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September 11 th 2014 3 Comments
Legal and Professional Publishing: Has It Become Desperately Dull?
by Robert McKay
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I'm pretty certain that most people, partly under delusion, at some time express the view that things aren't as good as they were in the past. It's usually wrong, of course. However, looking at the world of legal and professionally publishing, I wonder if I'm correct in thinking that it used to be enormously pleasurable, rewarding and creative but now appears, with some exceptions, to be desperately dull?
Its dullness is reflected in its lack of innovation, its shift away from new product development and its failure to excite and engage with its customers and with its own people. For me at least, on a scan of the main UK legal and professional providers' web sites, their apparent lack of innovation serves to confirm the view. The use of the word "solutions" in the various web sites is almost as prolific as on the back of a plumber's van and has as much meaning. A propos, we tend to think of solutions being applied to problems, hence generally a negative scenario. But what of responses to or generation and encouragement of opportunities for competitive advantage? Isn't that about financial risk management combined with innovation, entrepreneurialism, creativity and expertise? Is the "there are no problems, only opportunities" mantra in decline?
In my view, the state of affairs is shown in the decline of profits, inability to grow and the sector's lack of importance as an area of interest for managers and investors. Add to this the recent news of Lexis Nexis and Wolters Kluwer swapping legal publishing assets in Canada and Poland and one can assume that attempts are being made to make sense of respective strengths and weaknesses. Might Wolters Kluwer finally come to terms with its evolved position in the UK?
It may simply be, as a seasoned publisher suggested to me, that, as comments on Bloomberg Law indicate, the real action is no longer in publishing, as defined by the processes of editorial, production, product management, marketing, sales and product development but rather in other spheres, that are driven more by technology. He suggested that a recent graduate, presently steeped in the creation of mobile and tablet applications, is likely to be having the time of her/his life, seeing now as their moment. Obviously, if it's true, it has to be great for those people but nevertheless I think it regrettable that the core professional publishing tasks may no longer be appealing.
I have a view as to why so many aspects of working life may be less interesting than previously, certainly but not exclusively in publishing. Perhaps from the early 1990s the extent to which employees, particularly those who are creative and knowledge workers, have been under the control of process management and system to do their jobs, has taken away the spark. Many of the opportunities for individual thought, application of personal intelligence, judgement, charisma and flair have been set aside in favour of project management rules and automated process systems. I was shocked recently to see an example of how far things have changed, seeing a Linkedin posting to try and find a suitable author/editor for part of a legal and finance publication. The reason was, allegedly, that "nobody wants to write any more, it doesn't pay enough, they all have high chargeable hour targets and lots of the old ones have retired"There was a time when having all the right contacts and being in the midst of all the right people were key elements of the job. But then the publishing business in question has already made redundant any trained publishers it used to have and has outsourced most of its publishing functions to the Far East. In many large organisations, it seems that the business systems, keenly supported by back-office functions like finance, human resources, the monitoring of key performance indicators and information technology are the de facto management and sometimes the enemy of the brightest employees.
Whether, for example, the rigours of the likes of Lean Six Sigma process to provide goods and service at a rate of 3.4 defects per million opportunities is optimal, when applied to publishing activities, might be a matter of debate. I wonder, however, if it takes the fun out of it. Likewise, the various computerised project management software processes applied to everything are often a delight to the people in the project office but can often get in the way of successful outcomes, when the process becomes more important than the (sometimes financially measured) result.
Very recently I had experience of the absence of even senior employee power, authority and judgment, albeit in the rather more sensitive area of certain large financial transactions involving banking and financial institutions. Opportunities for "computer says NO" moments abounded, almost to the destruction of the deals in question, despite many well-meaning, intelligent and senior people doing everything in their restricted power to be positive. These were financial transactions, of course and we have learned much of late about the need for financial scrutiny and control. Still, more often than not, professional publishing businesses appear to be driven by constraints rather than opportunity and creativity. Sometimes humans need to have authority.
Perhaps surprisingly, some of the publishing entities that at first sight might look the most dull and unchanging, appear, in contrast to some of the publishers, to be quite dynamic. It's usually quite difficult for law reporting to generate any excitement but maybe they are trying harder than the commercial publishers. In the UK, both the Incorporated Council for Law Reporting for England and Wales and the Scottish Council of Law Reporting have lately been going out of their way to promote their activities and images and to improve their service to existing and potential subscribers. In the former case, a fresh new web site, the hosting of related events, the use of video to promote their activities, active blogging and some well-placed PR activity serve to inform generally and remind us of their value. The Scottish equivalent , whose web site is designed and maintained by Justis Publishing, deserves congratulation of the quality and value of its five YouTube films listed on the site, on the role of law reports, together with related teaching materials. It might be that the law reporters are having an even tougher time than their commercial competitors, in a changing world in which innovation for them is difficult. The point is that they are trying hard, supported by creative and enthusiastic people in both cases. As is ever the case, the bigger the challenge, the more people rise to overcome it. The mainstream law publishers maybe have had it too easy until lately, the irony or perhaps hypocrisy of their changing situation being noted recently by David Worlock.
I have no doubt that in years to come, the bright young legal publishers of today will hark back to the earlier days of their careers which were full of challenge and adventure in contrast to that of their own successors. They'll be wrong.
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Ken Chasse
Print journals made obsolete by free downloads & electronic searching of "open source" journals.
(1) Writers publish for maximum readership, i.e., where the downloading of articles is free & the searching is electronic. Traditional paper-print journals cannot compete. They cost too much and take too long to publish the articles they accept. E-searching makes irrelevant that journals have bad as well as good articles. Convenience & lower price make the "prestige" of the best paper publications irrelevant. That's why the fast food industry is so successful. Technology's conveniences can undercut quality of content.
(2) Make $$millions, with no competitors–create a commercial version of LAO LAW's legal opinion, and memoranda-download services. Do it before CanLII has to create it, because Canada's law societies desperately need an answer to "the unaffordable legal services problem." Otherwise, because they cannot make affordable legal services available, our law societies have no purpose, i.e., they have to be replaced. Meanwhile, the Benchers aren't hurting, but the careers of young lawyers are.
— Ken Chasse, LSUC & LSBC. See my SSRN author's page for more in-depth on "the problem," and, the technology of centralized legal research. (SSRN = Social Science Research Network)
Robert Morgan
A brilliant, incisive and long overdue commentary on what is wrong with legal publishing today. I believe the root cause – from which the domination of systems and targets over talents stems – is the fact that the beancounters have taken over from the legal professionals. And we all know the intrinsic and inestimable value of the former – NOT!
I might add that contributors are often as much victims of the process as employees. From 1994 to 2010, I wrote for LexisNexis Hong Kong (Butterworths Asia, as it was in better times). I contributed substantially on arbitration to Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong and the Annotated Statutes of Hong Kong, as well as being a law reporter for Hong Kong Cases. I discovered accidentally, in late 2010, that I had been bounced out of all of these, sans warning or consultation. The reason: I had moved from Hong Kong to Australia. The fact that I remained heavily engaged in dispute resolution in Hong Kong, was the author of a leading arbitration book published by LexisNexis HK, a member of an advisory committee to Hong Kong Government and Consulting Editor to Asian Dispute Review, cut no ice with LexisNexis when I pointed these facts out to them. By virtue of an internal e-mail that was inadvertently copied to me, I learned that I was regarded as a "nutter" for complaining. And when my courteous complaint was escalated to managing director level, I got the rudest imaginable response from the LexisNexis HK MD.
Mind you, I had a bad experience with LexisNexis HK as early as 1997, when my book was published. They were very poor at distributing review copies to journals (they still are) and, when I remonstrated with them about this, received a brusque letter from the then MD telling me that they would not be dictated to by authors!
I can tell you that all this wouldn't have happened in the good old days! Needless to say, the forthcoming second edition of my arbitration book will NOT be published by LexisNexis HK!
Robert McKay
Thank you, Mr. Morgan, for your generous comments and your own insights. For my part, more than the bean counters, I would lay blame with the ignorant outsiders and bluffers who don't know, care or understand but are desperate to set the balance more in their favour. First rule on conquest is to destroy the values of the vanquished.
I hope my next Slaw column, "Do you want to know a secret" explores the issue further by discussing the question of loss of employee loyalty.


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Trial / Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo
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September 3, 2013 September 2, 2020 by Wairagala Wakabi
Witness: I Have No Knowledge of Atrocities by Bemba's Troops
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, Summary
Jean-Jacques Badibanga, Sango, Sylvia Steiner, Witness D04-30, daily summary
The 31st witness to testify in the defense of Jean-Pierre Bemba on Tuesday stated that she was not aware of any crimes committed by the Congolese opposition leader's militia. However, 'Witness D04-30' said she spent a lot of time indoors during the deployment of the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) soldiers in her country.
"Did you hear about any crimes committed by the Congolese troops during the time?" asked prosecution lawyer Jean-Jacques Badibanga, referring to the period between October 2002 and March 2003, when fighting raged in the Central African Republic (CAR).
The witness replied: "I did not hear any such thing."
She explained that after she was raped by rebels loyal to François Bozizé at the start of the conflict, she remained indoors and "maybe" during that time the MLC soldiers committed crimes. "I could not have known," she said.
The witness, a Central African national, has testified at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for three days but provided most of her evidence in closed session. In open court, the witness said she identified her attackers as Central African nationals because they spoke the local language Sango.
She said she learned from members of her community that the rebels, who spent three days in her locality, committed other brutalities.
"Were you given instructions on what to say during your testimony?" Mr. Badibanga asked the witness.
"No, nobody gave me any instructions of that type," replied 'Witness D04-30.' She denied receiving money or promises of any kind in exchange for her testimony.
Prosecutors claim Mr. Bemba, the MLC commander-in-chief, failed to restrain or to sanction his troops who allegedly committed rape, murder, and pillaging in the CAR conflict. He denies all five charges against him, stating that his troops who were in the neighboring country to assist its government fight back a Bozizé-led rebellion were not the perpetrators of the alleged crimes.
Before hearings adjourned this afternoon, presiding judge Sylvia Steiner announced that there were no further witnesses scheduled to testify this week. The date for the next hearing would be announced in due course.
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Q: Bash multi-line output with spaces, as array variable I'm struggling with command output on Bash 3.2 on Mac OS X. I have a command that outputs a multi-line string. Each line of the string has spaces in the value.
I want to assign each value to an element of an array variable.
I have the following script:
declare -a sublist;
sublist=`azure account list --json | jsawk 'return this.name' -a 'return this.join("\n")'`;
echo ${sublist[0]};

The output from the azure command is:
Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN
Microsoft Partner Network

The value of the echo command is:
Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN Microsoft Partner Network

What I'm expecting the output of the echo command to be is:
Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN

The variable named sublist should be an array, with two elements:
[0] Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN
[1] Microsoft Partner Network

The part I'm really struggling with is getting each whole line, including its spaces, to be treated as a single string. I've tried many variations of line #2, where I assign the command output to the sublist variable, and haven't found one that works.

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New home to Rams, Chargers to be known as SoFi…
New home to Rams, Chargers to be known as SoFi Stadium
Naming rights deal announced for centerpiece of Hollywood Park entertainment district in Inglewood
An artist's rendering of the 'Level 3 southeast seating' at the new football stadium under construction at the former site of Hollywood Park in Inglewood. (Photo courtesy of HKS Architects)
By Staff and news service reports |
The new Inglewood venue to be the home of the Rams and Chargers will be known as SoFi Stadium, according to a naming rights deal announced Sunday.
Dollar figures were not announced, but the stadium naming rights deal with the digital personal finance company SoFi will be very good for the teams' finances.
It is expected to be the richest such deal in the NFL, topping the reported $17-19 million per year value of the Dallas Cowboys' 2013 agreement to name their stadium AT&T Stadium.
The Rams' and Chargers' stadium, scheduled to open in the summer of 2020, will be the centerpiece of Hollywood Park, a 298-acre sports and entertainment destination being developed by Owner/Chairman E. Stanley Kroenke. SoFi Stadium will hold year-round sports and entertainment events and has already been slated to host Super Bowl LVI in 2022, the College Football National Championship game in 2023, and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2028 Olympic Games.
An except from the news release announcing the deal read: "LA Stadium and Entertainment District at Hollywood Park (Hollywood Park) and SoFi are partnering in a 20-year agreement that makes the digital personal finance company the exclusive naming rights partner of the new SoFi Stadium, the future home of the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams. In addition, SoFi will be an official partner of each of the teams as well as a partner of the performance venue and surrounding entertainment district."
Said Kroenke: "It would be impossible to build a stadium and entertainment district of this magnitude without incredible and innovative partners who share our ambitions for Los Angeles, our fans worldwide and the National Football League," Kroenke said it a statement. "Since breaking ground at Hollywood Park, more than 12,000 people have worked side-by-side on this project, and we are proud to now have SoFi join us on this journey as we prepare to open in the summer of 2020."
The stadium will have a seating capacity of approximately 70,000, expandable up to 100,000, with 260 luxury suites, more than 13,000 premium seats, and over three million square feet of usable space, according to Sunday's news release. Adjacent to the stadium and under the same roof canopy will be a 6,000-seat performance venue that will host a variety of events, including concerts, esports events, award shows, as well as community gatherings.
"In less than a year, the Rams will be running out of the tunnel into SoFi Stadium as people around the world see Mr. Kroenke's creativity, dedication and hard work come to life through this game-changing building," Rams COO Kevin Demoff said. "We are thrilled to be teaming with SoFi on a partnership that will extend beyond the columns of the stadium, one that will combine our passions for inspiring people to realize their ambition and climb higher."
SCNG's Kevin Modesti contributed to this report.
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— SoFi Stadium (@sofistadium) September 15, 2019
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West Nile virus outbreak in 2012 was the worst since 2003
Home » West Nile virus outbreak in 2012 was the worst since 2003
With the warm weather, we now are seeing increases in the mosquito populations, with the resultant increased risk of exposure to mosquito-borne diseases. West Nile Virus is one of those diseases which poses a risk to people and certain types of animals.
When Summer Brings West Nile Virus
Joseph V. Madia, MD By:Tara Haelle
As summer begins, many may remember the West Nile outbreak that occurred in the summer of 2012. The CDC just released a review of that outbreak and how to avoid another.
The CDC report found that nearly all of the diseases carried by mosquitoes that were reported in 2012 were West Nile cases.
More than 5,600 cases were reported. This was the highest number of West Nile cases since 2003.
There is no vaccine for West Nile virus. The best methods of prevention are reducing mosquito populations and the likelihood of mosquito bites.
"Wear protective clothing to avoid mosquito bites."
The report, authored by a team led by Nicole P. Lindsey, MS, at the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reviewed all the mosquito-carried diseases reported in the US in 2012.
Out of 5,780 mosquito-transmitted diseases (except dengue fever) reported in 2012, 98 percent of them were West Nile virus.
The 5,674 cases of West Nile reported were the highest numbers since 2003 in the US. They were reported in Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and every state except Alaska and Hawaii.
A total of 3,491 people with West Nile, or 62 percent of the total cases, were hospitalized, and 286 people (5 percent) died.
The patients who died were mostly elderly, between the ages of 68 and 84.
The majority of the cases occurred from July through September, when 92 percent of them were reported.
Most of these cases occur when a person is bit by a mosquito carrying the disease. West Nile can also be transmitted through blood transfusions or organ donations, but this is extremely rare.
Most people who become infected actually do not show any symptoms, but those who do usually have a fever.
About half of the cases (51 percent) reported in 2012 involved a neuroinvasive disease, which refers to a disease that affects a person's brain and/or nervous system.
That number of cases means about one person per 100,000 people with West Nile virus experienced this kind of complication.
Among the 2,873 people who had a neuroinvasive disease, a little over half (1,615 patients, or 56 percent) had encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain.
Just over a third (1,038 patients, or 36 percent) had meningitis, and 220 patients (8 percent) had acute flaccid paralysis. This refers to a severe weakness in people's limbs and organs, including difficulty breathing.
Most of the patients with acute flaccid paralysis also had encephalitis or meningitis.
The states that experienced the highest rates of cases were South Dakota, North Dakota, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
In terms of the actual numbers of cases, those in Texas, California, Illinois and Louisiana accounted for over half of all the West Nile cases that resulted in neuroinvasive disease.
"Because human vaccines against domestic [viruses carried by mosquitoes] are not available, prevention of disease depends on community and household efforts to reduce [mosquito] populations," the team wrote in an accompanying editorial.
Chris Galloway, MD, a dailyRx expert who specializes in emergency medicine, agreed.
"It's bad enough getting stung by mosquitoes when you are trying to enjoy the outdoors," Dr. Galloway said. "It's worse when they can cause bad infections."
Dr. Galloway said the West Nile outbreak in 2012 teaches us once again that prevention is the key to avoid being infected.
"Avoid the outdoors during peak mosquito times and protect yourself and others with long garments and repellent spray," he said.
"The good news is that the majority that are infected do not develop symptoms," Dr. Galloway said. "Those that do develop symptoms should seek medical care, especially individuals over 60 and those with chronic medical conditions."
Prevention methods include using insecticides and reducing mosquito breeding sites by reducing the amount of stale or still water that's around.
Insect repellent and wearing protective clothing can reduce the likelihood of being bit by a mosquito.
The other mosquito-carried viruses reported in 2012 besides West Nile included Eastern equine encephalitis virus, Powassan virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus and California serogroup viruses such as La Crosse virus and Jamestown Canyon virus.
This report was published in the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on June 27. The report uses CDC funding, and the authors are CDC employees with no disclosures.


The establishment of the Comprehensive Cancer Center aims to improve cancer treatment and promote research.
Treatment practices change rapidly, and national-level guidance for cancer treatment is crucial to ensure equal access to services and to promote quality of care. The aim is also to curb the costs of cancer treatment by investing in cancer prevention, development of screening programs, rehabilitation, and controlled introduction of expensive treatments.
The aim of research is to develop an individualized and effective treatment for cancer, enhance the use of genomic information in diagnostics and treatment choices, and to promote patient access to clinical trials on an equal basis and without delay.
The Comprehensive Cancer Center aims to operate with a novel approach by helping to coordinate clinical cancer research and the appropriate use of resources for cancer treatment at the national level.
Pursuant to the Central Care Specialization Decree, the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa is responsible for the national planning of cancer prevention, diagnostics, treatment, and rehabilitation as well as the coordination of various activities. These tasks are carried out regionally by university hospitals.
The Cancer Center has been planned by the Comprehensive Cancer Center working group since 1.4.2016. The activities of the Comprehensive Cancer Center will begin in 2018 with the establishment of a Coordinating Unit.
The Comprehensive Cancer Center comprises five regional cancer centers that would coordinate activities in various regions, each of which in turn is formed by a university and the associated university hospital.
STM has granted state funding to each of the five hospital districts with university hospitals for planning, launching, and implementing pilot projects for the regional cancer center.
The Comprehensive Cancer Center working group has set up a project team to prepare the establishment of regional centers and to support the creation of regional and national operating models.


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Chicago Red Stars striker Sam Kerr wins MVP ahead of US title game
Kerr scored league record 18 goals this season for the Red Stars
'I don't do this by myself, so thank you to my teammates'
Sam Kerr has enjoyed a stellar year for both club and country. Photograph: Quinn Harris/Getty Images
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Australian star Sam Kerr was named most valuable player of America's NWSL on the eve of leading Chicago Red Stars in the championship game against the top-ranked North Carolina Courage on Sunday.
Kerr scored a league record 18 goals this season for the Red Stars and knocked in the winner in last weekend's 1-0 semi-final victory over Portland Thorns FC.
Matildas captain Sam Kerr again in hunt for women's Ballon d'Or
The striker refused to accept the MVP award alone and pointed to her Red Stars teammates. "I don't do this by myself," Kerr said. "The 18 goals did not come from one player, so thank you to my teammates."
The honour is the latest accolade in what has been a phenomenal year for Kerr, who picked up the league's Golden Boot award last week and led the Matildas at the World Cup.
Sam Kerr to move on from Australia but can W-League move on from her? | Samantha Lewis
The Red Stars, who also feature Australian goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold, will be the underdogs in the final played in front of a hostile crowd in Cary, North Carolina. The Courage are loaded with talent, including MVP runner-up and Brazilian midfielder Debinha and goal-scoring tandem Kristen Hamilton and Lynn Williams. The Red Stars have their own deadly duo with Kerr and Japan's Yuki Nagasato a handful for any opponent.
Mackenzie, back-up goalkeeper to Alyssa Naeher, said the Red Stars are bubbling with confidence after securing last week's semi-final win, having lost semi-finals the past four years. "Last week there was a lot of talk about a semi-final curse, but I think now the pressure is off and we will go out there and play with excitement and see where it takes us," Mackenzie said.
The Courage finished the regular season on top of the table with 15 wins, five losses and four draws while the Red Stars were second with 14 wins, eight losses and two draws.
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I love this blue/black combo! Navy is such a perfect color for Fall!
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Everyone likes music. There's no exception. Be it Rock, Pop, Metal or Classical music. Music is colorful and multifaceted, just like life itself. Music can be scary, consolatory, it makes you happy and sometimes it can make you sad. Music is fun.
Music reminds you of places you have been, people you have met as well as on the people you love or don't like. It reminds you of good and bad times.
It accompanies you through your whole life and there is a song for every life situation.
1.) Follow the lineage rules please!
What is special about this song? Why did you choose it?: This song always reminds me of the day I flew to America for the first time.
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Here I will list all songs that are already taken The official "Lineage-Playlist"
Only Hope - Mandy Moore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0_OJqd ... _embedded#!
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Finally I found this one!
What is special about this song? Why did you choose it?: I LOVE this song. This is the first folk metal band I ever started to listen to and I was turned onto them by my boyfriend. Plus the song translated means 'Hands as their Wings'. It's kind of the opposite with Quets. They have wings, not hands.
Location: Gifting people candy for halloween and hoping I get some of the chocolate lizards as gifts.


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Walmart returns firearms, ammunition to U.S. store floors
Walmart Inc said on Friday it has begun returning firearms and ammunitions to the floors of its U.S. stores a day after the world's largest retailer said it had removed these products to protect customers and employees as tensions across the country rise.
"After civil unrest earlier this week resulted in damage to several of our stores … we asked stores to move firearms and ammunition from the sales floor …. As the current incidents have remained geographically isolated, we have made the decision to begin returning these products to the sales floor today," the company said.
A Walmart spokesman declined to comment on why the decision to place firearms and ammunition back on U.S. store floors was made days before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3., with many worried that the result could be contested or spark violence.
Retailers have been on edge after raiders earlier this year smashed windows, stole merchandise and, at times, set stores ablaze in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Portland and other U.S. cities. In an another trend that has fed concern, gun sales in the United States this year have reached record highs, and more first-time buyers have purchased firearms in recent months.
Shares of the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer, which sells firearms in approximately half of its more than 5,000 U.S. stores, were down roughly 1.6% in afternoon trading. (Reporting by Melissa Fares in New York and Aishwarya Venugopal in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Cynthia Osterman)


You may have heard about Tabor's Graduate Diploma in Spiritual Direction, but you may not know much about the ministry of spiritual direction (SD) itself. If you have spent most of your life in evangelical churches, that's probably not surprising. SD has a long history in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, but has only really been 'rediscovered' in Protestant circles over recent decades. I thought, therefore, that an FAQ about SD might be helpful.
SD is an ancient practice of a spiritual director accompanying you in your spiritual journey. Three words, I think, characterise the SD encounter.
Hospitality: SD is built upon imago Dei—whatever your story, as someone created in God's image you are precious and your journey will be honoured. Therefore, hospitality—the creation of space to both be and become—is foundational. In this 'grace space', in being deeply present to you, your director seeks to 'listen into speech' the real stuff of your life—joys, hopes, prayers, griefs, weariness, questions, worries, work, play, relationships, failures, and so on—without you fearing judgement or being told what to do. This fosters the movement towards spiritual authenticity.
Discernment: SD is built upon missio Dei—there are no 'no go' zones for the incarnate and redemptive God, who in Jesus has entered into human experience and is thus already present and at work in yours. Therefore, discernment is less about future-orientated, outcome-focused decisions, and more about a journey in contemplative, slow and deep listening and responding to that Presence. In SD we often say that we live our lives forwards, but understand them backwards. Hence, as you tell your story, together you and your director ponder significant points of connection and divine movements in your life. This fosters the movement towards spiritual insight.
EnCOURAGEment: SD is built upon the ministry of the Spirit, the True Encourager—we need God's animating life to respond. Therefore, in light of what has been discerned together, your director offers the gift of courage to faithfully live out your life in God. A director will hold you prayerfully as your reengage with what you are being called to, whether that is incremental or monumental. This fosters the movement towards spiritual engagement in your world, your reality.
Our intercultural studies lecturer, David Turnbull, came across this resource. I thought it was an interesting attempt to address an important need in the church. You can click on the picture to go to the website.
Tabor Adelaide is pleased to host Dr Andrew Shepherd, co-director of A Rocha in New Zealand, who will be delivering a lecture entitled "Living in an Age of Overconsumption" on Tuesday, 3rd June at 7:30. This is part of the free public lecture series run by the Graeme Clark Research Institute at Tabor Adelaide. It promises to be a good evening.
If you are unable to attend, we will endeavour to provide a link to the video recording later in the year.


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Q: Usage of ng-click in html-select box Here is my plunkr
if you see that there are four buttons but i want those buttons as options in dropdown..
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but we cannot use ng-click,ng-change in html-select box.so Is there good way to do that? please edit my plunkr

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Cancer that arises in the gallbladder is uncommon.
The most common symptoms caused by gallbladder cancer are jaundice, pain, and fever.
Cholelithiasis is an associated finding in the majority of cases, but less than 1% of patients with cholelithiasis develop this cancer.
Chao TC, Greager JA: Primary carcinoma of the gallbladder. J Surg Oncol 46 (4): 215-21, 1991.
Shoup M, Fong Y: Surgical indications and extent of resection in gallbladder cancer. Surg Oncol Clin N Am 11 (4): 985-94, 2002.
Sasson AR, Hoffman JP, Ross E, et al.: Trimodality therapy for advanced gallbladder cancer. Am Surg 67 (3): 277-83; discussion 284, 2001.
Gallbladder. In: Amin MB, Edge SB, Greene FL, et al., eds.: AJCC Cancer Staging Manual. 8th ed. New York, NY: Springer, 2017, pp 303–9.
The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) has designated staging by the TNM classification to define gallbladder cancer.
a Reprinted with permission from AJCC: Gallbladder. In: Amin MB, Edge SB, Greene FL, et al., eds.:AJCC Cancer Staging Manual. 8th ed. New York, NY: Springer, 2017, pp 303–9.
I T1, N0, M0 T1 = Tumor invades the lamina propria or muscular layer.
IIA T2a, N0, M0 T2a = Tumor invades the perimuscular connective tissue on the peritoneal side, without involvement of the serosa (visceral peritoneum).
IIB T2b, N0, M0 T2b = Tumor invades the perimuscular connective tissue on the hepatic side, with no extension into the liver.
IIIA T3, N0, M0 T3 = Tumor perforates the serosa (visceral peritoneum) and/or directly invades the liver and/or one other adjacent organ or structure, such as the stomach, duodenum, colon, pancreas, omentum, or extrahepatic bile ducts.
IIIB T1–3, N1, M0 T1 = Tumor invades the lamina propria or muscular layer.
–T1a = Tumor invades the lamina propria.
–T1b = Tumor invades the muscular layer.
T2 = Tumor invades the perimuscular connective tissue on the peritoneal side, without involvement of the serosa (visceral peritoneum). Or, tumor invades the perimuscular connective tissue on the hepatic side, with no extension into the liver.
–T2a = Tumor invades the perimuscular connective tissue on the peritoneal side, without involvement of the serosa (visceral peritoneum).
–T2b = Tumor invades the perimuscular connective tissue on the hepatic side, with no extension into the liver.
T3 = Tumor perforates the serosa (visceral peritoneum) and/or directly invades the liver and/or one other adjacent organ or structure, such as the stomach, duodenum, colon, pancreas, omentum, or extrahepatic bile ducts.
N1 = Metastases to one to three regional lymph nodes.
IVA T4, N0–1, M0 T4 = Tumor invades the main portal vein or hepatic artery or invades two or more extrahepatic organs or structures.
IVB Any T, N2, M0 TX = Primary tumor cannot be assessed.
T1 = Tumor invades the lamina propria or muscular layer.
T4 = Tumor invades the main portal vein or hepatic artery or invades two or more extrahepatic organs or structures.
N2 = Metastases to four or more regional lymph nodes.
Any T, Any N, M1 TX = Primary tumor cannot be assessed.
Patients with localized (stage I) gallbladder cancer have cancer confined to the gallbladder wall that can be completely resected. They represent a minority of cases of gallbladder cancer. Patients with cancers confined to the mucosa have 5-year survival rates of nearly 100%. Patients with muscular invasion or beyond have a survival of less than 15%. Treatment of localized disease includes removal of regional lymphatics and lymph nodes should be removed along with the gallbladder in such patients.
With the exception of some patients with focal stage IIA disease, patients with stage II, III, or IV disease have cancer that cannot be completely resected. They represent the majority of cases of gallbladder cancer. Often the cancer invades directly into adjacent liver or biliary lymph nodes or has disseminated throughout the peritoneal cavity. Spread to distant parts of the body is not uncommon. At these stages, standard therapy is directed at palliation. Because of its rarity, no specific clinical trials exist; however, such patients can be included in trials aimed at improving local control by combining radiation therapy with radiosensitizer drugs.
Shirai Y, Yoshida K, Tsukada K, et al.: Inapparent carcinoma of the gallbladder. An appraisal of a radical second operation after simple cholecystectomy. Ann Surg 215 (4): 326-31, 1992.
When gallbladder cancer is previously unsuspected and is discovered in the mucosa of the gallbladder at pathologic examination, it is curable in more than 80% of cases. Gallbladder cancer suspected before surgery because of symptoms, however, usually penetrates the muscularis and serosa and is curable in fewer than 5% of patients.
One study reported on patterns of lymph node spread from gallbladder cancer and outcomes of patients with metastases to lymph nodes in 111 consecutive surgical patients in a single institution from 1981 to 1995.[Level of evidence: 3iiiA] The standard surgical procedure was removal of the gallbladder, a wedge resection of the liver, resection of the extrahepatic bile duct, and resection of the regional (N1 and N2) lymph nodes. Kaplan-Meier estimates of the 5-year survival for node-negative tumors pathologically staged as T2 to T4 were 42.5% ± 6.5% and for similar nodepositive tumors, 31% ± 6.2%.
Surgery: In previously unsuspected gallbladder cancer, discovered in the surgical specimen following a routine gallbladder operation and confined to mucosa or muscle layer (T1), the majority of patients are cured and require no further surgical intervention.[2,3] Re-exploration to resect liver tissue near the gallbladder bed or extended or formal hepatectomy and lymphadenectomy including N1 and N2 lymph node basins may be associated with delayed recurrences or extended survival in patients with stage I or II gallbladder cancer.[4,5] Apparently localized cancers that are suspected before or during the operation can be surgically removed with a wedge of liver and lymph nodes and lymphatic tissue in the hepatoduodenal ligament. Long-term disease-free survival will occasionally be achieved. In jaundiced patients (stage III or stage IV), there should be consideration of preoperative percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage for relief of biliary obstruction.
Implantation of the carcinoma at all port sites (including the camera site) after laparoscopic removal of an unsuspected cancer is a problem. Even for stage I cancers, the port sites must be excised completely.
Clinical trials are exploring ways of improving local control with radiation therapy combined with radiosensitizer drugs. When possible, such patients are appropriately considered candidates for these studies.
Tsukada K, Kurosaki I, Uchida K, et al.: Lymph node spread from carcinoma of the gallbladder. Cancer 80 (4): 661-7, 1997.
Fong Y, Brennan MF, Turnbull A, et al.: Gallbladder cancer discovered during laparoscopic surgery. Potential for iatrogenic tumor dissemination. Arch Surg 128 (9): 1054-6, 1993.
Chijiiwa K, Tanaka M: Carcinoma of the gallbladder: an appraisal of surgical resection. Surgery 115 (6): 751-6, 1994.
Yamaguchi K, Chijiiwa K, Saiki S, et al.: Retrospective analysis of 70 operations for gallbladder carcinoma. Br J Surg 84 (2): 200-4, 1997.
Wibbenmeyer LA, Wade TP, Chen RC, et al.: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy can disseminate in situ carcinoma of the gallbladder. J Am Coll Surg 181 (6): 504-10, 1995.
Smoron GL: Radiation therapy of carcinoma of gallbladder and biliary tract. Cancer 40 (4): 1422-4, 1977.
Hejna M, Pruckmayer M, Raderer M: The role of chemotherapy and radiation in the management of biliary cancer: a review of the literature. Eur J Cancer 34 (7): 977-86, 1998.
Patients with unresectable, recurrent, or metastatic gallbladder cancer are not curable. Significant symptomatic benefit can often be achieved with relief of biliary obstruction. A few patients have very slow-growing tumors and may live several years. Patients with unresectable, recurrent, or metastatic gallbladder cancer should be considered for inclusion in clinical trials whenever possible. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI website.
Relief of biliary obstruction is warranted when symptoms such as pruritus and hepatic dysfunction outweigh other symptoms of the cancer. The preferred approach is percutaneous transhepatic drainage or endoscopically placed stents; surgical bypass may be appropriate when these approaches are infeasible.
Palliative radiation therapy after biliary drainage may be beneficial, and patients may be candidates for inclusion in clinical trials that explore ways to improve the effects of radiation therapy with various radiation sensitizers such as hyperthermia, radiosensitizer drugs, or cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents.
Systemic chemotherapy is appropriate for selected patients with adequate performance status and intact organ function. Fluoropyrimidines, gemcitabine, platinum agents, and docetaxel have been reported to produce transient partial remissions in a minority of patients.
A randomized, phase III study of up to 6 months of gemcitabine versus gemcitabine and cisplatin in 410 patients with unresectable, recurrent, or metastatic gallbladder cancer demonstrated an improvement in median overall survival (OS) among patients treated with combination therapy (11.7 months vs. 8.1 months; hazard ratio, 0.64; [95% confidence interval, 0.52–0.80], P < .001).[Level of evidence: 1iiA] A similar median OS benefit was demonstrated in all subgroups, including 149 patients with gallbladder cancer. Grade 3 and 4 toxicities occurred with similar frequency in both study arms, with the exception of increased hematologic toxic effects in patients randomly assigned to gemcitabine-cisplatin and increased hepatotoxicity in patients randomly assigned to single-agent gemcitabine.
Lee J, Park SH, Chang HM, et al.: Gemcitabine and oxaliplatin with or without erlotinib in advanced biliary-tract cancer: a multicentre, open-label, randomised, phase 3 study. Lancet Oncol 13 (2): 181-8, 2012.
This PDQ cancer information summary for health professionals provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about the treatment of gallbladder cancer. It is intended as a resource to inform and assist clinicians who care for cancer patients. It does not provide formal guidelines or recommendations for making health care decisions.


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Diagnostic criteria for polycystic ovary syndrome in Taiwanese Chinese women: comparison between Rotterdam 2003 and NIH 1990
Ming I. Hsu, Tsan Hon Liou, Szu Yuan Chou, Chuan Yaw Chang, Chun Sen Hsu
臺北市立萬芳醫院
Roughly 61% of patients diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) using the 2003 Rotterdam criteria fulfilled the 1990 National Institutes of Health (NIH) criteria. Patients meeting the 1990 NIH diagnostic criteria have more severe clinical and biochemical PCOS symptoms than those who did not.
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Hsu, M. I., Liou, T. H., Chou, S. Y., Chang, C. Y., & Hsu, C. S. (2007). Diagnostic criteria for polycystic ovary syndrome in Taiwanese Chinese women: comparison between Rotterdam 2003 and NIH 1990. Fertility and Sterility, 88(3), 727-729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.149
Diagnostic criteria for polycystic ovary syndrome in Taiwanese Chinese women : comparison between Rotterdam 2003 and NIH 1990. / Hsu, Ming I.; Liou, Tsan Hon; Chou, Szu Yuan 等.
於: Fertility and Sterility, 卷 88, 編號 3, 09.2007, p. 727-729.
Hsu, MI, Liou, TH, Chou, SY, Chang, CY & Hsu, CS 2007, 'Diagnostic criteria for polycystic ovary syndrome in Taiwanese Chinese women: comparison between Rotterdam 2003 and NIH 1990', Fertility and Sterility, 卷 88, 編號 3, 頁 727-729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.149
Hsu MI, Liou TH, Chou SY, Chang CY, Hsu CS. Diagnostic criteria for polycystic ovary syndrome in Taiwanese Chinese women: comparison between Rotterdam 2003 and NIH 1990. Fertility and Sterility. 2007 9月;88(3):727-729. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.149
Hsu, Ming I. ; Liou, Tsan Hon ; Chou, Szu Yuan 等. / Diagnostic criteria for polycystic ovary syndrome in Taiwanese Chinese women : comparison between Rotterdam 2003 and NIH 1990. 於: Fertility and Sterility. 2007 ; 卷 88, 編號 3. 頁 727-729.
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FRC: Dont cut music PhD yet
Igor Pedan
The FRC recommended against eliminating the PhD program in Music at this time. They noted that the timing of this proposal was significant because the latest changes in Creative Arts at Brandeis, including the reformulation of the Theater Arts Department, may point to a veritable renaissance in the Arts at Brandeis.
Four of the abnormally high 14.5 FTEs in the department are part of the Lydian String Quartet, a musical performance group that has been in residence at Brandeis since the 1980s. The quartet, the FRC notes, was considered as core faculty by Jaffe, even though none of the four hold regular classes.
Their primary task is to perform music at Brandeis in various formal and informal contexts and, when performing and recording away from campus, to enrich Brandeis reputation for excellence in the Arts by being identified as the Universitys quartet in residence, the FRC wrote.
The FRC suggested that Jaffe hire a new staff member when an FTE opens to work with Jaffe to evaluate and implement counter-proposals submitted by the Music department. These were:
1. A decrease in the size of the entering PhD cohort from 6 to 5, by admitting 2 or 3 students in musicology and composition in alternate years (i.e., a reduction of 4 total stipends).
2. A reduction in the graduate requirement for 6 semesters of composition to 4 semesters (the third year being devoted to independent study), freeing up .5 FTE for undergraduate teaching.
3. A drastic reformulation of the undergraduate music major to include tracks in history, composition/theory, performance, and cultural studies.
4. The establishment of a new joint Music and Theater Arts major;
and a possible collaborative major in digital arts with Fine Arts and Theater Arts.
5. A broad plan to diversify the curriculum to include, for example, courses in non-western and popular music, race and ethnicity in music, and music in film.
The FRC recommended for this new position to be renewable or converted into a tenure-track position after a careful review of the success of the specific initiatives proposed by the department. Only at the time of this future review, the FRC recommended, should Jaffe consider a further reduction in the number of PhD stipends.
The FRC also recommend that the Lydians no longer be considered as Music department FTEs. The Lydians are in residence at Brandeis, not in the Music department;
their inclusion as core faculty makes statistical analysis and comparison misleading, the FRC recommended. We urge the administration to explore new funding sources for this treasured resource outside the annual operating budget of Arts and Sciences.


Expectations are always high for perennial state powers Barrington and Neuqua Valley. But in the wonderful, wacky world of high school soccer, it is sometime difficult to have expectations and reality meet in the end.
Last spring, these two clubs nearly met all expectations, but fell just short of what each side wanted. Nonetheless, Joe Moreau, of Neuqua Valley, and Barrington's Ryan Stengren wouldn't have traded it for anything.
Today, the Class 3A second and third place trophy winners meet in an annual nonconference match. The game, which was to be played at Neuqua Valley, has been moved to Commissioners Park in Naperville. Game time is 5 p.m.
It's the season opener for Moreau's club, which was ranked at no. 9 in Chicagoland Soccer's preseason Top 25, and second game for no. 2 Barrington, which began its campaign with a 1-0 win at no. 4 Naperville North on Monday.
"What a great season 2015 was for us," said Moreau, whose club sat at 8-3-2 following consecutive losses to Plainfield North (2-0) and Conant (1-0) at the Naperville Invitational. But the Wildcats merged into the fast lane and reeled off 11-straight wins to reach the state final against New Trier. There the Trevians dashed their hopes with a 2-0 victory.
Early on, the Neuqua Valley (19-4-2) looked to be the third-best side in the high profile DuPage area, just behind favorites Waubonsie Valley and Naperville North. But when Metea Valley stunned Waubonsie Valley in a sectional semifinal, and later, the Wildcats sent second-ranked Naperville North crashing out of the tournament with a thrilling 3-2 victory, the postseason script was nearly written for Moreau and his club. A subsequent win against Hinsdale Central secured the spot in the last four.
"The kids bought into the concept to always work hard in training, and games, and to defend all over the field," Moreau said. "And once we got on that run, there was just no stopping us."
With all due respect to the Wildcats attack, the backline and keeper Hannah Parrish were water tight throughout the memorable 2015 campaign.
Neuqua Valley never allowed more than two goals in any match in 2015, and only three opponents scored twice on them along the way.
The dazzling defense of Tatiana Espinoza (North Dakota), Nicole Mondi, Sophia Moreau (Bowling Green) and Dannah Williams (Purdue) produced a sturdy, composed unit in front of Parrish (Baylor). This group helped their mates lift the program's second state trophy, and first for Moreau, who is nearing 400 victories for a wonderful career that began at St. Charles East in 1995.
"We lost three of those (defensive) starters (Espinoza, Moreau, Williams), plus Hannah, so it will be tough to replace a backline like that," said Moreau.
"We'll move Nicole (Mondi) in as our center back, a position she is very comfortable at, and rotate a couple of players in goal, and continue to tinker with the other spots before we settle into something more concrete later on."
As far as the Wildcats attack, they return second-leading overall scorer Alyssa Bombacino, who finished behind Kiley Czerwinksi (14 goals), who graduated and played at Illinois State last fall.
The sophomore bagged 10 goals last year with seven helpers. Two of those assists helped the Wildcats top Collinsville 3-1 in a state semifinal match.
"We return only 10 from last year, but we feel there's a good group of players that will work hard, and make their mark this season for us," said Moreau.
The new faces will be welcomed into a new conference for the Wildcats, who move from the Upstate Eight to join the DuPage Valley.
"We've always played DVC teams in our nonconference games, this year will be different," began Moreau, whose club opens league play in its next game -- Thursday, March 24th at Wheaton Warrenville South.
"There are no weak teams in this league, so it will be interesting each time out."
Different and interesting is how Stengren described what he expects this season after saying goodbye to a record-setting group of seniors. The Class of 2015 earned two state trophies, 79 wins in four seasons, four consecutive MSL titles, and countless more team and individual honors. It featured a two-time Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year and two-time all-state striker, Jenna Szczesny, who moved on to Loyola University in Chicago to play, and enter in its nursing program.
"I cannot tell you how proud I was of our group of seniors that went through to win four-straight championships in a conference where it's so difficult to just win a division title," began Stengren, now in his ninth year as Fillies manager. In that span he has posted a 152-37-16 overall record.
"Even after watching the tape of our 1-0 state semifinal loss to New Trier, and seeing the incredible speed of play, and our ability to possess, create, and defend a great team like New Trier, I still cannot tell you how happy and proud I was of the girls that night, even in defeat."
Szczesny was what every manager wants - a deadly finisher (37 goals, 102 in career), and voracious attacking machine, which could break apart even the best of backlines while also providing pace, service, and the ability to create for others.
But the Fillies were not a one-woman show. Their first class midfield, beginning with Ann Marie Niro (now playing at Notre Dame) and four-year veterans Megan Fox and Kelsey Muniz, was a box-to-box machine that connected easily with their scoring star up top, while helping to bring others into the mix with unselfish play.
Combine all of that with a brilliant keeper in Hannah Luedtke (playing at Butler) and you can see why Stengren's club enjoyed its sensational four-year run.
"It was a terrific team, and one that was so much fun to be around and coach," said Stengren. "But now we move on to another group of girls, who are also a great group as well.
"There're no game changers on this roster, but the cupboard wasn't left bare. (It's) just that it's going to take some time to sort things out, figure where we can best use the talent we have, and define the role of each player. I guess you can say we're a work in progress right now."
One big bonus for Stengren and his staff is the return of its entire backline, now juniors Jackie Batliner, Kayla Keck and Haley Tausend, and senior Lauren Pircher.
The unit, along with the aforementioned Luedtke, was as stingy as they come and conceded just 13 goals on the year. Sophomore Samantha Schmitz, who served as Luedtke's caddy last season, will take over between the sticks for Stengren, who is quite high on his new starting keeper.
There is a nice core of returning players for Stengren to lean on. Many of them were key figures in their first year with the big club as freshmen and sophomores in 2015.
Now it's back to business for the Broncos.
"It was nice to get a 1-0 result in our opener with Naperville North, but that is all it was - a result," offered Stengren.
"Even with the players coming back, you can see we have plenty of room for improvement. There's not just one or two specifically areas we need to work on. The hope is we get things figured out to ready ourselves for our MSL matches."
Following a long break, Barrington resumes play match at Waubonsie Valley on March 28. Then the Fillies play seven consecutive clubs from the MSL, beginning with reigning East Division champion Hersey on Friday, April 1.


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White House: Health Emergency for COVID Is Out. Health Emergency for Abortion Is In.
Biden Trips on the Border
Column: The one issue where the White House plays defense
The pickings are slim for Republicans in Joe Biden's Washington. For the past few months, the president has maintained a job approval rating in the mid- to low-50s. He has a net positive rating in the double digits. He gets good marks for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, for his distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines, and for his (misguided) decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The American Rescue Plan is extremely popular, and the American Jobs Plan polls well. The rules of the House and budget reconciliation in the Senate mean that Republicans are powerless to stop major economic legislation from becoming law. Meanwhile, the conservative grassroots are more interested in election integrity and identity politics than in policy. GOP officials are frustrated. "It's always harder to fight against a nice person because usually people will sort of give him the benefit of the doubt," Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) told The Hill recently.
There's one issue, however, where the public has doubts. It's the border. The surge in illegal immigration throughout his first 100 days in office has left Biden vulnerable to Republican criticisms and worried about the political implications. The crisis has exposed as false the idea that this administration is staffed with an "A-Team" of "hyper-competent" technocrats able to manage anything that comes their way. Leaks to the news media reveal an administration playing an internal blame game. The typically unflappable Jen Psaki has been caught up in spats with the White House press corps. The upshot is that Biden's missteps have given the GOP an opportunity to unite around border security and tight labor markets.
The public doesn't like the results of Biden's asylum policies. Just 24 percent of adults in a late March AP-NORC poll approved of Biden's handling of the border surge. Last week's Quinnipiac poll showed 29 percent approval. A Morning Consult survey conducted at the end of last month found that a majority of registered voters blamed Biden, not "seasonal migration," for the spike in illegal entries. Participants in the Engagious/Schlesinger swing-voter focus group doubted that Biden's emphasis on diplomacy and humanitarian aid would reduce the pressure on the border. "Swing voter support for Biden's border policies is like sand falling through an hourglass," Engagious president Rich Thau said to Axios.
And Biden's response isn't helping. He put Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of efforts to solve the problem, but Harris recognized the political peril involved and quickly made it clear that she would be engaged in diplomacy rather than emergency response. Harris will meet virtually with the president of Guatemala on April 26, two days after her in-person visit to New Hampshire. The southern border has yet to appear on her schedule.
With Harris burnishing her foreign policy credentials, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has been left to coordinate the administration's efforts. One reason Republicans unanimously opposed Becerra's confirmation was that he's a lawmaker and activist in a job best suited for bureaucrats and wonks. They had a point. The press routinely depicts Biden as unhappy with Becerra and "frustrated" at his inability to house, care for, and resettle unaccompanied minors safely and swiftly. What did Biden expect? The moment demands a figure with the logistical brilliance of Dwight Eisenhower and the moral core of Albert Schweitzer. That description doesn't exactly fit Becerra, who is best known for suing nuns.
Nor is the anti-Becerra leak campaign the only piece of evidence that the White House fears an immigration backlash. Last week, in the space of several hours, Biden flip-flopped on refugee admissions. First came the announcement that, contrary to his campaign pledge, Biden would not raise the cap on refugees. Democrats and progressives slammed the move as inhumane and illiberal. Then the White House, always keeping an eye on its left flank, said it would increase the number of refugees after all. Press secretary Jen Psaki blamed the confusion on "messaging." She was right—the White House had two different messages in one afternoon. A week later Psaki was still trying to explain the discrepancy.
It turns out that Biden didn't want to draw further attention to immigration by admitting more refugees during the border crisis. His political instincts may have been sound—but he wasn't willing to test those instincts against criticism from his own side. The White House can't even admit that what's happening on the border is a crisis. When Biden told reporters, "The problem was that the refugee part was working on the crisis that ended up on the border with young people, and we couldn't do two things at once," Psaki and other administration officials said he was referring to the "crisis" in Central America that is supposedly forcing migrants to seek a better future in the United States. Please.
Biden spoke the truth: There is a crisis on the border. What he can't accept, however, is that his policies are responsible for it—and are making his political difficulties worse. And so he's handed Republicans a powerful issue in an otherwise bleak environment. Now they have to use it.
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You would like a runner econ card that never runs out and gives the runner tons of money?
Or Daily Casts. The attack on resilient Runner econ is interesting to me. I didn't see it coming, and Boggs's team has obviously put a lot of thought into it. I never felt that Kati Jones ruined games, and I never thought Prepaid Kate was a problem.
Dirty corps become much more effective without any kind of robust runner econ like the simple, elegant efficiency of Prepaid Kate. Hard Hitting News especially, a card I don't enjoy playing around. "Run early, run often" now becomes "Don't run until you have your (now clunky) econ set up and and credit parity with the corp." Doesn't have the same ring to it.
One of my favorite bands is called Guster.
I like Guster a lot too.
Haha, maybe my runner econ outlook is just salty because I hate getting Punitive Pizza-Deliveried and I ALSO hate playing Film Critic.
That said, I feel like Corps have more "outs" in general than Runners, so when Runners were more economically dominant due to Temujin Contract, I never as a Corp really felt completely locked out of the game. Nowadays, I find myself in a lot of tight spots as the Runner where I can't cope with the amount of clicks, credits, and punishment avoidance required to steal an agenda.
Not tons, but enough to be worth playing. Kati Jones is the card I miss the most out of what has been rotated.
This is not to say that ANR had been handled well in the past. Just looking at the 'answers' printed (Film Critic, Employee Strike, Rumor Mill) we can all agree are horrendously designed. The communication from OP regarding when MWL updates may happen also is an obvious sore point for players.
I'm very optimistic with Boggs at the helm though. He genuinely understands what the vast majority of the players like about the game and seems to make good decisions regarding how to move the game in that direction. I'm very excited about the upcoming cycle and am looking forward to see what he has cooked up for us.
Show me that community for Museum of History.
Sidenote though, I think the kind of players who talk about quitting the game over every minor switch to the MWL are the ones who are most addicted and could never quit if they wanted to.
I'm going to be that guy and say that I've always enjoyed playing with/against prison decks. Even when IG was dominating the meta and essentially had favorable matchups against every runner deck, I always thought about it like playing a really difficult boss battle in a videogame.
One of my favorite interactions in the history of Netrunner was using Mumbad City Hall to Consulting Visit an Operation, and then shuffling back the Consulting Visit with Museum the following turn. I actually really enjoy the way that combining tutors and recursion allows you as the corporation to play a highly consistent deck. Obviously, this combination of cards was above the power curve, and reasonably, was hit with the MWL, but I honestly miss the sheer volume of decisions that this sort of combo left to the player.


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\section{Borel-Cantelli lemmas for contaminated events}

Assume the events $A_n$ are independent and $E_n$ is independent of $A_n$. If ${\mathbb P} E_n\to0$ the probability of the events $A_n$ and $B_n=A_n\setminus E_n$ are asymptotically equal. The sequence $\sum{\mathbb P} B_n$ diverges if and only if $\sum{\mathbb P} A_n$ diverges. Divergence of $\sum{\mathbb P} A_n$ implies almost sure divergence of $\sum1_{A_n}$ by the second Lemma of Borel-Cantelli. It will be shown that this also implies almost sure divergence of $\sum1_{B_n}$.

\begin{theorem}\label{tt}
Let $A_n$ be independent events and let the event $E_n$ be independent of $A_n$ for each index $n$. Assume ${\mathbb P} E_n\to0$. Set $B_n=A_n\setminus E_n$.

\noi1) If $\sum{\mathbb P} B_n<\infty$ then $\sum1_{A_n}<\infty$ almost surely.

\noi2) If $\sum{\mathbb P} A_n=\infty$ then $\sum1_{B_n}=\infty$ almost\ surely.
\end{theorem}

\par\noindent{\bf Proof } The first statement is obvious by asymptotic equality. It is included for the sake of symmetry. The second statement follows from the proposition below. \quad\hfill\mbox{\P}

\begin{remark}
The second statement is sharp: Suppose $E$ is independent of the sequence $(A_n)$ and  has positive probability. Take $E_n=E$ for all $n$. Then $\sum1_{B_n}$ vanishes on $E$. Hence the condition ${\mathbb P} E_n\to0$ is necessary.
Independence of the events $E_n$ and $A_n$ cannot be dropped either. If $E$ has positive probability and we assume that ${\mathbb P} A_n\to0$ the events $E_n=E\cap A_n$ have vanishing probability  but the conclusion in 2) is invalid since $\sum1_{B_n}$ vanishes on $E$. \hfill\mbox{$\lozenge$}
\end{remark}

\begin{remark}
The proposition below allows us to relax the condition
\begin{equation}\label{q1}
{\mathbb P}(E_n\cap A_n)={\mathbb P} A_n{\mathbb P} E_n\qquad n\ge1
\end{equation}\noindent
in Theorem~\ref{tt} to
\begin{equation}\label{q2}
{\mathbb P}(E_n\cap A_n)=O({\mathbb P} A_n{\mathbb P} E_n)\qquad n\to\infty.
\end{equation}\noindent
\end{remark}

\begin{remark}
In the application below there is a filtration ${\cal F}_0\subset{\cal F}_1\subset\ldots$ such that $A_n\in{\cal F}_n$ is independent of ${\cal F}_{n-1}$ (the past) for $n\ge1$, and $E_n\in{\cal F}_{n-1}$. This suggests a proof based on Paul L\'evy's powerful extension of the second Borel-Cantelli Lemma.  A proof which uses Serfling's Theorem, see~\cite{C12}, along these lines is possible, but does not do justice to the triviality of the result. \hfill\mbox{$\lozenge$}
\end{remark}

\begin{proposition}
Let $A_n$ be independent events. Let $E_n$ be events and write
\begin{equation}\label{q3}
{\mathbb P}(E_n\cap A_n)=e_n{\mathbb P} A_n.
\end{equation}\noindent
If $\sum{\mathbb P} A_n=\infty$ and $e_n\to0$ the events $B_n=A_n\setminus E_n$ occur infinitely often almost surely.
\end{proposition}
\par\noindent{\bf Proof } Set $p_n={\mathbb P} A_n$ and $D_n=E_n\cap A_n$. If $\sum{\mathbb P} D_n<\infty$ then $\sum1_{A_n}=\infty$ almost surely and $\sum1_{D_n}<\infty$ almost surely implies $\sum1_{B_n}=\infty$ almost surely, as desired. So introduce a sequence of independent  variables $U_n$ uniformly distributed on $(0,1)$, and independent of the $\sigma$-algebra generated by the events $A_n, E_n$, $n\ge1$. (Replace the probability space $\Omega$ by $\Omega\times(0,1)^\infty$ if need be.) By the lemma below one may choose $q_n\in[0,1]$ such that $\sum q_np_n=\infty$ and $\sum q_np_ne_n<\infty$. The events $A'_n=A_n\cap\{U_n\le q_n\}$ are independent with probability $p'_n=q_np_n$. Hence $\sum1_{A'_n}=\infty$ almost surely. The events $D_n\cap\{U_n\le q_n\}$ have probability $q_np_ne_n$ with finite sum. It follows that the events $B_n\cap\{U_n\le q_n\}$ almost surely occur infinitely often, and hence so do the events $B_n$. \quad\hfill\mbox{\P}

\begin{lemma}
Let $p_n$ and $a_n$ be non-negative, $\sum p_n=\infty$ and $a_n\to0$. There exist $p'_n\in[0,p_n]$ such that
$$\sum p'_n=\infty\qquad\sum p'_na_n<\infty.$$
\end{lemma}
\par\noindent{\bf Proof } We may and shall assume that $\sum p_na_n=\infty$. There are only finitely many terms $a_n>1$. Replace these by $a'_n=1$. This has no effect on the convergence of $\sum p'_na_n$. Similarly we replace $a_n\in[1/2^k,2/2^k)$ for $k=1,2,\ldots$ by $a'_n=1/2^k$. Then $\sum p'_na_n$ converges if and only if $\sum p'_na'_n$ converges. Let $I_k$ be the set of indices $n$ for which $a'_n=1/2^k$, and $P_k$ the sum of $p_n$ over $n\in I_k$. Then $\sum P_k/2^k=\sum p_na'_n=\infty$. Hence there are infinitely many terms $P_k>1$. Set $p'_n=p_n/P_k$ for $n\in I_k$ if $P_k>1$. Then $P'_k=\min(1,P_k)$ and $\sum P'_k=\infty$. Also $\sum p'_na'_n=\sum P'_k/2^k\le\sum1/2^k=2$. \quad\hfill\mbox{\P}

\section{An application}

A classic result of Gnedenko states that the partial maxima of an iid sequence of positive random variables may be scaled to converge to 1 in probability, $M_n/a(n)\top1$, if the tail of the df varies rapidly, see~\cite{G43}. Resnick and Tomkins in~\cite{RT73} show that for any $c>1$ there exist dfs such that $\limsup M_n/a(n)=c$ almost surely. In~\cite{dHH72} it is shown that $\limsup M_n/a(n)=\infty$ a.s.\ is also possible.

\begin{theorem}\label{ta}
Let $G$ be a continuous strictly increasing df on $(0,\infty)$. One may choose $G$ such that the partial maxima $M_n$ satisfy $M_n/a(n)\top1$ with $1-G(a(n))=1/n$, and $\liminf M_n/a(n)=0$ almost surely.
\end{theorem}
\par\noindent{\bf Proof } Let $m_n=e^{s_n}$ be indices which increase so fast that $\sigma_n=s_n-s_{n-1}\to\infty$. Let $M_n$ denote the partial maxima from the sequence of independent observations $U_n$ from $G$. Set $m'_n=[\sqrt{m_nm_{n-1}}]$ and $x_n=a(m'_n)$. Define the events $B_n, E_n, A_n$ by: $B_n$ occurs if no observation $U_k$, $k\le m_n$, exceeds $x_n$, $E_n$ if $U_k>x_n$ holds for some $k\le m_{n-1}$ and $A_n$ if $U_k\le x_n$ for $m_{n-1}<k\le m_n$. Then $B_n=A_n\setminus E_n$ and if one can show that $\sum{\mathbb P} B_n=\infty$, ${\mathbb P} E_n\to0$ and $x_n/a(m_n)\to0$ then almost surely $M_{m_n}/a(m_n)<x_n/a(m_n)$ infinitely often and hence $\liminf M_n/a(n)=0$ almost surely.

First observe ${\mathbb P} E_n\le m_{n-1}{\mathbb P}\{U>x_n\}=m_{n-1}/m'_n\sim e^{-\sigma_n/2}\to0$. Now observe
${\mathbb P} B_n=G(x_n)^{m_n}=e^{-\pi_n}$ where $\pi_n\sim m_n(1-G(x_n))$ since $m_n(1-G(x_n))^2\to0$. If $\pi_n\sim\log\sqrt n$ then $\sum{\mathbb P} B_n=\infty$. Hence we choose $s_n=2n\log\log\sqrt n$. Then $\sigma_n=2\log\log\sqrt n+o(1)$ and $\pi_n\sim m_n/m'_n=e^{\sigma_n/2}\sim\log\sqrt n$. We still have to choose $G$ such that $x_n/a(m_n)\to0$. Let $\theta\in(0,1)$ and for $s>10$ write
\begin{equation}\label{qa}
t=T_0(s)=s/(\log\log s)^\theta\qquad 1-G(e^t)=e^{-s};\qquad t_n=T_0(s_n)\qquad x_n=e^{t'_n}.
\end{equation}\noindent
Then $t'_n=T_0(s_n-\sigma_n/2+o(1))$ and $t_n-t'_n\to\infty$. Hence $x_n/a(m_n)=e^{t'_n-t_n}\to0$. \quad\hfill\mbox{\P}

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….Silver's Threads, Book 1….Spinning Colours Darkly has been long in the cauldron of creation…and as the title depicts, it has been a time of weaving and spinning colours with words…finding threads to follow…and at times, getting lost in the intricacies of other realms as they construct new threads to pull on and knots to unravel.
…what if someone could fall off the edge of their own personal tapestry of life…disappear into uncharted places…hiding from sadness perhaps…and what if, mirroring that sorrow, a small being of light could become corrupted by the pollution of earth; falling through the time space continuum lost and confused. If other realms are affected how would our world respond…would we fall into chaos or would we finally look for solutions?
…the discovery of strange and ancient bones, hidden in the mud for centuries, found in a landscape of secrets on the Plains of Holderness in Yorkshire.
…a grove of Wytches gather on a sacred mount in Australia to celebrate the Mabon Rite but something is very amiss…strange forces are at work that go beyond mortal understanding.
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…a tale of the Wytchways…the Craft of the Wise…how ancient Rites can be a tool to re-weave this world to harmonise with other realms and into oneness with all life.
…the Birthing Tree is the place of soul renewal…all must return here but with the fall of an ancient immortal the web of life has been torn; the Tree is wounded casting a blight that echoes throughout all the realms.
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If you are looking to expand your business and create jobs please see below for grant funding that may be available for your business.
We are delighted to announce that the new £33 million Business Growth Programme (BGP) has launched. The package of support is designed to strengthen supply chains, stimulate innovation and grow existing Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) across the Greater Birmingham and Solihull, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire and The Marches Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs).
The programme limits awards to one grant per SME from any one of the four components of the Business Growth Programme (i.e, you cannot apply for a grant from each component).
HS2 Supply Chain Programme - Offers grant support of £20k-£200k towards project costs for supply chain companies which have, or are in the process of securing, or have the ability to secure a contract for HS2.
Green Bridge Supply Chain Programme - Offers grant support of £20k-£150k towards project costs for supply chain companies operating in, or diversifying into the green economy.
Business Innovation Programme - Offers grant support of £10k-£30k towards project costs for SMEs investing in innovative close-to-market processes, products and services.
Business Development Programme - Offers grant support of £10k-£20k towards project costs for businesses looking to expand, relocate and improve access to markets.
Applications must be submitted within the Funding Rounds specified on the above webpage.
The grant is designed to help businesses to improve their commercial premises by providing financial support towards the cost of building improvement works. The primary purpose of the scheme is to increase and/or improve business accommodation and to help create new employment opportunities.
The success of the programme is contributed to the right balance of formal learning, mentoring and peer-to-peer support.