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Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space
CHAPTER I - FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
SUBCHAPTER F - AIR TRAFFIC AND GENERAL OPERATING RULES
PART 91 - GENERAL OPERATING AND FLIGHT RULES
Subpart D - Special Flight Operations
§ 91.309 Towing: Gliders and unpowered ultralight vehicles.
14 CFR § 91.309 - Towing: Gliders and unpowered ultralight vehicles.
(a) No person may operate a civil aircraft towing a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle unless -
(1) The pilot in command of the towing aircraft is qualified under § 61.69 of this chapter;
(2) The towing aircraft is equipped with a tow-hitch of a kind, and installed in a manner, that is approved by the Administrator;
(3) The towline used has breaking strength not less than 80 percent of the maximum certificated operating weight of the glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle and not more than twice this operating weight. However, the towline used may have a breaking strength more than twice the maximum certificated operating weight of the glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle if -
(i) A safety link is installed at the point of attachment of the towline to the glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle with a breaking strength not less than 80 percent of the maximum certificated operating weight of the glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle and not greater than twice this operating weight;
(ii) A safety link is installed at the point of attachment of the towline to the towing aircraft with a breaking strength greater, but not more than 25 percent greater, than that of the safety link at the towed glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle end of the towline and not greater than twice the maximum certificated operating weight of the glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle;
(4) Before conducting any towing operation within the lateral boundaries of the surface areas of Class B, Class C, Class D, or Class E airspace designated for an airport, or before making each towing flight within such controlled airspace if required by ATC, the pilot in command notifies the control tower. If a control tower does not exist or is not in operation, the pilot in command must notify the FAA flight service station serving that controlled airspace before conducting any towing operations in that airspace; and
(5) The pilots of the towing aircraft and the glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle have agreed upon a general course of action, including takeoff and release signals, airspeeds, and emergency procedures for each pilot.
(b) No pilot of a civil aircraft may intentionally release a towline, after release of a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle, in a manner that endangers the life or property of another.
[Doc. No. 18834, 54 FR 34308, Aug. 18, 1989, as amended by Amdt. 91-227, 56 FR 65661, Dec. 17, 1991; Amdt. 91-282, 69 FR 44880, July 27, 2004]


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Posted on October 18, 2014 by Bharat Karnad
The Line of Control (LoC) dividing the Indian portion of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu & Kashmir from its Pakistan-occupied parts is, like the Line of Actual Control (LAC) separating India and China, a Cease-Fire Line (CFL).
These lines were established when the last major hostilities with these countries — the 1971 War, and the withdrawal by the Peoples Liberation Army to a more defensible and logistically maintainable line in the 1962 War — ended.
Under international law, a ceasefire line is just that — a temporary stand-still agreement terminating active military operations without prejudicing legal or other claims on territory held by either country pending a final negotiated settlement of the boundary.
Implicit in the concept of a CFL, therefore, is the sanction available to any of the parties to violate it at any time for any reason, including gaining of military or other advantage or slivers of territory to buttress its claims.This is the legal status of the LoC and LAC that both Pakistan and China respectively adhere to.India, curiously, has adopted the view that these Lines are, for all intent and purposes, international borders whose violation New Delhi will not brook.
The unilateral stance by India of the LoC as a settled border, for instance, has resulted in New Delhi rarely bringing up in international councils the disputed nature of western Kashmir and the Northern Areas, inclusive of Gilgit, Hunza, and Baltistan illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947, thereby reinforcing the Pakistani contention that the only matter remaining to be resolved is the status of Indian Kashmir.
Unquestioningly accepting the Chinese annexation of Tibet and the forcible assimilation of the Tibetan people by supporting the myth of an 'autonomous region of Tibet' as integral to the Chinese whole has likewise bolstered the Chinese position that peace will come when Arunachal Pradesh regarded by it as only another part of Tibet — 'southern Tibet' — is ceded to Beijing.
India has thus lost ground politically and legally vis-à-vis both Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Chinese-occupied Tibet.
Neither Pakistan nor China has made the mistake India has, and continually contest the LoC and LAC with armed intrusions, artillery duels, and indiscriminate firings, to highlight the disputed nature of these borders and to ensure their respective territorial claims are active, for fear that not doing so may, in time, accord the status quo sanctity which New Delhi desires.
Thus, frequent military eruptions on the LoC and LAC and, hence, a series of never-ending crises on the borders with Pakistan and China, are preordained with tensions being stoked by sensation-seeking 24/7 electronic media and print media, both apparently as ignorant of the meaning of CFL in international law as the ministry of external affairs (MEA).
At the root of India's problems with the LoC and LAC is the absence in the Indian political leadership, the Indian government, and especially the MEA, of what the great theorist of geopolitics Halford Mackinder called, "the map-reading habit of mind". The importance of expanding and safeguarding sovereign territory on land and sea is scarcely understood.
The spatial imperatives of strategy and foreign and military policy, when not reduced to military-wise nonsensical axioms, such as "not an inch of territory will be lost", are treated as matters of political expediency.
Thus, the diffident Lal Bahadur Shastri at Tashkent, overcome by the flattery of Field Marshal Ayub Khan seeking "rahmat", magnanimously returned to Pakistan the Haji Pir salient captured at great cost by the Indian Army in the September 1965 War, without appreciating its strategic importance as a finger sticking into Indian Kashmir and which piece of real estate has ever since been used to infiltrate militants and other undesirables to create havoc in J&K and elsewhere.
Six years later, with Bangladesh liberated, 93,000 Pakistani Prisoners of War (PoWs) as leverage, and Islamabad on its knees, a supposedly hard-headed, Indira Gandhi, instead of imposing a victor's peace sanctioned by international law requiring the formalisation of the LoC as international border, in a fit of misplaced generosity, accepted the supplicating Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's plea that he be given time to create consensus at home for such a permanent solution.
Rather than telling Bhutto that thrusting the Indian design for peace down resisting Pakistani throats was his problem, and the price for waging war and the return of PoWs was his signature on the dotted line, Indira gave in. India still suffers due to her myopia.
One of the main consequences of such political ham-handedness even when dealt a winning hand is that the Indian military simply does not trust the elected rulers and the Indian government to do right by them and the country.
Whence, the unprecedented warning some years back by an army chief that if the Siachen Glacier is asked to be vacated of Indian troops as part of some grand compromise with Pakistan, and should the situation be exploited by the Forces Command Northern Areas of the Pakistan army to establish an armed presence there, New Delhi must not expect the Indian army to retake those forbidding heights.
The respect for geography and the spatial concerns of good strategy were at the core of British imperial policy of 'distant defence' based on Indian control of the Indian Ocean littoral, influence in regions stretching from the Caspian Sea to Central Asia, and the strengthening of the 'Mongolian fringe' to the north and the North-East.
Those geostrategics were discarded by Jawaharlal Nehru — his suspicion of geopolitics surpassing his good sense. To promote peace Tibet was not contested, nor was the taking of Aksai Chin by China, Coco Islands were gifted to Myanmar and, in 1974, the Kachchateevu Island to Sri Lanka. India has never recovered.
[Published in the Hindustan Times, Oct 13, 2014 at http://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/analysis/giving-our-foes-the-advantage/article1-1274611.aspx
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4 Responses to Giving our foes the advantage
Sankar Ramachandran says:
First i want to thank you as a fellow citizen for so many years of devoted scholarship to India's strategic affairs. If ever a deft pen has been married to an erudite mind in the cause of a worthy cause, then i believe it is this calling of yours.
May i however enquire as to your assertion in this article regarding the handover of Haji Pir? i have read in an account by an army officer that such a move, rather than being a meaningless concession, was the result of a negotiated handover resulting in the vacation by Pakistan of the Chhamb sector. That while it was tempting to hold on to the strategic pass, the mortal threat posed to Akhnoor from the Chhamb sector necessitated a bargain of this sort. If that is the case so, can you account for India not attempting to retake the Haji Pir pass in 1971.
At the closure of the 1965 War India held 710 sq miles of prime territory in the Sialkot and Lahore sectors; the Pakistan army managed to occupy mostly desert territory and some part of Chhamb — all of 100 odd sq miles of Indian real estate. So, Pakistan was in no position to behave, post conflict, on terms of parity. Shastri's returning the Haji Pir salient that would have connected the Indian towns of Uri and Poonch in J&K was in no way related to Pakistan withdrawing to its ante bellum position but rather to the PM's unwise concession to Ayub.
Re: why Haji Pir wasn't recaptured in 1971 — the army's attention was mainly in the east with the Western Army Commander Lt Gen KP Candeth being tasked (as he informed me many, many, years back) with only a holding operation in the west.
Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha says:
The distrust seems to be mutual. This is the reason why the Ministry officers become close advisors on which thy donot have either academic or opertional knowledge. It is a pity.
Shaurya says:
Regarding the below quoted section and the Siachen controversy. What is normal is the distrust the IA has for the PA. What is alarming is the distrust the IA has for its political setup and decision making. Did ABV era's experiences of Kargil and Parakram contribute to the same? The IA was not willing and has refused to sign even the CFA of 2003, which exists as a defacto setup AFTER PA unilaterally declared a cease fire. The positive results of this CFA over the past decade, even if imperfect (although not ONLY due to the CFA) is there for all to see.
Instead of the IA saying we should not be asked to take the Glacier, is it not far better to say, if there is a violation then we should be prepared to take Dansam, Khaplu or even Skardu? Should not the IA ask for strengthening of mountain divisions and lift assets, as you have been advocating for such a potential venture, instead of playing defensive?
If even the icy frontiers of the Siachen cannot be delmitarized then what good is the co-option template that you have advocated?
Agree with rest of the article, India should stop treating the LoC/LAC as settled borders.

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Editor's Note: I'm (obviously) fascinated by the different approaches practitioners take to applying the science of decision-making. Some call it "behavioral science," some say it's "neuroscience," and others spend (waste?) their time arguing over the terminology.
For our purposes, I'm interested in listening to and gathering ideas of all sorts, no matter the terminology or the focus, so long as they're credible and offer a peek into a possible future of applied behavioral principles. Jon's piece does that and more.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that Jon is from the United Kingdom, so please don't be freaked out by how he spells "behavior," "organization" or "program." It's for science.
Today's workplaces require a radically different mindset to flourish.
Why? The challenges posed by what we call the volatility, unpredictability, complexity and ambiguity ("VUCA") of changing working practices and new technology in our professional and personal lives.
We are now required to behave and think very differently. If we are not equipped for this, our well-being, morale and performance can all suffer. In turn, this can spill over into business, including reduced productivity, less innovation, lower morale and difficulties keeping pace with the competition.
A recent report by the UK Government showed that increased workplace stress and professional burnout costs the economy between £73 billion and £97 billion each year. Meanwhile, technology and restructuring impact employment. Organisations like banks are using technology to boost profits, while reducing staff. The Financial Times wrote that increasing automation could see Citigroup's investment banking business lose half of its 20,000 technology and operations staff in the next five years.
It is obvious there will be major consequences for the lives and jobs of many working people and those in leadership and management positions.
So, how can an organisation equip its people to survive and thrive in this new, VUCA world?
The first thing to recognize is that there is a major obstacle to us consistently being our best: our brain. It can make life difficult by exaggerating problems and stopping us fulfilling our potential. Evolution means the human brain focuses on survival and not on how to support health and happiness as we measure them today (see this).
At Tougher Minds, we draw on neuroscientist Paul MacLean's metaphor of the "triune brain" for the term the "A.P.E." The limbic regions of the brain concentrate on keeping us Alive, how we are Perceived by others, and conserving Energy. Unsurprisingly, the APE brain can dominate our thoughts and habits.
By focusing on threats and prioritizing physical safety, the brain drives basic instincts. This once helped us survive, but it's not helpful in modern life.
It also drives our worries about what others think. And from our origins as hunter-gatherers, rather than supermarket shoppers, we are predisposed to conserve energy. So the A.P.E. brain prefers us to avoid mentally challenging work, and watch our screens instead of exercise.
Science also indicates humans have evolved to procrastinate and be impulsive. Our ancestors needed to quickly satisfy basic survival needs, so short-term goals were prioritized.
Today, in the VUCA world, these once advantageous traits can undermine well-being and performance. They encourage us not to pursue excellence, but to succumb to short-term temptation. We overlook the long-term goal setting that helps maintain focus, discipline and diligence. In turn, this makes it difficult to perform to our potential, reach our objectives, or feel fulfilled in life and at work.
There is more data coming out all the time showing that people who have good self-control are more successful in school when they are young, and at work when they are older and grown up, they make more money, become more prominent and successful. They are also better at relationships. They are more popular with other people. People trust them more. They have stronger marriages, intimate and romantic relationships. They are happier. They have lower stress… They are better adjusted. [They have] fewer drinking problems, and drugs and eating disorders… Overall [they have] better mental health, better physical health too. They behave better, commit fewer crimes, are less likely to be arrested, fewer traffic accidents and partner abuse, and prejudice and everything like that. And at the far end of life they live longer.
Good self-control, or emotional regulation (the neuroscientist's label for self-control), allows people to resist unhelpful thoughts and actions. We call this helpful attention control (H.A.C.). Recognize that you are thinking or doing something that is unhelpful for your health, happiness or performance, and then refocus onto something that is more helpful. We describe this process as H.A.Cing your brain, which is the central component of being resilient.
With this understanding, we can see that ambitious organisations need to support their people to consistently use the "self-control" part of their brain. This helps you to overcome your primal impulses, making it easier to be at your best more often.
It is not enough, however, to give people ideas about what will help them. Even a demonstration of the skills they might need is insufficient.
Behaviour change science shows that any group or organisation aiming to foster positive and helpful change for their people must implement sustained, long-term programmes to improve well-being and develop new mindsets. Only by consistently reminding and triggering people to act can their most helpful behaviours become hard-wired habits.
First, they must give people an insight into how the brain works and its potentially damaging consequences in the VUCA world. This understanding provides a sound foundation upon which to build.
Second, people should also be given an understanding of how they can use techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy to regulate their emotions. This can involve showing them how to refocus their attention onto helpful thoughts and supporting them to plan their days, so they build better thinking habits for the long-term.
Next, any progress people make in their roles should be reinforced. People should also be given consistent reminders of their purpose within any team or organisation and how they are successfully contributing to overall objectives.
Another key change that can aid well-being and performance is environmental design, which can encourage helpful habits and beneficial behaviour. If we want people to make a significant change in their lives, we need to design our environments much more purposefully. This helps to reduce stress and time spent thinking unhelpful thoughts. Changes could include encouraging light exercise during the working day or offering resources that promote structured daily planning and reflection.
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They also report "reduced stress," "improved morale," and "improved employee engagement." These attributes underpin improved leadership development and better performance under pressure. A growing number of businesses and organisations regard this as the best investment they can make if they want to prosper and flourish in the VUCA world.
What is the overall effect of helping your people to build daily new helpful habits? Robust data and our clients tell us it makes it easier for everyone to be at their best, more often. That's a recipe for success in today's VUCA world as well as that yet to come.
Dr. Jon Finn founded Tougher Minds to help more people to be healthier, happier and at their best more often. The award-winning consultancy offers practical, effective and highly engaging training to improve resilience, well-being, leadership and performance. It is for all aspects of work, education and life and is delivered in businesses, schools, Universities and families. Tougher Minds' programmes use the latest neuroscience insights and have been recognised for their effectiveness. Dr. Finn has published peer-reviewed papers and popular books within the area of performance psychology. The consultancy has advised the UK government, and also featured in national newspapers including The Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph.


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This game has the BEST skins and it is very addicting. I'd say I play it 2 hours a day, not in a row of course. And if u get board of the same thing I could try a Pac-Man of something else. This game has every skin u could think of. Even disco zoo! As u can see it wrote this long thing because this game it totally worth it. And the best part of this game is that it is FREE!!!!
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three very nice models, I think the Biante 956 is getting quite hard to find these days.
Stu935 wrote: three very nice models, I think the Biante 956 is getting quite hard to find these days.
Thanks Stu , the 956 is pretty rare these days outside of Australia and is pulling big money . Fortunately I have a great friend in Oz who has helped me obtain a few Australian releases , this being one of them .
ThanksTom . Both the Recaro and the Yokohama liveried Porsches were limited addition models that were produced by Autoart for the actual Racing teams . They were very hard to find at the time and were quite expensive. Other that the fantasic liveries , the models were the same as the regular GT3 R. They did come beautifully presented in a colourful box with pictures of the car and team on it.
Can you remember you sending a Recaro over to Mike and I sent him a Yokohama in a trade for a Holden ?
I remember holding one of these in my hands, the details were fuzzy though.
You shipped one over to our crazy buddy a few years ago . He was over the moon with it as it wasnt available in Oz. I got him the Yokohama version as he wanted the pair and he got me a Holden I wanted . Have you heard from Mike lately by any chance ?
Tom wrote: Those look fantastic!
Cheers Tom . I wanted a plain white RSR to go with my GT1, GT2 , GT3 and 996 Cup cars and the only way to do it was to buy another RSR from my Porsche dealer and then spend a couple of hours with the Nail Polish Remover carefully taking off the tampo printed graphics . It turned out pretty nice after the work .
Galaxy Gaz wrote: Cheers Tom . I wanted a plain white RSR to go with my GT1, GT2 , GT3 and 996 Cup cars and the only way to do it was to buy another RSR from my Porsche dealer and then spend a couple of hours with the Nail Polish Remover carefully taking off the tampo printed graphics . It turned out pretty nice after the work .
Honestly? It looks MUCH better without the graphics.
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Love this take on the Mobil livery... Makes an already great model look fantastic.
This one is new, or at least I don't remember it .
I had this one, the livery still looks good as does the model.
Cheers gents, this Autoart RSR is a cracker for sure .The presentation livery is always cool looking.
LUW wrote: This one is new, or at least I don't remember it .
Now we're back to familiar territory .
That's the second nicest GT1 (the LM winner being the 1st).


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Alarm Channels need to be updated. There are 2 Alarm Channels.
Alarm Type = BURGLAR --> This is activated if the Door Sensor is opened/tampered.
barrier_state seems is the exact channel that provides for all of the states of the door.
Chris - I have updated the database with 16 channels. 14 have proper names and event ids.
2 Channels are generic channels for Events that I don't think are relevant but might be relevant. I have not been able to perform all testing to make sure that the other zWave type events are not applicable.
eg: Manual Lock/Unlock, Keypad Lock/Unlock might be relevant for the Garage Door but I have not tested them yet.
Hi Ash. I cannot seem to get usable items using this setup for the controller. What do you bind the items to for control and viewing of door position?
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The U.S. Bombed Afghanistan More in September Than Any Month Since 2010, But the Toll Remains Hidden
In the war on terror, Trump doubles down on a failed strategy.
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U.S. soldiers patrol near the site of a U.S. bombing operation in the Achin district of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on April 15—two days after the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal, the MOAB, was dropped in Nangarhar. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)
On August 21, U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Afghanistan strategy. He made clear that the longest war in modern U.S. history had no end in sight, and that the U.S. government would increase its troop contingent by several thousand soldiers.
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From an Afghan view, there are other "terrorists": the drone operators who are remotely killing innocent people on a daily basis, or the Western soldiers who are hunting civilians and collect their body parts like trophies.
For the U.S. government, the answer is chillingly simple. Since 2012, the White House has maintained that every military-aged male in a strike zone is considered as an "enemy combatant." This means what nearly all Afghan men — including teenagers — are considered "terrorists." The same is true for Syrians, Iraqis, Pakistanis, Somalis, Yemenites and every other citizen of a country that has the luck to be terrorized by U.S. bombs and rockets, dropped by conventional aircraft or weaponized drones.
"We are all terrorists. If we get hit now, you are going to be called like that too," a Taliban fighter in Nangarhar province in the east of the country told me when I visited his village in May. Local civilians who were nearby agreed with him.
What he said was true. I often thought how I would be described after getting killed by a drone strike, especially while researching in remote regions that are barely entered by Western journalists. Like most Afghan men, I have a beard and black hair. In today's world, that's enough to be called a "terrorist," a danger to Western civilization.
Since Trump took over the presidency, about 2,000 airstrikes have been conducted by the U.S. military in Afghanistan. On October 12, a U.S. drone strike killed 14 people; Afghan officials claim the victims were ISIS militants but a local member of parliament alleges those killed were civilians. Last month, the U.S. dropped more bombs and missiles on Afghanistan than in any other month since 2010. Most of these strikes hit Nangarhar province, which was also the target of the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), also known as the "Mother of All Bombs", the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the Pentagon's arsenal. According to recent UN data, U.S. strikes in Nangarhar are more likely to result in civilian casualties than strikes anywhere else in the country. But contrary to reports that often describe all victims as "suspected militants" or "terrorists," many dead are civilians.
Provinces like Nangarhar, where the United States has been fighting its "War on Terror" since 2001, are the places where the U.S. lost this war. While the Taliban control many districts of such provinces, after years of constant occupation, many Afghan locals have developed a hatred toward the American soldiers, like their forefathers did towards the Russians and the British.
While Trump is giving one weird speech after the other, the Afghans in these remote areas live in real dystopia. The so-called government in Kabul, which was installed by the United States in 2001, has no influence here.
Instead, the people's lives are controlled by Taliban insurgents who are often deeply connected with the local communities. More than 100,000 U.S. soldiers, who were deployed in Afghanistan during the Obama era, were not able to change this reality. It will not be much different under Trump.
It's not just the mere presence of foreign troops that fuels war, but also what those troops have done and continue to do: carry out air strikes, conduct brutal night raids on civilians' homes and torture detainees at places like Bagram Air Base — a place so notorious in Afghanistan that, to some, Guantanamo is considered a haven by comparison.
All signs indicate these atrocities will continue in the era of Donald Trump.
The identities of the people who have been murdered by the MOAB are still not known. While the Kabul government supported the attack and later announced that more than 90 ISIS militants have been killed, the White House preferred to stay silent. Too often, similar figures in the past have proven to be bogus. But in the United States, the stories of Afghans are only told when they fit with the interests of the U.S. empire. Otherwise, they remain faceless and invisible — and that's how Donald Trump wants to keep them.
Emran Feroz is an Austrian-Afghan journalist and author based in Germany, and the founder of Drone Memorial, a virtual memorial for civilian drone strike victims. His book on the U.S. drone war just has been released in German.
Bill Moyers: Instead of Rebuilding America, Trump Bombs the Middle East
After Trump unleashed missiles on a Syrian airfield, members of Washington's national security establishment and elite pundits swooned.
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Media Forecast is Hazy
Patricia Aufderheide
Biodiversity Inc.
Mexico tries a new tactic against Chiapas rebels: conservation
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Blueface picked up by Las Vegas police for attempted murder
by Timothy Mwachia November 16, 2022, 7:56 am updated November 16, 2022, 3:54 pm
Blueface is a suspect in an October shooting
California rapper Blueface found himself in trouble with the law when he was arrested by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police in suspicion of attempted murder. TMZ reports that the rapper was apprehended by between 6 and 8 undercover officers outside Lo-Lo's Chicken & Waffles in Las Vegas.
According to a press release by LVMPD via Twitter, Blueface, born Johnathan Porter, is accused of shooting someone at the 6000 Block of Windy Road on October 8. He's being charged with felony attempted murder with the use of a deadly firearm or tear gas, as well as discharging a firearm at/into an occupied structure.
Booking photo: pic.twitter.com/O14fU9dDIj
The authorities have also released his booking mugshot.
A tweet from one Konick Tay, which dates from October 8, has been making rounds on social media of the mentioned person claiming Blueface attacked and shot him outside a strip club.
Blueface granted $50K bond, video surfaces of rapper allegedly shooting at an occupied truck
Blueface says he's Chrisean Rock's "daddy now" after knocking out her father
Roddy Ricch discusses if he asked for Drake's help after recently being denied entry into Canada
Offset dedicates a letter to Takeoff: "My heart is shattered"


fresh&co is a rising star in the quick service restaurant industry. But what did they do when they wanted to offer the freshest local produce? Not only did they connect with local farmers in the tri-state area to directly source the produce used in their cafés, they took that one step further and decided to buy their own farm in Long Island.
We sat down with fresh&co founder, George Tenedios, to learn more about how they got their start and where they see their business going from here.
CP: fresh&co is a rapidly growing organization with nearly 20 locations under your belt. But I'm curious about where you got your start? What was your first job? How did you end up here?
GT: This is a family business. I grew up working with my father as young as 8 years old in his concept eatery, Café Metro, which is still in existence today. Around 2005, while in college studying hospitality, I was intrigued by the healthy food movement happening on the West Coast. This was around the time Whole Foods started to pick up steam here on the East Coast. I realized that there wasn't a quick service restaurant in Manhattan that offered healthy, clean food, that's both approachable and quick to execute for a busy NYC lunch crowd. This is how the fresh&co concept was born. I opened the first location in 2010. Since inception, our goal has always been to offer fresh, clean food that's seasonally driven and of course- just made, just for you.
CP: Sounds like you always had a mission to create fresh, creative and healthy meals. At what point did you decide to take that one giant step further by purchasing and operating your own farm?
GT: The farm was a twofold decision. We've had ties out on the North Fork for over 20 years on a personal level. From summer weekend getaways to family scattered throughout the North Fork and Long Island, we're always out there. With our history in Long Island and the launch of fresh&co, we created relationships with farmers that supply produce that we use during harvest seasons. We came to a point where we decided that it just made sense to purchase our own farm and use it to our advantage, not only to hand-select and specifically harvest the right produce, but to use the farm as our classroom for our team members and culinary team- a true farm-to-table experience. We've been blessed with our relationships and the loyalty of our farmers and partners in Long Island, and that they have embraced fresh&co farms, and have helped us harvest and learn how to be farmers ourselves. I can't forget to mention, we kept a portion of the farm for personal enjoyment, where we have 300 free range Ameraucana chickens, a dozen sheep, two horses and a few alpacas!
CP: What percentage of produce served in your cafés comes straight from your farm?
GT: Our first harvest season in 2015 was extremely bumpy. We were just getting going and figuring out the lay of the land, so we barely hit 2% of produce provided to our restaurants. 2016 was 5%. 2018 was a terrible harvest year weather-wise and we were still able to harvest roughly 12% of our produce during the peak seasons. 2019 is shaping up to be an early start to the season, so our goal is to hit 20%. For the remainder of the produce, we are blessed to work closely with partners such as Latham Farms and Satur Farms.
CP: What would you say your biggest "win" has been to date?
GT: I would say our biggest win to date has been growing the fresh&co brand and family to 19 restaurants in one of the hardest and most expensive markets to operate a QSR in. We have had great brand recognition and loyalty over the years which has helped us to expand into untapped neighborhoods where we can further spread our love for food and customer service.
CP: Anything else you'd like our members to know?
GT: We just launched our spring menu, which we are super proud of. It's been received very well so far by our customers, and has created a great lunch vibe for us. Keep an eye on our menu development, as we have a lot of exciting new items, categories and themes we are gearing up to implement system-wide in the coming weeks!


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North Glasgow volunteer wins top Grassroots Award
Grassroots hero, Mark Adams, from Glasgow, has been named winner of the prestigious Best Volunteer in Adult Football Award at the 2013 Scottish FA Grassroots Awards thanks to his commitment to helping young adults in the north of the city get access to the game in a safe and welcoming environment.
Mark, aged 45, collected the award at Hampden Park at the national ceremony from McDonald's Head of Scottish Football, Kenny Dalglish and Scotland Assistant National Coach Mark McGhee.
Now in their 10th year, the awards recognise and celebrate the young players, coaches and volunteers in the six Scottish FA Regions, who dedicate their time to grassroots football in their local community.
Eight years ago, Mark founded the North Glasgow Football Development Group which was set up to provide young people and adults in North Glasgow with access to football and the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful game in group activities.
This includes training sessions and matches, encouraging teamwork and socialising as well as keeping fit and active through football.
Since 2005, the programme has gone on to create three after-school clubs in the local area and also a community coaching session which is enjoyed by more than 60 young adults in North Glasgow.
The session includes dedicated coaching sessions around key skills and gives members the chance to develop their football abilities in practice matches as part of a group.
This year, hundreds of nominations were received from across the country, with nominees first recognised at a regional level across the five volunteer categories before going on to be shortlisted for the national awards.
McDonald's Head of Scottish Football, Kenny Dalglish said: "Having access to quality football sessions in inner-cities can be difficult but it's thanks to people like Mark and his group in North Glasgow that people from these areas can enjoy the game.
"It is important that communities within cities work together to develop football in the area and that's exactly what they have done in the north of the city. My congratulations go to Mark - it was a pleasure to present him with his award."


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The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Depot is a historic train station in Cullman, Alabama.  The depot was built in 1913 as a replacement for Cullman's original station.  Cullman's founder, John G. Cullmann, gave money to the city upon his death in 1895 to lower the Louisville and Nashville Railroad tracks through town, in order to reduce noise and pollution.  The plan was not enacted until 1911, when the L&N laid double tracks through the town, necessitating the construction of a new depot.  The depot served passengers until 1968, and was used for maintenance storage by new owners CSX until it was sold to the city in 1990.  It was restored and now houses offices for the local United Way chapter.

The depot is built in Mission Revival style, unique among otherwise standard and less stylized L&N depot designs.  The center section of the three-bay building is separated by two piers which rise above the parapet.  The piers have shallow pyramidal tops, and are decorated with recessed panels and horizontal banding.  In the central bay lies the main entrance, covered by a hipped roof portico which is supported by heavy square columns and brackets.  The parapet is arched in each bay of the façade, and in the center bay of the rear, track-facing side.  Each bay features 2 one-over-one sash windows with single-light transoms.  The north end of the building has a set of carriage doors, originally leading to the baggage area, while the south end has a covered porch that leads to the tracks.

The depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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National Register of Historic Places in Cullman County, Alabama
Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Mission Revival architecture in Alabama
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1913
Transportation buildings and structures in Cullman County, Alabama
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Q: Undo a mysql UPDATE command I was trying to do an update on the MySQL server and accidentally forgot to add an additional WHERE clause which was supposed to edit one row.
I now have 3500+ rows edited due to my error.
I may have a back up but I did a ton of work since the last backup and I just dont want to waste it all because of 1 bad query.
Please tell me there is something i can do to fix this.

A: There is only one thing that you can do now is FIX YOUR BAD HABIT, it will help you in future. I know its an old question and OP must have learned the lesson. I am just posting it for others because I also learned the lesson today.
So I was supposed to run a query which was supposed to update some fifty records and then MySQL returned THIS 48500 row(s) affected which gave me a little heart attack due to one silly mistake in WHERE condition :D
So here are the learnings:

*

*Always check your query twice before running it but sometimes it won't help because you can still make that silly mistake.

*Since Step 1 is not always helpful its better that you always take backup of your DB before running any query that will affect the data.

*If you are lazy to create a backup (as I was when running that silly query) because the DB is large and it will take time then at least use TRANSACTION and I think this is a good effortless way to beat the disaster. From now on this is what I do with every query that affects data:

I start the Transaction, run the Query, and then check the results if they are OK or Not. If the results are OK then I simply COMMIT the changes otherwise to overcome the disaster I simply ROLLBACK
START TRANSACTION;
  UPDATE myTable
  SET name = 'Sam'
  WHERE recordingTime BETWEEN  '2018-04-01 00:00:59' AND '2019-04-12 23:59:59';
ROLLBACK;
-- COMMIT; -- I keep it commented so that I dont run it mistakenly and only uncomment when I really want to COMMIT the changes

A: Just an idea - could you restore your backup to a NEW database and then do a cross database query to update that column based on the data it used to be?

A: If you committed your transaction, it's time to dust off that backup, sorry.  But that's what backups are for.  I did something like that once myself... once.

A: Nothing.
Despite this you can be glad that you've got that learning experience under your belt and be proud of how you'll now change your habits to greatly reduce the chance of it happening again.  You'll be the 'master' now that can teach the young pups and quote from actual battle-tested experience.

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Cadfarch is a parish a few miles to the south and south-east of Machynlleth in Montgomeryshire, adjacent to the borders of Cardiganshire and Merionethshire.
Most of the parish is mountainous except for the northern area around the Dovey valley. The A487 and 489 trunk roads to Machynlleth pass through this area, as does the railway line from Machynlleth to Tywyn and Aberystwyth. Dovey Junction railway station is situated in the westernmost part of the parish and county, about 400 yards from both Cardiganshire and Merionethshire.
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Rubio defends Cruz in Obamacare battle
By Seth McLaughlin The Washington Times - September 26, 2013, 10:04AM
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday that fellow Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's filibuster this week has sparked more public interest in the debate over Obamacare — though he predicted that the no-holds barred effort to defund the law will fail in the Senate.
Mr. Rubio, a likely 2016 presidential contender, said that Americans are more familiar with the dangers of Obamacare and warned that the law will damage the "American Dream."
"My prediction is that we won't prevail in the vote, but I tell you that people across this country are going to know where there individual senators stand - in particular the senators that come from states that Barack Obama didn't win," Mr. Rubio said on Fox News. "I think it is going to be a major issue in the 2014 elections."
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney beat Mr. Obama in North Carolina, Arkansas, Alaska and Louisiana — four red states that feature incumbent Democrats who are up for re-election in the midterm elections.
Mr. Obama, however, defeated Mr. Romney in Mr. Rubio's home state of Florida.
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Q: What am I doing wrong with this negative lookahead? Filtering out certain numbers in a regex I have a big piece of code produced by a software. Each instruction has an identifier number and I have to modify only certain numbers:
grr.add(new GenericRuleResult(RULEX_RULES.get(String.valueOf(11)), new Result(0,Boolean.FALSE,"ROSSO")));
grr.add(new GenericRuleResult(RULEX_RULES.get(String.valueOf(12)), new Result(0,Boolean.FALSE,"£££")));
etc...

Now, I am using SublimeText3 to change rapidly all of the wrong lines with this regex:
Of\((11|14|19|20|21|27|28|31)\)\), new Result\(

This regex above allowed me to put "ROSSO" (red) in each line containing those numbers. Now I have to put "VERDE" (green) in the remaining lines. My idea was to add a ?! in the Regex to look for all of the lines NOT CONTAINING those numbers.
From the website Regex101 I get in the description of the regex:
Of matches the characters Of literally (case sensitive)
\( matches the character ( literally (case sensitive)
    Negative Lookahead (?!11|14|19|20|21|27|28|31)
    Assert that the Regex below does not match
       1st Alternative 11
       etc...

So why am I not finding the lines containing 12, 13, 14 etc?
Edit: the Actual Regex: Of\((?!11|14|19|20|21|27|28|31)\)\), new Result\(

A: Your problem is that you are assuming a negative look ahead changes the cursor position, it does not.
That is, a negative lookahead of the form (?!xy) merely verifies that the next two characters are not xy.  It does not then swallow two characters from the text.  As its name suggests, it merely looks ahead from where you are, without moving ahead!
Thus, if you wish to match further things beyond that assertion you must:

*

*negatively assert it is not xy;

*then consume the two characters for whatever they are;

*then continue your match.

So try something like:
Of\((?!11|14|19|20|21|27|28|31)..\)\), new Result\(


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Habeas Corpus - The Good, The Bad, The Summary Reversal
There are three relevant Supreme Court decisions from the past couple of months that I have yet to cover. They are in order of release: Hardy v. Cross, Cash v. Maxwell, and Perry v. New Hampsire. So, just to make sure I put something up about them, I thought I'd stick them all in the same post.
There isn't a theme that connects all three. But they aren't completely disconnected, either. There was some great work from Sotomayor in Maxwell (in an opinion respecting the denial of cert.) and Perry (in dissent). In both cases, she shined a light on two of the greatest causes of wrongful convictions: misidentification and jailhouse informants. It's sad that, in the DNA era of wrongful convictions, not a single other judge joined her opinions or expressed any concerns about these problems in the criminal justice system.
I'll start with the front-end case of Perry. In an opinion by Ginsburg, the Court holds that only identifications procedures arranged by the police are subject to pretrial suppression hearings to determine the reliability of the identification. Those procedures that are not police arranged, such as where a civilian convinces another person in some manner that the defendant is the perpetrator, cannot be the subject of a pretrial hearing to determine reliability. So, even though an identification could have been made under extremely suggestive circumstances, it remains completely reliable evidence that a jury is free to hear and use to convict someone, so long as the police did not arrange it. Let me repeat, Ginsburg wrote that. Sotomayor dissented.
I expressed my outrage about where the Court was going with the case back at the time of the argument. As I said then, the disjunction between the Supreme Court and where society is at on these matters is striking and tragic. As everyone around the country acknowledges, we should be doing more to protect against misidentifications, not less. Only Sotomayor in her dissent showed any acknowledgement of the problem.
Back when the Supreme Court issued its opinion in the prison overcrowding case Brown v. Plata, there was a hyperbolic line in Scalia's dissent in which he stated "terrible things (were) sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order." Let me be equally hyperbolic: terrible injustices are certain to happen as a consequence of the misguided Perry decision. Innocent people will be wrongfully convicted and maybe even sentenced to death and executed as a result of Perry. The Supreme Court had a chance to take a small step to make the system more fair. Instead, they basically went backwards.*
*Once again, in an opinion by Ginsburg, a member of the alleged "liberal wing" of the Supreme Court. Of course, that isn't going to stop pretty much every commentator from describing her (and Kagan and Breyer who joined her opinion) as liberal. Tragic on many levels.
On the other hand, Maxwell actually was a bright spot in habeasland. The main issue in Maxwell focused on the reliability of a jailhouse informant. The particular informant who had testified against Maxwell, Sidney Storch, was an infamous liar who had repeatedly testified in criminal cases as a jailhouse informant in order to gain personal advantages. As I discussed in a prior post, outside of the unreliability of the jailhouse informant, the evidence of guilt was nearly non-existent. There were compelling reasons to believe that an innocent man had been wrongfully convicted and sent to prison for life.
In Maxwell's case, the state courts premised its denial of relief on the factual finding that there was "no credible or persuasive evidence Sidney Storch lied at [Maxwell's] trial in 1984." The Ninth Circuit had granted habeas relief, "meticulously set[ting] forth an avalanche of evidence demonstrating that the state court's factual finding was unreasonable."*
*Quotes are from Sotomayor's opinion, discussed more below.
After relisting the case numerous times, the Supreme Court finally denied cert. That was welcome news. It also probably means that Maxwell won't be retried and will eventually be released.
Sotomayor issued an opinion respecting the denial of cert., stating that the Ninth Circuit properly did its job -- both procedurally and substantively -- in concluding that the state court's factual finding was unreasonable. Although not directly, her opinion does raise some awareness about the problem of jailhouse informants in detailing the ways that Storch used alleged jailhouse confessions to get personal benefits. And Storch is far from the only problematic jailhouse informant out there.
Scalia, joined by Alito, dissented from the denial of cert. He makes the same old complaint that the Ninth Circuit didn't show enough deference to the state court. His analysis isn't very persuasive, as he relied upon evidence that even the state courts found to be ludicrous. As Sotomayor points out, Scalia's argument boils down to this: although there was evidence showing that Storch lied almost every time he opened his mouth, he miraculously told the truth about Maxwell's jailhouse confession. It's pretty ridiculous. At bottom, it appears that Scalia was simply taking another opportunity to criticize the Ninth Circuit -- a standard conservative legal dog whistle.
Finally, Hardy v. Cross was another entry in the Supreme Court's expanding "summary reversal based on a lack of deference" jurisprudence (Maxwell obviously escaped that fate). The full Court concludes that the Seventh Circuit was not sufficiently deferential to the state court's conclusion that the prosecution made a good faith effort to find an unavailable witness.
The opinion is short and there really isn't much in it. My sense is that the Seventh Circuit cut through the b.s. and understood that the prosecution's claim of good faith was empty, as the prosecution made the most minimal effort to find the witness. But I am constrained to agree that the law basically says that the minimal effort that was made there was all that's necessary. Of course, as I am sure the Seventh Circuit understood, if the prosecution or the police really wanted to find the witness (for example, if they wanted to arrest her), it would have taken them probably about an hour to do it. But that's not the standard. So it's hard to say that the state court acted unreasonably. But that is not to say that this was fair. Just not (apparently) unreasonable.
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An expert on the behavior of the American crow, one of our most familiar avian neighbors, answers some frequently asked questions about the bird and its natural history
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IN THE HEART of insect bite season, here's a reason to envy the crested auklet: The birds create their own bug repellent. Researchers from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks discovered that when the seabirds nuzzle potential mates, they are not merely courting; they are also transferring a citrus-scented secretion that includes chemicals called THE AMERICAN CROW, which ranges across most of North America from central Canada to the Gulf Coast, is among the largest, noisiest, most common and most social birds that visit urban environs, and its numbers in some cities seem to be increasing. We asked Kevin McGowan, a Cornell University ornithologist who has been studying American crows in the Ithaca, New York, area since the 1980s, to answer some questions about the birds. His answers provide a primer on crow behavior.
How intelligent are crows?
As birds go, some crows are very intelligent. A species found on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia manufactures and uses tools from objects such as twigs. American crows also use tools and are adept at learning new tricks, such as getting food out of plastic garbage bags.
Do crows always travel in groups?
On their territories, crows tend to forage and move around in family units consisting of a mated pair and young from up to several breeding seasons. Young birds may help with nest building, rearing younger siblings and standing guard at nests and feeding sites. Young mature birds eventually set out on their own to start their own families, although some crows may stay at home for up to seven years. Crows travel in groups while away from home territories, too. They congregate with crows other than their family members to forage and sleep.
What is a group of crows called?
The poetic term used in literature is a "murder." Scientists would call them a flock.
Why do crows congregate in large numbers to sleep?
Crows take this approach primarily in fall and winter. Roost size ranges from fewer than 100 individuals to hundreds of thousands. One site in Fort Cobb, Oklahoma, holds an estimated 2 million crows. Why they sleep in large groups is largely a matter of conjecture. They may all be attracted to one spot that offers advantages such as protection from predators and weather. Roosts also may be located near a large food source. The congregations probably serve some as yet unknown social function as well. Not all crows join these groups, and many sleep at home with just their families near them.
Why do crows roost in cities?
Urban living offers crows several possible advantages. Cities are often 5 to 10 degrees F warmer than rural areas, an advantage in cold weather, and may offer protection from human hunters. Great horned owls, which frequently prey on crows, presumably number fewer in urban areas. Artificial light may assist crows in watching for owls at night, and cities may provide some of the largest roost trees in a given area.
Why do crows fight each other?
Crows may fight for a number of reasons, such as defending territorial boundaries or some other resource or protecting their mates (or sexual access to them). Conflicts within a family are usually short and involve only a few pecks. Fights between members of different families, however, can be protracted and deadly.
Do crows mate for life?
Yes. Unless a mate is killed or severely incapacitated, crows appear to stay with the same mate year after year. It is possible, however, for exceptions to occur. A pair of young crows that mated but bred unsuccessfully might try again with other birds.
Which crows build nests?
American crow nests are bulky, constructed of an outer basket of sticks, a filling of mud and grass, and a thick bowl of something soft. In the beginning stages of construction, both members of a pair, and often some helpers, work equally hard. In fact, the male can be more active getting started. The breeding female, though, usually does the most building at the end, when they are lining the nest.
How many young can a crow family produce in one year?
Raising a crow from egg to adult usually takes about 4 months, giving adults little chance to raise more than one brood. Nest success in my New York study on crow social behavior averages 50 percent, with rural nests producing on average four young per successful nest and urban nests, three.
How long do crows live?
Most don't live even a year, dying as nestlings or even before hatching, but a crow that survives its first year has a good chance of living for several more. The oldest reported wild American crow was 29.5 years old, although that record is disputed. The oldest crow in my study died at 16 years old, and several others have reached 14 and 15 years. A crow that spent its entire life in captivity recently died at the age of 59.
Do crows migrate?
American crows in the southern parts of the species' range appear to be nonmigratory, although they may make changes in their use of space as seasons shift, spending more time in winter to forage and roost away from individual territories. Crows do migrate out of the northernmost parts of the species' range, particularly from areas where the minimum January temperature averages 0 degrees F. In the middle latitudes of the United States, some members of a family may move in winter, but the breeders stay put.
How can you attract crows?
Crows have an endearing characteristic that apparently is not shared by other birds—they can identify people as individuals. While you can get chickadees to eat out of your hand, any old hand will do, and I suspect the chickadees do not know you as an individual. Crows will! If you toss them peanuts (preferably unsalted, in the shell) on a regular basis, they will wait and watch for you. Not just any person, but you. If you do this often enough, they will follow you down the street to get more, even if you're in your car.
Is West Nile virus affecting crow numbers and is it a threat to people?
American crows are especially vulnerable to the West Nile virus, and their populations have been hard hit in some areas, such as the Midwest. In other areas the losses were quickly compensated for by the movement of helpers into breeding positions and by subsequent reproduction. West Nile virus remains a potential threat to both birds and people, and further outbreaks can be expected in the future, although perhaps at lower intensities. The presence of dead crows remains one of the first signs of a potential outbreak.
For more details, visit www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/crowfaq.htm.
The Crow: A Brainy Bird
How smart are crows? When that question was posed on Cornell University ornithologist Kevin McCowan's website—which was the basis of the crow article in the August/September 2008 issue of National Wildlife—McCowen responded: Smarter than many undergraduates, but probably not as smart as ravens.
Other sources of information also indicate that crows aren't exactly bird brains. Recent research on crows in New Caledonia, an island in the South Pacific, has revealed that the birds fashion twigs and leaves into several types of hooks and serrated tools for use as probes in prying insects out of hidden recesses and that the birds carry tools from site to site for reuse. In experiments with captive crows, scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand found that the birds would use a small stick to pull in a longer stick placed out of their reach but that was needed to dig food out of a deep hole—in other words, the birds used a tool to get a tool. In this behavior, says University of Auckland biologist Russell Gray, crows are matching the tool-using skills of great apes.—Roger Di Dilvestro
ldehydes, which repel ticks and other insects. To read more about Pacific seabirds, see this issue's feature "Seabird Signals."


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Hedge Funds Have Never Been More Bullish On Barclays PLC (BCS)
Published on December 11, 2019 at 11:02 pm by Abigail Fisher in Hedge Funds,News
The Insider Monkey team has completed processing the quarterly 13F filings for the September quarter submitted by the hedge funds and other money managers included in our extensive database. Most hedge fund investors experienced strong gains on the back of a strong market performance, which certainly propelled them to adjust their equity holdings so as to maintain the desired risk profile. As a result, the relevancy of these public filings and their content is indisputable, as they may reveal numerous high-potential stocks. The following article will discuss the smart money sentiment towards Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS).
Is Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS) the right investment to pursue these days? Hedge funds are taking a bullish view. The number of bullish hedge fund bets moved up by 3 recently. Our calculations also showed that BCS isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video below for Q2 rankings). BCS was in 15 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of September. There were 12 hedge funds in our database with BCS holdings at the end of the previous quarter.
Boykin Curry of Eagle Capital
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Hedge fund activity in Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS)
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2019, a total of 15 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 25% from the previous quarter. By comparison, 11 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in BCS a year ago. So, let's see which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
When looking at the institutional investors followed by Insider Monkey, Eagle Capital Management, managed by Boykin Curry, holds the biggest position in Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS). Eagle Capital Management has a $87.2 million position in the stock, comprising 0.3% of its 13F portfolio. The second largest stake is held by Arrowstreet Capital, managed by Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell, which holds a $20.7 million position; less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the company. Remaining peers that hold long positions comprise Renaissance Technologies, Brian Gaines's Springhouse Capital Management and Peter S. Stamos's Stamos Capital. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Springhouse Capital Management allocated the biggest weight to Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS), around 3.9% of its 13F portfolio. Stamos Capital is also relatively very bullish on the stock, earmarking 1.19 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to BCS.
As industrywide interest jumped, specific money managers have been driving this bullishness. Springhouse Capital Management, managed by Brian Gaines, established the most valuable position in Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS). Springhouse Capital Management had $5.8 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group also initiated a $0.6 million position during the quarter. The other funds with brand new BCS positions are David E. Shaw's D E Shaw, Dmitry Balyasny's Balyasny Asset Management, and Mike Vranos's Ellington.
Let's check out hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS). These stocks are Canadian Natural Resources Limited (NYSE:CNQ), Monster Beverage Corp (NASDAQ:MNST), Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE:TSN), and Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (NYSE:PEG). All of these stocks' market caps match BCS's market cap.
CNQ 32 558227 8
MNST 34 2641322 -4
TSN 48 1716693 9
PEG 18 838718 -5
Average 33 1438740 2
As you can see these stocks had an average of 33 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $1439 million. That figure was $132 million in BCS's case. Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE:TSN) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (NYSE:PEG) is the least popular one with only 18 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS) is even less popular than PEG. Hedge funds clearly dropped the ball on BCS as the stock delivered strong returns, though hedge funds' consensus picks still generated respectable returns. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. A small number of hedge funds were also right about betting on BCS as the stock returned 20% during the fourth quarter (through the end of November) and outperformed the market by an even larger margin.
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Le réveillon de la Saint-Sylvestre, réveillon du jour de l'an ou encore réveillon du Nouvel An est une coutume qui consiste à fêter l'arrivée du Nouvel An, en veillant jusqu'à minuit le soir du 31 décembre, dernier jour de l'année du calendrier grégorien, jour retenu par l'Église catholique pour célébrer le pape Sylvestre Ier.

Le réveillon du jour de l'An peut se fêter en famille ou avec des amis. Ainsi, au Japon, en Colombie, en Argentine et en Uruguay, le réveillon du Nouvel An se fête traditionnellement en famille. En Russie et dans les autres anciennes républiques soviétiques, le réveillon de la Saint-Sylvestre est fêté en réunissant la famille et les amis proches.

En raison du décalage horaire, les Îles de la Ligne (la partie de Kiribati à l'ouest de la ligne internationale de changement de date) et les îles Samoa (celles qui sont indépendantes) sont les premiers lieux à fêter le Nouvel An et passer dans la nouvelle année alors que les Samoa américaines sont le dernier lieu à le faire.

Aujourd'hui, la Saint-Sylvestre est fêtée dans presque tous les pays du monde. Il y a quelques exceptions comme l'Arabie saoudite où la police religieuse fait respecter le calendrier islamique. Dans certains pays, l'année civile commence le  janvier mais la population préfère fêter le Nouvel An traditionnel comme en Chine continentale ou en Inde.

Amérique

Brésil
La nuit du Nouvel An, «  », est une des fêtes les plus traditionnelles du Brésil. Dans toutes les villes, on tire des feux d'artifice à minuit et on fait des spectacles musicaux. La fête la plus célèbre est celle de la plage de Copacabana, à Rio de Janeiro. La ville de São Paulo organise la Corrida de la Saint-Silvestre () à travers les rues entre l'avenue Paulista et le centre-ville. Des athlètes du monde entier, et même des champions olympiques comme le coureur kényan Paul Tergat, y participent.

Canada
Le réveillon du jour de l'An est un événement festif au Canada.

Chez les Acadiens et les Québécois, on se réunit en famille et on fête avec de la musique traditionnelle. Une heure avant le coup de minuit, on arrête la musique et le décompte du jour de l'An commence pour se terminer en embrassades et en échanges de vœux. La musique reprend ensuite et on sert le repas vers une heure du matin aux « fêteux » qui sont encore sur place et la soirée se termine vers trois heures !

Chez les Québécois,  depuis 1968, on est invité à regarder l'émission annuelle Bye Bye diffusé à la télévision nationale, la Société Radio-Canada (SRC), une revue humoristique faisant référence à l'actualité et aux événements marquants de l'année achevée. Cette émission - Bye Bye - est souvent la plus regardée de toute la saison, selon les sondages de la maison BBM.

Colombie et Équateur

À l'occasion des célébrations de l'«  », les Colombiens et Équatoriens brûlent des marionnettes faites de bois, de papier journal et de chiffons, garnis d'artifices pyrotechniques. Ces personnages représentent symboliquement les détritus de la vieille année et font souvent référence à des événements de l'année écoulée mettant en cause des politiciens détestés, des références de la culture populaire

États-Unis

Aux États-Unis, le réveillon du jour de l'An () est une fête importante. Depuis un siècle, la chute de la boule depuis le sommet du   à New York est l'une des principales composantes des cérémonies, retransmise en direct à la télévision. La boule de cristal, qui mesure deux mètres de diamètre et pèse une demi-tonne, commence à descendre à  et atteint le sol au pied de la tour à minuit. On la surnomme parfois la « Grosse Pomme », comme la cité elle-même. Cette coutume dérive d'un signal utilisé autrefois pour indiquer minuit dans les ports. De 1982 à 1988, la cité a fait descendre une gigantesque pomme en référence à son surnom. Le chant Auld Lang Syne est traditionnellement entonné à minuit.

Plusieurs communautés religieuses ont pour habitude de célébrer une veillée à la veille du Nouvel An. Les fidèles se rassemblent pour l'office dans la soirée et continuent après minuit. Ils remercient pour les bénédictions de l'année écoulée et prient pour l'année à venir. Cette pratique a probablement pris naissance dans la communauté afro-américaine avant d'être adoptée par John Wesley, le fondateur du méthodisme. Cette veillée prit une signification particulière pour les Noirs américains en 1862, alors que les esclaves attendaient avec impatience leur émancipation, fixée au  par la proclamation d'Émancipation. Cette nuit particulière est depuis connue sous le nom de « nuit de la Liberté ».

À travers les États-Unis, de nombreuses autres villes célèbrent également l'événement d'une manière semblable en faisant descendre toutes sortes d'objets symboliques pendant le compte à rebours, avant le déclenchement du feu d'artifice. Depuis une initiative lancée à Boston en 1976, certaines villes célèbrent aussi à cette occasion la First Night (« première nuit ») qui en dépit de son nom est bel et bien célébrée le  au soir : il s'agit de concerts, de spectacles, d'expositions d'œuvres d'art et de feux d'artifice lors de ce qui se veut une fête de famille sans alcool.

Asie

Hong Kong
À Hong Kong, les gens se réunissent habituellement à Central, à  et sur le port de Tsim Sha Tsui pour admirer les illuminations des bâtiments le long du port. Pour le compte à rebours vers la nouvelle année, ils se rassemblent à  et à .

Japon

Au Japon, le Nouvel An se célèbre chez soi lors du réveillon avec l'ōmisoka, puis le  janvier dans les sanctuaires shinto ou les temples bouddhistes avec le hatsumōde. À l'entrée de la torii, on retrouve des kiosques où on peut acheter des mets traditionnels japonais, des jouets, des fleurs, des ballons, des bonbons et des objets porte-bonheur. Ces kiosques sont ouverts du  au , fin des festivités. Également, un immense feu de joie est allumé. À minuit, la porte sacrée du sanctuaire s'ouvre. La nouvelle année est accueillie par des applaudissements. Ensuite, les gens entrent dans la cour du sanctuaire afin de prier pour la nouvelle année et, s'ils le désirent, attacher aux arbres des papiers sur lesquels des vœux sont inscrits (omikuji). Un prêtre fait retentir une cloche , signe de la mort des  dont il faut se débarrasser selon le bouddhisme. Le lendemain matin, le public est de nouveau invité aux sanctuaires shinto afin de déguster le saké nouveau appelé toso. Enfin, le Nouvel An est, pour les Japonais, une occasion pour porter leur plus beau kimono.

Turquie
Dans ce pays à majorité musulmane mais qui utilise le calendrier grégorien, le  est considéré comme un jour de fête où l'on se réunit avec les amis et les proches. La plupart des traditions liées à la célébration de Noël dans les pays de tradition chrétienne sont reprises pour fêter le Nouvel An, comme décorer un sapin ou échanger des cadeaux. Le dîner de ce jour-ci est organisé de façon festive. Il est courant de compter les  secondes et d'éteindre les lumières à minuit pile pour quelques minutes.

Europe

Allemagne

Les Allemands fêtent le réveillon de la Saint-Sylvestre ou « Silvester » entre amis. À minuit, il y a partout des feux d'artifice et des pétards ; à l'origine le bruit était censé faire fuir les mauvais esprits. Aujourd'hui, c'est plus l'accueil de la nouvelle année. Souvent on interroge aussi l'avenir en fondant du plomb qu'on jette dans de l'eau, puis il faut essayer d'interpréter la forme obtenue. À minuit la radio ou la télévision est allumée pour écouter les cloches de minuit et se souhaiter une bonne année avec du champagne. Régulièrement, des voix s'élèvent contre le gaspillage de l'argent investi dans les feux d'artifice.

Espagne

Les célébrations du Nouvel An ( ou ) commencent habituellement avec un dîner familial, comprenant des crevettes et de l'agneau ou de la dinde. Le compte à rebours est suivi sur l'horloge du building de la  au square de la  à Madrid. Il est de tradition de manger  de raisin, un à chaque coup de minuit sonnant au carillon. Cette coutume remonte à 1909, lorsque des vignerons d'Alicante pensèrent que ce pourrait être un moyen de remédier au surplus de production de cette année-là. De nos jours, la tradition est suivie par à peu près tous les Espagnols et les douze grains de raisin sont devenus inséparables du Nouvel An. Après le douzième coup de minuit, les gens se congratulent et portent des toasts avec du vin pétillant comme le cava et le champagne, ou avec du cidre.

Après le dîner en famille et les douze grains de raisin, beaucoup de jeunes gens se rendent aux fêtes de Nouvel An dans les pubs, les discothèques et autres. Ces fêtes sont appelées , du mot espagnol «  » qui désigne les accessoires de fête tels que les confetti, les langues de belle-mère, les chapeaux Les fêtes durent habituellement jusqu'à l'aube et peuvent réunir plusieurs milliers de personnes dans les grands hôtels. Tôt le matin, les fêtards se réunissent pour le traditionnel petit déjeuner composé de  (chocolat chaud et beignets).

France et Belgique

On y organise un dîner voire un souper de fête avec, par exemple, du champagne et du foie gras. Il peut s'agir d'un simple dîner entre amis ou d'une soirée dansante. Le jour de l'an, les familles et les amis échangent les vœux du Nouvel An, prennent de bonnes résolutions et parfois échangent quelques cadeaux (les étrennes). À minuit, on se souhaite traditionnellement une bonne année en s'embrassant sous le gui, puis on va dans la rue en criant « Bonne année ! » et en faisant beaucoup de bruit (trompette, klaxon).
La Saint-Sylvestre est également l'occasion donnée au Président de la République française de transmettre ses vœux présidentiels en diffusion différée à  sur les principales télévisions françaises depuis le palais de l'Élysée.

Tous les ans à Paris, beaucoup de personnes se réunissent sur l'avenue des Champs-Élysées ou sous la tour Eiffel, pour fêter le passage à la nouvelle année avec quelques petits feux d'artifice. Depuis le , un spectacle son et lumière est projeté sur l'Arc de Triomphe, suivi d'un grand feu d'artifice à minuit (excepté en 2015 où ils furent annulés dans un climat post-13 Novembre).

La période des fêtes se termine avec l'Épiphanie, jour où l'on partage traditionnellement la galette des Rois. Un Roi est tiré par la découverte d'une fève dans la galette, sauf au Palais de l'Élysée où la galette ne contient jamais de fève car tirer un roi dans le siège de la République est considéré comme contraire aux principes de cette dernière.

Anciennes traditions en Moselle
Avant le  siècle en Moselle, plusieurs traditions vespérales et nocturnes pour célébrer la Saint-Sylvestre ont court dans les villages. Le soir, les enfants remplissent d'huile des coquilles de noix, y mettent des mèches et les allument avant de les faire flotter dans des ruisseaux ou des récipients en chantant. La nuit, les garçons réalisent une guirlande avec des coquilles d'œufs entières et des rubans qu'ils pendent aux puits où les jeunes filles viennent puiser l'eau le lendemain ; cette guirlande étant considérée comme une protection contre les maladies. Dans certains villages aux abords de la Seille, les garçons décrochent les volets des maisons, soit pour les déposer plus loin, soit pour les remplacer par d'autres qu'ils ont enlevés ailleurs. Enfin, les garçons passent la nuit à épandre du fumier devant les maisons, en particulier celles où habite une fille à marier. Selon Zéliqzon, cette dernière tradition, commune à toute la Moselle, s'appelle « dequerer » en lorrain de Moselle.

Royaume-Uni
L'Angleterre célèbre le Nouvel An en attendant que  ou une autre horloge sonne minuit. Habituellement, les participants comptent les dix dernières secondes et chantent  au moment du zéro. Le carillon de minuit est habituellement accompagné de feux d'artifice.

En Écosse ont lieu aussi de grandes festivités connues sous le nom de Hogmanay. En particulier, la réputation de la  lui attire de nombreux visiteurs du monde entier. La chanson traditionnelle Auld Lang Syne a été écrite par Robert Burns, un poète écossais.

Océanie

Australie
Du fait des fuseaux horaires, Sydney est, après Auckland en Nouvelle-Zélande, la deuxième grande ville à célébrer le Nouvel An.

Avec des foules très supérieures à  de participants, Sydney abrite probablement les célébrations les plus importantes au monde, après Rio de Janeiro ( de personnes sur la plage de Copacabana) et avant New York et Londres (entre ). Cette ville portuaire bénéficie à cette époque de l'année d'un été chaud et d'un remarquable amphithéâtre naturel. Plus de  sont traditionnellement mis à feu depuis le  et quatre emplacements alignés sur six kilomètres le long du port de Sydney. L'évènement peut être vu à seize kilomètres à la ronde et attire en moyenne  étrangers chaque année.

La parade des lumières du port ajoute au spectacle avec ses bateaux illuminés qui croisent toute la nuit au centre du port.

En 2005, les organisateurs de la fête firent tirer leur feu d'artifice le plus spectaculaire : un cœur gigantesque entouré de deux anneaux, qui battait sur le pont. Il était éclairé par l'arrière et semblait irradier. C'était la première fois que l'effet du pont était révélé dès . Jusqu'à minuit, un nouvel anneau fut ajouté à chaque heure. Le cœur du port était une extraordinaire fête pyrotechnique. Le pont perpétua aussi la tradition de la cascade d'or qui tombe depuis le côté du pont en donnant l'impression d'en jaillir. La bande son préparée par le conseil de Sydney s'adaptait si bien que les feux d'artifice semblaient créés par la musique. Après la chanson du final et les feux d'artifice de minuit, le plus petit cœur se mit à battre faiblement mais rapidement comme pour témoigner de l'ampleur de l'évènement.

Pour 2006, le conseil mit en place un site web, qui montrait un compte à rebours du nombre de secondes qui nous séparaient de 2007. Le thème était « une nuit de diamant dans une cité d'émeraude ». Les enfants furent invités à taper du pied trois fois pour « déclencher quelque chose de magique » à la manière de Dorothée au pays d'Oz. Les feux d'artifice furent tirés depuis huit barges différentes autour du port, soit quatre de plus que d'habitude. Les organisateurs installèrent un diamant géant au centre du pont.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

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Articles connexes
 Jour de l'an
 Divālī, Nouvel An indien
 Nouvel An chinois
 Nouvel An japonais
 , Nouvel An de l'hégire
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 Yennayer, Nouvel An berbère

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