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White & Case LLP 'provides an excellent service and the lawyers are always available, answering queries of the time of the day or night'. Its work includes high-profile European high yield deals and a strong flow of work from emerging markets. The US-qualified London team acts for investment banks and corporate issuers and its highlights from 2017 included advising Wind Tre on the €7.3bn offering of senior secured notes. Practice head Rob Matthews led that deal and is 'client-focused, solution-oriented and commercial; he has many years of experience as is able to advise on any issue'. Jill Concannon, who frequently acts for private equity sponsors, is 'an excellent lawyer, very client-focused'. She acted for Puma International Financing in a $600m Rule 144a/Regulation S issuance, and a tender offer for the company's existing notes. Also recommended are leveraged finance partner Paul Clews, restructuring and liability management specialist David Becker, and newly promoted partner James Greene who played a role in the Wind Tre and Puma deals.
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THE FIFTH MONEY LAUNDERING DIRECTIVE AND THE UK
With the UK government'sconsultation period on the European Union's Fifth Money Laundering Directive coming to an end, AzizRahman outlines the Directive's likely effect.
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TAKING THE RIGHT STEPS TO ENSURE YOU DO NOT COMMIT THE OFFENCE OF FAILURE TO PREVENT THE FACILITATIO
Nicola Sharp outlines what needs to be done to avoid thefailure to prevent offence that was introduced by the Criminal Finances Act.
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Aziz Rahman considers why we may see an increase inunexplained wealth orders (UWO's) and the implications for law enforcement and individuals.
The legal difference between a consultant and an employee according to Nicaraguan Law
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How does that super famous quote go again? A thousand mile journey starts with the first step, right?
Once I had I client and he asked me to create a website with a payment gateway for him. I had no idea how to do that, but I took the project anyway.
What business model should I choose?
What tasks should I begin with?
Most people think that they need to have a lot of skills to actually start a business. They don't feel ready. Well that's not always the case.
Guess what happened with this project I mentioned. I was forced to figure out how the payment gateway works. I hired a freelancer to help me and in the end I not only delivered it on time, I also learned a great new skill.
Once this first step is done, you just have to keep moving forward. But first, you need the right road map before you begin.


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The .99 boxed set: trends in e-book pricing
July 30, 2015 By Ruth Kaufman
Several months ago, the prolific Laurel O'Donnell reached out via e-mail to invite me to join in a boxed set with her and two others, Elizabeth Rose and Kathryn Loch. The offer was quite flattering…they've all released many more books than I have (so far), and are bestsellers. I'm not…yet? Also, Laurel's The Angel and the Prince is on my keeper shelf, so I was honored that she wanted one of my books sold with hers.
The process of putting the set together was easier than I'd expected. Fortunately her talented husband did all of the formatting, so the only expense was the set's cover.
We needed to decide on the title, pricing and release date. And how much promotion we were willing to pay for. After tossing around some ideas, we agreed on Castles, Knights and Chivalry.
I struggled a bit with pricing. Many, many boxed sets are priced at .99 these days, and usually range from three to 10 full-length books. Amazon gives 35% royalties for .99 books, or approximately .09 per author per sale. Recently I saw a set with 11 books…for free!
I see both sides of the issue. On the one hand, it's easier for readers to give unfamiliar or newer authors a chance if they're part of a low priced boxed set. Then, perhaps, they'll go on to buy the author's other books. On the other, what's happening to the value of books? My contribution, At His Command, currently sells at $2.99, and has only been available since January. Would joining the box cannibalize individual book sales? The other three books have been available longer. Do e-books have limited shelf lives (pun intended) at a regular price (already significantly lower than their print counterparts) nowadays because so many new releases? As of this writing, Amazon show over 10,000 new romance releases…in the past 30 days, including just over 800 historical romances.
CKandC has been on preorder and officially releases August 1st. I'm thrilled to say it's been climbing the Amazon's Hot New Releases charts, currently #2 in Ancient World, #7 in Medieval, and #54 in all Historical Romance. Out of the top 100 Historical Romance Hot New Releases at the moment, only seven are boxed sets. In terms of sales, we're at
#5 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Historical Romance > Ancient World
#11 in Books > Romance > Historical > Ancient World
#44 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Historical Romance > Medieval
We'll be doing a small amount of promotion in addition to Facebook and Twitter. How will the set do? Many have become bestsellers, so there's that dream….Stay tuned!
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The cyclical fluctuations of the economy are always accompanied by the structural adjustment and rebalancing. However, after the international financial crisis in 2008, China's structural adjustment has undergone historic changes; the consumption and investment, foreign trade, industrial structure, and population structure have been becoming increasingly similar to that of the advanced economies. This round of economic rebalancing and structural adjustment will guide China to cross the high-income threshold, and gradually move from a catch-up economy to a mature economy. Focusing on the issues above, the book emphasizes historical and international perspectives, carries out targeted research, and puts forward many valuable suggestions for economic rebalancing, on the basis of a large amount of data and econometric analysis.
The book consists of 12 chapters. Chapter I is about the characteristics of the current stage, driving mechanism and future trend of China's consumption rate change. Chapter II is on the changing laws and trends of the total volume and structure of import and export in China. Chapter III is the changing laws and trends of China's investment rate and industrial structure. Chapter IV focuses on the publicity of the traditional leading industries and the new driving forces for the future economic growth. Chapter V explains the impact of rising proportion of the service industry on the economic operation of China. Chapter VI is the structural characteristics and macro performance of the late-developing economies at the stage of the growth rate changes. Chapter VII talks about the contribution of the total demand of terminals and changes in the structure to economic growth. Chapter VIII is about the impact of ownership structural changes on the macroeconomy. Chapter IX is about the impact of the proportion of working population on the economic growth rate conversion. Chapter X shows the contribution of industrialized roundabout production to investment and economic growth. Chapter XI tells about the four important mechanisms of economic rebalancing and the future growth trends. Chapter XII points out the challenges and countermeasures for macroeconomic regulation in the economic rebalancing.


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The suite of works that are presented on the platform are from my series on horses.Apart from the obvious visceral quality of the horse, the primary concern with the execution of these works is to bring within a single visual format two historically different moments in terms of style and medium. Thus the traditional medium of oils has been used along side the more contemporary medium of acrylics.Also in terms of style there is an element of the traditional naturalistic bravura juxtaposed with the bright flat pop colours. I term it as 'painterly pop'.
Aditya Shirke is the second Indian artist who has been selected for the Master of Art program in drawing at Camberwell College, London. He completed G.D Arts in drawing and painting from a well-known institution in Pune. His mesmerizing paintings can be seen enhancing the charms and ambience of various swanky hotels like The Leela hotel, Mumbai, as well as adorning the walls of the houses in New York. He has brought forward his artistic skills at various demonstrations and shows nationwide and other parts of the world.


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With European powers either unable, or unwilling, to meet his demand to "fix" the Iran nuclear deal, President Donald Trump on May 8 followed through on his threat to "nix" the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as it is formally known, and re-impose "the highest level of" economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The president in January warned that he would scrap the accord unless its "disastrous flaws" were addressed, and, to this end, had for months been lobbying France, Great Britain and Germany to formulate a side agreement to eliminate the JCPOA's so-called "sunset clauses" — which remove limitations on Iran's ability to enrich uranium in just over a decade — as well as curb the Islamic Republic's ballistic missile program and involvement in fomenting unrest in the Middle East.
The president in January warned that he would scrap the accord unless its "disastrous flaws" were addressed.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on national television just moments after Trump's speech in order to reaffirm his support for the "brave decision." This, while no doubt cognizant of the fact that Washington's move raises the heat on Iran, whose rulers may conclude that they have little to lose by unleashing their proxies on Israel.
Indeed, the Israeli army is on high alert in the north, where municipalities were ordered on the day of Trump's announcement to unlock public bomb shelters over what the military called "unusual Iranian forces" in Syria. The Iranian mullahs may even determine that opening a front against Israel is in their best interest, using the conflagration as justification to restart their atomic program, if not make a full-out dash for a nuclear bomb.
By ditching the JCPOA, then, Trump effectively opened Pandora's box in the Middle East tinderbox. Many world leaders have warned that such action could lead to a large-scale military confrontation, not only involving the Jewish state and Sunni Arab countries, but also potentially the United States and Russia, which has re-emerged as a force in the region.
In the past, historians have described such conflicts — those involving multiple players and pitting global powers against one another — as world wars.


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Deep Learning: Market Trends
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Deep learning brings together human and machine learning to create an ever-evolving learning system
The deep learning market is undergoing a rising trend, thanks to its ability to develop deep domain insights and user inputs for industries. Deep learning is a type of machine learning algorithm that makes this possible through an enhanced system and human interactions, bettering organizational capabilities for client engagement and satisfaction. Transparency Research recently carried out a survey to study the trends and estimate the future of the deep learning market, and the future for the stream looks bright.
Technology-wise the deep learning market can be categorized into the following three areas: The application, end user, and the regional presence of this market. Application wise, deep learning differs from normal machine learning applications in being more nonlinear in processing, thereby allowing complex problem resolution. Though a subset of machine learning, the build of Deep Learning applications is based on the concept of artificial neural networks, which uses brain simulations to make learning algorithms much better and easier to use. The impetus is mainly due to the larger neural networks that we have, and the ability to train them with more and more data. Data is thus, the backbone of deep learning applications.
The end user is widening in scope and size, as per the report. Some of the core areas that deep learning offers solutions for are signal recognition and processing, data mining, machine vision, satellite and medical imaging recognition, robotics etc. This helps deep learning find applications for end users from industries such as banking and finance, retail, customer servicing, defense, cyber security, healthcare etc. Businesses are increasingly relying on such data-driven insights to be able to deliver value to clients.
A geographical analysis of the market shows that North America held the largest market share in the deep learning arena in the year 2016, with the US at the forefront. Europe and Asia Pacific tailed behind. Better data generation, data processing and data mining capabilities in the sectors of financial services, banking and insurance, retail, healthcare, were some of the key reasons for this growth trend. In Europe, growth is evident in the areas of Germany, U.K., Italy, Russia and France. This is primarily driven by the rise of research activity in the field. In Asia Pacific, China, India, and Australia are the forerunners, driven by the proliferation of the information technology and telecommunication sectors in these regions. South America also shows a promising presence, with Brazil and Argentina with their boosting retail, oil & gas sectors.
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it's not just digital, it's electric!
About Shawn Graham
Tag / history
24 Apr 2013 6 Jun 2013 by Shawn
Historical Friction
augmented reality, digital history, making
augmented reality, haptics, history, place, sound, thick, tics, und
edit June 6 – following on from collaboration with Stu Eve, we've got a version of this at http://graeworks.net/historicalfriction/
I want to develop an app that makes it difficult to move through the historically 'thick' places – think Zombie Run, but with a lot of noise when you are in a place that is historically dense with information. I want to 'visualize' history, but not bother with the usual 'augmented reality' malarky where we hold up a screen in front of our face. I want to hear the thickness, the discords, of history. I want to be arrested by the noise, and to stop still in my tracks, be forced to take my headphones off, and to really pay attention to my surroundings.
So here's how that might work.
1. Find wikipedia articles about the place where you're at. Happily, inkdroid.org has some code that does that, called 'Ici'. Here's the output from that for my office (on the Carleton campus):
http://inkdroid.org/ici/#lat=45.382&lon=-75.6984
2. I copied that page (so not the full wikipedia articles, just the opening bits displayed by Ici). Convert these wikipedia snippets into numbers. Let A=1, B=2, and so on. This site will do that:
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/numbers.php
3. Replace dashes with commas. Convert those numbers into music. Musical Algorithmns is your friend for that. I used the default settings, though I sped it up to 220 beats per minute. Listen for yourself here. There are a lot of wikipedia articles about the places around here; presumably if I did this on, say, my home village, the resulting music would be much less complex, sparse, quiet, slow. So if we increased the granularity, you'd start to get an acoustic soundscape of quiet/loud, pleasant/harsh sounds as you moved through space – a cost surface, a slope. Would it push you from the noisy areas to the quiet? Would you discover places you hadn't known about? Would the quiet places begin to fill up as people discovered them?
Right now, each wikipedia article is played in succession. What I really need to do is feed the entirety of each article through the musical algorithm, and play them all at once. And I need a way to do all this automatically, and feed it to my smartphone. Maybe by building upon this tutorial from MIT's App Inventor. Perhaps there's someone out there who'd enjoy the challenge?
I mooted all this at the NCPH THATCamp last week – which prompted a great discussion about haptics, other ways of engaging the senses, for communicating public history. I hope to play at this over the summer, but it's looking to be a very long summer of writing new courses, applying for tenure, y'know, stuff like that.
Edit April 26th – Stuart and I have been playing around with this idea this morning, and have been making some headway per his idea in the comments. Here's a quick screengrab of it in action: http://www.screencast.com/t/DyN91yZ0
14 Mar 2013 14 Mar 2013 by Shawn
Thinking out loud: language re tenure guidelines for the Digital Historian
digital, guidelines, history, musing, research, tenure
I've not actually seen this.
At my university, we've been asked to consider discipline-specific language for new tenure & promotion guidelines. I've been writing a response to our chair, and I thought, in keeping with how I regard this problem, it would be a good idea to share these thoughts.
Onwards.
The 1.4 edition of the Journal of Digital Humanities wrestles with the problem of evaluating digital scholarship for tenure http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/volumes/ (or download as pdf: http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/files/jdh_1_4.pdf )
Moving Goalposts & Scholarship as Processes
As far as discipline specific guidelines are concerned, from my perspective, is the problem that the goalposts are always going to be shifting. What was fairly technically demanding becomes easier with time, and so the focus shifts from 'can we do x' to 'what are the implications of x for y', or as Bethany Nowviskie put it, a shift from 18th century 'Lunaticks' who lay the groundwork for 19th century science and industrialization. Another problem is that in digital work, the lone scholar is very much the outlier. To achieve anything worthwhile takes a team – and who gets to be first author does not necessarily reflect the way the work was divied up or undertaken. We should resist trying to shoehorn digital work into boxes meant for a different medium. Nowiskie writes,
"The danger here … is that T&P committees faced with the work of a digital humanities scholar will instigate a search for print equivalencies — aiming to map every project that is presented to them, to some other completed, unary and generally privately-created object (like an article, an edition, or a monograph). That mapping would be hard enough in cases where it is actually appropriate "
She goes on to say,
"…the new responsibility of tenure and promotion committees [is] to assess quality in digital humanities work — not in terms of product or output — but as embodied in an evolving and continuous series of transformative processes."
(http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/evaluating-collaborative-digital-scholarship-by-bethany-nowviskie/)
This was the gist of Bill Turkel's address to the Underhill Graduate Students Colloquium on 'doing history in real time' – that the unique value, in an increasingly digital world, of formal academic knowledge is not about things per se, but rather about method. You can look up any fact in the world in seconds. But learning how to think, how to query, how to judge between competing stories – that's what we bring. That then is the problem for assessing digital work as part of tenure and promotion: how does this work change the process?
That suggests a hierarchy too, of importance. Merely putting things online, while important, is not necessarily transformative unless that kind of material has never been digitized before. Then the conversation also becomes about how that work was done, the decisions made, the relationship between the digital object and the physical one. I have a student working on a project, for instance, to put together an online exhibition related to Black History in Canada. This is important, but the exhibition itself is not transformative. The real scholarship, the real transformation, happens when she starts exploring those materials through text analysis, putting a macroscopic lens on the whole corpus of materials that she has collected.
Digital Work is Public Work
The other important point about process is that digital work always (99.9 times out of 100; my early agent modeling work had no internet presence, for instance) has a public, outward looking face. Platforms like blogs allow for public engagement with our work – so digital work is a kind of public humanities. The structure of the internet, of how its algorithmns find and construct knowledge and serve that up to us via Google, is such that work that is valuable and of interest creates a bigger noise in a positive feedback loop. The best digital work is done in public. 'Public' should not be a dirty word along the lines of 'popular'. The internet looks different to each person who goes online (and our algorithmns make sure that each person sees a personalized internet, because that's how one makes money online), so hits on a blog post are not random meaningless clicks but rather an engagement with a broader community. As far as academic blogging goes, that broader community is other academics and students. Print journals & peer reviewed articles are just one way of engaging with our chosen communities. With post-publication models of peer review like Digital Humanities Now and the Journal of Digital Humanities (models that are making inroads in other disciplines), we should treat these on an equal footing with the more familiar models. I'd argue that post-publication peer review is a greater indicator of significance and value that a regular, two blind reviewers into print model.
I'd like to see language then that regarded digital work, or work in media other than print, on an equal footing with the more familiar forms. That is, as things that do not have equivalencies to what we traditionally expect and thus must be taken on their own terms. I appreciate that I'm pretty much the only person in this department that any of this might apply to, for the time being. I would hate to see my work on topic modeling though get considered as 'service'. Figuring out how to apply natural language processing to vast corpi of historical materials, figuring out the ways the code force particular worldviews, hide others, and writing all of this up as a 'how-to' guide is indeed research. It's akin to figuring out how gene-sequencing works, its limitations, etc, which needs to be well understood before a biologist can use it to link modern humans to Neanderthals. We understand both of those activities as research, in biology, but we'd only understand the second as research if the example was the limits, potentials of topic modeling / discourses in the political thought of the 18th century. I bring this up, because of Sean Takats experience at George Mason:
http://quintessenceofham.org/2013/02/07/a-digital-humanities-tenure-case-part-2-letters-and-committees/
Project Management & Project Outputs
In that particular case, Takats was also managing major development projects to develop various tools and approaches. He writes,
" I want to focus on the committee's disregard for project management, because it's here I think that we find evidence of a much broader communication breakdown between DH and just-H, despite the best efforts to develop reasonable standards for evaluating digital scholarship. Although the committee's letter effectively excludes "project management" from consideration as research, I would argue that it's actually the cornerstone of all successful research. It's project management that transforms a dissertation prospectus into a thesis, and it's certainly project management that shepherds a monograph from proposal to published book. Fellow humanists, I have some news for you: you're all project managers, even if you only direct a staff of one."
Which leads me to my next point. Digital work creates all sorts of outputs, that are of use at many different stages to other researchers. These outputs should be considered as valuable publications in their own right. An agent based simulation of emergent social structures in the early Iron Age makes an argument in code about how the Roman world worked. If I published a discussion of the results of such a model, that is fine; but if I don't make that code available for someone else to critique, extend, or transform, I am being academically dishonest. The time it takes to build a model that works, is valid, that simulates something important, and the process it takes to build such a model, is considerable. The data that such a model produces is valuable for others looking to re-build a model of the same phenomena in another platform (which is crucial to validating the truth-content of models). All of these sorts of outputs can be made available online in digital archives built for the purpose of long term storage. The number of times such models are downloaded or discussed online can often be measured; these measures should also be taken into account as a kind of citation (see http://figshare.com/authors/Shawn_Graham/97736 ).
Experimentation and Risk Taking
Finally, I think that work that is experimental, that discusses what didn't work, should be recognized and celebrated. Todd Presner writes, (http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/how-to-evaluate-digital-scholarship-by-todd-presner/ )
" Digital projects in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts share with experimental practices in the Sciences a willingness to be open about iteration and negative results. As such, experimentation and trial-and-error are inherent parts of digital research and must be recognized to carry risk. The processes of experimentation can be documented and prove to be essential in the long-term development process of an idea or project. White papers, sets of best practices, new design environments, and publications can result from such projects and these should be considered in the review process. Experimentation and risk-taking in scholarship represent the best of what the university, in all its many disciplines, has to offer society. To treat scholarship that takes on risk and the challenge of experimentation as an activity of secondary (or no) value for promotion and advancement, can only serve to reduce innovation, reward mediocrity, and retard the development of research."
One of my blog posts, 'How I Lost the Crowd', discusses how my one project got hacked. That piece was read by some 400 people shortly after it was posted – and it later found its way into various digital history syllabi ( for instance here. This post has been read over 700 times in the past 10 months. Failing in public is where research and teaching are the same side of the same coin (he said, to mangle a metaphor).
So what should one look for?
Work that is transformative; where multi-authored work is valued as much as the single-author opus; work that is outward facing and is recognized by others through linking, reposting, sharing (and other so-called 'alt-metrics; cf http://impactstory.org/ for one attempt to pull these all together); data-as-publication; code-as-publication; experiments and risktaking and open discussion of what does and what does not work; software development & project management should be recognized as research; and any work that lays the groundwork for others to see further – the humble 'how to' (our lunatick moment; see for instance http://programminghistorian.org ).
For explicit guidelines on how to evaluate digital work, see Rockwell, http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/short-guide-to-evaluation-of-digital-work-by-geoffrey-rockwell/
Considering any digital work, Rockwell suggests the following questions:
Is it accessible to the community of study?
Did the creator get competitive funding? Have they tried to apply?
Have there been any expert consultations? Has this been shown to others for expert opinion?
Has the work been reviewed? Can it be submitted for peer review? (things like Digital Humanities Now, & JDH are crucial here)
Has the work been presented at conferences?
Have papers or reports about the project been published? (whether online or print, born-digital or otherwise is not the issue here)
Do others link to it? Does it link out well?
If it is an instructional project, has it been assessed appropriately?
Is there a deposit plan? Will it be accessible over the longer term? Will the library take it?
I'm not saying that we should build this checklist into any tenure and promotion language; rather I'm offering it here to suggest that any such language, if it broadly considers such things, will probably be ok, in the hopes of finding an acceptable middle ground between the box-tickers and the non-boxtickers. Rockwell offers some best practices for carrying out digital work, that speak to these questions:
Appropriate content (What was digitized?)
Digitization to archival standards (Are images saved to museum or archival standards?)
Encoding (Does it use appropriate markup like XML or follow TEI guidelines?)
Enrichment (Has the data been annotated, linked, and structured appropriately?)
Technical Design (Is the delivery system robust, appropriate, and documented?)
Interface Design and Usability (Is it designed to take advantage of the medium? Has the interface been assessed? Has it been tested? Is it accessible to its intended audience?)
Online Publishing (Is it published from a reliable provider? Is it published under a digital imprint?)
Demonstration (Has it been shown to others?)
Linking (Does it connect well with other projects?)
Learning (Is it used in a course? Does it support pedagogical objectives? Has it been assessed?)
This is of course a thinking-out-loud exercise, and will no doubt change. Thoughts?


Understanding the Glorious Qur'an: Presented in a beautiful and unique layout to aid non-Arabic speakers to understand the meaning of the Qur'an – is a carefully rendered into modern English version of the famous Urdu translation and commentary Mudih al-Furqan commonly known as Tafsir 'Uthmani (of which this is the 30th part). This tafsir by two of the most renowned scholars of Islam from the Indian subcontinent in the 19th century, Shaikh-ul-Hind Maulana Mahmud Hasan and his student 'Allama Shabbir Ahmad 'Uthmani is regarded as the most authentic rendering of the meaning of the Glorious Qur'an in any language. It was initially an adaptation of Shah Abdul Qadir Muhaddith Dehlawi's translation and commentary known as Mudih al-Qur'an which according to many great ulama' is ilhami (devinely inspired) and accepted by all Muslims.


Catamount Lacrosse will hold a Spark Clinic at the Indoor Action Sports Dome in Greenfield, MA on Sunday May 19th from 10:30am-Noon. Our Spark Clinics are designed to teach the fundamentals of lacrosse while also providing players the opportunity to compete in mini-games that stoke the joy in the sport. No equipment is required and sticks are provided. Players should wear comfortable athletic clothing. Sneakers or turf shoes are the best footwear as this will take place on field turf in the IAS Dome. Please contact Charlie Edwards at cedwards@catamountlc.com or 413-883-9146 if you have any questions.


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In the latest ranking from the Drucker Institute, Apple came in #2, placing it squarely below Amazon and above Google. According to The Wall Street Journal today, this is the first ranking of US companies based on the principals of Peter Ducker, a renown business export.
Apple scored well in many of the categories, but doing best in innovation and finance. It only received 4/5 in customer, employee and social aspects.
Apple's final score of 88.4 was just behind Amazon, who inched them out with an 89. Many other tech firms appeared in the top 10 including Alphabet, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco and Nvidia.


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What I've Been Listening to: Niedeckens BAP/Live & Deutlich
I guess this is another post you can put in the one-thing-leads-to-another category. The latest installment of my Best of What's New recurring feature included a new song by Niedeckens BAP, Ruhe Vor'm Sturm, which will be on the German rock band's next album scheduled for September. After listening to that tune, I felt hungry for more music by what has been my favorite rock band singing in German for close to 40 years. When I checked my streaming music provider, Live & Deutlich (live & clear) popped up, a live double CD capturing a concert at Circus Krone in Munich, Germany on June 6, 2018, conducted as part of the band's 2018 Live & Deutlich tour.
Perhaps not surprisingly, I think it's a great album – otherwise, I wouldn't be writing about it! Plus, as a longtime fan, I'm not unbiased here. Of course, I realize a rock band that not only sings in German but more specifically in Kölsch, a regional dialect spoken in the area of Cologne, may be a tough proposition to most of the blog's readers who it's safe to assume don't speak German. That doesn't discourage me. It's also not the first time I'm writing about the band. I hope to those who don't understand the lyrics – and trust me, not all people in Germany understand Kölsch either – the music, which I feel is an international language, will be enjoyable.
According to this review by Sounds & Books, Live & Deutlich marked the band's first-ever tour that featured a full-blown horn section, including saxophone (Axel Müller), trombone (Franz Johannes Goltz) and trumpet (Christoph Moschberger). "That was a lot of fun for us, since the three horn players opened up new possibilities for the band," commented Wolfgang Niedecken, who has led the band since it was founded in 1976 in Cologne and is the only remaining original member. "We had a ball on stage and enjoyed having songs in the set we had not played in a long time and playing other tunes for the first time with real horns."
The 30 tracks feature a nice variety of songs spanning much of the band's 40-plus-year catalog. There are classics, such as Verdamp lang her (it's been a long time), Kristalnaach (night of broken glass), Du kanns zaubere (you can do magic) and Anna, as well as deeper cuts like Nem mich met (take me with you), Psycho-Rodeo and Ruut-wieß-blau querjestriefte Frau (red-white-blue horizontal striped lady). There is also a cover version of Bob Dylan's You Ain't Goin' Nowhere. Many of the tunes were rearranged, in part because of the horn section. Time to get to some music!
Let's kick it off with Drei Wünsch frei (three free wishes), which is a nice introduction to the horn section. As usual for original tunes, the lyrics are written by Wolfgang Niedecken. The song first appeared on Zwesche Salzjebäck un Bier (between salt pretzels and beer) from May 1984, the fifth studio album by the band that between 1982 and 2014 was simply called BAP. On that record, the music was credited to the entire band.
Psycho-Rodeo has a cool Stonesy sound. I dig the slide guitar (I assume it's played by lead guitarist Ulrich Rode) and again, the horn work is great. The band recorded this tune for their 11th studio album Comics & Pin-ups that appeared in January 1999. The song was co-written by Klaus Heuser, BAP's guitarist from 1980 until 1999, and Niedecken. In fact, the two of them wrote most of the band's songs during that time period.
Diss Naach ess alles drin (tonight, anything is possible) is another track from the aforementioned Zwesche Salzjebäck un Bier album. I had not heard that song in many years and feel it sounds really fresh. The horn work is a standout.
Time to slow it down. Here's a beautiful ballad called Jupp, which is a male name. Originally, it appeared on BAP's national breakthrough album Für usszeschnigge! (to cut out) from October 1981. The acoustic guitar part combined with the beautiful violin played by Anne de Wolff is the song's highlight. The tune, another Heuser-Niedecken co-write, also has a nice build turning from an acoustic-focused to an electric power ballad.
After four German songs, I thought it might be a good idea to throw in an English tune, the aforementioned Dylan cover – well, sort of, it's half English, half German, but, hey, at least it's got some English! 🙂 Dylan wrote You Ain't Goin' Nowhere in 1967 in Woodstock, N.Y. during his self-imposed exile from public appearances following his motorcycle accident earlier that year. The tune was first released in November 1971 on his second compilation Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II. For this version, the band is joined by two Bavarian artists, Werner Schmidbauer (guitar, backing vocals) und Hannes Ringlstetter (guitar, backing vocals). I just love this cover – dare I say it, even more so than the original! The Bavarian artists with their local dialect provide character. I also dig the warm rootsy sound of the music, which almost has a John Mellencamp flair to it.
Over the decades, Wolfgang Niedecken has repeatedly written songs with political themes. A recurring topic has been discrimination against immigrants. Here is one of his best, included on BAP's fourth studio album Vun drinne noh drusse (from the inside to the outside) from August 1982, the above noted Kristallnaach (night of broken glass), another co-write with Heuser.
After such a serious song, I think it's time for some reggae happiness. Aff un zo (every now and then) is the title track from BAP's 13th studio album, released in June 2001. The song was co-written by Niedecken and Helmut Krumminga, who succeeded Heuser as lead guitarist in 1999 and was with the band until 2014. Just like Heuser, he became Niedecken's key songwriting collaborator.
I'd like to highlight one more track, another ballad called Jraaduss (straight shooter). This tune is also from the previously mentioned album Für usszeschnigge! Yet another Heuser-Niedecken co-write, it's one of my favorite BAP tunes, in part because of the lyrics. An excerpt: Stay where you are/hold on to something/and stay like you used to be/a straight shooter.
"I've always liked live albums," wrote Niedecken on the band's website. "Because they authentically capture the sound of a band and are a time capsule. In the ideal case, live recordings document how a band sounds at a particular moment in time." Speaking of the band, I'd like to acknowledge the other core members I haven't mentioned yet: Marius Goldhammer (bass), Sönke Reich (drums) and Michael Nass (keyboards). I think I agree with Sounds & Books, which called Live & Deutlich "perhaps the best BAP live album with the most variety since Bess demnähx (see you soon)."
Sources: Wikipedia; Sounds & Books; Discogs; BAP website; YouTube
Author christiansmusicmusingsPosted on May 11, 2020 Categories What I've Been Listening To...Tags Aff Un Zo, Anne de Wolff, Axel Müller, Bahnhofskino, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II, Christoph Moschberger, Comics & Pin-Ups, Deutsch Rock, Diss Naach ess alles drin, Drei Wünsch frei, Du kanns zaubere, für usszeschnigge!, Franz Johannes Goltz, Hannes Ringlstetter, John Mellencamp, Jraaduss, Jupp, Kölsch Rock, Klaus Heuser, Kristalnaach, Live & Deutlich, Marius Goldhammer, Michael Nass, Nem mich met, Niedecken's BAP, Psycho-Rodeo, Ruhe vor'm Sturm, Sönke Reich, Ulrich Rode, Verdamp Lang Her, Vun Drinne Noh Drusse, Werner Schmidbauer, Wolfgang Niedecken, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, Zwesche Salzjebäck un Bier7 Comments on What I've Been Listening to: Niedeckens BAP/Live & Deutlich


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Just like most of us on this planet, I didn't dream of being a family advocate when I grew up. After all, when I was small I fully expected to be president of the United States! I guess even as a small child I felt someone was pulling me to make a difference to a hurting planet. And although I did not become president, I did choose something equally as important.
It is my life's mission to empower others, specifically parents. What does that mean? Well, it for sure does not mean adding to the gluttony of resignation and hopelessness that's already out there. I believe that life can work and we have the answers within. Now you just need the proper glasses to see them.
My mission is to help you to clearly see the path. And my role is to help you look at yourself as a source for finding the relationship with your child that you want more than anything.
I have been a television producer, scriptwriter, graphic designer, photographer, video editor, college professor, elementary school teacher, curriculum author, executive director, business owner, anger management/domestic violence specialist, traffic school instructor, family mediator, waitress, receptionist, and even an ordained minister.
If you read my resume, you'd probably think, "wow, this woman has done everything," and yet the insecure little girl hidden underneath the achievements is really who drives me to be who I am. I just want to make my trip around this big blue marble mean something.
I grew up being raised by my very strong and determined mother. She had a tough upbringing and was determined to make it different for her children. My father traveled most of the time, so it was like living in a single parent home in many respects. My mother was always over worked, and frustrated that she had to do it alone. Yet, we saw our father as the knight in shining armor, because when he came home, for a day or two, everything was perfect. We resented our mother and adored our father with no justification other than feelings.
By 2001, I was the mother of five adoring sons, yet extremely miserable in my marriage and feeling terribly unaccomplished. I had spent a decade trying to fill many roles in my list to please my husband in hopes that I could feel good enough for myself. One day I woke up and I decided to take a turn from this predictable dysfunctional future that lay ahead for my family, so I left the marriage. The door that I walked through at that very moment would transform me into the lifelong family advocate I am now. Little did I know the hell I would stir up.
I have endured arrest, been on welfare, accused of child abuse, alienated from my children and ostracized by my community. I have overcome a husband's infidelity, parented drug-addicted step children, and in nearly half a million dollars in tax debt.
All of which I have survived and overcome.


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Robert James Fischer vs Ulf Andersson
"They'll Do It Every Time" (game of the day Apr-27-2008)
Exhibition Game (1970) (exhibition), Siegen FRG, Sep-26
Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation (A01) · 1-0
Given 64 times; par: 65 [what's this?]
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kevin86: No wonder black resigned-Fischer was up the exchange and a pawn!
May-05-08 ruelas007: <whiteshark> Oh rofl!
Aug-26-08 Slurpeeman: I found another manuscript of Fischer - Andersson on Mychess.com (tactics 1 = > #7). Which one is right?
http://www.mychess.com/tactics/tact...
Sep-23-08 Tripler: Fischer flicked out 1.b3 against three young players: Andersson, Tukmakov and Mecking. The Mecking game transposed to a Bird's. He won them all. Maybe he just felt like a day off from mainline theory; more likely he just wanted to get these young players out of the book so they had to think for themselves.
Jan-26-09 UnsoundHero: ,There are a couple of reasons why Fischer played 34 Be5 rather than the flashy 34 Rxf5 & Rg7 and then sacrificing the queen:
* There's always the possibility of a mis-calculation. Fischer would be down a queen for a piece if black had a miracle defense. It's true that this would be extremely rare in Fischer's case, but he reasoned, correctly, that he didn't have to take this chance.
*Fischer himself admitted that he liked to "see his opponents squirm". It's almost as if he wanted to win the game as slowly as possible. I wonder if Anderrson actually squirmed after 34 Be5. Here he was, down one exchange, being threatened with another.
Fischer knew that he would eventually win after 34 Be5 without risk.
Aug-05-09 birthtimes: 34. Rxf5 gxf5 35. Rg7 Rd1+ 36. Kg2 Nf4+ 37. Qxf4 Qd5+ 38. Kh3 Rd4 39. Bxd4 Qe6 40. f7 Qxf7 41. Rxf7+ Kg8 42. Qxf5 a4 43. Rf8#
Aug-05-09 birthtimes: 34. Rxf5 gxf5 35. Qb5 Rd8 36. Qxf5 Re8 holds out longer than 36...Nf8 (much more than 7 moves).
Aug-05-09 shalgo: <if i remember correctly, yusupov used the Rg1 g4 strategy as black>
Here is the game, analyzed (as you mention) in Dvoretsky and Yusupov's "Positional Play."
Taimanov vs Yusupov, 1982
keypusher: <There are a couple of reasons why Fischer played 34 Be5 rather than the flashy 34 Rxf5 & Rg7 and then sacrificing the queen:
Fischer knew that he would eventually win after 34 Be5 without risk.>
Or he just missed the combination. Nah, couldn't be.
Jun-01-12 kasparvez: This is indeed a phenomenal game! Not the usual direct and crystalline Fischer. The quality and level of brilliance is up there, but the character of play is more subtle, garbed and not immediately evident. Great lesson.
Aug-25-12 csmath: One of the most brilliant games Bobby played.Once the battery was in place the game was won. It is just plain amazing that human comes with something engine never would. But one needs to say that Andersoon, just like Taimanov shuffled pieces aimlessly not knowing how to counter strange setup.
Sep-21-12 nummerzwei: I didn't know these two have played.
Apr-13-13 Wyatt Gwyon: Fischer was just cocky as hell at this point in time, wasn't he? lol.
Apr-13-13 RookFile: It was a wonderful plan involving play on the g file that a lot of grandmasters took note of.
May-07-14 Strelets: 37...gxh5? would've led to a thunderous finish: 38.Qg8+!! Qxg8 39.f7+ Qg7 40.Bxg7#
May-07-14 Strelets: And the same theme works after 38...gxh5?: 39.Qg8+!! Qxg8 40.f7+ Qg7 (40...Ng7 41.fxg8=Q+ Kxg8 42.Rxg7+ Kh8 43.R anywhere on the g-file other than g8# On 40...Nf6, White simply has 41.fxg8=Q#) 41.fxe8=Q Rxe8 42.Bxg7+ Kg8 43.Bxf8+ and White's up a rook and a piece.
diceman: <1Tripler:
Maybe he just felt like a day off from mainline theory; more likely he just wanted to get these young players out of the book so they had to think for themselves.>
This game was basically a sicilian
a tempo ahead.
Mar-05-15 jerseybob: xrt999: Your remark is incredibly odd: who cares if Andersson was a GM at this exact moment in time? He was an up and coming young player who soon became a GM, just as Fischer himself had been early in his own career. Bobby obviously didn't feel demeaned by playing him; he fully understood the young man's potential.
Apr-14-15 cunctatorg: This game was a nightmare for Black; Fisher's white pieces seem to have an infinite number of resources...
Oct-01-16 Rookiepawn: <keypusher: <There are a couple of reasons why Fischer played 34 Be5 rather than the flashy 34 Rxf5 & Rg7 and then sacrificing the queen: * There's always the possibility of a mis-calculation. Fischer would be down a queen for a piece if black had a miracle defense. It's true that this would be extremely rare in Fischer's case, but he reasoned, correctly, that he didn't have to take this chance.
Or he just missed the combination. Nah, couldn't be.>
OK, maybe he missed the combination, but to be fair, at this point Black's position is so terrible that there are many ways to win for White. Maybe the way Fischer wins is not so flashy, but it is still very attractive.
Being not a usual opening for Fischer, I think his logical, clear playing is still there. No dubious fuzzy variants, the attack on the K side seems very transparent and even announced... And still Black never finds counterplay.
Dec-24-16 izimbra: Some mention of Fischer vs. Mecking, on the main page, led me to look for games where Fischer played the Nimzo-Larsen as White. There were only a few, and Andersson was the highest level opponent I recognized. This game and the Mecking game are similar in the sense of fitting this description: Fischer has W around 1970 against an opponent he feels he can beat. He decides to go for a plan that will eventually give him a massive attack against the opponent K without any real risk of a loss. If Black played the best opening moves, N-L would probably increase chances of a draw, but it was less well known then and Fischer was playing it against opponents he didn't regard as offensive threats.
In that context, this exhibition game is kind of cool to see how Fischer puts on a caveman attack against a strong defensive player.
MissScarlett: C.N. 11543: <From John Donaldson (Berkeley, CA, USA):
�The recent publication of all 20 games from Bobby Fischer�s simultaneous exhibition in M�nster, Germany in 1970 resolved several mysteries and gave the chess world over a dozen new games played by the late world champion.
The display was previously known, although not the exact date. The fact that it took place on 27 September 1970 makes it probable, if not 100% certain, that the exhibition game Fischer v Andersson, sponsored by the Swedish newspaper Expressen, occurred the day before. The Siegen Olympiad ended on 27 September, but the last day of play was 25 September. It is conceivable, if unlikely, that the Fischer v Andersson game was on 25 September, as neither played in the final round of the Olympiad.>
I wasn't aware the date of this game was uncertain. I note Spassky didn't play in the last round either, although he and Fischer were still in contention for the best score on top board: http://www.olimpbase.org/1970/1970i...
MissScarlett: Agreed with Donaldson that scheduling the game for the last day of the Olympiad seems improbable, but it only just occurred that there's a major clue in the form of <sponsored by the Swedish newspaper Expressen>. I suggest one of our lazyboy Swedish readers pulls their finger out and gets on the case. I'll expect a report back within 72 hours.
MissScarlett: I've realised there's a major problem with Donaldson's line of argument. The 25th and 26th of September were Friday and Saturday, respectively. Fischer (not to mention Reshevsky) was still observing the Jewish Sabbath at this time - here's the American Olympiad schedule http://www.olimpbase.org/1970/1970u... which confirms Fischer didn't play on any Friday or Saturday. Note that Olimpbase incorrectly gives the date of the USA - USSR match (Spassky vs Fischer, 1970) as the 19th, but it took place on Sunday the 20th.
MissScarlett: Hmmmm, seems Donaldson was right and the game was played on the 26th, but he doesn't address the issue of playing a game for financial gain on the Sabbath. Sundown in Germany at that time of year wouldn't be till about 7pm, so it's hard to see the game starting that late.
C.N. 11562 also has some thoughts on Fischer's role in the development of the Hedgehog system, wherein he cites this simul game played the following day: Michels vs Fischer, 1970
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