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From cyclones to sharks: setting up a racetrack
Putting up the Air Gates for the Red Bull Air Race can be almost as challenging as flying the racetrack itself. The most difficult setups are on water.
"Most of our challenges have to do with nature," says Marko van Es, who as Head of Racetrack Operations leads the setup at every stop with his colleague Ivanka Kösters. He has seen a lot since he first got involved in the sport back in 2005.
"We had a seven-metre tide difference every six hours in London, a tropical cyclone in Japan and the biggest storm in 40 years at Abu Dhabi, to name a few," Van Es recalls. "Then there were sea lions that wanted to eat submerged cables in San Francisco, and bull sharks in the river at Perth – while we were working underwater!"
Marko van Es and Ivanka Kösters, the heads of Racetrack Operations
What goes into setting up a water-based racetrack of Air Gates, with the towering pylons perched on floating barges?
"On land, you can mark the location and it will stay there. When the racetrack is on water, everything is moving," points out Technical Team Captain Peter Maaskant. "We have different depths, sometimes high tides and low tides, and on the sea we can have big waves, big winds. These influence the position of the barges, and we work with anchors and steel wires to keep them in place."
The base for just one single pylon in the racetrack chicane requires connecting three 40-foot (12-metre) container barges, and the anchors that hold the barges in place can weigh as much as 1,000 kilograms each. When the 25-metre pylons are inflated, they sometimes act like sails, creating a force of up to 1.5 tons on the anchor and wire cable. Amazingly, the team does all the anchoring work – using a minimum of six kilometers of cable at every stop – by hand.
To help make sure things stay where they belong, the Red Bull Air Race uses an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) at many locations. The compact unit can go down to 300 meters, sending back live images so that the crew can assess the anchor situation within minutes.
Protecting the environment in Cannes
No two stops are alike. The floor of the Bay of Cannes in France is largely covered by a seagrass vital to the ecosystem. So the team first got a sonar scan to identify where they could place conventional anchors without disturbing sea life. Then they replaced 60 percent of the steel anchor wires with 18-millimeter ropes made of a super-strong fibre (breaking load of 30,000 kilograms), and further, they made sure the ropes did not touch the grass. The team arrived at Cannes a full six weeks before the race in order to carefully mark the locations for the nine Air Gates, using the ROV and precise GPS coordinates. Just delivering all the equipment took a week, because 42 trucks were needed to bring it all in, but there was room for only one truck at a time in the Cannes marina.
The open-water challenge of Chiba
When it comes to setup, a racetrack on open water, like Chiba, Japan, is the most demanding of all – even when there is not a cyclone.
"Chiba is very unpredictable in regard to weather. With a little wind, the waves easily get to two-and-a-half meters, which is dangerous for the barges so close to shore," Van Es explains. "At that location we work with 42 of the 1,000-kilogram anchors. Six thousand meters of 18-millimeter steel wire are used for the anchors, and between the wire and the anchor we have a 10-meter chain weighing 750 kilograms. If we do not use the chain, the wires will break!"
A race against the clock in Budapest
The iconic Red Bull Air Race location of Budapest, Hungary is not a piece of cake, either, despite its inland setting on the Danube River. Whereas at another classic stop, Abu Dhabi, a team of nine people using three boats takes eight days to build the racetrack, which then stays in place for the duration of the event, in Budapest the track is set up in just 54 minutes every day, and then removed again within 30 minutes of the last flight each afternoon – all to facilitate shipping traffic on the Danube.
The Hungarian Army help set the track out in Budapest.
Van Es describes, "This is possible only because we work with a crew from the Hungarian Army. We build the track with 85 people and 32 boats, using five 45-kilogram anchors per Air Gate. That's as opposed to four anchors of 500 kilograms per gate in Abu Dhabi. It's tricky because these small anchors in Hungary have to handle the forces of the current and the wind load on the pylons."
With the Budapest race coming up fast, Van Es and his team are keeping an eye on the forecast. "In Budapest we have to deal with not only the heavy current but also water levels that are different every year. The challenges of the race, and the racetrack, will always depend on how much rain has fallen upstream and the winds on the given day," he says. Like the 14 elite race teams vying for the World Championship, the Race Operations team has to be ready for anything.
See the pilots fly in the sport's most iconic over-water racetrack when the Red Bull Air Race returns to Budapest on 23-24 June. Get your tickets HERE.
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In 1859 Capt. H.D. Sinclair was commissioned by the government of New South Wales to locate a new harbour in the area. Before a settlement could be established there, an independent Queensland was created, and the town was named for the first governor, Sir George Ferguson Bowen. Proclaimed a shire in 1863, it remained the region's principal port until overshadowed by Townsville, 100 miles (160 km) northwest. Bowen lies on the Bruce Highway and a rail line to Brisbane, about 600 miles (965 km) southeast, and serves a hinterland growing a variety of vegetables and fruits (especially mangoes) and possessing deposits of copper, silver, and graphite. The town's manufactures include coke and salt, from evaporated seawater. Coal was shipped from the town's pier at Port Denison until a deepwater port was built (1984) for bulk shipping at Abbot Point, 15 miles (25 km) northwest of the town. Bowen is also a tourist destination, owing to its location near the Great Barrier Reef as well as Whitsunday and other nearby resort islands. Pop. (2006) local government area, 12,377; (2011) Whitsunday-Bowen statistical local area, 12,893.


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Fazliddin Kurbanov: Terrorist 'Refugee'
A case study in Obama's refugee folly.
Arnold Ahlert · Nov. 20, 2015
The fecklessness of the Obama administration's despicable "refugee" agenda can be personified. Last August a federal jury convicted Uzbek refugee Fazliddin Kurbanov of three terror-related charges that included working to support a terrorist organization and amassing explosive materials in his apartment in Boise, ID.
Kurbanov is a Russian-speaking truck driver originally from Uzbekistan who began his life as a Muslim. When his parents converted to Orthodox Christianity, the family was subjected to government persecution and they fled to nearby Kazakhstan. In 2009 his parents came to the Unites States, followed shortly thereafter by Kurbanov, his wife and his son in August 2009.
According to court testimony, Kurbanov was a practicing Christian until he went to Denver in search of work in 2010. While there he met and took up residence with some fellow Uzbek men who were practicing Muslims. Kurbanov reconverted to Islam and returned to Boise. In 2011 he began making terror-related searches on the Internet. Two years later, federal agents searched his apartment where they found evidence that the former refugee was stockpiling explosive materials and communicating with the Taliban-linked Movement of Uzbekistan. According to the FBI, Kurbanov intended to launch a domestic bomb attack, with military bases and a park in Boise being cited as potential targets.
Kurbanov's trial in Idaho lasted 20 days with a jury convicting him of three terror-related counts and acquitting him of two others. He faces 10 years in prison for the explosive device conviction and as much as 15 years in jail for the other two. In addition, he faces another charge in Utah for distributing information related to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction, arising from his efforts to teach another individual how to build an explosive device. "He taught another person in Utah to build a bomb with the intent to use the bomb," explained U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber. If he is convicted in that case, Kurbanov faces an additional 40 years in prison.
Writing for KTVB.com, anchor and reporter Kim Fields reminds Americans that Kurbanov "would have gone through the federal screening process," and that court testimony indicates no red flags would have been raised "because there is no indication Kurbanov was involved in terrorism when he first arrived in the U.S."
That would be the same vetting process Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was sent out to promote with regard to Syrian refugees. "There's a very careful vetting process that includes our intelligence community, our National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Homeland Security," he told "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd. "So we can make sure we're carefully screening anybody who comes to the United States."
Apparently, FBI Director James Comey didn't get the proverbial memo. "We can only query against that which we have collected," explained the man whose agency is now conducting nearly 1,000 domestic investigations against ISIS. "And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them." U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' (USCIS) associate director for the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate Matthew Emrich was equally "ill-informed," asserting the administration checked "everything that we are aware of" before falling back on the pathetic excuse that "in many countries of the world from which we have traditionally accepted refugees over the years the United States government did not have extensive data holdings." The same goes for FBI Assistant Director Michael Steinbach, who also admitted that in a "failed state" like Syria "all of the data sets — the police, the intel services — that normally you would go to seek information don't exist."
This is hardly a new problem. In 2013, ABC News reported several dozen suspected terrorists were allowed to move to the United States after they claimed "refugee" status, including two Iraqi al-Qaeda terrorists living in Kentucky who had attacked American troops. The administration's solution to that problem? The State Department suspended processing Iraqi refugees for all of six months.
Yet Kurbanov's case speaks to other issues as well. Even an air-tight vetting process is completely useless when the filter of political correctness cherished by progressives is added to the mix. The FBI received multiple warnings from Russia about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, resulting in a single interview of the Boston Marathon bomber in 2011, after which they concluded he posed no threat. The same Obama administration ignored numerous red flags regarding the increasing radicalization of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, and even after the atrocity referred to the incident as "workplace violence." Another terrorist attack virtually swept under the media rug was perpetrated by Kuwati Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, who killed four Marines and wounded two other service members and a police officer during two separate attacks at Tennessee military facilities last July. The FBI told CBS News Abdulazeez was "not on their radar" and that it remained "unclear" whether he was a citizen. Follow up stories attributed his killing spree to depression as well as alcohol and drug abuse, according to his family — despite the fact he targeted military facilities.
Even more ominously, Kurbanov's conviction speaks to the Obama administration's disastrous foreign policy. Despite the president's utterly absurd assertions both before and after the attack in Paris that ISIS is "contained," there is no denying the terror group is a recruiting machine. A U.N. report released in April revealed the number of recruits leaving their more than 100 different countries to join ISIS had skyrocketed to more than 25,000. Moreover, their latest propaganda video shows images of New York City spliced between clips of suicide bombers preparing for attacks. A message flashing across the screen warns Americans that what's coming "will be far worse and more bitter" than the Paris atrocity.
In other words, ISIS remains an incredibly viable and attractive entity, not only to sleeper agents that would undoubtedly be some percentage of the people this administration wants to bring into America, but to the disaffected people who are already here. Disaffected people exactly like Fazliddin Kurbanov and countless others who view the administration's flaccidly nonsensical approach to ISIS as proof that the terror group is the stronger horse. Add the progressive insanity that asserts anyone resisting Syrian immigration is a bigot, xenophobe or Islamophobe to the mix, and it becomes clear this administration and its adherents are willing to abide an "acceptable level" of domestic terror to preserve political correctness.
In short, progressives are terrorism's willing accomplices.
On Thursday, it was revealed that two U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials alleged to Breitbart News that eight Syrian illegals were arrested after they tried to enter Texas from Mexico. Another six Syrian men with stolen Greek passports were detained in Honduras. They too were on their way to the United States. President Obama has threatened to veto a GOP-sponsored bill that would suspend Syrian and Iraqi refugee emigration into the U.S. until key national security agencies can certify they pose no security risk.
Former President George W. Bush once stated that "those who want to do harm only have to be right one time, and we have to be right 100 percent of the time." Given the nation's porous borders, coupled with the president's stance on Syrian refugees and his obdurate refusal to confront ISIS in any meaningful way, it is time to ask the Obama administration why it is so willing to tip the odds even further in ISIS's favor.
Originally published at FrontPage Magazine.
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Montana Film Fest Presents: Raw (2017)
Year round at The Roxy Theater, Montana Film Festival now presents a new release in independent cinema each month, one night only This month brings a controversial yet beautiful new horror film, Raw. June 16th at 9 pm, The Roxy Theater.
"If you can see past the rain of blood, Raw is a gorgeously moving film" – The New Republic
Julia Ducournau's feature debut has quickly become one of the more polarizing films of the year, in and outside of the horror genre. After a win at Cannes in 2016, Raw went on to Toronto where members of the audience reportedly fainted or fell ill during the screening. The film follows a young vegetarian woman who has just started vet school when, during a hazing ritual, she is forced to eat meat. This encounter plummets her down a ravenous spell of meat consumption, ultimately leading to a cannibal nightmare.
Raw has been lauded as an brilliant art house horror in-line with Suspiria. The AV Club praised the film, particular its fresh voice: "The strongest of the female-led films I've screened so far at the festival is Raw, Julia Ducournau's beautifully realized, symbolically rich, and disturbingly erotic meditation on primal hungers of all kinds.
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Kevin Slowey will try to churn out another quality start for Minnesota today, as the Twins resume a three-game set with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Target Field.
On Sunday, Slowey flirted with a no-hitter, keeping Oakland without a hit through seven innings before being lifted in a controversial move by manager Ron Gardenhire. The move paid off since Slowey and the Twins earned a 4-2 victory over the Athletics.
Slowey, who hasn't allowed more than one earned run in three of his last four starts, has been especially good at home, boasting a 7-3 record with a 3.39 ERA in 13 outings. He hasn't allowed a run in his last 15 innings at Target Field.
In five career starts versus the Angels, Slowey is 3-1 with a 4.00 ERA. He last faced Anaheim on April 8th, surrendering one earned run and seven hits over 5 1/3 innings of a 10-1 triumph.
Slowey is hoping to duplicate last night's effort from Brian Duensing, who tossed eight innings of one-run ball in Minnesota's 7-2 win over the Angels.
Duensing (7-1), who tossed his first career complete game in a 2-0 win over Oakland last Saturday, gave up seven hits and fanned six batters in the opener of this three-game set. He moved to 9-1 in 15 career starts.
"The only thing I wish I had a better command of was fastballs," Duensing said. "I thought we did a good job of mixing up the speeds to plate, kind of kept them off balance."
Duensing threw 78 of his 103 pitches for strikes.
Jason Kubel hit a three-run homer off Dan Haren in the third inning as Minnesota widened its lead to 4 1/2 games over Chicago in the AL Central. The White Sox had their game at Kansas City postponed by rain Friday, causing a doubleheader on Saturday.
The Twins, who have won seven of their last eight overall, have captured 10 of their last 11 at home.
Howie Kendrick had three of LA's eight hits and scored on Torii Hunter's double-play grounder in the fourth inning. The Angels are now eight games behind first-place Texas in the AL West.
"There's no way you can think about being out of it," Hunter said. "If I catch any player saying we're out of it they should go home and never play baseball again. That's what you do in any sport. We're just going to keep playing baseball and hopefully we can get a hot streak somewhere and they can get a losing streak. It's all about a little luck."
Haren (1-4) was touched for 11 hits and seven runs over seven innings as Los Angeles lost for the fourth time in five games.
Getting the call for Angels today will be Trevor Bell, who is making a spot start following two showings in the bullpen. The right-hander last started on August 8th, when he gave up six runs — four earned — and nine hits in 5 1/3 innings of a 9-4 loss at Detroit.
Bell has never faced Minnesota in his career.
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Short-term issue, long-term solution
Mixed paper confronts a short-term issue with long-term implications.
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The Chinese government recently has taken noteworthy actions that are significantly disrupting recovered paper markets in the United States, said several speakers in sessions at the 18th annual Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference, held in Chicago Oct. 11-13, 2017.
Speakers discussed the steps the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Washington, has taken to address China's scrap import ban on mixed paper as well as moves material recovery facility (MRF) operators have made, from slowing down lines to adding sorters, to address quality issues. Cleaning up quality is a must.
In the Indexes and Trading Platforms session, Greg Rudder, editor of PPI Pulp & Paper Week, published by the Boston-based research firm RISI, explained the methodology behind its pricing.
Rudder also shared the history of mixed paper shipments from the U.S. to China. Citing information from the Washington-based American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), he said the U.S. shipped the lowest total tons of mixed paper to China last year since 2002. In 2016, the U.S. shipped 2.37 million tons of this material to China, a drop from the 3.07 million tons shipped in 2015 and from the high of 5.63 million tons shipped in 2009. (A total of 1.86 million tons of mixed paper were shipped in 2002.)
In April 2017, mills in China reported that imported mixed paper contained 20 percent contaminants, on average, Rudder said.
Linda Leone, regional vice president of recycling for the Northeast U.S. and eastern Canada at WestRock Co., Norcross, Georgia, acknowledged change was needed. She served as moderator for the ISRI Paper Stock Industries (PSI) Chapter session, The Future of Mixed Paper. Speakers featured in that session were Johnny Newsome, director, global mill supply and trade sales, Sonoco Recycling, Hartsville, North Carolina; Bob Cappadona, vice president of Casella Recycling, Rutland, Vermont; Pieter Eenkema van Dijk, CEO of Van Dyk Recycling Solutions, Stamford, Connecticut; and RISI's Rudder.
Leone said, "While the future of mixed paper is unclear as it relates to China, we know it needs to evolve."
Casella's Cappadona said contaminants in loads arriving at MRFs are a safety and time issue. He said more needs to be done to ensure cleaner incoming streams of recyclables.
"I don't think there's any doubt from an operator's perspective that we're going to have to get better," Cappadona said. He referenced The Tortoise and The Hare fable when he said, "The turtle wins the race; it's OK to slow down [the line]."
Sonoco Recycling's Newsome offered some light amid the darkness surrounding mixed paper's outlook. He said MRFs will improve their sorting capabilities and mixed paper will endure as a grade.
"Mixed paper will always be a product of residential programs, even if at a higher cost," Newsome said.
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He projected new global consuming capacity for this grade will grow 2.2 percent.
In addition, as China tightens its restrictions, Newsome said mixed paper recovered in the U.S. will be exported to other countries where consumption capacity is increasing.
Rudder said Vietnam and India are interested in this recovered fiber grade. He noted that one-third of mixed paper shipped from the U.S. goes to countries besides China.
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Lady lawyer Elizabeth Warren made a reasonable income from lady-lawyering, shock
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Elizabeth Warren, Politics
It would be stupid to assume the assy men of the media had learned any lessons from the 2016 election. They were a big part of But Her Emails, legitimizing the attacks on Hillary Clinton while largely giving Donald Trump a pass on everything. Something similar is happening in the Democratic primary, as Pete Buttigieg is trying to latch on to something But Her Emails-esque to attack Elizabeth Warren. Nevermind that it's a deflection from whatever the hell Buttigieg was doing at McKinsey & Co for three years, something he can't discuss because of an NDA. So, Elizabeth Warren tried to do a document dump on the media this weekend – she released 30 years of information about all of her corporate legal work. The headlines were all written by men who seemed shocked that a lady lawyer could make a nine-digit income… over thirty years. Lots of headlines about "Elizabeth Warren made nearly $2 million from corporate work BUT HER LAW DEGREE." Weirdly, Fox News – ??? – did an accurate headline: "Elizabeth Warren reveals she made $1.9 million from private legal work over 3 decades." Here's the info:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) earned nearly $2 million working as a consultant for corporations and financial firms while she was a law professor at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and other law schools, according to records her campaign abruptly released Sunday evening. Warren's consulting work often involved companies dealing with bankruptcy, which was her specialty as an academic. Her campaign had been asked repeatedly for the information and had declined to release it multiple times.
Her work for some of the companies doesn't fit neatly with her current presidential campaign brand as a crusader against corporate interests. For instance, the documents released Sunday show that Warren made about $80,000 from work she did for creditors in the energy company Enron's bankruptcy and $20,000 as a consultant for Dow Chemical, a company that was trying to limit the liability it faced from silicone breast implants that were made by a connected firm.
Earlier this year, Warren had released a list of about 50 cases that she worked on, but the descriptions of the work were at times misleading and the amount of income and dates for her work were not included. While the cases released by Warren's campaign stretch over more than three decades, the figures disclosed Sunday show that nearly all of the money was made from cases filed after she got her job at Harvard in 1995. (Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012.)
The income includes about $212,000 for representing Travelers Indemnity Co. in 2009, and $190,000 for what her campaign described as representing a chain of department stores owned by PA Bergner & Co. in the mid-1990s. Warren's campaign did not release compensation information for all of the cases, reporting in some instances — including a case involving First Commercial Bank — that "the campaign has no compensation records for this case."
[From WaPo]
For whatever record, if she made $1.9 million over 30 years, that's about $63K a year. Which is probably pretty low for an expert lawyer in her field. Even if the bulk of the earnings came from 1995 through 2012, that's 17 years, so she was making around $100K a year through her legal consulting, all while holding down a full-time job at Harvard. I mean… all of this sounds perfectly reasonable for a lawyer and law professor? But, you know, she's a woman. BUT SHE MADE MONEY AS A LADY LAWYER, BURN HER.
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Aims says:
I say good for her. She works hard and should be paid for it.
That's less than Trump owed on just not paying his workers alone.
That's less than we paid for Trumps bankruptcies.
At least we see her tax returns.
What her amount says to me is that she is extraordinarily uncorrupted because most people in her position would have made 10× times more.
I totally agree, as far as all of this goes. However…Buttigieg pressured her to release her tax returns, and this ain't that. I would really love it if as dems we could insist on the Hillary standard. She released 25 years of tax returns. Or maybe 30, I forget. Also, another caveat here, sorry, but Warren went at him first. She attacked. She attacked him over McKinsey and was all over tv demanding he release all of the info about his clients there. This was his counter attack. So…if you're gonna hit, you gotta expect it back.
Also, has anybody noticed Amy is rising the polls lately? What do we think about that? I kind of like her.
I love Amy, she was my second choice after Kamala.
Yeah I may vote for her in the primary, if she's still around by then. I also may not vote in the primary at all depending on who's still in then. Of course I will vote in the general, whoever the nominee is. I may be very unhappy with the nominee, but I'll zip it during the campaign and I'll vote for them. I am not trying to tell others to do that though, especially WOC, and especially especially, black women. Just what I'm doing.
oui oKi says:
Amy….dont hate her but prefer Warren Booker or Bernie
PPP says:
I'm really starting to hate Buttigeig. He's turning into a spoiler. He does not have his finger on the pulse of what this country needs like Warren and Bernie, and he seems incredibly selfish at this point for not dropping out. He has to know there's no way he'll win, but he's staying for the long game for the sake of his career, which he doesn't deserve as he only knows how to fail the black community and pander to neoliberalism and centrism. And the result makes Bernie or Warren less likely. If Biden gets it, we'll get a baby step or two forward and it will all be destroyed by the next Republican and God help us if it's worse than Bush or Trump. As an educator, his takes on public university can go straight into the trash. The reason I have to teach entitled Olivia Jades is because clever, motivated poor students can't afford to go to school or fancy SAT prep classes, which have an outsize weight in admissions.
emmy says:
He's turning out to be smart but inexperienced and you can tell his team isn't great. I guess they're relying too much on that early enthusiasm instead of doing their jobs? If he wanted the Biden voters, this is not the way to get there.
I work in a big law firm and my friend works at McKinsey. I BET he cannot talk about it but also, most people who are successful there are ruthless. Not people who are known for their compassion and decency. His saving grace might be that he decided to leave or was told to go. That's a compliment in that company.
Well, frankly neither warren or bernie have their fingers on the pulse of what I want. So i think this is really relative. And please don't forget, warren came for pete, he only clapped back. I think we are forgetting that here.
Lala11_7 says:
I NEVER thought the actions of the DNC would make me turn totally COLD and turn away from the Presidential selection process…when politics has been the fire that has warmed my soul…since 1976…when I was 9 year old…
But…here we are….Right now…I could care less who is at the top of the ticket…and I give all that glory to the DNC…who is is as inept and as stupid regarding the POTUS election process as the RNC is traitorous and evil…
So do I care if Warren made $$$ as a lawyer? No I don't…what I care about is that she supported and voted for a POTUS who denied $$$ to research AND the medical infrastructure so that thousands of people died of AIDS and millions more were affected by that horror….
And I will deal with THAT score…at my voting booth
Perez is awful, just a complete disaster. Perez needs to be replaced. I am so upset with that dude, and really, from day one when he allowed Bernie to take over way too much.. And it's only gotten worse. A disaster. I want him gone.
adastraperaspera says:
Totally agree. He is front-facing mega donors only and doing nothing to bring together the party. His management of the debates have been ridiculous–too many candidates up there. His twitter account looks like some out of touch geezer. And letting Bernie run as a Dem again… I have no words I can say in polite company about that.
Coji says:
Jimmy Carter? I was in 4tg grade when I fell in love with him and politics. And, of course, the ERA.
I was also really disappointed to learn that she was once a Republican, but I have to give her credit for coming around to the correct side of things.
Who ARE These People? says:
Republicans used to be a more moderate party, the party of fiscal responsibility — but that was a long time ago, when she was younger, too. She was not a Newt Gingrich-type Republican.
Baby Jane says:
@WATP – Even Gingrich is moderate compared to the modern incarnation. He is on record bemoaning the war on drugs and criticizing its inherent inconsistencies (manifesting in the victimization of poor/minorities). Not that he's a good dude, he isn't, but when HE is making sense relative to his compatriots, shit STANKS.
You gotta look at Reagan's record, including on civil rights and the aids crisis, and decide if you can ride with someone who voted for him twice. That's an individual choice. Especially for POC or LGBTQ.
Suze says:
But she didn't vote for Reagan, she voted for Carter.
LadyLaw says:
That really doesn't seem like that much money for an experience lawyer with her resume at all. First year associates (I.e. brand spanking new attorneys) at law firms in major markets make $180-200k/ year. Many partners at large law firms make a year what she made over 20 years.
In general if you are a lawyer in this country you are either making a lot of money and representing garbage corporations and bad people or doing good and not making top dollar. So doesn't personally bother me but it truly is not consistent with her current image (although people can certainly change). Also if anyone likes crazy ex girlfriend there's a hilarious music video "don't be a lawyer" that basically says the same thing.
But screw Pete Buttigieg. If any woman ran for the president with his "experience" she would be torn to shreds.
My partner is a female attorney. Everything you are saying is spot on. Also, my feeling about PB is that he's hiding the Mckinsey experience because it was just low level analyst stuff typical for most entry level associates. By hiding it he's hoping we'll think it was something super high-powered. But I'm sure it would instead underscore that he is unqualified to be an executive in any capacity, corporate or governmental. I don't think being a mayor of a small city is usually a step to becoming a Fortune 500 CEO.
Yeah when I first read this headline I thought she was making over $1m a year and thought that seemed perfectly reasonable if she was a partner.
I play "don't be a lawyer" for any young people who ask me about the job and are considering going to law school. That song is hilarious and just perfect. But I was warned by wiser people too and didn't listen…
TQB says:
i am a lady lawyer, and I've made well over a million dollars in the 15 years since I graduated – and I DON'T have laurels like "Harvard law prof" on my resume! This is a totally reasonable, perhaps even modest amount of fees to have collected for someone with her credentials over that span of time.
Trust, I am NOT a rich lady, still paying off the loans. I've spent some years representing the garbage for big $$, some representing good folks for small $, and have finally settled on representing a mix of relatively alright people for a relatively OK salary.
Livvers says:
Isn't it possible that the fact that Warren worked for corporate clients with questionable records (and maybe small contributions – I bet the lawyers actually leading those bankruptcies earned millions, $100,000 for a consulting job is not necessarily a lot of work) actually supports her personal narrative rather than undermine it? "Conservative-ish Oklahoma Republican lawyer sees how bankruptcy is easy for big companies, disadvantages families, turns into advocate for the little guy."
The smoking baguette?
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Rapunzel says:
Dear Media morons,
I just lowered my cholesterol levels back to a normal level after you force fed me butter emails. Do not try to serve me butter income.
My health can't take it.
savu says:
I think they're trying to point out she helped some of these companies do gross company things under the law. Which was her job and specialty: knowing the law and how to move within it to benefit. That's what she's constantly arguing, that these companies can get away with so much. She would know! Idk, I'm not bothered by any of it. Girl's gotta eat, and after years of expert work, she wanted changes for the better.
lucy2 says:
That's what I was thinking too.
Someone I know was complaining that she used to be a Republican. I said, well, maybe life and experience has changed her politics. When he didn't buy that, I explained how that's what has happened for me. I used to be much more middle of the road and didn't pay as close attention, but starting with Bush 2, and especially now, I've gone much further left than I ever used to be. Human beings change and grow.
I just want all this to be over. It's exhausting.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/12/elizabeth-warren-profile-young-republican-2020-president-226613
A good piece on how she changed
When I met my husband, he was pretty conservative. After 8 years together, I would classify him as maybe an independent. Not Republican but not Democrat either. People do change.
LP says:
I feel a really personal connection to Elizabeth Warren's story because it's mine too: white midwestern lady is raised conservative, never engages with politics at all (Privilege), until the day she actually sees how the other half lives/gets educated on issues, then does a compete 180!
Omg, that could be me too!
Allergy says:
Warren is amazing. She would be a great president.
I think she would be too.
I'd really love her to select Kamala as VP, but unfortunately I don't think we'll get an all female ticket. Unlike Finland!
My guess is Booker for her VP
I think Harris would be a good choice though
I'm guessing Booker or Castro. I like both of them too.
Pete hired this Butter Emails woman. https://mobile.twitter.com/jentaub/status/1203673185943719936
EVERY thing I hear about this guy makes me like him less. A lot less.
I lost all interest in the primary after Kamala dropped out. We're going to end up with Biden and the general will be 2 old white men comparing "hand" sizes and threatening to beat each other up. And it makes me so angry when I think that we could have had a brilliant, accomplished woman ready to bring back some sanity and repair our country's reputation.
I agree with you that Biden seems kind of like a foregone conclusion, but a part of me really thinks it will be Warren. What she does with that, I don't know but I hope it's amazing.
I know right? I believe that once Kamala dropped out biden became the nominee. Maybe I will be proved wrong, but I doubt it. The reason being all of the front runners now are white, and out of them, only Biden can attract AA support, so…yeah I keep think about this general. I mean I'm totally voting for Biden, but wow. Are trump and biden going to get into a fistfight? I doubt it but only because I don't believe trump is going to debate, at all. He's a coward. He will slime biden's son from the safety of the oval office. But I do actually think that if he takes the stage, and says the awful things he likes to say, like an actual old man fistfight could break out.
I could be depressed, but you know, I made a vow that at my age, this could be my last really great decade, and I have vowed to make it the roaring 20′s for me! Just like a century ago. I'm not gonna let these old men bring me down too far.
Other Renee says:
I'm all for Warren getting the nom. I'm rather disgusted with Pete. Step aside, dude. I've been really disappointed with how the Dems have handled campaigning. They've been dragging each other through the mud. I naively thought they'd rise above the fray and show everyone that there is a better and more noble way to treat each other. I was wrong.
10KTurtle says:
So I guess tomorrow we'll be reading the article about how much money every other candidate made in their entire life?
This has always seemed funny to me, and it shows how ignorant people are about the opposite side politics. I've heard right wing friends criticize left wing friends because they go on vacation, drive a car or have an iPhone; and I've heard left wing friends assume that the right wing ones have no interest in doing social work. Both are as ridiculous as caring about what a politician made legally and honestly during her private work years.
YES!!! All of this.
wtf says:
I would just like to point out that her work on the Enron case is completely consistent with her politics. She worked on the side of creditors in the Enron bankruptcy. The creditors were everyday people – employees, California energy customers, etc. Having someone like Warren on their side had to be amazing for them. Even if she had worked for the large, institutional creditors, that would still be in line with her politics because they were mostly pension funds and mutual funds. Those are people's retirements.
AND – I find this whole line of critique disgusting. She doesn't have to take a vow of poverty to represent us well. In fact, it I find it even more admirable when people that have money advocate for wealthy people to pay their fair share. They are arguing against their own interests.
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Creatives are notorious for defying measurement. Sayings like "You can't rush creativity" and "I'm not a numbers person" make it seem like design is all subjective magic. Well, if your work is subjective, your value is too. Unclear value is the reason design does not always have a seat at the table. It's the reason design is the least staffed position in product organizations. And I'm betting it's the reason designers get paid less than their product or engineering counterparts.
But how do you prove the value of design?
First, you have to define success and how it's measured. Most companies set goals. But if you don't truly understand the goals or know how to measure them, then it's impossible to reach them.Designers cannot be successful when they can't see the bar for success.No one can be successful without a clear view of what success looks like.
As designers, we should thoroughly understand the behaviors that are happening in our products. When we make customer-facing improvements, we need to be able to see what changed for the business. We must align our day-to-day work with broader business goals and we must do so specifically and tangibly. It is our responsibility to inform our decisions with evidence. It is our responsibility to understand and demonstrate our value.
If you're a product or UX designer just getting started with data, here are three important areas of practice that can help you make your work more valuable.
Make sure you understand where this goal is being measured and how you can see that you're affecting it. If that's not currently possible, work with your team to make it possible.
Once you have a clear goal, you need a thorough understanding of what's happening right now and what's getting in the way of attaining that goal. Investigate current performance, gathering as much intel as you can. This is where design shines. Ask. all. the. questions.
Where are bookings at now?
Where are we measuring it?
Who's in charge of measuring it?
What's preventing people from booking?
What kinds of errors are happening when people try to book?
Who are these people who are booking?
How fast are people booking?
What makes people more likely to book?
The answers to these questions can be found within your organization, in your analytics reporting and in interactions with customers. Talk with your colleagues. Sit in on their meetings. Ask them to show you where they looking at these metrics. Ask them how to pull these reports yourself. Ask them about customer behavior. Ask them for help.
Now that you know where and how your goal is being measured, establish a cadence for sharing out progress. This could be a team conversation. It could happen at standup or in planning meetings. Or it could be more passive–a dashboard on the wall, an email, a Slack report.Designers often lean on qualitative research for discovery but leveraging quantitative analytics can help you find patterns more quickly.
These progress reports should be a collaboration between product, design, and engineering (and any other key roles on your team–maybe customer success or marketing). Design can share visual references, demos or customer anecdotes to help those outside the team understand what's working.
The secret to business growth lies in truly understanding and serving customers. If you can figure out who your customers are, why they showed interest in your product and what else is missing from their lives, you can capture the market. Easier said than done.
We think we know what our customers need and want. If you've ever run a usability test, you know that's not true. We think we know what our customers need and want. We think we know how they behave, how they use our products. If you've ever run a usability test, you know that's not true. Gathering information on how real human beings outside your company see and interact with your product is the first step to improving it. There is absolutely no reason to take on a blind redesign of your product without an understanding of what's happening now. Designers often lean on qualitative research for discovery but leveraging quantitative analytics can help you find patterns more quicklyIt can help you learn who you should be talking to. You can then follow up with these individual customers and interview them.
Platforms like Amplitude provide moment-to-moment timelines of how individual customers are behaving in your product. Review them. Question them. Rebuild your reports to answer your questions.
If you don't have these tools, your data, engineering or customer success teams might be able to help. Enlist the help of your teammates to help you answer your questions. Gather all the information you can about how people are currently using the product.
Amplitude's User Streams feature lets you see how real humans are using your product individually. Read more about how to use it in their documentation.
Once you've interviewed some people, you can try to rework some of your analytics reports to see if any new information emerges. Maybe those ten people you talked to are unique or maybe they signal a larger pattern. Either way, you're starting to uncover clues that you can use to inform your design decisions.
How to download a list of users who performed an action in Amplitude. More on this in their documentation.
By now, you should be onto something. Your team has a focused metric. You've identified opportunities and you are designing possibilities. The fog is clearing and a vision is emerging.
The bigger the risk of your design proposal, the more you need to build a case for investing in that direction.Before you double down and rip out your onboarding, consider how you will derisk your decisions. Even if the brand new design is seemingly much better, how might you be able to prove that? Are you sure it's worth spending X number of weeks (or months) building this new design? You've come too far into the land of customer understanding to put all your eggs in one basket.
It's critical to have vision but over-investing in unproven ideas is one of the biggest mistakes teams make. It's up to your team to determine what the level of risk is but you can think of it in terms of cost-benefit. If you're right, what's the upside? If you're wrong, what has been wasted?
As you release changes, set up reports that show their impact. Start with your key metric–the one you're trying to move for the company–and build views around that behavior. For mobile apps, you can also send version numbers to your analytics tools so you can compare versions. On web, you would look at week-over-week or month-over-month to see how things are changing. Ideally, your team is releasing often so you can learn more specifically what's working and what's not.
Make sure it's clear who on your team monitors the outcome of a release. Even if this is not you, you should be aware of where to find these reports as you'll need that information to inform your next decisions.
An event segmentation view in Amplitude showing how each release of the app is performing. Read up on how to do event segmentation.
With each release (or experiment), you learn about customer behavior and your impact on the business. Reflect on these releases with your team. Did you see what you expected to see? Did you move your key metric? Document what you learned, what new questions you have and what you're planning to do next. Share this information in your team's progress reports.
You can even create a timeline of releases so the story of where you are heading and why is easy to follow. This can be a helpful artifact for having conversations with executive leaders as well as onboarding new teammates.
Our jobs depend on our ability to convince leaders we are valuable. Without any tangible proof, we rely on someone else's understanding of how design improves a business. Luckily for us, there are so many tools for proving the value of design. It's up to us to take full advantage of them.
Designers who want to own their success and control their destiny should equip themselves with a rich knowledge of data. Designers who want to own their success and control their destiny should equip themselves with a rich knowledge of data. You do not have to do it alone. Read the documentation for your analytics tools. Talk with your colleagues and ask for a walk through of how they look at data. Create one report and show it to a teammate to see if they see what you see.
Use data as both an input into design and a demonstration of the outcome of better design. Use data to understand the human stories behind your product. Use it to elevate the role of design in business. Use it to tell your own success story.
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Microsoft used to scare start-ups, but has become an 'outstandingly good partner,' says Ben Horowitz
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Once upon a time, Silicon Valley start-ups were afraid of Microsoft, or scorned it as irrelevant.
That's changed under Satya Nadella, according to investor Ben Horowitz, whose firm Andreessen Horowitz just co-invested alongside Microsoft in Databricks, a start-up with software for processing large-scale data inpublic clouds.
Microsoft is "truly an outstandingly good partner, which is really an amazing thing, just because if you go back to the '90s, Microsoft didn't have that reputation," Horowitz said.
In the old days, there were two things that made Microsoft difficult to partner with, Horowitz said. Anything the company did had to promote Windows. Also, he said, "it was always scary to introduce a company to them [Microsoft] because it always felt like they were going to use information against you."
In addition to changing the company's track record there, Nadella has also rebuilt the company's bench of product leaders after it emptied out under Ballmer, Horowitz said.
The relationship between Databricks and Microsoft dates to 2016, when Horowitz sent an email about the company to Nadella.
Nadella grasped the importance of having data in the same place as the software that will process it, and his team understood how well it could handle lots of different kinds of data, Horowitz said.
"You have to just give him credit for seeing it," Horowitz said.
Microsoft employees then did the work to make sure that the Databricks software, which draws on the Apache Spark open-source project, works well with Azure, and got its salespeople prepared to sell the technology.
The resulting collaboration was one-of-a-kind -- Microsoft offers a cloud service with "Databricks" in the name, but Databricks is the one that's running it, said Databricks' CEO, Ali Ghodsi.
Sometime in the second half of 2018 -- Ghodsi wouldn't say exactly when -- he had dinner at Nadella's house. He came away as impressed as Horowitz.
"He said, 'As a leader, you need to create clarity.' I think he's created a lot of clarity at Microsoft," Ghodsi said of Nadella. "He's really, really customer-obsessed, and he really believes in the cloud, and he's a great leader."
Ghodsi and the Databricks board recognized what Microsoft had already contributed and decided to give Microsoft a chance to invest in the latest round, Horowitz said.
The new investment, which is an unspecified portion of a $250 million round, exemplifies Microsoft's increased focus on commercializing open-source software. In addition to making some of its technology compatible with the Linux operating system, which competes with Windows, Microsoft has also tapped other companies and made acquisitions in recent years to bolster its collection of developer tools that are compatible with open-source code.
Microsoft has previously partnered with open-source companies like Docker and Hortonworks in its efforts to compete with cloud market leader Amazon Web Services.
In January, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Citus Data, a company focusing on the PostgreSQL open-source database software, and in 2017 it bought the Deis team and technology, partly with an eye toward improving Azure's capabilities with software containers.
San Francisco-based Databricks claims more than 2,000 customers, including HP and Shell. The new round values the company at $2.7 billion. Coatue Management, Battery Ventures, Green Bay Ventures, Geodesic and New Enterprise Associates also participated in the new round alongside Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz.
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NICEVILLE — Newly appointed Okaloosa County School Superintendent Marcus Chambers didn't wait long to change his mind about moving quickly to make personnel changes.
Shortly after his Jan. 11 appointment by Gov. Rick DeSantis, Chambers told the Northwest Florida Daily News he was in no hurry to remove anyone from the Mary Beth Jackson administration.
But he said Monday that "after careful consideration" he fired Henry Kelley, listed on the agenda from Monday's School Board meeting as director of community affairs, and Andy Johnson, the program director of Student Services, Discipline and Athletics.
The terminations were effective immediately.
Chambers has also demoted Assistant Superintendent Nick Kootsouradis by sending him to Lewis Middle School to serve as an assistant principal until the end of this school year.
Steve Horton is serving as the School District's assistant superintendent of Management Information Systems and, along with Chambers, as the district spokesman.
The new superintendent confirmed Monday night that he is seeking an assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction and an assistant superintendent of human resources.
Prior to being suspended from her job by DeSantis on the day Chambers was promoted to take over, Jackson had Chambers serving as both the superintendent of curriculum and instruction and the superintendent of human resources.
He said he has decided to split the two duties.


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Sir Ronald Hibbert Cross,  baronnet, KCMG , KCVO , PC ( - ) est un homme politique et diplomate britannique.

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Cross fait ses études à Ludgrove Preparatory School, puis à Collège d'Eton. Il sert avec le duc de Lancaster's Own Yeomanry et comme pilote avec le Royal Flying Corps pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.

Aux élections générales de 1931, Cross est élu député conservateur de Rossendale. Il est successivement whip du gouvernement (1935), Lords du Trésor (1937), Vice-Chambellan de la maison (1937–38) et secrétaire parlementaire du Board of Trade (1938–39). Il est admis au Conseil privé en 1940.

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Cross est Ministère de l'Économie de guerre (1939-1940) et ministre de la Marine (1940-1941). En 1941, il est démis de ses fonctions de ministre de la marine marchande après que sa performance ait été critiquée par la presse. La même année, il est nommé haut-commissaire britannique en Australie et créé baronnet, de Bolton-le-Moors dans le comté palatin de Lancaster. Cross retourne au Royaume-Uni en 1945 mais perd son siège lors des élections de cette année-là.

En 1950, Cross est élu au siège d'Ormskirk, Lancashire. Il est ensuite gouverneur de Tasmanie du 23 août 1951 au 4 juin 1958. Il est nommé Chevalier Commandeur de l'Ordre Royal Victorien (KCVO) par la Reine Elizabeth II quand elle visite Hobart pendant sa tournée de couronnement en 1954. Il est ensuite nommé Chevalier Commandeur de l'Ordre de Saint-Michel et Saint-George (KCMG) dans les honneurs du Nouvel An de 1955.

Cross épouse Louise Marion Green-Emmott en 1925. Ils ont quatre filles et un fils qui est mort avant lui. Mount Ronald Cross, dans l'ouest de la Tasmanie, porte son nom.

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Député du 39e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du 37e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du 36e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du Parti conservateur (Royaume-Uni)
Élève du collège d'Eton
Baronnet
Membre du Conseil privé du Royaume-Uni
Chevalier commandeur de l'ordre royal de Victoria
Chevalier commandeur de l'ordre de Saint-Michel et Saint-Georges
Gouverneur de Tasmanie
Personnel de l'armée de terre britannique pendant la Première Guerre mondiale
Décès en juin 1968
Naissance en mai 1896
Décès à 72 ans

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