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Q: Python - Trying to backup a network switch using Paramiko, not receiving the expected output I've been trying to create a script that would back up our switches from a CSV file.
I'm using Paramiko to SSH into a switch and run "show run", but for some reason the only output I'm receiving is the name of the switch.

import pandas
import paramiko

# Connection info
USERNAME = "username"
PW = "password"
PORT = 22
ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())

# Backup \ import location
DEST = "C:\\temp\\test\\"
CSV = DEST+"Switches.csv"

device_list = pandas.read_csv(CSV)
for index, row in device_list.iterrows():
    IP = row["IP"]
    floor = row["Floor"]
    side = row["Side"]
    formatted_ip = IP.replace(".", "_")
    filename = f"{formatted_ip}_{floor}{side}.txt"
    ssh.connect(hostname=IP, username=USERNAME, password=PW, port=PORT)
    stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command('show running-config')
    stdin.close()
    output = stdout.readlines()
    errors = stderr.read()
    print(output)
    print(stderr.readlines())

    outfile = open(DEST + filename, "w")
    for char in output:
        outfile.write(char)
    ssh.close()
    outfile.close()

The output I'm receiving (and also writing into the created file) is SW-3A-48p-4>
I'm able to connect to the switch and run "show run".
I'm expecting to get the whole switch configuration but the output stops on the first line.

A: As @MarinPrikryl pointed, the devices I was trying to connect do not support the "exec" channel.
Here's how I managed to do it using the shell:
import pandas
import paramiko
from time import sleep

# Connection info
USERNAME = "username"
PW = "password"
PORT = 22
ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy()) # I know this isn't recommended, I'll find a better solution for it.

# Backup \ import location
DEST = "C:\\temp\\test\\"
CSV = DEST + "Switches.csv"

device_list = pandas.read_csv(CSV)
for index, row in device_list.iterrows():
    IP = row["IP"]
    floor = row["Floor"]
    side = row["Side"]
    formatted_ip = IP.replace(".", "_")
    filename = f"{formatted_ip}_{floor}{side}.txt"

    ssh.connect(hostname=IP, username=USERNAME, password=PW, port=PORT)
    channel = ssh.invoke_shell()
    stdout = channel.makefile('r')
    channel.send('enable\r\n')
    sleep(1)
    channel.send('terminal length 0\r\n')
    sleep(1)
    channel.send('copy running-config startup-config\r\n')
    sleep(1)
    channel.send('y\r\n')
    sleep(10)
    channel.send('show running-config\r\n')
    sleep(2)

    data = channel.recv(5000)
    data = data.decode("utf8", "ignore")
    data = data.split('show running-config')
    data = data[1][:len(data) - 15]
    outfile = open(DEST + filename, "w")
    for char in data:
        outfile.write(char)
    ssh.close()
    outfile.close()

I'm sure there are better ways to do it, but this works for now.
Thanks a lot to everyone who helped.


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CMOS sensors with CCD quality
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Toshiba Corporation has reinforced its line-up of CMOS image sensor ICs with a series of four high-sensitivity devices that, it claims, match the performance of charge-coupled devices.
Toshiba Corporation has reinforced its line-up of CMOS image sensor ICs with a series of four high-sensitivity devices that, it claims, match the performance of charge-coupled devices (CCD).
The new devices incorporate a photodiode double the size of Toshiba's current devices with double the sensitivity. This supports better performance in low light conditions, as does Toshiba's success in cutting leakage current, an advance that cuts the dark signal voltage to one-third that of present CMOS image sensors.
Two of the devices are available with a pixel count of 330,000 and quarter inch lens size, while two other are available with a pixel count of 110,000 for a one seventh inch lens size.
Samples of the new devices will be available from February 2002 and mass production is slated to start in June 2002.
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The loop must pass through every circle.
The loop may not turn at a white circle, but must turn at at least one of the adjacent cells in the loop.
The loop must turn at a black circle, but may not turn at either of the adjacent cells in the loop.
A cell without a circle cannot behave as though it had one. Or rather, all possible circles that fit the solution are given.
colour the cells in checkerboard fashion -- let's say black at the top left. And colour the path red when it is entering a white cell horizontally or leaving one vertically, blue when it is entering a white cell vertically or leaving one horizontally. So the path changes colour in the middle of a cell that it passes straight through, and stays the same colour when it turns in a cell.
it must turn if, and only if, it turns at at least one of the adjacent squares. Equivalently, it must NOT turn if, and only if, it doesn't turn at either adjacent square. Taking just the more interesting half of that equivalence: if the path passes straight through an empty square, it must continue straight until it hits a circle.
the portion of a path between any two circles is either always-turning and monochromatic, or never-turning and changing colour every square. When the path passes straight through an empty circle, it changes colour.
its total number of colour-changes is even. There is one at each empty circle (since it passes straight through these), and therefore there must be an odd number of others. These others can happen only on a straight-line path segment -- so the path must run vertically straight through the two rightmost circles, and straight between them.
it must also go vertically through the other circle. It can't go into the corner because then the square left of the left-hand circle would be eligible for an empty circle, so the path bends in a "U" below those two circles. Now, above the left-hand circle the path can't continue straight (it doesn't have a circle to aim for), so it must turn; and now in fact its every step is determined until it finally ends up meeting the other branch of the path.
Can you solve this masyu puzzle?


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Who does not want a classy and expensive phone accessory? If your mobile phone is sporting one, whether it is functional or not speaks a lot. It is more of a status symbol that anything else but not every one can afford a Bentley leather case or a Swarovski BlackBerry cover. However, it would be another matter if you have a very expensive cell phone unit. You would certainly want to get a matching phone cover as getting a cheap mobile phone faceplate can diminish its value if you are not too careful with your choice.
Cell phone accessories such as faceplates or cover can spice up the look of your phone. It all depends on your choice of design, color, and material. Even a cheap phone faceplate can put a sophisticated look to your unit. It does not matter if your mobile gadget is inexpensive. The right material and design can provide an elegant touch to your phone thereby enhancing its aesthetic value. Remember, a mobile phone unit with a battered casing would not look as good as one sporting a new cover even if it is cheap. Giving your phone a makeover by changing its casing can give it a brand new look.
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Regardless of the material, pipelines need to be free from leaks to minimise the impact on exfiltration or infiltration. All sewerage systems comprise many joints and potential leak paths, including manholes, inlets, outlets and connections to plant. Ongoing service conditions such as ground movement and traffic loading, transport of waste materials, maintenance and third party activities near to the pipeline might also lead to defects. A recent independent study commissioned by TEPPFA collected data from visual inspections of 1800 km of existing sewers across Europe, focusing on pipes of a very similar age to give the most comparable results. The most common defect types were analysed individually, both in terms of the percentage of inspected sections which contained defects, and in their frequency per kilometre. In an overall analysis, defects in rigid pipes occur, on average, 50 times per kilometre, compared with just 8 per kilometre for flexible pipes. The pattern is similar for defects most closely associated with leaks (such as connections, breaks and displaced joints). Here, defects in rigid pipes occur on average 41 times per km, compared with just 6 per kilometre for flexible pipes.
Intruding connections are made when pipes are introduced to the system, such as when a new housing development needs to be added to the main sewer. The research indicates that the incidence of defects arising from these connections is significantly higher in rigid systems.
The connection between the two pipes can be compromised, either during installation due to poor workmanship, or by damage during service – such as shifts in the soil surround. In both flexible and rigid gravity sewer systems, the connection between pipes is typically made with sockets and seal rings. Generally speaking, it is easier to create a robust and tight seal with flexible systems because of their smoother surfaces – and, as plastic pipes are generally longer in length than other materials, fewer connections are required along the pipeline.
The research bears this out, showing that with rigid pipes, almost 18% of the inspected sections contained this type of defect, compared with just 0.4% for plastic.
A fissure is defined in the visual inspection coding system for drains and sewers systems as an intact pipe with visible cracks (longitudinal, circumferential or a mixture of both) in the pipe wall. When the crack becomes larger and the inner surfaces of the crack are visible, it is classified as a fracture or break. Both can weaken the pipe section, whilst complete fracture can lead to loss of structural integrity. Because rigid pipes tend to be shorter than flexible pipes (with more connections) and are unable to accommodate earth movement so easily, they show a higher frequency of fissures and breaks – 14.6 incidences per kilometre compared with 2.0 incidences for flexible.
Whilst debris in a drain or sewer includes silt, grease and other materials (including construction waste), 'obstacles' refer to larger objects which impede the flow e.g. tree roots, large construction waste etc. These can significantly reduce the flow capacity of the sewer while tree roots growing through defects also cause exfiltration and infiltration. The research demonstrates that blockage is considerably lower for plastic (1.4 per kilometre) compared with 7.1 for rigid pipes. The difference is even more significant in terms of the percentage of inspected sections which contain defects (2.7% for flexible, 11.0% for rigid). The explanation is simple: with their smooth inner walls and superior hydraulic performance, flexible pipe systems offer less friction and therefore fewer blockages.
In addition to chips or other material breaks, changes in surface roughness occurs from encrustation and mineral deposit on the pipe walls or joints, or corrosion from chemical attack. The properties of flexible pipes ensure far higher protection against both encrustation and corrosion than rigid pipes – a fact highlighted by the research. Put simply, flexible pipes recorded a zero figure, while rigid pipes did not.
Alternatively known as an 'offset' joint, this specifically refers to situations where a pipe's spigot is incorrectly aligned with the socket of the adjacent pipe. Where the displacement is less than the thickness of the pipe wall, it is graded as 'medium' – and 'large' when the displacement is greater than the pipe wall thickness. For rigid pipes, the frequency of incidents (7.1 per kilometre) and the percentage of inspected sections containing defects (10.6%) were significantly higher than for flexible material – 1.2% and 2.3% respectively. This is almost certainly a result of both more joints per installation and the inability of rigid systems to accommodate soil movement.
Deformation describes the extent to which a pipe's shape – or cross-sectional profile – has changed. Rigid systems do not deform and so this is a feature specific to flexible pipes. However, if they are specified and installed correctly, flexible pipes will exhibit little or no deformation, and that provided it is within the normal range of deformation (< 5%), there will be no loss of structural integrity.
Infiltration refers to any situation where ground water is leaking into the pipe. Infiltration can occur at any defect and is classified by the rate of water flow. 'Seeper' is used to describe either slow flowing water or evidence of previous infiltration, such as stains. 'Dripper' refers to evidence of slow but steady infiltration, while 'gusher' describes heavier flows. In both measures used in the research – percentage of inspected sections and frequency of defects – flexible pipes recorded a lower score (1.1 incidents per kilometre, compared with 4.7 for rigid, and 2.7% compared with 8.3%).
In virtually all of the scenarios studied, the incidence of defects in flexible pipe materials is less than rigid pipes. As well as minimising the impact on the environment and sewer operations by reducing exfiltration and infiltration, flexible pipes can also offer the least disruptive solution to repair of defective pipes through 'no-dig' techniques.
The conclusion is clear: the most effective solution to preventing defects in sewer pipe systems lies in flexible materials, in terms of durability, performance and ease of repair and rehabilitation.
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Prophet Oduro aka Eagle Prophet has revealed in a latest video on social media that controversial comedienne Afia Schwarzenegger and other female celebs will soon begin preaching the word of God.
The founder and leader of God's Crown Chapel was on Kumasi based Abusua FM where he mentioned that female entertainers including Nayas 1, Fella Makafui, Afia Schwarzenegger, Akuapim Poloo and Wendy Shay will soon preach the gospel in future.
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According to him, he has made this prophecy his prayer request and has made it a point to mention them in his prayers.
He stressed that Afia Schwarzenegger in particular will not have any reason not to heed to God's call when it comes.
He added that they are not dying until they repent and fulfill God's promise of wining souls for his Kingdom so people should not pray doom for them.


A marketing automation platform (MAP) allows you to market more effectively across multiple channels while automating repetitive tasks. With nearly 70% of businesses using or currently implementing a marketing automation platform, its adoption rate is nothing short of staggering.
But, no matter which MAP your company is using, all roads still lead to a website. That's where prospects are sent to hopefully convert into leads. However, many B2B websites focus on informing and educating, not so much on conversions.
So, your marketing automation workflows are firing off highly targeted emails, directing traffic to pages that may or may not convert. And therein lies the problem. You didn't spend enough time analyzing what actually happens when a visitor lands on a page from an email campaign.
Understanding why certain pages do not convert is critical to lead generation goals. Applying a conversion-centered design methodology can help.
Conversion-centered uses design elements and psychological triggers to increase conversion rates. This means convincing a visitor to do one thing and only one thing — complete a single action. Actions like making an online purchase, downloading a white paper or requesting a quote.
For example, let's imagine walking into a room with a spread of fruit sitting on the table. Which one would you choose? Would you have to think about it? Lots of options here.
Now, let's say you walk into that same room. However, this time you only see an apple and a pear sitting on the table. The choice is much easier, right? Of course, it is! This is what conversion-centered design aims to do. It shows clear choices and motivates website visitors to take action.
Where should you apply CCD?
Conversion-centered design will work for any existing website, microsite or landing page. That's great news for most marketers because starting with a clean slate is a time-consuming task (and an expensive endeavor as well).
Landing pages are a great place to start with CCD because they're a much more focused experience for visitors. With landing pages, the goal of conversion is straightforward. If you don't have landing pages, that's okay too. You can use CCD in other areas of your site that contain a call to action.
Similar to marketing automation workflow goals, CCD persuades a visitor to take action and convert into a registered lead. You do this by using design techniques and psychological triggers. Let's take a quick look at the elements of CCD.
Encapsulating the CTA – Visually framing the call to action (CTA).
Design Weight – Using color and contrast to make the CTA stand out from its surroundings.
Directional Cues – Visual indicators that point to the focal area of your page, guiding the visitor towards the CTA.
White Space – Strategic use of white space gives your page elements room to breathe, allowing your CTA to stand out.
Persuasive Words – Certain words can help trigger action.
Urgency – Entice people to click on your CTA by creating a sense of urgency.
Risk-free – Free download means no risk to your visitor.
Make sure you test the change in conversions after applying the CCD methodology to your website. Not testing the change is like planting seeds in a garden and never watering them. You need to track how each change affected conversions — good or bad. Start with the basics — simple A/B testing will do.
Test one change at a time. For example, encapsulate your CTA by applying a border and background color. After about a week (one hundred visits minimum), log the conversion increase or decrease. Move on to other areas of the page that could enhance the conversion rate, such as the headline above the CTA, the CTA button text, etc. Continue to collect data on conversion increase or decrease and repeat until you are satisfied with the conversion rate of that page.
Workflow conversion success is as much about the quality of content being offered as it is about where your visitors are being sent to download that content. Applying a conversion-centered design methodology to your website will improve lead generation and boost your workflow conversion rates.


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Affiliated to Govt of India, MHRD
National Institute of Technology Srinagar is the only technical institute of national importance in the state of Jammu & Kashmir and is one of the premier technical institute of India. The institute was one of the first eight Regional Engineering Colleges, established in 1960, by the Government of India. In 2003,the institute was converted to National Institute of Technology by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India, as an institute of National Importance.
We have been imparting quality education since the inception of the institute by focusing on technical advancements and research. The institute offers B.Tech courses in eight different disciplines. Besides B.Tech courses, the institute offers M.Tech programmes in Civil Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D programmes in all departments. The students are admitted on the basis of JEE, DASA and GATE every year. Our faculty members are actively participating in National and International Conferences and Seminars, workshops and other related research activities.
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Bucklegrove Holiday Park has a collection of self catering static caravans & lodges. The park is near Cheddar in Somerset and is a relaxing setting to enjoy a holiday, short break or weekend getaway.
The accommodation facilities will vary depending on which accommodation you choose. Below are some of the common features you can expect to find when you stay in one of the accommodations here.
Discover a wide range of other accommodations including the cheap log cabins with hot tubs from here.
On the park there are plenty of facilities to further enhance your stay. The main features include an indoor heated swimming pool and a licenced bar and restaurant. There is a kids play area, shop & Wi-Fi in designated areas.
The backdrop of the holiday park is the slopes of the Mendip Hills and there are plenty of great attractions nearby including the popular Wookey Hole caves. Guests staying at Bucklegrove Holiday Park can also get a 25% discount voucher for the caves. Another place to visit is the ever popular Cheddar Gorge.
Bucklegrove Holiday Park has it all for a family holiday at anytime of the year. A perfect spot to settle back and relax with family or friends. For more great places to stay take a look at the rest of the holiday parks in Somerset.


You want to look your very best, and when you have a hairy back, it can make you feel self-conscious. You may not want to rip your shirt off when it gets hot simply because you have your own personal sweater. Men's back waxing is done in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn at Tangles Salon & Spa. We offer a wide range of services to help with your overall aesthetics.
Back waxing has been popular with men for many years now. If you have ever tried to shave your back or use hair removal creams, you know that it is impossible. It requires someone else's assistance, and you may not want to ask anyone, even if it is your significant other.
Back waxing can eliminate all of the hair across your back, and it can stay away for weeks and sometimes even months. No one will know just how much hair you have on your back naturally because it will all be gone – and we offer affordable services within our spa.
Before you schedule any kind of back waxing in Sheepshead Bay, you need to know what you are in for. Everyone is a little different in terms of hair and therefore you may have a little or a lot. The more hair you have, the longer it is going to take to wax your back. Darker hair tends to grow back faster as well, so you may need several appointments before you don't have to worry about hair growing back for several weeks or months.
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Q: How to set Custom User Property in keycloak from java api I am using keycloak for authentication in my spring application, how can I set some attribute for a user.
I have already added a custom mapper on admin console.

A: Please have a look below attached screen shot,in user section there is the tab where you can set the attributes

Now question will be how you will access those user attributes through code?
So here is the code which can be use to access user attributes .
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We all talk about others, be it good or bad, we all do it. We say simple things like "He is such a…." or "They are so…." Fill in the blanks with what ever comment you like, but we all do it.
It's not a good thing for us to do, it can hurt others, even when you do not mean it to, and it's a hard habit to break, but it's one we can break if we wish.
Gossip and idol talk are part of our daily conversations, so much so, that I would venture to guess that most of us are not aware we are doing it, it's always something that others do, not us. But I am sure if we stop and examine ourselves we will see that we to add to the world of gossip.
If gossip was not so much a part of our lives, all the rag magazines would not sell millions of copies weekly. All the celebrity watching TV shows would fail and we would really look down upon people who do gossip. But as it is, we celebrate it, and feed in to it.
How can we change the culture of gossip, one person at a time, starting with ourselves! We need to check our words prior to speaking. We need to concern ourselves with how others will be affected. We need to stop and thing about what we are doing and saying, but all too often we are caught in the moment, with the running of the conversation or our emotions get in the way.
But if you make an effort you can achieve the goal, you just have to try and keep trying. The next time someone starts to talk about others, stop them and ask them not to, the next time you start, stop yourself and apologize for speaking badly of others.
Always remember that the word can kill more then the sword, our words have the ability to leave life long scares or they have the power to lift someone up, how we use them can make all the difference in the world, it can make or break someone's will.
Words are powerful and gossip is nothing but a weapon we use to bring others down and ourselves up.
The golden rule applies here, "Do unto others as you would have done unto you" always remember words can take life or they can give life, the choice is yours.
p.s. This is a rule that I also must work on, and always remember also, so together we can start to change the world, starting with ourselves.


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Credit Crunch Moves Beyond Mortgages
Individuals See Higher Rates,
Harsher Terms on Credit Cards
And Other Consumer Loans
By JANE J. KIM
It's not just mortgages. As it gets tougher to land a home loan, some people are also finding it harder and more expensive to get other types of consumer credit.
Some lenders, such as USAA, are nudging up credit-score requirements across their auto loans, credit cards and personal loans. Bank of America Corp. and Capital One Financial Corp. recently raised fees and interest rates for some of their credit-card customers. And this month, Citigroup Inc.'s CitiFinancial Auto started charging higher auto-loan rates for borrowers with less-than-perfect credit.
TIGHTER CREDIT
• Some lenders are raising fees and tightening credit on credit cards and auto loans.
• Lenders are likely to make it harder for borrowers with weaker credit in markets hit by a housing downturn.
• Watch your credit card mailings for any changes in terms and conditions. You may be able to opt out of the new terms.
All this comes as lenders continue to tighten guidelines on mortgages and home-equity loans and lines of credit as investors back away from subprime loans and other perceived credit risks. For the most part, lenders say the changes aren't directly tied to the mortgage mess, but reflect concerns about an economic slowdown and uncertainty about interest rates. Still, some lenders are becoming more cautious about extending credit in weaker housing markets and to people who may have exposure to certain riskier mortgages.
"In the past few months, we've been tightening up our credit underwriting standards and raising our score cutoffs slightly," says Barbara Johnson, vice president of USAA Federal Savings Bank, referring to the bank's credit cards, auto loans and personal loans. The bank has also scaled back credit-line increases in its credit-card business. "We used to offer frequent, automated line increases, and now, we've pulled back on that a little bit," she says.
A spokesman for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s Chase says the company has been tightening up credit guidelines across some consumer products, such as home-equity and auto loans, mainly among customers with weak credit who live in markets that have been hurt by a decline in home prices.
Lenders aren't tightening credit standards nationwide. That's why the average interest rates on many types of consumer loans haven't changed much since the beginning of the year. Rates on variable-rate credit cards, five-year new car loans and personal loans are averaging 13.9%, 7.8% and 14.5%, respectively, roughly the same as they were in January, according to Bankrate.com.
Card issuers can afford to be more selective about whom they extend credit to and by how much because more consumers — increasingly locked out of home-equity loans and lines of credit — are using their credit cards more. This month, for example, the Federal Reserve said consumer credit rose at an annual rate of 6.5% in June to a record $2.459 trillion, the second straight sizable gain. The increase was led by an 8.4% rate of increase for revolving credit, the category that includes credit-card debt.
Doug Eddings, a 35-year-old small-business owner in Portland, Ore., says three of his credit-card issuers all took steps in recent weeks to tighten his credit, either by raising his interest rate, halving his available credit or freezing his accounts. First, he received a notice from Chase in June, notifying him that it was going to raise the interest rate on his Chase Amazon card to 29% from 17%. Soon after, another lender, HSBC Holdings PLC's HSBC North America, dropped his $5,000 credit line on his Best Buy store card to $2,105 — just $5 above his current balance.
"When I called them up, they didn't have an answer for me but said it was something in my credit file," says Mr. Eddings, who had recently used the card to buy a refrigerator for his new home.
He also got hit with a "financial review" this month from American Express Co., which froze his accounts until he could send in additional tax forms from the IRS for them to look at. Although Mr. Eddings, who has a high credit score, says he hasn't been late on any payments, he recently requested a credit-line increase on his Delta SkyMiles card, which American Express raised to $15,000 from $5,000.
In addition, he took out an interest-only mortgage this past spring through a local broker to buy a new home. His mortgage was originally offered through American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., which filed for bankruptcy-court protection earlier this month, and was then sold to Countrywide Financial Corp. "I don't know if it has anything to do with the mortgage industry, but it does seem coincidental," Mr. Eddings says.
Economists are increasingly worried that the credit crunch in the mortgage market could spread further into other types of consumer loans. The Federal Reserve's quarterly survey of senior loan officers, released last week, showed a small increase in the number of banks that have tightened credit standards for consumer loans (excluding credit cards) over the past three months.
This week's drop in short-term Treasury bill yields is yet another symptom of the turmoil that's roiling the credit markets, since it signals that investors are fleeing to the safest assets available. "If this turns out to be a blip on the radar — one to two weeks, even a month — then it will probably only have a modest impact" on lenders' credit standards, says Stephen Stanley, chief economist at RBS Greenwich Capital in Greenwich, Conn. "But if we see these sorts of conditions continue for months and months, then it probably will start to have an impact on the way that lenders see risk in the consumer-credit arena."
Industry consultants say there are signs that card issuers are already becoming more cautious. Average credit-card approval rates across the industry have dropped by five percentage points to 35% over the past year, while credit lines for subprime borrowers have fallen to an average of $1,000 from $1,250 a year ago, according to Robert Hammer, chief executive of R.K. Hammer, a bank-card advisory firm.
Issuers have also cut back on direct-mail offers to new customers. In the second quarter, such offers were down 6% from the first quarter, continuing a decline that began at the end of last year, according to Mintel International Group Ltd.'s Mintel Comperemedia unit, a direct-mail market-research firm. Meanwhile, credit-card and consumer news Web sites such as CardRatings.com, Credit.com and ConsumerAffairs.com say they are getting more complaints from consumers who have seen their credit lines fall or interest rates jump.
Nationally, credit-card delinquencies are relatively low at 4% and haven't risen significantly in the past three years. However, in certain markets, especially those that have been hit hard by a decline in home values, delinquencies have spiked higher. In Fort Myers, Fla.; Port St. Lucie, Fla.; and Stockton, Calif., for example, delinquencies have jumped about two percentage points in the past year to as high as 5%, according to an analysis by Equifax Inc. and Moody's Economy.com.
"If [lenders] see a household start to go late on payments, they're going to be much quicker to respond," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com. "They may reduce the size of the credit line or may raise the interest rate. They're responding much more quickly to any signs of stress."
Patti Powell, a 49-year-old child-care provider, got a notice from Barclays PLC's Juniper Bank last month telling her that her account, which she had for several years, was being closed. The Lovington, N.M., resident says she wasn't late on any payments and mailed in more than the minimum payments each month. But in recent months, she started to use the card more, and her total balance had climbed to about 80% of her available $3,000 credit line, from about 22% previously. In a separate move last year, American Express dropped the credit lines on two of her cards, she adds.
For their part, lenders say they are monitoring the credit environment carefully. A Citigroup spokesman says the bank is "constantly adjusting our underwriting standards to best reflect market conditions, updates to our risk models and a variety of other factors," while a Bank of America spokeswoman says it hasn't seen "significant issues or had to significantly change our underwriting standards" in the current environment. Chase, meanwhile, is "thinking hard about the loan qualifications for people," says spokesman Tom Kelly, who adds that "most consumers can still get credit at a fair rate."
For consumers, it's a good idea to look out for any change in terms and conditions from the issuers. Although issuers can change rates and fees at any time, many will allow customers to opt out of those changes and pay off any balances under existing terms — although they will typically have to close their accounts. In recent months, Capital One, for example, changed many of its fixed interest rates to higher variable rates, while Bank of America implemented a new monthly minimum finance charge of $1.50 on former MBNA credit-card customers this past spring to bring charges in line with its existing customers' fees.
Meanwhile, Discover Financial Services recently raised the higher end of its interest-rate range to 18.99% from 17.99% and began charging higher minimum payments for certain customers who used over 90% of the available credit on balance-transfer offers.
Another victim of the trend toward tightening credit: once-generous introductory credit-card offers. "We've seen the length of the introductory periods diminish on certain offers and more lenders offering introductory rates ranging from 2.9% and 6.9% instead of 0% financing offers," says Curtis Arnold, founder of CardRatings.com.
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Abstract The oral history chronicles Mason's life and career, beginning with his early years in Massachusetts, participation in WWII, education at Boston University and, then the University of Michigan where he received his doctorate in history and learned about archival work at what would become the Bentley Historical Library. The interview also explores the collections he acquired, the archival education program he established, the universities, state governments, labor unions, and foundations that...
State Workers Organizing Committee Records
Abstract The State Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) was a semi-caucus and political movement that worked within several unions, including the Welfare Employees Union (WUE), the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Michigan State Employees Association (MSEA), and the United Auto Workers (UAW) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. SWOC was born from within the WEU and served as an activist organization that played a key role in establishing local union chapters,...
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Archives -- Administration 1
Welfare rights movement 1
Air Line Pilots Association 1
Bentley Historical Library 1
Boston University 1
Fetzer Institute 1
Industrial Workers of the World 1
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Q: 4 Balls in a bag. Three green, one red. Probability There are 4 balls in a bag. 3 of them are green and one is red.
1) What is the probability of randomly taking out that one red ball?
2) What is the probability of randomly taking out a green ball?
I have two solutions in mind but i don't know which one is correct.
For the first question i think that the probability is 1/4(because there are 4 balls) and the other solution for the first problem i think could be 1/2 (because there are only two kind of balls green and red). I would like to have an answer for both questions.

A: Your first solution is correct since in random selection we can't distinguish colours and all balls are alike.


A WONDERFULLY fraudulent confrontation is setting up, writes Bill Bonner in his Diary of a Rogue Economist.
On one side is Donald J.Trump, pretending that he has "already made America great again" and blaming the Fed for ruining his beautiful work. He wants the Fed to lower interest rates, not raise them.
On the other is the Fed, pretending that it is the architect and creator of such an amazing economy, and that it's now guiding it to perfection. It believes it is "normalizing" the economy by gradually raising rates.
Oh, Dear Reader...you guessed it, didn't you? They're both wrong.
First, because the US economy is not "beautiful". It's a nasty, dishonest and dangerous mess.
Second, because both Trump and the Fed are to blame for making it that way.
Third, because there's no need for The Donald to get on the Fed's case anyway. They're both on the same team – actively manipulating the economy for their own benefit and making an even bigger mess of things.
If the two could be brought before an honest judge and properly charged with some combination of chicanery, fraud, and negligence, both would do time...with the Fed getting the heavier sentence.
America's central bank has been conniving to falsify the markets – and shift wealth to the financial elite – for the last three decades.
Mr.Trump had it right when he was running for office. The Fed, he charged, had created a "big, fat, ugly bubble." Once in office, he should've replaced Janet Yellen immediately with an honest, Paul Volcker-type banker.
Instead, he left the miscreants in place and took credit for the bubble.
Then, as the stock market went up and unemployment went down, he doubled his bets...calling it "his" economy, and saying that he had "already made America great again" with his tax cut, spending increases, and other initiatives.
Of course, the tax cut and spending increases did flatter The Donald's numbers ("his" numbers).
You can almost always get a little boost by spending money you don't have. But unless you're investing in something that will make a profit, you're just wasting time and money...and making the situation worse.
We got a report last week that half of the extra growth in the Trump years (so far) has come from more government spending – mostly military spending.
Needless to say, there's no way this is going to pay off. America could defend itself with a fraction of what it now spends on "defense." Extra money to the Pentagon is just throwing money down a brass rathole.
Another temporary boost seems to have come as an unintended consequence from Mr.Trump's trade war, as our head of research, Joe Withrow, reported on Saturday.
In anticipation of more tariffs, importers moved orders forward to avoid the additional taxes. This caused a bigger trade deficit with China, but it increased spending...for a while.
Next year, we should see the opposite effect, as orders fall off and inventories decline.
And tax cuts, without offsetting spending cuts, merely shift the burden of government waste to the credit market and future taxpayers.
Without the support of the Fed (which has stopped buying government debt), the government will have to source the credit from the private marketplace, which will push up interest rates.
That's part of the reason mortgage rates are already over 5%. By our calculation, households lose as much (from higher rates) as they gain from lower taxes.
"Auto and home sales have sputtered in recent months despite high consumer confidence and low unemployment.
"The slowdowns have been driven at least in part by the Federal Reserve's efforts to wean the economy off near-zero rates. Higher borrowing costs are squeezing the auto and real estate industries that benefited from a decade of cheap money."
"It's very clear that higher interest rates are having an effect on the economy," said Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research. "The two most expensive purchases a consumer makes are a house and a car. Both are credit-sensitive."
Now that the economy has recovered from the Great Recession, the Fed is trying to take the training wheels off. That delicate task is even trickier now because of how low rates got – and how long they stayed there.
The auto and real estate industries are at the frontlines of this shift in borrowing costs. Mortgage rates recently topped 5% for the first time since 2011. Even though mortgage rates are still low historically, homebuyers are taking notice.
New home sales tumbled 5.5% in September to the lowest level in nearly two years, the Commerce Department said last week. Sales plunged nearly 41% in the Northeast and dropped 12% in the West, though they rose modestly in the Midwest. New home sales are now 22% below their recent peak in November 2017, according to Barclays.
All of these things – not to mention the largely fraudulent employment numbers – point to a recession coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
Then, Mr.Trump will attack the Fed with even more vigor, claiming that it destroyed his beautiful economy.
He needn't bother. He has nothing to fear from the Fed.
As we've maintained in this space, the Fed was never going to "normalize'"...not with $250 trillion of debt worldwide dependent on abnormally low rates.
At the first sign of crisis, the Fed is sure to panic, with or without encouragement from the president.
And the panic is bound to lead to the worst possible response on the parts of both key players.
The Fed will cut rates to negative levels. It will buy stocks as well as bonds. And like Japan's central bank, it will become the banker of first and last resort for the federal government.
Yes, the Trump Team will go all-in for more government spending – infrastructure..."defense"...tax credits...you name it! And it will all be funded with funny money from the Fed.
...working together to bankrupt the nation.


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Pacific perspectives are game-changers in regional geopolitics
2018-10-17T14:54:25+12:00October 15th, 2018|Categories: Large Ocean States, Pacific Identities, Pasifika Rising News|Tags: Australia-Pacific-China, Makereta Komai, oceans governance, Pacific, Parties to the Nauru Agreement, tuna|
By MAKERETA KOMAI*
When I was approached to speak on the topic 'Australia and China in the Pacific, I wondered why there was interest in my views, particularly when there was already much public discussion and debate around the topic in the media in Australia, with all the views and opinions seeming to suggest that Australia needs to reclaim its dominance of and influence in the Pacific because China was taking up that space.
Makereta Komai. Photo: PRN
Then it dawned on me: what may be absent from the discussion is the Pacific perspective or point of view that I can contribute in the hope that the Pacific will be understood better as the region has become a 'contested' space not only for Australia and China but other global players.
This concern was pointedly emphasised by the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, Dame Meg Taylor at the State of the Pacific Conference in Canberra in September 2018 when she said: "Indeed, the Pacific Islands region has been largely absent from these debates. Very little has been written and published from a Pacific Islands perspective and the Pacific Islands has rarely featured in the discussions except from a perspective of being vulnerable to China's influence."
And this where I'd like to contribute; to provide that Pacific perspective based on what I have seen and reported in at least the past decade on this much-debated topic.
So why has there been a sudden interest from China in the Pacific in the past 10 years and what has Australia done to lose its grips on its so-called 'backyard' or sphere of influence?
In the context of my presentation, when I am refer to the Pacific I am talking about the 14 Pacific Island members of the Pacific Islands Forum.
All of the 14 Pacific Island nations have diplomatic, economic, trade and people-to-people ties with both nations, some dating as far back as the late 1960s and 70s.
But in the last decade there has been a significant shift in how the Pacific engage in regional and global diplomacy. In the words of the former President of Kiribati, Anote Tong the Pacific needs to "chart its own course" and "find its voice and place in the global arena."
My talk focusses on what I consider are the four key game-changers for the Pacific that have shaped how they view themselves and their relationship with the rest of the world.
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Collective voice against climate change
The first game changer was building the collective voice in the fight against climate change. In 2004, when President Tong first raised the devastating impacts of climate change on his people, in his address to the United Nations, the whole world realised that climate change was already impacting low-lying islands, particularly in the Pacific. It didn't end there. President Tong and leaders of small island nations like Tuvalu, Marshall Islands and Nauru continued to raise their concerns at the annual gathering of Pacific leaders urging them to support their call for global action.
Following these urgent pleas from small and low lying island countries, the rest of the Pacific took up the fight and rallied behind these most vulnerable nations to urge the international community to agree to a unified global response to better protect the environment. Pacific Islands Forum Leaders issued joint declarations and communiques supporting the Pacific position on climate change at regional and global climate negotiations.
As a result, Pacific nations were recognised as global leaders in calling for action from industrialised nations to act responsibly and limit their greenhouse gas emissions. This united and collective Pacific voice attracted global attention to the region and for the first time, Fiji, a small island developing state, was chosen in 2017 to lead the global climate talks.
One of the lessons from the successful campaign in amplifying the Pacific voice in climate change was the strength in working together as a group of nations, and the realisation that their strength was in their numbers and in their collective voice.
'Tuna diplomacy'
The second game changer for the Pacific is what is termed 'tuna diplomacy'. Tuna has shaped regional politics and influenced the relationship between Pacific Islands States and major trading partners including China. Through a new model of cooperation, the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) comprising eight countries (Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu) established a Vessel Day Scheme (VDS) to limit purse seine fishing access to their waters.
The VDS scheme is the single most successful resource management model in the Pacific using rights-based control over their fisheries resources. Under the scheme, fishing fleets are required to purchase fishing days at a minimum of US$8,000 per day, provide 100 percent coverage of all purse seiners, provide in-port transhipment of tuna and an annual three-month moratorium on the use of fish aggregating devices (FADs). This has improved conservation and management of tuna caught in PNA countries while increasing the revenue share for island member countries from US$60m in 2010 to an estimated US$400m last year.
Blue Pacific narrative
The third game changer for the Pacific will be ocean management or what is now being promoted as the Blue Pacific narrative where Pacific countries are called to exercise stronger strategic autonomy over the Pacific Ocean and its resources. In recent years, the Pacific has witnessed increased geostrategic competition and the Pacific Ocean is at the centre of this stepped-up engagements from new and emerging global players.
At the Pacific Leaders' Summit in Nauru in September 2018, leaders reaffirmed the Blue Pacific as the basis of 'asserting' the region's solidarity on the global stage and securing potential development assistance to drive collective ambition and aspiration for the Pacific region.
In the words of the Prime Minister of Samoa, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi: "The Blue Pacific platform offers all Pacific countries the capabilities to address a changing geostrategic landscape. The opportunity to realise the full benefits of the Blue Pacific rests in our ability to work and stand together as a political bloc. And the challenge for us is maintaining solidarity in the face of intense engagement of an ever growing number of partners in our region. We should not let that divide us!"
Under the flagship of the Blue Pacific identity, Pacific nations are again building a collective voice and asserting their common values and concerns. The Blue Pacific is about shared stewardship of the Pacific Ocean and the recognition that Pacific Island Countries manage 20 percent of the world's oceans in their Exclusive Economic zone (EEZs).
To make this happen Pacific countries realise the need to secure their maritime borders. The settlement of maritime boundaries provides certainty of ownership of the Pacific Ocean space, which is critical to managing their ocean resources, biodiversity and ecosystems as well as fighting the impacts of climate change. It was revealed to Pacific Leaders in Nauru that more countries are in the process of negotiating the 13 outstanding shared boundaries. There are 47 shared boundaries covering the Pacific Ocean and 35 have been concluded with treaties signed to secure ownership of these boundaries.
Fiji's influence
The fourth game changer relates to the political transformation in Fiji from 2009 onwards, which in some ways contributed to deepening of relations between China and Pacific Island countries.
After the removal of the democratically elected government in Fiji, the island nation was suspended from the Pacific Islands Forum in 2009 which forced Fiji to 'consider other donors and partners beyond Australia and New Zealand'. The suspension was a major turning point in its relations with Australia, pushing Fiji to become one of China's strongest allies in the Pacific. From around 2011, China's growth as a new power in the Pacific started to increase as evidenced by its development assistance.
According to the aid data compiled by the Lowy Institute, China's development assistance grew from US$143 million in 2011 to a significant US$1.26 billion this year. This deepening of close relations between Fiji and China was a staging post to demonstrate the level of support and commitment China was willing to give Pacific countries.
China's Ambassador to Fiji, Qian Bo said: "China's assistance to Fiji is selfless and sincere with no political conditions attached. China's assistance to Fiji is unswerving and will not be influenced by the changing international and regional landscapes. It targets the well-being of the Fijian people."
Slowly, China stepped in to fill a big chunk of the donor funding left by Australia and New Zealand. During that period, China provided US$360 million to the government of Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama.
The Fiji experience provided an 'inroad' for China's stepped-up engagement with other key Pacific countries like Papua New
Guinea, Samoa and Vanuatu. This year, PNG, as the host of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Summit in November is the focus of China's infrastructure development, investing US$1.9 billion to build roads and other public infrastructure to prepare Port Moresby for the APEC Summit.
These game-changing opportunities have been the catalyst for change for many Pacific countries – changing how they viewed themselves and their relations with others and empowering them to make choices based on their national and sovereign interests. Pacific countries now see themselves as guardians of the Pacific Ocean and its vast resources and see the potential of economic returns as securing the sustainable development of their peoples in the future. They no longer see themselves in the context of being 'small, poor and dependent' but as 'Large Oceanic States' with wealth and resources that is in great demand by global powers.
As expressed in an article in April this year, Bal Kama of PNG said: "Unlike the past, Pacific Leaders are increasingly assertive and well informed of the geopolitical competition in the region. They have intelligent military and political advisors dedicated to consolidating their sovereignty and exploiting the current geopolitical tussle, while acutely sensitive to any sign of bullying or cohesion."
Pacific countries now demand a greater share of the wealth and resources they own and want to be respected and treated as equals. It was quite refreshing to hear New Zealand's foreign Affairs Minister, Winston Peters in Nauru that his country's new 'Pacific Reset' policy aims to treat Pacific countries as equals and will do away with the 'donor-recipient' attitude that has been the symbol of bilateral relations between the Pacific and many of its development partners.
Through this amplified and collective co-operation as a group of nations, Pacific countries have attracted more global players into the region – who are keen to partner with Pacific nations in addressing climate change and benefit from tuna and other oceans resources. These new players have opened up choices and provided alternative development partners for the Pacific region. Increasingly these new and emerging players like China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Cuba, Spain, Turkey, are putting pressure on traditional partners like Australia.
So why is China a popular ally for the Pacific?
In the past decade China has entered the Pacific in a significant way. Initially, China's interest was to counter Taiwan's influence and build its political support in the Pacific, but over the years China has seen greater opportunities in the region's natural resources like natural gas in PNG, seabed minerals and tuna resources. Its expansion is also linked to its Belt and Road Initiative that aims to expand its global economic influence through major infrastructure projects.
ecently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing outlined the four key features of its aid support to the Pacific. These are:
China as a developing country like many Pacific nations understands the challenges they face in achieving sustainable development;
China provides aid on the basis of respecting the wishes of island nations without any political conditions;
China's aid is aimed at promoting the well-being of the people; and,
China's aid does not compete with other development partners or donors.
These four principles are attractive to Pacific countries. Some of them having been independent nations for almost five decades, feel confident to make their own decisions in the best interest of their nation and its people and to be recognised and respected as equal partners.
The Pacific Aid Map by Lowy Institute revealed that apart from Fiji and PNG receiving the largest percentage of Chinese aid, there were also increases in Chinese investment and aid to Samoa of US$169.7 million, Vanuatu US$190.45 million and Federated States of Micronesia with US$86.23 million.
Australia on the other hand remains the largest aid donor to the Pacific spending US$6.58b in the past seven years, compared to China's US$1.26 billion. The majority of Australia's development assistance is directed at improving good governance, support towards health and education sectors and humanitarian aid while China is focussed on building major infrastructure in the islands.
Despite this reality, Australia has not been viewed favourably in the Pacific region. The perception is that Australia holds a superior and patronising attitude towards the Pacific, using the island nations for its own interests, particularly in the global fight against terrorism and securing its borders and interested only in the Pacific votes at the UN and other multilateral agencies.
If Australia is serious about being the preferred 'partner of choice', then it must lead by example and genuinely interact with Pacific leaders on issues that concern them – like climate change, trade and economic relations and labour mobility.
In fact, since the rise of China, many Pacific countries are now 'within and closer' to Canberra's radar because of the bilateral offers and assistance from Beijing. One of the recent examples is Australia stepping in to fund the new high-speed internet cable between Australia and the Solomon Islands after national security concerns were raised about Chinese state-owned company, Huawei, being contracted to build the project. Also, in August 2018, Australia announced it had successfully blocked China from funding a major regional military base in Fiji, a move that reveals intensifying concern over geostrategic competition in the Pacific region.
In conclusion, the desire by Australia for the Pacific to be a 'partner of choice' can still be a reality because Australia will remain 'Big Brother' to the small island nations of the Pacific. Many of the island nations remain dependent on remittances from Australia, which the World Bank estimates to be around US$120 million annually, which have positively improved the livelihoods of peoples and their communities.
Australia has invested greatly in securing maritime borders through aerial surveillance and new patrol boats. It has assisted its Pacific neighbours in dealing with natural disasters, maintaining law and order and restoring good governance. This relationship is respected and valued in the Pacific.
However, with the rise of China and other global players in the Pacific, Australia will need to compete with these powers if it wants to remain a dominant and influential country in the region. If Australia wants to be a valued and trusted partner then it needs to be attentive to the needs of the Pacific and act as a genuine partner, as articulated in Canberra by Dame Meg Taylor: "If Australia is concerned with how detrimental Chinese aid to the region is, they also need to be listening to what Pacific Leaders have to say about it. If Australia turns a blind eye to the issue of climate change, it will be a difficult journey for all of us."
Limiting the influence of China will require better partnerships with more open and honest dialogue with Pacific Leaders. Dame Meg warned that if Australia doesn't act on the Pacific's climate change concerns, there may not be a sympathetic ear for Australia's concerns about China.
*Makereta Komai is general manager of the Pacific Islands News Association and editor of its Pacnews service. This article is an edited version of a speech delivered at the 'Australia and China in the Pacific' public forum at La Trobe University in Melbourne on Thursday 20 September 2018 titled "The Pacific – a contested space for global powers".
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Ruby Dee: a tribute
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Ruby Ann Wallace, later known as Ruby Dee, was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 27, 1924. As Ruby described in With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together, her parents were teenagers who hadn't wanted another child. They already had one son and one daughter. When Ruby was about three years old, her mother left the family "to follow a preacher man." Her father then remarried, to a teacher named Emma.
When her father remarried, the family picked up and moved to New York City, where Ruby eventually (after earning college degrees in French and Spanish) got her start on Broadway. As has often happened in the world of acting, Hollywood came calling after Ruby's success on the stage. After a few small roles in the late 1940s, Ruby had her breakout in 1950's The Jackie Robinson Story as Rae Robinson.
She has since become known as a multi-award-winning living legend of the stage and screen. She's also an activist, a breast cancer survivor, a mother, a writer. In terms of activism Dee is known for her civil rights work (which is actually how I first discovered her, not as an actress but in my studies of the civil rights movement). Dee has worked with/is a member of CORE, SNCC and the NAACP among other organizations. She and her husband Ossie Davis have worked together in activist efforts, and were both personal associates of civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X.
Ruby Dee is not just an actress, but a true figure of American history, and as a 20th century history nerd I am endlessly fascinated by her. The following are some of my favorite things that she's done in all facets of her career.
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This dissertation traces the emergence and development of concepts of military masculinity in West Germany in the four decades after the end of World War II. Between 1945 and 1989, representatives of the military, members of all major political parties, numerous social and protests groups as well as the media, repeatedly negotiated the function, constitution, and self-image of the West German military and its soldiers. When the Bundeswehr was established in 1955, it reinvigorated debates over contested concepts of military masculinity, understood as a set of mental, physical, and behavioral traits typical or significant for men serving in the armed forces. Contemporaries expressed competing ideas about what it meant to be a man in military uniform through their negotiations of soldiers' rights and duties as well as their attempts to regulate their lives inside and outside of the barracks. By studying these discourses and policies at the intersection of the military, parliamentary politics, and civil society, this dissertation makes two important contributions. First, it shows that military masculinities are not only the result of military necessities and political agenda. They are also defined by changing cultural beliefs, social expectations and broader international developments. Second, it reveals that a gradual but important shift occurred in West Germany between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of the Berlin Wall. While traditional military values lost influence outside of the military, civilian norms and values became more important for the way society defined military masculinity.
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Venice filmmaker's Lisa Adams doc debuts at The Crest
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Venice filmmaker Juri Koll has a knack for capturing the magic of L.A.'s art world.
Through his independent film series, Koll has documented the likes of scavenger poet Maddy Lemel, assemblage artist Flewnt and Venice's own sculpture luminary Fred Eversley.
Koll knows the local art landscape. His documentary of the construction process that went into the big steel "V" sculpture on Venice Beach, created in 1991 by Mark di Suvero, recently wound up in the American art archives at the Smithsonian. No wonder, then, he's also an advisor for the up-and-coming Venice Institute of Contemporary Art.
For the past two years, Koll has been documenting the life and art of Lisa Adams. Koll's film looks at the unique world Adams' paintings inhabit as well as how personal hardship — Adams nearly lost sight in her right eye in the summer of 2012 — tempered her conviction to persevere with her art. Adams, who for a time worked from a Venice studio and in 2000 cofounded the alternative art gallery Crazy Space in Santa Monica, has emerged as one of Southern California's more celebrated contemporary artists.
The documentary "Lisa Adams: As It Appears To Be" premieres in a one-night only screening at 8 p.m. on Friday, June 6, at the Crest Theater, 1262 Westwood Blvd., Westwood. (310) 470-1508; theartworld.net
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Peter C. Neger
Peter C. Neger has more than 35 years of litigation experience in both federal and state courts, and in arbitrations and mediations. His experience covers all phases of complex litigation, including litigation avoidance counseling, trials and appeals, pre-trial discovery, and Daubert proceedings.
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Currently, among other matters, Peter represents a financial technology company in actions brought by the company's former CEO in multiple state and federal courts arising out of the former officer's claim to control a majority of the company's shares; owners of a large affordable housing project located in Brooklyn, N.Y., in federal and state court litigation challenging rent increase orders issued by government authorities; a financial institution alleged to have breached its fiduciary duties as corporate trustee of a revocable trust; and a bioresearch firm engaged in a dispute with a consultant arising out of the consultant's claim to royalties under a license agreement. Peter is also pro bono counsel for a gay Jamaican man seeking asylum in the United States based upon his sexual orientation, and a Honduran teenager seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status in the United States.
Peter previously served as lead national counsel for a pharmaceutical manufacturer in the fen/phen diet drug litigation, involving more than 7,000 individual and class action lawsuits filed in a federal MDL and state courts throughout the United States. He was also the court-appointed defense liaison counsel in the Ephedra MDL and a member of the defendants' coordinating counsel. Peter acted as national coordinating counsel for a manufacturer of generic methylphenidate and functioned in the same capacity in litigation involving claims that the use of a mercury-based preservative in childhood vaccines caused autism.
Peter has also represented clients in various types of real estate litigation, including partnership disputes and dissolutions, land use disputes and commercial landlord-tenant proceedings; securities fraud and class actions; civil RICO actions; foreclosure and other bank-related litigation; SEC enforcement proceedings; trademark infringement actions; and actions involving professional liability claims, sex and race discrimination claims, and alleged bankruptcy frauds.
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Represented the nonoperating leaseholders of the Macondo 252 well in an MDL in New Orleans, La., arising out of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Represented a pharmaceutical manufacturer in a civil action arising out of a teenager's murder of his parents, allegedly while under the influence of stimulant medication
Obtained dismissal of a suit filed under the federal False Claims Act by a "whistleblower" who claimed that a Manhattan, N.Y., landlord submitted overstated claims to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development for Section 8 payments based on allegedly inflated rents charged to tenants
Achieved a favorable settlement for a cable television provider in a putative class action involving the privacy of former subscribers' personally identifiable information
Represented a utility in a 180-day tax certiorari trial in which the utility was awarded a property tax refund in excess of $200 million
Represented a Manhattan, N.Y., cooperative apartment building in a boundary dispute with the city of New York over ownership of a waterfront backyard garden
Obtained dismissals on behalf of an arbitrage firm in an SEC enforcement proceeding and a related civil action arising out of a proxy contest for control of a cellular communications company
Represented a Dutch pension fund in a dispute with the general partner of a partnership in which it invested over alleged breaches of the general partner's fiduciary duty
Represented financial services company in shareholder demand for access to books and records under N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law
Defended a financial institution in a class action alleging wrongful calculation and collection of mortgage escrow funds
Fordham University School of Law, 1981, Juris Doctor
Yale University, 1977, Bachelor of Arts
US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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Recognized, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, New York, The Best Lawyers in America (2006–2020)
Recognized, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, New York, The Best Lawyers in America (2014–2020)
Recognized, Business Litigation/Civil Litigation: Defense – New York Metro Super Lawyers (2006–2018)
Recognized, Global product liability litigation, Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Product Liability Lawyers (9th edition) (2012)
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Le lieu de naissance d'une personne désigne de façon plus ou moins précise le lieu géographique où cette dernière est née. Cette information, ainsi que le nom et la date de naissance de la personne, est souvent mentionnée sur les documents officiels. Le lieu de naissance peut être différent du lieu de résidence des parents, comme dans le cas où le bébé naît dans une maternité. Dans de nombreux pays, les lois gouvernementales obligent à déclarer l'enfant dans la division territoriale (maternité, commune, ville etc.) où a eu lieu la naissance.

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Dans certains pays, comme la Suède depuis 1947, c'est le domicile de la mère (födelsehemort, littéralement « domicile de naissance ») qui est mentionné sur la déclaration de naissance tandis que le lieu physique de l'accouchement, tel qu'une clinique, n'est pas considéré comme important.

Parfois le lieu de naissance définit la nationalité de l'enfant, pratique appelé droit du sol ou jus soli en latin juridique.

Souvent, la nationalité des parents est prise en compte par les lois, mais ce genre de loi connaît aussi ses limites, notamment dans les rares cas où l'accouchement a lieu dans un moyen de transport international tel qu'un avion, un train ou un bateau.

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Nick Cummins is the newest addition to the Australian Sevens set-up, but in many ways donning the jersey will feel very familiar.
Cummins played at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games and has previously lived with team veteran James Stannard.
The outside back has plenty of fond memories from the 2010 Games, where the team netted a silver medal.
"My colours changed after Delhi Belly but I pressed forward from there," he joked.
"That was a great experience the Comm Games.
"I like the Sevens environment - the boys have got a different sort of culture and it's probably one of the better ones to be involved in.
The lure of a possible Olympic medal played a major role in Cummins' decision but the 28-year-old believes he can also add to the side.
"Mate, what an experience," he said.
Cummins has spent the summer in Japan, playing for Top League side Coca-Cola Red Sparks and said the speed of the Japanese game would help him transition back into the shorter Rugby format.
"Over there the game's fairly quick," he said.
"They're fairly small roosters and they're agile and fast and quick - they run like mad.
While he harbours ambitions of Olympic success, Cummins knows he will have to earn his spot in the Sevens set up.
"The Sevens boys we've already got are outstanding," he said.
"I've watched a lot of their games and they're tough mentally.
Cummins will be available for the final four legs of the HSBC World Sevens series, starting from Hong Kong on 8-10 April.