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Under the motto "The Way People Travel", MAN Truck & Bus is presenting innovations from its two bus brands, MAN and NEOPLAN, at the Busworld exhibition in Kortrijk, Belgium (October 21 through 26). The 1,600 square metre stand invites interested visitors to experience the highlights of the fair and consult with experts on everything in connection with products and services.
Simultaneous world premiere and sales launch: the premium double-decker NEOPLAN Skyliner has a lot to celebrate at the Busworld. MAN is presenting the Lion's City M as a manoeuvrable 10.50-metre bus for inner cities. A long way ahead of the date on which the future exhaust-gas standard Euro 6 comes into effect, MAN will be showing the MAN Lion's City with Euro 6 diesel engine at Kortrijk. The D08 and D20 engines that will be on display also comply with the Euro 6 standard. As a partner for body manufacturers, MAN Truck & Bus is exhibiting its range of diesel and CNG engines for buses as well as components such as axles. Experts will be at the stand to provide information on new mobility concepts, for example Bus Rapid Transit for local public transport. In the outdoor area, an MAN Lion's City Hybrid will be available for test drives.
This year for the first time, the MAN Truck & Bus press conference takes place one day before the exhibition. The conference will be held on October 20 at 11:00 at the MAN Stand (Stand no. 2-2 in Hall 2).
Giving a foretaste of the Skyliner sales launch, with effect from September 1 the brand website www.NEOPLAN-BUS.com has a completely reworked product information area. The Skyliner product experience is the eye catcher here with its virtual 3-D panoramic tour. In a "Learn the details" section the website explains all the Skyliner's technical features: design, air-conditioning, interior, safety equipment, drive technology and aerodynamics. The "Facts & downloads" section offers downloads of the new product brochure, product videos and an image database with lots of impressions of the premium double-decker, inside and out. Starting with Busworld, the entire NEOPLAN website will also be going online in French and Turkish.
Experience the Skyliner in three dimensions: visitors to the website can already get an idea of how special it feels to sit in the new Skyliner. Both decks of the new premium double-decker can be explored virtually and in three dimensions. The 3-D panoramas are visually fascinating works - each one is over 40 megapixels in size, having been put together from 24 separate images. The experience of spaciousness is especially vivid on an upper deck that is flooded with light: the huge expanses of glass open up a breathtaking field of vision. Equipment highlights are explained by opening screens with additional information. The Skyliner's SkyLights concept consists of three elements: side windows angled upwards into the roof and glazed roof segments combine to form an almost unbroken stretch of glass. The big panorama window together with the half square metre of glass in the dome above the front row make these seats the most sought-after on the coach market.
On the NEOPLAN website, visitors can take a virtual 3D tour inside the new NEOPLAN Skyliner.


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Enigma Technologies, Inc., is a data science company headquartered in New York City that specializes in providing data and intelligence about businesses. The company is mainly known for Enigma Public, a now defunct library of public data.

Using machine learning and artificial intelligence, the company organizes and connects hundreds of sources to provide data about businesses for customers in a variety of use cases, from financial services compliance to B2B marketing and insurance underwriting and lending. Enigma works with a number of Fortune 500 companies, including American Express, ADP, BB&T, Celgene, Merck, and PayPal.

History
Enigma Technologies, Inc. was founded by Marc DaCosta (Chairman, co-founder) and Hicham Oudghiri (CEO, co-founder). The founders' curiosity was drawn into focus by the 2008 financial crisis and the effects of climate change. They were frustrated that relevant public data was available, and should have shed light on these two occurrences, but the world still struggled to connect the dots to understand how and why these crises happened or to stop both altogether. They sought to make data connected, open, and actionable – and Enigma was born. The company currently has more than 100 employees and is headquartered in NYC's Silicon Alley.

Enigma was launched at the three-day 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt Conference, and was the winner of the event's Startup Battlefield. In February 2013 they announced a $1.1 million seed funding round backed by TriplePoint Capital and Crosslink Capital, among others. This was augmented in early 2014 by a $4.5 million funding round which included additional investors The New York Times Company, Comcast Ventures, and American Express Ventures.

In June 2013, the company announced a long-term beta testing partnership with Stanford University and Harvard University, granting full access to their students and academic communities. In October 2013, the company was a finalist in the NYCEDC-sponsored "Take the HELM: Hire + Expand in Lower Manhattan" contest, and in June 2014 they were selected as participants in the FinTech Innovation Lab program.

In August 2014, Enigma announced that Jeremy Bronfman would step down as CEO and be replaced by Hicham Oudghiri.

In June 2015, Enigma secured a $28.2 million Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from Two Sigma Ventures and New York City Investment Fund, as well as existing investors including American Express Ventures, Comcast Ventures and The New York Times Company.

In April 2017, Enigma moved its website to Enigma.com from its previous site, Enigma.io, and ceased referring to itself with the ".io" qualifier.

Enigma was named to Forbes FinTech 50 List in February 2018.

In September 2018, Enigma announced $95 million in new funds to expand its network and platform that connects real-world and enterprise data to power key workflows. Existing investor NEA led this funding, which included new investments from strategic FinTech investors BB&T, Capital One Growth Ventures, MetLife and Third Point along with venture firm Glynn Capital. Early investors Comcast Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, and the Partnership Fund for NYC also participated. This was the inaugural investment for both BB&T and MetLife.

Enigma Public
Enigma Public was a data warehouse website which provided an aggregated collection of public data from international government agencies, organizations, and businesses. It was at one point the broadest collection of public data that is open and searchable by everyone, and could be accessed through Enigma's web-based user interface, which also provided a collection of data analytics tools. Users could register for a free rate-limited account to receive programmatic access via their web API, while unfettered or commercial access was available for a fee.

Data republished by Enigma was reusable (with attribution) for free by journalists, so it was occasionally used as a primary or corroborating source for analyses on everything from FBI aerial surveillance to house fire incidents to U.S. government shipping records.

The company redesigned and updated Enigma Public in June 2017 in an effort to make public data more accessible and easy to use. This redesign included features that enabled users to identity connections and interpretations within the data quickly and easily by focusing metadata and linked datasets. The updated platform also curated featured datasets and collections, including those obtained by Freedom of Information Act requests.

In August 2018, Enigma released a Python SDK for Enigma Public, designed to make it easier to locate and import public data into a Jupyter notebook or any other Python project using the Enigma Public API.

Enigma Public was deactivated on March 24, 2020.

Enigma Labs
Enigma has built a number of open data tools that serve a public good, called Enigma Labs. Each project sheds light on critical topics of the day and enables and informs civic action.

The company's first Lab was launched in October 2013, as a real-time visualization tracking how the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 impacted employees of every government agency.

In 2014, Enigma partnered with the City of New Orleans to better identify which neighborhoods were least likely to have smoke alarms. This project, called Smoke Signals, was soon scaled to cities across the United States in partnership with DataKind and the American Red Cross. The tool uses data from the American Housing Survey and American Community Survey to create a block-level assessment of whether residents are likely to have a working smoke alarm in more than 175 cities in the United States and is available as an interactive map and downloadable CSV files. Cities can also upload their own historical fire incident data to improve the model for their area.

Data
Enigma combines hundreds of public and private sources of data, including government agencies, organizations, and websites, into a single database. Enigma has obtained a vast amount of data via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, including New York Metropolitan Transit Authority accident reports and a log of all FOIA requests made to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Enigma provides free basic firmographic data about millions of U.S. businesses via its API.

Features
Enigma provides access to its data through a web-based graphical user interface and an API. Tools are provided in the interface for performing basic statistical analysis, such as finding the minimum, maximum or mean value of any numerical data column. For further analysis, users may either use the interface to export data to a CSV file or make HTTP requests to the provided API. The company also produces interactive data visualizations which provide visual interfaces for particular individual datasets.

On May 11, 2016, Enigma announced the launch of ParseKit, now called "Concourse", their proprietary software for ETL and data integration, which had been developed internally via dogfooding to acquire their public datasets.

In September 2018, Enigma announced its use of knowledge graphs as the vehicle for ingesting, standardizing, and adapting data from tables into representations of relationships delivered to users. Enigma uses linking, ontology mapping, and entity resolution capabilities to uncover new information about businesses and to deliver linked information through an API. Enigma's knowledge graphs integrate machine learning of Elasticsearch results, to improve entity resolution.

References

Further reading
 "C-SUITE: Enigma CEO Jeremy Bronfman". February 3, 2014. AOL News.

 Velazco, Chris (April 30, 2013). "Enigma Makes Unearthing And Sifting Through Public Data A Breeze". Techcrunch. Accessed July 18, 2014.
 Zimmerman, Ed (October 3, 2015). "The Enigma Of Running A Bicoastal Series B Venture Round". Forbes. Accessed October 3, 2015.

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Q: What is the purpose of the while loop in semaphore wait( ) function? Can it be replaced with an if statement? I'm learning about Semaphores in Operating Systems and I don't understand the purpose of the empty while loop.
The code is from my textbook, and I can see that the while(s <= 0) is followed by a ';' so basically do: nothing, and then the s-- line.
I don't understand the purpose or meaning of this, would it be any different if it was if(s <= 0) instead of while?
wait (S) {
    while S <= 0
    ; //no-op
    S--;
}

A: A semaphore is a counter and you can call two functions on it: decrement (also known as wait, p, etc.) and increment (post, signal, v, etc.).
The following happens when a thread calls wait on a semaphore:

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*If the semaphore count is greater than 0, the count is decrement by 1 and the call to wait returns

*If the semaphore count is less than or equal to 0, the call to wait will wait for the semaphore count to increase to 1 or more (which will happen when other threads call post on the semaphore), subtract 1 from the count, and return

The while loop in your code above is to handle the second case. The function must not return until the count is greater than 0 (which is why the loop condition is S <= 0), so the while loop will continue spinning until this count is greater than 0. The purpose of the while loop is solely to stop the function from advancing. There is no body of code that you want to execute repeatedly.
An if statement is insufficient to handle this case because it just checks S <= 0 once. The function is able to advance past the if statement even if the count is still less than or equal to 0.
Please note that the semaphore code in your textbook is a great simplification of how actual semaphores work. Generally, if a thread calls wait and the count is less than or equal to 0, the thread will yield and the scheduler will put the thread to sleep until another thread calls post. Thus, there is either no while loop or any while loop present will be a little different than the one in your question. Also, there needs to be some sort of protection mechanism for the integer counter in the semaphore structure. Otherwise, multiple threads can race to increment/decrement this counter and multiple threads may be able to advance past the while loop even if the count is originally 1 (so the semaphore will not protect the critical section properly).

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I'm working on a project for vehicle diagnostic via CAN bus. I'd like to use the V-USB library to do the communication, but I'm wondering if it's possible to send data with non-fixed data length (as the electronic control units reply with variable data length). Is there any other project doing that ?
I'm working on a project for vehicle diagnostic via CAN bus.
Hi, honestly not trying to be wrong with you, I just don't follow and am curios. Can is a 12v LL and usb is 5, neither have anything in common other then two wires? USB bulk would be closer to none fixed data but that is not really going to get you far. Can requires no descriptions to be made like USB does, and 98% of V-usb is unusable for CAN_BUS data.
Are you just looking for a way to bit bang CAN on wires?
Sorry, I haven't been clear. I use a MCP2515 (CAN to SPI bus) to transfer data to/from avr and I want to use V-USB to communicate with a computer. The problem here is that CAN response have an arbitrary response length, and I want to know if it's manageable with V-USB. Is there any sample code using bulk transfer ?
Things are a tab bit more clear now but there is still a void here? What you are attempting is perfectly fine but the data you acquire via usb does not get dumped to ISP, so you have time to format your data. For example, say you want to get x bytes of data from the usb, then write to CAN. Use a normal Feature report get/set data, set flag, possess data, and send via CAN.
Now, if you are looking to do stuff in real time know first that Can is slow and USB will be clocks a head of it. So that will not lend its self well as USB wants NAK/ACK all the time. Your better off using a shift register style to unload the data in a timely matter.
To answer your question in detail you will need to more more clearly what stops you from accomplishing your task but in general this should be ok if designed correctly. Bulk transfers are not interned to be accountable in a timely fashion so that may not be what you want. Using a feature get/set could be your best bet but v-usb struggles in ACK/NACK %80 of the time so its picky at best. If you are just reading from can a normal interrupt transfer with a fixed payload will be fine.
I'm studying the CDC232 source code as it seems a good starting point for me. About CAN network, standard vehicle frames (non ISO_TP) are fixed length (8 bytes long). But I'd like to use CAN ISO_TP format (for diagnostic operation) and in this operation mode, the frames can be of any length (input/output).
How can I return such a frame to the host as it doesn't know how much data to expect ?
I'm a CAN engineer actually, so I know what you mean in the way of CAN. I think what you are asking here is to tunnel CAN thru USB. You can do this very easily with Feature reports. With usb 1.1 you are limited to 512 message lengths.
In usb the size of the report 19 will always need to be 512. but you flag the un set data..
now you know you have a message length of 3 to deal with.
example of a report id with 192 bytes 19 read, 20 send.
You can check out the data send examples that comes with v-usb but there is a lot to learn here.
In the case where data > 512, you will need to make two acquisitions. If > 1024, 3 and so on. USB will always have data limits.
The host software can do anything you want in software obviously. It can not do anything driver wise (killing/resetting the port) unles you are low level like C or use devcon or like. Again though you are not showing your design.
Say you create a loop in your code.
in checkForData you have feature reports as earlier discussed. You could always set X to false to stop communication. Feature reports are controlled by the host only as why I suggested them.
How do I transfer 512 bytes, as REPORT_COUNT is a byte with a max value of 0xFF (255) ?
I understand that I can define USB_CFG_LONG_TRANSFERS to 1 to make it possible, but finally what's the use of REPORT_COUNT in the usb report descriptor ?
Knowing that this interrupt function is very fast to execute and its priority is lower, do I need to find an alternative method for millis() or it should be fine ?
v-usb only uses one interrupt and it does not disable it at any time. I see no issues.


When you think of a summer beach read, you probably think of lightweight romances or page-turning thrillers. But we've got a new idea—especially if you're struggling with debt. Here are seven books we recommend adding to your summer reading list.
You're probably familiar with the For Dummies books—today there are nearly 2,000 titles and over 300 million in print. The series has tackled just about every topic, from car repair to fine wine. For those who've never picked one up, the books are written by experts but injected with a sense of humour along with imagery to make the material more digestible. Now in its 4th edition, this one doesn't break the mold. This friendly guide provides the information you need to take control of your finances, regardless of your income level. It covers ways to get out of debt, how to budget and save money, ways to reduce your spending, how to make profitable investments, and much more.
If you want to learn how to really deal with your money and debt and you love common sense with a side of sass, than look no further—Shannon Lee Simmons is your girl. She's the founder of The New School of Finance and in Worry-Free Money, she cuts through the "shame and blame mentality" of debt with a combination of good old-fashioned logic and a fresh perspective on what really motivates our decision-making when it comes to money. Her book discusses how being broke and feeling broke can seem the same yet are two very different things, and why not knowing what we can (and can't) afford makes every purchase feel terrifying. If you're looking for a quick read, fantastic tips, and a new, positive perspective about money and spending, add this to your list.
Okay, here's something a little different: A cookbook full of money-saving recipes, complete with a list of ingredients, utensils you'll need, and serving sizes. Cashflow Cookbook is the brainchild of Gordon (Gord) Stein where he gathers the best-of-the-best money-saving tips that are practical and applicable, and can be started by anyone today. From how to save money when driving to negotiating cheaper rates with service providers (it's a 60-minute phone call that could save you hundreds of dollars a year...not too shabby), Gordon breaks it all down to show you the different areas of your budget where you can save. So let's say you have a goal to add an extra $500 to your budget; you can just flip through this book, choose a couple recipes, and presto! You've got your extra $500.
The Year of Less comes with a subtitle that tells you everything you need to know about the book: "How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store." As a carefree twenty-something, British Columbia-native Cait Flanders splurged on partying, buying furniture, and an expensive car. Eventually, she found herself over $30,000 in debt and became determined to rid herself of the burden. For 365 days, Flanders saved money by buying only the necessities, selling 70% of her belongings, learning to fix things instead of buying new things, and banning herself from television and alcohol. The Year of Less documents her journey, where she learns that the less she consumed, the more fulfilled she felt. Get inspired and maybe discover a path to less for yourself with this breezy read.
Meet Mike and Rachel. They are nearing the age of retirement and struggling with many of the issues seniors or soon-to-be-seniors may be facing. This book lets you be a fly on the wall throughout Mike and Rachel's struggles and discussions with their financial advisor. This fictional couple is a composite of the many real people Gillespie, a veteran financial advisor of Vancouver-based Rogers Group Financial, has worked with over the years. He details Mike and Rachel's walk through the five stages of retirement: Dreams, Reality, Transition, Adjustment, and Legacy. In doing so, Gillespie reveals how retirement is not something that happens when you turn 60 or 65; it's a journey that should begin much sooner. Whatever stage you're at in life, this book may be what it takes to help you plan now, so you can enjoy your golden years later.
At Credit Canada, we talk a lot about ways to live debt-free (there's even an entire page on our website dedicated to it). Christine Conway also knows a thing or two about it. Writing based on her own experiences, she shares the frustration many feel regarding the seemingly impossible task of saving money while living—and trying to buy—within some of our nation's most expensive cities. (Conway reports that even a tiny bungalow in Vancouver or Toronto can go for over $1 million!) The Debt-Free Lifestyle presents a plan that the average Canadian can follow to pay down debt, avoid interest rate hikes on mortgages, and afford that bungalow.
Despite being an accountant, David Trahair didn't concern himself much with finances. And then his credit card was declined at an important business lunch. Embarrassing, but not surprising. The average Canadian now has nearly $22,000 in non-mortgage debt, up almost 2% from the previous year. Learning from his own mistakes, Trahair details the evils of debt and how easy it is for it spiral out of control with real-life stories of debt disasters. If you are a Canadian who is already struggling with debt, Crushing Debt helps you face your financial problems while offering step-by-step solutions on just how to fix your situation.


Why read this book? Truth be told, you probably won't read this book cover-to-cover, but it is an invaluable reference tool. This is the standard reference tool for all English-language writers. Consider keeping a copy in your desk. There is a related online resource at Bartleby.com that allows you to search for rules by key word or browse the full contents of the original 1918 ver- sion of this book—all for free.


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WM, 54 shot to death North Little Rock, AR home invasion; 2 negros sought
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UPDATE:Woman found safe one day after deadly North Little Rock home invasion
Updated: Jun 16, 2019 01:10 PM CDT
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A missing woman from North Little Rock has been located and is safe.
Further information about the motive for her abduction is pending.
North Little Rock Police say Susan Lee Smith was abducted during a home invasion in which a man was shot and killed Saturday night.
It happened in the 3500 block of East Washington.
The male victim has been identified as 54-year-old James Harold Griffin of North Little Rock.
Detectives believe this was an isolated incident and there is no threat to the community.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - North Little Rock Police have released more information on the possible abduction victim. Susan Smith, 35, was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, black leggings with a white skull pattern, and no shoes. Her hair will be shaven on both sides of her head with a brown mohawk style cut on top.
The vehicle Ms. Smith was placed into has been described as a newer model small black passenger car. The vehicle left the location traveling west bound on E. Broadway.
Update: NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - North Little Rock Police Department responded to the Keller Mobile Home Park in reference to a shooting and a possible abduction.
When officers arrived on scene they located a male victim suffering from a gunshot wound. The male victim was transported to a local hospital where he has succumbed to his injuries.
Officers were advised that two black male suspects forced entry to the location and shot the male victim. The two male suspects then forced an adult white female from the residence and placed her into a small newer model car and left the scene.
The reported missing person has been identified as 35-year-old Susan Lee Smith. Detectives with the North Little Rock Police Department are actively investigating this incident.
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One thing that makes me proud to be American is the fact that we never leave our own behind. A belief embedded into the fabric of the American flag that many nations don't understand. It started with our military but it ends with every single America citizen.
We look out for our own, and you can see it here in it's most beautiful form.
"It's been almost two weeks since Terre Haute officer Rob Pitts was shot and killed in the line of duty. The community has shown his family an outpouring of support, and it continued on Monday when Pitts' 5-year-old son Dakota returned to school," WTHI reports.
It's unfortunate that it takes something tragic to bring us together these days but it's still a wonderful scene when it happens.
Thoughts and prayers go to Dakota, his mother, and the rest of their family and friends affected by this tragic event.


'which is without being' is a quadraphonic non-durational generative sound environment, with no clear beginning, end point or progression. It rather exists as a state, driven by repeated renewal of itself, within the boundaries of a confined conceptual terrain. Change and musical development inside the work's trajectory are thereby indeterminate, and dependent on the interaction of individual independent agents within the construct. Resembling a closed system, once set in motion, it relies only on stimulus contained and transmitted within the system. All individual parameters, controlling and processing acoustic information vary according to simple sets of behavioural rules, triggered by feedback and interaction between the components, and acting in response to the overall state of the system. The rhythms, textures, patterns and timbres of its fluid auditory motion are emergent, resulting from self-organisation within the system, rather than predetermined conception.
In its entirety and sub divisions, which is without being is a representation of natural chaotic systems, and aspires towards the unpredictability and impulsive resourcefulness of organic life. Working towards natural infinite recursion, without exact repetition, but rather continual self-similarity, the system improvises its future development on a momentary basis, drawing on its immediate past. Its decentralised control and sound generating structure is thereby inspired by behavioural patterns as seen in super-organisms such as swarms or flocks, displaying responsive spontaneity and unlimited complexity within the parameters of its characteristic conduct.
The aesthetic aim of the work is to create continuous auditory information from a seemingly insignificant minute sound source, initially inspired by the drop of a needle. Constructed in its entirety from one 75 millisecond sound sample, the resulting processes within the work aim to transcend this short temporal event by multiplication and spatial extension of its characteristics, whilst retaining its singular audibility as a reference point. Pitch variations of the original sample inhabit the range of 33 overtone frequencies, present in the 6th octave above the fundamental, and within their pure harmonic interaction create a changing timbral structure inherent to the work. The texture and grain of the sound quality throughout the piece revert to the carefully constructed original sample, which within its acoustic parameters bear the seeds to all inherent audible properties. With the fundamental notions of natural fluidity and a sense of layered fragmentation, which is without being aspires to awaken within the listener a state of meditative alertness.


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Home Page>About Cromwell College>History
Dream to Reality
The history of Cromwell College is one of people, rather than the buildings or any other external feature.
Cromwell College was the inspiration of a group of Christian leaders in the Congregational Churches in Queensland.
The initial gift of approximately 40,000 pounds (equivalent to around $2m today) was a milestone in the foundation of the College. Cromwell is forever indebted to Mr V E Hancock and his wife Mary for this gift. Both remained involved in the College, along with other members of the Hancock family, and are remembered with gratitude and affection.
The decision to build Cromwell College was made on the 28 April 1950 and, to use the words of Mary Hancock, the team "rolled up their sleeves and went to work." This work included the adoption of a Constitution, the election of the first Board of Governors and the appointment of the Foundation Principal (Rev G Lindsay Lockley).
The Name "Cromwell"
Cromwell was named Cromwell College in honour of Oliver Cromwell, sometime Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Cromwell Coat of Arms and Motto
A coat of arms was a badge adopted by warlike families and later by certain corporations. It originated in the shield carried by warriors and was ornamented to distinguish the different bearers.
Griffith Memorial Chapel Windows
The Cromwell Chapel Windows were given over a period of seven years by Mrs Mary McLean Hancock, O.B.E. as a memorial to her husband, the late V.E. Hancock, C.M.G.
Cromwell was the first of the Colleges established on the University of Queensland St Lucia Campus and was affiliated with the University of Queensland in its opening year, 1954. The College was established as a men's college, first receiving men into residence in Thatcher Wing on Sunday 5 June 1954.
Principals of Cromwell College
The College has seen just six Principals in over sixty years.
Cromwell College Buildings
History of Cromwell College buildings, North, Thatcher, Dowling, Hancock, Steele-Craik Lodge, Lockley, Begbie and Campus Lodge.


Creamy and decadent Strawberry Chocolate Oatmeal is the beast breakfast solution when you're in need of something satisfying and sweet.
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Sooner or later you have some things you want to have in every single view
or helper function or whatever.  In PHP the way to go are global
variables.  However, that isn't possible in WSGI applications without a
major drawback:  As soon as you operate on the global namespace your
application isn't thread-safe any longer.

The Python standard library has a concept called "thread locals" (or thread-local
data). A thread local is a global object in which you can put stuff in and get back
later in a thread-safe and thread-specific way.  That means that whenever you set
or get a value on a thread local object, the thread local object checks in which
thread you are and retrieves the value corresponding to your thread (if one exists).
So, you won't accidentally get another thread's data.

This approach, however, has a few disadvantages.  For example, besides threads,
there are other types of concurrency in Python.  A very popular one
is greenlets.  Also, whether every request gets its own thread is not
guaranteed in WSGI.  It could be that a request is reusing a thread from
a previous request, and hence data is left over in the thread local object.

Werkzeug provides its own implementation of local data storage called `werkzeug.local`.
This approach provides a similar functionality to thread locals but also works with
greenlets.

Here's a simple example of how one could use werkzeug.local::

    from werkzeug.local import Local, LocalManager

    local = Local()
    local_manager = LocalManager([local])

    def application(environ, start_response):
        local.request = request = Request(environ)
        ...

    application = local_manager.make_middleware(application)

This binds the request to `local.request`.  Every other piece of code executed
after this assignment in the same context can safely access local.request and
will get the same request object.  The `make_middleware` method on the local
manager ensures that all references to the local objects are cleared up after
the request.

The same context means the same greenlet (if you're using greenlets) in
the same thread and same process.

If a request object is not yet set on the local object and you try to
access it, you will get an `AttributeError`.  You can use `getattr` to avoid
that::

    def get_request():
        return getattr(local, 'request', None)

This will try to get the request or return `None` if the request is not
(yet?) available.

Note that local objects cannot manage themselves, for that you need a local
manager.  You can pass a local manager multiple locals or add additionals
later by appending them to `manager.locals` and every time the manager
cleans up it will clean up all the data left in the locals for this
context.

.. autofunction:: release_local

.. autoclass:: LocalManager
   :members: cleanup, make_middleware, middleware, get_ident

.. autoclass:: LocalStack
   :members: push, pop, top

.. autoclass:: LocalProxy
   :members: _get_current_object

   Keep in mind that ``repr()`` is also forwarded, so if you want to find
   out if you are dealing with a proxy you can do an ``isinstance()`` check:

   .. sourcecode:: pycon

       >>> from werkzeug.local import LocalProxy
       >>> isinstance(request, LocalProxy)
       True

   You can also create proxy objects by hand:

   .. sourcecode:: python

       from werkzeug.local import Local, LocalProxy
       local = Local()
       request = LocalProxy(local, 'request')

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Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars
CEO Jim Hackett says he doesn't think it's 'controversial'
By Sean O'Kane / @sokane1
Jul 8, 2020, 11:11 PM UTC |
Employees inside Ford have asked the company's leadership to stop making and selling police vehicles, according to Jalopnik. In response, Ford CEO Jim Hackett has told employees in a letter that he doesn't think it's "controversial that the Ford Police Interceptor helps officers do their job" and that Ford will continue the business.
The internal discussion, which Ford confirmed to The Verge, comes as the country is gripped by national movements for racial justice and against police brutality that were sparked by the killing of George Floyd.
Ford is far and away the leading automaker in the US when it comes to making and selling specially-designed vehicles for law enforcement, making up some two-thirds of the market. While it's not a big source of the company's annual revenue (which was $156 billion in 2019), Ford has long maintained that its overall lineup benefits from new technologies that get tested in the police vehicles (like hybrid electric drivetrains, for example).
"Our resources can and should be diverted to other forms of first response and public safety"
The national protests, though, have inspired some Ford employees to rethink the company's relationship with police. The issue has been brought up at recent town hall meetings, and now employees — including Black workers who are part of Ford's African Ancestry Network (FAAN) employee resource group — have circulated a letter asking the company to "cease development, production, and sale of all custom police vehicles and products."
Other employees have since signed onto the letter (though it's unclear how many) and they want the company to take some kind of action by July 15th, according to Jalopnik. "Our resources can and should be diverted to other forms of first response and public safety," the employees wrote.
Ford asked the government about giving police cars an off switch for mandatory EV noise rule
The seemingly endless footage of police violence captured across the last few months has caused a reckoning in some industries, especially tech. Nextdoor stopped a program that allowed users to forward posts to law enforcement. Amazon even announced it will stop allowing police to use its facial recognition technology for a year, and Microsoft has made a similar pledge. This all came after employees across the tech industry have spent the last year pushing back against their companies' contracts with government agencies, too.
But the same couldn't really be said for the transportation industry (save for bike companies, which are split on the matter), even though some of the most horrific videos to go viral in the last two months featured protestors being run over by Ford police vehicles.
This is one reason why employees inside Ford are now arguing that the company should sever its relationship with police. "We cannot claim to support the fight against systemic racism while supplying and supporting the very systems that perpetrate violence against Black Americans," the group wrote, according to Jalopnik.
They continued:
Throughout our history, the vehicles that Ford employees design and build have been used as accessories to police brutality and oppression. We know that while many join, support, or supply law enforcement with good intentions, these racist policing practices that plague our society are historic and systemic — a history and system perpetuated by Ford for over 70 years — ever since Ford introduced the first-ever police package in 1950. As an undeniable part of that history and system, we are long overdue to "think and act differently" on our role in racism.
When Hackett publicly addressed the nationwide protests in early June, he said "[t]here are no easy answers," and that Ford is "not interested in superficial actions." Hackett said that "[t]his is our moment to lead from the front and fully commit to creating the fair, just and inclusive culture that our employees deserve."
But in his internal letter to employees, Hackett defended the company's business of making vehicles for police. And he argued that Ford's police cars, SUVs, and trucks could make those police officers "safer and more accountable" — though without going into detail:
The issues plaguing police credibility have nothing to do with the vehicles they're driving. In fact, as we imagine the future power of our connected vehicles, smarter Ford vehicles can be used to not only improve officers' ability to protect and serve, but also provide data that can make police safer and more accountable. Just think, dating back to the Model T, Ford has more than 100 years in serving first responders and that leadership over the decades has been earned by co-developing our purpose-built vehicles and technologies with police and emergency agencies to make our vehicles the number one choice.
Hackett also said that taking away Ford's specially-built vehicles "would be doing harm to [police officers'] safety and making it harder for them to do their job."
"Again, this is why, given our insights, new capabilities and leadership, I believe these unfortunate circumstances present Ford with an even greater opportunity to not only innovate new solutions but also leverage our unique position to support the dialogue and reform needed to create safer communities for all," Hackett wrote.
He wrapped his letter by thanking employees for speaking up, but saying that Ford won't change course. "I do appreciate people speaking their mind to me on this issue – it helped me generate this note to explain why we are continuing our commitment to police forces all over the world in our trusted products," he said.
Ford declined to comment beyond Hackett's letter.


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Novatek announces plans to build third massive LNG plant in northern Siberia
Novatek, the largest private natural gas supplier in Russia, has said it will have sufficient gas reserves to add a $10bn LNG plant to its processing complex in northwest Siberia, and that it plans to build a series of transshipment complexes.
The company began producing LNG at its Yamal plant on the Gydan peninsula in 2017 and plans to start a second, Arctic LNG 2, in 2023 at a cost of $10bn. Now Leonid Mikhelson, Novatek's chief executive, has told reporters that the company has acquired sufficient gas licences to build another $10bn plant, although he did not say when work might begin.
Speaking at a press conference in Tokyo, Mikhelson said Novatek's holdings on the Gydan gave it "the necessary resource base for another LNG project of the size of Arctic LNG 2", which has a production capacity of 20 million tonnes of LNG a year, Reuters reports.
Novatek last week concluded an agreement with a number of Japanese firms to develop a reloading complex for LNG in the Gydan. A press release from the company said a cooperation agreement had been reached with logistics company Mitsui OSK Lines and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation to build a number of LNG transshipment complexes in the territory of Kamchatka and Murmansk.
Mikhelson said in the release: "We have already started successful cooperation with Japanese companies in large LNG projects, including Yamal LNG and Arctic LNG 2, and, accordingly, we see great potential in expanding further this mutually beneficial cooperation.
"The construction of the Kamchatka and Murmansk transshipment complexes will help to optimise logistics and maximise the efficiency of LNG deliveries from Yamal and Gydan to LNG key markets of the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, the largest global LNG consumer. We think we will reach final arrangements for these projects by year end".
The expansion in based on an expected surge in demand for LNG. The latest forecast from Shell says global demand will rise 27 million tonnes to 319 million tonnes in the course of this year.
The involvement of Japan in Novatek's plans reflects the fact that Japan is the largest importer of LNG in the world, with an annual demand of 83 million tonnes in 2018. When built, Novatek's three plants would be equal to about three quarters of this.
Image: Novatek's Yamal plant can now produce 19 million tonnes of LNG a year (Novatek)
Japan's Inpex in talks to build $18bn LNG plant in Indonesia
Russia's Novatek gives go-ahead to $21bn Arctic LNG plant
China to develop "Arctic silk road"
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Indians Vs. Tigers: Derek Lowe To Start With Sweep On The Line
By David Vranicar Jun 7, 2012, 9:05am CDT
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Nearly everything about Derek Lowe suggests that the 39-year-old is running on fumes. Except, of course, the two things that may matter most -- his ERA and his record.
Lowe will take the hill for the Cleveland Indians on Thursday as they go for their second sweep of the season over the Detroit Tigers.
Lowe leads the team in wins (7) and ERA (3.06) even though his peripheral stats tell a different story. He has the second-worst strikeouts-per-nine-innings rate in the American League (2.66), as well as the AL's tenth-worst WHIP (1.46). But for whatever reason it hasn't seemed to matter. After getting knocked around for eight earned runs on May 26, he bounced back with a 6.2-inning, one-run performance on June 1.
The Indians have moved to within 0.5 games of the Chicago White Sox in the AL Central, and 5.5 games ahead of third-place Detroit.
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Q: Masonry v3.0.4 resizing I'm upgrading my site from Masonry 2 to Masonry 3.
In Masonry 2, I was using
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On this page http://masonry.desandro.com/appendix.html#upgrading-from-v2
They say "smartresize jQuery plugin has been removed" without more explanation.
smartresize.masonry was perfect to me, it allowed me to recalculate my container width and masonry fit in this new width without delay.
Now with v3, I'm doing:
container.masonry('bindResize');

$(window).resize(function() {
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These are 2 separate events and there's a small delay between the 2 of them.
It seems that bindResize is not called with the same frequency as $(window).resize(), am I wrong?
Is there a way to do exactly what smartresize was doing?

A: The bad part with this new Masonry, is that there's no something like onBeforeResize and onAfterResize.
I installed the plugin smartresize (debouncedresize) and disabled Masonry's resizing event
container.masonry('unbindResize');
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The Perfecting Power of Love
Above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness--Col 3:14
Paul, an Apostle of Love
We are accustomed to think of Paul as a dogmatic writer, never so happy as when immersed in argument, but we must not forget with what affecting tenderness he has written of the grace of love. Great intellectual strength like that of Paul is often intolerant of tender feeling. Moving along the lines of demonstration, it disdains the heart as a true source of knowledge; but from that temptation Paul is entirely free for while he is the very prince of reasoners, he insists with ever increasing emphasis on the power and the primacy of love. It is not John, it is Paul who tells us that love is the fulfilling of the law. It is Paul who writes that wonderful hymn of love which we find in the thirteenth chapter of Corinthians. So here it is Paul who, after a noble passage describing our death and life in Jesus Christ, bids us put on the bond of charity.
Love Beautifies and Perfects Every Other Grace
Now a word or two will explain to us the figure which the apostle uses to convey his meaning: "Above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness." The picture in the apostle's mind is that of one who is putting on his raiment. He sees a man throwing around his body the loose and flowing garments of antiquity. And then it occurs to him that these loose garments, no matter how fine or beautiful they be, can never be worn with comfort or grace unless they are clasped together with a girdle. Without that girdle drawing all together, they hamper and hinder a man at every turn. It is the perfect bond of robe and tunic, the final touch that makes them serviceable. And so, says Paul, is it with love; it is the girdle of every other grace; it is the final touch that beautifies the whole and makes every garment of the spirit perfect. Under the figure, then, there lies one thought--it is the thought of the perfecting of love. Love is the girdle binding all together and giving to everything its proper beauty. On that, then, I want to dwell a little; on love, not in its inherent qualities but in its singular and incommunicable power of perfecting everything that clothes our being.
Love Is Needed for the Perfecting of Gifts
How true this is of spiritual gifts we learn from the first epistle to the Corinthians. That church at Corinth was very rich in gifts; so rich, that there was trouble over them. One had the gift of prophecy and one of prayer; one had the gift of tongues and one of healing; and every man in the ardor of the spirit was claiming for his own gift a proud preeminence until at last the danger grew so great and the scandal of bickering so soul-destroying that the Corinthian Christians wrote to Paul begging him for his advice and guidance. What was the counsel which the apostle gave? First, he said, covet earnestly the best gifts. Remember, he means, that though all gifts are of God, yet all are not equal in spiritual value. But then immediately he turns from that as though it were too hard for these Corinthians, and he says "and yet I show you a more excellent way"--and that more excellent way is love. It is thus that Paul introduces that great chapter in which he glorifies the powers of love. There will be no more trouble about spiritual gifts if love is the girdle which includes them all. Without love, the graces of the spirit will irritate like flowing garments in the gale. Love is the perfect bond which makes them serviceable, keeping each in its peculiar place.
Not only is this true of spiritual gifts; it is true of artistic and intellectual gifts. Over them all a man must put on love, for love is the final touch that perfects them. Take for example the happy gift of song which God has bestowed so freely on His children. We have all listened, I take it, to some singers who have set us wondering at their perfect art. Artistically there was not a flaw to find; there was consummate mastery and perfect execution, and yet the song somehow failed to move us or to strike a responsive chord within our breast. The gift was there--that no one would deny--and it had been trained with splendid perseverance, but there was one thing lacking to complete it and that was the perfecting impress of the heart. You can arrest and dazzle without love, but without love you cannot charm or win. You cannot open these ivory and golden gates that lead to the secret places of the soul. Hence a poor gift, if there be love behind it, will set the eye glistening with tears while the most brilliant gift, flit be loveless, will leave us wondering and leave us cold. I have heard preachers whose intellectual gifts were such that any man might covet them. Yet they never moved me to abhor the wrong or kindled me to joy in what was fair. But I have heard others whose gifts were not remarkable but who were on fire with love to God and man, and there was a power about their simplest word that made a man ashamed of his poor life. My brother and sister, whatever be your gift, over that gift put on the belt of love. Covet earnestly the best gifts, but covet love to beautify them all. Study is noble, and discipline is good, and perseverance is a heroic virtue; but in all the range of gifts there is not one that does not call for love to perfect it.
Love Perfects Service
If one were asked to explain what life is, it might be difficult to give an answer. Perhaps we get nearest to life's deepest meaning when we interpret it in terms of service. All life is service. We all must serve to live. Obedience is the first condition of all progress. Hence Christ, the consummation of humanity, was among men as one who serveth.
Service of Necessity
Now I think that when we look at service, we can distinguish three ascending stages in it. In the first place, and on the lowest stage, we discover the service of necessity. There are many things which we are forced to do and which we would never dream of doing were we free. They meet us in the performance of our work perhaps, and we would gladly shirk them if we could. But we cannot shirk them if we wish to live, they are part of the terms on which we have our being; they are the very condition of existence and not to render them would be suicide. Such service to which we are compelled is the poorest and the lowest form of service. True, it is dignified when it is bravely borne and carried through in an unmurmuring way. But the very fact that it is forced upon us and would be at once rejected were we free, invests it with a certain meanness and robs it of liberty and of delight.
Service of Duly
The next stage is the service of duty--all that we do because it is our duty. It is the service we render not because we must. It is the service we give because we ought. It, too, may be uncongenial service--not at all what we should have chosen for ourselves, and we may think it hard that we should have been summoned to bear such burdens or carry through such tasks. But conscience tells us it is the path for us, and so we pray to God to strengthen us and then, with whatever manhood we possess, we go quietly forward on the path of duty. There is always something noble in that service, yet it is hardly the highest kind of service. There is a lack of joy in it--a lack of music--there is not the gladsomeness as of a happy child. Something is wanting to make the service perfect, to make it a thing of beauty and a joy forever, and what it lacks to crown it with delight is the final touch of love. It is love that makes every service perfect. It is love that turns the task into delight. Love never asks how little can I do. Love always asks how much. And that is why in all the range of service there is no service like that inspired by love, whether the love of a mother for her children or that of Jesus Christ for all mankind.
I might illustrate this ascending scale of service by an imagined case from our old customs. Think, then, of some young man a hundred years ago drafted into the service of the navy. Caught by the draft and torn away from home, how intolerable that service must have seemed! For a time, it would be the bitterest of drudgery performed with many a muttering and curse. There was no escape--it had to be performed--the lash and the irons followed disobedience; that, in the harshest and extremist sense, was the service of necessity. But can we not imagine that young man rousing himself into a worthier mood? At the call of danger he would forget his bondage and think of the peril of his native land. And patriotic feelings would arise and his duty to his country would awake, and now his service would be a nobler thing because it was the service of his duty. But now suppose that a young man like that had sailed in the same vessel with Lord Nelson and had learned to love Nelson with that devoted love which filled the breast of every man who sailed with him. How different would his service now become! How gladly would he toil and fight and die! The thought of duty would be absorbed in love, and love would make his service perfect.
Love Perfects Relationships
Once more, I want you to observe that love is needed for the perfecting of relationships.
If you were to ask me what it is that makes life rich, I should answer that chiefly it is life's relationships. It is in the ties which link it to the lives of others that life enlarges to its greatest measure. Just think how poor your life would be today if the cords were cut which bind you to your friends. Son, father, sister, brother, friend and comrade--what would life be without such words as these? For no man liveth to himself--when he attempts it he is no longer living. It is in its wide and various relationships that life is ennobled and enriched.
Now when you come to think of it, you find there are three great enemies of a sweet relationship. The first is selfishness, the second pride, and the third destroyer of life's ties is fear. No man or woman who is selfish can ever know the joy of a deep relationship. If you are selfish you cannot be a friend. If you are selfish you cannot have a friend. For we never tell our secrets to the selfish nor open our hearts to them in confidence nor lean upon them with that confiding hope that calls for, and is always sure of, sympathy. Then in pride is a strange power of isolation. We say of the man who is proud that he is cold. No one is warmed by him in this chill world. No warmth of other lives dispels his iciness. The proud man is the solitary man and so always is the man who is afraid, whether it be the savage in the forest or the fearful sultan upon an Eastern throne. Where there is selfishness, then, or pride or fear, you never can have the fullness of relationship. Something is lacking in every human tie so long as these are mighty in the heart. And it takes a power that can conquer these and whose empire means the killing out of these if the relationships that make our lives are to come slowly to a perfect growth.
The Power That Conquers
It takes a power that can conquer these--you know as well as I do what that power is. Nothing but love, possessing all the heart, is able to dispossess these enemies. Love is the sworn enemy of selfishness, for it sets a crown upon the other. Love is the sworn enemy of pride, for love is ever warm and humble. And as for fear, there is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, for fear hath torment. It is thus that love is imperatively needed for the perfecting of every human tie. Like a girdle you must clasp it on, if you would wear the garment of relationship. It and it only is the bond of perfectness between one life and every other life. Without it we may eat and drink and sleep. But with it in our daily life, we live.
Love Perfects Religion
So love is needed for the perfecting of gifts, for the perfecting of service and relationship. Now in closing and in a word or two, it is needed for the perfecting of religion.
It is a matter of infinite debate where precisely religion begins. Is it in fear of the darkness, in dread of the unknown; is it in some dim feeling of dependence? Brethren, we may have our own thoughts on that matter as a fascinating question of psychology, but wherever religion begins in the heart of man, it can never be perfect till it reaches love. If no relationship of earth is perfect till love has entered with its benediction, how can a man's relationship to God be perfect, if love is wanting there? For true religion is not a thing of doctrine nor of eager and intellectual speculation: it is the tie that binds the life on earth to the infinite and eternal life beyond the veil. I grant you that the distance is so vast there that you cannot gauge it by any earthly tie. I do not like that form of pious speech that is too familiar and has no place for awe. Yet the fact remains that every earthly tie is but a shadow of our tie with God, and if these cannot be perfect without love, no more, you may be sure of it, can that. Only when a man can lift his eyes and say with a cry of victory, "God loves me"; only when he believes though all be dark that the God who reigneth is a God of love; only then does his religion become a real, a very present help in time of trouble, a well of water in the burning desert, a cooling shadow in a weary land.
It is just that and nothing else which makes ours the perfect religion. For the perfecting of religion love is needed, and that love has been revealed in Christ. God commendeth His own love to us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish. When we have gazed upon the face of Christ, there are a thousand things we still may doubt; but there is one thing we can never doubt again, and that is the love of God. Love is the perfect bond between man and man. Love is the perfect bond between man and God. How shall we win it where everything is dark and a thousand divine providence's so baffling? Blessed Savior, we turn our hearts to Thee. We gaze upon Thy pierced hands and feet. He that hath seen Thee hath seen the Father. We rest at last upon the love of God.


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"Kyrgyz national music" - musical instrument
Information about Musical instrument "Kyrgyz national music":
Kyrgyz folk music has its origins from the ancient times. Music always was the helpmate of the Kyrgyz. Kyrgyz folk music according to genre features is divided into instrumental and vocal.
Among different musical instruments three-stringed komuz is the most ancient and widely spread among the Kyrgyz. Not without reason it is said: "Komuz is the spirit of a man." According to the legend one hunter Kambarkan invented it. He heard the music, liked it and went to the sound of this tune. Later he made the instrument, resembling those sounds that he liked. The tree of dried apricot or fir is used for making komuz. Till the 20th century sheep guts were used for komuz strings.
For a long time other musical instruments have been spread among the Kyrgyz. They are: temir-komuz (vargan), kyl kayak (bow instrument), chopo choor (pipe), sunray, kerney (type of oboe), dobulbas (type of kettledrum). Many of these instruments are well known among other nations of Central Asian Kazakh region.
Temir komuz – women and children considered the traditional performers. Later men also became the performers. Temir komuz is one of the most ancient musical instruments, the analogues of which can be met among many nations of the world.
Chopo Choor – choor is made of clay. Generally it is spread in the south of Kyrgyzstan.
Sybyzgy is made from the wood of apricot, barbery, reed or copper.
Surnay is a tube-like instrument with a double reed. It sounds harsh with nasal tone. Previously it was used as a signaling instrument. At present, it almost ceased to exist.
Kerney is especially a signal, high-pitched tone musical instrument. A distinctive aspect is that there are no musical openings.
Vocal genre of the Kyrgyz developed in three directions: song art of akyns and yrchi, consumer mass songs and epic tales.
In the process of the historical development of the Kyrgyz people, its musical culture changed and became perfect.
Thus, in the XVIII century and first half of the XIX century the Kyrgyz folk music continued to develop and cooperate with musical art of other nations of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, influencing on them and keeping its national features.
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Kyrgyz national music


This year's Super Bowl will be held in the most environmentally acclaimed sports stadium in the U.S., the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The 2-million-square-foot arena, designed by HOK, opened to the public in August 2017 and was the first professional sports stadium in the U.S. to achieve Platinum LEED certification, the highest rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Why it matters: A typical NFL game may produce up to 35 tons of waste, or roughly 1.5 pounds per guest. Showcasing sustainability efforts at these highly watched and attended events will help educate fans, reduce operating costs for owners and ultimately lessen the environmental impact for surrounding neighborhoods.
4,000 onsite solar panels can generate 1.6 million kilowatt-hours, enough to power 10 Atlanta Falcons games or 13 Atlanta United soccer matches.
It's the first professional sports stadium in the U.S. to earn all LEED's water category credits, owing to the installation of an advanced storm water management system that can store over 2 million gallons of water, which helps reduce flooding risk to surrounding areas.
The big picture: The NFL has a long history of promoting sustainability across its organization to lessen the environmental impact of its events, starting with a pilot recycling program that debuted during the 1994 Super Bowl.
2017 Draft Day in Philadelphia featured many sustainability initiatives, including solid-waste and food recovery programs.
New and old arenas are encouraged to adopt sustainable practices that demonstrate to fans both the environmental and economic benefits of sustainability.
Yes, but: There is still progress to be made with other stadiums during normal seasons. While 6 NFL stadiums currently have LEED certification, and others have clear plans in place, 6 operate absent any announced initiatives.
What to watch: Expect more stadiums to follow, as the NFL recently announced a membership with the Green Sports Alliance, an organization aimed at encouraging green and renewable practices at sporting events.


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Environmental, social, and governance-oriented investors, and members of Congress, want large public companies to disclose where they shift their profits and how much they pay in taxes, and to cut back on aggressive tax planning. They're facing resistance and a response seen by some critics as little more than marketing in an attempt to counter a White House-promoted narrative that America's biggest corporations don't pay their fair share.
"Some investors, they don't even like the word 'tax planning.' They don't think it should be part of the vocabulary of a company," said Harris Horowitz, global head of tax policy and innovation at the investment management giant BlackRock Inc., during a recent KPMG-hosted webinar. "At the other end of the spectrum, there are shareholders who believe that if you don't take tax risk, that's not doing well by them."
The U.S. trails its developed European and Australian counterparts in terms of requiring companies to disclose more and its companies voluntarily doing so, but America is starting to catch up, tax and finance professionals say.
"People say, 'Well, it's great that you're giving to this charity, or it's great that you're supporting this foundation. And it's great that you have two women on your board,'" said Witold Henisz, a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School who focuses on ESG. "'But we see you're not paying any taxes, and you employ 100,000 people or a million people. Shouldn't you be contributing to the government, to the communities, to the physical infrastructure, the social infrastructure where you do business?'"
Going Mainstream
House lawmakers on June 16 narrowly passed a bill (H.R. 1187) that would—among other ESG provisions, such as political spending and climate change-related risk disclosures—require public companies to disclose where they hold subsidiaries, earn profits, and pay taxes. Rules for ESG disclosure mandates are also on the Securities and Exchange Commission's agenda.
While it faces long odds in the Senate, the bill's tax disclosure component, the Disclosure of Tax Havens and Offshoring Act (S. 1545, H.R. 3007), has plenty of private-sector backing, with 66 investors representing $2.9 trillion in assets under management signing onto May letters to the leaders of the relevant House and Senate committees urging support.
In March, a group behind the successful push for legislation to require companies to disclose their real owners put together a list of hundreds of analyst, business, investor, union, academic, and nongovernmental endorsements for earlier versions (S. 1609, H.R. 5933) of the act.
A rigorous set of corporate tax reporting standards for voluntarily participating multinationals from the Global Reporting Initiative, or GRI, an international standards organization, took effect in January.
The Biden administration's rhetoric and, in a similar vein, the widespread belief among small businesses and individuals that corporations "don't pay their fair share" of taxes is only heightening the pressure. So too is a 130-nation endorsed proposal announced last week to set a minimum multinational tax rate of 15%.
"We've seen a lot of momentum for this type of transparency on tax payments that multinational corporations are making overseas," said Erica Hanichak, government affairs director at the FACT Coalition. The group's name derives from its objectives: financial accountability and corporate transparency.
Investors, Hanichak added, "see this as something that's critically important and material to the investment decisions that they're making—not only to gage risk to the reputation of businesses seen as dodging taxes, but also regulatory risks and systemic risks of undermining tax payments."
Companies' commitments to tax transparency or responsibility have grown since 2018, as have evidence of corporate boards' oversight of tax risks and country-by-country breakdowns of where corporations pay taxes, according to a June report commissioned by Principles for Responsible Investment, or PRI, a United Nations-backed network of ESG-focused investors.
"Although there is a way to go, it is becoming more mainstream," said Ewan Livingston Docwra, a strategist focused on tax at the B Team, a nonprofit that has developed its own set of voluntary tax principles after meeting with a group of companies. "We've seen more and more investors taking a public position on tax and calling for greater levels of transparency in particular from companies."
Geographic Catch-Up
This transparency push has roots in earlier efforts to get extractive companies—in the oil and gas and mining sectors—to make public what they paid, including taxes, to natural resource-rich foreign governments in countries where they operate, starting about two decades ago. A part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act known as the Cardin-Lugar Amendment was meant to increase the transparency of mining and oil and gas companies that make payments to foreign governments. An SEC rule implementing it in 2016 was undone by a Congressional Review Act measure the next year.
Tax disclosure has also been more popular among European and Australian companies than U.S. ones. Investors and those who study this issue cite British companies Vodafone and Unilever, Anglo-Australian resources company BHP Billiton, and Anglo-Australian multinational Rio Tinto as stellar examples of companies that publish their country-by-country tax payments.
In August 2019, four Danish pension funds published a "Tax Code of Conduct," which outlines how managers "should behave in the area of tax with the aim of ensuring more efficient and sustainable investments from a tax perspective."
"I think this is reflective of the broader trends that we're seeing on engagement and ESG," said Vaishnavi Ravishankar, a senior analyst at PRI. "It's possible that US companies will catch up, and there could be more disclosure going forward, but there is some way to go."
Ravishankar and other investment and advocacy professionals cite cultural differences between the U.S. and Europe, as well as differences in political and regulatory environments, to explain the gap.
In the U.S., shareholder resolutions dealing with tax disclosures and strategies have been few and far between, and haven't gotten many votes. Two stick out: one from a shareholder of Facebook Inc., for a report on responsible tax principles, and another leveled at Google parent Alphabet Inc. requesting adoption of a policy and report on the impacts of its tax strategy, according to data from proxy data firm Insightia. The former, in 2018, got a 1.4% vote, and the Alphabet proposal, in 2014, received a 1% vote.
But investors are getting wary of risky tax planning maneuvers best described as falling into a grey area of legality, or just not illegal, such as Google's famed "double-Irish, Dutch sandwich," in which it shifted profits through offshore subsidiaries to no- or low-tax jurisdictions.
Aggressive strategies "did suggest something about the mentality of the management team, because not all companies went down the path of implementing that kind of structure," Rob Wilson, a research analyst at MFS Investment Management, told Bloomberg Law. "What we're trying to do as an investment team here is really be thoughtful about which of these strategies that companies might be using to reduce their taxes seem to us fair and reasonable" and which ones seem like they could end up on the front page of a newspaper.
Still, disclosures alone may not be enough to dissuade aggressive planning, said Andrew Belnap, an assistant professor at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
"I do think this kind of disclosure can be meaningful and beneficial to investors and the public," Belnap said. But, he added, much of what these companies are doing is legal, so the activist investors may be better off asking politicians to change the tax code.
Companies and their advisers know this pressure isn't dying away.
While the GRI and B Team standards are positive developments, there hasn't been much progress among U.S. companies, as it's an "extremely difficult issue to get traction on," said Adam Kanzer, head of stewardship for the Americas at BNP Paribas. Company executives are worried about their tax information getting taken out of context or misunderstood, so they try to control the narrative with the help of accounting and auditing firms that have a history of helping them with tax avoidance, he said.
"This is really getting to the core of what matters to companies financially," said Kanzer. "When you get to the core of how the company structures itself internationally and how it pays its taxes, that is some pretty sticky stuff. That's stuff they don't really want to talk about and certainly don't want to change."
PwC, which in May became a supporter of a fund aiding GRI's crafting of reporting standards, developed in the early aughts the notion of "total tax contribution."
It's a full picture of companies' tax payments and collections—not just corporate income taxes, but payroll, property, excise, value added, and other taxes, including those collected on behalf of governments. The accounting firm described it as a way to "help companies respond to the current environment" and "one of the tools that can help companies tell their own story, which may not be fully explained by mandatory rules."
More recently, PwC said in mid-June that it will hire 100,000 people and invest $12 billion in the next five years with a major focus on expansion of its ESG services and "building trust."
'Sword and Shield'
"Can you identify where your tax risks are across the globe? Because if a story blows up, you're going to need to be able to handle that. Because it's going to be front-page news," said Will Morris, the firm's deputy global tax policy leader, during a May webcast the firm hosted on the intersection of ESG and tax. "Do you really understand your own tax numbers? If you don't, you're in trouble. You need to collect those. You need to begin to understand them and then, given this transparency environment that we're in, you need to construct a narrative around them."
David Parrish, PwC's ESG tax leader and international tax partner, who also spoke on the webcast, said he thinks of disclosures "as a sword and a shield. Companies should think about where they have positive stories to tell. They do. Companies should think about total tax contribution."
Some tax and activist investment professionals worry that this will obscure and distract from the kind of detailed breakdown of tax planning and country-by-country profits, operations, and payments they're looking for when assessing the risk of investing in a company.
"We absolutely agree that a company should be proactive in providing a narrative, explaining how their tax policies and practices line up with their sustainability commitments and other commitments to the public," said Niko Lusiani, a senior adviser on corporate advocacy at the nonprofit Oxfam America, adding that he would recommend companies avoid the total tax contribution metric.
The narrative "should also be verified by the numerical quantitative data that would be available through a public country-by-country reporting standard, and those two things need to stand together," Lusiani said.
Elise Bean, who led investigations into tax dodging by multinationals aided by Big Four accounting firms like PwC for former Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), noted that the change in rhetoric is "a sign that they're starting to feel cornered."
Some corporate boards and the shareholders they have to please have gradually begun to shift away from economist Milton Friedman's doctrine—that corporations are first and foremost obligated to generate profits—in favor of delivering benefits to a broader population of "stakeholders," such as employees and consumers. That "stakeholder" vision is relevant to tax, she said.
Previously, the standard rhetoric has been, "we owe it to our shareholders to pay little or no taxes," Bean said. But now, "it's not just our shareholders that we have an obligation to. It's also our larger community, our workers, our customers, our stakeholders. And once you take that step, the very next step is having to pay some taxes, and so the rhetoric is changing."
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