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SOWETO – ORLANDO Pirates have won the Future Champions Gauteng international football tournament after beating Russian visitors FC Spartak 8-7 on penalties at the Nike Football Training Centre in Pimville, Soweto on Saturday.
The two sides were tied one-all.
Pirates become the first South African side to win the youth tournament featuring some top talent in the Under-17 category.
The South Africans led through a Thabani Gumede but the visitors leveled through Magomedemin Rabadanov.
Pirates goalkeeper, Blake Franzen, emerged the hero after he saved two spot-kicks.
Belgian side Clube Brugge secured the bronze medal when they edged South African Football Association- Gauteng 2-1 in the third-place play-off.
Mexican side Club Tijuana, winners in 2013, finished fifth after they beat South Africans Kaizer Chiefs 2-1 in their playoff match.
RCD Espanyol took seventh place after a hard-fought 4-2 penalty shootout victory over South African outfit Highlands Park. The sides finished 1-1in regulation time.
All India Football Federation scored their first goals of the competition as they took 11th position with a 2-1 win over Chinese side Beijing Sinobo Guoan.
SAFA Johannesburg beat Dr BW Vilakazi Secondary School 2-1 in the girls' final.
Mthokozisi Balakasi of Kaizer Chiefs finished top scorer with five goals.
Global Sports International, in partnership with the Gauteng Provincial Government, organised the annual tournament.
LaLiga, Clinix Health, Rand Water, Lovelife, Sedgars Sport and Score Energy Drink were sponsors.


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An updated and approved US Virgin Islands Territorial Hazard Mitigation Plan will result in a set of recommendations that seeks to identify and integrate principles and elements of resiliency, sustainability, and climate adaptation planning for the Territory. As the hazard mitigation activities and efforts build momentum, projects will be identified for funding and decisions will be made to advance the goals of the Plan. These activities include continued development and rebuilding of the U.S. Virgin Islands, which will alter the natural and built environments, and the islands' social systems.
Over time, climate change combined with changing land use practices in the Territory have altered the biophysical functioning of the "ridge to reef" ecosystem, thereby altering the well-being benefits that humans receive from the ecosystem. Before further development occurs, the current interdependence between the "ridge to reef" environment and islander well-being needs to be clarified for informed decision making. To realize the goals of a resilient and sustainable future, islanders need to identify and prioritize habitats that can realistically provide hazard mitigation services to them now and in the future.
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Marquis Media Partners is working alongside the University of Salford on a major transformation project at one of the Far East's major public broadcasters.
MMP and the university's School of Media designed a wide-ranging series of year-long initiatives to help the television, radio and online broadcaster address a very challenging new competitive and financial environment.
In particular, MMP led stakeholder mapping exercises to select 45 Change Champions from middle and senior management and helped them develop a 5-year strategy as well as improve their leadership skills.
MMP also carried out a review of the organisation's HR and People processes and provided the broadcaster with a large number of recommendations on ways to improve recruitment, reward, performance management and internal communications.
A small internal communications team was formed and trained by MMP. They then launched a consultation exercise which received ideas and suggestions from more than 1,200 members of staff who are based at a large number of different sites. Many of these contributions are now being incorporated into MMP's proposals for the broadcaster's new 5-year strategy.
Marquis is now working with the university to develop a second phase of the transformation project which will focus on achieving on-air improvements via a wide range of training modules that will include leadership, presentation, promotion, producer skills and training-the-trainers.


Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has featured in an ESPN commercial promoting new movie "Neighbors", although Seth Rogen apparently has no idea who he is.
Rodgers is widely expected to be named amongst the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history when he calls time on his career, but he is of course still current as he will hope to lead the Packers to success in the upcoming season.
The 30-year-old is a former Super Bowl champion and MVP, however, Rogen apparently knows him best for his appearances in the State Farm commercials.
The feature also involves Zac Efron who clearly knows who the Packers star is, and is also a promo for their new movie "Neighbors".
Obviously Rogen knows who Rodgers is away from the commercial, but nonetheless it doesn't take away from the comedy value that it provides.


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FLORIAN BRäUNLICH WITH A PERFORMANCE BY SVEN-ÅKE JOHANSSON Safe Crash
Label / Dispari
Category / Records by Artists, Experimental, Non Music,
Cardboard box, single sided C-28 cassette, porcelain drumstick splinter, hand-printed letterpress poster, postcards. Edition of 100. Evidence hints at the event. Parts of broken drumsticks, a sound recording, a photograph and a written approach. Traces, relics. The work "Safe Crash" by visual artist Florian Bräunlich consists of porcelain drumsticks, plastic buckets, a wooden platform, varnish, cymbals, cymbal stands, a floor tom and a spotlight on which the second release of "dispari" is based. A sound recording witnesses Sven-Åke Johansson's performance of Florian Bräunlich's "Safe Crash" at HFBK, Hamburg in September 2020. The moment Johansson begins to play with the porcelain drumsticks, he transfers them into another state. In the course of the performance, the melodic-rhythmic sounds shift perceptibly towards the material exploration of the porcelain. Johansson – a style-defining drummer of the German free jazz era of the 60s and 70s; from the 80s onwards, he pursued an artistic path as a music performer in the circles of fine arts and new music – works out all aspects and parameters of the material's sonority, tries to make the objects audible in their quality. His playing is an immediate response to the sound of the things he is working with. Listening to the recording reveals the insatiable curiosity with which he explores the material before it breaks. It is a venture he undertakes, an experiment, an investigation. Little by little, he adopts the dysfunctionality of the drumsticks. Owing to the way the material is used, the minimalistic piece seems like an adaptation of the orgies of material destruction known from Fluxus, which were paralleled by a musicalization of the everyday world. Any object could become an instrument. Johansson carries Bräunlich's sculptural work forward; based on his touch, his play, he amplifies what is already inherent in the form. Though the function and materiality of the objects initially appear as a contradiction, it is precisely this contradiction that heightens their performative quality. The ephemeral nature of sound is set in relation to the supposed permanence of the medium of sculpture. The process of fragmentation leads to the final state, the final form – splinters all over the place. For each publication some of the relics are placed in a cardboard box together with a sound recording on a single sided C-28 cassette tape, a hand-printed letterpress poster and postcards. It is a play with the immediacy of the performance, the lingering sound – the during and the after. Merle Radtke
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You play as the captain and crew of a steamship in the 1920's exploring the seas and islands for 14 hidden totems of the gods so that you can return home. The game is played on an atlas where each page is a map, and moving off of one edge of a page will move you to another page of the atlas.
You take control of Captain Sofi Odessa and her crew, lost in a strange world aboard their steamship, The Manticore. You will play through sessions that last as long as you want, exploring exotic islands, surviving against the odds, meeting new characters and seeking out the totems of the gods so that you can finally return home.
Because of its campaign nature, you can game for thirty minutes or four hours at a time, taking a break and marking your progress in a log before returning another day. You can also play solo and there's no requirement to have the same pair of people play through the entire campaign.
As an atlas game, you'll explore a portion of the world before turning over the next page to see what happens, sailing onwards and inviting new mysteries and adventures to fall before you. As well as this the storybook also brings together passages of text for you to read, decisions for you to make and characters to befriend. Everything you do effects your choices further down the line.
Game should be released in 2019 Q3 (08-28-2019), so watch the news!


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Go Authentic by Cooking with These Fats & Oils
Pork Fat is Tradition in the Cooking of the Americas, Butter (North America), Dendê (Brazil), Coconut (Caribbean), and Peanut Oil (Southern US) are others
World cuisines are defined by their use of indigenous ingredients, spice and herb combinations, and native cooking techniques. The fats or oils you use when preparing different cuisines matters too. You'll often hear the flavor is in the fat, and that's why it makes sense to start your cooking foundation using a particular type of fat, for example butter in French cooking or olive oil in a Mediterranean dish.
Butter, Lard, Suet, and Schmaltz Are Traditional Fats in Europe
While cooking today often relies on refined vegetable oils like soy or canola, animal fats have been a common staple for hundreds of years. Butter is of course used in Northern Europe and North America. Ghee, clarified butter, is used in Indian cuisine. Schmaltz, rendered fat from chicken or geese, is a tradition in Eastern European Jewish Ashkenazi, Polish, and Ukrainian cooking. In Southwest France, rendered goose and duck fat is used for the preparation of confit, salted and cured poultry cooked slowly while submerged in the rendered fat. Confit is also a preservation technique because when food is cooled in the fat it can last for months.
By far the king of fats Pork fat, which is processed into lard, is used in cuisines from China and Thailand, to Nordic countries, Spain (Manteca) and Italy (lardo) in Southern Europe, and throughout the Southern United States and down to Mexico and South America. Suet, made from rendered kidney fat of beef or mutton, is a tradition in English and Irish cuisines in the preparation of classic dishes like steak and kidney pudding and Irish stew.
Olive Oil is Predominate in Mediterranean Cuisine
When it comes to vegetable oils, Olive oil is central to Mediterranean cuisines from Southern Europe including Spain & Portugal to the French Riviera, Italy, and Greece. Middle Eastern cuisines along the Mediterranean, including Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, as do Northern African cooking from Morocco to Egypt also rely on it.
Pork Fat, Coconut, and Sesame Oil are Used in Asian Cuisine
Chinese cooking incorporates peanut and sesame oil, while coconut oil is used in Southeast Asian cuisines of Thailand and Vietnam. Coconut oil is also found in Southern Asian countries including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, along with the characteristically pungent mustard oil. Coconut oil can also be found in Caribbean cooking too. In Japan rice bran oil is favored for its light, neutral flavor.
Palm Fruit Used for Dendê Oil Common in West Africa and Brazil
Olive Oil (North Africa), Dendê Oil (West Africa), and Peanut Oil are Cooking Oils of Africa
Red palm fruit oil also known as Dendê oil (not to be confused with the highly refined palm kernel oil from the seeds of the tree) is a reddish-orange oil extracted from palm fruit trees and is an essential ingredient in Western African and Brazilian (especially Bahian) cuisine. Peanut oil, indigenous to South Africa, is common in Africa too.
Today in cooking across the globe highly refined vegetable oils, oils derived from seeds, nuts, fruits, and vegetables have supplanted other fats and oils because of their cheaper cost and stable shelf-life.
These include palm kernel, soy, rapeseed, and canola (a rapeseed cultivar), are cheaper in cost and have a stable shelf-life. Their neutral taste makes them adaptable to almost any cooking style plus they're considered healthier than animal fats. While these are versatile, go-to oils for many preparations, recreating global cuisines will be more authentic by using those that are native to their traditional preparations.


April 27 (Reuters) - Those who remember the collapse of the housing bubbles in Britain and the U.S. might want to tune in to the saga of troubled Canadian alternative lender Home Capital Group Inc.
HCG's stock price fell nearly 60 percent on Wednesday, following the launch of an investigation by Canadian regulators into allegations it misled investors, a rush to the exit by depositors and it taking out a C$2 billion lifeline at a punitive interest rate. The lender, which competes in the market for less well qualified borrowers, has hired bankers to help it explore its strategic options. Its shares rose nearly 18 percent on Thursday.
HCG's business model has been predicated on raising funds by offering higher rates of interest to savers and then lending it on, again at elevated rates of interest, to the very kind of borrower who struggles to get financing to swing a purchase in Canada's booming real estate market, where prices in Toronto have surged 33 percent in the past year.
That HCG was forced to borrow C$2 billion from an unnamed lender at an implied 22.5 percent interest rate for the first billion and a 15 percent rate if the full facility is drawn puts that whole enterprise in question. HCG has lost about 25 percent of its deposit base in little over a month.
"It's very hard to borrow money at 15-22 percent and make loans at 5 percent," investor Marc Cohodes, a noted short-seller who has been betting against HCG, said Thursday on Twitter.
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation on Wednesday gave a slightly less gloomy outlook, saying overvaluation is "moderate" as compared to "strong" in January and citing overvaluation in six markets. Both Vancouver and Ontario have moved to impose taxes on foreign buyers, seeking to cool markets which have left many locals priced out. Prices in Vancouver are down 9 percent compared to a year ago but a household with a median income would still need 36 years to save enough for a downpayment on a typical row or detached house.


THE industry in Punjab has expressed its unhappiness over the high cost of power which is crippling the it. Although the bulk of the steel demand of local industry is met by induction furnaces, the electric power is the main expenditure in converting iron and steel scrap into steel. Over and above the high power tariffs, the Punjab government is charging electricity duty of 10%. The present burden of 40 paisa a unit is already beyond the capacity of the manufacturers to bear, laments Induction Furnace Association of North India president Mr KK Garg. He, therefore, urged the Badal-BJP government in Punjab to withdraw this duty. He also urged the government to withdraw the 66 KV scheme imposed by Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) mainly on furnaces. According to Focal Point Industrial Sheds Association of Ludhiana president Mr Rajnish Ahuja, the other area of concern is the appreciation of rupee against the US dollar. Most of Punjab's small units depend upon exports. He also maintained that the electricity duty is crippling the industry. For many years, the electricity duty had remained 11 paisa a unit. Now with 10% advalorem, the amount becomes unbearable. In addition to the duty, the octroi of 4 paisa is also unjustified. Talking on behalf of nearly three dozen associations of industry and trade in Punjab, Apex Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Punjab) president Mr P D Sharma, while referring to the recent address of the Union minister of state for industry in Ludhiana who had asked the industry to close shop if they found the going tough, said that this had disheartened the already discouraged industry. This, he lamented, had drastically led to a decrease in bank credit to small scale industries in Punjab. The credit to small scale industry in Punjab in the year 2005 and 2006 remained almost stagnant, when such a credit jumped by 50% in many states including Haryana. He said the small scale sector in India may be the only set of borrowers in the world to get bank credit at the highest rate of interest. Large borrowers were getting credit at Sub PLR and as low as about 5% in some cases. All other borrowers are getting bank credit at softer rate. The NDA government, in 2002, had pegged the rate of interest of bank at ± 2% of PLR but banks have raised the level of PLR. Except entry fee into the bank building there is service charge as any thing the bank does, he added. He said while the previous NDA government had reduced the Custom duty on imported iron and steel scrap to lower the prices, the UPA government has again raised it to 5% along with a countervailing duty of 4%. This was done to benefit the sponge iron manufacturers who are raising the prices unchecked. The secondary producers who supply bulk of steel to small scale industry in Punjab are forced to raise the rates of steel, damaging the industry. Mr Sharma said the ruling SAD-BJP government in Punjab should also understand that the plight of industry in the state is perhaps the worst in the country. Power tariff has an indirect role in addition to direct burden. Steel and other intermediate which are produced in Punjab are adversely effected by power cost. Therefore, undue burden on electricity should be removed.


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Parameters of drag reducing polymers and drag reduction performance in single-phase water flow
A. Abubakar, A. R. Al-Hashmi, T. Al-Wahaibi, Y. Al-Wahaibi, A. Al-Ajmi, M. Eshrati
Oil & Gas Research Center
This study presents experimental investigation about the effect of polymer parameters on the performance of the drag reducing polymers in single-phase water flowing in a horizontal pipe of 30.6 mm ID. Master solutions (1000 ppm) of ten high-molecular weight polymers were injected at different flow rates to achieve polymer concentrations in the range of 2-40 ppm in the test section. The drag reduction increased with polymer concentration up to 10 ppm, above which it reached a plateau value. While the drag reduction at the plateau value increases with polymer molecular weight, the maximum drag reduction was not affected by the increase in polymer charge density up to 13%. For instance, the maximum drag reduction for anionic polymers with molecular weight 6-8 million Da. and charge density between 5 and 13% was around 60%, which decreased to around 38% for the polymer with charge density of 25%. Ionic polymers provided more drag reduction than nonionic ones. The overall conclusion is that drag reduction depends on polymer ability to form intermolecular associations and/or its flexibility, which can be enhanced by increasing molecular weight, decreasing charge density, and selecting smaller side groups in the main polymer backbone.
Advances in Mechanical Engineering
https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/202073
Drag reduction
Charge density
Abubakar, A., Al-Hashmi, A. R., Al-Wahaibi, T., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Al-Ajmi, A., & Eshrati, M. (2014). Parameters of drag reducing polymers and drag reduction performance in single-phase water flow. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2014, [202073]. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/202073
Parameters of drag reducing polymers and drag reduction performance in single-phase water flow. / Abubakar, A.; Al-Hashmi, A. R.; Al-Wahaibi, T.; Al-Wahaibi, Y.; Al-Ajmi, A.; Eshrati, M.
In: Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 2014, 202073, 2014.
Abubakar, A, Al-Hashmi, AR, Al-Wahaibi, T, Al-Wahaibi, Y, Al-Ajmi, A & Eshrati, M 2014, 'Parameters of drag reducing polymers and drag reduction performance in single-phase water flow', Advances in Mechanical Engineering, vol. 2014, 202073. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/202073
Abubakar A, Al-Hashmi AR, Al-Wahaibi T, Al-Wahaibi Y, Al-Ajmi A, Eshrati M. Parameters of drag reducing polymers and drag reduction performance in single-phase water flow. Advances in Mechanical Engineering. 2014;2014. 202073. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/202073
Abubakar, A. ; Al-Hashmi, A. R. ; Al-Wahaibi, T. ; Al-Wahaibi, Y. ; Al-Ajmi, A. ; Eshrati, M. / Parameters of drag reducing polymers and drag reduction performance in single-phase water flow. In: Advances in Mechanical Engineering. 2014 ; Vol. 2014.
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N2 - This study presents experimental investigation about the effect of polymer parameters on the performance of the drag reducing polymers in single-phase water flowing in a horizontal pipe of 30.6 mm ID. Master solutions (1000 ppm) of ten high-molecular weight polymers were injected at different flow rates to achieve polymer concentrations in the range of 2-40 ppm in the test section. The drag reduction increased with polymer concentration up to 10 ppm, above which it reached a plateau value. While the drag reduction at the plateau value increases with polymer molecular weight, the maximum drag reduction was not affected by the increase in polymer charge density up to 13%. For instance, the maximum drag reduction for anionic polymers with molecular weight 6-8 million Da. and charge density between 5 and 13% was around 60%, which decreased to around 38% for the polymer with charge density of 25%. Ionic polymers provided more drag reduction than nonionic ones. The overall conclusion is that drag reduction depends on polymer ability to form intermolecular associations and/or its flexibility, which can be enhanced by increasing molecular weight, decreasing charge density, and selecting smaller side groups in the main polymer backbone.
AB - This study presents experimental investigation about the effect of polymer parameters on the performance of the drag reducing polymers in single-phase water flowing in a horizontal pipe of 30.6 mm ID. Master solutions (1000 ppm) of ten high-molecular weight polymers were injected at different flow rates to achieve polymer concentrations in the range of 2-40 ppm in the test section. The drag reduction increased with polymer concentration up to 10 ppm, above which it reached a plateau value. While the drag reduction at the plateau value increases with polymer molecular weight, the maximum drag reduction was not affected by the increase in polymer charge density up to 13%. For instance, the maximum drag reduction for anionic polymers with molecular weight 6-8 million Da. and charge density between 5 and 13% was around 60%, which decreased to around 38% for the polymer with charge density of 25%. Ionic polymers provided more drag reduction than nonionic ones. The overall conclusion is that drag reduction depends on polymer ability to form intermolecular associations and/or its flexibility, which can be enhanced by increasing molecular weight, decreasing charge density, and selecting smaller side groups in the main polymer backbone.
U2 - 10.1155/2014/202073
DO - 10.1155/2014/202073
JO - Advances in Mechanical Engineering
JF - Advances in Mechanical Engineering


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Q: Stoke's Theorem problem I believe that this problem is solved using Stoke's theorem but I don't know how to parametrize the function
$$\iint ye^{(x^2+z^2)}$$
this is integrated over the surface S where S is the cylinder $x^2+z^2=9$
Help is very much appreciated. Thanks

A: First, parametrize your surface $S$:
$$
x=3sin(t), \quad y=y, \quad z=3cos(t),
$$
with $0\le t\le 2\pi$ and $y\in \mathbb{R}$.
Second, compute $\|r_t \times r_y \|= 3$.
You can now determine your integral:
$$
\iint_S y e^{x^2+z^2} dS = \int_0^{2\pi}\int_{\mathbb{R}}ye^9\; 3 dy dt=3e^92\pi \int_{\mathbb{R}}y dy.
$$
The problem is, $\int_{\mathbb{R}}y dy$ does not converge. Are you sure you want to integrate on the infinite cylinder? Are you sure you are not asked to integrate on a portion of the cylinder (meaning $y$ would be bounded below and above)?
Note. This is not an integral that you can compute with Stoke's theorem. Stoke's Theorem is for integrals of vector fields, here we are integrating a scalar function.

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Makhabane reaches a milestone with Sasol Banyana Banyana
Midfielder Mamello Makhabane reached her 50th cap for Sasol Banyana Banyana last Saturday, 07 June in the International friendly match against Botswana.
Midfielder Mamello Makhabane reached her 50th cap for Sasol Banyana Banyana last Saturday, 07 June in the International friendly match against Botswana at the Isak Steyl Stadium at the Vaal University of Technology, in Vanderbijil Park.
The experienced midfielder from Kutloanong in the Free State, nicknamed 'Jabu' by her teammates because they thought her skills were similar to former Kaizer Chiefs player Jabu Pule, received her first call-up to the Senior Women's National team in 2005.
"It has been an honour to play for my country, and reaching 50 caps was not easy, there were moments when I thought my time is over in the National team," said Makhabane, who plays for Sasol League triple National Champions Palace Super Falcons from Gauteng.
Her journey with Banyana Banyana started on 27 May 2005 in an international friendly match against Zimbabwe at the Isak Steyl Stadium at the Vaal University of Technology.
"It feel like I have gone full circle, I don't know whether it was a coincidence that I played my 50th cap where it all started for me," continued the player, who works as an Aviation Officer at the OR Tambo International Airport.
The 26-year-old's journey in the National Team has not been an easy one. In 2012, she missed out on travelling with the team to the London Olympics due to a groin injury.
"It was very painful when I had to withdraw from the team. I had worked hard for the team to qualify for the Olympics, but I had to accept it. I managed to pull through, and it's a blessing to be back in the team. I have to continue working hard and help the team to qualify for the 2015 Women's World Cup," she concluded.
Sasol Banyana Banyana have qualified for the 9th edition of the African Women's Championships scheduled for 11 – 25 October in Namibia this year. The top three teams will automatically qualify for the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada.


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Get in Shape With David
Fitness / Nutrition
Tai Chi / Energy Healing
Proper Planking: Positions for Maximum Results
The plank has become a true gym staple. It's good to see many variations of this strength gaining monster. If you are planking, try these body positions for maximum results.
Be sure to have your arms parallel, not triangled. Triangled arms spreads your body weight differently, kind of like a snow shoe, and makes the exercise a bit easier.
Most of us hold a plank on the balls of our feet — and sometimes our feet slide. This also means our calves are engaged. to put more tension on the core, roll forward onto the toes and stay off the ball of the foot as much as possible.
Joseph Pilates said, "Give me five sessions and you'll feel better. Give me 10 sessions and you'll look better. Give me 20 sessions and you'll have a new body."
Joseph Pilates exercise regime was originally called Contrology. This discipline was derived from years of studying, body building, gymnastics, Kung Fu and wrestling.
Joseph Pilates and his wife Clara opened their first studio in New York after World War I. Most of his clients at that time were dancers.
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Click on the video above to learn proper technique for birddog positioning.
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Q: "Безразмерный" double C++ Хотел поинтересоваться, писал свои матрицы, когда написал функцию возвращения детерминанта ради шутки решил вписать размеры 100x100, 150x150 и увидел интересную картину, вместо случайных чисел он начал из раза в раз выдавать стабильные значения, большие +e100 и в контрольных значениях указан. sizeof стабильно выдает 8 байт для double. Вот код, не знаю, поможет он чем-то:
int main(void)
{
    const int size = 150;
    Matrix m(size, size);
    m = Matrix(size, size);
    for (int i(0); i < size; i++)
        for (int j(0); j < size; j++)
            m[i][j] = rand() % 10;
    printf("Det: %lf, %d\n", m.Det(), sizeof(m.Det()));
}

Вот вывод:
Det: -72307913218522825190636603121783109533943228668406806586004572432437176480990402652098139729226027559410013518523090670966620728946993881767856223758918815571231759806000656978596226673131379515981824.000000, 8
Время не обнулял, но при одной сессии Visual Studio дает стабильно одно и тоже число

A: Наконец выяснилось, в чем проблема :)
Просто точных знаков там наберется штук 15, только и всего. Это - не точное значение, просто вы попросили его вывести так - вот компилятор и рад стараться.
Вот простенький код:
double f = 1.0;
for(int i = 1; i <= 100; ++i) f*=i;
printf("%lf\n",f);

Вот как выглядит 100! при таком вычислении и его точное значение - сами посчитайте, сколько цифр совпадает... Я там пробельчики добавил :)
933262154439441 02188325606108575267240944254854960571509166910400407995064242937148632694030450512898042989296944474898258737204311236641477561877016501813248.000000
933262154439441 52681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000

Весь вопрос в том, как правильно трактовать то, что вы видите на экране...


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Duncan Slade
Gayle Fraas and Duncan Slade have been collaborating artists for over 30 years. Their work has always explored the relationship of ornamental surface and the portrayal of place. First setting up a studio in mid-coast Maine in 1975 they developed and continue to explore screen-printing and painting techniques on fabric. Throughout their career they have shared this knowledge in workshops nationally including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine; East Bay Heritage Quilters, Richmond California and the School of Visual Arts, NYC.
Work has been selected for some of the defining touring exhibitions that have influenced the field of Art Quilts–"The New American Quilt" originating at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in 1976, "The Art Quilt" opening at the Los Angeles Municipal Museum in 1986, and "Six Continents of Quilts: the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Art and Design", NYC, currently touring internationally.
Fraas – Slade's work is represented in the collections of Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, MA; The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Art and Design, NYC.; the corporate collections of John Nuveen Inc., Chicago; Fidelity Investments and the Hilton Corporation among others.
Work appears in numerous publications including: Art to Wear by Julie Dale, The Art Quilt and Quilts Today by Robert Shaw and Paintings of Maine by Carl Little.
In 1989 and 2003 the artist team received Maine Visual Artist Fellowships and in 1995 a National Endowment for the Arts / New England Foundation Visual Artists' Fellowship.
http://www.fraasslade.com


There was a short-lived series of sci-fi books in the early 1950's that featured The Human Bat. It took a lot of Gall to bring that idea Home when Batman had been around for years.
The Robot Gangster is also a cyclops?!? That's pulptastic.


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Email and Content Marketing – how to choose the most effective tactics?
We've seen how email and content marketing can work together to really improve your results. But let's now dive into the data a little more and look at how marketers are seeing the effectiveness of email-driven content marketing changing, and the best types of digital content to focus on which really drive results.
When looking at the most effective channels for broadcasting content, the top three are head and shoulders above the rest. The vast majority (89%) of best-in-class marketers report that email is the most effective channel to drive marketing content to prospects. Social media and a website or blog are also reportedly important channels at 60% and 52% respectively.
Nearly all (97%) best-in-class marketers surveyed consider the effectiveness in email-driven content marketing channels to be improving to some extent, with 65% describing the improvement in effectiveness as 'significant'.
Half of the best-in-class marketing influencers surveyed reported that both videos/motion graphics and research/eBooks are the most effective types of digital content for marketing purposes. Nearly as effective are webinars and events for 47% of marketers. So experiment a little, mix it up, and most importantly track what is working and what fails to impress.
Don't forget the problem might be in the execution. We sometimes hear marketers say 'we've tried case studies or interactive content and it didn't work', but try some different styles or approaches before writing off a particular type. Don't forget, over your calendar year you are likely to use a mix of these tactics, and results will vary – that's perfectly normal!
As we all know marketers find designing and building digital content one of the most time–consuming parts of their email marketing campaigns. Something that is highlighted in our 2018 Email Marketing Census , where design and content are making greater demands on marketers' time – much more than important activities such as strategy/planning, data and optimization – with 18% of respondents saying that they spend more than eight hours on it for each typical campaign.
Creating digital content can often exceed the resources available in-house for many organizations. This is the primary reason 54% of best-in-class marketers report that a collaboration between outsourced and in-house resources is most effective. Outsourcing to a specialist is used by 43% and just 3% say they only use in-house resources.
Be prepared to work with external agencies and specialists, build up a roster of likely candidates and let them play to their strengths. This leaves you heaps of time to focus on the important aspects of strategy, optimization and data integration.


Chennai located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, is formerly known by the name of Madras. The city is the fourth largest Indian city, which has several management colleges. The Great Lakes Institution of Management is amongst the top Colleges in Chennai.
MBA Colleges in Chennai also includes Vel Tech Business School, SRM University, Anna University, and many more which probably attracts students in the field of Management specialization. The most trending management specialization in Chennai is Finance, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Operations Management, etc. Admission in MBA Colleges in Chennai is on the basis of National and University level entrance level examination. Some of the national level entrance examination a MAT, CAT, ATMA, XAT, etc. Many of the Institutions conduct their own entrance examination for admission to the MBA courses. Chennai is one of the most popular destinations for MBA in India.


A proud and distinct offering, show your support for the British Armed Forces with the Royal Marines Falklands Limited Edition Charity Replica Rugby Shirt.
Made by KitWorld from polyester, this is a replica of the version as sported by the players and as such offers a looser fit for casual wear off the field and all year round. Created with an entirely sublimated design, this adds a professional look and feel to the whole jersey.
The chest and left sleeve play host to the famous Commando Memorial along with their motto of 'United We Conquer' while the back and right arm capture the famous Falklands yomp, heading into Stanley in 1982.
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If we give a look at this page on the Japan Customs site (maintained by the Ministry of Finance), we can verify the current import taxes for a wide score of products.
It is interesting to notice that the duties for WTO member Countries differs according to the wine category: if you are importing a sparkling wine you need to pay 182 yen/L, whatever the price, while with still wine the tax amount to 15% of the CIF (the value represented by the cost of the good, the insurance and the shipping fee) or 125 yen/L, whichever is the lowest (although 67 yen/L is set as a minimum).
This means that one 750 ml still wine bottle will cost an importer at most 93.75 yen of custom taxes. This amount will be the same whether you are importing a wine worth 850 yen per liter or a Domaine de la Romanée-Conti whose price tag may well be over 1 million yen.
Now, since it is very common in Japan to sell wine at a retail price three times higher than its CIF value, an importer may discount at most 93.75 yen * 3 = 281,25 yen for one bottle of still wine and 136,5 * 3 = 409,5 yen for one bottle of sparkling wine.
Although this may not seem much if you only drink stuff from 4,000 yen upward, these are pretty relevant figures when considered in the 800-2,000 yen retail price band, the most popular among casual consumers. A Gancia Prosecco for example, priced at 2,080 before taxes may go down to around 1,600-1,700 yen, which is a nice jump also from a "psychological" perspective.
However it is up to the importers to decide: on October 2019 the consumption tax for (between the others) alcoholic beverages will rise from 8 to 10%, so one strategy may be to leave the prices as they are now, reducing them at the end of the year to compensate the added cost.
According to issue number 2005 of Shuhan News (January 1st, 2019), the most important magazine for the japanese beverage industry, Suntory and Asahi are going to lower down their prices on a variety of wines: in the case of Suntory the cut will range between 20 and 140 yen, on 65 different items (starting on February 1st); for Asahi it will amount to 10 to 17% of the present retail value, on 40 different items (starting on March 1st).
Likewise the price of 70 items imported by Sapporo Breweries will be reduced between 2 and 17% from March 1st.
Other importers also planning to discount their European wines are Inaba, Mercian and Mottox (Shuhan News 2006, January 11th 2019 issue).
Right, Chile, the great rival. Chile has enjoyed a big success in Japan for its reasonably priced wines, which are exempted from custom taxes since 2007. Are Chilean producers worried about this new agreement?
Final words: lower priced wines will get some benefit. This may help casual consumer to approach European wines, but the effect is going to be quite limited and mitigated by the consumption tax hike in October. If you drink cheap wine you may save some bucks and I guess that some new consumer may be brought in the market.
However wine drinking in Japan will remain a pretty expensive hobby.


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Taylor-DeJongh
Group President
imardam-bey@taylor-dejongh.com
Ibrahim Mardam-Bey
Group President at Taylor-DeJongh
Ibrahim Mardam-Bey is an entrepreneur, financier and business developer with extensive international experience. He possesses a broad range of unique experiences and a track record in the international finance, merchant investment banking and Islamic Finance world. He also maintains an active role in corporate governance, mentoring and public speaking.
Since 2012, Mr. Mardam-Bey is Group President at Taylor-DeJongh (TDJ). He oversees new business origination and the build out of several new TDJ initiatives, including Sukuk finance. Mr. Mardam-Bey is also the co-founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Merchant-Edge, a merchant investment company. Previously, he was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Siraj Capital.


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In this course, students build a foundation for successful reading as they explore topics and apply reading, writing, speaking, and listening practices outlined in national and state standards.Learning activities consist of phonics, listening, comprehension, and vocabulary instruction with daily exposure to books, including literature and informational texts.
A combination of interactive and hands-on exercises encourages the development of fine motor skills.
Students learn language skills as well as letter formation, and they practice these with drawing, dictating, and writing. By the end of kindergarten, many students will be reading, and all students should be able to recognize consonant as well as long and short vowel sounds.


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How to get macOS Mojave's Dynamic Desktop on Windows 10
At its recent WWDC, Apple revealed the latest version of macOS -- Mojave. The OS update introduces a number of new features, including a dark theme and desktop Stacks. One of the more interesting additions is Dynamic Desktop which cleverly cycles through a set of 16 images of the desert taken at different times of the day.
If you like the idea of this, but are on Windows 10, the good news is it's now possible to get the feature on your OS, and for free.
Apple introduces macOS Mojave with Dark Mode, desktop Stacks and more
Windows 7 -- 2018 Edition is the Microsoft operating system you've been waiting for
Windows XP 2018 Edition is the operating system Microsoft should be making
WinDynamicDesktop is an open source app from developer Timothy Johnson which mimics the feature beautifully. You can download it (and its source code) from GitHub.
To use it, just install and launch the program. It will download the required images and then you just need to enter your location so it can customize the update cycle based on the sunrise/sunset times for where you are.
Once you've done that, the desert image will appear on your desktop. You can update the location, and choose whether it should start with Windows, by right-clicking its icon in the system tray.


24th November. St Marys School, Churt.7-9 p.m. A lovely village school fair.
26th November. Kings College, Wimbledon 11-4 p.m. I'm in the very stately Great Hall. it's a fabulous fair!
30th November and 1st December. Farnham Maltings. A large fai,r spread out over the fabulous art/drama studios. 3-9.30 p.m and 10-8 p.m on 1st.
9th December. St Ives School, Haslemere 4-8 p.m. Another new one!
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Bintou is a young dressmaker from Burkina Faso and dreaming of a career in Europe. She loves to lead a modern lifestyle. Suddenly her life is turned upside-down when she has to take responsibility for her own daughter again who has been living in a children's home so far. Bintou is the portrait of a strong woman looking for her place between traditional and modern culture, between motherhood and career.


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Gongol.com > Archives > 2012 > September 2012
"Think of a crowd kind of like a big, angry drunk -- and act accordingly for your own safety." - Arthur Brooks
Gongol.com Archives: September 2012
One woman loses five houses to five hurricanes
That's just incredibly bad luck
Iowa faces high fire danger this harvest season
There's already an enormous problem with huge wildfires in western Nebraska
What to do with Afghan security forces?
Political parties need a little internal dissent
Particularly in America, there's room for a lot of different ideas under the two main party umbrellas, and it's good (and healthy) for each to have some internal dissent. It keeps them honest. But it would be nice if the Democrats could have a strong pro-business wing and the Republicans could have a strong socially-moderate wing, like each once did. One of the serious problems with the very loud Ron Paul wing of the Republican party is that they're cantankerous mainly for the sake of so being. Some of their strongest demands (like for an end to the Federal Reserve and a resumption of the gold standard) are just so far outside the realm of reasonability that they lose credibility on other issues for which they may in fact have a sensible voice. There's no good in being disputative just for the sake of picking a fight.
Catholic cardinal goes out with a critical bang
Subsidies may cover much of the farming loss from this year's drought
It still would have been a much better year had it rained and had there not been such an extraordinary drought. In some places, the conditions are worse than in the Dust Bowl.
Apple could launch the iPad Mini in October
A tablet in the 7" size range would compete with the Amazon Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7, which both go for $199.
There's lots of work being done -- and to be done -- in the Midwest
Labor-force participation rates are high, unemployment is low, and people aren't retiring as quickly as elsewhere -- which is interesting, considering the signs already showing that there are serious worker shortages in a number of skilled work fields
100 years ago, private clubs marked the roads
Do architects draw enough?
That is, do they freehand enough, or do they rely too much on CAD? Michael Graves thinks they're too quick to abandon pen and paper.
Quotes from The Simpsons
"You can't treat the working man this way! One day, we'll form a union and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve. Then we'll go too far and get corrupt and shiftless, and the Japanese will eat us alive!"
Should you get an all-in-one computer?
A list of attempts at saying "he/she" in a less-clunky fashion
If Greece gets kicked out of the Euro...
...some banks might actually send trucks full of cash across the border, just to keep businesses afloat
September is Family Preparedness Month
Americans have an estimated $6.8 trillion in investments around the world
The surprise, perhaps, is that the number isn't larger.
For the protocol buffs
The United States' order of precedence -- who gets introduced ahead of whom
Xinhua: "The United States should stop its role as a sneaky troublemaker"
Egyptian firm buys one of Iowa's oldest general contractors
A local instance of the great asset transfer from the United States to other countries. This asset transfer is no small affair -- the contracting company in this case, Weitz, is one of the nation's top 50 contractors, with half a billion dollars in annual revenues. What we are seeing is the realization of the prediction made almost a decade ago by Warren Buffett: That our persistent deficits, especially in trade, would eventually lead to us selling off American companies to make up the gap.
Bartiromo vs. Trumka: A journalist who knows money challenges a union chief
At about 1:40 into the interview, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka says, "When we took over..." It's an intriguing slip of the tongue. He's referring to the Obama Administration when he says "we", but he's speaking on behalf of the labor unions. CNBC's Maria Bartiromo catches him on that subject -- and several others as well. There is, of course, a place for unions in the economy today. Probably far less of a place than was justified 50 years ago, but a place nonetheless. But unions are like any other group: They have a tendency to rent-seek -- that is, to try to use political leverage and public policy to make other people pay them more without actually creating any extra value. Lots of people and groups of all stripes try to rent-seek, and it's their right to do so. But it's also right for journalists and others to flag these attempts at rent-seeking so that everyone can see what's being done. Clearly, if a labor union sees the White House as an extension of itself, then everyone else should be on the lookout for them to be rent-seeking.
Politicians should not be allowed to use the word "fundamentally" to describe their opponents
An early harvest in 2012
The drought has weakened corn plants enough this year that Iowa farmers are probably going to be doing a lot of harvesting well ahead of the normal schedule, with wide ranges in their yields per acre
The difference one letter can make
Movie titles with a letter removed
On government intervention
Government intervention in the economy should be like surgery: Exceedingly rare, precise, and decisive. Doing lots of things with a vague hope that "something will kick-start the economy" or "this will create a lot of jobs" is just a hopelessly silly way to go about intervening in a system so complex and subject to natural forces and random chance that even a widely-acknowledged financial genius like Warren Buffett tries to make very few decisions each year (in his 1990 letter to shareholders: "Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style"). Buffett follows this philosophy because he knows it's better to act infrequently but boldly -- only when his confidence in an investment is high -- than to stand around taking a swing at every pitch that crosses the plate. A government that thinks it can do all things and achieve all its desired goals just by acting, acting, and acting all the time is one that's destined to waste a lot of resources that belong to the taxpayers. The best we can (and should) hope for is a government that follows a Hippocratic Oath for the economy: First, do no harm.
Iowa City police are actually starting to write jaywalking tickets
It's understandable that there are serious concerns about pedestrian safety in Iowa City, where a university and a traditional storefront-type downtown overlap with a very high population density (at least, one that's very high for Iowa). But jaywalking itself is kind of a silly thing to prohibit -- unless a pedestrian is deliberately walking in a way that obstructs traffic or shows willful neglect, then jaywalking is simply a way of making efficient use of street space. If it's not in use by vehicular traffic, then there's really no good reason to prohibit its use by pedestrians. Moreover, if jaywalking is a chronic problem, that's probably a signal that an area should simply be made off-limits to vehicular traffic and turned over to pedestrians alone. Places that are so congested that jaywalking is actually routinely hazardous are probably places that should be designed better and turned over to people on foot. Besides, there's more than just a little hint of nanny-statism in assigning police to actually ticket otherwise law-abiding people for choosing to cross the street at someplace other than a designated crosswalk.
It might not be possible for Americans to be any less-informed about finances than we already are
An SEC report just says it outright: " Studies reviewed by the Library of Congress indicate that U.S. retail investors lack basic financial literacy. The studies demonstrate that investors have a weak grasp of elementary financial concepts and lack critical knowledge of ways to avoid investment fraud." We're not going to be any good at making laws or even voting for the people who do so unless we understand the basic matters required to make an economy tick.
Amazon drops the price of the Kindle Fire to $159
That's to accommodate the new Kindle Fire HD at the $199 price point. Tablet computers are going to very rapidly approach essentially a "throwaway" price. Amazon is also rolling out a $119 "Kindle Paperwhite", which is intended to look more like a clean sheet of paper than any prior e-ink reader. Someone certainly must have decided that the reference to a sheet of white paper was worth risking that people will call it the "Paperweight" if it flops.
Our attention spans are shrinking at a breakneck pace
Electronic publishers are finding themselves racing to produce pictures where words previously were enough, because people are basically losing the patience to even read 140-character posts on Twitter. Ye gods.
Why Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic convention went so long
He ad-libbed. A lot.
The power of suggestive selling and marketing
By adopting the slogan "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz", Alka-Seltzer didn't quite double its sales, but they did dramatically increase over the period when they advised only taking one at a time
A Pepsi Challenge for search engines
Bing is trying to prove that their search results are better than those from Google by offering people a blind test of the results from each. They claim a 2-to-1 advantage for Bing. Whether or not it's true, it does give people a good reason to re-consider Bing.
Apple's new iPhone comes out on September 12th
Nokia gets busted misrepresenting cell-phone video
In promoting their video recording quality, they actually used footage from a professional video camera...not the phone
Time to set lower expectations for government
Dreaming of a government-driven manufacturing boom isn't necessarily wise. Policy debates about employment tend to make two overlapping errors: (1) That it is government's job to *do* something, rather than to referee the market according to the rule of law; and (2) that jobs are more important than wealth. Better to work five hours a week and be wealthy than work 80 hours a week and be poor. Intervention is widely-done but it may not be living up to expectations.
China's economy is still growing...but...
...the rate of growth is sharply down. That's really, really important news for the world economy.
Fact-checking the Vice President
Also, watching his language in real time. On a related note, should political speeches be more like TED Talks?
Cedar Rapids Gazette puts the brakes on online reader comments
One can't blame them. The level of discussion in many comment sections is about as valuable as having a dog try to recite the alphabet.
Should Greece have to go to a 6-day work week in exchange for a bailout?
Yahoo wants to continue staking an independent claim to Internet ad revenues
New Nokia cell phones charge without wires
Attack on GoDaddy by member of "Anonymous" may explain why the Internet is wonky today
The pro-democracy camp has a narrow lead in the vote count in Hong Kong
Why young Americans need to get interested -- right away -- in government spending
The site is correct about the hazards we face if we refuse to get our situation ironed out in America, but unfortunately it's neither (a) clear who's behind the site, nor (b) written accessibly enough to make sense to the novice reader. With a little refinement and a little more clarity about who's promoting the message, voteourfuture.com would have a lot going for it.
A disturbing instant in Aleppo
A photographer captures the moments just before, during, and just after three men were killed by a Syrian government tank attack
Buying friends
Chinese investment in Egypt may be buying goodwill that the US would like to have, too
Survey says majority of Americans are stressed by their computers
Federal government to finally go below majority ownership in AIG with share sale
$18 billion in shares are to be sold. That's a huge, huge number.
A look at the new iPhone 5
The things we take for granted
In Nepal, 54% of people arrive at the hospital via taxi because there simply aren't many well-equipped ambulances available.
Microsoft says Chinese manufacturers are shipping brand-new computers infected with malware
High prices plus crop insurance may balance-out low ag yields in the Midwest
600 of Iowa's 947 incorporated towns have no police department
They contract with sheriff's offices for police protection instead
Iowa's going to get the "REAL ID" drivers' licenses after all
Higher national debt is an anchor on national economic performance
Parents may influence children's intelligence more than personality
USA Today goes through a redesign
Des Moines Register will be moving next spring
Take two minutes for a self-exam today
Take a minute or two and conduct some basic self-screenings for cancer. Early detection saves lives. There's lots of misinformation about cancer that finds its way around the Internet, largely because we've been trained to wait expectantly for some sort of magic-bullet solution to cancer. But cancer risks can be significantly reduced through a balanced diet, exercise, and early detection and treatment. Meanwhile, science is making great progress towards improving genetic detection, which holds great promise for some types of cancer. Instead of forwarding hoax-ridden e-mails about "cancer cures" and false threats, people should instead remind their friends and family to assess their health once a month.
Russia gives USAID a matter of days to shut down
The campaign for a memorial for the Presidents Adams
Hurricane Isaac by moonlight
Twitter copies Facebook by going for big cover photos
Jack Bogle: "High costs are as much of a risk for investors" as what's happening in Europe and China
HondaJet wins design award
The engines are above the wings
Apple is making unforced errors
A consequence of growing huge, fast? Maybe.
Like it or not, the Internet makes us all neighbors
That means we all have to be more considerate of others than may have been necessary before telecommunications put the globe on every laptop, tablet, and smartphone. But it also means we all have to be more tolerant, too, of things that would otherwise make us angry.
JP Morgan and Bank of America may have been hit by an Iranian cyberattack
The incentive for a state actor like Iran to conduct cyberattacks is certainly there: Why wage a shooting war (in which you're massively outgunned) when you can punish your adversary financially -- particularly one who is punishing you through economic sanctions already?
How the Chicago Cubs teach economics
"If a dip in attendance comes next season but the team is competitive by 2014 or '15, then it's a trade-off [team president Theo] Epstein is willing to make."
Hedge-fund manager: China's like an "emerging-market roach motel"
"Corporate profits are imploding over there," says Jim Chanos, who (it should be clear) is in the business of betting against companies he thinks are priced much too high.
Walmart is going to stop selling Amazon products in stores
Private sponsorship of public assets: Tricky territory
"At the committee's August meeting, members expressed concern about the state granting more naming rights to state resources than it already has, and how far such a trend might go. Members also expressed concern about whether sponsors inappropriate for such a setting might win a bid, and whether there might be free speech implications in denying such bids."
The Great American Asset Transfer continues
An agricultural firm in Ames, Iowa, has been sold to BASF for $1.02 billion. More and more of these sales of American companies and assets to foreign buyers should be expected. America's gargantuan trade deficit has shipped dollars overseas, and the people holding those dollars are looking for useful things to do with them. Meanwhile, American Baby Boomers are in an asset-selling mood as they shift from work to retirement. Meanwhile, with the European economy broadly uncertain, the Chinese market in a slowdown (or worse, depending on who's telling the truth), India in a slow-growth mode, and Russia back under Vladimir Putin (thus putting the future of things like the rule of law and free markets there under considerable doubt), a lot of people are going to look at the United States and decide that this market is the best around. We will look back on this period some day and realize what a mammoth asset transfer took place without a great deal of public notice. ■ This isn't a call for panic or anything -- Americans own about $7 trillion in assets abroad, and the rest of the world has about $12.5 trillion invested here. A full $5 trillion of that is in Federal government debt. But we should get ready to see a flow of $20 billion a month or more in foreign purchases of American companies. Foreign ownership of American securities is at a record high already, and there's no reason to believe that's going to reverse course. Mountains of cash are leaving China, and that's not going to be the only country in an acquisitive mood.
The latest on how Google chooses site ranks
The phrase (and very concept) of "search engine optimization" (SEO) is still enough to make a reasonable person want to vomit, but the article itself does highlight some changes in how those search engines behave.
Apple's new mapping service has left a lot of people unhappy
New York Times puts a ban on sources getting to review quotes before a story is published
The new look of USA Today
Space Shuttle Endeavour goes on a California sightseeing tour
Communists would be funny if they weren't so stupid -- and harmful
A sample item from the North Korean propaganda agency includes these lines: "They referred to the need for officials and workers to boost the production of fertilizers for socialist rural areas" and "He said that enterprises play very important roles in building an economic power and improving the people's standard of living, calling on the workers to take the lead in the on-going advance for great surge". These are quotes from one of their Central Committee figureheads, and they reveal the massive, gaping hole in Communist thought: Every economy is subject to market forces, whether Communists like it or not. Trying to ignore those forces is like trying to avoid the wind and the tides. You can say they're not there, but they are whether you like it or not. And in any market, prices are the signal that tell producers when to make more and when to make less. Stripping away the role of prices and just walking around a factory, admonishing workers to do more because it's part of a "great surge" is about the stupidest thing a person can do. Prices signal us when and how to act. It's as simple as that.
Everyone's life is a combination of luck (good and bad) and choices (good and bad)
Unfortunately for the Chicago Tribune, they recently ran a sob story on a longtime substitute teacher and his descent into homelessness, but forgot to look into the records that would have told them he lost $180,000 to gambling. The Des Moines Register runs a sob story of a similar type virtually every alternating Sunday, and it gets tiresome. All too often, those featured had a bout of bad luck, but not without a string of really bad personal choices. We do ourselves no good if we always celebrate/highlight/talk about those stories without doing much more to celebrate those who overcame bad luck by making good choices instead. Especially when people are going to call for government intervention to help those who made the bad decisions (as the Register almost always does).
Federal Reserve promises low interest rates through at least 2015
Great for borrowers, bad for traditional savers. Maybe inflationary for the stock market.
Microsoft issues emergency patch for Internet Explorer
Which may explain why your computer wants you to do an update reboot cycle
1500 ping-pong balls and a liquid nitrogen bomb
(Video) Awesome and just plain fun science
Space Shuttle Endeavour flyover at the Golden Gate Bridge
(Video) Now, if only we as a country would have planned ahead and done something to replace the Space Shuttle long ago...
Who are the nerds, and who are the geeks?
Police and protesters storm Libyan militia bases
Is HP in the hunt to buy Research In Motion (the BlackBerry makers)?
Thinking of the Internet not as an audience, but as neighbors
Iran is building a domestic version of the Internet
The government there may actually intend to block citizens' access to the real, global Internet as soon as March 2013
Death to long meetings!
"Terrified of being rejected by voters who regard temporary help as permanent rights, politicians keep spending."
And with one line, a British columnist nails exactly what's wrong with American fiscal policy. That, and the fact that the President of the United States chooses to profess complete unwittingness about the $16 trillion Federal debt. (Sadly, even when David Letterman hinted to the President that the number was above $10 trillion, he was low by 60%.) Instead, President Obama is cavorting with a bunch of suck-ups on "The View" instead of meeting with other world leaders at the United Nations. ■ It's a plain fact right now that Secretary of State Clinton is behaving more like a President than the President is. It's embarrassing. And if he's going to blow off the most important issue of our day, the Federal debt and its course-to-nowhere, then it's really a cause for great sadness. Our finances were in awful condition when President Bush left office, and they're vastly worse today. ■ One wonders what would happen if Presidents (and other politicians) were to look after the public purse in the same way that Warren Buffett asks the managers of his many companies to do: "Just run your business as if: 1) you own 100% of it; 2) it is the only asset in the world that you and your family have or will ever have; and 3) you can't sell or merge it for at least a century." They can't "own" the country, of course, but what if they were asked -- or, perhaps, commanded -- to behave according to a 100-year business plan?
China's first aircraft carrier goes afloat
This news is especially important in light of the story immediately above.
Cross-country runner stops race to rescue another runner in distress
"We have the concept, from the Talmud, that if you want God to have mercy on you, you have to have mercy on others."
Facebook probably isn't posting private messages to people's walls accidentally
It's more likely that people are noticing (via the Facebook Timeline) that many exchanges that used to take place on the public "wall" should have been via private message instead. Yet another reminder, of course, that whatever you put on the Internet can stay there forever.
KCCI-TV is shutting down the Weather Beacon
Just like many other weather beacons around the world, it changes colors to indicate the forecast. It's an anachronism from the days before people could just look up the forecast at any time on a smartphone. But it's charming and adds a bit of character to a skyline. KCCI is removing the lights from its downtown tower that made up the weather beacon out of necessity -- the bulbs aren't made anymore, and they weigh too much for the structure. But it's surprising they haven't chosen to put up some sort of array using LED bulbs instead. Give it a few months and someone downtown will take up the idea. Sioux City has a glowing sphere -- it doesn't have to take up an entire tower.
See the future unfold right before your eyes
Who wants to subsidize their neighbors?
Charlie Brooker says an idea floated in the UK to use a subsidy from broadband Internet service providers to support printed newspapers is "Like when papers charged extra to subsidise the town crier industry." Which didn't happen, of course.
"[S]ome conflicts cannot be wished away. One is between young and old."
Stop the abuse of job titles. Oh, please, please stop it.
Someone's actually calling himself an "Alpha dog" as his job title on LinkedIn. It's ridiculous. Inflated and confounding job titles are a scourge.
Here come the autonomous cars
Great on so many levels: They should be safer than cars driven by people. They should allow us to spend our time doing useful (or fun) things instead of mindlessly conducting our cars down the road. They should allow the sick, the elderly, the disabled, and even the inebriated to get places safely. They should even allow cars to travel closer together on the same roadway, meaning less dreaded urban sprawl.
There are real people behind every online personality
"[S]timulus was a fire-and-forget ballistic missile shot into the economic ozone"
No big deal...just another 5,500 galaxies we hadn't seen before
Afghan attack on NATO base was historic in its size
Time for us all to pay a little less attention to the NFL and topless photos of a princess, and a little more to the real news. We're just so easily distracted. And yet there are real terrorist attacks being conducted against the United States and our embassies and consulates abroad.
Household spending on smartphones is cutting into clothing and restaurant spending
This is what's called a revealed preference -- clearly, we must think it's better to have the Internet in the palms of our hands than to go out to dinner; otherwise, we'd be spending the money differently. No matter what people say they value, it's how they actually spend that tells the truth.
A little bit of game theory
What happens to the economy, depending upon who wins the White House and who takes Congress
Testing the prime minister
David Letterman quizzed Britain's David Cameron on a mock UK citizenship exam. It didn't go particularly well. But Cameron did have a good line about US-UK relations: "We had a bit of a falling out [in 1776]. I think we're getting over that."
The Faraday cage
Or, a brief scientific explanation of why it's hard to get radio reception inside a metal building
Instrumental version of "Regulate" by Warren G
Why? Because sometimes instrumental versions of songs are worth enjoying. It turns out there's a pretty easy trick for removing the lyrics from most songs. The results definitely aren't radio-quality, but they're about as close to instrumental versions as a person can get with about 60 seconds of effort.
Dallas County wants to move offices to the far east
The far east of Adel city limits, that is -- to Ortonville