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Interview Outtakes: Michael McDonald on Recovering from Addiction, His Local Music Roots, Working with Ray Charles and How That Grizzly Bear Collaboration Happened
by Annie Zaleski
On Friday night, Ferguson, Missouri's own Michael McDonald is returning to the area for a solo show at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. The concert is a benefit for the St. Louis-area branch of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. Tickets are still available here. In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer interviewed McDonald about his time in the local music scene and touched on the forthcoming tour with Donald Fagen and Boz Scaggs, his Motown covers and much, much more. Outtakes from their chat -- ranging from McDonald's memories of listening to music with his dad to collaborating with Grizzly Bear -- are below. Enjoy!
Christian Schaeffer: You haven't played in St. Louis in a few years, so this will be a little bit of a homecoming. Are these hometown shows different for you? Michael McDonald: Yes, they're a lot of fun. We have a lot of friends and family still in St. Louis. Unfortunately I'm gonna be pulling out that night to go to Louisville - we play in Louisville the next night - but I'm looking forward to at least getting on stage and getting a look at everybody and hopefully meeting while we're there. But it will be a pretty quick in-and-out for me, unfortunately. But it's always fun to be there and to play for a hometown crowd.
This concert in St. Louis is a benefit for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. Why does this cause stand out for you? Well, it's a cause that's near and dear to my heart. In this country [I really believe]...the biggest problem with addiction is not that it happens, but that people don't have the information readily at hand, except through organizations like the Council. I'm a firm believer, through my own experience, that recovery is sometimes a gift. I hear people say "I'm a grateful alcoholic," meaning that they were in recovery and they had a perspective on life that they didn't have prior to the help with addiction. But I came to appreciate that; I came to realize that in recovery that I'm a better person than I was had I never experienced it. And through the grace of God I still go one day at a time. But I'm one of the lucky ones. I was guided towards and I found the opportunity to get into recovery.
For so many people, even though they may be guided, we're the lucky ones. Because the odds still aren't that great; I think something in the realm of 30 percent of people actually get sober and stay sober for any length of time. But what happens is, it's a wonderful movement that perpetuates itself, and the more information that gets out there the better it is for everybody. People that are recovering many times go into the profession, and no one can bring the experience and strength and hope to another addict than an addict can. The more we support it as a community, whether you're an addict or not, you can rest assured that you're supporting something that perpetuates itself in many ways, and has spread throughout the world.
There's nowhere in the world I can go where I don't find recovery, whether it's AA or the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. It's one of those great enigmas, where as long as it's been around - as long as it's been a malady in civilization and mankind - we know so little about it to this day, and it comes down to a willingness on the part of the person, all by themselves, to not live this way anymore. And they need someplace to go and need a bigger entity to be a part of, in any case. And that's all we need, one day at a time. So anything I can do to support that, I'm there.
Michael McDonald, "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me":
Steve Scorfina is going to be opening the show, and I know you two played together when you were growing up in St. Louis. What was the music scene like when you started playing in your teens? You know, funny enough, looking at it now, [it was] very innocent. I mean, we were just playing in places that we probably had no business playing in - we were too young. It was a thrill; it was absolutely thrilling back then. I looked so forward to it, to everything to do with it. I was just hooked. It's just a place I found that was really fulfilling to me and my friends. It was our relationship that was built on music. So many of the people I met growing up in St. Louis were other musicians.
I started off singing with my father, who had a beautiful voice. He sang in a lot of the saloons around St. Louis and stuff, so I grew up watching him. Then veering off into bands by the time I was twelve, and by the time I was fourteen we were playing the Club Imperial and things like that. We were very lucky that it was such a fertile ground. There was just one way of doing things back then. Now, there's a million different ways - I kinda feel for these young kids who have to do it themselves, and they have to create their own following in the music business. The days of booking agents and A&R people and record companies have changed dramatically. "Kid Charlemagne" with Steely Dan, 2006
In my mind, much of your career has been hallmarked by the many collaborations with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers and Kenny Loggins and all those duets. I wondered if throughout those collaborations if there's one relationship that stands out as fruitful or a lot of fun. They're all special in their own way. I don't say that to be politically correct - they really are. Kenny and I have written some of the best songs I've ever written. He's just a great songwriter and a great recording artist in his own right. You know, Donald and those guys got me out of LA and on the road. They were probably my favorite band at the time and to actually get that gig for me was a dream come true. I've always been a huge fan of Donald's writing and their music with Steely Dan. So to be any small part of that was a big deal to me, and a big part of my life. And Boz and I - I remember hearing Boz's rough mixes in [late Toto drummer/legendary session musician] Jeff Porcaro's apartment when he and I were sitting around on a Saturday morning with nothing much to do. I played him the rough mixes from the Takin' it to the Streets record and he played me something he was working on, which was [Scaggs' watershed LP] Silk Degrees. That's a real vivid memory for me. I loved Jeff so much. I miss him a lot; everybody does. He was such a great guy.
Ray Charles and Michael McDonald, "Hey Girl":
So those are all big memories for me -- working with Patti LaBelle, getting the chance to work with Ray Charles. That was like a fantasy come true, working with a 40-piece orchestra, singing next to Ray Charles. I had a hard time paying attention to what I was doing. I just kept staring at him, thinking "I can't freaking believe I'm doing this." And I remember thinking "God, if my Dad could be here now." He just loved Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.
My earliest memory with my Dad driving around in his old Ford Fairlane being shorter than the dashboard, and Ray Charles would come on with "Born to Lose" on the radio, and my old man would crank it. It was like the whole world filled up with Ray Charles through that Delco radio. For me, he was my idol. I thought if someday I could make that kind of magic or come close to making a record that sounded like that, that would be a dream come true. For me, to be standing next to him in a studio - this was just before he passed away, and we had kinda become friends over the past few years, and it was, for me, a great time in my life and something I'll never forget.
Grizzly Bear featuring Michael McDonald, "While You Wait for the Others":
I heard the Grizzly Bear song that you sang on, "While You Wait for the Others." How did that come about? Are you finding that this generation of musicians is more in tune with your music? I find it really interesting, because it's so different than what I thought would be going on at this point in time with pop music. I'm so intrigued by it, because it is so off the radar. It's not like these guys are trying to be pop radio heroes -- they're making records that they believe in, and I really admire that whole direction. Frankly, I don't always get it, but when I first got that track, I thought, "Wow, this so unusual." I didn't even know what I would do. Then [Grizzly Bear bassist/producer] Chris Taylor kinda gave me an idea of where to go and mapped it out for me, what they hoped I would do. I just went with that. Then almost as a fluke, as a joke, they said, "Why don't you sing lead on a version, and just send us that so we can use it as b-side, as kind of a joke." I said sure, I thought that was funny. So I put the lead down, and that became kind of a cultish, fiendish fascination of some sort, for very few people [laughs].
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La gare de Jérusalem Yitzhak Navon (en hébreu  Tahanat HaRakevet Yerushalaim–Yitzhak Navon), anciennement dénommée Jérusalem HaUma, est une gare ferroviaire israélienne de la ligne Tel Aviv–Jérusalem. Gare souterraine, elle est située à proximité du Centre de conventions internationales à Jérusalem.

Dans le cadre d'un important centre de transport en commun, elle est située à proximité de la gare routière et d'une station du tramway. La ligne n'est ouverte qu'entre la gare et l'Aéroport international de Tel Aviv-David Ben Gourion.

Situation ferroviaire
Établie à  sous le niveau du sol, la gare souterraine de Jérusalem Yitzhak Navon est située sur la ligne de Tel Aviv à Jérusalem.

Histoire
En 2007, la société Ramat, qui a remporté l'appel d'offres portant sur l'excavation des plates-formes souterraines au prix de  de shekalim, ouvre le chantier de construction des fondations de la gare. Les fouilles sont interrompues pendant une période prolongée en raison de problèmes financiers et sont relancées au début de l'année 2010. À l'été 2013, la majeure partie de la structure souterraine de la station est achevée, l'inauguration a lieu en septembre 2018.

La surface totale utilisable de la gare est de  et la longueur des quais est de . Elle est prévue pour devenir un abri pour  (le double du nombre de voyageurs possible en utilisation ordinaire) en cas d'alerte d'une attaque conventionnelle, biologique ou chimique.

Service des voyageurs

Accueil
La gare, dont le service est assuré par du personnel, est ouverte tous les jours sauf le vendredi.

Desserte

Intermodalité
La gare est en correspondance avec l'unique ligne du tramway.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Chemins de fer israéliens
 Ligne de chemin de fer Tel Aviv–Jérusalem

Lien externe

Gare en Israël
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Gare mise en service en 2018

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Eugene George Ammann, Jr. (born January 30, 1949 in Decatur, Georgia or New York) was a pitcher who is most notable for winning the 1970 College World Series Most Outstanding Player award while a junior at Florida State University (FSU). He is one of two players from Florida State University to win that award. The other is Marshall McDougall.

In 1968, he went 5-0 with a 2.17 ERA. He went 11-2 with a 2.09 ERA in 1969. His 1970 collegiate was perhaps one of the best ever in NCAA history. He won 15 games and lost none for a record of 15-0, and his ERA was 0.66, the lowest all-time in a single season. He had a string of 41 scoreless innings, and another string of 29 scoreless innings. Furthermore, he also holds the record for most shutouts in a season, with eight. At one point, he threw a no-hitter. He also holds the record for lowest ERA in a career, posting a career 1.45 ERA while attending FSU. Overall, his career record at FSU was 31-2.

Prior to pitching collegiately, he attended Lakeside High School.

Ammann was drafted twice. The first time, he was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 55th round of the 1967 draft. He chose not to sign. After being drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the third round of the 1970 draft, he did sign. He played professionally for five seasons, never reaching the majors.

In his first professional season (1970), he played for the Jacksonville Suns, going 1-5 with a 2.85 ERA in 11 games. From 1971 to 1973, he played for the Evansville Triplets. In 1971, he went 6-10 with a 3.79 ERA in 25 games. In 1972, he went 9-10 with a 3.92 ERA in 30 games. Finally, in 1973, he went 8-8 with a 5.68 ERA in 26 games. In 1974, he played for the Hankyu Braves in Japan. He appeared in only one game, after which he was released; a report noted a lack of a fastball as the reason for his lack of success.

In 1991, he was inducted into the FSU Sports Hall of Fame.

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External links

Japan Baseball Daily
Florida State University
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Florida State Seminoles baseball players
1949 births
College World Series Most Outstanding Player Award winners
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Hankyu Braves players
American expatriate baseball players in Japan


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Welcome to Argos! The Argos playing area is huge and inviting, but you will need to start small before moving on to greater things. In the first episode, your only available resources will be fleece and fish. You will construct a small settlement of fishermen and shepherds who trade fleece overseas for profit.
Start by building a common housing block near the southern entrance of the river. Build Fisheries to provide food and Carding Sheds to produce fleece. A Carding Shed can produce around eight skeins of fleece per year, so you will need at least three or four operating to meet the goal of 20 skeins in a single year. Provide food, fleece, and at least one form of culture to your houses to evolve them to Homestead level. Right-click on your houses to see what they need to evolve further. Do not overbuild your city. You only need enough people to produce and export fleece, and take care of basic services. Overbuilding can result in high unemployment, which is bad for your popularity. It can also increase the wages you pay each year, making the profit goal harder to achieve.
For the moment, money will seem hard to come by. You begin with no allies to trade with, and since you cannot tax your citizens yet, the profit goal may seem out of reach. But eventually, your explorers will open up a trade route with Troezan for fleece export. When you receive a message that "Troezan buys more fleece" you can set up a Trading Post with them and begin exporting fleece. Though selling only 12 skeins of fleece may seem too little an amount at first, they will soon expand consumption and buy 24 per year, allowing you to reach a profit of 500 in a single year. You can also lower wages to help meet the profit goal, but remember that doing so can hurt your popularity, and reduce workforce participation.
When you have met the three goals, you will be ready to move on to the next episode.
In this episode, you will introduce two new industries to your city: olive oil and marble. Establish an olive oil industry between your housing and the meadow where you plant the olive trees. Also set up Masonry Shops to collect marble. These do not necessarily need to be near the marble quarry. Once the first large blocks are delivered, the Shops will keep up a steady stream of marble production, sending out stonecutters in advance when they need new supplies.
Follow the advice of the episode introduction and build a Palace. Build a Tax Office amongst your houses. You can adjust taxes and wages to control the size of your workforce, your income level, and your people's happiness. These also have a major effect on your popularity. You might try setting both wages and taxes to "very high". This will maximize the size of your workforce, and also increase the ratio of taxes collected to wages paid.
Provide your people with a college and a podium to evolve your houses into Tenements. You may also wish to distribute olive oil to them at this point.
You may find that your growing population has outstripped your food supply. Build more Fisheries further along the river. These will send out fishing boats to collect fish. When the boats return to the Fishery, they will unload their fish, and a deliveryman will take the fish to the nearest Granary. However, each Fishery only has one deliveryman capable of carrying only one load of fish at a time. So if the ships are bringing in fish faster than they can be delivered to a Granary, then the slow delivery will be reducing fish production. To avoid this backlog, construct a Granary next to the Fisheries set to "accept" fish. Then set the Granary near your houses to "get" fish. The "getting" Granary continuously send out two deliverymen to collect four fish each from other "accepting" Granaries, ensuring a steady flow of fish to your people's houses.
Troezan buys very little fleece these days. But you can still use excess fleece as gifts. If you curry favor with Troezan now, they may be able to pay you back further down the road.
When you have evolved your houses, and stored up enough marble and olive oil, set aside the colony goods and proceed to the next episode. You will be able to choose between Calydon and Miletos for your first colony. Whichever one you don't choose will be played later in the adventure. For this Hints and Tips, we'll use Miletos as the first example.
Miletos is one of the tougher episodes in Zeus. But if you follow these tips, you should be able to make it through unscathed. First, note that the Kraken will show up about a year after you start and will prowl the waters, destroying everything within reach. So resist the temptation to develop a fishing industry or to build any trading Piers.
As suggested in the introduction, when you kill the Kraken, Ethiopia will appreciate the deed, and will voluntarily become your vassal. Therefore, you do not need to develop the Elite Housing required to conquer them.
The resources you have available include boar, timber, silver, and fish.
Start by building a Common Housing block near left-hand side of the playing area, to the right of the mountains. Build two boar Hunting Lodges near the boars to the left, and two more near the center of the playing area to hunt the boars in the lower-right corner. Build five or six Mints as close as possible to the silver deposits to supply a steady stream of income to fatten your treasury. You will need plenty of money to import goods for your city. Don't forget to tax your citizens as well.
Soon, explorers will discover the city of Cyprus, and you can open up trade with them by land. Here you will buy the bronze you need to manufacture the sculptures for your Sanctuaries. But you may want to hold off on buying any bronze until your financial situation is more secure.
When your population becomes large enough, start harvesting wood and storing it away. You will need it later.
As you can see, summoning this hero involves a mountain of goods that you can't produce in Miletos, so you'd better get crackin' (Kraken?) on acquiring them right away! You can produce wood yourself, and you can import or request bronze to make sculptures. Argos supplies marble, which you will have to request because of the Kraken cutting off sea-trade. But since you don't produce any goods to sell or any goods that these cities want as gifts, it's going to be tough to get everything you need.
Limit your city's population to around 1,000. With food and culture you can get your housing up to Hovel-level, which should be enough to house 1,000 people and supply them with a single Agora. If your population gets much higher than 1,000, you're going to have trouble feeding all those people.
Begin building the Sanctuary to Athena or Hermes. You can decide which to start with first, but it's probably better to finish one before starting a second. Athena's will provide you with olives and olive oil, though neither is of much help in this episode. She will also defend your city from attack. Hermes' Refuge will increase the speed of your deliverymen and is easier to build. Hermes will also fulfill requests made of your city, which will help when Argos starts asking you for food.
Conserve your money and maximize your silver mining and taxes. If you occasionally send large gifts of cash to Argos, you can convince them to keep sending you the marble you request. You can give them wood and pork as well. Even though they don't need it, they will still appreciate the thought. Also, count on Argos periodically sending gifts of marble.
You will need to request fleece as well, but don't give it to your people. Instead, stockpile it until you have enough to summon Perseus. You will also have to manufacture six extra sculptures for the Hero.
Right-click on the Hero's Hall to see what requirements remain to be met. When you have met them all, summon Perseus to your city. He will kill the Kraken, and then you can send him on his quest. The death of the Kraken will open up all sorts of new opportunities for you. Set up numerous overseas trade Piers and engage in commerce on a large scale. Import bronze and wheat to set them aside for Argos. Continue to produce wood, setting aside 24 planks for Argos and selling the rest to Egypt. Import fleece from Argos to evolve your housing. Set an empty Storehouse to accept only olive oil and another to accept olives, and then pray to Athena. She will make sure you never run low on those goods.
Soon, Ethiopia will voluntarily become your vassal. Then all you have to do is set aside the goods and move on. You may want to consider sticking around, though. You will notice that many of your trading partners buy wine. You may want to take the time to build the Grove of Dionysus. You can harvest grapes from his vines, and pray for even more wine. Selling wine and wood, you can build up a large treasury before advancing to the next episode. When you are ready, set aside all the goods required, you will finally be ready to return to Argos.
In this episode, you need to summon Perseus again so that he can acquire the magical items needed to kill Medusa in the final episode. Note from the introduction that you now have access to cheese as a new source of food. Not mentioned, but equally important, is that you can now develop Elite Houses. Though you do not need them in this episode, you may still want to develop an Elite Housing district to take advantage of the large tax income they can provide for your city.
Set up Piers to trade with Miletos and Ethiopia. If you have to delete some Fisheries, you can make up for the lost food by building Dairies to harvest cheese. Note also that you can now build a bridge over to the right-hand side of the river. Set up Fisheries on that side, with a Granary set to "accept" fish. The "getting" Granary near your housing will make sure to provide the food to your agora.
Begin the Sanctuaries right away. Import bronze (for sculptures) and wood. Continue to export fleece.
If you have a good stock of olive oil, fleece, and food, you may want to try building an Elite Housing district. Just building the Elite Houses will take up some of those goods, and will cost money. But they will pay plenty of taxes, making the effort worth your while. An additional source of income will emerge when Mycenae blossoms into a customer for cheese and fleece. With all these exports, and a vibrant Elite Housing district, you should have no money problems in Argos. You can use excess money as gifts to Miletos, in exchange for requesting bronze and wood to supplement the supplies you buy from them.
When you are ready, summon Perseus and send him on his quests. Stockpile enough oil and marble to meet your goals, set them aside, and you are ready to proceed to Calydon.
In Calydon you can produce cheese, wine, pork, and wood. To construct Hermes' Refuge you will need to import marble and sculptures.
Start by building a Common Housing block somewhere near the right-hand side of the playing area, not too far from the immigrant entrance point to the right. The Calydonian Boar will eventually pop up over in the upper-left corner, so don't build houses too near there. Once he arrives, the Boar will do serious damage to your city, so be prepared. Read ahead to find out what Theseus needs, and get the goods ready in advance.
Build two or three Hunting Lodges near the boars in the upper-left corner, and place a pork-"accepting" granary nearby. Do the same with Dairies on one of the meadow plateaus.
Once you have your food production up and running, you can begin exporting cheese to Mycenae. When employment allows, set up a wine industry. Stockpile 16 amphorae for Theseus. Any that you produce above and beyond that amount can be exported.
Begin importing marble from Argos and producing wood for your Sanctuary. Eventually, Mount Pelion will offer to sell you sculpture. Only import as much as you need to construct the Sanctuary (hint: you will need a total of two sculptures).
Don't forget that you will be receiving a gift of 48 marble and, much later, 24 olive oil from Argos. Make space for them in storehouses. You can import a small amount of fleece as well and use it and the oil to evolve your housing. Or you can just request these from Argos.
You will have already met the first requirement if you built the hall next to the Palace. Now encircle the Hall with Walls. Use Gatehouses to allow roads to pass through. Though the Hall doesn't need access to a superintendent, it does need road access, so make sure a road is coming through a Gatehouse and touching the Hall. To meet the appeal requirement, surround the Hall, inside and outside the walls, with aesthetics and recreational facilities. The bigger ones create more desirability and spread it a further distance. Free Commemorative Monuments are even better.
Once you have met the three tricky requirements, stock up on marble and wine, and summon Theseus to kill the Boar. At this point, you should be ready to move on to the next episode.
In this, your final episode, you will build Argos into a beautiful, thriving metropolis. The easiest Sanctuaries to build are to Hades and Dionysus. Build Dionysus' first, so you can get a free supply of wine to give to your Elite Houses. You should have four or five Artisans' Guilds, and at least six or seven Masonry Shops. Import and request sculptures and wood from the start.
You will also need at least four fully developed Elite Houses to meet the goal of sixteen horsemen. Calydon supplies grapes, though you should be able to get plenty of wine just by praying to Dionysus. Import bronze to produce armor at an Armory. Import wheat to supply your Horse Ranches with grain. Your Horse trainer will lead the horses to the Agora, where the peddler will distribute them to the Elite Houses.
Continue to expand your Common Housing. Focus on evolving them to their highest level (Townhouse) so you can maximize population density and minimize the number of workers needed to keep them supplied and cultured.
Eventually, you will receive a request for help from an ally, and will be able to construct the Hero's Hall to Theseus. You don't necessarily need to summon him, but if you'd like to, his requirements are listed again below.
You may have to delete the Palace and move it to an open space to make room for the Hall.
Summon him to kill the Medusa. When you have slain her, finished the Sanctuaries, and met the other goals, you will have won the Adventure!


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Java classes for storing, searching, and manipulating char, int, and float ranges.

A range has an upper and lower bound.

A Char/Int/FloatRangeSet represents a set of upper and lower bounds which can be searched.

The 'Ranges' utility has methods for handling overlapping ranges and adding new ranges to existing sets of ranges.

See 'test' package for examples.

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Srinagar: On their firing over the lathicharge on the non- local students of the NIT- National Institute of Technology, the Jammu and Kashmir Police's two senior officials found hitting back, by saying that they do not require any "certificate" of nationalism or impartiality from anyone.
It was seen that the said statements were made by the Police Officer- Mubassir Latifi who is an SSP posted with the elite Crime Branch and second officer- Firoz Yehya who is Deputy Superintendent of Police at Baramulla Headquarters found taking the help of social media for showing their anguish on the criticisms against the Jammu and Kashmir State Police for their action against the Students at NIT. Their statements were released on a day before yesterday, i.e. on Thursday, 7th April.
The said Official also added that the State's police "doesn't discriminate" on the ground of any Local and Non- local marks. He also said that the State police also not enjoys the "beating up people". He sought to explain the incident as the "force" is being involved by the Police for "maintenance of law and Order" and also to "disperse unlawful assembly of People".
He also found written in his post that, the Police "knows how to take on crime" terming that when anyone is resorting to "violence is committing a crime".
Moreover, the another Senior Police official- Mr. Firoz Yehya said that many of his colleagues have been asking and many more be thinking "whose war are we fighting?" and he could only respond them by saying that "this is just another phase and will pass".
It was seen earlier that in connection with the unrest among the students on 5th April, the Police resorted to the Lathicharge on the non- local students and they found the ground that those students were trying to come out on the road from the campus.


The inter airport south east asia: GATE was there!
After returning to the region of south east asia in 2015, this year the fair was larger and busier than ever before. More than 140 airport suppliers exhibited at the inter airport in Singapore. A large part of the German Pavilion was filled with members of GATE. There were a wide range of products and services, on which the visitors were very interested in.
On the first evening, the German Ambassador, Dr. Michael Witter, held a reception at his Embassy. He greeted the more than 50 guests in Singapore and wished them a successfully exhibition. After that, they took the chance to talk and network with potential business partners and colleagues.
GATE made several new contacts and is delighted to come back in 2019.


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These are the code generated 336, 363, and 633 fast algorithms tailored for the 54 x 54 x 54 square matrix multiplication problem.
The recursive algorithm has asymptotic complexity O(N^{2.775}).
The algorithm was originally found by Smirnov:

    Smirnov, A. V. "The bilinear complexity and practical algorithms for matrix multiplication." Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics 53.12 (2013): 1781-1795.


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Error:Execution failed for task ':dexDebug'.

com.android.ide.common.internal.LoggedErrorException: Failed to run command:
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          at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:230)
          at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:199)
          at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:103)
  Information:BUILD FAILED
  Information:Total time: 3 mins 39.856 secs
  Information:1 error
  Information:0 warnings
  Information:See complete output in console

I tried many times but I am not able to resolve this error .Please help me.
Thanks in advance

A: The issue is this:

EXCEPTION: com.android.dex.DexException: Multiple dex files define
  Landroid/support/annotation/AnimRes; at

This occurs when you have multiple copies of the same class in your build, which means you have 2+ versions of the same android support library specified in your project.

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Q: Show PleaseWait Popup in Catel Orchestra + MahApps.Metro I am trying to show a PleaseWait popup in a Orchestra app the same way it is shown in Catel without Orchestra but im unable to do so.
I know that the PleaseWaitService shows the progress and text in a status bar on the bottom of the window, but is does orchestra have something similar to what Catel has?

A: The reason for this is that we replace the default Catel one by the Orchestra one. We do this for 2 reasons:

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*It's less intrusive (use the mouse cursor instead of a full blocking animation)

*We support progress notifications in the bottom of the app (again, less intrusive).

If you want to use the old one, you must "re-overwrite" the registration in the service locator:
var serviceLocator = ServiceLocator.Default;

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Helene Bockhorst (* 14. November 1987 in Hamburg-Harburg) ist eine deutsche Kabarettistin und Autorin.

Leben
2005 war Bockhorst Stipendiatin des Literatur Labors Wolfenbüttel. 2007 absolvierte sie ihr Abitur am Gymnasium Neu Wulmstorf. 2014 erreichte sie einen Masterabschluss in Journalistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg. Während ihres Studiums erhielt sie ein Stipendium der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.

Von März 2014 bis November 2017 arbeitete sie in der Redaktion der Zeitschrift DW Die Wohnungswirtschaft der Haufe-Gruppe. Im April 2017 begann sie, bei Comedy-Shows aufzutreten; zum Ende des Jahres 2017 kündigte sie ihren Arbeitsvertrag, um sich hauptberuflich ihren Auftritten zu widmen.

Zusammen mit Henning Mehrtens moderiert Helene Bockhorst seit Mai 2018 im Schmidtchen auf der Hamburger Reeperbahn ihre eigene Show Poetry Schlamassel. Ab Oktober 2018 war sie mit ihrem ersten abendfüllenden Soloprogramm Die fabelhafte Welt der Therapie auf Tour in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Im Oktober 2019 wurde das komplette Soloprogramm im Quatsch Comedy Club für Sky 1 aufgezeichnet. Mit Fisch Ferliebt erhielt sie im Oktober 2019 eine eigene Rubrik in der wöchentlich ausgestrahlten Satire-Clipshow Gunze – Garantiert Unzensiert auf Tele 5.

Ihr Debütroman Die beste Depression der Welt erschien im März 2020 im Ullstein Verlag.

Im Juni 2021 wurde ein halbstündiges Comedy-Special in der ZDF Mediathek veröffentlicht. Im Oktober 2021 erschien ein weiteres halbstündiges Special im Rahmen des 3sat Festivals. Seit September 2021 ist sie mit ihrem zweiten Soloprogramm Die Bekenntnisse der Hochstaplerin Helene Bockhorst auf Tour. Ebenfalls im September erschien der von Christian Schulte-Loh und ihr moderierte Quatsch-Comedy-Club-Podcast auf Audible.

Fernsehen
 2018
 Pufpaffs Happy Hour, 3sat
 Trepper und Feinde, NDR
 NDR Comedy Contest, NDR
 Comedy ohne Karsten, MDR
 PussyTerror TV, ARD
 Prix Pantheon, WDR
 Vereinsheim Schwabing, BR
 Stand Up 3000, Comedy Central Germany
 Das große Kleinkunstfestival der Wühlmäuse, RBB
 Satire Deluxe Stand-Up!, WDR
 Quatsch Comedy Club TV-Aufzeichnung, Sky
 Comedy Cuisine, One
 Pratersterne, ORF
 RTL Comedy Grand Prix 2018, RTL

 2019
 Genial daneben – das Quiz, SAT.1
 HumorZone 2019 – Die Gala, MDR
 Die Comedy Bar, SWR
 Stuttgarter Besen 2019, SWR
 Stand Up! Mixed Show, Schweizer Fernsehen
 Roast Battle, Comedy Central Germany
 Olafs Klub, MDR
 GUNZE – Garantiert Unzensiert, TELE 5
 Mitternachtsspitzen, WDR
 Quatsch Comedy Club TV-Aufzeichnung, Sky
 Satire Battle, 3sat
 Comedy@Sky – Helene Bockhorst Live! – Die fabelhafte Welt der Therapie
 Mario Barth & Friends, RTL
 Die Florian Schroeder Satireshow, hr / ONE / rbb

2020
 Kölner Treff, ARD
 Die Quatsch Adventsparty, SKY

2021
 New Talent Show, SRF
 Stand Up Comedy Special, ZDF
 Die Bekenntnisse der Hochstaplerin Helene Bockhorst, 3sat Festival
 Kurzstrecke mit Pierre M. Krause, SWR

2022
 Comedy for Future, ZDF

Auszeichnungen
 2005: Stipendium des Literatur Labor Wolfenbüttel
 2006: Literaturpreis des Wannseeforums
 2011: Meike-Schneider-Literaturpreis
 2018: 1. Platz beim Hamburger Comedy Pokal
 2018: Finalistin beim Prix Pantheon
 2022: Kleinkunstpreis Baden-Württemberg

Rezeption
Thomas Herrmanns erwähnte Helene Bockhorst bei Das! (NDR) als neue Comedy-Entdeckung. "Es gibt so Momente, so Durchbruchsnummern, wo du weißt – das wird ein Star. Das war bei Michael Mittermeier sowieso von Anfang an klar, oder zum Beispiel auch bei Cindy aus Marzahn. (…) Es gibt immer so Momente, wo du denkst: Der hat's wirklich. Und ich habe ja in meinem Leben Tausende von Stand Ups gesehen, also man kann mich wirklich kaum noch überraschen mit was. Aber wenn dann jemand was Neues bringt, ne neue Kombi bringt (…) so wie Helene Bockhorst, die ist gerade ganz, ganz, ganz toll. Die steht da, ganz still, schüchtern fast, und die hat so gute Texte, und dann freu ich mich hinten wie so eine glückliche Mutti und denke: Meine Kinder, die können's doch."

In Zeit Campus 6/2018 erschien ein ausführliches Porträt über Bockhorst. Der Artikel hob ihren raschen Werdegang hervor: "Seit nicht mal einem Jahr ist Bockhorst im Geschäft – und eigentlich bereits ein Vollprofi. (…) Während andere junge Comedians um Auftritte betteln oder jahrelang zwischen unbezahlten Open-Mic-Sessions hin und her tingeln, ist Helene Bockhorst gefragt."

Erwähnt wurde auch ihr offener Umgang mit Tabuthemen: "Helene Bockhorst redet über Dinge, worüber die meisten von uns nicht reden würden. (…) Obwohl das düster und bedrückend ist, amüsieren sich die Leute. Ich glaube, dass das immer noch ein Tabubruch ist." – Oskar Piegsa, Zeit Campus

Detektor.fm meinte einen Trend zur "Tragic Comedy" feststellen zu können und nannte Bockhorst den "neuen Star des Scheiterns". 3sat.de bezeichnete sie als "brandaktuellen Shooting Star der Bühnenunterhaltung".

Das Hamburger Abendblatt wies auf den Kontrast zwischen Außenwirkung und den Inhalten ihres Programms hin: "Sie wirkt so schüchtern, aber sie hat's faustdick in ihren Texten. Bei der frechen Helene darf man sich freuen, welche Perlen noch zu bergen sind."

Über ihr zweites Soloprogramm Die Bekenntnisse der Hochstaplerin Helene Bockhorst schrieb die Badische Zeitung: "Am Ende des Abends ist dem Publikum aber klar, eine Hochstaplerin ist diese Frau nicht. Sie verdient es, auf der Bühne zu stehen, und ist eine Bereicherung der Kulturlandschaft. Die Mischung aus Humor, Schlagfertigkeit und tiefen Einblicken in ihr Leben und Erfahrungen schafft einen besonderen Moment der Nähe."

Veröffentlichungen
 Die fabelhafte Welt der Therapie. Hörbuch, Aufzeichnung der Liveshow am 7. Oktober 2020 in Gütersloh, EAN 4066004307961
 Die beste Depression der Welt. Roman, Ullstein Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-550-20076-2.
 Wir üben noch. in: Blut ist dicker als Glühwein. Dietmar Bittrich (Hrsg.), rororo, 2018, S. 7–16, ISBN 3-499-63425-2.
 regelmäßige Beiträge in der Rubrik Vom Fachmann für Kenner. Satiremagazin Titanic, 2017
 Zehn Miniaturgeschichten in: Eine Kugel Strappsiatella, bitte! 555 unfreiwillig komische deutsche Geschichten. Heyne, 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-60379-0.
 Die Grenze zwischen Wahrheit und Lüge. in: Über Grenzen, Neukirchener Aussaat, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7615-5867-6.
 Entwurf einer jungen Frau. in: Jahresbericht des Wannseeforums 2006. S. 39
 Der Fischreiher, Die Frau des Forschers, "Marktgedanken" & andere Texte. in: Destillate, 2006, ISBN 3-929622-21-1.

Weblinks

 Eigene Webpräsenz von Helene Bockhorst

Einzelnachweise

Kabarettist (Deutschland)
Darstellender Künstler (Hamburg)
Slam-Poet
Deutscher
Geboren 1987
Frau


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Bears will call up Lamar Miller for Monday
With running back David Montgomery already ruled out for Monday's game, the Chicago Bears need some new blood. Lamar Miller will be promoted to the active roster before Monday night's game against the Minnesota Vikings.
The #Bears plan to elevate veteran RB Lamar Miller from the practice squad for MNF, source said, his first action since tearing his ACL before the 2019 season. David Montgomery has been ruled out with a concussion.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) November 15, 2020
Miller hasn't played in a game since 2018.
Bears close facility after another positive test
It's someone new every day; today it's the Chicago Bears.
The Bears have closed their facility on Thursday with the result of another positive COVID-19 test. And more bad news: It's another offensive lineman - center Cody Whitehair.
There is apparently a very fluid situation at Halas Hall with the #Bears. I'm told everyone was sent home out of COVID-19 concerns. Stayed tuned for more
— Adam Jahns (@adamjahns) November 5, 2020
Two other offensive linemen are also on the COVID-19 list (not that the loss of an offensive line will affect the Bears in any way) -- Germain Ifedi and Jason Spriggs.
The Bears are supposed to play the Tennessee Titans this weekend, and they probably will based on the NFL's total non-concern of the virus.
John Jenkins to miss time for Bears
Chicago Bears defensive tackle John Jenkins will miss some time with a torn ligament in his thumb, NFL Network reported.
#Bears veteran DT John Jenkins suffered a ligament tear in his thumb in Sunday's game and played through it, source said. He's now out several games & may be placed on IR. Meanwhile, Chicago signed DT Daniel McCullers off the #Steelers practice squad, as @DraftDiamonds reported.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) September 24, 2020
The Bears have been looking for defensive line help and were also one of the teams listed as being interested in Damon Harrison.
Jenkins will be eligible to return after three weeks, but it could be longer depending on the tear's severity.
Bears not likely to have fans in stands, according to the mayor
The Chicago Bears want fans back in Soldier Field, and I get it. However, Chicago's mayor says there's a less than 50 percent chance of that happening, as of right now.
On @mullyhaugh, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot said she would set odds at less than 50% that the Bears can allow fans inside Soldier Field this season.
Said Lightfoot: "We've had challenges there. The Bears have to be better partners in a range of different issues, this as well."
— Chris Emma (@CEmma670) September 18, 2020
The Bears have their first home game on Sunday, and there won't be any fans present, and likely not in the foreseeable future.
In the instances that fans were allowed to attend games, we've had: a fan test positive for COVID-19 and force ten people to quarantine, and a fight break out at a game where the home team won. So, not an excellent track record.
The Bears' QB competition is officially underway
And we're off. One of the biggest position battles (and storylines) of this offseason has officially begun - the Chicago Bears' quarterback competition! -fires gun in the air-
The Bears brought in Nick Foles this year, to (hopefully) light a fire under Mitch Trubisky, and hope that one of them works out. We'll see, but they're currently running, throwing, passing, and all the baby steps required of a QB, so I guess that's good.
Matt Nagy said "so far, so good" today with Nick Foles and Mitch Trubisky throwing to receivers actually running routes. First time they've been able to do that at Halas Hall.
— JJ Stankevitz (@JJStankevitz) August 12, 2020
They're clearly not doing much here, so there won't be a front-runner for a while. Teams are expected to begin padded practices next week.
I fully expect Trubisky to be the starter for Chicago in Week One, but with that being said -- I think he'll be on a very short leash. The second he has a good, old-fashioned 'pick streak'? It's over for Mitch. Foles has the ability to be a bridge starter if they feel like Trubisky won't get it together, and that's what I expect to happen eventually.
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April 29, 2021 April 29, 2021 David Yamane
The (Purported) Masculinity Lessons of "Father and Gun"
I recently signed up to receive Google Alerts for "gun owners" and "gun culture." It has been interesting to see so much that is being written about these two topics that I would not be able to find on my own. I can't say that I feel I have been missing out, based on the quality of much of this coverage. But it's probably better than keeping my head buried in the proverbial sand of my own thoughts and writing.
This morning I was fed a link to a documentary short called "The Masculinity Lessons of 'Father and Gun.'" The 9 minute film can be viewed on The New Yorker website, with accompanying text by staff writer Rachel Riederer.
Screen cap of https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-masculinity-lessons-of-father-and-gun
The written text accompanying the film reads, in part:
With the film, which he made while completing an M.F.A., at Stanford, Griswold was less interested in making a political point about guns than in exploring the ways that they connect to the performance of maleness. On camera, little boys are seen learning a set of skills and lessons. Some of these are practical—how to load, aim, and discharge a firearm—whereas others are more nebulous, about enacting a particular brand of masculinity, in which safety and strength are connected to a capacity for violence.
Text by Rachel Riederer
We learn from the text and the film that Griswold's father took him shooting when he was a small boy, but the sound of gunfire was so loud that he wanted to leave and never shot a gun himself.
Unless he is today's Gersh Kuntzman, I infer from this that his father took him to the range but didn't provide him with hearing protection. Which makes his father an ass, and helps explain why as a filmmaker Griswold the son would be working out his dad issues by imposing them on his subjects. MFA classic.
Although documentaries are tightly composed to reflect the filmmaker's perspective, they often given enough raw material for viewers to draw their own conclusions. In this case, we see the strong emphasis placed on safety by both the gun store employees and the parents.
I am not a great gender scholar, but other than one dad encouraging his son to shoot the human silhouette target, I don't see how the film reflects the "performance of maleness" or "enacting a particular brand of masculinity." Unless, of course, the shooting of guns per se is performing masculinity. It is entirely possible Griswold and Riederer think so.
I don't like that they broke out the large caliber firearms instead of shooting 22s, but I don't equate that with performing maleness per se.
I also wish there was more diversity of dads/moms and sons/daughters. I don't know whether there were no women/girls ever at this range, or if that just didn't fit Griswold's narrative.
New Yorker magazine
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Next Double Trigger Alert: Feminist Assault Rifle
Edouard Richard says:
Nobody's ever asked me about the very positive experiences my daughter and I have had at the range making bowling pins tumble and spin, seeing the excitement (dare I say joy) on her face when she knocks 'em all down with one cylinder full from one of my wheel guns. It doesn't appear to have given her a case of toxic masculinity.
A neglected story to be sure
Rich Egan says:
I found out that the next town over had a junior small bore program and I decided to bring my 11YO daughter so she would have some experience shooting and how to handle a rifle safely. This was New Jersey so programs were few and far in-between. She loved it and wanted to go back so we did. She eventually earned her small bore expert rating and now helps kids at the same range where she started to do the same as she did.
Great story! My daughter never took to shooting but I definitely gave her the opportunity and hopefully she remembers how to safely handle gums to this day


We caught up with Cockles head coach Steve 'Pez' Perry once the dust had settled on his side's 13-all draw at Weston-super-Mare. First up we asked for his thoughts on the overall performance and the score.
He continued: "Of course, the ideal scenario is to mix disciplined and organised defence with clinical finishing at the opposite end of the pitch.
""That is something we all strive for, but right now, for us, it's a case of small, steps in the right direction and that's what I feel we are achieving having now secured a home win followed by back-to-back away draws.
We then asked him what his thoughts were when his side found themselves 13-0 down quite early in the second half at Weston and he replied: "It was certainly disappointing that we shipped two tries in quick succession.
In terms of the fact that the defensive side of things is improving, the Cockles coach said: "It is very much the case that we are seeking to change the culture with regard to the defensive side of our game.
Next up for the Cockles is Saturday's South West Premier Devon derby with Ivybridge.
The Bridgers sit fourth in the table, 12 points and three places better off than the Cockles who are hoping to have Nick Halse and Jack Fahy, both of whom missed the game at Weston-super-Mare, back in the fold for the game which kicks off at 2pm.
The Cockles head coach says: "What is important now is that we don't get ahead of ourselves.
"It is an old cliché but we really must take 'each game as it comes' and just look to keep making those small, but positive, forward strides.


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Gold Mine Production by Country
Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019 Jan 10, 2019 - 03:34 PM GMT
By: Michael_J_Kosares
Gold mine production by country Divergent paths among the major global producers tell an important tale
Sources: MetalsFocus and the World Gold Council with permission.
2017 Mine production (metric tonnes)
1. China 429.4 2,200
2. Australia 289 9,800
3. Russia 272.3 5,500
4. United States 243.6 3,000
5. Canada 171.2 2,200
6. Peru 166.6 2,300
7. South Africa 156.9 6,000
8. Finland 130.1 –
9. Mexico 122.1 1,400
10. Guyana 114.2 –
Global total 3,110 54,000
Sources: U.S. Geological Survey (Global total); Metals Focus/World Gold Council (Country totals)
When you take in the table to the left, it inspires little beyond a shrug until you consider the policies toward gold of the countries involved. China, for example, is the world's top gold producer, but its production is essentially sequestered, i.e., it stays in the country and winds up at the central bank as part of its monetary reserves. Russia, the world's third largest producer, also channels its production into central bank reserves. Thus, 23% (700+ tonnes) of the world's gold production in 2017 did not see the light of day on international markets. Of the top-ten producers that still make their production available to the rest of the world, production is level for two – the United States and Australia. Of the three countries experiencing production growth – Canada, Russia and China – only one, Canada, makes its production available in international markets.
In short, the world is a different place now than it was prior to the 2008 financial crisis in terms of gold production. Should physical demand soar once again as did in the 2009-2013 period, we could get the same price response we did then. Even as it is, substantially less metal is reaching the marketplace at a time when central banks have become net buyers of the metal and investor demand, though presently in a lull, is generally on the rise.
The trends now favor "strong-handed" long-term gold investors holding for asset preservation purposes and capable of weathering the market's ups and downs. As for the official sector, the trend toward building gold reserves is likely to continue. More and more emerging countries are likely to see diversification as in their best interest while established states are likely to hold close the gold reserves they already own.
Wild market swings will give 'seasick investors' opportunity to jump ship
Gold is enjoying a run of positive forecasts of late and acquisition recommendations from various financiers. BlackRock, one of the world's largest hedge funds, came out in gold's favor at the start of the year. "'We're constructive on gold," portfolio manager Russ Koesterich told Bloomberg on Friday. "We think it's going to be a valuable portfolio hedge. We're multi-asset investors: we think about its effect on the entire portfolio, and what we see value in right now is gold's value as a diversifier."
Metals Focus, the London-based market analyst, reflected the prevailing opinion on gold as we start the year. "For much of 2018," said the firm, "investors tended to focus on other, higher-yielding asset classes [than gold],but we do expect this position to gradually change, especially during the latter part of 2019…[as] a slowdown in the US economy will encourage the Fed to adopt a far more dovish stance towards its interest rate policy." Metals Focus went on to say that "a bull market in gold [will] emerge from late 2019 onwards," and that uptrend will then "remain in place for two to three years."
One of Europe's biggest banks, the Netherlands' ABN-Amro, weighs in on gold for 2019 with a ringing endorsement for the future. It sees gold at $1400 by year-end resulting from a confluence of factors covered briefly at the link above." We are of the view that the US dollar and US Treasury yields have peaked," says Georgette Boele, precious metals and FOREX strategist at the bank. "We also expect that US economic growth will peak this quarter. During the next two years, we expect lower US economic growth and lower 2y and 10y US Treasury yields. We expect the Fed to hike in December 2018 and one more time in 2019, some time during the first half. Going forward, the 2y US Treasury yields will probably rise in tandem with inflation expectations. So real yields will likely not rise. All these factors support our view that the US dollar has peaked and will weaken in 2019 and 2020. Therefore, we expect gold prices to rally in 2019."
Gold finished 2018 down 1.6%, but ended the year on an optimistic note – up 2.1% for the month of December. The mostly sideways performance for the year aside, gold has been a steady performer since the turn of the 21st century – registering gains in fourteen of the first eighteen years.
As we begin the new year, the word "change" superimposes itself over our New Year thinking – change that likely will present challenges and test our skills in the year ahead. Gillian Tett, the Financial Times columnist, recently made an attempt to explain the wild swings in financial markets. In doing so, she passes along an interesting observation from Seth Klarman, founder of the Blaupost hedge fund.
"In 2008," he says, "we had massive disguised [debt] leverage. Now we have less financial leverage, but there is psychological leverage." He goes on to warn about "algorithmic leverage" and "computer herding" – problems we have written about on these pages for years.
Ms Tett, who has written with distinction about the financial markets, ends with the observation that the propensity toward wild swings rather than a sudden, full-out crash gives "seasick investors opportunity to jump ship." That is a course of action worth pondering as we head into the start of what could be another eventful year. Jumping ship, we will point out, is one thing, establishing a solid portfolio hedge is another. The first without the second may turn out to be an empty exercise.
Link to Gillian Tett's editorial
One for the history buffs: 730 years of a strong British pound ends in 1931 with gold standard exit
The St. Louis Federal Reserve recently released this interesting chart on consumer prices from 1209 to present. We added the price of gold to the chart to show the direct relationship between declining purchasing power in the British pound and the sterling price of gold after 1931, the year Britain departed the gold standard. Prior to 1931, there was an occasional minor bump higher in the price of gold, but for the most part it followed along the same flat line as consumer prices. It was only after Britain separated the pound from gold in 1931 that the price began to move radically higher in terms of the currency. It gained significant momentum after 1971 when the Bretton Woods agreement was abolished. Currencies and gold were then allowed to move freely in international markets. Though interesting from an historical perspective, the real lesson in this chart is that when a nation-state goes from gold-backed to fiat money, gold coins and bullion become a logical and worthwhile alternative for citizen-investors – even after 730 years of relative price stability.
Sources: Bank of England, ICE Benchmark Administration Limited, St. Louis Federal Reserve [FRED]
The naughty boy who blurts out unpleasant truths
"In the first place, the 'classic' writers, without neglecting other cases, reasoned primarily in terms of an unfettered international gold standard. There were several reasons for this but one of them merits our attention in particular. An unfettered international gold standard will keep (normally) foreign-exchange rates within specie points and impose an 'automatic' link between national price levels and interest rates. The modern mind dislikes this automatism, as much for political as for economic reasons: it dislikes the fetters this automatism clasps on government management of the economic process – dislikes gold, the naughty boy who blurts out unpleasant truths. But most of the economists of the period under survey liked it for precisely the same reasons. Though they compromised in practice as in theory and though they admitted central-bank management, the automatism – a phrase beloved by Lord Overstone [Samuel Jones Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone] – was for them, who are neither nationalists nor etatistes, a moral as well as an economic ideal."
–– Joseph Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis (1954) Published posthumously
Editor's note: To Dr. Schumpeter's well-considered discourse on the practical merits of the gold standard, I will add a simple thought of my own: Absent the gold standard, the prudent investor who stores gold benefits in concert with the blurting out those unpleasant truths.
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The world's biggest hedge fund is getting whacked
"The SNB (Swiss National Bank)," writes Dollar Collapse's John Rubino, "loaded up on Big Tech like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, and rode them to massive profits, which enriched both the Swiss people and the SNB's stockholders (in another departure, it's a publicly traded company as well as a central bank). But live by the sword, die by the sword. Turning your central bank into the world's biggest hedge fund means outsized profits in good times, but potentially serious losses if those aggressive bets go wrong." There was a time when gold was the centerpiece of the Swiss international banking enterprise. It seems, as Rubino points out, the SNB has departed from its original impeccable standards to mixed results.
Will high volatility lead the gold market higher as it has in the past?
High volatility in the past has preceded the upward movement in the gold price. In a recent article under the headline "Wild days return to stock market as VIX surges like never before," Bloomberg points out that volatility is now running at levels not seen since the 2008-2009 breakdown and, in fact, "the biggest annual surge on record." As you can see in the chart below, there was a lag in gold's response to the early phases of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Its move upward came once investors realized the full extent of the crisis. From there gold pushed to its all-time highs.
Did we learn anything from the last crisis?
"At this point, the prevailing view holds that QE 'worked,'" writes Credit Bubble Bulletin's Doug Noland. "Moreover, central banks are seen ready and willing to call upon 'money printing' operations as need. The great virtue of this policy course, many believe, is that there is essentially no limit to the scope and duration of 'QE infinity.' The FT quoted Mario Draghi: '[QE] is permanent and may be usable in contingencies that the governing council will assess in its independence.' Melvyn Krauss, from the Hoover Institution, captured conventional thinking: 'No one willingly walks into a room from which there is no exit. Because QE proved temporary, because it worked and because it has ended, it is likely to be used again.'"
When we read of the credit bubble inflated in the form of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), as explicitly identified recently by former Fed chair Janet Yellen, one wonders if we learned anything at all from the credit crisis of 2008 and its aftermath. We subsequently learned that Japanese banks were at risk for over $1 trillion in sliced, diced and reconstituted CLOs.
Noland's concerns are well-considered. In fact, as the highly respected hedge fund manager Henry Druckenmiller recently pointed out, "we've tripled doubled down on what caused that crisis. And we tripled down on it globally." CLOs in the contemporary context are today what mortgage-backed securities were to financial markets in 2007. And to a great degree, the general public is not even aware such a thing exists. . . . . . Noland's remarks in full are highly recommended.
Gold's provided a real rate of return in twelve of the last eighteen years
Since the turn of the new century, gold consistently provided a real rate of return on investment when measured against inflation. In fact, it provided a real rate of return in twelve of the eighteen years represented on the chart. The period was one of subdued inflation. Gold's performance, as a result, took many analysts and professional money managers by surprise and altered the perception among money managers that the precious metal is solely an inflation hedge.
2018 ends in sea of red
Amidst a sea of red for 2018, stock market volatility comes out the clear winner in what many will see as appropriate for a year that will be remembered as one that most would like to forget. Bitcoin came out at the bottom of the list – down 43.65%. Gold, in a victory of sorts, finished down only 4.21% on the year. Silver by contrast was down 11.82% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 6.53%.
Notable Quotable
"Problems are likely to continue in emerging markets, compounded by rising interest rates and the US Fed's monetary policy which has drained global dollar liquidity. We have already seen the impact on the Turkish and Argentinian currencies. We remain concerned about geo-political problems including Brexit, North Korea and the Middle East, at a time when populism is spreading globally. The resolution of these problems in this unpredictable era will surely be difficult. In 9/11 and in the 2008 financial crisis, the powers of the world worked together with a common approach. Co-operation today is proving much more difficult. This puts at risk the post-war economic and security order. In the circumstances our policy is to maintain our limited exposure to quoted equities and to enter into new commitments with great caution." – Lord Jacob Rothschild, RIT Capital Partners, Half-Yearly Financial Report, June 30, 2018
"At this stage of an ageing economic cycle, investors have good reason for concern as they try to work out whether the rout in equity and credit markets represents a final correction in this cycle or the start of lengthy decline. We have not begun a new year in such a glum mood since the start of 2009 and before that, 1999." – Michael Mackenzie, Financial Times
"As the unwind continues, Financial Assets inflated by the free-money effects of QE are still finding new equilibrium valuations. Markets will remain volatile. Tech change and supply fundamentals will continue to shock us – look at oil prices for an example; turning a good year for oil and energy into a question mark. Or look at how iPhone sales in India have fallen off a cliff as people buy cheaper phones that do the same – commoditisation! The thing that scares me most is liquidity – the lack of it." – Bill Blain, Blain's Morning Porridge
"Alan Greenspan says the party's over on Wall Street. The former Federal Reserve chairman who famously warned more than two decades ago about 'irrational exuberance' in the stock market doesn't see equity prices going any higher than they are now. 'It would be very surprising to see it sort of stabilize here, and then take off,' Greenspan said in an interview with CNN anchor Julia Chatterley. He added that markets could still go up further — but warned investors that the correction would be painful: 'At the end of that run, run for cover.'" – Donna Borak, CNBC
Editor's note: Greenspan over the years has consistently advocated gold ownership as a means to hedging the next financial crisis.
"Europe has brought us a depression worse than 1929. It has led to entire peoples being broken and humiliated, like the Greeks, all for the sake of preserving the infernal instrument of the euro. This whole disaster has been adorned by a chain of lies, shouted ever louder because they are afraid that the colossal damage they have done will be discovered." – Claudio Borghi, Catholic University of Milan
"Nobody knows what would happen if Britain's LCH or Germany's Eurex Clearing came under stress. They have thin layers of capital compared to banks. Before the 2008 crisis most derivatives were cleared by trading parties in direct dealings. The G20 shift has lifted the share of CCPs [central counterparties] for interest rate derivatives from 20 to 60 percent. The effect is to concentrate risk. The BIS warns that the system may encourage a rush for the exit in events of extreme stress. The International Monetary Fund has also flagged the dangers. It warned this year that CCPs 'increase the risk of a failure of the infrastructure itself' and could lead to a 'catastrophe' if all the layers of defense were overrun by a big default. It would be like the failure of the Maginot Line." – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, BIS warns of seizure at heart of financial clearing system
"For we have reached a critical point. In a sense, it is true that the mists are lifting. We can, at least, see clearly the gulf to which our present path is leading. Few of us doubt that we must, without much more delay, find an effective means to raise world prices; or we must expect the progressive breakdown of the existing structure of contract and instruments of indebtedness, accompanied by the utter discredit of orthodox leadership in finance and government, with what outcome we cannot predict." – John Maynard Keynes, The Means to Prosperity (1933)
"I'm fond of saying how crazy things get near the end of Bubbles. Convinced this is History's Greatest Bubble, I've been anticipating a pretty astonishing variety of 'crazy.' Watching this all unfold with increasing trepidation, I sense an important line has been crossed. It's time to retire 'crazy' – find a replacement that conjures up something more foreboding – more disturbing. And markets, well, they're seemingly fine with it all; at times almost giddy. And that's the fundamental problem: Dysfunctional markets continue to promote incredibly risky policy behavior – the polar (bear) opposite of imposing discipline." – Doug Noland, Credit Bubble Bulletin
"Gold is scarce. It's independent. It's not anybody's obligation. It's not anybody's liability. It's not drawn on anybody. It doesn't require anybody's imprimatur to say whether it's good, bad, or indifferent, or to refuse to pay. It is what it is, and it's in your hand." – Simon Mikhailovich, Tocqueville Funds (with thanks to Ron Stoeferle and Mark Valek at Incrementum AG)
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This Thick Warm Crocheted Winter Hat lives up to it's title. With front post stitches for insulation, my brother loves how fast this hat warms his head.
I crocheted the Boy Beanie v2.0 for him, also using Red Heart Super Saver in paddy green, but it turned out too tight. I was thinking of trying out the Husband Hat for him, but he requested a Cable Hat, like my gray one.
I really enjoy the Cable Hat pattern, but after making that hat several times over to get the right size, I had no desire to make another for a while. The Thick Warm Crocheted Winter Hat pattern seemed like a good compromise.
This hat is my first with a brim and it looks very bulky in the picture. When worn on an actual head instead of a yarn ball, the brim stretches out a bit more.
In other news, I'm working on a new set of photos for the Through Any Window Baby Blanket tutorial. Three rows were out of pattern order, so I'm re-photographing them. The actual directions are correct, but just remember the color order is jumbled. Also, I'm planning a new tutorial for a neat little crochet technique I came across on YouTube.
Today is the third annual World Kidney Day!
One in nine US adults have chronic kidney disease.
I took a walk around Mountain Lake with my brother today. We wanted to scout out the best campsite since registration is opening up at Moran State Park for the summer season. Quite possibly the best car camping in San Juan Island, WA is located in campsites #126 though #136. They all are on an elevated loop looking out onto Mountain Lake. There's a boat launch, tiny stretch of rocky beach and a hiking entrance within 500 feet of the loop. Also, the area is far from the main road so you don't get the car traffic like you do in the Southend sites.
Can you believe this is the view from campsite #130?
Read more about why my trees look black on naturephotographers.net. I'm still learning how to get a blue sky with a point and shoot and not end up with silhouetted trees. Suggestions are appreciated!
I took more pictures of the campsite loop but, for some reason, they didn't register on the memory card. I think it was because I changed the batteries and the memory card was jarred in the process.
I did get the memory card to save pictures of my Quick Winter Headband. This free pattern gets an 'A' for adaptability. Not only does any yarn weight work, you can insert any crochet stitch you like for the body of the headband as long as it starts with a base of thirteen stitches.
The headband pattern isn't beginner friendly though, as the stitch directions for the body are not written with the pattern. Instead, the reader is directed to the Vanilla Grit Stitch Washcloth.
I had to frog the first row a couple times before I realized that the stitch pattern should start with row 2. Since row 2 refers to stitches from the foundation row, it took a little extra work to figure out exactly how many single crochet stitches to skip to account for the unworked foundation. For this reason I wouldn't recommend this pattern to crocheters just learning to read a pattern.
Once I had the first row figured out, the grit stitch went quick. It's an easy stitch, but interesting. Also, the headband is worked entirely in one piece so there's only two ends to weave.
The pattern calls for worsted, but I used Babysoft in Cream. The headband still came out pretty wide, about three inches. With worsted weight yarn in gauge, I think the final product would end up similar to Christina's St. Maurus Headwarmer.
I finally photographed my St Maurus Headwarmers from January with the buttons sewed on. I was really dreading the needle and thread until Christina suggested using buttons with large holes and a tapestry needle. Worked like a charm!
This striped one looks a little fuzzy since I've been wearing it a lot in the past month. It's great in windy weather since my ears can be easily covered with my hair pulled back.
I like the style of this headwarmer. I'd like to try knitting the Calorimetry for the fall.
Also, remember the Jacob's ladder stitch baby blanket I talked about? I found out the Rainbow Bright pattern is available for free on the Coats and Clark website.
Mosquitos are twice as attracted to blue than any other color.
As promised, here are some more Soley Granny Squares Hats by Crafty Christina. Can you believe that I'm working on two more? These are the two best from the second batch. You'll see that the others were less thought out and I was running out of good color combos in my yarn stash. For the yellow one I went with a bumblebee feel. The green one was inspired by Yoshi from Super Mario Brothers.
I went a little crazy with these but after a few projects that demanded constant attention and frogging the granny squares were a pleasant side note. The process is quick to start and, as a result, very addictive.
First of all, you just repeat the granny motif a bunch of times and before you know it there are five little squares ready to be joined. You see this neat little stack of grannys and feel an enormous sense of accomplishment. The pieces are made and you're practically done. But wait! You have to weave in all those ends.
This is where I went downhill. Instead of weaving in the ends and joining the squares I decided to make three more sets of granny squares since it is much more fun to dive through a stash and pick out colors than dig out a yarn needle.
They piled up in my yarn basket very quickly and then I had 20 granny squares and even more ends. This is where I decided to stop at six hats total. I could have made more granny squares, but I couldn't imagine subjecting myself to more ends. I'll post the other two Soley Granny Squares Hats after, you guessed it, I weave in the remaining ends.


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Q: In Rails, where do I put code responsible for periodically saving data from an external source? The app I'm developing needs to get some data from a third-party REST API every few minutes and save it to a database.
I'm not sure where this fits in the MVC architecture. My best guess would be to put it in the corresponding models, but seems like I'd be mixing responsibilities.
Any suggestions?

A: A common approach is to use custom rake tasks and schedule them using whenever.
There is even a nice Railscast, although it is a bit old.


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Take on any activity that also allows you to sing.
Regular use of your vocal cords only makes them stronger. This helps you develop a strong voice – capable of increasing volume.
To sing louder, use a number of different breathing processes to sustain the right notes and even improve your singing voice.
For example, take deep breaths to push notes outwards while singing at the peak of your vocal range.
Vocal volume can be gradually increased by controlling breath, using the same technique adapted at higher notes.
Ideally, exercise your vocal cords across all of your vocal ranges. This way, you will understand how much breath is expended on the lower as well as higher notes.
Your diaphragm is located just underneath the rib cage. The muscle contracts if you exhale forcefully.
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A singer's greatest assets are the diaphragm and lungs, more so to regulate volume.
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and then pushing words out forcefully being careful not to strain the voice.
Use this deep breathing exercise before you sing.
And no, I'm not trying to be funny. This principle does produce effective results.
This singing exercise is easy.
Simply breathe evenly and deeply for around 2 to 3 minutes while you lie on your back.
Keep your arms extended right behind your head.
You won't find many better vocal warm up exercises before a singing session.
Get a feel of how much air you can hold in your lungs as you lie down – in comparison to a standing position.
Continually doing exercises to improve your lungs can help you hold your breath for a longer period.
So, you'll generate more singing power, as your lungs get stronger.
And, you should experience a more powerful voice.
Performers need to keep their throats well lubricated to guarantee even breathing while they sing.
Words flow more evenly and unhampered with a moistened throat.
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Moisturize your throat, either with decaffeinated tea or water at room temperatures.
And yes, insure an effortless voice by taking in small quantities of honey.
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Take the time to wet your parched throat, particularly during breaks and in between songs.
Heavily caffeinated beverages and milk products must be avoided.
Phlegm is usually produced when excess dairy products are consumed.
And, the vocal chords can get tense as a result of excess consumption of caffeine.
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Sara Lampe and Donna Bergen will compete for the Democratic nomination for presiding commissioner during the August primary.
Sara Lampe, 69, says her time as an educator and in the state legislature gave her the necessary skills to manage people and budgets, as well as a reputation of trustworthiness needed in Greene County.
Donna Bergen, 81, says her 25-year career in corrections makes her the most qualified candidate to tackle improvements to the county's criminal justice system.
The two Democratic candidates will compete in the Aug. 7 primary election for the Greene County presiding commissioner's seat.
Both agree that the current presiding commissioner, Bob Cirtin, needs to go.
They decided to run after Cirtin refused to let the state auditor investigate Greene County over whistleblower allegations that public resources were misused to advocate for a ½-cent sales tax leading up to the November election.
Taxpayers are on the hook for more than $267,000 in legal fees owed to a private law firm hired after news of the whistleblower allegations broke.
Bergen said an investigation by the state auditor should have been done months ago.
"The public has a right to know what the county commissioners, what the recipients of tax dollars, are doing. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever to refuse a state audit," Bergen said.
Lampe said she would also support letting the state auditor in to investigate.
"I just don't understand why we would pay all that money unless we have something to hide," Lampe said.
Bergen has worked in prisons in Kansas, Nebraska, Michigan and Florida. She started as a social worker and became superintendent of two women's prisons, then served as deputy secretary of corrections in Kansas. She briefly came out of retirement to work as deputy superintendent of operations at a prison in Florida.
While overseeing prison operations, Bergen said she introduced innovative job training and arts programs for inmates.
She also oversaw a "pre-release" program, which gave inmates daily training on how to integrate back into their communities starting three months before they were scheduled to be let out.
She and her husband owned a "small family resort" on Bull Shoals Lake for a number of years.
Bergen first ran for office in 2014 and lost against Cirtin.
She said she was initially motivated by a desire to use her expertise to help the county. Previously, Bergen said, when she had offered advice about controlling the jail population or different ballot issues, she felt that officials were dismissive.
Bergen said she doesn't have confidence in the county commissioners.
"I think two of our commissioners are incompetent," she said, referring to Cirtin and Harold Bengsch, who is not up for re-election this year.
Commissioners should have known how expensive the legal bill for private attorneys would be, she said.
"It just upset me," she said. "I really don't want people in office that don't know how much money is going to be involved when I'm paying the bill."
Bergen said she believes that a jail expansion is needed, but not at the scale that is being proposed. Commissioners had promised to add "806 beds, bringing capacity to not exceed a total of 1,407 beds" — more than double the current jail capacity.
More resources should be focused on keeping people out of jail, she said, such as on early intervention programs through schools and churches.
Bergen predicts that the expanded jail will reach capacity within a year to year and a half of its opening because the county will feel pressure to fill the beds — if not with Greene County county inmates, then with federal inmates or those from other counties in exchange for money.
"If we build them, they will come," she said. "... Building a new jail is not going to solve problems in Springfield. It's going to temporarily disturb a large number of people's lives."
Bergen said she believes she's the best candidate for presiding commissioner because she's used to shouldering heavy responsibilities and she's well informed on county issues.
"With warden ... the buck stops right there," she said. "You don't have a hundred other people involved."
One of Bergen's top priorities if she becomes presiding commissioner, she said, will be to make meetings more accessible to the public.
Most Greene County meetings are open to the public. However, Bergen said, they're scheduled at times when many people are at work or school.
Bergen also expressed disapproval with the makeup of a tax oversight committee, appointed by the commission.
"It's the good old boys club," Bergen said.
For decades, Lampe worked with the Springfield school district. She established and led programs for gifted students, including Phelps Center for the Gifted and a full-time gifted program for middle school students at Central High School. She also helped bring the International Baccalaureate program to Central.
She was an adjunct professor at Drury University, teaching teachers how to work with gifted kids.
Lampe ran for office for the first time in 2004. She went on to serve four two-year terms in the Missouri House of Representatives. During that time, she held leadership positions as a ranking member on budget and education committees.
Since retiring from politics, Lampe has been "playing with grandchildren" and working with Care to Learn, a nonprofit that provides funds to meet emergent health, hunger and hygiene needs for children.
Lampe said she was not looking to get back into government leadership.
Then, news of the whistleblower controversy in Greene County broke.
"I read the article in the paper, it was like, 'Oh my gosh, what is going on here?'" Lampe said. "This is not good and it needs to be better."
Lampe said it was "disturbing" to read the emails — obtained and published by the News-Leader — which shed light on some of the "sausage-making" that went on behind the scenes before the November election.
"I am so grateful for the press, otherwise we wouldn't have known. I am so grateful for the Sunshine Law, the whistleblower law," Lampe said.
She said she felt a responsibility to step up.
"My mother taught me not to run away from problems but to work toward them and figure out how to solve them," Lampe said. "... The band is back together and we're going to do this. We are going to win our primary and we'll see who comes out the other side."
Lampe's immediate goal is to "regain the trust of this community and the employees (of Greene County)."
She said she has a reputation that people can trust.
"People know who I am. They know what they're getting when they vote for me," Lampe said. "I will never misrepresent myself to them .... Republicans would say to me when I was running for the statehouse offices, 'You're in the wrong party, but we know you're going to do a good job.'"
Lampe said her greatest strength as a leader is her ability to listen.
"I listen, I ask, I talk to people," she said. "I've been in every corner of this county talking to people about what their concerns are. That's how we need to figure out what to do here and move forward."
She said the coming years will be important ones for the county.
"For the first time in a heck of a long time, Greene County is not going to be without money," Lampe said. "It's about making good decisions about how that money is going to be spent."
The winner of the Democratic primary will face off in November with either Bob Cirtin or Bob Dixon, Republican candidates for Greene County Presiding Commissioner.
Bergen does not have an active campaign committee listed on the Missouri Ethics Commission's website.
Lampe's committee has raised $39,703 and spent $12,567, according to documents filed with the ethics Commission on July 15.
Early life: Bergen was born in Denver. Growing up, she lived in Durant, Oklahoma and Topeka, Kansas.
Education: Bergen majored in social work and minored in psychology at Washburn University in Topeka. She received a master's degree in social work with a focus in institutional management from Kansas University.
Work history: Bergen worked in corrections for about 25 years, including at prisons in Kansas, Nebraska, Michigan and Florida. She served as the deputy secretary of corrections in Kansas. After she retired, she did consulting work for state and private correctional programs. She owned a resort on Bull Shoals Lake with her husband.
Hobbies: Bergen said she likes throwing pottery, reading and gardening.
Early life: Lampe was born in Cassville and moved to Springfield for college when she was 18.
Education: Lampe graduated from what was then Southwest Missouri State University with a major in education and a minor in speech and education. She also received her master's in school administration from SMSU.
Work history: Lampe worked with Springfield Public Schools from 1973 until 2000. She played a key role in establishing gifted education programs, such as WINGS and the Springfield Scholars Program, as well as bringing the International Baccalaureate program to Central High School. She was an adjunct professor with Drury University. Lampe also has done educational consulting. Since leaving the state legislature, Lampe has helped establish Care to Learn chapters in Fair Grove, Ash Grove and Walnut Grove.
Hobbies: Lampe said she enjoys working in her garden, reading and spending time with her eight grandchildren.