Does your jewelry collection contain more than a few variably dated heirlooms that might have been passed down by the women of your family from whom you descended? Have you stored them somewhere securely, although just out of eyesight enough to keep you content in just knowing that they're safely preserved? Are most of these pieces kept where you know that you'll be able to find them if you at some point come upon an occasion or ensemble necessitating their absolute belonging? You're not alone.
Brooches (aka fibulae,) have been big business for numerous preceding cultures and eras, dating back to the Paleolithic age, where the brooch was employed as a fastener to hold worn cloth together. The mechanism used for fastening has always been the defining element to classify the type of brooch, with those very first cave-dwelling fashionistas relying on thorns, and later flint and then bronze as brooch fasteners. We have the Byzantines to thank for adding bling to broaches, from their enameling techniques that added color and flair to these fasteners. Brooch artistry continued through the ages, with many growing in size, while others included jewels, and at certain times, it was fashionable for many smaller brooches to be all worn at one time.
While it's unlikely that any brooches numbered among your present collection date back before the 20th century, there is new inspiration for you as a brooch owner to get any you do have out of storage, to be dusted off and used as trending fashion embellishments for today's freshest attire. The size of a brooch might best determine its best placement, with the smaller variety serving as excellent methods of topping off a string of buttons, or just above a zipper closure. A closer look at many of the design-clad top models gracing the metropolitan runways of fashion week has revealed a new surge of flair-power for these lovelies from yesteryear's prominence. Not being confined to catwalks, lovely heirloom brooches are showing up all over the red carpet, being flaunted by the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, the Olsen two, Wendi Murdoch and Zhang Ziyi.
Admittedly, adding brooches to today's haute couture can take a bit of experimentation, however, once that sweet spot is found, the game-changing force of brooch-fueled style that follows makes every try-fail worth the effort. Among the first decisions to make is the form of attachment you'll use for each brooch. Many work quite well when affixed to other pieces, such as a myriad of distinctively styled chokers and wrist or arm bands. Others seem to beg for a clasp modification that might allow a smooth transition to a hair accessory or as a centerpiece of a necklace. Try cinching one strap of an eveningwear favorite with a large brooch for an asymmetrical gift of glamor to your presence. The methods by which you can embellish an infinite number of hairstyles should keep you busy for a long time. One thing is sure–once you get the hang of it, you'll be shopping for brooches at yard sales and markets, from your new passion. Enjoy!


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Africa Records Alarming Rise In Deadly COVID-19 Infections
Africa has had an 83 per cent surge in COVID-19 cases, in the past few weeks.
This update was obtained from a new World Health Organisation pandemic assessment.
See all the latest health news here
The assessment revealed that the surge was a result of the new variants; Delta and Omicron.
Although the variants are causing fewer deaths than the previous variants, this might affect the reach of vaccines across the continent.
The assessment suggested that Africa may not reach 70 per cent vaccine coverage until August 2024.
The WHO noted that Africa recorded 196,000 new cases for the week that ended on December 12. In the previous week, the continent recorded 107,000 COVID-19 infections.
The update says that the cases of COVID-19 are doubling every five days.
Meanwhile, the surge may be alarming but the WHO says that deaths have remained low. It dropped by 19 per cent in the previous week.
In a press statement released by the health agency, a little more than 3000 deaths were reported. This was in the first three weeks of the current wave which is Africa's fourth.
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The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, revealed that there were low hospitalizations.
His words, "This upsurge in new cases coupled with low hospitalisations is particularly marked in South Africa which has experienced a 66 per cent rise in new cases during the past seven days compared with the previous seven days.
"While hospitalisations have increased by 67 per cent in the past seven days, the bed occupancy rate for Intensive Care Units remains low at 7.5 per cent, with 14 per cent of the hospitalised patients receiving supplemental oxygen. Though the deaths also remain low, this data should be interpreted with caution as the pattern may change in the coming weeks," it said.
"We are cautiously optimistic that deaths and severe illness will remain low in the current wave, but slow vaccine rollout in Africa means both will be much higher than they should be," said the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti.
"We've known for quite some time now that new variants like Beta, Delta, or Omicron could regularly emerge to spark new outbreaks globally, but vaccine-deprived regions like Africa will be especially vulnerable," Moeti said.
Vaccinations across Africa
The WHO said vaccination has spread largely across the continent. The UN agency also revealed that 10 per cent of their population had been vaccinated.
Also, read the latest health news update on COVID-19 in Nigeria
A few countries had, however, hit their target of vaccinating 40 per cent of their population. These countries are:
Seychelles.
Mauritius.
Morocco.
Tunisia.
Cape Verde.
However, Seychelles and Mauritius have reached a target of 70 per cent.
"In a world where Africa had the doses and support to vaccinate 70 per cent of its population by the end of 2021—a level many wealthy countries have achieved—we probably would be seeing tens of thousands of fewer deaths from COVID-19 next year," Dr Moeti said.
"But we can still save many lives if we can accelerate the pace of vaccination in early 2022."
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Architecture graduate's sculptures displayed at prestigious Mayfair gallery
Architecture and art are fused in the work of an London South Bank University graduate which is currently being exhibited at the epicentre of London's contemporary art scene
LSBU architecture graduate, Shigemi Challand, has had her unique sculptures selected to exhibit at a prestigious gallery in London.
Shigemi Challand's sculptures in steel wire and cotton thread are informed by her architectural thinking. Two pieces of her work are on display in a collection of contemporary art at the Medici Gallery, which was established in 1908 and has been in the heart of London's Mayfair for over one hundred years.
Shigemi was born and grew up in Japan before relocating to the United Kingdom in 2000. She graduated from London South Bank University with a first-class Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 2008, followed by a Postgraduate Diploma in Architecture for which she was awarded a distinction.
Whilst at LSBU she was twice nominated for the prestigious RIBA President's Medals student awards and is now in practice as an architect and interior designer, with a keen interest in sculptural forms. In 2014 her work was also included in the Open House London weekend – billed as the capital's greatest architectural showcase.
Architecture postgraduate course director Lilly Kudic said: "Shigemi was a genuinely exceptional student. Her work with experimental structures is both delicate and highly practical, and realised through the use of intricate physical models. The genesis of this approach lies in her postgraduate work at London South Bank University, committed to the principle of design as research."
The Medici Gallery exhibition runs until 9th December 2014.


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Q: multi-tree pruning within CART ensembles I see a random forest as a parallel ensemble of CART models, and a gradient boosted machine as a series ensemble of CART models.  A forest is defined by the interaction of many trees, so there should be a pruning that accounts for multiple trees and is more than "one tree at a time vs. the data".  Is there pruning that works on "trees" and not just "tree"?
Background:
Typical decision tree pruning involves removing branches from a single tree by looking at the data and error.  No inspection of "multiple trees" is made.
My thought:
So I was thinking about boiling down a forest to remove redundant branches in context of other trees in the forest.
I envision it as something like this

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*fit random forest to data (ntrees > decent floor)

*pop out each tree and predict using it

*use clustering on the predictions (GMM + AICc) to find optimal cluster count and parameters.  A distance metric would also be needed.

*for each cluster, look to cull predicted points such that minimum samples to support mean and variance per component are retained.

*remove branches from trees that were not retained, replacing output with "NaN" or something not included in aggregation.

I would expect that applying this approach to a random-forest fit of the iris data, one could get perhaps a single branch of a single tree to indicate "setosa" while several more would be required to account for "setosa" and "virginica".
I would expect this tree-trimmed forest to have faster compute time on some canonical datasets.
My questions:

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*Has anything like this been done and documented before to random forests?  I tried looking for documentation and found only "Ensemble Selection from Libraries of Models" by Caruana from ICML '04.  It seemed more about forward construction, not backwards trimming.

*What sorts of speed-ups/complexity reductions can be found for the canonical data to which RF is typically applied.

*Has this been used online or batch-online in a predictor-corrector to add->cull->repeat for growing random forests? I would imagine that only adding trees that have some level of innovation would be efficient.

*Has this been used online in gradient boosted machines (aka boosted series forests)?  The xgboost library is one of the winning-est on kaggle but after 10,000 serial trees it is still slow.  Someone has to have thought of looking at sequential trees and culling before adding another tree.

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Always practice on an empty stomach, is what I had been told. But it doesn't work for me. One of the best part about yoga is, it makes you more aware of your body and what works best for it. I don't like the discomforting feeling and the sound of my stomach grumbling, or the constant thoughts of food while I practice. So I eat just a few soaked dry fruits, or a fruit, not something as filling as a banana, maybe an orange or some watermelon, 3-4 minutes before my practice. But if empty stomach works for you, then that is fine.
I prefer starting the practice either sitting or lying down for about 2 minutes, just observing the natural flow of my breath, letting my mind settle down. Preparing myself mentally for the practice followed by a shloka or OM chanting and then start with asanas.
If you are a beginner, warm up is a must. I personally like to start with surya namaskars and sometimes variations. I like to work on my core muscles. Inverted postures are my favorite! So head and shoulder stands are a part of daily practice. Spine care is most important to me, it is the starting point of the nerves in our body. Forward and backward bending, supine, prone, spinal twist, all these are a part of my daily routine. If you are an athlete, or want a more dynamic form of yoga, I would recommend ashtanga yoga.
Learning under a teacher is important, even if you are a regular practitioner, a teacher can take you deeper into your practice. I have traveled extensively, and learnt from so many different teachers which definitely enhanced my practice.
I also include the kriyas. Jalneti, sutra neti, jal dhauti, etc once every two weeks.
Kapalabhati, anulom-vilom, bhastrika, ujayi, mudra pranayam, and a technique called sudarshan kriya which is exclusively taught at the Art of Living®. It is said, pranayam is the greatest of all tapas. It makes your intellect razor sharp, improving your decision making. Increases lung capacity, we only use 30% of our lungs! What if you have to ride a bicycle with 30% air? It's not going to be a smooth ride I can tell you. And this is exactly what happens with our life! You feel tired by afternoon, work is such a drag. Because you lack energy my dear, and that you can draw from your own breath. Asana and pranayama will help you increase your lung capacity.
Your emotions are linked to your breath! How do you breathe when you are angry? Shallow and fast breaths, when tried and sad? naturally more emphasis is on the outgoing breath and when happy, you tend to inhale more. So by increasing you lung capacity and breathing fully, you tend to feel happy and energetic!!
When there is no restlessness in the body or the mind, when both are relaxed and settled then meditation happens effortlessly. This brings me to the last part of my practice. After everything just sit with your eyes closed, being with whatever is happening, do not move an inch. It might be difficult in the beginning. But practice! Embrace all that is happening in the moment, pleasant or unpleasant and simply sit. And I promise, what you will find boring in the beginning, will open the floodgates to love, peace, and will soon become addictive! Today I can say this, my mat is where I've learnt to smile through it all. See my Wellintra yoga instructor profile here.
Meeta is an advanced Yoga Trainer & practitioner who trains Wellintra's Clients in Andheri West & Lokhandwala. She has multiple qualifications as a yoga trainer and yoga therapist and is a much in-demand trainer as much for her knowledge as for her empathy and positive and patient teaching methods. Her teaching style benefits both beginner students of yoga as well as advanced students who enjoy her integrated mind-body-soul approach to yoga. She writes for the Wellintra Fitness Blog whenever she can spare some time from her hectic training and teaching schedule.
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Allergan have released a new version of one of their dermal fillers to help reduce the discomfort associated with the procedure.
The actual filler is unchanged (filler type J and JU+), but it is now mixed with a fast acting local anaesthetic, so that it literally numbs the areas as it is injected.
It is a good alternative to having a nerve block in the treatment area for those who don't want to be numb for hours.
For example, treatment of the cheeks with dermal fillers might usually require a nerve block to numb the cheeks prior to injection with filler. Instead, with this new filler, it is possible to avoid a nerve block as it has local anaesthetic pre-mixed with the filler so it numbs as it is injected. The initial few needle pricks can be disguised with local anaesthetic cream or ice as required.


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National heart, lung, and blood institute workshop summary: Enhancing opportunities for training and retention of a diverse biomedical workforce
Gregg A. Duncan, Angelia Lockett, Leah R. Villegas, Sharilyn Almodovar, Jose L. Gomez, Sonia C. Flores, David S. Wilkes, Xenia T. Tigno
Cellular & Integrative Physiology
Rationale: Committed to its mission of conducting and supporting research that addresses the health needs of all sectors of the nation's population, the Division of Lung Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NHLBI/NIH) seeks to identify issues that impact the training and retention of underrepresented individuals in the biomedical research workforce. Objectives: Early-stage investigators who received grant support through theNIHResearch Supplements to PromoteDiversity in Health RelatedResearch Programwere invited to a workshop held in Bethesda, Maryland in June, 2015, in order to (1) assess the effectiveness of the current NHLBI diversity program, (2) improve its strategies towards achieving its goal, and (3) provide guidance to assist the transition of diversity supplement recipients to independent NIH grant support. Methods: Workshop participants participated in five independent focus groups to discuss specific topics affecting underrepresented individuals in the biomedical sciences: (1) Socioeconomic barriers to success for diverse research scientists; (2) role of the academic research community in promoting diversity; (3) life beyond a research project grant: non-primary investigator career paths in research; (4) facilitating career development of diverse independent research scientists through NHLBI diversity programs; and (5) effectiveness of current NHLBI programs for promoting diversity of the biomedical workforce. Measurements and Main Results: Several key issues experienced by young, underrepresented biomedical scientists were identified, and solutions were proposed to improve on training and career development for diverse students, from the high school to postdoctoral trainee level, and address limitations of currently available diversity programs. Although some of the challenges mentioned, such as cost of living, limited parental leave, and insecure extramural funding, are also likely faced by nonminority scientists, these issues are magnified among diversity scientists and are complicated by unique circumstances in this group, such as limited exposure to science at a young age, absence of role models and mentors from underrepresented backgrounds, and social norms that relegate their career endeavors, particularly among women, to being subordinate to their expected cultural role. Conclusions: The factors influencing the participation of underrepresented minorities in the biomedical workforce are complex and span several continuous or overlapping stages in the professional development of scientists from these groups. Therefore, amultipronged approach is needed to enable the professional development and retention of underrepresented minorities in biomedical research. This approach should address both individual and social factors and should involve funding agencies, academic institutions, mentoring teams, professional societies, and peer collaboration. Implementation of some of the recommendations, such as access to child care, institutional support and health benefits for trainees, teaching and entrepreneurial opportunities, grant-writingwebinars, and pre-NIH career development (Pre-K) pilot programs would not only benefit biomedical scientists from underrepresented groups but also improve the situation of nondiverse junior scientists.However, other issues, such as opportunities for early exposure to science of disadvantaged/minority groups, and identifying mentors/life coaches/peer mentors who come from similar cultural backgrounds and vantage points, are unique to this group.
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Duncan, G. A., Lockett, A., Villegas, L. R., Almodovar, S., Gomez, J. L., Flores, S. C., ... Tigno, X. T. (2016). National heart, lung, and blood institute workshop summary: Enhancing opportunities for training and retention of a diverse biomedical workforce. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 13(4), 562-567. https://doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201509-624OT
National heart, lung, and blood institute workshop summary : Enhancing opportunities for training and retention of a diverse biomedical workforce. / Duncan, Gregg A.; Lockett, Angelia; Villegas, Leah R.; Almodovar, Sharilyn; Gomez, Jose L.; Flores, Sonia C.; Wilkes, David S.; Tigno, Xenia T.
In: Annals of the American Thoracic Society, Vol. 13, No. 4, 01.04.2016, p. 562-567.
Duncan, GA, Lockett, A, Villegas, LR, Almodovar, S, Gomez, JL, Flores, SC, Wilkes, DS & Tigno, XT 2016, 'National heart, lung, and blood institute workshop summary: Enhancing opportunities for training and retention of a diverse biomedical workforce', Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 562-567. https://doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201509-624OT
Duncan GA, Lockett A, Villegas LR, Almodovar S, Gomez JL, Flores SC et al. National heart, lung, and blood institute workshop summary: Enhancing opportunities for training and retention of a diverse biomedical workforce. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2016 Apr 1;13(4):562-567. https://doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201509-624OT
Duncan, Gregg A. ; Lockett, Angelia ; Villegas, Leah R. ; Almodovar, Sharilyn ; Gomez, Jose L. ; Flores, Sonia C. ; Wilkes, David S. ; Tigno, Xenia T. / National heart, lung, and blood institute workshop summary : Enhancing opportunities for training and retention of a diverse biomedical workforce. In: Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2016 ; Vol. 13, No. 4. pp. 562-567.
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This past Tuesday, January 21st, 2014, Diversity Awareness Partnership organized a panel of religious leaders from throughout the St. Louis area. This panel was organized to bring awareness about various religions throughout the St. Louis community, how the religious community encourages interfaith and intrafaith partnerships, and above all, the steps St. Louis is taking to embrace the good of all religions, including affiliated and non-affiliated community members. The panelists were Rabbi Brigitte Rosenberg, who identifies as Jewish, Reverend Mike Kinman, who identifies as Christian, Dr. Ghazala Hayat, who identifies as Muslim, and Leslie Heberlie, who identifies as non-affiliated.
"Gathering Around the Good" was an opportunity to focus on the positive aspects of religious traditions and highlights of their religious community. Reverend Mike Kinman stated the media dedicates a lot of what we know about religious identity and their goal is to "sell conflict in order to make people choose a side to fight a common enemy." From this, there is an understanding for need for more conversations about how to focus on the good and continue to build relationships across religious and non-affiliated communities.
Rabbi Brigitte Rosenberg, of the United Hebrew Congregation, spoke about the need to ask questions of religious leaders. She believes in order to continue the conversations about beliefs and religious affiliations, there is a need to address stereotypes about religion.
Leslie Heberlie, the Director of Communications and Administration for Interfaith Partnership of Greater St. Louis, spoke about the need to bridge the conversations between affiliated and non-affiliated members of the community. She also discussed how access points to the matters people believe in does not always need to include an organized place of religion.
Dr. Ghazala Hayat, of Saint Louis University, stated conversations need to continue by creating an open and welcoming community in order to help members grow in their own beliefs – even if it is different from the ones she holds. Also learning about one's own religious traditions and beliefs is part of the strategy to engage in interfaith dialogue.
Reverend Mike Kinman, of Christ Church Cathedral, mentioned that affiliated and non-affiliated community members are on a path of integrity. He stated many people believe you need to choose one path or one religion, but there needs to be a place that allow people to be mold what they believe in to fit their needs.
This panel was able to identify the work that we as a community still need to do around the identity of religion. But, it also shed light on the good parts of religious organizations and the next steps we can take to engage in ongoing conversations.
All in all, the message of the panel was clear: Everyone believes in something and working together to have discussions about beliefs and traditions will continue to increase the ability to see the good in our affiliated and non-affiliated community.
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Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres: Not All Are Created Equal
By Dr Walid Hejazi, Professor of International Competitiveness, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (01/02/2015)
Over the past three decades, there has been a surge in Canada's outward FDI, transforming Canada from a significant home country for FDI to a significant source country. Canada is now a significant investor into the global economy. A careful analysis of these trends reveals the importance that Caribbean offshore financial centres (OFCs) play for Canada. While the US and the UK are respectively the largest destinations for Canadian outward foreign direct investment (FDI), Barbados is the third most important jurisdiction followed by the Cayman Islands.
High profile stories of large corporations using aggressive transfer pricing strategies to shift profits to low tax jurisdictions have resulted in enhanced scrutiny by the OECD and the G20. For example, the OECDs BEPS initiative is meant to better understand and hence regulate taxation of corporate profits.
A fascinating question which arises in this environment of enhanced scrutiny is why would Canadian FDI into OFCs continue to grow at such rapid rates? Figure A below highlights the stocks of Canadian FDI into the nine most important OFCs for Canada. What emerges immediately is the growth in importance of some OFCs relative to others. For example, Barbados emerged as the largest OFC destination for Canada in 1991. Ireland also experience growth in Canadian FDI, but this fell sharply in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. The Cayman Islands has seen a similar growth trend to that experienced by Barbados, although the amount of investment in Cayman remains one-half that in Barbados. What is interesting to note also is the sharp divergence in Canadian FDI going to Barbados and to Cayman since 2011: Canadian FDI into Barbados has risen sharply whereas that for Cayman has fallen.
The immediate question that arises is, what distinguishes Barbados from other Caribbean OFCs? To answer this question, the reasons underlying why corporations use OFCs must be considered, and even more fundamentally, why do onshore countries (ie, OECD countries) allow for such relationships to emerge? With this understanding, it will then become clear why OFCs are necessary to allow for the efficient allocation of capital globally, and hence the necessity to allow them to flourish.
Fig A: Stocks of Canadian FDI into OFCs
What Role do OFCs play in multinational corporate strategy?
It is often the case that OFCs are lumped together as "tax-havens". This article will argue that such generalisations are counterproductive and miss an important benefit that OFCs can play. When used responsibly, OFCs are efficient conduits into the global economy.
It is often stated that taxation on individuals is much higher than on corporations because capital is mobile whereas individuals for the most part are not. If corporate taxes are too high, multinationals move their activities to other jurisdictions. However, corporate activity can be broken down into local activities and global activities. When Canadian banks, for example, wish to operate in Canada, it cannot therefore be argued that they would leave if taxes are too high – they must have a presence in Canada to operate there.
At the same time, onerous taxation on domestic activities may inhibit the global competitiveness of Canadian companies. Enter OFCs! OFCs allow countries to effectively segment the activities of their corporations. All profits generated domestically are taxed at domestic corporate rates. On the other hand, profits earned internationally are not subject to the same tax rates as domestic profits, at least not directly.
The preferential treatment given to exempt surplus allows Canadian companies to repatriate profits through specified OFCs free of Canadian tax. Once these profits are repatriated however, corporate stocks may experience capital gains, or the now higher profits may be paid to shareholders as dividends, or the company may invest further, or the company may hire more workers – all of which generate additional tax revenue, offsetting any tax foregone in the initial repatriation.
But there is a more fundamental effect that must be considered. When Canadian companies use Barbados, for example, as a conduit into the global economy, these Canadian companies experience a reduction in their cost of capital, and hence are more competitive and hence more successful globally than they would have been had they gone into the global economy directly. These companies are therefore more profitable and their global footprint is larger. This international success translates into more head office functions in Canada.
In addition, as Canadian companies invest internationally, this expansion serves as a beachhead of sorts for Canadian exports. The Canadian subsidiary overseas imports technology, intermediate inputs, and human capital from Canada. Furthermore, the presence of Canadian companies abroad enhances network and information flows which serve to lower the costs of doing business internationally. That is, Canadian business activity abroad serves to complement Canadian exports to those third markets.
The findings of my research conclude that as a result of the C$60 billion invested into and through Barbados, Canadian exports to the global economy are between C$2.6 billion and C$3.1 billion higher than they would have been had this investment gone into the global economy directly. The export flows are continuous, meaning they occur year over year, and are not simply one time.
The Canadian government estimates the employment impacts per C$1 billion of exports at 10,000 full time jobs. As such the use of Barbados by Canadian companies generates between 26,000 and 31,000 additional jobs in Canada. That is, OFCs, when used responsibly as conduits, have significant benefits for the home of the investment as well as OFC. The benefits to the OFC are maximised when the corporations use their jurisdictions as conduits, and when the corporations undertake substantive activities in the OFC jurisdiction. Of course, the conditions must be right in the OFC for substantive activity to occur, a point turned to below.
Not all OFCs are Created Equal!
When all OFCs are lumped together as "tax havens", the potential benefits get lost. There is a distinction between OFCs and tax havens. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF),[1] an OFC is a jurisdiction that;
has a large number of financial institutions;
most transactions are initiated abroad;
most institutions are controlled by non-residents;
has assets and liabilities out of proportion to the domestic economy ;
has low or zero taxation, moderate or light financial regulation and bank secrecy.
A report on harmful tax competition was published by the OECD in 1998. In response to a request by the OECD countries, the OECD has worked to "develop measures to counter the distorting effects of harmful tax competition on investment and financing decisions and the consequences for national tax bases."
It is very important to note, however that the OECD does not consider a jurisdiction with low or no taxes in and of itself engaged in harmful tax competition. It is not that at all. A jurisdiction would be considered to be involved in harmful tax competition when low or no taxes are combined with, for example, minimum business presence requirements, a lack of transparency, the absence of the exchange of information, and probably low regulatory controls – it is in this environment when low or no tax jurisdictions are considered harmful. The harmful nature of tax havens has resulted in tremendous pressure being applied by the OECD on tax haven governments as well as on countries that have treaties with such havens.
How are OFC distinct from tax havens?
How is a tax haven identified?
In 1998 the OECD set out a number of factors for identifying tax havens. The four key factors were:
1) No or nominal tax on the relevant income;
2) Lack of effective exchange of information;
3) Lack of transparency;
4) No substantial activities.
No or nominal tax is not sufficient in itself to classify a country as a tax haven. The fourth factor above "no substantial activities" was not considered when determining whether a jurisdiction was cooperative. Thus, in order to avoid being listed as an uncooperative tax haven, jurisdictions which met the criteria were asked only to make commitments to implement the principles of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes.
Reproduced from OECD (2009), Countering Offshore Tax Evasion, http://www.oecd.org/ctp/harmful/42469606.pdf
The stated objective of the OECD (in this regard) is not to make taxes equal across countries. The reason for this is that there are several industries that are internationally mobile and are highly sensitive to tax differentials. Furthermore these are exactly the sectors that drive much of the global economy. As such, countries are quite keen on ensuring that these specific industries are not driven away by tax rates that are applied nationally. Therefore, low tax jurisdictions are very important to all countries, and this explains why during the 1980s and 1990s, almost every OECD country, including Canada, has adopted various preferential tax treaties with a low-tax jurisdiction for the benefit of their economies and industries.
Index Methodology
The arguments made in this article therefore support the idea that when OFCs have a high standard of living, strong institutions including legal and regulatory frameworks, transparency (including a network of double tax treaties and exchange of information agreements), a highly educated work force with high levels of labour market participation, sophisticated businesses and good business standards, highly developed financial markets including the availability of credit – then these are the jurisdictions where multinationals can "hub" their international activities. Together, these characteristics yield a commitment to business of substance and discourages nameplate companies. It is in these jurisdictions where multinationals can actively manage their global operations and hence more effectively penetrate global markets. It is these jurisdictions that best serve as conduits into the global economy.
The characteristics we used to develop our index are provided in the table below. For each jurisdiction for which data is available, we develop a score on each indicator. These indicators are then equally weighted – future work will allow us to weight according to executives perceptions on the relative importance of each indicator. The results for the Caribbean OFCs are graphed below.
Benchmarking OFCs
World Bank Human Development Index
World Bank Governance Indicators
World Bank Ease of Doing Business
Secondary Enrolment Rate (% net)
Tertiary Enrolment Rate (% gross)
Business Sophistication
Financial Development
Regulatory (including Bilateral Investment Treaties)
Transparency (including Exchange of Information)
Only those OFCs for which data was available are benchmarked. Details of the index methodology, the data sources, and calculations will be published in full in the future.
The ranking for Caribbean OFCs is provided in the following figure.
Source: The work of Zoran Grabovac and Roy Wang, MBA students at the Rotman School of Management, is acknowledged. Sufficient data were not available to rank the Cayman Islands or St. Maarten.
What can be seen from the figure is that indeed all OFCs are not created equal. There is a hierarchy of jurisdictions. Barbados is ranked as the top jurisdiction on the index reported here – and this explains why it is the preferred jurisdiction for Canadian corporations, and why Canadian FDI into or through Barbados continues to grow so rapidly. Bermuda and St Vincent and the Grenadines are respectively second and third.
The increased scrutiny on the part of the OECD and the G20 will force all OFCs to enhance their quality, and with that, their measured OFC index will improve. It is also the case that this will be result in a win-win for the OFC as well as the onshore jurisdiction.
Dr Walid Hejazi is an Associate Professor of International Business at Rotman. His research interests focuses on Canadian competitiveness, multinational business strategies and globalization.
Walid's teaching interests are money and banking, financial economics and business statistics. His research has been published in International Advances in Economic Research, Policy Options, and the Canadian Journal of Economics, among others.
[1] See Zoromé (2007) for a full discussion.
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A federal judge has endorsed a broad interpretation of a savings-and-loan era law that the U.S. Justice Department is trying to use in cases against Wall Street banks.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said Monday that a "straightforward application of the plain words" of the Financial Institutional Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) allowed the interpretation sought by the government.
The law has a low burden of proof, strong subpoena power and a 10-year statute of limitations, twice as long as the typical limit for fraud cases. Rarely asserted until recently, it has become the basis of three lawsuits by lawyers under Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara against banks including Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
The latest decision came in a case the Justice Department brought last October against Bank of America over toxic mortgages that its Countrywide Financial mortgage unit sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the financial crisis.
The government contends the program speeded up some home loan processing by removing quality checkpoints, resulting in thousands of fraudulent and defective mortgages being sold to Fannie and Freddie.
Rakoff issued a brief order in May dismissing some claims but largely allowing the case to move forward.
His ruling on Monday explained his reasoning, particularly why the government could proceed with claims brought under a law adopted in the wake of the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s.
Under the government's position, claims under FIRREA can be asserted against a bank when the affected financial institution is the bank itself.
Banks have objected to this so-called "affect yourself" theory, saying it ignores the statute's original purpose.
Rakoff agreed with the government. Citing a dictionary definition of "affect," he said Bank of America paid billions of dollars to resolve demands by Fannie and Freddie to buy back defective mortgages.
"The fraud here in question had a huge effect on BofA itself (not to mention its shareholders)," Rakoff wrote.
The ruling followed a similar decision in April by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, also in Manhattan, who allowed the advancement of a FIRREA lawsuit that accused Bank of New York Mellon of overcharging clients for trading currencies.
The rulings mean the Justice Department can now use FIRREA to not just go after bank fraud but the banks themselves for defrauding others, said Andrew Schilling, a former head of the civil division in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office.
The rulings will encourage the government to tackle "a wider range of targets in the financial services industry, and a much broader range of alleged misconduct, including potentially consumer fraud," said Schilling, a partner at law firm BuckleySandler.
In his ruling on Monday, Rakoff said there were limits to the government's reach under FIRREA.
In an alternative argument, the Justice Department said it could also use FIRREA against Bank of America because the alleged fraud affected a small bank that invested in Fannie and Freddie.
Rakoff did not rule on that alternative argument because he had already allowed the case to proceed based on the effects on Bank of America.
A spokeswoman for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Bharara, whose office has been pursuing the Bank of America case, declined to comment.


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Shantungosaurus est un genre éteint de grands dinosaures herbivores « à bec de canard » du sous-ordre des ornithopodes et de la famille des hadrosauridés. Ses fossiles ont été découverts en Chine dans la province de Shandong, dans un intervalle stratigraphique allant de l'extrême sommet de la formation géologique de Xingezhuang jusqu'au milieu de la formation sus-jacente de Hongtuya au sein du groupe de Wangshi. Cet intervalle est daté du Campanien (Crétacé supérieur), il y a 70 millions d'années. Il était le plus grand des hadrosauridés et des ornithopodes connus.

Une seule espèce est rattachée au genre, Shantungosaurus giganteus.

Description

Les paléontologues ont retrouvé 5 squelettes complets de Shantungosaurus. Le plus complet d'entre eux (qui était presque entier) est exposé au muséum provincial du Shandong à Jinan (voir la photo en bas à droite).

Shantungosaurus était le plus grand de tous les ornithischiens Il mesurait 16 mètres de long, 5 mètres de haut quand il était à quatre pattes, 8 mètres de haut debout sur ses pattes arrières et pesait jusqu'à 11 tonnes. L'holotype de Shantungosaurus giganteus mesure 14,7 mètres de long, tandis que le spécimen décrit à l'origine sous le nom de Zhuchengosaurus maximus, considéré comme un synonyme junior de Shantungosaurus giganteus en 2014 par Hai Xing et son équipe mesure quant à lui 16,6 mètres.

Sa tête atteint 1,63 mètre de longueur pour le spécimen holotype, elle est terminée comme chez tous les hadrosaures par un bec dépourvu de dents, mais ses mâchoires comportaient plus de 1500 dents masticatrices. Il possédait des pattes postérieures puissantes et une queue de 7,5 mètres de longueur. Un grand trou près de ses nasaux était probablement recouvert par une membrane de peau qui devait lui permettre d'émettre des sons.

Classification

Il fait partie de la famille des Hadrosauridae, de la sous-famille des Saurolophinae et de la tribu des Edmontosaurini au sein de laquelle il forme un petit clade avec son groupe frère Edmontosaurus. L'étude phylogénétique de Penélope Cruzado-Caballero et J. E. Powell en 2017 le place par contre en amont de cette tribu.

Les deux genres Zhuchengosaurus Zhao , 2007 et Huaxiaosaurus Zhao , 2011, érigés en 2007 et 2011 pour des fossiles d'hadrosauridés découverts dans les mêmes séries stratigraphiques qui montrent des  avec Shantungosaurus sont considérés comme des synonymes juniors de ce dernier genre.

Cladogramme
Le cladogramme suivant est celui établi par Prieto-Márquez et ses collègues en 2016. Il montre la position de Shantungosaurus en groupe frère dEdmontosaurus au sein de la tribu des Edmontosaurini :

Références

Voir aussi

Références taxinomiques

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Liste des genres de dinosaures
 Hadrosauridae
 Saurolophinae
 Edmontosaurini
 Edmontosaurus

Genre de dinosaures non aviens (nom scientifique)
Hadrosauridae
Dinosaure d'Asie
Dinosaure du Crétacé supérieur
Taxon fossile décrit en 1973

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We invent to patent our work and patented inventions have the original inventors formula and instructions so others can reproduce the work. The patent paperwork remains unchanged once it is issued valid, and the useful product sells until another inventor makes their version of a product that does or performs a substantially identical task as yours, but in a different configuration costing less to the end user. Like a chef creating a signature dish that is his or her recipe. To get the same exact results the recipe must be followed step by step. Later the next individual can change the recipe up for a different taste but the chef that originally created the recipe has his or her own original creation without devieation from steps or product.
Why do we patent our inventions?
We patent an invention to gain title to the product, and it's alot like a title to a car, a deed to a house or land, and it's baseline is your intellectual property. Your intellectual property are things you make and develop that are concepts from what you have learned. Intellectual Property comes from within your mind and is translated into a useful product called work.
The first step in the patent process is intellectual property and becomes the tangible effort of the invention process. Invent something, write a provisional patent, and make the product yourself. Agree to have it sold by someone thats an expert at doing that, and expect that if your product happens to be well accepted and the best choice to purchace, that others will soon copy it and then make it less expensive to purchase than yours.
Without writing a strong provisional patent for your idea or invention product you will give up the legal rights to collect royalties after others copy your product and make an income from it. After you invent something from intellectual property that you feel is better than others, and you have spent a couple years of your time, thousands of dollars to make the prototype of the invention product, thousands of dollars for patent filing and legal protection, that you need some type of financial income to continue to invent, like a job.
With todays manufacturing prices why would one logically spend thier money in the bank just to make an invention that takes a couple years to ever see the profits for, and it's a big risk. There is no legitimate company going to pay you royalties before a US patent is issued. Another way to look at not starting the patent process with a provisional patent is purchasing a car you intend to count on for a long time and its an expensive car. Would you purchase that car if no one ever could title it ? No should be the logical answer, so that's why we need to follow all of the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) rules and file a US provisional patent. There are alot of rules that you need to understand and experience in this invention process and those are what eventually forms a successful inventor.
You develop ideas from experience, nonetheless the construction also is completed from experience, and whatever you create from experience will become successful. Patenting an invention, idea, or method will give you a legal paperwork trail that documents your progress from your intellectual property to the tangible work. An inventors product that has a valid U.S. patent issued has many values other than it's tangible cash exchange back to the inventor and the general economy of where it is manufactured. The personal rewards extend past the life of an issued patent, they are forever lasting and open your eyes to facing reality. Viewing life and how things really are without the noise is one huge benefit to inventing.
"we are, by one like element with time and the differences change us, into the form we imagine ourselves to be"


You can serve this herby, fruity side at room temperature or chilled.
Rinse and drain quinoa. Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add shallots to pan; sauté 2 minutes or until tender. Add 2 cups water, wine, and salt to pan; bring to a boil. Add quinoa; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 15 minutes or until liquid is absorbed and quinoa is tender. Remove from heat; set aside, and cool slightly.
Combine remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil, lemon juice, and pepper in a large bowl; stir with a whisk. Add quinoa, cherries, and remaining ingredients; toss gently to combine.
Good side dish. DD didn't like the mint/parsley. I had to use toasted pine nuts as my market didn't have dry roasted pistachios (or DH couldn't find them). We had this with grilled pork but it could be a good side dish to almost anything.
I love this! I actually had something similar as a breakfast entree at a restaurant. They added small slivers of grilled chicken, small slivers of grilled zucchini and almonds and light dusting of feta cheese. I made this last night as a side to a balsamic chicken glaze, but subbed almonds for pistachios, and also chopped some craisins in as well. Enough left over for two more days of delicious lunch as well.
Yum!!! I didn't have cherries on-hand so I used dried cranberries. Wonderful!!!!
added little more fresh parsley and mint. something yummy and different.


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Ollie Thorley scored two sensational solo tries in Gloucester's stunning victory over Leicester.
The 22-year-old wing, who was making his first Premiership appearance of the season, notched both in the second half with runs from his own half, the first from over 50 metres before bettering it with a 75-metre run for the coup de grace late on.
First-half tries from Jason Woodward, Matt Banahan and former Leicester prop Fraser Balmain, who had a 27th birthday to remember, set Gloucester on their way to victory before Thorley added the fireworks on a highly-charged night at Kingsholm.
The win moved Gloucester up to third in the table and saw them open up a six-point gap on Leicester, who were one place below them at the start of the night.
Gloucester were forced to make one change to their bench from the side announced on Thursday as Val Rapava-Ruskin was unable to shake off a virus and was replaced by Kyle Traynor, who came on for his first Premiership appearance for the club against his old side.
Fly-half Danny Cipriani returned from suspension and scored the first points of the night with a 40-metre penalty after three minutes but it was cancelled out four minutes later by a Joe Ford kick.
Ford missed a penalty from out wide before Gloucester scored the first try on 16 minutes.
While some of the forwards were still scrapping on the floor following a scrum on halfway, Cipriani switched play and Mark Atkinson made the decisive break as he ran into the 22 before sending Jason Woodward away down the left to dive over. Cipriani converted.
Ford reduced the arrears with a penalty in front of the posts but Gloucester dominated the rest of the half.
The second try arrived after 25 minutes as Gloucester moved the ball quickly one way and then the other following the lineout and Woodward fed Banahan to score out wide. Cipriani missed the conversion.
Gloucester went close again with Thorley being tackled into touch by the flag by Jordan Olowofela before Tom Savage was held up as they applied a lot of pressure.
Eventually, they made it count three minutes before half-time as Balmain burrowed over from close range for his first Gloucester try against the club he joined them from. Cipriani added the extras and Gloucester led 22-6 at the break.
Gloucester earned the bonus point six minutes into the second half and it arrived in style.
A beautifully planned move from a lineout saw the ball worked into the hands off Thorley, coming in from his wing just inside his own half, and the youngster turned on the turbo jet as he ran a great line to go all the way. Cipriani converted.
The Cherry and Whites thought they scored another after Cipriani, Banahan, Heinz and Woodward, who touched the ball down, linked well with a move from their own 22 but it was ruled out for a forward pass, with more than one of them looking dubious on the replay.
Leicester then had their best spell of the game and scored their first try, awarded to flanker Mike Williams after a rolling maul, although it didn't appear as though he grounded the ball on the television replays.
Joe Ford converted and Leicester applied more pressure after but Gloucester held out and defended superbly.
The Tigers were pressing again at the end, only for Gloucester to have the last say with a length of the field try.
Ben Morgan picked up the loose ball and burst out of the 22 before passing to Thorley, who had the pace first of all to get away and then had the nous and fancy footwork to go with it when he passed the halfway line, leaving two defenders for dead as he cut inside and had the stamina to reach the line.
Billy Twelvetrees converted to round off a fantastic win for Gloucester.
Gloucester: J Woodward; M Banahan, B Twelvetrees, M Atkinson, O Thorley; D Cipriani, W Heinz; J Hohneck, J Hanson, F Balmain; T Savage, E Slater (c); G Evans, J Kriel, F Clarke.
Replacements (all used): H Walker, K Traynor, C Knight, G Grobler, B Morgan, C Braley, H Trinder, T Hudson.
Leicester: G Worth; A Thompstone, G Owen, K Eastmond, J Olowofela; J Ford, B White; G Bateman, T Youngs (c), D Cole; H Wells, G Kitchener; M Williams, G Thompson, S Kalamafoni.
Replacements (all used): J Kerr, F Gigena, G Cortes, W Spencer, M Fitzgerald, S Harrison, T Hardwick, M Smith.


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Because we were looking for a cheap way to Israel we went to Egypt. Jan found a package deal, flight and hotel, on Lastminute.com to a dive resort in the Sharm-El-Sheikh/Naama Bay area and we grabbed it. While at Sharm we mostly relaxed or unlaxed. For one brief moment, Gerry chilled out. He jumped into our hotel's pool and lasted all of 30 seconds in the winter-chilled waters. Another day we spent at Ras Mohamed snorkeling .
After the included seven nights were over we'd planned to take a bus from Sharm to Taba, Eilat, and Jerusalem. We'd been in Egypt in 1985 and had passed through the region and we thought we knew the route. It didn't work out that way. While in Sharm, the idea of seeing the temple of Abu Simbel, which we had missed on our first visit to Egypt grew and grew on us. Our "Let's Go Mideast" (which we had bought for 15% of the cover price) said there was a convenient ferry across the Red Sea — that and an all-night bus would get us to the city of Aswan, the jumping off spot for Abu Simbel.
One reason this was of interest was that it was still ten days until our pre-paid furnished apartment in Jerusalem would be available. It was either (a) float about Israel, (b) go to Israel via Jordan, or (c) go to Egypt for ten days. Since we could travel Israel after our Jerusalem stay and since Jordan was still too cold, we opted for (c) - Egypt.
On Saturday, with one day left in our resort, we went to buy tickets for a Sunday — next day — departure. We suddenly found there was a hitch: Our guide was out of date and didn't know about the Intifada, Sept 11, etc. that had cut tourism and tourist routes. Ferries to mainland Egypt now left only on Saturday (and Tuesday). We threw in the towel, or more exactly, threw our paid accommodations in the basket, and bought the tickets anyway. That night we were off.
We arrived in Aswan very early the next morning and roamed the streets an hour waiting for hotel lobbies to open. Soon, though, we had a room, breakfast, and sleep, in that order. Then we signed up for a one-day tour to Abu Simbel the next day. It was great. After a few more days in Aswan we took a two night Nile Cruiser to Luxor and spent three nights there. The cruise took us to the wonderful temples of Edfu and Kom Ombo, which we had never seen. In Luxor it was great going back to its wonderful temples and getting a half-day tour to Dandara. Then an overnight train took us to Cairo for our last three nights. From there we took a bus from Cairo to Jerusalem.
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Q: Can you scope CSS files so that they only apply to the descendants of a given element? Given a css file, is there a way to scope the entire file so that it only applies to elements within a given element:
e.g. given:

Is there a way to scope an entire css file to apply to all elements within "container" without prepending #container to every single css clause?

A: I'm afraid not. Some CSS pre-processors allow you to write code that achieves the same thing though.
E.g. LESS implements nested rules:
/* This LESS code... */

#header {
  h1 {
    font-size: 26px;
    font-weight: bold;
  }
  p { font-size: 12px;
    a { text-decoration: none;
      &:hover { border-width: 1px }
    }
  }
}

/* ...produces this CSS */

#header h1 {
  font-size: 26px;
  font-weight: bold;
}
#header p {
  font-size: 12px;
}
#header p a {
  text-decoration: none;
}
#header p a:hover {
  border-width: 1px;
}

And Andy mentioned SASS, which does the same thing.

A: You can use the scoped attribute on a

Here's a jQuery Polyfill: http://thingsinjars.com/post/360/scoped-style/

A: There are 2 ways you could approach this:
1) In HTML5, (not widely supported yet) there is to be a scoped attribute you can put on a


As with the previous playlist that I shared here ("Soundtrack for a Dark Enlightenment," which duplicates a handful of the items on this new playlist), I have carefully arranged the order of things to provide effective transitions in mood and meaning from one piece of music to the next.
Posted on June 22, 2016, in Arts & Entertainment and tagged music, playlist. Bookmark the permalink.	4 Comments.
Hi, Matt. Thanks very much for the music. Since 75% of my income derives from editing and ghostwriting, I work 80 to 100-hour weeks (20 hours of that devoted to my own fictive works). Music is a huge presence in my life, and I need as much ambient-type material as can be found. You've provided excellent listening! I've been relying on a lot of Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) side projects, especially his Bass Communion (Dronework; Pacific Codex; Ghosts on Magnetic Tape), and another group called Arctica for darker, ambient drone. Plus progressive keepers like King Crimson, and German electronica such as Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream. Thanks again, Matt.
Your list contains much that's unfamiliar to me as well as much that's familiar, William. King Crimson, Schulze, and Tangerine Dream have all been a part of my musical cosmos for years. In one of the tracks on my Daemonyx album, titled "Road to Olduvai," the Tangerine Dream influence stands out clearly. I didn't recognize it consciously when I was composing the music, but later, when people pointed it out to me, I realized that one prominent aspect of that one distinctly recalls some of the analog synth sounds on TD's Stratosfear album — which I listened to endlessly in college.
Another Great list. Thanks Matt.
I'm glad you like it, Derick.