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Advanced Systems Engineer-VMWare/Hypervisor/Virtualization
Bentonville, AR, United States
We are looking for an Advanced Systems Engineer who is passionate and enthusiastic about helping to shape the future of Walmart Store Technology! You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting the virtualization environment for the Walmart Store Compute team. Magnificent team player skills and a collaborative mind-set are required to augment your strong leadership skills. We work hard and play harder, so a great attitude and sense of humor is a bonus!
You'll sweep us off our feet if:
You're passionate about diversity, equality and inclusion
You are a champion of Walmart's cultural values of Service, Respect, Excellence and Integrity.
You understand the importance of storytelling and know how to build a captivating narrative and supporting visuals.
Your writing and editing skills are sharp and you possess the ability to develop compelling copy that has the power to inform, influence and inspire.
You have a deep interest and passion for technology and want to build next generation of store compute technology.
You come from the retail industry.
You are excited to solve challenges and learn new things every day.
You want to work in a company where 56 million items are sold on a holiday at 1000 transactions per second around 11,000 locations worldwide!
You are a fast learner and have strong problem solving, analytic, decision-making skills.
You have excellent communication with interpersonal skills.
You are self-driven and motivated to work in a fast-paced, results-driven agile environment with varied responsibilities.
You enjoy taking ownership and delivering on commitment.
You have superior analytical skills with a good problem-solving attitude.
You have strong oral and written communication skills.
You embrace "failures" as "learning opportunities".
Hands-on, in-depth experience with virtualization technologies and hypervisors at enterprise scale:
In-depth knowledge with VMWare and vSAN management and concepts
VMware vCenter 6.7, 7.0 and ESXi 6.5, 6.7, 7.0
vRealize Suite application such as vROps, Log Insight, and LCM
In-depth experience with automation tools, VRO, Puppet, and Ansible
In-depth experience with hardware management: deployment, alerting, patching
In-depth experience in PowerShell, PowerCLI, and/or Python scripting
Knowledge of HW & vendor systems: Dell & OME, Lenovo & XClarity, and HPE & OneView
Knowledge of Containers (Nutanix, Kubernetes, Docker, etc)
Knowledge of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP and SNMP
Experience in GIT or a similar Version Control system.
Awareness of security needs, including implementing top-level fail-safes to protect our systems
Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.
Who We Are:
Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you'll quickly find we're a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world's most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement.  From day one, you'll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com
About Global Tech:
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world's largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption.
We're virtual
Working virtually this year has helped us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting.  Today, we are reimagining the tech workplace of the future by making a permanent transition to virtual.
Coordinates system changes with Customers and other system areas by ensuring testing and validation; overseeing upgrades and release schedules for products; evaluating the environment; serving on division change councils; and reviewing changes before and after production installations.
Coordinates system support and performance by ensuring support queue issues are resolved; identifying the root causes of issues; driving suppliers to resolve issues related to products in accordance with service level agreements; documenting the resolution of issues; and performing escalation procedures.
Leads team tasks by making assignments to team members; reporting updates on projects; tracking and reporting time spent on projects; leading discussions in team meetings; creating and reviewing team documentation; developing written and oral presentations for diverse audiences (for example, management, customers, suppliers, technical staff); participating in budgeting for the team (for example, acquire supplier maintenance quotes, resource projections, create capital expenditure request (CER)); holding team members accountable for compliance with standards; and recognizing team accomplishments.
Leads the development of system solutions, within the guidelines identified in the Information Systems Development Life Cycle (ISDLC), that have high availability and scalability consistent with Customer needs by assisting technical experts and senior engineers in setting technical direction; ensuring requirements are met to support implementations; developing and reviewing system documentation; and participating in solution reviews.
Mentors and develops associates by assigning specific work to develop particular knowledge areas; helping associates with technical competencies; teaching technologies through informal and formal mentorship both inside and outside the team; providing technical expertise through multiple methods (for example, town halls, classrooms, collaboration sites); and providing subject matter expertise for application and infrastructure projects.
Ensures technology roadmaps are incorporated into hardware and software platforms by working with subject matter experts to create system designs; providing input into technology roadmap changes; coordinating the evaluation of supplier solutions; reviewing and presenting recommendations relative to supplier solutions and services; and researching and presenting information about new technologies.
Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.
Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans; using the Open Door Policy; and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.
Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.
Live our Values
Culture Champion
• Models the Walmart values to foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; and supports Walmart's commitment to communities, social justice, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability; maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance.
• Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
Curiosity & Courage
• Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
Digital Transformation & Change
• Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.
Deliver for the Customer
• Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
• Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team's strategy.
Focus on our Associates
• Identifies, attracts, and retains diverse and inclusive team members; builds a high-performing team; embraces diversity in all its forms; and actively supports diversity goal programs.
Collaboration & Influence
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.
• Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate., Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Information Systems, or related field and 3 years experience in information technology or related field within the last 7 years OR 5 years experience in information technology or related field within the last 7 years.
Designing, leading, and implementing small- to medium-scale technology projects, Designing technical solutions in response to customer requests or changes in retail business, Production support, including problem identification, ticket documentation, and customer and vendor relations, Troubleshooting and recommending technical solutions
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About Walmart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) helps people around the world save money and live better - anytime and anywhere - in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each week, over 260 million customers and members visit our 11,723 stores under 59 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With fiscal year 2017 revenue of $485.9 billion, Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity. Additional information about Walmart can be found by visiting http://corporate.walmart.com, on Facebook at http://facebook.com/walmart and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/walmart.


I am glad to announce my first biomimicry publication in the journal Energy and Buildings and would like to give a short overview of it. The paper is titled "Solar Heat Harvesting and Transparent Insulation in Textile Architecture Inspired by Polar Bear Fur" and summarizes the main findings of my master's thesis that I finalized in 2012. I was a biomimetics student at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Austria during that time but did the experimental part of the thesis within an internship at the Institute of Textile Technology and Process Engineering in Denkendorf (ITV Denkendorf), Germany.
The research focus of the paper is on the optimization of a textile-based solar collector system that could build the envelope of future textile-based buildings. Conventional solar collectors are usually built from heavy, rigid materials but alternative materials such as textiles allow for lightweight and material efficient solar collector system design. The proposed collector was inspired by the heat harvesting mechanism of polar bear fur. The polar bear is known for its efficient heat trapping properties, enabled by a dense fur of transparent and hollow hair that lets light pass through to the bear's skin. The skin of the polar bear is black and absorbs light passing though the transparent fur. The emitted heat is trapped close to the bear's body, due to a dense underfur including several air cavities for insulation. These principles were adapted to create a multi-layer arrangement of technical textiles and foils. Two transparent ETFE-membranes were used as the upper layers of the system. ETFE is known for its insulating properties but also lets light pass through due to its transparency. Underneath the ETFE-membranes a 1 cm thick air-permeable spacer fabrics textile provides space for an air-buffer. Underneath the spacer fabrics layer a black silicon layer analogous to the polar bear's skin absorbs the majority of the incoming light. The emitted heat is trapped inside the system due to the air-buffer within the spacer fabrics layer as well as the heat insulating material properties of ETFE. Underneath the black silicon absorber an additional layer of insulation foam minimizes heat loss to the environment. For the purpose of heat transfer, an air flow was generated by a fan inside the air-permeable spacer fabrics layer. The air inside this layer heats up while it moves along the collector and can be piped to a thermo-chemical energy storage system for long-term retention of thermal energy. This concept could inform new self-sufficient, textile-based buildings that harvest all of their energy during summer months and spend this energy during winter. The ITV Denkendorf built a successful prototype building based on the principles described.
The main goal of the study was to test different parameter changes such as air-flow velocities, irradiation intensities and material arrangements on the output temperature of the collector. Temperatures up to 150 C° could be generated using the proposed system. It was also shown that the proposed system is totally independent from ambient temperatures and would work even in sub-zero temperatures if direct solar radiation is available. In the paper, I also discuss further biomimetic strategies that could be considered for additional energetic optimization such as the trapping and guiding of diffuse light via optical fibers or antireflective surface coatings inspired by the moth-eye effect, for example. If you are interested in learning more you can access my paper on ScienceDirect.
There are evolutionary advantages to living in a social group. Groups cooperate to hunt large prey, rear young, and defend territory. Group members experience reduced exposure to predation (safety in numbers), easier access to reproductive partners, and a rich learning environment. There are also evolutionary disadvantages to living in a social group, including increased exposure to disease and parasites…one would think. However, ecologists are learning this might not be a true in all cases.
Getting a paper published isn't easy, so when you succeed it's one of those days that you're fulfilled being a PhD student. You hope more of those days will come.
This paper, freely accessible on Biology Open's website, has been a long effort. For the biology-centered journals the paper was too technical, and for the more engineering ones it was too biological. Not wanting to admit this might be a problem particular to this paper, I think it might be a general challenge for Biomimicry-focused research. The goal isn't necessarily to answer a very in-depth biological question, nor to engineer an entirely new system, but rather to understand biological strategies well enough that they can inspire new designs. I believe with the growing Biomimicry community, there either needs to be a broadened focus of current journals or the formation of new, biomimicry-centered journals that realize the interdisciplinary nature of biomimicry research.
For the study titled "The cuticle modulates ultraviolet reflectance of avian eggshells" hidden patterns of eggshells were visualized with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and UV reflectance was measured before and after etching the cuticle, the outer most layer present on some eggshells. What triggered this research was the observation that some eggshells have very high UV reflectance, and the interest in how this could lead to new UV-protective materials.
The high energy of UV radiation hurts; we've all suffered from sunburn after a sunny, summer day. Many materials, including our skin, are UV-sensitive and need to be protected from high sun exposure. This is also true for avian eggshells, as the developing embryo can be damaged by UV light. It has been speculated that the colours of eggshells can act as a sun barrier because the pigments can absorb UV light. But what about white eggshells that lack pigmentation? This study shows that the cuticle absorbs UV light. This outer layer has a different chemical composition than the rest of the eggshell, and includes proteins and calcium phosphates that can selectively absorb UV light.
Eggshells are a great model system for inspiring innovative materials, because they are almost entirely made of calcium carbonate, a material that is totally harmless and naturally available in abundance. Next time you eat an egg, you might look at it differently.
The Dieline is a packaging design website that promotes packaging innovations and serves as a forum where packaging designers can discuss trends in the field. Last week an article was posted to the site, titled "The Future Of Packaging: From Brand Design To Biomimicry." The article discussed a vision of what packaging might be 100 years from now; a vision that, among other things, forecasted widespread use of biomimetic, biodegradable membranes for packaging.
Looks like Mr. Limpet did it again. This time with structural color!
A research article published in Nature Communications last week found the first biological photonic structure constructed purely of minerals in the limpet.
After a long journey, we are finally able to share a preprint manuscript of our article "Biomimicry: A Path to Sustainable Innovation*," which has been accepted for publication in Design Issues, an MIT Press Journal. Co-authors Emily Kennedy, Bill Hsiung, Peter Niewiarowski, Matthew Kolodziej and I have diverse backgrounds, including biochemistry, international relations, biology, and fine arts.
The purpose of this paper is to introduce scholars, students, and professionals in all fields of design to biomimicry and its potential to yield sustainable outcomes when practiced in a deep, thoughtful way. The design community is an important leverage point for fueling dialogue about biomimicry because designers work "at the nexus of values, attitudes, needs, and actions," and, therefore, are uniquely positioned to act as transdisciplinary integrators and facilitators.
We hope you enjoy the reading, and that it sparks some discussion points that will further improve and stimulate the development of biomimicry. It is important to keep disseminating the biomimicry approach in new fields, and shed light on how we, together as a team of advocates for biomimicry, can stimulate newcomers to be more environmentally and socially responsible while still being innovative and not having to reduce your standard of living.


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Q: JPA and JSON operator native update query I'm trying to make this query work in JPA:
UPDATE billing_log_criteria
SET value = jsonb_set(value, '{cubPersonId}', '"12778269"')
where value ->> 'cubPersonId' = '12778268';

It works perfectly with postgresql but when I integrate it with JPA, I get the following error:
Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: function jsonb_set(jsonb, unknown, character varying) does not exist
  Hint: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add explicit type casts.
Following is the query i tried
@Modifying(clearAutomatically=false)
@Transactional
@Query(value = "UPDATE billing_log_criteria "
        + "SET value = jsonb_set(value, '{cubPersonId}',  jsonb_set(value, '{cubPersonId}', :newId)) "
        + "where value ->> 'cubPersonId' = :oldId", nativeQuery = true)
void updateCubPersonId(@Param("newId") String newId,@Param("oldId") String oldId);

calling like this
String oldId = "12778269";
updateCubPersonId( "'\" 12778268l \"'",oldId);

A: In psql, the argument '{cubPersonId}' is automagically converted to a text[]. In JDBC, this is not the case and you need to explicitly, e.g.:
@Query(value = "UPDATE billing_log_criteria "
        + "SET value = jsonb_set(value, '{cubPersonId}'::text[],  jsonb_set(value, '{cubPersonId}'::text[], to_jsonb(:newId::text))) "
        + "where value ->> 'cubPersonId' = :oldId", nativeQuery = true)

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Click here to view The Christian View magazine's photos of members of the American Legion Pickens Post 11 at the 2017 Pickens Azalea Festival.
Members of the American Legion Pickens Post 11 assisted Meals on Wheels of Pickens County with their 2017 fundraiser Wings and Wheels, held at the Pickens County Airport. Click here to view The Christian View magazine's photo slideshows of the event.
Members of the American Legion Pickens Post 11 held their annual Memorial Day service at Sunrise Cemetery in Pickens on Monday, May 29, 2017. Click here to read The Christian View magazine's article and view 50 photos from the Memorial Day service.
Members of the American Legion Pickens Post 11 held a Memorial Day ceremony in the Veterans Garden of Honor at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Pickens on Monday, May 29, 2017. Click here for The Christian View magazine's article and view 60 photos from the Memorial Day Post Everlasting ceremony.
Members of the American Legion Pickens Post 11 and Fleet Reserve Association Branch 15 held a traditional Memorial Day ceremony at the Six Mile Town Hall on Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Click here to read The Christian View magazine's article and view photos from the ceremony.
The Fort Prince George Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) honored Beulah Smith, age 92, of Liberty, whose son, 'Jim', died in Vietnam in 1969, seven weeks before his 20th birthday. Click here to read The Christian View magazine's article and view photos.
Members of the Fleet Reserve Association Branch 15 and American Legion Pickens Post 11 held a traditional Memorial Day ceremony at the Six Mile Town Hall on Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Click here to read The Christian View magazine's article and view photos from the ceremony.
The Christian View magazine was present as Marines from the Special Operations Command, based at Camp LeJuene, and wives of the Marines who are married, were welcomed to Southern Wesleyan University for the 2018 Honoring Their Service Ride. Following the opening ceremony at the Gilbert Track and Field Complex, the Marines and spouses, driven in Jeeps provided by Upstate Legends Jeep Club, were escorted by police and veteran motorcyclists and members of the Marine Corps League of Pickens County, as they made their way to their destination for some much deserved rest and relaxation at Lake Keowee. Click here for Honoring Their Service Ride 2018, including 175 photographs by The Christian View magazine.
The opening ceremony for the 2017 Honoring Their Service Ride was held at the J.B. 'Red' Owens Recreation Complex in Easley. From there, combat veterans from the Marine Special Operations Command and members of the Wounded Warriors Regiment and their escorts, including the Marine Corps League, drove by Rock Springs Baptist Church and turned on Highway 123 and then through Main Street in downtown Easley, through Liberty, Norris, Central, Clemson, and Seneca to their destination at Keowee Key. Along the way, they were greeted by local citizens showing their support for our veterans. Click here to read The Christian View magazine's article and to view more than 100 photos by The Christian View magazine.
The Christian View magazine was present as the Boy Scouts of Troop 51 held a 2018 flag ceremony at Charles Johnson Memorial Park in Pickens. The family of SPC Charles Johnson, Jr., the first person from Pickens County to die in the Vietnam War, was honored during the service. At left, Scout Leader Perry Gravely, center, is pictured with Johnson's brothers. Click here for the article and photos.
The Christian View magazine interviews John Holcombe, a World War II veteran, and his wife, Rema. The couple, married September 15, 1948 (68 1/2 years as of the 2017 interview), share about their childhood, their family, their faith and their church, and John's service in the U.S. Army. Click here to read The Christian View magazine's article: John and Rema Holcombe: Precious Memories and view The Christian View magazine's photographs from John's 90th birthday party and other family occasions.
The Christian View magazine was present for Clemson University's August 11, 2017 celebration of the 100th birthday of U.S. Army Colonel Ben Skardon, Class of 1938 and Professor Emeritus. (In March, Skardon completed his 10th walk in the Bataan Memorial Death March in New Mexico as the oldest participant and the only survivor of World War II's Bataan Death March.) Click here to read The Christian View magazine's in-depth article and to view 55 photographs by The Christian View magazine from the event.
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Vietnam War veteran Kim Blue, filled with emotion while visiting the Moving Wall.
The Moving Wall visited Oconee County for Veterans Day week, 2017 and was on display at the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative office in Westminster. On the first day of its display, Thursday, November 9, The Christian View magazine interviewed Assistant Director of Oconee County Veterans Affairs Janice Matheson Holbrooks, Director of Oconee County Veterans Affairs Jerry Dyar, Paul and Kim Chen, who have been driving the Wall to sites across the country; and veterans and veterans' family members who visited the Wall. Click here to read The Christian View magazine's in-depth article and view The Christian View magazine's 49 photographs.
Members of the Walhalla High School JROTC participate in the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action ceremony during the opening ceremony for the Vietnam Moving Wall's visit to Oconee County.
On Friday, November 10, 2017, The Christian View magazine attended Oconee County's official opening ceremony for the visit of the Moving Wall. Oconee County Veterans Affairs Director Jerry Dyar served as Master of Ceremonies for the event, and other speakers included Amy Childress from Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, and U.S. Congressman Jeff Duncan. Veteran Truman Holbrooks gave the invocation, and veteran Del Williams led in the Pledge of Allegiance. Don Bickers read aloud the names of the 21 men from Oconee County who died in Vietnam while Harvey Spencer sounded the toll of the bell for each name. Jon Busch played "Taps." Members of the Walhalla High School JROTC participated in the event, including with the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action ceremony. Wreaths were placed by representatives from all of Oconee County's veterans organizations. American Pride, a Statler Brothers tribute band, sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "More Than a Name on a Wall." Veteran Tom Carroll gave the benediction. Click here to read The Christian View magazine's in-depth article and to view The Christian View magazine's more than 165 photographs.
The Christian View magazine attended the Sunday, November 12, 2017 closing ceremony for the Vietnam Moving Wall's visit to Oconee County. Oconee County Veterans Affairs Director Jerry Dyar served as Master of Ceremonies, and speakers included Denise McCormick of Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, Oconee County Assistant Veterans Affairs Director Janice Holbrooks, and State Senator Thomas Alexander from Oconee County. Dyar delivered the invocation. Veteran Frank Kuhn read aloud the names of the 21 men from Oconee County who died in Vietnam while veteran Harvey Spencer sounded the toll of the bell for each name. Jon Busch played "Taps." Wreaths were retrieved from each of Oconee County's veterans service organizations. Veteran Tom Carroll gave the benediction. Click here to read The Christian View magazine's in-depth article and to view The Christian View magazine's 42 photographs.
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The Challenges of Negotiating a U.S.-EU Trade and Investment Agreement
By Simon Lester
A couple months ago on this blog, I set out some views on the possible U.S.-EU free trade agreement that was being discussed. Things have now progressed a bit, and President Obama has announced talks on a "Trade and Investment Partnership" with the EU. Reports suggest that the negotiations will begin this summer.
Should we be excited about these developments? Perhaps a little bit, but overall I maintain the ambivalence I had in my earlier blog post. I have elaborated on this ambivalence in a Free Trade Bulletin. To summarize, I like all the trade liberalization parts of these talks (lower tariffs, removing barriers to services trade, opening up government procurement), but there are also aspects that take us down a difficult and unclear negotiating path. One of these aspects is the issue of "regulatory barriers to trade." Some people have the idea that there will be great economic benefits if we can harmonize regulation across the U.S. and EU, so that, for example, manufacturers do not have to produce different products for different markets. I agree that there would be benefits if we could address this problem. But it won't be easy to reach agreement here, and there could be some downsides (e.g., if this is a compromise, both the U.S. and EU may have to agree to some regulatory changes that they don't like).
I'd like to get excited about these talks. But I have some doubts about their scope, and I'm not sure anything will come out of them.
We'll be talking more about all this at a policy forum here at Cato tomorrow.
General, Trade Policy
Student Essay Contest
Attention high‐school and college students: The Moorfield Storey Institute has announced the Vision of Ayn Rand essay contest. Students are invited to submit essays related to issues discussed in the book The Vision of Ayn Rand by Nathaniel Branden.
The book has a fascinating history. For ten years, from 1958 to 1968, Branden delivered lectures on "Basic Principles of Objectivism" at the Nathaniel Branden Institute in New York City and, via tape transcription, to groups in more than 80 cities throughout the United States and abroad. More than 35,000 students attended those lectures. Along with Rand's books, the lectures helped to create one of the first modern organized libertarian movements. But until 2009, the lectures were never available in printed form. Now they are. Buy the book here.
Back in 2009 I said this in a jacket blurb:
This is the most important work on Objectivism not written by Ayn Rand, available at last in book form. These lectures were delivered by the person closest to Ayn Rand, designated by her as her intellectual heir, often with her sitting in the audience and answering questions about them, and endorsed by her. Rand's subsequent falling out with Nathaniel Branden over personal matters doesn't change that. This is the organized, comprehensive treatise on Objectivism that Ayn Rand never wrote. Philosophers, historians, and economists may — and should — debate the claims of Objectivism. In this book they have a systematic work with which to engage. These lectures were also a milestone in libertarian history, as the lecture sessions brought together for the first time large numbers of young people who shared an enthusiasm for Ayn Rand and the individualist philosophy. The lectures were given as taped courses in more than 80 cities, and people drove for miles to listen to them on tape. Wasn't that a time!
Legislative Data and Wikipedia Workshop — March 14th and 15th
In my paper, "Publication Practices for Transparent Government," I talked about the data practices that will produce more transparent government. The government can and should improve the way it provides information about its deliberations, management, and results.
"But transparency is not an automatic or instant result of following these good practices," I wrote, "and it is not just the form and formats of data."
It turns on the capacity of the society to interact with the data and make use of it. American society will take some time to make use of more transparent data once better practices are in place. There are already thriving communities of researchers, journalists, and software developers using unofficial repositories of government data. If they can do good work with incomplete and imperfect data, they will do even better work with rich, complete data issued promptly by authoritative sources.
We're not just sitting around waiting for that to happen.
Based on the data modeling reported in "Grading the Government's Data Publication Practices," and with software we acquired and modified for the purpose, we've been marking up the bills introduced in the current Congress with "enhanced" XML that allows computers to automatically gather more of the meaning found in legislation. (Unfamiliar with XML? Several folks have complimented the explanation of it and "Cato XML" in our draft guide.)
No, we are not going to replace the lawyers and lobbyists in Washington, D.C., quite yet, but our work will make a great deal more information about bills available automatically.
And to build society's capacity "to interact with the data and make use of it," we're hoping to work with the best outlet for public information we know, Wikipedia, making data about bills a resource for the many Wikipedia articles on legislation and newly passed laws.
Wikipedia is a unique project, both technically and culturally, so we're convening a workshop on March 14th and 15th to engage Wikipedians and bring them together with data transparency folks, hopefully to craft a path forward that informs the public better about what happens in Washington, D.C. We've enlisted Pete Forsyth of Wiki Strategies to help assemble and moderate the discussion. Pete was a key designer of the Wikimedia Foundation's U.S. Public Policy Initiative—a pilot program that guided professors and students in making substantive contributions to Wikipedia, and that led to the establishment of the Foundation's Global Education Program.
The Thursday afternoon session is an open event, a Wikipedia tutorial for the many inexperienced editors among us. It's followed by a Sunshine Week reception open to all who are interested in transparency.
On Friday, we'll roll up our sleeves for an all-day session in which we hope Wikipedians and experienced government data folks will compare notes and produce some plans and projects for improving public access to information.
You can view a Cato event page about the workshop here. To sign up, go here, selecting which parts of the event you'd like to attend. (Friday attendance requires a short application.)
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Follies
Global Science Report is a weekly feature from the Center for the Study of Science, where we highlight one or two important new items in the scientific literature or the popular media. For broader and more technical perspectives, consult our monthly "Current Wisdom."
Carbon dioxide regulations promulgated by the EPA are based upon the assumption that they will actually do something about climate change in the U.S., and that the rest of the world, which had been needling the U.S. for decades of inaction, will now follow our virtuous lead.
Neither is going to happen.
This Report is based upon just‐released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showing that the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the U.S in the last year was the about the same as was emitted in 1994 — nearly two decades years ago. During that time, emissions grew steadily for 14 years, peaking in 2007, and then fell dramatically (Figure 1). The emissions in 2012 were 12% less than those of 2007.
Figure 1. U.S. annual carbon dioxide emissions, 1994 – 2012 (data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration).Given this non‐trivial decline in carbon dioxide emissions, let's see how the government's assumptions are holding up.
Only Doom Without the Denominator
The Obama administration tried to turn the doom-and-gloom up a notch over the weekend, releasing reports on how many employees each state could lose if sequestration isn't stopped. Teachers were prominently featured, of course, because nothing scares people like the prospect of their kids not getting educated.
"Could" is a crucial word here, because it is entirely possible that savings could be found that would negate the need to dismiss people. For instance, unnecessary purchases could be cancelled, or all employees could take small pay cuts. But suppose worst-case firings did come. How horrific would the education damage be?
It turns out, once you look at the overall staffing picture, not very. Using a compilation of the state reports put together by the Washington Post, as well as Digest of Education Statistics staffing data, we assembled the following table calculating how big a percentage of public school employees in each state would disappear in the worst-case scenario. Unlike the administration, we included the numerator and the denominator.
Why Have a Machine‐Readable Federal Government Organization Chart?
When I write and talk about getting better data about the federal government, its activities, and spending, I mostly have in mind strengthening public oversight by bringing computers to bear on the problem. You don't have to know much about transparency, organizational management, or computing to understand that having a machine‐readable government organization chart is an important start.
There should be a list, that computers can process, showing what agencies, bureaus, programs, and projects exist in the federal government and how they are related. Then budgets, bills in Congress, spending programs and actual outlays, regulations, guidance documents, and much more could be automatically tied to the federal organizational units affected and involved.
But it's not only public oversight that would benefit from such a list.
Mike Riggs at Reason magazine has found that the Office of Management and Budget's sequestration report issued last September listed a cut to the National Drug Intelligence Center's budget even though the NDIC went out of business last June.
The first line item on page 121 of the OMB's September 2012 report says that under sequestration the National Drug Intelligence Center would lose $2 million of its $20 million budget. While that's slightly more than 8.2 percent (rounding error or scare tactic?), the bigger problem is that the National Drug Intelligence Center shuttered its doors on June 15, 2012–three months before the OMB issued its report to Congress.
That's embarrassing for the administration, as it should be. Riggs asks, "Might there be other errors in the OMB's report?"
Getting organized is not just about public oversight. Another reason to have a machine‐readable federal government organization chart is to improve internal management and controls. This kind of mistake should be nearly impossible. People at OMB should be able to download the list of government entities at any time, day or night, and be sure that it is the correct listing that uniquely identifies and distinguishes all the organizational units of the federal government at that moment. We should be able to download it, too.
Unfortunately, OMB controller Danny Werfel has been riding the brake on transparency. He and the Obama administration as a whole should be stepping on the gas. In early February, the Sunlight Foundation found that more than $1.5 trillion in federal spending for fiscal year 2011 was misreported on USASpending.gov.
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Karzai's Decree: Get Out!
By Malou Innocent
Just yesterday, after accusing unnamed "armed individuals" of harassing, torturing, and murdering innocent villagers, Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai ordered all U.S. Special Forces out of Wardak province, a defensive buffer against insurgents southwest of the capital. Reports on Karzai's decision have focused on the implications of America's withdrawal from the "strategically important" province. But U.S. policymakers should leverage the opportunity by rescinding their open‐ended commitment to the country and transferring responsibility to the Afghans.
To be sure, U.S. and coalition forces will face challenges as U.S. combat troops scale back to advisory roles and U.S. Special Forces assert ever greater authority. But as someone close to Karzai commented sourly, Afghan officials are tired of Americans "running roughshod all around our country."
For years, there have been reports that CIA‐trained Afghan militias operating beyond the control of the Karzai administration have conducted so‐called night raids and captured and killed a number of alleged Taliban commanders — "alleged" because information about those operations remains classified. Furthermore, and perhaps more importantly, Taliban‐perpetrated violence in and around the province continues.
Amid increasing Afghan public anger over foreign misconduct and civilian casualties, the mere suspicion that American commandos condoned such lawless activities (an allegation U.S. officials deny) proved enough to encourage Karzai to expel from Wardak the very foreigners he relies on for his country's security. As Presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi said of Karzai's decision, "local people are blaming the U.S. Special Forces for every incident that is taking place there."
That blame‐shifting, however warranted, is particularly troublesome, given the reckless behavior of Afghan security forces under U.S. training. BBC reporter Ben Anderson recently documented that Afghan police are also rife with criminality, and show little compunction about firing at enemies when civilians are in the line of fire. Upending the fundamental premise of Washington's "hearts and minds" strategy, one deputy police commander told Anderson he saw no difference between civilians and the Taliban.
For these and other reasons far too numerous to mention here, the Afghan government, its police, and armed forces must take full responsibility for the security of their country. Rather than respond with indignation, Washington should take Kabul's ruling as a blessing.
Update: A previous version of this post did not include a source for the following passage: "But as someone close to Karzai commented sourly, Afghan officials are tired of Americans 'running roughshod all around our country.' " The source is the New York Times and the link has been inserted above.
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Santa Clara County Voter Registration Hits All-Time High
By Jennifer Wadsworth @jennwadsworth / November 6, 2018 1
Turnout in Santa Clara County is expected to land somewhere between 60 and 70 percent. (Photo by 3Dphoto, via Shutterstock)
Update, 1am: In the notoriously troubled Alum Rock Union Elementary School District, 20-year trustee Esau Herrera appeared headed for defeat. But, surprisingly, his political ally, the outspokenly inflammatory Khanh Tran—who's the subject of a restraining order that prevents him from even attending meetings where the superintendent is also present—was on track to keep his spot on the five-member board.
Andres Quintero, who generally votes against Tran, secured the most votes by early Wednesday, putting him well ahead of Tran, who himself pulled just a couple-hundred votes ahead of third-place contender Linda Chavez.
Source: sccvote.org
Update, 12am: In the San Jose council races, incumbent Tam Nguyen edged ahead of second-time challenger Maya Esparza by 10 percentage points in District 7.
In District 9, where Don Rocha terms out at the end of the year, it appears that San Jose Unified trustee and decades-long real estate broker Pam Foley will succeed him. With 77 percent of precincts reporting in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Foley beat Campbell Union High School District trustee Kalen Gallagher by a 7-percent margin.
Source: sccvote
Update, 9:20pm: An hour-plus after polls close, two female candidates in the most closely watched Santa Clara County races—Sheriff Laurie Smith and D4 supervisorial contender Susan Ellenberg—lead their male challengers, John Hirokawa and Don Rocha, respectively, by about 13 percentage points with 36 percent of the ballots counted.
Update, 8pm: Broadcasts of MSNBC and CNN played on two projectors at the Orchard City indivisible shindig in Campbell. The room erupts in applause when both channels announced that the Dems were on track to win control of the House, and with "boos" when the returns showed Beto O'Rourke trailing Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas.
Orchard City "snowflakes" met at a local church to watch the returns.
Update, 5pm: Santa Clara County election officials say 600 people submitted conditional voter registration forms Monday. About twice as many are expected today, ROV spokesman Eric Kurhi said. By comparison, the county had 432 conditional registrations before the June primary. Conditional registration, which allows people to register beyond the October deadline, has only been an option since Jan. 1, 2017.
The conditional registrations are one of many numbers trending up this election—both here and throughout the U.S. One of the latest national early voting tallies set the number at a staggering 40 million with a record number of youth voters and people of color. That's 4 million higher than the previous, already record-smashing estimate.
Melinda Jackson, who chairs San Jose State's Political Science Department and studies the intersection of politics and identity, said Trump's presidency has been so unprecedented that the midterms are bound to be, too.
"This president has been pursuing an unusual political strategy, which is to just focus on the base," she said. "He's not a typical Republican in that with Trump, it's Trump who always comes first. He's focusing on the people who already really like or support him, but that doesn't reflect the whole Republican party. So, how that strategy pays off for him will be interesting to see."
In largely Democratic regions like the South Bay, of course, it's bound to motivate more people to vote against everything he represents.
"A lot of people in places like this are feeling personally attacked," Jackson said. "They're feeling threatened. Having a high Democratic turnout means they can potentially take back control of the House, although the Senate is more of a long-shot. It could also mean that a lot of voters want to send a message to Trump, that they don't like his rhetoric, they don't like what he represents and they're fighting back."
Jackson says she expects that a lot of young voters will turn out to the polls today for that reason, which would translate to a significant demographic change in the electorate.
"In midterms, you tend to have an older, higher-income voters, but right now we have more engagement from young people than we've seen in at least a generation," Jackson said. "And that's really significant when we have four props on the ballot dealing with housing issues, especially Prop. 5 and Prop. 10, which would give cities more authority over rent control. These are issues where that older demographic are going to have completely divergent interests."
National politics and cultural shifts will no doubt sway our local elections, too, Jackson noted. The #MeToo movement culminated in a what's being widely hailed as the "Year of the Woman." Naturally, she said, that bodes well for female candidates such as Susan Ellenberg in the District 4 supervisorial race against Don Rocha and Sheriff Laurie Smith in her re-election battle against retired Undersheriff John Hirokawa.
"I really don't know with the sheriff's race," Jackson said. "I mean, I wouldn't be surprised either way. Laurie Smith is a woman, so she might stand to benefit from that, but there have been a lot of ethical questions raised about her."
In races between two Democrats, like the one for county supervisor, it often comes down to the identity of the candidates, Jackson explained.
"That's especially true if the voters don't know enough about them," she said. "Then they may end up voting based on group identities, thinking, 'Well, I'd like to see more women elected,' or, 'It would be great to elect a Latino,' or a young candidate and so on."
Original article, 11am Nov. 6: About 887,000 Santa Clara County residents have signed up to vote in this year's midterm election. Local officials say that's the largest-ever pool of registered voters in this jurisdiction, surpassing that of even the 2016 presidential contest, and reflects unprecedented statewide numbers.
A record 19.7 million Californians registered to vote in today's election—1.9 million more than in 2014, according to the Secretary of State. Early voting has been trending up, too.
As of Monday, some 257,497 vote-by-mail ballots had made their way to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters (ROV)—a midterm election record. Statewide, about 3.7 million Californians mailed theirs in by Sunday, according to Political Data Inc. Nationally, the early vote totals of 36 million this morning fall short of those in the 2016 presidential race, when more than 46 million early votes were counted by this time.
Still, massive early voting numbers point to high voter participation as officials from both major parties cast the midterms as an inflection point that will determine the course of the nation under a divisive President Trump. In this county, turnout is expected to land somewhere between 60 and 70 percent, according to ROV spokesman Eric Kurhi.
The polls close at 8 tonight. Eligible residents who forgot to sign up to vote by the Oct. 22 deadline can still apply for conditional registration.
If you need a way to get to the polls, the Santa Clara County Democratic Party is offering free rides (just call 408.445.9500 for more info), as are Uber, Lyft and Ford GoBike.
Results of the vote-by-mail ballots submitted to the ROV early will be posted online after the closing gun. A few more rounds of vote tallies are expected to go live tonight, but expect the counting to continue round-the-clock for several more days at least.
San Jose Inside/Metro Silicon Valley will be making the rounds at some election watch parties (some of which we listed below), so look for our roundup of the evening in Wednesday's print issue. Check out our Twitter feed @SanJoseInside for updates.
Orchard City Indivisible
6:30pm, United Church of Christ, 400 W. Campbell Ave., Campbell
Measures V + T
7:30pm, Mezcal, 25 W. San Fernando St., San Jose
Santa Clara County Democratic Party
8pm, 2901 Moorpark Ave., San Jose
South Bay Labor Council
7:30pm, 2102 Almaden Road, San Jose
Election Night at Art Boutiki
6pm, 44 Race St., San Jose
SIREN Fiesta de las Elleciones
7pm, 1415 Koll Circle, San Jose
Flights Election Night Watch Party
6:30pm, 165 Los Gatos Saratoga Road, Los Gatos
SJSU Votes!
7pm, Diaz Compean Student Union, SJSU, 1 Washington Square, San Jose
SURJ Meeting & Election Night Party
6pm, Bibo's NY Pizza, 1431 Bird Ave., San Jose
Election Night at Renegade's
6pm, Renegade's Bar, 501 W. Taylor St., San Jose
SJSU Master of Public Administration Student Association
8:30pm, 4th Street Pizza, 150 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose
Jennifer Wadsworth is the news editor for San Jose Inside and Metro Silicon Valley. Email tips to [email protected] or follow her on Twitter at @jennwadsworth.
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Eric Szkarlat: Pro-choice on child support
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BY ERIC SZKARLAT
In 1973, the well-known U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade established a woman's right to choose to have an abortion. In 1990, my father wanted to have another child. In 1991, my mother chose not to terminate her pregnancy and I popped out.
But let's travel to a fantasy world for just a minute in which my parents were unwed, my father walked out on my mother when he learned she was pregnant and she carried the pregnancy to term and raised the child. We've seen this scenario a million times, both in movies and in real life. We've even got a convenient, alliterative phrase for those men: deadbeat dads. To be one is to be looked upon with a special kind of disapproval — which is a bit of a double standard when you consider how many women who are unready for parenthood abort.
Women are often encouraged to make their own choices about terminating pregnancies based on their readiness. If a woman isn't financially, emotionally or mentally ready to have and care for a child, she may abort. These aren't the only reasons that women choose abortion, certainly, but they are enormous factors. Warren Farrell — a former director of the National Organization for Women, but later a critic of feminism — says that terminating a pregnancy is "female choice as female destiny."
What about keeping a child? Farrell calls this "female choice as male destiny." What he means by this is that if a woman chooses not to terminate, the man is both legally obligated and socially expected to provide for the child. Though this may not always happen, it's expected that men carry their weight in support.
Both of these definitions lack key components, but they're a starting point. Certainly both female choices affect the destinies of the potential parents and the child-to-be. But ultimately, we are still putting in the hands of women the power to decide the fates of 3 individuals. I don't think that's quite fair at all.
Instead, I'd support male abortion, advocated first by South Carolina attorney Melanie McCulley. This is an imperfect solution, but it's the best we can do to ensure full social and legal equality where we have already accepted the validity of the abortive option for women. This way, men have just as much freedom to ensure their own destiny as women. And yes, to those "pro-choicers" retching in the corner at this point, it's indeed about equality.
How would it work? Women would still choose whether or not to carry the child to term. Men would merely choose whether or not to provide for the child. They would not exercise any control over the woman's body. Importantly, men would be required to surrender parental rights in addition to financial responsibilities. Essentially, it is the same as with female abortion: In the eyes of society, a male who has aborted would not be a parent at all. He would be given an equal window during the pregnancy to that during which women may decide to terminate. If he misses that three-month window, he would be legally obligated to provide support for the child during pregnancy and subsequently after birth.
But let me be clear: I said this is imperfect because it is. In my perfect world, everyone would take responsibility, especially for their mistakes. People should know before having intercourse that there could be life-altering consequences. No person should ever abandon or abort a child because having one would be inconvenient for them. I don't think the child, or child-to-be, should have to pay for the mistakes of their parents. And of course, two parents are almost always better than one.
I'm of the opinion that a fetus is still human and still deserving of the same rights with which all other humans are endowed — among them, the right to live. I'll let you pick whether life begins at conception or birth or somewhere in between, because that's irrelevant. I believe the metaphysical, overarching right to live comes upon humans at conception, because it is at that moment that they are distinctly, genetically human.
There's a big qualifier, eh? The alternative to the male/female abortion model would be to wipe abortion out altogether, with exception to endangerment of the physical health of either mother or child and cases of rape. But for now, since we are post-1973 and pre-any-other-decision-regarding-abortion, we can do our best to ensure legal equality of the sexes. Biology may not always provide you with all the options that you want to have, but society — as a human construct — certainly should. We can't have true equality without the equal opportunity ensured to men by an abortive option.
Eric Szkarlat can be reached a eszkarla@umich.edu.


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Solaris (titre original : ) est le huitième tome de la série Rougemuraille de Brian Jacques. Publié en 1995, il fut traduit en français et découpé en trois tomes : Le Sauveur à tête d'or, L'Orphelin maudit et Le Jugement du guerrier.

Dans l'ordre chronologique de l'histoire, il est précédé par Le Guerrier disparu et suivi par Mariel.

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Le Sauveur à tête d'or
Durant l'hiver, la horde du furet Sigrif le Vicieux capture un jeune blaireau et le maltraite régulièrement. Il se lie d'amitié avec un faucon du nom de Cresserel, prisonnier de la horde lui aussi, qui l'aide à se libérer. Avant de s'échapper, le blaireau ramasse une énorme branche et écrase la patte de Sigrif. Comme le blaireau ne se rappelle pas son nom, Cresserel le nomme Solaris, à cause de la rayure dorée sur son front. Les deux animaux deviennent inséparables et voyagent à travers les bois de Mousseray, aidant les faibles et les opprimés. Les saisons passent, Solaris et Sigrif deviennent plus forts et plus vifs; la confrontation finale devient inévitable, les deux ennemis criant vengeance.
Dans ses rêves, Solaris voit la montagne Salamandastron, demeure de ses ancêtres. Il fait donc route vers ce lieu pour devenir un blaireau souverain.

L'Orphelin maudit
Sigrif et sa horde font route à travers les bois de Mousseray, et l'abbaye est sur leur chemin. Cresserel prévient les habitants qui décident d'éviter une attaque frontale et de dévier les envahisseurs de leur trajectoire. Dans la bataille, le fils de Sigrif tombe dans un fossé et est recueilli par les habitants qui lui donnent le nom de Sibyl. L'enfant est confié à Capucine, qui est chargée de son éducation et sera son seul soutien à Rougemuraille. En effet, le jeune Sibyl s'avère au moins aussi cruel que son père et va jusqu'à empoisonner l'eau destinée à Frère Jean. À la suite de cette affaire, il est banni de l'abbaye et jure de revenir se venger. Il prend la route de Salamandastron où il pense retrouver son père. Effectivement, Sigrif et sa horde, agrandie par les troupes de Zigar le corsaire, sont proches de la grande montagne de feu...

Le jugement du guerrier
La confrontation finale approche. Sigrif et son armée sont au pied de Salamandastron tandis que Solaris élabore des stratégies pour pallier le manque de troupes et de défenses. Cependant, Capucine s'échappe de l'abbaye pour rattraper Sibyl et elle est rejointe par son ami Gontran.
Sigrif pense avoir l'avantage du nombre mais c'est sans compter sur la détermination de la Patrouille des Coureurs de Fond et l'arrivée de renforts en la personne des loutres et musaraignes de Mousseray. Sigrif est donc défait et bat en retraite. Solaris et quelques lièvres décident de le poursuivre pour lui faire payer tous ses crimes. Pendant ce temps, Sibyl arrive sur un plateau rocheux non loin de Salamandastron, suivi de près par Capucine et Gontran. Sigrif et le reste de sa horde arrivent à ce même endroit, ainsi le père et le fils se rencontrent enfin. Solaris et ses lièvres entreprennent d'escalader la montagne pour arriver au plateau, mais le seigneur blaireau se fait surprendre par Sigrif qui l'assomme à coup de pierre. À la faveur de la nuit, Capucine tente d'aller sauver Solaris mais se fait prendre par Sigrif. Sibyl intervient alors et Capucine réussit à délivrer le blaireau, pendant que Sigrif ramasse un javelot et le jette en direction de la jeune souris. Sibyl se jette sur la trajectoire du projectile, se sacrifiant pour sauver celle qui l'a élevé. Solaris, libéré de ses liens, peut laisser libre cours à sa fureur et jette le furet du haut de la montagne.
Nos héros rentrent à l'abbaye, où ils sont accueillis par un banquet gigantesque, mais surtout où Solaris peut enfin rencontrer sa mère, Bella de Castelblairis.

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Review of Love, Hypothetically (Theta Alpha Gamma series) by Anna Tenino
Paul's life is not going as well as he had hoped. He's been kicked out of his apartment, actually Sebastian's apartment, because he insulted his friend's boyfriend. He lost Sebastian's friendship too because when it came down to it, he was actually cruel to Brad the boyfriend, not just insulting. But he had to look out for Sebastian's best interests didn't he? After all Brad was one of those awful jock frat boys that can't be trusted except that he turned out that he could plus Sebastian loved Brad. So no more friend and no more apartment. Now Paul is reduced once more to dorm living at Calapooya College and scouring for tutor gigs to earn extra money. Then he gets a call to meet with the new girls softball coach who needs a tutor for the team and gets the shock of his life.
Trevor Gardiner was once a Major League baseball player until he retired and came out of the closet. Trevor is also the reason that Paul hates jocks and frat boys. Nine years earlier, the two had been secretly in love in high school until they were caught with their pants down in the boys locker room. Faced with the rest of his team,the high school coach, and his future as a ball player, Trevor threw Paul under the bus, saying that Paul had come on to him, outing Paul in the process. Paul's subsequent years in school were hellish until he escaped to college.
Now Trevor is the new softball coach at Calapooya College. More than anything he wants Paul's forgiveness for his actions in high school. He also wants them to try again as a couple, something that Paul definitely does not want. Or does he. Can Trevor's apologies overcome years of pain and hurt or will Paul get the revenge he has always dreamed about.
Frat Boy and Toppy, the first in the Theta Alpha Gamma series, was an absolute delight of a read so I was really looking forward to the next in the series. Love, Hypothetically meets my expectations for another great time to be had exploring love among the disparate groups on campus and clears up some issues I wondered about in the first book. Paul is a carryover from the first book where he was one of Sebastian's roommates when Brad entered the picture and he was the one whose unwavering dismissal of Brad as anything other than a boy toy so angered Sebastian that he threw Paul out of the house and cut him out as a friend as well. Paul was the one character whose hostility towards jocks and Brad in particular was never explained and it made him a little one dimensional. Love, Hypothetically answers the question why all the jock hatred from Paul?
Tenino makes it clear that Paul had ample reason to despise the jock mentality based on Trevor's betrayal and his outing of Paul in high school, an event Paul has never recovered from. All of Paul's fears, hurt and distrust stem from that one traumatic event and he has turned it into a hatred of all things fraternity and jock orientated. Tenino takes Paul from a one layered persona and gives him a depth of background and emotion that makes him totally relatable and easy to empathize with. Paul's snarky attitude and bitter quips can be embraced when you know they stem from a deeper hurt. I liked the fact that there was no instant forgiveness or instant love factored into the story. Instead Tenino has Paul examine the past, even if hypothetically, to see if he can get through the emotions and memories he has carried all these years to arrive at a new possible future. Not an easy thing to achieve and Tenino lets us see that and that she does so with humor and snappy dialog is to her credit. I will admit to a spew moment when Paul decides to go ahead with his 12 step program for Pricks and ends up on Sebastian and Brad's doorstep with his awkward apologies in hand. It doesn't exactly flow smoothly out of his mouth because well, he's Paul. It turns out kind of snippy, awkward, and has to be pulled out of him. It is a great scene that kept me chuckling even after I finished the book.
That's another thing Anne Tenino does so well. She treats serious issues, liking being outed in school, with the gravity it deserves but never loses sight that humor and laughter help get through the memories and a bad situation while never taking away from the pain it causes. We have laughs that help alleviate our fears and pain all delivered with a deft touch that keeps me coming back for more. Whether the humor is delivered situationally or through dialog, it always works.
Tenino creates characters for her stories that come across as completely human, warts, intolerance, fears, snippiness, loyalty and love all included. It makes them easy to understand and sometimes easy to get frustrated with. But above all her characters are easy to cheer for and hope for their happiness. It will also keep me coming back for more. More of the Theta Alpha Gamma series, more Anne Tenino. Read the books, I think you will find yourself agreeing with me.
Cover art by LC Chase. Clean, bright and easy on the eyes. I really like this cover but not as well as Frat Boy and Toppy.
Frat Boy and Toppy (Theta Alpha Gamma series #1). Read my review here.
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Test sites are looking to unmanned traffic management (UTM) technology to make the airspace safer for all drone operations—including beyond visual line of sight flights (BVLOS).
The Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence and Innovation (LSUASC) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi assisted in search and rescue efforts after devastating flooding in Wimberley, Texas. Here's what they learned from those missions.
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U.S. House Tax Plan: Benefit for Richest 1 Percent in Kentucky Grows Over Time
Kenny Colston | November 6, 2017
A new 50-state analysis of the U.S. House tax plan released last week reveals that in Kentucky the wealthiest 1 percent of Kentuckians would receive the greatest share of the total tax cut in year 1 and their share would grow through 2027. Further, the value of the tax cut would decline over time for every income group in Kentucky except the very richest.
House leadership continues to tout this tax proposal, which would increase the federal deficit by $1.5 trillion over the next decade, as a plan to boost the middle class. But a closer examination of the bill's provisions reveals that it is laser-focused on tax cuts for the nation's highest earning households. The wealthiest Kentuckians' share of the tax cuts would grow over time due to phase-ins of tax cuts that mostly benefit the rich and the eventual elimination or erosion in value of provisions that benefit low- and middle-income taxpayers. For example, after 5 years, the bill eliminates a $300 non-child dependent credit that benefits low- and middle-income families while fully repealing the estate tax in year 6 for the very large estates subject to the tax.
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More specifically, the 10-year outlook for the plan reveals that by 2027, for the top 1 percent of households in Kentucky their share of the tax cut would increase from 25 percent in year 1 to 40 percent by 2027, for an average cut of more than $41,000. Middle-income taxpayers' average tax cut would erode from $580 to $290 after 10 years. The tax cut for all income brackets except the richest one percent would decline during the nine year period.
"Let's be clear: The U.S. House tax plan will primarily benefit the rich, across the nation and in Kentucky," said Kenny Colston, communications director for the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy. "These tax cuts that mostly benefit top earners will add to the nation's annual deficits and will come at the expense of low- and middle-income families who will likely lose more from funding cuts to education, health care, infrastructure and other public services than they gain from the small tax cuts they would receive."
To read the entire report or get more details about Kentucky go to http://itep.org/housetaxplan
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Comment: What will Virgil Abloh bring to Louis Vuitton?
Today, LVMH-owned French fashion house Louis Vuitton announced Virgil Abloh, a leading name in the industry's streetwear-focused movement, as its new artistic director of menswear.
Abloh is the founder of Off-White, the men's and womenswear brand founded in 2013. The label quickly rose to prominence and gained a cult-like following that spanned demographics, selling £400 jersey hoodies and £500 denim jackets with signature eye-catching chevron graphics, via retailers such as Net-a-Porter and Matchesfashion. Off-White won the Urban Luxe award at the British Fashion Awards in 2017.
The American designer trained as an architect but made his move into the industry working closely with singer Kanye West, most prominently as West's creative director. Despite a number of high profile "internships" at brands such as Italian luxury house Fendi, Abloh has no formal fashion training. Before Off-White he was behind short-lived labels Been Trill and Pyrex.
Abloh's much-hyped success has permeated into a range other projects. He is a successful DJ and has put on several art exhibitions, most recently in London in collaboration with artist Takashi Murakami. His collaboration with sportswear giant Nike on a range of 10 trainers was a hysteria-creating success, while other link-ups have included Jimmy Choo and Moncler, alongside an upcoming range with homeware store Ikea.
As well as working closely with Kanye West, Abloh has built a broad circle of celebrity supporters as well as his own following, and has more than 1.5 million followers on his personal Instagram.
He will now head up one of the industry's biggest and oldest luxury brands' menswear collections, showing his first range during Paris Fashion Week Men's in June. He is Louis Vuitton's first African-American artistic director in its 164-year history and will become one of just a few of designers of colour working at the top of the fashion industry.
At Louis Vuitton, he succeeds Kim Jones, the designer who famously bought the beginnings of a streetwear flair to Louis Vuitton's menswear and scored the now-notorious collaboration with underground label Supreme. This month Jones announced his move to Dior Homme as artistic director.
Abloh's appointment is the latest in a series of high-profile moves that solidifies the important merging of the casual streetwear style with the top end of luxury fashion – a shift spearheaded by brands such as Abloh's Off-White and the Vetements label, and picked up on by Gucci, Balenciaga and Burberry, among others.
The interesting appointment by LVMH, much rumoured but seen as not plausible by some, indicates the conglomerate's shift in strategy that confirms luxury fashion's future within the streetwear sphere.
The hype around brand Abloh is only set to grow. At his most recent Paris Fashion Week show, riotous crowds formed outside the venue, and LVMH will undoubtedly be wanting to bring this level of excitement to Louis Vuitton's menswear offer.
However, while Abloh has been elevating his Off-White brand in recent seasons, adding tulle dresses and tailoring to its offer, it will be interesting to see how he translates his signature style to one of the industry's biggest luxury brands. He will undoubtedly bring a new and extremely loyal customer to Louis Vuitton, but will the brand's core luxury shopper warm to Abloh?
And while LVMH does not seem believe there is an end in sight for the luxury-meets-streetwear trend, Abloh will have to work hard to build a strong foundation that can carry Louis Vuitton through the hype and onto a successful future.