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Powell's predicament
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Friday's October nonfarm payrolls report, was chock full of good news about the strength of the economy -- more jobs were created, unemployment is down and wages are up. But that last point -- a 2.5% annualized increase in hourly pay -- could also be a harbinger of future inflation.
That explains why the yield curve steepened on Friday, with long-term interest rates rising in conjunction with the short-term interest rates influenced by Federal Reserve interest rate moves, points out Jim Caron, a fixed-income portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note had spiked to 2.35% by 11 a.m. ET Friday -- more than 13 basis points higher than the low point Thursday. The two-year note was yielding about 90 basis points, a 7 point increase from the prior day's low. The two-year yield immediately spiked to .94% after the jobs report was released, but was slipping lower as the morning progressed.
If investors just thought the Fed was going to hike rates -- but that inflation would remain tepid -- the yield curve would have flattened Friday, Caron says.
Rick Rieder, chief investment officer of fundamental fixed income at BlackRock, isn't worried that inflation will become a problem, even though he has long advocated that the Fed raise rates -- to get off the zero fed funds rate level intended for emergencies.
"The fact that we are starting to see wage growth is great for the economy," he told Barron's. "We're certainly not anything close to overheating from an inflation or wage perspective at this point."
He expects the pace -- and ultimate destination -- of Fed rate hikes to be gradual, moderate and remain data dependent. "A 25 basis point move is not that significant," he says.
Bond investors who have a lot of duration, or interest rate, risk in their portfolios may want to reassess whether they need to shorten duration or move into fixed-income sectors that trade based on credit risk, suggests Caron. Typically, as the underlying economy improves in the early stages of a rate hike cycle, credit spreads tighten, he says.
Overseas credit market are also worth considering, says Rieder. Going forward, "it may not be how much fixed-income exposure you have that matters, it's where you have it." he says.
Friday's October nonfarm payrolls report, was chock full of good news about the strength of the economy -- more jobs were created, unemployment is down and wages are up.


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First-of-Its-Kind Epigenetic Study Links Excessive Oxytocin Levels With Hypersexuality Disorder
News Sep 23, 2019 | By Molly Campbell, Science Writer, Technology Networks
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Over the last ten years, much debate has surrounded the classification of compulsive sexual behavior. Should it be regarded as a mental health behavior/disorder?
Hypersexual disorder (HD) was recommended for inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) by the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Workgroup. It was ultimately rejected.
However, the World-Health Organization announced on May 25 2019 that it will include compulsive sexual behavior in the newest addition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), scheduled to be implemented in January 2022.
In ICD-11, hypersexual disorder will be defined as:
Compulsive sexual behavior disorder is characterized by a persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses or urges resulting in repetitive sexual behaviour. Symptoms may include repetitive sexual activities becoming a central focus of the person's life to the point of neglecting health and personal care or other interests, activities and responsibilities; numerous unsuccessful efforts to significantly reduce repetitive sexual behaviour; and continued repetitive sexual behaviour despite adverse consequences or deriving little or no satisfaction from it. The pattern of failure to control intense, sexual impulses or urges and resulting repetitive sexual behaviour is manifested over an extended period of time (e.g., 6 months or more), and causes marked distress or significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Distress that is entirely related to moral judgments and disapproval about sexual impulses, urges, or behaviours is not sufficient to meet this requirement.
In general, men exhibit hypersexuality more frequently than women. However, robust data outlining the gender differences is sparse.1 Research suggests that HD may manifest in adolescence, but its precise neurobiology is unknown.2
A new study of men and women with HD is published in the journal Epigenetics, and suggests a role for the hormone oxytocin in its pathophysiology.
"We set out to investigate the epigenetic regulatory mechanisms behind hypersexual disorder so we could determine whether it has any hallmarks that make it distinct from other health issues," says lead author Adrian Boström from the Department of Neuroscience at Uppsala University, Sweden who conducted the study with researchers from the Andrology/Sexual Medicine Group (ANOVA) at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.3
Understanding epigenetic regulatory mechanisms
The researchers adopted an epigenetic approach to study HD. Epigenetics refers to modifications of DNA that do not alter the underlying DNA sequence. These modifications include the addition of chemical compounds to single genes that can regulate their activity – i.e. enhancing or repressing their activity.
The most common type of epigenetic modification is methylation, in which methyl groups consisting of one carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms are added to DNA segments. The addition of the methyl group effectively "turns off" the gene, and so the encoded protein from that gene is not produced. Epigenetic mechanisms can go awry in cells, and this can manifest as abnormal gene activity or loss of function, resulting in disorders.
Disrupted epigenetic regulatory mechanisms in HD
In this study, the researchers measured DNA methylation patterns in the blood of 60 patients diagnosed with HD. The measurements were then compared to a control group of 33 healthy volunteers.
The scientists analyzed 8,852 regions of DNA methylation associated to nearby microRNAs to look for any variation between the samples. Where changes in DNA methylation were identified, they looked at the level of gene expression of the associated microRNA.
MicroRNAs are interesting to scientists as they are able to pass the blood-brain-barrier and influence the expression of several thousand genes in the brain and surrounding tissues.
The results showed two regions of DNA that were altered in HD patients, and an associated microRNA, identified as microRNA-4456, was found to be under-expressed.
MicroRNA-4456 targets genes that are typically expressed at high levels in the brain and are implicated in the regulation of the hormone oxytocin. Under-expression of microRNA-4456 would therefore be expected to result in elevated levels of oxytocin. The study doesn't show a causal relationship here, but it points further research in that direction.
"To our knowledge, our study is the first to implicate dysregulated epigenetic mechanisms of both DNA methylation and microRNA activity and the involvement of oxytocin in the brain among patients seeking treatment for hypersexuality," say the authors.
The neuropeptide oxytocin is often dubbed the "love hormone", a term that is fiercely debated in the scientific community. Research has demonstrated that oxytocin is linked with the regulation of social and pair-bonding, sexual reproduction and also aggressive behavior in both males and females.
It is also implicated in addictive behaviors. In this study, the scientists decided to compare their findings from the HD group to 24 alcohol-dependent subjects, to explore an association with addictive behavior. They found that the same DNA region was significantly under-methylated, implying that it may be primarily associated with the addictive traits of HD, such as compulsivity and impulsivity.
A sought-after therapeutic option?
Literature in the clinical space has discussed the use of pharmacological treatment to regulate oxytocin levels in addictive behavioral disorders.3 The authors suggest that this could be a possible avenue for HD, but more study is required: "Further research will be needed to investigate the role of microRNA-4456 and oxytocin in hypersexual disorder, but our results suggest it could be worthwhile to examine the benefits of drugs and psychotherapy to reduce the activity of oxytocin," says Professor Jussi Jokinen from Umeå University, Sweden.
The scientists also acknowledge a limitation to their study in that the mean difference in DNA methylation between HD patients and healthy volunteers was only 2.6%. The impact on physiological changes between the two groups therefore is unclear. Nonetheless, increasing evidence is suggesting that even a subtle methylation change can have wide-ranging consequences, so the study results should not be discounted.
1. Kraus et al. 2018. Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder in the ICD‐11. World Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1002/wps.20499.
2. Reid et al. 2019. Report of findings in a DSM-5 field trial for hypersexual disorder. The Journal of Sexual Medicine. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.
3. Lee et al. 2016. Targeting the Oxytocin System to Treat Addictive Disorders: Rationale and Progress to Date. CNS Drugs. doi: 10.1007/s40263-016-0313-z.
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Donald Trump Threatens To Cancel Berkeley Federal Funds After Riots Shut Down Milo Event (Video)
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President Donald Trump reacted to the massive rioting at UC-Berkeley in response to a scheduled campus speech by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart reports.
"If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view – NO FEDERAL FUNDS?" Trump wrote on Twitter early Thursday morning.
News of the rioting made cable news last night as students smashed ATMs and bank windows, looted a Starbucks, beat Trump supporters, pepper sprayed innocent individuals, and set fires in the street. Others spray painted the words "Kill Trump" on storefronts.
The speech was canceled by UC-Berkeley police as security failed. Yiannopoulos was evacuated from the area.
"The left is profoundly antithetical to free speech these days, does not want to hear alternative points of view, and will do anything to shut it down," Yiannopoulos told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview on Wednesday night. "My point is being proven over and over and over again."
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I can't provide further details because all other files I tried so far within the /BAT0/ dir are inaccessible.
Please let me know what else I can provide as useful info and/or if there is a way to get more debug into the kernel-log, because so far there is nothing in journalctl when trying to access these files under /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/.
Thank you very much in advance for any hint / help.
Since I posted this I had the idea to try a NVRAM and a SMC reset.
Then I restarted and tried a cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/manufacturer, which took 13 seconds (!) to come back, but came back.
Since you answered me I tried several things, but I am not able to reproduce the problem anymore: Now every read access to /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/(manufacturer|status) comes back /instantly/ like one would expect.
But I am sure there is a problem somehow ! I just don't know yet under what conditions !
... or it was really the SMC reset that helped.
Suspend does not work! The machine suspends for 4-5 seconds and then comes back on again by itsself!
I'll still attach the two requested infos.
re-naming this bug, since the battery issue is no longer re-producible.
that may be useful in debugging what is waking the system early.
I can never rely on the suspend to work under Linux so far.
In 99.5% of all cases the suspend reliably does NOT work, meaning: The notebook seemingly goes to suspend (display goes off ;)), but comes back out of suspend  (4-5 seconds after the display backlight went off) without any apparent reason.
Also sometimes the notebook wakes up hours later and then (sometimes) goes off again... I was unable so far to determine a pattern / deduce any related factors.
I'll attach the full output.
Again cleared from the brcmfmac debug output.
Please let me know if I can do anything further to help!
From what people have been reporting on Arch and Ubuntu forums the immediate and random wakeups have been caused by the default power settings allowing bluetooth devices to wake up the computer (which with the broken bluetooth driver currently results in unexpected wakeups). Consensus seems to be that disabling XHC1 in /proc/acpi/wakeup.
I'm not sure if this is related to this bug, or if I should open a separate one. But on the 12,1 macbook I got the other day I can't get suspend to work reliably at all. 9/10 times it will either sleep and not wake up, or fail to sleep (it's hard to tell with no  outward lights/anything from the laptop). I managed to get it to wake up a single time, which it then froze 30-40 seconds later. On both 4.1.5 and 4.2.0RC7 kernels.
I am still trying to make sense from all this.
Thanks Justin for the input. I am glad for any hint helping me to put together the bits and pieces.
But disabling XHC1 should disable USB from being able to wakeup, no ?
Bluetooth: I disabled/unloaded all bluetooth drivers, so not sure if bluetooth can still interfere?
ARPT = ? power-button ??
The system suspended. But I was unable to wake it up again.
I tried opening and closing the lid.
Had to force a reboot.
> The system suspended. But I was unable to wake it up again.
> I tried opening and closing the lid.
> Had to force a reboot.
Precision: I pressed the powerkey several times short (up to 1-2 seconds MAX).
But only when holding it down for 8 seconds to KILL OFF the machine I was able to turn it on again.
This was the case after the "systemctl suspend" and was the last thing I did for both "boot-ups" (so the traces of it should be at the end of w.txt and w2.txt).
But I did not see this output for the "systemctl suspend", but only when sleeping with KDE by closing the LID, there seems to be (at least) another problem, I'd clonclude ?
When booting with brcmfmac blacklisted then /proc/acpi/wakeup contains 2 enabled devices: XHC1 and LID0.
Sleep did NOT work RELIABLY. The first time (by closing the LID) it /seemed/ [*] to have worked (waited >1min.).
Whereas the following times (both triggered by closing the LID or by executing "systemctl suspend") the sleep did NOT work anymore.
Sleep did /seem/ [*] to work, but ONLY by closing the LID!
Which seems not right to me as I would expect that between the CPU offline and the RESUME / start / Restoring messages there should be a JUMP in the timestamp if the suspend really worked, no ???
> enabled devices: XHC1 and LID0.
> [*] to have worked (waited >1min.).
> executing "systemctl suspend") the sleep did NOT work anymore.
What's the symptom? Does it fail at the suspend phase or it couldn't resume?
> Then I disabled XHC1.
> Sleep did /seem/ [*] to work, but ONLY by closing the LID!
From the log, there is a wakeup signal that caused the resume, maybe it's the LID? If you disable LID0, will "systemctl suspend" work then?
I would not use journalctl to see timestamps, as that involves writing things into disk/filesystem. When the CPU is being offlined, the filesystem/disk has been already suspended, so I doubt the log write happened after resume and all those un-written kernel logs are written to the log file all at once. Just my guess, not entirely sure about systemd's journal handling.
> timestamp if the suspend really worked, no ???
No I'm afraid, if you use dmesg, you will see the resume started from where suspend finished. I think it's because that, once suspended, the kernel's time counting is stopped, so when resumed, it starts from where it's stopped. This is not something dmesg can solve though. Anyway, please use dmesg whenever possible, journal has too many information there.
> > [*] to have worked (waited >1min.).
> > executing "systemctl suspend") the sleep did NOT work anymore.
> What's the symptom? Does it fail at the suspend phase or it couldn't resume?
I am not sure if you are familiar with the MacbookPro: There are no LED indicators for power, battery or "on/off state" like one finds usually with other notebooks. Which makes the screen backlight (also lighting the "apple" on the LID) the only indicator for "on" or "off".
So I I had looked at the lighted apple to determine: The first suspend (by closing the LID) the apple went off and stayed off.
Whereas the follwing times: It went off for ~3 sec. and than came back on.
Screenbacklight ON ==> Apple ON.
It could be possible that the screen backlight goes off and the computer does not actually sleep.
That's why I was trying to find the truth in the timestamps.
No problem to use dmesg. Thanks for the explanations around journalctl!
> > Then I disabled XHC1.
> > Sleep did /seem/ [*] to work, but ONLY by closing the LID!
> the LID? If you disable LID0, will "systemctl suspend" work then?
I disabled everything in /proc/acpi/wakup.
Retested with the LID and systemctl suspend.
I was only able to wakeup through power-button.
1.) Closing the LID did NOT trigger the sleep anymore (even though it did right after boot!).
A dependency job for suspend.target failed. See 'journalctl -xn' for details.
[*] Is this the best way to trigger the suspend manually ? or should I use echo to /sys/... or /proc/... (don't remember the accept path at the top of my head) ?
> Please use dmesg instead.
Thanks for the explications and no problem!
> > timestamp if the suspend really worked, no ???
Yes... makes sense, I understand.
I don't find any software method except by checking the dmesg log.
use systemctl suspend is OK.
[ 1944.952967] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
[ 1964.991742] Restarting tasks ... done.
The upowerd process is doing some IO(get battery status I guess) and can not enter freeze state and caused the sleep failed.
Do you have any battery related issue? I don't think it's normal the upowerd process stay in uninterruptable state for that long.
BTW, I'm adding Chris Bainbridge, who has experience in Apple's SBS related stuff.
Do you have any idea why the upowerd would block the sleep? Thanks.
> Do you have any battery related issue?
See my initial description + Comment 2.
So my initial "unaccessible" judgement (in the "description") was most likely wrong. I just did not wait long enough !
> process stay in uninterruptable state for that long.
that entered v4.1 so I think you are already using that, perhaps Chris can shed some light on this issue? Maybe you need an even longer delay?
Yes, currently 4.1.3 (I am just updating to 4.1.6).
I also explicitly checked and can confirm that I am currently already using the changes introduced to drivers/acpi/sbshc.c by the commit 3349fb64b2927407017d970dd5c4daf3c5ad69f8.
What do I need to do (kernel parameter ?) to be able to see this output ?
For simple debugging you can add printk commands and then watch the kernel log when you do the `cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/manufacturer` and figure out where it is hanging based on the last output. There is a small patch which adds some debugging information which will probably print an error code if a hang occurs: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=177001&action=diff Use that patch and add printks to the entry and exit points of each function and you should be able to figure out exactly where it hangs. If it is the same bug I had then it will be at the calls to acpi_smbus_read in acpi_battery_get_info() or acpi_battery_get_state() in sbs.c.
And test. The change will invoke a busy wait loop instead of sleeping, so in the case that the SBS hardware controller has crashed, the kernel won't hang. It's more of a workaround though, it's better to not crash the controller in the first place.
Another possibility is that it could be a hardware/firmware issue. Try updating OS X to the latest (which will update the SMC and battery firmware) and reset the SMC.
Thanks a LOT for all your feedback and input!
Might take a few days.
I updated MacOSX to Yosemite 10.10.5.
Did a reset of NVRAM then SMC.
I'll eventually will keep an eye on this with a suspend script.
So the sleep FAIL problem is solved.
(ii) suspend by calling "systemctl suspend"
And each time I captured the dmesg.
--> WHY ?? - should not be as no keyboard key was pressed, no ?
>    --> WHY ?? - should not be as no keyboard key was pressed, no ?
2 LID0 doesn't generate wakeup signal.
BTW, I wonder if acpidump would change after you upgrade the MacOS?
attached is acpidump with latest mac osx updates (as of last week at least) installed.
I haven't blacklisted brcmfmac because I need wireless to work...  is that the main difference?  should I file a separate bug for what I'm seeing?
Dear Aaron, thanks a lot for your feedback.
Good point about the acpidump. I updated mine.
I'll file the 2nd bug about the spurious wakeup signal caused by XHC1.
> should I file a separate bug for what I'm seeing?
I really do expect that you should be a happy camper once they'll be resolved.
Because doing so I am at least - even with brcmfmac loaded - able to suspend by closing the LID (if I execute systemctl suspend, my system still HANGS every time !).
Otherwise: What kernel version (uname -a) are you using?
> 2 LID0 doesn't generate wakeup signal.
Anything I can still try or will it be my job to dig into the kernel code now ?
I don't have any suggestions now, it's usually not easy, if not impossible, to find out the cause why some device doesn't generate wakeup signal.
> I updated MacOSX to Yosemite 10.10.5.
> Did a reset of NVRAM then SMC.
So I will (have to) dig into the code that Christ pointed me on.
> to find out the cause why some device doesn't generate wakeup signal.
In some cases (c), (d) : LID doesn't generate wakeup signal.
But without any hint where to start, I would (have to) drop the LID problem.
The only thing kernel has control of these wakeup signals is the enable/disable GPE of the wakeup capable devices, i.e. LID and XHC.
I believe they are all enabled by default, and the /proc/acpi/wakeup is where the user can decide if they want them enabled/disabled.
> But without any hint where to start, I would (have to) drop the LID problem.
Presumably everything works ok in OS X?
Did you try any earlier kernels? In particular, you could try reverting 7bc5a2bad0b8 which was merged from 3.18 onwards and which makes Linux claim to be Darwin. Not an ideal fix, but it would at least help identify why this problem has appeared now.
Related to the Gnome power manager issue, it may be worth testing suspend/resume directly from command line (no Xorg/desktop running).
> Presumably everything works ok in OS X?
> problem has appeared now.
Everything works for me in OSX on my 11,5.
I built a 4.2.0 kernel with 7bc5a2bad0b8 reverted and without brcmfmac and see the same issues.
@Tim: Thanks for the feedback !
and with 4.2 kernel just like this.
I was then forced to hold pressed the power-button.
2) Hang while trying to suspend (My case).
Will share more when I have info.
> 2) Hang while trying to suspend (My case).
Did you try rule out brcmfmac ?
> Did you try rule out brcmfmac ?
This may be true for 12,1, but I am unable to find a combination that successfully suspends my 11,5 machine. Like Furkan, I listen for the fans and they continue and often speed-up after attempting to sleep.
> > Did you try rule out brcmfmac ?
> and they continue and often speed-up after attempting to sleep.
I've got a MBP 11,5 and kernel 4.2 as well and experience the exact same behaviour.
But still, given the fact that brcmfmac has the ability to create a HANG during suspend, I'd give it a shot to rmmod or blacklist the module and test.
> during suspend, I'd give it a shot to rmmod or blacklist the module and test.
Yeah, I wish it helped, but I built a kernel without brcmfmac and it does not change the behavior.
> not change the behavior.
Have you also tried hibernate?
> > not change the behavior.
> Have you also tried hibernate?
I believe that there is no reason for hibernation not to work, that's a whole different story.
I did a bit more testing, and apparently (in my case), it's not even reaching a state that is related with kernel, or it not being logged.
I have unloaded/blacklisted all suspectible modules, I have killed almost all running services, and tried 'pm-suspend' from virtual console.
Well, usually, just before it's actually suspending, it is supposed to run a chain of preparations, like at least syncing disks, and logs used to have a message saying "syncing disks".
There is nothing in logs. For example, just to be able to track, I have run "rmmod btusb" and saw the output of that command in the logs.
Then I've run "pm-suspend". Black screen, all external(usb) devices gets turned of somehow, fans running, getting a bit hotter. turning off with holding power button again. And on the next run I check the logs, and last thing I can find is the output of "rmmod btusb". nothing else.
Maybe I'm not able to see anything because of how systemd handles these stuff, but I'm not sure since I don't see anything.
I have put a script myself to /etc/pm/sleep.d/. To check at least if that is called. And it was being called, saved some log into a file, saying "sleeping". Aside from my scripts output, there was nothing else.
Can it be somehow video driver locking up before it was able to do anything else?
Is there a way to properly debug / log what's going on?
Sep 26 11:54:37 fmxlnx systemd: Starting Sleep.
Sep 26 11:54:37 fmxlnx systemd: Reached target Sleep.
nothing else and result is same. hang.
> Is there a way to properly debug / log what's going on?
That is an interesting train of thought since the videoadapter is another big difference between the 11,5 and 12,1. The 11,5 has an AMD Radeon R9 M370X videocard compared to the Intel Iris Pro 6100 in the 12,1. On the 11,5, the AMD drivers are not that stable (I notice quite some screen distortion from time to time). Perhaps they cause issues during suspend/resume as well?
My MBP12,1 with Ubuntu Wily and Linux 4.2.0 is by default resuming immediately after suspending. Disabling ACPI wakeup per the Arch Wiki instructions in comment 42 fixed this for me.
I am also unloading the brcmfmac module prior to suspend because of the errors it reports during suspend/resume.
> > > Did you try rule out brcmfmac ?
> > and they continue and often speed-up after attempting to sleep.
I am also unable to find a combination to get my MBP 11,5 to suspend correctly. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 with kernel 3.19.9-25. Specifically, it runs the suspend actions without any noticable errors, and then just hangs. Attempting to hibernate (running sudo pm-hibernate) causes the hibernate actions to start, following by the screen/keybord turning off for a moment, then returning right back to the desktop.
I'm at a loss as to how and continue and debug this. Any updates on this thread? Or ideas on how to best proceed?
On MacBookPro 12.1 I am still investigating.
For now I can suspend on lid-close with systemctl suspend and can wake-up from suspend with power-button.
But from time to time there are still things that seem odd and unexplainable for now... (machine hangs on wakup or on sleep, screen black, but machine on, ... nothing possible except hard-reset via power-button)... but I will only post here once I am able to pin-point more precisely ! For the time being I am trying to see if / how things are reproducible.
I have recently identified an issue in the SBS driver that might be responsible for some of the reports here (hangs on boot or accessing /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0) - see https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/6/776 - there is a patch there if anyone who is experiencing these problems would like to try it out (alternatively, build a kernel without the sbshc module and make sure it isn't on your initrd or in /lib/modules). It seems unlikely that the ACPI SBS issues would be related to the brcmfmac issues though.
I applied the patch to 4.3.0, but the suspend/poweroff issue remains. We'll how the battery detection issues addressed in the patch work out. Thanks.
Is it useful to treat the MacBookPro11,4 within the same bug together with the MacBookPro12,1 ?
The hardware should be different and thus the potential problems and behaviour as well ?
@Tormen The hardware is more similar than not (same ACPI, BIOS, etc.). It makes sense to consider the problem to be the same bug unless there is a way to tell the symptoms apart - either by identifying the bug as affecting one specific piece of hardware, or show that a reproducible test affects one hardware but not the other.
I have a new patch at https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/12/526 - it should fix the problem seen in your log (from comment #25 above).
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04, kernel 3.19 HWE LTS Vivid, MacBookPro11,5, and interestingly enough I don't have the hang problem mentioned by your commit.
I don't have BAT0, interestingly enough. I'm not seeing things hang on access to this.
My MacBook Pro 11,5 has a hybrid Intel and ATI graphics mode, I'm currently using radeon (FGLRX hasn't worked for me here, tried multiple times) and I've blacklisted i915 due to a black screen at boot otherwise. I've used rEFInd's hack for spoofing the OSX version to get the i915 card online, but it doesn't seem too useful at all.
Last time I checked, suspend didn't work. If there was a specific list of things you'd like me to perform, I'd be happy to work through things. There's a lot of good stuff linked above at 01.org, please let me know which things I should try and run and report back here. I'm happy to report all progress, hoping to get suspend working here.
Also, when I hit suspend, I never see the keyboard backlight go off here, so I'm theorizing that I never actually drop to suspend; either that or the LEDs don't turn off during S3.
I'm not sure how helpful this is, but I booted into the GRUB console and ran the 'halt' command and it successfully powers off the system.
I have a MacBookPro11,4 and suspend/poweroff hang like others have reports. The last message I see is 'acpi_power_off called'.
I never experienced poweroff hangs.
Does anyone here also experience from time to time a loooong blank (+1 minute) (screen backlight on, but nothing visible on screen) after power-on ?
> LEDs don't turn off during S3.
MacbookPro 12,1: Real Suspend is possible (LED keyboard backlight OFF) !
@Chris: I am just changing OS, once I migrated, I'll look into this again.
Thanks a lot for the debugging link !
@Chris: And thanks a lot for the patch !
> get a black screen and I'm only able to hard-kill it with the power button.
What about brcmfmac ? Did you read all the bug comments ?
Can you try 4.2 kernel ?
I prefer to help you by mail and not in the thread.
Please contact me by mail for further questions.
Any updates on this issue? I am using Fedora23 with kernel 4.2.6 on a Macbook Pro 11,4 and suspend/poweroff don't work for me.
Also, systemctl suspend suspends but I can never wakeup from suspend with the power button.
Do you need any specific info from my system to debug this further and fixing it?
> Macbook Pro 11,4 and suspend/poweroff don't work for me.
The fix for the SBS HC issue (comment #25) is in kernel 4.4-rc4 (commit add68d6aa9e2). But there may be some other issue on more recent hardware. Perhaps someone who experiences this bug could re-test the latest linux git.
> I never experienced poweroff hangs.
> (before REFInd menu) !
> add68d6aa9e2). But there may be some other issue on more recent hardware.
> Perhaps someone who experiences this bug could re-test the latest linux git.
Could any of the developers please look into this? I am not a kernel developer nor am I into driver development. It would be really great if one of the devs looks into this. Without suspend and wakeup working, laptop is mostly un-usable as it can't be portable to close and wake up when required.
I could share the required settings or can test the patch if someone comes up with it. Thanks.
> mostly un-usable as it can't be portable to close and wake up when required.
> up with it. Thanks.
Ditto, This is a particularly annoying bug that makes using Linux on this Macbook model incredibly difficult. Is there anything else us users can do to help the developers fix this?
Just a note that workaround in Comment #44 works for 12,1 with kernel 4.3.3.
The Comment #44 workaround doesn't appear to work on 12,4 macbooks on 4.3.x for me.
- Disabling XHC is not needed.
- Disabling LID0 is needed.
- After disable LID0, system able to suspend automatically when lid is closed. When reopen lid, a key press is required to resume.
I guess thanks to the Intel XHC guys is in order!
Unfortunately I won't be able to test right away myself, but I'll see to it.
I just tried as well, and my 11,5 with 4.3.3 (4.3.3-hardened-r7 from gentoo) does not suspend on lid close or systemctl suspend.
This thread is quite long, can someone please tell me the latest result? Anyway I'll check from the first comment til the last one, and I have a Mac pro in hand,will report back later.
- When re-opening the lid, the screen is blank and there is no way to resume, the only fix is holding down the power button to do a complete reset.
Please keep in mind that, suspend problems for 12,1 and 11,5 is quite different.
We have both 11,5 and 12,1 in our company. We also have an older (8,1 or 9,1) macbook pro, with again dual GPUs like 11,5.
There is not a single solution on this for 11,5. Trying solutions for 12,1 won't work (until we get to that stage). Because 11,5 hangs before being able to actually suspend. It turns of the screen and does also some more steps of suspending (syncing disks, etc.), but somehow hangs before suspending, therefore the macbook is getting hot and the fans are still running. I believe this has to do something with having two GPUs. I think that's the biggest difference between 11,5 and 12,1.
- CPU (And Integrated Intel GPU) could have some differences.
It would be really nice if we could hear from any kernel developer to at least how to help debug/fix it.
> that's the biggest difference between 11,5 and 12,1.
I have 11,5 (mid 2015) without second GPU and i have the same symptoms: hangs on going to suspend.
So i don't think the problem is related to double GPUs.
> 9,1) macbook pro, with again dual GPUs like 11,5.
I have the 11,4 model without discrete GPU and also problems with suspend and shutdown.
> This thread is quite long, can someone please tell me the latest result?
> pro in hand,will report back later.
I think it is not practical to treat all of the MacbookPro models in the same thread.
@Tormen The hardware (12,1 and 11,4) is more similar than not (same ACPI, BIOS, etc.). It makes sense to consider the problem to be the same bug unless there is a way to tell the symptoms apart - either by identifying the bug as affecting one specific piece of hardware, or show that a reproducible test affects one hardware but not the other.
So it would be useful to determine which models should be treated here (beside the original 12,1 model in the threads name) and then change the name of the thread accordingly.
As far as a detailed update on the 12,1 issues goes I will need a bit time, but will get there eventually!
I also made a typo before; mine is an 11,4 without the discrete GPU and has these issues.
Thank you for a lot of investigation from Furkan!
I have archlinux kernel 4.3.3 installed on rMBP 11,5 with i7/dual GPUs(irs/radeon), and experiencing the same problem with suspending for months.
After closing the lid, the screen blacks out, the machine hangs and get extremely hot. Had to press power button to turn off.
Solution in Comment #44 seems to be a workaround for immediately wake-up, doesn't fit the problem with 11,5.
I'm not sure how to get dmesg during suspending, but love to help if any instructions.
Hope this pain can be fixed soon!
Bug #111781 may be relevant - "Macbook Apple firmware boot leaves wifi DMA on resulting in chaos". Try adding kernel parameters "iommu=force intel_iommu=on" to grub config.
> intel_iommu=on" to grub config.
Can we create a new bug report for 11,4 and 11,5 for this issue and congregate around that? It's obviously a different problem as nobody on 11,4 or 11,5 has gotten suspend working.
I'm on 11,5, kernel 4.2.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 with HWE to Wily kernel.
Apparently it is still in NEEDINFO. but there are 22 people on the CC list now. Just no real movement otherwise.
I'm on an 11,5 machine and willing to provide any information to get this issue solved. It is a huge problem that prevents me from using Linux as my daily driver.
since most people in this thread have problems on suspend/resume on 11,4 and 11,5, I'd suggest we file a new bug on this since the current thread only concentrates on 12,1 mode , which is working well according to Comment87.
Chen, in comment #85 you said that you had a MBP to test and would report back  later - did you manage to reproduce the issue?
> back  later - did you manage to reproduce the issue?
"sometimes randomly macbook wakes up immediately *after* suspending"
"it was able to sleep *most* of the time"
- Comment #81 said that suspend on MBP12,1 with linux-4.3.3 does not work properly unless LID0 is disabled.
Has anyone with MBP12,1 tested a more recent kernel?
I also agree with separating the bugs since the issue is 100% different between 12,1 and 11,4 - 11,5 ones.
Thanks for the debugging instructions.
I have tested with the latest rc kernel 4.5.0-rc6.
The system still hangs trying to suspend, and again temperature and fan speeds rises. But this time, I have console output.
Attaching the full log output as a photo.
I have placed even more verbose logging into lapic_suspend function, to understand where it exactly hangs. It appears to be it's proceeding until `local_irq_restore`. That is last point I can confirm.
My MBP12,1 is now on 4.4.3, and I noticed most of the time the "disable LID0" trick no longer works. I'm unsure why.
>         "sometimes randomly macbook wakes up immediately *after* suspending"
>         "it was able to sleep *most* of the time"
Sometimes device such as brcmac or xhci may wake up the system, I've tried 4.5.0-rc2 on S3 with 10 rounds by echo mem > /sys/power/state and wake up by power button, seems working well. I'll keep testing.
> properly unless LID0 is disabled.
> Has anyone with MBP12,1 tested a more recent kernel?
> `local_irq_restore`. That is last point I can confirm.
acpi_enter_sleep_state(S3) and acpi_enter_sleep_state(S5) respectively. It seems to be a BIOS issue to me..
> LID0" trick no longer works. I'm unsure why.
humm, could you try latest kernel ?
I have Macbook Pro 11,1 (mid-2014), latest mainline kernel 4.5.0 (on Ubuntu) and I also have troubles with suspend - it does not hang but wakes up immediately after closing the lid.
Disabling XHC1 in /proc/acpi/wakeup seems to prevent that but at the same time this breaks wakeup on lid opening (LID0 is still enabled).
The other thing is that this happens only every other time. So I close the lid, the laptop goes to sleep, wakes up after 4 seconds, I open the lid and close it again and this time it stays suspended and resumes properly. Next suspend will again wake up immediately and another one will work fine. I have found nothing of interest in the logs.
Let me know if I can provide any more data (or if I should provide them elsewhere).
Do you mean the system wake up immediately even lid set to disabled in /proc/acpi/wakeup?
> immediately after closing the lid.
> time this breaks wakeup on lid opening (LID0 is still enabled).
> have found nothing of interest in the logs.
Though this was not always reliable, but somewhere around kernel 4.6.5 suspend behaviour became rock solid.
Then 4.6.6 and 4.6.7 came along and completely broke everything and unloading brcmfmac did not help.  This was the point at which I started to query the issue on the MBP 11,4 thread https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103211.
Yesterday I just got a firmware upgrade and now everything is rock solid again.
Wondering if this is related to the IOMMU issues in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111781 that were resolved at kernel 4.6.6.


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PriorityQueue::PriorityQueue(int capacity)
{
	assert(capacity >= 0);
	this->capacity = capacity;
	this->tailIndex = -1;
	array = new int[capacity];
}

PriorityQueue::~PriorityQueue()
{
	this->capacity = 0;
	this->tailIndex = -1;
	delete[] array;
}

bool PriorityQueue::isEmpty() const
{
	return tailIndex == -1;
}

int PriorityQueue::getSize() const
{
	return tailIndex + 1;
}

void PriorityQueue::insert(int newItem)
{
	assert(tailIndex + 1 < capacity);
	array[++tailIndex] = newItem;
	minHeapifyFromBottom(tailIndex);
}

void PriorityQueue::minHeapifyFromBottom(int i)
{
	int cIndex, pIndex, temp;
	cIndex = i;
	for (pIndex = parentIndex(cIndex);
		cIndex > 0 && pIndex >= 0 && array[cIndex] < array[pIndex];
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	while (true)
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{
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package info.cmlubinski.newslearning.learn

import scala.collection.mutable

import nak.data.{Featurizer, FeatureObservation}

import info.cmlubinski.newslearning.models.Article

trait BigramBase extends UnigramBase {
  def pairs(text:String):List[(String, String)] = {
    val words = (for (sentence <- toSentences(text);
                      word <- toWords(sentence.trim);
                      stemmed = stem(word)
                      if word.matches("^[a-z]+$")) yield stemmed).toList
    words.zip(words.drop(1))
  }
}

object Bigram extends BigramBase {
  override val featurizer = new Featurizer[Article, String] {
    def apply(article: Article) = {
      for ((word, count) <- wordCounts(article.title).toSeq)
      yield FeatureObservation("1:title:" + word, count)
      for ((word, count) <- wordCounts(article.body).toSeq)
      yield FeatureObservation("1:" + word, count)
      for ((lhs, rhs) <- pairs(article.title))
      yield FeatureObservation("2:title:" + lhs + ":" + rhs)
      for ((lhs, rhs) <- pairs(article.body))
      yield FeatureObservation("2:" + lhs + ":" + rhs)
    }
  }
  override val slug = "bigram"
}

object DistinctBigram extends BigramBase {
  override val featurizer = new Featurizer[Article, String] {
    def apply(article: Article) = {
      for ((word, count) <- wordCounts(article.title).toSeq)
      yield FeatureObservation("1:title:" + word)
      for ((word, count) <- wordCounts(article.body).toSeq)
      yield FeatureObservation("1:" + word)
      for ((lhs, rhs) <- pairs(article.title))
      yield FeatureObservation("2:title:" + lhs + ":" + rhs)
      for ((lhs, rhs) <- pairs(article.body))
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Q: Reading a value of css styles using nodejs i wan to create new css with lowest and highest value.
     table[my-type="myStyle"] {
        width: 255.388px !important;
    }

and the above code present in n number of css files in my style directory.

A: You can use postcss to parse the css and get the values you want.
Here is an example of how to get min and max width from different css files (for the same selector table[my-type="myStyle"]):
const fs = require('fs');
const postcss = require('postcss');

const allWidthValues = [];

const files = [
    'styles/style-1.css',
    'styles/style-2.css',
    'styles/style-3.css'
];

const selector = 'table[my-type="myStyle"]';

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            rule.walkDecls(decl => {
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                if(decl.prop.indexOf('width') !== -1) {
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                    allWidthValues.push(width);
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            })
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    });
});

files.forEach(file => {
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        .process(css, {from : file})
        .then(() => console.log('Done processing file : ', file))
        .catch(() => console.log('Error processing file : ', file));

});

console.log('All width values : ', allWidthValues);

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console.log('Min width : ', allWidthValues[0]);
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Mielzynski (Collingwood, Ont.) had Canada's best results at the World Cup Finals finishing in 10th-place in the ladies' slalom. She sat tenth after the first run and continued to show great skiing and fast turns to hold onto a 10th-place finish.
Mielzynski had seven top-15 finishes this season, including an 11th-place at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games. She closes out the season ranked 15th overall in slalom.
On the speed side, Osborne-Paradis (Invermere, B.C.) captured a 15th-place finish in the downhill. In the super-G, Osborne-Paradis made a mistake on the second-last gate and missed the final gate, resulting in a DNF. Osborne-Paradis closes out the season ranked 17th in downhill and 24th in super-G.
Dustin Cook (Ottawa, Ont.), closes out the season with a 15th-place in the super-G for a 17th-place overall in the super-G rankings. Cook had seven top-25 finishes this year, including a 9th-place at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.
The 2017-18 World Cup season has now come to a close. Athletes will race in National Championships, begin spring camps and head back to the gyms in preparation for next year.


It looked like Senate Republicans would block the bill to extend emergency unemployment benefits, but it passed narrowly with GOP support Tuesday. A Q-and-A on what's going on.
Sen. Jack Reed (D) of Rhode Island stands during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday after legislation to renew jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed unexpectedly cleared an initial Senate hurdle.
Democrats this week put the issue of economic inequality squarely in the GOP court by pushing an emergency measure in the Senate that would extend expired jobless benefits for more than a million Americans for three months. To the lawmakers' surprise, enough Republican senators played along Tuesday to clear the 60-vote hurdle needed to debate the measure, which had one Republican co-sponsor. A vote on the bill is possible later this week.
Democrats are united behind the extension for 1.3 million people who lost unemployment insurance when it expired on Dec. 28. But this is a tricky issue for Republicans. Why is that, and is there is room for compromise?
Q. Why the Republican hesitant to extend unemployment benefits?
A. The chief reason is that the short-term extension, which would cost the federal government $6.4 billion, is not paid for. That may have been acceptable under President George W. Bush in 2008, when the program was started to help Americans after their state jobless benefits had run out. But now "we have a debt crisis," explained Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky to reporters Tuesday. Even if the six Senate Republicans who sided with Democrats Tuesday eventually vote for the bill, House Speaker John Boehner (R) of Ohio vows not to take it up unless the extension is paid for.
Other reasons also come into play. Republicans worry that a temporary safety net is becoming a permanent hammock. Unemployment is slowly coming down and job growth is continuing – a trend that points to a brighter outlook for the jobless. Republican leaders emphasize the need to get at the root of the problem by creating more jobs, faster. For instance, they're challenging President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline that would transport oil from Canada through the United States, and to roll back environmental regulations that adversely affect jobs related to coal-power.
Democrats counter that the federal jobless benefits are truly emergency funds for people in desperate need. They argue that extensions were renewed as a matter of course by both Democrats and Republicans during periods of high unemployment. And they cite today's persistently high jobless rate (7 percent vs. 5.6 percent when the program started); the stiff competition for openings, especially for middle-aged people who have lost their work; and the economic payback from extending the benefits. For every $1 spent on the program, $1.55 is returned to the economy through spending by recipients, according to one estimate.
Q. Would blocking jobless benefits be smart politics for the GOP?
A. Part of the answer depends on each state's jobless rate. Not surprisingly, the GOP senator who co-sponsored the three-month extension, Dean Heller of Nevada, comes from a state that has led the nation in unemployment for the past three years.
"I know many economists point to a national unemployment rate that is improving, but at home we do not feel it," he said on the Senate floor on Monday. Then he cited his experience over Thanksgiving in Reno, serving up meals with his daughter to people in need. Every year, he said, the number of people who show up increases. "This year the venue was absolutely packed," he said, describing a line that stretched for four blocks.
While controlling the debt plays well with the Republican base, the majority of Americans support extending emergency unemployment insurance (55 percent approve, according to a recent Hart poll). Republicans, too, must consider their party's image as sometimes insensitive to the poor. Senator Heller suggests that Republicans and Democrats work out a "fiscally responsible" way to pay for the extended benefits and create more jobs during the three months that the bill would take effect.
Q. Is it possible that Republicans and Democrats can compromise on unemployment insurance?
A. Yes. But it won't be easy. The starting positions on both sides follow partisan themes that rankle. Senator McConnell Tuesday proposed paying for an extension by putting the Obamacare individual mandate on hold for a year. That's a nonstarter for Democrats, and Senator Reid quickly squashed the proposed amendment. Democrats suggest paying for it by closing corporate tax loopholes. Similarly, Republicans disapprove.
Still, Reid says he's open to a "serious" proposal for a "pay-for," and individual lawmakers are discussing options, including ways to better connect the jobless with jobs.
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When I attended the NBA All-Star weekend in Toronto last February, my daughter asked me to bring her home a jersey.
Obligingly, I picked up a Dwyane Wade replica jersey on her behalf. When I did, however, I noticed something that I had never seen on an NBA jersey before: a small logo for Kia Motors Corporation. The patch mirrored those on the All-Star jerseys worn by the players themselves, marking the first foray into advertising on sports uniforms.
Well, in a professional American men's league in a major team sport, at least. Such marketing is very familiar to fans of car racing, from Formula One to NASCAR, where drivers and their vehicles have both served as high-speed billboards for years. Soccer fans, whether or not their team is based in America, are used to advertising on jerseys too; such ads generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for European teams. The WNBA has sold advertising space on jerseys since 2011, supporting a league that struggles to generate profits through fan attendance alone.
The four major professional men's sports leagues in the U.S. have, until now, shied away from such advertising. In the past, logistical concerns such as securing individual owner approval and avoiding conflicts with existing sponsors have kept league officials hesitant. For a long time, it seemed like no sport wanted to be the first to cross this particular line.
Now the NBA has taken the plunge. After the All-Star game pilot, the NBA's board of governors approved a three-year program to test the idea of teams selling space on jerseys for corporate logos. The program will begin with the 2017-18 season, and the Philadelphia 76ers have already announced a partnership with StubHub for next year. While the NBA protects a few of its partners, such as ESPN and Nike, from seeing competitors' logos appear on a team jersey, nearly any other company that doesn't deal in gambling, alcohol or politics is fair game.
The revenues from such ads will be divided among the league, the team and a revenue-sharing pool split among the players themselves. NBA commissioner Adam Silver said that the league has calculated the program will be worth about $100 million annually. Relative to the NBA's overall revenues, this would be a relatively small piece of the pie. But the league, team owners and players are all looking for more revenue sources as their business continues to change. For example, PriceWaterhouseCoopers reported that media rights fees will outpace ticket sales by 2018.
During the pilot program, the logos will be small: a 2.5-inch square patch on the left shoulder. Assuming the pilot program goes well, however, I expect that we will eventually see multiple logos on the front and back of jerseys, perhaps with variations for home and away uniforms. Considering the amount of revenue that jersey sponsorships generate for European soccer leagues, it seems likely the ads are here to stay. I expect the NFL, MLB and NHL, which have all held out against ads on game jerseys, to follow suit in the not-too-distant future.
As I discovered at the All-Star game, it is not only players who will become walking advertisements; fans may get in the game, too. During the pilot program, teams are required to offer logo-free jerseys to fans, but have the option of also selling those that will match the ones worn by players. Teams will doubtless determine their own approaches as the program progresses. For instance, the 76ers have said that jerseys sold nationwide will not carry the StubHub logo, but jerseys sold at their team locations will. Effectively, the team is attempting to turn the jersey with an ad into a collector's item.
The 76ers' CEO, Scott O'Neil, told ESPN, "We have a very strong opinion that little Scottie, [a hypothetical consumer] who is 9 years old, will want to wear what the players are wearing on the court." This theory may or may not pan out, but it is not without logic. Giving fans the option of jerseys with and without a logo will let them vote with their purchases during the three-year pilot.
Although certain fans may not be pleased with the idea, advertising and sports have long gone hand-in-hand. From player endorsements to arenas named after brands, professional sports already involve sponsorship to an extent that makes hand-wringing over small patches on player jerseys seem a bit strange. And ads have no impact at all on players' performance or the quality of the game, which are the reasons the fans show up in the first place.
The bigger problem for league officials would be pushback from the players themselves. Since the players will benefit directly in the form of additional compensation, however, I expect that most of them will favor the plan. If I am wrong, players have an opportunity to make their displeasure known. The existing collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association does not expire until June 30, 2021, but either party may opt out of it until December 15 of this year. If players want to object before the pilot season, they can – but it seems unlikely that they will.
In a way, my daughter's All-Star jersey may become a piece of basketball history. Keep your eyes peeled in the next few years to see what sort of partnerships appear. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a Carnival Cruise Line badge on a Miami Heat jersey in the near future.
Managing Vice President Shomari D. Hearn, based in our Fort Lauderdale, Florida headquarters, is the author of Chapter 17, "Living And Working Abroad," in our firm's most recent book, The High Achiever's Guide To Wealth. He also contributed several chapters to the firm's previous book, Looking Ahead: Life, Family, Wealth and Business After 55.
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