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Risks, Rewards and Robots: The Future of Work in California
By Judy Lin, CALmatters / December 26, 2019 4
State leaders fear that, if something isn't done before the next wave of automation, what's left will be "f-ing feudalism," to borrow one politician's expletive. (Photo by PopTika, via Shutterstock)
Are robots coming for California's jobs?
In today's increasingly automated economy, that's certainly the fear. Technology has always generated economic churn, destroying some jobs and creating others. Already advances have generated a whole new sector of "gig" employment, and deeply disrupted other workplaces, from brick-and-mortar bookstores to newspapers to travel agencies.
Over the next decade, jobs mostly held by the working poor appear to be most at risk of displacement: food services, manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, agriculture and retail. The least likely to be automated by 2030? Professional, management and educational services, and jobs in health care and social assistance.
State leaders fear that, if something isn't done before the next wave of automation, what's left will be "f-ing feudalism," to borrow one politician's expletive. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to figure out how to make future jobs pay well. A key question his Future of Work Commission is asking: What role should organized labor have?
How is the workforce changing?
California has a workforce of 19.4 million people helping to power a $3 trillion economy. In the last 15 years, however, that workforce has experienced dramatic shifts, notably with employment growth in high-skill and low-skill jobs.
The ranks of personal care and service workers have tripled from around 300,000 in 2004 to nearly 1 million this year, according to data from the state Employment Development Department. At the same time, the rise of Silicon Valley has generated a 60 percent increase in computer and mathematical occupations, putting more than 600,000 Californians—a population larger than the entire city of Denver—to work in the tech field.
Meanwhile, manufacturing and administrative support positions have been on the decline while health care, finance and managers have seen significant gains.
How much are workers being paid?
While everyone has seen wages rise over the last 15 years, pay increases have been uneven. Higher earners with high-skill jobs have gotten hefty raises, lower-paid workers not so much.
Productivity is soaring
California's unemployment rate is at record lows (3.9 percent in October) while the workforce is bigger than it's ever been. Of the 19.4 million Californians currently looking for work or working, 18.6 million are on the job. In fact, the state's productivity, meaning economic output per labor hour, is at record highs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, California contributed more than any other state to America's growth. The productivity rate grew 1.7 percent from 2007 to 2017.
… so why aren't paychecks rising at the same pace?
As productivity has increased, the economic gain for workers hasn't kept up with the value their output has added to the economy. In other words, workers aren't sharing the wealth proportionately. In most states, including California, labor productivity is increasing faster than wages, which means workers are losing ground in many places.
In fact, 32 states between 2007 and 2017 saw the average annual percentage change in the productivity-compensation gap fall into negative territory. California is among the states with the highest gap.
Why is pay a problem?
While the middle class shrinks, the ranks of the working poor are expanding. Today, one-third of working Californians make less than $15 an hour. This has contributed to the racial wealth gap because the jobs most at risk of automation are disproportionately held by workers who are Hispanic and African American.
Should I worry about robots?
Nearly two out of three adults think automation and artificial intelligence will put jobs at risk. Some are right to be afraid. For others, the robot threat is debatable.
For instance, many experts expect self-driving trucks to roll autonomously on the highway, but they also predict drivers will still be needed to navigate local streets, where challenges can be more unexpected. According to a report from Working Partnership USA and the UC Berkeley Labor Center, the growth of online purchases and decline in freight costs could create more driving jobs than the number lost to automation.
What we do know is that automation is good at eliminating repetitive tasks. Think of how the washing machine revolutionized domestic work. It's likely routine jobs, which are often low-wage, low-skill positions, will be more susceptible to robots.
And California's 10 largest occupations are topped by low-wage jobs, from personal care aides and retail staff and cashiers to food service workers and laborers. Most of these jobs are too difficult for robots, but it's likely some can be automated to a degree. Take, for instance, ordering kiosks at McDonald's or self-check out lanes at Safeway.
What are the jobs of the future?
Think supply and demand. The foundation of our economy is evolving from manufacturing to service, for instance. That means an ongoing need for health care, social assistance, and professional, management and educational services.
Within a decade, one out of every five state residents will be seniors. Those aging Californians will require support—mostly from human caretakers. It's why home health aides, personal care aides and nurse practitioners are among the top five fastest-growing occupations in California.
Other health and medical professions also will experience growth.
The tech sector also is expected to continue to expand in California. There's projected demand for software developers, web developers, computer researchers and programmers. Climate change also will continue to be addressed here. The fastest-growing job? Solar panel installers.
Demand, however, will begin to change in other sectors, particularly routine jobs that are most susceptible to automation. These include food services, manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, agriculture and retail.
What should we teach?
The higher education system has to evolve with the changing workplace but, too often, it struggles to keep up. Not only do many of California's public colleges suffer from low graduation rates, but they lack capacity to train workers in high-demand fields.
California State University, for example, is in the midst of a 10-year campaign to boost its four-year graduation rate from 19 percent to 40 percent. By comparison, the University of California's undergraduate rate is nearly 68 percent.
And though the CSU is making strides to produce more graduates with science, technology, engineering and math degrees, applicants who qualified for basic nursing are being turned away at all 16 campuses that offer the program due to insufficient slots.
At the community college level, there are early efforts to help adults get retrained. Specifically, the state's new online community college, Calbright, aims to prepare working adults for careers in the high-demand fields of cybersecurity, medical coding and information technology. Enrollment began in October.
Still, the Newsom administration worries training and upskilling workers isn't enough because one in five low-wage workers in California have a college degree, suggesting education doesn't guarantee higher wages.
What's the risk in my city?
California has some of the areas with the highest and lowest exposure to disruption.
Since low-income, low-skill jobs are at greater risk of being automated, regions will be impacted differently. Cities with more low-wage jobs will suffer greater job loses.
Translation: You have a better chance of weathering the next 15 years if you live in San Francisco or San Jose, worse if you live in Riverside, San Bernardino, Merced or Modesto, according to Johannes Moenius, director of the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis at the University of Redlands School of Business.
How about job training?
The business community is right to be concerned about a workforce skills gap, particularly as high school-aged students enter the workforce. The California Chamber of Commerce favors a method called Linked Learning, which integrates academics, career technical training and work-based learning.
More recently, the Newsom administration secured $37 million to fund apprenticeships in the green economy with a focus on disadvantaged communities.
In addition, the state provides training resources for job seekers through CalJobs, administered by the Employment Development Department. The web portal acts as a resource for people to find training and apprenticeships.
Raise the minimum wage?
For decades, research shows, wage gains have been uneven, with most wealth accruing at the top of the pay scale. It's not that there haven't been jobs, it's that those jobs don't come with paychecks that keep up with the Golden State's high cost of living. The result has been increased poverty (20 percent are working poor), homelessness (we're No. 1) and lower-paid workers getting priced out of the state.
To counter that, California was the first state to approve $15 minimum wage, which will be fully phased in by 2023. Some employer groups opposed, saying raising labor costs will only accelerate automation in the workplace.
For example, after the City of Los Angeles passed an ordinance to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, the owner of an events rental business invested $150,000 in an industrial dishwasher to replace between six and eight people who had been earning $10 to $11 an hour washing dishes.
What are the tax incentives for workers?
Government can offer tax incentives to encourage people to stay on the job, even if their pay is modest. Earlier this year, Newsom increased funding for the state's Earned Income Tax Credit to put money directly into working people's pockets, expanding the program from $400 million to $1 billion per year.
The EITC now provides a $1,000 refund to working-poor families with children under 6 and expands income eligibility from $24,950 to $30,000, so people earning minimum wage won't lose out on the credit when hourly pay rises to $15 in a few years.
… and employers?
The state also offers employer tax credits to encourage hiring.
California Competes: An income tax credit to encourage more companies to do business in the state. The credits need to be negotiated with the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, known as Go-Biz. Past reviews, however, showed some credits were not claimed. Aerospace typically wins big.
New Employment Credit: A tax credit that can be claimed directly by employers for hiring certain types of new workers.
What's the experiment in Stockton?
One California city is testing out the idea of universal basic income, which provides low-income families with a monthly stipend with no strings attached. Supporters of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration say it's a hand up for the working poor as low-wage, low-skill jobs get automated. But critics worry a handout will encourage bad behavior.
Are unions the answer?
Union membership has fallen to a historic low as a share of the state's workforce. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unionization rate in California is 50 percent in the public sector, but just 8.3 percent in the private sector.
There are ongoing efforts to unionize new groups of workers such as home health aides and gig workers. Labor logged a successful year in 2019 in Sacramento and the Newsom administration believes unions are part of the solution.
"There's data that shows that having a union does more to ensure higher wages than even having a college degree," said Labor Secretary Julie Su, who has been leading the The Future of Work Commission alongside Chief Economic Advisor Lenny Mendonca and Senior Advisor of Higher Education Lande Ajose.
The future of the gig economy
Newsom wants to give workers, particularly the 200,000-plus rideshare drivers for Uber and Lyft, the right to organize a union. By allowing workers to bargain for better pay, benefits and working conditions, the Democratic governor believes unions will help close the state's wage gap.
Employers are fighting back. Truck drivers have already sued. Industries as varied as news publishers and health care have lined up against what they say is a rewriting of rules that had been around for decades. Gig companies have pledged $100 million for a ballot initiative to keep drivers classified as freelancers.
There's also criticism from some labor leaders. Robbie Hunter, president of the State Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents 450,000 construction workers, was disinvited from Newsom's future of work commission after an apparent disagreement over a strategy Newsom views as a "third way" for classifying gig workers.
The building trades opposed such a compromise fearing online home service sites such as Handy.com would devalue plumbers, electricians, and other trades—middle-class jobs the union has built up over decades through apprenticeship programs and fighting for prevailing wages. Hunter's dispute with Newsom is wide-ranging but here's the irony: In tasking the Future of Work Commission to turn low-paying jobs into good-paying jobs, the governor has effectively shut out one of California's most powerful advocates for middle-class workers in private-sector jobs.
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Vacancy Vaquero Dec 26, 2019 @ 3:22 pm
One job robots will never replace: dues-paying SEIU members working for state and local government with guaranteed pensions for life. They're the true 1% of Californians in the 2020s.
Tyler Hoa Dec 30, 2019 @ 12:46 pm
yeah, `cause teachers, librarians, nurses and firefighters are the real problem; not Billionaires with inherited wealth that pay No taxes
M.T.GUNN Dec 26, 2019 @ 8:50 pm
Robots don't vote for Democrats, don't demand minimum wage hikes, don't need unions, non't need breaks 3 times a shift. On the other hand they do need higher paid skilled people to keep them running.
And we do vote for Republicans.
sjoutsidethebubble Dec 28, 2019 @ 1:34 pm
> The Future of Work in California
I just saw a Bernie ad during the USC vs Iowa football game. (Apparently, Bernie is trying to reach voters for the upcoming USC caucuses.).
But, I think under President Bernie, work won't be an issue in California.
Work will be optional in California. Unless it is outlawed completely.
Most work is done for "greedy corporations" and for "the rich", so work is just prolonging the existing corrupt and unfair system which only benefits Wall Street and people with white privilege who were born on third base.
Also, a lot of work has historically been done by the white working class, but both the Obama campaign and the Hillary campaign let it be known that the white working class should no longer count on their seat at the Democrat Party table.
So, without businesses and rich people to hire workers, and without white working class workers to do a lot of the work in California, I can only conclude that the "the future of work in California" is . . . "endangered".


The West Bank Jewish settlement of Beitar Ilit is seen through a barbed wire fence.
The Judea and Samaria Settlement Regulation Law, sometimes called the Regularization Law, is an Israeli law that aims to retroactively legalize Israeli settlements in the West Bank Area C. It is meant to "regulate" the status of about 2,000 to 4,000 residences in 16 settlements which were built on Palestinian-owned lands. The Knesset passed the legislation 60 to 52, on February 6, 2017.
According to the law, the land on which the residences are built will remain that of the legal owners, but their usage will be expropriated by the State. In exchange, the Palestinian owners will be compensated at a rate of 125%, or receive alternate lands (whenever possible).
The law sets out a new process to legalize about half of Israel's settlement outposts, as well as about 3,000 additional homes built illegally in settlements, which Israel recognizes as legal. Essentially, this law authorizes a further massive land theft of private Palestinian land by Israel. The European Union and the United Nations strongly condemned the law.
Attorney General of Israel Avichai Mandelblit has announced that he will not be defending the law on behalf of the government at the Supreme Court because he deems it unconstitutional, and it may lead to a suit against Israel at the International Criminal Court. Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, whose party The Jewish Home was behind the legislation, responded by saying that the State plans to hire a private lawyer to represent it.
The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is considered a breach of international law by all countries of the world, though Israel disputes this.
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The petitioners insist that the Knesset is not permitted to enact and impose laws on territory occupied by the State of Israel. Thus, the Knesset cannot enact laws that annex the West Bank or that violate the rights of Palestinian residents of the West Bank.


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Vanadium oxytrichloride is the inorganic compound with the formula VOCl3.  This yellow distillable liquid hydrolyzes readily in air.  It is an oxidizing agent.  It is used as a reagent in organic synthesis.  Samples often appear red or orange owing to an impurity of vanadium tetrachloride.

Properties
VOCl3 is a vanadium compound with vanadium in the +5 oxidation state and as such is diamagnetic. It is tetrahedral with O-V-Cl bond angles of 111° and Cl-V-Cl bond angles of 108°. The V-O and V-Cl bond lengths are 157 and 214 pm, respectively.  VOCl3 is highly reactive toward water and evolves HCl upon standing. It is soluble in nonpolar solvents such as benzene, CH2Cl2,  and hexane. In some aspects, the chemical properties of VOCl3 and POCl3 are similar. One distinction is that VOCl3 is a strong oxidizing agent, whereas the phosphorus compound is not. Neat VOCl3 is the usual chemical shift standard for 51V NMR spectroscopy.

Preparation
VOCl3 arises by the chlorination of V2O5.  The reaction proceeds near 600 °C:
3 Cl2 + V2O5  →  2 VOCl3 + 1.5 O2

Heating an intimate (well-blended with tiny particles) mixture of V2O5, chlorine, and carbon at 200–400 °C also gives VOCl3. In this case the carbon serves as a deoxygenation agent akin to its use in the chloride process for the manufacturing of TiCl4 from TiO2.

Vanadium(III) oxide can also be used as a precursor:
3 Cl2 + V2O3  →  2 VOCl3 + 0.5 O2

A more typical laboratory synthesis involves the chlorination of V2O5 using SOCl2.
V2O5 + 3 SOCl2  →  2 VOCl3 + 3 SO2

Reactions

Hydrolysis and alcoholysis
VOCl3 quickly hydrolyzes resulting in vanadium pentoxide and hydrochloric acid.  In the picture, orange V2O5 can be seen forming on the walls of the beaker.  An intermediate in this process is VO2Cl:
2 VOCl3 + 3 H2O  →  V2O5 + 6 HCl
VOCl3 reacts with alcohols especially in the presence of a proton-acceptor to give alkoxides, as illustrated by this synthesis of vanadyl isopropoxide:
VOCl3 +  3 HOCH(CH3)2   →    VO(OCH(CH3)2)3  +  3 HCl

Interconversions to other V-O-Cl compounds
VOCl3 is also used in the synthesis of vanadium oxydichloride.
V2O5 + 3 VCl3 + VOCl3  →  6 VOCl2

VO2Cl can be prepared by an unusual reaction involving Cl2O.
VOCl3 + Cl2O  →  VO2Cl  +  2 Cl2

At >180 °C,  VO2Cl decomposes to  V2O5 and  VOCl3.
Similarly, VOCl2 also decomposes to give VOCl3, together with VOCl.

Adduct formation
VOCl3 is strongly Lewis acidic, as demonstrated by its tendency to form adducts with various bases such as acetonitrile and amines.  In forming the adducts, vanadium changes from four-coordinate tetrahedral geometry to six-coordinate octahedral geometry:
VOCl3 + 2 H2NEt  →  VOCl3(H2NEt)2

Organic chemistry
VOCl3 is a catalyst or precatalyst in production of ethylene-propylene rubbers (EPDM).  In organic synthesis, it has been used for oxidative coupling of phenols and anisoles.

References

Vanadium(V) compounds
Oxychlorides
Metal halides
Vanadyl compounds

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Fantastic notes to help in all aspects of this unit.
Lecturer wastes a lot of time trying to be cool (he was Frank). Stopped watching the lectures and just used his powerpoints and the tute questions to study. Exam questions are very similar to tute questions. Boring unit if you don't like math.
I did this unit as a broadening, assuming it wouldn't be too tough as a science student (i.e. familiar enough with mathematics already). That was largely true; save for some business-speak terminology the maths is fairly straightforward, even in the latter portion of the unit (where it's just sigma/Std Dev etc). It was taught by Keith when I did it and I really enjoyed how he taught and explained the concepts in very relatable and understandable ways. It's not too hard to HD, and if you're a science student looking for a low-stress broadening I'd take this over most arts units.
The lecturer this semester, Keith, did a good job at explaining the proofs of the formulas and the theory parts. The unit is pretty doable and the maths isn't too hard but some concepts (eg. TVM,NPV) require a good understanding, as it forms the base for further calcs. All the best!
A really good unit that gives you an idea of whether a finance degree is for you. Quite heavy on calculations.
An interesting finance unit. Many formulae and calculations will be taught. Practices are needed to better understanding of how do the formulae work.


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On Learning and Wisdom in Complex times
On April 23, 2013 June 11, 2013 By Author of #PowerofSeeIn Education, Management, Nemetics
Clearly the top question in today's world of uncertainty and randomness is 'How do we learn fast enough to gain understanding, insights and wisdom to negotiate our complex world and act in a 'blink'?
To start our exploration we might start with the main schools of thoughts. However, be warned that this is just a whistle-stop tour illustrated by my not too well-formed 'pencil sketches' of the great rivers of human thoughts on learning. And I, for purely practical purposes, would stick to the Western flow of thoughts on learning since this has indeed come to dominate our present way of thinking about learning all across the world. For want of space and to keep this blog post within reasonable limits (that is not to bore people to death) I would have to keep out for the time being some of the great minds whose thoughts on thinking and learning are as important and significant as of those whom I mention. For example, I left out notable mathematicians and some philosophers like Heraclitus, Hegel, Marx, Kant and others, whom I would like to cover in later blog posts if my time and energy permit to do so.
I would start with Plato. He was a firm believer of the 'big picture' as we find him in his book 'The Republic'. To him the 'big picture' is some sort of idealized form constructed by the human mind. So, he thought that all of us must go as close as possible to an ideal or an idealized form or an idealized idea. In order to do so we must know something beforehand to understand a big picture to build an idealized picture of the reality (Plato's Theory of Form). With that he defined the role of philosophers who must impart the knowledge of forms (or ideas), which is 'real knowledge' to the average person who he thought is deluded by changes sensed by his senses (allegory of the cave). In short, he was a suspicious of the knowledge gained from experiences.
However, his student Aristotle, thought differently. He thought that it was best to work up from basic facts and observations to form general principles. I would go on a limb to say that it was the start of the modern scientific way of viewing and learning more about the physical world through direct observation to form general principles that could be applied with repeatable accuracy. Hence such principles turned out to be a set of axiomatic set of principles that might be used to view the world around us.
Needless to say that these two schools of thought clashed with each other in our effort to find a way to learn better. For a long time, others who came behind Plato and Aristotle chose either of these schools as their learning framework.
For example, Descartes, toeing Plato's line of thinking, tried to create a body of knowledge that would stay independent of experience. His idea was to make knowledge certain without tolerating ambiguity. That was 'rationalism' or better known as the domain of 'bounded rationality'. It was useful at that time of human learning. The idea was to get away from the iron grip of churches who clung to the Platonic view. No wonder the early universities in Europe were founded by churches. Cambridge was possibly the first exception. Under the influence of the King it moved away from teaching canonical laws and Platonic school of learning to classics and mathematics founded on Aristotelian and Euclidean way of thinking.
It quietly slipped into the Aristotle's way of scientific thinking backed by Euclidean geometry which exploded to a highly enriched state with the arrival of Newton. No wonder space was rigid in Newtonian science (Euclidean influence), which was revised by another great mind, Einstein. But that happened years later.
But what happened immediately was the meteoric rise of the crown. The king was able to rob political power from the church based on science and its inventions triggered by Newton and his contemporaries.
However, this was soon followed by the fecund period of Scottish Enlightenment led by personalities like David Hume and Adam Smith. Perhaps it is not a coincidence to find Hume, Smith and Watt working in the same Edinburgh University as contemporaries. It was, as if, their ideas and thought processes rubbed off on each other.
Hume's thinking differed from Plato and Aristotle. It was, so to say, a much more practical approach to things. He stressed upon the idea that we can only know what we can experience. So this marked a radical departure in the domain of 'learning' away from the world of Plato, Aristotle and Euclid.
I think it was "acceptance of the world as it is" ; not what it seemed through the 'Theory of forms' or Aristotle's seeing the world through a set of a priori 'axiomatic principles'. And this way of thinking was not without great impact. Fair to say that it ushered the scientific age paving the way for an astounding leap in engineering and science birthing industrial revolution that provided a welcome relief to the masses from the church's feudalistic way of living off the land, which was ruthless, to say the least. This period also saw the coming of Darwin and Maxwell revolutionizing their fields of study and work, which had deeper implications in the modern age in terms of genetics, relativity and the birth of quantum mechanics.
However, that meant that science and scientists soon started ruling our thought processes and learning methods. The age of logic returned. And it had its profound imprints in the way we learned in schools, colleges and industries. There was a scientific temper to everything.
But scientists were also developing their own 'blind spots'. The most famous example that stood out was that of Einstein coming from the Platonic school of thought. He was so enamored by his own idealized 'big picture' that he just could not see the new development of quantum mechanics coming. He simply refused to accept reality since it simply refused to match his 'idealized form' of reality. Hence the next phase of development in science was admirably led by Bohr and Heisenberg.
However, it was still the age of logic and it found its way in almost every sphere of human activity from mathematics to economic to management. The attempt was to build a system or a thought process through logic and logic alone.
But logic had its limits proved by Godel's famous incompleteness theorems. So it wasn't uncommon to find systems and models developed and built on logic often flounder and fail. Failure through contradictions was evidently built into logic.
All this time the field of uncertainty was developing in fits and starts well hidden from public view by people like Poincaré whose work was later admirably taken up by people like Edward Lorenz and Mandelbrot. This and the work of mathematicians like Markov, Weibull, Kolmogorov and others who firmly established the field of uncertainty, sensitive dependency on initial conditions and complexity. This was further reinforced by behavioral economists like Daniel Kahneman and others. Meanwhile, as Aristotelian logic was re-framed by Fisher and others into rigorous statistical inferences; Bayes and his disciples (most notable in modern times is Nate Silver) extended Hume's philosophy of 'experiential learning' to mathematical beauties.
The field of complexity, ambiguity and adaptation soon began to dominate more practical fields of computers, genetics, biology, engineering, physics, mathematics and even management. From the age of rigid rationality, almost unerring logic & iron clad certainty we suddenly find ourselves in the age of irrationality, uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity.
That is a peculiar predicament. Only logic would no longer be useful. Those who would only like to stick to it would fail too often and fail too soon. Construction of the 'big picture' often leaves us in the quandary about how to act. Axiomatic principles are often more questioned than accepted as given. Acting only on experience might prove fatal and inadequate. Models are often proved wrong. And so on…
So what to do?
Undoubtedly this is a difficult age to live. But one thing is certain. There are no longer any fixed ways of looking at our world.
Fortunately, there is one common way of learning that runs through everything. This might be described as follows:
a) Pay attention (Notice)
b) Engage to learn (Engage)
c) Mull the choices we have (Mull).
d) Exchange our learning in ways others might get it (Exchange).
That is NEME, the basis of the discipline of Nemetics.
The discipline of Nemetics tends to answer three vital questions that help in this age of complexity.
a) What is going on? — NEME
b) What does it mean? – Design Kata
c) What might we do about it? – Rapidinnovation
Possibly that leads us to give us a way of living in these complex and turbulent times.
a) Strategy — Follow your aspirations but check the facts and re-purpose if need be. (Feel)
b) Take failures of any system as the starting point of learning and leadership. Learn to face failures and fears through improvisation and innovation. (Think)
c) Learning is a personal responsibility. It is about personal mastery. Collaboratively learn through self-study, observations, thoughts of others, interactions with peers and mentors and feedback from your own work since learning, understanding and gaining insights might not possibly happen in one stroke. In other words keep learning and improvising to pavé the way to arrive at wisdom. (Innovate through improvising).
Luckily all that can happen in a blink through perseverance and patience aided by the power of emergent complexity of our 800 MB human genome in a self organizing way that can beat the best super computer of the world.
That is what we can really rely on.
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Lakshmi Pathi
I read this article early morning. It is so nice to start my day with great thoughts.
abc in the conclusion of this article are like an arrow for more focused approach.
Thank you for the well written article.
I'm sorry you didn't go more into some Asian schools of thought and learning, as Fritjof Capra famously pointed out that they make more sense in the context of quantum physics than the Platonic or Aristotelian lines do.
As someone who has been living in France for 21 years, I can tell you that Descartes has done us a lot of harm with his classifications, and particularly, from an environmental point of view, the separation of humans from the "natural" world.

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Q: Conveying the idea of a sole item I'm having a hard time finding a phrase I'm contended with in regard to a sole item. I tried using "the only one" but for some reason it rings as referring to a person, not an item (but hey, maybe it's just me). I guess an instance is in place to describe my problem precisely:

The pink plate wasn't the only one covered in grime.
The Lansdowne portrait wasn't the sole hung on the vast wall.

The first sounds, to me at least, as talking about a person not a plate. The second sounds plainly wrong, but then again if I insist on keeping "portrait" adjacent to "Lansdowne", how can I possibly write "portrait wasn't the sole portrait". These are just two examples.
Just to make things even clearer, I don't want to use "the only item" because I'm talking about an item out of the same set of items. The pink plate is stationed among other plates and no other cutlery, the first sentence is to convey the idea that some other plates (if not all) are also covered in grime (but plates only). The Lansdowne is hung among other portraits, but not among other canvases of things that are not people - portraits only.

A: Disregard what "rings". You can use 'one', e.g. the last one, the next one, the only one, etc, to discuss any single item, whether an inanimate object, an animal or a person.

The pink plate wasn't the only one covered in grime.

This is fine.

The Lansdowne portrait wasn't the sole hung on the vast wall.

No. The Lansdowne portrait wasn't the only one (=only portrait) hung on the vast wall.

One...

*pronoun

  You can use one or ones instead of a noun when it is clear what type
  of thing or person you are referring to and you are describing them
  or giving more information about them.
They are selling their house to move to a smaller one.
  We test each
  one to see that it flies well.

One (Collins Dictionary)

A:
? The pink plate wasn't the only one covered in grime.

This expression is perfectly normal and idiomatic.
However, you could also replace the pronoun one with an actual noun:

? The pink plate wasn't the only dish covered in grime.

But since you want to be specific about referring only to plates, and since it might sound a bit odd—although not wrong—to repeat plate, the following would work in your specific case:

✔ The pink plate wasn't the only one of its kind covered in grime.

Following one with its offsets any hint of one being used to talk about a person rather than a thing.

? The Lansdowne portrait wasn't the sole hung on the vast wall.

The use of sole is fine, but this particular sentence needs something added to it:

? The Lansdowne portrait wasn't the sole painting hung on the vast wall.

But if you specifically want to use portrait as the noun, and also want to avoid repetition, there is another way:

✔ The Lansdowne wasn't the sole portrait hung on the vast wall.

Since the noun portrait is mentioned closely afterwards, there isn't a need to also mention it immediately afterwards. In the context of the sentence itself, it becomes clear what is being discussed.
For example, in terms of style and what's idiomatic:

✘ The Volvo car was the only car on the lot.
  ✔ The Volvo was the only car on the lot.

The use of car is suspended until the latter part of the sentence. The same thing can be done with the painting.

You need to follow sole and only with either a pronoun or a noun. This is because  they are adjectives and these particular words and sentence constructions require it.

In addition to using those two words, there are other expressions that could be used:

The Lansdowne portrait wasn't alone in being hung on the vast wall.
  The Lansdowne portrait didn't hang on the vast wall on its own.
  The pink plate wasn't uniquely covered in grime.
  The pink plate wasn't the last to be covered in grime.

A: talking about it as if it was a person is fine, because it stands in subject position, where persons should normally stand. Figurative speech is nothing out of the ordinary. Native speakers would not even call it a case of figurative meaning. Your reasoning that makes you think otherwise probably reflects your native tongue (having no indefinite articles for example?).
Nevertheless, you can simply delete "one" in thos sentences without rendering a grammatically wrong sentence.

It wasn't the only covered in grime.

However, since English rarely inflects words, the determiner "one" is needed for clarity. In essence, "only-one" is a standing phrase and "-one" can be seen as a clitic, Where Old English would have had -e as part of the inflectional paradigm (compare German einzige, analyzable as *eins-lig-e, English one + ly, where ige was softened to just -y; more importantly, considering the long lost plural marker -n, I think it's likely that one is a mishearing of -en, or -an).

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Iconic drive-in theaters making big comeback
Fall offers movies and music
By Ron Brohm - For Greene County News
The popular Christian Rock Band Casting Crowns will perform live at the Dixie Twin Drive-in on Friday, Oct. 2. The Dixie Twin is just a short 20 minute drive to Vandalia from Greene County.
Ron Brohm | For Greene County News
Drive-ins have been on the road to extinction for the last 60 years. In Ohio they have dwindled to only 24 drive-ins from a peak of 190 in the late 1960s.
Drive-ins back in the day were a popular family destination. Mom would cook a big bag of popcorn, dad would load the kids up in the car and everyone was off to create some of their best memories ever.
Kids could even play outside before the movie started with many drive-ins having their own playgrounds. You could put your blanket on the hood of the car or in the back of the truck bed and eat popcorn and candy and watch a movie while outdoors. It doesn't get much better than that if you are a kid (or an adult for that matter). It was almost like going on vacation for one night.
Well, due to the current pandemic situation those family "one night vacations" are on their way back. Drive-ins are actually coming back strong now and in different and creative ways also.
Going out for dinner and a movie with the family is no simple task anymore with all the closings, restrictions and, COVID-19 social distancing. As a result, drive-in theaters have been making this big comeback and popping up all over the country as a safe alternative to the traditional movie theater. You can even get pizza, burgers, funnel cakes, and snacks at the drive-in.
Many business owners who have had to shut down their storefronts due to COVID-19 restrictions are now reopening old drive-ins or creating make-shift drive-ins in parking lots to make ends meet.
Concerts and more at drive-ins
Even concert promoters are turning to the drive-in as a safe alternative to traditional concert venues that have all but shut down to a standstill.
Rock band Metallica performed for the "Encore Drive-In Nights" series at hundreds of drive-ins across America including many in Oho on Aug. 29. Singer Garth Brooks also recently performed a live concert for his fans that was shown on 120 drive-in screens across the nation and locally. On July 25, Blake Shelton, with Gwen Stefani and Trace Adkins, performed on the big screen as well. The annual Dayton URS Rubber Duck Regatta, presented by Synchrony, was held virtually on Sept. 18 at the Dixie Twin Drive-in.
Many other top bands and musicians are jumping on board now with drive-in concerts, performing on screen and even performing live in person at the actual drive-in venue. Casting Crowns will be performing live and in person at the Dixie Drive-in on Friday, Oct. 2. Country star Kane Brown's encore concert will be shown at the DixieTwin on Saturday, Sept. 26 and at hundreds of other drive-ins across America.
On Monday, Sept. 28 the Dayton Independent Film Festival will take place at the DixieTwin Drive-In showing 10 short films that evening.
In Pigeon Forge at the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee there are plans for an "Indoor Dome Drive-in" called the August Moon Theatre, Bar & Grill, complete with real classic cars to sit in, a panoramic starry sky overhead, pathways, and even real trees.
And finally, mega retailer Walmart has recently announced it is converting 160 of its U.S. store parking lots into drive-in movie theaters. Locations and movie titles have not yet been announced. The event will run through October and is projected to have more than 300 showings.
Ohio currently ranks third in the nation for number of drive-ins per state with 24. New York ranks No. 1, and Pennsylvania ranks No. 2.
The Starlight Auto Theater in Akron was the first drive-in to open in Ohio. It opened in 1937 and was one of the first 10 drive-ins in the country.
The Lynn Auto Theater in Strasburg, near Canton, is the oldest currently operating drive-in Ohio and the second oldest in the world.
Regional drive-ins
Below is a complete listing of all drive-ins in Ohio with two top drive-ins only a short distance (15-30 minute drive) from Greene County — the Dixie Drive-in and the Melody 49. Many other drive-ins are just a short fun road trip to the Cincinnati and Columbus areas.
Dixie Twin Drive-in — 6201 North Dixie Drive, Vandalia: The Dixie Drive-in was originally opened as a single screen drive-in but added a second screen later down the line.
Melody 49 Twin Drive-in — 7606 Pleasant Plains Road, Brookville: The Melody 49 Twin Drive-in opened in 1966 as a single screen drive-in theater. In 1987 it added a second screen to become a twin drive-in.
Starlite Drive-in — 2255 Ohio Pike, Amelia: The Starlite Drive-in is a single screen outdoor theater that was opened in 1955.
Skyview Cruise-in Theatre — 2420 East Main Street, Lancaster: One of Ohio's oldest drive-ins, the Skyview Cruise-in Theatre has been operating since 1948.
Holiday Auto Theatre — 1816 Oxford Highway, Hamilton: The Holiday Auto Theatre opened in 1948 as the Hamilton Outdoor Theatre. The current owners purchased it in 1985 and made major improvements.
South Drive-in — 3050 South High Street, Columbus: The Columbus South Drive-in is a huge two-screen, 1100-car drive-in theater. They also hold large flea markets there on the weekends.
Other drive-ins in Ohio
If you have family or friends in other areas of Ohio, you might want to turn it into an overnighter trip with a group and get the carload discounted rate. Here is a listing of all the remaining drive-ins in Ohio: Sidney Auto-Vue Drive-in (Sidney); Hi-Road Drive-in (Kenton); Starlight Drive-in (Maria Stein); Tiffin Field of Dreams Drive-in (Tiffin); Lynn Auto Theatre (Strasburg); Magic City Drive-in (Cleveland); Mayfield Road Drive-in (Chardon); Liberty Center Field of Dreams Drive-in (Liberty Center); Springmill Drive-in (Mansfield); Van-Del Drive-in (Middle Point); Auto-O-Rama Drive-in Theatre (North Ridgeville); Star View Drive-in (Sandusky); Sundance Kid Drive-in (Oregon); Midway Drive-in (Ravenna); Blue Sky Drive-in (Wadsworth); Elm Road Triple Drive-in (Warren); Skyway Twin Drive-in (Warren); and Winter Drive-in (Wintersville).
https://www.fairborndailyherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2020/09/web1_Dixie.jpgThe popular Christian Rock Band Casting Crowns will perform live at the Dixie Twin Drive-in on Friday, Oct. 2. The Dixie Twin is just a short 20 minute drive to Vandalia from Greene County. Ron Brohm | For Greene County News
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United States Representative David Cicilline (Democrat, Rhode Island) held a "community conversation" with constituents at Hope High School in Providence on Saturday morning. The two main topics Cicilline wanted to cover were the government shutdown and HR 1, the For the People Act of 2019.
Take on the corruption and self-dealing and corrupting influence of money in our political system.
The first goal of HR1 is to "amplify the voices of the American people." This includes automatic voter registration, early voting, restoring the Voting Rights Act, and investing in protecting electoral integrity. The bill also raises ethical standards and empowers the government ethics office. The bill requires the disclosure of Presidential tax returns. The bill also includes The Disclose Act, which is cosponsored by United States Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island) in the Senate. The bill includes a public finance model. It would prevent individuals in Congress from serving on corporate boards.
Cicilline is also sponsoring bills that will ban assault weapons, high capacity magazines and bump stocks, tighten background checks and introduce universal background checks.
Cicilline serves on the House Judiciary and Finance Committees. Judiciary deals with what Cicilline calls the "I-word," that is, impeachment.
Cicilline serves as the chair of the antitrust regulatory reform subcommittee in House Finance. Part of the problem of inequality is "the big mega mergers, these consolidations of sectors in the economy" that result in fewer choices and higher prices" for consumers. Cicilline cites Facebook and Google as companies that have near monopoly power and threaten privacy.
See: The Most Powerful Person in Tech Is … David Cicilline?
After Cicilline's introductory remarks, he entertained questions and comments from the over 150 people in attendance. Cicilline's answers to the questions and comments are presented in the videos below.
Q1. On HR1, do you have bi-partisan support, and what can we do to help create bipartisan support to get this passed?
Q2. What are your thoughts on monopoly businesses and the ineffectiveness of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
Q3. The people making decisions about our health care seem out of touch with the doctors who are working with patients.
Q4. What are your thoughts about eliminating the electoral college?
Q5. Public opinion matters. Is there any way to get information, real facts, not Fox News, to the "other side" of the debate?
Q6. I am concerned about tobacco use and specifically e-cigarettes. Will you be paying some attention to that?
Q7. Have you considered a bill to force gun owners to get insurance, just as car owners do?
Q8. Should drug manufacturers be required to list the cost of their medications when they advertise on television?
Q9. America has a role to expand and support democracy around the world, but we don't always do so effectively.
Q10. A question from a man who supports the building of a border wall and the electoral college. How do Democrats square their opposition to a border wall with their support for Israel, which manages border walls?
Q11. A question from a woman who believes vaccines are dangerous and that 5G technology will blind people as part of some sort of dystopian future.
Q12. A suggestion that a commission to examine the efficacy of a border wall might allow Trump an out and allow the government to re-open.
Q13. What measures are you putting into make sure the next President will not be able to violate the norms of the position, such as not revealing tax returns, not putting their business and finances into a trust, not running the government as a family business, etc?
Q14. A question on the opioid crisis and corruption.
Q15. Rhode Island may be losing a seat in the House due to population decline. What is to be done?
Q16. As to the border wall, what of the rumors that Trump may declare a national emergency or his deal to trade concessions on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status for wall funding?
Q17. Are there any plans to establish a minimum competence for the office of the President and how close are we to removing President Donald Trump from office?
Q18. Rhode Island is one of the few states that does not allow insurance companies to share savings with patients who opt for cheaper services.
Q19. As legalization of marijuana proceeds state to state, what are the chances of revising banking laws to ensure that businesses have access to banking services?
Q20. A question about what the next steps in geoengineering solutions to climate change might be.
Q21. What are you going to do to get the United States Coast Guard paid for all the important work that they do?
Q22. Can the President be censured by Congress for his behavior over the shut-down?
Q23. A question from a member of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), who says that the air traffic control system is not as safe as it was.
Q24. How do we safeguard our online privacy?
Q25. A question about economic equity and fairness. The questioner asks about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's suggestion that people who make over ten million dollars be taxed at a 70 percent tax rate.
Q26. Will your new position as the chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee allow you to make further change?
Q27. Due to the nature of Cicilline's answer, I have to run the lengthy statement by this man in its entirety.
Q28. Not really a question, but a compliment.
The elected officials in attendance included State Senators Karen Alzate (Democrat, District 60, Pawtucket), Gayle Goldin (Democrat, District 3, Providence), Joshua Miller (Democrat, District 28, Cranston), and Ana Quezada (Democrat, District 2, Providence); Representatives Grace Diaz (Democrat, District 11, Providence) and Rebecca Kislak (Democrat, District 4, Providence); Providence City Councilors Carmen Castillo (Ward 9), Nirva LaFortune (Ward 3) and David Salvatore (Ward 14); Pawtucket City Councilors Michael Araujo (at Large) and Mark Wildenhain (District 2) and Central Falls City Councilor Franklin Solano (Ward 4).
I couldn't make this event so much appreciate this coverage.
I've attended other Rep Cicilline community events, he is very good with small public groups, apparently this time too, even if disagreeing, as on the Electoral College. Though its fair criticism that he misled the public about Providence when he stepped down as Mayor to run for Congress, at this point I think 1st district voters should be very pleased with his record, and proud of our Rep. for advancing in the leadership.


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Bybit attracts cryptocurrency users with its intuitive trading platform and 99.9% availability track record.
Dubai Adopts Its First Cryptocurrency Legislation
Dubai Police will start using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology to analyze the blockchain ledgers.
Twitter Now Lets Users Set NFTs As Profile Pictures
The new feature is currently only available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand through Twitter's iOS app.
Bahrain-Based Cryptocurrency Exchange Rain Raises $110 Million
The financial injection provided by the Series B funding round is supposed to help Rain double the number of its employees, which currently sits at 400.
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BitOasis currently allows its users to buy and sell more than 20 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple.


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Unique insight into molecules
(Nanowerk News) Processes on the atomic scale can only be described accurately by using the laws of quantum mechanics. Physicists at the University of Würzburg have now succeeded for the first time to completely determine the state of such a quantum mechanical system in experiments.
"It is a major step towards fully understanding the natural processes at the atomic scale." That is the conclusion a group of Würzburg experimental physicists draws in an article recently published in Nature Communications ("Complete determination of molecular orbitals by measurement of phase symmetry and electron density"). Achim Schöll, associate professor at the Department of Experimental Physics VII at the University of Würzburg, and his team together with researchers from Jülich and Trieste have found a way to determine the spatial probability density of electrons in a molecule by experiment.
An image representing a cut through a molecule orbital in the real space was impossible to obtain by experiment in the past. Physicists of the University of Würzburg have now made it possible. (Graphic: Schöll work group)
The laws of quantum mechanics
"One has to use the laws of quantum mechanics to describe the processes inside atoms or molecules," Achim Schöll explains. Standard school knowledge of electrons orbiting the atomic nucleus on precise orbits - like moon's orbit around Earth - is not very illuminating when it comes to understanding the world of quantum mechanics. There, particles are treated as complex wave functions; their properties are described by the waves' amplitude and phase.
However, it is extremely difficult to measure these two values by experiment: "It is in the nature of measuring that the phase information gets lost in the process," Schöll says. This is because most experiments measure intensities that correspond to the square of the wave function and thus to the spatial probability density. As a result, the phase information, that is the sign of this function, is lost.
Previous experiments have weak points
This is unsatisfactory from the experimental physicists' point of view. After all, the phase is the decisive value in such fundamental processes as chemical bonding or superconductivity. Therefore, there has been intensive research to find a way to measure this value by experiment. A few methods for measuring the phase do exist already. "But they are not capable of determining the spatial distribution of the electrons at the same time," Schöll explains.
The Würzburg experiment
Schöll and his colleagues have now shown in an experiment that it is indeed possible to measure both phase and spatial probability density at the same time. They accomplished their goal using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy with circular polarized light.
In photoelectron spectroscopy, physicists "bombard" the sample with UV light or X-rays to detach electrons from the sample's surface. The direction of emission and the kinetic energy of these electrons allow scientists to draw conclusions, for example, to the chemical composition and the electronic properties of the solid. Depending on the type of examination, they can also fit the beam of light with specific properties. "Circular polarized light" in this context means: The plane in which the light wave oscillates turns around on a circle – either clockwise or counter-clockwise.
Symmetry provides the wanted information
"Depending on whether we are irradiating our molecule with right or left polarized light, we obtain different intensity distributions," Schöll explains. The difference of these two intensities, the so-called circular dichroism, then shows characteristic symmetries when changing the light's direction of incidence. This allows the phase of the underlying wave function to be derived. This experiment, too, does not return the phase directly. "But we can determine the symmetry of the phase and thus say where the value is positive and where negative," the physicist continues.
Combined with the measurement results of the spatial probability density, the physicists thus get a picture corresponding to a cut through a molecule orbital in the real space. And to know the molecule orbital means to know the molecule's properties as well.
Source: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg


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Q: Change a Layout to use a Imageview or 2 imageviews I´m a little familiarized with android development, so I will do a magazine app, with some pages using imageviews,  one requisite is the app will work in Landscape and Portrait mode, but with one diference, in Portrait will show one page, Landscape will show 2 pages. I always worked with others developers that did the layout, but this time I will do all work. The pages will change using swype method, so I think using a android view pager is an adequate method to do this: http://developer.android.com/training/animation/screen-slide.html but I need to change between a portrait and landscape view, how can I do this?

A: You can create a layout to landscape mode and other to portrait. For example you activity_main.xml layout is on folder res/layout you can create a version on res/layout-land with the same name.
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IRS Issues New Guidance To Clarify and Provide Simplified Procedures for Resolving Certain Issues Related to S Corporation Elections
By: Philip J. Delano, Kevin G. Bender & J. Conrad Garcia
The IRS recently issued Revenue Procedure 2022-19 ("Rev. Proc. 2022-19" or "the Revenue Procedure"), offering taxpayers clarification and new simplified procedures for resolving certain issues related to S corporation elections without the need for a private letter ruling (PLR).
Prior to the new guidance, multiple common mistakes related to S corporation elections required resolution via a PLR request, adding both time and expense to obtaining and maintaining S corporation tax status. Frequently, such issues are discovered only during due diligence for a potential sale, when the additional time required for a PLR may delay or derail a deal.
The Revenue Procedure lists six issues that may be resolved without a PLR, including:
Entering into agreements and arrangements without a principal purpose of circumventing the one class of stock requirement;
Addressing disproportionate distributions despite governing provisions that provide for identical distribution and liquidation rights;
Addressing certain errors or omissions on IRS Forms 2553 and 8869;
Verifying S elections or QSub elections;
Filing a federal income tax return inconsistent with an S election or a QSub election; and
Correcting one or more non-identical governing provisions.
Entering into agreements and arrangements without a principal purpose of circumventing the one class of stock requirement
A corporation with more than one class of stock cannot qualify as an S corporation. Generally, a corporation has one class of stock if all outstanding shares of stock confer identical rights to distribution and liquidation proceeds as determined by the company's "governing provisions" (i.e., articles of incorporation or organization, bylaws, state law, or binding agreements related to distribution and liquidation proceeds).
The Revenue Procedure provides that, if an S corporation or its shareholders enter into arrangements or agreements that are not "governing provisions," such as buy-sell agreements, redemption agreements, agreements restricting transferability of shares, certain short-term underwritten advances, and certain debt instruments treated as equity for federal income tax purposes, then the IRS will not treat the S corporation as having violated the single class of stock requirement if the principal purpose of the agreement or arrangement was not to circumvent the single class of stock requirement. Commercial contracts are not a binding agreement or governing provision unless the principal purpose of the agreement was to circumvent the one class of stock requirement.
Addressing disproportionate distributions despite governing provisions that provide for identical distribution and liquidation rights
A "disproportionate distribution" is any distribution by the corporation based on share ownership that differs in timing or amount among shareholders.
The IRS will not treat any disproportionate distributions by an S corporation as violating the one class of stock requirement so long as the corporation's "governing provisions" provide for identical distribution and liquidation rights.
Addressing certain errors or omissions on IRS Forms 2553 and 8869 (qualified subchapter S subsidiary election—a "QSub" election)
An inadvertent error or omission on IRS Form 2553 or Form 8869 does not invalidate an S election or a QSub election unless the error or omission is with respect to a shareholder consent, a selection of a permitted year (as defined in IRC § 1378(b) and related Treasury Regulations), or an officer's signature.
The Revenue Procedure offers a simplified procedure for resolving inadvertent errors or omissions as well as for addressing the more serious errors or omissions listed above.
Verifying S elections or QSub elections
Generally, the IRS mails the taxpayer written acknowledgement of acceptance of the entity's S election or the subsidiary's QSub election. These written acknowledgements are often requested by a purchaser during due diligence for a pending sale as a means of confirming the seller entity's tax status.
The Revenue Procedure provides a means for taxpayers to receive replacement acceptance letters.
Filing a federal income tax return inconsistent with an S election or a QSub election
S Corporations file a Form 1120-S, and a QSub is included on its parent's Form 1120-S.
The Revenue Procedure clarifies that an inconsistent federal income tax return filing will not terminate an S election or QSub election. Instead, the corporation must file amended tax returns for any open taxable years consistent with its S corporation or QSub status.
Correcting one or more non-identical governing provisions
A "non-identical governing provision" means a governing provision that—alone or as part of another governing provision—results in the S corporation having more than one class of stock, even if the S corporation never made a non-pro rata distribution or liquidating distribution. A non-identical governing provision invalidates or automatically terminates an S election.
The Revenue Procedure provides a relief procedure for correcting the validity or continuation of an S corporation due solely to non-identical governing provisions.
To qualify for the relief, the corporation must satisfy all of the following requirements:
The corporation has or had one or more non-identical governing provisions;
The corporation has not made, or is not deemed to have made, a disproportionate distribution to any current or former shareholder;
The corporation has timely filed an IRS Form 1120-S for each applicable tax year of the corporation beginning with the tax year in which the first non-identical governing provision was adopted and through the tax year immediately preceding the tax year in which the corporation sought relief; and
The corporation satisfied all other requirements of the Revenue Procedure prior to the IRS discovery of any non-identical governing provision. The other requirements include certain corrective relief statements that must be completed by the S corporation and its shareholders and retained by the corporation for IRS inspection.
To take account of the simplified relief procedures set forth by the Revenue Procedure, the IRS will no longer issue PLRs for certain matters covered by the Revenue Procedure. Specifically, the IRS will no longer issue a PLR addressing whether a principal purpose of a commercial contractual agreement, buy-sell agreement, agreement restricting the transferability of stock, redemption agreement, or other instrument, obligation, or arrangement is to circumvent the one class of stock requirement. In addition, the IRS will no longer issue a PLR addressing the validity or continuation of an S election with regard to one or more disproportionate distributions, a missing administrative letter accepting an S election or a QSub election, or the filing of a federal income tax return that is inconsistent with a corporation's status as an S corporation or a QSub.
Rev. Proc. 2022-19 is generally effective October 11, 2022 and contains a transition rule for pending PLR requests.
Should you have any questions regarding the impact of this Revenue Procedure for your S corporation or general questions regarding the validity of your S election, please do not hesitate to reach out to any member of the firm's Tax Section.
Kevin G. Bender – 804.420.6427 – kbender@williamsmullen.com
Philip J. Delano – 804.420.6057 – pdelano@williamsmullen.com
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Fundamentals of Database Systems Global Edition
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Publisher: Pearson Higher Ed
For database systems courses in Computer Science This book introduces the fundamental concepts necessary for designing, using, and implementing database systems and database applications. Our presentation stresses the fundamentals of database modeling and design, the languages and models provided by the database management systems, and database system implementation techniques. The book is meant to be used as a textbook for a one- or two-semester course in database systems at the junior, senior, or graduate level, and as a reference book. The goal is to provide an in-depth and up-to-date presentation of the most important aspects of database systems and applications, and related technologies. It is assumed that readers are familiar with elementary programming and data-structuring concepts and that they have had some exposure to the basics of computer organization.
Fundamentals of Database Systems
Publisher: Pearson
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. For database systems courses in Computer Science This book introduces the fundamental concepts necessary for designing, using, and implementing database systems and database applications. Our presentation stresses the fundamentals of database modeling and design, the languages and models provided by the database management systems, and database system implementation techniques. The book is meant to be used as a textbook for a one- or two-semester course in database systems at the junior, senior, or graduate level, and as a reference book. The goal is to provide an in-depth and up-to-date presentation of the most important aspects of database systems and applications, and related technologies. It is assumed that readers are familiar with elementary programming and data-structuring concepts and that they have had some exposure to the basics of computer organization.
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A breakthrough sourcebook to the challenges and solutions for mobile database systems This text enables readers to effectively manage mobile database systems (MDS) and data dissemination via wireless channels. The author explores the mobile communication platform and analyzes its use in the development of a distributed database management system. Workable solutions for key challenges in wireless information management are presented throughout the text. Following an introductory chapter that includes important milestones in the history and development of mobile data processing, the text provides the information, tools, and resources needed for MDS management, including: * Fundamentals of wireless communication * Location and handoff management * Fundamentals of conventional database management systems and why existing approaches are not adequate for mobile databases * Concurrency control mechanism schemes * Data processing and mobility * Management of transactions * Mobile database recovery schemes * Data dissemination via wireless channels Case studies and examples are used liberally to aid in the understanding and visualization of complex concepts. Various exercises enable readers to test their grasp of each topic before advancing in the text. Each chapter also concludes with a summary of key concepts as well as references for further study. Professionals in the mobile computing industry, particularly e-commerce, will find this text indispensable. With its extensive use of case studies, examples, and exercises, it is also highly recommended as a graduate-level textbook.
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Release Date: 1992-01
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Author: Barry Eaglestone
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Fundamentals of Database Systems combines clear explanations of theory and design, broad coverage of models and real systems, and excellent examples with up-to-date introductions to modern database technologies. This edition is completely revised and updated, and reflects the latest trends in technological and application development. Professors Elmasri and Navathe focus on the relational model and include coverage of recent object-oriented developments. They also address advanced modeling and system enhancements in the areas of active databases, temporal and spatial databases, and multimedia information systems. This edition also surveys the latest application areas of data warehousing, data mining, web databases, digital libraries, GIS, and genome databases. New to the Third Edition *Reorganized material on data modeling to clearly separate entity relationship modeling, extended entity relationship modeling, and object-oriented modeling *Expanded coverage of the object-oriented and object/relational approach to data management, including ODMG and SQL3 * Uses examples from real database systems including OracleTM and Microsoft AccessAE * Includes discussion of decision support app
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Continuous improvements in data analysis and cloud computing have allowed more opportunities to develop systems with user-focused designs. This not only leads to higher success in day-to-day usage, but it increases the overall probability of technology adoption. Advancing Cloud Database Systems and Capacity Planning With Dynamic Applications is a key resource on the latest innovations in cloud database systems and their impact on the daily lives of people in modern society. Highlighting multidisciplinary studies on information storage and retrieval, big data architectures, and artificial intelligence, this publication is an ideal reference source for academicians, researchers, scientists, advanced level students, technology developers and IT officials.
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I know a lot of you want the rings without the logos.... Ill do that when the time is right.
This wallpaper is a recreation of the background graphic found on the Hyperspin web site. The graphic was created from scratch using structured graphics for the best final effect. The archive includes both a 1080p and 4K resolution version of the file.
Thought i kill two birds in one giant stone.
Just some simple Platform Category Logos.
Hey all, quick introduction: I'm THK, section admin to the HS forum's artwork section and contributing member. Once HyperBase was announced I thought the system logos looked a bit low res and set out to make everything high res and vector. Many more systems were added then the list I originally went by and I've redrawn a big chunk of arcade manufacturer/publisher logos whilst I was at it. Now I haven't come across them here and since no centralized site/community for creating FE related artwork has yet come to fruition, I'd though I'd share them here with you all. As I'm totally new to this site, I have yet to read up on uploading policies here, so for now, here's a google drive link (Still WIP, not everything is complete and some minor things might still have to be fixed) I've redrawn as much as possible in .ai (drag & drop into PS to set the desired size or run a batch) and there's also 1000px wide .png previews included (for purposes of showing them off in the WIP threads and for ppl who don't want to deal with .ai) Feel free to use these in other created FE media and wheel sets. And feel free to give me some credit when using these for all my hard work Credit/thanks to SpotUp for contributing to this set (a few of his still to be added) and SubZero for his Arcade Classics logo.