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Orgány činné v trestním řízení podle § 12 odst. 1 českého trestního řádu tvoří soud, státní zástupce a policejní orgán, pokud provádějí úkony trestního řízení. V anglicky mluvících zemích se procesní termín orgánů činných v trestním řízení, který by zahrnoval jak policii, tak i soud a státního zástupce, nepoužívá. Pojem law enforcement agency (orgán či organizace prosazování práva) zahrnuje jen policii či obdobné složky na její úrovni s policejními kompetencemi.

Policejní orgán
Policie působí zejména v přípravném řízení, kdy provádí úkony k objasnění a prověření skutečností důvodně nasvědčujících tomu, že byl spáchán trestný čin, a vede vyšetřování, po podání obžaloby policejní orgán může opatřovat důkazy na žádost státního zástupce nebo soudu. Policejním orgánem jsou:

 útvary Policie České republiky
 Generální inspekce bezpečnostních sborů
 pověřené orgány vězeňské služby
 pověřené celní orgány
 pověřené orgány Vojenské policie
 pověřené orgány Bezpečnostní informační služby
 pověřené orgány Úřadu pro zahraniční styky a informace
 pověřené orgány Vojenského zpravodajství

Orgánem, který není činný v trestním řízení je obecní policie (popř. městská policie).

Státní zástupce
V přípravném řízení vykonává státní zástupce dozor nad zachováváním zákonnosti, rozhoduje o opravných prostředcích proti rozhodnutím policejního orgánu, na konci přípravného řízení podává obžalobu či rozhoduje o postoupení věci, zastavení trestního stíhání, přerušení trestního stíhání, podmíněném zastavení trestního stíhání či schválení narovnání.

Soud
V přípravném řízení soud pouze rozhoduje o některých prostředcích k zajištění osob a věcí (např. rozhodování o vazbě, domovní prohlídce) a rozhoduje o opravných prostředcích proti některým rozhodnutím policejního orgánu a státního zástupce. Těžiště jeho činnosti je po podání obžaloby, kdy rozhoduje o vině, trestu a ochranných opatřeních. V rozhodovací činnosti soudu v trestním řízení se rozlišuje, zda rozhoduje soudce (v přípravném řízení), předseda senátu (o procesních záležitostech), senát (ve věci samé a o některých procesních záležitostech) či samosoudce (v řízení o méně závažných trestných činech).

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Today may not be the day that you review your Q3 results. We are in the heart of Q4 where you are likely spending every waking moment thinking about how to optimize sales from emails and other marketing communications. And when I say optimize – just like your boss – I really mean increase.
Even though marketers sometimes consider the third quarter of the year as a "keep the lights on" time as they plan for the holiday season, we have been thinking about Q3. We have analyzed the email results of our North American clients and have once again published quarterly benchmarks so you can compare your own results to others. Reviewing your quarterly results to industry results helps you pilot your email program in the right direction.
We will still be right here with this email and mobile benchmark data when you catch your breath after the holidays and can look back over the year, and specifically Q3.
The first thing to know about this quarter compared to third quarter last year is that email volume rose 5%. This was mainly due to a huge rise in volume – over 23% – from emailers in the media space, which includes both publishers and entertainment brands.
The first thing to know about this quarter compared to third quarter last year is that email volume rose 5%. This was mainly due to a huge rise in volume – over 23% – from emailers in the media space, which includes both publishers and entertainment brands. The other industries were within 5% of last year's volume – some higher and some lower.
One potential reason for the decrease of volume in certain industries, mainly travel and services, was because of an increase in the implementation of reactivation programs. These programs remove inactive recipients, which increases overall engagement, but decreases volume.
Both total open rates and unique open rates increased nearly one percent to 29.9% and 19.2%, respectively. This increase is sizable, especially when you consider that volume across all industries rose 5%.
While the open rates nudged up slightly, click rates had large increases. Total clicks increased 20.4% to 3.8% when compared to last year. The more important unique click rate also increased a sizable amount. It was up 7.4% to 2.3%.
The context of these numbers is always important. When we compare revenue per email of Q3 this year to Q3 2017 we see an increase from $0.05 to $0.06. This increase is less important as a real number, as revenue per email has held steady for all of 2018 at six cents per email. The other thing to consider is how one cent can multiply across all the emails that you send to become a sizable increase in revenue.
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Go ahead and download the Q3 2018 Email and Mobile Benchmark Report today to compare your third quarter results to other emailers and others in your industry once the holiday pixie dust settles. It will help you pilot your email program to success just like a certain jolly old elf who completes a round-the-world journey in one night.


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Dr. Dre Playing "Heavy Role" On Upcoming Anderson .Paak Album
Published on: Feb 7, 2018, 8:20 AM PST
by Henry Mansell
Anderson .Paak says fans can expect his third studio album — the follow-up to 2016's widely-acclaimed Malibu — to be released sometime this year.
During a recently published interview with Australia's triple j radio station, .Paak also revealed that label boss Dr. Dre has been heavily involved in the album's creation.
"[Dr. Dre] had a heavy role in this new album that's almost done as well," he said. "Just going through the mixing phase. I won't say any dates but you can definitely expect it this year, sometime … It's dope to be around like legends like that and you can feel the mutual respect. That's what I always did it for, I wasn't really thinking about money or fame, I just wanted the respect from the people I look up to musically. It's amazing."
.Paak heavily contributed to Dr. Dre's 2015 album, Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre, featured on six of the LP's 16 tracks. He signed to Dre's Aftermath Entertainment in January of 2016.
Elsewhere, .Paak also spoke about working on the Black Panther soundtrack, which is executive produced by Kendrick Lamar and TDE boss Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith.
.Paak — who appears on the album's "Bloody Waters" song alongside Ab-Soul and James Blake — reveals he recorded his part remotely in South Africa.
"We were in South Africa, we had literally just got off the plane and I got a text from Kendrick, he was like 'I hear you on the song I don't hear nobody else on it,'" he said. "I just go to South Africa, 'I'll try my best to get it done'. So we just booked a studio that night and I recorded it and sent it back – he loved it. Couple weeks later it was on the soundtrack."


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Beyond the Thaw – Alpha Demo
October 8, 2021 by KJ Robertson
Beyond the Thaw is a tense and atmospheric cinematic horror adventure where a snowmobile crash leaves you stranded in a snowy wilderness filled with dark nightmarish creatures.
Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer when it was a game jam prototype, Beyond the Thaw is now benign expanded into a full game with more nightmarish monsters to hunt you through the snow. In the game you take on the role of a former military doctor called Max Gilbert, who was on a snowmobile journey with a friend to a remote cabin when a landslide causes them to crash. Max now has to go in search of his friend and safety in a treacherous icy wilderness where it's not just the cold that may kill him.
The Beyond the Thaw demo build takes around 25 minutes to play through and sees you embarking on the first day of Max's dangerous journey. The cold is perhaps the least of your worries as there are plenty of other ways to die and there are at least four different kinds of monsters lurking in the darkness. There are also surreal moments that make you think that some of it is happening in Max's mind, or at least there's some powerful sentient entity that enjoys screwing with him.
It's a nice change for a horror game to be set in an open snowy wilderness rather than claustrophobic dungeons and it gives the game a very unique vibe. The Unreal Engine powered visuals are also beautiful and it makes for a very cinematic experience as you trek through the snowy landscape. The voice acting is also a lot of fun and adds a lot of personality to your character as he comments on most things rather than silently walking through the snow. A frostbitten horror adventure with charm, creativity and beautiful cinematography. Highly recommended.
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I made a three day trip of the Halloween weekend and went up to Northern California to fish Hat Creek and the Sacramento River. I got away at 4:30 am Friday and was on Hat Creek at the Power House Riffle by 10. I actually had it to myself for the first half hour or so. There were a few BWO's hatching, but not much surface action. I fished very small soft hackles, 18's and 20's and took a few small fish. Then all was quiet until late afternoon. Several people came and fished the riffles, setting up homestead sites in prime locations, lobbing their weighted, indicatored nymphs like an oilfield grasshopper pump, hour after hour. I didn't see them catch much, and I don't have the patience to stand in one spot that long, so I didn't indulge.
Then about 4:30 the fish turned it on. There had been sporadic BWO's all day long, but the fish finally got interested. I fished "under the hatch" swinging a small green bodied soft hackle in the water just below the riffle. At one stage I was getting at least a bump on every cast. I brought a number of good fish to hand, and several other strong pullers got loose. I didn't break any of them off. I have taken a hint from Sylvester Nemes' books on soft hackles and use quite strong tippets with even the smallest flies--4x with #20's. The notoriously picky fish of Hat Creek don't seem to be leader shy to flies presented this way. The only concession I made to size was to tie the fly on inside a Ken Eugene loop for a bit freer action.
The next day, Saturday, on Hat Creek was pretty much a repeat of the first. Sunday I drove route 89 over to the upper Sacramento near the town of Mt. Shasta. It was a beautiful hour drive over there with fall color being about as good as it gets for California. The weather was clear and the 14000 foot volcano of Mt. Shasta had a dusting of snow. I got on the river near the Cantara loop, site of the notorious poison spill in 1991. October caddis were quite in evidence, but in three hours fishing I got only one fish. But this was tourist fishing intended as a timekiller befor the main event which was to get on the lower Sacramento near Redding in the afternoon.
I had been there three weeks ago for the first time and fished there all day. Nothing but nothing happened until late afternoon that time so I didn't see much point in being there in the morning. Even then except for a couple of bumps I got skunked. Those who caught fish got them on caddis pupa imitations which I didn't have. Going to the pattern books, I didn't find anything that quite appealed to me, but I got some inspiration for a soft hackle. It was pretty simple--orange thread, a body of tannish brown ostrich herl twisted into a chenille with a dubbing loop, gold crystal flash rib and partridge hackle. The herl chenille has the appearance but not the effect of bulk.


Lemon Blossoms – Cooking with LOVE!
Spray miniature muffin tins with vegetable oil cooking spray. Combine the cake mix, pudding mix, eggs and oil and blend well with an electric mixer until smooth, about 2 minutes. (The batter will be thick). Pour a small amount of batter, filling each muffin tin half way. (I found a small cookie scoop the perfect thing for making them a uniform size).
Bake for 12 minutes. (I baked 4 dozen at one time, so it took a little longer–be sure to reverse places in oven for even baking if you cook this many. Also, they come out of the tin better if you cook a little past the golden brown stage so the cake is more firm). Turn out onto a tea towel.
Make the glaze while the cakes are baking. Sift the sugar into a mixing bowl. Add the lemon juice, zest, oil, and 3 tablespoons water. Mix with a spoon until smooth.
With fingers, dip the cupcakes into the glaze while they're still warm, covering as much of the cake as possible, or spoon the glaze over the warm cupcakes, turning them to completely coat. Place on wire racks with waxed paper underneath to catch any drips.
Let the glaze set thoroughly, about 1 hour, before storing in containers with tight-fitting lids.


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Show someone you are thankful for them with these Thankful Cookies in a Jar.
If you are looking for a gift to share this holiday season then you will love Thankful Cookies in a Jar. This delicious fall themed mason jar cookie recipe comes with cute printable labels and a printable recipe card you can attach to the jar.
Do you love baking? I love to eat baked goods, but baking ins't something I enjoy. But, I do think baked goods are a great way to let people know you appreciate them. And who doesn't love eating cookies?
It's probably a good thing I don't love to bake very often because I would definitely end up eating all of these cookies. Make a batch for yourself and share a jar or two with someone you are thankful for this Fall.
For my Thankful Cookies, I used an oatmeal cookie recipe and added white chocolate chips, Reece's Pieces and pecans. They were SO good and just reminded me of Fall!
Combine flour, baking soda, salt and sugar in a bowl. Place the mixture in a 1 quart jar.
Next, layer brown sugar, oats, chopped pecans, chips and Reese's Pieces.
Leave a note with the following instructions: Preheat oven to 375° F. Beat 1/2 cup softened butter or margarine, 1 large egg and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until blended. Add cookie mix and mix well. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks. Makes about 2 dozen cookies.
You can download these printables for FREE onto sticker paper (I use Avery full sheets) and stick them to the jar. The set includes a front label, the back label (where you'll write the instructions) and a label for the lid. In addition, you can download a printable recipe card here if you would like them to be able to make more of these yummy Thankful Cookies in the future.
These Thankful cookies in a jar are an easy, inexpensive gift that tastes delicious. You can't go wrong with that!
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The Year Ahead 2020
Inequality in Cambridge and Chicago
Jan 3, 2020 Angus Deaton
No one should doubt the intellectual contributions of Chicago School luminaries like Milton Friedman, George Stigler, James Buchanan, and Robert Lucas to economics and political economy. Yet it is hard to imagine a body of work more antithetical to broad thinking about inequality and justice.
PRINCETON – Many people seem to be losing faith in capitalism, and with it, any faith they had in economists, who are seen as its apologists. The New York Times reporter Binyamin Appelbaum's new book, The Economists' Hour, raises many uncomfortable questions. Did economics take a wrong turn? Did those of us who do not subscribe to its Chicago School neoclassical variant nonetheless allow ourselves to be pushed too far in that direction? Would the world have been a better place if Cambridge economists had achieved more influence, and Chicago economists less? And, by Cambridge, I of course mean Cambridge, England.
When I became an economist in Cambridge 50 years ago, economists and philosophers talked to one another, and welfare economics was taught and taken seriously. John Rawls's landmark 1971 work A Theory of Justice was much discussed, and Amartya Sen, Anthony Atkinson, and James Mirrlees, all then in Cambridge, thought about justice and its relationship with income inequality.
Sen, inspired by Kenneth Arrow's Social Choice and Individual Values, which he read as an undergraduate in Calcutta, wrote about social choice theory, relative and absolute poverty, and utilitarianism and its alternatives. Mirrlees solved a version of the question of how to reconcile a preference for equality with the need to respect incentives, and Atkinson showed how to integrate views about inequality with its measurement.
Meanwhile, in the United States, the Chicago School was following a different line. No one should doubt the intellectual contributions of Milton Friedman, George Stigler, James Buchanan, and Robert Lucas to economics and political economy, as well as those of Ronald Coase and Richard Posner to law and economics. Yet it is hard to imagine a body of work more antithetical to broad thinking about inequality and justice. Indeed, in the most extreme versions, money becomes the measure of wellbeing, and justice is nothing more than efficiency. When I came to the US in 1983 and was called out as "unprofessional" for thinking about inequality, I thought of my own reaction years earlier to reading Stigler's 1959 argument that "the professional study of economics makes one politically conservative." I had thought it was a typo; I had never met a conservative economist.
The influence of Chicago economics and of Friedman's own arguments remains extraordinarily wide. Friedman dismissed much of inequality as natural, reflecting the choices of people with heterogeneous tastes. He believed in equality of opportunity but stridently opposed the estate tax as "a bad tax" that "taxes virtue" and "encourages wasteful spending." More than 700 economists recently endorsed these claims, and today we hear the same arguments against a wealth tax. For Friedman, who also favored tax competition between countries, efforts to limit inequality of outcomes would not only stifle freedom but would also result in more inequality. Free markets would produce both freedom and equality.
It doesn't seem to have worked out that way.
Instead, we got a world in which the Sackler family paid themselves more than $12 billion for igniting and promoting an opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Johnson and Johnson, the makers of Band-Aids and Baby Powder, grew opium poppies in Tasmania to fuel the epidemic while the US military was targeting the Taliban's opium supply in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. In 1839, the British sent gunboats to make China safe for British (and Indian) opium smugglers. We have private equity firms buying up ambulance services and staffing hospital emergency rooms with their own physicians so that they can charge "surprise" fees even to patients whose insurance covers that particular hospital.
This is exactly how we would expect unregulated markets to work: establish a local monopoly and charge a high price in the face of inelastic demand by unconscious (sometimes literally so) consumers. At least in retrospect, it is not surprising that free markets, or at least free markets where government allows rent seeking by the rich, produce not equality but an extractive elite. After all, this is not the first time that utopian rhetoric about freedom has produced an unjust social dystopia.
Appelbaum's best example is the achievement of which Friedman was most proud: the introduction of an all-volunteer military, which I suspect most economists still favor. But is it really a good idea to draw our military from those with less education and fewer opportunities? In 2014, only 7% of enlisted troops had a bachelor's degree, compared with 84% of officers.
Anne Case of Princeton University and I have been exploring widening inequalities between the less and well educated in the US. We have found a growing divergence in wages, labor-force participation, marriage, social isolation, pain, alcoholism, drug deaths, and suicides. And now the less educated are being asked to risk their lives for an educated elite, who choose where, when, and whom to fight.
We have lost the social connectedness that came from all kinds of people serving together. Listen, for example, to the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow describe his experience in the army as one of the best and most important periods in his life. If US President Donald Trump were to reject the 2020 election results, or refuse to leave the White House after being impeached and convicted, we may come to regret the social divisions that have given us an enlisted military selected from the places and people who most fervently support him.
Chicago economics gave us all a healthy respect for markets, but it also gave us too little regard for what markets cannot do, do badly, or should not be called upon to do at all. Philosophers have never accepted that money is the sole measure of good, and economists spend too little time reading and listening to them.
But change may be on the horizon. The Nobel laureate economist Peter Diamond was a longtime collaborator of Mirrlees, and his work with Emmanuel Saez is helping to shape plans by US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a leading candidate to challenge Trump in 2020, to re-institute high marginal tax rates on the rich. Whatever the outcome of the 2020 election, more attention to Cambridge economics might help restore faith, not only in capitalism, but also in economics itself.
Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is the author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality.
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Ben Leet Jan 10, 2020
Average U.S. household annual income is $141,000 (BEA.gov, Table 2.1), and only 18% are above average; the median is less than half the average, $63,179. Average wealth or savings per adult is over $400,000, and over $800,000 per household, but 40% cannot afford an emergency expenses of $400 and pay it in 30 days, says the Federal Reserve. Three individuals own more than the collective savings of half of all adults, about 125 million adults. To me, anyone who observes this imbalance and does not see dysfunction and unfairness is willfully blind, and perhaps a bit cracked. People die as a result, communities languish, potential is wasted. The moral legitimacy of the economic system is discredited. The ruling elite are on the side of thugs, thieves and mafiosos. Since 1980 the lower-earning 50% of adults have had 1% gain in incomes (from $16,000 to $16,200), the top 1% has tripled it's income from $430,000 a year to $1.3 million, says the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, "Distributional National Accounts", Piketty, Saez, and Zucman. The economy should serve the society, not the other way around. We need radical restructuring and fairness. Human lives are wasted for the sake of a hoarding few.
Didier Vanoverberghe Jan 13, 2020
Yes indes, there are 8 million Americans in precariousness . Worldwide 3 billion people are in precariousness and 3 million children of less than 5 years who die every year. What is your proposal for restructuration ?
I write a blog: http://benL88.blogspot.com. Things come to mind: higher taxes on top 5%, to fund New Green Deal and infrastructure improvements, which creates millions of good-paying jobs, the PRO Act a labor union improvement bill, and placing workers and community members on corporate boards. Income and wealth are in unhealthy imbalance, pre-tax re-distribution in economically fundamental to economic health. Saez, Piketty and Zucman say that 16% of national income has shifted from lower-earning 90% to upper 1%. That's about $20,000 per household if not more, transferred to the richest. CBO says 10%, since 1980. This shift is responsible from much of near-poverty condition of lower 40%. Internationally, we need to activate "special drawing rights" from World Bank or IMF and institute a Marshall Plan type of aid program. The money is there, it's just being held in wasteful super-wealth accounts. Credit Suisse Bank's report Global Wealth says $317 trillion in wealth held globally, but what purpose does it serve? The Marshall Plan had good outcome.
Ian Maitland Jan 10, 2020
Will the real Angus please stand up?
1. Which Angus wrote about hyperglobalization that "[l]ife is better now than at almost any time in history. More people are richer and fewer people live in dire poverty. Lives are longer and parents no longer routinely watch a quarter of their children die"?
2. Which Angus debunked the idea (pushed by Paul Krugman and other populists) that the mortality epidemic among the less educated "has anything to do at all with expanding income inequality"? And who said that "the most popular story in the media is the 'inequality kills' story. Of course, this presumes that if people at the top had made less, those at the bottom would have more, which I don't believe is true. Even then, the matching of mortality to income growth, as a story, turns out to be surprisingly difficult to tell"?
3. Which Angus is unperturbed by inequality? Who said "… [I]f someone gets rich, good luck to them. Otherwise it is as if those left behind in the prisoner of war camp can legitimately complain that their lives are worse just because some people made a successful escape. Yet there are many, particularly on the left, who think that equality is a desirable goal in and of itself"?
4. Which Angus agreed with the Chicago School that "... few would support a prohibition on allowing parents to use their talents to favor their children"?
5. Finally, which Angus has endorsed procedural over substantive equality, saying that procedural equality is "important and overly neglected…. Getting rich by making is fine; getting rich by stealing is not fine"?
Will Deaton tell us what he really thinks?
Dallas Weaver, Ph.D. Jan 10, 2020
If you assume that all the wealth in society is a "commons" resource, the above discussion is really about who will manage those resources. Deaton apparently believes that "wise people with good intentions" like the progressive political class will do a better job for society than those who are creating more wealth.
We know when the military controls the wealth of a society it is easy to waste trillions of that wealth for blowing up things and killing people while the generals are virtue signaling to each other feeding their egos. The trillions the US military spent on the Middle East could have built enough alternative energy to replace oil as a world energy supply and make the countries of the Middle East irrelevant.
We can also have the political class control the wealth for the "best interest of all" and with non-greed based intensions. They would use it to have all the citizens "produce according to their abilities and provide wealth to the citizens according to their needs". However, examples of this type of management outcomes have killed some 100 million people via starvation and slave labor camps around the world. The "needs" of the political leaders are well met but the citizens lack everything.
Then the alternative becomes letting the creators of the wealth manage the wealth. As the market-based creation process is based upon "greed" and efficiency some people will be richer than others which induces "envy" in the political class. Historically and worldwide the old Chinese saying about the "Grandfather making the fortune and his son maintaining the fortune and the grandchildren squandering the fortune" appears true.
The real question is should Bill Gates, etc. control the wealth they created or should the political class or military class control the wealth and which would result in the best outcome. I trust Gates to make better decisions that the Generals or the politicians.
Who will manage the wealth others created ?
What about the descendance of rich people ?
Didier Vanoverberghe Jan 9, 2020
Mathematically and economically when two economic laws are antethical, at least one is false, eventually the two.
Does Cambridge and Chicago will provide each side with certainties, knowing that human are worth more than money? Or is it possible to use the antethical thesis to rebuild a consistent theory ? If I propose to demonstrate first, what is not true with Cambridge and secondly with Chicago will you read this ?
First we can take a look to Cambridge, England:
1) Keynes multiplier is taught since 70 years but it is possible to easily demonstrate that this theory is wrong , even if it is the first time it will be explained.
2) due to the two Cambridge controversy today answer, Capital should not be defined ; but Sraffa is wrong, we can define and aggregate it.
(These issues are necessary to question Friedman PIH theory and Ricardo Barro theory ).
Will a Cantabrigian economist would like to get the answer(s) to one or two of these questions ?
Sorry : antithetical (and not antethical)
Timothy Lohrey Jan 4, 2020
Great summary. I can only hope this world will see a new movement of social democrats fed up with the deterioration of our core institutions in the face of crippling inequality, willing to enact the pragmatic policies necessary to truly address the situation. Otherwise, I fear we risk a great crisis.
In your opinion, which decisions should be right ?
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Ministry of Fear
Director: Fritz Lang
Screenplay: Seton I. Miller (based on the novel by Graham Greene)
Stars: Ray Milland (Stephen Neale), Marjorie Reynolds (Carla Hilfe), Carl Esmond (Willi Hilfe), Hillary Brooke (Mrs. Bellane #2), Percy Waram (Inspector Prentice), Dan Duryea (Cost / Travers the Tailor), Alan Napier (Dr. JM Forrester), Erskine Sanford (George Rennit)
Ministry of Fear, the third of four anti-Nazi films that German director Fritz Lang made during his tenure in Hollywood (the other three being Hangmen Also Die, Man Hunt, and Cloak and Dagger), is hardly one of the great director's signature works, but it still holds up nicely as an example of the paranoid espionage thriller that Lang helped pioneer in the 1920s and that was particularly in vogue in Hollywood during the war years. Lang himself didn't think much of the film since he was hamstrung by Seton I. Miller's screenplay, which was adapted from Graham Greene's 1943 novel (Lang admired the novel and had wanted to adapt it himself, but Paramount beat him to the rights). In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Lang claims that he was "terribly shocked" when he read Miller's screenplay and tried unsuccessfully to get out of his contract. "I had signed a contract and I had to fulfill it," he said, "and that's all. I saw it recently on television, where it was cut to pieces, and I fell asleep."
Lang, who was given to hyperbole and exaggeration regarding his own life and films, perhaps sells himself a bit short. Ministry of Fear is far from his greatest film, but it is hardly the soulless piece of studio hackery he makes it out to be. While most of the film's problems can be traced back to the coincidences and stretches of credulity required by Miller's screenplay (a villain all too conveniently killed in a bomb blast that all too conveniently allows a crucial piece of cake to survive intact, despite leaving an enormous crater in the ground, for example), Lang brings to the film a sometimes startling visual acuity that plays beautifully on noir-ish themes of paranoia, claustrophobia, and nightmare. As a whole the film doesn't quite pull together, but it is filled with isolated moments of tense brilliance and visual panache.
The protagonist is Stephen Neale (Ray Milland), a variation on Hitchcock's wrongfully accused innocent on the run from both the police and the true villains. The twist is that Neale isn't entirely innocent: When we first meet him, he is being released from a mental asylum for a then-unstated crime for which he paid two years of his life. It is later revealed that he was put away not only for murder, but for the murder of his wife, although the exact nature of the killing is clarified in a way that eventually sheds sympathetic light on what would otherwise be seen as a heinous crime. After buying a ticket to London against the advice of his doctor, who reminds him that it is being blitzed nightly by the Germans, he wanders into a charity carnival, where he has his palm read and ends up winning a cake that was intended for someone else. That twist of fate puts Neale in the deadly crosshairs of a shadowy group of Nazi agents that wants him dead and whatever was hidden in the cake in their possession.
With no one to turn to, Neale takes it upon himself to ferret out his would-be killers in London, which leads him first to a comical drunk of a private investigator named George Rennit (Erskine Sanford) and later to the offices of the charity where he won the cake, which is run by a brother and sister from Austria, Carla (Marjorie Reynolds) and Willi (Carl Esmond). They are willing to help, but in a Lang film, no one is to be trusted, and the eagerness of characters with Germanic accents to assist him carries with it a whiff of a double-cross in the making. Neale crosses paths with other potentially nefarious characters, as well, including an icy, platinum blonde clairvoyant (a psychic fatale?) who leads a séance that results in a murder for which Neale is blamed. He is also being constantly trailed by a sinister figure (Percy Waram) in a black overcoat who casts a menacing shadow even when sitting in a chair trimming his fingernails—never a good sign in a Lang film.
Working with veteran cinematographer Henry Sharp (who had shot King Vidor's The Crowd in 1928), Lang imbues even the most benign of locations with a sense of unease, which gives the entire film a slightly uncanny quality. The machinations of the plot are loud and fairly clumsy, with unanswered questions and conveniences that serve the screenwriter but not the story (the growing romance between Neale and Carla feels particularly strained, despite good performances by both Milland and Reynolds), yet Lang molds it into something that is consistently entertaining and at times genuinely enthralling. The film as a whole doesn't really stick with you, but isolated moments and images do: an almost surreal chase through a marsh while bombs fall in the background, two unexpected gunshots in complete darkness, a villain dialing a phone with an obscenely large pair of phallic scissors. Without fully cohering, these bits and pieces burrow into your consciousness and stay there—the true hallmark of Lang's unique cinematic sensibility.
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Although one of Lang's "minor" films, it is great to have Ministry of Fear on Blu-Ray, since its only appearance on home video in the U.S. was a VHS tape from 1998 that never made the leap to DVD. Criterion's new 2K digital transfer was made from a 35mm safety fine-grain master. The resulting image, which was digitally polished to remove most instances of dirt and damage (a few scratches remain, but are negligible), is quite good. The black-and-white cinematography boasts excellent contrast and strong shadow detail while also maintaining a healthy level of film grain that is quite pleasing to the eye. I also have no complaints about the monaural soundtrack, which was transferred at 24-bit from the optical print tracks and digitally restored. Several moments in the film are punctuated with near silence, and there is barely a whisper of ambient hiss to be heard.
The only supplements on the disc are the original theatrical trailer and a 17-minute interview with film scholar Joe McElhaney (author of The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli), who usefully discusses the film in the context of Lang's entire career, pointing out the thematic and stylistic connections with his more well-known films.
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Petroglyph and Funcom have announced a new Conan game, Conan Unconquered. This new game will be a strategy game set in the Conan universe inspired by the Black Colossus story, players will be tasked with building a stronghold and army to defend it against hordes of enemies. Conan Unconquered is launching in Q2 2019.
OSLO, Norway – December 10th, 2018 – The mighty barbarian returns, this time in the first-ever strategy game set in the brutal and savage world of Conan! Funcom is thrilled to announce Conan Unconquered, a strategy game releasing in Q2 2019 where players must build the ultimate stronghold and assemble an unconquerable army that can stand against wave after wave of enemies in increasing numbers and difficulty. The game is published by Funcom and created by the veterans at Petroglyph, a team that includes several of the lead developers on the classic and original strategy games such as Dune 2 and Command & Conquer.


With last week's Queen's Speech fresh in mind, employers are looking to employee benefits as a way of generating future savings, whilst providing value for their employees. Employee benefits and reward schemes are a great way for employers to show staff their appreciation, whilst offering so much more than just financial support.
There's a whole range of employee benefits available, with some of the most popular including salary sacrifice schemes such as childcare vouchers, computer and workplace parking schemes, health benefits and shopping discounts. In the current economic climate, even the smallest of benefits can make a real difference and the provision of employee benefits has been proven to increase staff morale and motivation. One of the best features of salary sacrifice schemes is that they usually offer National Insurance savings for both employers and employees. For employees, this could mean making significant savings on the cost of childcare, a bike, an iPad, a mobile phone or even gym membership (depending on the benefits offered by the employer). Many of these schemes, such as childcare voucher schemes, also provide a tax saving for employees as the sacrificed amount is taken from their gross salary. With the cost of living increasing, the opportunity to save money is one welcomed by all, and with benefits for both employees and employers, it really is a win-win situation. As an example of the savings available, childcare voucher schemes can save employees up to £933 a year, with employers enjoying savings of up to £402 a year in National Insurance for each member on the scheme. Large employers such as Councils can often enjoy savings of over £100,000 a year, so it can have a significant impact on budgets.
For employers looking to take advantage of the saving opportunity from childcare voucher schemes, now is the time to act. The Government has recently confirmed that a new Tax-free childcare scheme will be replacing the current childcare voucher scheme in Autumn 2015 and unfortunately the new scheme will not offer any National Insurance savings for employers.
Alison Chalmers, director of employee benefits company Wider Plan, speaks about the changes.
The good news is that employers can still set up a childcare voucher scheme any time before the Autumn 2015 deadline, so there's still time to build up the National Insurance savings. Furthermore, any existing members of the current childcare voucher scheme will be able to remain in the scheme following Autumn 2015, so employers will continue to receive National Insurance savings from any employees who choose to stay in the existing scheme. Although some parents may prefer to switch to the new Tax-Free Childcare scheme, many will be financially better off remaining in the current scheme. For example, the new Tax-Free Childcare scheme will allow parents to claim 20% relief on their childcare costs up to £10,000 a year, per child – the equivalent of up to £2,000 support per child per year. However, under the existing scheme basic-rate taxpayers currently receive savings of 32%, while higher-rate taxpayers receive savings of 42%. Although Tax-Free Childcare allows parents to claim relief on a higher amount of childcare costs, the savings are capped at 20%. This means that parents with modest childcare costs are likely to be better off under the current system. We recommend that employers seeking a childcare voucher provider look for one which offers a 'Tax-free savings calculator' to help parents work out which scheme would be in their best interest when the time comes.
With the new Tax-Free Childcare scheme threatening the amount of employer National Insurance savings from childcare voucher schemes post Autumn 2015, it's the perfect time for organisations to look at increasing their other salary sacrifice benefits. Whether it's a workplace parking scheme to help employees with parking costs, a cycle scheme to encourage employees to cycle to work, or a mobiles and computers scheme to keep employees up-to-date with the latest technology, there are salary sacrifice benefits to suit all requirements. Furthermore, with the savings generated from salary sacrifice schemes, employers can afford to expand their benefits to include other popular benefits such as employee discount and reward schemes, which offer savings on both everyday items and recognition for those employees who are willing to go the extra mile. Evidence shows that employees who feel that their work is valued are more likely to remain within that company, and the provision of benefits and rewards can really help employers to hold on to their greatest assets – their employees.


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Q: What are occupied states in a semiclassical context? I've been reading this question and the answers it received, and I still have some unresolved questions.
It is common to use the semiclassical approximation in describing charge carrier transport in semiconductors (for example, see Ashcroft & Mermin chap. 29). Wavepackets are combinations of momentum eigenstates that give some localization to a particle (electron or hole) within the limits of the HUP. This is helpful in view of the importance of position and distance in semiconductor device design (e.g., depletion regions, base layer widths in BJTs, FET channels, etc.). It is also noteworthy that many simplified diagrams of p-n junctions have an x-axis.
Basically, my question is this: When we discuss occupied states in a semiclassical context, does this only refer to energy/momentum eigenstates (delocalized, without reference to position), or does it mean instead that the energy states in a particular x,y,z region are occupied?
In the case of depletion regions, no (or very few) electrons are available in the conduction band, and no (or very few) holes are available in the valence band because of recombination. To me that seems like states that are occupied (or unoccupied) locally.

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Readers of this first verse cannot help but notice the redundancy between the first and second clause of the same sentence. If Yitzchak was the son of Avraham, then indeed Avraham fathered Yitzchak. Rashi, ever sensitive to the subtleties of language tells us of a backstory, which explains as to why this clarification was in order.
Whether these people should be called "comics" or "cynics" or "scorners", is unclear, what is clear is that they went for the cheap laugh at the expense of Yitzchak - and Avraham and Sarah. They did not wish to entertain the possibility of a family that lived a life of holiness, and were blessed with a miracle. Rather dirty minds with wonderful imaginations provided a more rational explanation for Yitzchak's birth, with Avraham and Sarah - suffering the collateral damage of these poisonous jibes.
For some reason they considered the pregnancy of a ninety year old woman who has suffered decades of infertility, to be rationale, and the virility of an elderly man - who had recently fathered a child - to be irrational. But such is the power of cynicism, to plant seeds of doubt, even where the alternative narrative is equally or more implausible.
Sarah does not say that Yishmael will be a bad influence, or give other reasons for his expulsion - rather the focal point is inheritance.
We are unfortunately familiar with suicide bombers whose blind hatred of others is so profound they harm themselves in the process. Here we find a suicide comic, who is willing to harm his own chances of inheritance as long as he harms the object of his jealousy and hatred in the process.
Indeed Avraham fathered Yitzchak, and Yitzchak was the son of Avraham, a miraculous child, given to wonderful parents. Some people were overjoyed with the miracle. For others it fueled laughter of a different type, smirking, knowing glances and cynicism. With all the progress of the past four thousand years, the world has not changed all that much.
1. Seforno 21:9, Beit Yitzchak 21:9, Sefer Maaseh Hashem Chelek Maase Avot Chapter 19.


"God Bless America" replaced a traditional Hebrew hymn, and the entire congregation joined in a mourner's prayer last night at Baltimore's Har Sinai temple as Rosh Hashana services marked the Jewish New Year and the start of the faith's 10-day High Holy Days period.
Such changes in the traditional services, the sermons by rabbis and increased police patrols outside synagogues throughout the Baltimore area reflected a new reality of terrorism and loss in America in the wake of the Sept. 11 airplane hijackings and attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.
The patrols were particularly evident along Park Heights Avenue, home to several congregations, including Har Sinai, a Reform temple.
"Let us not lose our humanity in the face of the inhumanity of others," Har Sinai Rabbi Floyd L. Herman said during his sermon.
Herman said the United States should take a measured response, and he was glad that America's reaction had not included an immediate attack.
Those responsible for the attacks last week "may have been Muslims and may have been Arabs," the rabbi said, "but they do not represent all Muslims and all Arabs."
The congregation was visibly moved in the singing of "God Bless America," instead of the hymn "Adon Olom" to end the two-hour service. In another departure, everyone joined in saying kaddish -- the mourner's prayer usually recited by those who have lost relatives or friends.
Across the area, rabbis have said they would weave the themes of the holiday -- reconciliation and accountability, prayer, righteousness and justice -- with the national experience of the last week that has cast a pallor of sorrow on the usually festive air of Rosh Hashana.
Rabbi Mona Decker of the Bolton Street Synagogue filed away a "cheery" sermon she had written about having an appreciation of all new things and wrote another that weaves those themes together, she said.
"I think we are all in pain," Decker said. "These events have affected each and every one of us."
Rabbi Seymour Essrog of Adat Chaim Congregation in Reisterstown said earlier in the day he expected the celebration to be solemn.
"If they don't bring that solemnity from themselves, they're going to hear it from my sermon and other sermons," he said.
Although the joy of the holiday might be muted, some rabbis said they believe it was their responsibility to help people move on from the sadness.
"My sermon will deal with the theme that you have to live," said Essrog, who saw the nation as going through a time of "communal mourning and communal confusion." He said he also planned to touch on the need to pick up the pieces and hope for a better year.
Sun staff writers Liz Bowie, David Rosenthal, Jason Song and Laurie Willis contributed to this article.


Living in Las Vegas means we almost never get snow days. As a kid growing up in CT, we got them all the time. Still, I've got to expose Cinco and The Princess to making snowmen. So in honor of that winter weather back east, we created our own pom-Pom snowmen and women!
A hot glue gun, buttons, and Pom-poms is all you need. We added ribbon scarves and a feather boa, but you get the idea! I also glued the snow people to a larger button so they had a base of support.
Then the kids started getting a bit creative and we even made snow-aliens!


Genetics will change the future in the same way computers changed our lives. The difficulty is many of us don't see it yet. In 20 years when our middle school students are in through 30's, they will be faced with a myriad of choices about their genes and the health of their new born children. This video is a great instructional piece to get students thinking about the implications of future technology.


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Match fixing in Australia? Uproar on one ball, team lost the match won! , big bash league brisbane heat lost to hobart hurricanes fans claim match fixing
Hobart Hurricanes defeated Brisbane Heat in the 55th match of Australia's Big Bash League. Brisbane team could not score 18 runs in 23 balls.
What happened in the Big Bash League?
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ongoing t20 tournament in australia big bash league There has been a big ruckus. This ruckus has arisen after Hobart Hurricanes' 2-run victory over Brisbane Heats. The ruckus is so big that the fans are linking it to match-fixing. In this match, Hobart Hurricanes, batting first, scored 120 runs in 20 overs, in response Brisbane team could only score 118 runs in 20 overs. At one time this team had to score 18 runs in 23 balls but still the Brisbane team lost the match.
The ruckus on Brisbane's defeat happened in the last over. When Tim David had to save 10 runs in the last over. His third ball was hit for a six and that ball was a high full toss. This ball was so high that it was being considered as a no ball above the waist but the umpires did not check this ball. Just the cricket fans did not understand this and after that the talk of fixing this match of Big Bash League has started.
How did the Brisbane team lose the match they won?
Brisbane Heat seemed to win this match very easily but the whole match was overturned in the last 23 balls. Let us tell you how Hobart's team won the match in the last 4 overs.
In the 17th over, Faheem Ashraf gave just 2 runs and in this he took a wicket.
In the 18th over, Nathan Ellis gave 4 runs and took a wicket.
In the 19th over, Joel Paris spent 2 runs and took a wicket.
How did Brisbane Heats lose the match?
Game done in 20th over!
Hobart's team gave the last over to part time spinner Tim David. Despite the poor performance in the last three overs, Brisbane's victory was believed to be certain, but something else happened. Tim David took the wicket on the third ball after dotting the first two balls. However, on his fourth ball, Bajli changed the match by hitting a six.
The Hurricanes keep their season alive with an absolute miracle! #BBL12 pic.twitter.com/pCPBA7cp9x
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Now Hobart had to save 4 runs on the last two balls and David did not give any run on the fifth ball. on the last ball Brisbane Wanted four runs and his batsman Baijli could score only one run.


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Q: How do I access an open API like Ethereum with a spreadsheet like excel or sheets? Is there a way to access the Ethereum API using either excel or sheets or some other database with a website front end?  I'm trying to track my transactions.

A: Google Sheets has a scripts editor where you an access APIs.  https://developers.google.com/codelabs/apps-script-fundamentals-3#9
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As 2016 comes to a close, GWA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of GWA News Clippings a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Friday, Jan. 6.
The 5 most common editing and proofreading mistakes
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Science explains why people who love writing are smarter
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People 'bubbling out of pubs' since curfew
Shadow justice secretary David Lammy has said that the introduction of a 22:00 curfew for pubs in England has led to people "bubbling out of pubs" at the same time.
The Labour MP said that drinkers were "hanging around towns and they're potentially spreading the virus".
Mr Lammy questioned the "science" behind the new restrictions, saying: "It's not clear where that came from."
But the culture secretary said: "There is definitely science behind it."
Oliver Dowden, speaking to BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, insisted: "That's why we're requiring people to be seated in pubs and restaurants, so that stops the flow of them to and from the bar.
"We are reducing the closing times to stop people staying later and drinking."
"And the point about all of this is that everyone has their part to play. If we all play by the rules, we can ensure that there are not further, more draconian restrictions," the culture secretary added.
Under the new restrictions, which came into force on Thursday, all pubs, bars and restaurants in England are to shut no later than 22:00 each night. They are also restricted to table service only.
But concerns have been raised by both businesses and community groups that the new curfew encourages customers to all leave at once and to carry on drinking together at one person's home.
Brewer and pub chain Greene King told the BBC: "Without the usual slow 'wind-down' time that pubs would see with a gradual closure, customers were all leaving at once which presented more of a challenge for the pub teams managing people's safety on exiting the premises.
"We have also seen examples of people leaving our pubs to buy alcohol in shops to drink elsewhere," its statement said.
It is calling on the government to reconsider many of the measures – which were introduced since the number of Covid-19 infections started to increase again.
They urged additional help for the hospitality industry: "The measures have not been well thought through and the combined impact of [the curfew], the challenges of table service-only and the fact that the government are unfairly targeting the hospitality sector has had a cumulative negative impact."
Pub chain operator Mitchells & Butlers, which runs brands like All Bar One, said it was too early to tell what impact the curfew might have on trade, although "it creates an additional challenge as it forces customers to leave all at once rather than dispersing gradually".
A spokesman said it presented an extra hurdle "in what are already very challenging and uncertain times for our industry".
The boss of the Wetherspoon pub chain has also questioned the introduction of the 22:00 curfew.
Tim Martin said on Tuesday: "The main problem with the 22:00 curfew is that it's another random and arbitrary move by the government, which lacks logic or scientific credibility."
He said that it would reduce sales for "hard-pressed" pubs and restaurants, while also increasing "the level of unsupervised socialising" at home and elsewhere.
Speaking on the Marr show, Prof Mark Woolhouse, who sits on the government's advisory body that models pandemics, said that modelling of the effect of the new curfew had not been carried out to his knowledge.
He explained: "The models do not have the sort of granularity that you can explore in detail for closing times for pubs, or even different versions of the rule of six that we now have around the country.
"So those sorts of things have to be judgement calls based on the public health evidence."
A spokeswoman for the Department for Business said: "These measures strike a balance between saving lives by protecting our NHS and the most vulnerable and minimising the wider impact on the economy and schools.
She said the government had taken "immediate action" as the latest data suggested a "considerable rise" in the infection rate from within the hospitality sector in recent weeks."
"We've acted decisively to support the hospitality sector throughout the coronavirus outbreak, and will keep all measures under constant review," she added.
After falling from their April peak, confirmed new coronavirus cases in the UK have been rising again since early August.
On Saturday, the country recorded 6,042 new cases. It was the fourth day in a row that new infections across the UK have topped 6,000.
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Do we have the discipline as a people to combat this kind of pandemic?
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(1) Abba Kyari came back from Germany and Egypt and did not self-isolate for 14 days, spreading the virus across top government circles
(2) Davido came back from the US and immediately met with Governor Seyi Makinde, where it is believed the governor contracted it
(3) At UCH Ibadan, the chief medical director attended a board meeting after being exposed to an infected person, thus spreading it among the hospital's top brass
(4) Very few Nigerians who have come into contact with infected people have gone into the mandatory 14 day isolation. Contrast this with how Anthony Joshua isolated himself after he had been in contact with Prince Charles
(5) I gather that about half of the medicines and equipment like facemasks donated to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital were sold off on the private market. I can see this happening with a lot of the equipment Jack Ma donated to Nigeria
(6) What I find totally unacceptable too is the fact that we are not manufacturing the goods required to combat this pandemic. If we are serious about fighting it, we need to start mass producing facemasks, ventilators, sanitisers, mobile handwashing basins, etc. Nobody anywhere has a surplus to sell to is even if we have the money to pay for it. We are deluded if we think there are enough goods for 200m people stockpiled somewhere in some warehouse
(7) Everywhere else in the world, factories are being converted into plants that manufacture goods to combat this pandemic. Similar to what you get at war time when car factories are converted into aircraft manufacturing facilities. Nigerians in their typical intellectually lazy fashion, however, think they can go out and import what they need. Do we know that many countries have actually introduced a ban on the export of medical equipment at the moment?
(8) Innoson Motors for instance should be asked to start manufacturing ventilators, with the government ordering a massive consignment of about 500,000 machines upfront. Folorunso Alakija is a fashion designer who manufactures garments. Her factory should be asked to produce 200m facemasks by the government
(9) Despite the government's guidelines on social distancing imams and pastors are still holding faith gatherings. People who attend as just as culpable as the clergymen too. Our legendary indiscipline is going to be Nigeria's greatest undoing here
(10) I appreciate the little a lot of organisations and individuals are doing with their donations and I like what the Lagos, Ogun and Oyo state governors are doing with regards to opening isolation and testing centres. However, to beat this pandemic, we need a wholistic approach. I fail to see this and dread to think of what will happen if we were hit with the numbers the Italians and Americans have been hit with for instance
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Even walking, in the dark it was difficult to see, so after I had gone about half a mile, I got off the road, on the side away from the cliffs. There were a lot of bushes and the ground was sandy and hard, but I found a flat place and I got into my sleeping bag. There were no cars on the road, and I fell asleep listening the to soft sounds of waves from the other side of the road, down somewhere beneath me.
When I woke, the ground and all the bushes were covered with snow. I was cold and wet. The fog was still there too, and the snow came out from this cloud and it was beautiful. I got the wet sleeping bag into the pack, and went back onto the road, which was glistening and black, the snow and fog swirling above it. To get warm, I walked fast on the road, but there was no traffic. The cliffs down to the ocean were not as steep as they had seemed in the dark. There were rocky paths, small trails, that went down and disappeared in the mist, and I walked down one of them to the beach.
The snow covered the sand right to where the waves washed against it. I walked along that line, putting my footprints in snow, then in wet sand. Small waves came out from the mist, and the snow swirled about them.
I forgot how hungry I was; I thought that there was nothing that I wanted.
Before I could answer, the younger child said, "We live up there!" and pointed up towards the road.
I took off my pack, put it down in the snow, and sat on it. I asked, "What are these?" and touched one of the plants.
"Kelp," the older child said, "It grows out there," and she pointed to the ocean.
"You are so stupid," the girl said.
And then they chased each other, running around me, pushing and pulling at each other. Then again, they both stopped.
The little boy had run down towards the waves and was bent over at the waist, his hands on his knees, shuffling slowly and looking intently down. His sister yelled to him, "What are you looking for?" and he answered her by yelling back, "Shut up!" She immediately dropped the kelp she was holding and ran down to where the boy was. Instead of pushing at him, as I had expected her to do, she started searching the sand by her feet the same as he was doing. I watched them for about a minute, and then, rapidly, the little boy knelt down and picked something from the sand, and then ran to me, with his sister running behind him.
"Here," he said, "This is for you." He was holding out to me a white, round thing that was hard and thin as a piece of cardboard.
I took it from the boy, and then the girl said, "It is a sand-dollar. It is fragile. He always finds them. I only find broken ones." As she said this, she leaned her elbow on the boy's shoulder and he grinned. She said, "He has very good eyes but I can run faster," and they both then raced away, along the footprints that I had left.
I held the sand-dollar and looked at where the children had disappeared. I could hear them faintly laughing from somewhere in mist. Then, when I was about to give up and keep walking, the laughing grew louder and they came running out from the fog, back to me.
The girl was in front, but the boy was close behind her. They were panting, and they came up to me fast, almost knocking me over from where I was sitting. They were pushing large shell things at me, and they both were talking at once. He said, "I found both of these but she took one." And she said, "He only saw them first, he finds everything first, but I picked them up first." And he said, "Did not. You took it." But they were laughing, not really arguing, just happy.
"What are these?" I asked, holding a dark, dense, shell, turning it over in my hands.
I laughed, and then the boy said, "You should try one," and then he ran up towards the cliffs and came back in a moment holding a big rock with both his hands.
The boy ignored her. Then he told me to hold the oyster and he took the knife from me and opened the long blade and he took the broken oyster from me and slid the knife into it.
The girl said, "Then why do you do it?" But she was leaning close, as I was, watching him.
He said, "Because it is the only way to open them unless you smash them like birds." He moved the knife around for a moment and then said, "See?" And then handed the knife back to me, gently lifted the two shells apart, and held the shell with the oyster's body under my nose.
The girl said, "He likes showing off," and she again leaned her elbow on his shoulder and again he grinned.
I asked them what I should do, and they told me again that "grown ups" eat them. I ate the oyster then, and I made a face and said, "Yuck," and the children laughed and made faces too and ran around me, and pushed at me, and pulled at my hair. The boy opened the other oyster and held it out for me and I ate it, and again the children laughed and pushed at me, and then, for the first time in more than a year, I was laughing.
The boy said, "Don't tell her that I used your knife, ok?" I said I wouldn't tell anyone. I thought the children would leave then, but they stayed next to me, holding the oyster shells, grabbing them from each other's hands, and arguing about pearls and if the white inside of the shells were the same as pearls. I sat on the pack, and I looked up the beach and saw through the snow, their mother come walking towards us.
I could hear cars then up on the road. I remember feeling snow on my face, and I remember feeling my throat tighten. The children were smiling at me, but I didn't know what to do. Instead of going with them, I stood up, swung on the pack. Then I said goodbye, thanking the children, thanking their mother for the offer, and walked back along the snowline, along my tracks.
That night I was in Portland. Gray lines of the homeless waiting for food at a mission, gray lines of us by a labor office looking for work, and then just the early darkness of winter. I went back onto the highway, but couldn't catch a ride, so I climbed up under a bridge and slept for a while there. The roaring of traffic turned into dreams of waves and water. In the morning I woke up and smiled. The children had laughed and run; the world was not all concrete and steel. It was the moment that I knew I would not always be drifting.


I tried to plan carefully for our trip to Yosemite knowing we were in a timeshare unit and would only have the food we brought with us. I did pretty well, I thought, only spending $70 for several reasons.
2. I bought Bisquick, bread, and spice packets that I would normally make from ingredients already on hand.
For our trip to DH's family I knew my Mother-in-Love would have all the staples in her kitchen and I would just need to buy groceries to supplement what she is always willing to share. I was so surprised and delighted when she revealed a budget set aside for grocery shopping! I had to spend very little all week, but even so we shopped together and found some screaming deals. I also tried to shop carefully so as not to take advantage of her generosity.
We found 20 oz. packages of taco seasoned ground turkey marked down to $1.49 each! We bought all three for our big family party at the end of the week and I cooked it up that night and tossed it in the freezer.
I bought only one quart of creamer for DH and he used it all week.
MIL got some great additional discounts because of her JustForU rewards. Combined with an email nudge from a friend, I think I'm convinced I should try some of the digital coupons.
Here's what I DID spend all week: $ 3.60 at Wal-Mart on hot dog buns and macaroni & cheese. We didn't even eat the mac'n'cheese and it's still at MIL's house. I also went the FIL one day for diapers and ice. I bought the ice for $3.99 since I hadn't bought anything else all week! I also ordered my 40# box of chicken from Zaycon Foods for October delivery. It cost $73.60.
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Tesla Full Self-Driving beta now attaches video recordings to testers
The system's latest agreement requires testers to opt in and allow Tesla to associate recorded video — inside and out — with a specific car's VIN.
Tesla Full Self-Driving beta testers will need to give up a little more privacy if they want to test the Level 2 driver-assist system. Electrek first reported Wednesday that the carmaker has updated its terms of agreement for FSD usage, and testers must now opt in to sharing video. That includes video recorded inside a Tesla and outside while FSD is active.
Tesla does not operate a public relations department to field requests for comment, but the new portion of the agreement reads, "By enabling FSD Beta, I consent to Tesla's collection of VIN-associated image data from the vehicle's external cameras and Cabin Camera in the occurrence of a serious safety risk or a safety event like a collision."
Essentially, the new policy likely covers the automaker's rear end in case someone tries to blame a crash or incident on the system, when driver error may be to blame. Despite the "Full Self-Driving" name, FSD is not an autonomous system, according to the SAE Scale of Autonomy. Tesla's instructions tell drivers to remain alert and prepared to retake control of critical functions at any given time.
Although the company did gather footage from cars previously, this is the first time said footage will be tied directly to a Tesla's VIN. That will make it simpler than ever to track down the person who owns a particular Tesla in case of one of those "safety events" occur.
The company continues to roll out FSD to more drivers as they opt in after achieving at least a 98/100 score on Tesla's safety metric. According to many drivers, it's easy to game the safety score system, however. The system is available for a $10,000 purchase, or a subscription of $199 per month, to be eligible to gain access to FSD's features.
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TheOne will pick Janet Napolitano, governor of Arizona as his running mate. Don't laugh. She is smart, middle of the road, with some right of center positions, as well as from the same state as John McCain. They will want to give McCain a run for his money in his own state. She is very popular in her state. This is where the rubber meats the road. You heard it her first. She will be his pick.


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Big 3: Top entertainment events Saturday and Sunday
'Beauty & the Beast' waltzes into the Fox, Dierks Bently is at DTE and music, art and more is celebrated in Mexicantown
Big 3: Top entertainment events Saturday and Sunday 'Beauty & the Beast' waltzes into the Fox, Dierks Bently is at DTE and music, art and more is celebrated in Mexicantown Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1TsBinh
DetroitNews Published 6:35 p.m. ET May 20, 2016 | Updated 9:36 p.m. ET May 20, 2016
Southgate resident Jeanette Palmer will appear as a Silly Girl in this weekend's production of "Beauty and the Beast."(Photo: Disney)
1. Disney's 'Beauty & the Beast' at Fox Theatre Based on the 1991 animated film, this stage production features the Academy Award-winning score and Tony Award-winning team members like costume designer Ann Hould-Ward and lighting designer Natasha Katz. Look for local actor Jeanette Palmer of Southgate playing the roles of "silly girl" and "enchanted object."2 and 7:30 p.m. Sat. and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sun. $37.50 and up. 2211 Woodward, Detroit. (313) 471-6611.
2. Teatro Chico: Detroit Latinos at Ford Resource and Engagement Center at Mexicantown Mercado Part of the "Detroit Latinos: How We Got Here, How We Live Here" project, Saturday's event includes student photography, music and other art. 6 p.m. Sat. $5 suggested donation. 2826 Bagley, Detroit. livingartsdetroit.org
3. Dierks Bentley at DTE Energy Music Theatre Country star Bentley is on tour in support of his eighth studio album, "Black," which will be released Friday. His concert is the first of the season at this outdoor venue. 7 p.m. Sun. $27 lawn, $36.75-$51.75 pavilion. 7774 Sashabaw, Clarkston. (248) 377-0100.
Melody Baetens
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Home The Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition Catalog Exhibition of paintings by Albert Sterner : Jan. 5-24, 1909.
Exhibition of paintings by Albert Sterner : Jan. 5-24, 1909.
Title Exhibition of paintings by Albert Sterner : Jan. 5-24, 1909.
Subject [LCSH] Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946 -- Exhibitions.


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What is your true edge in Investing?
In the financial industry, most investment decision making follows a rational process until, often at crucial times, that process breaks down. Whether you're an individual investor, portfolio manager, financial adviser, trader, analyst, odds are you've experienced the powerful effects of the psychological forces that move the markets. Good investing requires a basic financial education, however, to really excel in investing; you've got to learn the skills to manage yourself.
3) Behavioral/Time arbitrage advantage: Maintaining a long term 5-10 year time horizon as opposed to quarterly or monthly.
Most investors focus on the first edge, this was a very strong edge to have about 10-15 years back, increasingly over the last decade this edge has decreased significantly as information today is available freely and instantaneously to all market participants. As the information arbitrage has dissipated, most people started to focus on building the analytical edge.
The top 250 stocks in India, make up roughly 90% of the market cap of the listed universe, on an average each of these stocks is tracked by 20 analysts on the sell side, add to this the teams of 44 mutual funds, the innumerable PMS's, AIF's and FII's that together are looking to invest in largely the same pool of stocks. All of these participants are looking to outdo each other in their thought process and perform to the best of their abilities over the next quarter or the immediate year. Seldom does one succeed in implementing a long term thought process in such a hypercompetitive scenario, one can simply not afford to look bad in the short term, the analytical edge over the short term too has diminished and has led to herd mentality among most market participants.
The third edge that one can have is to focus on the long term and maintain a rational and process oriented approach at all times. Often there is a big difference between "investment return" and "investor return" and that's because of the irrational behavior of investors. One way to gain an edge is to construct an environment in which we can operate more rationally or at least less irrationally, it also helps to develop a series of rules and processes that we can apply consistently to prevent emotions from swaying our investment decisions.
Ultimately, it's only possible to effectively exploit the analytical and information edge when one has the behavioral edge which provides the context of a longer term perspective for differentiated views and in-depth research.
The two variables that are under an investor's control are 'initial investment' and 'time'. Most investors ignore these two variables especially 'time' in the race maximize returns. Emotions of Greed and Fear control our psychology and in the bargain we end up realizing sub optimal returns as we are always looking to time the market. However, we forget that success is determined by time in the market and not timing the market.
The Sensex over a 28 year period from 1990 to 2018 has delivered a compounded return of 13.5%, handsomely beating any asset class. An investment of Rs 10 lacs in 1990 would be worth Rs 3.44 Crores ! – this fact is well known, an important point to ponder over is how many investors actually stayed the course. In 6 , of this 28 year time span the index fell more than 15%, the worst being 2008 when it fell by 52%, the ability to stay invested in such times and increase your allocation when the world is acting irrational is really the best edge one can develop.


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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 9 in D minor Choral Op.125 (1817)
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano); Lioba Braun (alto); Michael Schade (tenor); Michael Volle (bass)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Mariss Jansons
rec. live, Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican, 27 October 2007. DDD/DSD. Stereo/Surround
BR KLASSIK 900108 [66:19]
This SACD records a significant event in the history of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - a performance before a papal audience no less. The Pope is himself Bavarian, so spending state broadcaster's money on the jolly isn't quite as profligate as it might first appear. And whatever the politics and logistics behind the event, they treated him to a cracking performance of the Choral Symphony. There are plenty of recordings of the piece on disc, but this one easily holds its own in the face of almost any competition.
Unlike some conductors today, Mariss Jansons goes for steady speeds in most of the music. That can lead to a lack of propulsion, but never to a lack of intensity or involvement. The sheer quality of the playing the emotional engagement of every single player, no doubt sharpened by the occasion, make this a very special performance indeed. So often, the practice of recording concerts live for orchestras' own labels can seem a mere financial convenience, but this recording demonstrates how it can really work to benefit the result. There is a sense of atmosphere in every single bar that you could only get from a live performance, and a top notch one at that. Mariss Jansons has been doing these live recordings for a few years now, and not just with the BRSO, and he really knows how much he can rely on that atmosphere. So those slower tempos, especially in the first movement, they work because he does not need to relentlessly drive the orchestra on to get the energy he needs. And there is never any suggestion of laziness or letting up of emotional intensity. He even resists racking up the tempo and dynamics in the coda of the first movement, and he gets away with that too. Instead of the usual rush for the double bar, we hear the individual notes of the string scales and the round, almost understated intensity of the woodwind chords. He does go for it in the Coda of the finale, but his restraint up to that point only makes those final bars all the more intense.
The interpretation of the finale here is quite a complex business. Jansons is clearly intent on expressing more with this music than a mere 'Ode to Joy'. His reading of the finale is filled with darker undertones, which like in the preceding movements often result from the combination of steady tempos and crystal clarity in the orchestral textures. Whatever Jansons adds interpretively to the finale - and ultimately it is up to the listener to find their own interpretations of his revisionist approach - there is a continual sense of furrowed-brow conviction that prevents the listener from taking anything at face value. The liner-note quotes Bekker, Adorno and other 20th century musical luminaries to demonstrate the necessity of this sort of approach in the modern world. And it is hard to question that necessity without resorting to an ontology of music based in pure escapism.
So it is a reading to make you think about, as much as enjoy, the music. Don't get me wrong though, it is an enjoyable listen too. The sound quality is very good, another reason recommend this over most Beethoven 9s. Bavarian Radio took their own team to the Vatican, and the result is almost the equal of their recent BR Klassik recordings from Munich. But unlike Munich's Philharmonie am Gasteig, the Paul VI Audience Hall is not a dedicated concert hall, so the acoustics are inevitably inferior. In fact, given the gargantuan size of the hall (only part of which is actually in the Vatican City) the engineers have done an impressive job. The clarity of the string sound is particularly good, as is the intensity of the choral sound. The woodwind and brass sections perform as well as any I've heard on a Beethoven 9 recording, and the audio does them full justice. Incidentally, that solemn tone that Jansons maintains throughout the finale is not compromised by the contrabassoon passage towards the end, and while it usually sounds quite flatulent, the player here manages a focused and dark tone.
So, you don't have to be a Catholic to enjoy this recording, nor do you need to know anything about the circumstances of its performance, which is just as well because the liner-notes don't go into very much detail. It is a thoroughly modern Beethoven 9 though, and one that takes nothing for granted. Jansons yet again demonstrates the deep intellect behind his conducting approach, and like many of his BR Klassik recordings to date, the result is a distinctive and deeply felt reading that presents one of the most well-known works in the repertoire in a surprising new light.
Gavin Dixon


In 1976 and 1978, the BBC presented two runs of what sounds like an incredibly strange drama called Gangsters, which began as a hard-hitting look at crime and racism in a northern city but mutated into a surreal story about writing a television series about crime and racism in a northern city. It might have been the Velvet Underground of TV: not very many people watched it, but everybody who did went on to write for television. It starred Maurice Colbourne, who we saw as Lytton in the previous adventure, and was scripted by Philip Martin, who was invited by script editor Eric Saward to craft this odd, multi-layered, and deliberately unpleasant story. It's about a former prison planet whose impoverished population get their kicks watching televised executions and torture.
I don't like this story at all. I think it's fake, unbelievable, and full of really bad performances, with two exceptions. First, they got the reliable Martin Jarvis in to play the planet's governor, and second, they introduced Nabil Shaban as a slimy, disgusting, and absolutely wonderful slug-creature called Sil. Sil is obsessed with violence and profit, a big dreamer with a short temper. He's hilarious and by miles the best thing about the two stories where he appears.
Our son enjoyed this quite a lot more than I was expecting. He really liked the scenes where "the folks at home" comment on the action and cast their votes for whether the governor should hold firm on the price of a mineral that Sil's corporation desires. "I would have voted no, too," he said, joining the 900-plus thousand who agreed. The population of Varos is only about a million and a half, it seems. Props to Martin and Saward for introducing an "interactive" element, of sorts, to the story, because that's exactly the sort of thing to catch the attention of seven year-olds!
Once again, our son enjoyed this much, much more than I did. His favorite part came when the Doctor slides a volatile chemical into a corridor, leading a Cyberman to investigate. The chemical ignites shortly after contact with warm air, sending explosions and sparks everywhere. If you're at the age where seeing Cybermen blow up is the greatest thing ever, then this show was made for you.
I enjoyed a short scene where Lytton introduces one of the alien Cryons to Brian Glover's tough criminal character. The Cryon doesn't understand Glover's character's slang – "minder" and "you winding me up?" – and it is kind of cute seeing Lytton patiently translate. For reasons he takes to his grave, Lytton decided not to tell the Doctor that he was working for the Cryons, and not the Cybermen. There's not a lot more that they could have done with this character, but the writer certainly enjoyed him more than he did the Doctor and Peri.
The story assumes everybody in the audience has a well-thumbed copy of Jean-Marc Lofficier's Doctor Who Programme Guide on the shelf. Since our son doesn't have that book, he asked me to pause it because he couldn't make sense of the Cybermen's plan, which is basically "destroy Earth before the events of a previous television adventure happened." He might not have the most developed sense of drama, but he's savvy enough to know that "they intend to change history!" is a very, very bad thing!
With season 22, Doctor Who was back in its old home of Saturday evenings, but with longer, forty-five minute episodes. Colin Baker got a run of six serials in this slot and some of them are a little entertaining. "Attack of the Cybermen" is credited as being written by Paula Moore, but it's apparently a co-write between Eric Saward and two other parties. It brings back Saward's character of the mercenary Commander Lytton, previously seen in "Resurrection of the Daleks," and the scenes with him are by far the most interesting in the story.
There's a really annoying sense of disconnect in this adventure. The stuff in London is shot on 16mm film and deals with Lytton and some other criminals prepping for a job to heist £10 million in diamonds. It's incredibly watchable. They keep cutting back and forth with the Doctor and Peri arguing in the TARDIS. It's not even remotely watchable.
But that's the grown-up in me talking again. The Sixth Doctor is continuing to keep our son completely charmed. There's a running gag about the ship's Chameleon Circuit being repaired but still going wrong that he loved, and there's just a hint of slapstick in the Doctor's movements along with his bellowing. He got a huge laugh out of the Doctor almost stepping into an open hole in a scrap metal yard. He claims to hate the Cybermen, but for some reason, the Cybermen in this adventure are either the constant victims of lucky shots or they were built from scrap metal parts, because their heads get knocked off or they get shot and green goo goes spraying everywhere. It's terrific television for under-tens.


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