you're swatching with wood, try metal, or plastic, or vice versa.
And hey - "better" doesn't mean tighter! The needle gauges they give you are not the gauge of a "great" knitter - they just happen to be the gauge of that particular test knitter.
You probably don't want to listen to me about gauge seeing as I have a tendency to screw up my gauge every time, but here are my $0.02.
Do like Keohinani says and make sure to wash and dry your swatch flat. I try to swatch out a nice even number that's larger than 4x4" in the gauge you're trying to get, so in this case, I'd probably go for something like 24 sts. Hopefully, you'll get a final swatch that's something larger than 4x4" total, so that you can measure out 4" from the middle and count how many stitches that is.
If the swatch makes a fabric that you like, I say go with it since you're not spot on with one of the sizes anyway. Multiply out the stitch count for key areas like bust, waist, and upper arm circumference for one of the sizes you're close to by your gauge and see if it's a measurement you're happy with. If not, do the same for the other sizes. If you're still not happy with any of the published sizes, well, then your choices are either to change needle sizes or rewrite the pattern to your gauge.
Oh and another thing... this pattern is done totally in the round, so I'd say to swatch in the round as well. Get another ball or two (stash enhancement, yay!) of the same yarn and make a hat. Just make sure you make the body of the hat in stockinette too. If you're like everyone at Chez Knittingspaz, your purls are probably a lot looser than your knits and you'll end up with a different gauge knitting flat than if you knit it in the round, and that will screw you up, too.
Well, I don't have much to add here, except the bigger the swatch the better because your knitting really will be different in the middle than it is in the first few rows. I used to skimp by just knitting up a few rows, but this was NOT a good idea. Also, like Jen said, make sure you swatch in the round for a sweater knit in the round. One way you can do this without knitting something big in the round is to knit on DPNs and carry your yarn across the back (like knitting a gigantic i-cord but leaving the yarn loose across the back instead of pulling it tight). Good luck!


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Mezinárodní letiště Carrasco (, IATA: DFW, ICAO: KDFW) je mezinárodní letiště v uruguayském hlavním městě Montevideo. Je to nejdůležitější letiště státu.

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Původní terminál letiště, který v současnosti slouží jako terminál pro nákladní dopravu, byl otevřen v roce 1947.

V roce 2003 vláda Uruguaye předala administraci, provoz a údržbu letiště soukromé společnosti Puerta del Sur S.A., která od té doby provedla několik významných investice.

V roce 2007 byla započata výstavba nového terminálu, který je umístěn v blízkosti dráhy 06/24. Terminál byl navržen rodákem z Uruguaye, architektem Rafaelem Vinolym. Kapacita představuje tři miliony cestujících ročně, před terminálem se nachází parkoviště pro více než 1200 aut. Budova má zvláštní patra pro přílety a odlety, vyhlídkovou terasu a je navržena tak, aby bylo možné rozšířit kapacitu na 6 milionů cestujících ročně.

Dráha 06/24 byla prodloužena na 3200 metrů, což umožňuje letišti přijímat dálkové lety z USA a Evropy. Druhá dráha 01/19 byla prodloužena na 2250 metrů.

Letiště má přímé spojení se všemi významnými letišti Latinské Ameriky, Miami a Madridem.

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If you've been following this blog for a while, you might have noticed that things have slowed down considerably over the last few months. That's because Crystal and I have been reorganizing some things. A couple of months ago, we launched Très Bébé Photography, a separate branch of our business dedicated specifically to baby, child, and family portrait photography. (That site includes a fresh, new gallery of our best portraits.) Most of our energy has gone into that portion of our business, so we haven't been posting here as often.
That leaves this site as it was at its inception: dedicated to my nature and fine art photography as well as my notes about my journey through the photography business. I expect that posts will continue to be slow here for a few more months, but once the dust settles from our new brand, I plan to spend a lot more time marketing my nature work. That will bring many more posts in the future. It will also bring a new brand for Divine Reflections as well as a fresh, new website. So, please stay tuned.
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Teens Cash in on the NFT Art Boom
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Last fall, Randi Hipper decided to, as she put it recently, "go in-depth with the crypto space." After hearing about NFTs on Twitter and other social media platforms, Ms. Hipper, then a 17-year-old senior at Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, began releasing her own digital artworks — cartoonish and self-referential pieces showing her cruising in a car with a Bitcoin license plate or riding the Coney Island Wonder Wheel.
Ms. Hipper comes up with the concepts and collaborates with digital artists, including a teenage boy in India who goes by Ajay Toons, offering the works for sale through the NFT marketplace Atomic Hub. An NFT, or a nonfungible token, is a digital file created using blockchain computer code. It is bought using cryptocurrency such as Ether or Wax, and exists as a unique file unable to be duplicated, often just to be admired digitally.
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"Right now, I'm trying to do one drop a week," said Ms. Hipper, who now goes by Miss Teen Crypto and has since turned 18. "I try not to overload my feed, my collectors."
The 40-year-old digital artist known as Beeple may have grabbed headlines last spring when one of his works sold at Christie's for $69 million, but NFT markets like Atomic Hub, Nefty Blocks and OpenSea are filled with creators barely old enough to drive. They promote their work not through blue-chip galleries or auction houses but on social media.
"In the NFT world, anyone can post online, market themselves on Twitter and build a following from a young age," said Griffin Cock Foster, who is 26 and lives in New York City. He and his twin brother, Duncan, founded the NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway.
Duncan said, "The comparison I like to make is it's similar to the way TikTok is causing people to be discovered at a really young age."
In June, Nifty Gateway did a drop called Nifty Next Generation. It featured the work of jstngraphics, a 17-year-old from Washington State, and Solace, an 18-year-old from Soledad, Calif. Both teenagers have been making NFT art for less than a year, and first drew attention by selling through the online auction site SuperRare. The works of both artists, which ranged in price from about $1,000 to $7,250, sold out.
"I was tossing out random stuff to see what was going on," said Justin Bodnar (jstngraphics), who makes surreal landscapes and what he described as "Tron-style" art. "Then I got onto SuperRare and things started blowing up."
Solace, whose real name is Carlos Gomez, began making NFTs on a borrowed iPad because he didn't own a home computer. "I saw how digital art was being put out there. It was being seen by people and valued," he said. "I come from poverty my whole life. NFTs changed my life forever."
Solace and jstngraphics seem like oldsters compared to Benyamin Ahmed, a 12-year-old boy from suburban London, who released an NFT collection last month. The project, "Weird Whales," featured 3,350 pixelated whales, each with distinct traits, some rarer and thus perceived to be more valuable. The collection, sold out and earned Mr. Ahmed tens of thousands in crypto.
"I got interested in the NFT space because originally I thought it was cool as an online flex," he told the website Decrypt.
Such improbable success stories have inspired enterprising young people to join the NFT boom. For some, it's a fun after-school hobby. For others, it's a perceived gateway to a career as a full-time artist or crypto entrepreneur.
Magnus Aske was a 19-year-old sophomore at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., when he got sick with Covid-19 last March, around the time of the Beeple sale. He spent his 10 days in quarantine learning everything he could about NFTs, and came up with a project involving the antiquities collection of a foreign country (his classmate had connections within the government).
"For me, it's not even about the money. It's working with a team, seeing something through from ideation to creation and seeing a sale," said Mr. Aske, who is now 20 and studying finance and entrepreneurship.
Josh Kim is a rising senior at Colby College who founded the Cubby, an online marketplace for college students to sell their art. Mr. Kim plans to introduce NFTs in the coming months, which, he said, will further the site's mission to help young creators "achieve financial success," or at least earn extra money while in school.
Indeed, for some teenagers, making NFTs and other forms of digital art has become the new summer job, a modern take on bagging groceries or working at a fast-food restaurant. One 15-year-old in Brooklyn draws custom art for users of Twitch, the livestreaming platform popular with gamers.
"It's mostly for spending money," he said.
Griffin Cock Foster likened the teen experimentation with NFTs to "kids hacking around with Napster in the early 2000s," adding, "They had a preview of what the world was going to look like. Pay attention to what teenagers are hacking around on, on nights and weekends and in the summer."
The most popular and successful young NFT artist is Victor Langlois, a transgender 18-year-old who goes by FEWOCiOUS, or Fewo to his fans. He makes digital art that chronicles his difficult childhood and struggles with gender identity and his transition.
Last summer, Fewo started selling work on SuperRare and built a following there and on Nifty Gateway. Soon, he came to the attention of Noah Davis, the digital art specialist at Christie's, who arranged an auction of his work in June. The online sale of five lots, entitled, "Hello, i'm Victor (FEWOCiOUS) and This Is My Life," earned $2.16 million, turning Mr. Langlois into an art-world star.
"Victor has been alive about as long as artists are making art before they get to Christie's," Mr. Davis said.
Understanding NFTs and their value as digital objects comes naturally to a generation raised online, Mr. Davis added. "I consider myself pretty digitally native, but I can still recall floppy disks. That's cuneiform tablets to Victor. He grew up completely immersed in this."
For Ms. Hipper and others like her, Fewo is "such a role model for Gen Z," she said. "He came into NFTs and blew my mind. The fact that he was able to create a platform, for me, it's inspiring."
When the stock market was booming and Bitcoin was above $60,000 earlier this year, Ms. Hipper said, one of her NFTs sold for $1,000. These days, her art sells on Atomic Hub for as little as 125 Wax, or $21. She views her pieces as tradable collectibles, similar to Pokémon cards, a common outlook among young creators. Indeed, NFT works can sell for as little as $1.
Brent Lomas, who founded the Queenly NFT, a site that sells the work of L.G.B.T.Q. artists, tracks the NFT space closely, and said that low prices are a deliberate strategy by young creators, who, in many cases, are appealing to collectors their own age.
"It's partly to get virality," Mr. Lomas said. "These kids are pretty savvy. They can look at other drops and model their work after it. If you're young and you get social media and meme culture, it is possible for you to go viral with your first drop and get attention and make money."
Mr. Davis said that Fewo was selling pieces for tens of dollars only last year. For a digitally savvy teenager, earning that kind of money for making NFTs beats mowing grass. It's "unique to our present moment," Mr. Davis said. "If you can make movie theater money for your summer vacation from your creativity, I can't think of anything more utopian or American than that."
Ms. Hipper estimates that so far, she's earned "a few hundred dollars, max," because she has to pay her artists. But, she said, for now the money is secondary to learning the ropes.
"I wanted to perfect my skills, knowing how to do a drop," she said. "You need to know how to set up your store. How to create a template."
She added, "I just graduated high school. My plan is to go full-time crypto."
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Should darts become an Olympic sport?
The former England rugby coach, Sir Clive Woodward, says darts should be an Olympic sport and "ticks all the boxes" for inclusion in future Games.
Woodward, the former British Olympic Association director of elite performance, wrote in Britain's Daily Mail that darts was growing in popularity worldwide and it was time it "stepped up to the Olympic oche".
Tokyo, host of the 2020 Games, will have surfing, sport climbing and karate among six new sports included in its Olympics.
Muaythai, a martial art, and cheerleading last month also received provisional recognition as Olympic sports.
But Woodward said it is also time darts was considered.
"Darts should be an Olympic sport. No, seriously. The world of sport is evolving, the Olympics is evolving and I want to see darts in the Games. Easier said than done, but it ticks all the boxes," Woodward said.
"Sport is about people striving to do their best, competing to win while also accepting loss. Darts has all that and much more."
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The cyber risk spend: How do you quantify the cost of cyber risk – and your return on investment?
By Neil Cantle, Chris Harner, and Lisa Henderson
It is estimated that cyber breaches cost the U.S. economy anywhere from $57 billion to $109 billion in 2016,1 more than the GDP of Puerto Rico. But those numbers mask a cost for individual companies that varies dramatically based on industry sector, risk management protocols, and the type of breach.
In 2015, Milliman was approached by a major Fortune 50 company. The chief information security officer (CISO) was requesting hundreds of millions of dollars from his board for further cyber risk protections. But the size of the ask–and the frequency with which these funding requests were coming–caused the board to balk. They wanted numbers to support the spend. Before any additional funding would be approved, the CISO needed to quantify the cost of a potential cyberattack and justify his budget.
As cyber evolves as a threat, companies are facing an increasingly complex enterprise risk management (ERM) process: the need to not only assess the risk associated with an attack, but also quantify the potential cost of this risk in order to make sure the exposure is both fully protected and efficiently and accurately budgeted. Knowing where to allocate money is just as important as knowing how much money to allocate. Putting dollar amounts behind controls such as cyber security, cyber insurance, and hiring practices helps build a business case for C-suite executives looking to quantify and justify what a company's cyber spend should be.
Milliman's work with the Fortune 50 company began with a methodology to evaluate the company's cyber risk exposure profile and the potential organizational impact of a breach. This includes liabilities that are both a direct and indirect result of an attack. Working with key stakeholders throughout the company, we identified the various threat vectors, potential assets that could be compromised, and security positioning. Important questions included:
What type of information is vulnerable and how much exists?
What security protocols are in place?
What could be the cost of remediation and potential litigation as well as reputational impact?
What are the potential costs not covered by cyber insurance?
By identifying over 200 different parameters via internal key risk indicators (KRIs), third-party data, and Milliman proprietary data, we built an actuarially sound model for our client that allows for scenario development in order to determine the potential costs associated with various types of plausible events. What would the financial impact be if the company fell prey to a spear-phishing scam? How does that differ from the costs associated with a malicious insider or a DDoS event such as a server slowdown or crash? Running tens of thousands of iterations using a simulation technique allowed us to create a continuous distribution of loss outcomes and quantify the potential range of cyber risk costs, including expected loss, tail loss, and the volatility around these losses.
Milliman's expertise and cyber model allowed our client to understand some of the more challenging questions associated with the cost of cyber exposure. How well would the company's current insurance cover the expected loss associate with a cyberattack? Are there gaps that need to be considered, and what do they look like? What if a more extreme event materialized–what are the possible drivers and how well is a company prepared for a worst-case scenario?
Perhaps most importantly, this distribution of loss outcomes also allowed Milliman to offer a cost-benefit analysis to our client. With this model, we were able to answer questions for the CISO such as:
If the company were to spend $1 million to improve certain controls or hire additional resources, and if that improved the control environment and decreased the frequency or severity of an attack, how much money is the company saving?
What dollar amount put toward mitigation or security protocol measures moves the needle –where do you see a return on investment?
One of the key issues for executives of any company is determining how the exposure changes as cyber risk evolves, and how in what ways investing could potentially change that outcome. By providing a cost-benefit analysis and linking the model results to our client's financial statements, Milliman was able to help quantify the impact of cyber risk from a business perspective and create an ongoing discussion about actionable results. Milliman's work with our Fortune 50 client provided not only more confidence to justify security spending and capital allocation, it also provided a structural approach to understanding and quantifying the company's residual cyber risk.
For more on Milliman's work quantifying cyber risk, visit www.milliman.com/cyber/.
1"The Cost of Cyber Attacks to U.S. Economy," Insurance Journal, February 20, 2018. Retrieved on September 26, 2018, from https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2018/02/20/481121.htm.
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As cyber evolves as a threat, companies are facing an increasingly complex enterprise risk management process: the need to not only assess the risk associated with an attack, but also quantify the potential cost of this risk in order to make sure the exposure is both fully protected and efficiently and accurately budgeted.
Neil Cantle, Chris Harner, Lisa Henderson