Wedding Crashers features funny-men Owen Wilson (co-writer of Bottle Rocket and Rushmore) and Vince Vaughn (whatever) as two adorable, but directionless slackers who specialize in picking up women at weddings. Recruited to crash one last wedding before the season ends, both find women who are more than a fling and learn a valuable lesson about life. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are completely unleashed on what would be an average comedy, chewing up the scenery, the script and everything else in sight.
Through all my experience in the film distribution business (working at a videostore) I've learned to deal in genres. I love the over simplification and generalizations that occur, and the formulaic nature of Hollywood certainly lends itself to this form of description. Wedding Crashers is a comedy. But sometimes normal genre descriptions are not enough. For instance, there are a number of different kinds of comedy. There are comedies that aren't funny, yet don't seem to belong in the drama section, and there are light dramas with funny moments that are mistakenly categorized as comedies. There are mockumentaries, satires, children's humor, unintentionally funny movies, and more. Of this brand of more obsessive compulsive genrification, Wedding Crashers is a "fake slacker comedy" and a "gosh, aren't movies fun movie".
The fake slacker comedy: This is one of my favorite kinds of movies. Here characters purported to be ne'er do wells provide giggles through their hilarious hi-jinx, which, though colorful, do not technically represent "slackery" (Slackage? Slackhood? I like slackery) because they are clearly the result of hard work. Wedding Crashers falls victim to this phenomenon. Not only do Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson meticulously research the weddings they crash, but both men are so charismatic there is little reason that either of these characters actually needs to crash weddings to pick up women. This renders the actual slacking activity extraneous.
The gosh, aren't movies fun movie: One of the things people often say about Jackie Chan movies is that the outtakes are the best part. That is because of this phenomenon. You see, a movie doesn't actually have to be funny to make you laugh if the people making it look like they're having fun. This makes you WANT to laugh. If you want to, you will, whether it's actually funny or not. The idea that movies are fun to make is the last great Hollywood lie. Movies are excruciatingly difficult 14-18 hour a day affairs 6-7 days a week for several months straight. And yet people love to believe that their favorite Hollywood stars have a ball everyday at work. And it's in this aspect that Wedding Crashers excels. The genuine laughs are magnified by this effect.
Wedding Crashers falls into these categories, but make no mistake, it's very enjoyable. The twists all come where you expect them to, and it has the requisite scenes of Owen Wilson walking around heart-broken while sad music plays. But hey, you see comedies for the plots like you see mysteries for the jokes. Enjoy.
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Der Rußmamo (Drepanis funerea), auch als Schwarzer Mamo oder von den Hawaiiern als Oo-nuku-umu bezeichnet, ist ein ausgestorbener hawaiischer Kleidervogel.

Beschreibung
Der Rußmamo erreichte eine Länge von 20 cm. Das Gefieder war allgemein stumpf schwarz. Die Handschwingen hatten graue Außensäume. Schnabel und Beine waren schwarz. Der lange Schnabel war sichelförmig gebogen. Die obere Schnabelhälfte überragte die untere Schnabelhälfte. Der Schnabel des Männchens war länger als der des Weibchens.

Vorkommen und Lebensweise
Der Rußmamo war endemisch im Unterholz und in den mittleren Baumregionen der Regenwälder auf Molokaʻi. Er flog nie höher als drei Meter über dem Boden. Seine Nahrung bestand aus Nektar der hawaiischen Lobeliengewächse und Ohiʻa-Bäume. Er war ein neugieriger und zutraulicher Vogel. Über seine Brutbiologie ist kaum etwas bekannt, außer dass er seine Nester im Unterholz errichtete, wo der Boden weich und morastig war.

Aussterben
Bereits bei seiner Entdeckung im Jahre 1893 durch Robert Cyril Layton Perkins wurde der Rußmamo als sehr selten beschrieben. Im Juni 1907 sammelte der Ornithologe William Alanson Bryan die letzten drei Exemplare. Mögliche Gründe für sein Aussterben waren die Zerstörung der Unterholzvegetation durch Hirsche und Vieh sowie der Fraß von Eiern und Nestlingen durch eingeschleppte Mungos und Ratten.

Literatur
 James Greenway: Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World, Dover Publications Inc. New York, 1967, ISBN 0-486-21869-4
 Errol Fuller: Extinct Birds, 2000, ISBN 0-8160-1833-2.
 Tim Flannery, Peter Schouten: A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals. Atlantic Monthly Press. New York, 2001, ISBN 0871137976.
 David Day: The Doomsday Book of Animals. Ebury Press, London 1981, ISBN 0670279870.

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Polese, Mario. "Regional Economics in Canada". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 13 November 2020, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/regional-economics. Accessed 29 January 2022.
Polese, M. (2020). Regional Economics in Canada. In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/regional-economics
Polese, Mario. "Regional Economics in Canada." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published February 07, 2006; Last Edited November 13, 2020.
The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. "Regional Economics in Canada," by Mario Polese, Accessed January 29, 2022, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/regional-economics
Regional Economics in Canada
Article by Mario Polese
Updated by Peter Diekmeyer
Last Edited November 13, 2020
There are major economic differences among Canada's four main geographic regions — Ontario, Quebec, the West and Atlantic Canada — each affected by its own history of economic development, industrial location, urbanization, land use and migration.
Distribution of Economic Activity
Canada's economy has traditionally been understood in terms of its geography (see Regionalism). Since the arrival of the first colonists, development has been heavily influenced by each region's physical attributes. These include their access (or not) to waterways, natural resources, farmland, wild game, proximity to markets and availability of technology to exploit advantages or overcome challenges. In recent years, the economics profession has increasingly also recognized the importance of human capital. As such, a region's economic output is highly related with its population	and education levels.
Atlantic Provinces
The four Atlantic provinces (Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia) have produced below-average per-person (per capita) contributions to Canada's economy in recent decades. Together they accounted for $123 billion, or about 5.5 per cent, of Canada's gross domestic product	(GDP) in 2018. Although this was roughly the same percentage as 20 years ago, the make-up of that number has changed dramatically.
Newfoundland and Labrador, once the weakest economic province in the Atlantic region, has benefited in recent years from the development of its coveted minerals, hydroelectric	capacity and offshore oil, and is now regarded as an above-average performer in terms of per-capita GDP output. Despite the devastating closure of the northern cod fishery in 1992 — the largest industrial layoff in Canadian history — fishing and fish processing remains a major economic activity in the Atlantic region (see Cod Moratorium of 1992). The port of Halifax, and to a lesser extent the ports of Saint John, New Brunswick, and St. John's, Newfoundland, are also important economic generators.
One of the region's biggest ongoing challenges is a lack of population growth and a rapidly aging population. (See also Economic History of Atlantic Canada.)
Quebec accounted for $441.4 billion, or about 20 per cent of Canada's GDP, in 2018. Quebec, which once held the coveted economic status Ontario now holds, declined in relative terms during the second half of the 20th century. Three developments played major roles in this trend. The first was the completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway	in the early 1950s, which enabled ships to bypass Montreal and thus drastically reduced its importance as a major port.
This was exacerbated by political instability (see October Crisis, Quebec Referendum 1980	and Quebec Referendum 1995) and French-only language legislation. Beginning in the 1960s, such political instability significantly reduced the incentive of international businesses to locate in the province. The faster pace of development in some other Canadian regions also influenced Quebec's relative decline. Despite these factors, Quebec's manufacturing	and agricultural sectors benefited heavily from free trade with the United States.
In the 21st century, Quebec has re-emerged as a destination for business, and it is home to a thriving tech industry. The province has also seen a major increase in its employment rate since the 1990s. This growth is due in part to Quebec's subsidized daycare program. Because of this policy, the gap between men and women in the workforce has narrowed in Quebec more than in any other province. Montreal remains Canada's second largest metropolis and its second business centre. (See also Economic History of Central Canada.)
Ontario, which has 39 per cent of Canada's population, remains its economic motor. In 2018, the province accounted for $859.1 billion or 38 per cent of Canada's GDP. Much of Canada's manufacturing sector — notably industries such as auto-making, food and beverage, fabricated metals and others — is concentrated in Ontario. (And within Ontario, manufacturing is largely concentrated in the south, between Windsor and Oshawa.) However, in recent years the province has increasingly shifted to a service economy. Service industries made up 76.8 per cent of Ontario's GDP in 2018, with manufacturing accounting for only 12.4 per cent.
Much of Ontario's success relates to its central geographic position in Canada, its proximity to the United States market and access to waterways, which ease the import of raw materials and the shipment of finished goods to other Canadian ports and international markets. Two Ontario cities — Ottawa, the nation's capital, with strong public sector employment, and Toronto, which has emerged as a global financial capital — have also been key motors to the province's development. (See also Economic History of Central Canada.)
The four Western provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta	and British Columbia) contributed $795.8 billion, or about 36 per cent of the country's GDP in 2018. The West has seen the fastest growth of all Canadian regions. Much of the development has been resource-based. Heavy investment in Alberta's oil sands has significantly boosted employment in the province, particularly in the Fort McMurray region and has added billions of dollars in revenues to provincial government coffers. Saskatchewan has been a big beneficiary of excellent farmland and the development of its uranium, potash, shale oil and other resources, which are among the most attractive in the world. A heavy reliance on commodity prices, however, makes these provinces highly vulnerable to depressed world prices for oil and other raw resources.
British Columbia, also rich in natural resources, continues to profit from an exceptionally strong real estate sector. Vancouver	is a major Pacific shipping hub, and it and Calgary are important corporate and financial centres. (See also Economic History of Western Canada.)
Northern Canada
Canada's North is an economic region in its own right. Yukon, Northwest Territories	and Nunavut are often overlooked in traditional economic analysis due their low population density and political clout. However, the North — already an important mining region — is expected to rise in importance in the coming decades due to the melting of the polar ice caps, which is expected to one day free up a Northwest Passage for international shipping, and also open access to impressive suspected mineral and petroleum wealth.
Regional Income Disparities
The continuing disparity between Atlantic Canada and the more affluent parts of the nation such as Ontario	and parts of the West, and the disparity within regions — for example, between Northern and Southern Ontario, or rural and urban Saskatchewan — are Canada's principal regional economic problems.
During the 1980s, personal income per inhabitant (measured as GDP per capita) in the four Atlantic provinces ranged between around 60 per cent of the national average in Prince Edward Island, to about 75 per cent of the national average in Nova Scotia. By 2016, per capita income levels in Atlantic Canada had risen to between 75 and 81 per cent of the national average, except in Newfoundland and Labrador, which surpassed the national average.
Per capita income in Quebec has also remained systematically below the national average, although at levels less extreme than for Atlantic Canada. In the 1980s, per capita income in Quebec hovered at about 90 per cent of the national average. By 2016, that figure had dropped slightly to 85 per cent. The Quebec economy has been subject to conflicting forces. The dramatic decline in birthrates (since the 1960s), the growth of women in the labour force, of educational standards, and the emergence of a new francophone business class have all worked to raise incomes. On the other hand, the long threat of separation from Canada has had an economic cost, reflected in the out-migration of much of the old anglophone business elite	in the 1970s and 1980s, and the decline of Montreal as a business centre.
Ontario's per capita income has traditionally been higher than the national average and reached 114 per cent in the late 1980s. That slipped to 101 per cent in 2016, as the province's manufacturing base, particularly the auto industry, began to slow down and hollow out (see Recession of 2008–09 in Canada).
Income disparities between the Prairie provinces and the rest of Canada are reflected in severe fluctuations in per capita income, the result of dependence upon primary production ( wheat, oil, natural gas, potash) and levels of demand, which are often determined by uncontrollable natural and international factors. Saskatchewan's per capita income has fluctuated erratically, from 59 per cent of the national average in 1941, to 87 per cent in 1951. In 2016, it was 117 per cent of the national average. Manitoba's was 92 per cent in 2016. In recent decades, Alberta has registered the highest per capita incomes in Canada. In 2016, it was 132 per cent of the national average.
British Columbia's per capita income has in recent decades been close to the national average. It was 99 per cent in 2016.
Impact of Oil and Gas
The income generated in an economically richer region or province (typically known as a "have" province) may flow to a poorer ("have-not") region or province in the form of federal government transfer payments, such as equalization payments or unemployment benefits, or in interest, dividends and profits accruing to investors outside the region (see Intergovernmental Finance).
High revenues in petroleum-producing provinces have created significant wealth disparities with non-petroleum producing provinces. The surge of oil revenues in Alberta	in the 1970s upset the traditional regional balance in which Ontario was the senior "have" province and chief contributor to federal transfer schemes. In the 21st century, Alberta remains Canada's leading producer of oil and gas, however British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador, and to a lesser extent Nova Scotia, also earn revenue from petroleum extraction.
The global price of oil, like all natural resource commodities, can fluctuate wildly, and this caused severe slumps in the 1980s, and in 2014 and 2015 — deeply affecting revenues in petro-provinces, but not others. Severe swings of economic gain, and pain, spread unequally across regions, are the by-products of Canada's petro-economy (see Regional Recessions in Canada).
Causes of Regional Income Disparity
Labour and Wages
Differences in per capita income between regions may exist at any time because of variations in employment, wage rates, investment income or income from government transfer schemes. In Canada, where about 70 per cent of personal income is derived from wages and from other labour income, employment and wage rates are by far the most important factors.
The uneven distribution of jobs (compared to population) in Canada is measured by variations in the proportion of the local population of working age (15–64 years); the percentage of that population in the labour force; and the unemployment rate. The proportion of the population of working age has traditionally been lower in Atlantic Canada than elsewhere, partly as a result of emigration. Labour-force participation rates have also remained low while unemployment rates have remained high in Atlantic Canada.
Regional differences in wage rates may result from differences in labour productivity and in industrial structure. The traditionally high level of per capita income in BC largely reflects high wages. However, because of influences such as unionization, labour mobility, social legislation and the weight of public service employment, a national trend towards wage equalization exists. Wage rates in Quebec and Ontario, for instance, were roughly equivalent during the 1990s.
Geographic Advantages
Regional disparities in employment and wages can be partly attributed to comparative advantages of location. The first areas to develop, because of natural or historical advantages, will often continue growing as markets, institutions and infrastructures are created. The St. Lawrence River valley was first developed because of its unique transportation advantage and agricultural potential. By building canals, roads and other infrastructure, settlers enhanced this initial natural advantage. Before Confederation, the combined population of Quebec and Ontario were already considerably larger than that of the Maritimes.
Canada's internal market is small by world standards; one plant or office often serves the entire country. The centre of that market is situated in Southern Ontario and southwestern Quebec. Industries in the Maritimes and the Prairie Provinces are poorly located for serving the Canadian market. Modern industry and offices often require services, skills and infrastructure only found in large cities. Atlantic Canada possesses no major urban metropolis. Halifax	is a small city by world standards. In the Prairies, the lack of waterways confounds the difficulty of reaching major markets and constitutes a special handicap to industrial development (see Industry in Canada).
Foreign Economic Links
The rise of the United States as Canada's chief trading partner and source of foreign investment since the Second World War	has benefited some regions more than others. Southern Ontario benefits not only from its access to the Great Lakes but also by its proximity to the major industrial zones of the American Midwest, of which it has in many ways become an extension — the development of an automobile industry in Windsor, across the river from Detroit, is an obvious example. American investment is heavily concentrated in Ontario, and Toronto is the centre for most US-controlled head offices. The integration of Canada into the North American economy has contributed to the isolation of Atlantic Canada, whose economy traditionally had strong links with Britain. In more recent decades the growth of the Pacific Rim economies (Japan, China, California) has benefited British Columbia and, to some extent, Alberta.
The human element is the most elusive in regional development. Migration, for example, has a decisive impact on the quality of human resources in a region. Low-income regions in Canada are often locked into a cycle of decline because the most dynamic and educated people of working age emigrate.
The resources of British Columbia and Alberta help account for their growth. BC's high wages and productivity are the result partially of its forest resources, but also of its advantageous location and skilled labour force, and Vancouver's role as an emerging metropolis. The Atlantic Provinces are held back not only by the lack of competitive, low-cost, natural resources, but by disadvantages of location and a history of emigration. Natural resource exploitation alone — despite its shorter-term benefits — rarely constitutes a sufficient basis for long-term, sustained economic growth. In Canada, as in other developed nations, it is today the location of manufacturing	and of service industries that largely determines the emergence and persistence of regional income disparities.
Regional Economic Policies
Since Confederation, Canadian economic policy has been influenced by regional considerations. National policies have important repercussions at the regional level, intentional and unintentional, often creating tensions between the provinces and the federal government	(see Federal-Provincial Relations) and among provinces.
Historically, Canada's protective tariff structure, a legacy of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald's National Policy, designed to encourage Canadian industrialization, primarily benefited the manufacturing areas of Quebec and Ontario, providing them with a captive domestic market. Canada's tariff policies were historically a source of grievance in Atlantic Canada and the West, where consumers felt they were subsidizing the protected industries of Central Canada, stifling the development of their own regions. However, with the signing of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement in 1989 and the North American Free Trade Agreement	in 1993, combined with the tariff-reducing effects of GATT negotiations during the 1980s and 1990s, Canada's tariff structure ceased to be a major regional issue (see Free Trade).
Transport Subsidies
The Maritime Freight Act (1927) provided for subsidies to reduce freight rates for rail shipments moving from points east of Lévis, Quebec, to the rest of Canada. The subsidy was subsequently raised and extended to commercial trucking. Freight rates on grain shipments out of the Prairies were kept artificially low from the turn of the century by the Crow's Nest Pass Agreement. Prairie wheat farmers are assisted in the transport and marketing of their output by multiple subsidy schemes and by the Winnipeg-based Canadian Wheat Board. However, since the 1980s the federal government has phased out most transport subsidies.
The regional impacts of federal energy policy have often been a source of controversy. Before the 1972–74 oil crisis, energy policy favoured the oil-producing provinces because of the so-called Borden Line (1961), which divided Canada into two oil-marketing zones at the Ontario/Quebec border. West of the line no imported oil could be refined or sold; foreign oil and its by-products were limited to the market east of it. The then more expensive western oil was ensured a captive market, including Ontario. But the expansion of the Montreal- and Atlantic-based oil-refining and petrochemical industry	was hampered by artificial limitation of its market at the Quebec and Ontario borders. From 1973 until the mid-1980s, the National Energy Program tended to favour oil-consuming provinces by keeping internal oil prices below international levels and by redistributing a significant portion of western oil royalties. Late in 1984, the government of Prime Minister	Brian Mulroney allowed domestic oil prices to match world prices. Domestic oil prices have since joined world levels. (See also Oil and Gas Policy in Canada, 1947–80.)
Transfers and Regional Development
Canada's comparatively generous system of transfer payment programs, comprising transfers both to other governments and to individuals (unemployment benefits, family allowances, pensions), typically accounts for about half the federal budget. Transfer payments reduce regional income disparity.
Specific federal regional development programs (RDPs) targeted at low-income regions have existed since the 1960s, initially aimed at depressed rural regions but broadened since. The federal government operates the following agencies and offices: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario, Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Western Economic Diversification Canada. These agencies are active in promoting industry via varying financial-support measures for local firms and entrepreneurs, as well as inheriting many of the programs of former federal departments.
RDPs encompass a broad range of policies, including grants, special depreciation allowances and loans to encourage the location of firms in designated areas. Federal departments and agencies have also entered into general development agreements with the provinces, which can include infrastructure programs, mineral exploration, industrial restructuring incentives, rural development schemes, etc. The impact of RDPs has been most clearly felt in smaller regions, especially in the more depressed zones of Atlantic Canada. However, the general consensus among economists is that area-directed RDPs, such as those practised during the 1970s and 1980s, have not profoundly altered the pattern of regional development in Canada.
Other Disparities
Problems and policies similar to those on a regional or national level may be found within regions and within almost every province. Within Ontario, disparities in per capita income and employment levels between the industrialized south and the less developed north are often as substantial as they are between provinces or regions. In Quebec, per capita income and employment levels in the Gaspé region have systematically remained below those of the greater Montreal region. In Nova Scotia, Halifax is fairly prosperous while Cape Breton is economically depressed.
In most provinces, but perhaps most significantly in the West, a visible economic divide also exists between many Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians. The question of local economic development for Indigenous communities has emerged as a major issue in many provinces (see Economic Conditions of Indigenous Peoples in Canada). Most provinces have developed their own regional policies and objectives, often independently of the federal government.
W.J. Coffey and Mario Polèse, Still Living Together: Recent Trends and Future Directions in Canadian Regional Development (1987); F.J. Anderson, Regional Economic Analysis: A Canadian Perspective (1988); Donald Savoie, Regional Economic Development: Canada's Search for Solutions (1992).
Western Economic Diversification Canada
Atlantic Canada Opportunity AgencyThe official home page of the Atlantic Canada Opportunity Agency.
FedDev Ontario
The Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
Canadian Economic Development for Québec Regions
Economic Nationalism
Natural Resources in Canada
Industrialization in Canada

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Trekking routes across the Karst plateau of Dong Van Town, situated in northeast Ha Giang Province, have become increasingly popular since being recognized as part of the Global Network of National Geoparks (GGN) in 2010.
Dong Van-based Karst Plateau Travel offers amazing trekking routes between the rocky town, ethnic Mong villages in Ma Le and Thien Huong as well as up to the Ma Pi Leng mountain pass.
The 18km route from Ma Le to Thien Huong has become known as the valley of rocks due to its spectacular natural appearance.
As per schedule, tourists are taken to Ma Le Village, 5km from central Dong Van, via van before embarking on a full-day tour.
"The trip is amazing. The landscape and natural conditions across the 1,600m above sea level area has lured many travelers," said Karst Plateau travel agent Hoang Anh Tuan. "The wild routes offer the perfect conditions for memorable experiences such as barbecues," he said. Tuan added that tour groups are always accompanied by local Mong guides to avoid people getting lost.
Tourists are additionally provided with sticks and jungle-knives to help them make their way through dense undergrowth. Ta Lang Village, home to the hospitable Giay and Tay ethnic groups, is the first stop.
"Because tourists often can't speak their language, the hosts may refuse to welcome them into their homes. That's where we as guides come in handy," said local guide Li Thanh Hong.
"We always prepare lunch near the Nho Que river-bank while often buying either goat or chicken meat for barbeque parties in the jungle," Hong added.
"It's like a wild life lunch. Local guides often teach tourists how to catch fish by hand," said tour guide Luc Thi Thuy. She added that fish is mostly grilled alongside moss while chicken is coated with clay before being placed on the fire.
Vertical limit: The route is very tough and challenging, and the mountain pathways are almost vertical in places. Ban Mo Village is another favourite stop over for lunch with visitors seated on stone slabs in the middle of the Nho Que River in the dry season. The last and final trek of the day, running 7km uphill from the river-bank to the top of the Ma Pi Leng mountain pass, takes a challenging two hours.
"The route is very tough, but also very interesting. The mountain pathways are almost vertical," said Anh Tuan, who designed the route two years ago.
"When you reach the top, the river looks like a silk thread cutting through the deep valley."
The tour reaches its end on top of the Ma Pi Leng mountain pass from where tourists are taken back to Dong Van Town to while away the afternoon in exploration.
Karst Plateau also provides trekking tours via Tam Son Town in Quan Ba District as well as in the districts of Yen Minh and Meo Vac. Tourists always benefit from exploring the UNESCO recognised town as a member of the Global Network of National Geoparks.
The town's main market day falls on Sundays while it lights up with lanterns on Saturday nights. Dong Van Town is a definite must on the tourist radar due to its spectacular natural surroundings and its well preserved cultural and ethnic heritage.


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In The Public Sector Bank Crisis, Govt Needs To Do A Lot More Than Just Blame Bankers
The Times of India reported on Saturday that Jayant Sinha, the minister of state for finance, had indicated to public sector bank chiefs that they were wasting public funds. Sinha said this at an offsite for public sector bankers organised at Gurgaon.
The Economic Survey for 2015-2016 points out that between 2009 and September 30, 2015, the government had infused Rs 1.02 lakh crore of capital. It is this money that Sinha was perhaps referring to.
The government is the main owner of 27 public sector banks. If it has chosen to invest more than Rs 1 lakh crore in these banks over the last seven years, then as the owner of these banks, it has chosen to waste public money.
There is no point in trying to pass on the buck to the chiefs of public sector banks. Of course, it needs to be pointed out here that, the government in this case means both the Manmohan Singh government that governed until May 2014 and the Narendra Modi government which has been in power since then.
The current budget has made an allocation of Rs 25,000 crore for further capital infusion into these banks. As the finance minister Arun Jaitley said in the budget speech: "If additional capital is required by these Banks, we will find the resources for doing so. We stand solidly behind these Banks." This was Jaitley's way of saying that the government will do whatever it takes to keep these banks going.
This builds in a tremendous amount of moral hazard into the entire system. Economist Alan Blinder writing in After the Music Stopped says that the "central idea behind moral hazard is that people who are well insured against some risk are less likely to take pains (and incur costs) to avoid it."
Hence, if the government keeps infusing capital into public sector banks and keeps rescuing them when they are in trouble, there is no real incentive on part of public sector banks to run a responsible, viable and a profitable business. This is moral hazard at play. It is not surprising that as of the end of December 2015, the gross non-performing assets of listed public sector banks stood at Rs 3.9 lakh crore.
The government is keen to hold on to these banks. As the Economic Survey pointed out: "The return on assets for most banks is currently less than one third of the norm of 1 per cent that is considered reasonable. Many, though not all, of the less profitable banks are those with smaller levels of employment." Despite this, the government remains obsessed with the idea of owning 27 public sector banks.
There has been no effort made to sell out of these banks or even shut them down. The total employment in public sector banks currently stands at around 87,000 employees. Given this, shutting down some of the smaller banks which are in trouble, is not going to much of a difference, at least on the employment as well as the lending front. Further, no effort has been made to privatise them either.
The state that some of these banks are in right now, there is no way the government is going to get a decent valuation while selling them. Nevertheless, the chances of these banks being turned around by private management are higher than if they are continued to run as they currently are. In such a scenario the minority stake that the government will continue to hold in these banks will be worth much more than the current majority stake is. The point being that the government needs to stop looking at these banks as "family silver".
Also, by trying to run 27 public sector banks, the government has spread itself too thin. As Kaushik Basu, current chief economist of World Bank and former chief economic adviser to the ministry of finance, writes in An Economist in the Real World: "One mistake early Indian policymakers made was to try to micromanage the economy. While it is true that the government needs to attend to a range of policies, from shipping to the quality of education in villages to managing the nation's international economic relations, it is imperative to realize that it is not feasible for the government to attend all the varied and layered needs of society with equal diligence."
As Basu further adds: "An intelligent government recognizes that no matter what kind of society it aims to build, it is hopeless to try to deliver it all by itself." The point being it is a hopeless idea continuing to own and run 27 public sector banks. There are more important things that the government needs to be concentrating on.
The government's big plan to solve the mess in public sector banks is to get banks to merge. As the finance minister Jaitley said over the weekend: "The bankers' themselves have supported the proposal of consolidation of banks in order to have strong banks rather than having numerically large number of banks."
In the past mergers have happened when a bank has been in trouble. In this scenario, a weak bank has been merged with a strong bank. The New Bank of India was merged with the Punjab National Bank. The Global Trust Bank was merged with Oriental Bank of Commerce. The strong banks had to go through several years of pain to accommodate the weak banks.
The trouble now is that almost all public sector banks are in trouble, though of varying degrees. Hence, any merger would be effective if excess employees are fired, unviable branches shutdown and assets sold. Is the government willing to do this?
The way the Modi government has gone up until now, the answer is no. In this scenario the government will essentially end up merging two banks with small problems and end up creating one bank with a bigger problem. And that will mean basically postponing the problem, not solving it.
(Vivek Kaul is the author of the Easy Money trilogy. He tweets @kaul_vivek)
The column was originally published on Huffington Post India on March 7, 2016
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I'm very strong believer that whoever is meant to be in your life will always gravitate back towards you, regardless how far they wander.
No matter how old you both get, never stop holding hands, never stop dancing, and never stop saying I Love you.
How beautiful it is to find someone who asks nothing but your company.
Make your faith larger than your fears and your dreams bigger than your doubts.
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s before we had any government. It worked rather well and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government to protect liberty – not to run your personal life not to run the economy and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations League of Nations. But it was the conservatives Republicans that stood up against him.
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
When one gets in bed with government one must expect the diseases it spreads.
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues it has three choices: It can raise taxes print money or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians all three options are bad for average Americans.
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
When you read a piece of writing that you admire send a note of thanks to the author.
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government – from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration – could fill committee agendas for years.
I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.
When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.


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Home Bollywood 200 Crore Deal Is "Too Little": Vijay Deverakonda Busts A Rumour. Liger...
Liger To Release On OTT? 200 Crore Deal Is "Too Little": Vijay Deverakonda Busts A Rumour
Vijay Deverakonda and Ananya Panday, who has talked a lot about Liger heading to a digital release of Liger movie on OTT? Not so, says the Southern Star. Vijay Deverakonda recently discovered a speculative report about Liger's posting format and dismissed it in a tweet. The report stated that Liger creators are currently considering a ridiculous Rs 200 crore deal for a digital version and also for their satellite rights in all languages, hinting that Liger may debut on the OTT platform. Without saying much, Vijay Deverakonda explained things with these words: "Very little. I'll do more in theaters."
Read Vijay Deverakonda's tweet here:
Too little.
I'll do more in the theaters. pic.twitter.com/AOoRYwmFRw
— Vijay Deverakonda (@TheDeverakonda) June 21, 2021
In February, the creators of Liger revealed that the film will open in theaters worldwide on September 9. Ananya Panday, who co-starred with Vijay, Deverakunda in the film wrote: "It arrives at a theater near you on September 9, 2021! It is not yet known if the film's schedule has been delayed due to the second wave of the pandemic, as a release date has not been announced.
A post shared by Ananya 💛💫 (@ananyapanday)
Directed by Puri Jagannath, Liger will be produced by Karan Johar's Dharma Production, with Charmme Kaur. Liger's Hindi release Vijay Deverakonda debuts in Bollywood. Ananya Pandey will make her debut in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam cinema.
Speaking about Liger movie on OTT, Vijay Deverakonda had earlier told PTI that he had started shooting for his first Pan-India film with Puri Jagannath. This is a project that I had to go through a drastic physical transformation and I am working non-stop to pull the character out. I play the role of a fighter and for the role, I need to learn mixed martial arts."
Deverakonda Vijay Sai (born 9 May 1989) is an Indian actor and producer who works mainly in Telugu language films. He made his debut in 2011 with Ravi Babu's romantic comedy Nuvvila and was recognized for his supporting role in Yevade Subramanyam (2015). Deverakonda played the lead role in the 2016 romantic comedy Pelli Choopulu, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu and the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Telugu.
Deverakonda made his debut with the romantic comedy Nuvvila (2011) directed by Romi Babu. He later appeared in a small role in Sekhar Kammula's Life Is Beautiful. He was introduced to Nag Ashwin, who later cast him in a supporting role in the 2015 film Yevade Subramanyam with actor Nani. The film was produced by the daughters of Telugu film industry producer Ashwani Dutt; Priyanka Dutt accompanied him and as soon as the shooting started, Swapna Dutt signed him to her company.
He was the brand ambassador for the food delivery app Zomato. On February 11, 2020, Devarkonda launched its fashion brand Rowdy Wear on Mintra. Devarkonda says that whenever he did something, his family called him Rowdy, which they did not approve of. Over time, he began to use the term for himself and his fans.
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Q: SQL remove part of text in a column I´m trying to get rid of parts of text in a column.
It´s a table with 100.000´s rows and basically its Firstname; Lastname, where Lastname contain Firstname as well, in a lot of them but far from all.
Ex:

Firstname Lastname
Magnus    Johansson
Anders    Anders Jansson
Stefan    Stefan Andersson
Emma      Svensson
Annelie   Annelie Nilsson

I would like to clean it up to:

Firstname Lastname
Magnus    Johansson
Anders    Jansson
Stefan    Andersson
Emma      Svensson
Annelie   Nilsson

I have tried using SUBSTR and RIGHT with a few alterations, with no success
RIGHT(Lastname, LEN(Lastname) - LEN(Firstname)) as New_Lastname

RIGHT as well as SUBSTR and others I have looked at requires a fixed int value to determine what should be replaced/removed.
Anyone know how to proceed with a variable length on the text that need to be altered?

A: Try with REPLACE:
REPLACE (Lastname, Firstname + ' ', '')

If Firstname is contained in Lastname then it will simply be replaced by an empty string.
Note: You need to add an extra space to the string_pattern of REPLACE so as to avoid replacing any Firsname values that are part of Lastname, like in this case:
Firstname Lastname
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Mark      Markuson

As a final note, you might have to apply LTRIM to REPLACE, like:
LTRIM(REPLACE (Lastname, Firstname + ' ', ''))

so as to trim any leading spaces after replace has taken place.
Demo here

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If you want to take your enthusiasm for gambling over to the world wide web in that case in online gambling the legislation bills should be considered. Different countries currently have passed or even proposed a variety of regulations relating to online gambling and you ought to make sure that you abide by existing gambling laws so as to gamble happily ever after.
While most kinds of betting in land casinos as well as other types of gambling houses is legalised in many countries like the United States of America, on-line gambling is still looked at with great suspicion since several nations believe that unscrupulous people might use online gambling casinos as routes for illegal money laundering. Several nations also feel that they might lose just about all control over supervising betting websites and have therefore passed regulations that have either prohibited on-line gambling, put severe limitations over web-based gambling or even have deferred their judgments pending further information upon that matter.
While each and every country battles to seek out beneficial solutions which could enable them to generate large sums of income as taxes without acquiring the drawback associated with gambling addiction upon their shoulders, states inside those countries as well pass contradictory regulations which further compound the issue. Hence while one state might ban the actual sale of lotteries, some neighboring state might allow the sale of lotteries. Similarly, while some www.dp-link.com countries like Costa Rica as well as South Africa might permit online betting sites to carry out their businesses, other nations such as New Zealand, the UK, Mexico, etc currently have approved regulations that allow controlled betting even as most Islamic nations amongst a number of others have forbidden gambling in all forms.
If you love playing inside land-based casinos and also want to try out online casino gambling in order to enjoy different online games like online poker, craps, roulette, blackjack, and many others or even want to check out on-line sports betting then you might firstly require to check on gambling legislation bills which have been passed in your own country, and much more importantly your own state. Even though some states or provinces do not allow actively playing on online gambling websites, others allow you to play on a betting website which is not located in their geographical territory. You should thus examine all of the gambling laws pertaining to the game of your preference before you decide to register on any internet gambling web site, deposit money into your own account on that site, or even try to withdraw as well as transfer your own winnings into your local banking account. Since legislations keep on changing, you will additionally need to remain up-to-date with the most recent changes in your country as well as state in order to remain on the right side of the law.
Betting houses too try their level best to defend against betting legislations by either relocating their own casinos to offshore locations, on to water, or their web servers towards gambling-friendly nations in the event of on-line gambling. The US Government has used a number of acts including the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and The Federal Wire Act of 1961 in order to prohibit numerous types of betting while controlling others. The onus is definitely upon you as the player to study existing rules and legislations in your own country before you guide your mouse in the direction of any online gambling web site.
There is currently even now quite a lot of misunderstanding regarding gambling laws associated with online betting in most nations including the USA. If you are an passionate gambler who wishes to attempt enjoying online games or placing online wagers then you definitely should remain informed on the most recent happenings in regulations in connection with betting laws. In on line gambling regulation bills should certainly be considered so that both you and your money remain safe and sound simultaneously.


Continuing with their week of reveals, Valve announced yesterday that they would be releasing a variety of hardware in 2014, dubbing these new PC living room experiences as "Steam Machines". And yes, that is totally a Daft Punk song.
Valve describes Steam Machines as a "powerful new category of living room hardware," which will most certainly make use of the new operating system Valve announced on Monday, SteamOS. Valve is busy working out details with several manufacturers to produce a variety of different device for the living room, varying in power and design.
Valve also announced a "hardware beta" for the Steam Machines, with 300 high-powered versions being made available to those selected in the beta. These machines are all open and upgradable, Valve says, but there's no indication that all Steam Machines will follow this type of design principle.
Complete those and who knows, Valve could be sending you one of their top Steam Machines to test out before the end of the year, or early next year. As it stands, Steam Machines can be operated with a keyboard and mouse, but Valve has teased a controller announcement as their final one for the week, which should take place at 7pm Friday evening.
There's no specifications to talk about regarding the Machines, but it looks like Valve is going for the more customisable route with it's consoles, which is both good and bad. On the one hand, you'll have a fine tuned PC that was designed for use with a TV in your living room, as well as being customisable, but on the other it's still a PC, so those looking for a more hassle free PC will probably not be too impressed.
That said, if these Steam Machines are anything like Alienware's X51 PC/Console hybrids, then we have something really interesting to look forward to.


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A UTD student recently released his own album, "Girlfriends," online after a year and a half of development. Before putting this record together, the last time computer science junior Drew Cannedy played music was freshman year of high school. What brought him back was attending a Mac DeMarco performance. "I...
The Dirty Nil's new album doesn't disappoint
Band's newly-released "Higher Power" is group's first album despite decade-long tenure in music world The Dirty Nil / Higher Power Release Date: February 26th, 2016 Rating: 7.5/10 RiYL: PUP, FIDLAR, Single Mothers Canadian rock trio The Dirty Nil have finally brought their debut LP into the world after a decade...


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A: No método CarregaTela2() deverá criar um Intent para lançar a Activity Especialidades.
Aquilo que você está a fazer é apenas a mudar o layout que a MainActivity apresenta.
Altere o método assim:
public void CarregaTela2() {
    intent = new Intent(this, Especialidades.class);
    startActivity(intent);
}


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HomeSingle ReviewsSingle Review: Trisha Yearwood, "Prize Fighter" (with Kelly Clarkson)
Single Review: Trisha Yearwood, "Prize Fighter" (with Kelly Clarkson)
October 12, 2014 Kevin John Coyne Single Reviews 22
"Prize Fighter" (with Kelly Clarkson)
Written by Jessi Alexander, Sarah Buxton, and Ross Copperman
Yes, it's been more than seven years since Trisha Yearwood has released a proper single. Yes, it was worth the wait.
"Prize Fighter" is uplifting, inspirational, and powerful. It showcases Yearwood's still flawless voice, an instrument that is effective at every setting between whisper and shout, and is always properly calibrated to the material it delivers. It's a credit to Kelly Clarkson that she can even keep up with Yearwood, and her contributions to the track are complementary, if not entirely necessary.
As for the song, I'm pretty sure it's great. I say "pretty sure" only because it's Yearwood singing it. She's so good at what she does – so, so good – that she can make a good song sound great. Is this song more insightful in the end than similar go get 'em anthems because of Yearwood's legendary taste in material, or her legendary skills as an interpreter of material?
Would it sound less profound sung by Jo Dee Messina or Martina McBride? Certainly. But would Yearwood ever go near some of their mediocre anthem songs in the first place? Certainly not.
For me, "Prize Fighter" is holding up well after dozens of listens and still sounds great when put up against her best singles and tracks. As usual, Garth Fundis scales the production perfectly, and things get more intense without getting more loud. Maybe we can get Yearwood to head up A&R and Fundis to be an in-house producer, and they can show the new generation how it's supposed to be done.
Because even twenty-three years after she first came on the scene, she's still in a class all by herself. Prize fighter, indeed.
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It's certainly good to see and hear Trisha back after seven years away from the studio mic, busy as she had been with her TV cooking shows and cookbooks. Given that it has been as long as it has for Trisha, though, one wonders, even with this good pairing between her and Kelly, whether this song will even be given a fair hearing on country radio, given how much they're still attracted to the parisitical "bro country" movement.
But other things have happened to her in this time. She lost her mom to breast cancer back in 2011, which was of course a devastating family blow to her. And earlier this year, in an interview, she also mentioned how much of a blow it was to her professionally to have heard about her spiritual role model Linda Ronstadt losing her voice to Parkinson's (since she never made a secret out of wanting to do at least one song with Linda). She really wants back in, it seems to me; and hopefully, this song will get the kind of airplay I think it warrants, regardless of whether it sounds country or pop.
Cory DeStein
For being such a big Yearwood fan, I still don't own this song, therefore have only heard it once or twice. It's not been on the radio at all, they yanked any audio of the single off YouTube and I really have had no desire to deal with GhostTunes yet. Not sure why I am having such a lack of motivation.
The idea of being told to purchase a whole album filled mostly with songs I already own just for a few new ones did not sit well with me.
Markus Meyer
Here's the audio:
http://www.allaccess.com/country/cool-new-music
You need an account, but it's free.
Ditto to all that you said. We love Trisha Yearwood, but the whole writing CU staff has expressed these same frustrations to each other. Have you been reading our mail?:)
RE Cory's comment, here's mine from a few weeks ago on E145: "Am I correct in assuming that Trisha's longtime fans, who already have all of her hits, will not be able to buy only the new songs on GhostTunes or anywhere else? My wife, also a big Trisha fan, expressed her displeasure on Trisha's facebook.
On Hal Ketchum's new album, "I'm the Troubadour", he has new versions of 3 or 4 old songs of his but the album does include 11 new songs, all for $9.99.
I don't follow his career closely enough, but am I correct in assuming this is a 'Garth Brooks Move'?
Trisha has always put such pride and integrity in her work that's why this move puzzling to me. Even with "Songbook" A Collection of Hits" it wasn't just a hits package tossed together with her biggest songs. It had a flow and it was carefully laid out for a smooth and enjoyable listening experience. This looks like something just tossed together to try and attract some first time fans who may be discovering her at the shows.
Now with screwing fans over aside, GhostTunes is just a foolish marketing move on her teams part. She does not have the popularity at this point in her career to attract people to some brand new exclusive music application. Regardless of who she is married to. I am surprised that the woman who walked away from Garth Brooks management team in 1991 to stand out on her own with Ken Kragem is being dragged around by some coattails here 23 years and 12 million albums later. It's disappointing.
I think it's fair to blame Garth's influence here to a point, for sure, but even Garth is releasing a full album's worth of music and not just a greatest hits with some new songs. As much as I'd like to blame somebody else for what's happening here, I also think that she's got to be held responsible, as far as it seems that she's a strong woman who wouldn't do something that she didn't want to do. And as much as Garth is an egomaniac (and I say that with love, since I'm a pretty big fan of his), I don't get the impression that he leads her around and calls the shots in their life or in her career. I get the impression that he respects her talent and that she gets final say in her career choices. Of course, this is just me speculating and projecting.
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I think it's fair to blame Garth's influence here to a point, for sure, but even Garth is releasing a full album's worth of music and not just a greatest hits with some new songs. As much as I'd like to blame somebody else for what's happening here, I also think that she's got to be held responsible, as far as it seems that she's a strong woman who wouldn't do something that she didn't want to do.
Now that I think about it, even though I do still like "Prize Fighter", these are valid points, especially when it comes to the album of hers that will be coming out. I really am not wild about the idea of her putting out an album where only six of the songs, including the title track, are brand new, and everything else was all previously released. She's been one of the few mainstream country artists I'd listen to, but this is almost…God, how I hate to use this word…it's almost downright lazy of her to do this.
I agree Leeann, I don't feel anyone but her is making the decisions here, it's just disappointing the Garth-esque direction she is independently taking it in.
I maintain that the only thing that seems to be Garth's influence here is the Ghosttunes thing. That's annoying to me, but not nearly as annoying as the lac of a full album of new music after all this time.
I should say that I do like this song.
The reason she re-recorded her old hits is so she will now own those masters; it was part of her deal with signing to the Sony group. She did this so MCA can't repackage her old stuff and release it against her as they did with Jasper County, hurting her sales.
bll – Does her old label now own the masters of her original recordings of those songs? I don't see what would prevent bll from releasing their own hits sets or whatever.
I was thinking the same thing. Is it that they couldn't do it or that they likely wouldn't find it worthwhile to do it now that she's rerecorded some of her hits?
These aren't re-recordings, it is only digitally remastered versions.
I'm so confused about that. To me, they do sound like they're remastered versions of the original recordings, but more than one person has told me that they're rerecordings. If she doesn't own her own masters, how is she including them on this album though?
Via Twitter GhostTunes (blah) announced that they are just digitally remastered. The version of "How Do I Live" is the radio version rather than the Songbook version. Did she recently purchase her masters? I mean….she would have the money to do it
Glad you liked Trisha's song but was it necessary to bash Jo Dee and Martina in your review.
Martin Hyatt in NY
I'm late to this discussion, but this an amazing song. It's really terrific. And as always, Kevin, I love your reviews and writing. Thanks for the All Access link, Markus.
Please let this be a hit. It deserves to be. Just great. Country. Hip. Beautiful vocals. Empowering yet not cheesy. There is no reason why this should not be a huge hit. I can't imagine what justification radio people could give for not spinning this heavily.
BTW, the discussion about not wanting to buy an entire album for a song is understandable. While I agree with most of the comments here, I have to applaud any artists who try to navigate this new world of streaming and downloadable music. I think that the music industry is about to hit a real bottom financially. With Spotify and Rhapsody becoming the way we get music and with streaming overtaking downloads, I do not know how any artist or record company will survive. No wonder Lucinda Williams decided to put out an album on her own label this time around. Rosanne Cash has called streaming dressed-up payola. I just don't see how any artists are going to make money from streaming music. Rosanne Cash says that she was paid just over a hundred bucks for 600,000 spins for her music. Even if you multiply those spins by ten and have 6 million downloads, you end up with just over a thousand dollars for the artist. Here is a link to the article: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/06/26/rosanne-cash-music-licensing
And I must admit, I have not purchased an album or song in over five years. Instead, I listen via Rhapsody commercial free with my monthly account. It is an honest purchase in which I pay for a service that record companies have agreed to. I listen to so much music, and I wonder how my fourteen bucks a month can possibly ever account for the amount of music I am listening to. It can't.
I love having this jukebox in my pocket for four fourteen dollars. However, I do not see how this is a sustainable model. According to Billboard, streaming has overtaken downloads and will continue to do so.
Great job by Trisha singing the National Anthem at the opening of he World Series a few minutes ago.
I finally gave in and pre-ordered the album on GhostTunes. I have no idea what's up with these 'remastered' singles. I do not think the versions of "She's In Love with the Boy" and "How Do I Live" sound very good. I think they actually sound pretty cheap. The vocals are empty and the arrangement is almost karaoke sounding….I mean as karaoke as you can get with a voice like Trisha Yearwood's…..I am just not pleased with any of these recent happenings. But maybe I am just becoming a grumpy old muppet….
Haven't heard this song yet, but the review and comments have peaked my interest. Will have to take a listen.
I know some people have attitude about the album only having 6 new songs.
But Trisha doesn't just pick any song and the few she did pick are better than a 100 songs from any other artist. I Remember you is enough reason alone to own the whole thing. As for the re – records they are a nice new way to hear the old classics and to show new fans what she is all about.
You can now sample some of the new songs on ghost tunes !


This would entail a video server software like Resolume Arena to handle the content such as live cameras, laptop input, video files and to apply effects. it works in real time on many layers and you can pipe video around within the computer from app to app using a protocol called spout. Then you need a 3D engine to map those layers to a virtual model of the space you are going to project in/onto so they appear correctly in the cameras (which in turn go to the projectors) – a lot easier in a dome which intrinsically has no corners. Initially Unity 3D seemed like a good idea to do all the mapping for the realtime engine, but after what seemed like a month of a programming friend failing to get it to work (bad spout plugin mainly to blame – Unity is a gaming engine after all…) I decided to rebuild it in a proper VJ software – Touchdesigner which is essentialy a 3D engine made for realtime video work. It worked a treat and handled all the UV mappings beautifully and I can't wait to do more with it over the coming months.
I've been working at Shambala festival for coming up to ten years now and from running the visuals for the Gaia Nova dome back in the day and through to when it turned into the Kamikaze dance tent, I now always do the mainstage visuals – mixing the live cameras nightly and nursing the visuals for one of the days – usually Saturday. It is my fave UK festival because of it's size, friendliness and holistic attitude to qualitative fun and mutual respect. As a more sober individual in my forties than i was in my thirties I don't note any change in my enjoyment of Shambala from the early days to now. An experience I can't say carries across from your average pub.
Also, now the woodland area is open in the daytimes it made sense to bring in the 8bit lounge gamning sessions as an aside from all the visuals when it wasn't possible to project. With this in mind it was only fitting to bring a selection of UK chiptune musicians for the Friday night such as GrayCFGK, Sam Wray and George Lazenbleep. My partner in crime at 8bit lounge Tony Grainger (DJ Subcitizen) has a vast collection of other worldly electro so this was also a good mix to introduce into the Friday blipfest. And finally to round off the first night I had a chance encounter with none other than Tony Culverville who i befirended on a trip to Brazil in 2012 – four times DMC DJ winner and current champion of the world, Mr Switch!
Friday and Saturday sorted I decided to take it down a notch in terms of popular culture and turn to some more academically minded sounds on Sunday night, combining electro-acoustic, live-coding, live AV and modular disciplines, namely BEAST, Shelley Knotts & Holger Ballweg, Diarmo & L'Aubaine and Dave Headcleaner, respectively. Thrown in for good measure and to utilise the 280 slices of vinyl he had brought, Tony Grainger soundly rounded it off with some suitably shuffly techno.
p.s. our neighbours in the Mexican Cantina were awesome, they had essentials like water, brooms and frozen margueritas at 1.30am when we were setting up cheers Lynne!!!


Ebola In The Air: What Science Says About How The Virus Spreads : Goats and Soda Turns out, Ebola is transmitted through the air, but it's not very good at spreading through the airborne route. What in the heck does that mean? We dig into the science to clear up the kerfuffle.
Viruses can spread through the air in two ways: inside large droplets that fall quickly to the ground (red), or inside tiny droplets that float in the air (gray). In the first route, called droplet transmission, the virus can spread only about 3 to 6 feet from an infected person. In the second route, called airborne transmission, the virus can travel 30 feet or more.
Here's an Ebola puzzle for you: If the virus isn't airborne, why do doctors and nurses need to wear full protective suits, with face masks, while treating patients?
After we dug through studies and talked to scientists, the answer slowly emerged.
Ebola does spread through the air. But not through the airborne route.
Oh, goodness! No wonder there's been such a kerfuffle about how the virus is transmitted.
The story began quite innocently at Harvard University way back in the 1930s. William Wells was a hotshot engineer there at the time. He was figuring out a slew of important ideas about infectious disease, like the fact that UV light kills bacteria.
One day in 1933, Wells discovered that pathogens (he was studying bacteria) get trapped in tiny droplets of fluid — maybe some mucus when you sneeze or some saliva when you cough. The pathogens stay alive in the fluid and can move through the air inside these droplets.
Clearly this is one way infections spread. But Wells didn't stop there.
1. Droplet route: The pathogen falls to the ground in large droplets. The pathogen doesn't make it very far away from the source of the fluid, but if you intercept the drop's path, you could get infected.
2. Airborne route: The pathogen is lifted up into the air inside tiny droplets. The pathogen floats and can move long distances with air currents. If you inhale this mist, you could get infected.
Over the years, the first term didn't really stick with the media or general public. But the second one sure has. And what we've ended up with is one term that often gets used to describe both routes of transmission.
But, oh, how they are different!
Viruses that move through the droplet route usually travel only about 3 feet (and no more than 6 feet). They stay in the air for less than a second. So to catch these viruses, you have to be within 6 feet of a contagious person.
Ebola spreads through the droplet route. There's no doubt of that. A splash of Ebola-infected fluid to your face can be deadly.
Viruses that move through the second route — the airborne route — can travel more than 30 feet and can stay in the air for minutes, even hours, when the humidity and temperature are right.
That means you don't even have to see the person to catch a virus from him or her. An infected person could sneeze, walk out of the room and leave an infectious mist behind.
A few viruses, such as measles and chickenpox, spread this way (that's why they have such high R0s). What about Ebola?
In the lab, scientists can infect monkeys with Ebola virus through the airborne route. They essentially stick a monkey's head in a plastic tube and spray the animal's face with a mist infused with Ebola. If the humidity and temperature are right in the tube, the monkey can get Ebola.
But scientists haven't found evidence that Ebola spreads through the airborne route in real outbreaks, with real people.
Does that mean Ebola never catches a ride on tiny, floating droplets? No.
As Wells wrote nearly a century ago, "Failure to discover air-borne infection ... [doesn't] prove its absence."
But if Ebola does transmit through the airborne route, the process is highly inefficient and contributes only an infinitesimal amount to the virus's total spread.
Take the case of Patrick Sawyer. Back in July, the Liberian-American businessman boarded a plane from Monrovia to Lagos, Nigeria. He was clearly very sick — and very contagious — with Ebola. He even vomited while on the plane.
There were about 200 other passengers on the flight. None of them got infected.


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We've Made a Lot of Friends in Over 60 Years.
Many of our Guests have asked if there was a LaRosa's "wearable" they could wear to support their favorite family pizzeria and also give as gifts. So here's a set of three classic designs.
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Buddy LaRosa opened his first pizzeria in 1954. Today we use the same family recipes to make our pizza and other delicious Italian food. Join us in celebrating a delicious history, LaRosa's style.
The flavors you savor all started in Cincinnati, and this unique design honors LaRosa's as the original Cincinnati Original.
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20th Century Eurovision, Ireland, Eurovision Song Contest 1987, Winners
Sean Sherrard
Noel Kelehan
You Can Count On Me Take Him Home
Hold Me Now was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 performed and composed by Johnny Logan. It is classified as a typical power ballad, told from the point of view of a man whose lover is leaving him for someone else.
It was performed 20th following Denmark and preceding Yugoslavia. At the end of voting, it was declared the winner with 172 points and earning Johnny a place in the record book as the first person to win the contest twice. During the winner's reprise, he was so overcome with emotion that he could not sing the final notes of the song.
It was a tremendous success in Europe, hitting the top of the Irish charts, #2 in Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom, #3 in the Netherlands, #4 in Switzerland and #6 in Austria. Several successful follow-up singles followed. At the Congratulations gala in 2005, it was voted the #3 best Eurovision song of all time behind Waterloo and Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu.
In 2006, Logan re-recorded a chorus sample for Belgian rapper Kaye Styles' summer hit "Don't Cry", and in 2007 the song was also used in a McDonald's ad campaign in Ireland. Fans of Dublin's Bohemian football club adopted it as their anthem.
Don't, don't close your heart to how you feel
Dream, and don't be afraid the dream's not real
Close your eyes, pretend it's just the two of us again
Make believe this moment's here to stay
Touch, touch me the way you used to do
I know tonight could be all I'll have with you
From now on, you'll be with someone else instead of me
So tonight, let's fill this memory
For the last time
Don't cry, don't say a word
Just hold me now
And I will know though we're apart
We'll always be together
What do you say when words are not enough?
Time, time will be kind once we're apart
And your tears, tears will have no place in your heart
I wish I... I could say how much I'll miss you when you're gone
How my love for you will go on and on and
And try to understand that
I hope at last you've found
What you've been searching for
And though I won't be there anymore
(Hold me now)
(Don't cry) Don't say a word
Now my words are not enough
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Mitt liv •
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En lille melodi •
Hold Me Now •
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Eurovision Song Contest ~ 1987 Winner
Eurovision 1987 Ireland - Johnny Logan - Hold me now
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Universal Pictures presented the World Premiere of SAVAGES at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood recently This star-studded cast brought out tons of fans and press. Seen walking the carpet were the stars of the film, which included: Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, John Travolta, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Emile Hirsch, Demian Bichir, Sandra Echeverria, Jake McLaughlin, Joel David Moore, Leonard Roberts, Antonio Jaramillo, Amber Dixon, Jonathan Patrick Moore, Trevor Donovan, Screenwriter/Director Oliver Stone and Composer Adam Peters. Joining them were guests, which included: Shaun Robinson, Vik Sahay, Mary-Louise Parker, John Paul DeJoria, Stefanie Sherk, Yuna, Nikki Blonsky, Cameron Deane […]Read On »


Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS) set a framework for regional economic growth and are often a prerequisite for federal funding programs. Development Strategies was commissioned by St. Louis Economic Development Partnership ("Partnership") to lead a consulting team in the planning, facilitation, and development of the first ever joint CEDS for St Louis City and County.
Building upon its foundational analysis of key regional demographic and economic metrics as well as review of nearly 20 existing plans and studies, Development Strategies conducted a series of stakeholder sessions with representatives from regional economic development, community development, business, and governmental organizations to develop a framework of strategies, goals, and actions to be implemented over the 2017 to 2022 period that would aid most in assuring economic diversity, sustainable fiscal bases, and the development in human capital.
The CEDS was adopted by St. Louis City and County in December 2016, and with nearly 300 identified action items, the Partnership retained Development Strategies to create a tracking tool for monitoring progress, which included assigning specific projects to around 40 primary oversight organizations along with identification of support organizations, project status criteria, and phasing.


Chef/host David Jackson creates an impressive poulet jardin, which translates to chicken in the garden. It's eight tasty and well-presented recipes in one, most of them plant-based and colorful, and artfully arranged on a huge silver platter. David begins the show on location, shopping for a rainbow of vegetables at the Joshua Tree Certified Farmer's Market near his desert home. Then it's into the kitchen to prepare herb-roasted whole chicken, grilled zucchini and asparagus (green), roast cauliflower (winter white), sauteed red cabbage (blue/purple), roast butternut squash (orange/yellow), crumb crusted tomatoes (red) and glazed carrots (orange). Then he joins resident dietician Elizabeth Kelsey for a colorful 'Second Helpings' segment to discuss why naturally occurring blue/purple foods help prevent heart disease, why green/yellow veggies combat macular degeneration, why the Lycopene in red foods, like ripe tomatoes, is such a powerful anti-oxidant and why orange fruits and vegetables help moderate blood sugar and improve immune function. And once the apron is off, David wraps up the episode with another outdoor 'Earn What You Eat' message. This time it's some careful, age-appropriate rock climbing at Joshua Tree National Park, reminding viewers that we're never too old to explore and have fun while we keep fit and nimble... ish.


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MongoDB Atlas Update: M10 & More Cluster Availabilities on Azure
Try MongoDB Atlas on Azure
Dj Walker-Morgan
February 25, 2019 | Updated: June 26, 2020
#Atlas
There's now a wider range of Atlas instances on Azure. It's particularly good news for users looking for smaller but dedicated options as a dedicated M10 cluster on Azure now starts from as little as $78 per month.
There's more though. We've been completing our availability map and now M10, M80, and M200 sizes of MongoDB clusters are available in all regions. So you'll be able to have that best-value M10 where ever you want it. We've also been reconfiguring some of our most popular clusters. In particular, the M60 clusters now start with 64GB of memory, up by 8GB.
Now, you may think that this is a lot going on, and it is. That's because in the background and without any of our users noticing, we've moved everyone on Atlas on Azure over to the latest hardware. That's the beauty of running on an expertly managed service like Atlas; all the upgrades and maintenance take place automatically.
That upgrade did have one side effects; we're lowering the prices of Atlas instances on Azure. By how much you ask? Well, by as much as 32% - but it does vary by region. Here is an example of the pricing for clusters in Azure US East region:
If you want to find out what else is new in Atlas, check out our latest Atlas Mapped article. You can find out about our new maintenance timing controls and custom database roles too.
MongoDB World 2019 is open for registration
We're pleased to announce that we've opened the doors for registrations for 2019's MongoDB World event. This means you can get early bird pricing for tickets to the event that is the center of gravity for the MongoDB universe. Once you are registered you'll be set to spend June 17th to June 19th in New York City surrounded by the MongoDB community.
New Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor Debuts in MongoDB Compass
There's a reason why Compass is one of MongoDB's most-loved developer tools: because it provides an approachable and powerful visual user interface for interacting with data on MongoDB. As part of this, Compass's Aggregation Pipeline Builder abstracts away the finer points of MongoDB's Query API syntax and provides a guided experience for developing complex queries. But what about when you want less rather than more abstraction? That's where our new Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor comes in. Recently released on Compass, the Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor allows users to write free-form aggregations. While users could previously write and edit pipelines through a guided and structured builder organized by aggregation stage, a text-based builder can be preferable for some users. This new pipeline editor makes it easy for users to: See the entire pipeline without having to excessively scroll through the UI Stay "in the flow" when writing aggregations if they are already familiar with MongoDB's Query API syntax Copy and paste aggregations built elsewhere (like in MongoDB's VS Code Extension ) into Compass Use built-in syntax formatting to make pipeline text "pretty" before copying it over from Compass to other tools The Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor in Compass. Notice how toward the top right you can click on "stages" to move back to the traditional stage-based Aggregation Pipeline Builder. Ultimately, the addition of the Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor to Compass gives users more flexibility depending on how they want to build aggregations. For a more guided experience and to get result previews when adding each new stage, the existing Aggregation Pipeline Builder will work best for most users. But when writing free-form aggregations or copying and pasting aggregation text from other tools, the Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor may be preferable. It also previews the final pipeline output, rather than the stage-by-stage preview that exists today. Users will be able to access either both the traditional Aggregation Pipeline Builder and the new Pipeline Text Editor from directly within the Aggregations tab in Compass and can switch between the two views without losing their work. To get access to the new Aggregation Pipeline Text Editor, make sure to download the latest version of Compass here . And as always, we welcome your continued feedback on how to improve Compass. If you have ideas for how to improve your experience with Compass you can submit them on our UserVoice platform here . We'll have even more great features coming in Compass soon. Keep checking back on our blog for the latest news!


Home » Blog » Video » Should you Start A Second Youtube Channel?
Will My existing audience appreciate the new niche or ignore the new videos?
If you don't believe the audiences for all videos will be the same, it's probably a good idea to launch a new channel.
It's more work, yet it will be much more productive. If you are showing videos in a new niche to your existing audience, and they ignore them, it can hurt your video ranking on your channel that is doing well.


The Day of the Dead is an annual Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st where family and friends gather to remember loved ones that have died. However, you can celebrate it every day with a bottle of wine and this Day of the Dead Corkscrew. Even if you've never heard of the Day of the Dead, this corkscrew is simply a cool design that is sure to spark conversations. It would also make a great gift idea, especially for someone that likes Skulls.
Purchase the Day of the Dead Corkscrew for $22.95 from Neatoshop.com. It is also currently on sale at Amazon.com for just $21.99.


Sternberg belongs to the school which thinks tests like the GMAT and the GRE are woefully inadequate in predicting the quality of student enrolled in MBA programs. He believes that questions asked in these tests should be more targeted towards measuring practical intelligence and common sense.
Sternberg conducted an experiment with U. of Michigan business school, where applicants were required to ask answer questions in addition to the GMAT. An example of such a question: "You are a management consultant working for a newspaper that is struggling to gain new subscribers and is entering the world of electronic media. Materials provided: Memos pertaining to a potential union strike, summary of an evaluation of the web-based paper, and the newspaper's third quarter financial report." The evaluation of applicants was based on problem definition and the proposed solution.
In a paper he subsequently wrote, Sternberg reported that the above methodology was a better predictor of the quality of MBA admits than the traditional predictors: GMAT scores and undergraduate grades.


After returning on Tuesday, September 2 and then being released on Saturday, September 6, the San Francisco 49ers will be bringing back wide receiver Kassim Osgood -- again.
During the 2014 preseason, he only had 4 catches for 13 yards. However, he played a significant role on special teams for the 49ers. Osgood was an undrafted free agent in 2003 and debuted with the San Diego Chargers.
Earlier today, the 49ers released unhappy running back LaMichael James.
The player Harbaugh said they would sign -- Kassim Osgood. They still will need to add a running back.


Suits are not common at Taste of Chicago, the annual food fest in Grant Park that opened this week and runs through July 12.
As I walked from Monroe Street south to Congress Parkway this week, there were hordes of people wearing flip-flops, T-shirts and spaghetti-strap tees, eating pizza and drinking beer. The guy in the suit stuck out. The wearer? Joseph Liang-Fu Sun, director of the economic division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago. And he wasn't even eating.
Sun was manning a pop-up stand set up to showcase fancy products made in Taiwan, including folding bicycles, a GPS navigator for motorcycles, a portable photo printer and an adjustable air-seat cushion. The products were drawing a crowd on opening day for some of the tent's activities, including a drawing station on a tablet using the Mozbii stylus and a putting green to try out the Hono Golf putter.
Sun is originally from Taiwan, where he came to be a skilled karaoke singer in Taiwanese, Chinese and Japanese. He came to the Chicago trade office by way of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., where he also held trade positions.
The Taiwan Excellence Showcase, as the tent is called, isn't the only nonfood booth at the Taste. Southwest Airlines, Humana, Revlon and Sensodyne also have a presence. In past years, the Jamaica Tourist Board participated in the Taste of Chicago to promote that country as a vacation spot.