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Andrzej Kłossowski (ur. 11 stycznia 1938 w Warszawie, zm. 30 stycznia 1997) – profesor bibliotekoznawstwa i informacji naukowej Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, znawca badań nad książką polską za granicą, edytor i redaktor, bibliotekarz.

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Urodził się w Warszawie w 1938 roku, ojciec z wykształcenia inżynier leśnictwa, był długoletnim redaktorem-wydawcą, matka posiadała wykształcenie wyższe rolnicze. Uczęszczał do Liceum Ogólnokształcącego przy ul. Smolnej 30 (obecnie XVIII Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Jana Zamoyskiego w Warszawie). Po uzyskaniu świadectwa dojrzałości wybrał się na studia rolnicze w SGGW (Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego), trochę za namową rodziców. Po pierwszym semestrze opuścił szkołę.

W 1958 roku rozpoczął studia bibliotekoznawstwa i informacji naukowej na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim.

Największy wpływ na rozwój zainteresowań Andrzeja Kłossowskiego miał doc. Ksawery Świerkowski. Kontakty ze Świerkowskim po ukończeniu studiów w 1964 roku przerodziły się w przyjaźń. Pod jego opieką Kłossowski napisał dysertację pt. Księgarnia Luksemburska Władysława Mickiewicza 1864–1869, którą obronił na Wydziale Filologicznym UW w 1973 roku. W roku 1991 na podstawie publikowanego dorobku uzyskał stopień naukowy doktora habilitowanego nauk humanistycznych w zakresie bibliotekoznawstwa i informacji naukowo-technicznej na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim.

Pochowany na cmentarzu Bródnowskim (kwatera 22H II 30-31).

Doświadczenie zawodowe
Kłossowski współpracował między innymi z:
 Biblioteką Katedry Archeologii Pierwotnej i Wczesnośredniowiecznej w UW wykonując prace zlecone (1961–1962; w trakcie studiów),
 Oddziałem Informacji Naukowej Biblioteki Głównej UW, bibliotekarz (1962–1967),
 Ministerstwem Oświaty, Szkolnictwa i Wychowania na stanowisku radcy ds. bibliotek i informacji naukowej (od 1967), następnie starszego specjalisty ds. wydawnictw (od 1972),
 Biblioteką Narodową (od 1975 do 1997) na stanowiskach:
 kierownika Zespołu Zakładów Retrospektywnej Bibliografii Narodowej,
 sekretarza redakcji Rocznika Biblioteki Narodowej,
 sekretarza redakcji Rocznika... oraz jednocześnie zastępcą sekretarza naukowego BN,
 zastępcy dyrektora BN,
 kierownika założonej przez niego Pracowni do Badań nad Książką Polską za Granicą (1994).
 Uniwersytetem Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu na stanowisku profesora Katedry Bibliotekoznawstwa i Informacji Naukowej.

Dorobek naukowy
Najważniejszym obszarem jego badań naukowych była niewątpliwie problematyka historii książki polskiej na obczyźnie. Pisywał artykuły do Księgarza, Poligrafiki, Roczników Bibliotecznych i kilku innych.

Ważniejsze publikacje dotyczące problematyki historii książki polskiej na obczyźnie:
 Ambasador książki polskiej w Paryżu. Władysław Mickiewicz (1971, pozycja XIII serii Książki o Książce),
 Na obczyźnie. Ludzie polskiej książki za granicą (1984, pozycja L (50.) serii Książki o Książce),
 wspólnie z Wojciechem Zalewskim Dealers of Polish and Russian Books Active Abroad 1918 to Present. A contributions to the history of book trade (1990)

Odrębne miejsce w dorobku prof. tworzyły wydawnictwa z zakresu bibliofilstwa. Był członkiem Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Książki w Warszawie od roku 1974, za aktywność otrzymał odznakę Zasłużonego dla Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Książki. W roku 1995 został członkiem Towarzystwa Bibliofilów w Toruniu. Był także członkiem Polskiego Towarzystwa Bibliologicznego. Był kolekcjonerem artystycznej książki.

Ważniejsze dzieła dotyczące problematyki bibliofilstwa:
 Anatol Girs - artysta książki (1989),
 Bibliofilstwo polskie za granicą. Wybrane zagadnienia teoretyczne. Organizacje bibliofilskie i oficyny artystyczne (1993),
 Polskie private i small presses na obczyźnie (1994).

Publikacje o charakterze teoretycznym:
 Książka polska za granicą. Problemy badawcze (1984),
 Polityka i komparatystyka w badaniach nad książką polską za granicą. Wybrane zagadnienia (1996),
 artykuł Książka polska za granicą i jej instytucje. Przedmiot oraz organizacja prowadzonych w Polsce prac badawczych i dokumentacyjnych (1997).

Kłossowski wydał (łącznie z tekstami wykraczającymi poza problematykę księgoznawstwa polonijnego) 24 druki zwarte (książki i broszury), 200 artykułów zamieszczanych najczęściej w Księgarzu, Studiach o Książce, Roczniku Biblioteki Narodowej, Rocznikach Bibliotecznych, Przeglądzie Bibliotecznym, ostatnio w Wydawcy i in. periodykach. Jest autorem 80 haseł, biogramów i artykułów w Słowniku pracowników książki polskiej (31), Encyklopedii wiedzy o książce (64) oraz 11 recenzji.

Pomysłodawca serii Instytucje Kultury Polskiej za Granicą i ich Zbiory, redaktor Komunikatów Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Książki, współredaktor zeszytu berlińskiego pisma Marginalien (1983) poświęconego polskiemu bibliofilstwu.

Kłossowski był koordynatorem programu powołania Biblioteki Polskiej w Paryżu, jednym z współzałożycieli Towarzystwa Rapperswilskiego promującego polską kulturę za granicą.

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Linki zewnętrzne

Bibliografia
Kłossowski A., Książka polska na obczyźnie. XX wiek [wybrali, przygotowali do druku i wstępem poprzedzili Mirosław A. Supruniuk i Janusz Tondel], Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 2003.

Bibliotekarze warszawscy
Ludzie urodzeni w Warszawie
Pochowani na cmentarzu Bródnowskim w Warszawie
Urodzeni w 1938
Zmarli w 1997

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Fooled into believing, that Ebola was a satanic disease imposed over Liberia because of homosexuality and wide spread corruption, over 100 Pentecostal pastors died miserably and foolishly as they laid their hands on Ebola victims praying for them hours and even days attempting to exorcise and deliver them from Ebola in Churches instead of taking these people to hospitals and medical centers to seek treatment.
To these pastors, everything is SPIRITUAL and as such try solving all problems from the spiritual perspective. In Ghana, we had Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams leading his Church of over 5000 congregants; many among them, highly educated men and women in the English speaking charismatic church, praying heavily for hours in 'tongues' for the Ghana Cedi to rise.
What a waooooow !!!!!! And has the Ghana cedi actually risen or appreciated in value ? The cedi has rather depreciated in value ever since, with the Dollar-Cedi equivalent now at 1:4(bitter truth). Former Prime minister David Cameron and Queen Elizabeth do not pray or fast for the British Pounds Sterling to rise or appreciate.
Rather, the implementation of prudent economic measures, wise spending, avoiding unnecessary borrowing and total anti-corruption initiatives has made the Pounds Sterling and British economy what it is today. When Zaire (Dr.Congo), qualified for its first Fifa World Cup in 1974, then president, Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga[a] sent a delegation of 72 spiritual men in accompanying the team to West Germany. Yet, with all these spiritual men, they could not score a single goal but conceded 14 goals in their first 3 matches. In Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Senegal, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda and other African countries, the actions, inactions, beliefs and thoughts of people are hugely influenced by religion.
That superstitious beliefs ban people from working on their farmlands on Thursdays or fishing on the sea on Tuesdays to the payment of hundreds and thousands of Cedis by a new breed of charismatic christians for a bottle of "anointing oil " intended to solve all their spiritual problems that in real life value isn't up to 10 Cedis, sums up the obsession of Ghanaians, Africans and the Black race with religion and its associated beliefs.
Born as a Christian into a traditional local Ghanaian community, l wouldn't for a second doubt or deny the existence of a higher God or lesser god. We have all under one circumstance believed and hoped that the bigger God or lesser god would intervene to solve one problem for us. However, the over reliance on God or a lesser god to solve all our problems, coupled with our obsession to label any minute logical challenge, illment, financia difficulties,natural disasters and accidents as spiritual problems is becoming the foundation of lazy thinking, incompetence, insanity and an excuse to cover up for our failures as individuals, nation and race as Africans.
When the Akosombo dam dries up due to intense sunshine and lack of rainfall, we disturb God with prayers calling on him to shower us with rain, forgetting that God is not punishing us with the sun but rather giving us an alternative to meet our energy demands through solar energy. When our own foolishness to build on waterways and litter our drains with rubbish leads to flooding of our capital city, we have no shame shifting blame to a bunch of patriotic citizens who vigiled to demand an end to the energy crisis darkening Ghana, suffocating businesses, taking innocent lives and tearing families apart with joblessness. And we had a government appointee and communicator blaming dwarfs for the free fall of the Cedi and inflation in this 21st Century of China phones, drones, fast foods and telenovela(kukum bagya ) dominating Ghana and Africa.
Though very young in life, my little experience has taught me, that Ghanaians, Africans and the Black race are a bunch of spiritual freaks, constantly, consistently and incessantly labeling all petty challenges as the works of unseen spiritual forces of darkness hence their over reliance on God or a lesser god to solve all their problems. We hardly use our brains to solve our problems. For the God who created the American, Chinesse and Arabian gave them brains and he gave us brains too !!! Hence God will not forgive us if we fail to use our brains to make our lives and that of unborn generations better. For we are children of no lesser god. Helen Keller was just 19 when she became deaf and blind but that didn't stop her from becoming the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
If she was a Ghanaian, she could have blamed her family witches, wizards, demons and gods for her misfortune and probably ended up at the prayer camp of Bishop Obinim or Prophet Ebenezer for healing. Had Thomas Edison considered darkness as the handiwork of the devil, we would never have had the electric bulb. If Americans had considered the moon as the abode of demons, Neil Armstrong would never have landed on the moon or pave way for the space science revolution.
Orville and Wilbur Wright would never have invented the first successful aeroplanes had they believed in gods occupying the atmosphere and demons and witches flying at night. The world has gone past the stone age era of primitive thinking, over reliance on God and gods, blaming demons for our challenges and dwarfs for inflation. Americans are now using 3D printing to create virtually every material we are using. The Japanese are now using trains nearly at the speed of light to ease transportation burdens and save time.
The Chinese are taking over the world, supplying us almost everything including chopsticks and catapults. We had independence with Malaysia in 1957 but they are centuries ahead of us. The world is fast moving towards the pinnacle of science, technology and development and they surely won't wait for us. We must take responsibility for our actions, tackle our challenges from a scientific perspective and stop our stupid obsession with spirituality and religion as the source of our problems and the only means to solving them. Again, the God who created the American, Chinese and Arabian gave them brains and he gave us brains too. For we are children of no lesser God !!! May God bless our homeland Ghana and make us wise and strong.


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Balassone and Franco review the literature on fiscal sustainability in order to examine the comparative advantages and disadvantages of different methodologies and indicators and to highlight the areas in which more research effort is still needed. They contrast the intuitive character of the concept of sustainability with the analytical and operational difficulties met with when trying to arrive at a rigorous definition. On the one hand, the literature has not produced a unique definition of sustainability; furthermore, the problem has only been dealt with in a partial equilibrium framework. On the other hand, the statistical definition of the main variables to be used for the assessment of sustainability is not uncontroversial; moreover, as the assessment is based on long-term projections, it is necessarily subject to wide margins of error.
Balassone and Franco also point out that, theoretical issues notwithstanding, the Treaty of Maastricht and the Stability and Growth Pact set fiscal rules which, if complied with, ensure sustainability according to any definition adopted. Techniques developed for the analysis of sustainability can therefore be used for the assessment of prospective compliance with such rules, a crucial task for both policy evaluation and timely corrective intervention. In re-examining the pros and cons of available indicators, their paper categorises the studies on the assessment of sustainability into two main strands: those testing for the sustainability of past policies and those assessing prospective fiscal stances. Among the latter a distinction is drawn between works based on standard national accounting concepts and generational accounting exercises. The paper concludes by stressing the need for further efforts to guide budgetary policy more effectively.


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John W. Whitehead Explains the Reason the Military/Security Complex had to Prevail over President Trump
Beware the Dogs of War: Is the American Empire on theVerge of Collapse?
By John W. Whitehead
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. — James Madison
Waging endless wars abroad (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Syria) isn't making America—or the rest of the world—any safer, it's certainly not making America great again, and it's undeniably digging the U.S. deeper into debt.
In fact, it's a wonder the economy hasn't collapsed yet.
Indeed, even if we were to put an end to all of the government's military meddling and bring all of the troops home today, it would take decades to pay down the price of these wars and get the government's creditors off our backs. Even then, government spending would have to be slashed dramatically and taxes raised.
You do the math.
The government is $19 trillion in debt: War spending has ratcheted up the nation's debt. The debt has now exceeded a staggering $19 trillion and is growing at an alarming rate of $35 million/hour and $2 billion every 24 hours. Yet while defense contractors are getting richer than their wildest dreams, we're in hock to foreign nations such as Japan and China (our two largest foreign holders at $1.13 trillion and $1.12 trillion respectively).
The Pentagon's annual budget consumes almost 100% of individual income tax revenue. If there is any absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off, especially when it comes to paying the tab for America's attempts to police the globe. Having been co-opted by greedy defense contractors, corrupt politicians and incompetent government officials, America's expanding military empire is bleeding the country dry at a rate of more than $57 million per hour.
The government has spent $4.8 trillion on wars abroad since 9/11, with $7.9 trillion in interest: That's a tax burden of more than $16,000 per American. Almost a quarter of that debt was incurred as a result of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and Syria. For the past 16 years, these wars have been paid for almost entirely by borrowing money from foreign nations and the U.S. Treasury. As the Atlantic points out, we're fighting terrorism with a credit card. According to the Watson Institute for Public Affairs at Brown University, interest payments on what we've already borrowed for these failed wars could total over $7.9 trillion by 2053.
The government lost more than $160 billion to waste and fraud by the military and defense contractors: With paid contractors often outnumbering enlisted combat troops, the American war effort dubbed as the "coalition of the willing" has quickly evolved into the "coalition of the billing," with American taxpayers forced to cough up billions of dollars for cash bribes, luxury bases, a highway to nowhere, faulty equipment, salaries for so-called "ghost soldiers," and overpriced anything and everything associated with the war effort, including a $640 toilet seat and a $7600 coffee pot.
Taxpayers are being forced to pay $1.4 million per hour to provide U.S. weapons to countries that can't afford them. As Mother Jones reports, the Pentagon's Foreign Military Finance program "opens the way for the US government to pay for weapons for other countries—only to 'promote world peace,' of course—using your tax dollars, which are then recycled into the hands of military-industrial-complex corporations."
The U.S. government spends more on wars (and military occupations) abroad every year than all 50 states combined spend on health, education, welfare, and safety. In fact, the U.S. spends more on its military than the eight highest-ranking nations with big defense budgets combined. The reach of America's military empire includes close to 800 bases in as many as 160 countries, operated at a cost of more than $156 billion annually. As investigative journalist David Vine reports, "Even US military resorts and recreation areas in places like the Bavarian Alps and Seoul, South Korea, are bases of a kind. Worldwide, the military runs more than 170 golf courses."
Now President Trump wants to increase military spending by $54 billion. Promising "an historic increase in defense spending to rebuild the depleted military of the United States," Trump has made it clear where his priorities lie, and it's not with the American taxpayer. As The Nation reports, "On a planet where Americans account for 4.34 percent of the population, US military spending accounts for 37 percent of the global total."
Add in the cost of waging war in Syria (with or without congressional approval), and the burden on taxpayers soars to more than $11.5 million a day. Ironically, while presidential candidate Trump was vehemently opposed to the U.S. use of force in Syria, as well as harboring Syrian refugees within the U.S., he had no problem retaliating against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on behalf of Syrian children killed in a chemical attack. The cost of launching a 59 Tomahawk missile-strike against Syria? It's estimated that the missiles alone cost $60 million. Mind you, this is the same man, while campaigning for president, who warned that fighting Syria would signal the start of World War III against a united Syria, Russia and Iran. Already oil prices have started to climb as investors anticipate an extended conflict.
Clearly, war has become a huge money-making venture, and the U.S. government, with its vast military empire, is one of its best buyers and sellers.
Yet what most Americans—brainwashed into believing that patriotism means supporting the war machine—fail to recognize is that these ongoing wars have little to do with keeping the country safe and everything to do with enriching the military industrial complex at taxpayer expense.
The rationale may keep changing for why American military forces are in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and now Syria. However, the one that remains constant is that those who run the government—including the current president—are feeding the appetite of the military industrial complex and fattening the bank accounts of its investors.
Case in point: President Trump plans to "beef up" military spending while slashing funding for the environment, civil rights protections, the arts, minority-owned businesses, public broadcasting, Amtrak, rural airports and interstates.
In other words, in order to fund this burgeoning military empire that polices the globe, the U.S. government is prepared to bankrupt the nation, jeopardize our servicemen and women, increase the chances of terrorism and blowback domestically, and push the nation that much closer to eventual collapse.
Clearly, our national priorities are in desperate need of an overhauling.
As Los Angeles Times reporter Steve Lopez rightly asks:
Why throw money at defense when everything is falling down around us? Do we need to spend more money on our military (about $600 billion this year) than the next seven countries combined? Do we need 1.4 million active military personnel and 850,000 reserves when the enemy at the moment — ISIS — numbers in the low tens of thousands? If so, it seems there's something radically wrong with our strategy. Should 55% of the federal government's discretionary spending go to the military and only 3% to transportation when the toll in American lives is far greater from failing infrastructure than from terrorism? Does California need nearly as many active military bases (31, according to militarybases.com) as it has UC and state university campuses (33)? And does the state need more active duty military personnel (168,000, according to Governing magazine) than public elementary school teachers (139,000)?
Obviously, there are much better uses for your taxpayer funds than trillions of dollars being wasted on war. The following are just a few ways those hard-earned dollars could be used:
· $270 billion to repair U.S. public schools, and twice that much to modernize them.
· $120 billion a year to fix the nation's crumbling infrastructure. With 32% of the nation's major roadways in poor or mediocre condition, it's estimated that improving the nation's roads and bridges would require $120 billion a year through 2020, although it will take "many trillions ... to fix the country's web of roads, bridges, railways, subways and bus stations."
· $251 million for safety improvements and construction for Amtrak.
· $690 million to care for America's 70,000 aging veterans.
· $11 billion wasted or lost in Iraq in just one year could have paid 220,000 teachers' salaries.
· The yearly cost of stationing just one soldier in Iraq could have fed 60 American families.
· $30 billion per year to end starvation and hunger around the world.
· $11 billion per year to provide the world—including our own failing cities—with clean drinking water.
· Use the $10 billion spent every year to provide arms, equipment, training and advice internationally to more than 180 countries to start paying down the overwhelming $19 trillion national debt. This figure doesn't include the hundreds of billions spent each year on maintaining the U.S. military presence around the globe.
As long as "we the people" continue to allow the government to wage its costly, meaningless, endless wars abroad, the American homeland will continue to suffer: our roads will crumble, our bridges will fail, our schools will fall into disrepair, our drinking water will become undrinkable, our communities will destabilize, and crime will rise.
Here's the kicker, though: if the American economy collapses—and with it the last vestiges of our constitutional republic—it will be the government and its trillion-dollar war budgets that are to blame.
Of course, the government has already anticipated this breakdown.
That's why the government has transformed America into a war zone, turned the nation into a surveillance state, and labelled "we the people" as enemy combatants.
For years now, the government has worked with the military to prepare for widespread civil unrest brought about by "economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters."
Having spent more than half a century exporting war to foreign lands, profiting from war, and creating a national economy seemingly dependent on the spoils of war, the war hawks long ago turned their profit-driven appetites on us, bringing home the spoils of war—the military tanks, grenade launchers, Kevlar helmets, assault rifles, gas masks, ammunition, battering rams, night vision binoculars, etc.—and handing them over to local police, thereby turning America into a battlefield.
This is how the police state wins and "we the people" lose.
Eventually, however, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, all military empires fail.
At the height of its power, even the mighty Roman Empire could not stare down a collapsing economy and a burgeoning military. Prolonged periods of war and false economic prosperity largely led to its demise. As historian Chalmers Johnson predicts:
The fate of previous democratic empires suggests that such a conflict is unsustainable and will be resolved in one of two ways. Rome attempted to keep its empire and lost its democracy. Britain chose to remain democratic and in the process let go its empire. Intentionally or not, the people of the United States already are well embarked upon the course of non-democratic empire.
This is the "unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex" that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us more than 50 years ago not to let endanger our liberties or democratic processes. Eisenhower, who served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, was alarmed by the rise of the profit-driven war machine that emerged following the war—one that, in order to perpetuate itself, would have to keep waging war.
We failed to heed his warning.
Yet as Eisenhower recognized, the consequences of allowing the military-industrial complex to wage war, exhaust our resources and dictate our national priorities are beyond grave:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Wake up, America. There's not much time left before we reach the zero hour.
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The Atlantic Daily
Why No Singer Has Replaced Lady Gaga
Spencer Kornhaber's culture picks include BeReal, online comedy stars, and an irresistible Nigerian singer.
By Nick Catucci
"No superstar singer since [Lady Gaga] has been as thrillingly, commandingly meaningless." (Kevin Mazur / Getty / Live Nation)
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.
Good morning, and welcome back to The Daily's Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what's keeping them entertained.
Today's special guest is Spencer Kornhaber, a staff writer who covers music and pop culture. Spencer traveled this fall to Reykjavík, Iceland, to profile Björk, and he just published his list of the 10 best albums of 2022. He is absorbed in the BeReal fad, loves the acting in The Empire Strikes Back, and says there's no new superstar singer as thrillingly meaningless as Lady Gaga.
But first, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic:
Why the age of American progress ended
2022's most thought-provoking books
The crunchy-to-alt-right pipeline
Culture Survey: Spencer Kornhaber
What my friends are talking about most right now: A disclosure I will not treat as embarrassing: My friends and I have killed a number of chilly afternoons watching my boyfriend play through God of War Ragnarök. The latest installment of the slashy and stabby video-game series applies an HBO level of sophistication to a fantasy story about destiny, fatherhood, and forgiveness. It has also taught me about delights of Norse mythology, such as Ratatoskr, the sassy squirrel who climbs the tree of life. [Related: Kratos is an inspiration to potential older dads.]
My favorite blockbuster and favorite art movie: Star Wars occupies at least a quarter of my brain at any given time, and my favorite rewatch from that galaxy is the consensus pick: The Empire Strikes Back. On recent viewings, I've been strangely mesmerized by the acting, which is typically the least loved part of any Star Wars film. Without Harrison Ford's burly charisma and Anthony Daniels's comic timing, the set design and twisty plot wouldn't have any … force? Sorry.
As far as art movies go, I've always loved I Heart Huckabees, a surreal 2004 comedy about "existential detectives." It stars—and this whole ensemble really does deserve to be listed—Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg, and Naomi Watts (plus bit parts for Jean Smart and a teenage Jonah Hill!). Really, the movie's best asset is its sprinting pace: The viewer's brain goes untickled for not one second. [Related: How Disney mismanaged the Star Wars universe]
A song I'll always dance to: This eight-minute, flute-forward remix of Janet Jackson's "Go Deep" has been in rotation since I first heard it at a rooftop party where a smoke machine pumped, with glorious impracticality, into the afternoon breeze. [Related: The nation that Janet Jackson built]
A favorite quiet song: "Tinu Ewe," and the rest of the recent album by the Nigerian singer BOJ, has a kind of rippling smoothness that I can't get enough of.
A favorite angry song: Nine Inch Nails is one of my GOATs, and long ago, I gave myself a nosebleed blasting "Terrible Lie" from the live album And All That Could Have Been.
Online creators that I'm a fan of: Everyone needs to sign up for a class by Marnie T., the unusual wellness instructor who's been elevating consciousnesses all pandemic. The other characters created by comedian Brian Jordan Alvarez are worthy of study too; recently, we met Timothy, a small-town kid whose visit to West Hollywood set him on an exciting new path.
An album that means a lot to me: Annie Lennox, Diva. As a young kid, I pretended to be a legend in my living room to these songs. (Thank the fates for a pre-social-media childhood.) As an adult, I remain enthralled by Lennox's blend of rigid synth pop and sensual gospel.
"Star Wars occupies at least a quarter of my brain at any given time." (Lucasfilm / Sunset Boulevard / Corbis / Getty)
A painting that I cherish: The print of Jasper Johns's Map over my couch has provided years' worth of fun: The boundaries within North America reveal new shapes with every glance, thanks to Johns's mingled tributaries of oranges, reds, and blues. Johns's 2021–22 retrospective at the Whitney Museum further deepened my appreciation. This man has painted variants of the same images, in outrageous quantities, over decades. Both apart and together, those works liquefy reality, revealing the harmonies of the universe. Plus, pretty colors!
A favorite story I've read in The Atlantic: Typically, it's the last thing I've read by James Parker, but I'll single out his 2010 Lady Gaga appraisal, which I have spent more than a decade ripping off poorly. He captures the essence of pop ("an ecstatic and superheated Nothing") and of Gaga ("paradoxical elegance"). He also predicts who her replacement will be: "nobody." It's true—early Gaga blew out the circuits of what pop once was. No superstar singer since her has been as thrillingly, commandingly meaningless.
My favorite way of wasting time on my phone: Put me in the camp of people happily absorbed in the BeReal fad. Authenticity is an unattainable ideal even on this supposedly no-bullshit photo app, but I still love the way it encourages the user to take fresh interest in their everyday surroundings.
The last debate I had about culture: Was about whether or not to put Rosalía's Motomami on my list of the year's 10 best albums. I adore her and have played the spit out of "Saoko," but something about the album's sequencing makes it fall into my "impressed but not obsessed" category. So I'm the one critic who left it off. [Related: How flamenco went pop]
The last thing that made me snort with laughter: A good Christian woman and a great interviewer/antagonist of celebrities, the TikTok persona known as Terri Joe puts on livestreams that are kind of like the Colbert Report of our present era of queer panic. I last snorted at the transit of her facial expressions inspired by a Taylor Swift song.
Read past editions of the Culture Survey with Jenisha Watts, David French, Shirley Li, David Sims, Lenika Cruz, Jordan Calhoun, Hannah Giorgis, and Sophie Gilbert.
Babylon, Damien Chazelle's period comedy-drama (in theaters Friday)
Weezer's SZNZ: Winter, the fourth and final in a series of seasonal EPs from the band (Wednesday)
Season 3 of Emily in Paris (on Netflix Wednesday)
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Steven Spielberg's Movie Magic Has a Dark Side
By David Sims
The final act of Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical film, The Fabelmans, revolves around what should feel like a triumph for its teenage protagonist, Sammy. A budding filmmaker in early-1960s California—and an obvious Spielberg analogue—Sammy screens a movie during prom that he shot of his classmates. The project's apparent "hero" is Logan, a Teutonic athlete whom Sammy depicts as a golden god, even though Logan has tormented him all year.
"Why'd you make me look like that?" a distraught and bewildered Logan asks Sammy after the screening. "I've been a total asshole to you. I broke your nose. And then you make me go and look like that! What's wrong with you?" Sammy's reply is simple: "All I did is hold the camera, and it saw what it saw." But it's also a lie masking a far more complex reality, which is why this scene has stuck with me. Sammy's film, and his exchange with Logan, captures a bigger tension that runs through the entire back half of Spielberg's oeuvre—casting a skeptical light on his reputation as a purveyor of pure movie magic.
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Read the latest culture essay by Jordan Calhoun in Humans Being.
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Stuti Vishwabhan, Class of 2016, demonstrates a deep commitment to service through her nonprofit organization, Teach Seniors Technology. As the name implies, "We teach senior citizens how to use different tech devices," said Stuti. Her academic achievements have her headed to Massachusetts in the fall to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. "One of my dream jobs has always been being like the CEO of my own tech company," Stuti said. "I want to inspire other workers, I want to be engaged in a lot of philanthropy and help other communities." Stuti was profiled by ABC7 News as one of the top scholars in the Bay Area.
To see Stuti Vishwabhan's profile: Presentation Graduate ABC 7 Scholar.
Carson Myers is a Presentation High School senior who combined her two passions: swimming and volunteer work. She was surprised to learn there were not many places in San Jose that offered free swim lessons to low-income children. So she decided to start her own program. But, no one signed up! Soon she learned low-income kids did not have swimsuits or goggles. Within a few weeks of securing donated swimsuits and goggles, 65 children signed up for the lessons; she was swamped all summer.
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Jobs and Justice in Maine
7 Most Dangerous Myths About A $15 Minimum Wage
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Increasing the minimum wage saves taxpayers' funds—
Currently the minimum wage in Maine is in no way a livable wage, even though at $7.50 it's 25 cents more than the federal minimum wage—how could it be? In fact it forces far too many onto welfare roles and the need for federally subsidized healthcare.
For years, nationally, companies like Wal-Mart have created internal policies that have kept their workers in the margins, so these corporations wouldn't have to pay their own employees health-care benefits. Caught in a cycle of not being able to earn enough for their families, on a minimum wage, too many workers have had to turn to federal help.
According to a report from Americans for Tax Fairness, a nonprofit that advocates for tax reform, American consumers subsidize Wal-Mart to the tune of $6.2 billion per year, through public assistance. Workers have to rely on food stamps (SNAP), low-income housing, and other taxpayer-funded welfare programs.
And many Wal-Mart workers shop using their food stamps at—Wal-Mart. About 18 percent of the food-stamp recipients use them at Wal-Mart. Americans for Tax Fairness uses this figure to estimate that Wal-Mart accounted for $13.5 billion of the $76 billion food-stamp market in 2013.
James Reiss. Photo by Jeff Kirlin
"I've had a job since I was 7 years old. Mowing lawns, raking leaves, paper route, custodial work in middle school and high school. Many overlapping. I was raised with what most would call a strong work ethic. Last year I was laid off twice. The second time was in the dead of winter when virtually no one was hiring. I had to take some humble jobs. After the first night at one job, I was so tired and so sore, I cried myself to sleep, overwhelmed by my new reality. After a month of working every hour the business could spare me, I had made $500. I was falling farther and farther behind. I was very fortunate to be given an opportunity by a local family business just as things were at their bleakest. I feel very lucky to be where I am. Many people never get that,"said James Reiss.
Under pressure from workers and consumers, and after President Obama's call to increase the minimum wage, Wal-Mart increased its minimum pay to $9 an hour in April, 2015. Since then Wal-Mart Stores the retailer's chief executive has reported that Wal-Mart stores are holding onto their employees longer.
The federal government has tried to help those who work full time but fall below the poverty level with the earned-income tax credit. The program helps low-income families who help themselves and has traditionally had bipartisan support, but some corporations abused it.
"Some of its benefits end up flowing not to workers but to employers, in the form of lower wages. And guess what? An increase in the minimum wage helps correct this defect. It turns out that the tax credit and the minimum wage aren't competing policies, they're complementary policies that work best in tandem," said Krugman.
Since the Great Recession, more full-time workers have been forced to work for businesses that only pay the minimum wage, pushing them onto food-stamp assistance, and other aid programs, which can be demoralizing.
"People are our resource. People need to be valued," said former Governor John Baldacci, who in 2009 was the last Maine governor to raise the state's minimum wage. "That's our economy and economic development of our future; it's our people. No one who works full 40 hours a week should live in poverty."
According to, "The Effects of Minimum Wages on SNAP Enrollments and Expenditures," by Rachel West and Prof. Michael Reich at U. C. Berkeley, "A 10 percent increase in the minimum wage reduces SNAP enrollment by between 2.4 percent and 3.2 percent and reduces program expenditures by an estimated 1.9 percent … Our results imply that the effects of the proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would reduce SNAP enrollments by between 7.5 percent and 8.7 percent."
The failure to significantly raise the wage floor has contributed to decades-long wage stagnation, forcing many full-time workers to turn to public assistance programs to survive.
"A full-time, full-year, minimum-wage worker with one child is paid so little that income from her paycheck alone leaves her below the federal poverty," wrote EPI analyst David Cooper in his report "Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $10.10 Would Save Safety Net Programs Billions and Help Ensure Businesses Are Doing Their Fair Share."
Copper found that if the minimum wage were raised to $10.10 an hour, 1.7 million Americans would no longer rely on government assistance. This would reduce government spending on current income-support programs by more than $7.6 billion per year.
"Essentially, low-wage employers are being subsidized by the taxpayer. Prices are going up, but paychecks are not, and taxpayers are making up the difference," said Cooper. "We've long known that raising the minimum wage would help millions of workers and give the economy a boost—now we know it's a winning idea for taxpayers, too."
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(KENORA, ON) – The Kenora OPP are looking for suspect(s) after several fire hydrants were tampered with throughout the city on Saturday, February 2 and Sunday, February 3, 2019.
On February 2, 2019, the Kenora OPP and Kenora Fire and Emergency Service were advised several fire hydrants had been opened in the areas of Transmitter Road, Minnesota Road and Beach Road.
It's a Criminal Code offence to cause any damage to property and those responsible may face mischief charges, as well as being held responsible for water damage to any properties.
This act also puts lives in danger in the event there is a fire and there is no water to access. In addition, it is also dangerous for motorists and pedestrians to travel on the roads where the excess water has frozen.
If anyone has any information regarding this incident, contact the Kenora OPP at (807) 548-5534 or 1-888-310-1122.
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Home Plus Post- lockdown Sri Lanka: Whither Economy?
Post- lockdown Sri Lanka: Whither Economy?
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The immediate challenge would be to avoid a spike of new cases in the post- lockdown period
Sri Lanka has to pay $ 4.8 billion in debt and interest payment for this year, the largest in the country's history
Sri Lanka would be limping back to normalcy in the coming days as much of the restrictions were relaxed, and a curfew that lasted for seven weeks was finally removed in all but Colombo and Gampaha districts, effective from yesterday.
The immediate challenge would be to avoid a spike of new cases in the post- lockdown period. Some countries,most notably Singapore,that relaxed restrictions were bombarded with a massive increase in fresh cases in their immigrant communities. South Korea which opened up after a successful coronavirus suppression campaign is also witnessing a gradual increase in case numbers.
Ensuring adequate social distancing measures in public transport would be extra difficult, even when restrictions are only partially lifted. Ensuring that public transport, especially the private buses, run with only half of the capacity as per health guidelines would be equally hard. Fewer buses would mean greater congestion.
With the collapse of tourism and a substantial decline in foreign remittance and export earnings, the economy would have to rely on the domestic demand for its survival and revival. However, people are out of pocket and disposable income has eroded. And social restrictions keep them at home, and shops closed. There is uncertainty over the fate of self-employed. Current measures would enable the economy to run at a fraction of its full capacity- though a greater economic activity would be possible in two weeks if the country manages to keep the virus under tabs.
Still, the government finances are in worse shape. That is not just because it inherited a mess from its predecessor. Some of the crucial economic decisions of the new president did not take into account the full scope of the existential economic conditions. He promised - and partially fulfilled - to recruit 100,000 unskilled youth to the already bloated public service. He slashed cooperate and personal income tax and other assorted taxes costing the government an estimated to be 1.5 per cent of the GDP in tax revenue. The public service at present has 1.1 million employees, including a good portion of an idle workforce. Forty-four( 44) per cent of government revenue is spent on government salaries and pensions.
Now President's Secretary P.B. Jayasundara has called on the government servants to donate their May salary or part of it to relieve the pressure on the country's debt management process.
Sri Lanka has to pay $ 4.8 billion in debt and interest payment for this year, the largest in the country's history.
The government requires at least Rs. 100 billion to pay the salaries and allowances of state servants," Mr. Jayasundara said in a letter to all state bodies.
Some personalities do not invoke much confidence. Mr. Jayasundara was barred from holding any public office by the Supreme Court in 2008 over a violation of procedure in the awarding of a large contract for the expansion of the Port of Colombo. In 2009, a new chief justice, a more amenable one, ruled him not guilty after President Mahinda Rajapaksa nominated him as the Treasury Secretary.
Then there is a vast network of loss-making SOEs, which are a regular drain on the state coffers. Some of them are truly resourceful and should have contributed to economic growth. Instead, they are constrained by politicisation and inept political appointees who ride the gravy-train under successive governments. The Yahapalanaya initially mooted the idea of bringing local SOEs under a holding company, similar to Singapore's Temasek holdings. However, soon Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe realised it would prevent the government from rewarding the political stooges with plum positions at the expense of people's tax money. The proposal never took off the ground.
The economy stagnated during the Yahapalanaya. Sri Lanka's GDP per capita in 2019 was $ 3,852, down by $ 200 from the previous year due to the collapse of the rupee. In nominal dollar value, the GDP per capita in 2019 was only $ 10 higher than $ 3842 recorded in 2015.
The current government inherited a rotten economy. But it should not be an excuse to wallow in that and try to blame its predecessor for all the economic maladies.
Obviously, the global economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic has made things worse. Two key pillars of the economy, foreign remittance and tourism, which grew holistically without much government input are ravaged. The revival of the economy in its old self is no longer sustainable in the new realities of the post-COVID-19 world.
The economic shock of COVID would also help the government hide the structural problems in the local economy that have been holding it back. The Covid fallout has also guaranteed a more sympathetic hearing from global lenders, and a financial lifeline to ride off the short term cash flow problems.
Calls for debt relief would also receive a more favourable response than it would have got before. (though, the government had been lobbying for a debt moratorium from major bilateral lenders even before the COVID-19 hit the economy) .
However, this sympathy should not be a reason for the government to ignore the structural problems of the economy. Failure to fix them has made the local economy extra vulnerable.
Navigating the immediate economic troubles of COVID-19 would not be much of a problem. Sri Lanka has already managed a prolonged lockdown without being a spectacle of police brutality and pain and suffering of the most vulnerable of our communities, as some of our neighbours in South Asia did.
However, fixing the economy requires a long term strategy and political will and perseverance to stick to it, despite the inevitable negative vibe and opposition from the public, trade unions and local industries.
How the government would forge ahead, if ever, is yet to be seen. The President has instructed his economic task force to focus on bringing in new investment to the Colombo Port city and Hambantota EPZ, promote investment in tertiary education opportunities at home to stem the foreign exchange outflow and manufacture medicine locally.
To be successful economically in the long term, the government should create conditions that are investment-friendly, cut down bureaucratic red tape and generate policy consistency. Yahapalanya was a monumental failure in each of these counts. Despite much of misgivings in his government, for one thing, Gotabaya Rajapaksa is an umpteenth time-efficient administrator than his predecessor.
He should be able to make a red tape - prone system and government apparatus work if he put in place an effective regime of sanctions and rewards. He might have to fight the economic war – in the same way, his one-time army commander Sarath Fonseka made his generals fight the last Eelam war - with ruthless efficiency, with goal achieving being the primary and abiding consideration.
Any economist would tell Sri Lanka's current investment laws, land laws, labour regulations are out of place and a drag on the economic modernisation. The bloated government service and antiquated thinking and structures are a liability. Previous governments have hesitated to fix these problems.
Covid-19 pandemic creates permissible conditions and a sense of urgency for a new economic order. The president should make use of this opportunity.
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John Stewart Tuesday, 12 May 2020 04:00 PM
The President says that he wants to attract high earning tourists to stay longer in the country. My wife and I fit into that category and we have brought more that USD 350,000 into Sri Lanka and spent it all on the country's infrastructure. However, I have made many attempts by email and several letters during the past two years to talk to the Immigration and Emigration Department, in a bid to make it easier for foreigners to get residence visas but NONE has been answered. The current procedure is not conducive to attracting people like my wife and me to come and live in Sri Lanka.


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VIDEO Farrah Abraham talks about her parents' divorce and their trip to Arizona
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In this past week's episode of Teen mom Farrah Abraham invites her parents Debra Danielson and Michael Abraham along for a trip to Arizona where Farrah is thinking of moving to. The weekend visit was supposed to be about Farrah surveying the area and looking for potential apartments for her and Sophia, but it quickly turned into a mini-documentary of a dysfunctional family who can't have a simple conversation without it turning into a full-blown, anger-filled argument.
Farrah talked about the dramatic (and utterly unproductive) trip in an after-show interview with SuChin Pak that we featured in our Wednesday post-show post. In the interview Farrah reminds us that her parents are actually divorced but still living together, and she believes this "separation without separation" was not only the main cause of the trio's inability to get along, but also was a bad situation to put her daughter Sophia in.
Farrah's Arizona trip has stirred up such a passionate debate among fans that we though we would isolate it and open it up for discussion all on its own. Here is just her interview with SuChin Pak followed by a transcript of their conversation. What do you think is the main cause of all the tension in this family? Is it the uncertainty of Debra and Michael's relationship? Is it immaturity on Farrah's part? Is it both? Is it neither? Sound off in the comments!
(Oh, by the way, I propose that we officially start referring to this episode as "Farrahzona.")
SuChin Pak: You guys take a trip to Arizona that turns out to be disaster disaster so to speak, right?
Farrah: It was a disaster
What was really going on?
My parents wanted to rekindle their relationship instead of helping me, for Sophia and I to move on with our lives basically. And they were trying to act like everything is such a happy family, duh, duh, duh, and nothing is the same. So, you know, I'm trying to say, "Hey, let's go look at houses, support me and Sophia in this way, just help me out," and this, like, negativity – one thing after another. And it was just a mess. I don't know, it was just something that didn't even make sense to me. I just could not get it.
Do you think that they were so negative about all of the places that you were showing them because they were trying to discourage you from moving, or is it because they were genuinely concerned for your safety?
I think it was more discouraging me from moving there.
Yeah. Now you talk about the separation between your mother and your father, can you elaborate on that?
Um after… it was like the year when we were very much angry, still much tension in our house at home, they ended up getting a divorce. And, so they still live together, and they don't, you know, it's always a conversation – it's always a topic, "Are we going to be together? Are we not going to be together?" Now I just like to be out of it, and I don't want Sophia being wrapped in it. It's like a divorce and I've – I don't want to be a part of it, or my daughter.
Wait, so your parents are divorced, but they're still living together?
And we're going on trips together, as you see. Yeah.
It's an interesting thing you said, because you're like, "Are they going to be together or are they not?" There's this uncertainty.
But yet they want to be there so much for Sophia, and that's what I have a hard time dealing with because I'm like, "Somebody's going to move and not be there." And that's when I was like, "I'm just gonna start doing things for me and Sophia." Because that's when I kind of decided I need to break off and quit being, you know, sheltered and babied by my family because I don't know what's going on with them. They're not letting their relationship go and move on, and so when we were in Arizona and I see them keep saying, "Oh we did this here, we did that here," you know at that time in my life I was just like angry. I was really angry, like seeing people holding hands, kissing, like – I was a negative lady [laughs] at that point because I'm just kind of jealous I don't have that, and, um, my parents were just making me crazy and I couldn't handle it any more. So we were fighting a lot in Arizona, and like you saw, my mom walked out on dinner.
Mmmm hmmm.
And we're sharing a hotel together, we're sharing a car together. It's like – it's horrible.
How do you hope this situation with your parents resolves itself? How will you be able to move forward in that relationship with them?
I feel, because everybody wishes the best for me and is just like, "As long as you're happy Farrah, that's all that matters," I feel like I know what will make my parents happy – moving forward in their own way. Whether it be meeting somebody else, or just being on their own, like whatever journey they have to take to be a happier person, that's what I'm hoping they'll do. And I don't feel like they're separating yet, and If they're not going to get married again then just separate. It's just really hard for me to watch it.
In a recent interview with MomFinds.com Farrah talked about the fateful Arizona trip, this time with a bit more hindsight. (You have to remember the trip was almost a year ago and even the "after show" interviews were taped a long time ago.) Here are a few excerpts:
Why did you decide to invite your parents to visit Arizona with you?
I wanted to invite my parents because they met in Arizona and my dad lived there with my grandparents for years. I thought they would help me find a great place for Sophia and me.
Why did you get so frustrated with your parents while in Arizona?
I don't know if anyone noticed, but my parents were taking me places that were not fit for me to live. Their comments were negative during the whole trip and it was very frustrating. I wanted this to be a positive trip, but instead I felt like my parents wanted to make it more about them.
Having seen the episode, do you have any regrets?
The only thing that would have made a difference is if I went to Arizona on my own. Other than that, I have no regrets. The fight with my parents in Arizona just confirmed to me that I can't rely on them for helping me make choices for moving.
Do you wish you could take anything back?
I don't take anything back. I'm open and real and true to my feelings. I have nothing to hide and my parents love me for that.
*** It should be noted that Farrah is reportedly on better terms with her parents now and they have come to visit her twice since she relocated to Florida to attend Culinary school.
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Risk Averse, Risk Neutral, and Risk Acceptant Preferences
This lecture explains risk averse, risk neutral, and risk acceptant (risk loving) preferences in a game theoretical context.
Someone with risk neutral preferences simply wants to maximize their expected value. For example, consider a lottery that gives $1 million 50% of the time and $0 50% of the time. A risk neutral person would be indifferent between that lottery and receiving $500,000 with certainty.
Someone with risk averse preferences is willing to take an amount of money smaller than the expected value of a lottery. In the 50/50 lottery between $1 million and $0, a risk averse person would be indifferent at an amount strictly less than $500,000.
Risk aversion means that an individual values each dollar less than the previous. These preferences explain why people buy insurance.
Someone with risk accceptant preferences requires an amount of money greater than the expected value of a lottery to be bought out. In the 50/50 lottery between $1 million and $0, a risk averse person would be indifferent at an amount strictly greater than $500,000.
Risk acceptance means that an individual values each dollar more than the previous. Someone with such preferences would exhibit behaviors similar to a compulsive gambler.
We can use exponents to conveniently represent these preferences. Consider the utility function xa, where x is the amount of money an individual receives. a = 1 represents risk neutral preferences; a > 1 represents risk acceptant preferences; a < 1 represents risk averse preferences.
Nothing in expected utility theory prevents us from modeling risk preferences. However, those preferences should be directly built into the payoffs you enter into a game matrix.


In a "dot.com, I-phone, artificially-flavored" world, most of us crave old-fashioned rituals that slow us down and remind us that no matter how things change, they stay the same. Which is why the prospect of pitting a bowl of fresh cherries on the porch is so appealing. Like growing a tomato or baking a cake from scratch, it allows us to "discover a vague but comforting link to the universe," as one friend states.


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Bote, Cubs rally past Cardinals 5-4 for doubleheader split
By JAY COHEN - Aug. 17, 2020 11:52 PM EDT
St. Louis Cardinals' Brad Miller (15) hits a home run during the fourth inning of Game 2 of a baseball doubleheader against the Chicago Cubs, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton)
CHICAGO (AP) — David Bote watched as his pinch-hit drive soared into the night. The rest of the Chicago Cubs started to celebrate as he rounded the bases.
There was only one thing missing — a roar from the crowd. Wrigley Field was empty once again.
"Something you miss, definitely," Bote said. "But again, this is a good win."
Bote hit a three-run homer in Chicago's four-run sixth inning, and the Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-4 on Monday for a doubleheader split.
With two outs and runners on the corners, Bote put Chicago ahead to stay with a massive drive to center off Tyler Webb (0-1) for his second career pinch-hit homer. Bote belted a game-ending grand slam for his first pinch-hit shot in a 4-3 win against Washington on Aug. 12, 2018.
Chicago was still searching for its first hit before Willson Contreras hit an RBI double off Webb (0-1) earlier in the inning, setting the stage for Bote's third homer of the season.
"Webby is going to be fine," St. Louis manager Mike Shildt said. "Everybody has a day or two. It's a hard game. He'll be fine. We'll run him back out there. He's going to get a lot of big outs for us this year."
St. Louis wasted a big performance by Brad Miller, who homered twice and drove in three runs. Miller also had a big swing in Game 1, hitting a tiebreaking two-run double in the seventh in the Cardinals' 3-1 victory.
Dexter Fowler connected for St. Louis in the opener of an unusual five-game series, and Max Schrock hit his first career homer in Game 2.
The NL Central-leading Cubs stopped a four-game slide. Duane Underwood Jr. (1-0) pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings for his first major league win, and Jeremy Jeffress got three outs for his second save.
"Underwood, I can't overstate what he meant to us tonight and those innings he gave us," manager David Ross said.
The Cardinals dropped to 3-2 since returning from a coronavirus outbreak that derailed their season, leaving them idle for weeks and resulting in 18 confirmed cases in the organization. They swept a doubleheader against the White Sox on Saturday before dropping the series finale Sunday.
The reigning division champions had a three-game series against the Cubs postponed while they waited for clearance to play again — leading to the five-game set that includes two doubleheaders and two "home" games for the Cards.
The second half of Monday's doubleheader was the first time St. Louis batted second on the road since April 25, 1906, at Cincinnati, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. It was the first time the Cubs hit first in their home ballpark since July 16, 1908, against the New York Giants, according to the team.
The opener was tied at 1 when St. Louis loaded the bases with none out in the seventh against Kyle Hendricks. After Dylan Carlson bounced into a forceout at home, Hendricks (3-2) was replaced by Rowan Wick.
"I felt good all day executing pitches," Hendricks said. "Just really upset, those first three at-bats in the seventh inning, all three were just terrible."
Miller then hit a liner toward the gap in left-center. Center fielder Albert Almora Jr. made a leaping try, but it landed out of his reach on the warning track. Tyler O'Neill and Matt Carpenter scored before Carlson was thrown out at the plate.
Giovanny Gallegos (1-0) pitched a scoreless inning for the win, and Andrew Miller got three outs for his second save.
Ian Happ homered for Chicago, and Hendricks was charged with three runs and three hits.
Happ was a late addition to the Game 1 lineup after right fielder Steven Souza Jr. was scratched with right hamstring tightness.
Kwang Hyun Kim pitched 3 2/3 innings of three-hit ball in his first start for St. Louis. He signed an $8 million, two-year contract with the Cards in December.
He wore the wrong cap in the first inning, but got the right one on in time for the second.
"One of my trainers came to me and didn't say anything, but he just gave me a new cap. He put the new cap next to me," Kim said through a translator. "At first, I was like puzzled, but then I realized the mistake."
Cardinals: RHP Carlos Martínez and INF Edmundo Sosa have been cleared to begin baseball activities. Sosa tested positive for the coronavirus, and Martínez was placed on the injured list for an unspecified reason. Shildt said the team has "multiple players" pending review by Major League Baseball, including C Yadier Molina and INF Paul DeJong. ... LHP Austin Gomber "will be activated soon, with an eye toward" Wednesday's doubleheader, Shildt said. Gomber has not tested positive for COVID-19, but he was placed on the injured list because of a potential concern in contact tracing.
Cubs: LHP José Quintana (thumb surgery) threw 61 pitches over four innings in a simulated game Sunday. Ross said the team is finalizing the day for Quintana's next sim game. ... RHP Adbert Alzolay was in the mix for Game 2 of the doubleheader before he took a ball off his forearm a few days ago at the team's alternate training site in South Bend, Indiana. He could start one of the games in Wednesday's doubleheader.
Right-handers Daniel Ponce de Leon and Yu Darvish pitch Tuesday night. Ponce de Leon (0-1, 6.75 ERA) started St. Louis' last game before its coronavirus outbreak, allowing three runs over 3 2/3 innings in a 3-0 loss at Minnesota on July 29. Darvish (3-1, 1.88) is 3-0 with a sparkling 0.90 ERA in his last three starts for Chicago.
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New York City's new mayor announced recently he wants to sell the historic Brooklyn Bridge. The sale would be used to raise cash in a city reeling from the economic effects of September 11 coupled with the first recession in a decade. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who took office at midnight on New Year's Eve, said he also wants to sell three other bridges in the city. Bloomberg inherited a nearly $5 billion gap in his $40 billion spending plan, which administration officials say could be partly filled through the sale of the bridges. For sale signs on the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and Queensboro bridges are likely to generate opposition from elected officials in Brooklyn and Queens as is Bloomberg's budget proposal to charge tolls on the bridges, which are currently free. The bridges all span the East River, connecting Brooklyn and Queens to Manhattan.
The likely buyer is reported to be the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Bridge and Tunnels division, which already operates all other interborough toll crossings.


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It's cold out there. Feed your winter cravings with chicken noodle soup and lasagna.
Some of the best recipes aren't in cookbooks, magazines, or a chef's notebook. They're right in the aisles of the supermarket. We hit the grocery store and picked up a cart of old-faithful products to test the famous recipes on the backs of the boxes. (Or cans. Or bags.) Then we cooked (and tasted) them all. Were they all great? Nope. But these TK, presented here in ascending order, were winners.
We've got recommendations for the best baking dish, cheese grater, and stock pot—plus, a game-changing dried oregano.
The classic winter casserole, this combination of pasta, sauce, and cheese is a favorite for a reason. And from the traditional tomato sauce version to a veggie-layered recipe, there are oh so many ways to lasagna.
These dishes are all about dreamy ways to use creamy ingredients, from Greek yogurt to ranch dressing.
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Fuel a weekend of leaf-raking, apple-picking, and sweater-hugging with recipes like cider-brined pork loins, cheesy lasagna, and sweet-and-savory toast.


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Production & Capacity Planning
By: Renee O'Farrell
The Advantages of the Match Strategy in Capacity Planning
The goal of production planning is simply to maintain flow, whereas the goal of capacity planning is to maintain a flow in resource usage. Much in the way that a person adjusts faucet spigots to achieve a desired temperature, the individual in charge of this type of planning adjusts the workforce and process flow to obtain a regular use of company resources with minimal downtime, minimal bottlenecks and some level of output consistent with all the resources being put in the process.
Definition of Production Planning
Production planning, or production scheduling, is a term assigned to the planning of production in all aspects, from workforce activities to product delivery. Production planning is almost exclusively seen in manufacturing environments; however, many of the techniques employed in production planning can be and are used by many service-oriented businesses. Understanding the behavior of a process, finding bottlenecks, reducing work-in-process inventories, developing optimal scheduling, forming optimal forecasting methods,, and polishing inventory control methods are the main concerns of production planning.
In a nutshell, production planning is primarily concerned with the efficient use of resources. While it is sometimes referred to as operations planning, and truly employs many of the same techniques, the primary distinguishing characteristic is that production planning is focused on the actual production whereas operations planning looks at the operation as a whole.
Aspects of Production Planning
Production is planned with either a long-term, medium-term or short-term view. Long-term views focus on the major decisions a company makes that influence capacity whereas short-term views focus more on using what a company currently has more efficiently. Medium-term views focus more on adjustments, such as hiring, firing, layoffs, increasing inventory or expecting back orders.
Definition of Capacity Planning
Capacity can be a difficult concept to quantify. Maximum output is calculated by identifying the maximum output of a given period when demand had been highest and assuming that that level of performance could be reproduced on a daily basis; however, this is generally not sustainable and can lead to problems fulfilling demand. Instead, capacity planning is focused on maximizing the capacity of a company in a way that allows it to be more efficient and, thusly, more profitable. Capacity planning at its most basic attempts to match the volume the company is able to produce to the demand in order to avoid downtime by preventing bottlenecks.
Too much capacity can result in a low return on asset investment, whereas as too little capacity can drive away customers. A good capacity plan has a level amount of input (raw materials and other resources) for its output (the actual product) with little to no bottlenecks and little to no downtime.
Methods of Capacity Planning
One popular method of capacity planning is aggregate planning. Aggregate planning basically ties facility planning in with scheduling decisions, and it does so in a way that is quantitative, meaning it produces numbers to back up an operations plan. Plans generally either "chase" demand, adjusting its workforce accordingly or are "level" plans, meaning that labor is relatively constant with fluctuations in demand being met by inventories and back orders. Plans may also be "hybrid," meaning that they combine these two approaches.
Another popular method of capacity planning is the use of the Theory of Constraints (TOC). TOC serves to answer the question of what to change by using cause-and-effect modeling. It operates on the basic premise that a system can never be better than the weakest part thereof and that solving the problem of what holds the system back depends upon the identification of that constraint and the mitigation thereof. This process is frequently likened to that of a physician diagnosing a patient, designing a treatment plan and executing that plan. TOC is a useful tool in project management because of its ability to look at a system specifically and postulate as to how strong it could be. This methodology is quite useful in creating a starting point toward a solution to various business problems from marketing to supplier relationships to project management.
Incremental Capacity Planning
Forward incremental planning (FIP) is a dynamic planning method. FIP is implemented from the initial receipt of an order. The actions required to fulfill that order are prioritized. The essential goal of FIP is to reduce lag time. While it can be quite effective, the primary limitation of FIP is that it assumes that no other action is in progress, as in no machines are tied up and the workforce was essentially idle until the order was received. This may seem like a huge limitation, and it is for some industries, but for companies that produce products with high levels of customization, FIP can be a powerful tool.
Backward incremental planning (BIP) is the other side of the FIP coin. BIP looks at the requirements from the due date backward and organizes the process accordingly. A good example of this is a bakery. The cake must be fresh for its pickup date, so the baker would look at the steps required to produce the cake and the estimated time required to bake and decorate it. BIP works well in cases where a deadline is more of a requested completion date and completing the order sooner produces no benefit.
The Theory of Constraints
Types of Production Planning
Renee O'Farrell is a freelance writer providing valuable tips and advice for people looking for ways to save money, as well as information on how to create, re-purpose and reinvent everyday items. Her articles offer money-saving tips and valuable insight on typically confusing topics. O'Farrell is a member of the National Press Club and holds advanced degrees in business, financial management, psychology and sociology.
Operations Planning & Scheduling
A Format for Production Planning
How to Calculate Schedule Adherence
The Advantages of an Aggregate Production Plan
List of Objectives of Production Planning
Production Planning Steps


4 patches are finished, all 880 of them and maybe a few extra. The next step is to make the se the centers of square in a square blocks that finish 2 inches. Here is one I did to see what they would look like. That is a quarter by it. Small!!! Omigosh. After that I have to make 880 half square triangles and the take all these parts and make Shoo Fly blocks for the alternate block. Months and months to go, haha,hehe, hoho. Yes, I am losing it.
WOW!!! How small!!! Hmm....I'm not sure I'm going to do this quilt!!! Great job!!!!
Incredible. No way in the world I'd do it, but it's bound to be beautiful.
I'll just watch you make your and admire!
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?This is a fabulous quilt, I had to go back and look at your old posts about it. I love the container of all those 4-patches. Congratulations on finishing.


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These cushions are made from a lovely faded and worn blue vintage Zhuang wedding blanket. They all have vintage hemp backs, zip closure and feather pads. This indigo colour works well with so many other coloured cushions in my range, for example the gold and blue Zhuang or any of the pinks. Or they can be just a soft accent colour in a neutral room.
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CHICAGO (STMW) — Police in west suburban Batavia found two dogs dead in a van Thursday night, while a third died on the way to a hospital.
Julie A. Brungard-Giordano, 47, was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony, and cruelty to animals, a misdemeanor, according to a statement from Batavia police.
About 5:45 p.m., a Batavia officer found a locked van with dogs that "appeared to be in distress" at a parking lot in the 100 block of North Island Avenue, police said.
When they were able to get in, officers found two dead dogs and six more suffering from extreme dehydration, police said.
Kane County Animal Control employees took the six dogs to an animal hospital in west suburban Aurora, but one of them died on the way, police said.
Brungard-Giordano was identified as the owner, police said. She lives a block north of where the van was discovered.
Her court information was not immediately known.