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Q: Recorrer JSON con JQuery Buen Dia estoy utilizando una API de Youtube que me regresa el siguiente JSON
{
 "kind": "youtube#searchListResponse",
  "etag": "\"m2yskBQFythfE4irbTIeOgYYfBU/Ecs31oUVfbCGmEm5at5VxfPVF28\"",
  "nextPageToken": "CAUQAA",
  "regionCode": "MX",
  "pageInfo": {
   "totalResults": 1000000,
   "resultsPerPage": 5
  },
  "items": [
   {
    "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
    "etag": "\"m2yskBQFythfE4irbTIeOgYYfBU/gjPdqJGmCv_9dbjuk7qtdsRCJIA\"",
    "id": {
     "kind": "youtube#video",
     "videoId": "Mfu9jgj_z18"
    },
    "snippet": {
     "publishedAt": "2016-09-30T07:00:03.000Z",
     "channelId": "UC0_AziIovFE4qYOqbx3ukOQ",
     "title": "Joey Montana - Hola",
     "description": "Music video by Joey Montana performing Hola. (C) 2016      Capitol Latin http://vevo.ly/3HCjRF.",
     "thumbnails": {
      "default": {
       "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Mfu9jgj_z18/default.jpg",
       "width": 120,
       "height": 90
      },
      "medium": {
       "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Mfu9jgj_z18/mqdefault.jpg",
       "width": 320,
       "height": 180
      },
      "high": {
       "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Mfu9jgj_z18/hqdefault.jpg",
       "width": 480,
       "height": 360
      }
     },
     "channelTitle": "JoeyMontanaVEVO",
     "liveBroadcastContent": "none"
    }
   },
   {
    "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
    "etag": "\"m2yskBQFythfE4irbTIeOgYYfBU/Iz-aL8UAazPEMZ9sdP3bt_zcEnw\"",
    "id": {
     "kind": "youtube#video",
     "videoId": "eNqYlKtt0hY"
    }

Por cada video, todo en un mismo archivo, mi problema es que al intentar recorrer el archivo y asi obtener el "id" por ejemplo del video me aparece como resultado undefined utilizando item.id el codigo que tengo del Script es el siguiente.
$.getJSON(url,function (data) {

  var count = 0;
  var html = "";

    $.each(data.items, function (item) {
        //URL del video en youtube
        html += '
';

        //Miniatura del video
        html += '';

        //Agrega el titulo del video y del canal
        html += '
' + item.title + ' ' + item.channelTitle + '

';
        count++;
    });

  // En caso de que Youtube no enviara nada
  if (count == 0) {
    $results.html("No videos found");
  } else {
    //Muestra los resultados
    $results.html(html);
  }
});

});
});
Les agredeceria mucho su ayuda llevo buscando desde ayer una solucion y nada,  ya intente con items.id y tampoco funciona

A: Ten en cuenta que en la variable item vas a tener el índice del elemento. El objeto con la definición del vídeo lo obtendrás entonces con data.items[item].
Mira este ejemplo utilizando los datos que pones en la pregunta:

var result =
{
  "kind": "youtube#searchListResponse",
  "etag": "\"m2yskBQFythfE4irbTIeOgYYfBU/Ecs31oUVfbCGmEm5at5VxfPVF28\"",
  "nextPageToken": "CAUQAA",
  "regionCode": "MX",
  "pageInfo": {
   "totalResults": 1000000,
   "resultsPerPage": 5
  },
  "items": [
   {
    "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
    "etag": "\"m2yskBQFythfE4irbTIeOgYYfBU/gjPdqJGmCv_9dbjuk7qtdsRCJIA\"",
    "id": {
     "kind": "youtube#video",
     "videoId": "Mfu9jgj_z18"
    },
    "snippet": {
     "publishedAt": "2016-09-30T07:00:03.000Z",
     "channelId": "UC0_AziIovFE4qYOqbx3ukOQ",
     "title": "Joey Montana - Hola",
     "description": "Music video by Joey Montana performing Hola. (C) 2016      Capitol Latin http://vevo.ly/3HCjRF.",
     "thumbnails": {
      "default": {
       "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Mfu9jgj_z18/default.jpg",
       "width": 120,
       "height": 90
      },
      "medium": {
       "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Mfu9jgj_z18/mqdefault.jpg",
       "width": 320,
       "height": 180
      },
      "high": {
       "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Mfu9jgj_z18/hqdefault.jpg",
       "width": 480,
       "height": 360
      }
     },
     "channelTitle": "JoeyMontanaVEVO",
     "liveBroadcastContent": "none"
    }
   },
   {
    "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
    "etag": "\"m2yskBQFythfE4irbTIeOgYYfBU/Iz-aL8UAazPEMZ9sdP3bt_zcEnw\"",
    "id": {
     "kind": "youtube#video",
     "videoId": "eNqYlKtt0hY"
    }
   }
  ]
};

function process(data) {

  var count = 0;
  var html = "";

    $.each(data.items, function (item) {
        var video = data.items[item].snippet;

        if (video) {

        //URL del video en youtube
        html += '
';

        //Miniatura del video
        html += '';

        //Agrega el titulo del video y del canal
        html += '
' + video.title + ' ' + video.channelTitle + '

';
        count++;
        }
    });

  // En caso de que Youtube no enviara nada
  if (count == 0) {
    $results.html("No videos found");
  } else {
    //Muestra los resultados
    $results.html(html);
  }
}

var $results = $('#results');
process(result);

A: ¿Y el item.channelTitle y item.title  sí te los está trayendo bien?. Si sí, entonces el problema posiblemente es que, si te fijas, id está compuesto de otros dos campos, kind y videoId. Si lo que quieres es obtener sólo el videoId entonces deberías hacer algo como:
$.each(data.items, function (item) {
        //URL del video en youtube
        html += '
';

        //Miniatura del video
        html += '';

        //Agrega el titulo del video y del canal
        html += '
' + data.items[item].title + ' ' + data.items[item].channelTitle + '

';
        count++;
    });

Sino intenta probar poniendo console.log como sugirieron en los comentarios. Siempre son una buena ayuda para encontrar dónde está el problema. Ojalá encuentres la solución.
EDICIÓN
Como bien me hizo notar Dev.Joel en los comentarios, item no es un objeto, es un valor entero con el índice. He modificado el código conforme a eso. Aunque en realidad es lo mismo que la respuesta de Asier.


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Victoria Lopyreva has confirmed the pregnancy, showing the tummy
After all sorts of rumors about the pregnancy, Victoria Lopyreva admitted that she was pregnant, and bear it out of wedlock.
Vika, really pregnant, and to hide it not makes more sense. But the father of their unborn child Vika prefers to remain silent, arguing that it is not a public person and far from show business.
She promised him that it would not during pregnancy really advertise it. It is not excluded that it is, indeed, some billionaire from the United Arab Emirates, adhering to strict morals.
Not all clear from the Wiki and from the wedding. Despite the fact that, according to Wiki, he or she blows off dust particles, on the wedding speech does not go yet.
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London Loop – section 16
After the dire warnings on Monday from the UK Government's Chief Medical Adviser and Chief Scientific Adviser, I was expecting the Government to announce a second national lockdown on Tuesday evening.
With that in mind, and because it was the last day of summer, a friend and I decided to embark on the 242 km London Loop. The Transport for London web site has conveniently broken the walk into twenty-four sections. We started with section 16, the closest to us.
The route from Elstree and Borehamwood to Cockfosters was a relaxing 17 km walk on a gloriously sunny day, which I later learnt was our autumn equinox. That may have explained why the light was especially good.
London Loop, section 16 walk
The walk starts in what was the home of the British film industry. Classics such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, and the Indiana Jones films were made here. Now Strictly Come Dancing and Pointless are recorded at the studios.
There's some interesting housing at the Elstree end (we must have walked through a posh area) and some picturesque rolling hills before joining the beginning of the Dollis Valley Greenwalk, one of the hidden delights of North London. Just after King George's Fields, the London Loop splits from the Greenwalk and goes through the deceptively named but beautiful Monken Hadley Common, which accompanies you to Cockfosters. If you have time at the end, Trent Park is worth exploring.
When I got home after the walk, I was overjoyed to hear that there would be no second national lockdown. The Government's advisers had been unnecessarily pessimistic during their press conference on Monday.
Unbeknown to the advisers, the Government had struck a deal with the coronavirus. In summary, humans will occupy places like shops, restaurants, pubs, social clubs, casinos, bowling alleys, and bingo halls between 5am and 10pm. By 10pm, the humans will vacate the pubs, etc in an orderly fashion. The virus has agreed to march into the buildings at 10pm precisely and remain until 5am. At which time, humans will return for the daytime shift, and so on. It's all very clever.
I don't know if the Government told the virus that no humans would actually be in these establishments when the virus would be flexing its muscles. It's quite devious if they didn't because the virus apparently needs humans to survive. Regardless, I hope the virus remembers the list and sticks to its end of the bargain. The list is quite long and I'm having trouble remembering it already.
With this settlement now negotiated for the next six months, I'm much more optimistic about the post-Brexit trade negotiations.
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I sent a couple PM's but not heard back. Has it sold?
Try this thread or PM on there.
Thanks. I didn't think to look there.
SS2win, I have replied to your messages.
Still available. Entertaining reasonable offers!
Sold. Buyer coming tomorrow afternoon.
Congrats! I can't believe it took this long!
It was somewhat a painful process...it was a purple LT1 with too much money in it LOL I had some strikes against me.
HOWEVER a very nice girl (senior in HS) drove up from Tallahassee FL with her friend to pick it up. She was head over heels happy with the color/condition/mods etc since she wants to race it. It couldn't have been a more perfect fit! it was such a PAINLESS process once she was interested and things got rolling.
It went to a good home. It was sad to see it go, but it will continue to bring fun times for her. I learned a lot with that car and it was a good feeling to know it made the almost 12 hr trip from OH to FL with ZERO issues...felt proud I put something together that reliable.
Thanks to SS2win for starting the process for his stepdaughter.
BTW, how much faster are you in the C5 on your usual tracks?
Congrats! I know the feeling about selling the car. Bittersweet, but when they go to a good home, it's so much the better. We finally found the person that fit our car, too.
The new owner is the the stepdaughter of SS2win (member on this site). So he knows what has gone into the car.
I've only raced the C5 once last year (after a month of owning it) with street tires and unknown brake pads. That was a mess LOL. Over the winter it got a tune, MGW shifter, Koni Shocks, HPS pads, 315 square rival S and an alignment+lowered. I have only done one test and tune (20+ runs with the new bits) but it's NO Camaro. Handles A LOT different and I was surprised as how collected it feels. With the Camaro the best I could ever do is the bottom of the top 1/3 raw times. My only goal is to move up instandings from there. Low aspirations, I know but it's something. I have to compete with Danny Popp/Nathan Popp, Marshall Reinart, Bryan Shaefer, Kent Weaver, Paul Curley. Most compete at Nationals and or OPTIMA events. quite the competition for CAMS locally for me.
so look at that, 3800 views later the car is sold ... I can't believe it lasted so long! Allison is stoked.. The engine in her jeep blew up last week so this is now her daily driver. Were going to go over the car and check everything out, reinstall the A/C (Florida!) and get her in solo here with Dixie Region asap.


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Q: Property 'require' doesn't exist react native metro bundler This issue has to do with the metro bundler not being able to bundle the JS to the device. I run npm run start and it shows fine on the browser (i.e. 'I browse to http://localhost:8081) However, when I load npm run ios it fails with the following:
error Image
Also, I had a previously working project and then imported another project with this issue and is now causing the working project to fail.

*

*I have tried changing the port and resetting the cache but device cannot find the url to bundle.

*this problem isn't device specific as I get the same issue on android

*I have tried deleting node modules and running npm install
any help?
{
  "name": "venueApp",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "android": "react-native run-android",
    "ios": "react-native run-ios",
    "start": "react-native start",
    "test": "jest",
    "lint": "eslint . --ext .js,.jsx,.ts,.tsx"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties": "^7.18.6",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-private-methods": "^7.18.6",
    "@testing-library/react-native": "^11.2.0",
    "babel-loader": "^8.2.5",
    "formik": "^2.2.9",
    "jest": "^29.1.1",
    "react": "18.1.0",
    "react-native": "0.70.1",
    "react-native-safe-area-context": "^4.4.0",
    "react-native-vector-icons": "^9.2.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.19.3",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.19.3",
    "@babel/preset-react": "^7.18.6",
    "@babel/preset-typescript": "^7.18.6",
    "@babel/runtime": "^7.12.5",
    "@react-native-community/eslint-config": "^2.0.0",
    "@tsconfig/react-native": "^2.0.2",
    "@types/jest": "^26.0.23",
    "@types/react-native": "^0.70.0",
    "@types/react-native-vector-icons": "^6.4.12",
    "@types/react-test-renderer": "^18.0.0",
    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^5.37.0",
    "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^5.37.0",
    "babel-jest": "^26.6.3",
    "eslint": "^7.32.0",
    "metro": "^0.72.3",
    "metro-core": "^0.72.3",
    "metro-react-native-babel-preset": "^0.72.1",
    "react-native-mock": "^0.3.1",
    "react-test-renderer": "18.1.0",
    "typescript": "^4.8.3"
  },
  "jest": {
    "preset": "react-native",
    "moduleFileExtensions": [
      "ts",
      "tsx",
      "js",
      "jsx",
      "json",
      "node"
    ],
    "transformIgnorePatterns": [
      "node_modules/(?!((jest-)?react-native(-.*)?|@react-native(-vector-icons)?)/)"
    ]
  }
}

Update:
What I have discovered is that the index.bundle file is different to that of the working project so not sure why metro is picking up a different file.

A: any news? this bug doesn't seem related to react native, it fixes itself sometimes on mac reboot in my case! react-native 0.71.0.
I think it's a babel problem.

I posted the image of the metro bundle where there is the error! at:
var _typeof = require("@babel/runtime/helpers/typeof");

A: I had a similar issue.
I have no idea what fixed it but I had made changes to these files.

*

*.watchmanconfig

*babel.config.js

*metro.config.js

I've since reverted the changes and it came back to life, but it could have been a combination of things including clearing gradle and removing node_modules etc.
Hopefully this will help you narrow down the problem.

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Data-Driven Analytical Models for Identification and Prediction of Opportunities and Threats
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Integrating Services in the Economic Fitness Approach
with Andrea ZACCARIA, MASUD CADer and Luciano Pietronero
WOrld bank Policy Research Working Paper 8485, 2018
Economic Complexity is a set of network-based and algorithmic methods for the study of economic development and competitiveness. In this framework, Economic Fitness is an innovative approach that improves the mathematical and conceptual scheme. For convenience, these methods were originally conceived on trade in goods. This paper extends the Economic Fitness methodology to include a trade in services element to yield a universal matrix of world trade and thus provide a more complete picture of a country's development and global competitiveness. The results show that (i) the competitiveness of many countries was previously over- or underestimated, that is, many countries gain or lose positions in the ranking of economic fitness when services trade is considered alongside goods; and (ii) complex services tend to cluster with complex manufacturing, suggesting a common capabilities structure. These findings show how developing complex services aids diversification strategies for developing countries.
Economic Complexity and The Globalization of Services
with ishani tiwari and siavash toosi
A non-linear iterative algorithm is applied that ranks the
'fitness' of countries based on their diversity and 'complexity' of their specialization. The results show that niche technology-enabled service exports are some of the most complex components in the world trade network. Moreover, middle-income countries and resource rich countries show greater economic fitness (competitiveness) when service exports are integrated in the world trade network. Finally, the paper provides a framework to inform economic policy decisions concerning export diversification strategies in developing countries.
Options for Angola's Export Diversification
with vandana chandra
world bank, 2017
Like many resource-rich countries, oil exporting Angola is having difficulty in graduating to a high-income status without diversifying its sources of income in products and services that have more stable prices. It also faces the additional challenge of rejuvenating its war-destructed economic base. We apply a variety of technical metrics to evaluate export concentration in Angola. Regardless of the measure used to gauge concentration, it is apparent that in the medium term, its skill levels are the key challenge to Angola's diversification in higher value products and services. In the immediate term, rebuilding some of the industries in which Angola had a natural comparative advantage in the 1960s and '70s seems a prudent first step towards diversification....
WITH Sangyup Choi, Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, and Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro
IMF WORKING PAPER NO. 17/196, 2017
We study the impact of fluctuations in global oil prices on domestic inflation using an unbalanced panel of 72 advanced and developing economies over the period from 1970 to 2015. We find that a 10 percent increase in global oil inflation increases, on average, domestic inflation by about 0.4 percentage point on impact, with the effect vanishing after two years and being similar between advanced and developing economies. We also find that the effect is asymmetric, with positive oil price shocks having a larger effect than negative ones. The impact of oil price shocks, however, has declined over time due in large part to a better conduct of monetary policy. We further examine the transmission channels of oil price shocks on domestic inflation during the recent decades, by making use of a monthly dataset from 2000 to 2015. The results suggest that the share of transport in the CPI basket and energy subsidies are the most robust factors in explaining cross-country variations in the effects of oil price shocks during the this period.
Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 82, 71-96, 2018
What Lies Beneath? A Sub-National Look at Okuns Law
with Nathalie Gonzalez Prieto and Prakash Loungani
Open Economies Review, September 2018, Volume 29, Issue 4, pp 835–852, 2017
We find that Okun's Law holds quite well for most U.S. states but the Okun coefficient—the responsiveness of unemployment to output—varies substantially across states. We are able to explain a significant part of this cross-state heterogeneity on the basis of the state's industrial structure. Our results have implications for the design of state and federal policies and may also be able to explain why Okun's Law at the national level has remained quite stable over time despite an enormous shift in the structure of the U.S. economy from manufacturing to services.
Quantifying the Mean Time to Recession
with vasilly krivstov and CEENA MODARES
How to model time to the next recession and early warning risks that accelerate the arrival of an economic recession? This paper provides a novel approach based on reliability theory to model the economic resilience function and the mean time to recession. A recession year is treated as an economic failure providing the inter-arrival time between recessions. In this approach, time is the main agent of failure. We show robustness of our estimates using annual, quarterly, and monthly statistics for the US economy from 1960-2016. We then use the proportional hazard model to incorporate shocks in short-term structure of treasury yields. We, additionally, propose an Alternating Generalized Renewal process that accommodates the dynamics of business cycle fluctuations and downtime for recession and recovery. Our results document prediction capabilities for the Great Recession and provide forecasts for the expected time to arrival for future recessions.
The Influence of Radiation on the Lifetime of Strain-Wave Gearing
with Chris Carlsen
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK 2015
Harmonic Drives are used ubiquitously in aerospace and robotics due to its high torque capacity, size and reduction ratio. However, their use in high radiation environments is still prone to failure. The literature on component and system reliability of space equipment is silent on the radiation induced failure of such gearboxes. This paper documents a new channel of radiation induced failure of harmonic drives which is relatively unexplored method of failure. We use the Master Curve Approach to calibrate the shift in upper shelf energy of the various material elements used in production of harmonic drive gearboxes. Estimations are made on the changes in fracture toughness based on various radiation environments. Radiation hardening could make
the gearboxes more resilient to neutron embrittlement of the SUS 304L Stainless Steel in flexspline. Our model shows that the gearbox system could wear out before its mission life in fast neutron radiation, where particle energies are in excess of 1 MeV. This type of radiation is fairly rare in large fluxes; while it does have a high enough flux in space to cause issues for humans, it is not high enough to appreciably impact steels. One of the few environments of interest for this effect is inside of nuclear reactors. Our study finds that without accounting for
neutron embrittlement, the predicted fatigue life of a harmonic drive can be off by nearly two orders of magnitude. From this model it was observed that when irradiated, the component strength of the harmonic drive will increase, while its fatigue life will decrease.
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Transforming Non-Renewable Resource Economies (NRE's)
(with Bill Battaile), International Monetary Fund Working Policy Paper 15/17, July
WORLD BANK LETS TALK DEVELOPMENT BLOG: IS DIVERSIFYING EXPORTS A PATH TOWARDS PEACE IN SYRIA?
Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Income Inequality in Vietnam
with Israel Osorio-Rodarte
This paper uses household survey data to estimate the distribution of income in Vietnam since 2002. The gini coefficient declined 2 percentage points (p.p.) from its peak in 2008 ending at 0.35 in 2012; however, national gini masks disparities within a nation. We investigate the impact of spatial adjustments to income inequality in Vietnam between 2002-2012. The analysis finds that inequality increased in rural areas while declined in urban areas. The episode of inclusive growth from 2004-06 was followed by periods of regressive growth incidences after the financial crisis. The pattern of inequality over time signals a shift from rich to poor regions. Convergence between region's average incomes and divergence within-region per capita income reflects relative higher gains for the rich. The poor locations are less resilient in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
Make in India: Which Exports Will Drive the Next Wave of Growth?
with Rahul Anand and Kalpana Kochhar,
IMF Working Paper No. 15/119 May, 2015
WORLD BANK END POVERTY IN SOUTH ASIA BLOG
iMF DIRECT BLOG
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM BLOG BLOOMBERG | Back-Office Blues Hit India as Service Exports Start to Slow
How to Avoid Middle Income Traps? Evidence from Malaysia
with Aaron Flaaen and Ejaz Ghani,
World Bank PRE Working Paper No. 6427, 2013
WORLD BANK LETS TALK DEVELOPMENT BLOG
VOXEU BLOG
Inclusive Growth: Measurement and Determinants
with Rahul Anand and Shanaka J. Peiris, International Monetary Fund, Working Paper No. 135, March 2013.
Structural Transformation and the Sophistication of Production
with Rahul Anand and Nikola Spatafora, Research Department, International Monetary Fund Working Paper WP/12/59, February 2012.
THE ECONOMIST | TRADING UP
Service Export Sophistication and Europe's New Growth Model
with Susanna Lundstrom-Gable, Office of the Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 5793, September 2011.
Technology has changed the nature of service activities and made them more productive, tradable and fragmented in the global supply chain. Has Europe's growth been benefiting from the ongoing globalization of services? Services dominate growth in EU-15 countries and, to a lesser extent, in New Member States (NMS) and Accession (ACC) countries. Except in the ACC region, Europe has maintained specialization in service exports. Service productivity, tradability, and exports of modern services are high in EU-15, growing fast in NMS while at a lower pace in ACC. Service export sophistication is important for growth across the region, but especially in NMS.
Service Export Sophistication and Economic Growth
with Rahul Anand and Susanna Lundstrom, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 5606, 2011.
OTHER JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
The Future Wealth of Nations: World Trade in Services
with Prakash Loungani, chris PApageorgiou, AND ke wang, IMF Research Bulletin, Volume 18, No. 1, 2017
The ability to trade services has increased significantly thanks to technology: service exports now account for almost a quarter of total exports. Service exports have also come to play a central role in global production networks and value chains. A new dataset and toolkit document these important trends in the future wealth of nations. The rise in services exports is not confined to advanced economies; services exports have grown ten-fold since 1990. Services may thus be a game-changer, offering an opportunity to sustain globalization.
Does Growth Create Jobs in the G-20 economies?
with Prakash Loungani
OCP POLICY BRIEF, 2015
There is a striking variation among the G-20 countries in the extent to which employment and unemployment respond to growth over the course of a year. In some countries (for example, Australia, Korea and South Africa), labor markets are quite responsive to overall economic conditions: when growth picks up, so does employment, and unemployment falls. In other countries (for example, Brazil, China, Turkey) the response is quite muted: measured employment and unemployment barely budge when growth picks up or slows down. These differences among countries have not changed much since the Great Recession. Thus, a pick-up in growth will result in more jobs, but the extent of job creation in the short run could vary significantly across countries.
Does Growth Create Jobs? Evidence from Advanced and Developing Economies
WITH Zidong An, Nathalie Gonzalez Prieto, Prakash Loungani
IMF RESEARCH BULLETIN, 2016
Global job creation remains sluggish, prompting calls for policy actions to raise economic growth. Will growth create jobs? Recent IMF research documents a striking variation among countries in the extent to which employment responds to GDP growth over the course of a year. In some countries, labor markets are quite responsive: when growth picks up, employment goes up and unemployment falls; in other countries the response is quite muted. Thus, a pick-up in growth— through aggregate demand stimulus for instance—will result in more jobs, but the extent of job creation in the short run could vary sharply across countries. Some structural measures can thus serve as useful complementary policies, as also discussed in IMF research.
with Prakash Loungani, Finance & Development, June, 2014
Services are gaining newfound respect as the basis of modern global trade. The good news is that the spread of the service sector—and of service exports—in developing economies has outstripped the oft-cited example of information technology growth in India. Think of the mobile revolution that has transformed financial services in many countries in Africa, the Nigerian film industry, game design in Cambodia, accounting services in Sri Lanka, and human resources–processing firms in Abu Dhabi.
Inclusive Growth Revisited: Measurement and Determinants
with Rahul Anand and Shanka J. Peiris
Economic Premise No. 122, PREM Network, World Bank, 2013
The call for inclusive growth has been unanimously broadcasted by policy makers across the world. The Arab Spring, the growing divide between Main Street and Wall Street in advanced economies, and the "three-speed" world economy have placed inclusive growth at the forefront of policy debates. However, efforts to measure and assess the determinants of inclusive growth have remained limited. What is inclusive growth? How can the micro and macro dimensions of inequality and growth be integrated to reflect both the pace and distribution of economic growth? What has driven inclusive growth in emerging markets?
Promoting Shared Prosperity in South Asia
with Ejaz Ghani and Lakshmi Iyer
Economic Premise No.110, PREM Network, World Bank, 2013.
The geography of poverty has changed. More than 70 percent of the world's poor live not in low-income countries, but in middle-income countries. In 2008, nearly 570 million people lived on less than US$1.25 a day in South Asia, compared to 385 million in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, nearly 70 percent of the poor people in South Asia live in the lagging regions. Improving the living standards of these regions is crucial to achieving the goal of shared prosperity. Economic growth is not sufficient to enable the lagging regions of South Asia to catch up with the leading regions, in terms of proportional reductions in poverty rates.
with Aaron Flaaen and Ejaz Ghani
Sophistication in Service Exports and Economic Growth
with Rahul Anand and Susanna Lundstrom, Economic Premise No. 55, PREM Network, World Bank, 2011
Services can now be stored and traded digitally, and they are not subject to many of the trade barriers that physical exports have to overcome. Services are no longer exclusively an input for trade in goods, but have become a "final export" for direct consumption. It is important to note that services not only have become more tradable, but also can be increasingly unbundled: a single service activity in the global supply chain can now be fragmented and done separately at different geographic locations. This has led to a new channel of growth—what we call "service exports sophistication."
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS AND technical and corporate papers
Golden Growth: Restoring the Lustre of the European Economic Model
Gill, Indermit S.; Raiser, Martin,
the world bank group, 2012
ASEAN Services integration
A join report by the asean secretariat and the world bank, 2015
Jobs and Growth: Analytical and Operational Considerations for the IMF
imf policy paper
IMF and Economist Intelligence Unit, June 2015
Sustaining the Expansion: Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Economic Outlook
IMF, Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Economic Outlook
Moving Up, Looking East: South Asia's Rebound After the Global Financial Crisis
with Dipak Dasgupta
The World Bank, Washington DC, 2010
The Poor Half Billion in South Asia
Oxford University Press and World Bank Press, 2010
The Service Revolution in South Asia
Is Decentralization Helping the Lagging Regions?
with Lakshmi Iyer and Ejaz Ghani
Oxford University Press & World Bank in The Poor Half Billion in South Asia, 2010
Are Lagging Regions Catching Up with Leading Regions?
How Sophisticated Are Sub-Saharan African Exports, and does it matter for Growth?
with Rahul Anand and Nikola Spatafora,
Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Economic Outlook (REO), World Economic and Financial Surveys, International Monetary Fund, October 2011
FINANCIAL TIMES | BEYOND BRICS |
AFRICA: A SOPHISTICATED PLAN TO BOOST GROWTH
International Trade in Services
Raw Data on World Trade in Services
The data is extracted from the International Monetary Fund's Balance of Payment 6 Manual
The codebook and manual for the raw services exports (Credit) can be obtained here
Access Raw Services Trade Data for all countries, 2005-15
The raw data for credit, debit, and net accounts for cross-country trade in services dataset can be obtained here
Please note this is based on the IMF Balance of Payments Manual 6
Documents and Paper
Please reference the IMF Balance of Payment Manual and International Trade in Services Manual for background details
IMF Paper World Trade in Services: Evidence from a New Dataset
Universal Matrix of World Trade
This is the Integrated World Trade Data combining goods exports data from the CEPI-BACI HS6 and service exports data from IMF BPM6 Classification
Access Data for Universal Proximity (Global)
The universal (goods + services) cross country data for proximity (based on Hidalgo and Hausmann 2009) can be found here
Note that data measures the closeness between pair of good-and-services
Access Universal matrix data for over 100 countries
The universal matrix database including goods and services can be accessed here
This database contains many of the key trade indicators from herfindahl index, product space, sophistication, complexity, fitness etc.
Reference to paper titled "Economic Complexity and the Globalization of Services" and "Integrating Services in the Economic Fitness Approach"
CEPI-BACI Data
IMF Balance of Payments
Automating High-Level Economic Thinking using Deep Learning | MEDIUM
Which exports can drive India's next wave of growth? |
Make in India: Which exports can drive the next wave of growth? |
World Bank Blogs
Can Service Exports Drive Growth? | World Bank Blogs
Inclusive Growth Revisited: Measurement and Evolution |
The poor half billion in South Asia: Is there hope for change? |
Is diversifying exports a path toward peace in Syria? |
Tuberculosis: A Pre-Historic Disease in Modern Times |
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Zhang Daqing (; * 23. Oktober 1969 nahe Kaifeng) ist ein chinesischer Amateurastronom aus der Provinz Henan.

Zhang ist Mitentdecker des nach ihm benannten periodischen Kometen 153P/Ikeya-Zhang und damit der erste chinesische Amateurastronom, nach dem ein Komet benannt worden ist. Zhang baut selbst Teleskope und hat den Kometen am 1. Februar 2002 an einem selbst gebauten Teleskop entdeckt.

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Astronom (21. Jahrhundert)
Chinese
Geboren 1969
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When we think of university life and our student years we typically envision an exciting new stage in our lives – free from the stiff regiment of school and able to take more responsibility over our own lives without parental oversight. Though nervous and unsure of what the next number of years will hold, a new student on their first day will likely be looking forward to meeting lots of new friends, getting involved with all of the clubs, societies and experiences that university has to offer and developing a deeper knowledge of the subjects they're most passionate about.
This is, however, little more than an idealistic dream considering the wellbeing crisis on our campuses. A recent study by NUS-USI reported 50% rise in deaths by suicide among students in England and Wales in the last ten years. Even where the result isn't as extreme, still we're witnessing a 50% increase in the demand for mental health services. This problem has continued to go untreated as funding is repeatedly slashed in the endless move to drive up profits, for example 14 of Britain's top universities showed trends of increasing demand for counselling services yet simultaneously decreasing funding for these services between 2006/7 and 2011/12.
There is little doubt that an individual's wellbeing is in many cases environmentally influenced and so in taking the university as the primary environment with which the student interacts, and thus asserting that the particular nature of this relationship has significant bearing on the student and their wellbeing, we can see this crisis not as some naturally occurring phenomenon but one that is produced through a series of policy decisions and that therefore may be solved through alternative policies.
In understanding the nature of the modern university, we can sort the influencing factors into three broad and interconnected categories: financial pressures, the pressure to excel academically and the breakdown of community.
Financial pressure is in of itself a significant factor in influencing wellbeing, with 39% of surveyed students citing it as a factor in their mental health1, in part due to direct consequences such as the accruement of debt and subsequent decades of reduced potential revenue. However, the costs associated with studying that are in addition to fees – such as rent, household bills, living, study materials, transport etc. – have much further reaching implications, for example in the requirement for the student to seek employment. This is not to say that there is anything wrong with a student having a part-time job alongside their studies, indeed this can be extremely beneficial to their overall development, but it is the necessity of work and to work increasingly long hours that should be of concern. This is due to it's impairment on academic performance - as the student is able to dedicate less time to studying, the additional stresses associated with balancing an increasing workload and, finally a breakdown in the community aspect of university. This latter point is in part due to the lack of time the student has to engage in extra-curricular activities such as clubs and societies based on their interests or simply socialising with their peers. Additionally, the cost of rent (in excess of £400 in many instances) has led to the, "attenuation of the residential idea of the university" as the number of students choosing to live with their parents more than doubled from 1988 to 2013 and nearly 8 in 10 of these citing financial concerns as their main reason for doing so.
The ideology of marketisation must be understood as being supported culturally. Students are encouraged to adopt the character of the self-made, self-sacrificing entrepreneur as their identities are recast in terms of their relation to the capitalist market. This is related to the pressure to excel academically and idolised as a means of being a free and self-reliant individual, but I counter that one is not free as long as one is financially indebted, forced to work outside of their choosing and unable to seek independent living. Additionally, one is not free if their identity has been reduced to a consumer or product and they suffer the accompanying pathologies. These pathologies include a twin sense of chronic anomie and egoism, whereby students feel increasingly disconnected from a university community which favours a crude individualism and competition. Durkheim attributed each of these pathologies – which are demonstrated practically through manifestations of poor mental health, such conditions as anxiety and depression - to the question of why the suicide rate rose in times of prosperity, ground-breaking in face of the conventional wisdom that the misery of poverty was responsible for people committing suicide.
Marketisation hasn't only affected students but staff as well who have faced both casualisation of their working practices and continual pressures to generate ever-greater wealth for their employer. This was seen most recently in the proposed changes to the superannuation scheme but is also reflected in a long-running instrumentalist trend that involves academics researching the areas of greatest profitability and which are most attractive to external investors, rather than necessarily the greatest social good – this is what is truly meant by a university meeting the needs of a capitalist market society.
Though this has been a very brief overview, we can see the university as a perfect microcosm for the ideological path that our society is on. Where we may view a university as an institution and a community with a social purpose – the personal development and emancipation of individuals through education and social relations – it has been transformed into little more than an alienating and pathological engine for wealth-production. Given the dialectical relationship between an individual and their sense of person-hood and well-being, we can conclude that an all-encompassing structural approach, a root and branch strategy, is required in order to adequately address the crisis in well-being among students. Our task is therefore to build a coalition that stretches across students and staff, unions and universities, charities and government with the goal of establishing an association in which the free development of all is the condition for the free development of each.


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Outcome of Tracheostomy Closure in Oral Cancer Surgery Patients
Objective: We investigated the outcome of tracheal fistula in patients with oral cancer who underwent tracheostomy at the time of initial surgery.
Study Design: retrospective study
Methods: We retrospectively investigated the outcome of tracheal fistula in 57 patients with oral cancer who underwent tracheostomy. The patients were classified into three groups, which were patients in whom the tracheal fistula closed spontaneously (Group A), patients in whom closure of the tracheal fistula did not occur spontaneously and surgical closure was required (Group B), and patients in whom closure of the tracheostomy could not be achieved (Group C). The following factors were examined for associations with failure of spontaneous closure: patient demographics, primary tumor site, T classification, N classification, stage classification, presence or absence of neck dissection, presence or absence of reconstructive surgery, presence or absence of postoperative (chemo)radiotherapy, presence or absence of postoperative aspiration pneumonia, and duration of tracheal cannula placement.
Results: Among the 57 subjects, Group A were 27 (47.4%), Group B were 23 (40.4%), and Group C were 7 (12.3%). In Group B, surgical closure with a hinge flap was performed in all 23 patients. We found that neck dissection and postoperative (chemo) radiotherapy were both factors that had an independent influence on whether closure of the tracheostomy could be achieved.
Conclusion: Although early removal of the tracheal cannula is advantageous for improving the QOL of the patient, long-term cannulation does not interfere with spontaneous closure. Accordingly, it is necessary to carefully consider the timing of decannulation.


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CannaRoyalty Announces Closing of $30 Million Private Placement
CannaRoyalty Corp.
/THIS NEWS RELEASE IS INTENDED FOR DISTRIBUTION IN CANADA ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES./
All financial figures in Canadian Dollars ($) unless otherwise noted.
OTTAWA, July 12, 2018 /CNW/ - CannaRoyalty Corp. (CSE: CRZ) (OTCQX: CNNRF) ("CannaRoyalty" or the "Company"), a leading North American cannabis products and brands company, is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously-announced, fully marketed private placement of unsecured convertible debentures for raising aggregate gross proceeds of C$32,980,000 (the "Offering"). The Offering was comprised of up 30,000 unsecured convertible debentures (the "Convertible Debentures") of the Company at a price of $1,000 per Convertible Debenture (the "Offering Price"). The Agents (as defined below) also partially exercised their option to arrange for purchases of additional Convertible Debentures (the "Over-Allotment Option"), raising an additional $2.98 million in gross proceeds. The proceeds from the Financing will be primarily used by the Company to expand its footprint across California, as well as general corporate and working capital purposes.
Canaccord Genuity Corp. acted as lead agent for a syndicate of investment dealers, including Altacorp Capital Inc., Beacon Securities Ltd., Cormark Securities Inc., Sprott Private Wealth LP, Infor Financial Inc., and Mackie Research Capital Corporation (collectively, the "Agents").
"We believe that California is the most attractive cannabis brands market in the world. The Offering will enable CannaRoyalty to further expand its footprint by building-out additional cross state distribution infrastructure and manufacturing capabilities, to better position us to meet the strong consumer demand we are seeing in the market," noted Marc Lustig, CEO of CannaRoyalty.
The Convertible Debentures and the common shares issuable upon conversion thereof will be subject to resale restrictions under applicable Canadian securities laws for a period of four months following the closing date. The Company intends to apply to list the Convertible Debentures on the Canadian Securities Exchange. Listing will be subject to satisfying all of the Canadian Securities Exchange's supplemental listing requirements and expiry of the four-month statutory hold period. A copy of the indenture governing the Convertible Debentures has been filed on the Company's SEDAR profile.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein, and these securities will not be offered or sold in any jurisdiction in which their offer or sale would be unlawful. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), or any state securities laws of the United States. Accordingly, these securities will not be offered or sold to persons within the United States unless an exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act and applicable state securities laws is available.
About CannaRoyalty
CannaRoyalty is a North American cannabis consumer product company currently focused on building a leading distribution business in California, the world's largest regulated cannabis market. By building a world-class logistics platform and supporting contract manufacturing assets, the Company intends to support the growth of new and established cannabis brands. The Company believes California, home to some of the world's most discerning consumers and a nexus of information and trends, will be the point of inception for the global cannabis brands of the future. CannaRoyalty has developed a diversified portfolio of assets within the cannabis sector, including research, infrastructure and intellectual property to support our existing brands, partner products and distribution networks. The Company's leadership and staff combines passion and a hands-on understanding of the cannabis industry, with proven financial and legal expertise. CannaRoyalty's shares trade on the Canadian Stock Exchange (CSE) under the symbol CRZ and in the US on the OTCQX under the symbol CNNRF.
Statements in this news release that are forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties concerning the specific factors disclosed here and elsewhere in CannaRoyalty's periodic filings with Canadian securities regulators. When used in this news release, words such as "will, could, plan, estimate, expect, intend, may, potential, believe, should," and similar expressions, are forward- looking statements.
Forward-looking statements may include, without limitation, statements relating to the execution of the Company's strategy, new opportunities, future growth, the intended listing of the Convertible Debentures on the Canadian Securities Exchange and other statements.
Although CannaRoyalty has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements, there can be other factors that cause results, performance or achievements not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended, including, but not limited to: dependence on obtaining regulatory approvals; investing in target companies or projects that are engaged in activities currently considered illegal under US federal law; changes in laws; limited operating history; reliance on management; requirements for additional financing; competition; hindering market growth and state adoption due to inconsistent public opinion and perception of the medical-use and adult-use marijuana industry and; regulatory or political change.
There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate or that management's expectations or estimates of future developments, circumstances or results will materialize. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, the results or events predicted in these forward-looking statements may differ materially from actual results or events.
Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this news release are made as of the date of this release. CannaRoyalty disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise such information, except as required by applicable law, and CannaRoyalty does not assume any liability for disclosure relating to any other company mentioned herein.
SOURCE CannaRoyalty Corp.
For further information: Marc Lustig, info@cannaroyalty.com, 1-844-556-5070, www.cannaroyalty.com; Jonathan Ross, CFA, LodeRock Advisors Inc., jon.ross@loderockadvisors.com, 416-283-0178


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Muju-gun (hangul 무주군, hanja  茂朱郡) är en landskommun (gun) i den sydkoreanska provinsen Norra Jeolla. Kommunen har  invånare (2020). Den administrativa huvudorten är Muju-eup.

Kommunen är indelad i en köping (eup) och fem socknar (myeon):
Anseong-myeon,
Bunam-myeon,
Jeoksang-myeon,
Muju-eup,
Mupung-myeon och
Seolcheon-myeon.

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My nephew needs a bone morrow transplant and I've decided the best way for me to help is to do a sponsored beard shave. I may also auction off the privilege of doing the dastardly deed to one lucky bidder, so look out for further information on that.
I failed to mention Archie's second portacath had to be surgically removed and re-implanted, as Archie's heart suddenly started to skip a beat, several times an hour. The tube into his heart was too deep, therefore causing interference with the frequency of the heartbeat. When Archie first described this feeling, I wasn't quite sure what he meant, nor could I visualise the feeling. Again, we find ourselves been rushed into Addenbrookes Hospital for surgery. Just when you think Archie has recovered from a life threating infection, your gripping tight once more on this never-ending rollercoaster.
The blood transfusions have destroyed his spleen, which has now been removed. He takes antibiotics daily to fight infection. Through having blood transfusions he's contracted several blood and bone marrow viruses, such as Parvovirus and HVV6, and several years later we are still fighting to remove these viruses through immune therapy on a frequent basis. It's working slowly.
We've discussed the risks in London, Archie has accepted the risks, not a decision I would like at 14 years of age. He's tired, he's had enough, he loses appetite frequently and gives up. He loses weight, he loses concentration through being physically and mentally exhausted. Archie doesn't want anymore Liver Biopsy's, Bone Marrow Aspiration's, Blood Transfusions and most of all he wants rid of the daily 10 hours of Iron Chelation Therapy to manage the iron overload from blood transfusions. He wants out!
Over recent months, he's started to build up a resistance to the blood transfusions themselves. I've always hoped this day would never come. Why? His life currently depends on blood transfusions, and we haven't brought him this far to give up, and so we'll keep going and we'll keep fighting until we can fight no more.
Having sat down and looked at the sums, it will cost approx. £8000 to fund travelling, parking, hotels, food, train journeys and much more. This is based over 6 months. Should the transplant take longer, then further costs will hit us hard.
During the transplant we are allowed a maximum of 3 carers, but only 1 carer is allowed to stay overnight. Any other carers will have to stay nearby in a hotel/B&B or travel back and forth on the train. We will be living out of a suitcase for 3-6 months.


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Standoff over venue threatens to derail Trump visit to Ireland; publicly embassy says 'no standoff'
Trump wants event at his golf course
By Matthew Hoye, CNN
Posted: 8:43 PM, May 17, 2019 Updated: 8:43 PM, May 17, 2019
A standoff is heating up between advance teams from the Irish and US governments over a potential presidential visit next month to the Emerald Isle.
President Donald Trump is expected to travel to Ireland for two nights during his visit to Great Britain and France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
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An Irish government source with knowledge of ongoing discussions told CNN that the White House is insisting the Irish prime minister, or taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, come to the President's golf course in Doonbeg to host a meeting between the two leaders.
According to the source, "The Irish government feel that protocol dictates that any event they host for President Trump should be at a venue of their choosing and certainly not at an hotel owned by Trump."
"It is a bit unseemly to demand that the taoiseach host President Trump at his hotel," the source said.
The source, who asked that his name not be used so he could speak freely, says Trump's chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, has been intimately involved in the discussions and has been insistent that Varadkar come to Doonbeg.
CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.
The Irish side has offered to host Trump for dinner at a nearby venue, the Dromoland Castle, which is where President George W. Bush met with then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in 2004, and to have Varadkar come to Trump's Doonbeg property for a breakfast.
"There was an attempt to compromise where the taoiseach would host a dinner for Mr. Trump at Dromoland and perhaps visit Doonbeg for breakfast as well," the source said.
Thus far, the source says, the White House has not accepted that offer and has threatened to have the President travel to one of his golf properties in Scotland instead.
"The standoff is ongoing with attempts to find a compromise," the source said, pointing out that standard diplomatic protocol dictates that "there is no trip officially until the White House make the final announcement."
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told Irish broadcaster RTE that there have been "ongoing conversations" between the Department of Foreign Affairs, the US embassy and the White House, but that he can't share any more information "until details are finalized and agreed and until they are announced by the US side, which is what protocol demands when a US president visits Ireland, I can't really give any more details."
Another Irish diplomatic source with knowledge of the planning says, "The visit is already very delicate politically for Varadkar, as President Trump is incredibly unpopular in Ireland."
"Leo is doing his best to minimize his exposure to Trump on this visit, but he is in a tricky position, as practically every American digital company's European headquarters are in Ireland," the source said, noting that corporations such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Apple all have headquarters there.
Siobhán Miley, press counsellor at the Irish Embassy in Washington, said the reports of a standoff are not true.
"Contrary to what you have reported, there is no standoff about the venue for a meeting between President Trump and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar," MIley said. "Having met him twice in the White House, the Taoiseach would welcome an opportunity to meet President Trump should he decide to visit Ireland while he is in Europe next month."
When asked about the possibility of a Trump visit, Varadkar told reporters recently, "The President of America is always welcome here. We respect the role no matter what we think of the person themselves."
The taoiseach also said protesters are more than welcome: Ireland "is a democracy, and peaceful protest is part of democracy and I would certainly never criticize anyone for taking part in a protest if they wish to express their views."
The two leaders last met in Washington in March, and Trump said then that "I will be coming at some point this year. I missed it last year, and I would have loved to have been there. It's a special place and I have a very warm spot for Doonbeg, I will tell you that. It is just a great place."
"It is really great to have the prime minister of Ireland with us," Trump said at the time, and the two were becoming "fast friends."
CNN's Nic Robertson in London and Peter Taggart In Ireland contributed to this report.
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The real truth about Amazon
As much as they talk about wanting to build revolutionary products, in most big tech companies, Apple, Google, Facebook or Amazon, evolution trumps revolution on most days.
Did you not see this coming?
History has a way of illuminating the future.
As much as they talk about wanting to build revolutionary products, evolution trumps revolution on most days in most big tech companies, Apple, Google, Facebook or Amazon.
Amazon has, at this point, defined their model so thoroughly that I find it fascinating how in awe everyone is when they announce a new healthcare initiative as if it makes no sense whatsoever.
Predicting how the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase healthcare initiative will take shape should be straightforward. Amazon has been laying out the breadcrumbs for years.
Amazon does everything with exact intent
Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase were very specifically chosen as partners.
Berkshire Hathaway owns a reinsurance business company called Gen Re; reinsurance is the money behind big insurance companies ( think insurance for insurance ). Any significant insurance initiative needs this kind of backing. Berkshire's deep pockets and experience in this area will be invaluable in navigating the health insurance mess or building a new insurance company from scratch.
As this initiative takes shape, it's going to get costly, very costly, so costly as to likely require outside investment and capital, just the thing JPMorgan Chase specializes in. However, having access to massive capital will provide the scalability required to address the complexity of fixing healthcare properly from day one.
Amazon is not a retail business
The full explanation of this would require its own post, but Amazon isn't a retailer. Their core business isn't to sell goods.
No, Amazon has bigger goals. They're in the 'we'd like a piece of every dollar spent business,' and they've positioned themselves perfectly for this.
They spend years building a platform to support a massive retail operation, using themselves as the first customer. They then open these platforms and allow 3rd parties access. This is how we get AWS and FBA ( fulfillment by Amazon ), systems that were paid for by Amazon and have now become massive revenue-generating entities on their own.
This setup is why healthcare makes so much sense and why we'll keep seeing Amazon enter industries that, on the surface, might not make sense, but in which Amazon can take all that they've built and continue customizing for new industries.
They make every decision based on long-term value
Amazon is playing the long game, and their incredible performance keeps Wall Street from complaining about it ( maybe their most impressive feat in this day and age ). They aren't focused on what drives revenue next quarter; they're focused on what will drive revenue for the next 20 years.
The size and scale of the Amazon platform, the sophistication of AWS, the immense amount of money they're extracting from users ( $1300/yr from Prime members and $800/yr from non-Prime members ), and the likely 30–50-year customer lifetime engagement, give Amazon unprecedented security in the future.
Amazon knows their system works. Their track record proves they can apply technology to older, inefficient industries and be successful, especially when it comes to massive amounts of data and the complexity of a broad user base.
If they can digitize a component or use data to disrupt, they will
Amazon didn't invent the concept of selling books; they disrupted the distribution of books by massively expanding selection and availability. They applied technology to the traditional business problems faced by brick and mortar bookstores and changed the game.
They took that same model, expanded it to general retail, using technology, scale and a better user experience to build the worlds largest online marketplace, then took the tech powering the whole thing, broke it down into components and used their size to price it aggressively for anyone to use ( AWS ) and effectively created the consumer cloud computing industry.
They're in the midst of using data and logistics to streamline the grocery business, and from the sounds of it, Government Procurement ( see — https://theintercept.com/2017/11/02/amazon-amendment-online-marketplaces/ ) is up next, rinse and repeat.
Healthcare in the US is a system so behind the times, so ripe for disruption; surprisingly, it took Amazon this long to get there.
So that's Amazon to this point. How do we extrapolate all that into what they'll do with healthcare?
Digitize personal data and health records
Digitizing health records has been a long-term goal of the healthcare industry. Still, competing platforms, a lack of standards and an inability to compromise have kept the efforts from taking off.
By establishing a data standard and using their weight to promote usage, Amazon will bring integrity to the data and keep it secure while making it accessible across the industry.
Better data for doctors means up-to-date and complete information about patients, making care more efficient, significantly reducing medical errors and ensure reliable prescribing.
Billing becomes streamlined, and the process becomes more convenient; interactions and communication take a step out of the dark ages.
Build a marketplace for healthcare providers, prescriptions, and medical supplies as part of and adjacent to Amazon.com ( where you're already familiar and where your credit card is on file )
This part of the plan seems the easiest to imagine; Amazon will become the default marketplace for goods on both sides of the industry.
Consumers / Patients will get their prescription meds directly from Amazon.com.
Healthcare practitioners purchase their medical supplies from Amazon.com.
It's also possible that Amazon will ensure that all fees passing between doctors and patients will also flow through the platform.
Cut out as many of the traditional distributors as they can to position themselves as the source
The Amazon model is to improve a process with technology, then move in and take over. Doing so in healthcare means affecting a handful of providers;
Pharmacies: the easiest to improve upon and replace
imagine a scenario where immediately upon being prescribed medication, the Amazon Healthcare system automates the process of receiving the prescription from the doctor, debiting your insurance plan and delivering the medication to your doorstep.
Insurance Companies: costly, but makes sense
you launch an Amazon insurance company to eliminate the inefficient legacy systems involved with finding insurance plans and making claims, major bottlenecks in the landscape. If you can do this as a break-even business, you change the game completely.
Healthcare providers: this is where it gets interesting
Could Amazon decide that doctors' offices or hospitals are too inefficient for their vision and need disrupting as well? Again, it's not far out of the range of imagination. But, again, the key thinking being that Amazon could run these not as profit centres but as break-even businesses that run efficiently and tie directly into the Amazon Healthcare platform across the entire business.
Start with Amazon's 200,000 employees and then rollout nationwide
Amazon is so often their own first and best customer, and it's so much easier to tell the people whose salaries you pay to play a role in testing out a new way to do things. It doesn't hurt that almost everyone is dissatisfied with the state of healthcare in this country as it is, would likely help with recruiting, a nice secondary effect.
Once you have the system working and you've eliminated the inevitable launch issues, roll the platform out to all Americans and / or American companies and the entire North American healthcare industry.
Take a cut of the $3.3 trillion spent on healthcare
In the press release announcing this venture, the companies said the initiative "would be free from profit-making incentives and constraints," which doesn't mean there isn't money to be made.
By cutting out the fat and the obscene costs of healthcare in America today and playing the middleman to all the purchasing in the industry ( consumer and provider ), there's little doubt if all this new setup will create massive revenue potential.
Could Amazon capture 2% of that $3.3 trillion ( 2016 spending ), or 5% more? We're immediately talking massive sums of money, right from launch.
Become the First company with a two trillion-dollar market cap ( I just threw this in for fun, it won't just be because of healthcare, but it's happening )
Toss up right now whether Apple beats them to it, but it's going to happen for both.
As a final thought, in thinking about today's announcement, as everyone jumped all over themselves to discuss how hard healthcare is and how entrenched the current players are, I kept coming back to this quote about how Apple wasn't going to disrupt the mobile phone industry;
"We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone … PC guys are not going to just figure this out," said then-Palm CEO Ed Colligan in 2006, after news that Apple was developing a phone. "They're not going to just walk in."
As it relates to healthcare, Amazon gets scale. They've mastered logistical complexity, understand payments, have an employee user base of a few hundred thousand people to work out the kinks with, and have an industry screaming for disruption.
You're damn right they're going to walk in and figure this out, if only in a way that gets Amazon a few points off the top.
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AI Does Not Fucking Exist
To this point, no one, not big tech, not academia, not even a secret evil genius has anything approaching a platform that fits even the most basic definition of AI.
How could we all be so wrong?
Our definition of computing needs re-thinking and fast
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Stratcom Lead Gen. John Hyten Named to 2017 Wash100 for Space & Cyber Initiative Leadership
Posted by Ramona Adams on February 10, 2017 in Wash100 | 176 Views
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Air Force Gen. John Hyten, head of U.S. Strategic Command, as an inductee into the 2017 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic's annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting arena.
Hyten took charge of Stratcom in November 2016 as the successor to Navy Adm. Cecil Haney, who retired from active duty service last month.
Stratcom's mission is to manage the U.S.' nuclear command-and-control functions with additional responsibilities over space operations; global strike; global missile defense; and global command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Hyten previously served as commander of Air Force Space Command, where he led the implementation of the Space Mission Force — an initiative that seeks to standardize the way space crews operate weapon systems and mitigate threats in contested environments.
"The Space Mission Force construct is really quite simple; we are revamping our crews to respond appropriately to threats in a dynamic environment," Hyten said in July 2016.
At AFSPC, Hyten highlighted efforts to deliver agile, integrated and resilient effects across space and cyberspace to meet strategic demands.
He said at the time all military operations rely on integrated space and cyberspace effects to achieve national objectives and information superiority.
In January, Hyten told a Stanford University audience the U.S. must work to deter conflict in space amid efforts from Russia and China to develop weapons for space deployment.
Executive Mosaic congratulates Gen. John Hyten and the Stratcom team for their selection to receive this award.
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Dale Allen Richardson Jr.: This Badge Means I'm an Attorney!
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A 28-year-old Plano man is going to federal prison for more than five years after falsely claiming to be a lawyer -- despite submitting a badge declaring him to be an "Officer of the Court" of the Cherokee Nation.
That's not good enough?
Well, it isn't when a clerk for the Cherokee Nation's Supreme Court testifies that a) they don't give out badges, and b) you were disbarred by the Nation for stealing the bar number of a guy with a similar name.
Richardson had been defending aliens in Dallas and had advertised himself as an immigration attorney, the U.S. Attorney's office here in Houston, which prosecuted the case, says.
"Richardson fabricated dozens of documents to portray himself as an attorney with an established law office, including judicial certificates of good standing, bar memberships, business cards and other advertisements, law firm stationery and client retainer agreements," prosecutors said.
He generally charged $2,500 in fees, and whatever the Cherokee word for "chutzpah" is, he has it.
"Evidence also showed that Richardson continued taking new paying clients until days before his trial in Laredo." prosecutors said. "While out on bond pending his trial, Richardson also relocated his office from Farmers Branch to a better location in Dallas across the street from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Removal and Deportation Office."
The judge formally found that "Richardson's conduct was an abuse of trust which substantially interfered with the administration of justice as well as an extensive and well-planned and executed fraud which duped vulnerable victims, interfering with their 'right to be legitimately represented.'"
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wandering expatriate from India or Pakistan.
All of this must be true because Bill Clinton says it is so.
was a wry comment. No way do I believe that. I was joking.
telling us times are so good.
good times just as long as I do what they tell me to do.
interest. These guys also sell bridges in Corpus Christi.
Western World. We call this scourge herd journalism.
were not going to give it back.
That was balderdash then. It is balderdash underlined now.
unanimously to give the kids their space rock. It was.
the city for something it didn't do.
Council Member Curtis Howard said it best and forcefully.
Member Jeppie Wilson said, "Amen."
And we are glad the Meteorite 7 has their space rock back.
meteorites and heard journalists rained on Monahans.
Verbatim remarks of Curtis Howard, Monahans City Council, on day council voted to return a meteorite to seven Monahans Children.
Arnold, International Meteorite Brokerage of Tulsa, Okla.
justice and the American way.' "
it looks like we will have to file a law suit (sic).
of the rock, and it will be worth it."
they would derive from the commercial sale of the meteorite.
actually taken by this City Council.
has been, nor is there now, a gag order in place by Mr.
I really didn't want too.
criticism of his work is intended."
or desires, are of no interest to me.


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"Lake of Dreams" is a 7 minute time-lapse video that captures the artistic and natural beauty of last year's Burning Man. Made by Roy Two Thousand.