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Important legal, regulatory and other developments in the area of derivatives
"U.S. Person" Definitions Under the Final Exemptive Order and the Final Guidance, Application to Certain Foreign Branches, and Determination for Collective Investment Vehicles
Editorial BoardPosted on August 26, 2013
The cross-border application of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act has been a vexing question for regulators. A major factor determining the ultimate reach of such swap regulation is the definition of "U.S. person" for purposes of the regulators' guidance and other pronouncements regarding cross-border regulation.
On January 7, 2013, the CFTC published in the Federal Register a final order [1] (the "January Order"), which set forth a temporary "U.S. person" definition and provided temporary relief from certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act relating to swaps. The January Order expired on July 12, 2013, but on that same day the CFTC approved a new exemptive order [2] (the "July Order") providing "temporary conditional relief effective upon the expiration of the January Order in order to facilitate transition to the Dodd-Frank Swaps regime." [3] Although the July Order states that, "the Commission does not believe that an extension of the January Order is necessary or appropriate," [4] the July Order in effect simply extends many provisions of the January Order until 75 days after the publication in the Federal Register of the related final guidance [5] (the "Final Guidance"), which the CFTC also approved on July 12, 2013. The Final Guidance was published in the Federal Register on July 26, 2013, making the extension date October 9, 2013.
Significantly, the July Order extends until October 9, 2013 the "U.S. person" definition exactly as it was set forth in the January Order. [6] Upon the expiration of this definition on October 9, 2013, the "U.S. person" definition set forth in the Final Guidance will apply. The Final Guidance provides that the CFTC will interpret the term "U.S. person" generally to include, but not be limited to:
(i) any natural person who is a resident of the United States;
(ii) any estate of a decedent who was a resident of the United States at the time of death;
(iii) any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, business or other trust, association, joint-stock company, fund or any form of enterprise similar to any of the foregoing (other than an entity described in prongs (iv) or (v), below) (a "legal entity"), in each case that is organized or incorporated under the laws of a state or other jurisdiction in the United States or having its principal place of business in the United States;
(iv) any pension plan for the employees, officers or principals of a legal entity described in prong (iii), unless the pension plan is primarily for foreign employees of such entity;
(v) any trust governed by the laws of a state or other jurisdiction in the United States, if a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust;
(vi) any commodity pool, pooled account, investment fund, or other collective investment vehicle that is not described in prong (iii) and that is majority-owned by one or more persons described in prong (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v), except any commodity pool, pooled account, investment fund, or other collective investment vehicle that is publicly offered only to non-U.S. persons and not offered to U.S. persons;
(vii) any legal entity (other than a limited liability company, limited liability partnership or similar entity where all of the owners of the entity have limited liability) that is directly or indirectly majority-owned by one or more persons described in prong (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) and in which such person(s) bears unlimited responsibility for the obligations and liabilities of the legal entity; and
(viii) any individual account or joint account (discretionary or not) where the beneficial owner (or one of the beneficial owners in the case of a joint account) is a person described in prong (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), or (vii). [7]
The Final Guidance definition is similar to the temporary definition, but broader. For example, the temporary definition does not include an equivalent of prong (vi) above relating to legal entities that are majority-owned by persons that constitute U.S. Persons and which bear unlimited responsibility for the obligations and liabilities of the legal entity. Moreover, the Final Guidance provides explanation on each prong of the foregoing definition and makes some important clarifications.
Once such clarification is that a foreign branch of a U.S. bank registered with the CFTC as a "swap dealer" (an "SD Foreign Branch") is a "U.S. person" for purposes of the CFTC's Dodd-Frank regulations. However, generally speaking, the Final Guidance permits "substituted compliance" by an SD Foreign Branch that enters into a swap with a non-U.S. counterparty for one of more Dodd-Frank requirements if the CFTC has made a determination of comparability with respect to those regulatory requirements (a "Substituted Compliance Determination"). Specifically: (i) with respect to "Category A Transaction-Level Requirements," [8] an SD Foreign Branch may comply with the requirements of the local law and regulations in the foreign location of the branch in lieu of compliance with Dodd-Frank where a Substituted Compliance Determination has been made and (ii) with respect to "Category B Transaction-Level Requirements," [9] an SD Foreign Branch need not comply with such requirements unless its swap counterparty is a U.S. person (other than another SD Foreign Branch). The CFTC has not yet issued any Substituted Compliance Determinations, although it is currently considering substituted compliance applications submitted by six jurisdictions: Australia, Canada, the European Union, Hong Kong, Japan and Switzerland.
Another important clarification is the application of a "principal place of business" test for purposes of determining whether a collective investment vehicle constitutes a U.S. person (under prong (iii) of the definition). In particular, the Final Guidance states that the determination of the principal place of business for a collective investment vehicle generally should depend on the location of the "actual center of direction, control and coordination," that is the "nerve center" [10] of the vehicle. The Final Guidance further highlights that "[t]he key personnel relevant to this aspect of the analysis are those senior personnel responsible for implementing the vehicle's investment strategy and its risk management. Depending on the vehicle's investment strategy, these senior personnel could be those responsible for investment selections, risk management decisions, portfolio management, or trade execution." [11] In sum, the Final Guidance provides that a collective investment vehicle's principal place of business will be the United States "if the senior personnel responsible for either (1) the formation and promotion of the collective investment vehicle or (2) the implementation of the vehicle's investment strategy are located in the United States, depending on the facts and circumstances that are relevant to determining the center of direction, control and coordination of the vehicle." [12]
The CFTC has encouraged requests to provide written advice and guidance as to the application of the definition of "U.S. person," [13] apparently recognizing that ambiguities may remain despite publication of the Final Guidance.
[1] Final Exemptive Order Regarding Compliance with Certain Swap Regulations, 78 Fed. Reg. 858 (January 7, 2013).
[2] Exemptive Order Regarding Compliance with Certain Swap Regulations, 78 Fed. Reg. 43,785 (July 22, 2013).
[3] Id. at 43,785.
[5] Interpretive Guidance and Policy Statement Regarding Compliance with Certain Swap Regulations, 78 Fed. Reg. 45,292 (July 26, 2013). Note that, in addition to its interpretation of "U.S. person," the Final Guidance covers various other issues in the cross-border context, including swap dealer and major swap participant registration, interpretation of "foreign branch," application of the Dodd-Frank Title VII requirements to various types of market participants, and substituted compliance.
[6] July Order, supra note 2, at 43,787. The January Order stated that the CFTC "will treat as a 'U.S. person' any person identified by the following five criteria":
(i) A natural person who is a resident of the United States;
(ii) A corporation, partnership, limited liability company, business or other trust, association, joint-stock company, fund or any form of enterprise similar to any of the foregoing, in each case that is (A) organized or incorporated under the laws of a state or other jurisdiction in the United States or (B) effective as of April 1, 2013 for all such entities other than funds or collective investment vehicles, having its principal place of business in the United States;
(iii) A pension plan for the employees, officers or principals of a legal entity described in (ii) above, unless the pension plan is primarily for foreign employees of such entity;
(iv) An estate of a decedent who was a resident of the United States at the time of death, or a trust governed by the laws of a state or other jurisdiction in the United States if a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust; or
(v) An individual account or joint account (discretionary or not) where the beneficial owner (or one of the beneficial owners in the case of a joint account) is a person described in (i) through (iv) above.
[7] Id. at 45,316-17.
[8] "Category A Transaction-Level Requirements" consist of the following Dodd-Frank Act requirements: (1) clearing and swap processing; (2) margin and segregation requirements for uncleared swaps; (3) trade execution; (4) swap trading relationship documentation; (5) portfolio reconciliation and compression; (6) real-time public reporting; (7) trade confirmation; and (8) daily trading records.
[9] "Category B Transaction-Level Requirements" consist of Dodd-Frank requirements regarding external business conduct standards (including those currently being addressed through the August 2012 Dodd-Frank Protocol and similar arrangements).
[10] Id. at 45,309 (citing Hertz Corp. v. Friend, 559 U.S. 77 (2010)).
[11] Id. at 45,310 (footnotes omitted). The Final Guidance elaborates:
The achievement of a collective investment vehicle's investment objectives may be closely linked to its formation. Decisions made in the structuring and formation of the collective investment vehicle may have a significant effect on the performance of the vehicle. Thus, for purposes of identifying the vehicle's principal place of business, the Commission may also consider the location of the senior personnel who direct, control and coordinate the formation of the vehicle (i.e., the promoters). The location of the promoters of the collective investment vehicle is relevant, particularly where the vehicle has a specialized structure or where the promoters of the vehicle continue to be integral to the ongoing success of the fund, including by retaining overall control of the vehicle.
[13] Specifically, the Final Guidance notes that: "The [CFTC] believes that [CFTC] regulation 140.99, which provides for persons to request that the staff of the [CFTC] provide written advice or guidance, would be an appropriate mechanism for a person to seek guidance as to whether it is a U.S. person for purposes of applying the [CFTC] swaps regulations promulgated under Title VII [of the Dodd-Frank Act]." Final Guidance, supra note 4, at 45,316 n.235.
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I have a study of some bolted cast iron components that I need to analyse, hoping someone can give me some advice.
In the attached picture the flanged bolt has clearance through the top hole (the flange locking it down), this then bolts into the second component which has a tapped hole in it.
Firstly looking for some guidance on how to set this up with bolt connectors in COSMOSworks.
The assembly has symetry, will cosmos analyse the bolt connectors correctly when they have been cut along the symetry line.
If you are using Cosmos 2008 the program wll analyze the connectors properly even if they are cut by the symmetry plane. If not you'll have to model the whole assembly.
To use the bolt connectors you need to suppress the hardware first and then go through the different options depending on what you want. This is explained in the Cosmosworks help.
I am actualy trying to analyse the effect that the bolt is going to have on the dark blue component, in the image you can only see half of it.
There will be a load in the centre (which would be off screen to the right) of the assembly, and I want to analyse the effects of having a bolt in this position, i have already analysed the effect with no bolt.
I am confident that the bolt being used is beefy enough, and the thread will not strip. I am also confident in the material surrounding the bolt.
You should be all set, I would go ahead and use bolted connectors but try to get some sort of accurate axial load value. I have no clue what cosmos does with that friction factor or what ever they call it since it doesn't account for the differences in pitch for example a M8X1 v/s M8X1.5 would have the same axial load but in real life we know this isn't true. Maybe there is a look up table but I do that stuff the old school method.


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Everett Downing in a Pixar animator (working on films including Up and Ratatouille). However, over the last three years, he's been working on an act of animation heroism of his own. He is trying to create 365 new superheroes from scratch.
Now it turns out that, when first he set out on this quest, his plan was to create one new super a day for a year – hence the number that remains his aim. However, it turned out that the prospect of creating one complete character a day was too daunting even for this most talented of comic creatives, so he's been pacing himself.
Just recently, however, he clocked up superhero number 300, adding him to the site on which the whole project has been catalogued.
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Robert Jeffrey Alkire (born  November 15, 1969) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played internationally for Team USA. As a player, he was listed at  and ; he threw left-handed and batted right-handed.

Alkire attended the University of Miami, where he played college baseball for the Miami Hurricanes. In 1991, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He pitched for the United States national baseball team in the 1992 Summer Olympics.

After his baseball career, he started his own business and worked as a sales representative for Elkay Manufacturing.

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The Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Coast Guard say they need hundreds of more sailors. (The Canadian Press)
Seaman to sailor: Royal Canadian Navy adopts inclusive, gender-neutral term for junior ranks
New English rank name will match the French version, navy says
Aug. 27, 2020 11:20 a.m.
The Royal Canadian Navy has chosen a new term for its ranks as the institution seeks to become more inclusive and attract a wider pool of recruits.
The navy announced Thursday (Aug. 27) that it had changed "seaman" to "sailor" throughout its ranks after a survey of more than 18,000 Canadians. Its junior ranks will soon be known as Sailor Third Class (formerly Ordinary Seaman), Sailor Second Class (formerly Able Seaman), Sailor First Class (formerly Leading Seaman), and Master Sailor (formerly Master Seaman).
"These changes help retain the history of these roles and aligns the English rank designation with the existing ranks in French," the Canadian Armed Forces said in a statement. The changes are scheduled to come into effect in early September.
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This book did a lot to help me better understand the difference between "data" and "drama" as espoused in the daily news cycle. The world's a far better place than we tend to realize; Dr. Rosling's work is excellent and now being carried on by his children. I consider myself having acquired a new life skill by way of reading this book.


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Miley Cyrus says she's been sober for six months after vocal surgery that left her unable to speak for four weeks
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Miley Cyrus said she is officially six months sober during an interview with Variety this week.
"The thing that I love about it is waking up 100%, 100% of the time," Cyrus said. "I don't want to wake up feeling groggy. I want to wake up feeling ready."
Cyrus said she decided to take up a "sober lifestyle" initially because of a vocal cord surgery that left her unable to speak for four weeks.
She decided to keep sober after doing some digging into her family's mental health history and going to therapy.
Miley Cyrus revealed she has been sober for six months in an interview with Variety on Tuesday.
After a vocal cord surgery that left her unable to speak for four weeks, Cyrus decided to take up a sober lifestyle to "polish up" her craft.
"I had freaking four weeks where I wasn't allowed to talk. I was so ripped writing on the whiteboard, yelling at everybody," Cyrus said. "I had this one big bicep from just yelling at mum and still trying to do meetings. But it prepared me for the stillness and the quietness."
After recovering from her surgery, she decided to keep sober after doing some research into her family. She told Variety she had inherited many of the feelings of abandonment from her mother, who has been adopted, and her father who "raised himself" after his parents divorced when he was three years old.
"I did a lot of family history, which has a lot of addiction and mental health challenges," Cyrus said. "So just going through that and asking, 'Why am I the way that I am?' By understanding the past, we understand the present and the future much more clearly."
Cyrus is among a growing number of young people deciding to take up a sober lifestyle.
"It's really hard because especially being young, there's that stigma of 'you're no fun,'" Cyrus said. "It's like, 'honey, you can call me a lot of things, but I know that I'm fun.' The thing that I love about it is waking up 100%, 100% of the time. I don't want to wake up feeling groggy. I want to wake up feeling ready."
This isn't the first time Cyrus has openly spoken about giving up substances. In 2017, she told Billboard she had given up smoking weed for a period of time.
"This is crazy," she told Billboard. "but I haven't smoked weed in three weeks! I like to surround myself with people that make me want to get better, more evolved, open. And I was noticing, it's not the people that are stoned. I want to be super clear and sharp, because I know exactly where I want to be."
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Brad Pitt said he was in Alcoholics Anonymous for a year and a half following his split from Angelina Jolie
Charlie Sheen says he decided to get sober the day after he was too drunk to drive his daughter to an appointment
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Late January marked the 49th anniversary of Roe. V. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. It could very well...
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A bill by Rep. Jackie Spear would eliminate the 1982 deadline, leaving the ERA just one state away from becoming a part of the U.S. Constitution.
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Airbus to test harpoon to remove debris from space
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Airbus is set to test a harpoon to trap defunct satellites and remove them from the sky.
Currently under development, the 1m-long projectile is designed to be attached to a 'chase spacecraft' by a strong tether, deployed to capture rouge satellites and other debris orbiting Earth.
The captured objects will burn up once they enter the Earth's atmosphere.
The harpoon is expected to address the rising problem of the old spacecraft objects that continue to travel around the globe and pose a collision threat to operational satellites and astronauts.
Approximately 20,000 pieces of debris larger than 10cm are currently estimated to be orbiting the Earth.
"If we can design a harpoon that can cope with Envisat, then it should be able to cope with all other types of spacecraft."
The new Airbus harpoon will have the capacity remove one of the biggest pieces of space debris, Envisat, a defunct European satellite.
Weighing 8t, the Earth observation satellite died suddenly in orbit in 2012.
Airbus advanced project engineer Alastair Wayman was quoted by bbc.com as saying: "If we can design a harpoon that can cope with Envisat, then it should be able to cope with all other types of spacecraft, including the many rocket upper-stages that remain in orbit."
Airbus is using its facility in Stevenage, UK, to test the harpoon. Testing includes firing the harpoon into a panel that features the types of material used to manufacture satellite structures.
Wayman further added: "The harpoon goes through these panels like a hot knife through butter.
"Once the tip is inside, it has a set of barbs that open up and stop the harpoon from coming back out. We'd then de-tumble the satellite with a tether on the other end."
Next month, a miniature version of the harpoon is scheduled to be launched into space as part of a mission called RemoveDebris.


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Q: bokh text glypy with x_axis_type datetime I am attempting to add text to a time series plot made with bokeh.  I have read through this post and still cant seem to get it right.
Bokeh glyph coordinates with x_axis_type 'datetime'
I am trying to plot text at the last point [-1] index in a time series.  Here is the example code:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from datetime import datetime
from bokeh.plotting import output_notebook, figure, show

output_notebook()

# generate randome walks
n=100
df = pd.DataFrame({'date': pd.date_range('12/1/2015', periods=n, freq='D'),
                   'A' : (np.random.random(n) - 0.5).cumsum(),
                   'B' : (np.random.random(n) - 0.5).cumsum(),
                   'C' : (np.random.random(n) - 0.5).cumsum(),})

df.set_index('date', inplace=True)

items = ['A', 'B', 'C']
colors = ['red', 'green', 'blue']

# make a figure
p = figure(x_axis_type='datetime', width=900, height=500)

for item, color in zip(items, colors):

    # plot the lines
    p.line(df.index, df[item], color=color, legend=item)

    # plot text at the last point in the time series
    p.text(x=df.index[-1].timestamp(), y=df[item][-1], text=item)

p.legend.orientation = "top_left"
p.yaxis.minor_tick_out=0

show(p)

When I run this I get NaN plotted on the 1970 Jan 1 (epoch start).  The Y value locations seem to be ok.
The error is:

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If you enjoy avocado as much as I do, then you're going to love today's article: I've got five fresh avocado recipes for you.
Specifically, avocado toast. The concept is fairly simple. Mash up half an avocado with salt, pepper, and some sort of acid (lemon or lime juice) to taste. The flavors should be bright without covering up the cool grassiness of the avocado. Spread this mash over a lightly toasted piece of bread, and you have avocado toast. It's that easy! I like to use whole-wheat bread here, but sourdough or country bread would also work well.
Avocado toast can be enjoyed for breakfast or as an afternoon snack. Avocado is packed with healthy fat and nutrients, so I find that just 1 slice can keep me full and satisfied until my mid-morning meal. I've also served these luscious green beauties as an appetizer (on thin slices of seedy baguette).
To take things up a notch, here are four variations on the basic avocado toast plus simple instructions for perfecting the original, no-frills version.


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Actually, you're not listening.
Whatsisface
Translation. You're not viewing the poor evidences in a more than generous light.
Whatsisface said:
So where is your evidence for your claim the universe was not caused?
Electric Skeptic
You're the one who keeps trying to win arguments which were lost at the resurrection of Jesus.
Don't like it?
Good! You're not supposed to like it.
Find it painfully tediously and morosely boring?
Perfect! You're supposed to!
You're more than welcome to dump everything you're doing, rejoin the discussion, and stop being so morosely boring and painfully tedious.
Still not interested in your ad hominem and attacks.
Electric Skeptic said:
And yet you're clearly interested enough to make a pointless statement.
When stating the truth becomes an ad hominem attack, your loss will be greater than you can fathom.
Where I come from, people who love truth welcome the correction.
Psa 141:5 WEB Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
Pro 27:5-6 WEB 5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
Pro 29:1 WEB He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
nobody ever enjoys the corrections. They sting like a spanking when we were children. But the benefits gained are eternal.
lol, so who came first then, Moses and the 2 stone tablets, of the commandments and then the 360 Ordinances, ie; rules and laws, or Abraham.... ?
How about the 600 years apart that Abraham and Moses are ?
why on earth would a god ever knock on my door ? Can you please be polite and stop treating me like I am an idiot ? I am not here for your fun and amusement nor ridicule...
IOW the ten commandments are obviously just man-made since they didn't apply to Abraham et al or their ancestors. Nor to our aborigines who arrived here over 50,000 years before Adam's grandmother was born.
Why not if gods actually exist, given that Gen 18 describes how a god came to Abraham's door and how they shared a meal together and had a face to face discussion about the number of righteous children in Gomorrah, and how the god then walked down to count them since it was neither an omniscient or omnipresent type of god.
And Gen 32:22-32 describes how Jacob had a wrestling match with a god and was squirrel gripped in his thigh hollow.
Or are those stories just imaginative fantasies?
And still no gods knocking on my door.
well,, it is very obvious if you really want to stay unbiased in this chat.. If you are not willing to listen to reason then go away ?
It was MOSES who God had already chosen to do what Moses did. Abraham was chosen for other issues. If you want to just argue, then go right ahead but if you want to listen to reason then read all of the scriptures. Also if you just simply refuse to believe anything that anyone ever tells you then why come here in the first place ? Abraham and Moses were 500 years apart, so go back and look at your suppositions again ?
But do you have any evidence that gods exist, or are the ten commandments etc just man-made?
And why would a real god give a set of laws to Moses, and not give them to Abraham's ancestors and to our aborigines over 50,000 years ago anyway? Or was that just an incompetent god?
And FYI, this is a forum to discuss the validity of your beliefs, and not a pulpit.
And it ain't necessarily so, the things that you're liable to read in the bible, it ain't necessarily so.
He's been knocking on the door of your heart. If you're not listening, you won't hear.
I do not know why God did what He did nor why He does what He does...? Why do you not ask God yourself ?
Isa 46:10 At the beginning I announce the end, proclaim in advance things not yet done; and I say that my plan will hold, I will do everything I please to do.
It is time that YOU, started to deal with YOUR suppositions...
Alas I've never seen a god, and I see no evidence that the ten commandments weren't just man-made, given that it wasn't morally wrong for Abraham and Noah to have sexual relationships with their sisters, or for Abraham to commit adultery with Hagar, or for Lot to sexually assault his daughters (Gen 19).
Nor was it morally wrong for Abraham to butcher and cook his son as a sacrificial meal.
Nor was it morally wrong for Caina-an to kill his brother Abel or for Noah's father to murder a young man (Gen 4)
lol,,, God tested him and he passed.. He never killed his son at all... all that you talk on and on about was never allowed in the the actual Bible. However as there was no bible is Abraham's day.. your suppositions are just lies...
So again I ask, you need to deal with you guesswork..
When there was NO LAW, there was no sin, AND NOR WRONG DOING, why cant see that ?
lol,,, God tested him and he passed.. He never killed his son at all...
But it wasn't morally wrong for Abraham to butcher and cook his son as a sacrificial meal as commanded, even if the god subsequently preferred to eat an old ram instead of Abraham's son
all that you talk on and on about was never allowed in the the actual Bible.
So where does the bible say that it was morally wrong for Abraham to have a sexual relationship with his sister Sarah and commit adultery with Hagar?
And where does the bible say that it was morally wrong for Lot to sexually assault his daughters (Gen 19)?
And where does the bible say that it was morally wrong for Cain-an to kill his brother Abel, given that his god even protected him from retribution when he relocated to Nod and lived happily ever after with one or more Nod girls (Gen 4)? And likewise for Noah's father after he murdered a young man (Gen 4)?
However as there was no bible is Abraham's day.. your suppositions are just lies...
IOW the ten commandments etc are obviously just man-made since they didn't apply to Abraham et al or their ancestors.
Now, look, I have already told you,, no one killed their son in the first place... The LAW and the Ordinances HAD NOT YET BEEN GIVEN TO MANKIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why can you not understand this simple yet basic FACT ?
Romans 3:
10 As the Tanakh puts it, "There is no one righteous, not even one! No one understands,
11 no one seeks God,
12 all have turned away and at the same time become useless; there is no one who shows kindness, not a single one!
13 "Their throats are open graves, they use their tongues to deceive. Vipers' venom is under their lips.
14 Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.
15 "Their feet rush to shed blood,
16 in their ways are ruin and misery,
17 and the way of shalom they do not know.
18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
19 Moreover, we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those living within the framework of the Torah, in order that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world be shown to deserve God's adverse judgment.
20 For in his sight no one alive will be considered righteousn on the ground of legalistic observance of Torah commands, because what Torah really does is show people how sinful they are.
21 But now, quite apart from Torah, God's way of making people righteous in his sight has been made clear - although the Torah and the Prophets give their witness to it as well -
22 and it is a righteousness that comes from God, through the faithfulness of Yeshua the Messiah, to all who continue trusting. For it makes no difference whether one is a Jew or a Gentile,
23 since all have sinned and come short of earning God's praise.
24 By God's grace, without earning it, all are granted the status of being considered righteous before him, through the act redeeming us from our enslavement to sin that was accomplished by the Messiah Yeshua.
Amen..
One last time, there was NO bible, in fact no OT until 550 years after this scenario of your vivid imagination...
Which is why the ten commandments etc are obviously just man-made since they didn't apply to Abraham et al and their ancestors.
Which why it wasn't morally wrong for Abraham and Noah to have sexual relationships with their sisters, or for Abraham to commit adultery with Hagar, or for Lot to sexually assault his daughters (Gen 19).
And why it wasn't morally wrong for Abraham to butcher and cook his son as a sacrificial meal, even if the god preferred to eat an old ram instead.
And why it wasn't morally wrong for Caina-an to kill his brother Abel or for Noah's father to murder a young man (Gen 4).


nVidia have a VR tracking solution?
And in this scenario, not sure how much power is needed to run AI models, like the expectation of it. I can assume that more power will run things faster ie higher frame rate or higher resolution. But it's not exactly a 1:1. If you put too much power it may never be used.
the discussion on DLSS vs DirectML is an interesting topic. DLSS is clearly not something you can program for, the more i think about it. It's entirely built into the driver, a bit like forced super sampling etc.
Nvidia will be responsible in improving that algorithm and it's performance and DLSS is a blackbox.
DirectML is something that programmers must code into the render path, leaving it up to developers to modify or change the algorithm to their desired needs, so we may see similar progression in AI up-res as we do to algorithmic upscaling.
How about training bots to fill in the gaps for larger multiplayer games?
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Thanks, didn't realize there was a discussion.
To make room for the DLSS to be used on the "Tensor Cores".
I don't believe that was the reason at all. They started implementing RT into their engine long before (8 months+) Turing was available so their de-noising was developed over compute.
They developed it on Volta, which had Tensor Cores as well. NVIDIA was probably planning DLSS into the mix long before Turing was unveiled.
considering that we have a demo of a iGPU that can do it, i have little doubt that it requires the usage of 110 TensorFlops of power to perform DLSS. Pretty sure ML in the middle of a render pipeline is not ready until DirectML is released.
uuuuhh... so more of those RT cores i guess. Unexpected, but good to know.
I think 14:35 for the actual demo. Everything before it is how it works, why directML exists.
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It looked like a Lenovo laptop. Lol. That's more or less what I thought it was. I could be wrong though.
Seemed to be running the game at low settings and not super well either. Honestly not sure. They mentioned that it was a seemingly regular setup.


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Q: Displaying an image on ARM 9 board I need to display images on an embedded system. The board configuration is as follows:
It is AT91sam9263-EK, with Linux 2.6.20 kernel running on it. Are there any image processing libraries for this board.The processor is ARM926EJ-S.
thank you all

A: If the framebuffer isn't activated in the Linux OS you got I know that it is in the Linux OS provided by Linux4Sam. You can always try if it is activated by issuing the command cat /bin/sh > /dev/fb0; a random pattern should appear on the screen (note that it might be necessary to activate the backlight - if it is turned off you might not see anything at all). You might have to kill the graphical environment that is running on target first.
If all you want to do is to display an image it is possible to do that by opening the framebuffer (/dev/fb0) and write to it (or just cat it); but you have to have an image in the correct format. If I remember correctly the framebuffer in the evaluation board is a RGB555 (i.e. 5 bits for red, 5 bits for green and 5 bits for blue).
If you want to use a GUI library you have to use one that has a framebuffer backend. On a standard Linux system a GUI library assumes that you have X installed but some of them also have framebuffer backends. Qt for instance can be compiled in such a way (but I think you have to modify it to provide the correct color information; it only supports RGB565 out of the box). DirectFB is a simpler solution that provides basic graphic support (but it has support for FreeType giving you good font support). See the links provided above for other examples.

A: First of all, you need to configure framebuffer (fbdev) running on your board. It will act as a layer between your hardware and your GUI app. Here you will find a lot of info about it.
After you are done there is a bunch of libraries/frameworks out there. Few of the most populars are SVGAlib and SDL (requires X).
As usually with cross-platform sources, you will need to recompile those libraries using the toolchain for your board.
UPDATE:
Few more links for you from SO: here, and here.


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Covington Adds Premier EU Competition Practitioner Andrea Zulli
Brussels, 27 October, 2014 — Covington & Burling is pleased to announce that Andrea Zulli is joining the firm's EU competition group. Mr. Zulli was previously head of the Italian antitrust and competition group at a leading international practice. Mr. Zulli will be resident in the firm's Brussels office, and will play an important role in the firm's EU competition practice, in particular with regard to the life sciences sector.
Mr. Zulli advises clients in relation to all aspects of EU, international and Italian competition law, including merger control, cartels and other restrictive practices, antitrust compliance, and abuses of a dominant position. In particular, he has represented major international businesses in relation to merger control notifications to the EU, Italian and other national competition authorities, and has defended major international companies in a number of cartel investigations and other behavioural matters.
Recognised as a top competition lawyer by GCR, Chambers Europe, Legal 500 EMEA and LMG Life Sciences, Mr. Zulli has an extensive knowledge of a variety of sectors including life sciences, financial services (with a particular focus on private equity and venture capital) and consumer & luxury goods.
Peter Bogaert, managing partner of Covington's Brussels office, noted: "The pharmaceutical industry continues to face a very specific set of challenges at the cross-section of competition, regulatory and IP law, and is also undergoing a new global consolidation wave, which raises complex merger control issues. Andrea brings a wealth of competition experience that deepens our expertise in these areas that are vitally important to our global clients."
"I have known - and worked with - Andrea for over a decade. He is a first rate lawyer who brings an immense amount of experience across a range of industries and particularly in the life sciences sector," said Johan Ysewyn, head of the Covington's EU competition practice. "His expertise is an obvious fit with Covington's established reputation in the pharmaceutical industry, and further strengthens our highly regarded EU competition practice in Brussels."
Thomas Barnett and Deborah Garza, chairs of Covington's global antitrust and competition law practice group, commented: "The life sciences industry is truly global in its reach, which creates many challenges for our clients in many corners of the world. EU competition is a crucial piece of the puzzle, and we are thrilled to be strengthening the Brussels-based team that already counts 6 partners and counsel and a number of talented associates."
Mr. Zulli added: "The global standing of the firm, and particularly of its leading regulatory practices, is a tremendous draw for me. The firm has a top tier global antitrust practice, including an exciting proposition in Europe, and I am very much looking forward to being part of the team."
Andrea holds an LL.M. in EU and Competition Law from the University of Stockholm and a J.D. from L.U.I.S.S. University in Rome. He is an Italian avvocato, admitted to the Rome Bar, and a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
Covington's global antitrust practice is widely recognised for its excellence, including rankings in Chambers Europe, Chambers USA, Legal 500 EMEA and GCR100.
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Creative Space: Homeless graphic artist works through layers of life on the street
By Selene San Felice
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Lee Madison, an Annapolis graphic artist, talks about what inspires his artwork as he sits in his usual spot at a Starbucks in Annapolis. Madison, who is homeless, creates all of his colorful multilayered artwork, using only an iPhone.
It started with cheesecakes.
Lee Madison saw the massive 9-inch, 3.5-pound cheesecakes his friend made he knew he needed to do something. So he became a graphic artist.
"I didn't have any money and she didn't have any money either," he said.
"That meant I had to learn how to build a website and create a Facebook page and advertisements and marketing and stuff. I sat in the office at her house for, God, sometimes 10 to 16 hours straight. I gave it all I got."
Eventually, that business fizzled out. But Madison's eye for design stayed strong.
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Five years later, he sits in his usual spot in the front of Starbucks in downtown Annapolis. To most, he may look like he's texting or reading an article on his phone. His gray reading glasses slide down to the tip of his nose. A cup of coffee sits in front of him. You have to look closely to see he's wearing a few layers of flannel shirts and a vest over his jeans.
He's actually working on his next masterpiece.
Madison, 51, uses three or four different apps on his iPhone to create trippy scenes from other worlds he can escape to.
Lee Madison, a graphic artist, shows one of his popular pieces, a colorful scene of Charlie Chaplin on the streets of Annapolis. Madison, who is homeless, creates all of his colorful multilayered artwork, using only an iPhone. (Thalia Juarez / Baltimore Sun Media Group)
Some are underwater with mermaids, dolphins and colorful coral reefs. Some are hidden forests with butterflies, wild horses and waterfalls. Many depict Jesus layered into these scenes, or take on a nautical theme.
He often includes phrases in these worlds that inspire and calm him: "Kindness is power," "You can be anything in this world (but be kind)," "Great things never come from comfort zones," "Adulting: some days are easier than others."
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The apps give him a range of tools to work with, but they're free so he constantly has to get through ads and pop-ups to do his work. He layers stock photos, animations and colored backgrounds on top of each other to create the scenes of his subconscious. Some take an hour and a half to two hours, some pieces he works on for more than a day.
It would be easier to work on a desktop and use higher quality software, but Madison doesn't have that option. He's been homeless for the last 12 years and struggled with addiction for at least 30.
Creation gives him a safe escape from reality.
"It's like a natural human release. It takes me out of me," he said. "I never normally have a topic. It just goes where it goes."
Madison said he left home at 13-years-old after his father was killed and he faced other family issues. He stayed with family and friends until he was on his own in his 20s.
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"Most of my family members drank and they drank heavily," he said. "I kind of followed suit with my family. Next thing I know, I crossed over. At first, it was fun… after that, it became a job to feed the addiction. I never thought for one second I would become the person I became, which is a homeless man."
Lee Madison, an Annapolis graphic artist, shows some of his artwork while sitting in his usual spot at a Starbucks in Annapolis. Madison, who is homeless, creates all of his colorful multilayered artwork, using only an iPhone. (Thalia Juarez / Baltimore Sun Media Group)
After spending decades in the world of homelessness and addiction, Madison said attaining a mainstream lifestyle is more difficult than people think.
As he sits in Starbucks at the start of the new year, he is 16 days clean. He's worked hard for this to be in the county's winter relief homeless program, giving him regular hot meals and a safe, warm place to sleep. He works odd jobs as a contractor, doing renovations and remodeling around Annapolis, but he's put work aside to focus on sobriety.
"You get scared from the lifestyle of being on the street and addiction, just the ripping and shredding of people's lives and your own life," he said.
"I make attempts to get out and get clean. But when you get clean, automatically responsibilities come. Accountability comes. Participation, motivation and different things that I'm not used to being or doing. It becomes very uncomfortable to try to live like mainstream folk do. That transitioning has been very difficult for me. For some reason, I get to a certain point and something happens. I'm not sure what that is."
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Though Madison has gotten overwhelmingly positive feedback on his work through posts to Annapolis community Facebook groups and his page for addiction recovery, "Bring the body ,, the mind will follow," he wants to focus on self-care before he thinks about commodifying his work.
People occasionally comment asking where they can buy copies of his work or put it on T-shirts, usually when it features his photos of Annapolis scenes like the Capital building or sailboats on the water.
In Starbucks, he pulls up his edited photo of the Budweiser Clydesdales leading this year's military bowl parade.
"They really lit that one up," he says of commenters in the Eastport community group he posted in.
He's proud, and he knows the world is ready to see his work. He just has to be ready for the world.
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Ridgefield's new school superintendent summons 'spirit, drive, and endless energy'
April 5, 2020 Updated: April 5, 2020 1:42 p.m.
Ridgefield's new Superintendent of Schools, Susie DaSilva, began her tenure in April 2020, the times of coronavirus.
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Pledging her commitment "to foster the learning and joy that students have come to expect from the Ridgefield Public Schools," new Superintendent of Schools Susie Da Silva opened her tenure as leader of the town's public schools with a letter to students and parents.
Dr. Da Silva's letter follows:
Dear Families,
It is an extraordinary time to join a new community and to be a Superintendent. I am in awe and admiration of educators across our globe who stand together to transform schools and classrooms.
Together, barriers and obstacles have been torn down and vulnerabilities have taken a back seat to the needs of students, families and the profession. Homes across the world adjusted quickly to the new normal.
I would like to express my gratitude to Interim Superintendent of Schools, Dr. JeanAnn Paddyfote. Through her leadership, I now have the opportunity to look ahead and continue the work in this ever-changing journey.
Over the next few weeks, I will look to find creative ways to connect and collaborate with the Board of Education, staff, students, families and the community. You can expect frequent communication — in doing this, I ask for your patience, as I too am new to this style of social interaction and engagement.
I look forward to getting to know you, and you me, but for now it will have to be through this new digital world. During these difficult and unprecedented times, the work of the District will continue, albeit remotely. The road ahead requires the on-going assessment of our practices, modifying and adjusting where needed and navigating the Budget implications of now and the challenges of the future.
We will plan and prepare for students' return, and as typical of school districts during the spring season, begin making preparations for the summer months. As days turn into weeks, and the possibility of weeks into months, creating parallels to the classroom experience will be essential.
We will look to foster the learning and joy that students have come to expect from the Ridgefield Public Schools. I am fully aware of how this unusual moment in history has impacted our students. While I wish we could turn back the clock, the best gift we can give now, is our spirit, drive, and endless energy.
So, yes, it is an extraordinary time. The importance of leadership has never mattered more, and I look forward to serving Ridgefield as your Superintendent of Schools.
Respectfully, Susie.
Ridgefield, April 1.


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Q: Yii queryScalar() with mysql queries? I want to find the user role for the matching id and email of logged user. below is my wbuser class
I'm getting following error
Error 500
CDbCommand failed to execute the SQL statement: SQLSTATE[HY093]: Invalid parameter number: number of bound variables does not match number of tokens

here is my code
<?php

class WebUser extends CWebUser {
    public $role;
    public $role2;

    public function getRole2() {
        if ($this->role2 === null) {
            // Here you need to get User role
            $this->role2 = Yii::app()->db->createCommand("SELECT email FROM {{students}} WHERE id=:id AND role=1")->queryScalar(array(':id' => Yii::app()->user->id));
        }

        return $this->role2;
    }
    public function getRole(){
        if ($this->role === null) {
            // Here you need to get User role
            $this->role = Yii::app()->db->createCommand("SELECT role FROM {{students}} WHERE id=:id AND email=':email'")->queryScalar(array(':id' => Yii::app()->user->id,':email' => $this->role2,));
       }
        return $this->role;
    }
}

A: Try this way
$this->role2 = Yii::app()->db->createCommand()
->select('email')
->from( '{{students}}' )
->where('id=:id AND role=1', array(':id'=>$id));
->queryScalar();

and for the second query try
$this->role2 = Yii::app()->db->createCommand()
->select('role')
->from( '{{students}}')
->where('id=:id AND email=:email', array(':id'=>$id, ':email'=> $this->role2));
->queryScalar();


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Someone recently asked me, "Land is really plentiful in Texas, right?" My response was, "Yes, but 'good land' isn't as plentiful and 'good land that is for sale' is kind of rare." We feel very fortunate that we found this tract of land and we also feel we are responsible for its future.
Ranching begins at the soil-water-plant interface and stewards of successful ranches understand the fundamentals.
Improve and Maintain – We have a complicated piece of land that requires attention. From soil and grass management to fencing and structures, we will always be in improve and maintain mode.
Water – We are fortunate to have a natural spring fed pond and two major creeks come through our property. We have also added a big pond. We will continue to invest in water accessibility and quality on our land.
Conservation – Water is great but it also brings challenges. The largest two threats we face are erosion and grass quality where our land and water meet. We've worked extensively with the NCRS on this part of our land management and will continue to do so. From the introduction of Alamo Switch Grass to beaver and nutria management, we will always consider conservation as a core part of our responsibility as land owners.
Our hope is that the Grün Ranch stays in the family for generations to come. However, if that isn't in the future, we will eventually pass on this century and a half old agricultural acreage in better condition than when we purchased it.


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The University of Law's first online Diversity Matters event attracts a passionate audience
The University of Law's (ULaw) first online Diversity Matters event in partnership with the Black Solicitors Network (BSN) was held on Thursday, 26 November 2020. More than 122 attendees joined a number of influential campaigners and advocates who came together to highlight the importance of different branches of diversity. We were delighted at how passionate the attendees were, speaking out and making their voices heard, as well as asking challenging questions.
The University of Law's Head of Access and Participation Dr Morag Duffin hosted the evening and kicked things off by highlighting our own levels of diversity. "Black, Asian and minority students make up for over half of our undergraduate cohort and 40 per cent of our postgraduate cohort." She went on to share that 21 per cent of our UG students and 33 per cent of our PG students are mature. Some 53 per cent of our UG and 33 per cent of ULaw students come from a relative area of deprivation (IMD Q1&2). She said ULaw's aim was to eliminate the BAME attainment gap by 2031 for undergraduates.
Dr Duffin then introduced Paul McFarlane, director at The Black Solicitors Network and partner at Capsticks. He said, "It is vital that the legal profession reflects, at all levels, the community it serves; otherwise there is a risk of you alienating those communities and groups that are underrepresented." He then explained, "For the first time in my career, I've seen employers wanting to be actively seen as anti-racist. This has involved them putting out statements on the subject and actively engaging with their staff in conversations about race."
Matthew Jones, an associate solicitor in real estate at Weightmans LLP and vice president of Leeds Law Society, went on to talk about being an LGBTQ+ Solicitor in 2020. He advised legal practitioners to bring their authentic selves to work. "I am a gay man, and I work in the legal sector. Those are words that I would never have said when I started my legal career back in 2011. But now, I am proud to do so."
Yasmin Sheikh, founder of Diverse Matters and vice-chair of Lawyers with Disabilities, spoke about the importance of disability and diversity in the workplace and gave examples from her personal journey. "I had both a good boss and a bad boss. I had a bad boss who told me within weeks of returning to work, Yasmin if I employed everyone with your disability the business would collapse. I've got the same problem with part-time women workers. If I employed all of them, the business would collapse too. Needless to say, this guy did not get diversity."
Catherine Woodward, a solicitor at Gordons LLP, discussed social mobility in the law and her experiences over the years. While discussing education and background she explained: "The assumption always seems to be that you're at that level where the more privileged people are, and there's quite often not any effort to understand the differences that may be present in other people or any effort to make people feel comfortable in the topics of conversation. There's also some assumptions that people have had the same opportunities, which may not be the case."
Isaac Eloi, a solicitor, co-founder of the Black Men in Law Network and winner of the UK Diversity Legal Awards Rising Star for Entrepreneurship Award 2018, talked about coming into yourself and claiming what you deserve while Black, LGBTQ and/or disabled. He shared "My educational experience was tricky. I remember, thinking back, some teachers on non-uniform days looking at the back of my t-shirts, and they'd want to see where I might buy clothes from. The reason they did that was because people couldn't believe that you could have black children who would be well dressed or relatively presentable."
Bavita Rai, a partner and the National Gender Diversity Lead at Weightmans LLP looked at the progress women have made and how far they have come in the industry. She noted how she has learnt to speak up – "I remember being in meetings and I would say something and then the same point was made by a male colleague and suddenly it becomes this phenomenal idea. I now call that out."
Shanika Varga-Haynes, a senior solicitor at Stowe Family Law & Director of Leeds Law Society, spoke passionately about improving wellbeing in the legal sector. "The legal industry has a disproportionately high number of lawyers suffering from anxiety, depression, burnout and suicidal thoughts." She added: But often it's hard to even admit to ourselves that something is wrong, let alone tell anyone else. The hardest thing is saying I need help but actually sometimes that's the most important thing that you can say."
Yetunde Dania, partner and head of the Birmingham office at Trowers & Hamlins, Yetunde spoke about the need for diversity in the legal profession. "Diversity is needed because a diverse profession brings about diversity of thought, diversity of experience and of course, innovation."
Scott Halliday, an associate family law solicitor at Irwin Mitchell LLP, is ranked as a rising star and quoted as an expert in LGBT family law. He spoke on LGBT family law, human rights and being a gay man in a large national law firm. He advised students to pass opportunities on when they find them. "Part of your obligation, I would suggest, is as you grow and become successful, that you look back and try and bring other people along with you."
ULaw would like to thank everyone, speakers and attendees, who participated in our first Diversity Matters event and made it such a resounding success.
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