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Aspergillus cleistominutus is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus. It is from the Nidulantes section. It has been reported to produce arugosin A, arugosin B, arugosin C, asperthecin, aspertetronin A, aspertetronin B, echinocandin B, echinocandin C, echinocandin D, epishamixanthone, shamixanthone, orsellinaldehyde, penicillin G, ruguloxanthone, and sterigmatocystin. It has been isolated from soil in New Jersey, United States.

Growth and morphology
A. cleistominutus has been cultivated on both Czapek yeast extract agar (CYA) plates and Malt Extract Agar Oxoid® (MEAOX) plates. The growth morphology of the colonies can be seen in the pictures below.

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Audi goes Black on the model trims from A3, Q3, TT, A6 and A7, S6 and S7 Sportback models, with additional gadget and new styling across the black edition range. Following the release of the Q3 Black variation in spring this year, Audi has now released the sporty black trims across the line up of its models. From the A3, TT, TT Roadster, S6, S6 Avant, A6 and S7 Sportback, all offered in Black edition and all these models are now on sale in the UK.
The most cost effective and affordable model is the A3, offered in three-door, five-door Sportback and saloon styles, from £26,600 in the market. It's a step-up from current S-Line line up, however matte titanium 18-inch alloys are also added to the package, tinted black glass, and black small print for the grille with black door mirrors to give a glance of being a black model. Audi has inserted a 10 speaker sound system as well.
The Audi A6 Black edition looks just awesome and comes in the best configuration, mated to some exquisite Audi A6 TDI diesel engines. As you know that the A6 is a rival for the BMW 5-series, Mercedes E-Class and the Lexus GS so, in order to give these giants a strong competition in the market, the A6 black edition is introduced with a hefty range of active diesel engines.
This massive Audi saloon comes with either a 187bhp or 215bhp 2.0 litre A6 diesel engines or you can opt for an extra efficient and powerful 3.0 litre V6 diesel engine which also comes in two power variations, a 268bhp or 316bhp.
The most luxurious Black edition line up of the A6 comes with 20-inch alloys and a massive list of gadgets from climate control to adaptive dampers, Sports suspension, Xenon headlamps, parking sensors, leather-based seats, digital radio, a premium sound system and many more in optional features list.
The Black variations on the S3 line up start from £33,900, where 18-inch Turbine wheels as standard but 19 inch on larger models are offered and an ordinary Bang and Olufsen sound system has been offered.
Apart from the S3 model line-up in Black makeover, Audi has introduced the S6 and S6 Avant Black variants with unexpectedly larger wheels, you can see the wheel dimension leap to twenty-inches with a five-spoke design, the S7 Sportback has even bigger and it facets 21-inch wheels of same style. Each black edition model in the S line acquires a BOSE sound, piano black inside, a flat-bottomed steering wheel.
The TT is not left behind and Audi has offered the Black on it as well. However, the TT and TT Roadster Black model starts from £31,900 and will get an identical therapy with 19-inch Blade alloys and a Bang and Olufsen sound thrown in. The Roadster also gains an electrical wind deflector. The prices for the TT S Black begin from £41,500 in the UK.
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Q: WiFi issue on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS I have an HP laptop dual booted with windows 10 and Ubuntu16.04 LTS.
WiFi on Windows works just fine but when I switch to Ubuntu, the network which was showing strong connection in Windows shows weak in Ubuntu. Sometimes it also refuses to connect. Can you please help?

A: Try this,
sudo service network-manager restart

OR
This done not working fine try below,
Hi, The special version 2 is for 64bit Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and above
use the regular broadcom-kernel-source driver. From a working wired connection...
Please open a terminal .. ctrl+alt+t .. and do...

Ignore file not found or errors..`

sudo apt-get remove --purge broadcom-kernel-source
sudo rm -rf bcma

then do,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

Then install the wl driver..
sudo apt-get install --reinstall broadcom-kernel-source
sudo modprobe -v wl

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Pippa Passes; or, The Song of Conscience is a 1909 silent short directed D. W. Griffith.  It was produced and distributed by the Biograph Company. It is based on a play Pippa Passes by Robert Browning.

It is preserved from a paper print.

Cast
Gertrude Robinson - Pippa
George Nichols - Pippa's Husband
Arthur V. Johnson - Luca
Marion Leonard - Ottima
Owen Moore - Sibald

continuing cast
Linda Arvidson - Greek Model
Clara T. Bracy -
Adele DeGarde -
James Kirkwood - In Bar
Anthony O'Sullivan - In Studio
Mary Pickford - Girl in Crowd
Billy Quirk - In Studio
Mack Sennett - In Studio
Henry B. Walthall -

References

External links
Pippa Passes at IMDb.com

1909 films
American silent short films
Biograph Company films
Films directed by D. W. Griffith
Robert Browning
American black-and-white films
Silent American drama films
1909 drama films
1900s American films


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Hyposmocoma cuprea is a species of moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It was first described by Lord Walsingham in 1907. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

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Can You Guess This Woman's Age? It's A Lot Harder Than You Think.
Do you ever feel like one person in the morning and a completely different one by the end of the day? You may not be alone. It seems we all begin our day with the best of intentions; shower, breakfast, getting kids ready for school, and making it to work on time. The reality is that by the end of the day our body feels the constant motion and commotion of daily activities.
It also appears that fatigue reveals itself beyond wanting that extra cup of coffee. An experiment takes a woman's photo at the beginning of the day and another at night, each time asking people on the street to guess her age. Take a look at the video and see if you have a similar observation.
Can we guess your age? Take the quiz.


TSWBAT construct a clear and coherent friendly letter.
Friends and family will love hearing from their resident friendly letter writer.
Friendly letters are a good place to start. Fifth grade kids have been writing these for many years. Email and various social media may have changed our communication tactics, but friendly letters are a personal and necessary skill to posess, even if school is the most likely place for the writing to happen.
A friendly letter requires important components of a letter such as the Heading, Greeting, Body, Closing, and Signature. It's the body that's fun to write. Using the Letter Generator for Friendly Letters as an example, the students help you plug in the information as a class. We've had Smart Boards in our classrooms for four years, so these kids are used to what they can do. When I introduced the Letter Generator, it was received with unusual excitement. As simple as it is, there was something about it that made them all want to try. With the fast and furious new technology all around, this took me by surprise, but I was thrilled. Fortunately, there is also a Business Letter choice in the generator to be used in the next lesson.
I pick class sticks to use for the names of who the letter is to and from, and a made up address for the Heading. Write a generic letter on the Smart Board or screen with the class, then display the final form. The kids have a worksheet with the basic components of the Friendly Letter displayed so they can copy at the same time. In our example, it's easy to see that the final form needs some work when it comes to spacing, and especially adding text. The kids really enjoy the way it works, and it's easy to hear their excitement in the background as they watch. They can't wait to try it out on their own when we visit the computer lab! In the video, we typed up all but the closing and signature ahead, which would have been laborious for a viewer to watch, but I videotaped the student as we wrapped it up.
Brainstorming a Friendly Letter does not take as much time as with a Business Letter. The kids generally know who they'd like to communicate with and will jump into a letter easily. Even so, you may have those kids who'd rather a little help or can't decide.
Who haven't you seen in a long time, and would love to hear from?
Are there any cousins, friends from camp, kids in your old school you'd like to write to?
Have you ever had a pen-pal? If you'd like to write a letter to a pen-pal, but don't know who it should be simply write, "Dear 5th grade friend," as the Greeting.
The students will use a Brainstorming Web to help in their selection of a recipient. This particular resource is a very helpful one to the students, as they begin organzing their friendly letter possibilities. They also enjoy filling out the Cluster Web Organizer.
I tell them to remember friendly letters they received, and how much they enjoyed the interesting, entertaining ones. Opening a short friendly letter isn't as much fun as one filled with colorful information and ideas. Some students didn't finish this letter in its final form during the class period, and in my class there weren't enough students needing extra time to warrant another day in the classroom. I assigned the final draft for homework.
Most of these letters are written to friends in school or neighbors. Although I make a copy for their writing folders, I don't monitor whether or not these letters are sent out. As always, if a child requests that their letter be sent in the mail, I'm happy to do so.
This is an activity that nearly all students feel comfortable and successful with. Given the freedom to write to a friend, it's something that comes pretty naturally, and it's nice to watch the letters develop. Once I determine that a student has written a clear and coherent letter, I know they've met the objective.


This shrine used to be completely visible from the ski run without having to go back into the trees to see it. But between the 2015-16 and 2016-17 ski seasons the large 9/11 wooden board was moved up the hill and into the trees.
In July 2010 Rishell and Christiansen returned to Aspen along with fellow New York firefighters Warren Forsythe, John (Big Dog) Graziano, Paul Giedel, and Eddie Bergen. On July 4 they dedicated a 9/11 sculpture in front of the Aspen Fire Department building at 420 East Hopkins Avenue in Aspen. See the two newspaper articles below ("Trade Center Rubble Sculpture Stops in Vail, Heads to Aspen" and "From New York With Love") for more information on the story of this sculpture and dedication. Both of these articles are quoted below. Also shown below towards the end of this page are 15 photos of this sculpture, taken in July 2010.
Sometime after May 2011 four items were put up in the shrine noting the death of Osama Bin Laden; scroll down for more information on this and photos.
The photos in this photo section were taken between 2006 and 2010.
Chuck DiMartino Shirt, January 2010.
Sometime after May 2011 four items were put up in the shrine noting the death of Osama Bin Laden: 1. A copy of the front page of the May 2, 2011 Washington Post. 2. A copy of the front page of the May 2, 2011 New York Times. 3. A copy of the front page of the May 2, 2011 New York Daily News ("ROT IN HELL!"). 4. A copy of the cover of the May 20, 2011 TIME magazine. See photos in the photo section immediately below.
The photos in the section immediately below were taken in January 2012. Someone repaired the large wooden sign (which was starting to fall apart) and also added the photos shown here. The top two boards were added to the wooden sign and some photos were thumb-tacked to them.
The photos in this section below were taken in 2013.
Middle of face cut out.
During the week of Feb. 23 through March 2 the Aspen Volunteer Fire Department and the community of Aspen played host to four firefighters from the city of New York: Lt. Kenneth Christiansen (decorated for valor), Lt. Andy Olsen, Lt. Gary Rishell, and firefighter Steve Fenley (decorated with FDNY's highest award for personal valor in 2000).
A few months ago, these esteemed visitors (all avid skiers back East) had contacted my office for advice about a "dream" ski vacation they had in mind, to pursue a little decompression from the rigors of their ongoing experiences in New York. I think we exceeded their expectations by several orders of magnitude.
Pam Cunningham and the staff at Aspen Alps for their accommodations, humor and sincere desire to help.
John Norton and the Aspen Skiing Co. for free six-day tickets (John, they skied every day and couldn't say enough about the mountains and the snow).
Leslie Shacklette and Bill Tomcich of Stay Aspen-Snowmass for free airfare.
Tom Anderson and Pomeroy Sports for free equipment demos and expert advice.
"John" and City Market for stocking their refrigerators (these were big boys and needed their nutrition).
Brian O'Neil and the Elks for complimentary access.
Peggy Trott and the Aspen Club Lodge for complimentary access.
Blair Elliott and the Steak Pit for opening their eyes to Western beef.
Jack Simmons and the Holland House for breakfasts.
Kevin O'Donnell and Matsuhisa-Aspen for their complimentary goodbye dinner (and significant bar tab, quite wonderful).
All their new friends around town who welcomed them so enthusiastically.
Bill, Jack, Wabs, Willard, Mike, Mark, Jan, Blair, and the rest of the AVFD who took our new friends to heart and made their stay here extraordinary.
We can all take pride in knowing that we have made new friends, and helped.
VAIL, Colo. — Ken Christiansen turns over his wrist, revealing a tattoo that reads "343." He's sitting outside the Lifthouse Condominiums in Lionshead, recounting Sept. 11, 2001.
"It was total devastation," the New York City firefighter recalled.
Christiansen considers himself blessed to have survived the terrorist attack. Many of his colleagues did not; 343 firefighters gave their lives on Sept. 11.
The number "343" also appears on a piece of steel that is temporarily on display in Vail's Lionshead while en route to Aspen. The 700-pound piece of steel once belonged to the north World Trade Tower, the first tower hit.
Leafing through photos of rubble and people jumping from the towers, fellow New York City firefighter Warren Forsyth said he will never forget Sept. 11.
Forsyth, Christiansen and the other firefighters on the trip, Gary Rishell and John Graziano, spent six months digging through the rubble trying to find victims. They will always remember Sept. 11, and they hope the sculpture they are bringing to Aspen will help the country remember, as well.
Several months after the terrorist attacks, Aspen hosted various firefighters for ski vacations. The New York City firefighters struck up a friendship with their Aspen counterparts, and in recent months, they arranged to deliver a piece of the World Trade Towers to town.
The visiting firefighters all responded to the terrorist attacks. Vivid memories remain from the experience.
The New York City firefighters obtained permission to take a piece of steel from Randall's Island, one of many locations where the city is storing rubble from the attacks. They brought the former I-beam to a New Jersey welder, who cut a likeness of the Trade Towers into the steel. The design features solid steel stripes where the planes hit each tower.
The American ideals of freedom, bravery and sacrifice have been etched permanently in one simple piece of steel taken from the north tower of the World Trade Center and placed in front of the downtown Aspen fire barn.
The unveiling of the sculpture will occur today during the Aspen Fire Protection District's Fourth of July block party and official dedication to the new facility, the timing of which is a symbolic nod to Independence Day and the 343 firefighters who perished on 9-11.
The over 6-foot-tall steel piece, which still has the tower's concrete on it, was driven here by six New York City firefighters last week as a thank you to the community for making their post 9-11 trauma more manageable.
In the weeks following the tragedies of 9-11, Aspen Fire, the Aspen Alps, the Aspen Skiing Co., City Market, local restaurants and businesses throughout the community came together and provided four New York firefighters with a skiing vacation here completely free of charge, as a gesture of rehabilitation.
Ken Christiansen (aka Whitey), Steve Fenley (Doc), Gary Rishell and Andy Olson visited Aspen in February 2002. Their friendship with the Aspen community has continued to the present day.
"We all had severe problems with depression and things were adding up," said Christiansen, adding his wife suggested that he take a vacation after watching the Twin Towers fall. Christiansen's brother had been married in Aspen and suggested he come here for a respite in a resort community that puts an emphasis on feeding the mind, body and spirit.
Christiansen said he Googled Aspen and read a classified ad in the local newspaper that sought volunteer firefighters. He contacted fire chief Darryl Grob for some insight on the resort, like where to stay and other details. Grob responded by arranging an all-expenses paid, week-long stay here.
Rishell said he couldn't believe that a community thousands of miles away would make such a gesture.
"We were speechless and thought it was pretty awesome since we had never been past Killington, Vermont," Rishell said, adding flying into Aspen over the Rocky Mountains is an experience he'll never forget.
Christiansen said he was only seeking insight from a local Aspenite and never dreamed Grob would have done what he did.
"It was a good shock," Christiansen said of the thoughtful, generous gesture.
While the gesture will always be remembered, the actual vacation might have a few blurry spots for the firefighters.
Christiansen came to Aspen with his wife during a fall foliage ride when the fire barn was under construction. As he waited for his wife, who was shopping inside the thrift shop, Christiansen looked at the front of the unfinished building and the planned museum, then saw a vision.
A piece of steel from the World Trade Center sits outside the downton fire barn and was donated by a group of firefighters from New York City.
It's rare to still be able to acquire a piece of steel from the toppled Twin Towers but Christiansen and his comrades were able to convince the New York Fire Commissioner to release one.
Through a group effort, the now retired firefighters had the steel cut to read on the top "FDNY" "911-01," and on the bottom, "343" to reflect the number of men and women who died in the line of duty that day.
Lines that shape the towers were cut into the steel and are separated at the very places where the planes hit. The base is shaped as a Maltese cross — the firefighter's badge of honor, signifying that he works in courage — a ladder rung away from death.
"We wanted to do it right," Christiansen said. "We spent time on it and we made it so it would stay here forever.
During an emotional yet low-key moment with a few onlookers taking pictures, the sculpture was erected by Aspen and New York firefighters in front of the fire barn Friday afternoon.
Curious passersby stopped to watch the work being done Friday, wondering out loud what the connection was between New York and Aspen.
Once they learned, they were impressed.
Rishell and Christiansen are joined this holiday weekend in Aspen with fellow New York firefighters Warren Forsythe, John Graziano (Big Dog), Paul Giedel and Eddie Bergen, who also traveled here to be part of the special tribute.
They drove across the country last week and arrived Friday afternoon. They immediately went to work putting their piece of gratitude in its final resting place, located at the entrance to the fire barn's museum.
"I've been here two hours and all I've done is work ... I thought this was a fun town," Graziano laughed.
The group of firefighters, all from Stanton Island, and whose families are celebrating Fourth of July with them here, also are Harley Davidson riders. They said they plan to celebrate Aspen style and join the hundreds of other Harley riders in the parade today.
Kidding aside, Graziano said the trip means a lot to him. He admired the steel sculpture and then recalled the images etched in his mind of the hundreds of pieces twisted and mangled at the Twin Towers site.
Graziano said he lost seven firefighters in his ladder company and only one was recovered.
"Out of the 343, I probably knew 100 of them," he said.
Christiansen said he has a deep-seated love for the Aspen community and is thankful for its generosity.
In July 2010 the author took 15 photos of this 9/11 sculpture in front of the Fire Department building in Aspen, Colorado and which was dedicated on July 4, 2010. These 15 photos are shown below.
The three photos of the Aspen Fire Department shown below were taken in September 2011 on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
The 9/11 Shrine on Aspen Mountain includes a large, carved, wooden sign that shows the New York City skyline along with the Twin Towers.
It commemorates those who died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Behind the sign are some other items, including a sign pertaining to the New York Fire Department ("Always Honored-Never Forgotten") and also a thank-you sign to Aspen Skiing Co. from Lt. Kenneth Christiansen (aka "Whitey"), Lt. Andy Olsen, Lt. Gary Rishell and firefighter Steve Fenley (aka "Doc"), of Ladder Company 5 FDNY. These four men visited Aspen in February 2002.
The shrine also contains a log cut-out sign that says, "R.I.P Brothers," with a "5" on it.
Tied to another tree is a T-shirt from the 2001 New York City Marathon. Chuck DiMartino, of the Kansas City Fire Department, contributed a KCFD T-shirt in February 2007 and then another one in January 2010. There is a "List of Heroes" posted on a tree that lists the names of 343 New York firefighters who died on Sept. 11.
In July 2010, Rishell and Christiansen returned to Aspen, along with fellow New York firefighters Warren Forsythe, John (Big Dog) Graziano, Paul Giedel and Eddie Bergen, and on July 4, they dedicated a Sept. 11 sculpture in front of the Aspen Fire Department building at 420 E. Hopkins Ave. in Aspen.
Sometime after May 2011, four items were put up in the shrine noting the death of Osama Bin Laden.
The 9/11 Shrine is located near Gretl's run on Aspen Mountain.
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Historically, determination of cholesterol levels has involved looking at the low density lipoprotein (LDL-C) fraction, which is more predictive of cardiovascular outcomes than total cholesterol. However, this has required a fasting sample to maintain accuracy. The Friedewald equation, which subtracts high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and 20 percent of the triglyceride level from total cholesterol, is an indirect method that has been used to determine LDL-C. While this equation is reasonably accurate in patients with "normal" fasting triglyceride values, it is inaccurate when triglycerides are elevated, thus creating the need for patients to fast ahead of their cholesterol blood draws.
From an epidemiological perspective, HDL-C is viewed as a protective predictor of cardiac events, and it is also part of the non-fasting total cholesterol (TC) measurement. One alternative to fasting LDL-C that is unaffected by the patient's fasting stature is measurement of non-HDL cholesterol (non-HDL-C): TC – HDL-C = non-HDL-C.
Information about LabCorp's full range of test options, including fasting and non-fasting non-HDL-C measures, is outlined in the LABupdate, Lipids in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) Risk Assessment and Management (below).
1. Blaha MJ, Blumenthal RS, Brinton EA, Jacobson TA, National Lipid Association Taskforce on Non HDLC. The importance of non-HDL cholesterol reporting in lipid management. Journal ofclinical lipidology 2008;2:267-73.
2. Friedewald WT, Levy RI, Fredrickson DS. Estimation of the concentration of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in plasma, without use of the preparative ultracentrifuge. Clin Chem1972;18:499-502.


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Lichinella stipatula är en lavart som beskrevs av Nyl. Lichinella stipatula ingår i släktet Lichinella och familjen Lichinaceae.   Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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New Year's Eve in Los Angeles 2019 attracts people from all over the globe who are looking for a hopping metropolitan scene without the typical winter snow. There is no need to fear street art getting on those new leather boots in this palm tree-filled paradise. Every popular dance and DJ spot will host a New Year's bash that's sure to keep a body grooving well past the stroke of midnight. New Year's Eve in Los Angeles can also be low-key. Many residents prefer to stay home and host dinner parties. But anyone who wants to get out and about for New Year's Eve in Los Angeles won't have to worry about finding a place where they can pucker up at 12 o'clock on December 31, 2019.
In Los Angeles, you can celebrate New Year's Eve in different styles like, On New Year's Eve, Disneyland coordinated twin fireworks displays on each coast and favorite characters will stay up past their bedtimes to help celebrate. Party like an Egyptian like space is transformed into Cleopatra's playhouse, with heated tents in the courtyard, DJs spinning all night and a midnight balloon drop and confetti blast. You can also celebrate New Year's Eve under the stars. Raise a glass at the annual event that winds through the beach community. Grand Park promises to be one of the most family-friendly and affordable. New Year's Eve can be celebrated with any closed ones. In many countries, New Year's Eve is celebrated at evening social gatherings, where many people dance, eat, drink alcoholic beverages and light fireworks to mark the new year.


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.Comedian Brian Posehn Is A Total Nerd
By John Flynn
Rad Dad: Now that he's a father, Brian Posehn, has given up pot. But he'll never give up on heavy metal.
In his early sets, Brian Posehn blasted comics who gushed about their children, telling audiences to punch his baby if he ever talked about his kid onstage. Now a father, Posehn strives not only to protect his son from diehard fans, but also to maintain his comedic voice while talking about his family—a subject he never imagined covering.
"It was a weird thing to get my head around that I'm that guy now," he says. "There's a current joke, that when you have a child that's nude a lot, there's going to be some things that happen, that you'll want to un-happen. So, that makes it into the act, but never 'Oh, my little angel from heaven' type stuff."
Posehn plans to give stand-up a couple more years before entering semi-retirement. A 29-year comedy veteran, he got his start as soon as he could enter the bars and clubs hosting open mics.
"The week I turned 21, I went onstage and destroyed. I really crushed," he says. "The second time, I could not figure out what was funny about myself and I ate it so hard. I did a brand new five minutes, and nothing worked." He got better from there and he's been at it ever since.
At 49, Posehn has steadily built a career centered around vocal work and character acting, starring in The Sarah Silverman Program, Mr. Show and New Girl, often acting as a loveable oaf, with his distinct, clumsy baritone and full 6-foot-7-inch frame.
"I look like a giant Yeti," he says.
In his third, most recent comedy special, The Fartist, Posehn complains about having a "leaky penis" and farts that "fall" out of his ass and smell like "the last fart." Posehn's petite blonde wife of 11 years, Melanie Truhett, has gotten used to his objectively crass humor.
"She doesn't mind me talking about how gross I am, the leaky penis stuff," he says. In fact, the two have an understanding that there isn't much Posehn won't try to turn into a joke. "When things happen, like when our bassethound violated her while she was on the toilet. It was like 'well that's going in the act.'"
Now that he's a dad, Posehn says he has cut out his semi-famous pot habit—a move, which he says he made for a very stonerish reason.
"I was motivated a little bit after my son was born because I couldn't smoke in my nerd cave anymore," he says. "I had to smoke outside the house. Y'know I'm in the backyard, like a loser, hunching over the garbage can. It lost some charm."
Posehn's "nerd cave" contains a Donkey Kong arcade game and oodles of Star Wars memorabilia. He has a complicated relationship with the space odyssey franchise, worshipping the first trilogy and calling the disappointment from the subpar second trilogy his "Vietnam." But this polar swinging of emotion is his particular brand of nerdiness.
"Nerdiness comes out of not liking things passively," he says. "That's been my entire life before there was a name for it. I would not just like something, I would love something, or totally hate it."
And though he's still recovering from the breach of trust between him and George Lucas, he is planning on taking his son to the Christmas premiere of the new J.J. Abrams-helmed Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
"I like to pretend I have a heart made of poo because Lucas ruined my childhood," he says. "But seeing footage of Harrison Ford, I'm not made of stone. How was I not going to love seeing Han Solo on screen again? He's the first badass where I went, 'Aw that guy's awesome!' That's what's bringing me back to this movie."
Posehn's nerdiness includes a long love affair with comic books. He is a co-writer of the revamped Deadpool series, about a fourth wall-breaking anti-hero of the Marvel Universe with regenerative superpowers and a steady supply of quips.
"It's been a really fun side thing," he says. "Just meeting these people and doing this thing I've always loved. Just like when I've done music videos—to step away from stand-up has just been a blast."
Posehn's most famous music video, "Metal By Numbers," is a parody lampooning the pretty boys who falsely rep his favorite genre. It features major musicians like guitarist Scott Ian of Anthrax and has been viewed on YouTube over 2 million times.
"(Metal is) so much a part of who I am," he says. "But I like making other people laugh too, not just metalheads. So it's more an attitude. I'm a guy who's read comic books and loved horror movies and heavy metal since he was a little kid, as opposed to a guy who reads more high-falutin books."
Brian Posehn performs Aug. 8 at RockBar Theater. More info.
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Q: AppSync Resolver Pipeline - Multiple Outputs Joining I have a pipeline resolver that gets data from two datasources sharing the same schema.
Let's say both of them return a list of 10 items each (a total of 20). How can I merge both outputs into one list and return it to AppSync properly as a Json? One is going to be $context.result and the other is $context.prev.result.
Any methods/functions that can join both of them in VTL (they are of type List if I'm not mistaken)?
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As of now, this is my only solution; doesn't seem efficient as it iterates through the whole list and add it one by one to the other list:
#foreach( $item in $context.prev.result )
    $util.qr($context.result.add($item))
#end

$util.toJson($context.result)

Thanks

A: I have the same problem.
I did not find a "clean" way to solve this problem. I directly edited the final result to merge the lists.
My "After mapping template" :
#set( $liste1 = $ctx.prev.result )
#set( $liste2 = $ctx.result )

#set( $strliste1 = $util.toJson($liste1) )
#set( $liste1start = 1 )
#set( $liste1end = $strliste1.length() - 1 )
#set( $newliste1 = $strliste1.substring($liste1start, $liste1end))

#set( $strliste2 = $util.toJson($liste2) )
#set( $liste2start = 1 )
#set( $liste2end = $strliste2.length() - 1 )
#set( $newliste2 = $strliste2.substring($liste2start, $liste2end))

#set( $result = "[$newliste1 , $newliste2]" )
$result


Windows 2000 with IE6 and above.
For web application: The component needs that the IE Protection Mode was Turn Off.
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With Easter fast approaching I wanted to take a few blogs to share aspects of my journey towards the cross....today I want to focus on my personal journey towards forgiving others.
Forgive everything Lord?? EVERYthing? Really...all the hurts, pains....I have to let them off of the hook?
As I began to walk this journey out, with the help of some trained and trusted leaders at my church, I realized that forgiveness freed me to MOVE FORWARD in my life. It enabled me to let go of the burdens I had previously been carrying.
Forgiveness may also come in layers....let me explain what I mean by that.
You may forgive someone for something and then forget about it completely. Years later a memory may resurface or be brought to light by a newer incident. You may have to, as I have done, forgive many, many times over from your heart, especially if the incident comes back to your memory. You may even require counselling from trusted, and qualified professionals/leaders, depending on the severity of the incident.
However, all that being said, forgiveness is something that brings us closer to the nature of our Heavenly Father. Forgiveness is what marks us from what the rest of the world is trying to model for us (I.e. the treat others in the manner they treat you mentality). One of the greatest experiences I had as a result of forgiving others, is that forgiveness actually frees us to be able to understand the depths of our Heavenly Father's love for us.
"The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive--and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus--and here is the awful cost of such freedom--a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.' But my uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender."
Remember, no matter where you are in your journey...you are not alone.
Forgiving others is one of the hardest things to learn and to incorporate into our daily walk. God bless you in your efforts and journey toward Him.
It's true. Such a difficult journey, but so worth it!
I am so glad you mentioned forgiving others in the faith. That is the one I have the hardest time with. I expect "the world" to let me down. But "the church"? They should know better. I have really struggled with this one lately. Thank you for your words of encouragement in this regard!
The journey to the hill of the cross is so hard but The Lord has his arms open wide to receive us when we arrive. If He could forgive those who tortured him, you'd think we could forgive too; why do we struggle so much with forgiveness towards others?
Thank you for your transparency. Forgiveness is difficult for many of us. Thank you for sharing at Tending The Home Tuesdays at Road to 31.
I also didn't realize all the things I was carrying around...thank you for the reminder of the importance of forgiveness. Found you through the Courtship Connection.
Glad it spoke to you...it's not always an easy journey to forgive those who have hurt us deeply.
Forgiveness is totally freeing but such a hard thing for us to do! Even when we THINK we have forgiven, we often take the offense back and hold that unforgiveness once again. Thanks for sharing this in my linkup this week!!


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North Bend pediatrician Carla McKelvey will serve as the regional associate dean of OHSU's Coos Bay rural campus.
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COOS BAY — In an effort to provide medical training opportunities and better meet the needs of people in underserved areas, Oregon Health and Science University has set the stage for a rural campus to be located in Coos Bay that will train students in the medical fields and allow them to serve residents of Coos County.
The university has also named a local medical professional to lead the campus, which will begin operating this fall.
Dr. Carla McKelvey, a pediatrician at North Bend Medical Center, will serve as the regional associate dean of the Coos Bay rural campus, which will have 12 to 15 students serving in their respective fields from OHSU programs in dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physician assistant and public health.
The program, which has the first group of students set to begin on Sept. 28, was initially announced in November but details about the Coos Bay campus were not yet established until now. Klamath Falls is the location of a second rural campus site.
"This is a multidisciplinary educational effort," said McKelvey, who will work out of her office at NBMC. "I've been a huge advocate for rural health so it was important to me that we made sure that an opportunity like this would be one that Coos Bay would get."
Depending on their discipline, students will work with health care providers working in the medical office setting, learning clinical skills and training on different rotations.
Dental students will be working with local dentists from North Bend's Advantage Dental Clinic and Dr. Tim Holt's office while medical students will work from the Bay Clinic and North Bend Medical Center. Pharmacy students will work through Western Oregon Advanced Health and local Walgreens.
"The face of health care is changing because physicians are working in care teams now and so students want to learn how to work within the context of a care team," McKelvey said. "Part of that is having the opportunities to collaborate with each other and work on case studies and community projects. So there will be curriculum outside the clinical experience."
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McKelvey, who is a member of the Oregon Health Policy Board — the policy-making and oversight body for the Oregon Health Authority — is also a former president of the Oregon Medical Association. Previously she served as medical director for Doctors of the Oregon Coast South, which manages the Oregon Health Plan for Coos County.
She said that because Coos Bay has facilitated training for students in the past, the rural campus is really just building on a program that's been in existence for awhile.
Funding for the rural campus endeavor is being provided by a grant from the Oregon Community Foundation that is providing $60,000 a year for three years.
The city of Coos Bay is working on renovating a building that would serve as permanent housing for the students.
McKelvey, who noted that those enrolled are post-college students ranging in age from 22 and older, said that a few of the students are already here living in Coos Bay.
"That OHSU is hoping to place students from different medical disciplines and reach out to the rural communities and house some of the students from each of the disciplines in rural Oregon for a term or more while they're attending — it's a huge effort on the part of OHSU," said Coos County Commissioner John Sweet. "And so it's a real honor to be chosen and an excellent opportunity for all of Coos County. Having some new people in our community who hopefully attract health care professionals to the area is exciting."
McKelvey said Coos Bay is the right community for such a venture and that she hopes medical professionals might elect to stay here long-term.
"We have a great health care community here. We have a wide variety of providers. We have a good base of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, so we have the components that help encourage cooperation," she said. "I've been in this community for 19 years. I think it's a neat community to live in and work in. I think we are a blank slate ready for innovative people."
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Q: Learning Sequence Statistics Relevant to Metric Estimation I have N observations, each with M signals collected over time T, such that data X is shape N x M x T.
For each N observations, I have K evaluations, such that outcome Y is shape N x K.
My question is, can we learn statistics or aggregations of the signals that are most relevant to the prediction of the evaluations? My first attempt was to take the first, second, third, and fourth moments of X (yielding Z of shape N x M*4), but the result is not great. Not all moments may be needed for all features and things like percentiles or more complex aggregations are not considered.
My linear solution is defined as $W = (Z^T Z)^{-1} (Z^T Y)$, and I plot $ZW$ in yellow.
Example of One Evaluation Using Four Moments:

Example of One Evaluation Using Polynomial Features (n=2) of Four Moments


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This year's PyCon Sweden, held on the 12-13th of May at Hilton Slussen in Stockholm, looks to be a spectacular follow-up to last years success.
I'm immensely happy that we got two great keynotes - Kate Heddleston and Ian Ozsvald are both amazing speakers - and I'm delighted that we got even more proposals for talks than last year, even though it did increase the amount of work to select the cream of the crop.
We've started to sign wonderful sponsors such as Fyndiq and Lincoln Loop with more in the pipe, but there's still room for more Silver and Bronze level sponsors!
Of course, a PyCon conference will never be better than it's participants, and that's why you should get your ticket now! Last year we were full, and although we're releasing a few more tickets this year, we also have a bigger program, better venue, and are sure* to have even better weather!


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Now that I am in my forties, (which according to the wisdom of the internet is not middle aged,) my previous 40 x 40 Bucket List, as in 'forty things to do before turning forty, is now out-of-date. That is not to be confused with completed, I am still working on that list, and you can find out all about it in the link above, or by checking out the menu. What is does mean though, is that I now need a new list… A Kettle List.
A rename seems appropriate, so as not to confuse it with the 40 x 40, and also because this isn't really a true Bucket List; these are things to complete before I am 50, not before I die at 92 of extreme partying.
So, what's the deal with this new list? And why do I think you should write yourself one too? Well I will tell you.


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New Zealand's red meat exports have topped $6.7 billion in 2017-18, up 21% on the previous season, the latest export figures from Beef + Lamb New Zealand show.
The result was due to sustained high value per tonne and increased volume for lamb, mutton and beef.
While the highlights of the season were record high average values per tonne for lamb and mutton, the average value of beef exports remained high since the marked increase in 2014-15, B+LNZ's chief economist Andrew Burtt said.
Total lamb exports were more than $3.1 billion, up 25% on 2016-17 and 28% higher than the five-year average. The average value of lamb exports stayed over $10,000 per tonne for the entire season.
While those levels were reached on occasion in 2010-11 and 2011-12, it was not sustained for the entire season.
Total mutton exports benefited from limited international supply and strong demand to reach $618million, up 46% on 2016-17.
Increasing demand for sheepmeat from China, particularly mutton, and tight supply from Australia and New Zealand increased competition for New Zealand's sheepmeat.Total beef exports exceeded $3 billion, up 14% on 2016-17 and up 17% on the five-year average.
ASB's latest Farmshed Economics report said lamb prices might be starting to "come off the boil" but they still looked set to remain healthy over the rest of the season.
After peaking at $8.43/kg earlier in the month, prices had dropped 13c/kg or 1.5%. But prices still remained extremely high and, with the Christmas trade under way, the bank expected prices to remain at or around those current levels "for the next month or so".
Looking over the rest of the season, prices also looked set to remain healthy. Lamb supply was constrained in Australia while Chinese demand remained firm. Local supply was also tight.
Traditionally, lamb prices fell by an average of $1.20/kg from the spring peak through to the autumn low.
On that basis, the bank expected autumn per kg prices to still "start with a seven".
"Even in a worst case scenario, prices are likely to be $6.50/kg or above come the autumn."
Silver Fern Farms latest market update said UK Christmas retail promotion forecasts were down on last year.
Once the last Christmas vessels left at the end of this month, a significant shift towards frozen product was expected. That would affect returns in the market and schedules. The company's forward sales through to the end of November were strong, albeit off easing prices.
In Australia, a long, dry winter, expensive feed and scant grass on the ground has farmers destocking their paddocks and sending more animals to the abattoir. The sheep slaughter rate is at a 10-year peak.
Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed a 4.2% monthly rise in sheep slaughters during August and the 12-month total was now 312,400 animals, or 46.1%, higher than the same period to August 2017.
The rolling east coast dry means many farmers have been forced to ship large numbers of sheep and cattle to market each week as they struggle to carry their livestock through severe drought.
And, despite a few storms and scattered falls over the past week, Meat and Livestock Australia's markets intelligence manager Scott Tolmie expected poor conditions to continue and slaughter rates to remain high.
The number of cattle slaughtered in abattoirs or by smaller butchers over the month of August increased by 7500 head, or 1.1%. About 65,800 or 10.7%, more cattle have been slaughtered than the same time last year.


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TIJUANA, Mexico — A new Trump administration policy forcing certain asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed in the United States took effect on Tuesday, when American officials ushered the first such migrant through a Southern California border gate into northern Mexico.
The migrant, a 55-year-old man from Honduras, had applied for asylum in the United States after crossing the border from Mexico. Under the new policy, he will live in Mexico temporarily, returning to the United States only for court dates pertaining to his case.
Dressed in a brown jacket and black cap, he looked dazed as he emerged late Tuesday morning on the Mexican side of the border in Tijuana and was swarmed by scores of reporters, photographers and television cameramen.
"I'm very tired," he mumbled before being quickly spirited away in a van by Mexican migration officials.
The new policy, first announced in December by Trump administration officials, is a dramatic step in what they cast as an effort to rein in asylum fraud and illegal immigration. It represents a major shift from a longstanding practice that permitted most migrants who requested asylum to go free in the United States while they awaited the outcome of their cases.
American officials said that under that policy, many asylum applicants would never show up for their court dates and would simply vanish into the interior of the country.
If the policy is applied to a majority of asylum applicants on the Mexico-United States border, it could result in thousands more migrants flooding Mexico's border states every year.
Mexican officials said that while they disagreed with the Trump administration's new policy, they have agreed to take in certain asylum seekers and vowed to protect the migrants' human rights and allow them to work in Mexico while their cases unfold in the United States.
Rodulfo Figueroa, an official with Mexico's National Migration Institute, said the man in the brown jacket, whose name was not revealed, would be the only migrant returned to Mexico on Tuesday under the new policy, but that more are expected soon.
"We're just reacting to a unilateral decision," said Mr. Figueroa, a top federal migration official in the Mexican state of Baja California.
Since the Trump administration's announcement of the new asylum policy, Mexican officials have been negotiating with their counterparts in Washington to define the conditions under which they would accept the migrants.
On Monday night, Tonatiuh Guillén López, the commissioner of Mexico's National Migration Institute, said Mexico would only accept migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras between the ages of 18 and 60. He also said that Mexico would only receive returned asylum seekers through the border crossing that connects Tijuana with San Diego, California.
The returned asylum seekers will be granted special four-month, multiple-entry visas that would allow them to travel to the United States for their court dates and then once again return to Mexico, Mexican officials said. Some of the returnees will already have one-year humanitarian visas which allow them to work and travel freely in the country. Asylum cases in the United States can take years to resolve, yet it remained unclear whether and under what terms the Mexican visas would be extended.
The American policy change applies to some asylum seekers who try to enter the United States at official crossings on the country's southern border, or are apprehended on American soil after trying to cross illegally. But it will not apply to Mexican asylum seekers who might risk harm if returned to Mexico, the very place where they are claiming fear of persecution as grounds for their asylum claim.
Migrants' advocates and human rights groups have vociferously criticized the American policy shift, saying Mexico, which is suffering historic levels of violence, is not a safe place to send people who already fear for their lives. In addition, Tijuana and other border towns are already overwhelmed with migrants deported from the United States as well as migrants from Central America and elsewhere seeking to enter the country.
In meetings in recent days, American immigration officials have assured advocates that the returns would be conducted in close coordination with Mexican officials, who will preapprove all returnees. For now, the officials said, only single adult males in good health would be sent back to Mexico.
While the Mexican government has claimed that the policy implementation was a unilateral American move, the United States immigration officials, from the Customs and Border Protection agency, assured the advocates that they had been working with their Mexican counterparts at all levels for months and would continue to be in daily contact for at least the next 30 days while the program was gaining speed.
American advocacy groups are expected to file legal challenges to the new policy in the coming days, after gathering evidence from its rollout.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico has said he wanted to welcome migrants and foster employment opportunities for them, and he has begun to follow through on his promises, encouraging immigrants to stay and work in Mexico by making it easier to get visas and promoting job-creation strategies.
Some asylum seekers who had just arrived in Tijuana were surprised to hear on Tuesday about the new American asylum policy.
Anabel España, 39, a Honduran migrant who hoped to apply for asylum in the United States, said that staying in Mexico for many months was never her plan.
But Ms. España, who said she had fled extortion threats in Honduras, said at least she could work and wouldn't be held in a detention center in the United States.
"At least here we are free," she said.


The liner President Madison capsized in Seattle harbour on the evening of March 23, 1933 at the Todd Seattle drydock repair wharf.
Four shell plates had been removed from the vessel's side opening upwards of 684 square feet. The lowest point in the cut was about 4 feet above the waterline. Lumber was being loaded from a scow alongside while repairs were underway. It was thought that the pull of the loaded scow on the ebb tide caused a starboard list movement accelerated by the movement of oil and water in tanks in the fore peak, wing tanks, settlers and double bottoms.
As the starboard list exceeded seven degrees, water rushed in to the opening in the hull. The ship careened and lay partially submerged with her superstructure jammed against the dock. A large number of stevedores on the scow scrambled to safety. More than a hundred crew were caught below decks. Three Chinese crew members were rescued through port holes. The engine room storekeeper was rescued after 17 hours. The Junior Engineer was killed in the engine room.
She was re-floated about three weeks later in what was described as the largest salvage operation completed in an American port to that time. The operation to right her was carried out by E.F. 'Jack' Cribb, the Managing Director of the West Coast Salvage & contracting Co. of Vancouver BC. The Madison lay idle for more than six years. Soon after returning to service under the Philippine flag she was lost in a second capsize tragedy losing yet another life.


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import click

from utilities import time_difference

def colors():
  """Creates an enum for colors"""
  enums = dict(
    TIME_LEFT="red",
    CONTEST_NAME="yellow",
    HOST="green",
    MISC="blue",
    TIME_TO_START="green",
  )

  return type('Enum', (), enums)

def challenge():
  """Creates an enum for contest type"""
  enums = dict(
    ACTIVE="active",
    UPCOMING="upcoming",
    HIRING="hiring",
    ALL="all",
    SHORT="short",
  )

  return type('Enum', (), enums)

def write_contests(contests, contest_type):
  """Prints the contests based on the parameters passed"""
  write_contest_header(contest_type)

  for index, contest in enumerate(contests):

    time_diff_string = get_time_string(contest, contest_type)
    contest_name = contest["contest_name"].encode('utf-8')

    click.echo()
    click.secho("%-3s" % str(index+1), nl=False, bold=True)
    click.secho("  %-50s" %
                contest_name, nl=False, fg=colors().CONTEST_NAME, bold=True)
    click.secho("    %-20s" % time_diff_string, nl=False, fg=colors().TIME_TO_START, bold=True)
    click.secho("    %-11s" %
                 str(contest["duration"]), nl=False, bold=True)
    click.secho("    %-15s" % contest["host_name"], fg=colors().HOST, bold=True)

def get_time_string(contest, contest_type):
  """Return a string with time for the contest to begin/end"""

  if contest_type == challenge().ACTIVE:
    time_diff = time_difference(contest["end"])
  elif contest_type == challenge().UPCOMING:
    time_diff = time_difference(contest["start"])
  elif contest_type in [challenge().HIRING, challenge().SHORT, challenge().ALL]:
    try:
      time_diff = time_difference(contest["start"])
    except:
      time_diff = time_difference(contest["end"])
  time_diff_string = ""

  if time_diff.days > 0:
    time_diff_string = "{0} days {1} hours".format(time_diff.days, time_diff.hours)
  elif time_diff.hours > 0:
    time_diff_string = "{0} hours {1} minutes".format(time_diff.hours, time_diff.minutes)
  else:
    time_diff_string = "{0} minutes".format(time_diff.minutes)
  return time_diff_string

def write_contest_header(contest_type):
  """Prints the header for the type of contest"""
  if contest_type == challenge().ACTIVE:
    click.secho("%-3s  %-50s    %-20s    %-11s    %-15s" %
    ("NO.", "NAME", "ENDS IN", "DURATION", "PLATFORM"))
  elif contest_type == challenge().UPCOMING:
    click.secho("%-3s  %-50s    %-20s    %-11s    %-15s" %
    ("NO.", "NAME", "STARTS IN", "DURATION", "PLATFORM"))
  elif contest_type in [challenge().HIRING, challenge().SHORT, challenge().ALL]:
    click.secho("%-3s  %-50s    %-20s    %-11s    %-15s" %
    ("NO.", "NAME", "STARTS/ENDS IN", "DURATION", "PLATFORM"))


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FCA Chooses Blockchain Companies for Fourth Cohort of Regulatory Sandbox
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), responsible for conduct and relevant prudential regulation of financial services firms and financial markets in the U.K., has announced the details of the firms selected to be part of cohort 4 of its regulatory sandbox, according to an FCA post. Of the 29 firms selected, about 40 percent of them are blockchain focused.
The sandbox's cohort 4 is a regulatory environment where firms can test innovative products, services or business models in a controlled environment with real customers. Businesses can test out their services with the aim of reducing costs of time-to-market while providing support in identifying "appropriate consumer protection safeguards" to be built into the products. This particular regulatory sandbox is a brainchild of Project Innovate, an initiative the FCA created in 2014 "to promote competition in the interest of consumers."
The FCA said it had selected 29 firms out of the 69 that applied to this most recent cohort's regulatory sandbox. FCA Executive Director of Strategy and Competition Christopher Woolard spoke about the development which he says is "the largest sandbox cohort to date" as a "record number of applicants" met the eligibility criteria.
Of the 29 firms that have been selected for cohort 4, about a dozen of these companies use distributed ledger technology (DLT) for automating issuance of equity/debt, insurance provision and for the application of APIs; others offer services related to crypto assets.
20|30 is one of the companies accepted into cohort 4. It uses the Ethereum blockchain to help companies raise funds by issuing equity tokens. As part of the sandbox cohort, it will be able to test the issuance of equity tokens to investors using Nivaura's integration with the London Stock Exchange Group ("LSEG") Turquoise platform. The company seeks to demonstrate a "commercially viable model for tokenizing company equity" and to "establish equity tokens" as a means of raising capital.
"We are delighted to be included in the latest cohort of the FCA's regulatory sandbox," said 20|30 founder David Siegel. "This is a significant milestone for the 20|30 team. For the first time, our integration with the Turquoise platform will demonstrate a regulatory-compliant way for institutional investors to purchase equity tokens. We believe this is an important first step to building a new digital foundation for capital markets."
Also selected by the FCA for sandbox testing, Globacap is a London-based, digital capital raising platform for SMEs and institutional investors which uses DLT to simplify and streamline the issuance process.
It seeks to bridge the gap between SMEs access to global capital while protecting the full rights of investors associated with equity and debt securities.
The company plans to run "an end-to-end capital raising on its own platform," where it will also issue equity "as an ERC-compatible token, in its Digital Security Offering (DSO)." This trial will also "provide proof of concept" for the company's new platform which offers SMEs a broader pool of global capital.
Co-founder of Globacap Myles Milston commented on the possibilities that abound for businesses raising capital in this way. He said, "The Innovate team at the FCA have been pivotal in this milestone, allowing us a quicker route to launch our proof of concept while having regulatory oversight."
Other blockchain companies included in cohort 4 include BlockEx, Capexmove, Etherisc, Fineqia, Fractal, Natwest, TokenMarket, Tokencard, Universal Tokens and World Reserve Trust.
This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine.
Filed Under: Bitcoin, English, Startups


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Arnold Zweig: Mere existence of armies imposes upon mankind the mentality of the Stone Age
September 24, 2013 Rick Rozoff	Leave a comment Go to comments
German writers on peace and war
Arnold Zweig: Selections on war
Arnold Zweig
From The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1927)
Translated by Eric Sutton
So long as he did not hear the winter howl of the wolves, tales of which had terrified his boyhood, or see the huge bulk of a growling bear across his path, or meet the ugly glare of the tusked and bow-legged boar, his only feeling toward animals was their deep delight in their gambols and their ways which is often found in a hunter out to kill. But Grisha felt no joy in killing, since the Tsar's coat had changed him as by enchantment first into a hunter of men and then into a caged quarry. In any case, he cared no more for killing than most men with an occupation. Above all, after his escape – or his resurrection, as he called it – he was so brimful of kindness and goodwill, that apart from his dish of rabbit he would have had no hand in the wanton slaughter of live things.
Not many railways enlivened these broad provinces, and none of them served sufficiently the needs of those who lived there…The railway lines, therefore, had been laid with an eye to future wars, and strangled trade and traffic in their narrow net. A host of confederate German tribes clung like leeches to this vast territory. At every centre of activity or wherever the natives had settled in considerable numbers, the Germans fixed their tentacles. They watched, and tightened or relaxed their grip according to the interests of judgment of Headquarters. And they drew from the poor soil its sap and substance to feed the German troops or Germany itself, who, cut off as she was from the sea and all supplies, drained, like a gigantic land-crab, all the countries of what they had to give her.
"My dear Mr. Wodrig, our colleagues of the cloth have a tougher job than we have. They're harnessed to their texts."
Wodrig in his soldier's tunic shook his head emphatically. "There's something wrong, Sir, take it from me, and they feel it too, if they're worth anything. For instance, 'Love your enemies,' and machine-guns and flame-throwers and howitzers, don't go very well together."
The fine old Prussian Junker with his inflexible precision in every official detail was not to be held responsible for the terror and alarm which he inspired. But he would only have laughed heartily, if Posnanski had endeavoured to explain to him that he considered superior officers as obsolete and inhuman devices, and that rank, force, and the mere existence of armies, imposed upon mankind the mentality of the Stone Age. Such was his private unofficial view, but this was no time for laying it before the general.
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The Hoard Facts
Citrix Chief Mark Templeton on Maritz Status
In the course of interviewing Citrix president and CEO Mark Templeton yesterday for a profile I am writing on Citrix, I asked him what his reaction was to Paul Maritz's presidental title being divided among four new co-presidents, while Maritz retained his CEO job. As I expected, Templeton was circumspect and largely unwilling to speculate on what was going on behind the scenes, because he said he just didn't know. He did compliment Maritz as a competitor and a person, saying that he thought the VMware CEO was involved in the formulation of the plans that called for his title change.
Templeton is human. He couldn't help but speculate about what is going on with his chief competitor, and I'm sure plenty of his lieutenants have engaged him in conversation, but in my opinion, he's not the kind of guy who is just dying to know what's going on with Maritz. What good would it really do him? I don't see him playing on Maritz's mysterious status in an effort to pry customers away from VMware, or prevent new customers from signing up with them. He'd rather win points against VMware in the marketplace than in the rumor mill.
So why do presidents become ex-presidents? Financial performance is high on the list of things that come to mind, and if you based Maritz's performance on financial results, he seems to be doing pretty well. Fourth quarter 2010 revenues were $836 million, a healthy increase of 37 percent over the same period in 2009. Over all, in 2010, VMware had revenues of $2.9 billion, which represented a whopping 41 percent increase over 2009. The company's stock price has been up and down, with a 52-week low of $51.23, and a 52-week high of $97.61, and as of this morning, it was at $79.22. However, VMware certainly hasn't been the only company to experience those kinds of bumps in this fragile economy.
When I asked VMware for an update on the situation, they sent me the original reference to the early February SEC filing dryly detailing the changes, and also included a brief statement saying, "After completing an outstanding year in 2010, and with the need to drive even greater focus across the three layers of VMware's strategy, key leaders are stepping up to make further contributions. These organizational changes are in response to the tremendous opportunities before us to help our customers navigate the journey to cloud computing."
That is not exactly what I would call a ringing endorsement for the leader who played such a key role in making VMware the powerhouse it has become.
It's interesting that VMware is staying so quiet about the situation, which is only made worse by all the negative speculation it has spawned. One way or the other, this co-president things sounds weird, kludgy, and not likely to last very long to me. Does Maritz still have the final say on all important, company-wide decisions? Are the co-presidents really presidential when it comes to who rules the roost? Two years from now, will this whole situation be remembered as nothing more than an awkward shifting of the corporate gears?
What do you think? Is more presidential power at the top good for VMware and its customers? Chime in here.
Posted by Bruce Hoard on 03/15/2011 at 12:48 PM


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Chartbook #106: The new buttresses of the dollar system.
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Triggered by the sanctions imposed on Russia's central bank there is a lot of excited talk right now about the possibility of major holders of reserves diversifying away from the dollar.
I've been a skeptic. My sense is that the main lesson from Russia's experience is that there is nowhere else to go. If you diversify out of dollars the only large-scale bolt hole is Euros and as far as major international crises are concerned the chances of the US and Europe not moving together is slight. And even if European governments did not take action, European financial institutions by now know the cost of finding themselves on the wrong side of the US authorities.
It is comforting to see my two esteemed fin-twitter colleagues @JosephPolitano and @RobinBrooksIIF in broad agreement.
Joseph Politano offers a typically well-argued and richly sourced take on why the dollars grip is likely to remain strong. The gist of his argument is that the dollar is simply too deeply dug into trade finance and global credit to be easily abandoned.
Michael @profplum99
""The US dollar will likely continue its 70 year reign as global reserve currency" doesn't get clicks or sell papers, and so it doesn't get written or shared. But that doesn't make it any less true." — @JosephPolitano illuminating as always
apricitas.substack.comSanctions on Russia Won't End the Dollar's Reserve Currency StatusThe Dollar is the Center of the Global Economy, and Will Remain that Way
Robin Brooks meanwhile tracks the daily capital flows with an eagle eye. And in this crisis he sees no erosion of the dollar's strength. Rather the contrary.
Robin Brooks @RobinBrooksIIF
There's chatter that Russia's invasion of Ukraine and ensuing US sanctions are causing a "stealth" erosion of US reserve currency status. This chatter is a long way from the reality in markets, where the Dollar is near record strength. There is no erosion of Dollar dominance...
7:26 AM ∙ Mar 28, 2022
But then, in yesterday's FT none other than Barry Eichengreen weighed in to the debate with a short peace announcing the "stealth erosion of dollar dominance".
Eichengreen is by far the most influential international economic historian of his generation. Books like Golden Fetters anchor the entire literature on the interwar period.
So, when Barry Eichengreen sneezes we listen. When he announces the stealth erosion of the dollar's standing you really pay attention.
In reading Eichengreen's FT piece it is useful to add some background.
Eichengreen has long argued that it is simplistic to assume that the dollar's current dominance is baked in for the foreseeable future. In a book published in 2017 with European Central Bank economists Arnaud Mehl and Livia Chițu, How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future (Princeton University Press), Eichengreen challenged the traditional "winner-take-all" view that there can only be one dominant reserve currency at a time. This assumption about reserve currencies, Eichengreen and his co-authors argued, was an artifact of the historical transition from the British pound dominated to the US dollar took over. It may now apply to the future.
Using evidence on central bank reserves from the 1910s to early 1970s, Eichengreen and his co-authors found that reserve currencies can and do coexist. In the interwar period, the British pound and the US dollar functioned side by side. Also before World War I, even though sterling was the most important currency, the French franc and German mark also functioned as major reserve assets.
"From this vantage point, it is the second half of the 20th century that is the anomaly, when an absence of alternatives allowed the dollar to come closer to monopolizing this international currency role," Eichengreen and his co-authors argue.
On this basis they see no reason why the dollar might not find its relative share of reserve assets declining "sooner rather than later." The dollar will be forced to share prominence with the yuan and the euro, in particular.
Quartz spoke to Eichengreen in London on what to expect if the dollar loses its hold over global financial markets.
Quartz: This book dismantles a long-standing theory about the global currency system. What was wrong with the traditional theory?
Eichengreen: The traditional view is that international currency status is a winner-take-all game, that there's room on the global stage for only one true international currency. The argument was that network effects are so strong they create a natural monopoly because it pays to use the same currency in cross-border transactions that everybody else has used. The new view is that financial technology has moved on and network effects are no longer so strong. It's easier to switch between currencies. It's similar to how operating systems for personal electronics have transformed. Everyone doesn't have to use Windows anymore.
I like the historicized approach to modeling the global currency system. It is easy to agree that the situation after 1945 was profoundly anomalous. Indeed, recognizing this point marks an important evolution in Eichengreen's own thinking about financial hegemony.
Since the 1970s the dominance of the dollar has been maintained by scrambling improvisation. And in recent decades the euro has emerged as an alternative. I sketched a possible historical narrative along these lines in a piece for Foreign Policy back in January 2021.
But, as the current crisis illustrates, a diversification out of dollars into euros has turned out, as far as Russia is concerned, to be a difference that does not make a difference. Russia finds itself in what amounts to a euro-dollar trap - a triangle consisting of dollars, offshore euro-dollars and euros. It is this triangle of currencies that dominates the North Atlantic and East Asian financial hubs. It is subtended by dollar swap lines in unlimited amounts and is buttressed by a similar expansive monetary relationship with Japan.
Eichengreen's most recent FT piece is based, as ever, on original historical research, this time in collaboration with Serkan Arslanalp and Chima Simpson-Bell. Their paper, "The Stealth Erosion of Dollar Dominance: Active Diversifiers and the Rise of Nontraditional Reserve Currencies" was published by the IMF.
As they summarize their results in their abstract:
We document a decline in the dollar share of international reserves since the turn of the century. This decline reflects active portfolio diversification by central bank reserve managers; it is not a byproduct of changes in exchange rates and interest rates, of reserve accumulation by a small handful of central banks with large and distinctive balance sheets, or of changes in coverage of surveys of reserve composition. Strikingly, the decline in the dollar's share has not been accompanied by an increase in the shares of the pound sterling, yen and euro, other long-standing reserve currencies and units that, along with the dollar, have historically comprised the IMF's Special Drawing Rights. Rather, the shift out of dollars has been in two directions: a quarter into the Chinese renminbi,and three quarters into the currencies of smaller countries that have played a more limited role as reserve currencies. A characterization of the evolution of the international reserve system in the last 20 years is thus as gradual movement away from the dollar, a recent if still modest rise in the role of the renminbi, and changes in market liquidity, relative returns and reserve management enhancing the attractions of nontraditional reserve currencies. These observations provide hints of how the international system may evolve going forward.
Since 2000 the share of the dollar in global reserves has fallen from 70 to 59 percent in 2021. The chief beneficiaries are Canada, Australia, Sweden, South Korea and Singapore.
Now this is an interesting observation. And in the context of the debate about the financial sanctions on Russia is is likely to attract much attention as evidence for a shift away from the dollar.
In technical financial terms that is clearly true. Reserve managers are diversifying. But does this shift indicate a shifting balance of power in the global financial system, to the detriment of the dollar and the US authorities? That seems more than debatable.
All of the non-traditional currencies that Eichengreen and his co-authors identify are very much part of America's extended financial security system. They are all recipients of swap lines. If it came to the crunch in a confrontation with Russia or China who would doubt which side they would be on? Rather than seeing them as rivals or substitutes to the core dollar system is it not plausible to see them as extended buttresses of that system, providing options for diversification whilst continuing to benefit from the liquidity and sophistication provided by America's financial markets.
As far as the renminbi is concerned, the conclusions reached by Eichengreen and his colleagues is in fact downbeat. As Eichengreen puts it in the FT.
What about faster diversification towards the renminbi? Anyone contemplating moving reserves in that direction will have to consider the possibility that China could become subject to secondary sanctions. Moreover, Putin's actions are a reminder that authoritarian strongmen can act capriciously when there are few domestic counterweights to restrain them. That President Xi Jinping has shown little inclination to interfere in the operations of the People's Bank of China is no guarantee that he will maintain that stance in the future. It is no coincidence that every leading reserve-currency issuer in history has had a republican or democratic form of government, with checks on executive power. Russia's reserve managers have no choice but to turn to the PBoC so long as it continues to grant them access. But for other central banks, an ironic result of the US decision to weaponise the dollar may actually be to slow international take-up of the renminbi.
James Leitner
i would think that as reserves are held for many reasons one of which is to protect the ability to import required commodities, part of reserve reallocation will go into commodity accumulation. so i would expect that over the next decade reserve managers will start maintaining commodty pools domestically which are not subject to being compromised by other governments.
Godfree Roberts
Writes Here Comes China Newsletter
SDRs, Special Drawing Rights, are Keynes' Bancor reincarnated: a synthetic currency whose value is derived from a basket of trading currencies and commodities as publicly traded on a daily basis.
Extremely stable. Politically neutral. Hard to influence. Every participating central bank will get a board seat at the table and a vote.
China made perfectly clear what it wanted in 2009, after the Global Financial Crisis, when Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the Peoples Bank of China, PBOC, announced,
The world needs an international reserve currency that is disconnected from individual nations and able to remain stable in the long run, removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies."
Zhou proposed Special Drawing Rights, SDRs valued against a basket of trading currencies, and Nobelists C. Fred Bergsten, Robert Mundell, and Joseph Stieglitz agreed, "The creation of a global currency would restore a needed coherence to the international monetary system, give the IMF a function that would help it to promote stability and be a catalyst for international harmony".
What happened next:
2009: PBOC says, "We want SDRs"
2012: Beijing values the RMB in SDRs
2014: IMF makes its first SDR loan.
2016: World Bank makes its first SDR bond
2017: StanChart Bank issues its first commercial SDR note
2019: All central banks restate their reserves in SDRs
2022: Russia, the EUEU, and China will announce the new reserve currency Apr 1.
Expect a synthetic currency whose value derives from a global, publicly traded basket of currencies and commodities.
© 2023 Adam Tooze


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