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Building Memory | Exhibition
tags: Architecture, Books, events, Exhibitions
The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius is excited to launch the exhibition Building Memory that is responsible for commissioning new moving image works from four of Europe's most renowned artists. Building Memory is based on four films about architecture, monuments, and community.
The artworks in Building Memory explore different aspects of 60 years of Europe's most problematic and contested history from a focus on architecture, monuments, and community and geo-political perspectives in Poland, the former-DDR (East Germany), and with reference to the foundation of the state of Israel. Three of the works are haunted by the specter of the Holocaust and all of them are conceptually sited within post-communist space – so are especially relevant to current cultural debates in Lithuania. (And will be equally engaging and discursive when exhibited at the partner institutions in Germany, Poland, and Israel).
The artist + films are:
Mirosław Bałka (b. in 1958) is a graduate of the Warsaw Fine Arts Academy. He began his career as a sculptor, creating representational works, and then gradually turned to minimalist objects of elementary form, made of industrial materials such as cement and steel. Balka's film is: Audi HBE F114
Balka explores how subjective traumas are translated into collective histories and vice versa. His materials are simple, everyday objects and things, but also powerfully resonant of ritual, hidden memories and the history of Nazi occupation in Poland. The footage in this digital photographic animation is reputedly taken from CCTV cameras installed at the most infamous of the Nazi death camps located in Poland – Auschwitz. The title of the work is taken from the number-plate of the car that drives through the territory of the camp, surrounded by security personnel, from which the passenger never emerges.
Yael Bartana lives and works in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. Over the last several years she has become known for her complex visualizations in the forms of photography, film, video, and sound works and installations. Her film is Mary Koszmary (Nightmares), A Trilogy Part II: Mur i Wieża (Wall and Tower)
Wall and Tower plays Exodus in reverse: as a young man appearing to be a politician of some sort makes a public exhortation inviting three million Jews back to Poland [from Israel]: an invitation that is immediately answered. We then track the fortunes of a group of young Jewish settlers who build a stockade of the sort erected by the Jewish settlers – kibbutzniks – in the Palestinian desert during the colonization of that territory in the early-20th century. (Most people would associate the architectural form with US Cavalry forts erected during the migration West across the American prairie).
Deimantas Narkevičius is an artist and filmmaker born in 1964 in Utena, currently based in Vilnius. In 2009 he became a Lithuanian National Arts Laureate, and has represented his nation at the Venice Biennale (2001), and in 2008 was awarded the prestigious Vincent Award by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. His film Into the Unknown is a film edited from material sourced from the E-TV archive, specifically footage from films produced by DEFA in the former-DDR. The images depict the everyday life of East Berliners, documented over the course of 20 years (with a high proportion of footage from the 1970s and 1980s).
The quotidian scenes are of both the city and countryside, close-ups of people when they are relaxing, and hard at work, and of big crowds at an official outdoor gathering. The interior views are of private and public spaces. The images are suggestive of the ordering of the people's lives. Individuals are squeezed into strict social systems. The images, originally made to promote the socialist way of living, show us how "well balanced" the socialist lifestyle was.
Marcel Odenbach, born 1953 in Cologne (D); 1974–79 studied architecture, art history and semiotics at the Technische Hochschule, Aachen (Dipl. Ing); late 1970s started video work with tapes and installations, performances and drawings; 1992–98 professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe (D); lives and works in Cologne (D). His film "Im Kreise drehen" (Turning Circles) combines a number of the aforementioned characteristics and embodies them in a video matching formal rigour and psychological tension with a sense of displacement (and alienation).
The work is principally a study of the Majdanek Mausoleum, one of two monuments designed by Polish sculptor Wiktor Tolkin, erected on the site of the Lublin Concentration Camp (known as the "Majdanek" camp). Built in 1969 to mark the 25th anniversary of the camp's liberation the hulking concrete structure looks like the work of a Futurist architect from an earlier-age or one of the follies designed by the 18th century French visionary architect Etienne-Louis Boullée – a "flying saucer" is the easiest way to describe it. Famously, it stands on the pathway to the camp's crematorium and it supposedly contains ashes of some of the victims (as strange reliquary).
The exhibition will travel to the partner institutions throughout 2010 and will be accompanied by a scholarly publication to be published in mid-2010.
More details about the artists, artworks, exhibition, special screening events, and tour dates can be found at the special project website: www.buildingmemory.net
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Q: number 0 can not be checked in JS I have below code block:
const arr = [
  {name: 'Peter', folderLevel: 0},
  {name: 'Sara', folderLevel: 1},
  {name: 'William'}
 ];

let newArr = arr.map(el => {
   if (el.folderLevel) {
     el.folderLevel = el.folderLevel + 1;
     return el;
   } else {
     return el;
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When I console log the newArr, the result is
[
  {name: 'Peter', folderLevel: 0},
  {name: 'Sara', folderLevel: 2},
  {name: 'William'}
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I am wondering why inside the object name with 'Peter', the folderLevel wasn't added 1?

A: Problem comes from your statement:
if (el.folderLevel)

In fact, in JavaScript, 0 is like null. So if your value is egual to 0, your condition 'if value' will return false.
What you need to do, in your case, is to put this condition:
if (el.folderLevel !== undefined)

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I have always been a lover of all things scary and spooky. And as a book lover, I grew up reading books by authors like Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Dean Koontz, V.C Andrews, and Dennis Lehane, to name a few.
Over the years, the fantastic titles coming from this genre has only increased my appeal to it and am finding myself expanding my mystery and thriller repertoire by exploring the fantastic titles available.
So this post is about mystery, suspense, and thriller novels that I've listened to or read to throughout the year that truly enjoyed and recommend.
The Roanoke Girls is a twisted story of dirty family secrets that are slowly uncovered and gives us a better understanding of the motives of those involved.
Full of dirty family secrets, the wealthy Roanoke's have had incredible power over the girls in their family. A force so strong that many of them die. When one of the girls goes missing, her cousin returns to face the demons that have always haunted her.
There is so so much to unpack in this book. This thriller explores the concept of DNA matching diving deep into the complexities from having science determine who your true match should be.
Throughout the book, some amazing stories and characters are told. From the founder who participates in her experiment to an engaged straight man who is paired to another man, a woman who finds her match has passed away, and a serial killer who is falling love while living a secret sinister life that includes a trail of dead bodies.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book because, from the very beginning, this novel shows just how complicated the simplest concepts can be.
I will say this was an excellent debut novel from Krysten Ritter, the actress, producer, and writer.
Bonfire follows the story of an environmental lawyer, Abby Williams, who goes back to her hometown to work a case. As she goes back home, she has to confront her past which is full of lies, deceit, and death.
This book is a lot of things. It is dark, and it is twisted, it is disturbing and jaw-dropping. Joe, the lead character, finds love after cyber-stalking a woman who walked into the bookstore he manages. As the story progresses, we learn Joe is psychotic and unhinged as he travels 3000 miles to be with his soulmate, to find out that she is nothing like what he imagined she would be.
Ted and Lily meet on a flight from London to Boston. During their meeting, these strangers begin playing a game of truth, sharing intimate details which leads to them plan the death of Ted's wife who he is sure is cheating on him.
From that point, Ted and Lily's 'relationship' grows, these co-conspirators play a deadly game of cat and mouse in which the reader doesn't know who will be the victim or victor.
If you are a fan of Serial, you will LOVE this fantastic debut novel by Kathleen Barber. This psychological thriller explores a podcast that reopens a thirteen-year-old murder case.
I enjoyed this one, the plot is intense, and the pacing was so great.
In this super dark thriller take you on a hunt to discover what is going on behind these closed doors of Jack and Grace, the perfect couple. This captivating novel is a perfect example of a marriage that looks immaculate on the outside but paints a vastly different picture on the inside.


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Move Over Marcos – Rosmah's 12,000 Stolen Jewelleries Worth Over RM1 Billion Dethrone Imelda's 1,220 Shoes
After Ferdinand Marcos and his spendthrift wife Imelda Marcos were driven into U.S. exile by a 1986 popular revolt, the world was shocked by the amount of luxury items left behind in the Philippines. There were hundreds of pieces of Ferdinand Marcos's clothing, including the formal native see-through Barong shirts he wore during his 21 years in power.
But the biggest haul was Imelda Marcos' legendary stash of shoes – at least 1,220 pairs – after they fled to Hawaii when the army and Filipinos turned against him in a bloodless revolution. When Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos arrived in the U.S., they brought with them hundreds of pieces of jewellery and a couple of dozen gold bricks.
It would take another 31 years for the infamous story of Imelda Marcos' shoes collection to meet its destiny. It was only in 2017 (last year) that the former first lady of Philippines lost her legal fight to reclaim jewellery confiscated after her dictator husband was ousted. By then some of her collection of shoes had already been damaged by storms and termites.
In February, 2017, the country's Supreme Court ruled that Imelda Marcos illegally acquired the jewellery, including diamond-studded tiaras and an extremely rare 25-carat pink diamond. Her collection included a golden belt with a diamond buckle, necklaces, brooches, earrings and gems – all of which could result in US$21 million worth of Marcos's jewellery being auctioned off by the state.
The Philippines Supreme Court found that the jewels could not have been bought by Ferdinand Marcos on his government salary of a few thousands dollars. President Marcos and his family amassed billions during his 21 years in power. What was left of Imelda's shoe collection was displayed at the presidential palace as a symbol of her lavish lifestyle.
Rosmah Mansor has long been compared to Imelda Marcos. Unlike Imelda, Rosmah, the former first lady of Malaysia has an extraordinary taste for luxury handbags such as Hermes Birkin. And she has collected hundreds of them. Based on the latest evaluation from the police who had seized a total of 567 handbags in 37 different brands, the Hermes bags alone were worth RM51.3 million.
But unlike Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos who successfully fled the country after the 1986 popular revolt, Najib Razak and Rosmah Mansor failed to flee Malaysia after stunningly defeated in the recent 2018 general election. The former first family of Malaysia had never thought they could lose and they are paying the price for being over-confident, and arrogant.
The shocking moment everyone has been waiting has finally arrived. After weeks of waiting, the Malaysian Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Amar Singh told a press conference today that more than 12,000 pieces of jewellery – comprising 2,200 rings, 1,400 necklaces, 2,100 bracelets, 2,800 pairs of earrings, 1,600 brooches and 14 tiaras – were seized from the six residences related to Mr. Najib and his family members.
According to the authorities, the value of those jewellery items was estimated to be about RM440 million – excluding workmanship costs. The most expensive item was a necklace with a white diamond that was valued at RM6.4 million. The market value of those items would be about 50 to 100% more, hence the total value was estimated to be between RM600 million to RM800 million.
The cash confiscated has risen from initial RM114 million to RM116.7 million. It took the authorities 3 days, 22 officers from Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank), and 6 counting machines to count the cash in 26 currencies. Mr. Amar Singh said – "The amount was just too huge. This is the biggest seizure in Malaysian history."
There were 423 watches from more than 100 brands worth RM78 million and 234 sunglasses worth RM374,000 seized. The most expensive watch was the Rolex Daytona – costing a staggering RM3.5 million. Also seized were 567 handbags from 37 brands that included Hermes, Prada, Versace and Chanel, among others.
There were an eye-popping 272 pieces of Hermes Birkin – valued at RM51.3 million. Rosmah has been criticised for showing off her super expensive Birkin handbags. Little did 32 million Malaysians know that Najib, like his wife, has great taste for hyper-expensive bags too. So, like the legendary criminals Bonnie and Clyde, enter Najib's "Bijan" – "the world's most expensive store".
The police estimated Najib and Rosmah's Bijan bags alone to be worth RM1.6 million. Since opening in 1976, the "House of Bijan" has produced some of the finest and most expensive clothing, shoes, fragrances and accessories in the world. In fact, Donald Trump is the only president since the 1980s that Bijan hasn't made suits for. They only make a few and mostly are custom-made.
The "By Appointment Only" store located at Rodeo Drive of the posh Beverly Hills would on average register sales of US$100,000 for each of its clients. A pair of socks would set you back by US$100 while a tie would cost around US$1,200. A suit would cost at least US$25,000. Cashmere, alligator and kangaroo leather are the standard materials used by the "House of Bijan".
The Bijan also has close collaborations with luxury cars. A month after the designer's death, Bugatti released a single-unit custom car – the 1001 horsepower Bijan Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. Costing at US$1 million a pop, Bijan, in collaboration with Royce Royce, had also produced 30 units of limited edition Phantom Drophead Coupe.
The retail cost of all the items seized from six properties linked to Najib totalled RM900 million to RM1.1 billion. Of course, these could be just the tip of the iceberg. Obviously, Imelda Marcos' 1,220 pair of shoes pale in comparison to Rosmah Mansor's 12,000 jewelleries. Still, the lavish lifestyle of Marcos wasn't the reason that inspired Rosmah's thievery.
What actually inspired Rosmah to steal the peoples' money was her desire or fantasy to marry into the family of the Sultan of Brunei – according to her friends. She was said to be obsessed with power and wealth. However, she married a businessman instead of the wealthy Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. Her ambition didn't die and when opportunity presents itself, she divorced her husband.
Working for a property company, Rosmah was said to be eyeing former Malacca Chief Minister Rahim Thamby Chik initially, the same guy forced to resign in 1994 after accused of raping an underage school girl. However, Rosmah bet the right horse when she charmed her way to another UMNO rising star – Najib Razak (then Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports).
In 1987, Najib divorced Tengku Puteri Zainah Tengku Eskandar, his first wife, and married Rosmah Mansor. So, a year after Marcos lost power, Rosmah married a man who would become the most powerful – and most corrupted – prime minister of Malaysia. However, it's too early to tell if Rosmah would, like Imelda Marcos, venture into politics in the event Najib is imprisoned.
Forget Najib, Rosmah Should Be Roasted – She Holds The Keys To Billions Of Dollars Of Stolen Money
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This Chart Shows How US-DOJ Links Auntie Rosie To A $27-Million Pink Diamond
Take A Tour Inside Emirates Airbus A319 That Rosmah Took For Her Cheap Award
One Big Family Of Crooks? Najib's In-Law Took Hermes Bags Without Paying
Rahim Thamby Chik – A True Example Of Insulting Malays, Islam & Malay Kings
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The GWOC preseason tournament happened this past weekend at Tipp. 12 varsity teams and 8 JV squads competed. Excellent questions, and very competitive matches were the rule for the day.
Vandalia-Butler emerged victorious by going undefeated on the day. Troy HS finished as runner up in varsity. Tippecanoe swept to victory in the JV bracket.
Some GWOC schools did not compete due to holiday break being an issue or perhaps they just don't field quiz teams. Also, Beavercreek, Northmont, and Sidney didn't compete since each of those schools have already qualified for regional play in OAC format.
Regular season starts in a couple of weeks @ Vandalia Butler. Should be a terrific league struggle, lots of great teams are in the league this year.


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Timothy Agbor, Osogbo
The crisis rocking the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, over the appointment of a new vice-chancellor for the institution, Prof. Ayobami Salami, took a new dimension on Thursday when the protesting workers placed a coffin and obituary posters of the outgone vice-chancellor, Prof. Bamitale Omole, in front of his office.
The protesting workers carried the coffin, which had an inscription, "Omole Rest In Fire" round the institution and swept the campus grounds with brooms to signify the end of the outgone vice-chancellor's tenure.
The irate workers, while moving round with the coffin earlier kept at the entrance to Omole's office at about 10:00am, rained curses on him, saying he was the worst VC the university ever had.
Omole, who had completed his five-year tenure as the university's VC on Wednesday, and was expected to be ushered out of office with fanfare, was booed and tongue-lashed by the irate workers.
Our correspondent gathered that Omole was scheduled to officially hand over the administration of the institution to his successor before bowing out as the 10th VC, but could not resume in his office located in the University Senate Building to perform that last official function because of the alleged fear of being attacked by the protesting workers.
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Episode 151 - Silent Warrior!
With Piccolo defeated, 17 has no choice but to fight Cell on his own or so it seems, that is until Android 16 launches a silent complaint by pummeling Cell with a fury of fisticuffs. As the battle rages on, it is easily noticeable that 16 is just as strong as Cell. Knowing the fight is at a stalemate Cell uses a desperate attempt to absorb 16 into his being, but due to the way 16 was built Cell is unable to complete the Androids demise.
Episode 152 - Say Goodbye, 17!
The battle between Android 16 and Cell continues. Cell tries to counter-attack but falls short to 16's Inferno Flash. 16 warns 17 and 18 to quickly leave the battlefield, however they wait, believing Cell to be dead. But before they can do so, Cell sneaks up behind 17, and before he can get away, Cell quickly absorbs him. Cell transforms into his second imperfect form, and his next task is to absorb 18 to become complete. Android 16 attempts to attack Cell, but is no match for his second form, and is severely damaged by a blast from Cell. Tien then attempts to give 16 and 18 time to escape by using several attacks to stall Cell.
Tien, attempting to give 16 and 18 enough time to escape, subsequently uses up all his energy in a vicious attack, and falls to the ground. Goku knows that Cell is far stronger than Tien, so he descends on the battlefield to help Tien recover. While there he notices Piccolo is still alive, but he's hanging on by a thread. Cell desires to fight Goku immediately, but Goku uses his Instant Transmission to get back to Kami's lookout successfully, and Vegeta and Trunks finally emerge from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
Goku asks Trunks about the training, but Vegeta doesn't want him to say anything about it. Vegeta then leaves to find and destroy Cell, while Trunks closely follows. Goku and Gohan then enter the Time Chamber to begin their own training.
Episode 155 - Super Vegeta!
The heartless Cell continues to destroy the islands. He eventually finds the last island where Androids 16 and 18 is hiding, and threatens to destroy it together with them. Vegeta, anxious to test his new power, heads towards Cell's whereabouts and transforms to Super Saiyan. Just as Cell is about to destroy the last island, Vegeta arrives to fight Cell. Up on Kami's Lookout, Tien and Piccolo don't believe that Vegeta has the power to beat Cell, and neither does Android 18, based on the fact that she beat Vegeta in their fight.
Episode 156 - Bow to the Prince!
As Vegeta battles Cell, it is clear that Vegeta has the upper hand in the fight, his strength superior to Cell's. Watching from the sidelines, Trunks recalls the intense time he spent training with his father in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. As the fight between Cell and Vegeta continues, the pressure falls on Gohan as he trains in the Time Chamber with Goku in an attempt to become a Super Saiyan.
Episode 157 - Hour of Temptation!
Goku and Gohan continue to push themselves forward in their training, but at this point, they may not even be needed. In his powered up state, Vegeta is making quick work of Cell, who seems to be utterly no match for Vegeta. Vegeta then explains to Cell that it is useless to fight him in his current state, as even if he somehow manages to get past him, Trunks would finish him off. With his back against the wall, the ever-clever android attempts to exploit Vegeta's weakest point, his unbridled arrogance, but Vegeta brushes this off as an attempt from Cell to get his own way, at which Cell becomes infuriated.
Episode 158 - Krillin's Decision!
With Cell being thrown around by Vegeta, Cell still attempts to exploit Vegeta's weak point in an attempt to get the chance to absorb Android 18. With 18 in his sights, Krillin attempts to get closer to her in an attempt to shut down the android forever. But at the moment of decision, Krillin hesitates, his emotions clouding his judgement. Cell is gaining momentum in his push for perfection, enticing Vegeta to be able to test his true power. Upon hearing this, Android 16 tells 18 that she must leave immediately, as Vegeta may let Cell go. Krillin's emotions finally get the best of him, and he destroys the controller in front of 18, just as Vegeta lets Cell go and find 18. Trunks, fearful of what would happen, intervenes and prevents Cell from looking for 18. Just as Cell complains to Vegeta, he catches a glimpse of 18 on the ground, and can only gape at the android.
Episode 159 - The Last Defense!
Cell has spotted 18, but so has Trunks, and he warns Krillin, 16, and 18 that Cell knows their whereabouts, just as Cell begins flying towards them. Trunks gives chase, and every time Cell gets the chance to absorb 18, Trunks intervenes. Vegeta has other plans, however, and begins to interfere with Trunks. Trunks defies Vegeta's thought that Trunks is too weak-minded to attack his own father, and sends Vegeta flying towards the water with a large Ki blast. As Trunks continues to interfere with Cell's quest, the android sees 16 and 18 getting away, and devises a plan, using Tien's "Solar Flare" technique to blind everybody, including Vegeta as he heads back to the battlefield. With nobody but Krillin to stand in his way, Cell is unfazed by Krillin's attempts to stall Cell as he absorbs 18 and begins his transformation.
Episode 160 - Cell is Complete!
Dr. Gero's dream has been realized, and the Earth's greatest fear has come about. Cell is complete! Can anyone stop the android nightmare in his final, perfect form? As the heroes nervously line up, a glimmer of hope shines from above. Gohan is now a Super Saiyan!
Episode 161 - Vegeta Must Pay!
After allowing Cell to reach his final form, Vegeta is ready for the challenge he was promised. While Cell has become a brick wall to the Saiyan's every blow, it becomes clear that Vegeta has bitten off more than he can chew, as even a direct blow to the android barely phases him. Meanwhile, Goku and Gohan, who is now a proper Super Saiyan, continue to train in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
Episode 162 - Trunks Ascends!
Vegeta is clearly no match for Cell now he has powered up to his Perfect form, and it seems Trunks will have no choice but to reveal his hidden ascended power. Just as it appears that Vegeta is losing consciousness, however, he powers up for his ultimate move, the Final Flash. He spends several minutes powering up for the attack, crumbling the surrounding landscape as he does so. As he prepares to launch it, he challenges Cell to stay right where he is and take on his attack. He launches it, and it proves very effective, demolishing Cell's right arm, and a large portion of the right side of his torso. Vegeta begins laughing but his celebration is quickly cut short when Cell reminds Vegeta that he possesses Piccolo's regenerative ability. Cell resumes the fight and, after a massive onslaught of Ki blasts from Vegeta, knocks Vegeta out cold, and prepares to kill Vegeta until he senses that Trunks is beginning to power up.
Episode 163 - Saving Throw!
With Vegeta out of commission, it's up to the newly-ascended Trunks to take down Cell. As they fight, Trunks tries to divert Cell's attention away from his unconscious father's body, allowing Krillin to bring him to safety. Meanwhile, Goku and Gohan continue training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
Trunks recounts the events that lead to the destruction of the Z Fighters in the future. Using the rage from these memories, Trunks powers up to finish his battle with Cell. Cell then tells Trunks how he was created, and why he traveled to the future. As the battle continues, Trunks has the upper hand, but Cell claims that he knows Trunks cannot beat him.


Splash Landing Family Aquatic Center is an outdoor community water park that is composed a main recreation pool, toddler pool, and splash pad. Located in Middle Park, Splash Landing is local choice for outdoor recreation water in Bettendorf. It features 6 lap lanes, zero depth entry pools, kiddie slides, body flume slides, a diving board, a drop slide, and numerous spray and play water features.


Scientists are now discovering that living near trees is also really good for your health. Research by EcoHealth Ontario, and funded by the Friends of the Greenbelt, shows a direct link between trees in urban areas and cooler, cleaner air for residents. Another study found that adding 10 or more trees to a city block offers many benefits, including feeling seven years younger.
So there are huge benefits to planting trees – we can improve public health outcomes at the same time as addressing climate change, protecting soil and water, and creating important wildlife habitat – and all for a relatively small investment.
Ontario has a long history of tree planting programs. The province's first director of reforestation, Edmund Zavitz, helped to replant the Oak Ridges Moraine, rescuing it from the brink of becoming a dust bowl. Under his leadership, Ontario planted two billion trees, leading to the recognition of the Niagara Escarpment as a World Biosphere reserve.
Although current planting levels have dipped below the historic highs seen in the twentieth century, initiatives such as Forests Ontario's 50 Million Trees program, which works with private landowners to plant native trees, continue to recognize the importance of reforestation.
This is why I was delighted recently when I heard about a proposal from MPP Ted Arnott, who represents Wellington-Halton Hills, to plant 150 million trees in 2017 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the province in Confederation. MPP Arnott's idea was introduced in the Ontario legislature in October 2015 and received support across the political spectrum.
Could it be done? The example of Wellington County, part of which lies within the Greenbelt, suggests that it could. The County's Green Legacy program has planted almost 2 million trees since 2004, working with local conservation authorities, municipalities, community groups, schools and landowners. If such an effort were scaled province-wide with the goal of planting 150 million trees, just imagine the results, not only on the environment, but on community engagement.
Now that would be a fitting 150th birthday present for Ontario and Canada.


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Connie Mason Michaelis: Modern science makes us younger longer
By Connie Mason Michaelis mkconnie@cox.net.com
I spend a great deal of time reading and researching issues of the aging population.
I recently read an article in the Southwest Airline magazine about a gentleman named Chip Conley. In his book, "Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder," he describes our ability to continue to contribute in life, including in the workplace, at an advanced age.
After selling his career company and then being invited to consult with a new start-up tech company, he suddenly found himself surrounded by smart, young business people half his age. The average age of employees at companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook is around 31. What does an elder have to offer that business world?
Beyond the age difference is the wide gap in technological knowledge. Many of us struggle to use our iPhones or to use the multiple remotes for our TVs. Our lack of tech may cause us to feel inferior, out of date and useless. Conley says nothing is farther from the truth.
My favorite phrase he uses is, "People will be younger longer, not older longer." Think about it. As modern medical science has enabled us to add years to our lives, many may think it is just living longer in a debilitated state. No! It offers us the opportunity to be younger longer.
Not only younger, but more productive and more influential. We've got additional years as a gift to give back to our communities, families and, yes, to the workplace. You don't have to be a genius to look around and see the need for maturity, wisdom and emotional stability in the world. Those of us who have lived seven or eight decades have experiences that taught us so much, and there is no substitute for experience. Been there, done that, learned the lesson!
In every circle of influence, whether with family, friends or in the workplace, it takes mutual respect and appreciation to recognize that we have much to learn from the younger ones and, likewise, we have much to offer. I love the thought of the modern elder — someone who is mature and wise, but at the same time fresh, current and engaged.
Connie Mason Michaelis is a lifestyle consultant who is on Facebook at Just Now Old Enough.


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Immigrant Drama, Redux
May 24, 2013 By Samantha Shokin
"Covers," a new production by experimental theater troupe the Lost & Found Project for the Russian division of the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, attempts to breathe new life into two timeworn themes: young rebellious children and the clash of traditional values in the new world. Premiering May 22 to a packed (and largely Russian-speaking) audience, the show picks up where the troupe's inaugural production, "Doroga," left off — young Russian Jewish Americans in present-day Brooklyn, grappling with questions of identity and self-actualization while being smothered by the nagging disapproval of their immigrant parents.
Marina Levitskaya
Alex, a once-accomplished investment banker who suffered an emotional breakdown after losing his job, has just moved back in with his overbearing parents who, in proper Russian-Jewish fashion, do not take kindly to his decision to abandon his career and become a musician. His brother Misha, a successful lawyer, also endures their criticism for marrying a non-Jewish woman. Their family drama unfolds while two cousins next door, Sharon and Magda, fight over selling their late grandfather's apartment.
Immigrant family dramas are by no means new, and though the play's experimental, minimalist set and instances of breaking the fourth wall add flair to an otherwise tired plot, tropes of the genre are employed without reservation. For instance, the parents' revulsion to Misha's new and questionable lifestyle choices — chief among them, a vegetarian diet (clearly the influence of his American wife) — does not even attempt to challenge Russian immigrant stereotypes. In that regard, the roles undermine the message "Covers" strives so hard to convey — that we are all masters of our fate and identity; we choose our "covers" and are not dictated by our past, despite the bearing it has on us.
Stereotypes notwithstanding, the play's spectacular actors did great justice to the roles and accomplished what The Lost & Found Project sets out to with every production — to speak to a thriving community of Russian Jews, many of whom see performances like "Covers" less as another take on the played-out immigrant story than a testament to a history they lived and are a part of.
The parents Olya and Pavel, played by Gera Sandler and Yelena Shmulenson (Shmulenson appearing courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association, and who has also appeared in "A Serious Man" and "Boardwalk Empire"), stole the show with galvanized outbursts and impeccably timed wisecracks. The family's heated disputes were by far the most entertaining dialogues in the play, though the older, sassier cousin Sharon, played by producer and Lost & Found Project founder Anna Zicer, gave a very spirited performance as well, rife with snide remarks and a delightfully blunt arrogance.
If you are a Russian or a Jew, an immigrant or a first-generation American, a frustrated parent or a defiant child, or one who simply loves the theme of generations colliding during changing times, "Covers" is worth seeing. You don't have to know Russian to sympathize: Even what our own parents tell us often gets lost in translation.


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Jon Rahm and Ryan Palmer Return to New Orleans to Defend Their Title at the Zurich Classic
AVONDALE — Jon Rahm, currently the third-ranked player in the world, will team again with Ryan Palmer to defend the title they won in 2019 at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
Rahm turned professional in 2016 out of Arizona State and won his first PGA TOUR title at the 2017 Farmers Insurance Open. He has won again each year since, including twice in 2020, at the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide and the BMW Championship in the FedExCup playoffs. He also earned six other top 10 finishes in the truncated 2020 season.
So far this season, he has six top-seven finishes, including a tie for fifth at the Genesis Invitational and a tie for ninth at The Players Championship.
In 2019, he tied for third in the U.S. Open and tied for seventh in last fall's Masters.
Competing for Arizona State, he became the first player to twice win the Ben Hogan Award, given to the best collegiate golfer. He also won the Jack Nicklaus Award, given to the top Division I collegiate golfer and played on the 2014 World Cup team and the 2015 Palmer Cup squad. He was the number one ranked amateur player for a record 60 weeks and was the low amateur at the 2016 U.S. Open. During his collegiate career, he recorded 11 victories, second only to former Sun Devil Phil Mickelson.
Ryan Palmer has won four times on the PGA TOUR, including his victory with Rahm at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. He is currently ranked 26th in the world.
His victory at the 2019 Zurich Classic capped one of his most successful years on the PGA Tour. He scored six top-ten finishes, including a tie for third in the CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges tournament, when he recorded seven consecutive birdies to close out one of his rounds. He also tied for fourth in the Honda Classic and tied for sixth in the Charles Schwab Challenge.
In the shortened 2020 season, he finished second to his Zurich partner Rahm in the Memorial Tournament, when they were paired in the final round. He also tied for fourth in the Sony Open and tied for eighth in the Northern Trust in that season. He qualified for the FedExCup playoffs for the 12th time in his career and advanced to the Tour Championship for the third time.
He has played well this season too, with a tie for second at the Farmers Insurance Open, a fourth in the Sentry Tournament of Champions and a tie for fourth in the Zozo Championship at Sherwood.
He missed the fall portion of the 2016-17 season while his wife, Jennifer, underwent chemotherapy to treat Stage 2 breast cancer that was diagnosed in the summer of 2016. Upon his return to the PGA TOUR in 2018, he almost won the Farmers Insurance Open, losing in a playoff eventually won by Jason Day.
The Zurich Classic is the only team tournament on the PGA TOUR season. Since launching the team format in 2017, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans has drawn some of the highest-ranking fields for any regular-season tournament on the PGA TOUR.
Single-day grounds tickets are only $35. In addition to grounds tickets and the Best of the Zurich Classic Passes, other ticket packages are available at www.zurichgolfclassic.com.
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Either Canberra is getting noisier, or more of us are fed up with it. Noise complaints have exploded across Canberra, new figures reveal. Close to 1300 noise complaints were made across the city last year, about 45 per cent more than the previous year – and 2015's rowdiest suburb barely warranted a mention the year before. Data compiled by Access Canberra revealed Kingston as Canberra's most-grumbled-about suburb in 2015. Canberra's oldest and most densely populated suburb attracted 80 noise complaints, 64 of which related to amplified music. Kingston Barton Residents Group president Rebecca Scouller said the increase in noise was primarily due to to urban infill. "With increased development, particularly apartments and multi-use developments it is only natural that some parts of Kingston are noisier," she said. She said the quality of some infrastructure on Kingston Foreshore has been an issue, particularly when managing noise spill from late night entertainment venues. The changed purpose of some infrastructure, like Manuka Oval, has also played a part in the growing noise. "This change in use [of Manuka Oval] in the middle of a residential area is more noticeable than if it was, for example, at Bruce Stadium." Kingston usurped Civic as the most-complained-about town centre in the city. While gripes about noise pollution in Civic rose in 2015, it only had about a third of the amplified music complaints of Kingston. Kingston resident and Inner South Canberra Community Council chairman Gary Kent said while Kingston can be a noisy place to live, it's the price you pay for living in a city. "People living in Kingston love it because it's so vibrant and there's so many things to do but there will naturally be noise and providing the people who generate noise are considerate, and do what they can to minimise the impact, then everyone's happy," he said. Ms Scouller said while it could be argued that buying into areas like New Acton, Braddon and the Kingston Foreshore is a "lifestyle decision", the balance is still being established in these precincts. While the residents group is working through these issues with the ACT Government and Manuka Oval management, she said they're still waiting on an update and additional consultation on future plans for the precinct. "It is about mutual respect between the residents, visitors and businesses to ensure there is a cohesive environment that respects and balances the needs of residents and the broader community," she said. Kambah and Belconnen were the next most-complained-about suburbs. Blaring music drew the ire of most complainants, however there were 20 grievances lodged about noisy air conditioners in Belconnen. Turned-up tunes accounted for around three in five noise complaints but other rollicking pursuits also attracted neighbours' scorn. There were 13 complaints about overly-loud gym equipment in Bruce while Bonython and Civic tied for the mantle of the noisiest garden maintenance, with seven complaints each. Data compiled by ACT Policing shows that hotter temperatures seemed to amplify rowdy behaviour across the city, with more complaints in the warmer half of the year. Police data showed their officers received the most noise complaints from residents in Braddon and Reid. The loudest month was March while the quietest was June. Residents can be penalised if they fail to comply with police direction to cease offensive noise. For noise restrictions across the ACT, head to the Environment and Planning Directorate's website.
February 21 2016 - 6:22PM
Are you living in one of Canberra's noisiest suburbs?
Katie Burgess
Civic and Belconnen highest in the ACT for noise complaints
Either Canberra is getting noisier, or more of us are fed up with it.
Noise complaints have exploded across Canberra, new figures reveal.
Close to 1300 noise complaints were made across the city last year, about 45 per cent more than the previous year – and 2015's rowdiest suburb barely warranted a mention the year before.
Data compiled by Access Canberra revealed Kingston as Canberra's most-grumbled-about suburb in 2015.
Canberra's oldest and most densely populated suburb attracted 80 noise complaints, 64 of which related to amplified music.
Kingston Barton Residents Group president Rebecca Scouller said the increase in noise was primarily due to to urban infill.
"With increased development, particularly apartments and multi-use developments it is only natural that some parts of Kingston are noisier," she said.
She said the quality of some infrastructure on Kingston Foreshore has been an issue, particularly when managing noise spill from late night entertainment venues.
The changed purpose of some infrastructure, like Manuka Oval, has also played a part in the growing noise.
"This change in use [of Manuka Oval] in the middle of a residential area is more noticeable than if it was, for example, at Bruce Stadium."
Kingston usurped Civic as the most-complained-about town centre in the city.
While gripes about noise pollution in Civic rose in 2015, it only had about a third of the amplified music complaints of Kingston.
Kingston resident and Inner South Canberra Community Council chairman Gary Kent said while Kingston can be a noisy place to live, it's the price you pay for living in a city.
"People living in Kingston love it because it's so vibrant and there's so many things to do but there will naturally be noise and providing the people who generate noise are considerate, and do what they can to minimise the impact, then everyone's happy," he said.
Ms Scouller said while it could be argued that buying into areas like New Acton, Braddon and the Kingston Foreshore is a "lifestyle decision", the balance is still being established in these precincts.
While the residents group is working through these issues with the ACT Government and Manuka Oval management, she said they're still waiting on an update and additional consultation on future plans for the precinct.
"It is about mutual respect between the residents, visitors and businesses to ensure there is a cohesive environment that respects and balances the needs of residents and the broader community," she said.
Kambah and Belconnen were the next most-complained-about suburbs.
Blaring music drew the ire of most complainants, however there were 20 grievances lodged about noisy air conditioners in Belconnen.
Turned-up tunes accounted for around three in five noise complaints but other rollicking pursuits also attracted neighbours' scorn.
There were 13 complaints about overly-loud gym equipment in Bruce while Bonython and Civic tied for the mantle of the noisiest garden maintenance, with seven complaints each.
Data compiled by ACT Policing shows that hotter temperatures seemed to amplify rowdy behaviour across the city, with more complaints in the warmer half of the year.
Police data showed their officers received the most noise complaints from residents in Braddon and Reid.
The loudest month was March while the quietest was June.
Residents can be penalised if they fail to comply with police direction to cease offensive noise.
For noise restrictions across the ACT, head to the Environment and Planning Directorate's website.


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On the economic achievements and failures of Margaret Thatcher
I was not going to write anything on Mrs T, but then I just happened to read yesterday a journal article that says something important about her legacy today. I also decided to write something to challenge some of the myths and taboos created by the political right and left. The right in the UK tends to mythologise Margaret Thatcher, in a similar way I think the right in the US does with Ronald Reagan. So its worth pointing out two major macroeconomic errors that were made while she was Prime Minister. The left is less inclined to hero worship its own Prime Ministers (generally it does the opposite), but it has its own taboos when it comes to macroeconomic history.
What was the journal article? It is a paper [1] that looks at the causal impact of fathers' job loss on their children's educational attainment and later economic outcomes. The place and time is the UK recession of the early 1980s. The study concludes: "Children with fathers who were identified as being displaced did significantly worse in terms of their GCSE attainment than those with non-displaced fathers." Not a very surprising result, but further evidence of the long term damage done by high and prolonged unemployment (what macroeconomists call hysteresis effects).
The UK recession at the beginning of the 1980s was the worst since the second world war. UK unemployment increased dramatically, from below 6% to nearly 12%, and stayed high until the end of the decade. The chart below boxes the Thatcher years. (Unemployment would have been higher still if the government had not encouraged the unemployed to register as disabled, as John Van Reenen relates and even George Osborne admits.)
UK Unemployment
Did the government led by Margaret Thatcher intend for this to happen? Almost certainly not. Their plan involved replacing traditional macroeconomic policy by monetarism, which meant gradually declining targets for the growth of a particular monetary aggregate. As Chris Dillow points out, they expected this would lead to a steady decline in inflation, with a minor and temporary dislocation in terms of output.
Many thought that a foolish thing to believe at the time, but in macroeconomic terms Mrs Thatcher's administration were revolutionaries who despised conventional wisdom. When presented with Treasury forecasts telling them with unusual accuracy what would happen, they rubbished the Treasury advice. As unemployment rose rapidly, and many in her party urged her to change course, she gave her famous 'this lady's not for turning' speech that is so eulogised by some Conservatives today.
The attempt to hit their monetary targets failed dismally: 81/80 target money growth 7-11%, actual 19.1%, 82/81 target growth 6-10%, actual 13.7%. After that monetary targets were effectively abandoned. One of the biggest experiments in UK macroeconomic policy turned out to be a disastrous failure. As GDP fell by over 2% in 1980, and remained flat in 1981, and manufacturing output fell by 15% in two years, it is not surprising that inflation fell rapidly, although too many on the left believed it would not.
Yet, as I have noted before, this period is regarded by many as Mrs. Thatcher triumphing over doubters, including most academic economists. This myth may be partly responsible for the current government's obstinacy about austerity. So how can it be regarded as a triumph? Output did recover - well of course it did, but as the chart shows unemployment stayed persistently high, with the long run costs that I noted above. Inflation came down rapidly, but far more rapidly than was intended.
Was this unintended cold turkey cure in any sense optimal? I think that is highly unlikely for many reasons. One is that the traded sector bore the main cost of the recession. The period coincided with North Sea oil coming on stream, which in itself would have led to an appreciation in sterling and a movement of resources away from the traded sector. In these circumstances, embarking on a policy that produced a further appreciation in classic Dornbush overshooting style led to the very uneven recession. Now the Dornbusch analysis was fairly new, so perhaps the government can be forgiven for not anticipating that this would happen, but by 1980 it was all pretty clear what was going on, and that was the point at which the lady refused to turn.
But the key point remains that this skewed, cold turkey policy to reduce inflation was never part of the plan. The plan itself was a complete failure, and if you think the outcome was optimal (which I do not) then that is down to luck rather than judgement.
The second failure involved North Sea oil. I have compared how the UK and Norway responded to additional government revenue from North Sea oil before. The Norwegian government created a sovereign wealth fund, so that the gains from North Sea oil could be enjoyed by future generations. The UK government thought the people should make that choice, and so cut taxes. The people, for one reason or another, do not appear to have invested that money to replicate what a sovereign wealth fund would do. So Mrs Thatcher made the wrong choice, and whether it was for ideological reasons or more base electoral considerations is secondary. It was a major mistake that current and future generations will pay for.
Those are two major failures, but what about the successes? The Thatcher era saw the implementation of supply side reforms that ended and then reversed the relative decline of UK productivity. As Paul Krugman has pointed out, the lags here need to be long, but I think we have good reason to believe that they are. As Nick Crafts outlines here, and John Van Reenen here, this improvement came about partly through increased goods market competition, but of course it also reflected a reduction in union power that was one of the major aims of government policy. The taboo on the left is not to admit (at least publicly) that UK trade unions had grown too powerful in the 1970s, and that any benefits this had were outweighed by inefficiency and often severe dislocation.
The battles of the 1980s, and the path Mrs Thatcher took, were not inevitable, and it is possible that the UK could have moved to something like the German model where unions retain a strong presence. However the path followed by the UK is at least partly the responsibility of the left as well as the right: some of the proposals later introduced by Mrs Thatcher were first tabled by the 1969 Labour government and Barbara Castle, and were defeated by the Trade Union Congress and the later Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan.
This post is not meant to be comprehensive: I have said nothing about the rise in poverty under Mrs Thatcher (briefly mentioned here), inequality more generally and the role that taxation had in increasing that (of which the poll tax was just one example), selling off state assets or under investing in what was left. (Van Reenen gives more detail on some of these.) A second major UK macroeconomic disaster also occurred right at the end of her premiership. The UK entered into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism at an overvalued exchange rate, which led to another major recession. That story, and my own very small part in it, will have to wait for another time.
[1] Gregg, P., Macmillan, L. and Nasim, B. (2012), The Impact of Fathers' Job Loss during the Recession of the 1980s on their Children's Educational Attainment and Labour Market Outcomes. Fiscal Studies, 33: 237–264
Labels: 1981, Thatcher, UK, unemployment
Ramanan 10 April 2013 at 10:35
"The taboo on the left is not to admit (at least publicly) that UK trade unions had grown too powerful in the 1970s,"
This isn't right. Francis Cripps of Cambridge who was working for Left political parties had models for the UK economy where trade union bargaining power was explicitly included.
Others were struggling to explain the huge rise in inflation while he forecasted it in advance.
It was in fact Monetarists who said little about bargaining power and blamed everything on the lack of control on the money stock.
The Monetarist "experiment" was a smokescreen to bring down the power of bargaining by deflating demand to the point of creating super-high-unemployment.
As for productivity rise - as Wynne Godley argued - unless it is accompanied by a rise in production just distributes income from those who become unemployed to those who don't.
In the 1970's it was the trade unions which were to blame for our low labour productivity.
Given they are very weak today, what is to blame for our current poor labour productivity?
As I understand it employers would rather employ people from eastern Europe because they have a better work ethic than people from the UK.
No - they employ them because they're cheaper - which means their lack of standard English and often their differing standards of work are more attacks on the socius here. Thatcher's legacy is a decimated North, the loosing of the feral elite who rob from the poor every day to the tune of hundreds of billions (quod erat demonstradum). Affordable housing anyone?
Peter 10 April 2013 at 11:13
The parallels between the UK and US are interesting. I was an American kid in the 70s (when The Clash corrupted my innocent brain) and developed an antipathy towards the rightwing.
American conservatives love Reagan and Thatcher because they broke organized labor. Reagan broke the air traffic controllers signaling an all out war which has decimated organized labor since. Clinton and Blair de-emphasized the labor connection in their parties.
Here in the States Volcker overshot in his fight against inflation as well, raising rates too high too fast.
How different would things be if the U.S. and U.K. had greater labor involvement in policy decisions as in Germany which weathered the recent downturn much better? (Granted Germany labor needs to better regarding Germany's Euro policies.)
Ralph Musgrave 10 April 2013 at 22:46
OK she could have relied less on monetarism to control inflation, but that would have meant relying more on making compromises with trade unions so as to get wage restraint. And trade unions would have demanded more subsidies for clapped-out industries as a price. So would GDP have been any better?
Mainly Macro 11 April 2013 at 01:40
No, that is not what I meant at all. Inflation had to come down, so monetary and fiscal policy needed to be tight. But it could have been done in a controlled and balanced way, so as to minimise the output costs. Instead, by adopting monetary targets, it was done in an uncontrolled and imbalanced way.
Nick Rowe 11 April 2013 at 03:30
Simon: overall, a fair and balanced post. Yes, it would have been better if Mrs T had adopted inflation targeting gradualism in 1979 rather than monetary targeting. But it's a bit (what's the right word?) ahistorical(?) anachronistic(?) to say that. IT hadn't been invented yet. "Caesar should have used tanks!" And IIRC (I left the UK in 1977) the prevailing orthodoxy at the time was that inflation had nothing to do with monetary policy. They/we really were that daft back then. The actually existing alternative strategy to bring inflation down would probably have been a repeat of "prices and incomes policy".
Nick: I disagree. Although there were still some on the left who denied it, the existence of a Phillips curve was acknowledged by most macroeconomists at that time. The incoming government could have - quite rightly - disowned prices and incomes policy, but retained the discretionary management of demand and inflation that had gone before, but in a more anti-inflation manner. In terms of plans, they did not need to fall head over heels for monetarism.
More seriously, when the policy almost immediately started to go wrong, and we saw a massive appreciation in sterling, they should have eased off. The trouble was that the lady was not for turning. Yes, it would have meant losing political face, but good leaders do that. Bad leaders stick to bad plans when they are not working either through blind face or obstinacy.
The tragedy is that the right's myth making machine has turned this episode of bad government into a triumph. In that sense the parallel with today's austerity is very real.
Britmouse 11 April 2013 at 07:29
If they had stuck doggedly to the £M3 targets that argument would make sense, but the massive overshoots of £M3 in the early Thatcher years are surely evidence both that policy remained highly discretionary and that they did "ease off" because of strength/speed of the disinflation?
Perhaps the best way of thinking about it is that in 1980 and 1981 interest rates went as high as the government thought politically possible so as to get as close as possible to meeting the M3 targets. The focus was on the M3 targets, and not the damage being done to the economy. So you are right, it could have been worse, and the policy could have been continued for longer. But it remains the case that the policy was seriously wrong in 1980 and 1981, and pretty well everyone, including probably most of the cabinet, wanted to ease off during that time, but the lady was not for turning.
W. Peden 21 April 2013 at 13:00
And five years into a gradual disinflation, with high unemployment and inflation at 16% (a 1% reduction per year from the 1980 rate, assuming you think the inflation rate in 1980 was too low) would any government have had a chance of re-election?
Gradual inflation-targeting might make sense in a dictatorship with an annual NGDP growth rate of 17%, but not in the UK in 1979. If anything, it was only the Falklands war that made a strategy as gradualist as the MTFS into a politically viable one.
I'm also astonished by the suggestion that Jack Jones and Arthur Scargill would have gone along with (1) an agglomeration of British trade unions into concentrated German-style unions, such that (2) a German-style corporatist model could have secured Thatcher's re-election prospects. Wouldn't it just have been better for Thatcher to wave a magic wand and eliminate unemployment altogether?
Jackart 11 April 2013 at 03:37
"Major UK macro-economic disaster" or "recession" as they're more usually known by people fluent in "human".
Conservative paeans to Ms. Thatcher notwithstanding, her economic legacy is sub-optimal.
Compared to Germany and France, which dealt with labor unrest in different ways, GDP growth was no better and no worse during the Thatcher era.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=GDP+of+germany+vs+france+vs+UK
But compared to Germany and France, inequality and intergenerational mobility significantly worsened in the UK during and after Thatcher. In 1979 13% of children lived in households where income was less than half of the average income. By 1996 this had risen to 33% (Gregg, Harkness and Machin, 1999). And per Blanden & Machin (2002) the cohort that came of age under Thatcher had less intergenerational mobility than previous cohorts.
http://thenextwavefutures.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/uk-inequality-1960-2005001.jpg
http://stateofworkingamerica.org/chart/swa-mobility-figure-3q-intergenerational/
We in the US have certainly done no better on inequality and intergenerational mobility post Reagan than has the UK post Thatcher. So the question must be asked of these two iconic conservative heroes; where's the beef?
Of course you answer your own question. For those at the top of the income distribution, who have a significant role in defining public opinion, they are heroes indeed.
From memory, in terms of unemployment the US in the 1980s and early 1990s did a lot better than the UK: Germany did significantly better, while France was similar to the UK.
The US and the UK unemployment levels (and their arcs) were roughly equivalent during that period. The UK went from about 12% to 7%. The US rate declined from 11% to 5%. France never got their rate below about 9% during the same period.
http://www.howprofit.com/analysis-strategy/fundamental-analysis/us-unemployment-rate-1950-2010.html
However, I think the safety nets of the UK and the US were considerably less generous than France's. For a married couple with two children and one breadwinner (in 2006) redundancy meant a drop in income of 30% in France and roughly double that in the US. I can't find comparative numbers for the UK, but assume they are closer to the US figures.
When I look at the data, the average unemployment rate in the US was higher than in the UK in the 1970s, but significantly lower in the 1980s and 1990s.
jon livesey 11 April 2013 at 17:18
"GDP growth was no better and no worse during the Thatcher era."
Two points: UK GDP/head today is about 88% of the German level. Back in 1970 it was about 60%. So over the whole period UK GDP/head must have grown faster than German.
Next, Thatcher was involved in economic reforms. I am not getting into a discussion of whether they were perfect, but my recollection is that monetarism wasn't as well understood then as some people seem to remember. Reforms are supposed to have long-term effects. If the economy had done very well under Thatcher, but not since, the reforms would have been pretty short-lived.
And on Simon's wider point, yes, inequality has grown quite a bit in the UK, but as I pointed out a few weeks ago, it has widened in Russia and China as well, in the latter case to an almost grotesque degree. But what do you want? Brezhnev's Russia? Mao's China?
This has been Maggie Derangement week, I hope the last one, but the Guardian polled the question whether Maggie had been good or bad for the country, and people who answer polls split 50/34 in favour overall, and as someone joked the other day, in an election that would be a landslide.
Personally I think most people take the pragmatic view that we've got the prosperity, and now we can afford to address some of the inequality.
Might your 1970 figure be limited to just West Germany?
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Probably way too late to get a reponse but... In the case of the long lag between thatcher slash and burn and 1990s improvements - is it not more plausible to attribute that to a) our crashing out of the erm and the fall in the pound (which seems like the very opposite of thatcher an inflation obsessions) and b) the rise of finance (which as I think you prob agree is a very dubious form of success). I am not economist so this may all be quite wrong.
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Q: Combinatorial optimization implementation I've been given a problem to solve which, at first glance, appears to be some sort of generalized assignment problem (a subset of combinatorial optimization problems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_assignment_problem).
The description of the problem is quite unclear and not written in English; please bear with me as I try to explain it as best I can:
I am given a set of "cuts" (tasks) to be performed on large marble blocks of specific sizes. The goal is to complete every task in a given list while minimizing the amount of marble lost. If I have, for example, a starting block of size 20, then I can cut it in different ways to fulfill a certain amount of tasks while making sure I don't "lose" marble in the process. If I need sub-blocks of 3, 5, 6 and 6, then a block of initial size 20 will do just fine as I will have no lost marble (3+5+6+6 = 20).
Thus, the goal is to fulfill every task whilst losing as little marble as possible. I may use any number of starting blocks, so long as the tasks are all completed. One additionnal constraint is that each task which specifies a sub-block of length L also has a "class" assigned to it, which represents what specific machine is required to do this specific cut. Given a starting block, I am unable to use more than 3 different classes to cut my block. I can do as many cuts as I want on one machine, as long as I don't change classes more than twice.
Here is an example of data that can be given to me:
2 20 38
7
20
4 1
7 1
3 1
25 1
22 2
22 1
20 2
17 1
10 1
22 2
27 2
26 2
15 3
13 4
12 5
15 6
27 4
27 5
27 7
27 2

The first line gives the number of different blocks that can be used to perform all given tasks, as well as the sizes of each starting block.
The second line gives the total number of different "classes" of cuts, which represent the number of different machines that can execute the needed cuts.
The third line gives the total amount of cuts (tasks) needed to complete the operation. In this case, exactly 20 tasks need to be performed to complete the problem.
The rest of the lines give the needed cut as well as the class associated with this task.
To recapitulate, I need to perform a certain list of tasks with any number of given starting blocks whilst attempting to minimize the amount of lost/unwanted marble.
So my question is: What is a good approach to this problem? I believe a greedy approximation algorithm might be a straightforward and simple way to find a reasonable solution, but I'm honestly not sure.
I apologize in advance if the given problem is unclear, if you need addtionnal information then feel free to make a request for clearer instructions.
Thanks!
PS: The algorithm will be written in Java, if that helps.

A: If I understand correctly, then (ignoring the "class" constraints) this is the Cutting Stock problem.  This is an NP-hard optimisation problem that is usually solved by formulating it as an ILP and then applying a special kind of ILP solver technique called column generation.  Briefly, the ILP has a variable for each possible pattern, or way of cutting a marble block into a maximal set of sub-blocks, that records the number of blocks that should be cut in that particular pattern.  But there can be a vast number of possible patterns, most of which will not be used at all in an optimal solution; column generation allows the ILP solver to work with a smaller set of variables that is guaranteed to contain all the nonzero ones (i.e. all the patterns that are actually used).
There's a lot of good information on the Wikipedia page.  Of particular interest is the fact that if there is only one initial block size, then minimising waste is the same as minimising the number of master blocks used, and then the problem is equivalent to Bin Packing.  This problem is still NP-hard, but it's one of the "nice" ones: there are simple heuristics that (provably) get very close to the optimal solution.  You might be able to adapt this into a heuristic for your problem.
One nice feature of formulating the problem as an ILP is that it shouldn't be difficult to add in more constraints corresponding to the class constraints.


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"In 2020, two poets, two friends, stunned and saddened by the events surrounding us, reached across the miles and wrote and shared poems of love, comfort and hope — that is how this book came about. And because we believe in the power of poetry to inspire contemplation and creativity, we included pages in the book for you, the reader, to record your reflections. May you find solace and joy in doing so."
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A Field Guide to the Heart is unique in that it is both a poetry book and a journal. Written by acclaimed authors and poets Georgia Heard and Rebecca Kai Dotlich, A Field Guide to the Heart features a range of poems organized into three thematic sections — from loss and grief, in the section titled "How Fragile the Heart Is," through healing, in "The Morning of My Choosing," to hope, gratitude, and love, in "A Quivering of Wings." In addition to the poems, this book offers the reader pages for reflection and journaling, a way to connect through the magic of poetry and find comfort in the wisdom and peace that poetry can bring.
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This book contains hope. Built from a friendship and in the spirit of collaboration, A Field Guide to the Heart by Georgia Heard and Rebecca Kai Dotlich is a beautiful offering of poems, as well as space for reflection, and a generosity of caring. Each section focuses on a specific purpose: inspiration/hope, loss/grief, healing/reconnecting, and with every poem, there are additional pages for one's own words. One of the most beautiful things one can do as a poet, writer, and artist in the world is to look outward, see the pain of the world, and try to make it better—Dotlich and Heard have done that. It is a book to give to the people you love and to yourself. A Field Guide to the Heart is a book to make all of us feel less alone—and what could be a greater gift than hope and connection?
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Events Planned for March 10-19, 2008, to Resist the U.S. Occupation of Iraq, Oppose New Wars, Demand Impeachment
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We are asking congress members and senators to simply do this.
MARCH 6, 2008 in Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee hearing on flushing another $100 billion down the Iraq occupation.
MARCH 7-9, 2008 in Washington, D.C.: NCOR
National Conference on Organized Resistance
MARCH 10 to 12, 2008 (Monday to Wednesday) in Washington, D.C.: Stop-Loss Congress
This March, while tens of thousands of Americans in Washington, D.C., and all over the United States will be participating in acts of nonviolent civil resistance to protest the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and involuntarily deployed U.S. soldiers and innocent civilian victims will begin another year of occupation, torture, and murder, U.S. congress members will be on vacation (from the 15th to 30th, technically a "district work period"), ignoring the killing and suffering they have enabled, supported, and financed.
To intensify the irony, Congress has condoned a widespread stop-loss policy in the military which requires soldiers to involuntarily extend their tours and prolong the killing. It is time to Stop-Loss Congress!
On Monday March 10, and Tuesday March 11, we will deliver "official" stop-loss notices to all members of Congress in their Capitol Hill offices. These will notify them that all of their LEAVES, VACATIONS and HOME VISITS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED until further notice. Just as they require that active-duty personnel endure involuntary extensions of their tours of duty, we, the people for whom they work, are notifying them that they, too, will have their tours of duty INVOLUNTARILY EXTENDED until every foreign soldier and mercenary is out of Iraq, and home. When all the troops and contractors get home, then Congress can go home, and no sooner.
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Tuesday evening March 11, 6PM-8PM: Premiere of the documentary film "DAD ON FIRE BLUES" by filmmaker Scott Haman at BUSBOYS & POETS in Washington, D.C. Carlos Arredondo will speak. Rick Burnley will recite poetry. LIVE Music by EMMA'S REVOLUTION.
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On Wednesday March 12, We will take nonviolent action on Capitol Hill, to ensure that, while thousands of Iraqis, Afghanis, and foreign invaders die and are injured for life, the members of Congress and their staffs do not go home but remain to DO THEIR DUTY, and immediately end the funding of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. No members of Congress goes home until THE TROOPS COME HOME.
Also on Wednesday March 12: Ghosts of War.
Also on Wednesday March 12 for those not in DC: A congressional call-in day organized around the theme of "No to War, No to Africom." Let's oppose the militarization of Africa.
HERE ARE VIDEOS OF STOP-LOSS CONGRESS ACTION.
MARCH 13-16, 2008 (Thursday-Sunday) in Silver Spring, Maryland: Winter Soldier
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)'s Winter Soldier Testimony
Details. Preview. Bush has been invited.
Winter Soldier will be held at the National Labor College, 10000 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20903
Audio and video of panels will be available live online on satelite TV and on Pacifica radio: HOW TO WATCH.
MARCH 16 to 18, 2008 (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday) in Washington, D.C.: Training, Lobbying, Restoring the Constitution
Training in Nonviolence in preparation for March 19, Training in lobbying, Lobbying and on the 18th: Take Back the Constitution Day.
PREPARATION FOR MARCH 19:
6-8pm Spokescouncil Meeting at the Warehouse Theatre
All day trainings & workshop at the Warehouse Theatre
6-8 p.m. ET at Busboys and Poets in DC, PDA and John Conyers and Jim Hightower launch Health Care Not Warfare campaign: GET A TICKET.
8-9 p.m. ET listen to General William Odom discuss the need to withdraw from Iraq
All day trainings & workshops at the Warehouse Theatre
6-8pm - Final Spokescouncil Meeting
March 18th, Tuesday: CODEPINK Action Day to Take Back the Constitution
WHEN/WHERE: 11am press conference, National Archives -700 Pennsylvania NW
WHO: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK and Colonel Ann Wright, a retired United States Army colonel and official of the U.S. State Department, will discuss the importance of Restoring and reinvigorating the Constitution after 5 years of war.
WHEN/WHERE: 12-2pm "Restore the Constitution" parade on Constitution Ave.
6th and Constitution Ave NW (across from the New Newseum)
WHAT: CODEPINK women will hold various government agencies accountable for their involvement in the war. With a visually vibrant parade down Constitution Avenue, CODEPINK will visit the Justice Dept, the IRS and end at the Capitol reflecting pool.
Freeze at Union Station: 5 p.m. on 18th.
March 18 at 6 p.m.: The Hip Hop Caucus announces the WE CARE CONCERT
We will highlight the plight of Internally Displaced Persons in the U.S. because of Hurricane Katrina and displaced Iraqis because of the war in Iraq. Featuring: Saigon, Mia X, Mambo Sauce, Wise Intelligent, Uncalled 4 Experience, GRIME, Rebel Diaz, Sess 4-5, Akir, Emoni Fela, Head-Roc and more.
Pre-Concert Party in front of the 9:30 Club starting at 6:00 pm
Where: The 9:30 Club
815 V St. NW, Washington DC
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The TrueMajority.org "IranMobile", a Dr. Strangelovian thermonuclear missle/bomb that rises for launch 20 feet in the air with George W. Bush astride, is coming to Washington, DC. It will be at Busboys and Poets on March 16th, 7:00 pm with CodePink; again at Busboys and Poets on March 17th at 6:00 pm with PDA and Jim Hightower for their launch of the Health Care Not Warfare campaign; at the CodePink House for breakfast on March 18th at 9:00 am; Union Station on March 18th at 5:00 pm and at McPherson Square on March 19th at 7:00 am, staging ground for the UFPJ actions taking place all day.
MARCH 19, 2008 (Wednesday) Everywhere and in Washington, D.C.: Nonviolent Resistance
Nonviolent Civil Resistance and/or Disobedience in All 435 Congressional Districts and in the Nation's Capital on the Fifth Anniversary of the Occupation of Iraq
Locations in each congressional district, to be determined locally, can include congressional offices (Congress Members and Senators will be in their districts on this day), federal buildings, military recruiters, weapons makers, war profiteers, or corporate media outlets. In Washington, with Congress out of town, the focus will be on war profiteers in the military industrial disaster-capitalism complex. Where possible, events will include a place for people not willing to risk arrest. Evening town hall forums can also include a larger audience.
DETAILS ON DC EVENTS:
*7:30am* - Opening Circle & Press Briefing at McPherson Square, 15th & K St NW
*8am* - Separate Oil from State action at the American Petroleum Institute, 13th & L St NW
8am - Blockade the IRS with War Resisters League and friends – Help expose the real cost of war by shutting down the IRS first thing in the morning and making a clear statement to stop FUNDING war! Click here for more details.
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*9am* - Veterans March for Peace begins on the Mall at 7th St
*9:30am* - March of the Dead begins at the Women's Memorial at Arlington Cemetery: Activist Response Team (A.R.T.) and others who join us will imagine what would happen if the dead, civilian and military, return to enter Washington to seek justice for the crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan because of U.S. foreign policy. In death masks, all in black, some wearing the name of someone killed, others with statistics measuring the scale of the tragedy, we will proceed through the city in small groups riding the metro, walking the streets and haunting the periphery of the other actions. We will then converge at a given time all-together to make the long march for justice with stops at the State Department, Justice Department, and Supreme Court culminating with acts of civil resistance.
*10:15am* - Veterans ceremony with Buffy Saint-Marie in front of the American Indian Museum
*11am* - Public Gathering & Press Briefing at McPherson Square
*12 noon* - Funk the War: Student Power Dance Party Against Empire, meet at Franklin Park, 14th & K NW with Students for a Democratic Society
12:30pm - Die In at CAT, 1445 K St, with the Coalition for Justice and Accountability
*1:30pm* - Anti-Torture demonstration with World Can't Wait at Lafayette Park
*2pm* - Public Gathering & Press Briefing at McPherson Square
3pm - CODEPINK action at the NSA - 725 17th Street NW between Pennsylvania and New York
*5pm* - meet at the Reflecting Pool on the west side of the Capitol, march to the Democratic National Committee Headquarters - bring pots & pans, drums, noisemakers, signs, banners
Time Unknown: Shut Down the Military Recruiters Office on 14th & L with the Grannies, bring your rocker and knitting needles and prepare to stay for the day!
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World Can't Wait Events in DC on 19th:
Join in acts of creative non-violent civil resistance!
1:30 p.m. in Lafayette Square Park join World Can't Wait and a sea of orange jumpsuits in solidarity with and representing those being tortured in Guantanamo Bay Prison, Abu Ghraib, Bagram in Afghanistan, and CIA "black sites" around the globe. A demonstration showing that waterboarding IS TORTURE, is planned directly in front of the residence of our biggest war criminal other than Dick Cheney. The Park will become a rallying center for all those who are determined to put an end to this illegitimate and immoral occupation and demand justice by driving the war criminals from office now, not waiting for 2009! We are done with secret renditions, warrantless spying, lying to the public, using signing statements to disobey laws, rounding up immigrants and detaining them.
3:30 p.m. in Lafayette Square Park join Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Sundown in Lafayette Square Park: view the film exposing the ultimate crimes committed by this regime: The Bush Crimes Commission.
No War, No Warming Events in DC on 19th:
On the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war, TAKE ACTION at the American Petroleum Institute in Washington D.C. at 13th and L Sts. NW, On the morning of Wednesday, March 19
- END the War in Iraq -
- SHIFT Funding from War and Big Oil to Clean Energy and Human Needs -
- SEPARATE Oil and State -
Veterans for Peace Events in DC on 19th:
Arresting Bush and Cheney.
Something else that anyone anywhere can do on the 19th:
Something you can do while you're home:
IRAQ FAX-IN
March 19 marks the 5th Anniversary of Bush's disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq - yet there is no end in sight. The costs so far are staggering: 4,000 young Americans killed, tens of thousands maimed... 1 million Iraqis killed, millions maimed... $562 billion in tax dollars stolen from our children... $3 trillion cost to our economy through veterans care, weapons replacement, higher oil prices, and the collapsing dollar. All that in just 5 years! We elected a Democratic Congress in 2006 to bring our troops home, but they keep giving Bush blank checks. Incredibly, Congress will soon vote on another $102 billion blank check. On this 5th Anniversary, it is time for everyone who hates this occupation to do something about it. And we're making it as simple and effective as we can. We're calling it a Fax-In. It's like a sit-in, only you can do it from home. Fax an image to Congress that visually expresses how you feel about the endless occupation of Iraq.
International Actions on 19th:
March 22: Teach-In on Iraq: A Dialogue on the War
Join American University Patriots for Peace for a teach-in on the war in Iraq on Saturday, March 22nd from 10:30 am - 4:30 pm. Learn about the consequences of failed policies and the case and the means for withdrawal. Take action by participating in an Iraq Veterans Against the War Truth In Recruiting workshop and a brainstorming workshop about how to continue resistance against the war. Please see the attachment for details.
Saturday, March 22nd
The Tavern, Mary Graydon Center, American University, Washington, D.C.
10:30 am Registration and Introduction
11:00 am Panel: The Consequences of Failed Policies
Max Friedman, AU History Professor
Raed Jarrar, Iraq Consultant to the American Friends Service Committee
Samuel Provance, Former Military Intelligence Sergeant & Whistleblower on Abu Ghraib Prison
12:15 pm Panel: The Logic of Withdrawal
Tom Andrews, Win Without War Coalition
Ray McGovern, Former CIA Analyst
Lawrence Korb, Center for American Progress
Travis Sharp, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation
1:30 pm Free Lunch
2:00 pm Building an Activist Movement
David Swanson, Co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org
2:30 pm Iraq Veterans Against the War - Truth In Recruiting Workshop
Learn how to get involved with counter-recruitment efforts
3:30 pm Individual and Collective Action Brainstorming Workshop: Developing a Plan to End the War
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